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Every person is born with a blueprint, and individuation is the work of stepping out of the life your family handed you to claim your own. Joel speaks from a place he spent years promising himself, finally standing on his own two feet. Yerasimos names where most people stall, the willingness to disappoint those closest to you, and we look at how every "what would they think?" shows where personal power still leaks. Honor where you came from, then go claim what is yours.Connect with UsJoin the Rise Above the Herd WaitlistStart the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem ResetFollow us on InstagramJoin our membership Friends of the TruthWatch All Episodes

Coffee, wine, the vape and the endless scroll are what Jason Christoff calls painkillers, and each one sends away the pain teacher, the voice that keeps knocking with every message we would rather not hear. In his fifth conversation with us, Jason speaks from his own wreckage, from the cocaine he flushed down the toilet to a first marriage he says was programmed for disaster. Then came a bus stop in Acapulco, where he showed up unshowered and not her type, and met the love of his life. We get into why so many insist on being ruled, and why the truth movement keeps dragging people through a door built for one. His case is simple: nobody needs a fall onto rusty nails to change, and the easy way is still open to you.(00:00) “I dream of the day when…” (00:42) Opening Conversation (02:41) Jason’s Newly Married Story (08:49) Latvia Life Shift (10:22) Trauma After COVID (15:50) Documentary Mission (21:10) Routine And Focus (26:02) Painkillers And Purpose (43:48) Narrow Gate Awakening (53:28) Mind Control Formatting (57:33) Movies as Psychological Nudges (01:05:56) Freedom Without Safety Nets (01:22:42) Success and HappinessGuest LinksJason Christoff — WebsiteWatch Planet Mind ControlConnect with UsJoin the Rise Above the Herd WaitlistStart the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem ResetFollow us on InstagramJoin our membership Friends of the TruthWatch All Episodes

Justin Bua painted The DJ, one of the most popular art prints of all time, and created the look of EA Sports' NBA Street, a billion-dollar franchise. He grew up a latchkey kid in New York City, breaking in the streets beside Rocksteady Park and watching junkies and hustlers through the hallway of a single-room-occupancy building, while Rembrandt and Van Gogh hung on the walls at home. The conversation lives where hip hop art meets the sacred, in drawing as a spiritual practice and a channel from God, and in what happens when a commodified art world trades mastery for institutionally propped-up abstraction. Real rebellion, we find, can't be separated from authenticity.(00:00) Pollock Is A Con(00:39) Opening Conversation(01:43) Meet Justin Bua(02:57) NBA Street Origins(04:44) NYC Roots And Hip Hop(10:12) How Hip Hop Was Born(15:35) Mentors And Street Survival(18:32) Art Business And The DJ(26:43) Modern Art, CIA And AI(41:31) Uglification Economics And Architecture(49:23) AI Art And Authenticity(56:46) Natural Living No Chemicals(01:02:51) Rebellion And Authenticity(01:18:47) Trauma, Creativity And The Muse(01:28:22) Closing AdviceGuest LinksJustin Bua — WebsiteJustin Bua on InstagramConnect with UsJoin the Rise Above the Herd WaitlistStart the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem ResetFollow us on InstagramJoin our membership Friends of the TruthWatch All Episodes

Ed Latimore walked into a boxing gym at 22 because, as he puts it, if he had died then, all anyone could have said was that he played football and drank a lot. He grew up in Pittsburgh's housing projects at the peak of the crack era with no father and no model of masculine authority, then built a 14-1 heavyweight career, got sober in the Army, and earned a physics degree along the way. The conversation lives in the ground beneath all of that, where difficulty is the price of self-worth and character shows up in who is still standing beside you after ten years. In an age that hands out every shortcut, choosing the hard thing on purpose is how a man earns a name worth keeping.(00:00) Why Hard Things Matter(01:53) Ed’s Origin Story (07:32) Why Boxing Chose Him(10:35) Lessons From The Ring(15:58) Setbacks And Going Pro(27:03) Boxing And Identity(38:58) Boxing’s Dark Side(48:33) Choosing Sobriety(50:09) Growing Up in Projects(58:18) Teaching Through Insecurity(01:06:36) Seeking Difficulty(01:12:41) Family Reputation and IntegrityGuest LinksEd Latimore — WebsiteHard Lessons from the Hurt Business — BookEd Latimore on YouTubeEd Latimore on InstagramEd Latimore on XConnect with UsJoin the Rise Above the Herd WaitlistStart the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem ResetFollow us on InstagramJoin our membership Friends of the TruthWatch All Episodes

Brian Costello grew up believing life simply works out if you stick to the plan, and for years it did: a thriving CrossFit gym, a place on Team USA as a competitive beach sprinter, and a future that seemed to build itself. Then a betrayal split his life into a before and an after. What he found on the far side is a hard-won account of forgiveness, one that refuses every silver lining and demands the whole truth, and a power he never expected to find. That same honesty runs through The Primordial Code, his novel of a hidden society living by nature's laws, where every inherited belief gets questioned down to its roots. The dystopia is easy to picture in detail; the world worth building deserves the same clarity, beginning with how each of us chooses to live now.(00:00) Real Forgiveness Intro(00:36) Opening Conversation(02:00) Meet Brian Costello(04:42) CrossFit Gym Breakthrough(12:23) Burnout Begins(14:45) Betrayal and Dark Night(25:40) How He Found Out(29:40) Truth Sharing and Healing(37:13) Accountability And Friendship(40:11) Plant Medicine Breakthroughs(42:09) Deciding To Write A Book(49:06) Imagining A Better World(54:48) Defining Higher Alignment(01:09:45) Risks and Integration(01:18:31) The Primordial CodeGuest LinksThe Primordial Code — WebsiteThe Primordial Code — Free Audiobook on SpotifyBrian Costello on InstagramConnect with UsJoin the Rise Above the Herd WaitlistStart the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem ResetFollow us on InstagramJoin our membership Friends of the TruthWatch All Episodes