Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today is a TOTW day where was have a shorter episode about just one random thought I have had. And Nashville is threatening to (and probably will) retroactively enforce a 33% property tax increase on its people. I am one of those people and it made me think of taxes, thuggery and the company store.

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Let's talk about how we want to evolve as a society shall we? How we think things could be?

I imagine a world where the "human nature" approach of bonking someone over the head with a club to steal food, their spouse or children, gold, or clothing from them is not acceptable. Where we are free trade, to give, to help, to feel, to be.

What do you envision?

Because right now, we still find it ok to steal food, children, money and life from people in the interest of serving the greater good. What does the greater good even mean? This definition gets so twisted. As if clubbing someone over the head is ever in service of the greater good anyway… How can it be good if the only way to get there is via pillage and thuggery?

It makes me think of the Company Store approach in mining towns. Workers had to buy their housing, food, supplies and health care from the corporation they worked for. Full stop. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. Plenty went wrong. By establishing this dependency on one source for basic needs and extending store credit from time to time, these mining operations established a legal form of slavery. The overpriced goods, underpaid employees and if you pushed back, they sent their thugs to beat you.

And slavery is bad is it not?

Why then is it any different to demand payment from people at the cost of their property, their personal freedom, their lives if the do not pay? Why is it ok for anyone to keep part of my labor and work? Why can they take my children if I do not pay and put them in a system with a long history of sexual and physical abuse? Why do we allow this to happen?

Some people think I am crazy for thinking of taxes this way, but that is what they are. People are extorted for money in order that it can be used to pay for things like an education system that is failing our children, social services rife with abuse, medical services that can fail the individual with a one size fits none approach, and yes. The roads. They extort money for the roads. No opt out. Fines, loss of property, jail time and loss of your children if you do not pay.

How is it not thuggery to get money in this way? How is it not slavery that you do not keep what you earn to spend as you will? How is it not thuggery to take my money and force me to finance your foreign wars? Your ripping apart of families through the drug war?

People will answer that I signed a social contract to live in the US — I have to pay to live her. I signed no contract.

People will answer that it has to be because if we did not force everyone to pay for some things, people will use drugs, die on the street, never fix the roads and children will stop learning.

To which I ask – really? Is that really what will happen if we move away from a forced-taxation system? Are you sure?

What if instead of fighting with me about defining taxation as thuggery, you put your creative energies toward something a bit more creative? Like ask yourself this: How can we care for people in our society without a taxation structure? How can we build and maintain roads without enslaving people? How can we do this a different way?

Just because we do not do it this way right now does not mean it cannot be done and really the core issue that seems to get in the way of truly solving this question is envy and greed. Not what you may think of in this regard though. It is the greed of some who have less than they wish they had wanting to force those who have more to use it toward this end. Meaning those who wish they had more want to force those who do to spend their money in a way the person who has it may not wish to spend it.

They have more so they should spend more. Really? Is that any of your damn business? You have no right to tell other people what to do with their labor, their capitol.

You have no right to send armed men to their homes to arrest them just because they earn more than you and you think they need to give more than the do, do you? Well, some people think that they do have this right> the right to force people to pay, to steal from them, to harm them if they do not comply. And the tricky thing is that they frame it in humanitarian terms. But stealing from Michelle to help Amanda isn't a moral act. Helping Amanda is a moral act. And we seem to have forgotten the difference.

We've talked a bunch about prioritizing the will of the masses over the rights of the individual — a practice that ends in abuse of the many individuals that make up the collective in the best of cases. Taxation is just a fancy word for piracy and thuggery. A way to make you feel good when your labor is stolen to support things you may or may not agree with.

Let's work to do better than this — to envision a world where we answer this question: How can we care for people in our community without pillaging everyone? How can we care for people without greedily judging your neighbors and coveting what they have accomplished? How can we care for people in our communities with compassion rather than through enslavement?

That is the world i want to see and that I know we can build.

Make it a great week!

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Today we have a thought of the walk on land ownership.

No shows next week (replays coming all focused around developing your life strategic plan)

Episode 363: TOTW on Land Ownership

Forget your guns, the bigger threat is that they want to take you land. Yeah. You heard me. There has been a systematic erosion of your rights to use your land to better your future for a very, very long time.

Don't believe me? What happens if you do not pay your property tyth to the state? Do you get to keep your land? This morning, a visiting LFTNer told me about several properties he got for $50. Because people did not pay their taxes on it, the county was unable to auction them off, so several years later, they sell them for $50.

