Well, welcome back everyone to another episode of Faithfully Engaged.
I am honored to have Dr. Lynn Carey on with me today.
So why don't you introduce yourself to the audience and just tell us a little bit about
yourself.
Great.
Thank you for having me, Johnny.
It's an honor to be here.
I, where do I start?
I think I've been on a journey my whole life.
I kind of came into this world knowing there had to be more to life than what I was being
shown in the mainstream world.
And then after the last few years, I think I was right on about a lot of things that
kind of connected so many dots.
But it really, I just really always questioned everything growing up.
I had ended up having a diagnosis of scoliosis when I was 14, which is curvature of the spine.
I always did everything the medical world told me.
That's just what my family did.
So I ended up having spinal surgery for it when I was 15.
And the surgery itself was a success, but it left me sick and in pain for years that
the medical world didn't know what to do with me.
So I was in college because I was told you got to do that to be successful in life.
I hated it, but I was there.
And I, someone told me to look into chiropractic as a profession.
I was just kind of struggling to find myself.
I was still symptomatic in pain.
And I read the pamphlet on the chiropractic and it said, the power that made the body
heals the body.
And I thought that was the first time I heard truth.
I'm like, why hasn't anybody said this to me?
And all the, all of the stuff I've been going through.
So I just went to chiropractic school without even getting adjusted.
I went on the philosophy and it changed my life.
And so for the past 25 years, I've been aware of the medical corruption that's been going
on.
And I've educated myself on money because I knew that was such a key part of what was
controlling our daily lives and our health.
So I really kind of been down the rabbit hole with, you know, I wanted to become financially
free for myself.
I knew that we're not teaching this in school, in the school.
So I was trying to educate myself, but it led me down the rabbit hole of understanding
how corrupt our money system was.
And then the last three years, you know, what happened when they locked us down three years
ago was just horrific.
And I knew from day one, it was horrific, but I also lost all of the network I was building
for myself as an entrepreneur because I was speaking up against the lockdowns and the
masks and all that.
And I educated myself on our constitution because I really was never into government
because I couldn't find truth in it.
I'm always about, let me, how do I find truth?
I need things to make sense.
And every time I watch somebody on TV or read an article, I'm like, this is a dog and pony
show.
I'm like, yes, I know they're all lying to us.
I didn't realize how bad, you know, I just kind of, you know, you want to, like I wanted
to vote because I wanted to be participating in, I didn't want to be a complete outcast
of society, but I kind of knew it wasn't right.
It wasn't right.
So these last three years made me deep down, deep dive into, I educated myself on the constitution,
how going local in the county is where our power is.
And so that piece of the puzzle came together for me.
So a lot of things came, you know, kind of all came into the mix for me in these last
few years, especially.
So that's the gist of who I am and where I am right now.
And you know, we could spend three episodes on all sorts of different things of what you
said there.
I did really want to kind of hone in on, especially the last three years.
I've talked with several other guests in some of this, just in general, anybody that's lived
through this period, it's always going to have an effect on you some way, shape or form.
Never in our history have we had that type of response to a pandemic before.
It was, it was just different.
So we're going to have an effect.
And what I like about what you're saying there is you had a lot of background and knowledge
for years and years.
In some ways, you kind of remind me of my dad, not in the career.
My dad is a, well, he actually recently just retired, but was in industrial hygiene, which
I was never into engineering or whatever.
I always told my friends, he makes sure people don't blow up.
That's how I kind of phrased him.
So he's worked with chemicals and all sorts of stuff for years and years.
And he has fitted people for N95 masks for years, for decades.
So when he's talked about N95, that wasn't new to him at all.
And when all the mask mandates and things like that came out, he's like, wait, what?
There's a reason why we haven't done this.
We have all the data in the world to say that this is a dumb idea, but here we are, we're
doing it.
And I'm imagining for you, when all this stuff's coming out, you're like, hey, this is what
I've been studying.
This is what I've been looking at for years.
This is bad.
And I kind of wanted to go back to you during that timeframe when you are speaking out and
it sounds like just censorship and people stepping away from you.
How did you handle that?
I know I'm right, but people aren't listening to me.
How was that for you?
You know, I can't believe that I felt surprised again, because I'll give you a little background.
When I opened up my practice as a chiropractor in 1998, I was ignorance on fire, had no idea
what I was doing business-wise, but I just went out on a passion because I knew natural
healing changed my life.
