You're The Voice | by Efrat Fenigson - From Addiction to Building Villages: Responsibility Over Collapse - Aaron Murphy | Ep. 112

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

My guest today is Aaron Murphy, founder of MurphsLife Foundation, a storyteller and builder working across Latin America to turn direct aid into long-term, dignity-first systems. We sit down in El Salvador’s National Palace to talk about what happens when you hit rock bottom—and choose responsibility, faith, and service instead of collapse. Murph shares his journey from addiction, debt, panic attacks, and near-death experiences to building villages, farms, and regenerative communities that have already impacted tens of thousands of people. We talk about why life doesn’t get easier—you simply choose which kind of “hard” you’re willing to live with—and why real sovereignty starts with food, land, shelter, and low time preference. We explore inflation, the fragility of the dollar system, and why Bitcoin matters not as speculation, but as intergenerational infrastructure for families who currently live in survival mode. Murph explains his vision for using Bitcoin to help entire villages escape poverty—not through handouts, but through ownership, education, and long-term incentives. Finally, we go deep into faith, suffering, fasting, and the idea that meaning comes from choosing a mission larger than yourself. → Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing big tech algorithms & gov. censorship. Thank you!– SPONSORS –→ Get your TREZOR wallet & accessories, with a 5% discount, using my code at checkout (get my discount code from the episode - yep, you’ll have to watch it): https://affil.trezor.io/SHUn→ Have you tried mining bitcoin? Stack sats directly to your wallet while saving on taxes with Abundant Mines: https://AbundantMines.com/Efrat– AFFILIATES –→ Get 10% off on Augmented NAC to detox Spike protein, with the code YCXKQDK2 via this link: https://store.augmentednac.com/?via=efrat (This is not medical advice and you should consult your MD)→ Be good to your eyes & health, and get the Daylight tablet - a healthier, more human-friendly computer, with zero flicker and zero blue light, by design. Thank me later ;-) https://bit.ly/Efrat_daylight→ Get a second citizenship and a plan B to relocate to another country with Expat Money, leave your details for a follow up: https://expatmoney.com/efrat→ Watch “New Totalitarian Order” conference with Prof. Mattias Desmet & Efrat - code EFRAT for 10% off: https://efenigson.gumroad.com/l/desmet_efrat→ Join me in any of these upcoming events: https://www.efrat.blog/p/upcoming-events– LINKS –MurphsLife Foundation: https://murphslifefoundation.comMurphsLife on X: https://x.com/MURPHSLIFEMurphsLife on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murphslife/ MurphsLife on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MURPHSLIFE Efrat’s Twitter: https://x.com/efenigsonEfrat’s Channels: https://linktr.ee/efenigsonWatch/listen on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/yourethevoiceSupport Efrat’s work: ⁠https://bit.ly/zap_efrat– CHAPTERS –00:00 – Coming Up…01:25 – Introducing Murph & Murph’sLife Foundation06:52 – Childhood Poverty, Responsibility & the Inner Child10:15 – Anxiety, Addiction, Debt & Hitting Rock Bottom18:00 - Ad Break: Trezor & Abundant Mines19:58 – Starting MurphsLife & Leaving Everything Behind23:50 – COVID & Finding El Salvador31:48 – Building Villages, Not Charity35:25 – Bitcoin, Low Time Preference & Generational Wealth40:16 – Meaning Beyond Comfort & Ego42:41 - Ad Break44:44 - “Pick Your Hard” & Surrender to God49:40 – Why People Resonate With Murph56:00 –  How To Support MurphsLife1:00:00 – BEHIND THE SCENES: Peek into MurphsLife

When the US dollar collapses, the world is gonna go batshit crazy. Inflation destroys countries. Like, look at Venezuela right now. 95% of the country is very poor. And if we don't do something like this, and this country really does continue to grow, the lower class will be slaves.

It's fucking hard. Like, I'm exhausted, I'm tired. I don't even have a house for myself. I can't hold on anymore. I'm gonna let go. And I let go, and my soul left my body. It's one thing owing money to a bank, but owing money to someone you're close to will truly destroy your self-esteem, your self-worth. God allowed my soul to come back into this body to do something cool with my life.

What if we create a program for the locals and an economy for the locals that as they receive that Bitcoin, as prices continue to go up, now their children have money to buy their own land. Life is always hard. Like my life was very difficult when I was sleeping on my friend's couch who was shooting heroin up in the bathroom and I was sleeping on a pile of his clothes that were stained with blood. You got to pick your heart. But I trusted in God and within one year my debts were paid and there was a million dollars of donations in my bank account. hello and welcome to another episode of you're the voice from el salvador national palace what do you know i'm here with murph hey murph how are you good how are you good thanks so much for agreeing to come on my show thank you and thank you for being so generous and forgiving me for

here's my confession for coming to your place about a year ago doing a lot of shooting i still having materials and not publishing it yet but the plan is to take this beautiful episode and weave the stuff that i've taken back then to this episode so in the end people are gonna see the extra rad yes that will be like the behind the scenes footage of uh the awesome is my panel half hour ago that's true because i was here preparing for you i have good excuses but anyway thank you for agreeing to come on i love what you do and that's why i invited you to come on the show because i want my audience which is on the most part people who appreciate freedom and sovereignty which is what you stand for and people who appreciate free spirits creation entrepreneurship

and spirituality which i heard like super interesting stories from you about that part of your life so i would love to dig deeper on those topics with you cool um so yeah we're we're as i said national palace bitcoin historical we're at the congress blue room it's nice right i feel like we are violating the matrix rules because here we are to i don't know if to call us anarchists or whatever yeah troublemakers in the government palace in a government palace being endorsed and like blue carpets are being uh are being put together for us and it's fancy there's sushi outside sushi outside we just had some nibbles in the speaker's room this is good sushi but i um i already told you i have worms i found a worm i did i found it two days ago and so i literally