But what about the person who lost these lands?

If they foreclosed due to nonpayment of a loan, it is one thing. But if it is due to nonpayment of property taxes? Quite another. They didn't pay the masters -- game over.

Or what about people who grew up on their family farm? And Dad dies? And they have to sell part of it to pay the inheritance tax? And then that land becomes a housing development? And then their taxes go up until they have to sell to a developer?

And don't get me started on zoning. Zoning is the sneakiest and worst way that our land is taken from us. You THOUGHT you could do what you wanted to create value for yourself -- say by building a village of tiny homes and renting them out? Nope -- not zoned for that.

Or perhaps by installing a few cabins so people can come stay and interact with your livestock and learn how a homestead operates? Not if you are zoned agricultural.

Or let's say your city home burns down and you want to rebuild? Sorry. You are R2 and required to put a duplex there.

Wait. What?

Some people defend this because they claim it saves farmlands, keeps property values from being diminished by the choices of your neighbors, or is better for the environment.

But is any of that true? Or are they are not seeing the forest for the trees?

We have so many misguided people who use their feelings of guilt about being wealthy enough to have time to worry about those less fortunate to save things through voting in bullying rather than giving those they can a hand up.

One of the greatest freedoms that our country gave to the most impoverished has been an opportunity to become landed. Why does becoming landed get you ahead? Because it gives you something that you can use, time and again, to generate stability and wealth that "they" cant take from you. It broke free from the systems of feudal control that would keep you from being able to move beyond serving your masters and to become the master. With your own land, you no longer require THEM to feed you if you do it right. But we've made it feudal again. We are letting our control of our lands go.

And if you think about it this small chance to prosper is a really big deal. There was a time when you could not own your acre, grow your ducks and sell your eggs. It was someone else's acre, their ducks and their eggs and you mings got 1 egg from the deal -- or you might be told you can't eat them but you must care for them.

And in setting this up, you would let yourself be controlled just to survive.

This is why the forces that wish to control populations do their best to gain control of the lands, be it your city home, quiet quarter acre in the country, prosperous farm, or simply a mailbox and a shack.

They know that a people who can take care of themselves, who have hope to build a better future for their children, who have assets to leverage are harder to control.

Better is to lock us down supporting land we will never own, barely making ends meet from month to month, so that we must do what they want or face the loss of what little we have.

Better to foster insecurity, debt, fear, and then turn it into hate not for those that set up the scam, but against another population with the same problems so that we will trade the potential for prosperity for a perceived security of property values, a monthly paycheck, and better environment.

But it is all a fiction.

The densest cities with the most draconian land use plans oriented toward smart growth that is supposed to keep us from polluting the planet are giant pollution bombs into the air, water and lands that cannot possibly absorb or process that level of destruction. The trash alone is shipped out of the area to another location, or dumped in the ocean, or who knows what. The poop is problematic. The drain off causes die offs.

How is that better than allowing us to live with more space so that each reduces their impact? This could be a thought of the walk on its own really.

At the end of the day, empowering personal land ownership may not be the best solution ever, but there is this: If you support land ownership for anyone who can achieve it, you support letting anyone set the foundation for a prosperous future. This is so much better than the alternative of no hope to break out.

Taking this one small thing from us through zoning, declaring land unownable, taxation or any of the other tricky ways they seek to lock us out sets a foundation for an elite few to control most of us.

The last 100 years have been a gastly attack on land owner's rights and we are seeing it accelerate. And that is cause for more alarm than which talking head is president or how they got elected -- it is this bottom-up attack on fundamental foundations that remove barriers to people who have nothing to grow into people who prosper. And it is done under the guise of helping those who have nothing

Very clever isn't it?

The thing that has been running through my head as I walk alone or drive is this clever, bottom up erosion. It is ironic that the forces that want a top down control on the economy, on our day to day, to take over control of the lands and our lives are finding success from the bottom up. While those who believe in "free markets" are trying to protect them through a top-down political effort and ignoring the power of the very people they want to see freed. The ones who if they vote with their feet will win.

Time to shift focus, I think. Go back to protecting your rights, one person and one right at a time, from township to township, zone to zone, county to county --- and see where that lands us in 50 years.

And don't support the taking of our lands.

Make it a great week!