I got my health together.
I saw there was a lot of medical corruption and I knew people just needed to know.
I thought they needed to know.
And I went out like gangbusters just wanting to share the message and people didn't want
to hear.
I realized I was too far out.
Like I didn't, people didn't really want to hear what I had to say.
They weren't ready for it.
And it shocked me then.
Like I would tell them, you don't need the back surgery.
And they would say, oh, well, I already have it scheduled.
I'm just going to do it.
And I was like, you know, like, I mean, I really, I was like dumbfounded.
So I had to get over, I was probably the first five years in practice.
I kind of had to get over it.
Like I felt like people just had to evolve on their own pace.
Everybody has a right to come to terms with these things on their own.
It's a personal journey.
Fast forward to 2020.
I was losing my freedom to practice.
I mean, I was educated.
I already been through my health journey, very secure in my health journey.
And what they were telling me in 2020 was not changing what I did for the last 20 years
of my life at all.
That they were coming at me that I was wrong and thought, oh my gosh, and I'm trying to
tell people this isn't right how they're handling this.
And people were angry at me.
And I just couldn't believe it.
And you know, that day marks, it was March 12th.
We locked down on March 13th, the March 12th, 2020.
I was at the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce.
I was running the health and wellness council and I already had a problem with the health
and wellness council.
I was doing it as a volunteer position.
I loved being part of the chamber.
It was me growing my network for my online business that I was building.
And I was helping people with their lifestyle because I knew health, money, all these things
were affecting well-being.
Right.
So I had retired my practice already in Delaware.
I was following my dreams, live in Miami Beach.
And people were coming in that day who were, I mean, I always, I have a problem with the
health professionals.
So many of them, even the alternative ones don't have a clue what they're talking about
when it comes to health.
They're still living in fear of the disease model and all this.
And I know they haven't had a personal experience to probably, and that's fine if they're figuring
it out, but it's hard for me to watch them guide people down the wrong path.
Well, there was all these health and wellness professionals rolling in.
They had masks on already and gloves, like surgical gloves.
And I was like sitting there like, what in the heck is going on?
Because I don't follow mainstream news.
I don't buy into the hype.
There's probably been like 20 diseases that they promoted in the last 20 years.
There's always a new one.
I don't follow.
I don't go down their road because I know what it's all about and how it works.
This one, I had no, I mean, I never in a million years would have believed that this was happening.
And I was just like sitting there like, what in the world is going on?
And then they locked us down.
Those first six weeks, I had enough knowledge.
I was studying the new world order a little bit, but my thing was we create our own reality.
I believe we are all empowered individuals.
We can make choices.
I've always found a way to live outside the mainstream system because that's what I chose.
So I always thought I had the choice and I knew there was probably evil there, wrongdoing.
But why do I need to focus on it?
My focus was I'm going to create my best life and try to be an outward light for other people
and give them options for different paths in life that can really lead them to freedom.
That's always been my thing.
Health, money.
But those first six weeks when they locked us down and I was sharing, I'm like, this
is, I mean, my whole network, they were, I didn't even know what liberal meant.
I remember asking my friend, who were the liberals?
And he told me he was a Democrat.
They're like, they're the ones who want to lock down everything.
And I'm like, well, that's not liberal.
Isn't liberal mean freedom?
I said, they're the communists.
And I remember those first six weeks before I even thought, I didn't even think Trump
was good.
I thought about him, but I was trying to sort through this mess of what it was so horrific
to me.
I was going to bed crying at night because I thought, oh my God, constant.
This is how the Jews got locked up in the camps.
Like we're going into the camps next.
This is how severe it is.
And these people don't see it.
They're happy to stay home.
They're happy to throw the mask on.
They're happy to do whatever these people are telling them.
And that was the most horrifying part for me that they were turning on me.
People that I thought were friends, people that I thought were rational humans, they
were going to be like, oh, I'm going to be like, oh, I'm going to be like, oh, I'm going
to be like, oh, I'm going to be like, that's like, that's just like social media, that's
were attacking me.
And I'm like, I don't even have a right to live free anymore.
And they don't see it.
So it was, I was more afraid of the people around me
who were falling for it than the few elites
who were telling us what to do, right?
Because I'm like, they have control of us because of this.
