Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today we talk about preserving food, chemical spills, self defense, fitness, and more with Joel Ryals of FortressK9, Ed Hubbell of the Iridium Group, Stephen Boone of SHTF Fitness, and Angela Allard of Grumpy Acres Farm. Today's Sponsor: The Homestead Consultant TheHomesteadConsultant.com In today's chaotic world there is a major disconnect between our land, our food and our community. At The Homestead Consultant, we believe that the solution to bridging these gaps starts in the individual home. By taking practical steps toward food production, land restoration, independent education and rational preparedness we can begin to restore these disconnects. That is where The Homestead Consultant comes in. We will work closely with you to evaluate your property with your unique goals, vision and resources in mind. Using a restorative, permaculture lens we will help you design a holistic and actionable gameplan to help make your homesteading dreams a reality. Our sincere desire is to see all of our clients become more connected and resilient! Find out more about our services by visiting our website at TheHomesteadConsultant.com LFTN listeners get a special offer of a free 20 minute initial phone consultation. Featured Event: The Self Reliance Festival, March 25 & 26 Show Resources Special Operations Equipment Living Free in Tennessee FortressK9 The Iridium Group SHTF Fitness Grumpy Acres Farm Main content of the show Original Video was recorded here: https://youtube.com/live/mIFh-hVnjto Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community FreeSteading Group: https://freesteading.com/groups/living-free-in-tennessee/ Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Twitter: @nicolesauce IG: @nicolesauce Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingFreeInTN Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we discuss how to apply the SWOT method to your own life plan, cover our usual Monday segments on pantry management and financial progress, and cover a question from a listener about erosion. Livestream Schedule Tuesday Live with Many Awesome Folks, 12:30 Central Wednesday Live Interview with Thecia Ellis, 1pm Central Thursday Evening Live for SRF, 7pm Central Friday Homestead Happenings, 9:30am Central A word on schedule. Today's Sponsor: Agorist Tax Advice AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn Agorist Tax Advice. Do you want to give Uncle Sam fewer of your hard-earned dollars? Do you wonder if the time has come to set up your LLC? Are you confused about what kind of business to establish? Are you wanting to pass along wealth you have built to your kids, but not sure the best way to do that? Matthew Sercely of Agorist Tax Advice can help you make sense of all the options, understand how to stay on top of tracking write-offs, and see new ways of organizing your finances so that you keep more of the money you earn in your pockets. Matthew has a broad knowledge of business finance, real estate and rentals, end of life planning and more which means that he can help you find legal tax loopholes and understand risks. Head on over to AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn to sign up for a free consultation. Tales from the Prepper Pantry Redoing the storage system with bins due to putting off the prepper pantry roof replacement Venison Story Spotted the first dandelion bloom Comfrey tea Canned good update About to pack up the whole kitchen Weekly Shopping Report: 02/11/2023 Dollar Tree was first. I'm beginning to see some thinning in the main food aisle, although there are more products in the drink aisle, and the drink coolers are a little better stocked than last week. The frozen-food coolers in the back remain mostly empty. The store was pretty busy today, with two cashiers open, both with lines. Next was Home Depot. A 2x4x8 remains at $3.35. They were rather busy around the contractor entrance, but I did not look around the rest of the store, as Sonia was waiting outside while I checked. Our final stop was Aldi. We found what we wanted. There were at least two cases of heavy cream. I noticed that flour had gone up, and is now $2.18. Our careful buying habits caught up to us this week in a good way, and we escaped the store for less than $50. Untainted regular at $3.999/gallon. Sonia commented that she saw more people with fuller carts. Frugality Tip: Keto Friendly Cheese Snack from Dylan Cheese squares baked at 350F for 10 minutes makes darn good cheese crackers. Perfect keto snacks and salad toppers! Dylan Steady Presence Operation Independence Repairing the joists in the kitchen in advance of a countertop redo and bar build - keeping the existing cabinets Book larnin' Main topic of the Show: Choose Your Focus with #My3Things Let's review what we have already done: Defined your Vision https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2023/01/02/establishing-your-vision-my3things-step-one/ Defined you Purpose https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2023/01/30/develop-your-purpose-with-my3things/ Updated and adjusted both with feedback Today, we use the SWOT method to prioritize three areas of focus. What is SWOT? Internal: Strengths What are you good at? What do you have of value in your household? What would your mom say are your best talents? Weaknesses What are you bad at? What are your weaknesses? Where are you vulnerable if things go wrong (like a job loss, etc) What limitations do you have? External Opportunities What trends do you see in the big wide world that can create opportunity? What