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Today is a show where you get to ask me questions and I will answer them. Find out my take on libertarian politics, how to integrate a new goat on the homestead, rabbits, cheap website options, and more.

We will be livestreaming the recording of this so if I see a good question or two there, I will integrate it.

Main topic of the Show: Ask Nicole

Integrating new animals to the homestead…

• The GOAT
• The MACK TRUCK, I mean BOAR

From Rocko: Your take on the overly PC world we live in and how it effects your brand building.

Boutique Greens: Want the domain name, it's not taken, llc , instagram, etc of that name not taken, not much money, what to do...cheapest way to secure that name and website?

From Youtube: Hi! Loving the conversation. I have a homesteading question, have you or anyone you know raised pasturesd rabbits? It seems like it could work and be cost effective since the wild ones only eat grass

From Josh: If you could give one piece of advice to the Libertarian Party what would it be?

From Marie: Healthshare + Direct Primary Care

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!

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• The Booze Whisperer
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Stop wasting time on an election and join me today on a journey. A weekly journey to create the life you want to live. Where the environment in which you find yourself is just that -- an environment, not your master -- you the slave. This will be a four part series, each Monday until we are done.

1. Spirko's workshop next week
2. Holler Neighbors Thursday - refining our community

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Last push for winter items
• Better vacuum packer is on site
• Plucker is repaired -- announcement for those who paid for the processing workshop and did not attend
• Dehydrating apples

Operation Independence

• Boar Arriving today to make bacon seeds

Main topic of the Show: Move Forward Into 2021

It is with great dismay that I watch you be manipulated. Most frustrating when I see you fall prey to it. You are being played and it doesn't really matter who is doing the playing.

As I drove home from a meeting on Sunday, I started thinking about the election. Tomorrow is the election. And all I know is that following the election, there is going to be a shit storm. And this causes me to worry.

But you know what? I can't impact of the election. None of us can. Unless you are a voter in a state, in a district that is deciding for the whole state, and your single vote is the one that makes the difference, you've got nothing at this point. The guy that is going to be elected will be elected. He will not be the one that they want in office, furthering the long term agenda of slavery that has been in a growth phase in our lifetimes. Full Stop.

But we are lucky -- lucky that we live in a world where the facade still exists. The facade that we choose how we live, that we are free. Because you know what? It is much easier to control populations through narrative than through physical force.

And in this, we find the world between the walls, the grey spaces, and true freedom. Many people think of freedom as this thing that happened as a result of the revolutionary war. But it isn't that. It comes from one person. It comes from you. You who decide to live in freedom, to exist as you wish to exist, build your life how you want it to be, rather than how it is supposed to be according to someone else.

Freedom is a spiritual choice, not the result of a war of liberation.

The revolution is inside each one of us. And that is the enlightenment that has some so scared these days.

And that is underlying this play we are seeing happen -- but aIA think that topic is one that will be covered on Unloose the Goose.

What happened yesterday as I was driving is this: I realized that a bunch of people are going to waste their time fretting about who wins tomorrow, and we probably will not know, but if we do, will then start fretting about the fact that that person won. They will invest time into arguing in person, on social media, and by focusing on that will forget to focus on what really matters: building the life you want to live. Finding that space between the walls. Carving out your niche. Setting yourself up to prosper no matter what happens.

So do me a favor, instead of focusing on the noise that is being created to distract you, shift focus to your highest purpose. Look at what you can do to make a positive change for yourself. Build your life's strategic plan.

We've talked about this before you know. But I think it has been more as podast porn that you listen to and get inspired by -- not something that helps you take action. So today, I am asking you, begging you really, to take one step forward by doing an assessment. Include your family if you have one. And next week, we will take the second step. The desired end state is this: A shared vision for you and your family if you have one, a definition of your purpose, 3 strategies that will get you there, and tangible things to do in 2021 (even before 2021) so that you can make progress toward your vision each and every day.

Guys, the #my3things stuff we do? This is what that is about. You choose up to 3 things a day that move you forward. Sometimes there is 1 3 thing. And sometimes that one thing is to do really well at your job because you need to earn stable income to get to your first goal. And sometimes doing that really well is the best place to pour your focus.

We live in a world filled with distractions and this is being exacerbated as technology finds new ways to pull our attention away from things. It is so easy to find yourself in a conversation that lasts for hours while you ignore the people right in front of your face. And that conversation feels so important -- and it usually isnt.

