Our guest this week is someone we’ve followed for years and whose work we greatly admire. Zak Slayback is the author of the 2016 Amazon bestseller, ‘The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom’, and ‘How To Get Ahead When You Have Nothing to Offer’. He speaks on education, social change, entrepreneurship, and innovation. He is a principal in 1517 Fund, a venture capital fund that funds tech startups founded by people outside of conventional education.

In 2015 he was named one of Linkedin’s most influential voices on education and has appeared on the Glenn Beck Program and Huffpost Live alongside being published in Newsweek, the New York Examiner, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Christian Science Monitor, the Foundation for Economic Education and other publications.

Today, we’ll talk about education, entrepreneurship, positioning one’s self for success in a post-pandemic world, and we also get into some interesting political questions we’ve been asking ourselves.

Adrian Gonzalez graduated from The University of Miami in 2012 with a Bachelor's in both Communications and Creative Writing. During his senior year at UM, he was one of only three students selected within the entire student body to work hand-in-hand with American novelist, M. Evelina Galang.

Adrian has grown to become a marketing strategist and has held multiple leadership roles at three marketing companies in Miami, FL. At the moment, he's working closely with Danny Vega to create a series of growth and development books geared specifically for children. The book series will be the first fictional, character-based, publication(s) that shed light on self-development principles and strategies for kids, all revolving around a select group of child characters who possess special abilities.

The book is set for release in 2021.

He is the oldest of four siblings and enjoys reading, writing, exercising, and spending time outside. Welcome to the show our great friend (and family member) Adrian Gonzalez!

This week’s guests have both joined us for individual episodes, and you can find those in the show notes. Jeff & Kara Smith's own and operate Colorado Craft Beef, and over the last couple of weeks, we have explored animal health and husbandry, all of the operational facets of ranching, as well as the business side. Today we are answering your questions and going deeper before we conclude our series with them. Welcome back to the show Jeff & Kara Smith!

“The percentage of students who were homeschooled doubled from 1999 to 2012, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That increase leveled off in 2016, when about 1.7 million students were estimated to be homeschooled.”

I cannot even begin to imagine how big of an increase in homeschoolers we are going to see this month, but I’m sure it will be massive, and I’m sure there will be a lot of pushback from the supporters of the public school system monopoly. For example, in May, Harvard Magazine published an article titled ‘The Risks of Homeschooling’. It was a pathetic attempt and they even misspelled arithmetic in the graphic. Some may think, “well maybe they were making fun of how dumb homeschooled children are”, but they actually corrected it later, so…anyway.

This has been a hot topic in the last few months and we have gotten countless questions on it for a while now. Right now, there is a lot of discussion over children and schools, and how they plan to open back up again. Frankly, a lot of people are terrified about the potential consequences of changing how children do school. We are on uncharted territory and this is a huge experiment, and while we have heard all about the masks, social distancing, and for lack of a better word bubble wrapping of our children to reduce the risk of contracting a virus with a 0.2% mortality rate (and it approaches zero with children), I haven’t seen much talk on what the implications of implementing this on developing brains.

How will their social development be affected when they can’t receive non-verbal cues from their classmates or their teachers because everyone is masked up? There is a LOT to unpack there, and I personally won’t touch it because to us, it’s irrelevant. We mourn with all of the parents who simply cannot make homeschooling work, but we will stick to our wheelhouse, and that is helping those who do want to start homeschooling. We have done several episodes on our podcast and others on our philosophy, the history of schooling, and other important education information, so we encourage you to scroll through our podcast feed and check those out. But today we will focus on the practical stuff. We asked you for questions and boy did you all deliver.

