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

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

The rabbit hole can wake you up, and it can also become the place you never leave. In this solo episode, we look at life once outrage, arguments and the need to be right lose their grip. Twenty-plus years into questioning the official story, Yerasimos offers a barometer: the state of your health, your relationships, your bank account and the person in the mirror. Joel makes the case that clear values decide where your energy goes, and that self-esteem is what lets you act on what you want. From the Greek refrain “what will people say?” to Napoleon Hill’s warning that the devil’s agenda is to keep you drifting, we keep returning to the preciousness of a finite life. Every person lives a myth whether they realize it or not, and the work is to live yours awake. Connect with Us Join the Rise Above the Herd Waitlist Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Follow us on Instagram Join our membership Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes

This is one of the most moving conversations we’ve had on Here for the Truth, and among the hardest to hold. Kate Gladdin has taught resilience to more than 300,000 people, and she has no patience for the version of it that asks you to find the silver lining. Named one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence, she came to this work through loss she would undo in a heartbeat if she could, and can’t. She rejects the idea that resilience means bouncing back; we’re not bouncy balls, she says, and there is rarely a way back to who you were. Her claim is bracing: there is often no good in what happened to you. The good is what you build from the pieces you’re left holding. (00:00) Living With Loss (01:29) Meet Kate Gladdin (03:35) A Tragic Phone Call (09:32) Grief Integration Lessons (14:58) A Second Shattering Moment (20:32) Reform The Law (26:50) Courtroom Nightmare (32:38) Family Aftermath (34:07) Healing Not Happiness (40:50) Rewriting Trauma (48:44) Defining Real Resilience (53:09) Anger, Love, And Meaning (57:31) Action Based Healing (01:06:13) Real Check-Ins Matter (01:12:36) Messy Human Healing (01:16:25) Telling The Story Publicly (01:20:58) Signs, Spirituality And Mystery Guest Links Kate Gladdin’s Website Okay, Now What? — Kate’s Book The Nicole & Julie Fitzsimons Foundation Kate Gladdin 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

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

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

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

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 LinksThe Athlete's Approach Eben Britton on Instagram Be Here Farm — Belize Retreat Connect with UsRATH Academy Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Follow Here for the Truth on Instagram Join Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes

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

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/

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

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.comThe GNM Weekend — October 9–10, Los Angeles (use code HFTT10) Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem ResetFollow us on InstagramJoin our membership Friends of the TruthWatch All Episodes

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/areyouhereforthetruthJoin our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friendsWatch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/

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/

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/