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Ep 264: How Urine Therapy, Fasting & Faith Can Slow Your Aging with Mike Cardamone Oct 09, 2026

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What they’ve been telling us about nourishment is totally backwards.

Mike Cardamone joins me right after our shared five-day dry fast, along with Yerasimos and my old West Point classmate Justin Hall, who came in with zero context and asked what most listeners will be thinking.

A lot of what mainstream health tells us about hydration, calories, and what the body actually needs falls apart when you experience it yourself. My face changed. My prayers changed. My cravings for coffee, food, and tobacco changed in ways I did not expect once I broke the fast.

Mike walks through his new book on cleansing and his years of urine therapy practice, including the aged version most people cannot get their heads around, and shares what a 27-day urine-only fast did to his senses at a wedding full of drunk strangers. Justin brings the outsider perspective on parenting, fitness, and calorie deficits that keeps the conversation grounded.

If you have ever suspected your body is capable of more than you have been told, this is the conversation that will confirm it.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[6:17] Dry fasting turned out easier than water fasting

[14:08] Fasting as a massive version of daily qigong practice

[20:50] Two types of dry fast and the mystery of mucus production

[30:45] Western culture feels spiritually bankrupt from too much comfort

[37:20] Auto-brewery syndrome and getting a DUI from English muffins

[43:16] Prahlad Jani and people who verifiably never eat or drink

[49:32] What a urine fast actually involves

[56:29] The four urine drinkers he knows look the healthiest

[1:07:02] Aged urine and its stronger medicinal potency

[1:21:06] Smelling the whole wedding like a hound on day 21

[1:27:56] Finding crosses in structured urine

[1:39:28] The crayon he passed during a cleanse

[1:47:22] Waking up when your partner stays asleep

Find more from Mike:

Mike Cardamone, Don’t Slap Snooze | Website | Instagram

You Are Full of Snot: A Comedic Guide to Cleansing Your Bowels is out now! Get the book here.

Justin Hall, The Unconventional Father | Instagram

Yerasimos, Here For The Truth | Website

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Alec Zeck | Instagram | X

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Ep 263: How Your Own Money Is Funding the System That Controls You with Catherine Austin Fitts Oct 05, 2026

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The economic system is about to change forever, and it’s due to AI.

My guest is Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing under President George H.W. Bush and former managing director at Dillon, Read & Co., who has spent decades mapping how money moves and who controls it.

The conversation gets into the three pillars of what she calls the digital control grid, and why the difference between a manual and an automatic third lock on your bank account changes everything.

Catherine explains the Genius Act, the plan to persuade four billion people to leave their local currency for stablecoins tied to US Treasury bills, and the $114 trillion in stocks and bonds now being prepared to move onto crypto rails. She names the specific mechanism that could turn your money off if you leave your house, skip a mandate, or say the wrong thing.

Then comes the harder part: Most of the people protesting data centers are financing them through their own retirement accounts.

If you've ever told yourself you're only one person, this episode is the correction.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[3:50] How the automatic third lock seizes financial control

[7:27] Embracing your inner analog starts with cash

[17:41] What stablecoins actually are and why they matter

[26:14] The AI twin vision behind a social credit system

[29:31] The Iran war as a play to control energy and trade worldwide

[39:06] One person is never just one person

[43:21] What the Madoff bank account really reveals

[49:21] Health freedom leaders profiting on Pfizer stock

[57:13] The five-minute presentation that persuades every legislator

[1:03:50] Building the wall while fighting off the attackers

[1:10:37] Turning South Dakota into a cash state

Find more from Catherine:

Catherine Austin Fitts - Solari Report | Website

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Alec Zeck | Instagram | X

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Ep 262: The "Sovereignty Frequency" Is Coming in 2027 with Amy Lea Sep 30, 2026

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Get 10% off your Human Design or Astrology Guide (or bundle) with code TWF10 at My Constellation.

February 2027: This will be the start of a new era.

Amy is a Human Design analyst and astrologer who has spent over eight years blending both systems for founders, creatives, and leaders who keep hitting walls doing things the "right" way.

The first half is a genuine primer. We cover the five types, the authorities, and the centers, and unpack why so much of what we've been taught runs opposite to how we're wired. We dig into projectors and the particular burnout they face in workplaces that weren't built for them, then move through manifestors, generators, manifesting generators, and reflectors, who move at the pace of the moon.

