Rise Up & Break the Chains We Put On You! (Episode 91)

Today's episode is going to be a little bit different . I'm doing another solo episode and I'm going to talk about something most of you probably aren't fully thinking about .

Although this podcast is for the next generation , which is today's youth , teenagers and young adults , this episode is for everyone youth adults all around the world , and this is not just for people in Western civilizations . So listen up . One of the reasons I started this podcast is because I wanted to do something to help our youth .

I wanted to bring together youth and adults in a way that is not usually done . There's such a large disconnection between youth and adults , generally speaking , in today's world , more than there probably has ever on earth . There's always a degree of it , but never like today , because we've never lived in the times that we live right now .

But one of the other reasons I started the podcast is because I want to help youth . I want to help them have a better future . That's why I talk about career things . It's why I talk about college , it's why I talk about financial aid , etc . It's about helping their future . But today I want to talk about why there's a reason to talk about the future of our

youth and what we need to do about it . I'm going to talk to adults and youth in this conversation and have different things to say to each of you . So , adults listening , we have failed our youth . They're inheriting a world that is broken and unsustainable , and this is an undeniable fact .

I'm not going to sit here and sugarcoat shit and tell you it's chocolate . It is not . This world is not in a good place right now and we're leaving them with that . They didn't create that . We did . So what are we leaving them ? We're leaving them climate change , which is a really bad thing . We're leaving them political unrest .

We're leaving them economic instability . That's their inheritance right now . And again , I'm speaking in general terms , across the globe . I'm not talking about one particular country In this conversation . I'm talking about global , the whole earth . There are pockets for which some of this is not true , but they are the exception , not the rule .

I'd like to put it like this we have handed them a bowl of shit and expecting them to bake a cake with it Doesn't make any damn sense , does it ? We have to stop telling our youth well , it was like this when we grew up . They don't give a crap what it was like when we grew up , because that's not the world they're living in .

That is completely irrelevant to them . It goes in one ear and out the other because it's not relevant to them , because that's not the what they are experiencing . And adults listening . You need to understand that what it was like when you grew up is not the same for them .

So let me give you some facts and figures to back up what I'm saying , just so you don't think I'm just talking out of my ass .

Right now , the air that we breathe has more carbon dioxide than any other time in human history . Do y'all know what a big deal that is ? How long have humans been on this earth ? There has never been . Since we've been able to measure it , there has never been more carbon dioxide in the air than there is now .

That is not a good thing , and for y'all non-sciencey people , that's bad . That's bad air , let's put it that way . It's gone up over 50% since factories and machines started running the world . Again , our youth did not do that . We did . Adults , we and our grandparents , we did that . And that extra pollution it is heating up the planet fast .

I don't even understand why climate crisis is a debatable topic . It's real , it's happening , period . I really don't care what side of the aisle you fall on . That's the actual , scientifically proven truth . 2024 was the hottest year on record .

Global temperatures were 1.28 Celsius warmer than the 20th century average , which means warmer than the average in the 1900s , following 15 consecutive months of record-breaking heat . So we've had a record-breaking heat in general terms on this earth right now . That's not good . And again , our youth did not do that . We did .

3.6 billion people nearly half the world's population live in areas that are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts like drought , floods and extreme weather . 3.6 billion people , half the world's population . Do y'all hear that ? This is the world we're leaving them ? I really want you to get this picture . So cutting down trees is an issue too .

We've heard about this . It's not just about losing forests . It's pumping more pollution into the air than all the cars in the world combined , and this is why Because trees clean our air , and the more we destroy them , the worse it gets . This is an actual fact . This is not opinions . This is facts . We're leaving them economic instability .

So let's talk about some facts . With that , the world's money situation isn't as good as everybody wants to make it seem . China's like there's nothing wrong with our economy . It's great Lies . America , we're not in recession . Everything's great Lies .

And a lot of other countries Japan , a lot of other countries are lying about their economy because nobody wants to admit it , nobody wants their citizens to freak the hell out and nobody wants their stock numbers to go down because you admitted the truth and you suck right now . The truth is the world economy in general terms .

There are some countries that are not doing bad , of course , but in general terms , the world economy is doing really , really bad . Prices keep rising , and this is not just true in the US . A lot of businesses are struggling . There are whole countries facing financial problems , not just the US .

A lot of people have been facing these problems for a little while , but in the US we're just starting to feel it . I am recording this in May of 2025 . When this is listened to in the future , some of these facts may have changed . So I feel the need to say that I can only give you what is true right now .

So people are working harder but getting less in return . And again , this is not just a US thing . This is across the globe and if this keeps up , this next generation will have even fewer opportunities . And again , they did not create the situation adults , my peers , we did Escalating trade wars .

