Stay ConnectedEarly investor in the blockchain since 2013 and leader in the crypto movement, Oto Gomes has forged his success with technical skill, endless curiosity, and his ability to connect.
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Michael Joseph’s journey began with the questioning of established systems, eventually taking him from years of frustration and anger toward a philosophy centered on peace, personal responsibility, and self-governance. As the founder of Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship, he has dedicated his work to helping others explore that same path. Marcia Ann brings over 35 years of experience questioning conventional understandings of law, social conditioning, and the relationship between spiritual principles and personal freedom. Together, their work through Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship focuses on helping individuals understand the distinction between operating in the public and private, and why knowing who you are matters just as much as understanding the paperwork.
Michael Joseph and Marcia Ann join Oto Gomes to explore the difference between substance and form, why a trust is more than a stack of legal documents, and the fellowship’s Trifecta framework built around three interconnected structures: church, trust, and private association. They discuss their interpretations of contracts, jurisdiction, constitutional protections, citizenship status, and the role of personal conduct in navigating public and private systems. The conversation also explores Sacred Honor’s four pathways to self-governance — National Status Passport, Trifecta, Allodial Land, and Equity — including their approaches to trusteeship, property stewardship, and lawful remedies.
At the heart of the conversation is a question that goes beyond legal structures: are you trying to escape a system out of fear, or are you consciously building the life you want to create? Michael Joseph and Marcia Ann explain why they believe genuine self-governance begins with internal transformation, personal responsibility, and becoming someone who can stand behind their own word.
DISCLAIMER: NOTHING IN THIS EPISODE IS LEGAL OR FINANCIAL ADVICE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome & introducing Michael Joseph and Marcia Ann
02:00 Marcia Ann’s journey — questioning societal norms and discovering law
09:00 Michael Joseph’s story — discovering systemic inequities and questioning authority
13:00 From anger to love — the philosophy behind Sacred Honor
17:00 What Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship actually teaches
22:00 Why personal transformation comes before paperwork
28:00 Substance vs. form — why your actions matter more than documents
33:00 Spiritual principles, contracts, and the Trifecta framework
41:00 The role of consciousness and a heart-centered fellowship
45:00 Why create trusts? Turning intentions into legal agreements
48:00 Church, trust, and private association — how the Trifecta works
52:00 Are you running from the system or building something better?
55:00 Public vs. private — jurisdiction, constitutional rights, and contracts
1:03:00 Citizenship, legal identity, and navigating different jurisdictions
1:08:00 Public businesses vs. private associations — understanding agreements
1:12:00 Trust structures, fiduciary responsibility, and becoming a competent trustee
1:17:00 The four pathways of Sacred Honor’s Foundation for Self-Governance
1:21:00 Allodial land, property stewardship, and equity jurisprudence
1:26:00 Honor your word, take responsibility, and move beyond fear
1:28:00 Final thoughts & how to connect with Sacred Honor
CONNECT WITH MICHAEL JOSEPH & MARCIA ANN
Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship:
https://www.sacredhonoref.com/active-fellow-home#a_aid=103&a_bid=125a2bcb
CONNECT WITH OTO
Instagram: https://instagram.com/otogomes
Website: https://otogomes.live
DISCLAIMER
This episode is for educational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, or medical advice. The speakers’ views, claims, and interpretations are their own and should not be treated as established legal conclusions or guarantees of any particular outcome. Consult a qualified professional about your circumstances.
Erai Beckman has spent his career building things before the regulations existed to govern them — co-founding the world’s first CBD pharmaceutical company to legally import into Latin America, helping legalize CBD and THC for medical use in Brazil in 2015, and scaling that venture to a $9 billion private valuation. Now he’s applying the same playbook — build according to the law before the industry gets regulated, not after — to Web3.
Erai joins Oto to break down Peace Through Trade, a layer 1 proof-of-work blockchain built on two pillars: full legal compliance (ICO 20022, KYC/AML) and sustainability, including the ability to mine from a home laptop instead of industrial-scale rigs. They cover his own first encounter with Bitcoin in 2012, why regulated industries always see a changing of the guard (and what that means for crypto right now), how AI is being used to secure the network, Peace Through Trade’s UN recognition and first official government partnership, and the legal distinction between a utility coin and a security that sank XRP’s court case.
Technical note: Around 1:20:35, Erai’s camera briefly cut out due to a connectivity issue on his end. We’ve left the audio intact through the transition — we apologize for the short visual interruption and appreciate your understanding.
