{"id":2701,"date":"2026-08-13T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livefreenow.show\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/lfn-257-joel-skousen-strategic-relocation-home-security-and-escaping-whats-coming-never-released\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:02:51","slug":"lfn-257-joel-skousen-strategic-relocation-home-security-and-escaping-whats-coming-never-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livefreenow.show\/lfn-257-joel-skousen-strategic-relocation-home-security-and-escaping-whats-coming-never-released\/","title":{"rendered":"LFN #257 &#8211; Joel Skousen: Strategic Relocation, Home Security, and Escaping What&#8217;s Coming (Never Released)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2701-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/y9iy6jxahq7q3tka\/JoelSKLFN.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/y9iy6jxahq7q3tka\/JoelSKLFN.mp3\">https:\/\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/y9iy6jxahq7q3tka\/JoelSKLFN.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Joel Skousen has spent nearly five decades helping people answer one question: where should you live when the systems around you start to fail?<\/p>\n<p>This talk has never been available publicly. Joel delivered it at Exit &amp; Build 2, and we&#8217;re releasing it now for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>In it he walks through the core of his life&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<p>Strategic relocation and how to evaluate where you live right now. Population density, prevailing winds, nuclear and military target proximity, water access, growing season, state law, and the neighbors you&#8217;d actually be depending on. Joel breaks down why he looks west of the Mississippi, which states he&#8217;s changed his mind about, and the mistakes people make when they relocate for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Home and retreat security. Joel is an architect who&#8217;s designed high security residences across North America, Canada, and Latin America. He gets into secure room design, EMP-protected power, water and food storage, and what actually holds up versus what just feels safe.<\/p>\n<p>And the honest assessment of the threats. Grid failure, EMP, economic collapse, war, and the long-term consolidation of surveillance and control. Joel doesn&#8217;t sugarcoat any of it, and he&#8217;ll tell you why he refuses to. His view is that optimism is what keeps people from preparing.<\/p>\n<p>About Joel Skousen<\/p>\n<p>Former Navy and Marine Corps fighter pilot turned architect. He began writing The Secure Home in 1979, making him one of the genuine pioneers of the modern preparedness movement. He&#8217;s the author of Strategic Relocation: North American Guide to Safe Places, still the definitive reference on threat-based relocation, and co-author of The High Security Shelter Book with his son, a structural engineer. He has published the World Affairs Brief every week for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Joel is speaking at Exit &amp; Build 6<\/p>\n<p>We just announced it. Joel is joining us in person at Exit &amp; Build 6, November 5 through 8, 2026, at Sovereignty Ranch in Bandera, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s giving a full talk plus a hands-on workshop, going deeper than he could in the time he had here. Nuclear and fallout protection, secure water and food storage, EMP-protected long-term power, evading social unrest, and the secure room design he&#8217;s spent a career refining. You&#8217;ll be able to walk up and ask him about your own property, your own plan, your own situation.<\/p>\n<p>Exit &amp; Build 6 is four days on a working regenerative ranch in the Texas Hill Country with speakers and builders across the counter-economy, decentralized tech, private realm structures, food and land, and lawful remedy. The whole event is built around implementation zones, where you don&#8217;t just take notes. You leave with your crypto wallet funded, your privacy gaps closed, your land or community plan drawn up, and your private realm pathway mapped.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket prices go up August 31st.<\/p>\n<p>Get your ticket: <a href='https:\/\/exitandbuild.com'>https:\/\/exitandbuild.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brought to you by Live Free Academy. Stay free out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Skousen has spent nearly five decades helping people answer one question: where should you live when the systems around you start to fail? This talk has never been available publicly. Joel delivered it at Exit &amp; Build 2, and we&#8217;re releasing it now for the first time. 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