Reclaim Your American Dream: Strategies for Restoring Freedom

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Are our freedoms under siege? In this episode, Joe De Sena is talking to an amazing guest - Connor Boyack, an author, speaker, and staunch advocate for personal freedom and education.

They tackle the unsettling rise of Big Government and the danger of becoming a Nanny State. As bureaucratic regulations multiply and control tightens, we’re faced with crucial questions about the erosion of personal liberty. How far will government overreach go, and what are the implications for our future?

Joe and Connor talk about the growing influence of regulations in everyday life, examine the consequences of increased governmental control, and discuss strategies to protect our freedoms.

Tune in for an insightful exploration of how we can safeguard our rights and ensure that personal autonomy remains intact in an increasingly regulated world.

Highlights:

00:00 Intro
00:49 Connor’s background and career path
02:52 Too much freedom vs too restricted laws
07:21 San Francisco's lack of prosecution for small crimes
10:38 Left-right binary and the need to find common ground
14:30 Corporations lobbying against simplification efforts
17:38 The need for decentralization of power
21:11 Using market pressure to rebalance power
23:10 Why the international community loves Trump
25:03 The importance of resilience
25:48 Degrading from freedom to a nanny state
27:51 History's cyclical patterns
29:30 How can people find Connor?

Transcript

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0:00.0	We call ourselves the land of the free and we all celebrate on the 4th of July, you know, being a free country.
0:05.2	But when you look around at all the taxes and all the regulations and all the permits for everything that you want to do,
0:10.5	I think you can make a case that we've degraded significantly from having a
0:14.4	culture and a legal system of more freedom and that's where I think the true spectrum
0:19.7	is that we're just kind of stepping increasingly towards a more heavy-handed big
0:24.7	government nanny state in a way. Welcome to the Hardway podcast with Joe
0:29.4	the Senna, founder and CEO of Spartan Races.
0:33.0	We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life
0:36.0	the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course.
0:40.0	With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts from every corner of the world.
0:45.0	Get ready to elevate your life today.
0:47.0	Joe Descenta here, CEO and founder of Spartan.
0:52.0	I've got a new friend of my, Connor Boyac, he's an author, a speaker, big
0:57.5	believer in freedom and teaching, not just way to say it? I think that is a fair way. Yeah. Where did this come from? Where did you grow up?
1:15.2	So I'm from San Diego and grew up there, ended up moving to Utah later on. I grew up in a typical conservative Republican household. We didn't really
1:26.2	talk politics too much, but I believed in freedom and the Constitution and that's about where it stopped. But what I saw around me as I got through college and became an
1:34.7	adult was a lot of people having problems with their own government. Their mom's
1:39.6	farm was being taken through eminent domain or their business was being of them being able to thrive, being able to achieve prosperity.
1:55.0	And so ended up building a career in this kind of think tank world.
1:59.0	I started a non-profit, designed to try and change people, change laws to remove these obstacles
2:06.6	from people.
2:07.6	But what I found in doing that was that we would change these laws, but if the people
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