The Ugly Truth About Political Programming | Annabella Rockwell DSH #828
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Rockelleβs Political Evolution
02:39 - Importance of Changing Your Mind
07:27 - Media's Impact on Political Beliefs
08:44 - Significance of Critical Thinking
12:49 - Big Pharma and Its Influence
17:28 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
19:58 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Discussion
22:28 - Benefits of Veganism
24:20 - Role of Religion in Society
27:10 - Impact of Private Equity
28:19 - Personal Excellence as Rebellion
29:05 - Final Messages and Takeaways
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I actually was at a dinner party the other night.
It's a girl's dinner, really fun.
Politics came up.
Everyone's like, kind of, who are you voting for?
And she goes, oh, I'm voting for Kamala.
And I was like, oh, God, okay.
Why?
Abortion, the only issue.
And I was like,
why?
Why is this like the number one issue that people are voting on?
So many women have been programmed to think that this is the most important issue.
Rockwell here today, former Democrat.
Former, yes.
And now what are you?
A proud conservative.
Okay.
Yeah.
Right-wing extremist, perhaps.
Whoa, that's a big change.
And what year did that take place exactly?
It's an evolution, right?
But definitely 2020 is, I think, when things really clicked and I started to see the world differently.
Or more than that.
2020.
So after Trump left?
On the cusp.
On the cusp.
Yes.
I voted for him the second time.
Oh, wow.
The first time I actually worked on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
No way.
Yeah.
What?
In 2016.
What was your role there?
I did field in Virginia.
We won that area, so I did my job.
You did your job.
At the time, you thought you were doing what was right.
Yeah.
Oh, for sure.
Right.
And then what were some things you witnessed there that made you question stuff?
I didn't question until it started maybe 2018.
I also worked on the Andrew Gillam campaign, who is the, if...
you don't recall, he was the Democratic candidate running against our current governor, Ron DeSantis.
So he was like the really, really progressive Democrat that was going to maybe be the governor of Florida.
Thank the Lord.
We failed at that one, but it was really close.
It was like 50,000 votes.
Damn.
Yeah.
Ron's been crushing it.
Crushing it.
Florida could have been a lot different then.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
2020, like we were free.
We were fairly open.
There were a couple weeks that we weren't, but witnessing that is what really sort of snapped.
I was like, okay.
I have so much freedom and ability right now to continue living my life.
And I think isolation is really dangerous for people.
Like I was living alone.
I was was like, I need to see my friends.
I need to be social.
I need to do things.
The fear-mongering that's happening up north, like that's going to make people sick.
And I think, I mean, we're seeing it, right?
Like people are still kind of in psychosis.
There's still people that wear masks in their cars.
Like that's it.
I was physically sick when I was in LA during COVID.
Really?
Like it was so bad that the mental stress just made my body like physically sick.
Yeah.
It was terrible.
And that was how a majority of America, other than Florida and maybe a couple other cities in Texas, I don't remember, but you guys did great with how you handled handled COVID.
Yeah, I mean, we felt it here, but just the juxtaposition of Florida versus the rest of the country.
I mean, being here, it really like, it changed the way I saw things for sure.
Absolutely.
So 2020, what was that?
Like, was it a defining moment where you switched, or was it just a compilation of a few events?
There were a couple moments, right?
Leading up to it, you know, I got sober, so I stopped drinking, started to have a connection with a higher power.
I think that's really important, the spirituality component, because when I was a Democrat, I was kind of like obsessed with it.
Like leftism is definitely a religion.
And if you look at it, like the Marxist roots, it makes sense.
Like you have to remove kind of a spiritual presence.
Government is God.
And I fell into that.
And there's a lot of rituals in that, right?
So as I was kind of on my own faith journey exploring things, that the chains broke a bit.
It didn't have as much of a hold on me.
And so I was able to kind of see things clearly.
I joke like I'm sober now.
I'm conservative.
Like I was drinking and I was a Democrat because like I didn't know what was going on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you were pounding them.
I don't know.
I'm not going to say that, but it's just different, different mental state, right?
