In this episode of the Joe Rooz Show, Joe shares updates on the show's schedule, including makeup shows due to his recent illness, and highlights upcoming guests like Tony Kessel and congressional candidate Lauren Pena.
The episode features an in-depth conversation with Sylvia Solit, a CFA and shaman, who discusses her unique approach to integrating consciousness with capital. Sylvia shares insights into her spiritual journey, the role of plant medicine, and how she helps leaders align with their purpose. The discussion delves into the importance of consciousness in financial decisions and the potential of AI in shaping the future of finance. Sylvia also touches on the misunderstood aspects of shamanism and the potential of psychedelics in healing.
In the second hour, Joe welcomes Lauren Pena, a congressional candidate for Texas's new District 37. Lauren discusses her campaign challenges, including attacks from within her own party, and her determination to represent her district effectively. She shares her experiences testifying on various issues, her stance on public safety, and her commitment to addressing the needs of her community. Lauren also highlights her efforts to engage with voters and her plans to bring debates to the general election. The conversation covers key topics such as border security, taxation, and the role of the U.S. in international conflicts. Joe and Lauren discuss the importance of transparency and community involvement in politics, with Lauren emphasizing her dedication to serving her constituents.
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(00:02:39) Introduction and Housekeeping
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(00:09:37) Interview with Sylvia Solit
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Transmitting live from the asylum studios deep in the bowels of Southwest Texas, it's Alright. Hey, folks. This is Joe Rooz. It is nineteen zero five hours on Monday, 09/01/2025. And bringing you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the Joe Rooz Show. Alright, folks. I hope you guys are ready for a show tonight. Before we get into that though, we do have some house keeping that we like to do, and we're gonna get all that stuff here out of the way momentarily. But folks, hey, how was your weekend? Hope you guys have been enjoying your long weekend.
For some of us, we were here last night. We had our Sunday show, so that worked out really well. That was a lot of fun. Enjoyed doing that. And, now we're back to the regular grind for the rest of this week. Now, because I was sick, last week and the week before that, we did have some, show cancellations that we had to do. So we're we're doing makeup shows, this week. So on Thursday, we'll be hosting, Tony Kessel, again, who was with us a couple weeks ago. We were supposed to get together last week, but because I was sick, I couldn't do it. So So we'll be together on Thursday, this coming Thursday night, so make sure you, set yourself up for that. And, we got a loaded schedule for the rest of the week. So we'll be doing shows from Sunday, just yesterday, all the way through until Friday. I think Saturday, we have a show too. Yeah. So it's gonna be a it's gonna be a busy, busy week for us. So, but that's okay. We enjoy doing it. It's a lot of fun. And you know what? Like I say frequently, you don't get to meet some of the people that you meet while you're you know, if you're not doing something like this. I've met some incredible folks that, man, I would never have the opportunity to meet. And, tonight, we have two of them. They'll be with us here momentarily. We have, Sylvia Soled at 07:10 or so, and then we have, Lauren Pena, the, congressional candidate for, District 37 now with the redistricting up here in Texas. She'll be with us in the second hour at about five after the hour or so. So, with all of that said, let's get to some of the housekeeping. It's got some of that stuff out of the way. This way, we can get right into our guests. Alright? So before before I forget, just head over to our website, joeroos.com.
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Sorry about that. Ezrahealing.com. Make sure you tell them that you heard it here on the Joe Russo, and we would really appreciate that. So Ezra healing, tomorrow, don't forget the do no harm episode of the Joe Russo, 7PM central time right here live. Alright. Now tonight's guest is someone who bridges two worlds that most people could never imagine could or would meet. High finance, deep spiritual healing. Sylvia Solit is a CFA, chief investment officer for family offices, and indigenously trained shaman. With over thirty years of experience in energetic and spiritual work, she's managed more than a billion dollars in assets assets, advised CEOs and visionaries, spoken on global stages like Davos and MAPS. Sylvia's unique unique gift, is helping leaders moving beyond strategy into alignment with their deepest purpose.
Sylvia unites on Sylvia unites consciousness and capital to create real change. Whether she's reading the energy of a room, advising on early stage investments, or teaching the importance of awakening in times of chaos, Sylvia's work is about money and healing into a deeper path of purpose. We'd like to welcome Sylvia to the show. Sylvia, are you there? There you go.
[00:10:40] Unknown:
Thank you for having me. That was an amazing intro. I wanna I want everything that you're selling. Okay. Cool. Let's go Texas.
[00:10:49] Unknown:
Long live Texas. Right? There we go. I'm not a native Texan, by the way. I'm from New York City originally. So I'm a transplant. Been here about ten years.
[00:10:58] Unknown:
Well, it's amazing to be on the show and amazing to meet you. It's, been a long time, like, maybe my entire lifetime that I've been invited to a show that is specifically not about being politically correct. So thank you for that. Oh, you're welcome. It's,
[00:11:12] Unknown:
it should be it should be more widespread. I think that, you know, I think we just need to speak our minds and, let the chips where the fall they may. And if someone's unhappy with what I'm saying, they can turn me off. That's all. Plain and simple. Don't don't waste your time complaining. Just shut it off. You know? It's plain and simple. So, Sylvia, so tell tell us, tell us something about yourself that most people don't know but should.
[00:11:43] Unknown:
I feel like my life is such an open book, so it's actually taking me a moment to to think about what I'm not sharing that people should know. Maybe maybe this. Like, if I'm, like, done with all of my tasks of the day and I've done all my healing work and all my work in finance and I feel complete for the day, my favorite thing to do is to organize a closet. Really? Oh my gosh. I love I love I love to organize things.
[00:12:13] Unknown:
Two, three. Very satisfying. I have I have five closets that could really use some professional help. I mean, they're they are an absolute disaster. So
[00:12:22] Unknown:
Bringing order to things.
[00:12:25] Unknown:
Alright. How about this one's a little bit easier. What's your what's your, what's your go to beverage to help you unwind?
[00:12:33] Unknown:
You know, glass of red wine. Very good. Very good. You're
[00:12:38] Unknown:
you're one of the few that actually say that because it seems like most of the people that I ask that question to always come back with, oh, I'm just gonna have some water. You know? I mean, come.
[00:12:48] Unknown:
No. I get it. Like, that's aspirational, and I'm really happy for those people. But if I've had, like, a really super, super hard day, not not gonna lie, like, a glass of wine is a beautiful transition
[00:13:01] Unknown:
Yeah. Interest. I agree with you. I I my mine for for a while had been bourbon. So, this I I love bourbons. I I I I've sampled many. I have very expensive taste in bourbons, so sometimes it's not always practical. But but, I've cut back a lot. I don't I don't partake as often as I as I used to, and I feel fantastic and doing great. And, I'm drinking my my sparkling water right here. Usually, I usually I have some blue stuff in it, methylene blue.
[00:13:32] Unknown:
I I love I love my methylene blue and, but I I did it before the show, so we're just setting stuff. Blue this morning. I don't really know why I take it or what it's for, but I I got super into Jack Crews, you know, this, neuroscientist.
[00:13:46] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I've heard him. Yeah. Oh, he's so interesting. So,
[00:13:50] Unknown:
I've heard him talk a couple of times, and the guy is so far out there on the edge of science. And I find him intriguing as a thinker, and he's taught me some things that have definitely changed my health. So when he was like, people should take methylene blue, I was like, okay. I'll take methylene blue. Well, methylene blue from what from what I've been looking at and trying to understand about it is it works at the cellular level. So it it's a cleanse really for the mitochondria, which are the power
[00:14:18] Unknown:
cells. So it, so it it's like a cleanse for that and helps with oxygenation in your in your in your body, in your bloodstream, and, a lot of people have a lot of different reactions. Now as I always say, anytime I talk about this stuff, this is the legal side of it. If you are taking SSRIs or any other antidepressant medications before you attempt to take methylene blue, please check with your health care provider.
[00:14:41] Unknown:
Welcome. Okay. That's really easily.
[00:14:44] Unknown:
There you go. So, so yeah. So it it does ad it does work, adversarial with SSRIs and things like that. So you really do need to check with your doctor before you take it. But, a lot of people say that they feel like they get this this burst of energy, but it's not like, it's not like one of those five hour energy things that just kinda wear off and, you know, leave you with a crash. This is a pretty steady kind of energy they described that almost feels like an electrical charge going through their body. I have not experienced that, to be honest with you.
What it does for me is it it it kinda puts me into a much more contemplative state, of mind. It helps me think a little bit more clearly. Not gonna say it lifts the brain fog because I'm foggy all the time. But, you know, it's, but it does help with that. It helps, it really does give you the energy you need to get through the course of a day. And, I I usually take it in the morning before I get to my regular job, and then usually I have I have some here on the show. But I started taking it before the show because I would take it at the beginning just to show people that I'm actually taking this stuff, that I'm advertising and and pitching on, you know, my our affiliate link with the Alex Jones store.
But, generally, what happens is it doesn't really affect me until the very, very end of the show. And usually, that's when you're looking to, like, okay. Good night. We're gonna get out of here now. I wanna go eat dinner. And And that's locked in. And it kinda keeps you moving. So, so but it's good stuff. It's great stuff. And I I recommend it if you if you're able to take something like that and handle it, try it out for sure. It it's really, really good stuff. So before we get into everything else about what you do, so if if you were if if I were to meet you someplace and and I said and I would say to you, so what do you do for a living? How would you respond to that?
[00:16:37] Unknown:
Yeah. I have such a hard time answering that question. So, generally, I just say I help families to make investment decisions. Interesting. And I I usually leave, like, the shaman part out of the conversation. I have to get to know someone a little bit better,
[00:16:49] Unknown:
usually before I'll share that, like, at a cocktail party. Okay. Now okay. So shaman. We've all heard the term, you know, but I don't think a lot of people know what a shaman really is. So can you define that for us? Tell us tell us exactly what a shaman is. And Yeah. Absolutely. It's, like, it's a tricky, tricky word, but the essence of the word means it's someone who takes what is unseen and helps it to be seen.
[00:17:13] Unknown:
So I always think of a shaman as just somebody who is gonna help you to shine the flashlight in places that might be hard for you to shine it yourself. That's true. But a really good shaman shaman just, like, puts the light in that area and then says, you got this. You see it over there? Then you go get it. Go figure that out. Like, so the good shaman is just really just revealing, what's there for someone to work with and then letting that person be sovereign in their own process and and and figure it out and heal themselves.
[00:17:42] Unknown:
That's interesting. I I I I never would've kinda put that together like that. So but what what, what led you down this path, though?
[00:17:51] Unknown:
It was it was accidental. I was, young. I was in college, and I was a super, like, street girl. I never smoked, never drank. I played chess. I played violin. Like, I was a complete nerd. And I don't know. Two, three weeks after I got to college, some kid went and picked mushrooms in the, Prairie of Gainesville, Florida. Like, they grow everywhere in in Central Florida. And so some kid went and picked a bunch of these mushrooms and then brought them to, like, our little friend group and was like, we should eat these and see what happens. And I was like, yeah. Let's do that. It sounds like a good idea. And how old were you here?
I'm nine I'm 19. 19 years old. And we, so, you know, we ate the mushrooms, and we didn't know what we were doing. Like, we had no there's no, like, facilitator. Like, we're not there's no, like, even Google to figure out what you're supposed to do. Like, this is total savage style psychedelics. And we decided to walk to a party. And as we were walking to a party, I stopped and I looked at this tree, and I was like, woah. I mean, I was like, wow. God is real? I was like, god is real? What? And I looked at the tree, and the tree was, like, breathing, like, divine conscious frequency at me and was like, yes.
Like, god is real. And then, like, the most funny part of the story is that I was so taken by it. I was like, why do we ever hold anything back from the divine? And then I, like, completely peed in my pants, and I ring and I was wearing jeans. So that that part wasn't so comfortable, but it was like an initiation. Okay. And I'm so young, and I had no context for it, but that got me super, super curious about consciousness and awakening and and with it, plant medicine. So I started training in, working with plant medicines when I was really young. I lived in South America after college and was there for six years and received a lot of training there. Well, I should put you in touch with, Svetlana Ryilkov, the CEO for Ezra Healing.
[00:20:09] Unknown:
She's she's, her company is one of our is one of our sponsors, and, this is, like, right up her alley. So so after the show, I'm gonna email you her contact information and put you guys into touch with each other because I think you guys would have a great conversation.
[00:20:24] Unknown:
I I would love that. Actually, when I heard you speaking about Ezra Health, the way that whoever wrote the copy for describing that business, I was like, wow. That is so resonant. It was, like, so patient centered. It was It is. Beautiful. Yeah. Beautiful language. And they're they're wonderful people too. I I I've spoken to several of the folks that that work there, and,
[00:20:44] Unknown:
they're they're all, like, super nice people, easy to talk to, easy to relate to. Svetlana is amazing. I'd we'd we do a show every Tuesday, evening, just the two of us. It's a it's just a special hour that we have together. And, we talk about all types of health issues, and we take suggestions from from our listeners to see if there's anything particularly they wanna talk about. And, recently we talked about, alcohol and its, its effects on relationships and your health, and we talked about, which was interesting for me because I, you know, don't have this particular issue to deal with. But we talked about menopause, and a number of other things. So, she she is super cool, amazing lady, and I think you guys would really get along well. So I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get you guys hooked up so, you could share some ideas and, you know, maybe a partnership come out of this somehow.
Cool. Super Thank you. Super, super cool person. Now you've spoken on the world stages, like, at Davos, MAPS. Now when you talk about capital and consciousness, what do you what exactly is that? What do you mean by that?
[00:21:52] Unknown:
The it's it's kind of reflective of the journey that I had in life. So a lot of people would probably have done the reverse of what I did in terms of my career. So people typically will go into, like, the, you know, the finance or the investment banking or the business job first and say, oh, that destroyed my soul, and I'm gonna move into the healing arts or I'm gonna become a healer. And I I did it the exact opposite way. So because I had that really powerful experience when I was 19 Right. I I just had sort of this, like, obsessive desire to have a spiritual awakening, and it and it really drove the first, decade of my life. It was, like, an unbelievable spiritual seeker. Like, I was like I could have won, like, the Olympics of spiritual seeking. Like, I really went all in, you know, the whole thing, the ashram, the silent meditations, the teachers, you know, the discipline, the rigor.
And and in the course of that, learned, to be a healer myself and to be able to work with people in some healing capacity. But at at the end of those ten years, what I what I realized is that there's really only one healing. So we could talk about a lot of things like longevity and all these things. Like, it's all love it's wonderful. It's all great, but there's really only one essential healing, and that is remembering who you truly are. Mhmm. Period. Like, returning back to the source of your essence. That's, like, nondenominational, nondogmatic, nonpolitical, like, just who are you at your core.
And I realized that that that, like, that for me became my passion was how how to help people to find that within themselves. And I thought I would just keep doing that for the rest of my life. But as the awakening deepened in myself, I began to have kind of a second wave of downloads or realizations where I realized, like, it's we cannot afford anymore for, like, the so called spiritual healed people because they're all so annoying anyway. Right? They're so annoying. Like, I don't wanna hang out with spiritual people. I don't know you. I find them incredibly
[00:24:03] Unknown:
So some of them could be a little bit on the pretentious side. Say this. Pretentious side. It's not my vibe.
[00:24:09] Unknown:
So as, like, if all of, like, the the keeler types are over there playing gongs and, you know, wearing beads and they're checked out, What about this whole universe that actually really matters, which is power, money, family, like, who you marry, your children, how you build society? Like, there's all these, like, pieces of an ordinary human life that really matter. And so what if we could take this sort of, like, awakening and bring it into these realms that are actually the ones that matter? Like, my husband always says there's only two things people care about. The first one is money, and I can't remember the second one. It's like, that's what we're really paying attention to.
Okay. I saw what you did there. That's good. So so if you could bring if you could, like, bring awakening to money, that could be amazing. Like, what would that look like? And it's it's taken me, like, a really, really long time to figure that out. We can get into it more detail if you want, but the bottom line is that I realized that it's the quality of your consciousness matters when you're making decisions about what to do with your money. So if the quality of your consciousness is still really identified with, like, you know, like, I'm not enough or worthlessness, so you're always gonna make all of your transactional decisions based on, I've gotta have more I've gotta I've gotta have more significance. I've gotta have more value. I've gotta have more worth. I've gotta have more finances. I've gotta have more. You're always operating from that, or you could be operating from, like, fear or greed, but you're operating from, like, a lower level system.
And there's this opportunity, especially in this moment today, for us to actually just wake up and realize I I am enough. I have enough. Like, it is enough. Like, I'm okay. Like, I'm doing fucking amazing in fact. And then from that level of consciousness, how would your financial decisions be different?
[00:26:18] Unknown:
That's interesting. And, look, the floor is yours. So if you wanna get into more details on this, please go go right ahead. I figured we're gonna get into some of the the the, the spiritual side and the and the shaman side of what you're doing, in in a few minutes. But if you wanna jump into that now, we can do that now, or we can continue on here.
[00:26:37] Unknown:
Sure. We can we can we can go, like, a little bit deeper on that. Yeah. Please. So if if if you're hearing this right now and you're suffering around money in some way and the suffering is gonna look something like, you know, I don't have enough, I'm not capable of having enough, or I'm about to lose what I have, or so and so has more than me. Like, if you're in one of those, like, mind loops. So first of all, it's like it's completely understandable because that's the soup that we're swimming in as a culture. We're swimming in a culture that doesn't even know the meaning of the word enough. So that's like when we're constantly scrolling on social media or we're constantly, like, distracted, there's a part of us that's just like, I am not enough. I don't have enough. I need to get more. Mhmm. And it's it's really courageous, and it is actually the secret to a life of abundance is to just cut that thought at the very root. Like, just cut it at the root. Like, you just gotta, like, be brutal with it and just be done with that thought.
And then from there, there's, like, this opportunity to, like, actually experience, like, a different quality of consciousness. That quality of consciousness is, like, actually, like it's amazing. Like, who I am and what I have and who I'm surrounded by is beautiful. And then you begin to make your financial decisions from that. And what's so powerful is, like, then well, you're not gonna spend too much because you don't need to show off to anyone, or you don't need to prove anything to yourself. Or you're not gonna invest in a company that's, like, a screwed up company because all your friends did it and you just wanted to fit in, like, you're gonna have, like, another level of discernment.
So I think that that's been the thing that I'm most interested in is, like, why don't we talk about the quality of consciousness before we make a financial decision? Like, if you're about to make some trades on E Trade, why don't you sit quietly with yourself for a good, like, ten, fifteen minutes before you make those trades? Right. Yeah. Calm. Get clear.
[00:28:41] Unknown:
That makes that makes total sense. I mean, it's it and it kind of it reminds me of something like my dad, my my grandfather used to used to kinda drill into our heads when we were growing up, back home, is that, you know, before you make any major decision, you know, take time and think about it first. So it's it's I guess it's kind of this in the same realm that you're talking about, just different language. You you need to meditate on these things. You need to contemplate the the the cause and effect of things. You need to understand, that you you have to try to understand what the possible outcomes are gonna be before you make that decision. You can't just pull the trigger on something as, on a whim.
You call you'll cause more damage to your own finances and your own mental health, and and and I guess in a lot of ways your own spiritual health as well. If you're if you're constantly making decisions, especially important decisions like finance, because look, whether we wanna admit it or not, you know, it's like the old song says, you know, money makes the world go round. You know, finances, the money that we have, the money that we can make is all extremely important in order to for us to to to get through everyday life. And you can't just go around throwing it willy nilly at anything that comes your way. I've made some really stupid decisions because I didn't take time to actually research things and and, and think about the decisions I was gonna make. I've lost, I'm not gonna say how much, but I've lost plenty over the years, you know, because I just on a on a, spontaneous moment, just pulled the trigger on a on something, and it ended up costing and and hurting and and doing a lot of damage. So I understand completely where you're coming from with that, but I also don't think that it it's not that simple for a lot of people to kinda change that mindset that that you described overnight. And sometimes it it is sometimes I I think you need to take steps along those ways.
What what do you think about that? Is that is that a possibility to take steps along the way to get to that point? And if so, what would you, like, how would you recommend going about that?