From there, Amy describes what she sees coming in 2027: the end of outsourced authority, a shift from tribal frequency to individual sovereignty, and the arrival of the Ra children, who carry a different cognitive architecture that overlaps with the non-verbal autistic children in the telepathy tapes.

I share why I'm not afraid of what's coming, and Amy explains why certain profiles will feel more at home once the door closes.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[5:32] Ra Uru Hu's eight days on Ibiza and the origins of human design

[11:41] The channeling question and why skepticism matters

[17:21] Why blending astrology with human design draws resistance

[23:20] Generators and manifesting generators as the world's builders

[32:08] Male versus female projectors and the go-go-go conditioning

[38:27] Projectors as the knowers who need stillness to hear clearly

[39:44] Manifestors as the former leaders who now just want to be left alone

[49:58] Reflectors as the lunar barometers of community health

[55:37] Seven authority types and how each one decides

[1:04:44] Defined versus undefined centers and where conditioning enters

[1:11:04] Six profile lines explained through the house analogy

[1:25:48] The shift in background frequency coming in 2027

[1:34:22] The 18.6-year property cycle and its convergence with 2027

[1:48:49] A Rudolf Steiner quote on living from pure trust

Find more from Amy:

Amy Lea | Website

Her Constellation | Substack

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Alec Zeck | Instagram | X

The Way Forward | Instagram

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Ep 261: Why Dry Fasting Is The Ultimate Regeneration Protocol With Sean McCormick & Theo Lucier Sep 23, 2026

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Want to get started with dry fasting but aren’t sure how? Click HERE to access a FREE PDF guide to dry fasting, and a 47-minute masterclass with Theo and Sean.

Most people call water fasting a fast. My guests argue it isn't, and I haven't looked at cleansing the same since.

Theo Lucier founded Forgotten Health after burning out in commercial real estate and rebuilding his biology from the cellular level up. Sean McCormick coaches high-intensity professionals and co-founded Dry Fast With Friends with him.

Their claim: the moment you drink water, your GI tract turns on, gluconeogenesis kicks in, and your body starts breaking down muscle and organ tissue for glucose. Dry fasting shuts that pathway off entirely. What happens next gets strange.

Black bile purging. Parasites exiting through unexpected places. TRT users regrowing testicular size in five days. Chipped teeth filling in. A 60-year-old woman saying her body felt 19 again. Plus how sleep is technically a dry fast, and why the recovery protocol matters more than the fast itself.

I came in a committed water faster. I'm leaving with a seven-day dry fast booked.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[9:32] A water fast is just a water diet, and fasting as a portal through life transitions

[25:20] The glymphatic system, and how sleep is a dry fast

[30:38] The body makes its own perfect metabolic water

[38:06] Why dry fasting could be the future of health optimization

[47:22] Prahlad Jani claimed no food or water for decades

[1:09:09] Sean's meditation crescendo and Theo's white light download

[1:25:11] Why dry fasting alone is a dangerous idea

[1:37:31] A black bile purge and prioritized liver healing

[1:48:17] TRT testicle recovery and a chipped tooth filling in

[2:11:41] An Estonian man's ecstatic connection to Gaia, and the start of refeeding

[2:31:28] Animal protein for recovery, and prayer when the veil is thin

Related The Way Forward Episodes:

The 4th Phase of Water: The Blueprint for Biological Energy with Dr. Gerald Pollack | Podcast

Fasting for Vibrant Health with Loren Lockman | Podcast

Comedy, Cleansing & Fasting with Liquid Gold featuring Mike Cardamone | Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

Healing is Voltage by Jerry L. Tennant | Book

Fast Like a Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz | Book

20 Questions & Answers About Dry Fasting by Sergey Filonov | Book

Food Lies Documentary by Brian Sanders | Website

The Phoenix Protocol: Dry Fasting for Rapid Healing and Radical Life Extension by August Dunning | Book

Find more from Theo and Sean:

Dry Fast With Friends | Website

Theo Lucier, Forgotten Health | Website | P Dry Fast With Friends roducts

Sean McCormick | Website | Instagram

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Ep 260: How Modern Building Materials Trigger Chronic Illnesses | Lauren Riddei Sep 16, 2026

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If you knew how toxic our modern building materials are, mold wouldn’t be your biggest worry.

Lauren Riddei got sick from her own job sites, and a naturopath's question helped point her toward why. She is a triple-certified building biologist and interior designer who rebuilt her practice around the idea that many modern building materials are contributing to poor health.