took a dewormer 20 minutes before i got here and then there's more salmon salmon yeah according to you could increase your worm situation yeah well i didn't think so and now the new ones can start growing but i'm afraid of like big worms if they're like you know all right thank you for sharing so murph just for my audience that may not know you i want to do a little intro like to let them know who you are and then we'll dive into the questions we'll let you talk so aaron murphy is a storyteller builder and founder of murph's life foundation a non-profit that uses social media to drive direct aid and long-term regenerative development across latin america what began with one viral act of kindness in ecuador has grown into a movement that has

supported over 75 000 people built hundreds of homes and schools launched family businesses and raised more than 10 million dollars from a community of over 11 million followers forgive me if i'm wrong on the numbers today murph focuses on dignity first sustainable solutions from regenerative farms and safe housing to skills training anchored by is it i'm gonna butcher that casa conejo the rabbit house casa conejo yeah okay casa conejo conejo his echo resort that's it's a beautiful place and farm in el salvador that funds local jobs and programs so you have a crazy story of how you got into this how you even started doing what you're doing today yeah and i think that story is also weaved in with you like your spiritual awakening and that

moment that i think you mentioned that you felt god speaking to you can you share that story with yeah i mean the more we age you know it's like we're constantly being awakened to new we're becoming a little bit more conscious of like why maybe why we smoke cigarettes why we overeat why like a little ticks that we all have you know so we're constantly like awakening and i don't think you know that it's one moment yeah like one moment like even process yeah you know you're saying like go back to that moment like i had a pretty profound realization um a couple weeks ago where i was like why am i building why am i building this because it's fucking hard like i'm exhausted i'm tired i don't even have a house for myself my marriage is on the brinks of you

know a lot of people kind of hide from that like it's very difficult to build something and maintain a family like the traveling not seeing your children grow up as much as you would like yeah and i look at this as like we're building casa conejo which is the rabbit house and i've had a fascination with rabbits like it's like the it represents jesus christ with easter could be pornography with playboy you know you gotta go down the rabbit hole right and and you know like everyone's like i went down another rabbit hole with a conspiracy like trying to discover something about to find truth right whether it's from government or if there's aliens or a cover-up so but what happens when you catch the rabbit yeah you know and and and for me it was

like casa conejo is me building a village homes you know we've already finished we've built hundreds of houses for families and a lot of them have airbnb rental units on top for financial security for that sovereignty and and my realization that was pretty profound was i grew up in a trailer park my dad was in and out of work six siblings in a pretty shitty house you know like living in my grandma's basement for a bit then we went to a trailer park then we moved the trailer to like the outskirts of a native reservation where it's like i would go to school and me and my friends would like to be huffing gas and plastic and like paper bags going to school very poor communities and so now it's like i'm subconsciously giving that inner child and i never like every time

people say inner child i'm like what the hell but it's so real like yeah it is i'm giving my child the security that i never had to so many people wow and and i look at my life now and it's like am i repeating what my dad did with me you know and i love my dad and you know i wasn't sexually abused i wasn't everyone has an upbringing that's not perfect you know but it's like how much time am i not spending with my daughter right even being here right now i could be in a park with her you know and you know as as you have a kid you can always say there should be a little bit more time to see them grow up before they leave the nest yeah um so everything is kind of like this external here's a home here's a business here's security here's protection and coming

from a christian background it's very like the second coming of jesus christ you know like uh in christianity there's a lot of like fear around that like the world is gonna burn there's gonna be world wars there's gonna be famines and i look at my farm and it's like we have well water and i always say that like if the world goes to shit and it absolutely can and i'm not letting go of that because when the u.s dollar collapses like it happened with spain ruled the world and you know, they never created anything. They just spend all their money hundreds of years ago. And it's happened with multiple countries and the same cycle is happening with, with the U S dollar right now. When that collapses, the world is going to go batshit crazy. El Salvador uses the U S

dollar. I work in Ecuador. They use the U S dollar. What's going to happen. We have no idea if there's like an EMP, like these things can happen. World wars have always happened, you know, and this has nothing to do necessarily with religion, but coming from that Christian background is like prepare yourself for the end of the world you know and and our farm is also an external like if everything goes to shit we have well water thousands of fruit trees pigs rabbit meat we're on top of a mountain you know like we're building a brick wall in front of the damn property and eventually i want to i would love to have it all of it it's like we're building this fortress where yeah we're building this citadel that's like to sustain that wild shit

you know that and you know and it's a beautiful thing and now i'm working through it like i need to give my family and my myself a home i need to give myself peace and you know but kind of what you were saying like going back to how this happened was i i grew up mormon i went on a Mormon mission to Brazil that's what got me into Latin America and you know the elders they walk into and I freaking loved it like I absolutely loved being a missionary there I was a teenager just very wild you know like I wasn't the a good example I guess of of what it should be for representing a church as you know like preaching spirituality but um when I got back from that it was just immediately like alcohol and drugs for me um it was like my way of of feeling alive

and feeling like I had a voice was to take a bunch of ecstasy and mushrooms and I would go to like I started working doing events at Sundance Film Festival and I worked for years like helping out with with movie productions and and celebrities and I've moved into that where it's just like I'm throwing concerts and music festivals and but it got to a point where it's like everything that I was hiding turned into anxiety and panic attacks uh I don't know if you've had a panic attack before I had an anxiety attack yeah I had three of them feels like you're dying it feels like you're becoming a stone like so rigid and heavy and everything feels super it's super difficult like a video game too yeah what is real it felt horrible when i had them so i i got to the

point where i had a dui i lost my car um i had uh one of my best girlfriends that were promoter there were some of my promoters that would hand out like flyers and and you know um she was murdered by her girlfriend and like these traumas that were just kind of building up like she got stabbed 57 47 times oh my god and the the killer facetimed me and was like Aaron what do I do with the body you know what I mean I thought it was like a Halloween joke uh like crazy shit I couldn't leave the state I had to go to court because I called the police maybe she's still breathing you know so imagine like this kind of stuff just building up and um it was a point of like 90% of my life was just this I was the stone like I was afraid I never went to college I'm not working

