May 13, 2025

The Financial Freedom Lie: Why Most Americans Are Still Stuck (And How to Break Free!) Why?

The Financial Freedom Lie: Why Most Americans Are Still Stuck (And How to Break Free!) Why?

Are you living the American Dream—or just trapped in an illusion of freedom? In this explosive episode of Your Ultimate Life , Cosmos Dar returns to break down the brutal truth about financial bondage, debt, and the myths that keep most people stuck.

Cosmos shares his personal journey from poverty to empowerment , revealing the tools and mindset shifts you need to escape the financial trap and create true freedom.

💥 In This Episode:

✔️ Why 99% of Americans are financially enslaved (and don’t even realize it).

✔️ The dangerous truth about debt, fiat currency, and the illusion of wealth.

✔️ The key to unlocking financial literacy & independence.

✔️ Actionable steps to start building the life you REALLY want—today.

Connect with Cosmos: https://extraordinary-america.com/

🔥 Your freedom is in YOUR hands. Stop waiting for a rescue and start creating your own ultimate life.

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Chapters

00:00 - Untitled

00:07 - Creating Your Ultimate Life

00:29 - The Journey to Freedom and Prosperity

14:30 - The Birth of Extraordinary America

17:24 - Understanding True Freedom Through Education

31:04 - Understanding Fiat Currency and Precious Metals

36:11 - The Economic Crisis and Personal Empowerment

Transcript
Speaker A

Welcome to the show.

Speaker A

Tired of the hype about living a dream?

Speaker A

It's time for truth.

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This is the place for tools, power and real talk so you can create the life you dream and deserve your ultimate life.

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Subscribe, share, create.

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You have infinite power.

Speaker A

Hey there.

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Welcome to today's episode of your ultimate, Ultimate Life, the podcast dedicated specifically to helping you create a life driven by purpose and filled with prosperity and joy.

Speaker A

I'm grateful today to have a special guest with me, Cosmo star Cosmos.

Speaker A

Welcome to the show.

Speaker B

Kellen, thank you so much for inviting me to the show.

Speaker B

It's an, it's an honor to be here.

Speaker A

So I am really struck by your commitment to helping people attain freedom and self determination and the ability to control their own lives.

Speaker A

You know, all that good stuff that we talk about, and you see the effects of people not feeling that with kind of the pent up anger that people show a lot.

Speaker A

So what is it that brought you.

Speaker A

Well, let me ask a different question.

Speaker A

Why do you care about helping people achieve freedom and prosperity?

Speaker A

Like, why do you care about that?

Speaker B

Because, Kellen, I've seen what poverty can do to people and how money can dictate the course of millions and millions of lives, if not billions.

Speaker B

Because you see, like, I was born in India, but my parents were immigrants that moved to Kuwait, which is a country in the Middle East.

Speaker B

And while I was there, I saw immigrants from all shapes of life work in these menial jobs where they're earning like, you know, like around $100 a month or even less, just struggling to get by and then sending money back home to their, to their families, right?

Speaker B

And then they didn't have any life.

Speaker B

All they would do is just work and their money and their work and their entire lives revolved around earning money.

Speaker B

And you realize that money is a big factor in most people's lives and they, they don't really know how to attain prosperity and abundance.

Speaker B

So they live in environments that are filled with scarc.

Speaker B

When I was in Kuwait, I saw how, how bad poverty can be.

Speaker B

And there's the, there's obviously like the natives of the country who are immensely rich, and then there are the immigrants who were of a different socioeconomic status and many of them are very, very poor.

Speaker B

And so I wanted to do something about that.

Speaker B

But at that point, I'm just like growing up over there, I don't know what to do.

Speaker B

But when I came to America, it's the land of freedom and it's a land of opportunity, and it's a land where people pursue their happiness, and they go after the American Dre.

Speaker B

But over a period of time, like, even after becoming a citizen, I noticed a hypocrisy between the ideals of the American identity, the entrepreneurial immigrant identity, and then the reality of everyday Americans where they are basically going through two to three jobs just to make ends meet.

Speaker B

And then they're basically living paycheck to paycheck, and it's different from Kuwait, but it's still around the same lines.

Speaker B

And they're not really living the dream that they want to live.

Speaker B

They're not living the life that they want.

Speaker B

They're basically the entire lives of revolving around, paying their debts, paying their bills, and basically just barely going by.

Speaker B

And that's why I started what I started, Extraordinary America.

Speaker A

So let me back up.

Speaker A

That's fabulous.

Speaker A

And I'm struck by your passion.

Speaker A

How did you guys get from India to Kuwait?

