Progressive Podcast Australia

Often it makes me laugh how the macro economists, government advisors and banking experts pontificate on supply chain disruptions, unemployment rates and other statistical data as they pour over spreadsheets trying to find the reasons why things happen. But the answers are simple for this yet few people are willing to address the truth. Lets talk about this.

When people think about farming they typically think about growing food or animals for consumption. Whereas that is an important part of human survival, to be completely self-sufficient and sustainable in the 21st century, it takes more than that. In this episode Im going to delve into different aspects of farming and how you can do this yourself in the quest to regain control and your freedom back.

I realize that it takes time to build up wealth, but you gotta start somewhere. Although I had years of business experience before I bought my first rental property, none of that experience actually yielded real wealth. It wasnt until I spoke with another business owner I was friends with, and realized he bought his own commercial building that he operated in, that I realized the building was where the money was. Like McDonalds, it wasnt about the burgers. It was about the real estate. That began my start in rental real estate investing, and it worked out pretty good for me.

I was recently talking with a self-proclaimed personal finance coach, about being interviewed on his podcast. He wanted my input on how people who are in debt can deal with it. The interview didnt happen, because he thought my methods were unusual and wouldnt work for his audience. But it got me thinking who is this audience, and why the hell are they in debt in the first place. Then I realized it is 99% of the people in the USA, and it is no wonder they are in that position.

I've been realizing just how statistics dont tell a complete story of the decline of civil liberties, individual freedoms and life quality. For most people who have some memory of the cold war, or are students of 20th century history, it is well accepted that giving up all power and control to the state, in return to get your physical needs met, is a deal with the devil that has continually failed. Yet we seem to have done this without even realizing it. I call this Communism by proxy. Let this episode be a warning about our current world and society.

At some point in all of our lives, we are faced with challenges of being asked to do something we dont agree with. Organizations are notorious to be populated with individuals of differing levels of ethics & morality, and yet the challenge to protest against doing something you believe to be morally wrong is a deeply personal thing. In this episode we will explore how you can mitigate against the risk of having your personal morality challenged with work.

It is somewhat amusing to read through the countless posts on various forums on Facebook on the early retirement movement. I use the term Movement intentionally because this has become more of a cult that follows a fictional future event. That is not to say that the intentions are bad it is that often the endpoint is flawed.

Having spent a career as a software engineer, I encountered a world of problems in hundreds of different industries. I knew nothing about the industries at all, but what I did know was that a method to gather their needs, analyze them, design something to solve their needs and build to that design worked. We call that a methodology. When I looked outside of the engineering space, I found a few implementations of methodologies in particular, business methodologies used in large organizations. I guess I naturally use methodologies without thinking, but it provides a way to codify something repeatable. In this episode Im going to offer you a methodology that I use, that has helped me become and continue to be unconstrained.