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Here For The Truth

Joel & Yerasimos

In a world awash with propaganda, censorship, and spiritual confusion, Here For The Truth is a refuge for critical thinkers and seekers of authenticity. Hosted by Joel Rafidi and Yerasimos, this podcast cuts through the noise to explore psychology, philosophy, spirituality, health, freedom, and the human condition with honesty and depth.

Through raw, unfiltered conversations with thought leaders, researchers, and free thinkers from around the world, Here For The Truth challenges collective narratives and invites you to reclaim your mind, body, and the essence of what makes you who you are.

If you’re tired of surface-level conversations and ready to confront reality with depth and courage—this is your weekly listen. Subscribe, follow, and join the movement of those willing to see, think, and live differently.

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#315
Sunday · 1 hr 21 min
Ep 315 - Satsang | In the Company of the Highest Truth
Satsang owns every master he has ever recorded, and building a career independent enough to keep it that way cost him more than any label deal would have paid. Drew came up through an abusive house, psychedelics at thirteen, addiction and sobriety, then spent every dollar he had on a trip to Nepal instead of the reliable car everyone was waiting for. The band took its name from a stranger's handwritten note outside a Kathmandu ashram. This one lives where ownership meets art — the predatory arithmetic of the record business, and his refusal to let AI near the part of being human that music exists for. What he aimed it all at is smaller and harder than a sold-out room: a son who is proud of him, and the kind of life that leaves people lining up for ten more minutes at the end of it. (00:00) AI Songwriting Rant (00:33) Opening Conversation (02:20) Meet Satsang (05:09) Musical Roots and Skater Influence (07:18) Life Changing Nepal Trek (14:11) Spiritual Influences in Lyrics (18:45) Grinding to Breakout Tours (35:05) Creative Process and Industry Beef (43:31) Owning Your Masters / Social Media Pressure (49:15) Never Quit Mindset (52:11) AI Music and Fake Performers (58:37) Service and Spirituality (01:07:11) Streaming Money Myths (01:09:58) Fatherhood and Real Success Guest Links Listen to Elohim on Spotify Listen to Elohim on Apple Music Satsang on Instagram Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Follow us on Instagram Join our membership Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes
#314
September 13 · 1 hr 30 min
Ep 314 - Ruby Fremon | Cracked Open: A Story of Grief, Collapse & Aliveness
Ruby Fremon returns for her second appearance, a somatic practitioner and author of Potent Leadership who spent a decade coaching leaders before her own life came apart. When her dog was killed under the watch of negligent sitters and her public search for the truth was met with a million-dollar defamation suit, the hyper-independent identity she'd built collapsed into a full nervous-system shutdown. What she found on the far side reorders what the healing world sells: that catharsis and spiritual platitudes bypass the actual human being, that real repair happens in slow, subtle shifts at the edge of your capacity, that horses — who cannot lie and demand congruence — can lead you back to yourself. She comes out of it more human than she's ever been: cracked open, undefended, and more alive than ever. (00:00) Tragic Dog Incident (00:36) Opening Conversation (02:08) Welcoming Back Ruby (05:22) The Full Story of Her Tragic Dog Incident (16:11) Shutdown, Trauma, and Identity Collapse (29:22) Why It’s Not “Just A Pet” (50:47) Trust After Pet Loss (54:33) Living with CPTSD (58:14) Healing Community Critique (01:06:25) Healing Through Horses (01:17:21) Supportive Partnership Shift (01:27:46) Where To Find Ruby & Wrap-Up Guest Links Ruby Fremon's website Ruby Fremon on Instagram Ruby Fremon on Substack Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset GNM Weekend — October 9–10, Echo Park, Los Angeles Follow Here for the Truth on Instagram Join Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes
#313
September 6 · 1 hr 48 min
Ep 313 - Chance Garton | Tartaria Exposed: Sacred Cows & the Psychology of Conspiracy
