The Mindset Mentor - Heal Your Body with Your Brain with Tah Whitty

Episode Date: December 11, 2019

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Welcome, everybody, to today's episode. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another podcast. I am so excited to bring you this podcast with my good friend, Ta Witty. He is, if I'm being honest with you, probably the most loving person that I know. He loves to give hugs. He gave great hugs. He was a nurse for 25 years in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and he's seen some stuff. And he knows a lot about how to heal the body through the mind. And so he's a specialist of this. I think you're going to love this episode. It's going to open up your eyes as well. And then last but not least, before we dive into the episode, I want to tell you that the Iron Mind 60 Challenge that starts January 1st opens the doors. We open up the doors this Monday, January 16th. And so let me tell you real quickly about it. I'll give you a full episode so you can

learn more about it as well. But for 60 days in a row, we're going to concentrate on your mind, your money, your body, and your business as well. And there's a $10,000 prize pool for people that can win. We've never done a prize pool like this before, but you can win up to $10,000 in prizes when you join the Iron Mind 60 Challenge. If you're not joining to be competitive, no worries. You're still going to completely change your mind and build the iron mind that you want. We're going to talk a lot about money, how to make more, how to save more, and how to change your mindset around it. We're going to physically change your body and we're going to talk about business. So if you have a business or you want to start a side business or you're in a business, it'll definitely help you out as well. So for 60 days in a row, starting January 1st, I'm going to put every freaking ounce of energy

into helping you and coaching you become the person that you want and changing your mind, your money, your body, and your business. I'm going to be giving you daily coaching every single day, daily Facebook Lives every single day for 60 days in a row. We're going to do question and answer sessions so I can answer your questions. I can help you out. And you're going to have to stick to the six pillars throughout the course of the 60 days. You're going to have to work out every day. You're going to have to diet and stick to your diet, whatever diet you choose over the course of 60 days. You're going to have to journal every single day, which I'll teach you how to do. You're going to have to visualize every single day, which I'll also teach you how to do. You're not able to drink

alcohol at all for 60 days straight. And you have to take a cold shower every single day as well. And people are like, oh my God, cold showers. I don't know if I can do that. But this right here is really about the mind over matter and forcing yourself to do the things you don't want to do so that you can create the life that you want. And the cool thing is, is that the lessons start before January 1st. The lessons start before January 1st. So you can get a head start into your 2020. So like I said, this Monday, January 16th, the doors open. The first 200 people who join, check this out, they will get 25% off and they will get a free ticket to bring somebody else in as well. So it's 25% off and a free ticket to bring in a loved one, a family member, an accountability partner, whatever it is. And I'm going to be putting up the actual website for you to join. I'm going to tell you the URL

on Monday, January 16th. And that podcast episode, just so you know, is going to go up at midnight Eastern Standard Time, January 16th. Midnight, January. So literally the second that it goes from Sunday to Monday, the episode's going to go up and it's going to give you the URL to sign up in the first 200 people, which will probably be the first day. Probably the first 200 people will join. We'll get 25% off and a free ticket for someone else. And if you want to join the wait list, so you can immediately know when it goes live, go to coachwithrob.com slash 2020. So coachwithrob.com slash 2020. If you're ready to make this next coming year, 2020, the best year of your life, I am committed to coaching you for 60 freaking days to help your mind, to help your money,

to help your body, to help your brain, and to help your business as well. And there is a $10,000 prize pool. So I am so excited to be able to do this with you guys and for you to learn about it and for me to coach you. So if you want to join the waitlist, go to coachwithrob.com slash 2020 and make sure that you listen to the episode as soon as it goes up on Monday so that you can get the discount. All right, let's dive into the episode right now. Welcome to today's podcast. I am glad to have my good friend here, Todd Witte. Hey. It's good to see you. Good to be here, my man. Todd was just with me a few weeks ago. He stayed, him and his wife, Cole, stayed with us inside of our place when we were in Sedona. And we had some expansive conversations. Way expansive.

Way expansive. We would wake up in the morning and have these crazy deep conversations over coffee. I was like, I need to have this guy come in and go on the podcast. So it's good to have you here. Good to be here, my man. I'm glad to share you with everybody. I'm glad to be shared. Because I think that people's minds are going to be blown. But before we dive into blowing minds, let's give them an idea of who Todd Witte is and

your story, if you were to give us a few minutes of how you got to sitting right here as you are in this seat. So my name is Todd Witte. Uh, some people know me as Todd from the bush cause I'm from Flatbush, Brooklyn. That's where I was born in Brooklyn, Coney Island hospital, uh, had a lot of childhood dramas and traumas and nonsense, uh, and a lot of good sense too as well. I practiced nursing in New York City for 25 years. You've seen some shit. Yeah, I've seen some shit around drama, trauma, abuse, suicide, substances, just a lot of stuff around the human body.

I worked in over 12 hospitals in New York City because I wanted to see what people were like from different socioeconomic backgrounds. I worked in Chinatown. I worked in the hood in several hospitals where the trauma situation was ridiculous. I ran an ER in another neighborhood that was pretty rough called Interfaith Hospital,

which was a combination of Brooklyn Jewish and St. John's Hospital. So it was two different hospitals. I ran both ERs, a full staff in each ER. I worked at St. John's in Queens. I worked in Manhattan. I worked in all over Brooklyn in these different places. Was there one common thing that you noticed no matter where somebody came from? Yeah. The one thing that connects human beings that I found the most is loneliness. And I didn't only find this in the hospital situation, but I also traveled as a musician. I traveled around the world.

I traveled to Europe, Australia, all over the United States. And I've had conversations with thousands of people. And the one thing that bonds us all and causes a disruption in us more than anything is loneliness. And the one thing that bonds us all and causes a disruption in us more than anything is loneliness. And loneliness not in not being around other human beings, but in having who we are trapped inside and not being able to really express who we are because of the constructs of society and how society molds us and tells us we are supposed to perform and behave. So when you are told by somebody that something is wrong if you do this, or something's wrong with you, or it's dysfunctional, we tend to hide it. And that's a shame device. And that is one of the worst things in the world on the human body. And as a nurse, the one thing that I remember more than anything is I can't count on both hands, all my fingers and toes,

how many times someone has asked me to close the curtain. I need to say something to you. And they told me their deepest secrets and then they died, you know, or they completely crashed out and ended up dying soon. They had been holding these things in, you know, I've been told, you know, I was in love with my brother. I've been told, you know, I robbed this person. I shot this person. I did this, all of these things that people just kept secret and it was tearing them apart inside. So the one commonality I found, and I do find still when I have conversations with people

is that they're unable to express themselves and be themselves. And when they do that, it causes a lot of brain power usage. You know, when you're crafting imaginations, your brain uses a lot of brain power usage. When you're crafting imaginations, your brain uses a lot of energy. And when you craft imaginations for multiple people, it uses a lot, lot of energy. And that 2% of your body weight, which is your brain, uses a lot of your body's resources and the rest of your body can't catch up. So when you're in that space all the time, it uses a lot of your resources and then diseases start to happen because your body can't heal itself. And this is the one commonality that I find in all human beings is that loneliness is the driving force behind most of our stressors and most of our disease entities.

And you don't necessarily mean loneliness as far as they're not around other people. It's just loneliness because their true self can't be expressed even around the people that they love the most. Is that right? Right. Right. I mean, the people around the people that they love the most. Right. Is that right? Right. Right. I mean, the people and the people that they are told that they should be connected to and the people and they're told most people that in my experience that are in romantic or committed relationships that create families, their dynamic is, oh, I can't tell that to my wife. They can tell me in an instant, you know, and I've had people tell me, don't tell my

wife when she comes in or don't tell my me, don't tell my wife when she comes in, or don't tell my husband, or don't tell my mom she has cancer. You know, all these different things. Don't tell. There's this don't tell, don't tell, don't tell. And there's these secrecies. And the secrecies cause, it causes people to be lonely because they actually can't express themselves.

So they're alone. They're by themselves. And to hold on to that imagination is a lot of work. I mean, just think about it. I mean, you've lied in the past. I have too. And when you're standing in front of somebody that you've lied to or that you're holding a secret from, there is a tension in your body. And it's undeniable.

You can ignore it if you want, but it's there. And so that tension causes a lot of strain in the body. And when you're laying in a bed next to somebody at night, and most of the ailments that I've seen are from people in committed relationships. And when you're laying in a bed at night with somebody who you've been keeping secrets from and lying to or lying to, and they're next to you, your whole body is on alert all the time. And we have these ideas that the body goes to sleep and it's devoid of anything around. The body pushes the mind out. The brain is still active and it's devoid of of anything around the mind the body pushes the mind out the brain is still active and it's still aware of the environment if there's a loud noise the brain wakes you up get up get up bro come back online bring the bring my mind when

you fall asleep yeah yeah the body is more active when you fall asleep and and this is this misconception is is something that people don't understand so when you're laying in a bed with somebody that's that uh that's actually causing your body to be on alert all the time because it has to protect itself, it's destructive, man. It can't rest. And if it can't rest, it's not going to heal properly. And this is where a lot of issues come up. So many different ways we can go. All right.

