Own Your Freedom

The Feds For Freedom Podcast

Own Your Freedom: Pursuing Liberty Through Action. Own Your Freedom highlights stories of government overreach and corruption to inform and empower you to grab hold of your freedoms and run with them. Each week, we talk with whistleblowers, doctors, attorneys, and everyday citizens who took action. Formerly "The Feds." Stay up to date: fedsforfreedom.substack.com fedsforfreedom.org @feds4freedomusa

  1. 5d ago

    150. A Veteran’s Stand Against Overreach | Kevin McAfee | Own Your Freedom

    Kevin McAfee, president of Feds For Freedom, Army civilian and retired soldier, graces the podcast this week. He discusses his COVID story that led him to Feds For Freedom, his experience with the EEOC, and what he’s seen in the Army recently.  Stephanie and Kevin then discuss recent changes in government vaccine policy, the continued flu shot mandate battle in the military, eminent domain, REAL ID, and needed government constitutional training.    Chapters: 02:15 — Stationed in Italy 07:54 — 200 Meters From Home: Italy's Lockdown Papers 09:58 — An EEO Complaint Dismissed  12:33 — Cutting the Department of War Until It Breaks? 15:14 — The TDA Problem: Why Positions Don't Come Back 17:27 — The Flu Shot Memo and a Guardsman Still Waiting 20:36 — Trump's Vaccine Executive Order 22:27 — The Fabrizio & McLaughlin & Assoc. Polls 24:52 — Why Feds for Freedom Took the Raytheon Case 28:39 — The CIA's Counter-Espionage List 30:22 — Feds Get ONE Class on the Constitution (If That!)   JOIN US OCTOBER 30 — Alexandria Courthouse, Virginia. Press conference at 9:00 a.m., summary judgment hearing at 10:00 a.m. in the Adirim defamation case.  https://x.com/feds4freedomusa/status/2114800931585896674   Own Your Freedom—It's That Simple   🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom 🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org  🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

  2. Oct 20

    149. Ex-CIA Officer: Government Oversight Is Just Cosplay | Jim Erdman |Own Your Freedom

    Ex-CIA operations officer Jim Erdman says intelligence oversight is theater. In this Own Your Freedom episode, host Stephanie Weidle and Erdman break down why government accountability keeps failing — and what the citizens can actually do about it. Jim Erdman is Co-Founder and Director of Development of Feds For Freedom.  Jim and Stephanie cover Trump's broken campaign promises, why Congress gets blocked from classified info, Inspectors General independence, rulemaking vs. legislation, whistleblower retaliation and conscientious dissent, anomalous health incidents (AHIs) concern, the Navy’s flu shot mandate, and how a citizen petitions OPM. Chapters:   04:50 — The News Blackout After the Hearing 11:06 — The List of Broken Campaign Promises 19:10 — Manipulated, or Responsible? 21:57 — Why Nonpartisan Is the Point 26:23 — CIA Lawsuit: Motion to Dismiss 35:40 — How a Citizen Petitions OPM 39:50 — AHIs, the DIG, and What Got Blocked 44:11 — Oversight is Cosplay 48:12 — Holding the System Accountable 53:18 — Separating the Inspectors General 56:25 — The Importance of Putting Your Name On It 1:06:12 — The Navy Flu Shot Exemptions Debacle   JOIN US OCTOBER 30 — Alexandria Courthouse, Virginia. Press conference at 9 a.m., summary judgment hearing at 10 a.m. in the Dr. Terry Adirim defamation case, with Ivan Raiklin taking questions afterward. If you're in the DC area, this one to show up for. 🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom 🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org  🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

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    If you don’t own your freedom, someone else will. Own Your Freedom — formerly The Feds — is the podcast of Feds For Freedom, an organization of federal employees who put the Constitution before the institution. Owning your freedom isn’t waiting for it to be granted. It isn’t asking for your rights to be handed over. It isn’t even reclaiming them — those rights are already yours, and they always have been. The job is never letting them go. Every week, host Stephanie Weidle talks with people who did exactly that. A homeowner told a 185-foot transmission tower was going in her backyard. Employees fired after the religious exemptions their employer had already approved. A former CIA operations officer who took his case to the Senate when every internal channel failed. Federal workers who found out they had more rights than anyone had ever trained them on. Conversations about government overreach, medical freedom, religious liberty, informed consent, whistleblower retaliation, and what accountability actually requires — from the people living it, not the people reporting on it. New episodes weekly. Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple 🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom on Substack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org🏃 Follow us on Instagram / X / Facebook: @feds4freedomusa