Like, I'm level-headed all the time.
I'd love to see videos of you in this Democratic state.
Yeah, maybe after the interview.
Wow.
I can't even picture it because I just met you now.
So do you believe young women only vote on one issue?
Yeah, I do.
And my concern right now is that young women are getting emotionally manipulated by the left.
Because of the abortion issue.
Yep, the abortion issue.
I actually was at a dinner party the other night.
It was girls' dinner, really fun, lovely.
The host, politics came up, right?
I didn't know her that well and everyone's like, kind of, who are you voting for?
And she goes, oh, I'm voting for Kamala.
And I was like, oh, God, okay.
Why?
Abortion, the only issue.
And I was like, why?
And of course, it's always followed with, I mean, I would never get one, but I just want women to be able to have access to their health care.
It's all like, it's just fake.
It's all fake.
It's not health care.
It's also completely preventable, right?
Women don't have to be in that position.
I think there are so many other options.
Imagine if we pro-life, pro-choice, came together and instead focused on pro-education, right?
We could have initiatives in schools for young women, maybe teaching them how to track their cycles, how to know their bodies.
You can't get pregnant every day of the month.
Why is this like the number one issue that people are voting on?
We have people overdosing all the time of fentanyl.
We have an open border.
Hello, the market crashed today.
The economy is not doing well.
It's terrible.
Like, there are bigger things.
They're just bigger things, right?
But so many women have been programmed to think that this is the most important issue.
And that is why I said before, like...
the emotional manipulation of women is very concerning to me.
And the fact that Kamala is a woman, it's very reminiscent of 2016 and the messaging around it, like you're obligated to vote for her because she's a female.
No, I'm not.
And I think that that's just very, it's convincing
and it's scary because I think she could win.
Yeah, I think a lot of women will vote for her just because she's a female.
Yeah.
But it's good to change.
She's also a communist.
Right.
Yeah, we'll go there.
But similar story to Amber Rose with you then.
Yeah.
So I love that she spoke at the RNC.
I know she had a lot of pushback.
I think it's great.
Candace Owens interviewed her really recently.
I think there's a lot of power in stories of transformation.
We're allowed to change our minds.
And when I changed my mind, a lot of friends I had that were on the left, like,
they kind of fell off.
I didn't have permission to change.
Whereas as I started to evolve, I noticed that a lot of people that maybe had more conservative or Republican values
were embracing me.
And even when I was more liberal, I would still try to have discussions with people.
And I was always able to like kind of talk to Republicans.
But if it's the opposite, like if someone that's conservative is trying to maybe challenge someone that's liberal, there's just not as much open-mindedness, which is so ironic and hypocritical.
But it is true.
That's how politics should be.
You should be able to talk to the other side.
Yeah, it should be a dialogue.
And I think at the end of the day, like we probably agree on 80% of the issues, but the media and the people in power
focus on maybe 10 to 20% of what we're divided on, like the abortion issue, right?
Which should be so far back, like should not even matter.
They've debated that for my whole lifetime, I feel like.
Right?
Crazy.
I've seen that in the news for like 20 years.
Forever.
And it's so unnecessary.
And I also think that it is like kind of triggering for people to talk about that all the time.
Granted, I'm talking about it right now.
But I do think at the end of the day, like we have a lot more commonalities than differences.
And
we're being forced to have this division.
Like it's
not organic.
It's orchestrated.
Yeah.
Well, I grew up pretty left in Jersey, which is pretty left state.
And I thought Republicans were evil growing up.
And I just realized it was a lot of programming, honestly, from the media.
How did you change your mind?
Trump.
2016 or 2020?
16.
Lucky you.
Yeah, I was early.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I remember getting shit.
I posted a photo of Trump in like 2017, 2018.
Got so many F views, like people unfollowing me and stuff.
You're so badass.
Well, back then it was, but now it's like more normal to back him.
I feel like if you liked him in 2016 and then you got to live through those next four years, it was the best four years ever.
Yeah, it's like I told you so.
Yeah, like
it must have been so fun.
Like just riding the high.
Yeah.
