What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

So since 2019 I have been making podcasts and one of the series that I make is called Vancouver the Beautiful and Ugly. Today it's about the good, the bad and the ugly of running a platform. In 2025 S one of the most groundbreaking books I have ever read was Marshall Goldsmith. What got you here won't get you there. It's a powerful book on self reflection. Anyone that's at a crossroads in their journey, and I've been through many of them, especially when I was involved in IT

startup culture. This was a highly recommended and a must read book for people that are entrepreneurs are just. If you're kind of stuck in a direction in your life, you're putting out a lot of effort, but you feel like you're going nowhere and this relates to self-awareness and cognitive. Here are some relevant insights and quotes from. We get positive reinforcement from our past successes and think that type of validation is the predictive of great things

in the future. This aligns with the tendency to. Repeat which one's work? Even when it no longer serves. Recognizing this is crucial for goals, accountability and change. Successful people tend to resist change because they believe that their past behaviours are the reason for their current success. This quote encourages questioning wherever your current behaviour are truly beneficial for the next level of success.

So Goldsmith notes that people often believe I have succeeded, I can succeed, I will succeed, I choose to succeed. While these beliefs Dr. success, they can also blind you to the need for behavioural change. The importance of feedback One of the greatest obstacles to change is the absence of feedback. Accepting honest feedback, even when it's uncomfortable, can illuminate areas for growth. Letting go of faulty behaviours. The higher you go, the more your

problems or behaviour. Often it's not a lack of skill that holds people back, but habits like refusing to listen, arrogance or the inability to adopt this book score message. Encourage humility, listening, proactive self reflection as I analyzed my journey of the Vancouver True crime and the Dark mine detective. And now that I'm at a crossroads, I kind of re read this book recently.

One thing I learnt from doing this platform, doing startups, business development consulting in these arenas is the important to embrace reinvention. Recognize that each phase of your career will require new skills, new behavior. And my next step is to really focus on some new areas as far as the brand of Dark Mind Detective and the new podcast that I'll be launching with Nash. And you'll hear her at the end of this podcast and our very

first Epstein editorial. And this is going to represent another new direction for myself. And my next steps, the areas that I'm going to primarily be putting my energy into, is course storytelling, podcasting, writing a book, the Picton. Welcome to Picton Land workshops and public speaking. It's important to think like ACEO and shift your mindset from content creator to business leader. I'm not just running a podcast

anymore. I'm building a brand with multiple dimensions, so one of the things that I need to do that's actually crucial, it's like absolutely necessary, is shedding toxicity and negative energy in the Goldsmith book. And like I said, I can't emphasize enough of the importance of reading this book. I'll tell you the title of the book again, Marshall Goldsmith. What got you here won't get you

there. So emotional detachments, Goldsmith suggests, let go of the beliefs that you must respond to every criticism, choose when to engage and when to step away. As I get deeper into this podcast, just just remember that that statement for a minute. Hang on to that, OK? Curate your environment. Surround yourself with people who challenge you in a constructive rather than drag you down.

Expand your network to include mentors, public speakers, publishing professionals who aligned with my goals. I have surrounded myself with some amazing people. Nash is a great addition to me. She holds me accountable. She challenges my belief, but she doesn't nitpick. She doesn't disagree with everything I I say either. And we have amazing conversations almost each and every day as we develop the new Cult of Personality podcast.

I like her critical thinking skills and she actually enhances some of my blind spots. And then I'm helping her with the technology side, you know, audio software, that kind of sort of thing. So I think it's a it's a great fit for me, especially as I'm in this new critical crossroads of building a new direction, Create boundaries, consider limiting social media engagement, focus on meaningful dialogue through my podcast, my events and books where deeper conversations are

encouraged. So yeah, I'm going to get more into this later, but yeah, think about that for a minute, right? So this is a new mindset, adopting Feed Forward and set a feedback. Goldsmith introduced a concept called Feed Forward, asking others for advice how to improve rather than seeking validation or criticism in the past. Positive framework accelerates growth.

Letting go of unhelpful habits. Goldsmith highlights specific behaviours that hold people back, such as needing to be right, withholding information or refusal to delegate. In my case, the habit of defending myself against every against criticism is draining my energy without yielding results. So I have to adopt radical acceptance, Understand that no amount of effort will change certain perceptions. Instead, focus on those who generally resonate with my message. Delegate, collaborate.

I need to hire and collaborate with others to manage administration tasks. Like help me with editing, maybe help me with like editing on my books and things like that and freeing my time for my higher level creative and strategic work, right? You can't do everything, right? Simple as that. You can't be everything. Can't wear all the hats. And I've been wearing a lot of different hats for the last six years, right? It's a kind of a burnout cycle, right?

Be selective about projects. So I'm pretty good at that now, but I think about 23, I was in so many directions. I was doing so many collaborations, podcasts, helping out with families, which, you know, of course, I always want to do, taking on cases.

People would DM me calling the police on their behalf to because of they were in some type of traumatic trauma situation, helping them navigate through that, doing advocacy stuff, missing persons and you're end up on a hamster wheel and and you're not, you don't become effective to the things that are important to you. And of course, if if someone kid is missing, of course I'm going to post it. If people need help, they can always reach out to me, right?

But I also had to say no to a lot of projects. I was going in way too many directions and it was like your head spinning, right? So the main things that I'm going to be obviously the serial killers for the dark mind detective, but we are going to get more into dark psychology manipulation behavior, right? I also have to put that same understanding into myself, my motivations, my triggers, my blind spot. One of the things I'm going to rigorously do is practice self reflection.