external factors provide opportunities for you/your family? Threats What trends in the big wide world do you see that are threats? What external factors limit your opportunities? Choosing 3 priorities - Clump and Bump Finding Connections Identifying 3 in each category Reduce to three total areas to address with goals Creating goals from your SWOT BHAG - bigger picture - timeline 3-5 years or even evergreen Example: Create enough local, ongoing revenue that we are able to support the vision of the Holler Homestead. Annual SMART goals: LFTN Podcast Monetization Book 6 paid speaking engagements in 2023 in networks that are new to LFTN resulting in 150 leads each entering our sales funnel for the podcast. Specific: increase funnel entrants Measurable: by 900 Achievable: Relevant: when more people join our network, their lives improve and our revenue improves Time constrained: 2023 Create a sales funnel by Feb 26, 2023 that guides participants through the process of developing a life strategic plan, and nets $5 per lead generated for LFTN. Conclusion Membership Plug Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we talk about the balloon, fnords, CBDCs and more with Jack Spirko and John Willis. Featured Event: FREE Workshop - the Opt out of CBDC Challenge Today's Sponsor: Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs Paul Wheaton over at permies.com/?f=495 and Wheaton Labs wants you to see how easy permaculture can be! This week he's released his Garden Master course trailer check out the YouTube video at https://youtu.be/FQz_BbaNfTU If you want to get really deep into gardening for market, community, or your own homestead, you'll wanna see the whole Garden Master Course. Here's 35 hours of quality instruction on better-than-organic garden practices PLUS the 150 page Garden Master Guide LINK TO COURSE https://permies.com/s/nsgmc?f=495 Show Resources Special Operations Equipment Living Free in Tennessee The Survival Podcast Main content of the show Video on YT https://www.youtube.com/live/GwgIdW0Y8yI?feature=share Make it a great week! 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 Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we have an interview with Leigh Murphy about art and prepping and her journey from a poverty mindset to prepared. Livestream Schedule This Week Tuesday Live with Jack Spirko, John Willis Wednesday Live with Louise Milleman Thursday, SRF Live with Tag from Life Done Free Friday Homestead Happenings will be rescheduled to Saturday Today's Sponsor: Brave Botanicals FreeOunceofKratom.com Featured Event: CBDC Opt Out Challenge FREE Five Day Workshop Show Resources www.artbyeighmurphy.com Main content of the show www.artbyleighmurphy.com has an abbreviated but much longer bio. Long time fine artist with over 100 awards for her art, over 20 museum shows of her work, art in collections on three continents, Who's Who of American Women for accomplishments in art, signature member of the American Watercolor Society and Florida Watercolor Society (not that it means much outside that world), published writer in the art periodical genre. Etc. 6-8 Questions for Nicole to Ask •Why I think more artists/creatives should be preppers, they probably are but would not admit it. •What is a "Veblen good" and what that means for those who create them in this economic climate •selling art changed drastically (for me anyway) when the Great Recession happened and it really has not come back since then. •What it's like to be an artist who is a prepper/survivalist and how isolating that can be. •going it alone, and so many of the pitfalls of being single and the importance of setting boundaries. Being seen as an expendable resource and/or your priorities are not important. •along that same thing, dealing with the perception of being a prepper/survivalist and handling the usual contempt of others - until they are in a bind and come to you to save them. This and the previous bullet point tends to be far more of a problem with women. •TSP has been my "safe space" for years and I can say stuff there that I could never talk about to other artists and creatives. Interview Membership and Coffee Pitch Make it a great week 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 Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today I talk about a homestead loss, improving myself and my business as a "successful" solopreneur, THE BALLOON, and more in a freestyling podcast! Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com Today's Sponsor Agorist Tax Advice AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn Agorist Tax Advice. Do you want to give Uncle Sam fewer of your hard-earned dollars? Do you wonder if the time has come to set up your LLC? Are you confused about what kind of business to establish? Are you wanting to pass along wealth you have built to your kids, but not sure the best way to do that? Matthew Sercely of Agorist Tax Advice can help you make sense of all the options, understand how to stay on top of tracking write-offs, and see new ways of organizing your finances so that you keep more of the money you earn in your pockets. Matthew has a broad knowledge of business finance, real estate and rentals, end of life planning and more which means that he can help you find legal tax loopholes and understand risks. Show Outline Building when you are already successful TSP This Week Next steps Mentors, goals, employees, focused work, content planning) Baby Rabbits Died From Scratch House Organizing Time savers Clutter The Balloon Make it a great week! 