[00:30:46] Unknown:
Yeah. I mean, I agree totally. And the first step is just the mindfulness you bring to what you're buying every day. Mhmm. So, you know, I like, everyone grocery shops. I lived in France for six years before I moved to Miami. I live in Miami now. And one of the things I was fascinated by living in Paris is that people only buy the foods they need for that day. So they're so mindful about how much food they buy, and so, you know, you just go home with, like, a tiny bag of food. Mhmm. And then you eat it, and it's done. And there's nothing left in the fridge.
You know? And, like, that sounds like small thing, but that's like a revolutionary shift in cost. Yeah. My sister shops like that. She my sister shops for the day. Yeah. It's like it's like you don't waste anything. And by the way, you can buy, like, much higher quality of food that way because if you're if you're actually conserving on, like, having the right amount and for the moment and you're not wasting, well, you just increase your food budget by 20% because we throw away, like, 20% of our food. Really? Yeah. That's true. That's very true. Some something small like that has major impact in people's lives. So what do you think the biggest,
[00:32:02] Unknown:
money mindset block that keeps even the most successful CEOs and power brokers from really, aligning, or or achieving that true alignment?
[00:32:15] Unknown:
I would take those as two different questions because one is what's blocking most people, and then the other is what what's wrong with the CEOs and the power brokers. Right. Okay.
[00:32:28] Unknown:
Alright. We'll take it. Go ahead. Break it down.
[00:32:30] Unknown:
The number one thing that's blocking most people is thinking that they're separate from, source. Okay. So what I mean by that like, I I really hope I can give this language that's resonant for people because, again, I really hate spiritual language. But Yeah. There's if you if you look at just, like, in American culture, we can all see that there's an epidemic of what I would call worthlessness. Mhmm. People have this, like like, feeling of hidden worthlessness inside of them. I got really curious about that in my work, as a healer with people because I would have these, like, incredibly accomplished people coming to work with me, people that had incredible net worth, and I could guess easily that every single one of them was still working with worthlessness.
Mhmm. And it was true. Like, I've met very few people that aren't working with that inside of themselves to some degree. And so that's the number one block between people and an abundant life is feeling that they are not enough. Okay. And so that that not enoughness is is such a barrier to being in flow with what your life purpose is, what your right work is, and the natural flow of the resources to support your life purpose. I
[00:33:52] Unknown:
kinda that that's interesting. That that really is, and it kinda resonates with me a little bit because, some of the things that you're mentioning there, you know, are things that I've experienced over the last few years. I'm not gonna get into the details of it now. My audience heard it the story many times already. They don't wanna hear it again. But, but yeah. No. I I I totally agree with you, that
[00:34:15] Unknown:
yeah. I I I don't even know what else to say to that. I mean, I think I think you nailed it. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for sharing it. It's it's a it's a spiritual question. Yeah. And, again, by spiritual, I don't mean, like, you're getting crystals tomorrow. Oh, okay. No. Damn. And I was expecting. I was hoping. You know? Oh, yeah. There's just not better language for it, but that that that's that so worthlessness, like, the healing of worthlessness isn't inside of, like, doing, like, a bunch of positive mantras in front of a mirror. Like, I'm amazing. Like, that's actually just Like what like what you see on social media everywhere. You know, everybody does this. You know? It's a bit on top of worthlessness. And so to really, like, dispel worthlessness at its very, very core is is is a profound inquiry. And one of the most beautiful questions for that inquiry is the question, who am I?
That's like a mega hack question. Who am I? Mhmm. Because that question, if you really sit with it and you could sit with it for years, but that question It's true. Ultimately leads you to to stillness. And that stillness is like a dimension of consciousness. And in that dimension of consciousness, you realize that you're not separate from source. And if you're not separate from source, well, then you're limitless. You're amazing. Like, you're a soul. And then that is what begins to dispel, worthlessness at its core, is remembrance of who you truly are. So it's not like an egoic fix. It's a it's a deeper fix than that.
So that that's that's the that's the answer for, like, you know, people that are just finding their way, towards a But then the other question is, like, what about people who have incredible resources? And what's really interesting about the blocks of someone who has really incredible resources is extreme wealth just is like an amplifier of volume on who you already are. So all of your egoic fixations, all of your trauma will get amplified with wealth. Okay. Well, that makes sense. Yeah. It makes sense. So those people, they're they're they're dealing with their same, like, inner process and same journey, but theirs just happens to be at a much more intense level.
[00:36:29] Unknown:
Yeah. I I I could I could see that. I can I can understand that? I it wow. That's pretty good. So so, when did you first see a way where your financial career and your shamanic training would kinda coincide? And I guess the follow-up to that would be was that surprising to you?
[00:36:52] Unknown:
It it was totally surprising to me. There was a there was a long time where I was where I was connecting it already by just trying to be an integrity to the families that I was advising. So, like, just taking integrity to another level is a dimension of connecting consciousness and capital. I see. Like, it it's if if if you're working with a a financial adviser and investment adviser right now, one of the hardest levels of integrity to have is, like, not all the capital should be with them. Like Okay. It's not like they they they may not be the best place for all the capital. Okay. I understand. Better for you to do some more real estate investing or to, you know, keep it in your stock of your company.
But as soon as someone's incentivized to gather assets towards them, it's really hard for them to stay in complete integrity and giving you, like, completely pure advice. Mhmm. So, like, one level of connecting consciousness to capital is, like, finding those advisers that will will actually advise you from that place of, like, a full picture, full spectrum understanding and wanting the best for you in that full spectrum. But it was really maybe about, eleven or twelve years ago, I was actually in a ceremony. I was in Ayahuasca ceremony in Costa Rica with a Colombian tribe. And in that ceremony, I actually got the download that this was supposed to be my life's work, that I should bring as many wealth holders to awakening as possible.
Because if we could get a lot of people who had a lot of money to have really profound spiritual awakenings, then there was, like, such a great butterfly effect from that in terms of what they would end up doing with that capital afterwards.
[00:38:40] Unknown:
Okay. That download. I'm sorry. Now for for for people who may not be familiar with it, what what is an Hawaii say again? Ayahuasca. Ayahuasca. Okay. I I had it. I was playing it in my head, but Yeah. It didn't trip out. Can you explain exactly what what type of a ceremony that is? What what is what is all that about? What what does it entail?
[00:39:01] Unknown:
This is this is a pillar of the culture throughout most of South America, and Ayahuasca, from what we understand, has been drunk by indigenous tribes in South America for, like, thousands of years, like, literally, like, four thousand years. And what's very mysterious about Ayahuasca is you can imagine the Amazon. There are, like, 1,000,000,000 plants that so many thousands of years ago, indigenous people knew to cook the banisteriopsis vine with a leaf, sometimes called the chacruna leaf. It's different variations of that leaf. Because the banisteriopsis vine has within it DMT, and DMT is what we call the god molecule. Mhmm. So DMT is always in our bodies. It's it's endogenous to us. We have it in us already.
There's some theories that it's DMT that we are releasing when we have a near death experience. Yeah. I've heard that. Yeah. Yeah. So that's like the god molecule. So this vine is is got a ton of DMT inside of it. But when you cook it with the chacruna leaf, it keeps the DMT from being digested in your system so the DMT can be sustained for long periods of of time. So an Ayahuasca ceremony can be all night long, can be eight eight hours where you're in a profound vision, guided by DMT, essentially. And this was used traditionally, like, if the tribe wanted to hunt, the they would use the Ayahuasca to see where the animals were in the jungle. It was a visionary tool for themselves. If somebody was sick, they would use it to see why that person was sick.
Ayahuasca was really kept, in very kind of closed, doors of the culture until about forty or fifty years ago when those tribes got a message that it was time for them to bring this medicine into the West. And since then, you've been seeing different, tribes bringing their traditions out of South America. And, generally, Ayahuasca is not, legal in The US at this time. So, generally, people are going to places where it is legal, which is primarily through Central And South America. Wow. That's fascinating.
[00:41:12] Unknown:
I I'm familiar with DMT. I I I I remember reading a few things about that. And, especially when it comes to the near death experience of the NDEs, I've been fascinated by those for years. And, so so that that's that's fascinating. I I I I I'm telling you, honestly, I would love to try it just just just for the experience of it. I just don't know if I wanna come back from it.
[00:41:38] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I I'm so happy that you said that because there's, so these these these, like, modalities, they call them, like, consciousness medicines. Mhmm. So, again, there's, like, there's theories. I mean, people could be upset with this theory, but they're interesting theories that, you know, we evolved alongside of psilocybin, alongside of mushrooms that we developed language and metacognition because we were taking mushrooms. And I don't know how much, you know, credence to give to that. Right? I can't tell you if that's true or not. But there are these, like, funny little things like, krios, just the word for a psychedelic mushroom, is the Greek word for Christ, and some of the halos around his head look like mushroom caps. And you think, like like, these are consciousness medicines. They're they're here to help us to develop consciousness.
Right? That's that's what they're here for. And the way that we do that is by facing death before we die. Die. A spiritual death or an egoic death is one of the great initiations into consciousness. And in fact, when they do studies at, like, John Hopkins and universities on you know, there are all these trials happening now to see if psychedelics really are effective for things like PTSD and anxiety and depression. In some of these studies, they're using, a tool called the mystical scale, and it actually is a one to 10 scale. And 10 is when somebody has had in their experience, like, a full ego dissolution and a spiritual death. And that 10 is correlated to very, very favorable outcomes for healing things like PTSD, anxiety, and depression.
[00:43:15] Unknown:
Really? I said I didn't know that. That's that's fascinating. I I I gotta really I gotta study more into this because, I I I could like, I deal with PTSD myself, through for a number of years now, and, I'm always looking for a better way to to handle it when it rears its ugly head. One of one of the, one of the difficult times coming up for me is is, on the eleventh of this month, and that just goes back to my experience. I I I don't know if we talked about it before. I I don't remember, but, you know, I worked in New York City law enforcement for, twenty three, twenty five years. And, probably one of the, more difficult things I've dealt with was having to work on the pile after the, after nine eleven attacks.
And, so, you know, I still deal with that. You know? So, like, when when when this particular time comes around, I tend to shut down everything. Like, I don't listen to podcasts. I don't I don't I stay away from TV. I stay away from all that stuff. I just don't wanna deal I don't wanna hear it. I don't wanna see it. I I I have my own memories of it. I don't need to be reminded of everything. So that's kind of the way I'm dealing with it, and it's not always the most effective way because I kinda get into a bit of a funk for a day or two, in and around that. So I'm always looking for a better way of managing things like that.
And,
[00:44:40] Unknown:
so so, yeah, I'm I'm I'd I'd love to get more information from you about that outside of this. I mean, thank you for your service. My my work with vets is actually my favorite work of all. I love working with vets because I consider you a vet, you know, given the level of service you're doing Thank you. In New York. But, like, they're the best. They're the best because they they have, a heart that's oriented towards service, and they're just the best. So well, you're you're in Texas. Like, Texas is at the forefront of this revolution right now, thanks to Rick Perry. Mhmm. What Rick Perry is doing, with vets in Texas in particular is is groundbreaking and phenomenal work, and I hope we're all sitting with Perry a little bit of love right now. Even if you disagree with his politics, if you could just send him, like, a little bit of love for this.
He's he's really, taken the the lead in, bringing, IBOGA programs
[00:45:37] Unknown:
to Texas and setting up, no. There's they're setting up pathways now for there to be legal Iboga clinics in Texas Really? To treat pets. Yeah. Well, I'd like to get some of that information from you off the show at some point if, if if we can do that. That'd be great. And then we can bring it out to the ship to the the folks that watch and listen, in a at a later time. But but that's fantastic. And, again, like, this is just you're giving me so much information here, so I'm having a hard time processing it all at once. So now you've trained in in, for over thirty years as a healer, and, which is amazing.
What methods do you use to help business leaders or everyday people reconnect with purpose?
[00:46:24] Unknown:
It's really important for people to find their life purpose, and everybody has one. So sometimes when someone's had a lot of success, like a business leader, they, have they don't know what their life purpose is because they thought it was to become successful, and then they realized it wasn't that. So, it's really beautiful to ask yourself the question, what's your life purpose? You don't need a healer to do that. You don't need me. I can just give you my tricks. So one of my number one tricks is I I look into people's trauma to find their life purpose. Whatever they've experienced that's painful, sometimes that's where the gift is because that's where your hardest curriculum as a human was. Just think about it. Like, it makes total sense. Like, the universe is so intelligent. It's like, we gave you this really, really hard curriculum so that your life purpose could come from that.
So that's that's a that's a really great hack for people to use. And then the second is to not think it's a description the way your mind might think it's a description. A lot of times, our life frequent our life purpose is more like a frequency or a state of consciousness or a way of being. K. I've worked with people whose life purpose was to create beauty, for example. I recently worked with someone whose life purpose was to be a commander. Like, he's like, a commander energy. Like, unbelievable. And so, like, especially with all the messaging we get in media today, we keep thinking our life purpose has to be this significant thing that other people value and recognize that pays you money. Mhmm.
And the life purpose is your is your pure way of being. So, like, my life purpose is is is to love. And I I I fought with that life purpose for a long time because I was like, I don't understand what job that is. Like, what's the job? Like, I need a job. What's my job? What am I supposed to do? And now I I I'm just growing into it where I realized that love is the is, like, the highest organizing principle of all things on the planet, and that I can use the energy of love to organize even things like investing.
[00:48:41] Unknown:
Okay. Actually, that you you say investing that that I have a question for you on that, but there was there's another question I wanted to ask you prior to that. So I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with this, but, you were talking about plant medicines and such. From your perspective, what are people getting right, and what are people getting dangerously wrong when it comes to plant medicine and other methods of healing? What people are getting right is that there's potential. Okay. What people are getting wrong is that it's the cure all. Okay. There's
[00:49:17] Unknown:
they're tools. They're powerful tools. We are still young and at the early days as a culture of understanding how to use them well. And we're still in a framework where they haven't been legalized and they're still being there there's still all the protocols around how to facilitate are still being developed. It still is very, very early days in what I would call the psychedelic renaissance. So, like, in terms of getting it right, like, everyone should read, like, Michael Pollan's book, How to Change Your Mind. There's some great documentaries on Netflix. It's really good to get informed around the potential of these medicines Okay. Because real.
And then buyer beware, it's still it's still really, really difficult to find, you know, legal, professional, well executed, responsible facilitation. Most of the good facilitation is really happening in places like Costa Rica. Okay. Alright.
[00:50:18] Unknown:
So how does, going back to investing, how does being a shaman actually shape the way you read markets, businesses, and even, people pitching you?
[00:50:28] Unknown:
You you can't this isn't something you can use for public markets because, I mean, if public markets are driven by meme stocks, you're not fighting that with consciousness. Gotcha. Okay. Well, I like I personally like to look at public markets as, as just beta. So I I like passive investing in public markets. I don't like to try to win in public markets. I think it's important to participate in them because they protect our portfolios from inflation and they provide growth, but I don't like to play in the public markets. So I think with somebody that's investing, if you have a good chunk of your funds in the public markets, again, depending on your risk tolerance and your age, and then you have a piece that's in your municipal bonds just creating that that steady anchor to your portfolio.
And then you have your six months of living expenses. Well, you may if you've got that in place, you've got your life insurance, you're gonna have what I call this little pool of capital called play.
[00:51:21] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:51:23] Unknown:
And this is this is where I mean, maybe you're doing some crypto in that pool, but you might start to look at how do you invest in private companies with that pool, get on your personality and your your financial needs. But it's it's in those private markets that I think this has so much potential. It can be as simple as, you know, you're gonna maybe you're gonna, like, buy a franchise of a restaurant in Tennessee somewhere. Like, you can actually sit with that, purchase in in a shamanic framework. And what I mean by that is, like, actually, like, look deeply at who you're lining yourself up with. With whether it's the founder, the creator of the brand, you know, like, you need to really make sure that you wanna be on that soul journey with the company that you're about to give your capital to. And if you can feel that deep soul connection there, then I think you're in really a good place to to build that investment in a good way over long term.
[00:52:26] Unknown:
Okay. Now if you had the power to redesign our financial system from the ground up with consciousness in mind, what would you change first?
[00:52:35] Unknown:
Well, all of all of the big banks would would lose a huge amount of their revenue because we wouldn't be paying wealth managers so much money for nothing. Mhmm. We were smart. We would realize that AI is going to be in and is already basically an incredible portfolio manager. And we would take all of the ego out of all of our public investing. So we would go on to these platforms like the Robinhoods, the Schwabs, the low cost, investment platforms. Just dollar cost average. Don't think about it. Do it quietly for decades. Let it compound. Let it grow. Period. So but if you do that, guess what? The Goldman Sachs of the world can't make all the money that they've been making. Right. True. It can it's gonna revolution I think that finance will revolutionize in these ways where people become more sovereign and smarter and and just go direct to source with their investment management. Mhmm.
You know, I think that the role of the investment manager in the future might be, you know, somebody who can actually, keep you from making bad decisions, like, almost like a coach. Alright. Do you know coach business manager helps you to manage the cash flows, helps you with your accounting? Right.
[00:53:50] Unknown:
Yeah. What do you think the most misunderstood part of shamanism is today?
[00:53:57] Unknown:
I think the most misunderstood is that that shamans have, like, some kind of power that other people don't have. Like, shamans aren't, like, special, and they shouldn't be romanticized. And there's nothing there's nothing, like, extraordinary about a shaman. It's shamans have always been with us in our cultures. It's kinda like a renaissance of the shaman in some way. Maybe it's because they killed so many women as witches. It took us a minute to get brave enough to come back. I'm just speaking for myself, maybe. I had the opportunity at the stake, you know, just recently, so it took me a second.
But that that that role of the medicine woman or the medicine man has always been in our cultures, And and it's a beautiful piece to reinstate in our communities just, you know, that that part of ourselves or that neighbor that, really knows how to see just beyond what you can see and just gives you a little a little boost and a little helping hand. And, you know, I I I like to say awakening, you know, for the world, by the world. Like, we're we should be doing it together. I agree with you. Yeah. You don't need a shaman up above you, but a shaman is a good friend to have.
[00:55:04] Unknown:
I agree. I think so. I think I agree with you. So, we only got, like, two minutes left. So who's someone that you respect right now, and what are they doing that inspires you?
[00:55:16] Unknown:
I am really obsessed with people that are designing a AI in this moment. So I look at, like, you know, the founder of, like, Perplexity, for example. Like like, the minds that are actually driving, AI, I find incredibly fascinating to listen to. I try to listen to a lot of podcasts where they're speaking because they're telling us how they're designing AI in a way that I think is gonna impact all of our lives profoundly. Mhmm. Right now, I'm I'm in a kind of rabbit hole of understanding, the importance of AI, and I I have an inkling that maybe AI is gonna help us to not be so identified with our mind because AI is gonna be smarter than our mind, and it's going to free up some bandwidth for us to develop in other ways as humans.
[00:56:07] Unknown:
That's a that's, you know, that's a unique perspective on this because that because all you hear, really, is all the doom and gloom that AI can bring about, you know, Skynet, Terminators, and all that stuff. Yes. The potential for that is there, of course. I mean, I I and I don't discount that. I don't you know? Oh, there you also have to take into consideration that with AI taking over a lot of the jobs and and the, the roles that that a human being would take, you know, would, of course, would would displace a lot of people, and, it it would and could negatively impact them spiritually, emotionally, physically, just all around.
But, a cuff about, about a month or so ago, I interviewed a a young man who, has an AI startup and, has a very interesting product that, I'm gonna set I'll I'll I'll send a link, by email to your per to your PR person. Maybe they they can forward it over to you. But they, he he's to the show so you could hear it. He he set up he designed this, AI, model called Walter. And, basically, what Walter does, he he calls you once a week and has a conversation with you, just a casual conversation. And the the the purpose of it is the well, his purpose of it was to, to record your life experiences and your knowledge, your wisdom.
This way, your descendants Oh, that's so cool. When they're facing a certain a certain situation in their life that they don't know how to handle, can go to you Oh my god. Epic. And hear you and see you and talk to you about Epic. Those particular, things. And I I think I I that's a fascinating concept to me. It's a little scary too in in some ways when you think about identity theft and things like that, if this thing decides to, you know, start taking out loans in your name somewhere along the way for whatever nefarious purpose there is. So, it's very, very interesting. And I'll I'll be happy to send you the link to that if you wanna check it out.