Chance Garton returns for his third visit to Here for the Truth, and his first in four years — biofield tuning practitioner, host of the Innerverse Podcast, and one of the rare researchers willing to take the Tartaria conspiracy seriously enough to check its claims against the primary sources. Once a believer himself, Chance traces how the “Old World reset” narrative of mud floods, buried cities, and buildings too beautiful for ordinary people to have built snowballed into a grand unifying theory that now operates like a religion inside truther culture. Underneath the debunking is the conversation that matters: how identity fuses with belief, why “they lied to us” becomes permission to believe anything, and what it costs to hand your discernment to a guru. A study in the one discipline every truth-seeker needs — the courage to hold no sacred cows. (00:00) Tartaria Conspiracy (Cold Open) (00:32) Opening Conversation (02:58) Welcoming Back Chance Garton (09:25) Tartaria Background (15:22) Why Tartaria Hooks People (25:36) Insane Asylums Deep Dive (36:18) From Believer to Debunker (45:35) AI Fakes And Viral Hoaxes (51:13) World Fairs Debunked (01:13:54) Donnelly and Comet Fires (01:19:20) Atlantis Allegory Today (01:42:02) Sacred Cows Guest Links Innerverse Podcast InnerVerse Podcast on YouTube Connect with Us Follow Here for the Truth on Instagram Join Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes
#312
August 30 · 1 hr 53 min
Ep 312 - Eben Britton | The Man Beneath the Armor
Eben Britton spent six seasons as an NFL offensive lineman, a body built for collision, before a ruptured disc, a dislocated shoulder, and a cabinet of painkillers left him shattered at twenty-seven. We meet the man underneath the armor, and ask what remains when the identity you built your life around is stripped away injury by injury. Eben reads his injuries as psyche made physical, the weight of a family he carried on his back with no foundation to hold it. He traces the road out through a men's twelve-step room, cannabis, yoga, and the years he and Mike Tyson spent shepherding each other through the reckoning. What emerges is a study in death and rebirth, and the reframe that freed him: stop trying to find your purpose, and make your life purposeful. One more breath, one more step, and the other side is closer than it looks. (00:00) NFL Career Ends in Crisis (00:44) Opening Conversation (01:55) Show Start (10:42) Eben’s Chaotic NFL Draft Day Story (19:48) NFL Rookie Experience (28:22) Back Injury and Painkiller Spiral (42:19) Money Pressure and Bad Advisors (48:44) Final Stage of Career (Cuts, Chicago Comeback, Failed Drug Test) (01:01:30) Retirement and Rock Bottom Inner Work (01:10:04) Mike Tyson (Meeting, Starting Podcast, Doing DMT) (01:30:52) COVID Reset Yoga Coaching Guest Links The Athlete's Approach Eben Britton on Instagram Be Here Farm — Belize Retreat Connect with Us RATH Academy Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Follow Here for the Truth on Instagram Join Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes
#311
August 23 · 1 hr 53 min
Ep 311 - Dr. Richard Massey & Natasha Nazerali | The Beauty of Biology
Dr. Richard Massey spent decades as an anesthesiologist before walking out of the operating room and, years later, losing his medical license — a rupture that led him to Recall Healing and Family Constellations. Natasha Nazerali came the other way, raised inside German New Medicine at her mother's kitchen table before her father's sudden death turned her toward the work fully. Together for the first time, they read the same body from different angles — Richard through a single droplet of blood and lymph under the microscope, Natasha through the conflict-maps of German New Medicine — and land on the same truth: every symptom is a love story, an inherited loyalty the body carries on behalf of the family line. What follows is a conversation about the head that rages at what feels unfair and the heart that already knows, about belonging over being the black sheep, and about grief as the doorway back to the ones we never got to finish loving. Healing was never meant to happen alone. (00:00) Shamanism in Disguise (Cold Open) (00:38) Opening Conversation (02:24) Meet the Guests (09:12) CT Scans vs Live Blood (19:27) Biology as Sacred Code (26:18) Beyond The Black Sheep Label (43:59) Guilt Grief and Healing (57:37) Enter the Cave You Fear (01:02:00) Family Loyalty and Immigrant Kids (01:11:40) Natasha’s Displacement Story (01:17:44) Mixed Lineages and Healing Bonds (01:25:40) Andropause (01:40:17) Closing Thoughts and Events Guest Links Dr. Richard Massey on Instagram Natasha Nazerali — website Natasha Nazerali on Instagram Natasha Nazerali — courses GNM Weekend — October 9–10, Echo Park, Los Angeles Connect with Us Explore RATH Academy Follow us on Instagram Join our membership Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes
#310
August 16 · 1 hr 36 min
Ep 310 - David Sutcliffe | Know Yourself...Then Get On With It
David Sutcliffe returns to Here for the Truth — somatic practitioner, former Gilmore Girls actor, and a man who has spent over a decade sitting with people as they meet the parts of themselves they'd rather not look at. This is a wide-ranging, no-off-ramps conversation about what it actually takes to know yourself: following spirit and the signs it sends, coming home to the body as the seat of real presence, and being honest about the primal drives most of us bury — status, rage, envy, the hunger for power. But David's real provocation is where it lands: at some point the self-analysis has to end and the living has to begin. Classic HFTT, and one not to miss. (00:00) Episode Teaser (00:32) Opening Conversation (02:10) Meet David (Sundance Festival, Moving To Mexico) (08:24) What 'Spirit’ Means (14:34) Embodiment and Presence Work (35:06) Holding Space for Dark Confessions (40:17) Facilitating Trauma Safely (43:47) Acting Meets Therapy (52:48) Action Over Analysis (01:06:22) Primal Desire & Status Games (01:13:02) Truth Seeking And Shadow Work (01:20:32) Beyond Bypassing To Real Life Guest Links Website — davidsutcliffe.com Instagram — @davidsutcliffe33 Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/fott/ Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/
#309
August 9 · 1 hr 36 min
Ep 309 - Anthony Rispo | Power, Privilege & the Psychology of Politics
Anthony Rispo came up on the progressive left — a gay man who found a home in an ideology that rewarded his grievance, teal hair and half-mohawk included. Then the pandemic, BLM, and the campus orthodoxy around him stopped adding up, and he read his way out. Now a writer, independent researcher, and Columbia psychology graduate studying cognitive neuroscience, he maps the wiring beneath our politics: identity fusion, moral conviction, selective empathy, and the resentment Nietzsche named. We get into why the left cancels hardest in the name of compassion, why “power and privilege” became a substitute for a self, how the same rigidity shows up on the right, and what common sense on borders and belonging really means. (00:00) Palestinians Then Vs Now (00:35) Opening Conversation (04:20) Anthony's Origin Story (11:35) From Woke to Doubt (27:56) Losing Friends Finding Voice (37:15) Psychology of Ideology (54:54) Clarity Over Conformity (58:33) Nuance Through Exposure (01:02:44) Individualism Vs The Tribe (01:08:18) Intersectionality Critique (01:14:54) From 9/11 to Academia (01:24:42) The Problem with No Borders Guest Links Instagram: @anthonyrispo Substack: rispo.substack.com Connect with Us Join RATH Academy Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Follow us on Instagram Join our membership Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes
#308
August 2 · 1 hr 35 min
Ep 308 - Mike Winner | Purity Spiraling & the Myth of Total Sovereignty
Mike Winner spent a decade DJing Hollywood clubs before turning toward the infrastructure of digital freedom — founder of WINNR Digital, co-founder of the decentralized internet Qortal, and co-founder of the Music & Sky festival. Returning for the first time since 2022, he brings a caution aimed squarely at his own community: purity spiraling, the habit of turning discernment into a cage where every meal, every device, and every dollar becomes a moral exam. Real sovereignty, as he frames it, is less glamorous and far more demanding. It is what you actually own, what you actually think, and the responsibility you refuse to outsource. Nobody holds dominion over all of reality. What you do have is the choice to stop leaking your life into systems that were never yours. (00:00) Nature vs Nurture Cold Open (00:34) Opening Conversation (02:54) Meet Mike Winner (06:19) Imposter Syndrome and Finding Purpose (09:00) Community Healing and Analog Revival (11:47) Building a Sovereign Ranch Hub (14:50) Tech Detox w/o Purity Spirals (17:55) Parenting in a Digital World (25:09) Junk Food Nostalgia and Balance (32:42) Manifestation and Mastering Mind (39:28) Entrepreneurship In The Arena (41:39) Leaving AlphaVedic For Growth (46:22) Cinema As Modern Myth (53:19) NPCs And Ideological Capture (57:47) Building Qortal And NuQloud (01:02:15) PMA and Living Sovereign (01:07:06) Walmart / Amazon Discernment (01:11:45) Nature Is Metal (01:22:00) Barefoot Hiking & Peru Porters (01:28:05) AI And Slowing Down Guest Links https://mikewinner.com The GNM Weekend — October 9–10, Los Angeles (use code HFTT10) Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Follow us on Instagram Join our membership Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes
#307
July 26 · 1 hr 10 min
Ep 307 - Joel & Yerasimos | Become Someone First
The binary was never the point. Individualism on one side, collectivism on the other — pick a jersey, join a team. But the line that actually matters runs somewhere else: between a person who has a self and a person who has dissolved into the group. In this episode, Joel and Yerasimos pull the threads on what collectivism is actually doing to the psyche — the altruistic programming that weaponizes moral guilt against your own desires, the truth-seeker community that becomes its own herd, and the envy that surfaces when you watch someone else stop asking permission to live. The conversation moves through Rand's virtue of selfishness, Jung's safe road, and the heroic act of individuation. How much longer are you going to wait? 00:00 The Cost of Not Being You 00:46 RATH Academy Announcement 04:13 Show Start - Defining Self vs Herd 06:59 Yerasimos on Belonging 11:31 Family Roots and Identity / Breaking Free from Expectations 18:15 Raising Kids and Individuation 26:31 Altruism and Weaponized Morality 33:25 People Pleasing and Boundaries 40:24 Benevolence Versus Malevolence 46:16 Are Truth Seekers Part of a Herd? 52:04 Heroism Of Individualism 56:14 Crabs In A Bucket 01:01:26 Shine And Take Action 01:04:42 Sobriety And Self Inventory Links RATH Academy — the next container is now open. A year in, we're continuing: six months of high-touch coaching with Joel, Yerasimos, and Sophie, built on Rise Above The Herd as the foundation — now running on a brand-new interactive platform. The next cohort starts September 1st. 15 spots, by application. Apply for RATH Academy → https://riseabovetheherd.co/academy Connect With Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friends Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/
#306
July 19 · 1 hr 33 min
Ep 306 - Jared Pickard | Cultivating a Biodynamic Life
Jared Pickard traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange until his soul, in his words, started screaming for something the city couldn’t give him — real connection with nature. He walked off the floor for an unpaid farming apprenticeship, spent a decade building Be Here Farm & Nature into a world-class hospitality dream on 300 acres of Napa-Sonoma mountaintop, and watched it burn to the ground in the 2020 wildfires two days after it finally penciled. What he found in the ashes is the heart of this conversation: that biodynamic farming is less a technique than a practice occurring inside the person — rhythm over force, presence over striving, a life tended the way you’d tend living soil. He mistook the vehicle for the dream once. The dream was always nature, and the ground beneath his feet. (00:00) From Wall Street to Farming (00:32) Opening Conversation (01:50) Show Start (02:58) Jared’s Hero’s Journey (13:51) Clean Food Obsession (20:14) Jared’s Quitting Story (33:08) Napa Hotel Dream (38:22) The Wildfire Story (49:03) Ease vs Struggle (52:46) Love And Long Distance / Italy Proposal Vision (56:18) Finding Steiner Biodynamics (01:06:19) Biodynamics vs Organic (01:18:21) Preps And Quartz Spray Guest Links Website: beherefarm.com Instagram: @beherejared Instagram (Farm): @beherefarm Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friends/ Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/
#305
July 12 · 1 hr 26 min
Ep 305 - Kyree Oliver | Don't Die Empty
Kyree Oliver is a former Division 1 lineman turned self-taught marketer and men's coach who, before he was 25, had already interviewed over 1,000 people — including 65 in the final weeks of their lives. The pattern he found in those rooms is what carries this whole conversation: most men are running on the wrong fuel, chasing the wrong definition of success, and the bill only comes due at the very end. Kyree brings the calm precision of someone who has watched a man die with four people at his funeral after making half a billion dollars in his life, and coached young men into the conversation they've been avoiding with themselves for years. A grounded, unflinching argument for slowing down long enough to build the life you'd actually want to have lived. (00:00) ‘Love Vs Respect’ Opener (00:37) Opening Conversation (03:11) Show Start (04:17) Kyree’s Childhood Turning Point (08:09) Football Hazing And Breaking Point (13:12) 1000 Interviews Obsession (18:31) Dying Empty Lesson (23:49) What Is Success For Men (29:31) Why Masculinity Coaches Are Needed (39:55) Temptation, Grounding / Uncomfortable Self Questions (44:49) ‘Toxic Fuel’ Explained (51:03) Late Night Truths (57:11) Healthy Fuel North Star (01:01:23) Nature and Legacy Thinking (01:06:38) Fatherhood and Purpose (01:08:41) Marketing That Hits Home (01:13:19) Authenticity and Red Flags (01:18:44) Trust Over Time Guest Links Website: https://www.kyree.