Schedule regular reflection sessions, journal what's working, what's not. Ask, am I leading in a way that reflects my values? Embrace lifelong learning. Continuing, Continue expanding your expertise, not just in true crime, but in public speaking, leadership and personal growth. I should consider joining a speaker Bureau or taking

storytelling workshops. Visualizing your future Goldsmith believes in setting clear goals, envisioning the next chapter, a successful bookshop, a sold out workshop, standing ovations at conference breakdown, actionable steps and make it happen. So visualization is something I've used for a long time, all the way back in the 90s, right? So when I was involved in bodybuilding, weightlifting, powerlifting, boxing, that sort of stuff, say I'm going to do a

£500 squat, right? I visualize myself walking up to the rack. I visualize myself, how it feels on the top of my back, right? But where my neck is, we're on top of my trapezes, my traps. I visualize myself picking it off the rack, feeling light, confident with that weight, hearing the weights Jingle, jangle. I step back, I squat down parallel to the ground and I pushed myself up with ease, right? I see myself doing it 10 times back on the rack, right?

So visualization was a big thing in sports sciences and performance. So it's something I utilized for a long time. When I study drama, same thing again. I did some acting, some extra work and stuff like that, and I'd always visualize myself before I did it right and you see it in your mind's eye, right? It's a great tool, something I utilize for a long time, and I highly suggest it. So my resilience has already brought me far.

I am a resilient person. Listen to my podcast, I hope you hear that by shedding toxic interactions, which I'm going to get into more in this podcast, adopting a feed forward mindset and committing to continuous growth, I will position myself for greater success. Goldsmith Coors lesson is true leadership that requires both humility and courage, qualities I hope I have demonstrated to owe an abundance. I will focus on what matters most and my future I envision

will become my reality. So starting Vancouver True Crime was a lifeline for me during one of the most traumatic periods of my life. It gave me purpose, a voice and a platform to amplify the voices of others. I've been able to shed a light on stories that matter along the way. I had the privilege of meeting extraordinary people, individuals that I would never cross path with if it wasn't for this platform.

What began as a project recorded on an iPhone 7 while taking my kids out on a stroller ride around the neighborhood has grown beyond anything I could ever imagine. To all the good people, the dedicated supporters, appreciate each and everyone of you. Your encouragement and belief in this mission means the world to me. I am credibly proud of what we built together. Thank you for being a part of my journey moving forward. I won't be creating much short form content anymore.

My posts will mainly focus on my work and my podcast. All of my energy is going to go in building up my podcast now that my podcast is back. Being a regular podcast and expanding it on video channels like YouTube and Rumble, Instagram has been an amazing audience growth.

At its peak I nearly had 50,000 followers, but after transitioning from Vancouver True Crime to Dark Minded Detective, I realize about 15 thousand of those followers were highly toxic individuals and I blocked many while many others chose to unfollow as my content shifted to a more focused and intentional direction. I am no longer sorry I said that funny. I am no longer prioritizing short form contents, breaking news, or reactionary posts.

It's ironic how how many toxic people offered nothing of value yet felt entitled to invoice their disapproval whenever I shared a story they didn't like. Some would dramatically announce that I'm getting my news outs where I'm unfollowing you as if it was my personal responsibility to spoon feed them updates. The same people would argue with me constantly in favor of Trudeau's decision to block news

content on social media. And then they try to prove a point by sending me a blocked news link. The absurdity speaks for itself. I've had so many of these crazy conversations and they're, they're always like, you know, middle class, upper middle class ladies, right? I I I don't get it. But it's always the same kind of demographic. So let me be clear. The media outlets in Canada receives hundreds of millions, in some cases billions of dollars in taxpaying dollars.

But yet because of this news ban, we can't share updates during emergencies like wildfires in crisis. Most people under 40 get their news from social media, not cable news. So attempting to justify blocking news access is like arguing with a brick wall. Like you. Yeah, you can't reach them. It's just, it's like our arguing with like a, you know, a

religious zealot. The bigger issue that Canada, especially cities like Vancouver, has been hijacked by an insider crowd that thrives on government contracts. It doesn't matter how disastrous their toxic policies are, as long as they get paid, they keep the system intact. So let's say that one more time. The bigger issue in Canada, especially cities like Vancouver, the city has been hijacked by an insider crowd that thrives on government

contracts. It doesn't matter how disastrous or toxic these policies long, as long as they get paid. As long as they get their check right via the taxpayer, right through the middleman of the government. Forget me, I might sound ranty but I need to get the shit off my chest because I've been watching this for the last six years. Please bear with me. Take the Downtown Eastside for example.

After studying the area really intensely since 2019, hence my first podcast, Vancouver the Beautiful and Ugly. I see Clearly it's a dumping ground for the most impoverished, the most vulnerable people. You have predatory drug dealers, which I talked lots about on my podcasts, right, a target vulnerable women, gangs that are even more numerous, and a overstretched frontline officer stuck on an insane hamster wheel. There's the devastating fentanyl crisis, predators, numerous

serial killers. And then you have the so-called poverty industry, the NGOs that profit from the misery funded by the government as the problems keep getting worse year by year by year by year. In some cases, I suspect the same people benefiting from the drug trade are also benefiting and profiting from NGO contracts. They weaponized a very loud activist mob to shut down anyone that speaks out. If you point out these failures, you're labeled the enemy. Kind of like Scientology, right?

What do they say? I'm not fair game. Fair game for distractors and heretics. You're accused of spreading hate. I've been on the receiving end of this, like any little thing. I remember some guy who's a very good photographer, you know, cool guy. He sent me this picture. He was driving through Downtown Eastside and there was this big bonfire. And this it, he was a, it was a kind of a cool picture, but it's kind of scary. There's big bonfire. So I posted it.

He gave me permission to post it. And oh, how dare you. They're just trying to keep warm. Like, OK, Lighting fires in the city is actually not good, man, you know what I mean? Like I think the Vancouver Fire Department in one year, I believe it was 2024. Please don't quote me on this, just top of my head. 70,000 fires, most of them arsons because The Dirty secret that the activists don't want to tell you about, but look it up for yourself.