DISCLAIMER: NOTHING IN THIS EPISODE IS FINANCIAL ADVICE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Trailer
00:59 Welcome & introducing Erai Beckman
04:00 Erai’s entrepreneurial upbringing — two family influences
10:00 The CBD pharmaceutical story — saving kids’ lives in Brazil
19:00 What is Peace Through Trade? The two core pillars
22:00 Erai’s first brush with Bitcoin in 2012
30:00 Why build a new blockchain now — lessons from CBD and the dot-com era
42:00 DeFi’s pros and cons, and how PTT approaches security
51:00 Protecting the vulnerable — insurance for crypto holdings
53:00 Layer 1 vs. Layer 2, and mining PTT from your laptop
1:01:00 How AI powers Peace Through Trade’s security
1:06:00 The UN award and first official government partnership
1:10:00 Utility coin vs. security — the XRP lesson
1:13:00 What’s next: the Clarity Act and the Bitcoin cycle
1:19:00 150M+ views and growing the Peacemaker community
1:20:35 Technical note (camera interruption — see description)
1:24:00 How to join Peace Through Trade and Oto’s academy
CONNECT WITH ERAI
Peace Through Trade Website:
https://peacethroughtrade.com/?am_id=otogomes4949
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/peacethroughtrade
CONNECT WITH OTO
Instagram: https://instagram.com/otogomes
Website: https://otogomes.live
DISCLAIMER :
This episode is for educational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, or medical advice. The speakers’ views and interpretations are their own. Consult a qualified professional about your circumstances.
Who are you in an agreement, what are its terms, and where do you fit within it?
Oto Gomes sits down with Shawn Rice of Shawn Rice and Associates to discuss trusts, contracts, property, legal authority, and freedom. In a FIRST EVER PUBLIC INTERVIEW, Shawn shares how his Marine Corps experience and a 1992 visit to Cambodia shaped his path, then explains the three questions he asks when examining an agreement.
In this episode, Shawn discusses why he returns to legal texts, how he approaches documentation, and what happens during his firm’s client intake process. Oto also asks him to make these complex ideas easier to understand.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Meet Shawn Rice
01:45 The Marine Corps and Cambodia
03:00 Shawn’s approach to trusts and legal sources
10:00 Why he pursued this work
16:15 Explaining complex ideas through stories
22:45 Working with institutions
28:45 Trusts in practice
34:00 Teaching, scripture, and agreements
54:45 What Shawn’s firm does
1:16:35 The three questions to ask about an agreement
1:21:30 Education and documentation
1:28:30 Shawn’s views on banking and money
1:36:00 Services and client intake
1:47:45 What freedom means to Shawn
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Shawn’s three questions are: Who am I? What is the nature of the agreement? Where in the hierarchy of agreements do I attach? He explains how these questions guide his approach to legal relationships.
For Shawn, understanding an idea is only the beginning. He discusses the research, documents, and administrative work involved in applying his approach.
The conversation closes with a question for listeners: What is freedom worth to you, and how much effort are you willing to put into understanding the rules that affect your life?
CONNECT WITH SHAWN
Contact Shawn Rice and Associates through Oto: APPLY HERE
**WORKING WITH SR&A REQUIRES APPROVAL THROUGH VETTING BY OTO & HIS TEAM**
CONNECT WITH OTO
Instagram: https://instagram.com/otogomes
Website: https://otogomes.live
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@otogomes
DISCLAIMER
This episode is for educational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, or medical advice. The speakers’ views and interpretations are their own. Consult a qualified professional about your circumstances.
Michael D'alton was a mechanical engineering student fighting asthma and eczema that steroids couldn't touch. After a two-year wait to see a specialist ended with "you have eczema" and nothing else, he stumbled into a bioenergy healing session — and by day three, his symptoms were gone.
That was 33 years ago. He's spent the decades since training thousands of people in the practice, building an international healing school, and appearing on Oprah's network, BBC, and outlets across Ireland and the UK.
Oto and Michael go deep on the difference between Reiki and bioenergy work, the biofield and how frequency shapes the body, why identity is the real obstacle standing between people and their health, and what happened when COVID shut down the 27-year-old school that had become his whole sense of self. It closes with Michael's answer to Oto's signature question: two minutes, a million people, one thing to say before you drop the mic.