The first three years I was like, oh my God, this guy came with the tweets.
And then finally I snapped out of it and I was like, holy shit.
Excuse my language.
He's so good.
He was such a good president.
Well, the tweets were wild, to be fair.
The tweets were wild.
Yeah.
But like bring back tweets.
I just told Bo I want him back on Twitter.
Yeah.
Like that'd be great.
That would be.
I miss him on Twitter.
Because Twitter now is crazy.
It is.
I mean, it's better in a way because there's more truth.
Yeah.
But it's almost like there's too much free speech.
It's lawless.
Yeah.
They're going after like Jewish people now.
And like, it's, yeah, it's pretty crazy on there.
It is.
It is.
I think that, though, it's important to practice like
not taking everything as fact as soon as you read it.
You know, it's almost a good social experiment.
Like, there's so much nonsense out there.
You kind of have to weed through it.
It's like, it's good.
I think it's training us to just not take everything in.
Well, they do have that fact-checker, which is hilarious sometimes.
Yeah.
Like someone will make a tweet.
I'm be like, nope, you're wrong.
I think it's the Babylon B gets fact-checked all the time.
Oh, yeah.
It's hysterical.
Like they're a parody account.
Yeah, it's nuts.
Shout out to Elon.
Yeah, big time.
I'm a big fan.
When he backed Trump, I was shocked.
I know.
I couldn't believe it.
I know.
And he doesn't even care.
Like, if it affects, if it affects stock prices or not, because at the end of the day, I guess he just wants Tesla to be independent, right?
Make lots of money,
have jobs, great jobs.
It's he's, I like him because he actually, he's living his values.
Free speech is so important to him.
The fact that he bought Twitter, now X, the fact that he's actually speaking what's on his mind, like he is a man who lives his values.
I think we need more of that in society.
I love him way more now that he's doing that.
And now I know the reason with his interview with Jordan Peterson.
I missed it.
Can you fill me in a little bit?
Yeah, so he talked about one of the main reasons he bought Twitter was because his son turned transgender because he believes that person was programmed by the media.
Yeah, I remember reading about that last year actually in the New York Post and kind of saying something about it like, I told you like the schools are indoctrinating kids.
And
it's just, it's really, oh.
And like I said, I think like women are more easily manipulated because we're just more emotional.
That's something that I had kind of been taught, right, while I was at school.
I went to a women's college.
Oh, wow.
Very academically rigorous, world-renowned, great school, hard to get into.
I was really proud to go there.
I had a great time, honestly.
But in the aftermath, in the real world, I realized I'd been taught all these things that were so counterintuitive to the way the world actually works, right?
Like, even though I thought gender was a spectrum, I also was told that like there is no difference between men and women.
Like, first of all, gender is a binary.
It's not a spectrum.
Emotions are a spectrum.
Like, full stop.
Right.
Men and women are different.
Like, we don't think or see things the same.
And that's kind of the beauty of, you know, this, the synergy of men and women.
And it, it's something that I think
has just,
it's so interesting, like the language around all of this, that if you hear a lie enough times, it becomes the truth.
And I think that's what happened to Elon's kid.
Yeah.
And a lot of celebrities' kids.
Yeah.
Not just Elon.
Yeah, but a lot of celebrities are super woke.
So like they're feeding into it, which is really sick.
It's sad.
it's sad.
It's like your kids crying out for help, like something else is deeper.
Like, I have empathy for someone that is so confused and so unhappy that they think they need to change everything about themselves, and that's the solution.
Right.
Also, how does it make sense if we're simultaneously telling people that are obese that like they're perfect, they should accept everything?
Isn't it the same logic that you would tell someone that if they're perfect the way they are, why why do they have to change?
Wow,
that's like some liberal logic.
No, It never adds up.
I just don't like that they're pushing it on kids.
Yeah.
Like their brains aren't even formed.
Like, if you want to do that, I guess wait, like be an adult.
Right.
I guess like to each their own, right?
At the end of the day, if someone's an adult and they want to change everything about themselves, they are entitled to.