People who have a tendency to abuse meth when they're in the state of psychosis, they love lighting fire cause a lot of them have those torches to heat up their their meth and their pipes. And then when they're bored they go around lighting fires. I'm not making this up right, but I'm bad for pointing it out. So the status quo in the Downtown East Side has remained for the last 30 years, if not worse if not worse, right? The same people in power will likely stay here for another 30 year.

You want to predict the future, You study the past, right? Benefiting from the corruption they help maintain The Latin phrase cubono, who benefits sums it up perfectly right? I no longer believe that Vancouver can return to a city I grew up in. It's heartbreaking. I have 100 years history in the city. I've come to accept it. Worse, I see the same corrupt patterns across Canada. Here's some food for thought.

The individuals profiting from the drug trade, money laundering are prime targets for foreign interference. Intelligent agencies worldwide undoubtedly know who are the most compromised players are. They have all the information and the all the intelligent gathering ability and they would know the ones that are easy to corrupt further. You know someone's already have their hand in the cookie jar. What are you going to do? Offer them more cookies Are going to say no, they don't care.

They care about the money. That's why nothing changes and that's why everything keeps getting worse. So the saying goes, right? Grow, survive, thrive, or stay stagnant or wither on a vine. After deeply studying cases like Robert Picton and many other serial killers I come to, I come to a realization. Being on the receiving end of relentless toxicity has toughened me up. Absolutely. My skin has grown thick and I've always been one to make lemonade out of lemons.

Moving forward, I'm diving deeper into the study of dark psychology, manipulation, social engineering, and the digital mob mentality. Trolls are losers. There's not much you can do about them. I block thousands. The obvious ones are easy to deal with. It's like when someone is blatantly trying to provoke a reaction. It's like walking down the street and a mentally ill person yells something obscene. You don't take it personal because you understand their words don't hold any real

meaning. But then there's the subtle ones, the people who act like a toxic relative at a family dinner. They might make one snide my remark, then another, and then by the end of the night you explode, of course. And then they play victim reactive abuse. So they poke you and poke you and poke you and poke you for a reaction. And finally, when you had enough and react to it, they play victim right. Some people aren't outright malicious, but they nitpick finding your vulnerabilities.

It's like they're searching for the sore spot and poking it. Oh, I have so many people like that. Again, it's it's really irritating. What really baffles me is how much time these people spend muttering others. I can't relate. I'm too busy, I'm raising my kids, I'm managing my work, I'm writing, I'm recording, I'm editing, I'm building multiple

platforms. I barely have time to listen to other podcasts, let alone waste time nitpicking on someone else's content, yet I've seen to been a magnet for those who do. I've reached a breaking point and I it's exhausting to feel like I can't even post stories without someone micromanaging my content, questioning why I covered a certain topic or plot, formed a a particular person, accusations fly, screenshots are sent, and it's all just a bunch of fucking noise.

I think it's the nature of Instagram, unlike other platforms. Nature. Sorry. Instagram's interface amplifies its toxicity. Comments and DMS are front and center, making it impossible to avoid the negativity originally too. And I do blame myself. I do, you know that? What's the saying? The road to hell is paved with good intentions. So originally I made myself very accessible to people because I

wanted to engage my community. And I'll be totally honest to you, from zero to 5000 awesome people, I had the greatest community. They, they knew me, they knew my story. They they knew what I was about. They're on the same page of there, there. It was like a perfect fucking community. 5000 to 10 still cool. Then I started getting the activist because I have a big platform. They got a monitor. What kind of content? I'm saying you know the the police types, right?

You know, look for any little thing and then they make like a a TikTok post about you. Then Cuba true crime is problematic because he said this like I'm not even joking, right? It's like fuck get a life loser. So I made myself accessible because I wanted to engage my community. I had some incredible conversations with people I genuinely respect. But for every positive interaction, there's a relentless stream of nonsense.

So I'm done with it. I'm unfortunately, I've changed the name of a successful platform because of toxic behaviour, right? I'm tired of it and I'm doing a full fucking detox of this negativity, right? And you got to understand this right? When you spend your days researching the darkest aspects of humanity, serial killers, child traffickers, people like Jeffrey Dahmer, Marc de Troll, analyzing them with a forensic

precision takes a toll. And I do this to have meaningful conversations with experts, forensic doctors, investigators. My goal is to deliver something valuable, not just surface level content. There are plenty of creators who read Wikipedia articles while doing their makeup, and that's fine for them. I'm not knocking their hustle, but I'm striving for something deeper to get to the root of society's darkest truth and shed light where it's most needed.

This platform has always been about understanding the worst of humanity to make the world a little better place. As I evolve, I'm taking back control. No more noise, no more distraction. It's time to thrive. This podcast traces a journey to the shadow of true crime, systemic corruption, online toxicity, cumulating in a strategic blueprint for

resilience and empowerment. Researching cases like Robert Picton, Jeffrey Epstein exposes not just individuals who are evil, but a system that enables it, institutional indifference, complacency, and elite impunity. My revelations about Vancouver Downtown Eastside, a microcosm of Exploitation, highlights how marginalized groups are commodified by predators, NGOs and bureaucrats alike. Predators versus policy makers, Serial killers like Robert Picton and politicians causing

mass suffering. Unjust war. Harmful policies operate on a spectrum of moral disengagement. Both rely on dehumanization, gaslighting and systemic rot. Online toxicity, trolls, cyber wolves exploit anonymity. One of the things too, we're going to do in my new series, Robert Greene the 48 laws of power repurpose as a tool for self-defense. Cut off emotional vampires transitioning to long form podcast called to personality video essays and books to foster critical thinking and expose

corruption. Workshops and talks teaching manipulation tactics, digital hygiene, systemic navigation to arm others against exploitation. Community building, creating spaces for like mind individuals to reclaim agency and push back against societal collapse. The bigger fight Legacy over noise, recognizing trolls are just ghosts with no real power. Real power while silent supporters and nurses, veterans and parents form a backbone of meaningful change.