DISCLAIMER: NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:00 The specialist appointment that changed everything
05:00 The treatment that convinced him the energy was real
07:00 Reiki vs. bioenergy: "first aid vs. surgery"
10:00 Lockdowns in Ireland and Canada, and losing the filter
12:00 The biofield, frequency, and the Hawkins scale of consciousness
25:00 The radio station analogy — identity and why people relapse
27:00 "We have the innernet" — the technology inside you
29:00 Why finance is the next collective reckoning
34:00 Dependency, identity, and re-internalizing self-worth
45:00 Timelines, doom vs. hope, and one person's frequency vs. thousands
53:00 Losing his identity when COVID shut down his school
1:21:00 Final message: "You're always winning"
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Bioenergy healing works on the biofield rather than through touch, and Michael draws a clear line between it and Reiki — he calls Reiki "first aid" and bioenergy "surgery" for how deep and specific the work can go.
Identity is the throughline of the whole conversation. Michael's read is that people don't stay sick because of the illness itself — they stay sick because being sick has become who they are, and changing that requires a different sense of self, not just a different treatment.
The COVID years form the hinge of his own story. He talks candidly about the identity crisis that hit when his 27-year-old healing school shut down overnight, and what it took to find out who he was without the stage.
CONNECT WITH OTO:
Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes
Website – https://otogomes.live
GUEST LINKS
Website — https://www.daltonsbio.com
Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/michaeldaltonbioenergy/
Episode Summary
Oto sits down with Derrick Broze — independent investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of The Conscious Resistance Network — for a conversation that starts in a Texas state prison and ends with 23 acres in the mountains of central Mexico.
Derrick's awakening didn't begin with Ron Paul or the Federal Reserve. It began the week before he turned 21, when he was arrested for possession of crystal meth and went on to serve 18 months. He walks Oto through what losing everything taught him, how a library book on cannabis history cracked open his first real questions about the drug war, and how a decade of journalism led to his YouTube channel being deleted in October 2020 with 76,000 subscribers.
From there they dig into the pyramid of power, the parasite class and its relationship to addiction, and where blockchain genuinely serves freedom versus where tokenization becomes a control grid.
The back half is the part worth staying for. Derrick lays out exit and build — his answer to people who consume doom and call it awareness — including the Conscious Agora eco-village he's spent five years assembling, the Freedom Cells network that grew from 2,000 to 40,000 people during COVID, and his rewrite of the World Economic Forum's own essay: Welcome to 2030. I own land, live amongst like-minded people, and life has never been better.
CHAPTERS
0:00 – Trailer
0:56 – Intro & Meet Derrick Broze
1:56 – The Red Pill: Ron Paul, Jim Marrs & 9/11
2:36 – Arrested at 20: Meth, Prison & Hitting Bottom
3:56 – Life as a Felon & the Book That Changed Everything
5:56 – Waking Up to the Drug War's Real Origins
6:56 – January 2020: Seeing It Coming From Mexico
8:56 – Publishing "How to Opt Out" Two Months Before COVID
10:26 – Deleted: 76,000 Subscribers Gone Overnight
11:56 – Shadowbanning & Why He Doesn't Trust the Numbers
13:56 – From the War on Terror to the Biomedical State
15:56 – The Pyramid of Power: Who Is "They"?
17:56 – Addiction, Power & the Root of Dependency
20:56 – Five Years of Research Into One Question
23:56 – Why the Answer Is a Mindset, Not a Family
25:56 – Catherine Austin Fitts & the Independent Media Alliance
27:56 – Tokenization: Liberation Tool or Control Grid?
29:56 – Blockchain Isn't Good or Bad, It's a Tool
34:56 – How His View on Bitcoin Changed
37:56 – Digital Gold vs. Real World Currency
39:56 – Cash, Monero & Why Community Is the Real Currency
42:56 – 23 Acres: Building the Conscious Agora
44:56 – Sugarcrete, Tiny Homes & the Holistic Education Center
46:56 – The Greater Reset Becomes The People's Reset
50:56 – What Technocracy Actually Looks Like
52:56 – Denmark, Digital IDs & the World They're Building
53:56 – Liberation 2030: What's YOUR Vision?
54:56 – Who Profits From Your Doom Scrolling
56:56 – Alchemizing "You Will Own Nothing"
57:56 – The People They Left Behind — That's Us
58:56 – The Books: Trilogy, Technocratic State, Pyramid of Power
1:00:56 – A Man of My Word & Why Addiction Needs Talking About
1:03:56 – Freedom Cells: Mutual Aid, Decentralized
1:06:56 – 2,000 to 40,000 During COVID
1:08:56 – Just Because COVID's Gone Doesn't Mean the Agenda Is
1:09:56 – Two Minutes in Front of a Million People
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Derrick's spiritual awakening predated his political one by four years. Prison and hitting bottom came first; the Federal Reserve and Ron Paul came after. His work has always been the intersection of internal and external freedom.
