The Jeff Heilman Project (Podcast)
Aug 7, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
In this episode, Jeff and Jessica recount personal and historical anecdotes of overcoming massive hurdles in life. Support the show Would you like to be…
Jessica HeilmanHost
Jeff HeilmanHost
So for today's topic of conversation between us, we're going to be talking about the importance, like we talk a lot on the Jeff Heilman Project about renewing your mind and like,
reading and like the importance of reading books and putting in good, you know, PMA, but Until I started doing more research and until I started reading more books about the actual period of time that we were proclaimed free and actually walking free, it's just hard to imagine a time when they're moving into an unknown.
It was so important to gather together with like-minded people and like reiterate to each other why you're fighting that I thought that we could talk about today because a lot of times we talk about, oh yeah, read a good book, read books, reading books is good.
If you're going from a place that you're at to a whole new place that you've never been to before to a whole new world that you've never even attempted to live in before, you're going from, you know, being very comfortable making $30,000 a year and you're trying to go to financial freedom at we all know is probably going to be about $2 million a year in today's economy.
It is the only way that you're going to be able to bridge the chasm between $30,000 a year and $2 million a year in order to establish your family.
And that's what these colonists had to do is they had a declaration of, And then they had no idea of what being free could even look like.
That if they hadn't read, re-read, fellowshiped, got back together every potluck, every meal, every
We wouldn't be free in America today if they hadn't doubled down on renewing their mind and re-educating to what it could look like and then also... getting together with like-minded people for what it could look like.
But how many of you know that if you stand in a garage and call yourself a car, you can do that until you're blue in the face.
But when you go back to the books, go back to the blocking and tackling, go back to the reading, reading, reading, reading, what could a car look like in my garage?
So for today's topic of conversation between us, we're going to be talking about the importance, like we talk a lot on the Jeff Heilman Project about renewing your mind and like,
reading and like the importance of reading books and putting in good, you know, PMA, but Until I started doing more research and until I started reading more books about the actual period of time that we were proclaimed free and actually walking free, it's just hard to imagine a time when they're moving into an unknown.
It was so important to gather together with like-minded people and like reiterate to each other why you're fighting that I thought that we could talk about today because a lot of times we talk about, oh yeah, read a good book, read books, reading books is good.
If you're going from a place that you're at to a whole new place that you've never been to before to a whole new world that you've never even attempted to live in before, you're going from, you know, being very comfortable making $30,000 a year and you're trying to go to financial freedom at we all know is probably going to be about $2 million a year in today's economy.
It is the only way that you're going to be able to bridge the chasm between $30,000 a year and $2 million a year in order to establish your family.
And that's what these colonists had to do is they had a declaration of, And then they had no idea of what being free could even look like.
That if they hadn't read, re-read, fellowshiped, got back together every potluck, every meal, every
We wouldn't be free in America today if they hadn't doubled down on renewing their mind and re-educating to what it could look like and then also... getting together with like-minded people for what it could look like.
But how many of you know that if you stand in a garage and call yourself a car, you can do that until you're blue in the face.
But when you go back to the books, go back to the blocking and tackling, go back to the reading, reading, reading, reading, what could a car look like in my garage?
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