Speaker A

What made the.

Speaker A

And maybe you're too young.

Speaker A

If it happened before you were old enough to even know.

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I don't know.

Speaker A

What made you decide?

Speaker A

Okay.

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Do you know what made your parents decide to go from India to Kuwait?

Speaker B

It was just to earn, like, to have a better life, you know, like, basically, like, to have a better life for themselves and for their family and just have, like, better conditions.

Speaker A

So they had some kind of difficulty.

Speaker A

It was hard to make a living in India.

Speaker A

Kuwait looked better.

Speaker A

So you went there, and you noticed, holy cow, there's this extremely, ridiculously wealthy class of people with all the oil and stuff in Kuwait, and yet we have all these immigrants that are working for starvation wages, essentially.

Speaker A

I mean, $100 a month.

Speaker A

I don't know what things cost in Kuwait, but nobody can even breathe at $100 a month, so.

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Or even 200 or whatever.

Speaker A

And you saw that.

Speaker A

You experienced that.

Speaker A

How did you end up going to the United States, America?

Speaker A

How did you.

Speaker A

How did that happen?

Speaker B

So, basically, my aunt and uncle, they were already citizens over here.

Speaker B

And then my.

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My father worked really hard, and so, like, he want.

Speaker B

He already had a vision for me to go to America as I would grow up and do college and university here and, like, make a better life here.

Speaker B

So I would say it's basically my parents combined with my aunt and uncle that basically got me here.

Speaker B

And I honestly, like, from my perspective, like, I didn't even know much about America, but.

Speaker B

But, like, they would take me over here every year, like, for summer to visit, like, my aunt and uncle.

Speaker B

And then that's when I started to get acquainted.

Speaker B

Acquainted with the American culture.

Speaker B

And then when I came here for college and university.

Speaker B

I fell in love with the culture and just like the freedom and just how open minded people are and just like about different opportunities.

Speaker A

Wow.

Speaker A

So, okay, so you had, it's always interesting for me and also for listeners to understand how that happened.

Speaker A

I have a, a woman who's a client right now and she came from one of the Eastern European countries and she had a different path to get here.

Speaker A

And when she arrived in the United States, I mean, I live in Canada, but it's all kind of one blob.

Speaker A

She arrived in the United states with like $100 and was hitchhiking.

Speaker A

But she got here because she had a similar dream of possible freedom and opportunity.

Speaker A

And you did it the same except you happened to have an uncle and an aunt who are already in, in the United States.

Speaker A

And what strikes me about that is you, you talk about the opportunity and the opportunity to create a beautiful life.

Speaker A

And that's what you saw as an example.

Speaker A

So your dad and uncle worked together and your dad working in whatever difficulties he had, but they created through their work and effort the opportunity for you.

Speaker A

And they had a vision to move to the US with the idea that you, through your work and effort could then achieve something better.

Speaker A

And I'm saying it that way because that was a theme from what you just said.

Speaker A

Now, now you got to the US and you went to university here.

Speaker A

What did you graduate in?

Speaker B

I graduated in electrical engineering.

Speaker A

Electrical engineering.

Speaker B

Double E in computers or power does powers.

Speaker B

But I did a few classes in computers as well.

Speaker A

I asked that because I think I told you this when we talked a few weeks ago.

Speaker A

I spent 30 years in the energy business working for utilities and I knew a million power engineers.

Speaker A

So you're a power engineer.

Speaker A

I now remember you told me that.

Speaker A

Anyway, so you went and did that and you thought, I'm going to create, following the example of my dad and uncle, through my own hard work and this extraordinary opportunity, a life for myself that I love.

Speaker A

Did you get a job or work in the electrical power engineering field or not?

Speaker B

For a little bit.

Speaker B

But then I did not pursue the engineering course because I realized an ultimate, ultimate truth about life that even people that are doing stem, most of them are not actually doing it because they're passionate about it.

Speaker B

They're doing it for the money.

Speaker B

And ultimately you realize that you can monetize things that you're passionate about and people that know things that you actually want to do.

Speaker B

And for me, I realized as I was graduating that I can't see myself Doing engineering For the next 40 years of my life.

Speaker B

Like, the money would be great.

Speaker B

They'll be good, but I will just not be passionate about it.

Speaker B

And I need to do something that I'm passionate about.

Speaker B

But the only thing that struck me, the My why was that I wanted to get people out of poverty.

Speaker B

Like, I wanted to get as many people out of poverty as possible, because I've seen how poverty affects people's lives and how it destroys people's lives.

Speaker B

Like, they are so constricted, and I feel the constraints.

