Here For The Truth

Joel & Yerasimos
  • 4.6 (103)
  • Self-Improvement
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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. 1d ago

    Ep 315 - Satsang | In the Company of the Highest Truth

    Satsang owns every master he has ever recorded, and building a career independent enough to keep it that way cost him more than any label deal would have paid. Drew came up through an abusive house, psychedelics at thirteen, addiction and sobriety, then spent every dollar he had on a trip to Nepal instead of the reliable car everyone was waiting for. The band took its name from a stranger's handwritten note outside a Kathmandu ashram. This one lives where ownership meets art — the predatory arithmetic of the record business, and his refusal to let AI near the part of being human that music exists for. What he aimed it all at is smaller and harder than a sold-out room: a son who is proud of him, and the kind of life that leaves people lining up for ten more minutes at the end of it. (00:00) AI Songwriting Rant (00:33) Opening Conversation (02:20) Meet Satsang (05:09) Musical Roots and Skater Influence (07:18) Life Changing Nepal Trek (14:11) Spiritual Influences in Lyrics (18:45) Grinding to Breakout Tours (35:05) Creative Process and Industry Beef (43:31) Owning Your Masters / Social Media Pressure (49:15) Never Quit Mindset (52:11) AI Music and Fake Performers (58:37) Service and Spirituality (01:07:11) Streaming Money Myths (01:09:58) Fatherhood and Real Success Guest Links Listen to Elohim on Spotify Listen to Elohim on Apple Music Satsang on Instagram Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Follow us on Instagram Join our membership Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes

  2. Sep 13

    Ep 314 - Ruby Fremon | Cracked Open: A Story of Grief, Collapse & Aliveness

    Ruby Fremon returns for her second appearance, a somatic practitioner and author of Potent Leadership who spent a decade coaching leaders before her own life came apart. When her dog was killed under the watch of negligent sitters and her public search for the truth was met with a million-dollar defamation suit, the hyper-independent identity she'd built collapsed into a full nervous-system shutdown. What she found on the far side reorders what the healing world sells: that catharsis and spiritual platitudes bypass the actual human being, that real repair happens in slow, subtle shifts at the edge of your capacity, that horses — who cannot lie and demand congruence — can lead you back to yourself. She comes out of it more human than she's ever been: cracked open, undefended, and more alive than ever. (00:00) Tragic Dog Incident (00:36) Opening Conversation (02:08) Welcoming Back Ruby (05:22) The Full Story of Her Tragic Dog Incident (16:11) Shutdown, Trauma, and Identity Collapse (29:22) Why It’s Not “Just A Pet” (50:47) Trust After Pet Loss (54:33) Living with CPTSD (58:14) Healing Community Critique (01:06:25) Healing Through Horses (01:17:21) Supportive Partnership Shift (01:27:46) Where To Find Ruby & Wrap-Up Guest Links Ruby Fremon's website Ruby Fremon on Instagram Ruby Fremon on Substack Connect with Us Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset GNM Weekend — October 9–10, Echo Park, Los Angeles Follow Here for the Truth on Instagram Join Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes

  3. Sep 6

    Ep 313 - Chance Garton | Tartaria Exposed: Sacred Cows & the Psychology of Conspiracy

    Chance Garton returns for his third visit to Here for the Truth, and his first in four years — biofield tuning practitioner, host of the Innerverse Podcast, and one of the rare researchers willing to take the Tartaria conspiracy seriously enough to check its claims against the primary sources. Once a believer himself, Chance traces how the “Old World reset” narrative of mud floods, buried cities, and buildings too beautiful for ordinary people to have built snowballed into a grand unifying theory that now operates like a religion inside truther culture. Underneath the debunking is the conversation that matters: how identity fuses with belief, why “they lied to us” becomes permission to believe anything, and what it costs to hand your discernment to a guru. A study in the one discipline every truth-seeker needs — the courage to hold no sacred cows. (00:00) Tartaria Conspiracy (Cold Open) (00:32) Opening Conversation (02:58) Welcoming Back Chance Garton (09:25) Tartaria Background (15:22) Why Tartaria Hooks People (25:36) Insane Asylums Deep Dive (36:18) From Believer to Debunker (45:35) AI Fakes And Viral Hoaxes (51:13) World Fairs Debunked (01:13:54) Donnelly and Comet Fires (01:19:20) Atlantis Allegory Today (01:42:02) Sacred Cows Guest Links Innerverse Podcast InnerVerse Podcast on YouTube Connect with Us Follow Here for the Truth on Instagram Join Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes

  4. Aug 30

    Ep 312 - Eben Britton | The Man Beneath the Armor

    Eben Britton spent six seasons as an NFL offensive lineman, a body built for collision, before a ruptured disc, a dislocated shoulder, and a cabinet of painkillers left him shattered at twenty-seven. We meet the man underneath the armor, and ask what remains when the identity you built your life around is stripped away injury by injury. Eben reads his injuries as psyche made physical, the weight of a family he carried on his back with no foundation to hold it. He traces the road out through a men's twelve-step room, cannabis, yoga, and the years he and Mike Tyson spent shepherding each other through the reckoning. What emerges is a study in death and rebirth, and the reframe that freed him: stop trying to find your purpose, and make your life purposeful. One more breath, one more step, and the other side is closer than it looks. (00:00) NFL Career Ends in Crisis (00:44) Opening Conversation (01:55) Show Start (10:42) Eben’s Chaotic NFL Draft Day Story (19:48) NFL Rookie Experience (28:22) Back Injury and Painkiller Spiral (42:19) Money Pressure and Bad Advisors (48:44) Final Stage of Career (Cuts, Chicago Comeback, Failed Drug Test) (01:01:30) Retirement and Rock Bottom Inner Work (01:10:04) Mike Tyson (Meeting, Starting Podcast, Doing DMT) (01:30:52) COVID Reset Yoga Coaching Guest LinksThe Athlete's Approach Eben Britton on Instagram Be Here Farm — Belize Retreat Connect with UsRATH Academy Start the Free 7-Day Self-Esteem Reset Follow Here for the Truth on Instagram Join Friends of the Truth Watch All Episodes

  5. Aug 23

    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

  6. Aug 16

    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/

  7. Aug 9

    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

  8. Aug 2

    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

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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
    325
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Here For The Truth

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