His YouTube channel was deleted in October 2020 for an interview that YouTube said conflicted with World Health Organization standards. It was restored in mid-2025 with videos and thousands of subscribers missing, and has not moved from 74K since.
On blockchain he refuses both camps. He calls himself a "freedom maxi" — the technology is a tool, the World Economic Forum's vision for tokenization is not the same as a private crypto that keeps you out of the banking system, and collapsing the two is a failure of nuance.
His central challenge: plenty of people monetize your fear and never offer a solution, because doom scrolling is the business model. If you don't want their 2030, what's yours? Write it down.
The Conscious Agora is six households on 23 acres outside Morelia, paid off in January 2025 without a bank — partly in crypto — with a vetting process currently open for three more.
LEARN MORE / CONNECT
The Conscious Resistance: https://theconsciousresistance.com
A Man of My Word: https://amanofmyword.com
The Pyramid of Power: https://thepyramidofpower.net
Freedom Cells: https://freedomcells.org
CONNECT WITH OTO:
Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes
Website – https://otogomes.live
(For educational and entertainment purposes only. Not legal, medical, or financial advice.)
Oto sits down with Hans Toohey — former Navy helicopter pilot, Harvard Kennedy School grad, and co-founder of Remnant Finance — for a conversation that starts with a broken contract and ends somewhere very few finance conversations go. Hans was twelve years into a career he'd planned his whole adult life around when he refused the mandate, filed a religious accommodation request, and got benched from the cockpit for two years while the Navy sat on his appeal.
What he did with those two years is why this episode exists. He'd studied contract law as an elective at Harvard, so when the Navy tried to rewrite his contract retroactively, recoup a bonus they'd already paid, and claw back years of flight pay, he recognized exactly what he was looking at. He fought it. The class action won. But the bigger shift was what he taught himself while grounded — that the same contractual thinking he'd used against the Navy applies to how a family holds and controls its money.
From there they dig into human life value, why most fathers are "a McLaren insured like a Civic," the protect-save-grow order of operations, the average-rate-of-return sleight of hand in conventional financial planning, and how whole life cash value works as a contractual, guaranteed, liability-protected asset rather than an expense.
This is a long one and it earns it. Grab a notebook.
DISCLAIMER: NOT LEGAL, MEDICAL, OR FINANCIAL ADVICE. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.
CHAPTERS
0:00 – Intro
0:45 – Meet Hans Toohey & the Red Pill Moment
3:05 – Navy Pilot by Trade
3:45 – Cambridge, 2020 & Watching the World Lose Its Mind
8:15 – The Mandate & the Religious Accommodation Request
13:15 – Boilerplate Denials: How the Shell Game Got Exposed
14:35 – Benched From Flying for Two Years
16:25 – "You Wrote the Contract, I Just Signed It"
18:25 – They Recoup the Bonus & Cancel the Third Payment
20:05 – Sent Across the Country to a Job That Didn't Exist
22:05 – Separating With a Debt to the US Treasury
25:05 – The Class Action & What Winning Against the Government Looks Like
26:45 – Rebuilding Assumptions From Scratch
33:45 – Golden Handcuffs: Pensions, UCMJ & the Fine Print
40:45 – Harvard Kennedy School: Learning Macro From Central Bankers
44:05 – Jekyll Island & the Turn Toward Austrian Economics
46:25 – A Book Arrives in the Mail. He Throws It Aside.
51:45 – Getting Licensed & Trying to Disprove It
54:15 – Life Insurance Is a Contract With 200 Years of Case Law
55:45 – The CFP Model: Buy Term and Invest the Rest
1:01:15 – Human Life Value: What Does Your Family Miss Out On?
1:03:35 – "A McLaren Insured Like a Civic"
1:05:35 – Protect, Save, Grow: The Order of Operations
1:08:45 – Disability, Liability & Creditor Protection
1:12:15 – The Average Rate of Return Fallacy
1:17:45 – Planning in 1990 for a World That No Longer Exists
1:20:45 – How Cash Value Actually Works
1:24:05 – The Power of a Policy Loan
1:31:05 – The Neighbor, the Bank & the $4M Loan
1:38:15 – What Institutions Actually Want From You
1:41:15 – Net Worth vs. Cash Flow
1:42:05 – The River, the Mill & the Dam
1:46:05 – Who This Is NOT For
1:52:45 – Remnant Frontier: Bridging the Two Advisors
2:03:15 – The Distribution Problem Nobody Plans For
2:09:25 – One Minute in Front of Two Million People
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Hans filed a religious accommodation request against the military's COVID vaccine mandate and was immediately benched from flying. In naval aviation the timing is rigid enough that two years out of the cockpit ends a career regardless of how the appeal resolves.