Speaker B

And how do you do that?

Speaker B

What do you do to do that?

Speaker B

And the answer was, I had to look into marketing and sales.

Speaker B

And that time the Internet was becoming.

Speaker B

The Internet was already big in the 2000, but it was truly growing to a level where you could actually, like, where all businesses could actually go online during that time.

Speaker B

And so I started doing more research and looking into that and how to do.

Speaker B

How to, like.

Speaker B

How to basically do marketing and sales online and then how to basically deal with money and like.

Speaker B

And like, the entire course of, like, financial education.

Speaker A

So that's fabulous.

Speaker A

And I want.

Speaker A

I want to.

Speaker A

I'm going to repeat some of this because I want to make sure the listeners hear this.

Speaker A

So as an engineer, you could have had a good career.

Speaker A

Like I said, I was in power for a long time, and I knew a zillion, you know, Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, power engineers that did all kinds of stuff, utilities and transmission lines and all that stuff.

Speaker A

And you decided, and this is a thing I want to repeat, because I want people to hear this.

Speaker A

You decided, wow, I have this degree in power engineering.

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I know I could go get a job and be a power engineer, but I don't think that means anything.

Speaker A

And I want to do something that matters.

Speaker A

And what was driving you was the yearning to help people get out of poverty and get financial literacy in terms of understanding how money works and how the money system works and all that, so they can use their own drive and dreams and everything to create.

Speaker A

To create a life for themselves instead of being stuck in a path that was determined like you would have been if you'd gone to power.

Speaker A

He said, I'm not doing that.

Speaker A

And so I'm going to go take advantage of the Internet.

Speaker A

I'm going to learn something about sales and marketing, and I'm going to carve my own path through this jungle.

Speaker A

Is that what I heard?

Speaker B

No.

Speaker B

Yes.

Speaker B

And I would like to add that my lifetime, like, in my formative years growing up in Kuwait, like, where I Saw a lot of construction workers and laborers working, right.

Speaker B

These menial jobs under the hot sun, right?

Speaker B

And then I was looking at the engineering, and then I saw.

Speaker B

I realized that the two.

Speaker B

The one thing that they both have in common is that we're not doing it because we want to.

Speaker B

We're doing it for the money.

Speaker B

And that's like, the thing that came back to me in Mask is like, ultimately, if you want to create your ultimate life and your American dream, you have to know your why.

Speaker B

And you can never do something in life just for the money.

Speaker B

You have to be passionate about it.

Speaker B

And I realized that that was not my passion.

Speaker B

Just like.

Speaker B

Just like most jobs are not people's passions, they just do it because they have to earn a living.

Speaker B

And that was why I decided to do what I went into another direction.

Speaker A

I love the fact that you did that, and I want everybody to hear it really loud, because at the end of the day, surveys show 75, 80, 85% of people don't like their jobs.

Speaker A

And the reason is because it is not connected with their passion.

Speaker A

They're doing it to pay bills, working for the weekend, you know, that whole.

Speaker A

Whole framework of stuff, instead of asking who am I and what do I want to do?

Speaker A

So did you work in the sales and marketing field as you began to develop this idea of helping people, you know, shape their future, get financial literacy and.

Speaker A

And make a dent in the poverty situation?

Speaker B

So for time, I worked with people that were in the online business field, like, with affiliates and everything like that, like how to create marketing and sales funnels, like online funnels, where they can.

Speaker B

Where you can get sales through, like, products and all that.

Speaker B

And then I learned from them how to do marketing, like online marketing, online sales, basically customer acquisition funnels and all of that, and then basically creating products.

Speaker B

But ultimately, from all of those, all of those experiences, I like, I got acquainted with a bunch of companies which are in different fields, but they're into financial education, for instance.

Speaker B

One company that I worked was into real estate education and others into.

Speaker B

Into precious metals and all of that.

Speaker B

And every company in that, you see, like, they're always looking for more.

Speaker B

More clients and more leads.

Speaker B

And so, and.

Speaker B

And the combination of the online space combined with companies looking for more clients, the intersection of that is where I saw that there was like, a lot of money.

Speaker B

But in the process, I realized that a lot of people can become financially free through the online space.

Speaker A

So what did you do with that?

Speaker A

I know that your goal, as you said before, is to help end the slavery and addiction to money give people the tools and ability to be financially literate, find and pursue their passion, and become financially independent.

Speaker A

It sounds like you had a wealth of experience.

Speaker A

You made a powerful decision to follow your passion.

Speaker A

That led you to sales, marketing, and you discovered a bunch of companies that were doing that.

