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Here For The Truth

by Joel & Yerasimos · English · Learning

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

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 33 min
Latest: 11 Oct 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

Ep 318 - Brian Costello | Staring Betrayal in the Eye: Forgiveness & the Primordial Code

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…

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E317 · 4 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Ep 317 - Joel & Yerasimos | Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Living Your Personal Myth
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…
E316 · 27 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 31 min
Ep 316 - Kate Gladdin | Resilience Is Not Bouncing Back
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…
E315 · 20 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 21 min
Ep 315 - Satsang | In the Company of the Highest Truth
Satsang owns every master he has ever recorded, and building a career independent enough to keep it that way cost him more than any label deal would have paid. Drew came up through an abusive house, psychedelics at thirteen, addiction and sobriety, then spent every dollar he had on a trip to Nepal instead of the reliable car everyone was waiting for. The band took its name from a stranger's handwritten note outside a Kathmandu ashram. This one lives where ownership meets art — the predatory arithmetic of the record business, and his refusal to let AI near the part of being human that music…
E314 · 13 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 31 min
Ep 314 - Ruby Fremon | Cracked Open: A Story of Grief, Collapse & Aliveness
Ruby Fremon returns for her second appearance, a somatic practitioner and author of Potent Leadership who spent a decade coaching leaders before her own life came apart. When her dog was killed under the watch of negligent sitters and her public search for the truth was met with a million-dollar defamation suit, the hyper-independent identity she'd built collapsed into a full nervous-system shutdown. What she found on the far side reorders what the healing world sells: that catharsis and spiritual platitudes bypass the actual human being, that real repair happens in slow, subtle shifts at…
E313 · 6 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 49 min
Ep 313 - Chance Garton | Tartaria Exposed: Sacred Cows & the Psychology of Conspiracy
Chance Garton returns for his third visit to Here for the Truth, and his first in four years — biofield tuning practitioner, host of the Innerverse Podcast, and one of the rare researchers willing to take the Tartaria conspiracy seriously enough to check its claims against the primary sources. Once a believer himself, Chance traces how the “Old World reset” narrative of mud floods, buried cities, and buildings too beautiful for ordinary people to have built snowballed into a grand unifying theory that now operates like a religion inside truther culture. Underneath the debunking is the…
E312 · 30 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 54 min
Ep 312 - Eben Britton | The Man Beneath the Armor
Eben Britton spent six seasons as an NFL offensive lineman, a body built for collision, before a ruptured disc, a dislocated shoulder, and a cabinet of painkillers left him shattered at twenty-seven. We meet the man underneath the armor, and ask what remains when the identity you built your life around is stripped away injury by injury. Eben reads his injuries as psyche made physical, the weight of a family he carried on his back with no foundation to hold it. He traces the road out through a men's twelve-step room, cannabis, yoga, and the years he and Mike Tyson spent shepherding each other…
E311 · 23 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 54 min
Ep 311 - Dr. Richard Massey & Natasha Nazerali | The Beauty of Biology
Dr. Richard Massey spent decades as an anesthesiologist before walking out of the operating room and, years later, losing his medical license — a rupture that led him to Recall Healing and Family Constellations. Natasha Nazerali came the other way, raised inside German New Medicine at her mother's kitchen table before her father's sudden death turned her toward the work fully. Together for the first time, they read the same body from different angles — Richard through a single droplet of blood and lymph under the microscope, Natasha through the conflict-maps of German New Medicine — and land…
E310 · 16 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 36 min
Ep 310 - David Sutcliffe | Know Yourself...Then Get On With It
David Sutcliffe returns to Here for the Truth — somatic practitioner, former Gilmore Girls actor, and a man who has spent over a decade sitting with people as they meet the parts of themselves they'd rather not look at. This is a wide-ranging, no-off-ramps conversation about what it actually takes to know yourself: following spirit and the signs it sends, coming home to the body as the seat of real presence, and being honest about the primal drives most of us bury — status, rage, envy, the hunger for power. But David's real provocation is where it lands: at some point the self-analysis has…