anymore like I threw a couple events where we lost a lot of money and some of my friends were like it's one thing owing money to a bank but owing money to someone you're close to yeah will truly destroy your self-esteem your self-worth wow and that's for me personally like if you think it's bad owing credit card companies wait until you can't pay back a best friend and they start talking about you behind your back and and you're the guy who can't pay anything back you know um so I got to the point where I was just like I had to call upon a higher power you know and so um I had I got I had an overdose and I took a bunch of like GHB mixed with a shit ton of alcohol and GHB is like a narcolepsy it feels like you're drunk it's it's also called liquid ecstasy it could be used as

date rape and it was just a little bit, it was very powerful. And so I, I took, I was using a bunch that night and then a bunch of alcohol and, um, my, it was going through death is crazy. It's just like, I was fighting it, seizures, you know, and I was just like holding on and I was just like, I can't hold on anymore. I'm going to let go and let go. And my, my soul left my body. And some people say it's your brain, it's your, but those who've been through an experience like this is it's undeniable it's it's not hallucination you know and as someone who's done mushrooms and acid and um it's different when your soul leaves your your meat body you know and I uh that really changed who I am as a person I got into my body and you know like going through panic attacks

when you're in the shower like coming on to your 30s just shaking and like but your body the male body doesn't want to let you cry like i'm a man i'm not gonna fucking cry i'm just like not allowing myself to release you know and i called to god and i said in the name of jesus christ like uh how am i gonna pay back this debt how am i ever gonna have a family am i ever gonna you know like is this life am I in hell you know and and at the same time I'm living with people that are like very paranoid you know like that's a whole other wild story but it was like very like if you know someone who's like very tinfoil and very you know and I say this out of love like this guy is a very important part of my life um but when someone believes that you know I got a friend

who sued banks and his mom and sister died at the same time. And he thought the banks assassinated his, and I lived with him going through my depression and that fear and energy was just like, you know, like reprogramming my brain. And so after all of this happened, I go to God and, and, and, uh, and I knew I had to fast. And so I fast for 30 days doing a juice fast. And then I would go into the mountains and blindfold myself. I didn't know, I didn't read anything about this I blindfolded myself and I did like a dry fast for two days and it was so profound going into that type of you know fasting is the most powerful thing every religion talks about that every spirituality and like I got to the point where I was like seeing like electricity

and I could walk down the stairs you know and just at peace and and I do this year fast from everything from drugs, alcohol. Uh, and I was vegan for a year. And as that ended, you know, like I had a friend who was like, Hey, will you manage my nightclub? And he offered, and I was like joking. And I, he's like, how much will you manage it for? Cause he knew I worked in that. And I throw it a crazy number, like joking. And he was like, okay, you know, and I'm just like paying off my debts. And, and at the same time working in nightclubs where people are spending 30, $40,000 on bottle service and just seeing people get drunk over and over and over. And I'm out of that and i'm like holy shit what a fucking waste of money like damn like sometimes you have

to step out of it and heal to look and go not in a non-judgmental way but go okay understand now and and that's what god does to us he allows us to suffer and if we take that suffering as a teacher it'll stretch our souls in ways where it becomes stronger and stronger like that japanese you know that knife, the 10,000 fold stretch us, stretch us to become sharper. And, um, and so like that, that was kind of what was, uh, and to kind of wrap that up, I, uh, there was a Diplo concert, my friends were throwing and, you know, there, and I'm like, I went over a year, I'm sober. And I said, I'm going to smoke weed. And so everyone's like Murph. Cause I'm, I was the guy who was, I'll, I'll be awake for three days. Like you kind of saw a little bit on my crazy side,

but when that was enhanced on drugs and alcohol, like I round everyone up and I'll say, no one sleeps for three days we're gonna see who can do the most blow like and i'm gonna do more than everyone i'm gonna do more mushrooms and more and i'm the one who's gonna be like naked at the parties and like let's you know like the wild i had my robe and purple hair and you know like and people are like what you know and they see me doing charity now but god transformed and i needed to go through that to be to be a good steward of donations otherwise i would have been a shithead with the money you know and i would have had my house right now for sure yeah i would have a beautiful house here yeah raise millions of dollars my wife would

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attack in like nine months because i healed my panic attacks yeah 95 of the day like for a year before i was just like walking on ice like i'm gonna have a panic attack i need to get drunk as shit to fall asleep i'm gonna have a panic attack i couldn't even be in a car anymore i would get like claustrophobic um and so I'm so high at this concert this Diplo concert and and I'm praying in my heart and I say like God I can't not like even my mind like I cannot go back to this like I need help I need to get out of this and this peace comes over me like dude and it was just like something was placed into my heart you know and a lot of people be like God spoke to me and I hear that and I'm like the fuck does that mean like did you audibly hear something you know some people

do by the way they do they hear a voice or voices yeah I always wonder if they hear a voice or they don't hear a voice you know but in for me it's like God spoke to me but it was like put in it not audible it was like put in my heart and it was a knowing it was just like oh I have a foot now yeah like I'm not gonna be like I don't have a left foot like I have a foot and what was it telling you and it said you don't live here anymore you live in South America and it was just like okay and so I told my friends like I'm out of here I don't live here anymore going to South America and I called my mom she worked at JetBlue at the time and I was like I want a buddy pass where's the furthest place I can go Bogota Colombia at the time and so like I left the next

day and my mom called me too and she was like hey please don't commit suicide like these are the signs because I gave everything away yeah everything like here's my didn't have a lot of shit but i was like take it you know i got a backpack i went to california the next day from that another state to get my waiting for my passport to get renewed and then mexico bogota and uh you know i i went back for the first time in like five six years five years uh like three weeks ago crazy you know went to see my parents my sister just showed up and surprised them and going through my healing and uh and then i was like i'm gonna go visit my grandma first time in 22 years i'm from canada never been back you know surprised my grandma but it was that is when