I'd love to go ahead. But but, because I'm just try I'm just drawing a blank on the name of the actual company itself. I just remember the AI model name is Walter. So, so, you know, that's interesting. To me, it is. And, you know, there he has a he he had a if I remember correctly, he had a a nice, influx of cash to get started, and, he has a few subscribers to the to the thing right now, and so they're building it. It's it's it's looking pretty good. So, it it's really interesting with AI is is is, the potentials for AI positive and negatively.
So, you know, we we'll definitely keep it. Well, you know, AIs may replace shamans. You never know.
[00:58:58] Unknown:
They already are. There there's are people are already using AI if they're having, like, a bad trip and they're by themselves. People are using chat GPD to work themselves through. Yeah. Yeah. I just read an article about that. But, again, like, we need we need there's the the guardrails just aren't there yet, and I'm sure lots of people in reading the news lately that there are people with psychosis can actually get much worse interacting with, something like chat GPT. Chat GPT will feed the psychosis. It's not I gotcha. You know, we're not we're not there yet, people. But but, you know, just think about how much more efficiently it can do a lot of mental tasks than we can, and you can see that this is starting to free up bandwidth for other dimensions of human consciousness to evolve.
[00:59:43] Unknown:
That makes sense. I gotcha. Alright. Well, we're we're over the hour. So where can the audience go to learn more about you and maybe even work with you? Yeah. Just go to the sylvia.com,
[00:59:53] Unknown:
and it's sylvia with a y.
[00:59:55] Unknown:
The sylvia?
[00:59:56] Unknown:
The sylvia.com.
[00:59:58] Unknown:
Okay. Great. Awesome. And, you know, I don't have that link in, in my show notes for you. So I will add that to it, and, we'll get that all all set up for you. Sylvia Solis, thank you so much. This was great. I really appreciated this. This is this is a lot of fun, and I look forward to talking to you again. And, I'll be sure to send over a bunch of stuff over to you in a little bit. And, again, thank you so much for your time. Yeah. Thank you, Jim. Blessings. Take care. Alright, folks. Sylvia Solit. We wow. That's that was a great conversation, man. I I really enjoyed that. Alright. So we have, we have Lauren Pena waiting for us in the wings here, but we are gonna take a quick break here. And, I just have to I have to set something up, and I gotta use the restroom. So so, we'll be back in just a few moments. Don't forget folks, this is a live show weeknights at 7PM central time, Saturdays at 3PM central time, and Sundays at 6PM central time. And, don't forget to, like, subscribe, and share this with your friends, your family, and your followers.
That way you'll help us to spread this thing out. Make sure you hit the like button down below. Send a comment down there also. It helps with the algorithm, helps people find the show. And, we are looking forward to, talking to Lauren when we come back. So stay with us. Alright, folks. Hey, first hour is in the books. Sylvia Sollett. What'd you think of that? That was a great conversation. Really enjoyed that. Alright, folks. Welcome back to the Joe Roos Show. My name is Joe Roos, and we have waiting for us here in the wings, Lauren Pena.
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And, you know, I paid double in most cases, sometimes triple, for less, less features than you get with podhome.fm. So try them out. Podhome.fm podhome.fm. Alright. Now joining us right now will be Lauren Pena, the congressional candidate for the new District 37, out there in the Austin area of Texas. Lauren, are you out there with us? Turn your mic on. Hey. How are you? Alright. Hey. It's great to see you. Thanks for thanks for joining us. Now you you reached out, a couple days ago. You and you said that you had some great news. And I I think that was somewhat sarcastic based on what you told me, you know, before the show, about the campaign and how things are going. First of all, before you even get into it, so, governor Abbott let's just lay the groundwork here. Governor Abbott signed the, the the congressional redistricting map that, now gives five additional GOP seats, to the state of Texas.
And, that was a battle in and of itself, trying to get the, the Democrats to to stop throwing a temper tantrum and, coming back to do their jobs and be present for their, for, for for, for the vote. So, then you reached out. You let us know that there were some recent developments in this new district now that you that you are the candidate for, which is 37. Correct? I was right with that.
[01:10:31] Unknown:
Yes, sir. I don't know if you remember the first time I was on your show. I was like, hey. I have a great chance of winning, but my own party is gonna come after me. The do you remember me saying that? You saying that. Yeah. Well, low and behold, I so I actually on the the first legislative special session, I got to testify, I don't know, maybe 10 to 15 times on various topics. I was extremely active. I really loved it. I enjoyed it. And I do wanna mention that in most of these hearings, I was the only one or one of very few Republicans that were testifying in these hearings. And so it was already, you know, not a lot of support. And I thought that was interesting because, you know, Donald Trump is the one that said, hey. We need to redistrict because the maps aren't fair, and that's true. It wasn't.
So I literally testified maybe five times on redistricting. I drove all the way out to Arlington to testify one time. That was pretty scary. And and I got to just testify a million times. It was great. But, you know, as soon as redistricting goes through, I start having someone, a precinct chair in my party, attacking me on x. So I haven't I I signed up for x, I think, at, like, the November, like, 2024, And I didn't really start using it until a month, a month and a half ago. So very few followers and and very few things going on on there. Well, over the course of three days, I went completely viral, and it wasn't for good reasons. But you know what they say? They say that, any press is good press.
So two things about that. One, one of the biggest things about my campaign is I am here to expose corruption. And because of my past, I know a lot of corruption. I never intended on being in politics. I wasn't raised to be a part of politics, anything like that. And it just so happened, you know, it's interesting your your last guest was speaking about, you know, purpose and things like that. So I realized all the trauma that I went through and I endured and I overcame, it's because of this. This is my purpose. So really exciting.
But I never thought in a million years as a of human trafficking, I would have not only people in my own party, in in Travis County Republican Party, but also women attacking me saying that I'm lying. Now this got so bad that they actually the the woman filed a whereas petition to have me removed as a precinct chair. Which I think I have.
[01:13:09] Unknown:
Yeah. You know, I I sent you I sent you a message. I was only able to pull one of the images that you sent, and that's this one. So this is the motion for censured removal.
[01:13:19] Unknown:
Yeah. So they're basically saying on here that I need to be censured and removed, which, by the way, there's nothing in the Republican Party of Texas or the Travis County Republican Party's bylaws that allow for this. So, one, there's there's no standing in this whatsoever, so they can't do it. But, two, I think that it is a serious injustice for, you know, Donald Trump himself. And and this person should be absolutely ashamed because during redistricting, I think that they had a goal of getting five Republican seats I'm sorry. Eight Republican seats, and we were only able to pull five. But I've been kinda shouting at the rooftops, yay. It's six because I can flip this district, and I really can. So that means Donald Trump's gonna get six new seats. And, you know, I am I'm not a rhino. I'm definitely a conservative, and so it's it's definitely an injustice to Donald Trump and the other Republican voters here in Texas for this precinct chair to do such a thing. But, ultimately, I felt really betrayed that not only would a fellow precinct chair call for this, but a woman.
So for a woman to attack me and say that I'm not telling the truth about such a horrific experience, it it definitely really pulled my heartstrings. Yeah. But I I I do wanna say as, as you know, because your prior law enforcement, sometimes people don't always remember all of the things that happened to them when they're enduring, you know, things such as this. So That's right. Yeah. Hearing hearing these thousands and thousands and thousands of people commenting negative things about me, it did bring up a lot of the trauma that I I faced back then. And so I'm starting to remember more things than what I remember before.
So I'm I'm okay with that. I'm I'm fine. And I'm also excited. Like, keep it up, guys, because who knows who else I'll remember. You know?
[01:15:12] Unknown:
Well, it that that's very it's a very common thing, actually. You know? The people do tend to remember a lot of stress and trauma after the fact because then, you know, all the endorphins, everything's hard start to slow down a little bit and start to, you know, bring things back. But I'm scrolling through your your Twitter feed or your x feed. I'm trying to find the, the other images that you'd sent that, the ones the the screenshots from your, from x, but I can't seem to find it. I I think it's too far down. Yeah. It's gonna be all under that article, I think, seven or six,
[01:15:43] Unknown:
her, profile. And I you know, oddly enough so things got quiet about a week ago. People stopped attacking me because I I kinda stopped engaging with it because there was a lot of slander. There was a lot of lies. Another precinct chair was actually calling for an posted on there that people needed to call the health and human services and report me for fraud. So I have thousands of people liking this trying to report me for fraud, and I'm like, one, I'm not committing fraud because I'm the one that's here screaming about the fraud that, like, my I've been used as a conduit to. But secondly, like, that's horrible. Me my children rely on these benefits right now. And, no, I'm not employed, but I'm a full time candidate because I am trying to get a job. I'm asking the American people for the job, and I believe and I know that I can do this.
I do have another Republican primary mate. She does not have a chance of winning the general. There's no way. And I I I really think that yeah, so I did. I filed a I was a I filed a federal petition to move, DA Garza from office in Travis County because he is a horrible DA. And for anybody who doesn't live in the in Travis County area, he actually has something over 200 people in the past year have been released from jail because they weren't indicted time. And just a couple days ago, a murderer actually walked free because his office didn't do something right. And because of double jeopardy, that that murderer is walking free.
And in my federal complaint against Diego Garza, I am using house bill 17 that was passed in 2023 by the Texas legislature, and it says that you can remove a DA from office if he's failing to, you know, prosecute a class of people, which he is. He's failing to prosecute, crimes that homeless people do. Mhmm. And what's so unfortunate about that is the city of Austin is home to the Texas School of the Blind. So we do have a significant blind population. That's right. Yeah. They are literally being attacked on public transportation. So I I am friends with someone who is the chair for Austin, Council of the Blinds. And he he came to me and he was like, look. Like, I have people that are coming to me. They can't even use public transportation.
They're being attacked. He had, a lady come and smack his glasses off his face who was homeless saying that, you know, you're not really blind and and all of this, and it's just horrific. So the the crime in Travis County and the city of Austin is out of control. So I'm really you know, president Trump, if you can hear me, I am begging you to come to Austin, Texas. We need you. We have a rogue DA that does not care about the rule of law, and then we also have a Republican party that does not want to win. And I think it's so unfortunate because I can win. I can do it.
[01:18:49] Unknown:
Well, you have the attitude for it. That's I mean, it's like it's contagious. I mean, you you're you you got a lot of spunk there, and that's great. And that's what you need, though. You have to have the the the positive attitude that you're gonna you're gonna win this thing. And I think you might. I I I don't I don't doubt your abilities to do it whatsoever. I mean, especially with the redistricting now, you have more of an opportunity, I think, a better chance, than than running up against, who was it you're running against? Casar or or something like that? I'm still running against Greg Casar,
[01:19:16] Unknown:
but there's also already been so originally that so 37 was Lloyd Doggett's district. So when they moved 35 and made this all 37, it was pinning Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett against each other, but Lloyd Doggett already said, I'm out. Well, a lot of people are really mad about that because Lloyd Doggett was a lot more like, he was a democrat, but but he was reasonable. He was a a reasonable person, but Greg Casar just isn't. He's an extreme leftist, and he's detrimental for society. So, I mean, I know that I can can beat him. I my my challenge is so here's my I'm giving away my political secrets, but, you know, I am hoping that, you know, Donald Trump and the Republican Party of Texas is listening to this. Abraham George, pay attention. So, basically, I have potentially 20,000 new voters that I can get to come out and vote for me for the first time in forty years.
I don't want them to come out and vote in the primary because, one, these people haven't voted in forty years. It's already gonna be a miracle getting them out one time, but I also don't want Greg Casar and his campaign to see how many voters I actually am able to pull to get to come vote and have them go more aggressively in the campaign. So I I just need to get through this primary, and it'll be fine. But I have people in my own party literally attacking my character and spreading and spreading vicious lies on social media.
[01:20:43] Unknown:
So and who who's running against you in the primary?
[01:20:47] Unknown:
Her name is Janelle Gary. She, was a former mayor in California. She works full time, so she doesn't have the opportunity to be out on the campaign trail like I do right now. That's that's not her fault. And I guess you could say that I am at an advantage because I am receiving, you know, assistance that I can do this. But, I mean, I looked at the numbers today, and there's 20,000 people in Travis County that have a housing voucher. And guess what the percentage of those people are that don't work? 40 to 60%. Really? And I don't know why it's 40 to 60, but in the middle, that's 50%.
And so I've I've said it multiple times, like, hey. All my my neighbors are just sitting here doing drugs and selling drugs. I've been telling everyone that. But literally, according to their own numbers, 40 to 60% of them do not work at all. And so I find it incredibly offensive and actually, you know, ridiculous that I'm being attacked online for running for office while receiving these services. When I'm up at the Capitol every day, I'm testifying to save my community. I'm in City Hall. I'm meeting with voters. Today, you're the fourth meeting I've had today. Like, I you know? And we're months away from the election, and so I I feel honored that I'm having that opportunity.
But the fact of the matter is is if 40 to 60% of them are not working, there's a problem. And attacking me
[01:22:16] Unknown:
yeah. Exactly. I mean, you first of all, I'm looking through your Twitter feed as you're talking. Right? Every almost every post you have appears of you testifying someplace. So it no one can say that you're not active, you're not doing something, you're not trying to get something done and or accomplished. So, you know, it it I I think that we're gonna clip this, and you're you can send it to whoever you need to send it to. I'll make sure that you get it. But, you know, you you are so active in the community. That's what people need to see. They need to see their representatives active in that community within the constituency.
You know, you have somebody you're running against, you said, is a former mayor from California, has really no living experience, I don't know how long she's living there, but but no life experience. She was actually born in Texas. But Okay. But yeah. But she but she left Texas, went to California, became a mayor of the city in California, and then comes back here, and she's looking to bring her, probably her liberal, because e even Republicans in California are liberals, you know. So she's looking to bring she's looking to California, that part of Texas. So you are standing up for your constituents. You are standing up for your district, and your old district and your new district.
There's no reason whatsoever anyone should doubt your integrity on this. There's no I I just don't understand why they would do that. And, you know, I have to give you a lot of credit for standing up for what's right and for doing the right thing. So, you know, your your future constituents, which we're, you know, we're hoping that this this pulls through for you. We'd love to see you on the ticket as as the candidate. You know, I I've I've spoken to a few people that that are in that area, and I've been spreading your name around for you. So, people are gonna be checking you out. But, you know, just keep up what you're doing. Just keep keep keep your nose to the grindstone, keep fighting. You're doing the right thing. You're you're fighting for the right thing. You're fighting for your constituents, and that's what's important. You don't see very many, candidates out there doing that. That's why, like, when we spoke the first time, remember I told you you reminded me of?
Marjorie Taylor. Marjorie Taylor Greene. So so just keep that energy going, and you got this. I I I I'm convinced of that. Through the primary, for sure. I think you I think you got this. It might be a tough fight in the general because you're a new name. You're you're a I I don't wanna say a new face because if anybody follows you, I mean, they could see you all over the place. You're all over your social media. I've seen you here on on x, on on your Facebook, or your Instagram. You know, you're all over the place, and you're showing people what you're doing. You're out in the open. You're being transparent, and that's what's important, especially today. People want that. They wanna see the transparency. They wanna see the work you're doing for them. And I don't I don't think you're just talking a game either. I think you're I think you're legitimately putting your whole heart behind this, and and that's appreciated.
[01:25:18] Unknown:
Yeah. I mean, it it's more than just putting my whole heart behind this. I I I need everyone to understand that not only does my life and my children's life depend on this, but I would argue that, you know, all of the children in America's life depends on this. We need to find more candidates like me. Our our country is being taken over by socialists. Like, the guy in New York, I just I'm I'm so I'm so shocked. Like, why can you guys just fly me up to New York's other one of me and train them real quick? Because we cannot let this guy win.
[01:25:50] Unknown:
No. That's that's another issue altogether. I I just can't believe that that here we are twenty something twenty plus years removed from nine eleven and, anniversary coming up, and then the Democrats in New York voted in a Muslim socialist, which which I don't understand how that works. I don't I don't I didn't think that, somebody who professes the Muslim faith can be a socialist, but but there it is. So, I I don't know what's going on with New York. I I I pray for New York on a daily basis. I I don't it's just a scary scary thing to see how far New York has fallen.
[01:26:30] Unknown:
And, you know I can I can tell you exactly what it is because that's what I'm experiencing here in my major city, and it's the issue with every single major city? The Democrats need people like me to enslave into their Democrat public programs knowing that we're not gonna vote. So you don't have really a middle class in the cities. You have poor people like me, and then you have the rich elite, and they need us here. And so it's it's modern day slavery, but that's what I'm saying. Like, this race right now in Texas can change the trajectory for every major city. And I have so much evidence against the city. Like, I I'm I'm calling on Pam Bondi right now. Like, Pam Bondi, help me with this federal case that I have because Good luck. The city of Austin is in trouble. Like, I need you, Pam Bondi. Please come to Austin, Texas.
[01:27:16] Unknown:
Good luck with that. I I I'm I'm sorry to say this, but but, I am not a Pam Bondi fan. I I I I don't think she's doing such a great job right now. But that's another issue altogether. We don't have to talk about that now. But but, you know, you you just gotta keep going at it. Just keep going at it. You're doing a great job, and, I'm really happy that, that that you're that you're you're not giving up, and that's the thing. A lot of a lot of candidates tend to fold under a lot of this pressure, you know, the the attacks. I mean and and I understand that, you know, this is just the beginning. You know, you understand that. You know, it's gonna get worse the closer you get to the election. So what's your plan for that? How how are you gonna combat this? What do you what's the what what's your preemptive, moves on this?
[01:28:04] Unknown:
Well, like I like I said, I mean, I've I've my life has been filled with trauma since the day I was born, and things are going really great right now. And and I take when people are attacking me, when people are putting me down, it literally strokes my ego and makes me go harder. And at this point in time, I mean, I'm 34 years old. If if I don't succeed in this, like, what am I gonna do the rest of my life? So, like, my life depends on this, and you're not gonna break me down, and I'm not gonna stop. And I have, you know, my beautiful children. I hope to be a grandma one day far in the future, not not anytime soon, but, like, my children cannot grow up in this world. I would love for my children to be able to go to public school or even, you know, some type of school away from, like so they can get other people teaching them things. But I can't even let my kids go to public school right now because all of the public schools on my side of the highway are failing, and there's, you know, so much indoctrination going on. And I think that our our education system here in America is just completely out of control. And if we don't check it, there's gonna be some big issues because these kids are are I thought I was bad in in elementary school and middle school, but these kids are on a whole another level where I'm at, and and nobody's paying attention. The rate of crime is just out of control. And these kids are growing up in a place where they're being, like, normalized to to see, you know, drug paraphernalia on the ground, needles. There was, in fact, there was just a kid at the, an elementary school on ManShack just last week who, during recess, got stuck by a needle on the playground, and it's just out of control. So we need a we need Donald Trump to come in, but I do have something exciting that I don't think I told you last time. Make America Clean Again has agreed to come to Austin, Texas in November.
So this is gonna be a big community effort. They're the ones that actually got to clean up the border and things like that, and they're in, I think they're in Philadelphia right now. Another city like that. But they're coming to Austin, Texas. We're gonna clean that up, and I get I need to get all of the local organizations involved and make a big community effort on this. And the thought for it is is, you know, if if we come together as a community and we clean out the city and we pick it up, people are gonna be more inclined to keep it clean and start reporting things. And I think at the point right now where we are is people don't report things because they know nothing's gonna happen. But I think if we get the community engaged and they start doing it, then that'll be great. So I'm So that that map you're looking at is the old one. Yeah. So so now all of this,
[01:30:40] Unknown:
what what constituted thirty five is now part of thirty seven.
[01:30:45] Unknown:
Pretty much, except for, like, the the outsides of Travis County. So my new 37 is, like, pretty much the whole internal of Travis County. It it covers, like, I think, 15 properties that are people like me. And so I I have the the upper hand here. But like I said, my my Republican opponent, she's not gonna be able to relate to these people. She's not gonna be able to get them out to vote, and I will. So and I don't think Greg Casar will be knocking on those doors because he thinks that he has a a a win for sure. I mean, I know that he has a primary person that's going against him. I do foresee some Texas senators possibly hopping in this race to run as a Democrat.
