The Voluntary Life

This episode is about the freedom in adult life that is gained by achieving financial independence from parents. Jake talks about some of the findings of the book " The Millionaire Next Door"  by Thomas Stanley. Dr Stanley surveyed people in America who had become millionaires within one generation and collected data on many aspects of their lives.  One finding that he identified was that adult-ch...

A podcast for entrepreneurs about getting your business to profitability and making it more and more profitable once you get there. The title of this podcast comes from the saying "turnover is vanity and profit is sanity". Some of the topics covered in the episode include: The unjustly-bad reputation that profit has in our culture and it's origins The other motives (unrelated to profit) that entre...

In this podcast, Jake talks about the most important responsibility you will ever have as an entrepreneur: selling. He talks about how to overcome the barriers to selling that most entrepreneurs face: the cultural prejudice against sales, ignorance about what selling really is and the psychological barrier to selling (the fear of rejection). Stages of Selling To Learn More About: Prospecting Conta...

An interview with psychologist and filmmaker Daniel Mackler about the subject of psychological freedom. Daniel shares his thoughts on what psychological freedom means: the healing from past psychological traumas. He identifies the root of trauma in unhealthy parenting and talks about his own journey towards more psychological freedom.

Part 2 in a series of episodes on freedom from politics with special guest Stephanie Murphy, host of the Porc Therapy podcast . Show Notes: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" by Gandhi Penn Gillette on politics School Sucks Podcast on Ron Paul George Carlin on Not Voting Doug Stanhope on Democracy "If Voting Changed Anything They'd Make it Illegal"  by Emma Goldman  

Part 1 in a series of episodes on freedom from politics. Special guest is Stephanie Murphy, host of the Porc Therapy podcast , co-host of  Free Talk Live and  Prometheus Unchained , all of which are on the Liberty Radio Network . Show Notes: Hans Herman Hoppe on Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis Harry Browne's book How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World Stephanie's book Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas

This episode is an interview with   Michael Fogler   about his book " Un-Jobbing: The Adult Liberation Handbook ". Michael talks about his life experience, having reached the age of 58 without ever having had a single, full-time job. He talks about how his personal experience in "failures" a traditional career-job route led him to discover unjobbing as an alternative approach. He talks about how h...

Vickie is the author of the Demand Euphoria Blog and Parent-Free By Choice Blog. In this interview we discuss the concept of "Parent-Free By Choice", which is the choice of some adults to voluntarily separate from one or both parents. Vicky talks about why this choice, although quite widespread, is viewed as a taboo subject. Vickie shares her thoughts on  whether or not adults who choose to cease...

An interview with Dale Stephens , founder of the Uncollege movement. Uncollege represents a revolutionary approach to education: applying the principles of unschooling to higher education. In the interview Dale talks about opportunities to hack your education and go for self-directed learning. He challenges the notion that going to college is the only path to success and identifies the declining v...

This episode explores the topic of psychological barriers to personal and political freedom. It is a discussion of the ideas in Eric Fromm's book " The Fear of Freedom " (also published under the title "Escape from Freedom").

An interview with Judd Weiss, entrepreneur and author of the Hustlebear.com blog. Judd has been an entrepreneur since he was 14. He became a millionaire by the age of 24 and has launched successful businesses in diverse industries including selling watches online, commercial real estate brokerage and parking. Judd talks about some of the principles behind successful entrepreneurship. Topics includ...

Financial Freedom is an achievable goal. But what exactly is it and how does making financial freedom your goal differ from more traditional financial goals? A common approach to personal finance goes something like this: MAINSTREAM ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PERSONAL FINANCE the goal of personal finance strategies is material wealth and comfort; the method is getting a secure job; the measure of how well...

You can still have a lot of freedom if you are working for somebody else. Here are some suggestions of what you can do to transform your job and liberate yourself. The youtube documentary about a Brazilian company that is mentioned in the episode is called " The Caring Capitalist ".

This episode is a discussion with startup entrepreneurs including the founders of   choreplan.com and knowitapp.com . We talk about the ideas in two great books on entrepreneurship:  The Art of the Start  by Guy Kawasaki and  Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

A podcast for those considering starting a business. The episode starts with a look at the value of entrepreneurship as a path to obtaining freedom in your own life and some background to my own experience with entrepreneurship. Two key questions are addressed: how do you choose which project to pursue as a new entrepreneurial venture? Also, how do you overcome the fear of getting started?

Part 3 in a series on about the potential for voluntary, free market solutions to urban planning problems. In this episode we discuss the potential for more voluntary kinds of urban communities, urbanisation in the developing world and the future of cities. The discussion is based around ideas presented in the book  The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society  edited by David T Beito,...

Part 2 of a series about the potential for voluntary, free market solutions to urban planning problems. In this episode we discuss the potential for voluntary land use planning. The discussion is based around ideas presented in the book  The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society  edited by David T Beito, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok. Special guests in this episode are Peter G...

This is the first of a series about the potential for voluntary, free market solutions to urban planning problems. This discussion is based around the topics covered in the book  The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society  edited by David T Beito, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok. Special guests in this episode are Peter Gordon (co-editor of The Voluntary City ) and Adam, Stephen...

A review of Robert Heinlein's libertarian science fiction novel, " The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress "

A discussion of Ayn Rand's semi-autobiographical novel We the Living . Published in 1936,   We the Living  was the first novel  to emerge in the West that described life in Russia during the communist revolution of 1917 and was written by someone who experienced it.

Part 3 in a series on unschooling. This episode is about implementing an unschooling approach. Special guests are Brett Veinotte, host of  School Sucks Podcast , Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio and Debbie Harbeson, unschooling parent and author of "OK Kids, Time for Bedlam"

Part 2 in a series on Unschooling. Special guests are Brett Veinotte, host of  School Sucks Podcast  and Stefan Molyneux, host of  Freedomain Radio .

Part one of a series of podcasts on Unschooling . This episode is a discussion of one of the most influential books about unschooling: Instead of Education  by John Holt. Special guests are Brett Veinotte, host of  School Sucks Podcast  and Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio . "Education... now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind....

This episode is a discussion of personal experiences of different stages of unjobbing: barriers to doing it, planning for it, working towards it and achieving an unjobbed life. In the discussion we refer to the book " Un-Jobbing"   by Michael Fogler. Other references in the discussion include the book " Vagabonding " by Rolf Potts and  Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement speech .

The first of a two part series about "Unjobbing": breaking free of the rat-race to do only things that you love with your life. In this episode we explore the idea of Unjobbing set out in the book " Un-Jobbing : The Adult Liberation Handbook"   by Michael Fogler. Other books referred to in the discussion include " Rich Dad, Poor Dad " by Robert Kiyosaki.