You know, I mean, I'm someone that's changed a lot, like ideologically, but I do think that if you're like, cutting off body parts, if you're taking all this medication, first of all, you're just going to be like a pharma slave for for the rest of your life.
There's just so much more that goes into it as opposed to like affirming feelings.
And like I said, like feelings change.
You know, you, it's like there are phases that people grow out of.
And that's not to diminish the reality of what people are putting themselves through.
But I do think that there is a level of it being a fad and it's, and it's being fueled because it's trendy.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Speaking of like the medical field, you made a lot of posts about drugs and big pharma and stuff and fentanyl.
Yeah.
I'd love for you to explain your stance on that.
Sure.
Well, I'm, I mean, I'm very anti-drug, right?
I think that the opioid crisis has crossed class barriers.
Everyone knows someone that's been affected by it.
Like everyone has a story of a friend that was addicted to drugs or has passed away.
And where did that come from, right?
Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, like it.
They knew what was going on, you know, not to say that they orchestrated this, but there was a lot of knowledge and just the whole healthcare system needs to be changed, right?
There is too much, there's too much money in pharmaceuticals.
And it's interesting because my family was in the pharmaceutical industry, and I was kind of always taught growing up, like,
don't take things.
Yeah.
Really?
Yes, like try to be as holistic as possible.
Wow, that's kind of ironic, right?
I know.
I know.
And Trump's talking about it now, too.
He wants to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable.
I saw that.
Him and RFK, both of them.
I mean, I love, like, modern medicine's great.
I love Tylenol.
I take it all.
I used to take Tylenol and I had the lost for soccer games when I was normal.
I was like popping a pill.
And I know that, I mean, it's an amazing time to be alive.
We have so much access to things, but too much, you know, like when you're going to a dentist and you have a cavity and they're prescribing you Xanax, that's a true story that happened to people.
Don't do that.
Yeah.
Like, what?
It's just the mindset around it.
It's so,
it's too easy.
It's just too easy.
Like, let's not just pop a pill.
Let's like look at the full picture.
Like, what's really at the root of this?
Yeah, I can't believe a dentist can even give you Xanax.
I know.
It's crazy to me.
Yeah.
I got Xanax easily from a doctor.
First day I ever met him.
Easy, right?
He said I had anxiety.
Yeah.
That almost ended my life.
I ended up having a seizure.
Damn.
But they don't tell you how to taper off it or how to take more doses.
Seriously addictive.
So addictive.
Yeah.
Holy crap.
No, for real.
Like,
were you on Xanax for a while?
Yeah, I did.
I have taken it.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was rough getting off it.
Funny enough, I was prescribed it for the first time in college is when I started to get anxiety attacks.
And it's interesting because that's when I was like really buying into a lot of the like feminist doctrine and leftism and it was so overwhelming because I was looking at things from this like victim lens.
Of course you're going to have anxiety if you think the whole world's out to get you just because you're a woman, you know?
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
That feminist movement was big.
Yeah.
I remember that one.
It's going to research.
You think so?
Kamala 2024, without a doubt.
Please.
You entered college happy.
You left angry and upset.
Yeah, with a Xanax prescription.
Yeah.
And that's crazy.
You should be leaving leaving college excited about the future.
I know.
Right?
That's what it was there for.
Yeah.
To learn an occupation and get a job.
Did you end up using your degree at least?
Kind of because I studied history and politics.
I then got my MBA.
I lived in Barcelona for a year and that was interesting because I was very liberal when I lived there.
But Spain is kind of a more traditional country.
And it was it.
I remember it was like very confusing to me that just the culture was so different and just coming from this like very staunch like leftist lens.
So yeah, I mean, I'm I'm grateful for my experience.
I'm grateful that I went.
You know, I went on national TV and like maybe called my college a cult.
Really?
Oops.
I went on Tucker Carlson.
And that I think was perhaps a little bit dramatic.
But
in the aftermath, I have had hundreds, if not thousands of parents reach out to me saying, like, thank you for sharing your story because my kid went away and they're so different now.
And I'm like, well, yeah, like, this is just par for the course.
