FreedomFest 2024: Full Schedule

12:45pm PDT

How to Become More Deeply Yourself: Practical Strategies for Living a Happier, More Resilient Life

Wednesday July 10, 2024 12:45pm - 1:30pm PDT

Speakers

Joel Wade

Author, Mastering Emotions, Moods and Reactions

Joel F. Wade, Ph.D. is Marriage and Family Therapist and Life Coach, and the author of Mastering Emotions, Moods and Reactions Workbook, The Virtue of Happiness, Mastering Happiness, The Mastering Happiness Podcast, and The Mastering Happiness Blog, all drawing from the increasingly useful research in psychology in general, and positive psychology in particular; a deep understanding of somatic psychotherapy, and his over four decades of working with people and organizations professionally. He has written regularly for a variety... Read More →

Wednesday July 10, 2024 12:45pm - 1:30pm PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session

1:45pm PDT

The Brave New World of Marketing: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Messaging to the Masses

Wednesday July 10, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm PDT

Room 116/117

Moderators

Heather Wagenhals

Host, Unlock Your Wealth

Heather Wagenhals has empowered others for 25 years with her special blend of personal finance and wealth building techniques through books, articles, speeches, radio, and television. As a nationally recognized personal finance-expert, Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist... Read More →

Speakers

Larry Sharpe

Host, The Sharpe Way

Larry Sharpe is a Husband, Father, Marine, Entrepreneur, Teacher and Political Activist. His mission is to help people find happiness through community and purpose, often by overcoming bad policy decisions in government. He ran for Governor of New York twice. In his first run, he... Read More →

Mike Garcia

Senior Consultant, Status Labs

As a Senior Consultant at Status Labs, I have over nine years of experience in providing high-level reputation management and public relations advice to clients from various industries and backgrounds. I help them improve what people see when they Google them or their company, and... Read More →

Ryan Green

CEO, Iron Light

Ryan Green is co-founder and CEO of Iron Light, a marketing agency empowering purpose-driven brands to change the world. Iron Light is one of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. With a rich background in agency leadership, Ryan co-founded Firebone, served as... Read More →

Exhibitors

Status Labs

Our unique blend of innovative strategy and technology helps us advance the interests of our clients all over the world. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Status Labs has expanded with offices now in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, and Hamburg. Status Labs is a part of Millbrook... Read More →

Wednesday July 10, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session

2:45pm PDT

Modern Gold Mining in Third World Conditions

Wednesday July 10, 2024 2:45pm - 3:30pm PDT

Room 116/117

Speakers

Eric Gemelli

Founder, Learn2Invest

Returning speaker, Eric Gemelli, has taught FreedomFest attendees market forecasting, option trading and the 7 Pillars of Wisdom; this year he will speak about his experience running a modern gold mine in the Amazon jungles of South America.Eric’s lifelong passion is teaching students... Read More →

Exhibitors

Learn2invest.co

That’s what Learn2Invest is for: to give access to precisely that knowledge that you need to achieve your goals and live your dream. The perfect time to learn is right now.

Wednesday July 10, 2024 2:45pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session

1:30pm PDT

Sin, Sex, and Censorship: Defending Freedom in Adult Entertainment

Thursday July 11, 2024 1:30pm - 2:15pm PDT

Room 116/117

Moderators

Ricci Levy

President & CEO, Woodhull Foundation

Ricci Levy (she/her) has been engaged in sexual freedom activism for several decades. In 2003, she helped found the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit human rights organization dedicated to defending the personal autonomy of all individuals. As the Executive Director... Read More →

Speakers

Shirley Lara

COO, Chaturbate.com

Shirley Lara is the Chief Operating Officer of the wildly popular live-cam adult chat site Chaturbate.com. Her family is heavily involved in computers and programming, which helped her launch her career in website development—she built her first website in 1999.When Chaturbate... Read More →

Alice Little

Founding Member, Hookers for Healthcare

Alice Little is a career sex worker and advocate for sex workers rights operating in Nevada’s legalized brothel system. She is a founding member of Hookers for Healthcare and an active member of the Nevada Brothel Association. As an activist for sex workers' rights, Little has fought... Read More →

Mike Stabile

Director of Public Policy, Free Speech Coalition

Mike Stabile is a journalist and documentary filmmaker who has written about and advocated for sex workers and sexual speech for over a decade. His work has been published in a wide range of publications, including the Daily Beast, Salon, Buzzfeed, Playboy and the New York Times... Read More →

Exhibitors

New Moon Network

The mission of New Moon Network is to secure rights and opportunity for people in the sex trade by building capacity in the field and organizing philanthropy to channel critical resources into grassroots movements.

