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My Self Reliance Podcast
Welcome to the Cabin. I’m Shawn James, the host of the My Self Reliance podcast and YouTube channel.
This is the story of how I am withdrawing from modern society to pursue a free, natural, healthy, meaningful and satisfying life and how you can too. Join me as I build an off grid homestead in the wilderness complete with log cabins, an outdoor kitchen, a wood-fired sauna, lumber mill, vegetable garden, fruit orchard, food forest and haven for wildlife.
My Self Reliance Podcast
Latest Episodes
027 The Other Costs Of Self-Reliance
The most common question we get is “How much does this life cost?” and the honest answer is that money is only the surface. The deeper price tag is comfort. It’s the moment you stop defaulting to “someone else will handle it” and accept that wh...
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026 Produce More Than You Consume | The Daily Habit Underneath the Whole Life
“Produce more than you consume” is five words, but they’re a compass. I start most mornings with one quiet question: What am I going to make today? Not what I’m going to buy, watch, scroll, or order to the door but what I’ll bring into the worl...
025: Two Is One, One is None | Redundancy May Save Your Life
One broken lighter is annoying. One broken income is catastrophic. That’s the real meaning behind “two is one and one is none,” and we’re taking it way beyond spare gear into the uncomfortable places where most of us have a single point of fail...
024: Built to Last: How I Think About Physical Health and Why It's the Foundation of Everything
Your plans, your gear, and your hard-won skills only work if the body running them actually holds up. From the cabin, we zoom out on “health” and make it brutally practical: your body is the most important tool you own, and everything else depe...
023: The Foundation: Physical, Mental & Emotional Health in Self-Reliance
The land doesn’t care how many podcasts you’ve listened to or how much gear you’ve bought. When it’s bitter cold, when the woodpile is low, when the pipes need attention, it calls on you, not your wishlist. That’s the premise we start from at t...
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