All the colleges in America are so liberal, but it's now like high schools, middle schools, lower schools, private schools, Christian schools, whatever.
It's everywhere, you know?
Yeah.
Do you think schools should even incorporate any form of politics?
I mean, I think it's important to read the classes.
I think it's important to know to understand, yes, we should have open discussion.
We should have dialogue.
The problem is that there is no open discussion or dialogue anymore.
Everything's very biased.
And I think it partially comes down to personal responsibility of a professor
to be the one to not
have bias as you're grading or giving people assignments, but that's not happening.
And also all these colleges have DEI representatives.
And so it's coming kind of from top-down from the administration.
So it's very hard to avoid the bias.
But yeah, of course we should learn about politics.
Like we live in a democracy.
I love politics.
Like I love discussion.
And I think that so many people have fought for our right to vote.
So we should be practicing that.
So yeah, I think it's important.
What's DEI?
Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Oh, I heard about this.
So every company has to have a certain percent, right, of each.
Yes, yes.
It's kind of like affirmative action.
But
it's a social,
it's like a social program, basically.
Yeah, do you think it's been effective?
In changing corporations from the inside out, yes.
And then as a result, our society is becoming more woke.
DEI has actually been rained back in a lot in the last few months.
Companies are saying that they're not going to implement these policies anymore because they are you lose money.
You're not making money.
Like, do you remember last year, the Target boycotts?
Yeah.
Okay, so Target was selling like,
I guess,
a lot of swimwear for children that had a lot of like Pride Month.
It was just like Pride Month Month paraphernalia, and they had those like tucking underwear for trans children.
And people were so obsessed with it.
And remember, Bud Light, the Bud Light boy caught like
those two things right there are a result of some, of like a DEI initiative.
Like, let's try to be more inclusive.
And then they implement it, and the consumer is like, what?
This is like, this isn't what we want.
Like, I'm coming here for my like paper towels.
Like, for real.
Can we leave
agendas out of it it should be based off talent if I'm hiring people why would I care what race or
age or gender you are yeah it shouldn't matter but if you're skilled at 15 or whatever like I'll hire you and that's why capitalism is the best model also capitalism is like what we need to save America yeah right well it gets tricky there because big companies have a lot of say in policies too like big pharma big food they do uh with the war companies so I am a fan of capitalism to a certain level but then I think the companies get a little too much influence You know what I mean?
Because look at what Google's doing censoring the assassination attempt.
Yeah, we are.
Oh my God, that's
so terrible.
They have too much power.
I'm glad you brought that up because we're going to need a record of it because people are going to forget.
No, there's already like
so many videos on it.
It's crazy.
Yeah, people forget quick, though.
People forget so quickly.
But you literally can't even Google the assassination attempt.
I mean, that's criminal.
I'm someone that's for less regulation.
I think we need it to be easier to start businesses.
Also, I think like less college,
I don't think that people need to just go to four years of university.
I think go into the workforce, especially for young men.
I don't know why.
Just, I think that
I do think young women maybe benefit a little bit more from going to university.
This is just a full, this is my opinion, my observation.
And I think young men benefit more from just going right into the workforce.
I can see that.
I mean, those are your prime years.
To be spent in a classroom, it's kind of like a wasted potential, in my opinion.
Yeah, there's like a lot of money to be made.
Yeah, like I started working at 18.
Like, that's when you have the most energy yeah like why would you want to spend and especially med school i mean you kind of need med school but some schools are so prolonged
yeah you know well now there's ai doctors i didn't know about that yeah so they could self-diagnose your diseases through this body scan i think it's called prinubo okay and it could detect cancer really early and stuff and soon there'll be robots doing the surgeries okay are you a fan of that at all uh i'll get back to you
yeah ai is such a new thing it's hard to really form a concrete opinion on it Yeah, I definitely take it into account when I'm investing.
You know, I think that AI is, it's, it already, the future is here, it's already happening.
And so I am, I'm not someone that's like resistant to technological advances and change.
I think we have to embrace them to a certain extent.
Like, let's not wipe out humanity in the meantime.