When the Navy demanded he restart a three-year contract they had prevented him from fulfilling, he refused on frustration-of-contract grounds. They charged him with breach, recouped roughly $50,000, and assigned it as a debt that followed him to the US Treasury with 30% added on separation.
His framing on protection: your ability to produce income is your greatest asset, and most people insure a fraction of it — "a McLaren insured like a Civic."
Protect, save, grow, in that order. His argument is that conventional planning skips to growth, and a failure at the protection or savings layer disrupts everything downstream.
LEARN MORE / CONNECT
Remnant Finance: https://remnantfinance.com
X: https://x.com/remnantfinance
The Remnant Finance Podcast — on all platforms
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Becoming Your Own Banker — R. Nelson Nash
The Creature from Jekyll Island — G. Edward Griffin
The Pirates of Manhattan — Barry James Dyke
The Economics of Life Insurance — Solomon Huebner
Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines — Cdr. Rob Green
CONNECT WITH OTO:
Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes
Website – https://otogomes.live
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance
(This episode discusses military legal proceedings, insurance products, and financial strategy; it's for educational and entertainment purposes only, and is not legal, medical, or financial advice.)
Episode Summary
Oto sits down with Dr. Ben Tapper — chiropractor, father of five, and one of the twelve people the Biden administration publicly named as the "Disinformation Dozen" — for a conversation about what it actually costs to speak against a narrative. Ben traces his path from a free-range Nebraska childhood to the moment a video of him addressing the Omaha City Council on mask mandates pulled three million views in a day.
From there they get into the machinery of censorship: the shadowbanning he screen-recorded, five Instagram accounts deleted one after another, a permanent TikTok ban off a single video, and the financial de-platforming almost nobody talks about — PayPal and Venmo seizing his funds mid-fundraise for a documentary he'd already contractually committed to deliver.
They also cover his "why," his read on Bitcoin and the moment the Canadian truckers convinced him, homeschooling, health insurance as an oxymoron — before closing on the lawsuits he's now part of against the Trusted News Initiative and the CCDH.
CHAPTERS
(Shifted +0:45 to account for the intro)
0:00 – Intro
0:45 – Meet Dr. Ben Tapper
2:15 – A Free-Range Kid in a Household That Didn't Vaccinate
3:35 – The Chiropractor Who Called Him a Quack
6:45 – What's Your Why?
8:30 – "My Children Are My Why"
9:25 – Dinner With Bobby Kennedy at Defeat the Mandates
11:15 – Passivity, Complacency & the Attack on Men
14:15 – Censorship: Where Do We Even Begin
15:25 – Shadowbanning & the Zero-Zero-Zero Test
17:15 – The Disinformation Dozen: Psaki, Then Biden
18:25 – Deleted: Five Accounts & a TikTok Magic Trick
21:00 – Financial Censorship: PayPal & Venmo
21:45 – Raising Money for "The Time Is Now"
22:50 – Day 60, and the Exact Number
23:45 – How the Documentary Did
25:15 – Bitcoin, Lottery Miners & His Son
26:35 – The Canadian Truckers: The Moment It Clicked
28:40 – Good Crypto, Bad Crypto & CBDCs
29:45 – Water as the Next Commodity
31:05 – Oto Explains Real-World Asset Tokenization
34:00 – PMAs, Trusts & Structuring Into the Private
35:55 – Basel III & In-Ground Assets
37:30 – What He's Seeing Five Years On
43:15 – Homeschooling: How to Think, Not What to Think
45:15 – Project Artichoke & the Precursor to MKUltra
47:05 – Supplements, Movement & What He Tells Patients
48:45 – Fascia, Myofascial Release & Why Movement Is a Nutrient
52:00 – Health Insurance Is an Oxymoron
54:25 – Why Cash Pay Changes Everything
56:25 – Suing the Trusted News Initiative
59:45 – What He's Doing Now
1:01:35 – Waves of Tyranny: What Comes Next
1:03:25 – Two Minutes in Front of a Million People
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Ben was named by Jen Psaki from the White House podium in 2021, then by President Biden three days later. He found out standing in a grocery store parking lot, put his produce down, and opened Instagram to check whether his account still existed.