Crossing the Rubicon. Reframing my trauma into a curriculum, books, courses, talks. Turn pain into protection for others by exposing how elite predators and algorithms exploit human vulnerability. The goal is to dismantle complacency and rebuild a society, a community rooted in the accountability, critical thought, communal strength. Even in darkness, light attracts light. The darkest truth isn't that evil exists. It depends on our silence to

thrive. So since 2019, I immersed myself in the world of true crime, producing podcasts that dwells into some of humanity's most harrowing cases. Working directly with grieving families during their darkest moments have been both a privilege and heart wrenching responsibility. These experience reveal the stark contrast between the raw reality of tragedy and the sensationalized narrative spun by mainstream media.

Time and again I've witnessed victims stories distorted, their lies reduced to click bait headlines, while families endured cruel scrutiny from audience who felt entitled to dissect their pain to approach true crime differently. Take Robert Picton's case for example. I spent a year combing through thousands of articles only to find identical narratives that parroted across outlet. The reputation was robotic, devoid of depth until one article stood out for its deliberate obscurity.

Running it through ChatGPT confirmed my suspicion. The writing was injured near to confuse and control the story. It made me question, why does a media, those in power, cling so tightly to these crafted narratives? Right Jesus. Vancouver's shifting landscape from paradise to fractured reality. Growing up in Vancouver during the 90s felt like living in a hidden paradise, A city brimming with affordability, opportunity, community. The 2000 tech boom brought

innovation, camaraderie. But 2011, the cracks began to show. The Canuck riot wasn't just about hockey. It felt like collective madness, erupting symptoms of something deeper. As Carl Jung might say, it mirrored the zeitgeist, an undercurrent of frustration that swept even those with no history of violence. By 2015, the city I love was morphing into a sterile playground for the wealthy. Mom and pop shops vanished, replaced by chains. Gang violent surged, predators growing younger.

Random violence While the IN2020I grappled with a personal loss, my wife passing away, the world in itself seemed to unravel and morphed into a dystopian episode of the Black Mirror. Then the rise and fall of my platform, Vancouver True Crime declining local journalism. I launched Vancouver True Crime to spotlight, overlook stories, missing persons, unsold cases, stomach failures. Platform grew quickly, but so did the dark underbelly.

Comments section devolved into a cesspool of cruelty, attacking grieving families, doubting victims, harassing me over trivialities, blocking trolls, disabling comments only feel their outrage. My DMS overflowed with vituros, even death threats when lunatic or a couple of them. I know who they are. A couple of fucking lunatic deranged morons docks my family by plastering posters of me and my kids and my address all over the neighborhood.

Never forgot that mother fucker. Never will and it's still under resolved. You thought you got away with it. I think again, tip shits shepherds. I think about it every single day. And I shared a GoFundMe for a woman brutally assaulted in her home. Instead of empathy, trolls accuse me of fabricating a story for profit. So this was early on.

This was about like when I was about the 10,000 Mark and a lady I know who solid cool person, not a bullshitter said hey, who is also a hairdresser sent Hey, this lady's a hairdresser. She lives near a commercial Dr. 2 scumbags broke into her home, beat the crap out of her and robbed her. She's looking for a new place to stay and she has a go fund me No problem. I put her pictures up. Well, these idiots. Oh my God, Mark is making this

up to scam people. So, yeah, I, I, I used my death of my wife, built a podcast and now I'm making up a woman got beat up who needs an apartment so I can scam a, a couple $1000 with this. I did, you know, years or at this point, my part, my platform was already a couple years old, right? And, and like total lunatics. And their big thing was I never heard about in the news.

That was their big thing, right? So and then there was one moron who had a fake account with fake followers, a therapy dog in every picture who was like the leader of the of the lynch mob that was gonna out get me because I'm making this all up, right? So yeah, it's you know, you can't you can't argue with stupid, right? The loudest voices often belong to the most unhinged. I rebranded to the Dark Mind Detective, shifting focus to psychological analysis and advocacy.

While I lost followers, I shed a lot of bullshit text, a lot of bullshit toxicity. This experience mirrored Vancouver's own duality. A society discontent festers beneath the surface level civility, just like the Canuck riot channeling up pent up rage in the chaos, online trolls project unresolved trauma on two convenient targets. So like I said, I was the first to know. Do the Vancouver beautiful and ugly, the beautiful of Vancouver the ugly of Vancouver. I see this pattern over and over

again. If you study fractals patterns, right? Patterns of the universe, right? What is what is above is so below, right? You know, a micro macrocosm. So true crime isn't just about solving mystery, it's a lens into humanity's darkest corner. And Internet culture of cruelty all stems from a fractured society. Understanding this, the why behind the madness is where the healing begins.

For every Pebble of malice thrown in our shoes, resilience reminds us to keep walking, to seek light even in the darkest of minds. The psychology behind mob mentality, wherever it's riots or online outrage over petty issues, is a complex interplay of social, cognitive and emotional forces. Let's break it down. Through the lens of real world chaos, like the 2011 Vancouver Canuck riot and digital vitriol, I experience the root of mob mentality, individualization and amenity.

In crowds, physical or digital, individuals lose their sense of self-awareness and accountability. This de individualization strips away personal responsibility, allowing people to act on impulses they normally suppress. The real world example, during the Canuck riot, many participants weren't habitual troublemakers. The anonymity of the crowd and the shared adrenaline of US versus them. Lowered inhibitions online parallels trolls hiding or private accounts.

Sock puppet accounts feel shielded from consequences, enabling cruelty that they never display face to face. Like I said, most of them are just fucking cowards, right? Emotion spreads rapidly in groups. Fear, anger, excitement can escalate into collective hysteria. Real world hockey loss became a catalyst for pent up frustration. Economic anxiety, societal alienation has been simmering beneath Vancouver's glossy surface.