i started when i got to bogota and now i'm just like how do i learn spanish so i had a little camera and i started like just documenting um people in the streets like drug addicts venezuelans some colombians mostly venezuelans were everywhere at the time in the streets and i would just interview them and then i started like spending 24 hours with them and and i loved it and there was a guy named juan carlos and he stopped me in the streets of bogota and i was gonna go edit a video at a starbucks and he's like hey man like i want to work for you and in my brain i'm like oh you're a drug addict like anyone homeless and normally in canada the united states is a drug addict or has a mental issue you know and this guy's like normal kid

and um we ended up doing a little project for him my buddy was traveling with me at the time and we got him like a belt with this plastic case and filled it full of cigarettes and chips and drinks and we let him live with us for like a week and he saved up and he got into a little apartment and i was like that was it was like a drug it was my new drug you know that's kind of how it started and and then coming to el salvador so during right during covid like right as soon as that happened i went from colombia like how i got to el salvador was it was a trip you know like i was like sleeping with venezuelans in a park and like just like getting over hippie you know with this shit but i was like sober and and then and so then i'm like

find this new dude then i find like the shaman guy was like i heal people from cancer and i was like really like i'm gonna follow you and he's going into where the gorillas are in columbia and we get he gets off the bus in the middle of nowhere and he's like are you sure you want to come with me and I was like yeah dude I don't care like I'll go with you into the gorilla jungle you're gonna go heal some cartel gorilla guy from cancer and and I get off the bus and that thing comes into my heart and it was like this is not your stop and I was like oh sorry dude like wait bus it was like a little chicken bus and I get back on the bus and and then we crossed the border into Ecuador and the next day was like COVID shut down everything shuts down and that's how I met my

my now wife um just in ecuador but and that's where my page really started to grow it was rapid it was like we grew like three four million subscribers within our first year and you know within like the first few months it was like a hundred thousand dollars was stuck in a venmo account and i couldn't pull it out and they're like are you selling drugs like why is there so much money going into your venmo you know but we went to paraguay then we went to honduras for a few months and then like this was like kind of when things were opening up with covid but i didn't want to get a shot my covid shot and we were in mexico we went to mexico city and then we had to leave mexico and it's like we wanted to go to brazil and they're like you can't go to brazil

but you have to leave our country oh we'll go to peru we'll go to chile and then i was like fuck where are we gonna go and i do a live and i'm like guys like i don't know where we can go we're stuck in mexico unless we're forcing us to get a shot we couldn't even return to ecuador they wouldn't even let ecuadorians in unless they got a shot and so a lot of people are like el salvador salvador salvador go meet bukele and then so i was on instagram and i'm like all right guys like everyone go message bukele tell them to like we want to hang out in el salvador i'm not even thinking anything of it you know and but like hundreds if not thousands of people were like tagging bukele like invite murph's life so i go i'm at the hotel in mexico like in the airport

and i'm just chatting with one of my buddies and i see this like dm pop up on my phone as a naib bukele and it was like hey dude want to come to el salvador and i was like chatted with him for a little bit and like tell my wife like hey we're getting on the plane we're going to el salvador like literally we head over to el salvador and they had a little guy there like aaron murphy oh my god yeah it was like the presidential car we're like whipping around i'm like playing with the lights like and then we go and meet naive in the in the casa presidencial and just chat with him um we had a cool conversation about uh bitcoin city uh-huh you know and i was like with my buddy i'm like hey we got the first million bucks we want to build we want to help build the school

at bitcoin city and he was like all right let's do this you know and i had money put aside like a few million right that we wanted to do bigger projects and obviously we wanted to fundraise for more um but and i would always hit him up i'm like and ask people like hey when's that gonna happen i was stoked about it you know like i want to live in bitcoin city sure uh but it never happened for you know for whatever reason i'm assuming it's very complicated just to start a new city in a poor country but that idea for me never went away and so 2021 um with this money uh all constantly praying god told me to start buying farms and so we have a farm here we have one by the board of columbia another one in the amazon rainforest we were donated a farm in el

salvador by one of our followers that will do down the road something cool we didn't really do with anything the first year was just cleaning up trash it was a dump yeah and uh the prisoners they let us use the prisoners to put up that big fence around it right but i didn't think anything of it because it was just like a trash hole in a very touristic beautiful area but no one knew it would be touristic because it was like in the house that was there was just full of ms-13 members and so we're just like you know and my wife was like why did you spend a hundred grand on that property you know and i wanted to buy more farms that were like fifty thousand dollars for sale around me forty thousand dollars who now wouldn't sell it to me that forty thousand dollar farm for

a half a million to get an idea so i'm kind of kicking myself in the ass but wow god has blessed us with that beautiful uh 20-something manzana farm and and now it is what it is because of a beautiful transformation it's right off the highway and uh yeah so tell us a bit about that what is the the mission that merce life um foundation but the compound in el salvador is trying to achieve so the idea with this is we've i mean there's a million kind of directions we're doing a lot of things with this you know from like we want to do reject we want to be the the model for regenerative farming i want my daughter to have healthy food and i don't think we should be deforesting we need to take care of the earth yeah and kind of going into whole carbon

shit you know like people are so against cows and cars but they don't realize like the plants and the flowers and the earth is what takes in the carbon oh yeah you know um so anyway we want to be a model within our we have like a 48 botanical garden but the main purpose of this is we've taken a lot of families that lived plastic roofs you know i'll use the one that the family that took me in during covid for a few months we went back and built them like a 250 000 project in their street like a mini apartment complex two homes on the bottom for the great grandmas and a beautiful airbnb up top and i bought a brand new semi truck for the sun so we've taken a poor family that can make thousands of dollars a month but how can we do that now for a village and i love bitcoin