Woodhull Freedom Foundation

Woodhull envisions a world that recognizes sexual freedom as the fundamental human right of all individuals to develop and express their unique sexuality; to be personally autonomous with regard to bodily integrity and expression; and to enjoy sexual dignity, privacy, and consensual... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 1:30pm - 2:15pm PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session

2:30pm PDT

12 Truths that Expose Dangerous Health Care Myths . . . and Covid Update

Thursday July 11, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm PDT

Room 116/117

Speakers

Twila Brase

Co-Founder/President, Citizens' Council for Health Freedom; RN, PHN

Twila Brase RN, PHN is president and co-founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), a national organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota with a mission to protect patient and doctor freedom.. She is also a policy advisor for health care to The Heartland Institute.In August 2009, Modern Healthcare named her #75 on their “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare... Read More →

Exhibitors

Citizens' Council For Health Freedom

Protect health care choices, individualized patient care and medical and genetic privacy rights.

Thursday July 11, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session

1:30pm PDT

Why Gold Now? Meet the Experts!

Friday July 12, 2024 1:30pm - 2:15pm PDT

Room 116/117

Speakers

Mike Fuljenz

President, Universal Gold and Bullion

Recognized as America’s Gold Expert®, Dr. Mike Fuljenz helped author the Federal Trade Commission’s and the Texas Attorney General’s consumer protection alerts on precious metals, is the American Numismatic Association’s Dealer of the Year, the recipient of the ANA’s Lifetime... Read More →

Forest Hamilton

Assistant Director, Universal Coin and Bullion

Forest Hamilton was literally delivered into his father’s hands. When the midwife was late in arriving, David Hamilton had to find a way to bring his boy into this world. Through fear, uncertainty, and an umbilical cord wrapped around his son’s neck, he found a way. Raised without... Read More →

Exhibitors

Universal Coin and Bullion

Whether investor or collector, Universal Coin & Bullion provides leading-edge acquisition strategies for the gold and rare coin markets, along with award-winning numismatic materials and comprehensive coin consultation services. Universal Coin & Bullion (UCB) specializes in rare... Read More →

Friday July 12, 2024 1:30pm - 2:15pm PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session

2:30pm PDT

What’s Your Purpose: Creating and Keeping Your Donor Intent

Friday July 12, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm PDT

Room 116/117

As you know, we at DonorsTrust care passionately about protecting donor intent. In this session, we will talk with several donors and foundation leaders who have the role of defining and defending charitable intentions. Speaking are: Chris Rufer of Morning Star, Alvaro Salas-Castro of the Reynolds Foundation, Lawson Bader, CEO of DonorsTrust, and moderated by Peter Lipsett, Vice President of DonorsTrust. This session will take place Friday, July 12 at 2:30 p.m. in room 116/117.

Moderators

Peter Lipsett

Vice President, DonorsTrust

Peter Lipsett is vice president at DonorsTrust. He also leads DonorsTrust’s Novus Society, a network of donors under 40 committed to growing their philanthropic know-how. He has a dual degree in political science and theater from Davidson College and finally got a practical credential... Read More →

Speakers

Chris Rufer

Founder, The Morning Star Company

Chris J. Rufer founded The Morning Star Company in 1970, driving one truck hauling tomatoes and peaches. He now designs, constructs and operates the company's food-processing facilities. The company's principal business is agribusiness development and management in the processing... Read More →

Alvaro Salas-Castro

CEO, Reynolds Foundation

Álvaro Salas-Castro is an expert in behavioral economics, diplomacy, emerging markets, and public-private partnerships with a focus on investment and philanthropy. Salas-Castro teaches the “Navigating Public-Private Partnerships” course for the Executive MPA program. In addition... Read More →

Lawson Bader

President/CEO, DonorsTrust

Since 2015, Lawson Bader serves as president and CEO of DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. Before coming to DonorsTrust, he amassed twenty years’ experience leading free-market research and advocacy groups including the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Mercatus Center... Read More →

Exhibitors

Donors Trust

DonorsTrust is the community foundation for liberty. DonorsTrust simplifies and strengthens giving for liberty-minded donors through donor-advised funds, legacy protection, and philanthropic advice. With its Novus society, it builds the next generation of charitable giver. Since 1999... Read More →

Friday July 12, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session

11:00am PDT

How Government Created the Housing Crisis—and What We Can Do to Fix It

Saturday July 13, 2024 11:00am - 11:45am PDT

Room 116/117

Moderators

Jim Burling

VP of Legal Affairs, Pacific Legal Foundation

Before becoming an attorney, James had been a productive member of society working as an exploration geologist in the late 1970s throughout the southwestern United States. However, after several years of dealing with irrational government bureaucrats and environmental policies untethered... Read More →

