350. Why Is It Important to Prioritize Your Time?

There are a lot of ways to waste time today, and so many distractions that prevent us from being productive. Why is it so important to manage your scarce resource — your time — in a way that helps you be focused? Here’s a transcript of our conversation: Brittany: Hi, Emma. Emma: Hi, Brittany. Brittany: So you and I talk, we probably more than me you know, me and Connor talk about it, but we love like routines, we love, you know, setting goals. So Connor and I have talked about that a fair amount recently too. So today I wanna talk about something that

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349. Why Are Free Range Parents Turned into Criminals?

What happens when parents get arrested for giving their children independence? Emma and Brittany discuss on today’s episode. Here’s a transcript of our conversation: Brittany: Hi, Emma. Emma: Hi, Brittany. Brittany: So, Connor and I had an episode a little bit ago about a lady who was once called the worst mom in America, and I always butcher her last name even though like I know her and she’s great. It’s Lenore, hold on. Emma: Oh yes. Oh gosh, you know how to say it. I don’t. It’s, I know who you’re talking about. She’s awesome. Brittany: She’s awesome. So Skenazy. It’s Skenazy, it’s Lenore

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348. Can Freedoms be Taken and Given Away?

Who gives us our freedoms? The Founders declared our rights as “inalienable,” which means the government can’t take them away. But that doesn’t mean they won’t try. Here’s a transcript of our conversation: Emma: Hi, Brittany. Brittany: Hi, Emma. Emma: So we record these episodes a little bit in advance, but something very major happened this week. So we’re gonna go ahead and bump this podcast up so you guys hear it a little sooner. And the big event that I wanna talk about is that the mask mandate was struck down in court, in federal court, which was great news. Very awesome.

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347. What Is Preparedness and Why Is It Important?

Life is great at surprising us. That is why it’s so important to plan ahead as much as we can so we are prepared for any obstacle we may face. Here’s a transcript of our conversation: Emma: Hi, Brittany. Brittany: Hi, Emma. Emma: So, I thought that today would be a good day to talk about preparedness, which is something that, you know, affects us in a lot of different ways in our lives, and also affects us as a society, as a country, as a culture. And, you know, I am someone who admittedly, is not always very well prepared, and I tend

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346. Why Is It Good to Seek Challenges?

Challenges are tough and they push us to our limits, but doing hard things helps us grow. Here’s a transcript of our conversation: Emma: Hi, Brittany. Brittany: Hi, Emma. Emma: So, we’ve talked about the idea of seeking out challenges and doing things that seem hard or seem difficult or scary. We’ve talked about that quite a lot over, over the episodes that we’ve done on this show, but I thought it would be cool to actually dedicate a whole episode to this and really go into detail on why it’s so important, what good things can come of seeking out hard things.

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345. Why Should You Enjoy The Journey, Not The Destination?

It’s so easy to think about the final result when we start a task. But its just as important to enjoy the journey of getting there as it is to celebrate finally achieving the end result. Here’s a transcript of our conversation: Brittany: Hi, Emma. Emma: Hi, Brittany. Brittany: So, today I wanna talk about, I know sometimes you go back and forth, actually, this is why I love our podcast from like history to, you know, different the ways government works to some life advice. And today I wanna give some general life advice and that is why you should enjoy the

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344. What Does It Mean to “Criticize by Creating?”

It’s not enough to criticize all the things that are wrong with the world. Instead of just complaining, we should create better products or better ways of doing things if we want to improve the world. Here’s a transcript of our conversation: Brittany: Hi, Emma. Emma: Hi, Brittany. Brittany: So, today I wanna talk about something that I really love, and it’s called Criticize By Creating it is one of my favorite, favorite sayings ever. And what does that mean? Criticize by creating, well, criticize of course, means to like, be critical or give, I just use the same word to describe it. I’m

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343. What Is The War on Drugs?

Whenever the government declares war on something in order to save us, they inevitably loses the war and we get more of whatever they declared war on. It happened with the “war on poverty” and the “war on terror,” and it has happened with the war on drugs as well. Here’s a transcript of our conversation: Brittany: Hi, Emma. Emma: Hi, Brittany. Brittany: So, a bit ago, actually, I think it may have been the last episode, Connor and I talked about a guy named Lysander Spooner, and an essay he wrote called Vices Are Not Crimes, and just kind of to refresh vices

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342. What Was Prohibition?

When governments try and ban substances to protect people from themselves, the results are never what they intended. Here’s a transcript of our conversation: Connor: Hey, Brittany. Brittany: Hi, Connor. Connor: A couple of episodes ago we talked about vices and mentioned that you know, we’d be talking about prohibition in a future episode. Well, here we are. Welcome to the Prohibition episode. Maybe let’s start first, with a refresher. So, advice is some type of action or behavior that many people, most people might consider immoral, or wrong, like, you know, drugs or alcohol or things that can, you know, hurt you

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