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/kyree Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kyreeoliver1994 Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friends/ Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/
#304
July 5 · 1 hr 31 min
Ep 304 - Mark Vicente | The Narcissist’s Playbook
Mark Vicente returns to the show — South African filmmaker, twelve-year NXIVM survivor, and one of the central whistleblowers in HBO’s The Vow — for a conversation timed to the release of his new documentary The Narcissist’s Playbook. Years of interviewing self-confessed narcissists, cult survivors, and clinicians have given Mark a clear lens on what most people sense but can’t name: the same pathology that runs a cult runs a marriage, an activist movement, a political party, a society. Dissociation is the operating system. Mimicry is the mask. The pathology of the leader becomes the blueprint of the whole. Underneath all of it, Mark argues for the unfashionable thing — that authenticity is a dying breed, that the only real antidote is returning to your own feeling, your own stillness, your own discernment. The conversation ends in hope, earned the hard way. (00:00) Cold Open (00:37) Opening Conversation (02:26) Show Start (03:14) Narcissist's Playbook Film (08:47) Defining Narcissism / Interviewing Narcissists (13:34) Trauma or Choice (20:14) Narcissistic Injury (23:29) Power and Politics (27:56) Psychopath Acting Tricks (34:30) Facing Inner Rage (36:35) Cults and Low Vibe Policing (42:45) Healing Means Feeling (47:48) Devices Kill Stillness (56:49) Does Abuse Catalyze Growth? (01:03:35) Forces Of Disconnection / Collectivism As Psyop (01:11:20) Activism And Selective Outrage (01:19:53) Trigger Words And Radioactivity GUEST LINKS Mark Vicente → https://markvicente.com/ The Narcissist’s Playbook (film) → https://www.narcissistsplaybook.com/ WTF is on My Mind (podcast / Instaguru series) → https://www.youtube.com/@markvicente7 Instagram → https://instagram.com/markvicente CONNECT WITH US Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friends/ Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/
#303
June 28 · 1 hr 28 min
Ep 303 - Ariana Victor | Just Look Up
Ariana Victor is an investigative filmmaker whose first decade in this work has been one long act of refusal — at twenty, inside a treatment program for eating disorders, when a therapist took notes on her late-night creative sparks and reached for a bipolar diagnosis, she walked out and started asking harder questions. That refusal became a method: Carey Gillam’s Whitewash, the Bayer-Monsanto courtrooms, five years inside geoengineering territory, and Just Look Up, a documentary that just won Best Feature Documentary at the Santa Monica International Film Festival. The conversation lives in the territory underneath the film. Ariana names the activist’s trap directly — how unrelenting attention on the shadow can poison the nervous system of the people most committed to waking others up — and offers the mantra that kept her in the fight without destroying her: play is protection. We talk about the nocebo as placebo’s evil twin, nervous system regulation as the actual dividing line between healthy advocacy and ideological self-destruction, the ego path versus the soul path, and why she eventually laid down the sword and let the softness return. Underneath all of it is the simple truth she keeps coming back to: truth feels good. It doesn’t feel heavy. (00:00) Cold Open (00:36) Opening Conversation (03:06) Show Start (Health Awakening & Medical Doubts) (06:53) From Medicine to Filmmaking (08:38) Monsanto Roundup Trials Story (10:55) Corporate Capture Explained (20:08) Why the World Feels Inverted (24:57) Nocebo and Truther Burnout (31:36) “Playfulness is protection…” (42:02) “Just Look Up” Documentary (47:33) Meeting Filmmaker w/ Same Birth Chart (51:00) Geoengineering Explained (Contrails) (59:26) Whistleblowers & Fuel / Cloud Seeding & Fires (01:08:51) Intuition Over Certainty (01:13:24) Film Reception and Release (01:19:37) Next Film on Cleansing GUEST LINKS Website: https://justlookupfilm.com/ Instagram: @arianavictorfilm — https://www.instagram.com/arianavictorfilm/ CONNECT WITH US Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Watch Our Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/ Join our free Telegram community → https://t.me/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/fott/