So before we dive into that, because there's so many different parts of that that i want to deconstruct i want people to know a little bit more about you still so uh i want to get back to the loneliness and the constructs right but from being a nurse for 25 years right and for anybody who sees him on camera he is the literally you are not you'd look and be like how the hell is it 25 years yeah but you i think it was 20 or 21 to become a nurse right 20 and believe it or not he's not 35 no he's 48 i'll be i'll be 48 about to be 48 it's incredible we were watching we watched your christmas vacation last night and you know that movie it's my favorite oh man cole watches it like five times i love it it's literally my favorite movie and we were like let's she goes lauren goes how old do you think that lady is the mom i was like i don't know because you know you see people like in the 80s and the

70s and they just look older because of the fact the way they dress i feel like you know the way that they were and uh i was like i don't know and so she was 38 then we looked up chevy chase and he was 46 at the time and i went holy shit todd's older than both of them yeah but you look like you're younger than both of them which is what's crazy in my opinion um so i think there's a lot of reasons for that. I think there's stuff that you've told me as far as telling your truth and getting past that. I think it heals and allows you to even be more youthful, more than anything else. It does, man. I mean, you can look me up on Instagram. I mean, we're friends on Instagram and it's at Tafri, T-A-H-F-R-E-E. And scroll down. There's a picture of me. With the glasses?

Yeah, from 10 years prior. And there's a 10-year space between. And I look like a completely different human being. It's really intriguing. And that's when you started doing a lot of work. Well, yeah. Oh, well, I started doing work around 2008 is when I really started to revolutionize myself. Like really, I was like, I'm done with this, with the way I've been living and done with destroying myself in order to make transformations. And that's a trap. And so I decided to start

really, really working on myself. And I just decided I'm not going to adhere to the nonsense. And then I fell into the trap again. I actually broke my back. I was trying to get out. I want to get out was trying to get i want to get out of the hospital i gotta get out of the hospital i'm done with this crap i'm done with the system and i ended up breaking my back at the hospital and i lost all my clients my private clients i lost all my nursing jobs i lost all of my personal training stuff i was doing all a lot of different things i couldn't do shows i lost all my finances and everything crashed and yeah everything fell apart apart. And I decided, they were telling me that I needed screws in my, I herniated a disc and broke a vertebra. And they were telling me that I needed screws in my back and that I needed injections and that I needed medications. And I was like, nah, bruh, nope.

And I got into this real low, low point. And I was sitting on my couch for like three months. And I was like, nah, I'm not doing this anymore. I did this again. You know, here we go again from the 2008 calamity. Now here's the 2012 calamity. And I'm like, I'm not doing this anymore. So I rehabbed myself. You know, I know a lot about anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, kinesiology, movement science,

all of this crap. And so I started, I just laid everything out on the table. And I started, I just laid everything out on the table and I started to formulate. And so Cole and I were doing fitness challenges online for people, free fitness challenges. So I, I, I constructed a part of the, the rehab stuff that I did for myself and I put it into one of the challenges for the people. So I rolled along with them so I could do, I could actually do these movements and still have the fitness challenge and most of them didn't even know that was that I was all jacked up right so so I did

that and and and that's where I started to to open things up for myself and in in deciding that I found out a lot of the emotional components that I was holding on and how that was affecting my body and I was like man this something this is the missing link. This is how everything falls together. And so I was in a long-term relationship for about eight years with an amazing lady from the Bronx and she wanted to have kids and that's not where I was. And right at that time when I broke my back, she was like, yeah, I'm out, bro. So like when I tell you everything fell apart, bro, everything, just everything. The gate opened for everything that I'm doing now to just slide right in. So I had been preparing myself.

But again, that's that trap of transformation. You have to go through this calamity, which is not the truth. And so I made this whole calamity happen. That relationship crashed. And that's when me and Cole started doing all these fitness challenges together. And me and Cole were friends for a while. And so we started doing all these fitness challenges together. And me and Cole were friends, you know, for a while. And so we started doing all these fitness challenges and I started seeing all of this stuff connect around my emotions and the pains that I was having. So I was like, let me see this. So when I got out,

I rehabbed myself. I started taking clients back on and what I would do, I had, I built a studio in my house and I had private clients come in and I would train them, right? Fitness training and all this stuff. And I started asking them questions about their family, right? And while they were lifting. So it would be like lifting two dumbbells, doing double curls. And I would ask something about the mom and I would see the one arm start to decompensate, right? And I'm like, oh.

And so I would start to do that with every client. And I was taking notes. And I was just watching the decompensations happen and then I would get them into a space where they would actually cry and release or yell or whatever it was and the deep in the in the the compensation patterns disappeared And so I started working in that space doing myofascial release and opening up spaces in the body and I started to see so I started Studying chakra maps again because I was like a minute this seems you know The ailments in the places that these people were having the decompensation was in these different

areas i was like this looks like the chakra map yeah so i started studying the chakra map and where the emotions and stuff uh rest and and it just all started making so much sense so i started asking all my clients i started asking friends i started bringing people in for free sessions and stuff to see if if this stuff all went together and it all went together like cake. And it was amazing, maybe two years of straight just working with clients in that capacity. And I would put them in front of the mirror at the beginning of every session. And I would be like, okay, talk to yourself. And I would watch them talk to themselves and watch what their face was doing as they spoke about different things. And if they were being dishonest, the body would kind of tense up or do whatever. And I would ask them if they're being honest and they would kind of smile.

And so I started to see where the dishonesty started to play into all of it. And I was like, holy crap, man, this is where it is. The dishonesty that is keeping them tense. It's keeping them in space. And when they got to actually relax and be honest, the whole body just relaxed. And I was like, man, holy crap. So then I started looking into my dishonesty and where I was being dishonest. And I was like, every time I would get on the phone with people from years, I'd be like, you know what, man?

I told you this a long time ago and I just got to come clean. So you just started calling people up? I started calling people, bro. I started calling people and my body just started to calm down. And I was like, man, things started, like I would get pops in my spine. Like my hip would, you know, pow. All of these different things happened. I was having all these knee pains, gone.

Ankle pains, gone. All these things started disappearing. From telling the truth. Just being honest, man. My body got to relax. And so the toughest thing was to be honest with Cole, right? Around, I had always been honest with Cole, but there was some stuff that I didn't tell her.

So bringing up the stuff that I just never mentioned. And that was another thing, avoiding things, evasion. You know, I had dated a girl and total love her. She's like, you're awesome. And just, you're an evasionist. You evade things and you just avoid telling the truth. Right? And so I started telling Cole all this stuff

that I kind of omitted, right? And then my body just started chilling. And like all my chin hairs were, like this was all white. The color started coming back. Yeah, it was crazy, man. Was this around the time with your eyesight too? That was before my eyesight.

So I had always had this issue around my name, right? So my mother named me Brian at birth. And I had always, from when I was a kid, when my mother would call me, she would say my name, I would get nauseous. Like just nauseous. And I just wrote it off as, you know, I didn't put two and two together until I got older. And so when I started doing all this stuff, whenever anybody would call me Brian, I would just like. So I had gone through all these different nicknames as a kid. I had all these. I used my middle name.

I used, I was taking names from this person, that person, TV characters, all this shit. I had all these different names in the street. And so when I got to high school, I got, I got the sunburn and they were calling me burnt peanut and melted butter. So I started to call myself peanut butter. And then I spelled it B-U-T apostrophe T-A-H, right? And so this Jamaican cat would just call me butter, whopping butter, yo, ta, whopping butter.

So I was like, ta, I like the way that sounds. I like the way that feels. So I started calling myself ta. And then people just started picking up on it. And so I just kept getting this thing in my head, just change your name, change your name for real. Like no more of this Brian business. And I wouldn't tell anybody because I was going through all this turmoil and I was afraid of what my mother would think. Changing the name that she gave you.

Yeah. And like my whole life, and I can tell you about this later uh my whole life was built around around pleasing my mother because of the the time i was born i'll tell you about that i'm sure most people can relate to that yeah mother the father in some sort of way yeah yeah yeah so i had all this stuff around pleasing my mother and uh so when i had got hurt when i hurt my back like, look, I know you're in a rough place. You know, all this hopelessness that's going on with you. I think you should come do this ceremony with me. And I was like, what ceremony?

