Welcome to the grande finale of season one BYOC, we thought it would be fun to do mesh up of the different interviews from people i&apos;ve spoken to from season one. To those of you haven&apos;t listened to the first season yet, this will give you a little insight in what to expect and to everyone who has heard the first season, hopefully this gives you a good recap of where we are going! 

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BYOC Season One Finale

This week I got to speak with Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation who&apos;s mission is, to unite the world against tyranny. We speak about HRF&apos;s BAFTA nominated film - The Dissident - on the Saudi assassination of a journalist, Bitcoin&apos;s role in the fight against authoritarian governments and unsound monetary policy, on the UN&apos;s role in maintaining the status quo, a world where over 50% of the population live under tyranny, and what the next trend in decentralising forces looks like.Twitter: @Gladstein @HRF 

BYOC with Alex Gladstein

Frances Kendall was born in Kenya and later moved to South Africa. She is an artist, author, and cross Africa backpacker. In 1986 in the last years of Apartheid, she wrote a book called South Africa: The Solution. A bold title for a bold theory. That South Africa should adopt the Swiss model of decentralised governance. Fast forward a few decades and Frances is not so sure The Solution is the right one. Join me on a chat of her journey from then to now, and also how to raise children who feel empowered to change the world. 

BYOC with Frances Kendall

Dryden Brown is a former pro surfer and investment banker who founded Bluebook Cities - a new type of society built around a community of people who want to build great things. We discuss how he&apos;s building the community, why heroism is important to their culture, and why his city will appeal to young people tired of "boomer" cities and politicians&apos; lack of vision for the future.Twitter: @drydenwtbrown @BluebookCities

BYOC with Dryden Brown

Temba Nolutshungu is director of the Free Market Foundation in South Africa. He spent over 20 years fighting apartheid and was a key member of the Black Consciousness Movement. We chat about his ideological journey from Marxism to free market ideas, inspired by observations of the economic development of socialist and communist countries in Europe and the writings of Walter Williams, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Thomas Sowell. Even after the battle against apartheid was won, he then continued even to this day a fight to ensure personal freedom and prosperity for South Africans.

BYOC with Temba Nolutshungu

Patri is the founder of Pronomos.vc - the worlds first charter city investment fund - and the Seasteading Institute. He&apos;s a libertarian and theorist of political economy. We chat about investing in and starting new countries: how he got the idea, what will it solve, why new governance ideas need to be tested IRL and not just debated, some different arguments ppl come up with why it won’t work and why they are wrong, biggest challenges in this space and what’s the tipping point before more new charter cities and countries start being created.Twitter: @patrissimo  

BYOC with Patri Friedman

Today’s guest is Tridib Nandy. He’s the Founder of Sovereign Union, who’s mission it is to provide indigenous peoples with blockchain solutions that help localise governance of their societies. We speak about the importance of property registration systems, sovereign digital currencies, and the disconnect between indigenous peoples culture, and the government they live under. Website: https://sunion.ioYouTube: Sovereign Union Intro video

BYOC with Tridib Nandy

In this special episode of Build your own Country, I got to speak with two amazing individuals who are actually building their own country/society from scratch. Vít Jedlička is an activist, has been arrested at least twice while serving as President of Liberland - a previously unclaimed no-mans-land on the Danube River between Serbia and Croatia. Vit tried his hand at politics in his home country the Czech Republic, became disillusioned with the politikking, corruption, and lack of vision, and decided to literally Build his own Country. Grant Romundt is the CEO of Ocean Builders, working on revolutionising sea living with affordable 3D printed eco-restorative floating smart-homes. The first community will be built off the coast of Panama. We talk about his journey and what is important when building a new type of community from scratch. Twitter: @Vit_Jedlicka @oceanbuilders @silversen @yourowncountryWebsite: www.sylviabrune.com/byoc

BYOC with Vít Jedlička & Grant Romundt

Andrew McMillion is a philosophical peasant and avid student of entropy. In this episode of Build your own Country we discuss what is really wrecking the environment, destruction of biodiversity, over-production, and of course what Andrew&apos;s country would do, to tackle some of these pressing issues. Tune in for an interesting chat about the paradigm shift that needs to happen for humankind to start taking this planet and its ecosystems seriously. 

BYOC with Andrew McMillion

Mark Beer OBE is a futurist lawyer, and chairman of The Metis Institute. We discuss the broken government-run justice system, innovators in the space who are democratising the courts, and what he thinks are better ways of solving conflicts.Twitter: @theoxfordbeer @silversenWebsite: sylviabrune.com/byoc

BYOC with Mark Beer OBE

Per Bylund is a Swedish economist, author, and professor of entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. Per gets asked two main questions, Whats wrong with the world? and If he could build his own country, how would he make things better? In this episode we discuss the woes of economic illiteracy, black markets, barter trade, regulations, taxation, and of course what Per&apos;s country would look like. Twitter: @perbylund @silversen @yourowncountry

BYOC with Per Bylund

I started the Build your own Country podcast, because politicians & governments generally suck & most people are disappointed.I’ve invited some fascinating, and slightly crazy, people to discuss what is broken in politics and governance. Why is the current system rubbish at solving big problems in interesting new ways? Why is politics so divisive? What systems exist to ensure governments’ accountability towards, and alignment with, the people they serve?Too long we have accepted the ‘Its not great, but it’s the best we got’ line. We are depending on governments to fix more and more of the problems in our societies. The future is too important to be left up to the populist antics of politicians. The answer to our problems is not bigger government. However, many many more governments may just do the trick. 

Intro: Why we need to build more countries

What does a Swedish economics professor, a Soviet defector, a peasant, a lawyer, and Milton Friedman's grandson have in common? These are just some of the people who I speak with on my new podcast, Build your own Country. In each episode we try and find out what is broken in the way things are run today, and whats the next step in societal governance models.Visit sylviabrune.com/byoc for more details on the guests and episodes. Follow @yourowncountry on Twitter

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