Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce

Today we have our first Tuesday Coffee Chat with John Willis of SOE Tactical Gear and Nicole Sauce of Living Free in Tennessee. These discussions are always a wildcard and can go anywhere. We usually hit on some current events of course. We also tend to talk about things like entrepreneurship, homesteading and a ton more. In general we try to inspire you a bit, make you laugh a few times, entertain you and teach you a thing or two along the way.

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Today, I am joined by the Tactical Redneck for a discussion of life on a homestead.

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Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Today, we discuss story and how in strongly influences our success or failure.

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Sponsor 2: The Wealthsteading Podcast, InvestableWealth.com

Join us for an update on the sheep, all the sheep, milking sheep, bottle babies, sleep deprivation.

Featured Event: Foraging on the Farm at Blueberry Hill Farm in Knoxville, March 22

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Today, we talk about lessons learned after four (or five?) seasons of birthing lambs at the Holler Homestead. We will also cover all our usual Tuesday segments like Tales from the Prepper Pantry, Seasonal Forage and more.

Featured Event: Refuge Ruckus is this weekend! ONLY 50 TICKETS LEFT! https://www.refugeruckus.com/

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

Used up beef from the been canning webinar of 2022 (Beef stew)

Will be harvesting the first lettuces...

Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: Looking for lamb births, getting rapid forward progress on the homestead, and more. Featured Event: March 14 Makin' Bacon from 10am-12pm - LivingFreeinTennessee.com

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Sponsor 2: TheWealthsteadingPodcast.com

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

Want to come to the Holler Homestead and learn to make bacon? Makin' Bacon is March 14th at 10 am and space is limited.

Join us for a First Tuesday Coffee with John Willis of Special Operations Equipment, Nicole Sauce of The Living Free in Tennessee Podcast, and Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast.

Connect with us!

We are going to talk today about what happens when your project, your homestead, your business — whatever you are building — hits the point where it can't grow unless you step into leadership. Not louder. Not bossier. Just clearer.

And what it costs when you avoid that moment.

We'll also cover our usual Monday segments.

Featured Event

Monthly Meetup at Basecamp Lodge Saturday, 12pm–3pm Potluck + Seed Exchange (bring seeds if you've got them)

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1246004124202741

Bring a dish. Bring seeds. Bring yourself.

Today, we will explore the concept of building community, but not from a pure numbers standpoint. Many people measure community in numbers, not quality. We will discuss a better way to create community around you that makes the whole network mightier.

Featured Event: Spence MAG Meetup: This Sunday. Contact Brad for information. sequatchieschool@protonmail.com

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Tales From The Prepper Pantry

>11 years ago, crepe night for Fat Tuesday and we were snowed in

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Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: The season has become warmer but we are not out of the winter woods yet! Learn what we are doing to get ready for growing season.

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Sponsor 2: TheWealthsteadingPodcast.com

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

Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: Friends, spring, and what we are experimenting with on the homestead.

Featured Event: Farm Freedom Summit, February 7

Sponsor 1: StrongRootsResources.com

Sponsor 2: DiscountMylarBags.com

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

Join us for a First Tuesday Coffee with John Willis of Special Operations Equipment, Nicole Sauce of The Living Free in Tennessee Podcast, and Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast.

Connect with us!

Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: 10 Weird Things That Happen To Homesteaders That We Think Are Normal.

Featured Event: LFTN Spring Workshop April 23-25 - Tickets go on sale on January 31 at 9am central!

Sponsor 1: The Wealthsteading Podcast: InvestableWealth.com

Sponsor 2: DisvountMylarBags.com

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

Anxiety often shows up when our capability isn't being used in the real world. Building skills, systems, and doing meaningful work creates calm, stability, and a steadier life in 2026.

Jan 31st, 9am Central, tickets go on sale for the LFTN Spring Workshop!

Sponsor: StrongRootsResources.com

Sponsor: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Opening Thought

Who has felt anxious in the last few weeks??

Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: Ice preps, Squeaks updates, and more

Featured Event: LFTN Spring Workshop April 23-25 - Tickets go on sale on January 31 at 9am central!

Sponsor 1: The Wealthsteading Podcast: InvestableWealth.com

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

Today, I am joined by Jessica Arno, The Combat Midwife, to discuss keeping women and children alive when you can't just drive to the hospital. More that that, we will discuss how building these skills is a foundation for improving health even if you CAN drive to the hospital. 

Sponsors

AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

DiscountMylarBags.com

Resources

https://combatmidwife.com/

https://livingfreeintennessee.com/

Today, I am joined by Kerry Brown from Strong Roots Resources to talk through the new approach we are taking with the LFTN food forest and how he is using mother nature to progress the system through to maturity one season at a time. Tapping into what we know about the soil and conditions here, native plants, what the people in our community want to eat, and working toward a system that does not require many hours to maintain. When you work with nature, you develop systems that you can help along rather than battle with constantly.

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Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: Rabbits, Domestic Day, Helpers and more!

Featured Event: PickTN Products Conference - Jan 15-17. Holler Roast featured Jan 15 in the morning. Homestead Panel at lunch on Jan 16.