Speaker A

And you talked about financial literacy and precious metals and things.

Speaker A

So as you, as you put that together, combining the, your desire to help people create wealth, financial literacy, and the exposure you had to these companies, where did that land you in terms of creating extraordinary America?

Speaker A

Walk me through that creation process.

Speaker B

So as I was, as I was like with these companies and I realized that one thing, one thing that they all have in common, right?

Speaker B

For instance, if you look at real estate investing education, or precious metals education or even like investing in precious metals, the one thing that they all had was financial freedom, right?

Speaker B

And this is, is where, this is where the idea for Extra America was born.

Speaker B

Because I realized that across the nation, you have so much wealth and income inequality, but the identity of America is freedom, right?

Speaker B

But on the financial front, most people, they're not living a free life.

Speaker B

It's just an illusion, right?

Speaker B

They are just, they're just living, they're not living the life that they want.

Speaker B

The American dream, at least in my definition, was living the life you want, like creating your own life, living life on your terms.

Speaker B

And the 99%, they're not, they're not doing that.

Speaker B

Only a select few who know and think, who have the right mindset and how they, how to go about it, are doing that.

Speaker B

And that's some.

Speaker B

And so I wanted to combine all these different companies together under a banner of like extraordinary America, like where we can create a movement where people are into investing in their own financial education, whether it is in education about money, monetary systems, just like business, real estate, how all of this works and ties in together.

Speaker B

Because if you know one, you're naturally going to know another, know the other.

Speaker B

And that's how, that's how you can create your ultimate life is like when you understand how it works and then you monetize whatever you're doing.

Speaker A

Okay, so this is fabulous information.

Speaker A

Your goal then, as I understand it, is to.

Speaker A

And the creation of extraordinary America was saying, wow, I came to America and the ideal is freedom.

Speaker A

And you're right, 90 high 90s, 99, you said, and maybe you're right, 99% of people are having the illusion of freedom because they make enough money to buy toys, have a house, or have a decent place to live.

Speaker A

And they're not wanting for anything, but they are effectively a, a slave to the job that they don't like.

Speaker A

And they have the just enough freedom to buy things that they sort of spin in that circle.

Speaker A

And you're saying, no, that isn't real freedom.

Speaker A

Let's form extraordinary America whose goal it is to teach you about investments, how to use your money, how to think differently, how to understand how the monetary system works.

Speaker A

Let's get you moved out of the sort of work slave work mentality, even though that's not nothing compared to what you came from.

Speaker A

But it's still the same principle where you're not living life on your own terms.

Speaker A

And let's fix that by educating you.

Speaker A

And the ways you have as real estate, investing, precious metals, other kinds of things.

Speaker A

You made an interesting comment.

Speaker A

The things you learn in one area are applicable to another area in this investment stuff.

Speaker A

Did I get that right?

Speaker B

Yeah, and I would like to.

Speaker B

You got that completely right.

Speaker B

And I'd like to add that without education there is no freedom because.

Speaker B

And without, without us being free, we can't even call ourselves like true Americans as per se.

Speaker B

Because you're just living like in a fake reality, right?

Speaker B

Because it.

Speaker B

Freedom has to apply into all areas of your life.

Speaker B

There has to be spiritual freedom, mental freedom, emotional freedom, financial freedom, and like physical freedom, freedom is something that is innate and, and being bonded and like in bondage.

Speaker B

And here's the interesting thing, Kellen, debt is another word.

Speaker B

And bonds, right?

Speaker B

Bonds comes from the word bondage.

Speaker B

And it goes against who we are, like as, as the people and as like the core identity.

Speaker B

And so when you realize that there's a lack of congruence, right, then you have to do something about it.

Speaker B

And it has to be applicable to your life because you should live life on your terms.

Speaker B

You should not let outside circumstances dictate who you are.

Speaker A

So I love it.

Speaker A

I agree with you completely.

Speaker A

And I love the fact that bonds and bondage are the same and, and, and it is the opposite.

Speaker A

And I tell people all the time, you create your own life and you have the ability to do it.

Speaker A

And most people, especially all those that are living in the 99% bondage sort of reality with quasi freedom because they own a few toys, then they hear you talk or me talk, but use here.

Speaker A

So they hear you talk and they go, oh yeah, that's great, except I don't know how to do that or I can't do it.

Speaker A

So you just gave a talk this one.

Speaker A

But let's pretend you were talking to a room full of 200 people and a little line forms to come up to you and saying, I love what you're telling me.

Speaker A

I want to have that freedom.

Speaker A

What do I need to do to get either the education or the ability to start?

Speaker A

I mean, come on.

