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Episode-818- Greg Yows of Revolution Rock and Roll

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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Find all of Greg's Music at RevolutionRockAndRoll.com

I am really excited to welcome Greg Yows to The Survival Podcast.  Greg is a great friend to both the show and me personally.  Together we wrote “The Revolution is You” our show theme.

When asked about himself Greg says,

“I am a simple songwriter. The hippies in the 60s had their “protest” bards in the form of Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Janice Joplin, John Lennon, Joan Baez…the list goes on. Now, I ain’t claimin’ to have their skill. But I have just as much passion for my cause. And that cause is making sure my kids enjoy freedom from the tyrannical, over-taxing, nanny-state governments that are currently plaguing our nation.

I hail from the piney-woods of East Texas where the fishing is amazing but the county was dry. So here I am in Austin, a computer programmer by day and musician at night…cranking out patriot songs between honey-dos, working on my preps, gardening, fishing and taking care of my two kids.”

Join Greg and I today was we discuss his music at Revolution Rock and Roll, some of the other things he is currently working on, the role of our military, life as a prepper and more.

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Episode-813- Growing for Market with Steve “The Greenhouse Guy”

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Modern Survival| 20 Comments
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Steve Kasarda, started, built, owned and sold 3 nurseries. Now he grows for market (show theme) and manufactures greenhouses. He is here today to discuss “growing for market” without spending thousands or perhaps even hundreds of dollars.

Steve's Green Houses Growing in The North West Winter

Join Us Today As We Discuss…

  • General green house growing
  • Soils ,plant starts, grow temps, supplemental heat
  • Getting started at the market with selling, display and pricing mix of product
  • How to treat a customer and keep them as a customer
  • The role a greenhouse or poly tunnel can play in making you money
  • How long it takes to become an established market grower
  • Getting plant starts on the cheap or free
  • Creating unique niches and selling the average stuff as wel
  • How to organize your displays for transport and protect your merchandise
  • Making gardening into a profit center

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

 

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Episode-799- Greenhouse Thoughts, Construction, Usage and Considerations

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Modern Survival| 37 Comments
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A Green House is More than a Season Extender

It is winter, it is cold, the hoe and spade have likely been cleaned, oiled and put into the shed.  Seed catalogs are coming in and dreaming of spring has likely begun even before the Christmas holiday is over.

Wake up, there is much to be done!  With a greenhouse, small, medium or large we can get plants started early, we can grow food even in the cold and with some modifications we can even beat old man winter and possibly grow what, “can’t be grown this time of year around these parts”.

I will even share some innovative exotic ideas with you that could be used to create a profitable niche business or just to do something others think “can’t be done”, which is always fun to do.

Join Me Today As I Discuss…

  • The real value of a greenhouse year round
  • Micro greenhouses
  • Cold frames
  • Mid sized greenhouses
  • Large greenhouses
  • House joined greenhouses
  • Using a “tarp zipper”
  • Creating heat traps
  • Building “self watering systems”
  • The use of “movable insulation”
  • Great stuff to grow
  • Starting plants
  • Shade cloth
  • Exotic options

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-772- Trevor Van Hemert from Pedal to Petal

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Modern Survival| 35 Comments
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Trevor Van Hemert of PedalToPetal.com

Trevor Van Hemert of PedalToPetal.com

Trevor Van Hemert runs Pedal to Petal a company that picks up food scraps from all over the city of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Pedal To Petal is a permaculture-based collective of bicycle loving food security activists who are taking direct action to reduce carbon emissions and landfill waste and to feed the soil and the city’s hungry.

They do all their pick up and transport via the use of bicycles with zero use of any fossil fuels.  The finished compost is used to grow food in the same city where the components are collected and the compost is produced making Pedal to Petal a truly local business.

While most people would tend to expect Pedal to Petal to be a non profit business it is actually a very successful for profit enterprise proving that a business can be successful, profitable and still have a soul and a noble purpose.

Join us today as we discuss…

  • What is Pedal to Petal and what makes it unique
  • The importance of building a “transition business” in modern times
  • How Pedal to Petal is able to successfully compete with larger competitors
  • Why/how the Amish business model has a 99% success rate
  • Why you may want to cap the growth of a business
  • The concept of “spin farming”
  • What is a compost host
  • How yard and food wastes can be profitable
  • Why it is better to charge to pick up waste then for finished compost

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-744- Building a Business to Create Economic Freedom

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Modern Survival| 37 Comments
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For the last three years all talk in regard to employment and business has been pretty bad.  Yet in the depths of this recession many businesses are thriving.  These include mega corps, small businesses and what I consider “micro businesses”.

To me a “micro business” is a one or two man show.  Such businesses can often end up being nothing more than a hobby unless they are built by the owner with the same passion Henry Ford put into the Model T.  Yet for those who really commit, those who really build with unyielding passion there has never been a time better than now to create economic freedom.

In our community many people want more freedom, perhaps a little homestead and most of all the ability to focus on what really matters, their families and communities.  This is also the real world though and we have to “keep a roof over head and food on the table”.  Join me today as I discuss how building a business can create the freedom to really live the way you choose and above all grant you geographic freedom.

