Thriving The Future – Positive solutions to help you Thrive

Ep. 172 – Stop Building Side Hustles—Start Building Skills

Stop Building Side Hustles—Start Building Skills. First Know Yourself, then Know Your Customer. I share side hustle tips.

Thriving the Future is Still Thriving Four Years Later

Thriving the Future has been sharing “positive solutions to help you Thrive” for over four years now.

Ep. 171 – Teach Your Kids Foundational Skills

Can your kids point out North, South, East, West when they are outside? Teach Your Kids Foundational Skills.

Skills Over Stuff

How to develop skills rather than just buy more stuff. Teach your kids foundational skills, including conflict resolution. Teach them worldview and values.

Ep. 170 – How to Start Your Tree Nursery: Building an Edible Perennials Business – with Jason Snyder

Jason Snyder shares his plans to transition from a desk job to running a full-time edible perennial nursery. Grant Payne and I share our lessons learned.

Ep. 169 – It is Time to Rethink Your Community

We all need community. But divisions are destroying friendships and fracturing communities across America. Many people now refuse to associate with those who hold different views — avoiding them at farmer’s markets, skipping social gatherings, even ending decades-long friendships. But there’s another path forward: a framework to navigate forgiveness, set appropriate limits, and create space for people in your outer circles without compromising your values.