#302
June 21 · 1 hr 3 min
Ep 302 - Joel & Yerasimos | Spiritual Lies
What if most of what we've been sold as spirituality is actually the opposite of it — a doctrine that calls self-erasure enlightenment, a path that asks you to amputate the parts of yourself most needed for a sovereign life? In this rap on authentic spirituality, Joel and Yerasimos name the territory directly: the new cage of asceticism, gnosticism, and the love-and-light bypass that disguises dissociation as awakening; the platitudes that gloss over reality instead of meeting it; the body as the warehouse of self-knowledge; and anger, when reclaimed, as one of the most generative forces a human being has access to. The spiritual assignment is becoming yourself — the lifelong work of knowing who you actually are and living in congruence with what you find. CONNECT WITH US Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Watch Our Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/ Join our free Telegram community → https://t.me/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/fott/ Build your digital home with Atlas → https://atlasdigital.world/
#301
June 14 · 1 hr 28 min
Ep 301 - Topher Gardner | Boundaries, Biochar & the Slaying of Idols
Topher Gardner is the founder of Black Gold Biochar, a regenerative builder, a lifelong bodyworker, and a former Division I football kicker who has actually walked the path most spiritual seekers only theorize about. He played at Michigan State under Nick Saban, spent three more years in pro leagues, and rebuilt the body football broke through Rolfing and yoga. That work took him to southern India, where he served as operations director of an ashram before the new age yoga world wore him out. He landed in Costa Rica, where for nearly two decades he built domes, taught regenerative agriculture, partook in fifty-plus ayahuasca journeys, studied true sidereal astrology with John Lamb Lash, and found the work that now anchors his life: biochar. The conversation moves the way Topher’s mind moves, between cosmology and concrete, between Wilhelm Reich’s writing on why we build idols just to slay them and the chemistry of why a 2,000-degree kiln in the Missouri Ozarks turns hardwood waste into the most stable carbon you can put in soil. We get into the suppressed Christ archetype hidden in Ophiuchus, why the distinction between self and other is the actual purpose of incarnation, what ten years inside the ayahuasca world taught him about variability over devotion, and why the carbon they trained us to fear is the same carbon our bodies and our land are starving for. Hard-won wisdom, earned the only way it ever gets earned. (00:00) Why Is Carbon Demonized? (00:41) Yerasimos Opening (02:46) Meet Topher Gardner (06:56) Costa Rica Calling (09:29) Bodywork And Ayurveda (12:20) Ayahuasca vs Peyote (17:54) True Sidereal Astrology (24:57) Purpose And Boundaries (41:07) Human Design Origins (46:48) Egoic Manifester Clarity (49:18) The Truth About Idol Worshippers (56:52) Biochar Origins (01:06:21) Kilns & Production Scale / Soil Carbon Vs Fertilizer (01:12:41) Feeding Biochar to Animals (01:17:11) Planting Mixing and Top Dressing (01:21:56) New Products & 3rd Party Verification CONNECT WITH US Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Watch Our Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/ Join our free Telegram community → https://t.me/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friends Build your digital home with Atlas → https://atlasdigital.world/ CONNECT WITH TOPHER Black Gold Biochar → https://blackgoldbiochar.com/ Topher HQ → https://topherhq.com/ Podcast → Biocharisma
#300
June 7 · 2 hr 2 min
Ep 300 - Michael Tsarion & David Whitehead | Truth Against the World