E309 · 9 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 36 min
Ep 309 - Anthony Rispo | Power, Privilege & the Psychology of Politics
Anthony Rispo came up on the progressive left — a gay man who found a home in an ideology that rewarded his grievance, teal hair and half-mohawk included. Then the pandemic, BLM, and the campus orthodoxy around him stopped adding up, and he read his way out. Now a writer, independent researcher, and Columbia psychology graduate studying cognitive neuroscience, he maps the wiring beneath our politics: identity fusion, moral conviction, selective empathy, and the resentment Nietzsche named. We get into why the left cancels hardest in the name of compassion, why “power and privilege” became a…
E308 · 2 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 35 min
Ep 308 - Mike Winner | Purity Spiraling & the Myth of Total Sovereignty
Mike Winner spent a decade DJing Hollywood clubs before turning toward the infrastructure of digital freedom — founder of WINNR Digital, co-founder of the decentralized internet Qortal, and co-founder of the Music & Sky festival. Returning for the first time since 2022, he brings a caution aimed squarely at his own community: purity spiraling, the habit of turning discernment into a cage where every meal, every device, and every dollar becomes a moral exam. Real sovereignty, as he frames it, is less glamorous and far more demanding. It is what you actually own, what you actually think, and…
E307 · 26 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
Ep 307 - Joel & Yerasimos | Become Someone First
The binary was never the point. Individualism on one side, collectivism on the other — pick a jersey, join a team. But the line that actually matters runs somewhere else: between a person who has a self and a person who has dissolved into the group. In this episode, Joel and Yerasimos pull the threads on what collectivism is actually doing to the psyche — the altruistic programming that weaponizes moral guilt against your own desires, the truth-seeker community that becomes its own herd, and the envy that surfaces when you watch someone else stop asking permission to live. The conversation…
E306 · 19 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 33 min
Ep 306 - Jared Pickard | Cultivating a Biodynamic Life
Jared Pickard traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange until his soul, in his words, started screaming for something the city couldn’t give him — real connection with nature. He walked off the floor for an unpaid farming apprenticeship, spent a decade building Be Here Farm & Nature into a world-class hospitality dream on 300 acres of Napa-Sonoma mountaintop, and watched it burn to the ground in the 2020 wildfires two days after it finally penciled. What he found in the ashes is the heart of this conversation: that biodynamic farming is less a technique than a practice occurring…
E305 · 12 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
Ep 305 - Kyree Oliver | Don't Die Empty
Kyree Oliver is a former Division 1 lineman turned self-taught marketer and men's coach who, before he was 25, had already interviewed over 1,000 people — including 65 in the final weeks of their lives. The pattern he found in those rooms is what carries this whole conversation: most men are running on the wrong fuel, chasing the wrong definition of success, and the bill only comes due at the very end. Kyree brings the calm precision of someone who has watched a man die with four people at his funeral after making half a billion dollars in his life, and coached young men into the…
E304 · 5 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 32 min
Ep 304 - Mark Vicente | The Narcissist’s Playbook
Mark Vicente returns to the show — South African filmmaker, twelve-year NXIVM survivor, and one of the central whistleblowers in HBO’s The Vow — for a conversation timed to the release of his new documentary The Narcissist’s Playbook. Years of interviewing self-confessed narcissists, cult survivors, and clinicians have given Mark a clear lens on what most people sense but can’t name: the same pathology that runs a cult runs a marriage, an activist movement, a political party, a society. Dissociation is the operating system. Mimicry is the mask. The pathology of the leader becomes the…
E303 · 28 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
Ep 303 - Ariana Victor | Just Look Up
Ariana Victor is an investigative filmmaker whose first decade in this work has been one long act of refusal — at twenty, inside a treatment program for eating disorders, when a therapist took notes on her late-night creative sparks and reached for a bipolar diagnosis, she walked out and started asking harder questions. That refusal became a method: Carey Gillam’s Whitewash, the Bayer-Monsanto courtrooms, five years inside geoengineering territory, and Just Look Up, a documentary that just won Best Feature Documentary at the Santa Monica International Film Festival. The conversation lives in…