That'll be in my advantage as well because the the person I think that's gonna run is another woman, but she comes from old elite money. And so I think she can beat Casar, but I can beat her because I'm gonna absorb some of Casar's, you know, moderates because they're not gonna want old elite money.
[01:31:51] Unknown:
I gotcha. I'm I'm looking there was something that I saw earlier that I'm just trying to trying to find that. And the more candidates come in, you know, just it just dilutes it it just dilutes the the, the voting pool, and it it it will make it a little bit harder though because, you know, again, it'll be siphoning off votes from from here to there. Let me see. I think that's that one. That's the one I just showed you.
[01:32:24] Unknown:
So I noticed that you had somebody in your chat ask a question. They said if someone were to clean up the trash in Austin and the city didn't keep it clean, is that a violation of anything? I just put it in the search bar. It says, the city of Austin through Austin Research Recovery and Code Enforcement has an ongoing legal duty to maintain public health and safety, which includes waste management under the city code, title 15 of solid waste services. If citizens clean up the city and the city fails to continue maintenance, this is not automatically a violation of law, but it may constitute negligence of municipal duty or a violation of local ordinances and possible ADA implications.
So that was a good question. Thank you. I appreciate you asking that.
[01:33:08] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm not great with watching the chat because I'm I'm looking at everything else. So, I missed that one too. And and and to anybody else, I am totally willing and open to answer any questions. I I kinda like that. That's that's the same question you just answered. So I like to when when folks throw questions up there, I like to highlight it for them so they they know we're paying attention. So, I I do apologize, for not I'm trying to get this map here to open up for me. It's not doing it. Let me see. Are you looking for the new one? Yeah. The one that you sent.
I think you could actually screen share on your end too.
[01:33:50] Unknown:
Of course, I'm not gonna find it really quick when I'm sitting here.
[01:33:53] Unknown:
Yeah. This is still the same. Same old map. Okay.
[01:33:59] Unknown:
Let's see.
[01:34:02] Unknown:
Here we go. I'm going to send the link in the chat and you pull it up because I don't wanna mess with anything. I'm not that tech savvy. Okay. We'll give it a try.
[01:34:15] Unknown:
There you go. Alright.
[01:34:19] Unknown:
And something else I wanna mention that I'm really excited about is I got to go to a meeting last week with the Republican Liberty Caucus. Those group of people were awesome. I really, really liked them. But it's it's interesting because when I went to governor Greg Abbott's, quorum busting boot camp last week, I was like, I wanna I wanna debate. Like, I'm ready to debate. And so my opponent's campaign manager was there, and the Republican Liberty Caucus asked him, you know, hey. Are you are you willing to have your candidate debate if we host it? And he was like, oh, well, I'll get back to you, and I'll let you know. So I'm really, really excited about that debate. And I also wanna bring debates to the general because I tell you what, Greg Casar cannot debate. When he was doing testimony for the redistricting hearing, he had Jasmine Crockett right next to him whispering in his ear telling him what to say. So I think that I would be a good candidate to take that on. But I think we need to bring back congressional debates, especially in primaries, so that's something I'm excited about. I agree. I think there needs to be more more public discourse, more more debates,
[01:35:23] Unknown:
publicly than than not having debates. I'd like to know more about what my congressional representative is planning on, on doing. I don't know. Is that is the whole thing coming up there?
[01:35:35] Unknown:
Well, I saw it, but I don't see it now.
[01:35:40] Unknown:
Yeah. That's let me oh, you know why? Because, my feed froze. So give it a second. We'll refresh it here. So I might disappear, but I'll be back. You can keep talking while this is resetting.
[01:36:00] Unknown:
Oh, we're in silence. I see there's a bunch of people that are on. If you have any questions, I'd love to answer anything. I know a lot of people are like, who is this girl? Where did she come from? Out of nowhere. And I'd love to answer questions. So, yay, you're back.
[01:36:13] Unknown:
Yeah. It just I needed to refresh. I apologize for that. It's, No problem. It's the, it it's using this. We're may I'm actually gonna be making a switch to a different, still be with Rumble, but I'll I'm gonna be using some third party software to, to stream with instead of going through the Rumble platform because I'm having way too many problems with it, like, compared to this like this. So I don't wanna continue on that. I was listening to your your Pod Home
[01:36:39] Unknown:
call out, and that seems really interesting. I think I might might be willing to do something Well, you know, I I was gonna say, you know, you really should
[01:36:47] Unknown:
you really should do a podcast, even if it's a temporary one, just just to, you know, just during the campaign season.
[01:36:56] Unknown:
Well, I started one called Street to the Hill, but I've only done one episode, so I haven't.
[01:37:00] Unknown:
Well, keep keep working on it. Keep doing it. But Podholme's great, by the way. Podholme I've been with Podholme now for, about almost three years, and they are a they they're just amazing. With with what they offer for how much they they charge, man, it's it's like having a whole team working for you. I mean, you can get your your your show notes generated automatically with AI titles, AI. I use it a lot, to be honest with you, to generate the show notes and and the titles sometimes because sometimes I get writer's block, and I can't, you know, put the two sentences together to make it sound coherent. But, but and that's been a lifesaver.
And, they're they're they're constantly evolving, plus, you know, if you have a website, you can hook it up with them, and and you could you could live you can live cast your podcast with them. It's audio only for their platform right now. I know I know that they're they've been talking about doing some stuff with video, later on, but, as of right now, it's just audio. But, they're great. As a matter of fact, the, the owner of Podholm is gonna be on the show on a special Saturday show because he's overseas, and, he's in Sweden, I think, Switzerland.
[01:38:09] Unknown:
Nice. Or somewhere
[01:38:11] Unknown:
somewhere over there where it's it's it's the exact opposite of time for us, so we we we're doing a doing a special show on a Saturday. Alright. So here's the this is the new map? Yes, sir. Okay. So let's see. Where is I see 35.
[01:38:27] Unknown:
So it's gonna be North of 35. You see that little yellow spot? This here? It's small. It's I'm telling you, it's a compact tiny district.
[01:38:37] Unknown:
There you go.
[01:38:39] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:38:40] Unknown:
Okay. So you're you're by oh, you're by Bastrop. Yeah. No Bastrop. Okay.
[01:38:48] Unknown:
He's gone. Yeah. So it's it's not projected to be one of those seats that, gets picked up, but it's going to.
[01:38:57] Unknown:
See, that's the great attitude to have. Fight hard. Good for you. That's a great attitude to have.
[01:39:02] Unknown:
Yeah. Because, I mean, think about it. I can knock on all those doors three times with my all my kids before the general election. And how many children do you have? So I have four that I birth, but I have five here that live with me. I I took in a 21 year old whose parents threw them out at, 16 years old like me, but he's been, a blessing to have. He's a really great kid, and he's part of the family. So so I have 21, 16, 13, 11, and seven. Wow. And the seven year old loves knocking doors. So, like, in 2024, he was, like, my door knocking buddy because every day we were out knocking on doors, and he loved it. He liked getting the interaction with other people and then also getting to watch walk in the nature and things like that. So it was great. Awesome. See, make make sure you make use of them because that's that's cheap labor
[01:39:54] Unknown:
right there. Right.
[01:39:56] Unknown:
Yeah. That's awesome. All I have to do is pay them in candy.
[01:39:59] Unknown:
Oh, okay. No. Maha, give them something healthy.
[01:40:03] Unknown:
Oh, man. They're walking. That's healthy.
[01:40:06] Unknown:
Yeah. But give them a carrot.
[01:40:12] Unknown:
I actually have carrots in my refrigerator, so that's good. Perfect. So,
[01:40:16] Unknown:
so I actually do I? I don't think so. I think I ran out. I I feed I I give carrots to my my my dogs. They they love them. And they're they're so much better for them than than the rawhide stuff and and all that other mess. But, I know we're we're way off track here with, with with the campaign. So, so I know I know last time you were here with us, you talked a lot a little bit about, some of the campaign positions that you have. Why don't you run us through your positions and and and give us an idea of what Lauren for Congress stands for and what the what your cons your future constituents can expect from you.
[01:40:52] Unknown:
Yeah. So when I was trying to first get involved, I didn't really know anything about politics. I, went online to, like, austin.com or whatever austin.gov, and I saw that they had a position open for the Austin Public Safety Commission. And I was like, oh, that's what I need because I want more police because, again, my my Democrat opponent is the one who defunded the police in 2020 on Austin City Council. And so I I get on the Austin Public Safety Commission, have no idea what I'm doing. This is something that I'm getting a little rough feedback on. So during 2023, there was a relationship between the Austin Police Department and the, Texas Department of Public Safety.
And so while I was on that commission for three months in a row, we kept having people come in, and we were asking for transparency between what's going on with this partnership, and we weren't getting it. And so I ended up voting to stop the relationship because there was absolutely no transparency, and the day before something had happened. But come to find out, like, these people can lie, and I didn't know that. So I regret my decision, but I also didn't have anybody mentoring me or anything like that. So I was on the Austin Public Safety Commission. And then after a little bit, I'm, like, literally begging for more police.
They realized I'm a conservative, and they kicked me off the Austin Public Safety Commission. During that time, I am working on my bachelor's degree and my par legal certification from UT. So while I'm doing that, I'm also flying across the country to leadership institute trainings, getting, campaign management certifications, candidate school. I also go to Patriot Academy where I did a mock legislative session. It was super great. I got to create my own bill. I know the whole process of getting it through there. I've attended so many political events.
So in 2024, I became a Republican precinct chair for Travis County Republican Party. Then I went on to be a delegate for the senate district delegate, and then I moved on to be a state delegate. While I was a state delegate, I was also serving on the platform editorial committee. So for about three weeks, hours and hours and hours, I was actually working on the Republican platform of Texas. My name is actually on the cover for that. That was one of the greatest learning experiences that I had because I really got to dig into, I guess, like, the the platform and the planks and things like that and also learning how to edit it. I thought it was really great for legislation.
And then I was going to be a delegate to the RNC, but I wasn't able to afford the way they were doing it. And I ended up getting a call from the Trump campaign for the state director for Trump '47. She called me right before the RNC, and she was like, hey. I see you signed up to be a delegate. Do you still wanna go? And I'm like, well, heck, yeah. I wanna go. So I ended up fundraising my ticket to get up there. The greatest thing about it is I didn't stay with the delegation. I went to hotels.com, and I got a hotel, like, right outside the convention center for super cheap. Nice. And so while the entire Texas delegation is spending two hours driving back and forth every day, I'm literally riding scooters around, having caviar with Boris Johnson, like and I was meeting, like, all of these incredible celebrities, Laura Trump, I so many. I have pictures all over my Facebook and stuff, but I got to meet so many politicians and talk to them. And it was really, really great. But I had no idea that I was going to be running for United States Congress. I had just planned on running for, the Texas house because my house member is one of the Democrats that fled. And so while I'm sitting here experiencing civil rights violations in my public housing and things like that, they're they're violating ADA regulations.
I have, you know, people that are really suffering in this building. She's up in, you know, what was it, Chicago. And come to find out, they were not only up there getting taking luxury planes and food and things like that, they were fundraising while they were doing it. And so I think it was really, really crazy. But as far as my my political experience, my legislative experience, and even my law experience, I would say that I probably have more experience than 90% of people that get elected the first time. So I'm I'm definitely not someone who is under experienced in these things. So when people say that I'm not I'm not capable of doing the job, it's just ridiculous because I have a lot of experience. And then lastly, I did just get, ironically, an email from the city of Austin.
I had tried to get on the community police review commission, which was something that, is is new, but I wasn't, so they did, like, a a ball in a basket, and they drew names out of it, and I wasn't selected. But I got an email two weeks ago saying that they have a bunch of openings on there, and if I was still interested. I'm very, very excited for this because a lot of people might not know this, but in the they the second special session that just, is about to end here in Texas, they are passing a bill that, or do you I mean, they're police officers. You know what the g file is. Right? Like, for police department? Yep.
So they're passing a bill that creates another kinda secret place for police files that can't be accessed by public information requests. And so I am I'm pretty concerned about that. I know that a lot of people are concerned about that, but what I've heard is that a lot of the legislators are not gonna vote against it because they're endorsed by the person that's carrying the bill. And it it makes me kinda sad because part of my priority is to get the community police relationship, you know, kinda mended. And I know what it's like to to be on the the other side of the law where we don't get along with police officers and we think that they're the enemies, and that's just completely not true. And it's just we need to reeducate the population, and I think having better police transparency is the way to do that. So I think it's unfortunate that the state of Texas might be passing this bill to keep this secret file on their police officers.
[01:47:12] Unknown:
Yeah. That's, look. In every every every department has has the has the, the bad apples. You know? It it's unfortunately, that's just the reality of it. And we need to do better in the vetting process when we hire these cops and and evaluation processes over the course of their careers. I remember I I I got evaluated on a regular basis. My my my when I was on my probationary period, I got evaluated every three months, and then after that, it was it was every six months, and then after that, it became, an annual evaluation. It it's something that needs to be done, and and there needs to be more oversight. Are you gonna catch every bad apple? No. You're not unfortunately, you're not going to, but, you can't let the bad apples in the bunch ruin it for the for the other officers. You know, most police officers have the community's best interest at heart, and, you know, I I I could I I say that from my own experiences in wearing the uniform That's my my little alarm clock out there in the hallway letting me know that it's almost time for dinner. So and and, man, he's right on target. Yeah. Usually about ten too. That's when he lets me know.
So I don't I I don't I don't know. That internal clock, I guess. I don't know. But, but yeah. So that's a very important role to be on, and if you can get onto a committee like that, that's great. And they need a voice like you, somebody who's who's logical and understands the the the the concerns, understands what the people are looking for, and, I think you'd be a great fit for that. I would have loved to have seen you run for a house, you know, a Texas house, seat, but, but, you know, God bless you for what you're doing. I I think that's amazing. And, you know, you never know. You never know. You might be in the Governor's Office one day.
You never know.
[01:48:55] Unknown:
You know? Strangely. Wherever I go, it's okay. That's it. Not in my control at this point. It's You just make sure you put your constituents,
[01:49:03] Unknown:
in front of everything else. What do my what what do the people who live in my district want? And keep those communication lines open with them. I think that's really, really important. How many representatives end up getting to Congress and then disappear, don't really go back out to their districts very often, set up shop living in out there in in in the swamp, and, alright. And and, I don't know if you can hear him, but, so, yeah. Yeah. I got me all distracted now. One second.
[01:49:42] Unknown:
No. You're fine.
[01:49:44] Unknown:
Alright. This is the joys of live shows. So so, yeah, just keep focused on it and keep doing it. I know I know we talked, before because we don't have a few minutes to go, but, we talked before. We know your position on the border. We wanna see that thing closed, which it is, and and there there have been what was it? Is it 99.999% closed right now? There haven't been any illegal border crossings, that have been reported, which have been which is fantastic. I give the administration an an a plus on this whole thing and, on their handling of the border, and, you know, I I think he's doing a great job this administration. We just gotta keep it that way.
Oh, I thought you I thought I lost you for a second. You look like frozen solid for a minute. Either that or you really listening to what I was saying because you it looks like your image has not moved. But, but, but so so so going forward so we know about the border. What do you think about taxes? And I'm not talking about state tax. That's a state matter. Obviously, we'd love to see in the state, I know Brian Harrison, in the Texas house has been been extremely vocal on repealing, or or ending, actually, Texas state property taxes, and I think that's a fantastic idea. I don't I don't think you should be paying taxes on property that you're paying for already through a mortgage or that you already paid off. It's already your property. I think taxation is theft to begin with. I think property taxes on top of that is just absolutely immoral, and, they need to be eliminated altogether. I would love to see I know president Trump made a made a comment during the course of the campaign about eliminating the IRS.
I would love to see that happen. What do you think about that? Do you think we're on the right track for that? Would you be in favor of that?
[01:51:42] Unknown:
I would absolutely be in favor of that. Because, I mean, if you look back since, you know, they they started implementing all these public programs and things like that, our our taxpayer dollars have just been weaponized against communities like mine, and there's no there's no point on it. And, again, it comes back to them needing to have poor people in order to stay in power. So if we take away their ability to weaponize the against or the taxpayer dollars against the poor people, not only will it make the rich elite on the left kinda have to save more and and check themselves, but it's gonna force people to get lifted out of poverty. And so I think that that's something that every American should be in favor for because right now, I think the the communities that are most harmed is the middle class, and it it really does appear to me that they are trying to take away the middle class because they're making it so difficult for the middle class to get assistance, then that comes into, you know, having such high property taxes and things like that. I mean, the city of Austin just increased their taxes a lot, and it's supposed to go to a vote. But the way they have the which written, I mean, people don't even know what they're voting for. But also, the population is not educated enough on what what these tax fair funds are actually going to because it's not going thing besides the rich elite.
[01:52:59] Unknown:
Yeah. Exactly. I mean, if you saw We definitely gotta get rid of it. Yeah. And so you you saw exactly what's going on with it, you know, early on the administration with Doge publishing all the information about all the the the fraud, waste, and abuse they found. You know, all the tax money getting funneled into these organizations like you excuse me, USAID and other organizations, which is just a front for, all of these, electeds to to funnel money into their little pet projects and people that they know as favors and so on and so forth. And how many billions of dollars have been spent, on on such ridiculous nonsense that, you know, that money could have been served well better here at home.
I think the American people are smart enough to know what to do with their own money. They don't need the government to dictate to them what to do with it and how to how to go about it. So, so that's good. So you're on the side for eliminating taxes, and this is that's great. Now, we know that to be, like, the last question I'm gonna ask you because we're running out of time. We we know that, you know, as as a representative in Congress, you're dealing more with, federal issues than than local issues. So we got this this war going on over in Ukraine. I might I don't know if I'm gonna put you on the spot with this one, but, so we got this war going on with Ukraine, that, obviously, this administration didn't start. This administration is doing everything it possibly can to stop.
Not getting much, cooperation right now from either side, but yet we're still sending supplies and money and so on and so forth. Where where are you on this? I mean, do you think that this is something that the American people should still continue to be funding? Do you think we should have been funding it in the first place? I purse my personal position is to and I'll just be very honest with you is that we need to stop being the world's policeman. You know, we we need to stop supplying, first first of all, both sides of every conflict. You know, we supply Israel. We also supply Hamas. We also we supply, you know, Ukraine. We're also giving stuff to to Russia, I'm sure. That has to stop. We need to we I I personally believe that that America cannot be the world's policeman anymore.
We need to we need to redirect all these things back home. We need to bring home our military. There's no reason at this day and age where we need to be in, what is it, a 150 countries around the world having some type of military presence somewhere? There's no reason for that anymore. The cold war is over. There's no reason to have military presence in places like Poland and and and Great Britain. I mean, how would you feel if if, if if if China had a military base in the middle of Austin, Texas?
[01:55:48] Unknown:
I mean Well, I mean, that doesn't look very friendly at all, and I think that we are getting a negative image to the world's age definitely because we are just interfering in in foreign people's, you know, business and things like that. We need to stop funding foreign wars. But as far as Ukraine and Russia, I think that Zelensky needs to just tuck in his tail and let Russia have what they have and end the war. Because if it keeps escalating, I would hate for, you know, NATO to get involved. Because if anything happens, you know, from Russia to NATO, that is really a direct war against The United States, and it's not our war in the first place. And so we we need to just leave it alone. And it and Zelensky needs to tuck his tail in.
[01:56:31] Unknown:
US in or out of NATO.
[01:56:34] Unknown:
I I don't want The United States in NATO. I think that we need to have just, you know, maybe the North American continent, you know, have Canada, Mexico, and The United States, or maybe, like, the whole hemisphere. We don't we don't need to be involved, with with NATO, especially because if you look at the way politics are going in The UK and things like that, I mean, these are not good things that are happening, and they're literally losing their their right to free speech and things like that, and we can't be a part of that. Well, now it's illegal for
[01:57:07] Unknown:
an English citizen to fly the English flag. It's now illegal to do that. They will go to jail for doing that. And then you have the European Union, which is, and parts parts of European Union, like like Germany, France, Great Britain. They're all talking about providing troops to Russia I mean, to Ukraine. Excuse me. So, of course, you know that if anything happens to any of those troops, and since those are NATO countries, if there is an attack on Ukraine and any of those troops are injured or or, god forbid, killed, that can and more than likely will be, looked at as a direct attack on NATO and then drag us all into World War three, which is something I know president Trump is trying to avoid at all costs. He's he's been very vocal about that because, you know, this is this is the the plan of the European Union was to drag Russia into a long protracted war for thirty years. That was their stated goal for this with Ukraine.