Petty grievances. Nitpicking a GoFundMe post amplifies an outrage storm because negativity is contagious. Algorithms reward engagement, not nuance. People conform to group norms to belong and mobs. This is often means adopting the groups aggressive or destructive identity. Real world rioters mirror the chaos around them, prioritizing group cohesion over personal morality. Online trolls bond over shared disdain, creating a toxic end

group invited by cynicism. Why Petty issues outshine real world problems. Cognitive dissonance and displacement. Confronting systemic issues. Vancouver housing crisis. Gang violence requires acknowledging uncomfortable truth. Petty grievances are simpler targets. Displacement, unresolved anger, economic despair, personal trauma gets redirected towards smaller, safer targets. A missing child story becomes a battleground for strangers to

project their frustration. This is one of the biggest things that have pissed me off. I posted about a 14 year old girl missing and the fucking idiots in the comment section were arguing. Oh I don't think she's 14. She's 30. I just talked to the parents. She's 14. Here's a police report. Oh no, she's not. No, she's not. Like I'm serious, right? You know what I mean? Like some of these fucking idiots I wish I could beat with a fucking stick because it was my daughter missing at 14.

And I'm looking at the comments and these idiots are just want to run their fucking stupid mouths, right? Jesus goddamn Christ people. Moral licensing, fixation on minor faults. Nitpicking podcast post. Let's people feel righteous without addressing the harder truth. The bystander effect in communities facing serious issues. Overdose, inequality. People often assume someone will act Petty drama, however immediate and actionable.

Example, a neighborhood might ignore the fentanyl crisis but erupt over a controversial mural. It's easier to bait aesthetics oat than systemic failure, the illusion of control. Petty issues are often a false sense of agency. Arguing online about a GoFundMe scam feels like I'm doing something Unlike tackling institutional corruption or grief, Tribalism and performance. Social media awards extremes trolls perform for their tribes, seeking validation through

conflict. Example, your critics weren't just attacking you, they were performing for their own followers, reinforcing their identity as skeptics or truth tellers. The constant exposure to trauma true crime content can desensitize an audience, making them crave drama over empathy. Meanwhile narcissistic traits Dr. Some to be center of attentions and other tragedies. What about my opinion? Oh, I've seen that so many goddamn times. Absolutely.

You know you're talking about something serious and there's some narsic lunatic trying to, you know, almost hijack the post, right? The mob mentality thrives on fear, fragmentation, and unmet needs. The Canuck riot and online trolls are two sides of the same coin. Both revel in a society grappling with powerless. By understanding the psychology, the deindivization, displacement, and try performance, you can start to dismantle it.

My shift to the Dark Mind Detective mirrors this, focusing on depth over noise and refusing to feed the chaos. As Carl Jung warned, the pendulum of the mind alternates between a sense and nonsense, between right and wrong. The goal isn't to eliminate mobs, but to recognize the unmeet needs driving them and build systems that address those

needs before they explode. For the past year, I've been immersed and myself in the abyss of the Robert Picton case, a journey that has tested my resolve, my humanity, my understanding of justice. Combing through hundreds of documents, legal transcript books have shifted through the layers of obfuscation and different to confront the truth so grotesque it defies comprehension.

This isn't just a story of a serial killer, it's a damning indictment of a systemic failures and media complacency and societal neglect. The Picton case is a labyrinth of horrors, obscure by sensationalism, half truth. Mainstream coverage has long parroted the same shallow narrative, reducing victims as footnotes while fixating on the macabre details. Even the most well-intentioned books drowned critical insights and irrelevant information.

The exception, I think the best book, The Lonely Section of Hell by Detective Lorimer Shiner, whose first can accounts cuts through the noise with unflinching clarity. His work is a rare beacon in the sea of distortion, grounded in procedural reckoning and institutional incompetence. Chilling reality of how marginalized women were failed at every turn. Yet other than that book, no Resources I Encounter fully connects the dots. Who enabled us? Who looked the way?

The answers are buried in bureaucracy, cowardice, and a society that devalues certain lives. The toll of bearing witness. This research has exhausted a visceral toll. Day spent pouring over up TOPS report witness testimony has left me physically shattered. Migraine, nausea, and once, inexplicably, a paralyzed right arm. I'm not even kidding. I meant one day. It's just like I couldn't move

my right arm. These moments I surface from hours of writing, disoriented, only facing another kind of stupidity. Pettiness on social media, the absurdity of online harassment. Imagine hours of dissecting the Picton's case. Depravity. I log in to find a stranger enraged over a benign Instagram story fits a surreal Karen seething over triviality, weaponizing my DMS to chastise or threatening. Explain yourself right. Explain my explaining myself. I'm an investigating a serial killer.

Maybe dial it back was futile. Their entitlement was absolute. This is social engineering in its rawest form. Changing your behavior to avoid harassment. Post less self censor. Let the trolls win. The irony. While I grapple with these cases exposing society's darkest failure, strangers a perversed mirror of the indifference that allowed Picton's crimes to persist. Picton Case isn't just about one

man. It's about a culture that discards a vulnerable a media ecosystem that prioritize clicks over content, a public that often ignores existential crisis to bicker over nonsense. The same apathy that let Picton operate for nearly years thrives today. It's actually worse. So, moving forward, this journey has hardened and humbled me. To those who've weaponized pettiness, your noise is drowned out. I will keep digging, writing, and advocating.

Not for clicks or for approval, because some truths cannot remain buried. As Detective Shiner writes, the dead don't speak, but they don't have to. Their silence screams louder than any troll. So since launching my podcast, Vancouver True Crime, I recently shared my first episode, a deeply personal milestones After a decade of dreaming about this podcast, I felt like driving the first spike into a transcontinental railroad.

Raw, imperfect, but undoubtedly significant, Vancouver the the Beautiful and Ugly explored the city's fractured the unaffordable crisis, crime, addiction, and failed leadership. Years later, those issues have only metastasized, the city's even more unaffordable violence and broken than ever, and a leadership that feels increasingly out of touch. When my podcast exposed the the chaos, the random, ER, stabbings, the policy failures, it shatters the illusion to preserve the worldview.