The conversation gets specific. Acrylic paints she describes as smelling like acetone. Spray foam that can obscure water damage in a wall assembly. Fixed LED cans that are impossible to swap out. A smart meter her own utility company claimed it didn't know how to remove. Carpet that the EPA studied and removed from its own headquarters, before publicly denying it caused harm.

A lot of what she recommends comes back to older craft. The five-weight pulley window built to be repaired. Linseed oil instead of a plastic coating. Mineral paint that binds to the wall rather than sitting on top of it. Kapok, cork, hemp, natural latex. Most of these predate the synthetic versions that replaced them.

Lauren also explains why she thinks of mold as a way-shower rather than a villain, and why building smaller may matter more than building "green."

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[7:02] The rain barrel effect and reaching critical mass

[12:11] Discovering building biology after a spiritual awakening

[24:40] Why Europe builds with mass wall systems

[34:35] Interrupting the general contractor's monocultured approach

[43:09] Any redeeming qualities in modern homes

[58:22] Healthy material swaps, from kapok fiber to cork flooring

[1:16:02] Removing the smart meter and choosing circadian lighting

[1:36:08] The German origins and 25 principles of building biology

[1:57:07] We're building too big, and the greed and speed behind it

[2:15:16] Moon wood and harvesting by the lunar cycle

[2:31:06] A closing quote on biophilia and the built environment

Related The Way Forward Episodes:

Cancer, Forest Bathing, and Bio-hacking featuring Dean Hall | Podcast

The Science of Cannabis & Its True Health Benefits with Dani Fontaine | Podcast

The Hidden Ways Your Home Affects Your Health (And Your Spirit) with Danijela Saponjic | Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

Healthy Building Alliance | Website

Prescriptions for a Healthy House by Paula Baker-Laporte and John C Banta | Book

Map of Synthetica | Website

Lumios from Ra Optics | Website

25 Principles of Building Biology | PDF

The Moon Wood | Documentary

Find more from Lauren:

Haus Holistics | Website

Building Biology Institute | Website

Building Biology Interior Design | Masterclass

See how Lauren’s renovating her house on Instagram.

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram | X

The Way Forward | Instagram

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Ep 259: Why Killing Your Ego Is The Only Way to Really Heal with Kyle Cease Sep 11, 2026

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The identity you built was just a solution to trauma.

Kyle Cease is a transformational teacher, former touring comedian with two #1 Comedy Central specials, New York Times bestselling author, and creator of the Evolving Out Loud global community. He has coached over 16,000 people through his talks, retreats, online programs, and one-on-one.

His wife, Dr. Amber Lynn Cease, a holistic doctor, spiritual mentor, and relationship educator, joins us later. Her honesty about what this inner work has done to her nervous system is some of the most grounded relationship talk I've heard on this show.

Choosing a Costa Rica healing intensive over a Vegas event with Tony Robbins changed something the second Kyle made the call. He learned that the trauma you're avoiding lives in your body, not in your mind, and that positive thinking often becomes a form of spiritual bypass rather than actual healing. Years earlier, a viral blog post from a fellow comedian forced him into six days alone in a hotel room, facing the ego he'd spent his whole career building.

Amber talks openly about leaving her old life for this relationship, the protector that ran her nervous system for years, and the day Kyle told her she was allowed to burn in hell.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[7:03] The highest of the ego versus the highest of the heart

[15:06] Every "I have to" sits on top of fear of never being loved

[27:44] You are what you love, not what loves you

[35:01] The world mirrors you and the only work is inside

[51:15] Falling in love with emptiness on a 15-day water fast

[1:13:49] Project Looking Glass stopped working in 2012

[1:42:37] Letting the false self die inside a relationship worth fighting for

[2:14:55] Holding space means not defending, just hearing them

[2:45:47] Meditation isn't for quieting the mind, it's for dissolving the small self

Resources Mentioned:

Revolver (Movie) | IMDb

Find more from Kyle and Amber:

Kyle Cease | Website | Instagram | Courses

Dr. Amber Lynn Cease | Instagram

Intimate Expansion Couples Course with Kyle and Amber | Website

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram | X

The Way Forward | Instagram

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Ep 258: How Losing Everything Heals Your Body & Mind with Brian Costello Sep 04, 2026

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When Brian Costello lost everything, he was able to understand what true healing is.

Brian Costello is the author of The Primordial Code, a former CrossFit gym owner, and a multi-time national beach sprinting champion who rebuilt his life from rock bottom into something he never planned for.