Several times this year, friends have reminded me of that.

Example: the pep talk

Why do a strategic plan: funnel, ruler

Why now: If you can do it now while things are ramped up to a frenzy, it will stick

Is it hard? Yes and no

How do I start: Questions to define your purpose: (Talk about the stomps)

• What is your life like today?
• How do you wish it was different?
• What do you love to do?
• What do you hate to do?
• What things bring you happiness?
• What things keep you from moving forward?
• Envision future you/family -- what characteristics will there be? (more free time, enough money to go on vacations, lots of travel)
• As a result of your success in building your lifestyle, how will the world be better in 5 or ten years?

Draft a purpose statement that describes, in perpetuity your lifestyle

The holler provides an inviting, supportive place where hollerites can rejuvenate, learn, grow, and prosper as well as connect with people who are truly free. (It will be clunky, that is ok)

Shop it around for a week and see how it changes -- challenge yourself to remove anything you can. It will develop into something you all like and can say and can embrace.

Once you have it settled, you will be ready for the next step, which we will cover either next week or the week after, depending on how much time it takes for me to be at Jack Spirko's fall workshop.

Make it a great week!

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Today is a show where you get to ask me questions and I will answer them. Find out where I get the closing songs for Monday's show, why you should boil your pressure-canned foods before you eat them, how to integrate a new goat on the homestead and more.

We will be livestreaming the recording of this so if I see a good question or two there, I will integrate it.

Roastery Update

• Tale of the venting hood
• Developing New Processes

Main topic of the Show: Ask Nicole

From Amanda:

Would you feel comfortable sharing a little background for those of us that are new followers? Such as what is your property / homestead like?

How long have you lived there?

How did you find your property and what led you there?

I've heard you say "we" many times before and talk about shared pantry and cooking. Do you live with others? Or, do you have some type of community living happening?

How does that work?

Just wanted to get to know you and your homestead a bit more. Thanks and looking forward to listening!

David

Where do you get your music that you end your podcasts with?

Joy -

Question about pressure canning - if when pressure canning the temperature gets up to 240 degrees and is high enough to kill botulism then why must you boil the contents for x amount of minutes after opening? Shouldn't the bad bacteria be dead already? Thanks, only one season into canning but I have 50+ quarts of pressure canned meats in the pantry and want to be safe when eating.

John

What makes decaf decaf?

David O

Over 200k people have been killed by coronavirus. How many people must die before we eradicate this deadly virus?

Ali

Is being offered stock in a company you work for worthwhile? Context-the bar/restaurant I'm managing at is going to give managers shares in the company in January, I think it's a good passive income stream but is it really?

Alan

Health insurance options, particularly medi share type options or what are other self employed doing for health insurance.

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GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!

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• The Booze Whisperer
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We have talked about pantry management a ton this year, but I got a question asking for me to go over how I manage my pantry during the youtube livestream of the Winter is Coming show for 2020 so I thought I would share with yall what I do here, with the space and other boundaries I have at the Holler Homestead.

Announcements:

• LFTN is not on Odysee: @livingfree or https://odysee.com/@livingfree:b (why)
• Get your questions in for the q & A show

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Getting ready for venison season
• Update on shortages
• Setting the foundation for winter lettuce

Featured Forage: Chicken of the Woods - Laetiporus sulphureus

• Wild Edible Phil a cosophy (Mushrooms are cited for being the thing to double check -- but double check everything)
• Eating new mushroom varieties
• Grows on oak trees at this time of year in tn
• Laetiporus sulphureus has a potent ability to inhibit staph bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus), as well as moderate ability to inhibit the growth of Bacillus subtilis.[6]
• Preparing: Sautee, bread and fry, bake -- it is all good
• Storing: dehydrate for long term, freeze for shorter periods

Operation Independence

• Explain the independence fund
• Roastery Expansion is all that we are doing - high quality plywood and electrical parts

Main topic of the Show: Pantry and Root Cellar Management

Pantry Management Philosophy

• I hate shopping
• I hate most restaurant food
• I hate wasting food
• I hate wasting money

1. Make your pantry management work for you
2. Plan for stability through weather events, job loss, etc. Build in luxury (Pad Thai)
3. Store what you eat, and eat what you store (Spirkodamus)
4. Learn your needs so that you can tap into times of abundance

