Jeff & Rita Ebberts have been in the carpet cleaning business for over 35 years. We get into the details of that industry, but the real treasure here is what they've learned from struggle. They've had to move to a new city & start over from nothing twice. They invented a new cleaning solution, fought a seven-year legal battle with their franchisor over the IP, represented themselves after their lawyers quit the case, & won. Incredible story, don't miss this one.

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Johnny Thomas is CEO of Ventana Tek, a renewable energy company focused on reducing households’ dependence on the power grid. We discuss:

• how to discern between good & bad grind



• homeschool & deinstitutionalizing education



• entrepreneurship as an ADHD “ideas guy”



• Renewables for liberty-minded people.

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Greg Smith is an EXIT member who owns & operates swiftfixbike.com, a mobile bike repair shop. He was doxxed last month, & it was not a big deal, because he owns & operates a mobile bike repair shop. We discuss:

• the limits of cancellation



• the virtues of the suburbs



• the geisha social refinement required to succeed in the mobile bicycle repair game.

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This week we talk with Cindy Sullivan at Nova Bin Wash. She is a serial entrepreneur with experience in fitness centers, dog grooming, and mosquito removal - & she has volunteered to take mentoring calls from the group, so reach out if you're ready to get started. We discuss:

• buying a truck with low/no money down



• identifying the right supplier



• route and execution efficiency



• finding, coaching, and retaining customers



• when and whether to scale up

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Braxton is a motivational speaker, a colt trainer, & author of The Glass Factory, a memoir of his recovery from catastrophic injuries after a suicide bombing in Ramadi in 2006. We discuss:

• breaking colts, raising cattle, raising kids



• the power of stewardship



• life mediated through movies



• the opioid epidemic



• traveling through the underworld

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Kevin Owens is the owner of gmdice.com, a tabletop gaming website that he bought for $12,500, which now brings in $10-20K a month in revenue. We discuss:

• why buying can be better than starting a business



• how to differentiate in a crowded industry



• loving your product & knowing your customer



• easy products to import & ship



• starting a good idea at the smallest possible scale

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Citizen Hush is a prolific content creator, entrepreneur, and a cool guy who likes guns a lot. He has dipped his toes into pretty much every hustle you can think of - from pulling weeds by the bucket to courting VCs for a tech startup - and the common thread running through all of it is a jealous defense of his personal liberty and autonomy. We discuss:

• building content as a student rather than an expert



• selling bots and the 'Wild West' era of social media



• diversifying income streams



• debt slavery and credentialism as social control



• decentralized guns, money, media

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Matthias Cicotte, better known to his friends as J. Reuben Clark, is a lawyer, homeschooler, & poster of good tweets. He is developing a series of history books for children based on classical sources (Plutarch's Lives, Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, etc). We discuss:

• why literally any homeschool arrangement is better than public school



• carving out room for boys in feminized education



• the wastefulness of pushing kids (& adults) beyond their cognitive maturity



• navigating the decline & fall of the empire, the future of BYU



• the sportsbro, and what can be done about him

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Exit member Robert B is a prolific side hustler who has cleared $1200-$2500 a month reselling books on Amazon for a few hours on the weekends. We take the first 20 minutes to dream about the future, then get down the the brass tacks of the retail arbitrage business. We discuss:

• stability in mobility, freedom through diverse income streams



• colonizing Detroit, nomadic pastoralism



• is a "holy city" a contradiction in terms?



• why used books are ideal for retail arbitrage



• finding paydirt up & down the value chain



• bringing your brain to "lowbrow" businesses

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Indian Bronson is a personal friend, a Miami booster, a BJP operative, & a guide to wagies on the path to personal sovereignty, much like his personal hero, Harriet Tubman. We discuss:

• Miami's techbro-futurist destiny



• ought we to poast at all?



• rebuilding lost freedoms rather than insisting on them



• a mental model for preserving one's identity online



• mentally-colonized Mormies & Hindus



• Hindutva & the imminent reclamation of Aryavartha

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