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In a world awash with propaganda, censorship, and spiritual confusion, Here For The Truth is a refuge for critical thinkers and seekers of authenticity. Hosted by Joel Rafidi and Yerasimos, this podcast cuts through the noise to explore psychology, philosophy, spirituality, health, freedom, and the human condition with honesty and depth. Through raw, unfiltered conversations with thought leaders, researchers, and free thinkers from around the world, Here For The Truth challenges collective narratives and invites you to reclaim your mind, body, and the essence of what makes you who you are. If you’re tired of surface-level conversations and ready to confront reality with depth and courage—this is your weekly listen. Subscribe, follow, and join the movement of those willing to see, think, and live differently. https://hereforthetruth.com

  1. 3 days ago

    Ep 311 - Dr. Richard Massey & Natasha Nazerali | The Beauty of Biology

    Dr. Richard Massey spent decades as an anesthesiologist before walking out of the operating room and, years later, losing his medical license — a rupture that led him to Recall Healing and Family Constellations. Natasha Nazerali came the other way, raised inside German New Medicine at her mother's kitchen table before her father's sudden death turned her toward the work fully. Together for the first time, they read the same body from different angles — Richard through a single droplet of blood and lymph under the microscope, Natasha through the conflict-maps of German New Medicine — and land on the same truth: every symptom is a love story, an inherited loyalty the body carries on behalf of the family line. What follows is a conversation about the head that rages at what feels unfair and the heart that already knows, about belonging over being the black sheep, and about grief as the doorway back to the ones we never got to finish loving. Healing was never meant to happen alone. (00:00) Shamanism in Disguise (Cold Open) (00:38) Opening Conversation (02:24) Meet the Guests (09:12) CT Scans vs Live Blood (19:27) Biology as Sacred Code (26:18) Beyond The Black Sheep Label (43:59) Guilt Grief and Healing (57:37) Enter the Cave You Fear (01:02:00) Family Loyalty and Immigrant Kids (01:11:40) Natasha’s Displacement Story (01:17:44) Mixed Lineages and Healing Bonds (01:25:40) Andropause (01:40:17) Closing Thoughts and Events Guest Links Dr. Richard Massey on Instagram Natasha Nazerali — website Natasha Nazerali on Instagram Natasha Nazerali — courses GNM Weekend — October 9–10, Echo Park, Los Angeles Connect with Us Explore RATH Academy Follow us on Instagram Join our membership Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes

  2. 16 Aug

    Ep 310 - David Sutcliffe | Know Yourself...Then Get On With It

    David Sutcliffe returns to Here for the Truth — somatic practitioner, former Gilmore Girls actor, and a man who has spent over a decade sitting with people as they meet the parts of themselves they'd rather not look at. This is a wide-ranging, no-off-ramps conversation about what it actually takes to know yourself: following spirit and the signs it sends, coming home to the body as the seat of real presence, and being honest about the primal drives most of us bury — status, rage, envy, the hunger for power. But David's real provocation is where it lands: at some point the self-analysis has to end and the living has to begin. Classic HFTT, and one not to miss. (00:00) Episode Teaser (00:32) Opening Conversation (02:10) Meet David (Sundance Festival, Moving To Mexico) (08:24) What 'Spirit’ Means (14:34) Embodiment and Presence Work (35:06) Holding Space for Dark Confessions (40:17) Facilitating Trauma Safely (43:47) Acting Meets Therapy (52:48) Action Over Analysis (01:06:22) Primal Desire & Status Games (01:13:02) Truth Seeking And Shadow Work (01:20:32) Beyond Bypassing To Real Life Guest Links Website — davidsutcliffe.com Instagram — @davidsutcliffe33 Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/fott/ Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/

  3. 9 Aug

    Ep 309 - Anthony Rispo | Power, Privilege & the Psychology of Politics

    Anthony Rispo came up on the progressive left — a gay man who found a home in an ideology that rewarded his grievance, teal hair and half-mohawk included. Then the pandemic, BLM, and the campus orthodoxy around him stopped adding up, and he read his way out. Now a writer, independent researcher, and Columbia psychology graduate studying cognitive neuroscience, he maps the wiring beneath our politics: identity fusion, moral conviction, selective empathy, and the resentment Nietzsche named. We get into why the left cancels hardest in the name of compassion, why “power and privilege” became a substitute for a self, how the same rigidity shows up on the right, and what common sense on borders and belonging really means. (00:00) Palestinians Then Vs Now (00:35) Opening Conversation (04:20) Anthony's Origin Story (11:35) From Woke to Doubt (27:56) Losing Friends Finding Voice (37:15) Psychology of Ideology (54:54) Clarity Over Conformity (58:33) Nuance Through Exposure (01:02:44) Individualism Vs The Tribe (01:08:18) Intersectionality Critique (01:14:54) From 9/11 to Academia (01:24:42) The Problem with No Borders Guest Links Instagram: @anthonyrispo Substack: rispo.substack.com Connect with Us Join RATH Academy Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Follow us on Instagram Join our membership Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes

  4. 2 Aug

    Ep 308 - Mike Winner | Purity Spiraling & the Myth of Total Sovereignty

    Mike Winner spent a decade DJing Hollywood clubs before turning toward the infrastructure of digital freedom — founder of WINNR Digital, co-founder of the decentralized internet Qortal, and co-founder of the Music & Sky festival. Returning for the first time since 2022, he brings a caution aimed squarely at his own community: purity spiraling, the habit of turning discernment into a cage where every meal, every device, and every dollar becomes a moral exam. Real sovereignty, as he frames it, is less glamorous and far more demanding. It is what you actually own, what you actually think, and the responsibility you refuse to outsource. Nobody holds dominion over all of reality. What you do have is the choice to stop leaking your life into systems that were never yours. (00:00) Nature vs Nurture Cold Open (00:34) Opening Conversation (02:54) Meet Mike Winner (06:19) Imposter Syndrome and Finding Purpose (09:00) Community Healing and Analog Revival (11:47) Building a Sovereign Ranch Hub (14:50) Tech Detox w/o Purity Spirals (17:55) Parenting in a Digital World (25:09) Junk Food Nostalgia and Balance (32:42) Manifestation and Mastering Mind (39:28) Entrepreneurship In The Arena (41:39) Leaving AlphaVedic For Growth (46:22) Cinema As Modern Myth (53:19) NPCs And Ideological Capture (57:47) Building Qortal And NuQloud (01:02:15) PMA and Living Sovereign (01:07:06) Walmart / Amazon Discernment (01:11:45) Nature Is Metal (01:22:00) Barefoot Hiking & Peru Porters (01:28:05) AI And Slowing Down Guest Links https://mikewinner.comThe GNM Weekend — October 9–10, Los Angeles (use code HFTT10) Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem ResetFollow us on InstagramJoin our membership Friends of the TruthWatch All Episodes

  5. 26 Jul

    Ep 307 - Joel & Yerasimos | Become Someone First

    The binary was never the point. Individualism on one side, collectivism on the other — pick a jersey, join a team. But the line that actually matters runs somewhere else: between a person who has a self and a person who has dissolved into the group. In this episode, Joel and Yerasimos pull the threads on what collectivism is actually doing to the psyche — the altruistic programming that weaponizes moral guilt against your own desires, the truth-seeker community that becomes its own herd, and the envy that surfaces when you watch someone else stop asking permission to live. The conversation moves through Rand's virtue of selfishness, Jung's safe road, and the heroic act of individuation. How much longer are you going to wait? 00:00 The Cost of Not Being You 00:46 RATH Academy Announcement 04:13 Show Start - Defining Self vs Herd 06:59 Yerasimos on Belonging 11:31 Family Roots and Identity / Breaking Free from Expectations 18:15 Raising Kids and Individuation 26:31 Altruism and Weaponized Morality 33:25 People Pleasing and Boundaries 40:24 Benevolence Versus Malevolence 46:16 Are Truth Seekers Part of a Herd? 52:04 Heroism Of Individualism 56:14 Crabs In A Bucket 01:01:26 Shine And Take Action 01:04:42 Sobriety And Self Inventory Links RATH Academy — the next container is now open. A year in, we're continuing: six months of high-touch coaching with Joel, Yerasimos, and Sophie, built on Rise Above The Herd as the foundation — now running on a brand-new interactive platform. The next cohort starts September 1st. 15 spots, by application. Apply for RATH Academy → https://riseabovetheherd.co/academy Connect With Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruthJoin our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friendsWatch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/

  6. 19 Jul

    Ep 306 - Jared Pickard | Cultivating a Biodynamic Life

    Jared Pickard traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange until his soul, in his words, started screaming for something the city couldn’t give him — real connection with nature. He walked off the floor for an unpaid farming apprenticeship, spent a decade building Be Here Farm & Nature into a world-class hospitality dream on 300 acres of Napa-Sonoma mountaintop, and watched it burn to the ground in the 2020 wildfires two days after it finally penciled. What he found in the ashes is the heart of this conversation: that biodynamic farming is less a technique than a practice occurring inside the person — rhythm over force, presence over striving, a life tended the way you’d tend living soil. He mistook the vehicle for the dream once. The dream was always nature, and the ground beneath his feet. (00:00) From Wall Street to Farming (00:32) Opening Conversation (01:50) Show Start (02:58) Jared’s Hero’s Journey (13:51) Clean Food Obsession (20:14) Jared’s Quitting Story (33:08) Napa Hotel Dream (38:22) The Wildfire Story (49:03) Ease vs Struggle (52:46) Love And Long Distance / Italy Proposal Vision (56:18) Finding Steiner Biodynamics (01:06:19) Biodynamics vs Organic (01:18:21) Preps And Quartz Spray Guest Links Website: beherefarm.com Instagram: @beherejared Instagram (Farm): @beherefarm Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friends/ Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/

