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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
030 If Work Gets Easier, What Gives Life Meaning?
AI fear is loud right now, and we hear it constantly from people who feel uncertain, stressed, and stuck watching the digital world speed up. From a quiet morning at the cabin, we offer a calmer counterpoint: big technology shifts tend to expan...
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Hearthside 04: An Hour By The Fire: What my Evenings Look and Sound Like
A quiet fire can do something a screen never will: it can hold your attention without taking anything from you. I’m at the cabin at the end of the day, the work is done, the stove is fading, and Callie is asleep on the cool floor. Instead of tr...
029 How to Find Your Tribe: Building Community in a Rural Life
Feeling lonely while surrounded by people is one of the strangest parts of modern life and it’s a big reason many of us start craving self-reliance, homesteading, and a simpler, more intentional way of living. From the cabin, I talk through the...
Hearthside 03: Hearthside Is Where We Unplug And Reconnect
The internet has a way of speeding up everything, your attention, your mood, even your sense of what a “normal” day should feel like. So we’re trying something different: a quiet corner that feels like stepping into a cabin, sitting by the fire...
028: How to Convince Your Partner to Leave the City
You can price out land, map out schools, and build a flawless plan and still watch your partner shut down the second you say, “Let’s move rural.” I’m recording from the cabin after a loud, rainy night, answering the question I get constantly: h...
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