My Self Reliance Podcast

About 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.

Publisher

Shawn James

Category

education · health & fitness · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Oct 2023

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 43 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   040 From Barefoot Grounding To Chaga Coffee And Fall Plans

   Shawn James shares his morning routine and practical approach to healthy living, offering insights for a more self-reliant life.

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   How Competence Becomes A Second Income

   A couple hours of splitting kindling turns into a surprisingly sharp money lesson: the fastest way to lower your cost of living might be to get better at everyday skills. We walk through why doing things yourself isn’t just a hobby or a personality trait, it’s an economic strategy that can replace bills the way a second income would. The core idea is simple but overlooked: when you learn a skill you used to outsource, you don’t only save once. You save every time that skill shows up again for...

3. 

   14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Off-Grid Money Reality - What if Freedom is Mostly Lower Overhead

   Most people love the idea of an off-grid cabin life right up until the question lands: “Okay, but how do you make money out there?” We’re sitting on the porch with coffee, watching the world wake up, and telling the truth that gets skipped in so many homesteading conversations. Money doesn’t disappear past the tree line, and pretending it does can sabotage the very freedom you’re trying to build. We walk through how remote living really gets funded, from earning online to the older, proven w...

Inside a recent episode

040 From Barefoot Grounding To Chaga Coffee And Fall Plans

Published 26 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Anyway, I guess that's my commercials instead of having other people's commercials like other podcasts have. I just wanted to give you a quick update. I guess that's Sunday, October 25th. What I'm doing today, I'm having a couple of guys come over and help me take down a massive beech tree that's leaning towards the workshop in the sugar shack. I should have taken it down long ago, but, well, I guess it would have had to have come down before I even built the workshop, which I started, what, five years ago, something like that. In that workshop, I was more concerned about the trees that were closer, so I had to take down two massive oak trees that were leaning towards that workshop. […]

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44 ratings

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