Speaker A

I work a 9 to 5.

Speaker A

That's my reality right now.

Speaker A

I do have some debt.

Speaker A

So now what do I do?

Speaker A

Where would you send me?

Speaker A

What would you tell me to do?

Speaker B

Kellen?

Speaker B

First, I would tell anybody that would come to me to definitely check out Extraordinary America.

Speaker B

Like on.

Speaker B

Not only on the YouTube channel, it can also be found on the fan page and also on the website extraordinary-america.com and I also tell them to go do their own individual research and also basically find.

Speaker B

Find information on prec.

Speaker B

Medals, gold and silver.

Speaker B

And there's basically money.

Speaker B

Like there's a lot of information on.

Speaker B

On the Internet these days.

Speaker B

But if they want to learn how to do business and how to be financially free and monetize their passions like the extra America is partnered with a university called Blue University, which is right now giving scholarship, which is not right now giving scholarship programs.

Speaker B

And they're basically teaching you how to create your.

Speaker B

The life that you want and how to create a business around what you love to do.

Speaker B

And they teach you about marketing and sales, and they also teach you about the debt and a little bit about death and all of that.

Speaker B

And so I would definitely recommend anybody that comes to me to definitely, if they're looking to start a business to definitely get enrolled in.

Speaker B

In Blue, which will help them with financial education and business education.

Speaker A

So I'm thinking in the mind of this person, they've already got a life.

Speaker A

They get up every day, they go to work, and they have their debts and they have the things that they already do.

Speaker A

And if I'm going to create a different life, I got to do something different.

Speaker A

And the something different that you're telling me to do is first I need to, number one, I guess, realize that it's possible I don't have to stay where I am.

Speaker A

Okay.

Speaker A

The first thing to do is to go start learning.

Speaker A

And you've told me Blue University.

Speaker A

And that's spelled B L U, right?

Speaker B

Yes.

Speaker A

Okay, Blue University.

Speaker A

And you can get some scholarships on the Extraordinary America fan page on Facebook and the Extraordinary America YouTube channel and extraordinary-america.com so that's a place to go to get your education started.

Speaker A

And what I heard you say about the university is they have classes there.

Speaker A

And this is a do different so the first thing is realize it's possible.

Speaker A

Second, I got to go get some smarts.

Speaker A

And part of the learning is there is a real way to identify and then monetize or create a business around what I love to do instead of what I have been doing and being not happy about all these years before.

Speaker A

Is that right?

Speaker B

Yes, Kellen.

Speaker B

And I'd like to add that, you know, what they teach you in normal universities is basically not going to help in the real world.

Speaker B

Except for the STEM majors, most like liberal arts degrees and most other majors they are.

Speaker B

They just put you in debt and you don't end up learning anything that is actually applicable in real life.

Speaker B

And you end up doing jobs that you are going to be stuck at and you're not going to be going anywhere.

Speaker B

You know, you have to take control of your own life and your own destiny.

Speaker B

And that can only be done by monetizing, like by knowing your why, who you are, what you're passionate about, and finding a way to monetize that and like basically creating a world around the lifestyle that you want.

Speaker B

And that is not, that's not taught in universities today, in the mainstream universities that you have to go outside of that and look into places.

Speaker B

And then blue universities, one such university where they teach you, they don't teach you how to think, they teach you, I mean, they teach you how to think, but most other universities teach you, are just telling you what to do and all of that.

Speaker B

Like they're not teaching you how to think and how to live your life because the system is designed in such a way that it is meant to create an employee mindset that you are meant to do a 9 to 5 job and you're meant to be in corporate America until you turn 65 and then you retire and then you don't have enough money because the money is just being inflated away right now.

Speaker B

So you have to have somebody else teach you what's going on in the world as the world is going.

Speaker B

Like entrepreneurs that are in the real world and people that are understanding how money is working and how the entire like the US dollar is getting inflated away.

Speaker B

Like they're more likely to help you than what the mainstream universities are doing right now.

Speaker A

So universities teach us to be cogs in the machine.

Speaker A

There is one university, blue university, that is teaching you real world skills because you know when you, when you don't have any of that, you look around and you see the car, the big corporations, and that's where you're sort of being aimed.

Speaker A

And then you see these other people that own these other businesses and they're doing this other stuff and it's like how did they get there?

Speaker A

Like where do you go?

Speaker A

And you're saying here is the ticket.

Speaker A

One identify your why.

Speaker A

You've referred to that.

Speaker A

And Simon Sinek gives a wonderful talk called Start with why which is.

Speaker A

And if you don't know that Simon Sinek S I N E K start with why.