Michael Tsarion and David Whitehead have appeared on Here for the Truth seventeen times between them. For the show's three hundredth episode, they sit down together with us for the first time — co-hosts of Unslaved, the long-form, ad-free platform Michael started in 2016 as the antidote to everything truth-seeking content had become. The conversation circles Michael's signature concept of psychic immunity — that knowledge without the inner discipline to metabolize it just produces louder, more articulate versions of the same lost person. David brings it into the language of intellectual self-defense, the partner of physical self-defense, both built on a self-valuation most people never develop. They name why the alternative community plateaus into tourism, and what it costs to choose your own path against the chorus telling you not to. Truth against the world. (00:00) Episode Teaser (00:37) Opening Conversation (03:24) Show Start (04:16) What Unslaved Means (08:52) David On Sovereignty (14:26) Why Long Form Matters (20:18) Unslaved Community And Censorship (25:09) Psychic Immunity Explained (35:51) Discernment And Sharing Truth (43:24) Mystery School Milestone (47:56) Keeping the Dojo Neutral (54:01) Courage to Say No (59:43) 2020 Aftermath Reflections (01:09:13) Avoiding Alt Community Traps (01:19:12) Solitude in a Noisy World (01:25:18) Tourists And Worthiness (01:37:50) Justice And Evil Origins (01:48:12) Media Pacification Tricks Guest Link Unslaved: https://unslaved.com Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Watch Our Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/ Join our free Telegram community → https://t.me/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/fott/ Build your digital home with Atlas → https://atlasdigital.world/
#299
May 31 · 1 hr 26 min
Ep 299 - Kristen Nagle | Reclaiming Birth: A Former NICU Nurse's Reckoning
In this episode, we sit down with Kristen Nagle: former NICU nurse turned whistleblower and founder of Reclaiming Birth. Her story is the arc of a system insider who couldn't unsee what she was a part of — a hospital culture that worships intervention, a profession that pathologizes the female body, and a machine that punishes the nurses who name it. We trace her hero's journey from the injections she administered that she now warns against, through public termination and media smears, to a betrayal letter from inside her own family. We explore the pivot from fighting freedom to creating it, the home birth that rewrote her relationship to her body, and a vulnerable, never-before-shared reckoning with her role in routine circumcision. The foundation of the world begins in the womb — and every act of self-trust flows from whether we claimed that moment or handed it away. (00:00) Slandered in the Media (00:32) Opening Conversation (01:42) Meet Kristen (02:42) Motherhood Sparks Awakening (06:44) Seeing Vaccine Harm in NICU (16:01) COVID Hospital Restrictions (20:39) Betrayal Becomes Calling (31:33) Reclaiming Birth at Home (37:31) How Hospitals Took Over (42:15) Peace Begins At Birth (45:34) Fathers In The Birth Space (52:47) Fear Culture Around Babies (56:11) Canada Vs US on Freedom (58:32) Reclaiming Birth Conference (Why In-Person Matters) (01:06:49) Circumcision (A Nurse’s Perspective) (01:20:27) Reclaiming Birth Evolution Guest Links Reclaiming Birth Conference [Discount code: HFTT15] Website Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Watch Our Episodes Join our free Telegram community Join our membership Friends of the Truth
#298
May 24 · 1 hr 28 min
Ep 298 - Christopher August | Sometimes the Sign Is a Billboard
In this episode, we sit down with Christopher August — breathwork facilitator, author, and co-founder of Beats and Breath — for a conversation that runs from a literal billboard to a near-death drowning on the Zambezi that seeded the mission he’s lived ever since. We trace his path from corporate tech and quiet despair into Peace Corps Tanzania, the medicine work that reopened his capacity to feel, and the slow alchemy of moving from victim to creator. We talk about soul sickness as a cultural diagnosis, the inner child as the keys to freedom, and the Gene Keys as a map from shadow into gift. Christopher names what he’s stepping into next: a healing community in the Pacific Northwest he’s been envisioning for fifteen years, and the abandonment wound that surfaces when you say yes to the call again. (00:00) Peace Corps Intro (00:34) Opening Conversation (06:47) Show Start (08:04) Corporate Life To Calling (11:29) Near Death Experience (17:14) Peace Corps Mission Work (19:35) Returning Home Culture Shock (21:31) Breathwork Awakening (26:38) Sonic Breathwork Modality (29:44) Plant Medicine Insights (33:34) Family Healing And Compassion (37:51) Constellations And Sovereignty (43:38) Gene Keys (49:48) Breath Meets DNA (01:03:06) Abandonment and Big Move (01:08:01) Vision for Community (01:17:37) Relationships as Dojo Guest Links Website: https://christopheraugust.co Book: Master Your Breath, Transform Your Life App: Beats in Breath Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Watch Our Episodes Join our free Telegram community Join our membership Friends of the Truth
