Vision 2025: Charting the Impact in 2025

In this episode, we reflect on the growth of the Freedom Fighters Podcast over the past year and lay out our vision for 2025. From creating a platform for business owners to share their journeys to exploring the intersection of faith, family, and entrepreneurship, we discuss the lessons we've learned and our goals for the year ahead. We dive into how consistency, faith, and community will shape the podcast’s future and continue to inspire impactful conversations. Whether you're a longtime listener or new to the podcast, this episode provides an inside look at what’s to come in 2025.

📌 Key Topics:
✅ Reflecting on the Freedom Fighters Podcast’s first year
✅ The vision and goals for 2025
✅ How faith and family influence business growth
✅ Lessons learned from past conversations
✅ Building a platform for impactful stories
✅ Plans for expanding guest diversity and reach
✅ The importance of consistency and continuous improvement
✅ Balancing business, personal growth, and family values

Transcript

Tanner, welcome back. I of want to a second. I feel like I have the same five words at every start of each podcast. anyhow, kind of want to take a second and talk about our vision of the podcast for 2025. We started this, I don't know, roughly nine months ago, I think prior first recording. I know it was still called out here in Omaha before we recorded it and sat on the shelf for six months as we tried to figure this out. And I don't know if we figured it out yet, but. But that's kind of the whole point of it.

That's why we wanted to have this podcast is to reintroduce why we're doing this and what is it? What are we even talking about? And I think that's, that's part of it is we, talked to a lot of business owners and just being able to share their stories and share the struggles and give them a platform to be able to kind of share the bumps and bruises with people so that hopefully they can avoid them themselves.

We're not biblical scholars. mean, we're not super successful billionaires. Like we're trying to figure them out, you know, and be better fathers, better husbands, better business owners, you know, better followers of Christ. And so I mean, I think when we first came up with this idea, that's what it was, is why are we doing any of this? And freedom fighter is the thing that makes the most sense, is we're all just fighting for that freedom and whatever that freedom may be.

Yeah. I mean, this was, you know, we, we didn't, know, they say riches are in the niches, you know, niche down and all that stuff. And, um, we're like, don't even know. Cause I feel like a lot of stuff is done already. And this was the one thing that kind of spoke to me more than, uh, I don't feel like it's really been done. I know, uh, I just shared this podcast with you, uh, Chad Robichaud.

What's up here? The resiliency or something like, so that's the only big name podcasts. And he started a few months before us, but he had books and got a movie coming out and all that stuff. Special forces, the whole. And so like he has a pretty big platform already. Outside of that, like I, I would say ours is most similar to his, said average Joe version.

I mean, I would say he was just average Joe that just got put in different circumstances. No, no, no. mean, ours is the average Joe version of his. Yeah, I mean, I don't think he's this huge. I mean, yeah, he wrote a book and it was a good book and now it's been turned into a movie, but that's incredible. It's but, you know, his is about resiliency. It's about freedom. It's about

God, like he talks a lot about God and stuff. So that's the only one I can, and it wasn't out when we started this. That's the only one that I can halfway, compare this to. And I think ours is more business related than his is, but he does talk business in his as well. So, but yeah, it's, feel like we're starting to get there. we share some really cool stories and I like that people are able to kind of open up about the vulnerabilities of being in business. I I feel like a lot of podcasts become a highlight reel of, you know, one thing that someone's overcame and now everything is smooth and things go great. And that's just not the reality of it. And there's a lot of ups and downs. And if you don't have the support network to be able to navigate those things, then they'll put you under. I think we've done a good job of bringing it back to faith. And as we're reading things in the Bible, we're trying to talk about them and make sense of them because people have been trying to decipher the Bible for thousands of years. And here we are two guys in a basement, just sharing what we're making sense of these things. And so I, I mean, I definitely, I want to hear what you have for 2025. I'd like to continue getting, you know, people and their stories out there and sharing our real world struggles as we're buying businesses, buying properties. obviously once NDAs are no longer in effect, then we can talk a little more openly about things, but just the day-to-day struggles, even the anxiety of waiting for an appraisal to get back. I know that feeling very well. I know that, you

A lot of people don't talk about the daily anxieties. It's just, you know, maybe a catastrophe happened in a property. We've talked a few times about some of our properties, having floodings and having stuff like that. But it's the little details of like the first time my basement flooded in a property. I didn't know not to say certain things to the insurance company until I got coached through it. Things like there's a difference between a backup and an overflow.

And backups are not covered by insurance, but an overflow is. And so had I not had someone there to coach me through that, I would have lost tens of thousands of dollars. Yeah. It's, you talk about the little anxiety. like, was it a few days ago? I think it was negative 18 overnight up here. And last time it was cold like that, I might AC like the basically froze, in that, it they see is in the basement. I froze, which then froze the pipes in the basement, you know, which caused water damage and all that stuff. like, when you get cold, I'm like little PTSD from it, know, and it's just like, yes, I dealt with that a year ago, two years ago, whatever it was, but you still have it in your head.