Speaker A

But he tells you the most important thing you individually can identify is why you care about anything.

Speaker A

And for you it was the poverty and the education and your ability to create your life and helping people find and then monetize because we have to be able to do that or we're never going to get out of the other machinery.

Speaker A

Right?

Speaker A

We're going to be stuck in there because we all got to eat.

Speaker A

So did I, did I describe that right?

Speaker A

We have the access to new kind of teaching that teaches the secrets that entrepreneurs somehow accidentally discovered and created through the years.

Speaker A

Is that what you're telling me?

Speaker B

Yes, you got, you got that right.

Speaker B

Like yeah, entrepreneurs that in the trenches.

Speaker B

And these are not theory professors like, who are just like teaching theory.

Speaker B

And I think these are people that have actually made millions themselves in their own businesses and they, they want to give their knowledge and what they learn to those that, that have enrolled in that.

Speaker B

So I would definitely recommend anyone that would come to me to definitely get to be enrolled in a university like Blue University.

Speaker B

And right now Blue has scholarships.

Speaker B

So instead of, of paying the full tuition fee of 25 000, they're giving a scholarship programs which only has a nominal administration room and feel like only about $500.

Speaker B

And so they want to give it away because they are into financial education for the masses.

Speaker A

So what I really love about what you said is the in, you know, when I went to Cook's College University, you're right, the it was very few, maybe a few, but very few if any of the professors were actually in the real world doing stuff that mattered.

Speaker A

They were talking about things.

Speaker A

And what I heard you just say is the instructors there are hardcore rubber meets the road, feet on the ground business owners who have applied and are applying all the things that they're teaching, making their millions in some business over here.

Speaker A

They're not making their money telling you how to make money.

Speaker A

They're making their money in a business that they're running and they're sharing the secrets and tools they've learned in this.

Speaker A

So you can go do that your version of that, whatever that is Your own passion.

Speaker B

Yes.

Speaker B

Because if you can, if you can make money out of your passion with one thing, you can apply that to anything else.

Speaker B

And in today's world, things have become much more easier with, with the Internet, you know, because Internet has given us more opportunities to basically make money.

Speaker B

But if you know how to do one thing, you will know how to do in one area, you can do it in other areas.

Speaker B

You can do it for your own life.

Speaker B

But you have to be very crystal clear about what you want for your life because nobody else is going to do that for you.

Speaker B

People will always redirect you to what they want and their dreams, but you have to focus on what you want.

Speaker B

You have to invest in your own education and you have to invest in yourself.

Speaker B

Because once you do that, then that's how you make the impact in the world, through the ripple effect.

Speaker B

Because you can't make an impact, a global impact or a big impact if you do not help yourself first.

Speaker A

I love that I'm going to interrupt you here.

Speaker A

They tell us on airplanes, put your own oxygen mask on first.

Speaker A

And sort of obvious, you know, if you get winded or get lightheaded because you're trying to help somebody, then you're finished.

Speaker A

But what you're saying is I can't, I can't really make an impact if I am not healthy.

Speaker A

Well, and practicing good principles of entrepreneurship, monetizing my passion and doing that.

Speaker A

My help's going to be really limited if I'm not caring for myself in all the ways you said earlier, spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally and financially.

Speaker A

And that is such an important point to, to get us, get our own, put our own oxygen mask on first, get ourselves healthy before we're running out trying to help other people.

Speaker A

And it sounds like that's the professors or the teachers at this university.

Speaker A

Is that right?

Speaker B

Yeah.

Speaker B

Like basically everybody wants to change the world, but they're not willing to change themselves.

Speaker B

The way you truly change the world is you uplift yourself and then you help the others along the way and you teach them what you know and then it creates a ripple effect.

Speaker B

And then your friends and family get help, then your community gets helped, then your city gets helped, then your state gets helped and ultimately the nation gets helped up.

Speaker B

It's a bottom up approach.

Speaker B

You know, like people are always looking to politicians and the government to help solve their problems.

Speaker B

But no, we have to solve our own problems.

Speaker B

Well, we have to take our own initiative.

Speaker B

And that's what entrepreneurs know.

Speaker B

They don't look to the environment to Basically come save them.

Speaker B

They know that whatever environment they're in, they will adapt and find a way.

Speaker B

And they will.

Speaker B

And that's those.

Speaker B

That is part of the mindset and that's part of the training that entrepreneurs all across the board, like I've, I've interviewed a bunch of people, entrepreneurs in my podcast, and they all had the same team, they all have the same trains, they were resilient, they're perseverant and they just did things a certain way and they always adapted to the environment that they never blamed outside factors, they always took control of their own destiny.

