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.
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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
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Speaker AWelcome 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 AI'm grateful today to have a special guest with me, Cosmo star Cosmos.
Speaker AWelcome to the show.
Speaker BKellen, thank you so much for inviting me to the show.
Speaker BIt's an, it's an honor to be here.
Speaker ASo I am really struck by your commitment to helping people attain freedom and self determination and the ability to control their own lives.
Speaker AYou 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 ASo what is it that brought you.
Speaker AWell, let me ask a different question.
Speaker AWhy do you care about helping people achieve freedom and prosperity?
Speaker ALike, why do you care about that?
Speaker BBecause, 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 BBecause 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 BAnd 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 BAnd then they didn't have any life.
Speaker BAll they would do is just work and their money and their work and their entire lives revolved around earning money.
Speaker BAnd 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 BSo they live in environments that are filled with scarc.
Speaker BWhen I was in Kuwait, I saw how, how bad poverty can be.
Speaker BAnd 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 BAnd so I wanted to do something about that.
Speaker BBut at that point, I'm just like growing up over there, I don't know what to do.
Speaker BBut 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 BBut 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 BAnd then they're basically living paycheck to paycheck, and it's different from Kuwait, but it's still around the same lines.
Speaker BAnd they're not really living the dream that they want to live.
Speaker BThey're not living the life that they want.
Speaker BThey're basically the entire lives of revolving around, paying their debts, paying their bills, and basically just barely going by.
Speaker BAnd that's why I started what I started, Extraordinary America.
Speaker ASo let me back up.
Speaker AThat's fabulous.
Speaker AAnd I'm struck by your passion.
Speaker AHow did you guys get from India to Kuwait?
Speaker AWhat made the.
Speaker AAnd maybe you're too young.
Speaker AIf it happened before you were old enough to even know.
Speaker AI don't know.
Speaker AWhat made you decide?
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker ADo you know what made your parents decide to go from India to Kuwait?
Speaker BIt 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 ASo they had some kind of difficulty.
Speaker AIt was hard to make a living in India.
Speaker AKuwait looked better.
Speaker ASo 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 AI mean, $100 a month.
Speaker AI don't know what things cost in Kuwait, but nobody can even breathe at $100 a month, so.
Speaker AOr even 200 or whatever.
Speaker AAnd you saw that.
Speaker AYou experienced that.
Speaker AHow did you end up going to the United States, America?
Speaker AHow did you.
Speaker AHow did that happen?
Speaker BSo, basically, my aunt and uncle, they were already citizens over here.
Speaker BAnd then my.
Speaker BMy father worked really hard, and so, like, he want.
Speaker BHe 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 BSo I would say it's basically my parents combined with my aunt and uncle that basically got me here.
Speaker BAnd I honestly, like, from my perspective, like, I didn't even know much about America, but.
Speaker BBut, like, they would take me over here every year, like, for summer to visit, like, my aunt and uncle.
Speaker BAnd then that's when I started to get acquainted.
Speaker BAcquainted with the American culture.
Speaker BAnd then when I came here for college and university.
Speaker BI 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 AWow.
Speaker ASo, okay, so you had, it's always interesting for me and also for listeners to understand how that happened.
Speaker AI 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 AAnd when she arrived in the United States, I mean, I live in Canada, but it's all kind of one blob.
Speaker AShe arrived in the United states with like $100 and was hitchhiking.
Speaker ABut she got here because she had a similar dream of possible freedom and opportunity.
Speaker AAnd you did it the same except you happened to have an uncle and an aunt who are already in, in the United States.
Speaker AAnd what strikes me about that is you, you talk about the opportunity and the opportunity to create a beautiful life.
Speaker AAnd that's what you saw as an example.
Speaker ASo 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 AAnd 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 AAnd I'm saying it that way because that was a theme from what you just said.
Speaker ANow, now you got to the US and you went to university here.
Speaker AWhat did you graduate in?
Speaker BI graduated in electrical engineering.
Speaker AElectrical engineering.
Speaker BDouble E in computers or power does powers.
Speaker BBut I did a few classes in computers as well.
Speaker AI asked that because I think I told you this when we talked a few weeks ago.
Speaker AI spent 30 years in the energy business working for utilities and I knew a million power engineers.
Speaker ASo you're a power engineer.
Speaker AI now remember you told me that.
Speaker AAnyway, 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 ADid you get a job or work in the electrical power engineering field or not?
Speaker BFor a little bit.
