May 2, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 23 segments
Ryan Jordan interviews Blake Boles, author of Dirtbag Rich, about redefining wealth through time, purpose, flexibility, and outdoor freedom. They explore dirtbag culture, careers, housing…
Really excited to talk to you about this topic, and in my introduction, I summarized some of the issues and challenges we are facing as a society today, and I want to explore some of that context and the themes to discuss today.
And I think we're gonna be talking through everything from money to psychology to career and status, relationships, and maybe even some philosophy.
But let's get right into it, and I wanna ask you a question specifically is, how do you define the Dirtbag Rich lifestyle?
I define it as a middle path between being a full-on dirtbag, just no savings, probably sleeping in a bag in the dirt in order to do what you love outdoors, and the conventional pursuit of riches and security and comfort, which is kind of the standard American or Western European approach.
And for me, it's something that balances out these three resources, time, money, and purpose, whereas the normal approach really focuses on making money for most of your adult working life so that you can cash that in in the form of time and purpose, uh, upon retirement, this mythological thing we call retirement.
And I'm saying time, money, and purpose should be valued equally now in your working years, and that's what I try to flesh out both practically and philosophically in Dirtbag Rich.
In terms of wealth, we ha- we have-- we see-- we equate wealth to resource, and, uh, that resource is either cash that we earn or spend, or it's assets that we own.
Really excited to talk to you about this topic, and in my introduction, I summarized some of the issues and challenges we are facing as a society today, and I want to explore some of that context and the themes to discuss today.
And I think we're gonna be talking through everything from money to psychology to career and status, relationships, and maybe even some philosophy.
But let's get right into it, and I wanna ask you a question specifically is, how do you define the Dirtbag Rich lifestyle?
I define it as a middle path between being a full-on dirtbag, just no savings, probably sleeping in a bag in the dirt in order to do what you love outdoors, and the conventional pursuit of riches and security and comfort, which is kind of the standard American or Western European approach.
And for me, it's something that balances out these three resources, time, money, and purpose, whereas the normal approach really focuses on making money for most of your adult working life so that you can cash that in in the form of time and purpose, uh, upon retirement, this mythological thing we call retirement.
And I'm saying time, money, and purpose should be valued equally now in your working years, and that's what I try to flesh out both practically and philosophically in Dirtbag Rich.
In terms of wealth, we ha- we have-- we see-- we equate wealth to resource, and, uh, that resource is either cash that we earn or spend, or it's assets that we own.
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