And, that there and and as much as the president is trying to stop this thing, they are fighting against him and by sending these troops, or at least planning to send troops into, into Ukraine to, to to assist. So it's a very, very dangerous time we're in, and I'm glad I'm glad to hear that you're on the side of pulling out of NATO. I think that's incredibly important. I think that's something we need to do for sure. Lauren Pena. Absolutely. So where can we find out more about you?
[01:58:41] Unknown:
You can go to my website, laurenforcongress.com. That's lauren, l a u r e n, the number four, and congress.com. Lauren for congress.
[01:58:50] Unknown:
And then I'm also on Facebook and x. And so you'll find all those links there. Awesome. Lauren, thank you so much. And let's, let's let's keep doing this. You know, check back with check back in with us in a couple of weeks. Let us know where you are and how things are going with the campaign. We'd love to keep track of you and and and see how things are working out for you.
[01:59:07] Unknown:
Awesome. Thank you so much for having me on again, and I look forward to it next time. You betcha. It's a pleasure. You have a great night.
[01:59:13] Unknown:
You too. Alright, folks.
[01:59:15] Unknown:
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[00:10:40] Unknown:
Thank you for having me. That was an amazing intro. I wanna I want everything that you're selling. Okay. Cool. Let's go Texas.
[00:10:49] Unknown:
Long live Texas. Right? There we go. I'm not a native Texan, by the way. I'm from New York City originally. So I'm a transplant. Been here about ten years.
[00:10:58] Unknown:
Well, it's amazing to be on the show and amazing to meet you. It's, been a long time, like, maybe my entire lifetime that I've been invited to a show that is specifically not about being politically correct. So thank you for that. Oh, you're welcome. It's,
[00:11:12] Unknown:
it should be it should be more widespread. I think that, you know, I think we just need to speak our minds and, let the chips where the fall they may. And if someone's unhappy with what I'm saying, they can turn me off. That's all. Plain and simple. Don't don't waste your time complaining. Just shut it off. You know? It's plain and simple. So, Sylvia, so tell tell us, tell us something about yourself that most people don't know but should.
[00:11:43] Unknown:
I feel like my life is such an open book, so it's actually taking me a moment to to think about what I'm not sharing that people should know. Maybe maybe this. Like, if I'm, like, done with all of my tasks of the day and I've done all my healing work and all my work in finance and I feel complete for the day, my favorite thing to do is to organize a closet. Really? Oh my gosh. I love I love I love to organize things.
[00:12:13] Unknown:
Two, three. Very satisfying. I have I have five closets that could really use some professional help. I mean, they're they are an absolute disaster. So
[00:12:22] Unknown:
Bringing order to things.
[00:12:25] Unknown:
Alright. How about this one's a little bit easier. What's your what's your, what's your go to beverage to help you unwind?
[00:12:33] Unknown:
You know, glass of red wine. Very good. Very good. You're
[00:12:38] Unknown:
you're one of the few that actually say that because it seems like most of the people that I ask that question to always come back with, oh, I'm just gonna have some water. You know? I mean, come.
[00:12:48] Unknown:
No. I get it. Like, that's aspirational, and I'm really happy for those people. But if I've had, like, a really super, super hard day, not not gonna lie, like, a glass of wine is a beautiful transition
[00:13:01] Unknown:
Yeah. Interest. I agree with you. I I my mine for for a while had been bourbon. So, this I I love bourbons. I I I I've sampled many. I have very expensive taste in bourbons, so sometimes it's not always practical. But but, I've cut back a lot. I don't I don't partake as often as I as I used to, and I feel fantastic and doing great. And, I'm drinking my my sparkling water right here. Usually, I usually I have some blue stuff in it, methylene blue.
[00:13:32] Unknown:
I I love I love my methylene blue and, but I I did it before the show, so we're just setting stuff. Blue this morning. I don't really know why I take it or what it's for, but I I got super into Jack Crews, you know, this, neuroscientist.
[00:13:46] Unknown:
Oh, yeah. I've heard him. Yeah. Oh, he's so interesting. So,
[00:13:50] Unknown:
I've heard him talk a couple of times, and the guy is so far out there on the edge of science. And I find him intriguing as a thinker, and he's taught me some things that have definitely changed my health. So when he was like, people should take methylene blue, I was like, okay. I'll take methylene blue. Well, methylene blue from what from what I've been looking at and trying to understand about it is it works at the cellular level. So it it's a cleanse really for the mitochondria, which are the power
[00:14:18] Unknown:
cells. So it, so it it's like a cleanse for that and helps with oxygenation in your in your in your body, in your bloodstream, and, a lot of people have a lot of different reactions. Now as I always say, anytime I talk about this stuff, this is the legal side of it. If you are taking SSRIs or any other antidepressant medications before you attempt to take methylene blue, please check with your health care provider.
[00:14:41] Unknown:
Welcome. Okay. That's really easily.
[00:14:44] Unknown:
There you go. So, so yeah. So it it does ad it does work, adversarial with SSRIs and things like that. So you really do need to check with your doctor before you take it. But, a lot of people say that they feel like they get this this burst of energy, but it's not like, it's not like one of those five hour energy things that just kinda wear off and, you know, leave you with a crash. This is a pretty steady kind of energy they described that almost feels like an electrical charge going through their body. I have not experienced that, to be honest with you.
What it does for me is it it it kinda puts me into a much more contemplative state, of mind. It helps me think a little bit more clearly. Not gonna say it lifts the brain fog because I'm foggy all the time. But, you know, it's, but it does help with that. It helps, it really does give you the energy you need to get through the course of a day. And, I I usually take it in the morning before I get to my regular job, and then usually I have I have some here on the show. But I started taking it before the show because I would take it at the beginning just to show people that I'm actually taking this stuff, that I'm advertising and and pitching on, you know, my our affiliate link with the Alex Jones store.
But, generally, what happens is it doesn't really affect me until the very, very end of the show. And usually, that's when you're looking to, like, okay. Good night. We're gonna get out of here now. I wanna go eat dinner. And And that's locked in. And it kinda keeps you moving. So, so but it's good stuff. It's great stuff. And I I recommend it if you if you're able to take something like that and handle it, try it out for sure. It it's really, really good stuff. So before we get into everything else about what you do, so if if you were if if I were to meet you someplace and and I said and I would say to you, so what do you do for a living? How would you respond to that?
[00:16:37] Unknown:
Yeah. I have such a hard time answering that question. So, generally, I just say I help families to make investment decisions. Interesting. And I I usually leave, like, the shaman part out of the conversation. I have to get to know someone a little bit better,
[00:16:49] Unknown:
usually before I'll share that, like, at a cocktail party. Okay. Now okay. So shaman. We've all heard the term, you know, but I don't think a lot of people know what a shaman really is. So can you define that for us? Tell us tell us exactly what a shaman is. And Yeah. Absolutely. It's, like, it's a tricky, tricky word, but the essence of the word means it's someone who takes what is unseen and helps it to be seen.
[00:17:13] Unknown:
So I always think of a shaman as just somebody who is gonna help you to shine the flashlight in places that might be hard for you to shine it yourself. That's true. But a really good shaman shaman just, like, puts the light in that area and then says, you got this. You see it over there? Then you go get it. Go figure that out. Like, so the good shaman is just really just revealing, what's there for someone to work with and then letting that person be sovereign in their own process and and and figure it out and heal themselves.
[00:17:42] Unknown:
That's interesting. I I I I never would've kinda put that together like that. So but what what, what led you down this path, though?
[00:17:51] Unknown:
It was it was accidental. I was, young. I was in college, and I was a super, like, street girl. I never smoked, never drank. I played chess. I played violin. Like, I was a complete nerd. And I don't know. Two, three weeks after I got to college, some kid went and picked mushrooms in the, Prairie of Gainesville, Florida. Like, they grow everywhere in in Central Florida. And so some kid went and picked a bunch of these mushrooms and then brought them to, like, our little friend group and was like, we should eat these and see what happens. And I was like, yeah. Let's do that. It sounds like a good idea. And how old were you here?
I'm nine I'm 19. 19 years old. And we, so, you know, we ate the mushrooms, and we didn't know what we were doing. Like, we had no there's no, like, facilitator. Like, we're not there's no, like, even Google to figure out what you're supposed to do. Like, this is total savage style psychedelics. And we decided to walk to a party. And as we were walking to a party, I stopped and I looked at this tree, and I was like, woah. I mean, I was like, wow. God is real? I was like, god is real? What? And I looked at the tree, and the tree was, like, breathing, like, divine conscious frequency at me and was like, yes.
Like, god is real. And then, like, the most funny part of the story is that I was so taken by it. I was like, why do we ever hold anything back from the divine? And then I, like, completely peed in my pants, and I ring and I was wearing jeans. So that that part wasn't so comfortable, but it was like an initiation. Okay. And I'm so young, and I had no context for it, but that got me super, super curious about consciousness and awakening and and with it, plant medicine. So I started training in, working with plant medicines when I was really young. I lived in South America after college and was there for six years and received a lot of training there. Well, I should put you in touch with, Svetlana Ryilkov, the CEO for Ezra Healing.
[00:20:09] Unknown:
She's she's, her company is one of our is one of our sponsors, and, this is, like, right up her alley. So so after the show, I'm gonna email you her contact information and put you guys into touch with each other because I think you guys would have a great conversation.
[00:20:24] Unknown:
I I would love that. Actually, when I heard you speaking about Ezra Health, the way that whoever wrote the copy for describing that business, I was like, wow. That is so resonant. It was, like, so patient centered. It was It is. Beautiful. Yeah. Beautiful language. And they're they're wonderful people too. I I I've spoken to several of the folks that that work there, and,
[00:20:44] Unknown:
they're they're all, like, super nice people, easy to talk to, easy to relate to. Svetlana is amazing. I'd we'd we do a show every Tuesday, evening, just the two of us. It's a it's just a special hour that we have together. And, we talk about all types of health issues, and we take suggestions from from our listeners to see if there's anything particularly they wanna talk about. And, recently we talked about, alcohol and its, its effects on relationships and your health, and we talked about, which was interesting for me because I, you know, don't have this particular issue to deal with. But we talked about menopause, and a number of other things. So, she she is super cool, amazing lady, and I think you guys would really get along well. So I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get you guys hooked up so, you could share some ideas and, you know, maybe a partnership come out of this somehow.
Cool. Super Thank you. Super, super cool person. Now you've spoken on the world stages, like, at Davos, MAPS. Now when you talk about capital and consciousness, what do you what exactly is that? What do you mean by that?
[00:21:52] Unknown:
The it's it's kind of reflective of the journey that I had in life. So a lot of people would probably have done the reverse of what I did in terms of my career. So people typically will go into, like, the, you know, the finance or the investment banking or the business job first and say, oh, that destroyed my soul, and I'm gonna move into the healing arts or I'm gonna become a healer. And I I did it the exact opposite way. So because I had that really powerful experience when I was 19 Right. I I just had sort of this, like, obsessive desire to have a spiritual awakening, and it and it really drove the first, decade of my life. It was, like, an unbelievable spiritual seeker. Like, I was like I could have won, like, the Olympics of spiritual seeking. Like, I really went all in, you know, the whole thing, the ashram, the silent meditations, the teachers, you know, the discipline, the rigor.
And and in the course of that, learned, to be a healer myself and to be able to work with people in some healing capacity. But at at the end of those ten years, what I what I realized is that there's really only one healing. So we could talk about a lot of things like longevity and all these things. Like, it's all love it's wonderful. It's all great, but there's really only one essential healing, and that is remembering who you truly are. Mhmm. Period. Like, returning back to the source of your essence. That's, like, nondenominational, nondogmatic, nonpolitical, like, just who are you at your core.
And I realized that that that, like, that for me became my passion was how how to help people to find that within themselves. And I thought I would just keep doing that for the rest of my life. But as the awakening deepened in myself, I began to have kind of a second wave of downloads or realizations where I realized, like, it's we cannot afford anymore for, like, the so called spiritual healed people because they're all so annoying anyway. Right? They're so annoying. Like, I don't wanna hang out with spiritual people. I don't know you. I find them incredibly
[00:24:03] Unknown:
So some of them could be a little bit on the pretentious side. Say this. Pretentious side. It's not my vibe.
[00:24:09] Unknown:
So as, like, if all of, like, the the keeler types are over there playing gongs and, you know, wearing beads and they're checked out, What about this whole universe that actually really matters, which is power, money, family, like, who you marry, your children, how you build society? Like, there's all these, like, pieces of an ordinary human life that really matter. And so what if we could take this sort of, like, awakening and bring it into these realms that are actually the ones that matter? Like, my husband always says there's only two things people care about. The first one is money, and I can't remember the second one. It's like, that's what we're really paying attention to.
Okay. I saw what you did there. That's good. So so if you could bring if you could, like, bring awakening to money, that could be amazing. Like, what would that look like? And it's it's taken me, like, a really, really long time to figure that out. We can get into it more detail if you want, but the bottom line is that I realized that it's the quality of your consciousness matters when you're making decisions about what to do with your money. So if the quality of your consciousness is still really identified with, like, you know, like, I'm not enough or worthlessness, so you're always gonna make all of your transactional decisions based on, I've gotta have more I've gotta I've gotta have more significance. I've gotta have more value. I've gotta have more worth. I've gotta have more finances. I've gotta have more. You're always operating from that, or you could be operating from, like, fear or greed, but you're operating from, like, a lower level system.
And there's this opportunity, especially in this moment today, for us to actually just wake up and realize I I am enough. I have enough. Like, it is enough. Like, I'm okay. Like, I'm doing fucking amazing in fact. And then from that level of consciousness, how would your financial decisions be different?
[00:26:18] Unknown:
That's interesting. And, look, the floor is yours. So if you wanna get into more details on this, please go go right ahead. I figured we're gonna get into some of the the the, the spiritual side and the and the shaman side of what you're doing, in in a few minutes. But if you wanna jump into that now, we can do that now, or we can continue on here.
[00:26:37] Unknown:
Sure. We can we can we can go, like, a little bit deeper on that. Yeah. Please. So if if if you're hearing this right now and you're suffering around money in some way and the suffering is gonna look something like, you know, I don't have enough, I'm not capable of having enough, or I'm about to lose what I have, or so and so has more than me. Like, if you're in one of those, like, mind loops. So first of all, it's like it's completely understandable because that's the soup that we're swimming in as a culture. We're swimming in a culture that doesn't even know the meaning of the word enough. So that's like when we're constantly scrolling on social media or we're constantly, like, distracted, there's a part of us that's just like, I am not enough. I don't have enough. I need to get more. Mhmm. And it's it's really courageous, and it is actually the secret to a life of abundance is to just cut that thought at the very root. Like, just cut it at the root. Like, you just gotta, like, be brutal with it and just be done with that thought.
And then from there, there's, like, this opportunity to, like, actually experience, like, a different quality of consciousness. That quality of consciousness is, like, actually, like it's amazing. Like, who I am and what I have and who I'm surrounded by is beautiful. And then you begin to make your financial decisions from that. And what's so powerful is, like, then well, you're not gonna spend too much because you don't need to show off to anyone, or you don't need to prove anything to yourself. Or you're not gonna invest in a company that's, like, a screwed up company because all your friends did it and you just wanted to fit in, like, you're gonna have, like, another level of discernment.
So I think that that's been the thing that I'm most interested in is, like, why don't we talk about the quality of consciousness before we make a financial decision? Like, if you're about to make some trades on E Trade, why don't you sit quietly with yourself for a good, like, ten, fifteen minutes before you make those trades? Right. Yeah. Calm. Get clear.
[00:28:41] Unknown:
That makes that makes total sense. I mean, it's it and it kind of it reminds me of something like my dad, my my grandfather used to used to kinda drill into our heads when we were growing up, back home, is that, you know, before you make any major decision, you know, take time and think about it first. So it's it's I guess it's kind of this in the same realm that you're talking about, just different language. You you need to meditate on these things. You need to contemplate the the the cause and effect of things. You need to understand, that you you have to try to understand what the possible outcomes are gonna be before you make that decision. You can't just pull the trigger on something as, on a whim.
You call you'll cause more damage to your own finances and your own mental health, and and and I guess in a lot of ways your own spiritual health as well. If you're if you're constantly making decisions, especially important decisions like finance, because look, whether we wanna admit it or not, you know, it's like the old song says, you know, money makes the world go round. You know, finances, the money that we have, the money that we can make is all extremely important in order to for us to to to get through everyday life. And you can't just go around throwing it willy nilly at anything that comes your way. I've made some really stupid decisions because I didn't take time to actually research things and and, and think about the decisions I was gonna make. I've lost, I'm not gonna say how much, but I've lost plenty over the years, you know, because I just on a on a, spontaneous moment, just pulled the trigger on a on something, and it ended up costing and and hurting and and doing a lot of damage. So I understand completely where you're coming from with that, but I also don't think that it it's not that simple for a lot of people to kinda change that mindset that that you described overnight. And sometimes it it is sometimes I I think you need to take steps along those ways.
What what do you think about that? Is that is that a possibility to take steps along the way to get to that point? And if so, what would you, like, how would you recommend going about that?
[00:30:46] Unknown:
Yeah. I mean, I agree totally. And the first step is just the mindfulness you bring to what you're buying every day. Mhmm. So, you know, I like, everyone grocery shops. I lived in France for six years before I moved to Miami. I live in Miami now. And one of the things I was fascinated by living in Paris is that people only buy the foods they need for that day. So they're so mindful about how much food they buy, and so, you know, you just go home with, like, a tiny bag of food. Mhmm. And then you eat it, and it's done. And there's nothing left in the fridge.
You know? And, like, that sounds like small thing, but that's like a revolutionary shift in cost. Yeah. My sister shops like that. She my sister shops for the day. Yeah. It's like it's like you don't waste anything. And by the way, you can buy, like, much higher quality of food that way because if you're if you're actually conserving on, like, having the right amount and for the moment and you're not wasting, well, you just increase your food budget by 20% because we throw away, like, 20% of our food. Really? Yeah. That's true. That's very true. Some something small like that has major impact in people's lives. So what do you think the biggest,
[00:32:02] Unknown:
money mindset block that keeps even the most successful CEOs and power brokers from really, aligning, or or achieving that true alignment?
[00:32:15] Unknown:
I would take those as two different questions because one is what's blocking most people, and then the other is what what's wrong with the CEOs and the power brokers. Right. Okay.
[00:32:28] Unknown:
Alright. We'll take it. Go ahead. Break it down.
[00:32:30] Unknown:
The number one thing that's blocking most people is thinking that they're separate from, source. Okay. So what I mean by that like, I I really hope I can give this language that's resonant for people because, again, I really hate spiritual language. But Yeah. There's if you if you look at just, like, in American culture, we can all see that there's an epidemic of what I would call worthlessness. Mhmm. People have this, like like, feeling of hidden worthlessness inside of them. I got really curious about that in my work, as a healer with people because I would have these, like, incredibly accomplished people coming to work with me, people that had incredible net worth, and I could guess easily that every single one of them was still working with worthlessness.