And she was like, well, you know, you take these plants and you go into the psychedelic place and you find yourself. I was like, oh, you want me to do drugs with some hippie white folks, right? I was like, I don't know, man. You know, I'm a nurse. I never smoked weed. First time I had alcohol, I was 25. I was like, I don't know. Nah.

So I kept saying, nah, nah, nah. And she was like, I'm telling you, you need to come check this out. So I trust Cole more than I trusted. Cole is my wife, for those who don't know. I trust her more than I've trusted any human being in my life. So I went, and I had a half a dose of Sassafras, which is the precursor for MDMA. And I was in this horror nightmare place. And, you know, that's supposed to be a heart opener.

That's supposed to be nice, right? So I had all these openings after that. And I started coming to these realizations about a lot of stuff. So over the next two years, I went to a bunch of different journeys, ceremonies, whatever you want to call it. And I started to open up all these spaces. And after about a year and a half, I started having all these things around, you need to change this name. This name has to change. It has to. Come on, you got to come clean with this, man. You got to talk to your mom about it. And this, this, it was just ruminating. And so I went to this one, this one, uh, this one group and,

and it was all these big dudes there. Right. And I had all this energy just welling up inside me. So I called the facilitator and I was like, can you just get all the dudes in the room? Because I need them to hold some space for me. And because I kept having this, this dialogue that I was supposed to say really, really loud. And it was, my name is Ta and I will not be pacified. And I screamed it at the top of my lungs. I mean, I shook this place down. Everybody came from the basement to see what was going on. And then everybody dog piled me.

They all jumped on top of me. And after that, my eyesight cleared up and you were supposed to be blind by yeah i was supposed to be blind by the time that was told i was blind by the time i was 40 by quote-unquote experts yeah by by experts so i was diagnosed with this this uh disease called retinitis pigmentosa which is a there's a macular degeneration Your macula actually degenerates and it gets pigmented. And so there's splotches and patches and stuff and it closes in and eventually- Nothing. By the time, they told me by the time I was 40,

I'd be blind. Yeah. And so my eyesight started to, it's still actually expanding and- You wear no glasses and nothing else? Nope. I just passed the DM the dm to the dmv and for the first time in my life i passed the eye test with no corrective lenses

it's crazy that's pretty nuts i'm gonna get a cape and start flying bro and so i i mean i'm at this space right now where I run faster, jump higher, lift heavier, last longer with exercise than I ever have. And my body is crazy, man. I looked in the mirror the other day. I was like, man, this is awesome. I was like, hey, Cole, do you see this? And this is not beyond anybody. And that's the work that I'm doing right now with people is I want people to know that this is not beyond you or anybody else.

Not you, not you, not them, nobody. It's not beyond any person. But there's these societal constructs that are built into us to keep us performing a certain way that stop us from actually being able to do it because it's a physiological situation. And so we write things off into psychology and you know why we do this psychologically and we're not getting into the neurological habits of things and that's where things become problematic you know what's crazy is that people uh people will take a you know diagnosis and they'll think that it's it's 100 some people think it's 100 true and that's you know some people say they'll think that it's, it's a hundred percent. Some people think it's a hundred percent true. And that's, you know, some people say you got 30 days left to live

and they'll die on day 30. Some people fight it and they're like, this isn't going to happen. I'll figure out a way to heal myself. And, um, and the interesting thing about that, like, like I just had my aunt's husband just passed away from cancer. Um, and he was only diagnosed with cancer seven weeks ago, but, and this just happened a few days ago right and so uh but as soon as he got the diagnosis he was like all right i'm done like there was there was no fight there was no i want to change anything any of that stuff he just he just 100 believed it and uh it's like the story you ever heard the story about the the guy that can't it's a true story that came into the doctor's office who's in the ER because he had this crazy earache, this ear infection that was going on. And, uh, and so he was in the ER. And so the, the doctor writes,

okay, is his right ear. So put in our ear. And so it was like the right ear. And it was the, um, the drops you're supposed to put into his ear to kill his infection, whatever it was that he had. Right. And so, because of the fact that he's a doctor, everyone takes his advice. So the guy's there, he doesn't know what's going on with him he just knows that his ears really messed up the uh nurse is there and she looks at it and she's like well this is what the doctor said we got to go for it put in right ear but it was our ear put in rear this is this is a true story this is a true story neither one of them questioned it and she went and put eardrops in his butt and neither one of them questioned it. His problem was in his ear. But we have this thing of, because of the fact

that somebody went and got a degree, they know so much more than I do about my own body. Right. And it's kind of like, for you, you're like, well, I was supposed to be blind by 40. You started seeing all of these little changes, incremental change. You're supposed to have surgery. You're supposed to have, you know, all of these things done with your spine, never did it. You also were supposed to be blind by 40 and you started noticing you're telling all the truth and things are starting to unlock

that have never unlocked in your entire life, right? Yeah. And, but this is the thing, man, modern medicine is amazing. Our science is amazing and it's saved a lot of lives. And there's an emergency. When there's an emergency

or there's a necessity for it. Right. But the thing is, we let it get to the point where it needs to be it we need to have this stuff right and if you worked with some of the doctors that i worked with you'd never go to the hospital because i'm telling you man i'd say 75 80 of the physicians that i work with are i would never let them touch me well never let them touch anybody i I wouldn't let them touch a snail. You know what I mean? It's rugged, man. And these are the people that we're trusting our lives with.

And there's this thing where I come from in Brooklyn. It's doctor, lawyer, engineer, disgrace of the family. Everybody else doesn't matter. So if you have a lab coat on, what you say is law. And I know that that's not the truth. I was talking to Paleo Effects last year, and we were talking about that. And people were like, oh, I need to talk to this guy. Because I'm talking about blowing the lid off this system and empowering people.

So yeah, but I mean, to what you were saying around people taking this stuff as law, a diagnosis is a diagnosis. It is still a perspective. A diagnosis is a diagnosis. It is still a perspective. And when you take that imaginative space and you plug it in and you make it your law, you actually become part of that imagination and you craft your body into that imagination. The foundation of what we are is imagination. And the body follows the imagination to create the life experience that you are imagining. Whether you like it or not, the body is moving into that direction.

What are you telling your body to do? Are you telling it, it's like, I'm stupid, right? I'm stupid. Okay, your body's like, all right, what do we need to do to prove that? What do we need to do to fortify that? Let's line up with whatever you think. Yeah, and let's get around people who will fortify that.

So the energy of it is where you go to. It's the same thing with diagnoses. I've seen people go to the hospital with a diagnosis of cancer and come out in a week or two with nothing. It all depends on where you are. And this is to the merit of some of these, some religious fanatics. They'll go in and be like, Jesus healed me and all of this stuff. Their imagination is so strong that they will do it. If you look at, yeah, if you, yeah, if you

look at the work that Joe Dispenza is doing, it's amazing. Mind blowing the stuff that he's doing with people in the imaginative space and they call it the quantum space, whatever you look at the work that Joe Dispenza is doing. Yeah, it's amazing. Mind-blowing, the stuff that he's doing with people in the imaginative space. And they call it the quantum space. Whatever you want to call it, it's the same thing. It's the rawness of what we are, the raw consciousness, the awareness of what everything, you call it God, universe, whatever you want. The foundation of it all is imagination. So when you imagine, oh, yeah, you got cancer, you got this amount of weeks to live, plugging it in, man. Yeah.

And that's the, uh, I have a, I have a friend that I met and she, she owns a company called mine. Uh, what is it? Mind, mind videos, I think is what it's called. And, uh, brain videos, whatever, something like that, where, you know, basically you have this whole, uh, you know, you create a, uh, a thing for your wall and it's the vision board right yeah basically it took vision boards and put into movies mind movies that's what it's called mind movies where they they they create these mind movies for you where you go and you find all these videos all these videos and they

put it together with musics and you watch it over and over and over again you basically brainwash yourself into believing what the life that you want is possible right well dr joe dispense ended up loving her stuff so she goes to every one of his events. We actually touched on yesterday. She goes to every one of his events that he hires her to do these mind movies for people. And, uh, and I was like, so tell me some of the craziest stuff you've ever seen. She's like, the stuff that I see would blow your mind. And she's like, it's been seven years.

I've been working with him now. And I can't even tell you some of this. She's like, I'll give you an example. The last event that I was at, uh, we were in Cancun, they're in Cancun right now. She's like, I was in Cancun and there was a lady that came in and she hasn't walked in seven years. She's had ALS and you know, she's been a slow deterioration her entire life or the past seven years, at least she's been a slow deterioration. She came in and started learning from him. Oh, basically all of the healing power that you need is already within you. You just have to learn how to tap into it and then really, truly believe it and start

allowing yourself to heal. And she goes within seven days, she was out of her chair and walking. She hadn't walked in seven years. She's like, I've seen people with cancer and like, they don't, they don't just go in and meditate. Like they go in, they meditate, but they also have all of the science and electronics hooked up. They measure the room, they measure their brainwaves and measure everything to see what's actually going on in people's bodies. They do, you know, she's like, we had people that have come in. They've had cancer. By the time they leave, their cancer is gone.