Critics attack me because if you, if I am the problem, the system isn't broken. It's all in my head. It's all in my head. I'm just making it all up. But history shows that change only comes when the messenger refused to be silent. As Carl Jung warned, people will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. Keep driving the spikes and I

will. What I've come to understand through researching figures like Robert Picton, Epstein and the shadowy networks that shield them, this is society's darkest crimes. They're not anomalies. They're symptoms of a system engineer to protect power, exploit vulnerability, numb the public into complacency, the cycle of corruption, the psychological blueprint, the useful idiot politician. Young idealistic leaders enter politics believing they can change the system, but the

system change them. It's not. This isn't accidental. It's by design. Dark psychology institutions weaponize gradual normalization. Small compromise, softening the policy to secure donor backing erode moral boundaries. Overtime, politicians rationalize betrayal as pragmatism. A leader who once vowed to tackle homelessness quietly approves a luxury condo project after private dinners with developers. These softball interviews aren't incompetence, it's strategic complicity.

Media outlets to posture as watchdogs while avoiding any real accountability by occasionally exposing minor scandals. They create the illusion of integrity, feeding, freeing, freeing them to ignore systemic crimes, IE the Epstein client list, public role, divide, distract, disenpower. The elites thrive on societal fractures, homelessness, addiction. Rivalries aren't just failures, it they are tools, Dark psychology, learned helplessness.

When people feel overwhelmed by crisis, unaffordable cities, opioid deaths, they retreat into petty conflicts, cultural war debates. This redirects way rage. This redirects rage from the power structures. Divide and conquer tactics. By inflaming tensions, urban versus rural, woke versus anti woke, the ruling class ensures no unified opposition forms. Dividing the populace is easier to manipulate. The Vancouver downtown's east side is a microchrism of societal collapse.

The Vancouver downtown east side isn't. But it isn't an accident. It's a profit driven ecosystem. Exploitation, psychology, addicts and homelessness are treated as commodities. NGO secure grants to manage poverty, not to solve it. Predators, pimps, traffickers, corrupt officials profit from despair. The system knowingly fails. Please ignore open air drug markets. Politicians fund half measures. This is an incompetence. It's calculated neglect.

Keeping the crisis visible but contained justifies expanding bureaucratic control and budgets. Why is no one held accountable? Evil 2 Point O Evil as a bureaucratic indifference has evolved. Today's corruption is algorithmic diffusion of responsibility. No single villain signs off of destroying a city. Instead, thousands of small, morally neutral acts. A zoning permit here lacks informant policy. There compounds into

catastrophe. Leaders hide behind jargon, stakeholder engagement, equity frameworks to avoid taking actions, And when scandals erupt, they feign ignorance or blame. Complexity, the Stockholm syndrome of the masses. The public increasingly identifies with its abusers. Example defending a politician who betrays their promises. But her opponent is worse. They rationalize unlivable cities. That's how capitalism works. Dark psychology, cognitive

dissonance reduction. Admitting the system is is rigged is too painful, so people cling to the myth of progress. At least we're not the USA. Team Canada elbows up the call to awareness. What I'm sensing the unshakable dread that Canada and the West is entering a controlled decline. It's not paranoia, it's pattern recognition. The same forces allowed Picton to prey on marginalized women for decades are now scaling nationally. Foreign interference ignored by

the media. Substance abuse policy designed to create lifelong dependence, not healing. The media class that amplifies distraction. Celebrity gossip. Outrage bait, The very hard truth. The take away? This isn't about fixing the system, it's about understanding it. Corruption isn't a bug, it's an operating system. But awareness is a first step to resistance. You have seen with Picton, the sunlight can disinfect, but only if we dare to shine it in the

darkest corners. Even if the world does call you a conspiracy theorist and the call to personality podcast I will be Co hosting with Nash, we're going to cut through the partisan noise and expose the shadows of networks, the unelected elites who wield real power. This isn't about left or right. It's both pulling back the curtain on individuals and dynasty that is operating the

dark far from public scrutiny. Think of it as a forensic audit of power names like Epstein, the Trudeau's, and other legacy families that reappear like sinister threads in a global tapestry of exploitation. Why do these elite gravitate towards harming the vulnerable, especially children, treating human lives as commodities? Why does the media rarely name them The dehumanization. Moral disagreement. Powerful predators like Epstein's don't see people, they

see assets. Their mindset requires dehumanization. Psychological process where victims are stripped of individuality and reduced to objects. Moral disagreement. Elites rationalize atrocity. Everyone does it. Or displace blame. They chose this life they allow them to exploit without grief, without guilt. Example, Epstein's Leota Express wasn't just a plane, it was a ritual of dominance, reinforcing his belief that rules don't

apply to him. Members are groomed to normalize deviants, often through gradual escalation. Step one, small compromise. Attend a party, no question out. Step 2. Social bonding. Through shared secrets, we protect our own. Step 3. Full indoctrination. This is how the world works. By the time they are trafficking children, they're too entangled to escape. 3 The weaponization of distraction. Elites rely on strategic divisions to keep the public docile.

While we fight over vaccine vaccines, pronouns and partisan theatrics, they loot institution and exploit crisis. Example. Trudeau's progressive branding distracts from his family ties to shadowy network the Clinton Foundation. The WE Charity scandals. Why the 48 Law of Power terrifies the system When I first shared lessons from Robbers green the 48 Laws of power on Tik Toks, critics accused me of teaching manipulation. They missed the point. This book isn't a manual for predators.