Our guest this week is Jeff Smith from Colorado Craft Beef. The land where their ranch is located was originally homesteaded in 1917 by his wife Kara’s great, great grandfather during the Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909. This is a family business at its core, and they’re committed to building relationships with their suppliers and customers alike. Their beef is raised in the sand hills of northeastern Colorado in an environment five generations rich in respect and passion for the land and animals they care for. Their mission is to not only provide consumers with a high-quality beef product, but to also engage with those who are unfamiliar with the importance of knowing their roles within the industry—and in agriculture as a whole. Today we will get into the business side of beef producers—sales, logistics, processing, competitors, labeling, and even the issue of feeding the world. We hope to all learn more about this process so that we can have a greater appreciation of all that goes into the process of raising and harvesting the meat that we eat. With all that said, welcome to the show, Jeff Smith!

In this episode, Danny and Maura answer listener questions on current events. As usual, there is no holding back. You may or may not agree with what they say, but one thing is for sure--you will get their honest opinions!

Our guest this week is Kara Smith from Colorado Craft Beef. The land where their ranch is located was originally homesteaded in 1917 by Kara Smith’s great, great grandfather during the Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909. This is a family business at its core, and they’re committed to building relationships with their suppliers and customers alike. Colorado Craft Beef takes pride in having lasting relationships within the beef cattle industry and providing their customers with a quality product Colorado, and all who enjoy their craft beef, can be proud of. Their beef is raised in the sand hills of northeastern Colorado in an environment five generations rich in respect and passion for the land and animals they care for. Their mission is to not only provide consumers with a high-quality beef product, but to also engage with those who are unfamiliar with the importance of knowing their roles within the industry—and in agriculture as a whole. They offer Craft Beef and Grass-Fed Beef. Today we will get into the differences between those two, as well as learn more about animal husbandry and the daily process. We hope to all learn more about this process so that we can have a greater appreciation of all that goes into the process of raising and harvesting the meat that we eat.

This week’s guest is a YouTuber who caught our eye a few months back when we were first put on house arrest...Maura & I had watched the Fall of the Cabal series, Out of Shadows, the Pizzagate stuff, all of it.

But our guest went deeper. Way deeper. She’s turned us on to everything from pedophilia on Instagram, adult swim, NXIVM, torture chambers, Bryan Singer’s (and every other celebrity who’s been exposed) alleged sex rings, UNESCO’s attempt at grooming children with their global sexual education program, symbolism, spirit cooking, honestly, there’s so much.

But what we love about her is that 1) she is as objective as someone could be when reporting on this stuff and 2) She’s a truth-seeker, but she’s also a Christ-follower. And as fellow Christ-followers, we appreciate a biblical take on all of this stuff.

Please welcome to the show, Natly Denise!

Our guest this week is a functional nutritional therapist and his work has been featured in the Daily Mail, Sky Sports, Marie Claire, and Women’s Health magazine. Marek has spent the last 15 years building a model of personalized nutrition, one that is based on the data of 2,500 individuals, 9,000 test results, and countless hours pouring through the scientific literature. He offers one-to-one consultations with clients from his office in Harley Street or via Phone/Skype. Welcome to the show, Marek Doyle!

Our guest this week is Adam Schaeuble aka The PHD (previously heavy dude). Adam hit a rock bottom moment in his life where he weighed 327lbs. He then went on his own 100lb weight loss journey and as he was on this journey he started to inspire people in his home town to join him. He started a gym and a bootcamp program and helped his home town lose over 35,000 lbs in five years.

Now he's the host of the top ranked health podcast The Million Pound Mission where his goal is to inspire one million pounds of healthy results (which he tracks on his website (MillionPoundMission.com)

Adam is known for helping females(and a few men) over the age of 30 that are super busy being employees, entrepreneurs, partners, friends, and moms. These are the people that tend to put themselves and their health last on the priority list and Adam teaches them how to escape the Black Hole of Weight Loss Doom which is where most people get trapped in the vicious cycle of losing weight and gaining it back over and over again.

Adam impacts his community by teaching them his 7 Necessary Steps For Long Term Weight Loss Succes that have produced a total 60,000 lbs of results for his clients and community members so far.