The deletions weren't one event but a sequence: five accounts in a row, the largest at 79,000 followers pulling three to four million impressions a month, plus Twitter and a permanent TikTok ban off a single video with no political content in it.
The financial de-platforming gets the least attention — PayPal and Venmo both seized his accounts, and the $46,000 he'd raised for his documentary went to zero mid-campaign, against a signed contract for $59,000 due in sixty days.
The Canadian truckers convoy was his turning point on Bitcoin: funds frozen through the conventional system, and the Bitcoin donations couldn't be touched. He's clear he doesn't fully understand the technology and is fine saying so.
He's now a plaintiff in litigation against the Trusted News Initiative and the CCDH, with roughly $200,000–$300,000 in accrued legal fees.
LEARN MORE / CONNECT
Website: http://Drbentapper.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.b.e.n__t.a.p.p.e.r
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/14rUuiSH39u/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Substack: https://substack.com/@drtapper
X: @Drbentapper1
Documentary — The Time Is Now
Legal fund — DOJ v. TNI, Jeff Childers' team
CONNECT WITH OTO:
Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes
Website – https://otogomes.live
(This episode touches on personal health decisions, medical topics, and financial strategy; it's for educational and entertainment purposes only, and is not medical, legal, or financial advice.)
Episode Summary
Oto sits down with longtime friend Christopher August — bestselling author, breathwork facilitator, and co-founder of Beats and Breath — for a wide-ranging conversation on identity, awakening, and the nervous system. Christopher traces his path from a corporate career and a master's degree to two years living in a rural Tanzanian village, and then to the moment that changed everything
A near-death experience on a class-five rapid on the Zambezi River, where he lost consciousness and came back with a completely new relationship to breath. From there they dig into the Gene Keys system (shadow, gift, and Siddhi frequencies), the "great solar flash" prophecy tied to 1987/2012/2027
The difference between sympathetic and parasympathetic breathing, and how breathwork and plant medicine can overlap — before closing on Christopher's Mastery Collective, his Beats and Breath app, and a live guided breath with the audience.
Chapters / Timestamps
(Shifted +1:00 to account for the trailer at the top of the episode)
00:00 – Trailer
01:00 – Intro & Meet Christopher August
03:00 – Leaving Corporate for a Village in Tanzania
05:00 – The Near-Death Experience on the Zambezi River
08:00 – Identity, Ego Death & the Path of Letting Go
14:00 – Masculine, Feminine & the Great Inversion
17:00 – Christopher's Core "Why"
18:00 – 2020, Lockdowns & Building Community in Buffalo
21:00 – Oto's Own 2020 Story: A Cop, a Mask & a Ticket
23:00 – Post-Jab Symptoms & Holding Space Without Judgment
26:00 – What Are the Gene Keys?
28:00 – Shadow, Gift & Siddhi: The Three Frequencies
30:00 – Your Gene Keys Profile as a Soul Blueprint
33:00 – Avoiding the Identity Trap
36:00 – The Great Solar Flash & the Birth of Human 6.0
39:00 – As Above, So Below: Humanity's Densifying/Awakening Split
41:00 – The Coming Timeline Bifurcation
44:00 – Building Sovereign Community Hubs
45:00 – Oto's Announcement: Building Alternative Digital Infrastructure
46:00 – Breathwork as Protection From Energetic Parasites
48:00 – Trauma, the Nervous System & Why We Stop Breathing Deeply
50:00 – Breathwork & Plant Medicine: Where They Overlap
55:00 – The Hijacking of Cannabis & Why Sourcing Matters
57:00 – Sound, Frequency & the Beats and Breath Method
1:00:00 – Beatboxing, Breath Capacity & a Video Break
1:02:00 – Recovering From the Jab: Fasting, Detox & Fundamentals
1:06:00 – The Power of Subtraction Over Addition
1:08:00 – Inside the Mastery Collective & Beats and Breath App
1:10:00 – A New Partnership Announcement
1:12:00 – Final Words: A Guided Breath to Close
1:14:00 – Closing & Where to Find Christopher
Key Takeaways
Christopher's near-death experience on the Zambezi River in 2014 — losing consciousness underwater and being resuscitated — became the foundation of his breathwork practice, which he describes as "being born again."
