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Hosted by Shawn James · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 36 episodes
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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.
Shawn James hosts My Self Reliance Podcast, a sports show with 36 episodes published.
Convenience feels like a clean win until you notice what you traded away to get it. From my cabin in Northern Ontario, I dig into the real price nobody prints on the label: the slow loss of competence, the erosion of con
Working alone in a remote cabin build sounds peaceful until you do the math: one body, two hands, heavy materials, sharp tools, and nobody around if something goes wrong. We talk through the practical reality of solo hom
A childhood dream can be more than nostalgia. Sometimes it is a compass that keeps pointing to the life you were meant to build. We kick off a new series by sharing a first draft reading from Shawn James’s upcoming book,
Something feels off for a lot of us, and it’s not because we’re broken. We’re moving through days packed with convenience, screens, and constant input, and then we wonder why our chest feels tight, our minds feel noisy,
Hurry feels normal until you realize how much it costs. I used to live slightly ahead of myself, chasing the next task, the next goal, the next version of “caught up.” I got busy, but I did not always get happy, and I wa
AI fear is loud right now, and we hear it constantly from people who feel uncertain, stressed, and stuck watching the digital world speed up. From a quiet morning at the cabin, we offer a calmer counterpoint: big technol
A quiet fire can do something a screen never will: it can hold your attention without taking anything from you. I’m at the cabin at the end of the day, the work is done, the stove is fading, and Callie is asleep on the c
Feeling lonely while surrounded by people is one of the strangest parts of modern life and it’s a big reason many of us start craving self-reliance, homesteading, and a simpler, more intentional way of living. From the c
The internet has a way of speeding up everything, your attention, your mood, even your sense of what a “normal” day should feel like. So we’re trying something different: a quiet corner that feels like stepping into a ca
You can price out land, map out schools, and build a flawless plan and still watch your partner shut down the second you say, “Let’s move rural.” I’m recording from the cabin after a loud, rainy night, answering the ques
The most common question we get is “How much does this life cost?” and the honest answer is that money is only the surface. The deeper price tag is comfort. It’s the moment you stop defaulting to “someone else will handl
“Produce more than you consume” is five words, but they’re a compass. I start most mornings with one quiet question: What am I going to make today? Not what I’m going to buy, watch, scroll, or order to the door but what
One broken lighter is annoying. One broken income is catastrophic. That’s the real meaning behind “two is one and one is none,” and we’re taking it way beyond spare gear into the uncomfortable places where most of us hav
Your plans, your gear, and your hard-won skills only work if the body running them actually holds up. From the cabin, we zoom out on “health” and make it brutally practical: your body is the most important tool you own,
The land doesn’t care how many podcasts you’ve listened to or how much gear you’ve bought. When it’s bitter cold, when the woodpile is low, when the pipes need attention, it calls on you, not your wishlist. That’s the pr
When something breaks, do you reach for your phone before you even look at the problem? That reflex feels normal, but it can quietly turn us into consumers of our own lives, dependent on systems we don’t understand and c
The money question stops more off-grid dreams than bad weather ever will. So we’re putting real numbers on the table and talking through what it actually takes to move from a city budget to a self-reliant life on rural l
A lot of people talk about self-reliance like it is an aesthetic. We talk about it like it is what you do when life punches you in the mouth and you still have to protect your family, pay your bills, and keep moving. We
In this captivating episode, we sit down with adventurer Jim Baird to delve into his extraordinary journey of self-reliance and outdoor adventures. Jim shares his gripping survival experience on the renowned show "Alone,
Having weathered the trials of drinking from a stream that gifted me giardiasis and tamed the stubborn infertile land of my homestead, I'm here to share the raw truths of off-grid living. Discover how to stockpile the es
Jim Baird
Indiana Congressman · UC Riverside
1 appearance on this show
Dr Sam Black
Consultant Paediatric and Perioperative Anaesthetist · Medway NHS Foundation Trust
1 appearance on this show
Pascal Baudar
1 appearance on this show
John Schneider
actor, country singer, director · Seattle Seahawks
1 appearance on this show
Nate
Canadian Prepper
1 appearance on this show
Laura Gilmour
Wild Muskoka Botanicals
1 appearance on this show
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