  4. Oct 12

    148. Cancer: Are We Being Told the Whole Truth? | Dr. Paul Marik | Own Your Freedom

    "Don't panic. For most cancers, you have time to think." Dr. Paul Marik on what he'd tell a patient who just heard they have cancer. Joining the podcast today is Dr. Paul Marik, discussing cancer care, drug approval standards, and the role patients play in their own treatment decisions. The conversation explores his critique of conventional oncology: that drug approvals increasingly rest on surrogate endpoints such as tumor size and biomarkers rather than on whether patients live longer, that the survival gains of the past two decades have been modest relative to their cost, and that patients are given little room to participate in their own treatment planning.  Dr. Marik walks us through what the FDA actually requires before approving a cancer drug, what two decades of those approvals have delivered, what some of them cost a patient per month, and why he thinks the one question patients ask most — what should I eat? — gets waved away. He discusses diet, sleep, exercise and stress as factors patients can influence, cautions that certain vitamins and antioxidants may be harmful in cancer patients, and identifies the cancers for which he considers chemotherapy clearly appropriate. Dr. Marik stresses the importance of finding a guide who will walk with the patient through all of these different healing paths. Chapters: 00:00 — What Happened to His Career 03:53 — From COVID to Cancer 06:14 — Two Theories of the Disease 10:50 — 4%  15:01 — Who Writes the Protocols 17:31 — If You've Just Been Diagnosed 21:12 — Where Chemotherapy Genuinely Works 26:22 — Sleep, Stress, and the Vitamin Warning 29:28 — What's Driving the Increase 32:58 — Vaccines and Turbo Cancers 43:09 — The Dosing Question 47:38 — 10 Minutes With a Patient   Follow Dr. Paul Marik:https://paulmarik.substack.com    Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple 🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom 🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org  🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

    148. Cancer: Are We Being Told the Whole Truth? | Dr. Paul Marik | Own Your Freedom

  5. Oct 6

    147. Raytheon SUED After Employees Fired Over Vax | Mike Heyser & Lisa Leake | Own Your Freedom

    They approved the religious exemption — then fired them anyway. Mike Heyser, retired Air Force veteran who ran Raytheon's Warfighter School, andLisa Leake, a 14-year IT systems analyst on classified programs, both had religious exemptions approved under the COVID vaccine mandate. Both say the accommodations that came with it — masking, weekly testing, travel ban — made approval meaningless. Mike's job required travel. Lisa's exemption explicitly covered testing. There was no appeal and the terms were final. They've been in litigation since 2022. Right-to-sue letters arrived from three different EEOC offices with conflicting deadlines, and the case has been stuck on that timeline fight ever since. Four years in, no court has ruled on whether any of it was lawful. Host Stephanie Weidle talks with Mike and Lisa about religious accommodation under Title VII, defense contractor policy during the federal mandate, EEOC process and right-to-sue delays, litigation costs for individual plaintiffs, workplace privacy, and what reform should look like. Chapters: 05:21 — What the Raytheon Merger Changed 11:18 — When the COVID Policies Arrived 15:27 — Isolated by Design 19:46 — Approved, Then Ignored 24:00 — The EEOC and the Right-to-Sue Letters 36:21 — Dismissed, Then Sanctioned Four years of litigation, and not one ruling on the facts. How is that an accident? Mike and Lisa came to Feds For Freedom through the F4F Religious Discrimination Survey. Feds For Freedom is supporting their lawsuit against Raytheon. If you support federal employees and contractors standing up for constitutional rights, subscribe to Feds For Freedom and share this episode of Own Your Freedom. Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple 🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom 🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org  🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

  6. Sep 29

    146. Feds Have More Rights Than They Think | September Secrist | Own Your Freedom

    Most federal employees think they have fewer religious freedom rights at work than everyone else. It's the other way around — and almost nobody has been trained on it.   September Secrist, executive director of the Interagency Christian Fellowship and a federal leader of more than twenty years, discusses what the law actually permits inside a federal agency.   The First Amendment restrains government — and for two million career civil servants, government is the employer. The standard is equal access: if your agency lets people run a book club, hold a potluck, or talk about baseball, it cannot shut out employees of faith. Those rights aren't new.They were spelled out decades ago, and then nobody taught anyone what they meant.   Chapters: 02:25 — Why Federal Employees Have More Protection, Not Less 05:51 — The Training Gap Nobody Has Filled 12:48 — Win People Over, Don't Hit Them With the Law 14:11 — Bureaucratic Guerrilla Warfare 15:57 — Where Our Rights Come From 18:23 — What Interagency Christian Fellowship Does 21:39 — Government Quick Wins, Slow Machine 27:00 — The October 3 Convocation     The Interagency Christian Fellowship Convocation is October 3 at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC — 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., $45 including museum admission, breakfast, and lunch, with speakers from the EEOC and the Department of Justice. Register here:https://www.interagencychristianfellowship.org/events/fy27-convocation   Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple ___________________________________________________________________ 🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom onSubstack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom 🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org  🏃 Follow us on Instagram /X /Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