Now we all know that sheriffs are bad and they're doing bad things right now , and I don't know what they're going to do in the future , because I can only talk about what they are right now . And currently Trump is president and he has messed a lot of things up , but everything's not his fault .

There was a lot of messed up stuff before he came on the scene that he had nothing to do with Trade wars . He made things worse with his trade wars , but there were always there were already some unstable issues before that .

But either way , regardless of whose fault it is or isn't , none of our youth asked for that yet they're going to have to deal with it . 40% of the world's population lives in countries experiencing economic decline , with rising unemployment and financial instability . How is anybody young supposed to feel hopeful about their future if they know this .

I'm just being real with y'all . And again , these aren't opinions or feelings , these are facts . Political unrest and global conflict has grown so much recently and it's a

shame . So 19 consecutive years of decline . Global freedom has been shrieking for nearly two decades . Do you hear that ? Adults that means our teenagers , our young adults do not know a world where global freedoms are not declining . Adults some of us actually do know that world , but our young people don't know that world . They didn't grow up in it .

That's not a minor detail . That's not a minor detail at all . And then you wonder why some of our youth don't think it's a certain things are a big deal that we do . It's because they're used to it . They're used to the negativity . They're used to people making a big deal about everything . They're used to it . We didn't grow up that way .

Adults think about that . Take that in your mind when you're dealing with youth and when you're talking to them . They are not growing up in the world we did so . Global freedom has been shrinking for almost 20 years . Political violence , election manipulation and armed conflicts have always been around , but they're increasing .

I would say there was a lot of this back in the 80s and we're starting to reach that level again and going beyond it , and again , our youth did not ask for that . State-based armed conflict is the number one global risk right now .

Did y'all know that Wars , coups and terrorism are escalating worldwide , making 2025 one of the most volatile years in modern history ? This is what we're leaving them . They didn't ask for that and I'm going to keep saying that because I want y'all to understand what a big deal this is .

And youth listening I want you to understand the world that you are actually living in 102% increase in civil unrest since 2011 . That is about it's 2025 . So in the past 14 years , protests , riots , strikes , et cetera , and the like have increased by 102% . Y'all hear that 102% . What does that tell you ? That's not good , but hold on y'all .

This whole message is not going to be hopeless . I'm just giving you some facts and figures so you can put a dot on the map and see where we really are , because you really can't figure out where to go if you don't know where you are . Worldwide , there's an increase in people being dissatisfied with their leadership and governance .

There's legitimate reasons for that , and I'm not talking about one country , because this is a global issue right now . There are many , many reasons for that and the details vary per country , but that's a whole nother conversation . But the fact that it's increasing makes a lot of bad things more likely .

So , as I said before , today's youth didn't cause any of this . Yet they're growing up in a world where they're going to have to deal with it . How we got here is not their fault . It's our fault , my generation and the generations before us . We created the world that they are now growing up in , but that's not the conversation I want to focus on . How

we got here is how we got here . That's a whole another conversation , that plenty of the podcasts that talk about that . But I want to talk about what do we do from here ? Here is where we are , not a fantasy of where we want to be , not a hopeful future . Here is where we are . So how do we get from here to a better place ?

I'm going to use this analogy we are in a ditch . How we fell in the ditch , whose fault it was . We fell in the ditch . Does that really freaking matter if you want to get out ? It doesn't . Now examining how you fell in the ditch and whose fault it is , etc . Who owns the ditch .

All of that after the fact examining will help you to not fall in a ditch again Great , but it doesn't help you get out of the ditch . So I want to focus on the conversation about how to get out of the ditch . I just sat here and explained only some facts about the ditch that we're in . How do we get out of the ditch ?

And I want to let you know that every single listener . Right now , you are part of that solution , so why does all of this matters ? Right now , you are part of that solution , so why does all of this matters ? Well , why am I talking about this ? Adults ?

If we don't shift our thinking and get rid and shed some of the old bullshit that we were taught , this generation is going to suffer even more because , in order for things to change , they need our help . They need our help and if we want to get stuck in , this is the way it's been done for the past 45,000 years in my family . Well , guess what ?

It ain't freaking working , is it ? Because we're in a ditch ? It's time to help them and us climb out . We're going to need your help to do that . Youth , I want to plant a seed in your head today

. If you are a young adult or a teenager , I don't care what country you're in A 17-year-old boy in China , 13-year-old girl in Zimbabwe , mongolia , guatemala , name a place . I don't care where you are in the world . I want you to rearrange your thinking to this . Stop being a trend settler and start being a trend setter .

Settler and start being a trend setter . If you want a different world than the crappy one we're leaving you , you're going to have to rise up and do something about it , because , obviously , what we've been doing ain't working . This means adults and youth alike the systems , the traditions , the cultural norms that have left us fucked up as we are right now .