We have people come in with, you know, crazy tumors. They have all of the stuff that, you know, all of the x-rays you could see inside their body. They go back and they get the x-rays again, gone. Every one of them is gone. Yeah, man. And they're just healing themselves basically through the power of their mind. And I've always thought my entire life how crazy the

placebo effect is. And nobody acts like it's not the most amazing fucking thing in the world. It is. Because you're literally talking about people. And they said that 33% of medical healings, including surgery, is because of the placebo effect. There's people, for everyone out there listening, there's people that are healing themselves with their minds so much so that it's accounted for in every single study that they do of any human. And sometimes the pills that you're actually taking, like statins, for instance, statins only equate for like seven, six, seven. It's a low number. It's like five to 8%, I think, of the healing. Like the other people, it's 92 to 95%. It's actually doing worse for your body. And when you take statins compared to the placebo effect, placebo effect is about six times more

effective than actually taking statins. But you know, you're not going to walk into a doctor and the doctor can be like, Hey, you know what you should do? You should probably meditate more. Like that'll never happen because they're trying to give you something to, and there's like, there's nothing. I don't want to feel like I'm coming down in the medical industry, but I want people to realize that, and that's why I think it's good that you're here, that this is possible for everyone

to be able to get themselves through their own minds. Everyone. And it's the power that they have. Everyone. And don't let me get started on statins, bro. Statins are a complete waste of time, money, and effort. It's a the the whole cholesterol conundrum is just don't get me started on that because i can talk for a week and

we can do a whole episode on cholesterol and statins yeah um the the big pharma has its hands in everything and there is no money in well people there's money in sick people so you keep them just above the wellness line so that they can fall back So you keep them just above the wellness line so that they can fall back under. You keep them, get them right up to that line and let them fall back under. And that's what keeps the system going. And if you keep people believing that they can heal themselves, then what good is the healthcare industry? And if the healthcare, and if people are not afraid to die, then how will the government be in control of things? Wait, hold on a second. Then you'll have a whole bunch of

free people and then what will happen yeah ecstasy right we'll really live in a world that's awesome we don't have to buy a bunch of shit to make ourself feel worthy nope what's gonna happen the economy this is what happened this is capitalism yeah you know this is where it all boils down to and when this is this is part of the constructs that are keeping people in control and health care is i mean when I started nursing, it was about how much money you're getting paid, right? Nobody was, healthcare benefits, what's that? We don't care about that crap. How much are you paying me, right? And so in the late 90s, then everybody started with the benefits. It's all about benefits because you're going to get sick and you're going

to die and you need the healthcare system. Look at what's going on with our government right now with the healthcare system so i can talk about that crap for days so but to go back to the imaginative space that we were talking about the quantum field is an amazing place and it's it's coming into to vogue with our science now so tell me before we dive into that part explain to people a little bit about the quantum field because it can can be quite confusing. Well, I mean, there's a lot of perspective on the quantum field. The quantum field is the very fabric of imagination. It's the fabric of everything that we are. It's the fabric of creativity. It's the fabric of existence. And it is what we are. And when you look at the complexity of the human organism and the 100 trillion cells, the 75 to 100 trillion cells that are operating, then all of the atoms that are operating all of those cells, something is keeping all of that in working order and cohesive. And that's where we generate all that from the imaginative space of the quantum field.

And the quantum field holds all of those possibilities. So in the quantum field, everything is encapsulated by the quantum field and the quantum field holds all of those possibilities so in the quantum the quantum field everything is encapsulated by the quantum field and uh it is the it's like a grid you could say it's like a grid and all things are on different points and you can shift those points around pull them apart put them back together and then put it back to where it was and then it's different you know what i mean but we have to know how to access that. And people are not taught how to access that. And you can access it through the mind, but for the body, the brain to be able to perceive it, it has to be tweaked a little bit into an understanding of what the quantum field is.

And people can attain that through psychedelics. They can attain that through meditation. They can attain it through breathing exercises. There's different ways to get the blood chemistry and the body to shift so that the brain can actually allow for the mind to connect into the quantum field. And that's where all of the magic happens. So the quantum field is like the raw resource of everything. And the easiest way to think about it that I've heard, you know, Bruce Lipton. Bruce Lipton, who's like... He's awesome.

Bruce Lipton's like best friends with Dr. Joe Spenza. And he talks about when you look in the mirror, you're not looking at Tau. You're looking at a collection of 50 trillion cells with one central voice. And basically, if you want to take, you know, for people who are out there, this might be too much of like the quantum field.

You're like, I don't know if I can believe in that shit. Think of it this way. You do have 50 trillion cells inside of your body. And there is one central voice that's telling them what to do, what not to do, how to act. And that's your mind. And essentially what you're trying to do is you're trying to collectively get 50 trillion cells to do whatever it is they need to do. At the same time.

At the same time. Which it's hard for us to, you know, not look at our phone for five minutes for most people. You know how, so it's come back to that point of like, you can meditate through it. You can, you know, do breathing exercise. You can do psychedelics, but the reason why I don't think everybody should do psychedelics, but the reason why I think psychedelics are great for a lot of people is because it kind of shows you in most cases, what is possible. And it's almost like you get to see what you can meditate to. because sometimes you meditate and you're like, dude, the whole thing, all I just do is think about all the shit I got to do today. But you didn't think about anything. But then when you

do some psychedelics and you see all of these things and you can see and understand literally how we're connected. And then, you know, you look like you're a part for me. Like if you look at us in any of these videos, it looks like you're there and I'm here, but we don't see, I mean, a human body can see, human eyes can see 0.00035% of what's around us, which means that we don't see 99.9965%. And there's waves that are connecting us. There's literally, we're made out of vibrations and waves. And that's part of the whole quantum field. And so people can take psychedelics. They can learn about this. And they start to go, oh, man, maybe I can actually sit down and meditate myself to be

healthy. Maybe I can sit down and actually use this central voice and see if I can heal myself, like, for instance, you did. Right? So when you went through that healing process, is this kind of what you did? Or was it meditation? Was it psychedelics? Was it sitting and making sure that you believe?

Because I know there's certain points where you're sitting there and you're like, this isn't going to happen. Like there's has to be that doubt at some point in time. Doubt is always there. Doubt is a part of what we're programmed to have. I mean, look at how negative our society is. We doubt so much. We doubt so much more than we believe in, right?

And we believe what we're told, not what we actually feel. And so for me, it's a process. I am not completely healed. I am healing. Healing is a process. It's always, it's bringing you back to homeostasis. So I've been through the ringer around believing in this stuff and it takes me swinging myself back around. And I actually have to write myself reminders and have people remind me and have my lady swing me back into stuff and have friends that I'll call up man listen i'm feeling i'm feeling doubtful i need some words right now can you throw me back in into where i'm

at because i'm just feeling like you know i'm a human being you know i'm brainwashed like the rest of us right now but i'm currently doing my laundry right before i wasn't doing my laundry somebody else was washing it for me so it's it's it's it's a combination of things it's my movement practices it's how i eat it's how it's my movement practices it's how i eat it's how i honor what i eat it's how i honor the air what i breathe what i what i dispose of and how i dispose of things it's how i honor things and when you talk about the quantum field and and and it looks like we're separate to me it doesn't look like we're separate we're moving through this air and the air is actually affecting us every time we breathe it actually moves all of the air in the room which moves the air outside of the

house which actually has an effect on on the tide of the wind in the air outside so each of us breathing has an effect on all of that it changes the the concentration of oxygen carbon dioxide nitrogen are gone all the different things that are floating around the dust the bacteria the viruses all of these things are moving and it's part of the field that we live in. And the human body is built to where if we are not breathing air, we die. Like, you're gone in six minutes, you're done.

