Episode 388: TMBA388: Why We Need Strong Towns
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/strongtowns/ Dan and Ian are always looking for new ways to increase their productivity.
In a lot of ways, Dan and Ian have often used this show as a means to explore places, though they have never explored those places in the ways that today's guest has.
Chuck Marohn is the president of a nonprofit organization called Strong Towns. Through his work with Strong Towns, Chuck has helped to create a framework for how our cities and towns can become financially stronger and more prosperous.
Today's podcast is an inspiring, and perhaps controversial, conversation about what kinds of towns and cities we want to live in, and what those places will look like in the future.
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| 0:00.0 | We have essentially chosen to finance growth and development from Wall Street, from Washington, D.C. on down, |
| 0:07.0 | skewed the game in favor of people who can operate at a huge scale. |
| 0:11.5 | And if we want to change that, we actually need to get our financing fixed at the local level |
| 0:16.5 | so that local people wanting to do incrementally important things can do that with a limited amount of obstacles in their path. |
| 0:29.6 | Hey, podcast, listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:43.6 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 1:02.0 | A little bit of inside baseball in today's episode. |
| 1:08.9 | After we got off the phone with today's guest, the first thing you said to me was we could have continued talking for two more hours. I was ready to go Joe Rogan on it. |
| 1:13.4 | What do you mean by Joe Rogan? |
| 1:15.0 | Joe Rogan podcast. It's always like three hours long. It says things like, that's crazy, man. |
| 1:21.3 | It always leads to monkeys and space and stuff like that. And I feel like we could have got there |
| 1:25.1 | with this week's guest if we just let it run. |
| 1:35.9 | Today's show is an inspiring and maybe a bit controversial conversation about what kinds of towns and cities we want to live in. In a major way, this podcast has been about exploring places. |
| 1:44.1 | And I don't think we've ever quite explored them in the |
| 1:47.5 | way that today's guest has. Through his work, he gives us a framework to think about why our |
| 1:54.5 | cities and towns are good or bad or profitable or unprofitable in a whole new way. |
| 2:01.4 | My name's Chuck Morone. |
| 2:02.3 | I'm actually the president of a nonprofit organization called Strong Towns. |
| 2:07.1 | We are a media organization sharing a message about how our cities can become financially |
| 2:14.4 | stronger and more prosperous. |
| 2:17.3 | So first a little background on Chuck, whose writing and podcast can be found at |
| 2:22.6 | Strongtowns.org, super inspiring and fascinating website. |
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