They've left us messed up . They need to be challenged , they need to change . So what does this mean ? This means adults . As difficult as it is , we're going to have to rearrange some of our thinking .

We're going to have to undo some of the bad things we've been taught and some of the things that maybe genuinely worked for our grandparents' generation , our parents' generation , doesn't work now . We have to start recognizing what works and what doesn't . We have to start picking apart and do some critical thinking .

If we don't take the time to do that , we are doomed , and so are our youth , and I don't want that for them . I would not bother to get here on the air and have this whole episode if I didn't care . I don't want that for them . I hope you don't either .

And , youth , I want to challenge you today , right now , to rise up and stop settling for what you're being taught . I am not saying that you need to be a rebellious jerk and be disrespectful to the adults around you and you know everything . You ain't got to listen . I'm not saying any of that .

What I'm saying is you need to question everything and stop just accepting what's been , because what's been doesn't work . If it did , you'd be in a great situation right now , and we're not . I want you to start challenging everything you're taught in school , everything you're taught in your culture , and I don't care where in the world you are .

Question everything in your culture , and I don't care where in the world you are . Question everything . Now . You might arrive at some of the same answers , because it's not like everything is wrong . It's not like all traditions are bad . You might arrive at some of the same answers Beautiful , great but question them first .

I want to challenge you to rise up and stop settling for everything you're told . Stop just believing everything you're told , because half of what you're being told is a lie . And I don't care what country you're from , I don't care what color you are , what culture you're from A lot of lies in every culture in the world .

Stop just believing everything you're told . Practice some critical thinking . Try to figure it out . Do some research . Don't just settle for everything you're told and take it , because if you do , you're going to drown with everybody else . The told and take it , because if you do , you're going to drown with everybody else .

The change that needs to happen is going to have to come from you . You're the one that's going to have to live in this world . You're the one that's going to have to navigate your adulthood not being able to buy a house .

You're the one that's going to have to navigate your adulthood not being able to have a job or find a way to make a living because of the economic status . Now , that's not true everywhere in the world . There's still some pockets in the world where things are good , but I'm talking in general terms .

There's a lot of you that are going to suffer because you're not doing anything now and within this conversation , who I really want to talk to ? My youth , my teenagers . Some of you are undiscovered leaders . Some of you have the solutions to our problems , but you're too busy trying to fit in .

You're too busy trying to be accepted , so you don't allow that big brain of yours to come out your mouth . You've got to stop doing that , please . We need the great gifts that are in you .

There's so many of you who are under 24 right now who actually have the answers that this world needs , or at least a piece of the answer that this world needs , but we're not getting it because you're believing everything you're told and you're shutting up and conforming and falling in line with the bullshit that your culture is teaching you . Stop it .

We need what's in you and , yes , as you can hear , I'm very passionate about this because I see what's happening and I see where we're headed and I see the damage that's been done and if we don't rise up and make some waves right now , there's no way it's going to get better . I'm sorry , but there's no hope for the future .

We leave things the way they are . That's just the truth , and I'm the first person to speak hope , but I'm also the first person . To be honest , see , what I want you to understand is leadership doesn't always have to mean a position or title . Some of you are undiscovered leaders , because you don't realize you're a leader yourself .

Your thinking is where the solutions are . When I said that , it's because some of the scientific discoveries that haven't happened yet is because you keep suppressing it . Stop suppressing the real you . We need you . There are so many of you that are so intelligent and so

oh my God , so amazing , but you suppress the amazingness and you become like this mannequin dummy , just fitting in with everybody else . And the truth is is your greatness needs to be revealed . Everybody around you is not going to accept it . So , the hell , what ? What do they know ?

I want you to understand that many of you are put on this earth to create change , and I'm encouraging you to make an effort at manifesting the things that are in your head , the solutions that you actually think about , but you think no one will accept . Those things need to be said out loud and let me explain this to you .

I don't know if most of you realize this , but most inventions that we use right now , that are vital in our lives , were invented by someone who thought differently than everybody around them at the time , and that's why we have them .

Many of you are the next innovators , the next politicians that are going to change countries , the next leaders that are going to help people to not starve and have clean water or whatever that are going to cure illnesses . But you're not going to get there unless you start rising up now and stop accepting everything as well .

This is the way it has to be done . No , it doesn't . You are the one that needs to rise up and make this world better so that you can navigate it better , so that you and your future children can have a place to live in . That's good , that's decent , that's at least better .

So again , question everything and don't just accept everything that we adults just tell you as well the way it is , so that no , no , no . Question everything . So this is not just a podcast episode where we tell you all the niceties and give you information . This is a movement and it needs to start now . Call it the mind shift movement .