Speaker B

And that's what you need to do as well, you know.

Speaker A

Yeah.

Speaker A

So that I want to direct you to his podcast, which is on the extraordinary-america.com website.

Speaker A

You said something really important.

Speaker A

He said it several times.

Speaker A

They did, you know, they took responsibility for themselves.

Speaker A

And the way that I think of that in shorthand is just to look at someone and say no one is coming.

Speaker A

Like there's no caval.

Speaker A

Nobody's coming.

Speaker A

You have the opportunity, the responsibility to create your own life.

Speaker A

You can build anything you want, but no one is coming.

Speaker A

And so you got to do what you said so well, which is make a choice to build a dream and then go keep doing stuff until you get there.

Speaker A

The education's part of it, finding a mentor is part of it.

Speaker A

You know, associating yourself with successful people is part of it.

Speaker A

But understanding all the way through that the engine is in my heart, not somewhere or somebody else.

Speaker A

I love that.

Speaker A

So thank you for sharing all that with us.

Speaker A

What else do you want to tell me?

Speaker A

You said earlier you were invested a lot in learning about and about precious metals.

Speaker A

And I realize it's just one tool among many, but why is precious metals a good idea to understand something about and to perhaps use as an investment tool?

Speaker B

Thank you for asking, Kellen.

Speaker B

So one of the things that we have to realize about like not just the US dollar, but all the, all the currencies in the world right now is that they are fiat currencies, which means that they're not backed by anything tangible and they're not worth like they're just being printed at will by the governments all across the world.

Speaker B

Which means that if there are not enough goods and services in your country, your the prices are going to keep rising and rising and then your wages or your income is not going to match the rise in prices because the governments are just printing money and then that's just being circulated and it's stealing.

Speaker B

It's basically Destroying the purchasing power of your income.

Speaker B

And so the one, the one thing that has been reliable over thousands of years that has retained the purchasing power and the value, inherent value in money has been gold and silver.

Speaker B

Like it all is, it all is backs, it all is brings everything back to normal.

Speaker B

You know, like gold prices have always, silver spreads have always rised up to match the inflation and they always end up retaining the value.

Speaker B

And you have to protect your purchasing power of your money.

Speaker B

And in order to do that, those are the reliable things to do.

Speaker A

I, I love the fact that you use the word fiat currency.

Speaker A

A fiat is a dictate of some ruling body.

Speaker A

So the issue of fiat, and what you're saying is a fiat currency means a piece of paper or coin that some government creates and says, okay, this is worth a certain amount of money, and it's only true as long as we all agree.

Speaker A

And when they keep printing more and more and more of it, it means that each piece of currency is worth less and less because the goods and services aren't growing as fast as the pile of money.

Speaker A

And so you end up with that devaluation you talked about.

Speaker A

And I love your explanation about the price of gold and silver rises so that it maintains the same relationship.

Speaker A

I remember when I was a kid, gold was in under a hundred dollars an ounce.

Speaker A

So now it's 2000 or, you know, 20, I don't know, in the 2000s, and it's still one ounce of gold.

Speaker A

And all that shows is how much inflation has changed that equilibrium over the years.

Speaker A

Is that right?

Speaker B

Yeah.

Speaker B

And I would say that inflation combined with just like everything has literally made everybody poorer because they're stealing the existing value in your money by spending it further.

Speaker B

When, when you print money, first you basically get to have the same purchasing power as it was before.

Speaker B

And then once it trickles down in the economy, it basically, it basically devalues everything else.

Speaker B

And then your, the whatever money you have in your savings account is just not worth as much.

Speaker B

Because let's say if you could buy this computer that I'm talking in for about $500.

Speaker B

If the, after printing a lot of money, it's going to be the same thing will be about $2,000.

Speaker B

And it just keeps getting worse and worse as the years go on.

Speaker B

And then once there's another economic crisis, what do you think the banks are going to do?

Speaker B

What do you think the government's going to do?

Speaker B

They're just going to print even more money, which will lead to even more inflation.

Speaker B

And, and that will basically make people poor and poor.

Speaker B

And on top of that, your income is not matching the rise in inflation.

Speaker B

Then you're on debt on top of it.

Speaker B

How are you going to maintain a family like that?

Speaker B

It's just not possible.

Speaker A

No, no, it's not.

Speaker A

And this is part of the education stuff you're talking about.

Speaker A

And when we're coming out of, like, during COVID governments all over the world printed ridiculous amounts of money.

Speaker A

And that caused this huge problem.