This is how Nazi Germany happened.
And it's funny because a couple of years,
I'm always, I always liked to learn.
So for some reason, my money path,
like trying to study the economy,
led me to studying this woman who wrote a book
about living through the concentration camps
in Nazi Germany.
She was from Hungary.
She was in her 90s, told her story.
And she said, I always remember our neighbors
tried to warn us that they were coming
and we didn't believe them.
And it gives me chills talking about it
because that's exactly what we lived in 2020.
I'm like, oh, I'm trying to tell people
and they don't believe me.
And like it's happening all over again
and people don't see it.
It was one of the most horrific times until, thank God,
I found some people who were connected with truthers, right?
I call them the truth or network.
And I started, okay, there's a plan
or we're gonna come out of this
because I was just trying to make some sense out of,
that was the craziest thing I've ever experienced.
It really is one of those where
I almost sometimes think of like an alternate,
like reality type of thing of,
if there was an alternate reality where,
let's say that didn't happen, COVID never happened.
And you have everybody that went through
the last three years and then somehow those are reality
and that alternate reality,
we're able to talk to ourselves through that.
The reality that never went through COVID
be like, what on earth are you talking about?
Like, it's bizarre.
Now, clearly that's not possible for us to do that.
But none of us, and even in 2020,
and March 12th of 2020, nobody would have considered that.
And here we are in middle of March, 2020.
And not only is it happening,
but it's being accepted and it's being celebrated.
And I think that's one of the things
that was chilling to me is, yeah, that it's not just a,
oh, this is a hard time,
but people were turning on people.
We were closing down.
I've seen a lot of pictures.
It almost seems like old relics from like March
and April of 2020 of the,
like in the grocery stores where you can only go one direction,
had those signs on the floor of basketball goals
that they were taking the rims down and stuff.
So kids couldn't play on basketball goals
and police taping up merry-go-rounds.
Like that's crazy stuff.
That's not normal.
But you and I in that situation,
we felt like the crazy ones for thinking
that it wasn't normal.
Everything was upside down.
Just at an incredibly crazy time.
So kind of walk me through this kind of leads
into the whole constitution and your involvement.
How did that go from like, wow, this is,
feel like I'm living in crazy world.
How did that transition into you being really more involved
from somebody that was not political at all
to being more involved in politics?
How were you able to kind of make that shift,
that personal shift?
Cause I'm the type of person who wants answers.
I don't want to just keep rehashing the trauma either.
That I want to find a solution.
There's a lot of people who just keep watching videos
and then just get stuck.
And I'm not saying I was watching videos
to educate myself on what was going on.
But eventually you get to the point
where you're seeing the same message over and over again.
Okay, I'm like, I got the story.
Now what do we do to change it?
And I guess through those videos that I heard,
there was defend Florida was the first piece that I saw
that they were saying that the election was stolen.
And this is one way that,
but even that was kind of big.
And then I would just remember here in Sheriff Mac.
Are you familiar with Sheriff Mac?
Vaguely, like I recognize the name
and I've seen a few videos,
but I wouldn't say that I'm super intelligent.
Yeah, he must have been on it.
I wish I documented my journey of what led me to what,
but I know like I saw him on an interview
and I always look when something resonates with me,
I go into it.
I want to follow and get to the bottom of it.
And Sheriff Mac is, it's a CSPOA,
County Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
He had fought the Clintons back in the 90s
on gun control and won.
He actually went and he was a local County
in Arizona at the time.
So he's been standing up
because he's been seeing this corruption of our constitution.
He was a police officer.
He realized he said, hey, I took an oath.
And what are we actually doing here?
Things that I'm doing, even given speeding tickets
really doesn't match the oath that I took.
He started questioning everything.
And he stood up at his local County.
Once he took his own constitutional course, he understood.
So he has this organization and I took his course on it.
And I just realized that everybody thinks
that we have to go to the top, right?
In the federal government,
but really it goes back to the state.
It goes back to your local counties where all the power is.
That made sense to me.
I'm like, okay, well, I was a little horrified
because in Miami beach,
we had one of the most corrupt mayors around.
He was horrible.
And the whole town was good with it.
Even though Florida was a free state,
I was in a very blue city.
And so I understood that.
And so I really, I just started,
I was following Chris Ann Hall.
There was Doug Gibbs.
He was on Patriot Street Writer.