• Start by paying attention (Learn what you really eat in a journal for one month)
  • Shopping online helps, eg TP
  • Involve the whole family -- gameify if needed
• Find out why you have to bip out to the store for just one item -- what is it and why did you not include it in your weekly or monthly shopping list?
• 1 week, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 2 months, 6 months, 1 year (And a word on hoarding)
  • Spirko's concept of doubling
• Pantry areas to assess
  • Food: Fresh foods, Freezer foods, Canned/jarred foods, dry foods
  • Cleaning Supplies
  • First Aid Supplies
  • Paper Goods
  • Toiletry Items
  • Plant and Animal Supplies
• Space considerations
  • Humidity and temperature
  • Clutter Buster
  • Creative solutions
    • Garage shelving
    • Crawl space
    • Walls
    • Under bed storage
    • Attic
    • Outbuildings
    • Back of cabinets
    • Shelves near the ceiling
    • Send me ideas?
• Holler Homestead process
  • Boundaries: root cellar gets hot/cold by season, canned goods cant freeze, my home is 100 sf, two bedrooms without much storage
  • What do I mean by load from the back and take from the front
  • Base philosophy: long term storage, short term storage, kitchen storage
  • Inventory system: Freezer vs other storage (Dates)
  • Root cellar process: seasonal rotation and reviewing contents
    • Potato varieties
    • Squash varieties
    • Rodent control
  • Meal planning approach
  • Dealing with spoilage
  • Establishing budget (Challenges & victories)

Only you can set your pantry up the best way for your household -- there is no one way.

Make it a great week!

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It is interview show day and I am excited to tell you about today's topic: a better way with Xavier Hawk where we talk in minute detail about his alternative platform for living, transacting and building communities, Phireon. This may not feel like homesteading or entrepreneurial as we start but as the episode progresses, you will see why I think this is such a great topic for our community.

Kickstart Holler Roast Update: Will start shipping next week -- look for an email with your preferences over the weekend.

Show Resources

Phireon Partners: https://phireonglobalpartners.com/

Phireon: https://phireon.com/

Main content of the show

Xavier Hawk co-founded a home health agency with his family in 2001, and then went off grid with his wife and four daughters to their mountain homestead. Here he went on to invest in real estate, commodities, and crypto currencies where he found his Niche. He architected the world's first asset backed blockchain system, negotiated the world's first blockchain solution for a nation, and architected the intentional neighborhood design growing in popularity with real estate developers around the globe. He currently sells emerging tech in the sectors of off grid energy, border security, last mile infrastructure, connectivity, and border security to enterprise level clients through his company Phireon Global Partners.

Interview

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

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• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
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• Holler Roast Coffee

Winter is coming is our theme for this week and along with winter comes the holiday gift-giving season. We have an annual tradition of sharing handmade gift ideas at LFTN and today, we will review four things you can do to share that you care in a more personal, homemade way.

Links to past episodes on handmade gifts

• https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2019/11/27/four-last-minute-homemade-gift-ideas/
• https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2019/08/28/four-christmas-gift-ideas-to-start-now/
• https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2018/12/03/episode-107-handmade-homey-gifts-and-firing-toxic-people/
• https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2017/10/23/episode-54-five-homemade-holiday-gift-ideas/
• https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2016/12/12/episode-15-five-country-holiday-gift-ideas/

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

Holler Neighbor Livestream, Thursday at 7pm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feyXBL1ibC4

Stump the Sauce

• From Samantha: Do you dry your herbs in bundles or do you strip the leaves and put them in the dehydrator? Or something else entirely?

Tales from the Booze Wisperette -- need questions

What's Up in the Garden

• Garlic is planted -- this winter is coming schedule is the BOMB
• Transplanted half the hydro strawberries -- will see how they do
• Harvested Horseradish, and transplanted it, interplanted with the strawberries
• Planted two peach and two cherry trees -- they look a little shocked so we are checking in on them every day
• Greens are coming off the AP, as are green onions
• Need to get the Egyptians planted

Main topic of the Show: 4 Homemade Gift Ideas

Family Recipe Boo

Bourbon Kahlua

• 1 liter bourbon, 100 proof
• 2 vanilla beans (where to get them)
• 4 cups strongly brewed coffee – i mean really strong man, like espresso
• 8 cups brown sugar (I use 4 now)

Walking Stick

Advent calendar

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

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• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
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Today we have a reminder about winter. Winter is nigh. Soon the plants will go to sleep, bare root trees will beg to be planted, and the cold times will be upon us. With the cold comes a need to keep our water from freezing, our animals from taking sick, and ourselves ready to get snowed in. This looks a bit different on a homestead than in the city and we will talk through what we do at the Holler Homestead to prepare.