So to sit here and say that what you're breathing, how you're breathing is not affecting me, it's nonsense. And when you can start to get into the quantum field and get into the understanding of air and just the atmosphere and how we are affecting each other, you can get more of an idea of how the quantum field works because the air is part of the quantum field. You know what I mean? So it's like all of these things are moving around. And when you start to marry the science with the understanding of energetics and imagination and understanding, well, whatever we can actually in these bodies understand what the quantum field is, you can change and tweak things in really awesome ways. So I mean, I'm all about

it. I'm so about exposing this to people because I was brainwashed not only as a human being in America, but by the healthcare system. And the healthcare system, if I'm in the healthcare system working to do their bidding, and I start to understand about how to heal myself, then why would I stay there and fortify it? Right. Which is why I left in the first place. Right. You know, so when I get into the understanding of that, the more it drives me to want to remedy the things that are going on with me, you know, and start to see how it's not just how I think and how I interpret things,

but it's how I bring in the elements to actually help accelerate my healing or accelerate my expansion and my growth. Psychedelics, like you were saying, are not for everyone. And they are a gateway to opening up in an accelerated fashion. for everyone and they are a gateway to opening up in an accelerated fashion and and uh you know it's the same thing with meditation is a gateway to open things up in an accelerated fashion if we settle into it but you know yeah so so take me through uh deciding you want to be ta the vision you know that came back obviously but you didn't tell your mom yet so what was the whole because you know i could see that that could be't tell your mom yet so what was the whole because you know i could see that that could be scary for pretty much anybody being like hey the name that

you gave me is not the name that i want anymore right so you said that that was the thing that was holding you back the most you felt like it was just since you're a little kid was always make you tense whenever you'd hear the name brian so so tell us about tell us about your mom when you had to tell her so so my my brother my older brother, I only have an older brother. My brother was born 23 months ahead of me. So from December 16th, which is my birthday, to January 2nd, there's a one-year difference. So right now, when I turn 48, my brother will be 49 until January 2nd, and he'll be 50. So there'll be a two-year difference.

So when I was a kid, I said, Mommy, how come sometimes Ralph is one year older than me, and how come sometimes he's two years older than me? And she said, Well, you were the surprise baby. We didn't plan for you, and you came really soon after him. So that's why it's like that, because you were born at this time. And so I took that as i was a mistake yeah nothing my mother did i this is the this is what i derived from it right so how old at this point i was maybe five or six okay so from that time i started i i it took me a while to get to

this point and it was through some of the work that I was doing around psychedelics that I had actually sat. And I was like, what is going on with me? With my mother? What's going on with me? With my name? What's going on with me? With constantly having to please my mom. Like all my life, everything was built around pleasing my mom.

And that was one of the things that caused me to lie the most. That caused me to hide the most. Because what if my mother found out? What would my mother think? My mother might take love away from me. And she never told me that she would right this is my creation for sure and this is what's so dangerous about not being able to communicate with your children right any kind of shame device like that if you if you don't get into it your kids can go off into this imaginative space of self-destruction for sure and create their own constructs of

nonsense which is what i did right so i had this whole thing around pleasing my mother or she take her love away so i did all of this stuff and and um when i wanted to change my name it was frightening for me paralyzingly so so that's how old at that time change your name uh change my name legally well whenever you said it because you started oh man i started telling people to call me ta in 90 gosh like 98 okay 97 98 what 35 at the time yeah okay that's when i that's when i started telling 98 this is 21 years ago yeah 21 years ago yeah so actually yeah yeah so yeah so i was 27 at the time yeah that's when i started telling everybody to call me.

I was using the name for a good while, but that's when I was like, this is what I want to be called. Right. And when people would ask me my name, I'd be like, Ta. And they'd be like, what does that mean? Yeah. So this is where all of that came from. And so I was afraid to tell my mom. So I started having-

So all these things started coming up, change your name for this, change your name for that. And I, you know, I'm going for this job and people are calling me Todd, the job, and it's not matching my ID and all of this stuff. And then, uh, the, one of the things that was really pushing on, was squeezing on me was my fan base for my music was, was in, was in Facebook. My, my, my clients for personal training all this stuff i had like 4 000 people on facebook at the time and facebook was like uh somebody told facebook that this

wasn't my real name and so facebook was like we've shut your account down until we get proof so i sent them my id they were like that's not your name so i was like man i don't know what i don't know what i'm gonna do so um so it's like what 2007 8 9 10 because no 98 you were people started calling you facebook came out in 2004 so right but facebook didn't start doing that crap until 2000 and 16 i think 2016 so i recently so for 18 years you years, you didn't, you didn't, you went by it. Yeah. Legally. No, no. But I, but after, so, so when that whole thing went down at that, that ceremony, when I was like, this is my name is Todd, I'm going to be pacified. So I started

telling everybody, that's it. I don't want to be called this. Don't call me that. I'm not going to respond. And the only person I didn't tell my mom, right. And I was scared, bro. Like, like my whole body would lock up when I went to tell my mother. It was like a physiological, can't think. You know, when your fight or flight mechanisms come online, your mind, your body will push the mind right out. Nope, not happening. And so I couldn't muster it up.

So I started to ask Cole for support in it. And I started to ask the people around me for support in it. And so I decided to go in, just start processing the paperwork. And I didn't tell anybody. I just went in and I started processing the paperwork and I got it all done. And, um, I, I put on Facebook, right? I sent, I sent, when I got my new, my new ID, I sent it to Facebook and he opened my account back up. And I was, I had, I had another account that I had opened up for a few months, because I wasn't on, I wasn't on there. And so, I opened it back up and my sister told my mother, she's like, you know, your son changed his name.

And so, when I saw my mother in person, it was me, my mom, and my niece, my sister's daughter. And my mother said, go to your Uncle Ta. And I didn't tell her anything. And my whole body just settled. And I started to speak to my mom. I was like, thank you. And she's like, I love you, no matter what you call yourself.

And I just started to cry. It was just this big opening and my body, man, I, I don't know if I ever remember my body settling so much. And I had told my mother before that, uh, about something that happened with me. And my mother's always like, you need to go for therapy. You're crazy. You're crazy. You need to go for therapy. You're crazy, right? You're crazy. You need to go for therapy with all this new age crap. And so, but my body settled, man. And that's when all of that happened around that journey. And that's when my eyes really started to open up.

And that's when I stopped wearing glasses to do anything. And like my eyes just started opening up. Everything started getting more vivid. I could start reading signs that were down the block and it was just like, what is going on? And so it was a combination of realization, me deciding, me changing things, me being honest with my mom.

And that's a dishonesty that I had been carrying for a long time. I was afraid to tell my mother that my name disturbed me, like caused me physical upheaval. I was afraid to tell my mother that my name disturbed me, like caused me physical upheaval. I was afraid to tell her my truth. So my truth potentially hurting my mother was problematic for me. So it also caused anger because I had to protect myself from my mother. I had to protect my identity from my mother and protect me from myself being dishonest. So there was this cycle of anger and it was always running in the background, right?

Whenever somebody with my brother would call me or somebody else would call me, Brian, I would, there's so much anger would come up, right? And I didn't understand what anger was. And this is where I started doing work around emotions and what emotions do. And I started to dissect all of that stuff. And it's a huge part of the work that I do now

with people is helping them to dissect what emotions mean. And when I started figuring out all of that stuff, my body just started relaxing, man. And again, more pops. Pow, pow. My back was cracking. And all of these things happening. My posture changed. And I'm starting to get hit on by these 20-year-old chicks.

It's just like life is crazy, man. And so, you know, all of these things just start opening up and I start having more realizations and I start bringing this into the work that I'm doing with the clients that I'm working with. And so I started shifting from just doing training with people to working in depth and helping people to actually integrate their bodies into their lifestyle. So it's like really getting your body to mesh with everything you do. So my personal training clients would come in and I do this huge assessment on them of their life, their interaction with their families, their interaction with their job, how they feel about stuff, and started asking them about honesty and dishonesty.

And then we started pulling all this stuff apart. I'm like, okay, so if you want to do this, let's get your movement practices to mesh with that. And then let's get your eating situation to mesh with that. And let's get your breathing situation to intertwine with all that. And then they were like, man, I'm having all of this stuff happen. And my office is now the top office in New York City. And this happened. And now my recording studio is exploding.