It needs to start now . Our , our youth . I want you to have a better future . I really do , but I want you to want that too . Stop accepting everything , and I want you to also know , youth , you have more power than you realize .

If all y'all and we can , as adults say shut up , you don't know nothing , you're just young and stupid and all the other dumb stuff that adults say , we can say all that , but you have more power than you realize . You can move past that and do anyway . If all of you were to rise up together , us adults couldn't hold you back .

Again , I'm not saying that you need to be crazy , rebellious and take over and try to kill all the adults or go crazy or whatever . I am not saying to go that far . What I'm saying is you need to rise up and take a stand . Become the next systems that actually work instead of the broken ones we're handing you .

Create the next systems that actually work instead of the crumbling ones we're handing you . That's how you rise up . You rise up by taking a stand and not just settling . Demand better , demand better , and I don't mean spoiled brat . Demand better , I mean demand better systems . Demand better , and I don't mean spoiled brat .

Demand better , I mean demand better systems , demand better government , demand better jobs . You don't just demand by walking up and say gimme , gimme , gimme . You demand by accepting not accepting less but at the same time , creating a solution that's better than what we have . You want a better world . Create the next solution instead of complaining about today's mess .

The complaints about today's mess are very valid . However , don't just sit there and whine and complain . Stand up and create the systems that will do better than the ones that are failing you now . A global shift needs to start happening , and you know how a global shift will happen One person at a time .

You think you're alone , but if you rise up , there's going to be two or three others that see you rise up and be like you know what . She's right , I'm going to rise up with her . And then two or three people are watching those two or three people and they start rising up too . Next thing , you know , you got the whole room risen .

Change happens one person at a time , not a magical one-time movement . Change happens by you making a decision , one decision at a time . You know the reason why a lot of things are tolerated in certain societies , like domestic violence . I'll use that as an example . It's because not enough people stand up and say uh-uh , we're not allowing that . Oh hell , no .

Because not enough people stand up and say , uh-uh

, we're not allowing that . Oh , hell , no . So some of y'all need to have a hell no attitude when it comes to how things are handled in your school , in your church , in your mosque , in your government , at the job , at wherever .

Some of you need to have a hell no when it comes to things that are actually wrong , not things that are uncomfortable , not just things that , well , I'm just , I don't like that . That's not good enough . I mean , when things are actually wrong and damaging , you need to have a hell no attitude .

You know , where domestic violence doesn't happen , in the areas where the little coward who is the domestic abuser knows that he'll get his ass beat , he chooses another way . That's just a small example . If you make a stand , if you decide that you're going to take a stand , even if it's on something small , it's hard to ignore that .

So , even though you might get on our nerves young adults and youth you might get on our nerves when you take a stand because you're not just making it easy for us . So the fuck , what ? So what Do it anyway ? Because you deserve a better future than what we're handing you . So this is your future .

Don't let outdated systems and wrong ideas dictate it for you , my young adults , my teenagers , please don't let us keep fucking it up for you . This is your future . Take a hold of it , because we haven't . And adults ?

I've talked so bad about how we and our grandparents and our great-grandparents have left this world , and it's true , but it's not too late for us to make a difference . I am making a difference by creating a podcast and a space to have the conversations that spark some of these things that enhance what's already happening . What can you do ?

You don't have to have a platform like me to be able to do something . I'm a public figure . I'm all over the place . You can Google me , you can see . I'm all over the place . I'm a public figure . So I use my public vision , my public platform , to help . You don't have to be seen like me . You are just as important as I am .

You can do something in your neighborhood . You can do something by helping the youth around you , encouraging them to start businesses , encouraging them to seek more and stop settling . Encouraging them to be their best instead of being okay . If you do that , you're doing just as much as me . You are just as important .

You can do something too , and some of the things whose fault it is why we're here again .

I've stated some of that , but that's not really the point , and it's less important than the fact that our youth matter and if you want them to have a better future , start helping the youth around you now , not trying to bring them back to the olden times that we don't live in , but helping them to adjust and be realistic for the world that they're headed for

, not just where we are , but where are we headed , and how can you help prepare them mentally to create a better world that they need ? The world needs minds that are challenged and changed , and it all starts with you . You , listener . I don't care what age you are , I don't care what country you're in , what gender you are , what your economic status is .

It starts with you , and I want to also state this real leaders don't wait for permission , they just take action , and some of you need to start doing that , because if we all started doing it , it would be hard to ignore and things would actually get done . So I want to ask you what are you willing to do today , listener ?

I'm going to leave you with this quote . It's my own quote Today can change tomorrow , but only if you do something . Thank you for listening . Be sure to follow and subscribe to MindShift Power Podcast on any of our worldwide platforms and be a part of the conversations shaping tomorrow's world . This podcast is just one branch of the MindShift universe .

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