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    Season 2 · Episode 10

    Fear Is Home To Poverty, Living In The Moment & Owning Your Life

    ZADAN with Liberty V Justice

    · 1:10:29

    The conversation

    Liberty V Justice joins ZADAN on a clock, with a bus to catch, and spends the time making the case that action beats belief. She talks openly about three and a half years without a home, why she stopped hiding it on her YouTube channel, and what a Jay Shetty visualization exercise in Utah told her about her path, her education and her relationships. A gift of a Mickey Mouse hat from a stranger on the bus becomes a small example of what happens when she lets things unfold.

    The second half turns practical. Liberty describes her master's in creative writing and her first paid articles, and ZADAN suggests freelance writing sites, Shopify with Printful for merch, and commercial casting work. She shares her application to sing on a cruise ship, background work on Shameless, and her rule that burnout comes from doing what drains you. She closes on fear as the place poverty lives and her plan for free gluten-free restaurants in every state.

    Topics, with timestamps

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    1. Liberty's pitch: showing people what is possible
    2. The two percent myth and other people's agendas
    3. Living in America compared with the rest of the world
    4. A Jay Shetty visualization: the path, key and cup
    5. Nine years sober and going public about homelessness
    6. Being comfortable alone and what relationships require
    7. Singing on the bus for a Mickey Mouse hat
    8. Busking at Huntington Beach and Orange County street dangers
    9. Poverty, crime and the love of money
    10. Getting past the door at karaoke with three bags
    11. A creative writing master's and her first paid articles
    12. Freelance writing sites, Shopify and Printful for merch
    13. A cruise ship gig, Central Casting and commercial work
    14. Fear versus faith, burnout and the plan for free restaurants

    Worth hearing

    • Liberty argues that people who take no action skew the odds of success, and calls the noise that holds them back OPA, other people's agendas.
    • ZADAN points out that simply living in America puts a person ahead of most of the world's population, even those worst off here.
    • Liberty says her impact grew once she stopped hiding that she was homeless, because audiences can sense when someone is concealing part of their life.
    • At a Jay Shetty exercise, her cup appeared as a plain styrofoam coffee cup, which she came to read as confidence that she does not need to hold on to people.
    • Her first paid writing came from a Salvation Army magazine and a car magazine, the second for an article about her future 1970 Boss 302.
    • Liberty defines burnout as working against your own passion, and says the fix is more of the people and activities that give you energy.
    • Her long-term goal, shaped by cancer and a celiac diagnosis, is a restaurant in every state serving free gluten-free food to build community.

    ZADAN's original episode notes

    Liberty V Justice is a serial entrepreneur and content creator out of Los Angeles, California - creating music and pursuing her career in acting while roughing it out on the streets. Liberty is the owner of her company, I'm Worth It, where she makes content to help people get through their own mental barriers and push through to a place of inner peace and gratitude.

    In this episode Liberty and I discuss building your life for yourself and accepting responsibility for the life that you are living, understanding your control and how you have the direct ability to do something about it. We talk about her struggles with homelessness and terrible situations that she has overcome and keep a positive outlook on life through, keeping out of burnout by pursuing your passions and building without OPA, other people's agendas, and so many other awesome topics; so without further ado I give you, Liberty V Justice.