#297
May 17 · 1 hr 43 min
Ep 297 - Sophie Fletcher, PhD | Functional Freeze & the Hidden Cost of Keeping It Together
Sophie Fletcher, PhD, somatic nervous system practitioner and co-facilitator inside Rise Above the Herd, returns to Here for the Truth with a diagnosis for what’s quietly running through most of us: functional freeze. It looks nothing like collapse. You’re still showing up, doing the work, holding the relationships, but something inside has gone numb, and the modern world is engineered to keep it that way. Sophie traces why the truth-seeker community is especially exposed, how chronic low-grade threat overwhelms the body until there’s nowhere left to discharge it, and why mistaking calm for regulated is itself a form of dysregulation. We move through healthy aggression and the safe expression of sympathetic charge, the entanglement of parts work with nervous system state, and what building capacity looks like inside a family carrying a collective nervous system pulse of its own. Slow is fast, Sophie says. The relationship with your own physiology gets built in moments most people are too impatient to honor. (00:00) Regulation Redefined (00:40) Opening Conversation (01:38) Show Start (04:36) Truth Seeker Freeze & Polyvagal Basics (09:12) Functional Freeze Explained (15:29) Modern Life Triggers (22:08) Healthy Nervous System (35:55) From Freeze to Freedom (38:12) Healthy Aggression Outlets (46:30) The Monk Study (51:28) Sympathetic vs Dorsal Types (58:22) Appropriate Response Defined (01:10:03) Repair Self Respect (01:17:21) Nervous System And Parts (01:20:36) Winnie The Pooh Psychology (01:24:39) Shadow And Projection (01:35:19) AI Movie Archetypes GUEST LINK Website — sophiefletcherphd.com CONNECT WITH US Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Watch Our Episodes Join our free Telegram community Join our membership Friends of the Truth
#296
May 10 · 2 hr 3 min
Ep 296 - Taylor Perkins | Out of Mormonism & Into the Mirror
Raised in a Mormon family where his mother prophesied at his birth that he’d one day lead the church, Taylor Perkins spent decades trying to live up to that identity — as a missionary, a husband at 20, and a tech founder by 28 — until it all began to unravel. We follow his path through years of religious shame and addiction, a five-cup ayahuasca ceremony that shook the foundation of what he believed, and a period of financial collapse where DoorDash shifts became part of his rebuilding. That stretch, along with a series of synchronicities, ultimately led him out of an 11-year marriage. Underneath all of it is what we go straight at: the tendency to outsource authority — to a church, a guru, a chart, a card…anything that claims to tell you who you are. Taylor speaks to what it actually takes to stand on your own when the structures you leaned on fall away, why the ego isn’t something to crush, and why most expansion isn’t something you force. Your life is already trying to come through you. The work is to stop getting in the way. (00:00) Reality as a Mirror (00:36) Opening Conversation (02:00) Show Start (03:31) Growing Up Mormon (13:51) Marriage and Addiction Cycle (18:38) Startup Success to Rock Bottom (22:21) Ayahuasca Awakening (32:07) Seeking Gurus and Pedestals (33:44) Portugal Surrender Experiment & Marriage Crossroads (38:25) Spirituality Without Performance (42:06) Astrology and Heart Darkness (46:43) Cloud Atlas Synchronicity / Divorce & Confession (52:46) Bali Decision and Self Doubt (56:36) Outsourcing Truth to Gurus (01:03:39) The Aftermath (01:11:08) Ego as Sacred Temple (01:17:14) Chosen One Paradox (01:24:26) Union of Opposites (01:35:27) Revealing Not Learning / Nonlocal Consciousness Void (01:41:02) Education Means ‘To Bring Forth’ (01:58:08) Light Footed Enlightenment GUEST LINKS Instagram — @iamtaylorperkins CONNECT WITH US Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Watch Our Episodes Join our free Telegram community Join our membership Friends of the Truth

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