Speaker BBut 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 BThey're doing it for the money.
Speaker BAnd 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 BAnd 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 BLike, the money would be great.
Speaker BThey'll be good, but I will just not be passionate about it.
Speaker BAnd I need to do something that I'm passionate about.
Speaker BBut the only thing that struck me, the My why was that I wanted to get people out of poverty.
Speaker BLike, 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 BLike, they are so constricted, and I feel the constraints.
Speaker BAnd how do you do that?
Speaker BWhat do you do to do that?
Speaker BAnd the answer was, I had to look into marketing and sales.
Speaker BAnd that time the Internet was becoming.
Speaker BThe 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 BAnd so I started doing more research and looking into that and how to do.
Speaker BHow to, like.
Speaker BHow to basically do marketing and sales online and then how to basically deal with money and like.
Speaker BAnd like, the entire course of, like, financial education.
Speaker ASo that's fabulous.
Speaker AAnd I want.
Speaker AI want to.
Speaker AI'm going to repeat some of this because I want to make sure the listeners hear this.
Speaker ASo as an engineer, you could have had a good career.
Speaker ALike 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 AAnd you decided, and this is a thing I want to repeat, because I want people to hear this.
Speaker AYou decided, wow, I have this degree in power engineering.
Speaker AI know I could go get a job and be a power engineer, but I don't think that means anything.
Speaker AAnd I want to do something that matters.
Speaker AAnd 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 ATo 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 AHe said, I'm not doing that.
Speaker AAnd so I'm going to go take advantage of the Internet.
Speaker AI'm going to learn something about sales and marketing, and I'm going to carve my own path through this jungle.
Speaker AIs that what I heard?
Speaker BNo.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker BAnd 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 BThese menial jobs under the hot sun, right?
Speaker BAnd then I was looking at the engineering, and then I saw.
Speaker BI realized that the two.
Speaker BThe one thing that they both have in common is that we're not doing it because we want to.
Speaker BWe're doing it for the money.
Speaker BAnd 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 BAnd you can never do something in life just for the money.
Speaker BYou have to be passionate about it.
Speaker BAnd I realized that that was not my passion.
Speaker BJust like.
Speaker BJust like most jobs are not people's passions, they just do it because they have to earn a living.
Speaker BAnd that was why I decided to do what I went into another direction.
Speaker AI 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 AAnd the reason is because it is not connected with their passion.
Speaker AThey're doing it to pay bills, working for the weekend, you know, that whole.
Speaker AWhole framework of stuff, instead of asking who am I and what do I want to do?
Speaker ASo 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 AAnd make a dent in the poverty situation?
Speaker BSo 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 BWhere you can get sales through, like, products and all that.
Speaker BAnd 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 BBut 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 BOne company that I worked was into real estate education and others into.
Speaker BInto precious metals and all of that.
Speaker BAnd every company in that, you see, like, they're always looking for more.
Speaker BMore clients and more leads.
Speaker BAnd so, and.
Speaker BAnd 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 BBut in the process, I realized that a lot of people can become financially free through the online space.
Speaker ASo what did you do with that?
Speaker AI 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 AIt sounds like you had a wealth of experience.
Speaker AYou made a powerful decision to follow your passion.
Speaker AThat led you to sales, marketing, and you discovered a bunch of companies that were doing that.
Speaker AAnd you talked about financial literacy and precious metals and things.
Speaker ASo 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 AWalk me through that creation process.
Speaker BSo 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 BFor 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 BAnd this is, is where, this is where the idea for Extra America was born.
Speaker BBecause I realized that across the nation, you have so much wealth and income inequality, but the identity of America is freedom, right?
Speaker BBut on the financial front, most people, they're not living a free life.
Speaker BIt's just an illusion, right?
Speaker BThey are just, they're just living, they're not living the life that they want.
Speaker BThe American dream, at least in my definition, was living the life you want, like creating your own life, living life on your terms.
Speaker BAnd the 99%, they're not, they're not doing that.
Speaker BOnly a select few who know and think, who have the right mindset and how they, how to go about it, are doing that.
Speaker BAnd that's some.
Speaker BAnd 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 BBecause if you know one, you're naturally going to know another, know the other.
Speaker BAnd 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 AOkay, so this is fabulous information.
Speaker AYour goal then, as I understand it, is to.
Speaker AAnd the creation of extraordinary America was saying, wow, I came to America and the ideal is freedom.