Yeah.
But I didn't know that about the AI doctor.
I went to a dentist the other day and they took photos of my teeth and they put it into an AI software.
Yeah.
And they told me how many cavities I had.
It was crazy.
How many cavities?
Seven.
It was bad.
Yeah, it was bad.
But how cool is that?
Like, that's really cool.
There's no human error.
Like, they could even find really small ones and they found some things in my gum too.
Yeah.
So who's going to fill your cavities?
A dentist or a merchant?
So yeah, I'm going to a holistic dentist.
So they fill the cavities there.
And the problem with traditional dentists is not all of them, but a lot of them use this filling with PFAs in it.
Okay.
Forever plastics.
Yeah.
And that's in your teeth.
Forever.
Forever.
Forever.
Yeah.
So it's just leeching the toxins in your mouth.
I just learned something new and I feel like I'm pretty aware of like anything holistic that that's a newer one.
Yeah.
That's new.
The problem is it's super expensive.
Yeah.
I had to pay $8,000 to fill seven cavities.
Wow.
Which insurance doesn't cover.
No, of course not.
So if you want to be healthy, you got to
spend a lot, you know.
Oh my God.
And you have to eat grass-fed meat.
Yeah.
And that's like triple the price of normal.
Yeah.
I was a vegan for a long time too.
Oh, you fell for that too?
Wow.
You made massive changes.
No, I fell for all of it, Sean, all of it.
Holy crap.
The vegan one is almost worse than the Democrat one.
It is.
And I have this crazy theory that
the vegan diet is pushed to weaken us.
Like you're not getting enough.
You can't get enough B vitamins and our brain needs, we need B12, we need the Bs.
You're not getting enough.
So it like feeds into mental illness.
You start to have mood swings.
If If you're, if you're not, if you're malnourished, you're malnourished, even though you think you're eating enough, you're malnourished.
Crazy.
Total scam.
Vegans just don't look healthy when you look at them.
No.
Or just physical appearance alone.
It's, it, yeah.
They almost got me with the beyond meat stuff.
Right.
I tried it.
Oh, they got me.
It tasted like shit.
Yeah, they got me once and just purely tastes before all the seed oil thing came out.
Yeah.
I just didn't like it.
And it's good.
They got you, though, for a while now.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, man.
The ingredients in there are scary.
I know.
So many.
Can't pronounce any of them.
There's countries banning fake meat.
Yeah.
I think Italy banned fake chicken or something.
Good.
It's just so weird that we were able to be convinced that actual meat is worse for us than
chemicals, a list of chemicals.
Yeah.
Make it make sense.
The marketing.
Yeah.
They're really good at the programming.
Yes.
You know?
Wow, look at you, though.
This is crazy.
What else were you back then?
Oh, my God.
I mean, I could go issue by issue by issue.
You were Democrat, vegan.
Yeah.
It's hard to top those three right there.
I know.
Damn.
I know.
I had pink hair for a bit.
Oh, you were pink hair.
That's like a meme.
Crazy pink hair lady.
Yeah.
Wow.
Whoever dated you back then
must have been a trooper.
You know?
Well, I've always been cute.
Okay.
Looks will get you far.
Looks will get you far in America.
Yeah.
I like that you're spiritual, though.
That's important.
Yeah.
Oh, we could add atheists to that former list.
I was atheist too, though.
Okay.
I feel like that's...
Well, church is just kind of a weird vibe.
You know what I mean?
Like going to church growing up.
Yeah.
It's almost like you're forcing it.
It's boring.
It's so boring growing up.
It's boring.
It's forced.
You don't want to go as a kid.
I didn't retain anything.
Nothing.
I can't remember a single thing.
Now I appreciate it, though.
Like.
I'll go to an Episcopalian service.
I go just on holidays with my family.
Now I try like
non-denominational churches or I just sort of figure it out on my own, right?
but if you like open the hymnal so many of the songs are hundreds of years old that to me is really cool like that's very that's very significant that we've been able to like continue having these same songs since like the 1400s 1500s yeah yeah I think that's beautiful music is healing yeah like the old music not the new music that is actually harmful it is it's so bad it's so bad I don't listen to any modern hip-hop rap anything yeah what do you like to listen to 70s and like 80s the best 70s best music decade.