I remember he was doing like
constitutional discussion every Tuesday.
I was just trying to find things that just,
cause you know, you just have to keep reiterating things
until it becomes second nature.
And so I realized I had to get,
I started going to the local school board meetings
and then I found an organization
that they just changed their name
to Citizens Defending Freedom,
but it was County Citizens Defending Freedom at the time.
They're in Polk County.
They started in Polk County, Florida.
And it was about going to the school boards,
going to your local commission meetings
and understanding what's going on there
and also exposing what the media is doing.
Like shining a light on what our local politicians are doing
and asking them,
trying to build a relationship with them and saying,
hey, why are you doing this?
If they won't answer us,
then we can bring in media and shine a light on and say,
hey, all of us want to know why you're doing
what you're doing.
So they can't hide in the darkness anymore.
And that's what they've been doing for years.
So really that's what it is.
It's about really just getting involved locally
in your county meeting and the school board meeting.
And I tell you, I was horrified.
I'm not a big component of our educational system at all.
And this, the last three years gave me double reason,
but I went through school,
I was an A student, an honor student.
I worked hard because they told me I needed to
and I should, I was not really trying
to buck the current at the time,
even though I questioned it.
But I hated school.
And when I got out and I was trying to build my practice,
I read a book called Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.
And he talks about financial freedom
and financial education that we don't get that in school.
And I knew that.
I'm like, I knew I wasted my time in school.
I just knew it.
And so that's what kind of led me down the path
of understanding the economy.
Because I saw how much it was affecting people
coming into my office and their health
and the choices that we're making.
And they're like, they could only do
what insurance dictated.
Even buying organic food was expensive.
They couldn't afford it.
I mean, we were living in an upside down world
for a long time.
And I questioned all these things.
So when I got to, when I understood the local county,
like we have to get back there and the school board,
what I, I raised my son, I'm sorry,
there's a million things that I could say right now.
I raised my son outside the school system.
Like he was always homeschooled
because I knew there was a lot of issues I had.
I figured it didn't give me anything I needed.
I didn't want to put him through that.
What happened and what I saw happening
that there was an agenda
that they're actually programming our children
to be socialists, to be communists,
to not think for themselves.
It connected so many dots that I saw happening
that I didn't understand.
But when I went to the school board,
I really saw the devil was sitting on the school board.
These people, it was just evil.
And they were all sitting up their masks, talking about,
all they do is praise each other.
They don't even get, they don't even accomplish anything.
They want you to sit in a meeting once a month, all day long.
Who has the time as a working parent
to go to a school board meeting and sit there all day long
to be able to speak at the end in the evening.
And they don't accomplish anything.
They just keep appraising each other.
Oh, Dr. So-and-so, you're this.
Oh, Dr. So-and-so, congratulations on this.
I mean, it was a bogus, bogus what was going on.
And I just couldn't believe it.
It just made me sick to my stomach to even be there.
We were at this point, I thought, oh my God,
society is so far gone.
And our taxpayer dollars are paying these people.
It's taking money to sit up there.
Our superintendent.
Just real quick, you kind of cut out there for,
I don't know, 10, 15 seconds.
So I didn't hear that last little bit there.
The superintendent of the Miami Dade School Board
got transferred out into California.
And I said, it's funny, because he went out there
with the full-on communist political agenda out there,
because I think we were getting a little too,
the heat was getting turned up on him in Florida.
There was too many people awake there.
So it's funny that he was making a fortune.
And he was no problem locking kids down.
I mean, the governor was telling us everything was open.
There was still masking the kids.
You know, when it wasn't even any kind of mandate,
far from it.
And they were still masking these poor kids up.
I mean, to me, I was witnessing child abuse.
And the thing is, it was even harder.
It's like my whole life got turned upside down
in these last three years.
I'm kind of like still suffering,
like post-traumatic stress syndrome a little bit,
because I looked at other people and it's like,
nothing happened.
They just lived their lives like normal.
They just put the mask on.
They still had their jobs.
They still had their income, all this stuff.
Mine was like, the rug was pulled out from under me
and I'm still trying to lick my wounds
and rebuild myself and recover.
And it's just kind of, my son, my son's 17
and my son, his life was turned upside down too.
And we always talk about BC.
Because when you say like,
we couldn't have seen what was coming.
I'm like, oh, that was February of 2020, BC.