The Gene Keys system, created by Richard Rudd, combines human design, astrology, and the I Ching into 64 archetypes, each with a shadow, gift, and Siddhi frequency, used as a framework for self-understanding.
Christopher's rule of thumb with the Gene Keys: focus 90% of your energy on the gift, 10% on the shadow — the shadow is a gateway, not an identity to collapse into.
He points to a prophecy tied to Gene Key 55 with three marker points — 1987, 2012, and 2027 — describing a gradual "mutation" tied to humanity's collective awakening.
For recovery and general health, Christopher emphasizes fundamentals over complexity: breath, fasting, clean water, sunlight, and nervous-system regulation (shifting from sympathetic "fight or flight" into parasympathetic "rest and digest").
He and Oto announced they'll be partnering to bring the Gene Keys/breathwork/somatic framework into Oto's academy.
Learn More / Connect
Christopher August — https://christopheraugust.co
CONNECT WITH OTO:
Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes
Website – https://otogomes.live
(This episode touches on personal health decisions and detox practices; it's for educational and entertainment purposes only, not medical advice.)
From accountant to private trust architect — Shanna Faye breaks down how she uses trusts, offshore structuring, and crypto privacy tools to help people become the steward, not the extractor, of their own wealth.
Shanna combines 30+ years in accounting, business consulting, and portfolio management with a naturopathic doctorate in alternative healing.
In this episode she and Oto go deep on private trusts, ownership vs. stewardship, tax avoidance vs. evasion, crypto privacy strategies, and why she believes health and wealth are the same conversation.
04:55 — Private trust vs. statutory trust: how Shanna found the difference
11:55 — Ownership vs. stewardship, explained
16:55 — Is there a one-size-fits-all trust structure?
17:55 — Panama Foundation vs. corporation: structuring compared
19:55 — Palau ID, alternate residencies & citizenship options
24:55 — Crypto + trusts: cold wallets, Rocket Exchange, Panama
27:55 — Tax avoidance vs. evasion — the real difference
29:55 — The 1031 like-kind exchange loophole for crypto
31:55 — The CBDC/FISA 702 bill nobody's talking about
34:55 — Staying liquid in an uncertain system
36:55 — Is AI good or bad? Shanna's honest take
40:55 — Why there's no wealth without health
44:55 — Community, tribes, and the toroidal field
47:55 — Catherine Austin Fitts: "relationships are the future currency"
48:55 — What the future monetary system could look like
51:55 — Arcium: the encryption layer working with Solana
53:55 — Shanna's services, strategy sessions & offers
56:55 — Join the Friday Lives / Free Academy
57:55 — Final message: you're responsible for your life
Shanna's path into private trusts started almost by accident — she was CFO on a startup development project when she met someone deep in private trust structuring and got hooked. What began as a professional curiosity turned into a full second career, one she now runs alongside her naturopathic practice. She sees finance and healing as inseparable, since most people's relationship to money traces straight back to how they felt loved — or not — growing up.
The ownership vs. stewardship conversation is one of the episode's core threads. Oto frames pure ownership as an indoctrinated, extractive mindset — "this is mine" — while stewardship carries responsibility toward a wider community.
Shanna pushes back gently, noting there's nothing wrong with knowing what you own; the real red flag is entitlement and scarcity thinking underneath it. Together they land on a "win-win-win" framework — win for yourself, win for the other party, win for the planet.
On the practical side, Shanna walks through real options for structuring around a shifting financial system — Panama Foundations, Palau residency IDs, cold wallets held in trust, and private exchanges like Rocket Exchange. She's careful to draw a hard line between tax evasion (fraud) and tax avoidance (legally operating in the negative space of the tax code), and explains how a 1031 like-kind exchange may apply to crypto through the "fixture" clause tied to real property.
Midway through, the conversation takes a sharper turn into current events — the 702 FISA bill, the quiet reappearance of CBDC language buried in legislative fine print, and what that means for anyone trying to "stay liquid."
Shanna's read on AI is nuanced rather than alarmist: the technology itself is neutral, and the real question is always about intention — is it deployed in service of people, or to control them.
The back half shifts into health and community. Shanna argues that an unhealthy nervous system makes it harder to create and easier to become dependent — but she's careful to note it's not always a personal failing, since community is supposed to carry people through illness. She closes with a callback to Catherine Austin Fitts' line that "the currency of the future is going to be relationships," tying the whole episode's threads — trusts, crypto, health, community — back into one idea: stewardship over extraction.