  7. Sep 22

    145. Our Rights Have Gaps? | Sofia Karstens & Danielle Lasher | Own Your Freedom

    During COVID, millions of Americans said "but I have rights" — and watched that fail. What if the rights were fine, and the problem was the holes between them? Joining the podcast this week are Danielle Lasher and Sofia Karstens, co-founders of the newly launched Spirit of 1776. Their plan is to rebuild the village — connecting the people, practitioners, schools, and farms that already exist outside failing institutions into something that holds together. They explain why nobody has to move to the woods, how overlapping the rights we already have can cover each other's gaps, and why they believe the next fight over bodily autonomy will be about technology.   Chapters: 04:24 — What Is Spirit of 1776? 08:43 — A Crisis of Institutional Failure 11:41 — An Alternative Society, Not a Commune 14:20 — Homeschooling Kids With Special Needs 18:42 —Rights You Already Have, Fortified 22:38 — Surveillance, Biometrics, and Kill Switches 29:25 — What It Looks Like Where You Live 34:26 — Transhumanism and the Right to Stay Human  Spirit of 1776 will hold a press conference on October 5. Learn more: https://thespiritof1776.net   Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple 🎧 Listen to Own Your Freedom on Substack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom 🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org  🏃 Follow us on Instagram / X / Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

  8. Sep 17

    144. Terry Adirim Under Oath: The Memo That Forced the Military Jab

    Feds For Freedom Releases Adirim Deposition, Calls for Congressional Subpoena and Full DoW Records > > Read full press release here: https://www.fedsforfreedom.org/adirim Terry Adirim, MD, then acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, signed a memo on Sept. 14, 2021, stating that the Pfizer BioNTech EUA shot was interchangeable with the FDA approved Comirnaty. But they were legally distinct- one carries a right of refusal, the other doesn't. After her time at the DOD and Veterans Affairs, Adirim worked at the CIA and was promptly fired in Spring 2025, once President Trump took office. She turned around and sued Ivan Raiklin for defamation (and CIA Dir. Ratcliffe for firing her, claim now dropped), claiming he was the reason she was fired. Feds For Freedom is supporting the defense in the lawsuit Terry Adirim v CIA et al. Ivan Raiklin, constitutional attorney, and Kevin McAfee, president of Feds For Freedom join us to discuss Adirim’s memo and what she revealed in her August 2026 deposition as to how she determined these shots were safe for 2 million servicemembers. Chapters: 01:45 — Who Signed the Memo?05:28 — Adirim: Pediatrics to Defense Health Affairs09:04 — Comirnaty, the EUA Product, and "Legally Distinct"15:18 — Kevin McAfee: What the Memo Meant Inside the Force25:01 — The Adirim v. CIA et al Lawsuit and Its Claims32:58 — Discovery and the Adirim’s Deposition44:54 — Liability, Manufacturers, and Why the Distinction Mattered1:04:42 — Participate in AccountabilityRead more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/dr-terry-adirims-legacy-five-years-unraveling-military Rep. Harris calls for Adirim subpoena: https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-harris-five-years-after-adirim-mandatory-vaccine-memo-put-her-under-oath What does it mean to Own Your Freedom? It’s not waiting for freedom to be granted to you. It’s not asking for rights to be given, it’s not even reclaiming your rights- as they’re yours and they’ve been yours along- you just need to never let go of your God-given rights. Owning freedom is taking responsibility for your rights and living them out in all facets of life. On this podcast, we interview people who have taken ownership of their freedoms and as a result have made incredible change, whether it be at the federal, state, local levels, or in the home. It’s a way of living. Own Your Freedom. It’s that simple. 🎧 Listen to The Feds on Substack & all other platforms: https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom 🇺🇸 Visit our Website: FedsForFreedom.org 🏃 Follow us on Instagram / X / Facebook: @feds4freedomusa

    144. Terry Adirim Under Oath: The Memo That Forced the Military Jab
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Own Your Freedom: Pursuing Liberty Through Action. Own Your Freedom highlights stories of government overreach and corruption to inform and empower you to grab hold of your freedoms and run with them. Each week, we talk with whistleblowers, doctors, attorneys, and everyday citizens who took action. Formerly "The Feds." Stay up to date: fedsforfreedom.substack.com fedsforfreedom.org @feds4freedomusa

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  • Creator
    The Feds For Freedom Podcast
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    151
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    Explicit
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