Mhmm. And it was true. Like, I've met very few people that aren't working with that inside of themselves to some degree. And so that's the number one block between people and an abundant life is feeling that they are not enough. Okay. And so that that not enoughness is is such a barrier to being in flow with what your life purpose is, what your right work is, and the natural flow of the resources to support your life purpose. I
[00:33:52] Unknown:
kinda that that's interesting. That that really is, and it kinda resonates with me a little bit because, some of the things that you're mentioning there, you know, are things that I've experienced over the last few years. I'm not gonna get into the details of it now. My audience heard it the story many times already. They don't wanna hear it again. But, but yeah. No. I I I totally agree with you, that
[00:34:15] Unknown:
yeah. I I I don't even know what else to say to that. I mean, I think I think you nailed it. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for sharing it. It's it's a it's a spiritual question. Yeah. And, again, by spiritual, I don't mean, like, you're getting crystals tomorrow. Oh, okay. No. Damn. And I was expecting. I was hoping. You know? Oh, yeah. There's just not better language for it, but that that that's that so worthlessness, like, the healing of worthlessness isn't inside of, like, doing, like, a bunch of positive mantras in front of a mirror. Like, I'm amazing. Like, that's actually just Like what like what you see on social media everywhere. You know, everybody does this. You know? It's a bit on top of worthlessness. And so to really, like, dispel worthlessness at its very, very core is is is a profound inquiry. And one of the most beautiful questions for that inquiry is the question, who am I?
That's like a mega hack question. Who am I? Mhmm. Because that question, if you really sit with it and you could sit with it for years, but that question It's true. Ultimately leads you to to stillness. And that stillness is like a dimension of consciousness. And in that dimension of consciousness, you realize that you're not separate from source. And if you're not separate from source, well, then you're limitless. You're amazing. Like, you're a soul. And then that is what begins to dispel, worthlessness at its core, is remembrance of who you truly are. So it's not like an egoic fix. It's a it's a deeper fix than that.
So that that's that's the that's the answer for, like, you know, people that are just finding their way, towards a But then the other question is, like, what about people who have incredible resources? And what's really interesting about the blocks of someone who has really incredible resources is extreme wealth just is like an amplifier of volume on who you already are. So all of your egoic fixations, all of your trauma will get amplified with wealth. Okay. Well, that makes sense. Yeah. It makes sense. So those people, they're they're they're dealing with their same, like, inner process and same journey, but theirs just happens to be at a much more intense level.
[00:36:29] Unknown:
Yeah. I I I could I could see that. I can I can understand that? I it wow. That's pretty good. So so, when did you first see a way where your financial career and your shamanic training would kinda coincide? And I guess the follow-up to that would be was that surprising to you?
[00:36:52] Unknown:
It it was totally surprising to me. There was a there was a long time where I was where I was connecting it already by just trying to be an integrity to the families that I was advising. So, like, just taking integrity to another level is a dimension of connecting consciousness and capital. I see. Like, it it's if if if you're working with a a financial adviser and investment adviser right now, one of the hardest levels of integrity to have is, like, not all the capital should be with them. Like Okay. It's not like they they they may not be the best place for all the capital. Okay. I understand. Better for you to do some more real estate investing or to, you know, keep it in your stock of your company.
But as soon as someone's incentivized to gather assets towards them, it's really hard for them to stay in complete integrity and giving you, like, completely pure advice. Mhmm. So, like, one level of connecting consciousness to capital is, like, finding those advisers that will will actually advise you from that place of, like, a full picture, full spectrum understanding and wanting the best for you in that full spectrum. But it was really maybe about, eleven or twelve years ago, I was actually in a ceremony. I was in Ayahuasca ceremony in Costa Rica with a Colombian tribe. And in that ceremony, I actually got the download that this was supposed to be my life's work, that I should bring as many wealth holders to awakening as possible.
Because if we could get a lot of people who had a lot of money to have really profound spiritual awakenings, then there was, like, such a great butterfly effect from that in terms of what they would end up doing with that capital afterwards.
[00:38:40] Unknown:
Okay. That download. I'm sorry. Now for for for people who may not be familiar with it, what what is an Hawaii say again? Ayahuasca. Ayahuasca. Okay. I I had it. I was playing it in my head, but Yeah. It didn't trip out. Can you explain exactly what what type of a ceremony that is? What what is what is all that about? What what does it entail?
[00:39:01] Unknown:
This is this is a pillar of the culture throughout most of South America, and Ayahuasca, from what we understand, has been drunk by indigenous tribes in South America for, like, thousands of years, like, literally, like, four thousand years. And what's very mysterious about Ayahuasca is you can imagine the Amazon. There are, like, 1,000,000,000 plants that so many thousands of years ago, indigenous people knew to cook the banisteriopsis vine with a leaf, sometimes called the chacruna leaf. It's different variations of that leaf. Because the banisteriopsis vine has within it DMT, and DMT is what we call the god molecule. Mhmm. So DMT is always in our bodies. It's it's endogenous to us. We have it in us already.
There's some theories that it's DMT that we are releasing when we have a near death experience. Yeah. I've heard that. Yeah. Yeah. So that's like the god molecule. So this vine is is got a ton of DMT inside of it. But when you cook it with the chacruna leaf, it keeps the DMT from being digested in your system so the DMT can be sustained for long periods of of time. So an Ayahuasca ceremony can be all night long, can be eight eight hours where you're in a profound vision, guided by DMT, essentially. And this was used traditionally, like, if the tribe wanted to hunt, the they would use the Ayahuasca to see where the animals were in the jungle. It was a visionary tool for themselves. If somebody was sick, they would use it to see why that person was sick.
Ayahuasca was really kept, in very kind of closed, doors of the culture until about forty or fifty years ago when those tribes got a message that it was time for them to bring this medicine into the West. And since then, you've been seeing different, tribes bringing their traditions out of South America. And, generally, Ayahuasca is not, legal in The US at this time. So, generally, people are going to places where it is legal, which is primarily through Central And South America. Wow. That's fascinating.
[00:41:12] Unknown:
I I'm familiar with DMT. I I I I remember reading a few things about that. And, especially when it comes to the near death experience of the NDEs, I've been fascinated by those for years. And, so so that that's that's fascinating. I I I I I'm telling you, honestly, I would love to try it just just just for the experience of it. I just don't know if I wanna come back from it.
[00:41:38] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I I'm so happy that you said that because there's, so these these these, like, modalities, they call them, like, consciousness medicines. Mhmm. So, again, there's, like, there's theories. I mean, people could be upset with this theory, but they're interesting theories that, you know, we evolved alongside of psilocybin, alongside of mushrooms that we developed language and metacognition because we were taking mushrooms. And I don't know how much, you know, credence to give to that. Right? I can't tell you if that's true or not. But there are these, like, funny little things like, krios, just the word for a psychedelic mushroom, is the Greek word for Christ, and some of the halos around his head look like mushroom caps. And you think, like like, these are consciousness medicines. They're they're here to help us to develop consciousness.
Right? That's that's what they're here for. And the way that we do that is by facing death before we die. Die. A spiritual death or an egoic death is one of the great initiations into consciousness. And in fact, when they do studies at, like, John Hopkins and universities on you know, there are all these trials happening now to see if psychedelics really are effective for things like PTSD and anxiety and depression. In some of these studies, they're using, a tool called the mystical scale, and it actually is a one to 10 scale. And 10 is when somebody has had in their experience, like, a full ego dissolution and a spiritual death. And that 10 is correlated to very, very favorable outcomes for healing things like PTSD, anxiety, and depression.
[00:43:15] Unknown:
Really? I said I didn't know that. That's that's fascinating. I I I gotta really I gotta study more into this because, I I I could like, I deal with PTSD myself, through for a number of years now, and, I'm always looking for a better way to to handle it when it rears its ugly head. One of one of the, one of the difficult times coming up for me is is, on the eleventh of this month, and that just goes back to my experience. I I I don't know if we talked about it before. I I don't remember, but, you know, I worked in New York City law enforcement for, twenty three, twenty five years. And, probably one of the, more difficult things I've dealt with was having to work on the pile after the, after nine eleven attacks.
And, so, you know, I still deal with that. You know? So, like, when when when this particular time comes around, I tend to shut down everything. Like, I don't listen to podcasts. I don't I don't I stay away from TV. I stay away from all that stuff. I just don't wanna deal I don't wanna hear it. I don't wanna see it. I I I have my own memories of it. I don't need to be reminded of everything. So that's kind of the way I'm dealing with it, and it's not always the most effective way because I kinda get into a bit of a funk for a day or two, in and around that. So I'm always looking for a better way of managing things like that.
And,
[00:44:40] Unknown:
so so, yeah, I'm I'm I'd I'd love to get more information from you about that outside of this. I mean, thank you for your service. My my work with vets is actually my favorite work of all. I love working with vets because I consider you a vet, you know, given the level of service you're doing Thank you. In New York. But, like, they're the best. They're the best because they they have, a heart that's oriented towards service, and they're just the best. So well, you're you're in Texas. Like, Texas is at the forefront of this revolution right now, thanks to Rick Perry. Mhmm. What Rick Perry is doing, with vets in Texas in particular is is groundbreaking and phenomenal work, and I hope we're all sitting with Perry a little bit of love right now. Even if you disagree with his politics, if you could just send him, like, a little bit of love for this.
He's he's really, taken the the lead in, bringing, IBOGA programs
[00:45:37] Unknown:
to Texas and setting up, no. There's they're setting up pathways now for there to be legal Iboga clinics in Texas Really? To treat pets. Yeah. Well, I'd like to get some of that information from you off the show at some point if, if if we can do that. That'd be great. And then we can bring it out to the ship to the the folks that watch and listen, in a at a later time. But but that's fantastic. And, again, like, this is just you're giving me so much information here, so I'm having a hard time processing it all at once. So now you've trained in in, for over thirty years as a healer, and, which is amazing.
What methods do you use to help business leaders or everyday people reconnect with purpose?
[00:46:24] Unknown:
It's really important for people to find their life purpose, and everybody has one. So sometimes when someone's had a lot of success, like a business leader, they, have they don't know what their life purpose is because they thought it was to become successful, and then they realized it wasn't that. So, it's really beautiful to ask yourself the question, what's your life purpose? You don't need a healer to do that. You don't need me. I can just give you my tricks. So one of my number one tricks is I I look into people's trauma to find their life purpose. Whatever they've experienced that's painful, sometimes that's where the gift is because that's where your hardest curriculum as a human was. Just think about it. Like, it makes total sense. Like, the universe is so intelligent. It's like, we gave you this really, really hard curriculum so that your life purpose could come from that.
So that's that's a that's a really great hack for people to use. And then the second is to not think it's a description the way your mind might think it's a description. A lot of times, our life frequent our life purpose is more like a frequency or a state of consciousness or a way of being. K. I've worked with people whose life purpose was to create beauty, for example. I recently worked with someone whose life purpose was to be a commander. Like, he's like, a commander energy. Like, unbelievable. And so, like, especially with all the messaging we get in media today, we keep thinking our life purpose has to be this significant thing that other people value and recognize that pays you money. Mhmm.
And the life purpose is your is your pure way of being. So, like, my life purpose is is is to love. And I I I fought with that life purpose for a long time because I was like, I don't understand what job that is. Like, what's the job? Like, I need a job. What's my job? What am I supposed to do? And now I I I'm just growing into it where I realized that love is the is, like, the highest organizing principle of all things on the planet, and that I can use the energy of love to organize even things like investing.
[00:48:41] Unknown:
Okay. Actually, that you you say investing that that I have a question for you on that, but there was there's another question I wanted to ask you prior to that. So I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with this, but, you were talking about plant medicines and such. From your perspective, what are people getting right, and what are people getting dangerously wrong when it comes to plant medicine and other methods of healing? What people are getting right is that there's potential. Okay. What people are getting wrong is that it's the cure all. Okay. There's
[00:49:17] Unknown:
they're tools. They're powerful tools. We are still young and at the early days as a culture of understanding how to use them well. And we're still in a framework where they haven't been legalized and they're still being there there's still all the protocols around how to facilitate are still being developed. It still is very, very early days in what I would call the psychedelic renaissance. So, like, in terms of getting it right, like, everyone should read, like, Michael Pollan's book, How to Change Your Mind. There's some great documentaries on Netflix. It's really good to get informed around the potential of these medicines Okay. Because real.
And then buyer beware, it's still it's still really, really difficult to find, you know, legal, professional, well executed, responsible facilitation. Most of the good facilitation is really happening in places like Costa Rica. Okay. Alright.
[00:50:18] Unknown:
So how does, going back to investing, how does being a shaman actually shape the way you read markets, businesses, and even, people pitching you?
[00:50:28] Unknown:
You you can't this isn't something you can use for public markets because, I mean, if public markets are driven by meme stocks, you're not fighting that with consciousness. Gotcha. Okay. Well, I like I personally like to look at public markets as, as just beta. So I I like passive investing in public markets. I don't like to try to win in public markets. I think it's important to participate in them because they protect our portfolios from inflation and they provide growth, but I don't like to play in the public markets. So I think with somebody that's investing, if you have a good chunk of your funds in the public markets, again, depending on your risk tolerance and your age, and then you have a piece that's in your municipal bonds just creating that that steady anchor to your portfolio.
And then you have your six months of living expenses. Well, you may if you've got that in place, you've got your life insurance, you're gonna have what I call this little pool of capital called play.
[00:51:21] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:51:23] Unknown:
And this is this is where I mean, maybe you're doing some crypto in that pool, but you might start to look at how do you invest in private companies with that pool, get on your personality and your your financial needs. But it's it's in those private markets that I think this has so much potential. It can be as simple as, you know, you're gonna maybe you're gonna, like, buy a franchise of a restaurant in Tennessee somewhere. Like, you can actually sit with that, purchase in in a shamanic framework. And what I mean by that is, like, actually, like, look deeply at who you're lining yourself up with. With whether it's the founder, the creator of the brand, you know, like, you need to really make sure that you wanna be on that soul journey with the company that you're about to give your capital to. And if you can feel that deep soul connection there, then I think you're in really a good place to to build that investment in a good way over long term.
[00:52:26] Unknown:
Okay. Now if you had the power to redesign our financial system from the ground up with consciousness in mind, what would you change first?
[00:52:35] Unknown:
Well, all of all of the big banks would would lose a huge amount of their revenue because we wouldn't be paying wealth managers so much money for nothing. Mhmm. We were smart. We would realize that AI is going to be in and is already basically an incredible portfolio manager. And we would take all of the ego out of all of our public investing. So we would go on to these platforms like the Robinhoods, the Schwabs, the low cost, investment platforms. Just dollar cost average. Don't think about it. Do it quietly for decades. Let it compound. Let it grow. Period. So but if you do that, guess what? The Goldman Sachs of the world can't make all the money that they've been making. Right. True. It can it's gonna revolution I think that finance will revolutionize in these ways where people become more sovereign and smarter and and just go direct to source with their investment management. Mhmm.
You know, I think that the role of the investment manager in the future might be, you know, somebody who can actually, keep you from making bad decisions, like, almost like a coach. Alright. Do you know coach business manager helps you to manage the cash flows, helps you with your accounting? Right.
[00:53:50] Unknown:
Yeah. What do you think the most misunderstood part of shamanism is today?
[00:53:57] Unknown:
I think the most misunderstood is that that shamans have, like, some kind of power that other people don't have. Like, shamans aren't, like, special, and they shouldn't be romanticized. And there's nothing there's nothing, like, extraordinary about a shaman. It's shamans have always been with us in our cultures. It's kinda like a renaissance of the shaman in some way. Maybe it's because they killed so many women as witches. It took us a minute to get brave enough to come back. I'm just speaking for myself, maybe. I had the opportunity at the stake, you know, just recently, so it took me a second.
But that that that role of the medicine woman or the medicine man has always been in our cultures, And and it's a beautiful piece to reinstate in our communities just, you know, that that part of ourselves or that neighbor that, really knows how to see just beyond what you can see and just gives you a little a little boost and a little helping hand. And, you know, I I I like to say awakening, you know, for the world, by the world. Like, we're we should be doing it together. I agree with you. Yeah. You don't need a shaman up above you, but a shaman is a good friend to have.
[00:55:04] Unknown:
I agree. I think so. I think I agree with you. So, we only got, like, two minutes left. So who's someone that you respect right now, and what are they doing that inspires you?
[00:55:16] Unknown:
I am really obsessed with people that are designing a AI in this moment. So I look at, like, you know, the founder of, like, Perplexity, for example. Like like, the minds that are actually driving, AI, I find incredibly fascinating to listen to. I try to listen to a lot of podcasts where they're speaking because they're telling us how they're designing AI in a way that I think is gonna impact all of our lives profoundly. Mhmm. Right now, I'm I'm in a kind of rabbit hole of understanding, the importance of AI, and I I have an inkling that maybe AI is gonna help us to not be so identified with our mind because AI is gonna be smarter than our mind, and it's going to free up some bandwidth for us to develop in other ways as humans.
[00:56:07] Unknown:
That's a that's, you know, that's a unique perspective on this because that because all you hear, really, is all the doom and gloom that AI can bring about, you know, Skynet, Terminators, and all that stuff. Yes. The potential for that is there, of course. I mean, I I and I don't discount that. I don't you know? Oh, there you also have to take into consideration that with AI taking over a lot of the jobs and and the, the roles that that a human being would take, you know, would, of course, would would displace a lot of people, and, it it would and could negatively impact them spiritually, emotionally, physically, just all around.
But, a cuff about, about a month or so ago, I interviewed a a young man who, has an AI startup and, has a very interesting product that, I'm gonna set I'll I'll I'll send a link, by email to your per to your PR person. Maybe they they can forward it over to you. But they, he he's to the show so you could hear it. He he set up he designed this, AI, model called Walter. And, basically, what Walter does, he he calls you once a week and has a conversation with you, just a casual conversation. And the the the purpose of it is the well, his purpose of it was to, to record your life experiences and your knowledge, your wisdom.
This way, your descendants Oh, that's so cool. When they're facing a certain a certain situation in their life that they don't know how to handle, can go to you Oh my god. Epic. And hear you and see you and talk to you about Epic. Those particular, things. And I I think I I that's a fascinating concept to me. It's a little scary too in in some ways when you think about identity theft and things like that, if this thing decides to, you know, start taking out loans in your name somewhere along the way for whatever nefarious purpose there is. So, it's very, very interesting. And I'll I'll be happy to send you the link to that if you wanna check it out.
I'd love to go ahead. But but, because I'm just try I'm just drawing a blank on the name of the actual company itself. I just remember the AI model name is Walter. So, so, you know, that's interesting. To me, it is. And, you know, there he has a he he had a if I remember correctly, he had a a nice, influx of cash to get started, and, he has a few subscribers to the to the thing right now, and so they're building it. It's it's it's looking pretty good. So, it it's really interesting with AI is is is, the potentials for AI positive and negatively.
So, you know, we we'll definitely keep it. Well, you know, AIs may replace shamans. You never know.
[00:58:58] Unknown:
They already are. There there's are people are already using AI if they're having, like, a bad trip and they're by themselves. People are using chat GPD to work themselves through. Yeah. Yeah. I just read an article about that. But, again, like, we need we need there's the the guardrails just aren't there yet, and I'm sure lots of people in reading the news lately that there are people with psychosis can actually get much worse interacting with, something like chat GPT. Chat GPT will feed the psychosis. It's not I gotcha. You know, we're not we're not there yet, people. But but, you know, just think about how much more efficiently it can do a lot of mental tasks than we can, and you can see that this is starting to free up bandwidth for other dimensions of human consciousness to evolve.
[00:59:43] Unknown:
That makes sense. I gotcha. Alright. Well, we're we're over the hour. So where can the audience go to learn more about you and maybe even work with you? Yeah. Just go to the sylvia.com,
[00:59:53] Unknown:
and it's sylvia with a y.
[00:59:55] Unknown:
The sylvia?
[00:59:56] Unknown:
The sylvia.com.
[00:59:58] Unknown:
Okay. Great. Awesome. And, you know, I don't have that link in, in my show notes for you. So I will add that to it, and, we'll get that all all set up for you. Sylvia Solis, thank you so much. This was great. I really appreciated this. This is this is a lot of fun, and I look forward to talking to you again. And, I'll be sure to send over a bunch of stuff over to you in a little bit. And, again, thank you so much for your time. Yeah. Thank you, Jim. Blessings. Take care. Alright, folks. Sylvia Solit. We wow. That's that was a great conversation, man. I I really enjoyed that. Alright. So we have, we have Lauren Pena waiting for us in the wings here, but we are gonna take a quick break here. And, I just have to I have to set something up, and I gotta use the restroom. So so, we'll be back in just a few moments. Don't forget folks, this is a live show weeknights at 7PM central time, Saturdays at 3PM central time, and Sundays at 6PM central time. And, don't forget to, like, subscribe, and share this with your friends, your family, and your followers.