E302 · 21 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
Ep 302 - Joel & Yerasimos | Spiritual Lies
What if most of what we've been sold as spirituality is actually the opposite of it — a doctrine that calls self-erasure enlightenment, a path that asks you to amputate the parts of yourself most needed for a sovereign life? In this rap on authentic spirituality, Joel and Yerasimos name the territory directly: the new cage of asceticism, gnosticism, and the love-and-light bypass that disguises dissociation as awakening; the platitudes that gloss over reality instead of meeting it; the body as the warehouse of self-knowledge; and anger, when reclaimed, as one of the most generative forces a…
E301 · 14 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 29 min
Ep 301 - Topher Gardner | Boundaries, Biochar & the Slaying of Idols
Topher Gardner is the founder of Black Gold Biochar, a regenerative builder, a lifelong bodyworker, and a former Division I football kicker who has actually walked the path most spiritual seekers only theorize about. He played at Michigan State under Nick Saban, spent three more years in pro leagues, and rebuilt the body football broke through Rolfing and yoga. That work took him to southern India, where he served as operations director of an ashram before the new age yoga world wore him out. He landed in Costa Rica, where for nearly two decades he built domes, taught regenerative…
E300 · 7 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 2 min
Ep 300 - Michael Tsarion & David Whitehead | Truth Against the World
Michael Tsarion and David Whitehead have appeared on Here for the Truth seventeen times between them. For the show's three hundredth episode, they sit down together with us for the first time — co-hosts of Unslaved, the long-form, ad-free platform Michael started in 2016 as the antidote to everything truth-seeking content had become. The conversation circles Michael's signature concept of psychic immunity — that knowledge without the inner discipline to metabolize it just produces louder, more articulate versions of the same lost person. David brings it into the language of intellectual…
E299 · 31 May 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
Ep 299 - Kristen Nagle | Reclaiming Birth: A Former NICU Nurse's Reckoning
In this episode, we sit down with Kristen Nagle: former NICU nurse turned whistleblower and founder of Reclaiming Birth. Her story is the arc of a system insider who couldn't unsee what she was a part of — a hospital culture that worships intervention, a profession that pathologizes the female body, and a machine that punishes the nurses who name it. We trace her hero's journey from the injections she administered that she now warns against, through public termination and media smears, to a betrayal letter from inside her own family. We explore the pivot from fighting freedom to creating it,…
E298 · 24 May 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
Ep 298 - Christopher August | Sometimes the Sign Is a Billboard
In this episode, we sit down with Christopher August — breathwork facilitator, author, and co-founder of Beats and Breath — for a conversation that runs from a literal billboard to a near-death drowning on the Zambezi that seeded the mission he’s lived ever since. We trace his path from corporate tech and quiet despair into Peace Corps Tanzania, the medicine work that reopened his capacity to feel, and the slow alchemy of moving from victim to creator. We talk about soul sickness as a cultural diagnosis, the inner child as the keys to freedom, and the Gene Keys as a map from shadow into…
E297 · 17 May 2026 · 1 hr 44 min
Ep 297 - Sophie Fletcher, PhD | Functional Freeze & the Hidden Cost of Keeping It Together
Sophie Fletcher, PhD, somatic nervous system practitioner and co-facilitator inside Rise Above the Herd, returns to Here for the Truth with a diagnosis for what’s quietly running through most of us: functional freeze. It looks nothing like collapse. You’re still showing up, doing the work, holding the relationships, but something inside has gone numb, and the modern world is engineered to keep it that way. Sophie traces why the truth-seeker community is especially exposed, how chronic low-grade threat overwhelms the body until there’s nowhere left to discharge it, and why mistaking calm for…
E296 · 10 May 2026 · 2 hr 3 min
Ep 296 - Taylor Perkins | Out of Mormonism & Into the Mirror
Raised in a Mormon family where his mother prophesied at his birth that he’d one day lead the church, Taylor Perkins spent decades trying to live up to that identity — as a missionary, a husband at 20, and a tech founder by 28 — until it all began to unravel. We follow his path through years of religious shame and addiction, a five-cup ayahuasca ceremony that shook the foundation of what he believed, and a period of financial collapse where DoorDash shifts became part of his rebuilding. That stretch, along with a series of synchronicities, ultimately led him out of an 11-year marriage.…
E295 · 3 May 2026 · 45 min
Ep 295 - Joel & Yerasimos | Community, Courage & the Choices That Shape Destiny