• Holler Neighbor Livestream - A Roastery Update - https://youtu.be/feyXBL1ibC4Episode
• 354 - replay tomorrow

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Winter perspective: Auditing everything to make sure we are ready
• Use up vs Put Up
• Moved canning out of the kitchen'
• Drying more herbs
• Mushroom season

Operation Independence

• Made it home with the roaster, saw friends

Main topic of the Show: 2020 Winter is Coming

Usually, we start our winter preparations in August and I do this episode on the hottest day ever. Not this year. Cold temperatures have hit us a bit sooner than normal an caught me without things in order for winter.

Goal of winter preparations:

1. Livestock taken care of
2. Humans covered
3. Water systems secured
4. Preset spring growing

This year, we are taking a catch up approach

• 10am-12pm WINTER IS COMING blocked time

Heat: Firewood and fire organization, chimney sweep and stove repairs, kerosene and propane heaters checked on, finishing the rocket mass heater

Livestock: Increase feed on hand, first aid audit, bedding needs, water antifreeze systems, shelter update

Humans: Audit first aid, add winter preps to the pantry (like milk), winter clothing & comfort audit

Food storage: move roots to the root cellar, reset kitchen to use up rather than put up

Systems: prepare the gas things for overwintering, remove window AC units, take in summer water things, secure the pump house against cold, drains

Gardens: reset the hydro system, drain the AP wicking beds, row cover, prepare the ground gardens for spring, plant the garlic, fall bulbs, row cover

Winter Festivities: Handmake gifts, start special foods, decide what will be "held" for holiday meals.

There is so much to do when winter is coming -- this is why I usually start in August. But not this year. This year, it is not to be. But despite all that, it will get done. It always does. And the time will come so fast when I am tucked in by the fire, brandy in hand, planning the spring gardens...

Make it a great week!

Song: Grandpa's Song by Sauce

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/
• Instagram: @nicolesauce
• Twitter: @nicolesauce

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up
• Holler Roast Coffee

Today, I wanted to go back to a concept we talked about around this time last year. The word of the year. One word that you use to change your life for the better and you concentrate on it all year. Jenni Hill has been a rising start with this approach in the LFTN network and I linked to an interview we had with her about it.

I figured this month would be a good time to start sharing the progress of my word of the year: Grow.

Announcements

• Cybersecurity Webinar, Tomorrow at 7pm (Email going out today to those who registered)
• #Roadtrip!

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Packing keto for a road trip
• Harvested the rest of the dryable herbs -- a freeze is coming
• Freezer reorganization observation
• Holiday food shortages

Operation Independence

• #roadtrip
• Trading for labor

Main topic of the Show: Grow as a Word of the Year

>>What is word of the year

Jenni's Episode

>>How do you find one?

• Journaling
• What do you want to change
• What will get you there
• Take time
• How does it fit your life strategic plan?
  • Link to episode
• Word of 2020: grow

Grow: How are we doing?

• Q1: Lost 20 pounds on Keto, coffee was up 20%, corporate facilitations booked, workshop sold out fast, launched new webinar concept and it was being well received
• Q2: COVID -- workshop delayed, all corporate facilitations cancelled, coffee flat lines for two weeks, LFTN 20
  • Hyper overdrive
  • Choices: business resupply
  • Choices: focus
  • Choices: mental and physical health
• Q3: LFTN20 financial hit, the corner (link to episode), a heart to heart with John Pugliano, the decision
  • SOE project
  • Unloose the Goose
  • The fire
  • Mental and physical health
  • KickstartHollerRoast.com
• Q4: Coffee, Podcast, Webinars, Personal Growth, Election, Riots, Civil War
  • Launch new subscriber portal
  • Launch new HollerRoast.com Portal
  • Christmas Coffee
  • Grow another 20% listenership

The hardest part about your success and mine is that we are each in the driver seat -- drive your best trip.

Make it a great week!

Song: Learning What Leaving Is

GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.

Community

• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/
• Instagram: @nicolesauce
• Twitter: @nicolesauc

Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up

• Holler Roast Coffee