I've done my share of TV and other big media.
I have sponsors of my show.
But if all those things went away because jerks attacked me and made them impossible to continue, I'd be fine.
I have a podcast that lots of people listen to, and whose audience I've built up over seven years.
I promote products -- like Bluehost web hosting and the Ron Paul Curriculum -- that my listeners need and will enjoy.
I built my own educational platform, Liberty Classroom. So if I lost my mind and decided for some reason I wanted to return to academia (ha!), and I got shut out because of my views, I could still reach an audience hungry for knowledge anyway.
No matter what anyone does to me, these things are constants and cannot disappear.
But it took me years and years of crushing work to reach this point.
So when people ask me how I did it, I almost feel bad telling them. They're waiting for a formula they can use, and when they find out how much work was involved, they're deflated.
Well....
Not everyone has to do it the way I did.
And in fact most don't. Only a sliver are crazy enough to try!
They do it differently.
On the Tom Woods Show last week I interviewed someone who has essentially no audience at all. Almost no one has ever heard of him. But he supports himself very similarly to the way I do, except he's much better at it and earns much more dough.
He's been building un-shut-downable online businesses since he was 20. And without the hard slog of building up a podcast audience for seven years or making a million YouTube videos or any of the other stuff I had to do.
The information he has to teach is a teensy-weensy bit important in an age when your means of support can be shut down by the state at a whim.
Tom Woods