Speaker AAnd 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 AAnd they're not wanting for anything, but they are effectively a, a slave to the job that they don't like.
Speaker AAnd they have the just enough freedom to buy things that they sort of spin in that circle.
Speaker AAnd you're saying, no, that isn't real freedom.
Speaker ALet'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 ALet'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 ABut it's still the same principle where you're not living life on your own terms.
Speaker AAnd let's fix that by educating you.
Speaker AAnd the ways you have as real estate, investing, precious metals, other kinds of things.
Speaker AYou made an interesting comment.
Speaker AThe things you learn in one area are applicable to another area in this investment stuff.
Speaker ADid I get that right?
Speaker BYeah, and I would like to.
Speaker BYou got that completely right.
Speaker BAnd I'd like to add that without education there is no freedom because.
Speaker BAnd without, without us being free, we can't even call ourselves like true Americans as per se.
Speaker BBecause you're just living like in a fake reality, right?
Speaker BBecause it.
Speaker BFreedom has to apply into all areas of your life.
Speaker BThere 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 BAnd here's the interesting thing, Kellen, debt is another word.
Speaker BAnd bonds, right?
Speaker BBonds comes from the word bondage.
Speaker BAnd it goes against who we are, like as, as the people and as like the core identity.
Speaker BAnd so when you realize that there's a lack of congruence, right, then you have to do something about it.
Speaker BAnd it has to be applicable to your life because you should live life on your terms.
Speaker BYou should not let outside circumstances dictate who you are.
Speaker ASo I love it.
Speaker AI agree with you completely.
Speaker AAnd I love the fact that bonds and bondage are the same and, and, and it is the opposite.
Speaker AAnd I tell people all the time, you create your own life and you have the ability to do it.
Speaker AAnd 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 ASo 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 ASo you just gave a talk this one.
Speaker ABut 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 AI want to have that freedom.
Speaker AWhat do I need to do to get either the education or the ability to start?
Speaker AI mean, come on.
Speaker AI work a 9 to 5.
Speaker AThat's my reality right now.
Speaker AI do have some debt.
Speaker ASo now what do I do?
Speaker AWhere would you send me?
Speaker AWhat would you tell me to do?
Speaker BKellen?
Speaker BFirst, I would tell anybody that would come to me to definitely check out Extraordinary America.
Speaker BLike on.
Speaker BNot 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 BFind information on prec.
Speaker BMedals, gold and silver.
Speaker BAnd there's basically money.
Speaker BLike there's a lot of information on.
Speaker BOn the Internet these days.
Speaker BBut 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 BAnd they're basically teaching you how to create your.
Speaker BThe life that you want and how to create a business around what you love to do.
Speaker BAnd 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 BAnd 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 BIn Blue, which will help them with financial education and business education.
Speaker ASo I'm thinking in the mind of this person, they've already got a life.
Speaker AThey get up every day, they go to work, and they have their debts and they have the things that they already do.
Speaker AAnd if I'm going to create a different life, I got to do something different.
Speaker AAnd 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 AOkay.
Speaker AThe first thing to do is to go start learning.
Speaker AAnd you've told me Blue University.
Speaker AAnd that's spelled B L U, right?
Speaker BYes.
Speaker AOkay, Blue University.
Speaker AAnd 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 AAnd what I heard you say about the university is they have classes there.
Speaker AAnd this is a do different so the first thing is realize it's possible.
Speaker ASecond, I got to go get some smarts.
Speaker AAnd 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 AIs that right?
Speaker BYes, Kellen.
Speaker BAnd 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 BExcept for the STEM majors, most like liberal arts degrees and most other majors they are.
Speaker BThey just put you in debt and you don't end up learning anything that is actually applicable in real life.
Speaker BAnd you end up doing jobs that you are going to be stuck at and you're not going to be going anywhere.
Speaker BYou know, you have to take control of your own life and your own destiny.
Speaker BAnd 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 BAnd 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 BAnd 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 BLike 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 BSo you have to have somebody else teach you what's going on in the world as the world is going.
Speaker BLike 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 BLike they're more likely to help you than what the mainstream universities are doing right now.
Speaker ASo universities teach us to be cogs in the machine.
Speaker AThere 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 AAnd 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 ALike where do you go?
Speaker AAnd you're saying here is the ticket.
Speaker AOne identify your why.
Speaker AYou've referred to that.
Speaker AAnd Simon Sinek gives a wonderful talk called Start with why which is.