We had no idea.
Like that's a week we were just living the good life.
You know, so it's just been a journey.
And I'm just, I just, now I feel like I have tools
to empower myself on how to vote, how to get involved.
Where is the right action?
Because I understand the constitution.
I have at least a basis of what is right and wrong
and what the local county government should be doing
and how I can make a difference.
And fighting for election integrity,
that was the main other thing is,
the county citizens defending freedom
was going after election integrity.
So how are our elections being held at the local level
and how can we witness them, watch them, verify signatures?
What is your process?
We started becoming friendly
with the supervisor of election.
So all these things, you know, there was,
you can kind of, you had to kind of pick your poison.
Do you wanna work on election integrity?
You wanna go to a school board meeting?
Because it became a lot of work.
And so that's why, and you see why they made it
so complicated because it keeps the average person
out because they're so busy stuck
in the design of the rat race.
It's all by design.
They've just built this in,
we're supposedly the land of the free
and we've been slowly, slowly, slowly becoming enslaved
over the years here.
It's just from the creation of the federal reserve
to the stealing of our elections too.
And it's been very subtle, very small steps
to increment along the way
until we got to this point right now.
And I think that's the power of subtlety.
It's kind of the old notion of boiling the frog, right?
Like you don't just turn it up all at once.
You gotta kind of acclimate.
And that's something that as a populace,
and I'll say this more personally, as a dad,
the COVID years really affect me on a personal level.
My daughter was born in 2019, September of 2019.
So just before, it was BC, just a little BC there.
And then my son was born in 2021.
And things were a little bit more lax then,
and I'm in Oklahoma, so things by and large
were fairly lax compared to most parts of the country.
But I distinctly remember during that timeframe,
if we were going to the doctor and they required masks,
my daughter who during these timeframes wasn't one yet,
she hated mask on us.
I refuse to do, my children have never worn any mask.
I refuse that.
But if I had a mask on, she would immediately pull it down
because she knows my face.
Like that's how children communicate.
They look at their parents' faces,
at other people's faces, and they match that.
And she understood that.
She's like six months old or something at the time.
And she knew, I remember sitting there,
it was like my six month old daughter understands this.
She knows why this is silly.
Why don't the doctors, why don't the people
that are the pediatricians saying that this is fine
for kids to wear?
No, it's not.
And yeah, just that kind of that,
man, what is going on here?
Am I the only one thinking this way?
Am I the crazy one?
And what I really like about what you're saying there
is you didn't just take that and say,
yep, world's terrible, nothing I can do about it.
No, like I'm going to do what I can.
I'm gonna go to these school board meetings.
I'm gonna make my votes known in local elections.
And I'll give you just another quick story of,
again, this is 2020, the presidential election
that happened, this is just kind of anecdotal,
but there was a very high turnout.
Lots of cars at my local polling place,
lots and lots of people there, which is good.
Like I'm glad people were voting.
But a couple months prior, we had a very, for our town,
which is about 23 or so thousand people,
so fairly small community.
So generally the mayor of our town
is not that big of a deal.
It's like, yeah, whoever's mayor is mayor,
nothing really changes.
Well, this one was a fairly large deal
that the incumbent wasn't running.
So on one hand, you had kind of the one
that had the most money, saw signs everywhere,
that was more kind of pro-mask mandate
and things of that nature.
And then the other person was not.
And I don't know this for certain.
I do think that it was a higher voted upon election,
but not nearly like the presidential one, not even close.
We got in and out of there in two minutes or something,
not many people there.
And that election, which the person
that didn't want mandates was the one that ended up winning,
despite being outspent like crazy.
You barely saw any of his signs.
But enough of us decided, hey, we don't want these mandates,
so we're going to vote for him.
That election had far more impact on me and my family
than the presidential one.
Whether we want to say that that was stolen or not,
that's a whole other big conversation.
And certainly it's had effects.
No shock, I'm not too big of a fan of the administration
we have in there currently.
But that local election had massive impact.
And I get very disheartened when I show up
to vote for a city council or whatever it may be,
and there's four cars in the parking lot.
Those are important.
Those school board meetings are important.
And we need more people like you speaking out of,
don't just vote in November.
Vote in September, in August.
And those off months that don't seem like they're
a big deal, no, they're a very big deal, and probably
bigger than you realize.
That's such a great example, though.
