Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today, we will talk about My3Things - and more specifically - how to use it to balance your long term success with short term needs. As the group that shares accountability online grows, subtleties are beginning to appear in the approach - as well as some confusion on what #my3things is and how it works. So I will quickly review the basics as well as talk about your long term success strategy and how to build it into your daily and weekly life.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Fed a crew of 12 this weekend from the pantry
  • Sweet potato chili
  • Smoked butt, greens, corn and beans
  • Bacon and eggs
• Holler Stew: Leftovers plus venison and tomatoes
• The Blackstone Cooktop

What's in Season

• All the early spring greens - though I have not seen wild mustard yet.
• Lettuce, leeks, peas from the AP

Operation Independence

• GSD Weekend Happened and we now have a second composting outhouse
• Tore down the building in front of our workshop and cleared the area to prepare for the slab pour
• Did the earth works for the slab pour on Monday

Main topic of the Show: #My3things - covering your long term bases in a short term environment

1. Identify why: short term push (Das Website); overcommitted; poor prioritization; wasting time on something like social media, tv, etc (tracking app).
2. Block time to focus on the long term at least 3 days a week for a full hour. (Monday choir story)
3. Reprogram expectations away from always available, always responsive, both from yourself and from others.

How to attack different roadblocks

TN GSD Crew Classic Rock List: (Bryan Young)

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Song: Thanks Dave, performed by Sauce

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The Tactical Redneck

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Because today is a Wednesday, we will be talking about a homesteading topic - and one that is near and dear to many a heart. At the request of Victoria from the LFTN Coffee break group, I thought I would share with you 5 tools that I think every homestead should have - even the off-grid ones. But remember - if you ONLY can have 5 tools on your homestead, these are not they. Rather - these are 5 I truly wanted to highlight and each for a different reason.

#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with?

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• White Coffee

Getting the Gardens Ready

• Potatoes ready to plant
• Seedlings on the heat mats
• Peas are up, which means pea shoot salads are coming soon

Main topic of the Show: 5 Tools to Keep on Your Homestead

Coffee

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Guys, I had one hell of a day today - and mostly not in a good way. By 5pm, I still was unable to record the show. It is rare that so much bad stuff comes up that I cannot record, but it happened today. So a close couple of friends asked me: "Why not do a replay?" And I thought about it and realize this: I NEEDED to re-listen to "Change Your Narrative, Change Your Life," so why not do a replay of that episode for all. We all have weird, yucky stuff happen from time to time - and it is a good reminder to make what you can of it when it does.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Putting lambsquarter seeds out
• Potatoes are going in the ground this week, along with a rose bush I got, rosehips
• Speaking of which: The last potatoes from the prepper pantry are either getting planted or eaten

What's in Season

• Watercress
• Chickweed
• Dandelion, deadnettle, stinging nettle, plantain
• Keeping my eyes out for dryad's saddle mushrooms

Operation Independence

• Duplex
• Other things

Topic: Replay - Change Your Narrative, Change Your Live

Song: Feed My Hunger

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Today, we have a fantastic guest and a fantastic topic. Sue Zoldak founder of The Zoldak Agency joins us to talk about setting up your business for success. Sue started her own ad agency in 2016 due to...client request. She has since gone 36 months without a corporate paycheck. She is also the founder of a networking group she started with 40 friends and now, 5 years later, is 1,400 people deep and one of the most well known in her industry. She is an adjunct professor in digital strategy at George Washington University.

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I first met Sue at a workshop we were running and she was positioned to me as a competitor. As it turned out, she was fun to talk with, knew a helluvalot more than I did about digital marketing, and is one of those people who approaches life with a prosperity for all mindset. She saw the client as someone who needed a win and turned into a powerful force to help them as best she could - and she welcomed other people helping them in different ways.

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Sue on the Web

Web: www.thezoldagency.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thezoldakagency/

Web: www.suezoldak.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/szoldak/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suezoldak/

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It is the first Wednesday in March so we should be doing a new topic, but I feel like plants got the shrift last month with those 3 missing days, so we are doing the second in a two part series on 8 plants to grow in your yard or on your homestead. Today I will share with you the final four plants.