because i i and i'm not a super expert at it i'm not a technical person i don't care to be it's just like i don't understand how the internet works if i send you a text i don't know the tech behind it i don't care but it's here and i know that inflation destroys countries like look at venezuela right now like how much inflation we've had with the u.s dollar so i want to have i want to be prepared for that for my family for my foundation uh when when it continues to inflate so we still could continue to do good work so we're here in el salvador and there's a lot of talk about bitcoin adoption right it's the name of a lot of the conferences and plan b and and the problem in el salvador for example is it's like this is bitcoin country and most of the

people will just show beautiful beaches and these multi-million dollar homes and gated communities but like the 95 of the country is very poor right and they live in shacks dirt floors and and i think that's beautiful like the people in there like the experience of of taking someone and like hey come meet this family and we meet them we see this mom who's a single mom her husband might be in seacott and she's like freaking fighting for her four kids and and and i you know but it tricks kind of a lot of people will come here and they've told me like this is not what i saw on the internet like bitcoin beach is not what i thought it would be you know and so our farm is like that it's like this is the reality and this is the problem and rather than just crying and bitching about it

let's have fun with this yeah because going back a little bit spiritual is i don't think we can enter the kingdom of heaven until we become as children again you know and and children like think about your kid like mine is a toddler right now is so innocent she loves everyone she doesn't talk behind your back you know like that pure innocence that playfulness and and we need to become as that we need to get rid of our pride we need to get rid of our ego and it's a constant battle throughout our whole lives i don't know if get rid of it but be aware of it and not let it manage us we can't get rid of it i think exactly but but the the parts of humility yes of love compassion that those things as a child i don't mean like we're gonna shit ourselves yeah absolutely

or a diaper again so so with our farm is for bitcoin adoption it can't be like i'm gonna try to convince everyone i'm gonna show you guys i'm gonna be the influencer that's gonna show the nicest malls and the nicest restaurants and the nicest beaches it's i want to do something that is impactful, right? Like if you, if I say that a good way to understand, because I'm working with farms is I want to, uh, have a fruit tree and eat the apples. And I want to, I want to have the avocados and I want to have it now, now, now. And I plant that and it takes years for that to grow and produce and create roots. And that's the idea of our community. We have 50 families, 55 families and growing that are poor and shack single moms down syndrome kids if we can build

them all houses and this is where we're fundraising for a five another five million but imagine and we've built quite a few are you raising what you say too fast another five million dollars oh for that specifically specifically for the community because we want to build an old folks home yep but homes for all the families and we've already started we have four units already that we're going to be giving away that you can come check out if you're still here but it's four homes eventually they will all have them but they have rental units on top in a very touristic area on the other side of our farm against the highway and now imagine in 15 years when people rent that out we're going to put it into we're going to a big chunk of that is going to go into a bitcoin

account and this is a bitcoin retirement that we're when they when they get the rent yeah it goes into a fund yep we're gonna put it in there so like you're in the community so we're working with jamie right now with bitcoin hardware store we're building a really cool he's built i don't know shit about like the tech side but it's like okay you are um a01 a02 per family and it's like you just hit one button and it's like okay we brought in 50 000 you know so and a percentage of that will specifically go into years and you can't touch that you know like and and in this time now we can educate financial we can reprogram the minds of you're no longer in survival mode it's like what are your dreams what do you want to do when you grow up what do you want to invest in

yeah do you want to have your own farm yeah you want to you know and so this is the concept that imagine now taking these poorest families a village putting a little bit of bitcoin into an account for their children for 15 years and no more now now now now now look at this shit no the fucking truth is there's a lot of poverty here and there's a lot of poverty happening in the united states and it's only growing and this is why it's important to become financially aware sovereign and not just sovereign financially like i'm all about like you should be sovereign with a farm with your water with hold on your money with your money so it's it's a beautiful 15-year project that we're doing right now and i've sacrificed my bitcoin i've spent my bitcoin

and this is what i talked about with mike peterson with on our panel that we just did is one of my best friends just died like my best best friends he died about seven eight months ago and he had a lot of bitcoin and he was always like we chat we chatted all the time while i'm doing this and he was like he's like murph you've spent like two million dollars three million dollars you know at the time like in el salvador on this project but he's like but if you would have like since 2021 but he's like but if you would have just held that until it hit a hundred thousand dollars you would have had another 15 20 million dollars to play with you know and and i'm like i don't give a shit like he's dead he died and and how he died was i don't know how he died

it was kind of a mysterious death you know and this is weird shit you know but we love him to death but he never did anything with that money he told me to hold and and isn't that what we do it's just like hold hold hold and god has given me breath today god allowed my soul to come back into this body to fucking do something cool with my life and in the work i'm doing right now is the most profound impactful sacrifice where it's like imagine it in four or five years where you know i love what the government's doing with the the bitcoin how they show like the graphs right of the country growing i want to do that with a community how cool would that be of people living in shacks of single moms with their fucking husbands in prison here and their kids now is

like look how expensive it is to live here it's gentrified to the max and and that's not a bad thing exactly like economies grow things get expensive but what if we create a program for the locals and an economy for the locals that as they receive that bitcoin as prices continue to go up now their children have money to buy their own land to build their houses and if we don't do something like this and this country really does continue to grow the lower class will be slaves and so i think true like a lot of bitcoiners are in it for wealth and fame you know but a true way of living is not just about money it's about humanity it's about love it's about humility

and and it's becoming as a child again and looking a kid my daughter will come up to any kid and just give him a hug and a kiss and my my wife's like hey no no don't do that but just pure and and we all we need to constantly be reminded to be to become as kids again and that's kind of what this project is and it's a very expensive draining my soul project building in el salvador is difficult you know a lot of people don't have trade schools for welding and doing things as pretty so it's a very you build in el salvador you will learn patience or you will self-destruct but it's beautiful ah dude i don't get emotional easily and uh yeah you deeply you deeply deeply touch my soul like the stuff you're doing i don't know if you are realizing what you're doing but