We open with the body, because the way you’re sitting right now is training how you'll walk into every conversation this week. Brian throws light on the root, heart, and crown, and how couches and cushions mask the signals your spine has been sending for decades. He shows why back chain dominance changes how people respond to you before you even speak.

From there we move into his story. A 250-pound snatch PR started the collapse, followed by a surgery he wouldn't do today. His wife had an affair with a close friend, and for nearly two years anger was the only emotion he could reach. A 30-day fast with his wife reset them both. Plant medicine and a move to Costa Rica followed. His book came through once he stopped trying to write the one he thought he owed people.

His brother Danny also gets real time here. Danny was vaccine-injured at 18 months and spent 20 years without a voice, but at age five he had a dream that his answer would come in the form of a board… You’ll want to hear this one!

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[10:37] Fully taking up your space as physical and spiritual practice

[26:29] How the GOATa blueprint decodes durable human movement

[36:06] Primordial Flow turns the floor into a conversation with the body

[1:00:31] How CrossFit and a betrayal led Brian to rock bottom

[1:16:20] Finding a way out one bite at a time

[1:23:17] The 30-day fast that redefined abundance and healing

[1:31:04] Ancient healing discoveries that led Brian to write The Primordial Code

[1:49:58] The Primordial Code's fictional society and the real Confluence community it's inspiring

[3:03:17] Brian's brother, a nonverbal speller, and what spellers can teach us

Related The Way Forward Episodes:

The Lies About Anarchy & Politics The Media Want You To Believe with Catherine Bleish Bonandin | Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

All We Know… ...Is In The Air by Danny Costello | Book

My Words Are My Voice | Podcast

Fast Like A Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz | Book or Audiobook

Find more from Brian:

Brian Costello | Website

The Primordial Code | Audio Series

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram | X

The Way Forward | Instagram

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Ep 257: The Real History of America Was Deliberately Erased | The Archivist (Co-Hosted by Topher Gardner) Aug 28, 2026

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America’s history was completely rewritten, and no one is talking about it.

My guest in this episode is known online as The Archivist, an independent researcher who spends his time reading newspapers from the 1700s through the early 1900s and archiving what the accepted history books left out.

A motorcycle accident and near-death experience twenty years ago set him on this path. Since then, he's built the Anomalous America series, going state by state through old articles about buried cities, giant skeletons, canal systems lined with radium-impregnated ceramics, petrified forests, and mummies pulled from caves and mounds in the middle of the country.

Our conversation moves through the collapse of the standard American narrative. The insane asylums that dwarfed every Capitol building. The tunnels dynamited during construction of the St. Louis bridge. Lovelock Cave and what the natives kept telling settlers about the giants they had warred with. Philadelphia City Hall and why they couldn't afford to tear it down.

If the history you were handed has started to feel thin, this one gives you something real to explore.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[5:12] Radium-laced ceramics in Arizona's canals may have supercharged ancient crops

[10:45] The old maps and biblical narrative that point to America, not the Middle East

[21:34] Where the Archivist diverges from Graham Hancock's timelines

[39:43] The philanthropic institutions given a dictate to rewrite history

[46:18] The biggest buildings in 1800s America were insane asylums in the middle of nowhere

[1:07:38] The three layers of burials and how they reveal separate lost civilizations

[1:15:22] Newspaper clippings on Texas's petrified forests, ancient walls, and a lost race

[1:23:53] The Smithsonian became the highest bidder for dragons, sloths, and mummies

[1:47:09] The Kandahar giant and Lovelock Cave, and whether giants still hide underground

[1:58:32] The little season and millennial reign that explain a completely inverted world

[2:17:22] They couldn't tear down Philadelphia City Hall without bankrupting the country

[2:32:32] The near-death experience that set the Archivist on this path

Find more from The Archivist:

The Archivist | YouTube | X

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram | X

The Way Forward | Instagram

Donate to The Way Forward here.

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Ep 256: What They Don't Tell You About Data Centers, Water Control & Mass Surveillance with Clayton Tucker Aug 24, 2026

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Data centers and flock cameras are damaging our society in ways most people can’t even imagine.

My guest today is Clayton Tucker: Lampasas rancher, Secretary of the Texas Farmers Union, and candidate for Texas Agriculture Commissioner running to halt AI data center expansion statewide.

Clayton lived in China and Taiwan and saw the surveillance playbook up close. That same playbook is getting imported here through hyperscale AI facilities, Flock cameras, and utility lines built by bureaucrats who may not even have the legal authority to route them.