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#HollerHatWednesday: Where is she and who is she with?

Website migration update

Email feedback to [email protected]. I have gotten some great show topic suggestions that you will hear soon!

Main topic of the Show: 8 Plants You Should Grow in Your Yard, part 2

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If you don't know who the TN GSD crew is, they are a group of friends who sometimes get together at one place or another and help kickstart a project. They've done site visits, plans, aquaponics builds, a composting toilet and had lots of fun along the way doing it. So what makes this community different? We will talk about that in today's show as well as ways you can start developing your own community --- or finding one like it.

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Using up stewed tomatoes:
  • Sweet Potato Chili
  • Normal Chili with Crowder Peas
• Preparing the potatoes to go in the ground (link to post in show notes)
• Hoping this freeze is the last real one for the year so we can bring out the overwintered banana plant and the water hyacinth
• Elderberry syrup in rotation as I feel seasonally challenged

What's in Season

• Early Spring Plant Roulette Update: It's cold and the peas are thankfully not up
• Dandelion greens
• Watercress (will beat back a bit from the cold)
• Stinging nettle

Tales from the Booze Whisperer

• Spices in drinks

Stump the Sauce

• How to skim cream off of milk

Operation Independence

• What goes around comes around - GSD Weekend at Brett's - But more on that in today's show

Energy Expert Answer

• Should I grab these free solar panels?

Main topic of the Show: TN GSD Crew strikes again

Kudos from Coffee Break: Song list on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4re3uS64zN04patCYB3SlD?si=FN6aCWdeStCHh9F3JZW-dw

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Song: 911

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Today is Friday and a Thought of the Walk day. It has been a long couple of weeks selling random things and seeking to rent my duplex apartment out and this has gotten me to thinking about how technology is changing human behavior. It may seem like i am down on technology - I am not. But I do think we need to be aware of how we come across when we use it so that we are using the technology, not letting it define us.

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Today is the first in a two-part series about 8 plants that you should grow in your yard or on your homestead if you can. Some of these are "wildly available" and others domesticated but all of them serve a culinary purpose.

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#HollerHatWednesday on Instagram

4 of the 8 plants you should grow

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It is easy to be sucked in by the siren's call of being busy and checking things off your list — but are you viewing your time as an investment? We will talk about that and more today on Living Free in Tennessee.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Bugging in happened – almost had to tap into my condensed milk – which we need to rotate through
• What I put in the car
• Working through the green beans
• Making Sweet potato chili
• Method: weekly assessment of what needs to be used up and freezer audit season

What's in Season

• Watercress
• Duck eggs (also at the workshop)
• Lettuce
• Green Onions
• Wild Garlic
• 1st spring dead nettle popped up

Tales from the Booze Whisperer

• Segment

Stump the Sauce

• Sick of homemade vinaigrette – ideas for different salad dressing?

Operation Independence

• DAS WEBSITE – on last task (that is of course taking longer than ever expected)
• Creative Outlet: Alzheimers, friends, singing, lifting your spirits (how that plays into independence)

Main topic of the Show: ROI on Your Time

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Song: Belly Dancing Vamp Tune, by Sauce

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Today April Ray of Radiant Acres joins me to talk about transitioning to the homestead from city living ---but not quite. Many folks need to have one person working a full time job while the other gets the homestead up and running.

April and her husband and three children live in Hampshire, Tennessee, a tiny town an hour outside of Nashville. Four years ago, after living their entire lives in big cities (Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles), they moved out to the country with a desire to grow their own food and be more self-sufficient. But April's husband, Nick, kept his day job in Nashville and they've learned to be both city and country dwellers at the same time. They've discovered that homesteading isn't an all-or-nothing venture. Self sufficiency doesn't happen overnight. Instead, there's a long period of learning, growing, adventuring, failing, succeeding -- and commuting -- that takes place on the journey.

https://www.facebook.com/raydiantacres/ Instagram @raydiantacres