Yeah.
Hands down.
That's when the vibration was high.
You just feel great.
I love the Rolling Stones.
Oh, can't beat that.
Man, atheist, too.
Yeah, I went through that.
Was it a little psychedelic trip that changed that for you?
No, not at all.
It was the opposite.
I stopped doing drugs.
Oh.
Wow.
Not that I, I'm just going to preface, not that I really did drugs
podcasts.
I know you get lots of viewers.
I do have a job.
No, you're good.
I, my spiritual journey, it's been over time.
It's been very slow.
I think the first thing that I kind of could understand was time.
Like I wasn't in control of the fact that like with each day of making a change, like maybe I felt a little bit better.
That sort of evolved into energy.
What I put out is what I get back.
And then from there, it just, like, I believed that other people believed.
And then all of a sudden, I just started to look at my life and the way the stars aligned.
And it, like, the God coincidence, the God.
God sedences, like, there were too many of them for me to question it anymore.
I was like, okay, I'm going to choose to believe in this.
And then it's sort of, as soon as I made that choice, it was like, whoa.
I just started to feel it all the time, like the presence of something.
I love it.
Because living as an atheist with no purpose is kind of like depressing.
So depressing.
Nihilism is terrible.
Yeah.
Terrible for people.
Absolutely.
I'm sure it feeds into the mental health crisis that we're facing.
Oh, for sure.
Take a little bit of spirituality and put some theft in your stuff, you know?
Touch some grass, guys.
Yes.
Touch some grass.
Eat some
meat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Eat some meat.
Grass-fed meat.
Talk to God.
Simple things.
You think you don't have to spend crazy money to it's all it well.
I guess it's not totally free, but like it's cheap.
Yeah.
The solution is cheap.
The spiritual side.
Yeah.
Definitely.
I want to end off with private equity, which is what you're doing now.
Yeah.
How'd you get involved with that?
So my background was finance.
After Hillary lost, I was like, I'm going to Wall Street because like the good little feminist has like, I need to go to a male-dominated industry and change it.
Yeah.
Side note, I love the patriarchy.
Like we're reformed.
I think it's great.
Like, I don't want to pave the roads, you know?
Yeah, I sure love that.
I don't even want to do that.
I want to pay someone that's great at doing that to do that.
And I will be behind
a microphone.
So private equity, it was one of those things.
You know, I worked on Wall Street, have all my licenses, took a hiatus, worked for this amazing nonprofit called Prague or You.
That's when I fell into media, right?
That interview with Tucker Carlson just happened.
I had the story.
It went viral.
Then I was like, okay, this is my service right now.
Like, I'm gonna do this.
And then I decided that I wanted to go back into kind of what I'd been doing and maybe fight the good fight as a little bit more of a hobby.
Nice.
That's cool.
Good for you.
Is it your own company or do you work for?
No, I work for a boutique firm.
Nice.
Yeah.
That's cool.
Anything else?
I know there's a quote here.
Personal excellence is the ultimate form of rebellion.
Yeah.
That's your quote.
It is.
It is.
I mean, I have lots of them, but that's my one right now.
What does that mean to you?
Take responsibility, right?
It all starts with like me first.
I love a routine, waking up early, you know, working out, the simple things, right?
That like keep me healthy and my best self so that I can also help other people in the process.
And I think that we are examples like how we hold ourselves.
We have to live our values.
And my values are, you know, honesty, reliability, spirituality is very important, but that means I have to be honest and I have to be reliable.
And that comes down to like holding myself to a high standard, which is personal excellence.
Love it.
Closing messages.
We got a really young audience here.
I'd love for you to share some wisdom before we wrap this up.
Okay.
Get humble or get humiliated.
Bars.
We'll leave it there.
Thanks for coming on.
Thanks so much for having me.
Link yourself below.
Awesome.
Thanks for watching, guys.
As always, we'll see you next time.