Come support small food!

https://www.picktnconference.com/

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Sponsor 2: The Wealthsteading Podcast: InvestableWealth.com

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...

Let's Get Ready For 2026

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.

Let's get ready for 2026 with this replay episode!

Today is another #my3things episode with the primary focus being to develop your purpose. We will also include the usual Monday segments.

Let's get ready for 2026!

Today, we talk about what the #my3things method is, why a strategic plan for yourself and your life is a powerful tool, and we cover how to create a vision statement for your life strategic plan. (Or your family strategic plan).

This is the first in a series of episodes explaining how to use the #my3things method to become more successful, productive and to build the life you choose on your terms.

Today, we have the first in our Night Before Christmas series, beginning with Leos: The Intellectual Night Before Christmas.

Join us each night at 5pm leading up to Christmas

Tonight we have a reading of the Australian version of The Night Before Christmas by Aussieroo of the TSP Zello Group.

Join us each night at 5pm leading up to Christmas.

Join us for the another version of The Night Before Christmas for the Redneck version, read by The Tactical Redneck.

Join us each night at 5pm leading up to Christmas

Tonight we have a reading of the Pagan version of The Night Before Christmas by Mia of the LFTN Community.

Join us each night at 5pm leading up to Christmas.

Tonight we have a reading of the Cajun version of The Night Before Christmas by The Ellender Family - listeners of LFTN.

Join us every day at 5pm for a reading of a different version of the poem, "The Night Before Christmas."

Today is the last solo show of 2025. We examine something you may not want to look at: being too sensitive to criticism and ultimately letting other people decide who you are rather than be who you were meant to be. We will also do a final run through our usual Tuesday segments.Featured Event: Combat Midwife Class. March 7 at the Basecamp Lodge.

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Sponsor 2: StrongRootsResources.com

LFTN UPDATE:

Today, I am joined by the Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead: the sheep acting "a little eminent," a surprise community deer drop, and the brass water faucet we dug up while doing chores. We'll cover ongoing projects like the compost bin design, the memory garden plan, the hillside garden reset, mushroom experiments, rabbit breeding, and the ever-important Operation Leaf Collection. We'll wrap up with holiday touches around the Tajmaholler, the new Canoe Rose Bed, alternate routes home, and how we're gearing up to cook a whole lamb.

Featured Event: Dec 20 LFTN C...

Today, we will talk about the word of the year, how mine went in 2025, why to even choose one and how it related to building the life you choose on your terms. We will also cover our usual Tuesday segments

Featured Event: Tonight. 6pm, So You Bought a Whole Pig — Now What?

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Today, I am joined by the Tactical Redneck to talk about updated from the Holler Homestead!

Featured Event: Dec 20 LFTN Christmas Reception - LivingFreeinTennessee.com

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Sponsor 2: The Wealthsteading Podcast: InvestableWealth.com

Join me for the December first Tuesday chat with John Willis and Jack Spirko.

Today, I am joined by the Tactical Redneck to talk about Holler Thanksgiving, the stubbornest Ewe and more!

Featured Event: Dec 20 LFTN Christmas Reception - LivingFreeinTennessee.com

Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com

Sponsor 2: The Wealthsteading Podcast: InvestableWealth.com

Today we're talking about something that matters more than most of us care to admit: accepting help, and more importantly — taking responsibility for the role we play when help doesn't go the way we imagined.
Featured Event
Dec 9 – Member Webinar (also available to purchase)
"So You Bought A Whole Pig, Now What?"
Details + sign-up: https://livingfreeintennessee.com/event/so-you-bought-a-whole-pig-now-what-webinar/

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Holler Roast Coffee
Coffee for Doers — roasted right here at the Holler Hom...

Today I am joined by the Tactical Redneck for an update from the Holler Homestead all about sheep, communication, late fall and more.

Featured Event: LFTN Christmas Reception: https://livingfreeintennessee.com/event/lftn-christmas-reception-3/

Sponsor 1: StrongRootsResources.com

Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/LFTN

Today, we are diving deep into what it truly means to be fearless—whether you're launching a business, standing up to the local government, or just trying to live a sustainable life.

Featured Event: Mark your calendars for the Dec 20 LFTN Christmas Reception—sign up now!

Sponsors:

Wealthsteading Podcast: InvestableWealth.com

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Broccoli rip cord

TSP left over saute

Peppers from Rick

Ready for whole cows

Join us for our monthly conversation about the world, business, and whateer strikes yall's fancy!

Join the Tactical Redneck for an update from the Holler Homestead. While the cat's away the sheep will escape.

Today, we hear the session that I hosted at the Self Reliance Festival about developing your revenue on your homestead, including stories from the network.

Today, I am joined by The Tactical Redneck to discuss updates from the Holler Homestead, sheep chaos, wine cap mushrooms and more.

Featured Event: November 15 Farm To Table Dinner: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/product/farm-to-table/

Sponsors:
The Wealthsteading Podcast

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Summary

Sometimes the best thing you can do—whether it's growing food or running a business—is stop forcing it. This week I share what mushrooms taught me about systems, patience, and letting things grow on their own.

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