It's a armor for prey. Lesson 1 Never outshine the masters elite uses to crush dissent. Law 13 When asking for help, appeal the self-interest. This explains why politicians serve donors, not voters. Law 25 Recreate Recreate yourself a survival skill in an era where algorithms and elites want you trapped in an outdated identities. The backlash proved my thesis. Those in power fear and inform public calling a book dangerous as a tactic to keep you ignorance, compliance and

divided. Our mission, The call to personality isn't just a podcast, it's a counter attack with each episode naming the nameless track the dynasty, the fixers, Epstein's enablers who evade accountability to decode, decode the manipulators using Robert Greene's law, the 40 laws of power to teach the listeners how to spot coercion. So the new podcast, The call to personality. The podcast is a call to weaponizing awareness by exposing how elites, predators, and algorithms exploit human

vulnerability. My goal is to dismantle complacency and rebuild a society. Rooted accountability, critical thought, communal strength, and the journey from podcast host to advocate proves that even in the darkness, light attracts light. The darkest truth isn't the evil exists, it is that it depends on our silence to thrive.

Break the silence. Thank you for all your support, and thank you for those who are eager for the new path and the new direction of the Dark Mind Detective and now the Cult of Personality. Here we are. It is happening. It is real. It is official. It's it's a thing. It is a thing. Everybody come one come all welcome. Welcome to the very first edition of the Epstein editorial.

This is going to be a regular and a reoccurring segment on Mark and I's podcast, just because Jeffrey Epstein is one of those topics that you know, just never goes away. It never goes away. It never goes away. It is here, it is with us and it is probably one of the most prominent and most profound and most talked about and most sought after details and stories that exists probably in the

last. Well, I mean, there are there are people who have been invested in this story for decades, but it has become mostly mainstream within the course of the last, I would say five years or so. It didn't come on my radar until about 2021. 2021 is when Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell came on my radar. And it came in my radar over over social media, over Instagram. It was, it was a post about did

he really hang himself? And I was just like, why is anybody questioning whether a guy actually hung himself? Yes, in 2021, I, I still was of that position as to why anybody would ever question that. I'm no longer of that position today, Needless to say as to why something like that would be questioned. So it just, it caught my attention and it caught my intrigue. And so of course start looking into who is this guy? Who is, who is this random guy? Why do people care who this guy

is? And in, in doing that and in digging into those, those details, Oh my, Oh my. Right. I think that's a pretty acceptable phrase when it comes to the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and the story and fundamentally what they did. Oh my, Oh my, indeed. And then came the news that there was going to be court documents that were released of a girl by the name of Virginia Roberts. And it was a case against Ghislaine Maxwell. And I was just like, OK, this is my moment.

This is my opportunity. Let's let's do this shit. Let's do this. Let's dive deep into these court documents. Let's really and truly understand what all of this is about and how this all came to be from, you know, a, a victim's perspective and what she went through. And, you know, maybe we'll find out some more details of the inner workings as to how all of this actually happened and actually came to be. So I set out with a group, a group of women.

And when those first documents were released and we had a group chat and I was going through the court documents and I was referencing pages of things that were of relevance, mostly of people's names that were being dropped. Oh my God, this person's on this page. Oh my God. Diana's nanny, Who's Les Wexner? Yes, yes. At that point in time, I had no idea who Les Wexner was. Shout out to KB for giving me the insight on to who Les Wexner was.

I fully know who he is now, but at the time I had no idea whatsoever. I had no idea, and I can admit that. I can admit that. So there I was, going through all of the court documents and after doing so, continuing to do more research, continuing to do more deep dives. Got my hands on the black book, got my hands on the flight logs, got my hands on a a lot of things, got my hands on the power of attorney, got my hands on you. You name it.

I, I spent that entire whole year after those documents were first released just really and truly deep diving into this and what it was and what it entailed. And then there was the next big drop in 2023. And I spent a month, yes, a month going through every single page of those court documents, which which were again, a part of the Virginia Roberts, Elaine Maxwell case. And I posted them to my stories. And it's very much what kind of made me known and what made me become popular.

I mean that's not the correct word. I mean I only have about 1400 ish followers on a given day. I'm not saying I'm an influencer or a Candace Owens or a Ian Carroll or a Joe Rogan by any stretch of the means. But by doing what I did do, my followers grew by over 1000 in a month. By doing what I did, I became connected to a lot of people who have become influential to what

I am still doing today. Through my work on Epstein, I got connected to Mark. So it's something that I do take a lot of pride in and it's something that, you know, I, I, I take a lot of pride in. I don't know what I don't know what else to say about that. I do.

And, you know, being known for doing that deep dive into Jeffrey Epstein and everything that I have posted about with Jeffrey Epstein, it was the Virginia Roberts court documents that really helped me and really kick started everything for me. And so there's a reason. There is a reason why I'm talking about this, and there is a reason why I'm going into this detail and telling this story. And that reason is this.

So obviously over the course of the last several weeks, there has been several talk and chatter and excitement and then frustration over the quote UN quote, release of the Epstein documents, the release of the list and everything else and the entire frustration that has been going along with that. And I too have had frustration with it. Like just just be honest. Not it's not difficult, it's not hard. Just be honest.

And so with people's frustrations, there has been backlash against Virginia Roberts. And as I have been seeing this, I'm just like, wait, what? What's what's happening right now? Why? Why is this happening? Where is this coming from? And so the backlash is is multi sided and multifaceted. So one part of the backlash is saying, well, why didn't she do more? She had the opportunity to expose everybody and she didn't. She took her money and she ran. That's one side of the backlash.

The other side of the backlash is she wasn't even really a minor. She was, she was 17. She didn't fit under a minor under Florida statute law. So why was she even whining and crying about everything? So, yeah, so because these comments have been coming out and because these comments have been prominent, I felt the need to speak out and I felt the need to maybe clarify things. Not that I feel the need to defend her, not I don't know her personally. I've never met her.

