About this episode

Joyce Brand shares her unique experiences and insights from living in a Free City in Honduras, discussing governance models and personal transformations.

Spencer Heath, the Entrecom Model, and the City With One Owner – Joyce Brand is a proper OG of the Free Cities world: author of 'Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities', co-author of Spencer Heath's posthumous Economics and the Spiritual Life of Free Men, and one of the very few people in this movement who has actually lived in a Free City. She spent three years as an early resident and chronicler of Ciudad Morazán, the "blue-collar" Honduran ZEDE built not for tech founders and digital nomads but for ordinary Honduran workers, in what was statistically one of the most dangerous parts of the country. Timothy Allen sits down with Joyce in Próspera for her first ever podcast recorded in person. It is the story of one of the great late-life plot twists: a forty-five year obsession with incentives that began with five unnecessary typewriters in Portland, Oregon in 1981, ran through a decade in Hollywood as a film editor, and ended with her moving to Honduras at 71 to watch a city rise from bare farmland. As she puts it, life begins at 70. It is also probably the clearest explanation you will hear of the entrecom model: Spencer Heath's idea that landowners, not…

People in this episode

Host: Timothy Allen

Guest: Joyce Brand

Topics covered

• Free Cities
• governance
• incentives
• Honduras
• urban development
• personal journey

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Entrecom Model

Books & works: Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities, Economics and the Spiritual Life of Free Men

Places: Honduras, Ciudad Morazán, Próspera

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