That way you'll help us to spread this thing out. Make sure you hit the like button down below. Send a comment down there also. It helps with the algorithm, helps people find the show. And, we are looking forward to, talking to Lauren when we come back. So stay with us. Alright, folks. Hey, first hour is in the books. Sylvia Sollett. What'd you think of that? That was a great conversation. Really enjoyed that. Alright, folks. Welcome back to the Joe Roos Show. My name is Joe Roos, and we have waiting for us here in the wings, Lauren Pena.
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And, you know, I paid double in most cases, sometimes triple, for less, less features than you get with podhome.fm. So try them out. Podhome.fm podhome.fm. Alright. Now joining us right now will be Lauren Pena, the congressional candidate for the new District 37, out there in the Austin area of Texas. Lauren, are you out there with us? Turn your mic on. Hey. How are you? Alright. Hey. It's great to see you. Thanks for thanks for joining us. Now you you reached out, a couple days ago. You and you said that you had some great news. And I I think that was somewhat sarcastic based on what you told me, you know, before the show, about the campaign and how things are going. First of all, before you even get into it, so, governor Abbott let's just lay the groundwork here. Governor Abbott signed the, the the congressional redistricting map that, now gives five additional GOP seats, to the state of Texas.
And, that was a battle in and of itself, trying to get the, the Democrats to to stop throwing a temper tantrum and, coming back to do their jobs and be present for their, for, for for, for the vote. So, then you reached out. You let us know that there were some recent developments in this new district now that you that you are the candidate for, which is 37. Correct? I was right with that.
[01:10:31] Unknown:
Yes, sir. I don't know if you remember the first time I was on your show. I was like, hey. I have a great chance of winning, but my own party is gonna come after me. The do you remember me saying that? You saying that. Yeah. Well, low and behold, I so I actually on the the first legislative special session, I got to testify, I don't know, maybe 10 to 15 times on various topics. I was extremely active. I really loved it. I enjoyed it. And I do wanna mention that in most of these hearings, I was the only one or one of very few Republicans that were testifying in these hearings. And so it was already, you know, not a lot of support. And I thought that was interesting because, you know, Donald Trump is the one that said, hey. We need to redistrict because the maps aren't fair, and that's true. It wasn't.
So I literally testified maybe five times on redistricting. I drove all the way out to Arlington to testify one time. That was pretty scary. And and I got to just testify a million times. It was great. But, you know, as soon as redistricting goes through, I start having someone, a precinct chair in my party, attacking me on x. So I haven't I I signed up for x, I think, at, like, the November, like, 2024, And I didn't really start using it until a month, a month and a half ago. So very few followers and and very few things going on on there. Well, over the course of three days, I went completely viral, and it wasn't for good reasons. But you know what they say? They say that, any press is good press.
So two things about that. One, one of the biggest things about my campaign is I am here to expose corruption. And because of my past, I know a lot of corruption. I never intended on being in politics. I wasn't raised to be a part of politics, anything like that. And it just so happened, you know, it's interesting your your last guest was speaking about, you know, purpose and things like that. So I realized all the trauma that I went through and I endured and I overcame, it's because of this. This is my purpose. So really exciting.
But I never thought in a million years as a of human trafficking, I would have not only people in my own party, in in Travis County Republican Party, but also women attacking me saying that I'm lying. Now this got so bad that they actually the the woman filed a whereas petition to have me removed as a precinct chair. Which I think I have.
[01:13:09] Unknown:
Yeah. You know, I I sent you I sent you a message. I was only able to pull one of the images that you sent, and that's this one. So this is the motion for censured removal.
[01:13:19] Unknown:
Yeah. So they're basically saying on here that I need to be censured and removed, which, by the way, there's nothing in the Republican Party of Texas or the Travis County Republican Party's bylaws that allow for this. So, one, there's there's no standing in this whatsoever, so they can't do it. But, two, I think that it is a serious injustice for, you know, Donald Trump himself. And and this person should be absolutely ashamed because during redistricting, I think that they had a goal of getting five Republican seats I'm sorry. Eight Republican seats, and we were only able to pull five. But I've been kinda shouting at the rooftops, yay. It's six because I can flip this district, and I really can. So that means Donald Trump's gonna get six new seats. And, you know, I am I'm not a rhino. I'm definitely a conservative, and so it's it's definitely an injustice to Donald Trump and the other Republican voters here in Texas for this precinct chair to do such a thing. But, ultimately, I felt really betrayed that not only would a fellow precinct chair call for this, but a woman.
So for a woman to attack me and say that I'm not telling the truth about such a horrific experience, it it definitely really pulled my heartstrings. Yeah. But I I I do wanna say as, as you know, because your prior law enforcement, sometimes people don't always remember all of the things that happened to them when they're enduring, you know, things such as this. So That's right. Yeah. Hearing hearing these thousands and thousands and thousands of people commenting negative things about me, it did bring up a lot of the trauma that I I faced back then. And so I'm starting to remember more things than what I remember before.
So I'm I'm okay with that. I'm I'm fine. And I'm also excited. Like, keep it up, guys, because who knows who else I'll remember. You know?
[01:15:12] Unknown:
Well, it that that's very it's a very common thing, actually. You know? The people do tend to remember a lot of stress and trauma after the fact because then, you know, all the endorphins, everything's hard start to slow down a little bit and start to, you know, bring things back. But I'm scrolling through your your Twitter feed or your x feed. I'm trying to find the, the other images that you'd sent that, the ones the the screenshots from your, from x, but I can't seem to find it. I I think it's too far down. Yeah. It's gonna be all under that article, I think, seven or six,
[01:15:43] Unknown:
her, profile. And I you know, oddly enough so things got quiet about a week ago. People stopped attacking me because I I kinda stopped engaging with it because there was a lot of slander. There was a lot of lies. Another precinct chair was actually calling for an posted on there that people needed to call the health and human services and report me for fraud. So I have thousands of people liking this trying to report me for fraud, and I'm like, one, I'm not committing fraud because I'm the one that's here screaming about the fraud that, like, my I've been used as a conduit to. But secondly, like, that's horrible. Me my children rely on these benefits right now. And, no, I'm not employed, but I'm a full time candidate because I am trying to get a job. I'm asking the American people for the job, and I believe and I know that I can do this.
I do have another Republican primary mate. She does not have a chance of winning the general. There's no way. And I I I really think that yeah, so I did. I filed a I was a I filed a federal petition to move, DA Garza from office in Travis County because he is a horrible DA. And for anybody who doesn't live in the in Travis County area, he actually has something over 200 people in the past year have been released from jail because they weren't indicted time. And just a couple days ago, a murderer actually walked free because his office didn't do something right. And because of double jeopardy, that that murderer is walking free.
And in my federal complaint against Diego Garza, I am using house bill 17 that was passed in 2023 by the Texas legislature, and it says that you can remove a DA from office if he's failing to, you know, prosecute a class of people, which he is. He's failing to prosecute, crimes that homeless people do. Mhmm. And what's so unfortunate about that is the city of Austin is home to the Texas School of the Blind. So we do have a significant blind population. That's right. Yeah. They are literally being attacked on public transportation. So I I am friends with someone who is the chair for Austin, Council of the Blinds. And he he came to me and he was like, look. Like, I have people that are coming to me. They can't even use public transportation.
They're being attacked. He had, a lady come and smack his glasses off his face who was homeless saying that, you know, you're not really blind and and all of this, and it's just horrific. So the the crime in Travis County and the city of Austin is out of control. So I'm really you know, president Trump, if you can hear me, I am begging you to come to Austin, Texas. We need you. We have a rogue DA that does not care about the rule of law, and then we also have a Republican party that does not want to win. And I think it's so unfortunate because I can win. I can do it.
[01:18:49] Unknown:
Well, you have the attitude for it. That's I mean, it's like it's contagious. I mean, you you're you you got a lot of spunk there, and that's great. And that's what you need, though. You have to have the the the positive attitude that you're gonna you're gonna win this thing. And I think you might. I I I don't I don't doubt your abilities to do it whatsoever. I mean, especially with the redistricting now, you have more of an opportunity, I think, a better chance, than than running up against, who was it you're running against? Casar or or something like that? I'm still running against Greg Casar,
[01:19:16] Unknown:
but there's also already been so originally that so 37 was Lloyd Doggett's district. So when they moved 35 and made this all 37, it was pinning Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett against each other, but Lloyd Doggett already said, I'm out. Well, a lot of people are really mad about that because Lloyd Doggett was a lot more like, he was a democrat, but but he was reasonable. He was a a reasonable person, but Greg Casar just isn't. He's an extreme leftist, and he's detrimental for society. So, I mean, I know that I can can beat him. I my my challenge is so here's my I'm giving away my political secrets, but, you know, I am hoping that, you know, Donald Trump and the Republican Party of Texas is listening to this. Abraham George, pay attention. So, basically, I have potentially 20,000 new voters that I can get to come out and vote for me for the first time in forty years.
I don't want them to come out and vote in the primary because, one, these people haven't voted in forty years. It's already gonna be a miracle getting them out one time, but I also don't want Greg Casar and his campaign to see how many voters I actually am able to pull to get to come vote and have them go more aggressively in the campaign. So I I just need to get through this primary, and it'll be fine. But I have people in my own party literally attacking my character and spreading and spreading vicious lies on social media.
[01:20:43] Unknown:
So and who who's running against you in the primary?
[01:20:47] Unknown:
Her name is Janelle Gary. She, was a former mayor in California. She works full time, so she doesn't have the opportunity to be out on the campaign trail like I do right now. That's that's not her fault. And I guess you could say that I am at an advantage because I am receiving, you know, assistance that I can do this. But, I mean, I looked at the numbers today, and there's 20,000 people in Travis County that have a housing voucher. And guess what the percentage of those people are that don't work? 40 to 60%. Really? And I don't know why it's 40 to 60, but in the middle, that's 50%.
And so I've I've said it multiple times, like, hey. All my my neighbors are just sitting here doing drugs and selling drugs. I've been telling everyone that. But literally, according to their own numbers, 40 to 60% of them do not work at all. And so I find it incredibly offensive and actually, you know, ridiculous that I'm being attacked online for running for office while receiving these services. When I'm up at the Capitol every day, I'm testifying to save my community. I'm in City Hall. I'm meeting with voters. Today, you're the fourth meeting I've had today. Like, I you know? And we're months away from the election, and so I I feel honored that I'm having that opportunity.
But the fact of the matter is is if 40 to 60% of them are not working, there's a problem. And attacking me
[01:22:16] Unknown:
yeah. Exactly. I mean, you first of all, I'm looking through your Twitter feed as you're talking. Right? Every almost every post you have appears of you testifying someplace. So it no one can say that you're not active, you're not doing something, you're not trying to get something done and or accomplished. So, you know, it it I I think that we're gonna clip this, and you're you can send it to whoever you need to send it to. I'll make sure that you get it. But, you know, you you are so active in the community. That's what people need to see. They need to see their representatives active in that community within the constituency.
You know, you have somebody you're running against, you said, is a former mayor from California, has really no living experience, I don't know how long she's living there, but but no life experience. She was actually born in Texas. But Okay. But yeah. But she but she left Texas, went to California, became a mayor of the city in California, and then comes back here, and she's looking to bring her, probably her liberal, because e even Republicans in California are liberals, you know. So she's looking to bring she's looking to California, that part of Texas. So you are standing up for your constituents. You are standing up for your district, and your old district and your new district.
There's no reason whatsoever anyone should doubt your integrity on this. There's no I I just don't understand why they would do that. And, you know, I have to give you a lot of credit for standing up for what's right and for doing the right thing. So, you know, your your future constituents, which we're, you know, we're hoping that this this pulls through for you. We'd love to see you on the ticket as as the candidate. You know, I I've I've spoken to a few people that that are in that area, and I've been spreading your name around for you. So, people are gonna be checking you out. But, you know, just keep up what you're doing. Just keep keep keep your nose to the grindstone, keep fighting. You're doing the right thing. You're you're fighting for the right thing. You're fighting for your constituents, and that's what's important. You don't see very many, candidates out there doing that. That's why, like, when we spoke the first time, remember I told you you reminded me of?
Marjorie Taylor. Marjorie Taylor Greene. So so just keep that energy going, and you got this. I I I I'm convinced of that. Through the primary, for sure. I think you I think you got this. It might be a tough fight in the general because you're a new name. You're you're a I I don't wanna say a new face because if anybody follows you, I mean, they could see you all over the place. You're all over your social media. I've seen you here on on x, on on your Facebook, or your Instagram. You know, you're all over the place, and you're showing people what you're doing. You're out in the open. You're being transparent, and that's what's important, especially today. People want that. They wanna see the transparency. They wanna see the work you're doing for them. And I don't I don't think you're just talking a game either. I think you're I think you're legitimately putting your whole heart behind this, and and that's appreciated.
[01:25:18] Unknown:
Yeah. I mean, it it's more than just putting my whole heart behind this. I I I need everyone to understand that not only does my life and my children's life depend on this, but I would argue that, you know, all of the children in America's life depends on this. We need to find more candidates like me. Our our country is being taken over by socialists. Like, the guy in New York, I just I'm I'm so I'm so shocked. Like, why can you guys just fly me up to New York's other one of me and train them real quick? Because we cannot let this guy win.
[01:25:50] Unknown:
No. That's that's another issue altogether. I I just can't believe that that here we are twenty something twenty plus years removed from nine eleven and, anniversary coming up, and then the Democrats in New York voted in a Muslim socialist, which which I don't understand how that works. I don't I don't I didn't think that, somebody who professes the Muslim faith can be a socialist, but but there it is. So, I I don't know what's going on with New York. I I I pray for New York on a daily basis. I I don't it's just a scary scary thing to see how far New York has fallen.
[01:26:30] Unknown:
And, you know I can I can tell you exactly what it is because that's what I'm experiencing here in my major city, and it's the issue with every single major city? The Democrats need people like me to enslave into their Democrat public programs knowing that we're not gonna vote. So you don't have really a middle class in the cities. You have poor people like me, and then you have the rich elite, and they need us here. And so it's it's modern day slavery, but that's what I'm saying. Like, this race right now in Texas can change the trajectory for every major city. And I have so much evidence against the city. Like, I I'm I'm calling on Pam Bondi right now. Like, Pam Bondi, help me with this federal case that I have because Good luck. The city of Austin is in trouble. Like, I need you, Pam Bondi. Please come to Austin, Texas.
[01:27:16] Unknown:
Good luck with that. I I I'm I'm sorry to say this, but but, I am not a Pam Bondi fan. I I I I don't think she's doing such a great job right now. But that's another issue altogether. We don't have to talk about that now. But but, you know, you you just gotta keep going at it. Just keep going at it. You're doing a great job, and, I'm really happy that, that that you're that you're you're not giving up, and that's the thing. A lot of a lot of candidates tend to fold under a lot of this pressure, you know, the the attacks. I mean and and I understand that, you know, this is just the beginning. You know, you understand that. You know, it's gonna get worse the closer you get to the election. So what's your plan for that? How how are you gonna combat this? What do you what's the what what's your preemptive, moves on this?
[01:28:04] Unknown:
Well, like I like I said, I mean, I've I've my life has been filled with trauma since the day I was born, and things are going really great right now. And and I take when people are attacking me, when people are putting me down, it literally strokes my ego and makes me go harder. And at this point in time, I mean, I'm 34 years old. If if I don't succeed in this, like, what am I gonna do the rest of my life? So, like, my life depends on this, and you're not gonna break me down, and I'm not gonna stop. And I have, you know, my beautiful children. I hope to be a grandma one day far in the future, not not anytime soon, but, like, my children cannot grow up in this world. I would love for my children to be able to go to public school or even, you know, some type of school away from, like so they can get other people teaching them things. But I can't even let my kids go to public school right now because all of the public schools on my side of the highway are failing, and there's, you know, so much indoctrination going on. And I think that our our education system here in America is just completely out of control. And if we don't check it, there's gonna be some big issues because these kids are are I thought I was bad in in elementary school and middle school, but these kids are on a whole another level where I'm at, and and nobody's paying attention. The rate of crime is just out of control. And these kids are growing up in a place where they're being, like, normalized to to see, you know, drug paraphernalia on the ground, needles. There was, in fact, there was just a kid at the, an elementary school on ManShack just last week who, during recess, got stuck by a needle on the playground, and it's just out of control. So we need a we need Donald Trump to come in, but I do have something exciting that I don't think I told you last time. Make America Clean Again has agreed to come to Austin, Texas in November.
So this is gonna be a big community effort. They're the ones that actually got to clean up the border and things like that, and they're in, I think they're in Philadelphia right now. Another city like that. But they're coming to Austin, Texas. We're gonna clean that up, and I get I need to get all of the local organizations involved and make a big community effort on this. And the thought for it is is, you know, if if we come together as a community and we clean out the city and we pick it up, people are gonna be more inclined to keep it clean and start reporting things. And I think at the point right now where we are is people don't report things because they know nothing's gonna happen. But I think if we get the community engaged and they start doing it, then that'll be great. So I'm So that that map you're looking at is the old one. Yeah. So so now all of this,
[01:30:40] Unknown:
what what constituted thirty five is now part of thirty seven.
[01:30:45] Unknown:
Pretty much, except for, like, the the outsides of Travis County. So my new 37 is, like, pretty much the whole internal of Travis County. It it covers, like, I think, 15 properties that are people like me. And so I I have the the upper hand here. But like I said, my my Republican opponent, she's not gonna be able to relate to these people. She's not gonna be able to get them out to vote, and I will. So and I don't think Greg Casar will be knocking on those doors because he thinks that he has a a a win for sure. I mean, I know that he has a primary person that's going against him. I do foresee some Texas senators possibly hopping in this race to run as a Democrat.
That'll be in my advantage as well because the the person I think that's gonna run is another woman, but she comes from old elite money. And so I think she can beat Casar, but I can beat her because I'm gonna absorb some of Casar's, you know, moderates because they're not gonna want old elite money.
[01:31:51] Unknown:
I gotcha. I'm I'm looking there was something that I saw earlier that I'm just trying to trying to find that. And the more candidates come in, you know, just it just dilutes it it just dilutes the the, the voting pool, and it it it will make it a little bit harder though because, you know, again, it'll be siphoning off votes from from here to there. Let me see. I think that's that one. That's the one I just showed you.
[01:32:24] Unknown:
So I noticed that you had somebody in your chat ask a question. They said if someone were to clean up the trash in Austin and the city didn't keep it clean, is that a violation of anything? I just put it in the search bar. It says, the city of Austin through Austin Research Recovery and Code Enforcement has an ongoing legal duty to maintain public health and safety, which includes waste management under the city code, title 15 of solid waste services. If citizens clean up the city and the city fails to continue maintenance, this is not automatically a violation of law, but it may constitute negligence of municipal duty or a violation of local ordinances and possible ADA implications.
So that was a good question. Thank you. I appreciate you asking that.
[01:33:08] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm not great with watching the chat because I'm I'm looking at everything else. So, I missed that one too. And and and to anybody else, I am totally willing and open to answer any questions. I I kinda like that. That's that's the same question you just answered. So I like to when when folks throw questions up there, I like to highlight it for them so they they know we're paying attention. So, I I do apologize, for not I'm trying to get this map here to open up for me. It's not doing it. Let me see. Are you looking for the new one? Yeah. The one that you sent.
I think you could actually screen share on your end too.
[01:33:50] Unknown:
Of course, I'm not gonna find it really quick when I'm sitting here.
[01:33:53] Unknown:
Yeah. This is still the same. Same old map. Okay.
[01:33:59] Unknown:
Let's see.
[01:34:02] Unknown:
Here we go. I'm going to send the link in the chat and you pull it up because I don't wanna mess with anything. I'm not that tech savvy. Okay. We'll give it a try.
[01:34:15] Unknown:
There you go. Alright.