Speakers

Christian Britschgi

Reporter, Reason

Christian Britschgi is a reporter at Reason who covers property rights, housing policy, transportation policy, and regulation. His writing has appeared in The American Conservative, The College Fix, The Lens, Watchdog.org, The Orange County Register, the Daily News, the New Yo... Read More →

Nolan Gray

Research Director, California YIMBY

M. Nolan Gray is the research director for California YIMBY and an expert in urban land-use regulation. He is the author of Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How To Fix It. Gray previously worked as a planner in New York City, where he worked on the front lines... Read More →

Exhibitors

Pacific Legal Foundation

Pacific Legal Foundation is a nonprofit legal organization that defends Americans’ liberties when threatened by government overreach and abuse. We sue the government when it violates Americans’ constitutional rights—and win!

Saturday July 13, 2024 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session

2:30pm PDT

Liberty From the Ground Up: What Goes Into Making a Freedom Forward Country

Saturday July 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm PDT

Room 116/117

Moderators

Tom Walls

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Free Republic of Liberland

Thomas serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Free Republic of Liberland, the world's newest country, and one founded on explicitly libertarian principles. Tom is a longtime libertarian activist in the U.S. and has long had a strong interest in the languages, culture and... Read More →

Speakers

Scott Hodge

President Emeritus & Senior Policy Advisor, Tax Foundation

Scott Hodge is President Emeritus & Senior Policy Advisor at the Tax Foundation, which he led as President for over two decades, between 2000 and 2022. Scott Hodge is recognized as one of Washington’s leading experts on tax policy, the federal budget, and government spending. After... Read More →

Barbara Kolm

Founding Director, Austrian Economics Center and the Free Market Road Show

Barbara Kolm is President of the Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute in Vienna, Austria, Founding Director of the Austrian Economics Center, and former Vice President of the Österreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank). A worldwide networker, Kolm is renowned for promoting free... Read More →

Jason Crawford

Founder, The Roots of Progress

Jason Crawford is the founder of The Roots of Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to building a culture of progress for the 21st century. He writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress.He has written for the MIT Technology Review, been interviewed as a spokesman for the progress movement by BBC and Vo... Read More →

Vit Jedlicka

Founder, Free Republic of Liberland

Vit Jedlicka has been actively involved with the liberty movement since his university days. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Economics, Prague in 2009. At the same time, he became the founding member of the Czech Libertarian Free Citizens Party. He also... Read More →

Exhibitors

Liberland

Liberland is built on classical liberal (libertarian) ideals which emphasize autonomy and minimize the state's encroachment on individual liberties. Rule of law, bodily autonomy, free trade, freedom of choice, freedom of movement, and others are all core tenets of our fledgling n... Read More →

Saturday July 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session

3:30pm PDT

From Automated Enforcement to Automated Vehicles: How Your Driving Freedoms are Under Threat and What You Can Do About It

Saturday July 13, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm PDT

Room 116/117

Moderators

Jay Beeber

Executive Director/Policy, National Motorists Association

Jay Beeber is a dedicated champion of citizen empowerment and driving freedom. Dubbed "The People's Lobbyist" by Dr. Drew Pinsky, Jay has been a key figure in eliminating abusive photo ticketing programs, such as red light and speed cameras, that have drained billions from our economy... Read More →

Speakers

Baruch Feigenbaum

Senior Managing Director of Transportation Policy, Reason Foundation.

Baruch Feigenbaum is senior managing director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.Feigenbaum has a diverse background researching and implementing transportation issues including revenue and finance, public-private partnerships, highways, transit, high-speed rail, ports... Read More →

Glenn Bronson

Founder, Zebra Solutions

Glenn Bronson received his MS in network communication and electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1993, where he conducted research on the newly developed Wi-Fi network technology. He attended industry standards conferences and his work published in PIMRC... Read More →

Exhibitors

National Motorists Association

Drivers’ rights don’t just occur naturally. To protect the driving public from excessive tolls, fees, and fines and to ensure that motorists retain the due process rights afforded all citizens, it takes an organization dedicated to the task. That organization is, and has been... Read More →

Reason

Founded in 1968, Reason is the nation's leading libertarian magazine. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, politics, technology, culture, policy, and commerce. As the magazine of free minds and free markets, Reason exists outside of the left/right echo... Read More →

Saturday July 13, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm PDT
Room 116/117

Breakout Session