All of these things are happening with all these different people. And I'm like, man, this is bananas. So I started doing more research into it. And I started coaching people with their stuff and showing coaches how to do this stuff. And it just started moving. And people started applying this stuff to their businesses. And they started applying it to their relationships. And then Cole and I really started to work together in this space.

started applying it to their relationships. And then Cole and I really started to work together in this space. And so people started bringing us into psychedelic journeys to actually help people integrate while they were in the plant space. And so when they started, people were flying us here and flying us there and going to this one, and can you come to this? And every weekend was packed with us going to sit at somebody else's thing because they were like, man, I sat with Todd and I got through this place and, you know, and I would sit there and I would, I would, I would lay with people, right? They'd be in the plant space and I would lay with them and I would ask them questions and I would feel their body temperature change. And I would feel the moisture in their skin change based on what I asked,

the questions I asked them. And they would, and I would start to, and they would start to be like, oh, and their body was telling me everything to ask it was just like okay let me ask this about you well what how are you doing today okay you know how's the things going in your family oh i speak about the mom body temperature changes what's going on your mom right oh well it's down to third and if the body temperature cools down or goosebumps come up or whatever i knew how to direct the questions based off of that and so i started to pick all this stuff apart and all of the things that i do now started coming together it's just been magical man so tell me so people are probably like what the hell this is amazing because I never think of

the the stuff that's going on their body and what stuff that's happened in their past you know book I think it's called the body keeps score or something like that that's that's the body keeps score is uh vessel van der kolk yeah so the so you know there's the whole things of how your body can hold on to trauma it can hold on to anger can hold all these different things that you know most people don't even associate with it so when you wake up and you're sore like your neck hurts or your posture is messed up a lot of times you go to a chiropractor you go to work out you go to a you start doing functional therapy or all of these, anything you could do,

you can start going MRI, see if there's something wrong with your body. But in reality, it seems like if people started working through all of their mental stuff, that their body stuff is actually going to heal in some sort of way or possibly get better. So if somebody is out there like,

this is interesting as hell, is there any sort of, you know, simple strategy you can take people through to see if, you know, they are lying to themselves? I know that, you know, your podcast is called Mentor to see if you know they are lying to themselves is i know that you know your podcast is called mentor in the mirror because you guys

like talk about getting naked and getting in the mirror so you can see what happens with your body but for people that are out there before they go and listen to your podcast and start diving into it what are simple strategies people can find out if they're holding on to something so the the simplest thing for me is to that that I always encourage people to do is get a piece of poster board and some pencils or some markers or something and just sit down in your house and write down all of the things

that you feel really deeply connected to, that you really love and like and all of the things that you don't, right? And see if you can connect the dots as to why you're dealing with the things that you don't like and why you aren't leaning into the things that you really love. And then just stand in front of the mirror and ask yourself the questions that come up and see what your body does. If you're hanging with your mom all the time, and this is one of the things, and I love mothers, I love my mother. one of the things, you know, and I love mothers. I love my mother. The thing is most people don't like their mom that I know don't, or don't like the interaction they have with their mom. And to

stand in front of the mirror and ask yourself, do I like my mother? And then answer the question. And if you say, I like my mother and your body tenses up, your jaw gets tight, your teeth, whatever happens, or you're fighting all of that stuff from happening, are you really being honest? If you're eating, if you're vegan and you want a steak, are you really being honest with yourself? I really love being vegan. What is your body saying?

Is your stomach turning? Is your toe tapping? Are your feet pressing into the floor? Can you really feel what your body's saying? Because your body will tell you when you are lying. When you're not connected to something, your body will tell you. If you've been programmed, you know, oh yeah, Jesus Christ is my Lord and personal Savior, and I have to go to church every Sunday, and I really love going to church. And that's not the truth. You know what your body's going to do? It's going to tell you.

Maybe you'll start breathing faster. Your tongue will get dry. Your eyes will start to blink a lot. You'll get itches. We have a program that we do called The Naked Truth. And it's a seven-day thing where you just ask yourself a bunch of different questions and write the questions down and stand naked in front of the mirror and say the answers. And we've had people tell us that they start itching.

They've had pains come up in their back. They couldn't stand up. Somebody said they felt like they had to take a dump on themselves. All of these different things happen because your body is telling you something. When you feel relaxed, when your body's relaxed, your body's cool, man. Your body will settle. Everything that our emotions do lead us to a point of ease. Every emotion leads you to ease. Anger leads you to ease. Frustration leads you

to ease. It's telling you what you don't like, so go the opposite direction. If you're angry, your emotions are telling you to protect yourself so that you can be at ease. If you're sad, your body's telling you, your emotions are telling you that something is missing. Connection is missing. So when you find connection, sadness goes's telling you, your emotions are telling you that something is missing. Connection is missing. So when you find connection, sadness goes away. All of these things lead you back to ease. And when you're telling the truth, your body has no reason to be on guard. It has no reason to protect itself.

It has no reason to be tense. Because tensing is protection in some sort of way, basically, right? It's protecting, yeah. You have a case already. You're encased in skin and bone and all that stuff what do you need to protect yourself from if there's no threat so if if dishonesty is threatening the integrity of your imagination and this is one of the things that people don't really look at is the the your ideas of yourself and your ideas of other people are protected just as much as your physical body and when somebody disrupts your ideas or the ideas of other people are protected just as much as your physical body.

And when somebody disrupts your ideas or the ideas of something that you've been programmed into, your body comes into action to protect it. And so the tension is your body talking about, you know? And so once, once you understand how, how emotions work in a body and how this stuff shows up, it starts to make a lot of sense. And it's like, holy cow. And laying all of this stuff out, having just what I call an assessment, right? You assess everything and you just lay everything out in front of you. And then you take an inventory of the things that you really want to lean into in your life and an inventory of the things that you want to take out of your life. And then the next step to that is you create a plan around it, right? I'm going to make a plan to get all this crap out of my life or minimize.

And I'm going to make a plan to expand all of this stuff in my life. And then I'm going to get a team and build a team around that, that plan, right? Maybe it's my girlfriend or my wife or my, my boyfriend or whatever, you know whatever happens for you or a family member or a colleague, just like in a business, you build a team around it. And then you take the team, you put the plan into action and you take a look at what happens. And that's the fundamentals of what I do with people

all over the place. You have to start by at least knowing what's messing with you and your body will always tell you. So if I could tell people what to, you know, one thing to look into is just stand in front of the mirror, give yourself some space, turn the devices off, the TV off, make sure your kids are out of the house or out of the room and just ask yourself questions. You don't have to be honest. Just ask yourself the questions and see what your body does and just wait. Ask a question. I really love this house. I love this carpet.

And if your face gets like this, you don't really love that carpet. What are you doing with that carpet in your house? Why are your walls painted the color that you don't like? Is it because somebody you live with likes it and you're settling? And it's okay if you are settling. Just do you know? Are you being honest about your settling? And are you able to speak about it?

I know people who live in households and it's like, my wife loves these colors. I hate these colors. I don't care. Yes, you do. Are you being honest? If you can be honest about it, baby, you can have the house whatever color you want. I just want you to know that this color sucks. You know, and once you have it out there, she can have her reaction or whatever, but you don't have to protect her from who you are.

You know, if a person is, for me, if a person is going to be in a relationship with me and loves me, then they accept me for all of me. Even the things that we may not agree upon. And we don't have to fight over it. I just want you to know, I don't like the carpet. It sucks. I'll deal with it. But can I at least be able to say, this carpet is ugly as shit every time I walk in the house. And so I can relax.

Because if I'm walking in the house, it's like, carpet. And I don't want to hurt my wife's feelings. Just be like, hey, there ate his ugly carpet again, girl. You know, and make a joke out of it so my body can settle. These are things that people stack on top of each other and it causes the calamity in the body. So having that inventory, having that assessment of all the things

and just asking yourself, you know, do I like this, do I not like this? You know, do I want to go to the game with these dudes you know and and see how you feel you know yeah man okay so so somebody goes through they find out all the shit they love all the shit they don't love right and then it seems like the next thing is they need to make a plan for themselves but then the hardest part is not just themselves it sounds like you need to get a crew around you people who you can trust and talk to which is probably a hard part for a lot of people. Oh, this is my crew that I can talk to

and be honest with. And even their best friends, a lot of times they can't really tell the truth to. So walk us through. They figure out what they like, what they don't like. Then they create some sort of plan with themselves and people that they love. What's that look like? Well, people that they love or people that they can rock with. And this can come from acquaintances or whatever. And this is where you start to really see the connection of the people that you're going to carry forward in your life. And that may not be your family. And for me, you know, my blood family doesn't really rock with what I do. They don't really rock with how I organize my life. And the same thing with- What you said, not to interrupt you. One thing that you've said that I've heard you say before, and you kind of mentioned it real quick, but I've actually heard you say out loud that I've never thought of. You go, I love my family. I just don't really like them that much. And most people can't get to saying that. They feel like they're obligated to love them.

Yeah. And they hate that shit because they don't. And it causes me a great, just hearing you say it, I can feel it in my body don't say that yeah oh my gosh it's on a podcast what if they hear it right and it's like it's not that it's not that i don't that uh that i don't love them i do right it's just that we don't we don't jive well we don't and and that's it's not unfortunate unfortunate it's just the way we are. And when you look at the human DNA, we're built to spread out and move away from our actual kin so that we can interweave with other human beings and diversify the gene pool. So when we keep ourselves in that container and we don't let ourselves spread out, it becomes disruptive to the actual physical organism, especially if you're not connected to it. So this is where this is the point where when you're creating what we call a life team, where there can be a grand amount of upheaval in one's life.