Speaker AAnd if you don't know that Simon Sinek S I N E K start with why.
Speaker ABut he tells you the most important thing you individually can identify is why you care about anything.
Speaker AAnd 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 ARight?
Speaker AWe're going to be stuck in there because we all got to eat.
Speaker ASo did I, did I describe that right?
Speaker AWe have the access to new kind of teaching that teaches the secrets that entrepreneurs somehow accidentally discovered and created through the years.
Speaker AIs that what you're telling me?
Speaker BYes, you got, you got that right.
Speaker BLike yeah, entrepreneurs that in the trenches.
Speaker BAnd these are not theory professors like, who are just like teaching theory.
Speaker BAnd 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 BSo I would definitely recommend anyone that would come to me to definitely get to be enrolled in a university like Blue University.
Speaker BAnd right now Blue has scholarships.
Speaker BSo 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 BAnd so they want to give it away because they are into financial education for the masses.
Speaker ASo 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 AThey were talking about things.
Speaker AAnd 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 AThey're not making their money telling you how to make money.
Speaker AThey'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 ASo you can go do that your version of that, whatever that is Your own passion.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker BBecause if you can, if you can make money out of your passion with one thing, you can apply that to anything else.
Speaker BAnd 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 BBut 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 BYou can do it for your own life.
Speaker BBut 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 BPeople will always redirect you to what they want and their dreams, but you have to focus on what you want.
Speaker BYou have to invest in your own education and you have to invest in yourself.
Speaker BBecause once you do that, then that's how you make the impact in the world, through the ripple effect.
Speaker BBecause you can't make an impact, a global impact or a big impact if you do not help yourself first.
Speaker AI love that I'm going to interrupt you here.
Speaker AThey tell us on airplanes, put your own oxygen mask on first.
Speaker AAnd sort of obvious, you know, if you get winded or get lightheaded because you're trying to help somebody, then you're finished.
Speaker ABut what you're saying is I can't, I can't really make an impact if I am not healthy.
Speaker AWell, and practicing good principles of entrepreneurship, monetizing my passion and doing that.
Speaker AMy 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 AAnd 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 AAnd it sounds like that's the professors or the teachers at this university.
Speaker AIs that right?
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BLike basically everybody wants to change the world, but they're not willing to change themselves.
Speaker BThe 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 BAnd 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 BIt's a bottom up approach.
Speaker BYou know, like people are always looking to politicians and the government to help solve their problems.
Speaker BBut no, we have to solve our own problems.
Speaker BWell, we have to take our own initiative.
Speaker BAnd that's what entrepreneurs know.
Speaker BThey don't look to the environment to Basically come save them.
Speaker BThey know that whatever environment they're in, they will adapt and find a way.
Speaker BAnd they will.
Speaker BAnd that's those.
Speaker BThat 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 BAnd that's what you need to do as well, you know.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ASo that I want to direct you to his podcast, which is on the extraordinary-america.com website.
Speaker AYou said something really important.
Speaker AHe said it several times.
Speaker AThey did, you know, they took responsibility for themselves.
Speaker AAnd the way that I think of that in shorthand is just to look at someone and say no one is coming.
Speaker ALike there's no caval.
Speaker ANobody's coming.
Speaker AYou have the opportunity, the responsibility to create your own life.
Speaker AYou can build anything you want, but no one is coming.
Speaker AAnd 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 AThe education's part of it, finding a mentor is part of it.
Speaker AYou know, associating yourself with successful people is part of it.
Speaker ABut understanding all the way through that the engine is in my heart, not somewhere or somebody else.
Speaker AI love that.
Speaker ASo thank you for sharing all that with us.
Speaker AWhat else do you want to tell me?
Speaker AYou said earlier you were invested a lot in learning about and about precious metals.
Speaker AAnd 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 BThank you for asking, Kellen.
Speaker BSo 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 BWhich 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 BIt's basically Destroying the purchasing power of your income.
Speaker BAnd 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 BLike it all is, it all is backs, it all is brings everything back to normal.
Speaker BYou 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 BAnd you have to protect your purchasing power of your money.
Speaker BAnd in order to do that, those are the reliable things to do.
Speaker AI, I love the fact that you use the word fiat currency.
Speaker AA fiat is a dictate of some ruling body.
Speaker ASo 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 AAnd 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 AAnd so you end up with that devaluation you talked about.
Speaker AAnd I love your explanation about the price of gold and silver rises so that it maintains the same relationship.