See how powerful that is?
Like, if people could understand that concept,
it's the local mayor, the local commissioners,
the local county that you're voting for
is really where the power is, because that's
going to affect your town.
And really, our constitution is set up to go local.
The powers in the state, really, governors
should have more power.
The federal government is supposed to be underneath us.
They are supposed to be our employees.
And we're so upside down.
They're running our lives and stealing from us.
Like, full-on criminal action is happening, and it's accepted.
How did we get to this point?
Like, it's so surreal.
But yeah, but that's where we take our power back.
And that's how it can trickle up, right, or trickle out.
And that's how it can trickle up, right, or trickle out
from the local county.
I wish more people would understand that.
And that's the right terminology, is take our power back.
Instead of we need to just vote better
in the presidential election or the Senate election
or whatever, which I'm not saying is not important.
It is, but the structure there is messed up.
And when we take that power back, again, in my city,
then it doesn't matter what happens in these other areas
of the country.
Now my town's OK.
We're able to go around OK.
Thankfully, my state, and your state,
although your city kind of messed you up there,
weren't as strong as some other areas.
But even in California, I know of some local places
where sheriffs were like, nope, we're not doing this.
I don't care what you say, Newsom.
We're not going to.
And I'm sure their citizens love them for that.
And that's what it takes, is saying,
this is within my power.
And that's the key piece there.
When I was talking about Sheriff Mack,
he says the sheriff really has so much authority
in the local county to stand up to the federal government
if they come in with an overreach.
They're out of line.
I mean, the sheriff is supposed to protect
the people's natural rights to stand up for our Constitution.
And there's so many sheriffs that are bought now
and under the corruption of the big government.
And so that's if we really, every citizen, really,
we all need to get back to our Constitution.
If we all just took a simple,
started following the Constitution,
but there's so much stuff online.
Start learning about your Constitution.
Everything becomes very clear and simplified.
I always say truth is always simple.
When it's complicated, we know we're in the dark.
So if we can get back to that,
and this way we can educate people who are going in
to take a position in our government, our local government,
to become the next sheriff.
I mean, in Miami-Dade County,
we don't even have a sheriff anymore.
That position was taken out a long time ago.
We were the only county that didn't have a sheriff.
I knew we were in trouble.
That was my first sign.
I was like, but see, this is where people educated themselves
on these basics.
We could change the whole world.
That'd be amazing.
The whole country, it'd be amazing.
And I'm sure other countries have the same thing
going on too, but especially here in the United States,
it's really powerful.
I think what's so important here in our country,
as opposed to other ones,
where yes, we have all sorts of problems,
especially when we get into federal government overreach
and the billion different agencies that are up there.
Yeah, we have problems, don't get me wrong.
But when you get to the source document of the Constitution,
while I won't say is a perfect document,
because I don't think anything manmade will ever be perfect,
it stood the test of time.
It's gone through a lot of really rough things.
So our foundation, having freedom of speech,
having recognition that these rights were given to us
not by man, but are recognized by man, given by God,
that's a big deal.
So we have a lot of great things that are already there.
Whereas other countries, they may need to make a new document,
try to make a better government,
we already got a pretty darn good one.
It's about recovering it and getting that power back,
like you said.
And there's no easy answers, there's no snappy fingers,
and then we get it, but it takes action.
You can't just sit back and say,
oh, COVID is mostly over now, we won't do that again,
we'll be fine.
That's not a winning strategy, you got to act.
And you need to act on behalf of you and your wellbeing,
but also if you have kids for their wellbeing,
and just for the society as a whole,
it's really important and it goes beyond just you
of why we need to act and have more people
involved in the process.
Yeah, that's why I, you know, it's funny,
I feel like I turned down my message a little bit.
I mean, I was even speaking up from like 1998 to 2003
about the dangers of vaccines
and then all the adverse reactions.
I chose to have my son at home, he was not vaccinated,
he's 17 years old, so I've been doing this for a long time.
But I remember there was one organization at the time,
it was the National Vaccine Information Center,
and I was supporting that.
But every time I got one of their letters,
it was like, they always needed more money,
it was always in a political fight.
And I'm like, I just don't want to live my life enough,
I want to live my life in a fight.
I want to live my life in joy.
I want to be an example, you know?