A cattle rancher north of Dallas lost calves to stillbirths after a BESS facility went in across the road. A mother and daughter watched migraines and ear infections stop the moment they moved away. A Canadian sheep farming family lost about 500 head, and the daughter told Clayton her father developed early-onset dementia in the same window.

Clayton also lays out the counter-move: ag impact studies, development districts, water conservation districts, rezoning, cross-partisan pressure.

If you eat food and live in Texas, this one's for you.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[8:45] Why the 5,000-to-400 China gap makes the whole competition argument a lie

[19:20] The Flock camera that appeared at his ranch after he started talking

[28:05] Wall Street's plan to drain Texas dry, and the cooling scam that hides it

[39:57] 765 lines corroding pipelines toward disaster, and the zero-water tech being ignored

[55:49] The stillbirths, migraines, and dead sheep that nearby families report

[1:28:19] Light pollution two miles out still wrecks your biology

[1:37:51] The tax handouts fueling BESS fires, and why stopping the AI bubble matters now

[1:59:33] The limits of fixing this alone, and Clayton’s message to MAHA on change

[2:09:49] The regenerative score label, and flagging processed food as abnormal

[2:28:21] His MAHA-branded opponent's stock ties to glyphosate and Tyson

Related The Way Forward Episodes:

Coming Home: Healing the Chronic Disease of Separation with Dr. Zach Bush | Podcast

Ez-Water, Aether, & The Biofield featuring Carrie Bennett | Podcast

Circadian Biology, Leptin, & Light featuring Sarah Kleiner | Podcast

How Too Much Artificial Light & Sunlight Affect Lifelong Health & Mortality with Matt Maruca | Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

AI Data Center Map | Website

Family Farms Filing Bankruptcy by Alec | Instagram Post

Find more from Clayton:

Clayton Tucker | Pitch In | Learn More

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram | X

The Way Forward | Instagram

Donate to The Way Forward here.

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Ep 255: How You Can Become Self Sufficient Without Owning Land with Curtis Stone Aug 19, 2026

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Ready to take the next step toward greater self-sufficiency? Explore Freedom Farmers, a global community helping people grow their own food, build resilient businesses, and create a life closer to the land. 🔗 Join through our link and receive your first month free.

Can you live a sovereign lifestyle while making six figures on a small piece of land? That’s exactly what Curtis Stone has done.

Curtis is the author of The Urban Farmer and founder of Freedom Farmers. He lives off-grid in southern British Columbia with his two kids, and has spent almost two decades teaching people to grow food, find land, and build self-sufficient lives.

Most homesteading content skips the ugly part, Curtis doesn't. He talks about collapsing from exhaustion, failures that outnumbered wins ten to one, and realizing paralysis by analysis is the biggest thing standing between people and food.

He shares why he thinks Phoenix is one of the worst places to be if the shit hits the fan, and his eleven scales of permanence for evaluating land. His homestead runs on multiple water sources, twenty kilowatts of solar, and a wood stove that heats his house off-grid.

Curtis opens up about losing his wife Katie to cancer, what her illness taught him about pain the body refuses to release, and how three deaths shaped how he grieves.

If you've felt paralyzed by how much you need to learn, this one's for you.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[9:58] A one-legged bike ride down the West Coast that changed everything

[15:06] Early failures, $100,000 on a quarter acre, and growing food in an apartment

[42:55] The Protestant work ethic's roots and tropical wisdom

[51:13] The 11 Scales of Permanence, and spotting threats before you buy

[59:39] The most lush places to buy land in the US, plus Phoenix's biggest risk

[1:27:29] Dowsing his well, building the homestead, and structuring land ownership through trusts and liens

[1:48:58] The manufactured scarcity agenda that keeps winning regardless of who's in office, and the sovereignty sliding scale

[2:08:17] The straw man, the signature it requires, and how to spot a genuine sovereignty teacher versus a charlatan

[2:35:07] Losing Katie to cancer, and what her soul held onto

Resources Mentioned:

Spin Farming Basics by Wally Satzewich, Roxanne Christensen | Book

Brazil (Movie) | IMDb

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Book or Audiobook

Find more from Curtis:

Curtis Stone | Telegram | X | YouTube

Freedom Farmers | Website

The Urban Farmer | Book

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram | X

The Way Forward | Instagram

Donate to The Way Forward here.

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