you are engineering people's consciousness from scratch you're teaching them how to develop low time preference what we call low time preference in bitcoin which is think about the future think long term don't think high time preference which is just now what am i eating how am i paying for something how am i how am i surviving this is high time preference and most people around the world behave and conduct their lives like that and by sacrificing so much in your own life not just the bitcoin but you know everything you talked about your family your time everything you're doing you're basically taking that energy from those areas of your life and you're putting that energy into creating low time preference for others for people who really

need that and I think like the the way you put yourself aside and that it's not about you anymore it's about the bigger mission the bigger dream that you have the bigger vision or I don't know what it is the voice that you have in your heart that God gave you this is very very very special very special and and that's why I wanted to have this chat with you because I want people to see this and I want people to understand that you know it's very egocentric sometimes to live our lives from the very narrow lens of how do I make my life better how do I improve my living situation my quality of life my whatever the place I live the how much money I earn the what kind of restaurants I go to or whatever we forget that

there are bigger things in life than that and I'm not asking everyone to become a philanthropist or start their own foundation or whatever I know this is a big ask and not everyone can do it not everyone's built the same way but even if it's on a small scale think about your child the way you would think about yourself think about your parents think about your community your neighborhood whatever it is like just put your consciousness sometimes outside of your own egocentric life and you discover how much time and energy we spent on ourselves in our heads with our bullshit dialogues and our fears and our all that stuff that manages us and i think it's just such a waste of time because as you said life is so short and we need to live it to the max we need to

really hone in and tap into our full potential because we're not here just to live life as another hamster on a hamster wheel we're here to really do something meaningful most of us oh i mean some of us yes i do believe some people are here just to play the game whatever be npcs you know just like backdrop people they have no role to fulfill here maybe they don't even have a soul especially the kind of evil that we see in the world today yeah but some of us especially i think people who listen to this podcast there is a spark inside that puts you here in a certain time frame in a certain place in the world with a certain mission that you may need to discover and i think that just by listening to you listening to your stories and what you do this is i hope just as it

is for me inspirational for other people to try and seek that thing within themselves yeah and ask those tough questions and i mean i don't see them as tough i see them as beautiful questions like why else are we here if not to discover our full potential and act on it life is boring otherwise right of course so i'm sure your life is hard now because of how much you dedicate to your mission but at the same time would you have it any other way tired of feeling like your freedom and future are fading away do you live in a country with growing inflation crazy housing prices weird culture and a chaotic economy you're not alone and my friend mikhail thorpe and his team at expat money can help mikhail is the world's leading expat consultant on a mission to free you

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hard and and there's times where i'm just like you got to pick your heart that's a good one how am i going even like you know like now it's like i'm like i need to raise a half a million dollars more to fucking finish this shit and i i mean the basis to be able to open up the restaurant and hotel and you know what i mean to like unless i want to have plastic furniture which i'm just like oh my gosh you know fuck but look at us sitting on this royal royal kit it's difficult and it's very difficult but it's that is life yeah and for me as a christian i'll say that i don't go to church but i'm and i you know i uh but i'm a christian i i believe that christ is king you know and i say that to

anyone my my atheist friends my jewish friends and that's me that's my mission you know and And my heart allows me to go to a higher power and say, God, like, forgive me for not trusting in you. Forgive me because God will always provide. And I'm not talking about that in a religious sense, but it's like God gives everyone breath. Every religion, every walk of life, every animal breath gives us water, gives us the sun. And God gives us this opportunity to allow our souls to be stretched. but it is up to us to say will i become a victim or will i take that pain and say thank you god fold me again like the sword fold me again fold me again and the more we allow to allow god to

fold us and stretch us i think that is where it's like we are creators it's not like we're walking and this is god's path for me like we have the opportunity to say so many people are like well god didn't speak to me and i don't know what's my life purpose like fuck just go do something beautiful with your life and god will walk with you you are an individual creator yeah with the power of god with with the faith you can move mountains yeah and and and i never really knew what that meant with faith you can move mountains i'm sure you've heard that before right it's a very common term biblical term and i was thinking about that and i'm like how does a man who uh was in debt six figures never went to school alcoholic using drugs like

sleeping on a couch within a few years later have built hundreds if not thousands of homes and and i think of all the bricks and this resort that we're building for a pork village the amount of soil that had been dug the amount of mining the amount of mountains we had to move to build 50 houses in a new unit for the locals like we have literally moved a fucking mountain And if I didn't have the faith to say while I was crying in the shower, hyperventilating, if I didn't have the faith to say, I can't do this anymore, now I'm going to trust in a higher power. And that's why I say we need to stop trusting in ourselves because that is where true dictators come from. That is where true evil men come from is when they say, nope, I am God, you know, and I don't agree with that. where a lot of people will, you know, a lot of my friends is, I think it's a dangerous route where

if I start saying to me, like, I can do anything, I can do anything. Like, yeah, you are capable of doing anything from molesting children and justifying it. You know, like that's just one weird thing we can go down when we're at rock bottom. For me, it was like, I just stopped trusting in myself because I trusted in myself so much that I never robbed my friends I believed that I could make that money back in our festivals and I couldn't and I failed as a because we're human but I trusted in God and within one year my debts were paid and there was a million dollars of donations in my bank account and I have a beautiful wife and a beautiful three-year-old you know what I mean and I have health and like there was like a fucking tumor growing in my brain