Join Me Today As I Discuss…

  • Why the time is now better than any other
  • Why no matter your business the web is key
  • Social media is simply becoming communications
  • The death of the “gate keepers”
  • The commitment required
  • Why “doing what you love” works
  • Why “doing what you know” also works
  • Why the system is more important than the subject
  • Why poverty is NOT a virtue
  • Three things you need to know about your audience
    • Who are they
    • What do they want
    • How do they want it
  • What your audience most wants today
    • Affinity
    • Authenticity
    • Action Items
  • All products can be classified as one of two types
    • Needed
    • Wanted (focus on these)
  • The golden trifecta of product marketing
    • Entertaining
    • Life Changing
    • Profit Yielding

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

 

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Episode-615- Gary Vaynerchuk on Building a Business & Personal Brand

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Modern Survival| 42 Comments
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Gary Vaynerchuk - Author of The Thank You Economy

One of my true heroes in modern business is Gary Vaynerchuk of Vaynermedia, GaryVaynerchuk.com and Wine Library TV.  Over the years of building TSP I have had to work many late nights, give up a lot of family time and honestly work harder than at any time in my life.  When I look back today it seems to have been easy but I remember the doubts I had as I worked through the early days, emails telling me I was doing everything wrong and wondering if my initial dream of 1,000 listeners would ever happen.

Along the way I found Gary and the first time was when I heard his presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York back in 2008.  He was so brutally honest and so similar in his thinking to me that his words became a source of inspiration and along with you guys helped TSP grow from a show done by a “wing nut in a car” (in the words of one of my early listeners) into what it has become today.

For a long time I have wanted to bring Gary on TSP because I believe building a business and building personal brand is key in the modern economy for both entrepreneurs and employees alike.  Remember the most common disasters are personal and either owning a business or being well known in your field may be the biggest insurance there is against personal disasters like job loss, salary cuts or physical disability.

As a way to say thank you to Gary for coming on TSP please consider buying a copy of his book, “The Thank You Economy“, available for order now on Amazon.com and soon to be in bookstores everywhere.

Join us today as we discuss…

  • Gary’s story of immigrant to massively successful entrepreneur
  • What is the Thank You Economy and how it changes everything
  • Why all businesses from small to large must embrace the Thank You Economy
  • Why everything you do today will be know by your future generations
  • Why business ownership isn’t for everyone but why anyone can succeed
  • What it means to have entrepreneurial DNA
  • What artists, writers and other creative types can do instead of running a business
  • Why personal brand will be more important than a resume in the future
  • What trends are coming but why it really is less important that what yo do with them
  • Why you should completely and totally ignore your competition

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air

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Episode-492- Survival Podcast Call In Friday 8-13-10

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
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It is Friday and I am here today with your call in questions to 866-65-THINK on subjects today like shade gardening, identity theft, disposal of data on an old hard drive, harvesting water from an air conditioner and more.

Join me today as I answer your questions…

  • How can you garden in a fully shaded environment
  • How do you protect information that may be on an old hard drive
  • Is it possible to harvest water via condensation drip from an air conditioner
  • How do you get a resistant spouse to be okay with prepping
  • Why haven’t I moved to my BOL yet
  • Is it a bad time to buy a house, why did Mike Gaiser say not to under any circumstances
  • How do you deal with and prevent identity theft
  • What are those little hard blobs of goo on peaches
  • How can we avoid “electronic tracking” with our health care now that Obamacare has passed
  • How do you become unemployable by being employed first

Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-456- Building Personal Brand and Income

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Modern Survival| 25 Comments
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Every once in a while I tend to break out of the typical “survival topic mold” and I am doing that today.  That said there is nothing that could be more accurately described as a survival topic than having your own stream of income or at least your own brand that makes you marketable as a cut above other job seekers.  The landscape is changing, the resume is dead, jobs are outsourced, the US doesn’t make many “things” any more, we simply consume them

Yet today technology has changed the entry cost into business, it used to take blood letting hard work and lots of money, today you don’ t need a lot of money just a ton of hard work.

Join me today as I discuss…

  • Why having your own income streams is definitely a survival topic
  • Why passion is the key to success in business
  • Why the resume, television as we know it, conventional radio and more are all dead or dying
  • Why the writing was on the wall 4 years ago but big companies refused to listen
  • Why giving a shit about your customers is more important than listening to them
  • Five great ideas for web based businesses
    • A cooking show
    • A REAL fishing or hunting show
    • A home handyman show
    • A podcasters social network
    • Online classes in social media for older people
  • Five great ideas for web empowered businesses
    • Home pet care (pet sitting, yes I am serious)
    • Urban cooperative  farming
    • Self guided GPS tours
    • Pool cleaning for above ground pools
    • High School athlete video production
  • Why now is the time to do what you love.

Resources for today’s show…

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-395- An Interview with Rob Gray of the AOCS

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
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Today we welcome Rob Gray of the American Open Currency Standard and the AG Trading Center in Farmers Branch Texas.  Tune in today to learn about putting real value back into an honest currency standard and about Rob’s other projects.

By participating in the AOCS, you have immediate access to the thousands of participating merchants across the country, as well as the approved Mints that will craft your private currency. AOCS Merchants are enrolled to accept any AOCS-approved currency.

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-330- Starting Running and Growing a Business

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Modern Survival| 26 Comments
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Big time shifting in gears today folks.  I think if you want security and you want to have a better life that a business of your own is a great way to make that happen.  There are rules to business though,

Join me today as we discuss a few of them such as

  • Find your why first
  • Follow your passion
  • Use your way and passion to find your what
  • In the middle of a recession a guy will buy a 800 dollar surf board and then turn off extra lights to save money
  • Do NOT pay attention to what other people are selling BEFORE you find your why, your passion and what
  • You must know and I mean know the answer to “who do I serve”
  • You can’t sell to the ignorant or the poor
  • Always sell what people want, don’t bother with what they “need”
  • Give a shit about your customers (listening is bullshit you have to care)
  • Know what ARPU and VPV are, with out them you are screwed
  • How you price items, how you know your price is right
  • Why no one stole your idea, that is a bullshit cop out
  • As a small business you should create markets not capture market share
  • You don’t set your price your market does
  • If you know what a visitor is worth you can’t loose money

Resources for today’s show…

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.  Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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