Shanna Faye's website:
https://shannafaye.com
Obtaining crypto privately:
Encryption service — Arcium:
Episode Summary
Oto sits down with Hakeem Anwar — founder of #TakeBackOurTech and Above, a privacy-first phone, laptop, and communications company — to map out exactly how the surveillance system works and what people can actually do about it.
They trace Hakeem's path from a decade-deep conspiracy rabbit hole through a big-tech career to founding Above after COVID convinced him he was "coding his own prison."
From there the conversation covers the AI data center boom (and the free tool Hakeem built, aidatacentermap.org, to track its water and power use), Palantir's "unified surveillance" model, the push toward digital ID, why he's grown wary of Bitcoin's transparency, and a live demo of de-Googled phones, offline maps, and the F-Droid app store.
They close on Hakeem's long-term vision: small communities running their own local servers and mesh networks, fully independent of Big Tech.
Chapters / Timestamps
(Shifted +1:05 to account for the trailer at the top of the episode)
00:00 – Trailer
01:05 – Intro & Hakeem's Red Pill Moment
03:05 – Rabbit Holes: From Conspiracy to Big Tech
04:05 – COVID, Freedom Cells & the Pivot to Above
08:05 – Why Privacy Matters: From Snowden to Data Brokers
10:05 – Brainwaves, EEGs & Where the Surveillance Line Stops
11:05 – The Data Center Boom: Four Theories on Why
13:05 – Inside AIDataCenterMap.org: Mapping Power & Water Use
16:05 – The Hidden Cost: Heat Islands & Water Wars
17:05 – San Marcos, Texas: How One Town Pushed Back
19:05 – Arizona's Data Center Gold Rush
21:05 – Wi-Fi Sensing, EMF & the Surveillance Feedback Loop
26:05 – Palantir & Unified Surveillance
28:05 – Digital ID: Why Nigeria Is Getting $200M to Build It
29:05 – Terms & Conditions: What Are You Really Agreeing To?
31:05 – Going Private: Why Oto Is Ready to Ditch His iPhone
32:05 – Inside F-Droid: The Open-Source App Store
34:05 – Is Bitcoin Compromised? A Privacy Maximalist's Take
38:05 – Forking Bitcoin: 35,000 Versions & What That Means
41:05 – Demo: Reading the "Nutrition Facts" on Your Apps
43:05 – Offline Maps & Passive GPS: How It Actually Works
45:05 – Wi-Fi Sensing & Seeing Through Walls
47:05 – Above's Movement: Hundreds of Thousands Going Private
49:05 – Layer Zero: Mesh Networks & Replacing the Internet
52:05 – Encrypted Chat, Phone-Over-Internet & Video Conferencing
54:05 – The Power of Taking the First Step in Your Community
58:05 – Sourcing, Repairability & Above Protect Insurance
59:05 – Vision: Community Server Farms & Sovereign Computing
1:01:05 – People Power: The Antidote to Centralized Control
1:02:05 – Re-Internalizing Self-Worth in a Tech-Dependent World
1:04:05 – Building an "Autobot": Oto's AI Assistant Plans
1:05:05 – Local AI Hardware: The Above Quantum 15
1:10:05 – Free Support: Above's White-Glove Onboarding
1:12:05 – Final Words: Have Faith & Invest in Your Health
1:14:05 – Closing & Where to Find Hakeem
Key Takeaways
Above builds de-Googled phones and laptops running open-source software (like GrapheneOS) that show users exactly which companies are tracking them inside any app, with no ads and no logging on Above's own services.
Hakeem's aidatacentermap.org tracks hyperscale data centers' estimated water and power draw, and includes case studies like San Marcos, TX, where a local group blocked a data center by showing up 100-strong to a rezoning hearing.
By 2030, data centers are projected to use 40–50% of current total US power consumption, according to the map's estimates.
Hakeem describes Palantir's model as "unified surveillance" — pulling disparate data (library check-ins, traffic cameras, police records) into one investigative platform — and ties it to the broader push toward digital ID.
Offline tools like the F-Droid app store and OpenStreetMap let phones navigate and function fully without an internet connection or Google/Apple location services.
Hakeem's long-term vision is community-run mesh networks and local server farms (8–30 households pooling resources) replacing reliance on Big Tech infrastructure entirely.
Learn More / Get Started
Data Center Impact Map — https://aidatacentermap.org
Above Phone & Laptop — https://abovephone.com (use code OTO50 for $50 off any device)
Hakeem's Writing — https://tbot.substack.com
CONNECT WITH OTO:
Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes
Website – https://otogomes.live
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