So, I mean, this was before,
when I got back into it, a couple of years before
the lockdown, I started hearing that New Jersey or New York,
they were saying you have to get vaccinated
before you go to school.
And I was like, what?
Because people already thought that back in the day,
oh, well, your kids have to be vaccinated to go to school.
And I'm like, no, they don't, you can sign a paper.
No, most parents don't question.
So I already knew there was always a way around the system.
No big deal.
But when I heard, kind of heard on the outside,
like, you know, there was this stuff going on
with mandatory for colleges and things like that,
I was a little horrified.
But then we went right into, I mean, it was right before,
and then we went into lockdowns and I saw the whole agenda.
And, but I saw like Del Bigtree and Robert Kennedy Jr.
and all these people who were speaking up for a while,
who got into the vaccine fight.
And I was like, wow, I didn't realize all this was going
because I kind of removed myself from it.
And I got, I just got tired of people not wanting to hear
what I had to say, you know what I mean?
In that respect, I just kind of take,
watered it down for my own sanity.
But after these last three years,
that's why I felt like I have so much background.
I'm like, you know what?
I think it's important that I speak up now and share
because I am walking a different path.
There is another path to follow and it's okay.
And I think people need more stories of empowerment,
of how we heal ourselves, how we can be financially free,
how we can have control in our own local government,
things like that.
So that's where I kind of stepped back into,
where I feel like it is important
because I feel like it's important for,
like I was crying when we locked down, I thought,
oh my God, what did I bring my son into?
What kind of future is he gonna have?
So I wanna do it for him, for the kids, for the future,
and just for the collective consciousness,
because you know what?
We're all affecting each other.
I never felt that like I did more than in 2020
when I felt like I didn't have the right
to just choose how I took care of my own body.
So it's more important than ever to, you know,
we kind of have to get it out there.
Absolutely.
And I had an experience that I hadn't really,
not previous, my wife and I,
and I believe it was June or July of 2020,
we switched which church we were going to,
and the church we were going to previously was meeting,
but they had like sectioned out rows and stuff like that,
so you weren't next to people.
And the new church we went to was not that way.
People were shaking hands, they were singing next to you.
And I hadn't had quite that experience of like, wow,
like I need that personal contact.
I need that people shaking my hand.
It wasn't a want, it wasn't a nice thing.
Like it was needed.
We impact one another way more than you think.
We kind of think it's just me and my family or whatever.
Nobody else is really affected by me or my actions.
It's just not true.
Our communities are connected.
We're social beings.
So what you do does matter.
And what you don't do matters too.
We don't live in a vacuum.
Absolutely.
That's why I like to give people,
that's why I always look,
I wanna know what practical action I can do
because I always wanna be positive.
I don't wanna stay stuck in the negative stuff.
I wanna look at what positive action can I do for myself
and for others today.
I've always been wired like that
to look for what positive things can we do.
And I think that's the ripple effect
that we want to go out into the world.
And I love that attitude you just brought there.
That is really the main basis behind this podcast
is I have seen so much content
that are more conservative in nature,
more Christian in nature,
that is focused on what's going wrong.
And don't get me wrong.
We just talked a lot about what's going wrong.
I'm not downplaying that.
That's important for us to have a basis of reality
and knowing what's wrong.
That's good.
However, the issue is when we stay there
and I'm just stuck flipping TV or on my phone,
yep, this is bad, that's bad, it's all bad.
And then you're just left feeling angry, apathetic,
and then you don't do anything with your life.
That's not the way we're created.
That's not what we're meant to do.
So why I made this podcast the way it is
is I wanna talk with people
that are doing something in their life
and trying to encourage listeners to,
yeah, you can do something too.
It's okay to recognize things are wrong,
but what can you do to make an impact?
And maybe that is going to that school board meeting.
Maybe that's talking about finding information
about constitution.
During COVID, I took a free constitution class on Hillsdale.
Hillsdale College has a wonderful free-
They do.
It's fantastic content, free, go do it.
Go to, we got the, another thing we got was
the the Federalist Papers during that time,
I was like, I wanna have stuff in paper
just in case things get reprinted or whatever.
So go read the Federalist Papers, just go do something.
And then maybe you start figuring things out
a little bit more specific throughout the line,
but don't wait to figure out your five-year plan
before you do something.
Just do something and then you can figure it out
along the way, but sitting back and just complaining,
that's not good enough.
That's not helping anything.