I'm pretty sure I would fall to the ground and I started going blind in both eyes really as this was happening before I called to God as I still like both eyes like like half of this is gone you know there's blind parts all over here but it stopped and wow and it was me calling to God and going into deep meditation and and saying I will serve you what do you want me to do for you God I will be a slave not for myself but for God and when we step out of our own selfish life and we step into god's it's not going to be an easy path but it'll be a very beautiful you know um i i think everyone needs to to just trust in a higher power and and not try to change how other people do it you know whether someone's like a muslim or no each one or a jew you know

each each to their own yeah individual potential murph why do you think people resonate with you so much why do you think they want to follow you why do you think you become viral why why is this happening well i don't think a lot you know a lot of people don't resonate with me you know like okay but there are many that do um but in my content like if you look at my instagram murph's life like 90 of my content you don't see my face yeah you know yeah people resonate with so for example when i called the god and this will explain that when i called the God. And I said, I'll, I'll serve you. Like, and I called to God in the name of Jesus Christ. That's what I did. So that's the path that I personally, I'm going to follow. Right. So I find people and,

and let's say you're one of the families that I'm filming. Your husband was just murdered. You know, you have two daughters. You're like, how am I going to feed my kids? Your house just burned down, you know, and I'm filming you. I love to ask, like, do you believe in God? Because all of them do in every religion. And if I was in a non-Christian country, that would give me a different answer towards their ideologies no but here you know salary is very christian and i'll say you believe in god and then i really like it's honest my camera i'll be like how do you believe in god like your husband got murdered you're poor as shit you know like you go to bed and you can't even feed your kids you know do you really believe in god and it makes them think they always like

or if it's a man and i do that to a man because everyone gives such generic responses i believe in God and they'll quote something a pastor told them yeah but if you really like call them out on that and be like do you really believe in God like so for a man I'll say I go to bed at night and I know I can feed my my daughter you know but you go to bed at night and as a man who can't even feed your own kids does that not make you feel inadequate like you know and it's real it's raw I'm not trying to be a bully yeah and I've had this makes every grown man cry that I do this who's just like macho man from the poor areas and they cry and cry and cry. And I go, how can you really say you believe in God? And when you look at those videos, it's like a lot of them with their

tears in their eyes as I edit that and they go, I believe, and it's powerful and it makes people resonate because the people watching, I use a VPN. I use numbers from, from wealthy countries. When I upload my videos, like I don't care that Salvadorans know who I am because it's more people just bugging me in the streets asking me for money you know but when people watch that it's like whether you're in the United States or Australia or Israel like we have beautiful houses and homes and cars and and we're depressed and we're popping pills and we're alcoholics and we have these secrets that we're hiding from our spouses and our family and and uh and they watch that and they go wow okay this mom's husband was murdered two kids doesn't have a roof over her

head and i'm a pretend muslim i'm a pretend jew i'm a pretend mormon i'm a pretend i say it i go to church i wear this but i'm depressed and maybe i'm looking at a bunch of porn or whatever the fuck it is and this woman right here with a dirt floor in el salvador with two kids just bore their testimony and that to me is what it means to bear your testimony to bear your truth to bear your faith in the unseen and the unknown and and that's what people resonate with and they go i want to be like them you know and and that's what i kind of come back to you know salvador we show so much about the poverty and we show so much about the beautiful beaches and the beautiful malls but they're missing out on the core which is like 80 of the country how many don't have a bank account

if you look at them and you meet them and you say you no longer look at them as like you know you want to buy this you want to buy this apple you want to buy this like no i don't want to buy that like did you wash your hands don't touch me for a lot of people are like that you know like oh you want money from me because i'm a gringo oh you're a female here you want to have sex with me so you can get a visa to come to america it's not like that in a lot of poor countries you get to know them and you and you say you have a power to you you and that power is believing in the unknown the unseen is believing in god to them and that is very powerful that for me is very powerful whether it's within indigenous tribes and when you lose that spirituality that faith it's like

why have hope in anything you know and uh that's what people resonate with yeah it's it's me being able to put on a because i don't like going on and being like christ is king and you know those people who go like in the streets i would see that and i'm always just like that's not me i'm sorry god that you brought me back i called in the name of jesus christ and and i just i can't do that like and i always tell my christian friends like no even though that happened like i look at my faith compared to a lot of other ones like mine is a mustard seed still and i hold on to that i never let it go i was talking to john remember and we were joking around i'm like john just believe in Jesus Christ, man, come on. And it's almost kind of like a joke, but mine is like, no matter what

people say that the Bible was changed, I always got my little hand on the seed. And when I pray to God, I go, you know, I can go on my social media maybe and be like, you know, this is what I believe, Jesus Christ. But I think if I find that woman and that man, and you know, and I don't make it all about religion and certain churches and they go, I believe like, because of my faith thank god my it's beautiful and it's for everyone who's listening to that you know and they don't have to say like oh by the way i'm a jehovah witness join the jehovah witness church oh by the way i'm a catholic oh by the way like you know it's it's raw it's real it's pokes straight to the hearts of people yeah and and suffering brings god out in us yeah you know like sometimes

we have to go to a world war for us to end the division sometimes we have to be so crushed and blow our houses up before we can live together again right and yeah unfortunately yeah i hope people will wisen up and see it before really bad shit happens to them yeah that's why i speak out anyway everyone's got to go on a personal journey right so murph um what do you need from people who may want to support you now right now just donations i want to build everyone a house i want to build an old folks home i want to finish this and and i want to be able to run it because this is a 10 50 year people to run it like your people sure this is managed like your people your your employees yeah even me like okay if i build a resort and i give it to someone living

in a shack who only knows how to give coffee it's gonna go to shit you know i'm not taking a salary from this this is because this is a mission this is a life purpose and god has prepared me for this and i love it you know and and this is where i you know everyone has to pick something to die on and and for me it's like you need to live off something you don't take anything from the i take a salary foundation you know i mean we get we have things we have sponsors from we have 11 million subscribers so you know from like coca-cola to to brands have given us 20 30 000 but i pay myself six thousand dollars every month that's my salary and in latin america i live well well off of that um but it's it's like my true joy you can pay me a hundred thousand dollars a