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 Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we talk about new life on the homestead, eggs, spring planting, old stuff, and more. Featured Event: Feb 22-24 - Lanier Island, GA (Near Atlanta) Next-Steps.info, use coupon code Sauce10 Today's Sponsor: TheHomesteadConsultant.com LFTN listeners get a special offer of a free 20 minute initial phone consultation. Just send an email with the subject LFTN Consult to TheHomesteadConsultant@gmail.com with a brief description of the homesteading topic you would like to discuss and we will respond to you with available time slots. Forage Grass again Baby chick weed Livestock Baby Rabbits Eggs are back! (Old ducks) New paddock for the sheep Getting ready to order chickens Grow One final garden bed to be prepared Weekend planting in the bed we set up in the fall Early spring flowers are poking up Still have not started seedlings Holler Neighbors/Community Fencing with a friend SRF Just added a bio char presentation: SelfRelianceFestival.com Community solar panel purchase Infrastructure Map of paddocks for the future Top wire is complete Setting up semi-permanent fencing next door (video forthcoming) Finances Fixing old vehicles vs difficult to repair new vehicles (Planned obsolescence) Membership Plug 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! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we talk about permaculture, how to decide what is next on your homestead, rabbits, getting out of a J-o-b and more with Nick Ferguson and John Willis. Featured Event: Canine Trainers Collaboration Workshop Date: April 19-21 Location: Oviedo, FL (near Orlando) Website is fortressk9.com/workshop Today's Sponsor https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-design-course/?f-495 Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs Paul has a permaculture design course coming in June along side some other pretty cool In Person trainings over at https://wheaton-labs.com/permaculture-design-course/?f-495 If you have been thinking about taking a course of this nature, consider heading to Montana to learn from a host of great instructors, Like Alan Booker, at Wheaton Labs! Show Resources Special Operations Equipment Living Free in Tennessee HomegrownLiberty.com Main content of the show Replay of the Tuesday Live on Youtube. Tuesday Live with Nick Ferguson Make it a great week! 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 Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today is another #my3things episode with the primary focus being to develop your purpose. We will also include the usual Monday segments. Featured Event: Opt Out of CBDC, a free 5 day webinar series that covers Sign up here: https://livefree.academy/op/cbdcoptoutchallenge/?ref=52 Speakers: Derrick Brose, Sal the Agorist, Jack Spirko, Rebecca Bush, James Corbett, Richard Grove The TRUTH about CBDCs and what must be done to survive the financial transition Set up a cryptocurrency wallet, acquire crypto anonymously, and trade with others (Bitcoin & Monero) Join the Freedom Cell Network and find like-minded people to connect with in your area Buy and sell goods and services in underground markets with alternative currencies, Put everything you learned into an actionable plan to break free from CBDCs Today's Sponsor: FreeSteading.com Live this week: Tuesday: Nick Ferguson and John Willis, 12:30pm Central Wednesday: Interview on The Survival Podcast, 12pm ISH Thursday: Self Reliance Festival Weekly Live, 7pm Central Friday: Homestead Happenings, 9:30am Central Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com Tales from the Prepper Pantry Spring is coming: Eating Only Stuff from here (I may have over canned last year) Freeze Drying the rest of our 2022 herbs that are stored in the freezer (why this schedule) Weekly Shopping Report from Joe Dollar Tree. The store has changed for the better. Maybe they added r borrowed some staff, but the store has been neatened up considerably. The drink coolers are probably at least 50% stocked, with (imho) a better product mix, including Venom energy drinks. The shelves are a lot neater too, and the Health aisle has had a lot of products added, and nicely organized. The place no longer looks "picked and sad," which is good. Home Depot was #3, just to check the price of a 2x4x8. It is unchanged from last week, at $3.35. The store was normal-busy. Aldi was last. They still had heavy cream. We found everything we wanted, and my debit card was warm but not smoking. Untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.999/gallon. Frugality Tip from Charles Test the limits of the TONER LOW notifications that you get on your printers. The HP Color printer that I have has been warning of impending doom for over 2 weeks now...probably 100+ pages have been printed with the existing cartridge. At ~$100 per cartridge...well worth running it until the print quality gets bad. On some older printers, when you get the low toner warning, you can remove the cartridge, shake it gently, and reinstall it, getting a another day or so of light printing... Operation Independence The Rat Infestation and Simplifying Life Main topic of the Show: Develop Your Purpose with #my3things Develop Your Purpose In the early years of developing the #my3things method, we would go out to corporations to help them create strategic plans and marketing foundations so that they could establish a way to grow their impact, grow their sales, and improve the quality of their products or services. Before each engagement, my cofacilitator and I would create the coursework