EXIT Podcast

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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Karlanea Brown is co-owner of RDM Aquaculture, one of the largest privately-owned shrimp fisheries in the United States. We discuss:

• startup and consulting costs to start your own fishery



• making $10K a month from 20-hour workweeks



• bleach, silicone, & pigshit in imported shrimp (96% of US consumption)



• what it takes to make it in the shrimp game #grindset

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