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Geoff Graham

Geoff Graham is joined by builders, farmers, entrepreneurs, architects, technologists, writers, artisans, and theologians. They discuss their work, their lives, society, our past, and the future.

  1. Jason Cox: Rural urbanism and firetrucks – #35

    2 Jul

    Jason Cox: Rural urbanism and firetrucks – #35

    Jason Cox of the Monroe Companies joins Geoff to discuss his work revitalizing downtown Graham, NC through historic rehabs and infill projects. They explore the outsized influence of fire departments and oversized apparatus on street design, zoning, and urban form—contrasting U.S. practices with more human-scaled European cities—along with Jason’s self-described identity as a “rural urbanist” who splits time between a small hobby farm and vibrant walkable places. The conversation also covers how building codes and institutional private equity tilt the system toward large-scale development, the need for honest conversations on topics like data centers, and North Carolina’s pragmatic approach to economic development. Show notes at the Yeoman website.

    1hr 24min
  2. Willy Denner: Intro to Georgism – #34

    5 Jun

    Willy Denner: Intro to Georgism – #34

    Willy Denner of Little Seed Gardens introduces Geoff to Georgism, the concept of the Land Value Tax, how it differs from conventional property taxes, the moral argument in favor of it, and the ameliorative impact it could have on our agricultural lands, rural areas, and urban environments. Little Seed Gardens is a hundred acre family farm near Chatham, NY started by Willy and his wife Claudia Kenny in 1995. Shownotes on the Yeoman website.

    1hr 16min
  3. Joel Hollingsworth: Restoring Agriculture through Commissioned Stewardship – #33

    5 May

    Joel Hollingsworth: Restoring Agriculture through Commissioned Stewardship – #33

    Joel Hollingsworth (@untappedgrowth) and I discuss how Smoke River Ranch got started, their herdshare program, and the economics of farming and ranching.Show notes on the Yeoman website.

    1hr 41min
  4. Grant Broggi: Strength & Service – #32

    23 Feb

    Grant Broggi: Strength & Service – #32

    Grant Broggi, founder of The Strength Co., joins Geoff to talk about strength, entrepreneurship, and the Marines. I love Grant’s story: from a homeschooled teenage window cleaner in the South Carolina Lowcountry, to the Citadel then Marines, to a strength coach, to the (pandemic inspired) manufacturer of gym equipment, to balancing the obligations of his new business with his reservist commitments, to his year-long deployment and return late last year. “Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome!” Show notes on the Yeoman website.

    1hr 23min
  5. Russ Greene: Total Boomer Luxury Communism – #31

    12 Feb

    Russ Greene: Total Boomer Luxury Communism – #31

    Russ Greene discusses Total Boomer Luxury Communism, the burden it shoulders on young people and future generations, the existential threat it poses to America, and prospects for reform. Russ is the Executive Director of the Prime Mover Institute.  Show notes on the Yeoman website. You can find Yeoman on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, and elsewhere.

    1hr 36min
  6. Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine – #30

    6 Feb

    Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine – #30

    Justin Owings and Ty Abernathy joined Geoff to discuss Paul Kingsnorth’s latest book, Against the Machine. Our two-hour, fire-side, dog-accompanied conversation covers a lot of territory—raising children in the age of the Machine, entrepreneurship, globalism and financialization, corporate bureaucracy, technocracy, rootedness, homelessness, skin-in-the-game, limits, GenZ—and we hardly scratched the surface. Show notes on the Yeoman website.

    1hr 50min
  7. Chuck Marohn: Strong Towns' Bottom-up Revolution – #29

    22 Jan

    Chuck Marohn: Strong Towns' Bottom-up Revolution – #29

    Charles "Chuck" Marohn is the president of Strong Towns, a national organization he started in 2008 as a blog and grew into a widespread movement advocating for financially resilient, prosperous cities and towns through bottom-up, incremental development. Chuck is the author of countless articles and three books: Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (2019), Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (2021), and Escaping the Housing Trap (2024), and he hosts the Strong Towns Podcast while speaking widely across North America. Chuck lives in Brainerd, Minnesota, with his family. Show notes at the Yeoman website.

    1hr 38min
  8. Zak Slayback: Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII, Capital, Labor, and Morality – #28

    9 Jan

    Zak Slayback: Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII, Capital, Labor, and Morality – #28

    Zak Slayback joins Geoff to discuss Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum, the context in which it was written, and its relevance to today. Topics include the emergence of nationalism and industrial-scale capitalism, the subsequent fracturing of cottage industries, the rise of socialist reactionary movements, the obligations employers have to workers (and vice versa), subsidiarity, and the moral challenges investors face in our hyper-financialized consumer economy. Zak is a venture capital partner at 1517 Fund and an occasional author. Show notes here.

    1hr 36min
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Geoff Graham is joined by builders, farmers, entrepreneurs, architects, technologists, writers, artisans, and theologians. They discuss their work, their lives, society, our past, and the future.

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  • Creator
    Geoff Graham
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    35
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Geoff Graham
  • Show Website
    Yeoman

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