Speaker AI remember when I was a kid, gold was in under a hundred dollars an ounce.
Speaker ASo now it's 2000 or, you know, 20, I don't know, in the 2000s, and it's still one ounce of gold.
Speaker AAnd all that shows is how much inflation has changed that equilibrium over the years.
Speaker AIs that right?
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAnd 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 BWhen, when you print money, first you basically get to have the same purchasing power as it was before.
Speaker BAnd then once it trickles down in the economy, it basically, it basically devalues everything else.
Speaker BAnd then your, the whatever money you have in your savings account is just not worth as much.
Speaker BBecause let's say if you could buy this computer that I'm talking in for about $500.
Speaker BIf the, after printing a lot of money, it's going to be the same thing will be about $2,000.
Speaker BAnd it just keeps getting worse and worse as the years go on.
Speaker BAnd then once there's another economic crisis, what do you think the banks are going to do?
Speaker BWhat do you think the government's going to do?
Speaker BThey're just going to print even more money, which will lead to even more inflation.
Speaker BAnd, and that will basically make people poor and poor.
Speaker BAnd on top of that, your income is not matching the rise in inflation.
Speaker BThen you're on debt on top of it.
Speaker BHow are you going to maintain a family like that?
Speaker BIt's just not possible.
Speaker ANo, no, it's not.
Speaker AAnd this is part of the education stuff you're talking about.
Speaker AAnd when we're coming out of, like, during COVID governments all over the world printed ridiculous amounts of money.
Speaker AAnd that caused this huge problem.
Speaker AAnd so we've just had in the last five years a huge economic event in the world where what you just described happened.
Speaker AAnd so the prices of everything has gone way up because we've doubled the money supply.
Speaker AAnd so everything's worth half of what it was worth before because the stuff we're buying is the same.
Speaker ASo that's fabulous.
Speaker ASo what didn't I ask you about your passion, about your fire, because you're obviously committed to this.
Speaker AWhat didn't I ask you that you either want to tell about your own passion, your goals, your.
Speaker AJust whatever you want to teach me.
Speaker AWhat didn't I ask you that I.
Speaker AThat I should have?
Speaker BI mean, there's.
Speaker BThere's so many questions to ask, Kellen.
Speaker BI 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 BYou 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 BYou.
Speaker BYou have to know that there's something strong within you.
Speaker BAnd 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 BAnd there are resources out there, and the mainstream universities and colleges aren't going to do it.
Speaker BYou have to take control of your own life.
Speaker BYou got to learn how everything works.
Speaker BAnd my passion is to just educate as many people as possible about this, because right now I think that we're.
Speaker BWe're.
Speaker BA crisis is coming in.
Speaker BIn.
Speaker BIt's.
Speaker BIt's like a storm that's coming on the horizon.
Speaker BAnd most people are not aware of how bad things are going to get.
Speaker ASo I.
Speaker AI love you for saying that because I.
Speaker AYou and I, we preach the same language.
Speaker AYou have.
Speaker AYou.
Speaker AEach of you listeners, have an extraordinary ability in you.
Speaker AIt won't show up unless you take control and go do something with it.
Speaker AAnd 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 ASo go find something you do love and figure out how to create a business from that.
Speaker AAnd the instructions about how to do that are not a mystery.
Speaker AIt's at Blue University and talking to other entrepreneurs and listening to his podcast that will tell you how to do that thing.
Speaker AI 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 ANow 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 ASo 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 AAnything else you want to share with us before we finish up today, Cosmos?
Speaker BNo, I mean, I really appreciate the time you took to have me on the podcast.
Speaker BAnd 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 ASo I'm going to repeat some of that because I want you to go do it.
Speaker AThe 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 AAnd 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 ASo I want to just, I wanted to repeat that so you heard it clearly and you can go get that Cosmos.
Speaker AThank you for your energy, for your love, for your passion, for your stories and for being here with us today.
Speaker BThank you, Kellen, so much for taking it, for having me on your show.
Speaker BI really appreciate it.
Speaker AYou're absolutely welcome.
Speaker ANow, 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 AJack.
Speaker ASo decide to take some action.
Speaker AGo to one of those websites, find some of this education.
Speaker AAnd I'm not just saying that because I got a guest here and I'm trying to hype him.
Speaker AI know some of the guests.
Speaker AI know what he's offering.
Speaker AIt's the real deal, and if you want it, you can have it.
Speaker ASo move forward, because control is in your hands and you can create your ultimate life.
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