Speaker A

And so we've just had in the last five years a huge economic event in the world where what you just described happened.

Speaker A

And so the prices of everything has gone way up because we've doubled the money supply.

Speaker A

And so everything's worth half of what it was worth before because the stuff we're buying is the same.

Speaker A

So that's fabulous.

Speaker A

So what didn't I ask you about your passion, about your fire, because you're obviously committed to this.

Speaker A

What didn't I ask you that you either want to tell about your own passion, your goals, your.

Speaker A

Just whatever you want to teach me.

Speaker A

What didn't I ask you that I.

Speaker A

That I should have?

Speaker B

I mean, there's.

Speaker B

There's so many questions to ask, Kellen.

Speaker B

I mean, I could have this conversation for hours and hours, but the main thing that I want the listeners to know is that you have to.

Speaker B

You have to take control of your own life, and you have to awaken and unleash the extraordinary within you, because nobody else is going to do it for you.

Speaker B

You.

Speaker B

You have to know that there's something strong within you.

Speaker B

And it's your limiting beliefs and your lack of understanding of how money and business and everything operates that's preventing you from living the life that you want.

Speaker B

And there are resources out there, and the mainstream universities and colleges aren't going to do it.

Speaker B

You have to take control of your own life.

Speaker B

You got to learn how everything works.

Speaker B

And my passion is to just educate as many people as possible about this, because right now I think that we're.

Speaker B

We're.

Speaker B

A crisis is coming in.

Speaker B

In.

Speaker B

It's.

Speaker B

It's like a storm that's coming on the horizon.

Speaker B

And most people are not aware of how bad things are going to get.

Speaker A

So I.

Speaker A

I love you for saying that because I.

Speaker A

You and I, we preach the same language.

Speaker A

You have.

Speaker A

You.

Speaker A

Each of you listeners, have an extraordinary ability in you.

Speaker A

It won't show up unless you take control and go do something with it.

Speaker A

And the something is get education, learn how to find and monetize or create a business from things you do love to do, you're already working, doing something you don't love to do.

Speaker A

So go find something you do love and figure out how to create a business from that.

Speaker A

And the instructions about how to do that are not a mystery.

Speaker A

It's at Blue University and talking to other entrepreneurs and listening to his podcast that will tell you how to do that thing.

Speaker A

I mean, you know how to go to university, you get a degree and then go work in some job you hate because you did that.

Speaker A

Now this is more instruction about how to create a business, doing something that you love and learning about money and how it works and how to monetize is the buzzword your passion.

Speaker A

So I love that and thank you for emphasizing the fact that each one of you listeners is extraordinary and nothing's going to happen with it until you do something about it.

Speaker A

Anything else you want to share with us before we finish up today, Cosmos?

Speaker B

No, I mean, I really appreciate the time you took to have me on the podcast.

Speaker B

And I would ask your listeners that if anybody wants to get more knowledge about an education about how business and everything else works, definitely look at the Extraordinary America podcast on the YouTube channel or even on the website extraordinary-america.com and for those of your listeners that are interested in getting in starting a business or in knowing more, there is, there's obviously the Blue University scholarship program, which they can find on the Facebook fan page for Extraordinary America and they can also find in the post section of Extraordinary America on the YouTube channel and so they can get the link over there.

Speaker A

So I'm going to repeat some of that because I want you to go do it.

Speaker A

The fan page of on Facebook Extraordinary America, the YouTube channel Extraordinary America or the website extraordinary-america.com is where the podcast had hosted.

Speaker A

And I've looked over his podcast guest list and there are some very many people there that I personally know and they are the millionaire kind that have made the kind of money he's talked about and they're sharing the real rubber meets the road stuff.

Speaker A

So I want to just, I wanted to repeat that so you heard it clearly and you can go get that Cosmos.

Speaker A

Thank you for your energy, for your love, for your passion, for your stories and for being here with us today.

Speaker B

Thank you, Kellen, so much for taking it, for having me on your show.

Speaker B

I really appreciate it.

Speaker A

You're absolutely welcome.

Speaker A

Now, listeners, I'm going to urge you one last time, don't let this go in one ear and out the other, because otherwise it'll do.

Speaker A

Jack.

Speaker A

So decide to take some action.

Speaker A

Go to one of those websites, find some of this education.

Speaker A

And I'm not just saying that because I got a guest here and I'm trying to hype him.

Speaker A

I know some of the guests.

Speaker A

I know what he's offering.

Speaker A

It's the real deal, and if you want it, you can have it.

Speaker A

So move forward, because control is in your hands and you can create your ultimate life.

Speaker B

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Speaker A

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