Yeoman

Geoff is joined by two good friends, Craig and CBQ, to discuss how people are feeling about the current state of the world.

Craig is the co-founder and CEO of Matchstic. CBQ is the co-founder and CEO of Greenzie. Geoff is the co-founder of Periodical.ink, a partner in the development of I'On, the developer of Big Ridge Mountain Club, and the shepherd of the Yeoman podcast.

Shownotes at https://yeomanpodcast.com/2025/03/12/vibes-with-craig-cbq-and-geoff-19/

Kevin Klinkenberg is an urban designer, architect, planner, and writer. He is the Executive Director of Midtown KC Now, a nonprofit in Kansas City working on effective community development and management in Midtown Kansas City. Kevin is also the host of the Messy City Substack and podcast, where he dissects work on design, development, planning, and placemaking around the country. In this episode, Geoff and Kevin discuss localism, effective municipal governance, New Urbanism, the human-scale, and more.Show notes on the Yeoman website: https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/11/27/kevin-klinkenberg-18/

Geoff Graham is joined by Saifedean Ammous, Austin Tunnel, and Jaime Izurieta-Varea to discuss how monetary policy, hard money, fiat currency, time preference, and the regulatory environment impact the quality of our built environment. https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/11/01/saifedean-ammous-austin-tunnel-jaime-izurieta-varea-time-preference-beauty-episode-17/

Michael Buckley is the owner and operator of The Ventura Meat Company, the first full-service, sustainable butcher shop in Ventura, California. They exclusively offer grass-fed beef and other pastured, free range meat products in the Ventura area. Michael is a butcher-philosopher changing the way people think about meat, what sustainable production means, and how we consume it. In this episode, Geoff and Michael talk about his business, food as medicine, barbell training, the USDA, and more.

Don Boudreaux of cafehayek.com joined Geoff on Constitution Day. Geoff's first question for Don: Is Constitution Day to be celebrated or mourned?

Show notes on the Yeoman website: https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/09/22/don-boudreaux-constitution-day-freedom-of-speech-regulatory-capture-voting-15/

Jaime Izurieta is the founder of Storefront Mastery, a creative agency that helps Main Street districts and retailers succeed in a world tilted towards big box competitors. Jaime is also the author of several books, including Storefront Mastery and Main Street Mavericks: Innovation, Leadership, and a Bright Future for Main Street Businesses. In this episode, he discusses the unique opportunities for small business, the effects of monetary policy and regulation, the experience economy, and more.

https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/08/24/episode-14-jaime-izurieta-varea/

Aaron Lubeck is an urbanist, land planner, and builder in Durham, North Carolina. He’s also the founder of Southern Urbanism, an action-tank committed to building better cities in the South. Aaron writes about housing, urbanism, placemaking, and politics on his own Substack, onHousing. In this episode, Aaron discusses incrementalism, local development, New Urbanism, and more, sharing in Geoff’s optimism about the future of urbanism in America.

Brace yourselves for some rough audio! Something about our cellphone connection caused some problems with Akiva's voice. Our producer got it into a tolerable condition.

Akiva is the owner of Twisted Tree Farm, a 20 acre homestead and nursery dedicated to growing healthy trees, food, and family in Spencer, New York. He is also the author of Trees of Power: Ten Essential Arboreal Allies. In this episode, Akiva tells us about his journey to growing trees, his perspectives on nature and ecological history, and his approach to humanity's relationship with its environment. Akiva also generously shares information about his growing practices, his property, and his business.

Visit the Yeoman site for the complete show notes:

https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/08/08/episode-12-akiva-silver/

I sat down with Vince Graham in the Winter Hall of his South Carolina beach castle, Mugdock (named after the historic seat of the Graham family in Scotland). We discuss a lot of things: building beautiful places, Ivan Illich, Corbu, Brave New World, HOAs, forces of institutionalization and atomization, books, Supreme Court decisions that have shaped our culture and land patterns.

Shownotes:

https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/06/25/episode-11-vince-graham/

I had the pleasure of sitting down with my father, Tom Graham, for a lengthy discussion of his career. The conversation begins with Dad's early life in 1940s and 50s Rock Hill, South Carolina, we continue through his careers in energy and the nascent software industry, his introduction to real estate development, and his work as what one might appropriately call a wildcatter developer in Atlanta multifamily and single family real estate. We wrap things up with the the beginnings of our rezoning effort for the development of I'On in the late 1990s in Mount Pleasant, SC.

This could have been several different podcasts—Management Science America and the early software industry, deal structure and financing for the yeoman developer, and the origins of I'On—and I encourage you to check out the shownotes for links to specific sections:

https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/06/25/episode-10-tom-graham/