Finding Freedom
by John Odermatt
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About this podcast
Finding Freedom is a long-form podcast focused on entrepreneurship, health, and politics, featuring in-depth conversations with independent thinkers, business owners, researchers, and cultural critics. Hosted by John Odermatt, the show explores how centralized institutions, corporate power, and political narratives impact personal freedom, health, and economic opportunity.
Episodes cover entrepreneurship and financial independence, health and wellness, medical freedom, government overreach, media bias, culture, and faith. Guests range from entrepreneurs and medical professionals to academics and journalists.
Finding Freedom is designed for listeners who value long-form discussion, intellectual honesty, and practical insights into building a healthier, freer, and more resilient life.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 271 episodes
- Parents vs the System: Alvin Lui on the School Battles Voters Will Decide this November · 1 h 18 minJohn Odermatt welcomes back Alvin Lui, founder of Courage is a Habit, for a deep dive into the parental rights battles heating up one week before Election Day. They discuss 17…
- Why Some Rise Above Their Circumstances While Others Fall to Them · 23 minIn this solo episode of Finding Freedom, John breaks down what positive thinking really means—not vision boards and mirror affirmations, but the deliberate, disciplined practice…
- Defunding the Indoctrination Machine: How Trump's Student Loan Rule Could Break Progressive Control of Academia and Beyond · 25 minThe progressive left spent decades building institutional control over American academia, using it as a pipeline to reshape corporate culture, HR departments, and public policy…
- Your Body Is Not Broken: Dr. Sage Wolfe on What Your Body Is Actually Trying to Tell You · 43 minIn this episode of Finding Freedom, host John Odermatt sits down with Dr. Sage Wolfe — a doctor of natural medicine, former professional gymnast, and certified Wolf Non-Surgical…
- Accused of Terrorism, Detained at a Black Site: What Danial Jiwani Learned About Wealth When Everything Was Stripped Away · 41 minDaniel Jiwani moved to Saudi Arabia to work for PricewaterhouseCoopers, but eight months later he was abducted by Saudi authorities, taken to a black site, and falsely accused of…
- Liberty and Security: Ross Ulbricht on What Prison Taught Him About Freedom · 29 minRoss Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, spent over 11 years behind federal prison walls — sentenced to die as a first-time, non-violent offender. Pardoned by President Trump on his…
- Sandusky: The Recantation, the Hearing, and the Truth with John Ziegler · 1 h 13 minThe Jerry Sandusky case is back in the national spotlight after reports that "Victim 10" Ryan Rittmeyer plans to recant his trial testimony at an upcoming evidentiary hearing…
- The Lost Generation: How DEI Drove Men Out of the American Workforce · 28 minThis episode examines the declining male labor force participation rate in America, which has fallen to its lowest level since 1948, with roughly one in three men no longer…
- No Family Should Have to Cross an Ocean to Save Their Child with Kendra Riley · 24 minKendra Riley's two daughters were diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a rare terminal genetic disorder. With no FDA-approved treatment available in the U.S…
- Watched from the Cradle to the Cubicle · 29 minWhile most Americans are rightly concerned about government surveillance — license plate readers, Flock cameras, the deep state — a quieter and more intimate surveillance culture…
- FF: Why Most Small Business Branding Is Quietly Killing Their Marketing with Amber Andrews · 45 minMost founders build their brand around what looks good instead of what actually works — and it's quietly sabotaging their marketing. In this episode, John sits down with Amber…
- Neurosurgeon Turned Regenerative Medicine Pioneer Dr. Jeff Gross on Peptides, Stem Cells, and Healing from Within · 48 minDr. Jeff Gross, a board-certified neurosurgeon and founder of Recelebrate, joins the show to demystify peptides and regenerative medicine. He explains how frustration with the…
- AI Isn't Taking Your Job — It's Exposing How Your Company Actually Runs with David Dean · 44 minEveryone's worried about AI taking their jobs — but David Dean, enterprise technologist and author of An Inbox Between Us, argues that's the wrong fear entirely. In this episode…
- The System is the Problem: Clarence Carter on Why America's Safety Net Keeps People Poor · 56 minFor 30 years, Clarence Carter worked inside America's public assistance system under two presidents, four governors, and a mayor. In this episode, he joins John Odermatt to…
- Tom Luongo on Leaving Libertarianism, Iran, the City of London and Trump · 1 h 22 minIndependent analyst and Gold, Goats, and Guns host Tom Luongo joins the show to explain why he's left orthodox libertarianism behind and adopted a framework built around the City…
- The Ocean Exit: How Arkpad is Making Seasteading a Reality with Mitchell Suchner · 46 minMitchell Suchner, director of Arkpad, joins John Odermatt from his floating resort in the Philippines to discuss how seasteading is moving from theory to operational reality…
- Rebuilding Strength, Flexibility and Energy with Jason Gagne · 1 h 6 minMost fitness programs are designed for people who are already in shape — but what about everyone else? In this episode of Finding Freedom, host John welcomes back certified…
- The Fight to Keep the Ballot Box Exclusively for Citizens with Jack Tomczak · 35 minMost Americans — across every party, gender, and demographic — agree that only US citizens should vote in US elections, yet here we are having to fight for something that sounds…
- Your Gut is Either Fighting Cancer or Feeding It · 25 minTop cancer researchers just declared the gut microbiome a "moonshot moment" in cancer prevention — so why is nobody talking about it? In this solo episode, I break down the…
- AI, Persuasion and the Future of Human Creativity with Jon Benson · 50 minJon Benson — the inventor of the video sales letter and a copywriter responsible for over $1 billion in revenue — joins the show to explore what happens to human creativity as AI…