Right. Because this is where many of my clients have left marriages. Many clients have walked away from family members. Many clients have walked away from businesses because it's actually not what they really deeply feel connected to. And they've been lying to themselves or they haven't been honest. If you don't want to put lying to it, they haven't been really honest. They haven't known that they were being dishonest. And when we get programmed into permanence, which is a big thing in our cultures on this planet, is permanence. You stay here and that's where you stay.

That's it. So when we pull away from the constructs of permanence, it causes a little bit of a physical disruption, anxiety, tension, and all of this stuff. This is where vulnerability comes into play when you're being honest. The people that can lean in with you will be there with you. And those are the diehard people. Those are my fans that have been listening to my music from when my music was, as far as I'm concerned, a complete nightmare. And they've watched my music evolve into the awesome. My music now is crazy, man. And they've watched it evolve. And they're also on board with everything that I'm doing with people because they believe in me and they're diehard for me. I'm diehard for them. And like we intermingle. And when I go to places,

these people will listen to anything that I say and they will not flinch. Whereas there are people in my family, they'll accept it, but they ain't on board. You know what I mean? So there's a difference. And when you can get people that are on board with you, it's a different story. And that may be a whole new system of people that you're dealing with. And so this is a whole new life. So you're creating something new. And in order to live a new life, you know what you have to have? A new body. So your body starts to regenerate, to assimilate and accommodate for the new structure in your life. And this is when the body gets to calm down. It gets to relax into everything. The truth is on the table and it gets to reacclimate itself to the new team that's in your life. And that's in the new projects and the new growth and all of these things that you do.

And when you really understand that the human body regenerates itself every seven to 10 years, from what we understand, all the materials, all the bones, everything in your body regenerates in seven to 10 years. What are the materials, the raw materials you're using? What are the proteins? What are the amino acids you're using to build your body, right? Over this seven to 10 year period, what is the energy you're putting into it? Are you disrupting your body? Are you causing the DNA to activate in really wonky and weird ways? Or are you causing it to open up into some amazing ways and create new patterns and new structures and new habits for the next grade of evolution that you causing it to open up into some amazing ways and create new patterns and new structures and new new habits?

For the next grade of evolution that you're looking to create in humanity. So so once you have that that team in place people are gonna fall off and people have fallen off for me and That falling off of people has left room open for really amazing people like yourself to come into my life. And I got to say, bro, I'm so glad we connected. And if I didn't leave myself that space to open up, we may have never connected. And if all of the things that have happened in my life didn't happen, we may have never connected. So I'm grateful and I'm grateful for every moment. And it doesn't have to be by happenstance how I connect with people. The way I'm doing things, I'm very aware of my interactions and what I'm doing in my life.

So I know how to tweak any energies I want to be connected to. So once you have that team in place, you can really start to get your body to get fully involved in everything in your life. And that's when you start to implement that plan. And you don't have to, it doesn't have to be people you're paying or anything like that. It could be like, yo, Rob, man, you know, I need to tell you something, man. You know, this is what's going on with me. And if you see me falling off, I need you to call me and be like, yo, Todd, this doesn't look like what you were talking about. You're still in that space and swing me back around. And without chastising me, without shaming me, you know, with love and acceptance,

but, and holding me to what I said I really want to create. And once you have that in place, man, you have all the bumpers and the foundations of people who are rock solid and you can be a team member for them. And then it's back and forth. And then we have a co-creative human experience. And that's when things start to get really awesome. And the way I like to say it is if you were to stand in a room and dangle a sheet from the ceiling and you were blowing it by yourself, you might get a little ripple in it. But if you got 10 people in a room and you all went, that sheet would start waving. You got a hundred people in that room, that sheet would be flapping. And this is how we move everything together, cohesive together.

We get a team to do that with each and every life. And when we do that from a space of awareness, man, the things we can do are unimaginable. And from a place of not just rest, but relaxation where the body can actually regenerate and groove into the lifestyles we want, man, it's limitless, man. What you're saying reminds me, I was listening to a Ram Dass podcast.

I love Ram Dass. I love him too. And so he says, it's just because like, he's very spiritual. Yeah. And at the same time, he's also real, like he'll drop cuss words in the middle of it. He'll say stuff that the average, like spiritual person probably wouldn't, you know? And one thing that he says, he talks about, you know, one of his podcasts about family. And, uh, before I ever did psychedelics, the whole idea of, um, you know, many lifetimes never made any sense. I was like, that shit doesn't make any sense. But it just, I couldn't comprehend that whole thing. Like our body, you know, dying,

but our soul going on to another place or another body at some point in time. And then I did psychedelics and I was like, Oh, I think I can understand this now. I don't fully understand how it happens, but it all starts to make sense because we've all seen a child that's born and you're like, this is like the wisest kid I've ever met. Like, where did this wisdom come from in this way to that they're acting and everything. And, uh, and one of the things that he says is, is within a family, you know, just in general, within, within the entire population, you have people who are very much like Neanderthals. They're, give me, give me, I need to just take, I need to destroy, just consume, consume, kill the animals, eat them, buy all of the gas, do everything we can to just

destroy because it's all about me, me, me, me, me, right? More than anything else. Then you have people that are on the complete opposite side that are more, I guess you you could say quote unquote woke but maybe they want to help other people and they're more and then you have everybody who's in between right and you would say the neanderthal type people which everybody listening knows somebody who they're probably they know a neanderthal type person right yeah if you were to put it not in any judging state but we all know someone who's kind of like that and then we also know people who are on the opposite end of the spectrum. Like if I were to say the person that is the most incredible aspect of who a human is that I've ever met was my grandfather, right? So I know, I see my grandfather at one spectrum. I've seen a lot of other people at the other end of the spectrum. Then there's

everybody that's in between that entire spectrum, right? And they say, what's crazy about it is that when you go into a family, you don't just get one. You could have every single aspect of the Neanderthal to wise person inside of your family. Yeah. And your journey that you're on, they're placed there for a reason, for some sort of reason, you know, to help you grow, to help you learn who you need to become. And either you change through that or you don't. And it's not that you do it in need to become. And either you, you change through that or you don't. And it's not that you, you do it in spite of them. And in spite of the fact that maybe you're a little bit wiser than your brother is, or whatever, whoever is it's listening out there. Maybe you're wiser than your sister. Maybe you're wiser than your parents. You feel like, I'm not saying that

you're, that there's anything wrong with that. Cause a lot of people are like, I can't be wiser than my parents because my parents are older than me. And wisdom doesn't have come with age right we all know people that live in the same exact life for 65 years right plenty and what they say is is because i have a good friend who's struggling a lot with their family right and there's been a whole lot of struggle there with her and her family and you know trust issues and all of these things are coming up and she feels like she needs to go completely opposite of it and they're holding her back in some sort of way well then you hear this podcast and he says it's not that you have to become who you need to become in spite of it it's that they're the tool to get you through to the next level of your enlightenment or whatever it might be

doesn't mean you have to be with them all the time but what are you supposed to learn if you have the neanderthal brother or sister it's They're supposed to be there to teach you something. Maybe it's as simple as who you don't want to be. Or maybe they have something inside of them that you go, you know what? They are a lot kinder in some sort of way. Or maybe they treat people better and I need to learn from them in some sort of way. It's interesting because you can still love them, not like them, but then find something that you can learn from

them every single time that you're around them. I think that's a beautiful thing. I think it's awesome. I mean, it falls back to the progressive moment of now. Everything is moving along now. The future never really comes because it's always, now is always progressive, right? The past never comes back because now is still here. It's always progressive.

And the people that you're living with are helping the progressive moment of now regardless of how it goes it helps the direction of it so when you're with people who are in that space they actually help to inspire different things they hope to inspire you to get out of something or to lean into something and that's and that's or or to lean into something and that's, and that's, or, or stay locked into something. Sure. And, and that's what, that's what their places is.

What our places, our place may be to move somewhere. Right. You know, it all depends. So people have their different places and their different reasons for existing. It's just like the,

what I like to say right now is our current financial system, which is a nightmare was built to get us to where we are now and if we keep utilizing that same system things are going to be dysfunctional so we've got to we've got to create another system to come up and kind of nurture and love that system and kind of transition move it off to the side as we move into a new space it's the same thing with those people those people that in your family that may not be the wise ones or the progressive ones are here to actually support your movement into the progression. And so when we can do that progression from a space of awareness, it changes everything. And it also changes the awareness of the people that are like that.

So my mother is a physician and she was the first black woman in the, in the world to be the type of physician she is. She's a perinatologist and I love my mom. She's a great lady and, uh, and stuff. My mother doesn't take care of herself the way I, the way I would like her to take care of herself. And it doesn't make a difference.