  7. 12 Jul

    Ep 305 - Kyree Oliver | Don't Die Empty

    Kyree Oliver is a former Division 1 lineman turned self-taught marketer and men's coach who, before he was 25, had already interviewed over 1,000 people — including 65 in the final weeks of their lives. The pattern he found in those rooms is what carries this whole conversation: most men are running on the wrong fuel, chasing the wrong definition of success, and the bill only comes due at the very end. Kyree brings the calm precision of someone who has watched a man die with four people at his funeral after making half a billion dollars in his life, and coached young men into the conversation they've been avoiding with themselves for years. A grounded, unflinching argument for slowing down long enough to build the life you'd actually want to have lived. (00:00) ‘Love Vs Respect’ Opener (00:37) Opening Conversation (03:11) Show Start (04:17) Kyree’s Childhood Turning Point (08:09) Football Hazing And Breaking Point (13:12) 1000 Interviews Obsession (18:31) Dying Empty Lesson (23:49) What Is Success For Men (29:31) Why Masculinity Coaches Are Needed (39:55) Temptation, Grounding / Uncomfortable Self Questions (44:49) ‘Toxic Fuel’ Explained (51:03) Late Night Truths (57:11) Healthy Fuel North Star (01:01:23) Nature and Legacy Thinking (01:06:38) Fatherhood and Purpose (01:08:41) Marketing That Hits Home (01:13:19) Authenticity and Red Flags (01:18:44) Trust Over Time Guest Links Website: https://www.kyree.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/kyree Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kyreeoliver1994 Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friends/ Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/

  8. 5 Jul

    Ep 304 - Mark Vicente | The Narcissist’s Playbook

    Mark Vicente returns to the show — South African filmmaker, twelve-year NXIVM survivor, and one of the central whistleblowers in HBO’s The Vow — for a conversation timed to the release of his new documentary The Narcissist’s Playbook. Years of interviewing self-confessed narcissists, cult survivors, and clinicians have given Mark a clear lens on what most people sense but can’t name: the same pathology that runs a cult runs a marriage, an activist movement, a political party, a society. Dissociation is the operating system. Mimicry is the mask. The pathology of the leader becomes the blueprint of the whole. Underneath all of it, Mark argues for the unfashionable thing — that authenticity is a dying breed, that the only real antidote is returning to your own feeling, your own stillness, your own discernment. The conversation ends in hope, earned the hard way. (00:00) Cold Open (00:37) Opening Conversation (02:26) Show Start (03:14) Narcissist's Playbook Film (08:47) Defining Narcissism / Interviewing Narcissists (13:34) Trauma or Choice (20:14) Narcissistic Injury (23:29) Power and Politics (27:56) Psychopath Acting Tricks (34:30) Facing Inner Rage (36:35) Cults and Low Vibe Policing (42:45) Healing Means Feeling (47:48) Devices Kill Stillness (56:49) Does Abuse Catalyze Growth? (01:03:35) Forces Of Disconnection / Collectivism As Psyop (01:11:20) Activism And Selective Outrage (01:19:53) Trigger Words And Radioactivity GUEST LINKS Mark Vicente → https://markvicente.com/ The Narcissist’s Playbook (film) → https://www.narcissistsplaybook.com/ WTF is on My Mind (podcast / Instaguru series) → https://www.youtube.com/@markvicente7 Instagram → https://instagram.com/markvicente CONNECT WITH US Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset → https://selfesteemreset.com/ Follow us on Instagram → https://instagram.com/areyouhereforthetruth Join our membership Friends of the Truth → https://hereforthetruth.com/friends/ Watch All Episodes → https://hereforthetruth.com/episodes/

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In a world awash with propaganda, censorship, and spiritual confusion, Here For The Truth is a refuge for critical thinkers and seekers of authenticity. Hosted by Joel Rafidi and Yerasimos, this podcast cuts through the noise to explore psychology, philosophy, spirituality, health, freedom, and the human condition with honesty and depth. Through raw, unfiltered conversations with thought leaders, researchers, and free thinkers from around the world, Here For The Truth challenges collective narratives and invites you to reclaim your mind, body, and the essence of what makes you who you are. If you’re tired of surface-level conversations and ready to confront reality with depth and courage—this is your weekly listen. Subscribe, follow, and join the movement of those willing to see, think, and live differently. https://hereforthetruth.com

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  • Creator
    Joel & Yerasimos
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    321
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Here For The Truth

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