for the group, customized to what we thought they most needed. Sometimes, we would run the groups through activities that would result in a Vision Statement and other times, we would run them through developing their purpose first. In the end, after trying both ways multiple time and with different actives, we realized that developing the Vision first, followed my the purpose helped our customers come to consensus faster. Often, they would revisit their vision statement after developing the purpose statement, but time spent crafting both was reduced over time. Why bring this up? Because as you develop your purpose statement, you may decide that adjustments are needed to your Vision statement and that is part of the interactive process to come up with your life strategic plan. Sometimes it takes seeing the same thing through multiple lenses to fully refine your direction. Your purpose takes the vision you have developed and boils it down to the SO WHAT? Why do you exist in this world? How is the word better because you are in it. If you are wildly successful and disappear for ten years, how do things look different in a good way when you return? To get to this, you first deconstruct your vision statement by analyzing the key elements present in this statement that MUST be there. Basically, you *start with your narrow Visions statement and pull out elements or characteristics that are important to its success and list them. The short cut would be to go back to the list that you made before you crafted the sentence, but this would be limiting. Instead, pull out a new list of characteristics or elements. You will find that they have subtly changed with the crafting of your visions statement. In the case of the Holler/LFTN Community, this is how that list looks: The Holler/LFTN COMMUNITY provides an inviting supportive place where aspiring agorists and homesteaders can connect, rejuvenate, share best practices and prosper together in freedom. Key Elements: *Inviting, safe place *supportive community *Connect aspiring homesteaders *Connect aspiring agorists *Healing and rejuvenation *best practices *Mutual aid/ helping one another *True freedom is a choice With this list craft your purpose statement in terms of what you or your family or your project is. Start by getting the concept crafted, then refine the language so that it is direct, clear and concise. Some things to keep in mind while you craft your purpose statement: Remember to include high-level information on how you are achieving your vision within the purpose statement Make sure that your purpose statement explains the "what" of your life plan or project This statement should also cover your why - why are you focused in these ways Living Free in Tennessee (Holler Neighbors) is a community that supports healing and mutual prosperity by connecting agorists and homesteaders with knowledge and resources so they can build an alternative to the violent systems currently used to support modern society. Once you have a draft purpose statement, refine the language to be clear enough that a 6th grader can read and understand it, with as many tangible and visual words as possible. As with your vision statement, seek to reduce and remove unnecessary words through grammatical and vocabulary refinement without making it esoteric and jargon. Once you have your final statement, take a week or so to shop it around to people and ask them to say back to you what the statement means to them. Listen carefully to the words they say and choose which new words make your statement clearer. With both statements in hand, type them into a single document for future reference and prepare to develop your first most important areas of FOCUS that will move you forward in your journey. SWOT Make it a great week! 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 Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today, we have an interview with Paul Wheaton about integrating permaculture ideas into your business and a bunch of other cool things. Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com March 24-25 Agorist Tax Advice AgoristTaxAdvice.com/lftn Show Resources Permies.com Main content of the show Make it a great week 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 Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Today we talk about getting seeds started, big news from the duck coop, dealing with a sick duck and more. Today's Sponsor: Paul Wheaton Ready to preserve your harvest for the months to come? Build a solar dehydrator! Check out this movie detailing the development of 2 models of solar dehydrator at Wheaton Labs: https://permies.com/w/free-heat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVwyahpzl08 Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com Forage Watercress got beat back Grass is coming in slowly Garlic is poking up Livestock No baby rabbits yet The egg The sick duck Listing animals Sheep rebellion Baby is getting into toddler trouble Grow Still getting beds ready Beginning to AP relocation project Starting peppers and herbs this weekend Harvest Meals Pork Rib Roast Holler Neighbors/Community Dinner was HUGE for Tactical at the Eversoles Came home to firewood moved and a rainstorm Helping a friend set up electrical fencing for new animals Infrastructure Electrical fencing update (permanent, zoned) Solar install preparation Finances Catching up on warranty claims - an important part of finance Clerical Friday Membership Plug 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! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link