[01:34:19] Unknown:
And something else I wanna mention that I'm really excited about is I got to go to a meeting last week with the Republican Liberty Caucus. Those group of people were awesome. I really, really liked them. But it's it's interesting because when I went to governor Greg Abbott's, quorum busting boot camp last week, I was like, I wanna I wanna debate. Like, I'm ready to debate. And so my opponent's campaign manager was there, and the Republican Liberty Caucus asked him, you know, hey. Are you are you willing to have your candidate debate if we host it? And he was like, oh, well, I'll get back to you, and I'll let you know. So I'm really, really excited about that debate. And I also wanna bring debates to the general because I tell you what, Greg Casar cannot debate. When he was doing testimony for the redistricting hearing, he had Jasmine Crockett right next to him whispering in his ear telling him what to say. So I think that I would be a good candidate to take that on. But I think we need to bring back congressional debates, especially in primaries, so that's something I'm excited about. I agree. I think there needs to be more more public discourse, more more debates,
[01:35:23] Unknown:
publicly than than not having debates. I'd like to know more about what my congressional representative is planning on, on doing. I don't know. Is that is the whole thing coming up there?
[01:35:35] Unknown:
Well, I saw it, but I don't see it now.
[01:35:40] Unknown:
Yeah. That's let me oh, you know why? Because, my feed froze. So give it a second. We'll refresh it here. So I might disappear, but I'll be back. You can keep talking while this is resetting.
[01:36:00] Unknown:
Oh, we're in silence. I see there's a bunch of people that are on. If you have any questions, I'd love to answer anything. I know a lot of people are like, who is this girl? Where did she come from? Out of nowhere. And I'd love to answer questions. So, yay, you're back.
[01:36:13] Unknown:
Yeah. It just I needed to refresh. I apologize for that. It's, No problem. It's the, it it's using this. We're may I'm actually gonna be making a switch to a different, still be with Rumble, but I'll I'm gonna be using some third party software to, to stream with instead of going through the Rumble platform because I'm having way too many problems with it, like, compared to this like this. So I don't wanna continue on that. I was listening to your your Pod Home
[01:36:39] Unknown:
call out, and that seems really interesting. I think I might might be willing to do something Well, you know, I I was gonna say, you know, you really should
[01:36:47] Unknown:
you really should do a podcast, even if it's a temporary one, just just to, you know, just during the campaign season.
[01:36:56] Unknown:
Well, I started one called Street to the Hill, but I've only done one episode, so I haven't.
[01:37:00] Unknown:
Well, keep keep working on it. Keep doing it. But Podholme's great, by the way. Podholme I've been with Podholme now for, about almost three years, and they are a they they're just amazing. With with what they offer for how much they they charge, man, it's it's like having a whole team working for you. I mean, you can get your your your show notes generated automatically with AI titles, AI. I use it a lot, to be honest with you, to generate the show notes and and the titles sometimes because sometimes I get writer's block, and I can't, you know, put the two sentences together to make it sound coherent. But, but and that's been a lifesaver.
And, they're they're they're constantly evolving, plus, you know, if you have a website, you can hook it up with them, and and you could you could live you can live cast your podcast with them. It's audio only for their platform right now. I know I know that they're they've been talking about doing some stuff with video, later on, but, as of right now, it's just audio. But, they're great. As a matter of fact, the, the owner of Podholm is gonna be on the show on a special Saturday show because he's overseas, and, he's in Sweden, I think, Switzerland.
[01:38:09] Unknown:
Nice. Or somewhere
[01:38:11] Unknown:
somewhere over there where it's it's it's the exact opposite of time for us, so we we we're doing a doing a special show on a Saturday. Alright. So here's the this is the new map? Yes, sir. Okay. So let's see. Where is I see 35.
[01:38:27] Unknown:
So it's gonna be North of 35. You see that little yellow spot? This here? It's small. It's I'm telling you, it's a compact tiny district.
[01:38:37] Unknown:
There you go.
[01:38:39] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:38:40] Unknown:
Okay. So you're you're by oh, you're by Bastrop. Yeah. No Bastrop. Okay.
[01:38:48] Unknown:
He's gone. Yeah. So it's it's not projected to be one of those seats that, gets picked up, but it's going to.
[01:38:57] Unknown:
See, that's the great attitude to have. Fight hard. Good for you. That's a great attitude to have.
[01:39:02] Unknown:
Yeah. Because, I mean, think about it. I can knock on all those doors three times with my all my kids before the general election. And how many children do you have? So I have four that I birth, but I have five here that live with me. I I took in a 21 year old whose parents threw them out at, 16 years old like me, but he's been, a blessing to have. He's a really great kid, and he's part of the family. So so I have 21, 16, 13, 11, and seven. Wow. And the seven year old loves knocking doors. So, like, in 2024, he was, like, my door knocking buddy because every day we were out knocking on doors, and he loved it. He liked getting the interaction with other people and then also getting to watch walk in the nature and things like that. So it was great. Awesome. See, make make sure you make use of them because that's that's cheap labor
[01:39:54] Unknown:
right there. Right.
[01:39:56] Unknown:
Yeah. That's awesome. All I have to do is pay them in candy.
[01:39:59] Unknown:
Oh, okay. No. Maha, give them something healthy.
[01:40:03] Unknown:
Oh, man. They're walking. That's healthy.
[01:40:06] Unknown:
Yeah. But give them a carrot.
[01:40:12] Unknown:
I actually have carrots in my refrigerator, so that's good. Perfect. So,
[01:40:16] Unknown:
so I actually do I? I don't think so. I think I ran out. I I feed I I give carrots to my my my dogs. They they love them. And they're they're so much better for them than than the rawhide stuff and and all that other mess. But, I know we're we're way off track here with, with with the campaign. So, so I know I know last time you were here with us, you talked a lot a little bit about, some of the campaign positions that you have. Why don't you run us through your positions and and and give us an idea of what Lauren for Congress stands for and what the what your cons your future constituents can expect from you.
[01:40:52] Unknown:
Yeah. So when I was trying to first get involved, I didn't really know anything about politics. I, went online to, like, austin.com or whatever austin.gov, and I saw that they had a position open for the Austin Public Safety Commission. And I was like, oh, that's what I need because I want more police because, again, my my Democrat opponent is the one who defunded the police in 2020 on Austin City Council. And so I I get on the Austin Public Safety Commission, have no idea what I'm doing. This is something that I'm getting a little rough feedback on. So during 2023, there was a relationship between the Austin Police Department and the, Texas Department of Public Safety.
And so while I was on that commission for three months in a row, we kept having people come in, and we were asking for transparency between what's going on with this partnership, and we weren't getting it. And so I ended up voting to stop the relationship because there was absolutely no transparency, and the day before something had happened. But come to find out, like, these people can lie, and I didn't know that. So I regret my decision, but I also didn't have anybody mentoring me or anything like that. So I was on the Austin Public Safety Commission. And then after a little bit, I'm, like, literally begging for more police.
They realized I'm a conservative, and they kicked me off the Austin Public Safety Commission. During that time, I am working on my bachelor's degree and my par legal certification from UT. So while I'm doing that, I'm also flying across the country to leadership institute trainings, getting, campaign management certifications, candidate school. I also go to Patriot Academy where I did a mock legislative session. It was super great. I got to create my own bill. I know the whole process of getting it through there. I've attended so many political events.
So in 2024, I became a Republican precinct chair for Travis County Republican Party. Then I went on to be a delegate for the senate district delegate, and then I moved on to be a state delegate. While I was a state delegate, I was also serving on the platform editorial committee. So for about three weeks, hours and hours and hours, I was actually working on the Republican platform of Texas. My name is actually on the cover for that. That was one of the greatest learning experiences that I had because I really got to dig into, I guess, like, the the platform and the planks and things like that and also learning how to edit it. I thought it was really great for legislation.
And then I was going to be a delegate to the RNC, but I wasn't able to afford the way they were doing it. And I ended up getting a call from the Trump campaign for the state director for Trump '47. She called me right before the RNC, and she was like, hey. I see you signed up to be a delegate. Do you still wanna go? And I'm like, well, heck, yeah. I wanna go. So I ended up fundraising my ticket to get up there. The greatest thing about it is I didn't stay with the delegation. I went to hotels.com, and I got a hotel, like, right outside the convention center for super cheap. Nice. And so while the entire Texas delegation is spending two hours driving back and forth every day, I'm literally riding scooters around, having caviar with Boris Johnson, like and I was meeting, like, all of these incredible celebrities, Laura Trump, I so many. I have pictures all over my Facebook and stuff, but I got to meet so many politicians and talk to them. And it was really, really great. But I had no idea that I was going to be running for United States Congress. I had just planned on running for, the Texas house because my house member is one of the Democrats that fled. And so while I'm sitting here experiencing civil rights violations in my public housing and things like that, they're they're violating ADA regulations.
I have, you know, people that are really suffering in this building. She's up in, you know, what was it, Chicago. And come to find out, they were not only up there getting taking luxury planes and food and things like that, they were fundraising while they were doing it. And so I think it was really, really crazy. But as far as my my political experience, my legislative experience, and even my law experience, I would say that I probably have more experience than 90% of people that get elected the first time. So I'm I'm definitely not someone who is under experienced in these things. So when people say that I'm not I'm not capable of doing the job, it's just ridiculous because I have a lot of experience. And then lastly, I did just get, ironically, an email from the city of Austin.
I had tried to get on the community police review commission, which was something that, is is new, but I wasn't, so they did, like, a a ball in a basket, and they drew names out of it, and I wasn't selected. But I got an email two weeks ago saying that they have a bunch of openings on there, and if I was still interested. I'm very, very excited for this because a lot of people might not know this, but in the they the second special session that just, is about to end here in Texas, they are passing a bill that, or do you I mean, they're police officers. You know what the g file is. Right? Like, for police department? Yep.
So they're passing a bill that creates another kinda secret place for police files that can't be accessed by public information requests. And so I am I'm pretty concerned about that. I know that a lot of people are concerned about that, but what I've heard is that a lot of the legislators are not gonna vote against it because they're endorsed by the person that's carrying the bill. And it it makes me kinda sad because part of my priority is to get the community police relationship, you know, kinda mended. And I know what it's like to to be on the the other side of the law where we don't get along with police officers and we think that they're the enemies, and that's just completely not true. And it's just we need to reeducate the population, and I think having better police transparency is the way to do that. So I think it's unfortunate that the state of Texas might be passing this bill to keep this secret file on their police officers.
[01:47:12] Unknown:
Yeah. That's, look. In every every every department has has the has the, the bad apples. You know? It it's unfortunately, that's just the reality of it. And we need to do better in the vetting process when we hire these cops and and evaluation processes over the course of their careers. I remember I I I got evaluated on a regular basis. My my my when I was on my probationary period, I got evaluated every three months, and then after that, it was it was every six months, and then after that, it became, an annual evaluation. It it's something that needs to be done, and and there needs to be more oversight. Are you gonna catch every bad apple? No. You're not unfortunately, you're not going to, but, you can't let the bad apples in the bunch ruin it for the for the other officers. You know, most police officers have the community's best interest at heart, and, you know, I I I could I I say that from my own experiences in wearing the uniform That's my my little alarm clock out there in the hallway letting me know that it's almost time for dinner. So and and, man, he's right on target. Yeah. Usually about ten too. That's when he lets me know.
So I don't I I don't I don't know. That internal clock, I guess. I don't know. But, but yeah. So that's a very important role to be on, and if you can get onto a committee like that, that's great. And they need a voice like you, somebody who's who's logical and understands the the the the concerns, understands what the people are looking for, and, I think you'd be a great fit for that. I would have loved to have seen you run for a house, you know, a Texas house, seat, but, but, you know, God bless you for what you're doing. I I think that's amazing. And, you know, you never know. You never know. You might be in the Governor's Office one day.
You never know.
[01:48:55] Unknown:
You know? Strangely. Wherever I go, it's okay. That's it. Not in my control at this point. It's You just make sure you put your constituents,
[01:49:03] Unknown:
in front of everything else. What do my what what do the people who live in my district want? And keep those communication lines open with them. I think that's really, really important. How many representatives end up getting to Congress and then disappear, don't really go back out to their districts very often, set up shop living in out there in in in the swamp, and, alright. And and, I don't know if you can hear him, but, so, yeah. Yeah. I got me all distracted now. One second.
[01:49:42] Unknown:
No. You're fine.
[01:49:44] Unknown:
Alright. This is the joys of live shows. So so, yeah, just keep focused on it and keep doing it. I know I know we talked, before because we don't have a few minutes to go, but, we talked before. We know your position on the border. We wanna see that thing closed, which it is, and and there there have been what was it? Is it 99.999% closed right now? There haven't been any illegal border crossings, that have been reported, which have been which is fantastic. I give the administration an an a plus on this whole thing and, on their handling of the border, and, you know, I I think he's doing a great job this administration. We just gotta keep it that way.
Oh, I thought you I thought I lost you for a second. You look like frozen solid for a minute. Either that or you really listening to what I was saying because you it looks like your image has not moved. But, but, but so so so going forward so we know about the border. What do you think about taxes? And I'm not talking about state tax. That's a state matter. Obviously, we'd love to see in the state, I know Brian Harrison, in the Texas house has been been extremely vocal on repealing, or or ending, actually, Texas state property taxes, and I think that's a fantastic idea. I don't I don't think you should be paying taxes on property that you're paying for already through a mortgage or that you already paid off. It's already your property. I think taxation is theft to begin with. I think property taxes on top of that is just absolutely immoral, and, they need to be eliminated altogether. I would love to see I know president Trump made a made a comment during the course of the campaign about eliminating the IRS.
I would love to see that happen. What do you think about that? Do you think we're on the right track for that? Would you be in favor of that?
[01:51:42] Unknown:
I would absolutely be in favor of that. Because, I mean, if you look back since, you know, they they started implementing all these public programs and things like that, our our taxpayer dollars have just been weaponized against communities like mine, and there's no there's no point on it. And, again, it comes back to them needing to have poor people in order to stay in power. So if we take away their ability to weaponize the against or the taxpayer dollars against the poor people, not only will it make the rich elite on the left kinda have to save more and and check themselves, but it's gonna force people to get lifted out of poverty. And so I think that that's something that every American should be in favor for because right now, I think the the communities that are most harmed is the middle class, and it it really does appear to me that they are trying to take away the middle class because they're making it so difficult for the middle class to get assistance, then that comes into, you know, having such high property taxes and things like that. I mean, the city of Austin just increased their taxes a lot, and it's supposed to go to a vote. But the way they have the which written, I mean, people don't even know what they're voting for. But also, the population is not educated enough on what what these tax fair funds are actually going to because it's not going thing besides the rich elite.
[01:52:59] Unknown:
Yeah. Exactly. I mean, if you saw We definitely gotta get rid of it. Yeah. And so you you saw exactly what's going on with it, you know, early on the administration with Doge publishing all the information about all the the the fraud, waste, and abuse they found. You know, all the tax money getting funneled into these organizations like you excuse me, USAID and other organizations, which is just a front for, all of these, electeds to to funnel money into their little pet projects and people that they know as favors and so on and so forth. And how many billions of dollars have been spent, on on such ridiculous nonsense that, you know, that money could have been served well better here at home.
I think the American people are smart enough to know what to do with their own money. They don't need the government to dictate to them what to do with it and how to how to go about it. So, so that's good. So you're on the side for eliminating taxes, and this is that's great. Now, we know that to be, like, the last question I'm gonna ask you because we're running out of time. We we know that, you know, as as a representative in Congress, you're dealing more with, federal issues than than local issues. So we got this this war going on over in Ukraine. I might I don't know if I'm gonna put you on the spot with this one, but, so we got this war going on with Ukraine, that, obviously, this administration didn't start. This administration is doing everything it possibly can to stop.
Not getting much, cooperation right now from either side, but yet we're still sending supplies and money and so on and so forth. Where where are you on this? I mean, do you think that this is something that the American people should still continue to be funding? Do you think we should have been funding it in the first place? I purse my personal position is to and I'll just be very honest with you is that we need to stop being the world's policeman. You know, we we need to stop supplying, first first of all, both sides of every conflict. You know, we supply Israel. We also supply Hamas. We also we supply, you know, Ukraine. We're also giving stuff to to Russia, I'm sure. That has to stop. We need to we I I personally believe that that America cannot be the world's policeman anymore.
We need to we need to redirect all these things back home. We need to bring home our military. There's no reason at this day and age where we need to be in, what is it, a 150 countries around the world having some type of military presence somewhere? There's no reason for that anymore. The cold war is over. There's no reason to have military presence in places like Poland and and and Great Britain. I mean, how would you feel if if, if if if China had a military base in the middle of Austin, Texas?
[01:55:48] Unknown:
I mean Well, I mean, that doesn't look very friendly at all, and I think that we are getting a negative image to the world's age definitely because we are just interfering in in foreign people's, you know, business and things like that. We need to stop funding foreign wars. But as far as Ukraine and Russia, I think that Zelensky needs to just tuck in his tail and let Russia have what they have and end the war. Because if it keeps escalating, I would hate for, you know, NATO to get involved. Because if anything happens, you know, from Russia to NATO, that is really a direct war against The United States, and it's not our war in the first place. And so we we need to just leave it alone. And it and Zelensky needs to tuck his tail in.
[01:56:31] Unknown:
US in or out of NATO.
[01:56:34] Unknown:
I I don't want The United States in NATO. I think that we need to have just, you know, maybe the North American continent, you know, have Canada, Mexico, and The United States, or maybe, like, the whole hemisphere. We don't we don't need to be involved, with with NATO, especially because if you look at the way politics are going in The UK and things like that, I mean, these are not good things that are happening, and they're literally losing their their right to free speech and things like that, and we can't be a part of that. Well, now it's illegal for
[01:57:07] Unknown:
an English citizen to fly the English flag. It's now illegal to do that. They will go to jail for doing that. And then you have the European Union, which is, and parts parts of European Union, like like Germany, France, Great Britain. They're all talking about providing troops to Russia I mean, to Ukraine. Excuse me. So, of course, you know that if anything happens to any of those troops, and since those are NATO countries, if there is an attack on Ukraine and any of those troops are injured or or, god forbid, killed, that can and more than likely will be, looked at as a direct attack on NATO and then drag us all into World War three, which is something I know president Trump is trying to avoid at all costs. He's he's been very vocal about that because, you know, this is this is the the plan of the European Union was to drag Russia into a long protracted war for thirty years. That was their stated goal for this with Ukraine.
And, that there and and as much as the president is trying to stop this thing, they are fighting against him and by sending these troops, or at least planning to send troops into, into Ukraine to, to to assist. So it's a very, very dangerous time we're in, and I'm glad I'm glad to hear that you're on the side of pulling out of NATO. I think that's incredibly important. I think that's something we need to do for sure. Lauren Pena. Absolutely. So where can we find out more about you?
[01:58:41] Unknown:
You can go to my website, laurenforcongress.com. That's lauren, l a u r e n, the number four, and congress.com. Lauren for congress.
[01:58:50] Unknown:
And then I'm also on Facebook and x. And so you'll find all those links there. Awesome. Lauren, thank you so much. And let's, let's let's keep doing this. You know, check back with check back in with us in a couple of weeks. Let us know where you are and how things are going with the campaign. We'd love to keep track of you and and and see how things are working out for you.
[01:59:07] Unknown:
Awesome. Thank you so much for having me on again, and I look forward to it next time. You betcha. It's a pleasure. You have a great night.
[01:59:13] Unknown:
You too. Alright, folks.
[01:59:15] Unknown:
Let's see. We're not gonna take our next break here. We're just gonna go right into, the shutdown for the show because as you can hear Charlie in the background, letting me know it's time for dinner. So, folks, don't forget to head over to our website, joeroos.com. Sign up for the programming announcements email list. There's a little pop up that's gonna come up on the screen. Just fill it out and get yourself on the email list. Alright? Socials, don't forget to check us out on, on x at Joru's Truth Social. Joru's Minds, Joru's Facebook, Joru's Podcast.
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And you can download those apps at modernpodcastapps.com or podcastindex.org. And, as you can hear Charlie in the background, so I think that's gonna do it for us tonight. Alright, folks. Again, thank you to Lauren Pena for being with us and Sylvia Solit. Thank you guys so much for paying attention to the show tonight. A lot of fun, a lot of great conversations. Alright, folks. Make Texas independent again. Go podcasting. Keep a steady stride, and keep talking. Good night. Goodbye.