I've never spoken to her, but just based upon what I have read and based upon what I know, what is being said about her and how she is in some ways being thrown under the bus is so completely wrong and so completely improper. And ridiculous that I felt the need to speak about it and I felt the need to address it. So first let's address the she had the opportunity to, you know, air all The Dirty laundry. She had the opportunity to do so and she just took her money and

she ran. So let's address that first. So first of all, yes, yes, she did end up taking financial payouts from Ghilane, Prince Andrew, and I believe Jeffrey Epstein as well. Yes, my based upon my understanding of things she did, she did take payouts. However, let's go into a little bit more detail as to what exactly she took payouts on. And so let's start with the case of her versus Ghilane. So the case of her versus Ghilane was not her suing Ghilane for what Ghilane did to

her or what she went through. It was not about her being trafficked. It was not about the the sexual grievances. And I'm using that word loosely that she went through that is not what the case was. And it's very easy to look this up. It's very easy to confirm and research this for yourself. The the case is still widely available. I personally use courtlistener.com if you want to look it up for yourself. So the the case of Virginia versus Ghilane was actually a civil suit.

Most specifically, it was a suit based upon libel and slander, because Ghilane was saying to media and saying to everybody that Virginia Roberts was a liar and she was this and she was making up stories and she's just looking for 15 minutes of fame. And so as a result, Virginia Roberts was, at one point in time, was getting raked over the coals in the media. She was being stalked. She couldn't go anywhere without paparazzi following her and trying to interview her and

people construing her words. She gave an interview and the interview just completely did not even correctly quote her like it like she it was, it was bad for a very long period of time. So to get it to stop, she sued Ghilane for libel and slander, Saying that you're saying that I'm lying, you're saying that I'm uncredible, you're saying that I'm this horrible person and I'm not. So I want you to stop and I want you to be found guilty of libel

and slander. That was the whole premise of her case against Guilin. OK, so now when you sue someone over libel and slander, the honest is on you to prove that they libeled and slandered you. OK, so essentially the honest was on Virginia to to prove that when Ghilane said that she was lying, that it was actually Ghilane who was lying. So therefore, Virginia Roberts had to prove that what happened to her was factual and real and it actually really happened.

That was the reason why of everything that was in those court documents, that's the reason why the flight logs were centred around Virginia. That's the reason why all of the the couple of the other girls that were their testimonies were included. They were all surrounded around the time that Virginia was there and in the circle, the the housekeepers and the the gardeners and the chefs that

what they were all questioned. They were all questioned around the time that Virginia was there, that she was in the circle because it was on her to prove that everything that she said happened to her, happens to her. OK, Is everybody understanding? That is everybody you know in the in the know or understanding. So that was that was the point of all of it. That was the entire and total point of the court documents.

And it was Ghilane who eventually came forward and said, OK, you know what, let's just stop this. Let's just make this go away. I'll pay you a certain amount of money and we can just stop. So because of the fact that it was Ghilane who offered her the the payout, that's essentially probing that Ghilane wanted it to end. If it was the other way around, then yes, it would be

questionable. But because Ghilane did it, it's more so to the negative of Ghilane that she put the offer forward rather than Virginia. And again, this case was not about what was done to her. It was about her proving that she told the truth. So because Ghilane said I'll pay you X amount of dollars to put this aside, I'll stop talking about you, you stop talking about me, and we move on with our lives and she took the money.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with her taking the money in this particular circumstance because it essentially ended the you're a liar. No, I'm not. You're a liar. No, I'm not. You're a liar. It essentially ended that. It ended that she took the money. Neither one of them can talk about could could talk about each other anymore and they moved on. There's nothing wrong, inappropriate, or negative about that whatsoever. This case was not the opportunity for her to take them all down.

That's not what it was, and that would never have been possible even to do in this case. OK, so now we get to the whole she wasn't really a minor, so therefore can't really hold all of the the sexual things against them to her because she wasn't a minor due to Florida statute laws. OK, that's yeah, that's that's what some people are are wanting, are wanting to say and wanting to put forward.

And to those people I say this. You do not need to be below the age of consent in any given state, province or country to be lured, groomed, coerced, manipulated, victimized, trafficked, sexually assaulted, and in fear of your life and your livelihood. Virginia Roberts is a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghilane Maxwell. That is something that is irrefutable. That is something that is documented. That is something that is known, and to say otherwise is

ignorant. Virginia Roberts is 1 of 200 known victims. Now, I'm not saying that all the 200 individuals are known. I am saying that we know that there are at least 200, and the reason why I can say that is because just a few weeks ago, Jane Doe 200 filed her lawsuit against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. And yes, it is being said that the majority of these girls were over the age of 18, primarily over the age of 20.

Yes, this is factual. This is true, but their ages don't make them any less victims. They are still victims who had horrible things done to them, who were a part of and saw horrible things, who were a part of a network that is all-encompassing and all consuming and they need to be believed. More than one girl has been discredited and I'm not going to name names. I'm sure everybody has at least one or two that they feel are not credible or not believable

for various different reasons. But that doesn't take away from the fact that it is documented that these girls were a part of it and that it is well known what Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were doing. So how can they be considered not to be victims when they were a part of something? That clearly was not right and not proper and something that was clearly illegal. People need to stop and take a moment and really think about that and really consider that.

And you know, in saying that they were a part of a network that was all-encompassing and all consuming. That network is the real story. It is the real story of who they were, who being Jeffrey Epstein and Gillian Maxwell, who they were, what they did, what their plan was, what their intentions were, what they ultimately wanted to achieve. It is that network. That is what is most important, not a list of names, but the network.

And it's the network that Mark and I will be discussing and talking about moving forward with all of you with the Epstein editorial. The. The. If you're not called to tell you, I wouldn't be here. I want to drive you through the night down the hills. I want to tell you something you don't want to hear. I'm going to show you where it starts, but a little fear. There's something inside you. It's hard to explain. They're talking about you, boy.

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you're still the same. There's something inside you. It's hard to explain. They're talking about you, boy, but you're still the same. There's something inside you. There's something inside you. It's hard to explain. It's hard to explain. They're talking about you, they're talking about you, but you're still the same. The.