I totally agree, well said.
So for you, if you were to give the listeners,
let's say they're like, yes, I'm with you.
I wanna start doing something locally,
but I hear what you're saying, but I'm just confused.
I just don't know where to go, how to get started.
What advice would you give them in order
just to get the ball rolling, so to speak?
So my two favorites are,
I would say jumped into the Constitution,
because if you wanna understand, start learning about it.
And I'm sure there's free stuff online.
You could follow Sheriff Mack, Chris Ann Hall.
You could go to Hillsdale, like you said, college.
They have so much, there's so much information.
Start understanding and then go to a local county meeting
and see what's going on in your town.
Meet the people who are running your town
and see if they're following
what you learned about the Constitution.
You're gonna see real quick who's bought
and who's doing it for the right reasons.
And it becomes crystal clear.
And I was always, because I was never political,
I was always independent.
And there was a school of thought that we can infiltrate,
because we have a uniparty, let's face it.
It's not about Republican or Democrat.
We have just as many corrupt Republicans.
But I chose to register as, just a year ago,
I registered as a Republican because I thought,
I can go into the local Republican meeting
so I can vote for that party on the side,
because it was at least less corrupt than the other side,
was the take.
And there's a lot of make America great again,
make America first people in there,
infiltrating the Republican side.
But we had a real fight with a lot of the people
who are bought in to the old,
they're not awake to America first at all.
They want the old school or whatever, the corrupt system.
They want that to continue.
They wanna have their, bought politicians
and lobbyist politicians in there.
So you could even infiltrate the Republican side,
if it's less corrupt in your town.
And that's what I did.
I started going to those meetings.
Because you can start making a movement.
Meet your neighbors, see if they wanna go too.
I mean, that's the way to do it.
But it's really, once you understand that constitution,
you can see what side people are on.
Find the people who are awake.
Find the people who really are trying
to do the right things and befriend them.
Reach out a hand.
Maybe you make phone calls for the people.
Maybe you go to, you can be a super,
what's the word?
You can go to the election and be,
you watch the elections.
I can't think of the, I'm blanking out.
I know what you're talking about,
but I'm blanking on that term too.
But I know what you're saying.
You can help run the elections.
You can be there and be a witness
to make sure things are proper.
There's a lot of things you can do.
It doesn't have to, pick one.
Just pick one.
You don't have to be overwhelmed and pick one.
If it's not working out, try another one.
But you're gonna start to see where the need is
once you go to the meeting.
You can see what needs to be done.
Once you're armed, understanding the constitution.
Because before I understood the constitution,
and I'm not saying I understand it at 100%.
I can't sit here and reiterate it.
I'm not gonna teach it to somebody else at this point.
But that's my basis.
I can kind of gauge myself.
That's my blueprint.
I didn't understand how to see
what was right or wrong before that.
That's why I never really got involved
because it was very confusing to me
and it didn't make sense.
And I saw that they're fighting for issues,
but I realized they just kept going around and around.
They were never solving the issue.
And the issue just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
And I saw that in medicine too.
I'm like, they're always creating a disease.
And then there's another one to fix after.
And I thought, there's a problem with that.
So I needed to step out of that world.
And that's, so when you understand the constitution,
you can see that there are solutions,
but it's getting this big money and lobbyists
and corporations out of our government.
Yeah.
No, I like it.
And I love what you said there of pick something.
If it doesn't work, pick something else.
That takes so much pressure off.
Just go, go do.
I think that's really what it comes down to.
Learn and do something.
Don't just sit back.
I'm imagining people that are listening to this
that like, man, I love what she's saying.
I want to be in touch with her more often
that they would love to do that.
So where can people be in contact with them?
And what other information would you like to share
with the audience today?
Yeah, sure.
So you can, I have a website, creatingmydesiredlife.com
and you can email me there and ask me any question
and I can do my best to answer it.
Right.
Well, I'll have that linked down there
in the show notes below.
So you will be able to do that.
I encourage everyone listening to go ahead and do that.
And yeah, thank you again so much for being on
and really shedding light into the importance
of impacting the community right around you
and not just the federal election.
Yeah, thank you so much, Johnny, for having me on
and for getting this message out.
I think it's really important.
Absolutely.
And thanks again to everyone that joined us
for another episode and we'll catch you on the next one.
Take care.
Bye.