It's her life. But my mother is also has a lot of fear around a lot of stuff. She doesn't know nutrition and that type of stuff. And I watch this woman do so many awesome things. And yet from a social aspect, she's like a 12 year old. She doesn't know how to interact. So as I start to open up and I expand and she sees me do this stuff, it inspires her to be courageous and move into a different space so she's also evolving along with that and and what she did as far as being a physician has inspired me to move the way I move and to do and all of our the dynamics of our relationship the name thing all of

that stuff has been in place to get me to where I am right now and I'm grateful for all of it and And being able to realize that and see it helps that progressive moment of now start to move from a space of awareness. And when you and I and everybody, we all start getting all this stuff together, we move from a place of awareness, the old paradigm and the old ways of things, you don't need to do that anymore. And so the Neanderthal kind of fades out. You know what I mean? I mean, like the Neanderthal did. The neanderthal kind of fades out you know what i mean i mean like the neanderthal did right you know the neanderthal faded out homo erectus faded out and then we

have homo sapiens and what's next what's the next the next evolution of humanity right you know or whatever we're gonna get tentacles and stuff well what's cool about what you say though is is when you actually dive into it it's it goes back to the to the quote, which everybody knows of Gandhi is be the change you want to see in the world. And most people, especially right now in the society and especially politics and all that stuff, it's, this is what I believe in. And everyone that doesn't believe me is the same things that I do is completely incorrect. And they don't know what the hell they're talking about. But in reality, it's like, if you truly believe in something, don't try to push it off to somebody and make them do what you want them to do.

Be the best version of yourself so that therefore they want to come to you and go, what are you doing? It's like the lighthouse versus the towboat, if you've ever heard that phrase. And it's like, you see a lot of people, you know, I was raised Christian. This is just one thing that pops into my head.

I've seen a lot of Christians that instead of being the best Christian they could possibly be, they go out and tell other people that they need to be Christians. And it's like Alan Watts says, he says, your religion is not, is, is, is like a, uh, you know, you're walking and you see a sign and it points this way. You're supposed to follow the sign, not get on top of the time, the sign and scream to everybody how you're going this way. It's like, you're supposed to follow it. And the other way he says,

it's like a, you know, it's, it's pointing this way, but instead of most people following where it's going, they're just sucking the thumb for comfort. Right. And it's like, if you go and you go, okay, if I am really a Christian, I want to be the best Christian I possibly can be, be the best fucking Christian you possibly can be. And eventually, instead of having to go and get people, people start going, well, what is it that I've seen such changes in your life? What is it? You know, tell me about it. And then that's how people start to change. Same thing with your mom, same thing with my mom. What is it? You know, tell me about it. And then that's how people start to change. Same thing with your mom.

Same thing with my mom. And one thing that you brought up towards the beginning when you're talking about what happened with you when you had all these injuries and things started popping up is I've always heard and realized that the universe will kind of come to you, universe, God, source, infinity, whatever it is that you want to call it,

will kind of come to you in a whisper. And if don't listen to whisper a little bit louder a little bit louder a little bit louder if you don't listen it's going to knock you the fuck out is what it's going to do and you kind of got knocked out in a perfect example of this when you're talking about you wish that your mom's nutrition would change you know maybe something will happen that will make her go you know what maybe i should reconsider And the perfect thing that happened in, in, in my life, just, you know, this past week to two weeks ago now, uh, my brother-in-law is a firefighter. He had a stroke in 2000. Let's see, it was seven years ago. He had a stroke and firefighters that's, you know, they have a lot of issues, strokes, they have heart attacks, they have all of these things. It's super stressful. Um, but he had a stroke and then a

few days later had a heart attack and he was only, you know, at the time, 35, I think 38, something like that. Stroke and a heart attack the same week. And then, you know, he, he didn't take care of himself as much as he should. Then over Thanksgiving had another stroke and it was a small enough stroke where he was able to get out two days later, but it made him finally go, yeah, he's got this, this blood disease that he knows he's been dealing with. And the only person he's ever met that was able to get past this blood disease without taking any medication that he has to take is a guy who's also a firefighter in one

of his, you know, in his, his County and he's younger, but he's a hundred percent vegan. And so my brother-in-law went, maybe we should look in this vegan thing. And then they talked to me and they're like, Hey, you've been pretty much vegan for the past two years. They made fun of me. Everybody made fun of me when I decided to switch, but because they're like, there's no way that you can get all the nutrition. There's no, you can get all the protein that you need, even though protein is never an issue. Um, it's always fiber more than anything else. And so they, they, everybody made fun of me. And then I go home and I sit on my sister's couch. As soon as I walk in, she's like, have you read this book? There's this book and it's called, uh, how to not die.

I think is what it's called. And I'm like, no. And she's got all of these highlighted parts, vegan, vegan, vegan. It's a book about, you know, basically veganism. And, uh, and I was like, the hell is this? And she's like, oh, we watched a forks over knives the other day. And I was like, oh, you did. Cause I've heard a lot of people that watch Forks Over Knives. And then they're like, no, maybe I should turn to a vegan. So they watched that. She reads this book. She starts doing all this research.

When I was over there, I was making the salads that we were talking about a little while ago. Your famous salad from my nephews and niece. And they were like, oh, this is actually really good. It's got no sugar. It's got none of the fat. No animals, any of that type of stuff in there. This is really good. It's got no sugar. It's got none of the fat, no, no, you know, animals, any of that type of stuff in there. Like, this is really good. And, but it took having another stroke and that slap from the universe to be like, if you don't stop, it's going to end up concrete. Like you're going to end up being conquered by this thing that you, you know, whatever it is, the way that

you're taking care of yourself or the too many sodas or whatever it is. And sometimes you just need to be smarter and listen and go, yeah, I think the universe is telling me or God's telling me that I should do this thing. I'm being guided in this direction. And a lot of times we're too afraid to listen to it because it's too much of a change. And then something happens, a big injury, a heart attack, somebody dies. And it's kind of like the universe going, hey, wake the hell up. It's time for you to make change in your life. Yeah. Yeah. And universe through your body. Your body is like, bro, this is not, this is not where you need to be. You know, eating this way is not your truth.

You know, it's not, it's not, it's not being honest with your body that this is really what you need. And, and I mean, yeah, man, there's, there's so many things around that honesty factor that being able to see what's going on and what's what's coming up through the signals in the body man is so much to it and integrating that space so important you know the the the emotions you know if and and this is the thing and and i think i've told you this before the the way we are in our society we tend to have mind excuse me spirituality is this high echelon and then mind right underneath it and in society and the rules of society under that then we take our heart and we put it under that and we put the body way down on the bottom and that's the the order of priority of things and and this is how we take care of things bodies

always last and we cater to our heart and our love And we cater to society because all the rules are there. And then the mind is ruling everything. And in spirituality, oh, you know, got to get back to the essence. What if we took all of that, right, that paradigm and turned it sideways? And then we held all of those things in the same esteem. All of them. All of them. Honor your spirituality the same way you honor your body.

The way you honor your mind. The way you honor your society. Honor your society the way you honor your heart, and then you bring it together for a complete human being. That's where it is. It's all of the aspects. So we can cater to the diet, but if our emotional situation is jacked up, the body's still going to talk. If your mind is out of whack and you're lost in loops and you're doing well with the body and society and heart, your mind is still going to go wonky. So you've got to cater to all of these things.

And this is where being a holistic human being, a whole human being comes into play. We're not just a mind. We're not just a, you know, there's so many things right now where it's like, I've got a mind over matter and I've got to make my mind stronger to control everything that's going on. Really? I mean, when you get all of these things to function together, you have a whole human being.

It's like somebody will say, oh, yeah, my arms hurt. Let me have surgery on an arm. But your fascia is pulling from down here and back here and doing all this other stuff. You have some surgery done to your arm, and then it's re-injured again because your body's out of alignment. And you are a body. Your arm is still part of your body.

Just like you are a human being. Your body is part of your human being. Your mind is part of your human being. Your spiritual self is part of your human being. We've got to use all of these parts of the self and bring all of these parts together so that they can actually function from a space of ease.

You know? So, yeah. Love it. Me too, man. Good stuff, man. Well, we stuff man well great stuff have you back yeah and i will be back yeah man it's amazing yeah thank you man so for people who are like all right this guy was pretty damn eye-opening how did they how did they find tal witty and your podcast you could find me lots of places you could find me at mentor in the mirror podcast.com

or look at all of your favorite podcast outlets for mentor in the mirror. You can visit me at talkhole.com. It's T A H K O L E.com. And if you're interested in doing that naked true thing that I was talking about, it's a whole seven day program. It doesn't cost you anything. Uh, you can go to meet me in the mirror.com or you can just go to talkhole.com it's there too but meet me in the mirror.com and yeah find me at all these places and if you need help with any of this stuff please hit me up let me know this is what we move people through if that whole process of of making that assessment, creating that plan, creating that team and implementing that is something you're interested in and you need help with,

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