This episode of the Hard Man Podcast is brought to by Joe Garrison with backwards planning financial

by our friends at Alpine Gold, by Max D Trailers, Salt and Strings Butchery, Premier Body Armour, and finally by Reformation Heritage Books. Well, welcome to this episode of the Hard Men Podcast. I am your host Eric Khan and very

excited, delighted even to have on our show once again Rory Groves.

Rory, thanks for joining me for this episode of the podcast.

I'm glad to be here.

Thanks for having me again.

Yeah, absolutely.

Always good conversation.

Rory, one of the things we'll talk about in this episode, you've got a new book, The Family Economy,

Discovering The Family as it was designed to work, we'll of course jump into that, but for our listeners who don't know what you've been up to, there's a lot of things that you guys have been doing as a family. So give me just a little short, I guess, introduction to who you are and what your family's been up to.

Yeah, well, so as you mentioned, my name is Rory and we're the Groves family.

I've got six kids, ages 13 down to two, and my wife, Becca and I have been married for 19 years actually coming up this weekend.

Awesome. And we live on a little farm. I hesitate to say hobby farm. It started as a hobby farm but now it's just a farm because we

actually depend on it and we've learned over the last dozen years or so a little

bit about self-sufficiency and how to turn this into something

productive that's not so much economically we're not a market farm so much but

we produce as much as we can for our own families, really what our goal is here in our farm in southern Minnesota.

And so along the way of kind of attempting to become more productive, work together, and do some of these things.

I started to discover, so my background is as a technology consultant, and I'd worked in IT my entire career since I was a little kid that was all I ever

wanted to do and one of the things I noticed started to happen was I just lost my

interest in all the high-tech gadgets and gizmos as I was digging in the dirt and you know hurting

sheep with my son and doing other kinds of projects building a cabin and just having fun out here on the land. I just noticed that some of my priorities started to change.

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