The Self-Sustainable Guru: An Interview With Catherine Bleish

The Self-Sustainable Guru: An Interview With Catherine Bleish

A peek at Catherine Bleish and John Bush’s resume and you might wonder when the sustainable living activists ever find time to sleep. The couple raises their two young children and 100 chickens on a farm in Southeast Austin and are diligent advocates of agorism and crypto-currency. Between the two of them, the couple have launched the Sovereign Bitcoin consulting firm (complete with podcast), write for multiple blogs, run TheBitMom.com, operate the daily radio news service The Liberty Beat, star in an education docu-reality show, give speeches around the country, and so on. They sell....


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