month it's not going to affect my peace but my my where i get my joy is seeing houses being built and these families like that is wealth and someone who's very wealthy and i'm you know if they want to donate and do something cool like i'm always like yeah donate to us i'll show you exactly where that money goes and i'll build it but if someone wants to do it themselves like come on down and meet one of these families and we can build a house it's fifty five thousand dollars to build a home and a bungalow on top and to see that woman like a single with a lot of single moms to move into there and now to watch that money come into their account you can track that as we're building our once this is open like to be able to track that money coming in there

like it's real change and in 10 15 years i hope my dream is for bitcoin adoption is for not to show beautiful beaches and beautiful resorts and this this dubai marketing style of of beauty but it's to say wow bitcoin if bitcoin can take a village out of poverty then i think there's a a beautiful source of money that cannot be inflated that can take humanity into a much more beautiful place that takes care of kids and where people work towards you know and not just given that's that's my dream and how should people do that if they want to support you murph's life foundation dot com and instagram youtube what are the best channels tiktok my favorite is instagram and and x um but tiktok as well everything is murph's life yeah uh and then the the we're doing all

spanish now casa conejo on like youtube and and it's more of a way too for me to really get my spanish down i only have great spanish yeah and that'll be a way to promote a restaurant it'll be public excellent thank you so much anything else you want to add before we wrap up not to think anyone maybe anyone listening you know it's everyone needs to find god a little bit more move a little bit closer to God. So find God in your own way. And one of the best ways is through fasting. You go to a quiet place, like if you're in a problem in your life, whether it's health or you want to come closer to God or find meaning, turn off your phone, be away from your family and be in a very quiet place and just fast, like no food, even no water and just meditate.

And don't be afraid to pray to God in whatever way. And for me, it's like God in the name of jesus christ i pray that you show me what i need to do with my life that you show me how to spend these donations or that you that you take this anxiety inside of me and don't take it away but you transform it that you take this fear inside of me and transform that into courage don't take it away transform it yes and and you'll see miracles take place in your life amen yeah Murph thank you so much this has been wonderful a really I mean for me it's a I can talk to you for hours a pleasure to sit with you and yeah just be inspired by you and what you do thank you thank you we'll do it again soon welcome to the Murph's life farm this right here is going to be

a little grocery store so we're building a community here and there's probably a thousand families from Canada US all over that are buying like land up here to build cabins in the surrounding mountains so we want to have something nice for the community we can sell like organic wines grass-fed cuts of beef and just rice beans and then this is kind of like the community center but it's a big restaurant and coffee shop underneath is going to be the spa the sauna this is going to be a gym underneath so we're just thinking of as many ways to build a micro micro economy for this small community everyone will be paid in bitcoin we're going to offer them a bitcoin retirement with all the commissions that we make here you stay with us for 10 years

and then you can have that in 5 10 15 years that bitcoin and we want to be able to show people look at these people before and after living in these shacks dirt floors to now having actual brick houses we're teaching them right now we're actually teaching families how to build houses on top of their houses to rent it out to surfers what we really hyper focus on is taking the poorest of the poor we educate them we're building a big school across the highway over there putting a half a million dollars into that and educating the kids giving work to the families and teaching them how to become entrepreneurs how to become middle class a lot of the kids we probably have about 50 kids here who aren't going to school because they can't afford to go to school

this is one of the kids who he's not legally adopted he actually lives here here potentially illegally right and uh he has no paperwork either we want to put him in school but we're trying to figure out his paperwork hey with so many parents being arrested his mom and dad are both in seacock in prison really so it's another issue that not a lot of people talk about but there's a lot of kids like him who are sleeping in shacks and sheds like this who don't have a mom or dad the average person on these mountains here will make 75 dollars bi-weekly that's their check wow and uh it's you know working for starbucks coffee you know it's kind of modern day slavery that still goes on this is the truth you know people show el salvador of beautiful

beaches and and the beautiful things that are being built which is true but this is also the reality uh this is the people who make the food that we eat the people that make that coffee yeah the people that make sure we have water plumbing you know this is how they live in every country you have this and this is the beautiful opportunity now we have of of growing and fixing and figuring out how to have a little bit more of a balance this is three years of work working with everything is done by the shovel and then to do our parking lot we had to bring a tractor in to flatten that out but other than that this is three years of shovel work and spending you know a hundred plus thousand dollars on labor for the community which is the best form of charity you

know yeah everything is a learning experience I never went to school to become you know a president of a foundation I don't even go to college you know I was a party kid I just had a plate of cocaine and ecstasy and living in California and just nightclubs and and now you know I'm sober and this is where God put me so I'm learning through a lot of mistakes but it's it's really becoming way more you know a beautifully run foundation I guess you could say uh I'm just obsessed with my work i'm here 24 7 i i don't go to like parties i don't go to meetups i don't hang out with you know politicians i live with people in shacks and when i have free time i'm with my daughter she's two and now with this it's like i'm gonna just shut the fuck up and build this

and i've been doing this for the last three years and i'm gonna build a concept that truly does change people with bitcoin the whole purpose of this is how many fucking families can we take and build them beautiful homes and educate their kids and see the poorest of the poor who are stuck in a cycle. We need to create systems where now it constantly, we need to create an engine, you know, an engine of being able to feed children and elders, the helpless, an engine to be able to help out shelters,

an engine to be able to educate kids. And that's what I'm just trying to build and I'm excited about it. So I look at all these problems and it's like, okay, someone should jump on that. Someone can jump on that. Like that's the whole purpose of life. We come to this earth and we can find problems and either we can bitch about it or like,

oh, I'm going to try to tackle that, you know, and you might totally fail, but what a beautiful purpose. Thanks for being with us. Please take a minute to give this episode a like, a comment and subscribe or follow and please share it with your friends so they can also get value and choose to take some positive action in their lives. Till next time. Thanks for watching!