Joel and Yerasimos return from Confluence — five days in Bandera, Texas, with eleven hundred people and thirty-plus members of their own community — and unpack what only embodied gathering can teach: that touch, presence, and shared fire are not luxuries but necessities, and that digital connection is a thin slice of the long arc of being human. The conversation widens from there into agency itself — the courage to make different choices, the timelines we collapse and create with each one, the thermostat of self-concept that quietly calibrates the life we end up living. Fortune favors the…
E294 · 26 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 48 min
Ep 294 - Nikhil Kale & Nathaniel Solace | The Conscious Creator in the Age of AI
In this episode we bring together two returning guests who've never met — Nikhil Kale, founder of Asraya and creator of ACE, and Nathaniel Solace, filmmaker, transformational coach, and builder at the frontier of conscious AI — for a fierce conversation built to dismantle the technological black pill at the heart of the truth-and-freedom space. We go deep on agentic AI as amplifier rather than replacement, the collapse of distance between vision and creation, the spiritual function of this technology arriving at this exact evolutionary moment, and why your self-knowledge and coherence become…
E293 · 19 Apr 2026 · 2 hr 1 min
Ep 293 - Aubert Bastiat | The Truth Shall Set You Free
In his first podcast appearance in years, Aubert Bastiat holds nothing back. A transformational coach, relationship mentor, and co-founder of Sacred Sons, Aubert sits down for one of the rawest, most unflinching conversations we’ve ever had, tracing the full arc of a life shaped by abandonment, addiction, spiritual awakening, and the very public dismantling of everything he built. We go deep into the father wound, the patterns it seeds across a lifetime, what it actually costs to tell the truth when the truth threatens everything you’ve constructed, and what becomes possible when a man stops…
E292 · 12 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 51 min
Ep 292 - Lishui Springford | The Root of All Conflicts?
In this episode, we sit down with Lishui Springford — earth scientist turned ecology professor, GNM practitioner since 2002, and host of the Mind Over Symptom podcast. Lishui makes the case that identity conflict sits at the root of all biological conflict — that every symptom, every pattern, every fear traces back to a single fracture: existential isolation, the felt experience of being severed from the source of your own being. We explore how victim-based, deterministic thinking follows us into even the frameworks meant to free us, and why the only question that actually resolves anything…
E291 · 5 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
Ep 291 - Joel & Yerasimos | Sow, Build & Trust the Process
What if the thing holding you back isn’t a lack of knowledge — but a refusal to act on what you already know? In this episode, we go straight at the endless healing loop — consuming book after book, modality after modality, while your actual life stays frozen in place. We unpack the difference between awareness and conscious choice, why sitting with one deep question can move the needle more than ten bestsellers, and how self-esteem is built not through more learning but through honoring the smallest whisper within and following it into action. If you’ve been waiting until you’re “ready,”…
E290 · 29 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 47 min
Ep 290 - Dr. Richard Massey | Family Biology & the Love Stories Behind Our Suffering
Dr. Richard Massey spent decades inside the medical system — from USAF medic to pharmacy school to anesthesiology — before a personal betrayal by his own education cracked the paradigm wide open. In this deeply moving conversation, Richard introduces us to what he calls family biology: the idea that our nervous systems carry inherited loyalty programs from the womb, designed to absorb our ancestors’ suffering as an act of love — and that what we call illness is often that love story facing backwards. We explore the intelligence of the heart, the trilogy of conception, how birth events…
E289 · 22 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 47 min
Ep 289 - Will Rezin | Somatics, Trauma & the Body as Living Process
In this grounded and deeply informed conversation, Will traces the history of the somatic field — from Thomas Hanna’s coining of the term through the human potential movement at Esalen to Peter Levine’s groundbreaking work in stress physiology — and makes a compelling case for why the body is not a machine to be programmed, but a living process to be inhabited. We explore why catharsis without capacity is dangerous, why the coaching industry is operating with an incomplete map, and why the fawn response makes “only go as far as your body says” almost useless in group settings. Will also…

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Typical length: 1 hr 33 min
Latest episode: 11 Oct 2026
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