Episode #14
Living Alternatively
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Episode Guests:
Dan Roberts – Bitcoin Miner
Andrew Earnshaw – Heddlestone Co-housing Community
Jazmine Lowther – Ultrarunner
Episode Overview
People like to do things a little differently out in the back 40. Perhaps it’s the open spaces that create different opportunities when it comes to business, community living, and recreation. In this episode, you’ll hear about an outlier who infiltrated a Slocan Valley commune, Australian entrepreneurs who moved to Canal Flats in search of cryptocurrency, an uncommon residential development, and a woman who runs. And runs. And then runs some more.
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