Catalyst Talks

In this episode, I have the profound honor of sitting down with Thomas Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency (NSA) who became one of the most consequential whistleblowers of our time. After exposing post-9/11 mass surveillance and systemic abuses of power, Thomas faced 35 years in prison under the Espionage Act, only to walk free as a living testament to integrity under fire.

We journey through his "moment of truth" at the NSA and dive deep into his evolution from a veteran of the Air Force, Navy, and CIA to a seeker of spiritual and metaphysical truth. Together, we explore the fine line between secrecy and transparency, the dangers of a "highly ordered dystopia," and how we can collapse the potentiality of a dark future to manifest a redeemed world.

This conversation is a bridge between the "shadow lands" of national security and the blazing hope of a human rebirth, reminding us that we are not just human doings, but human interbeings.

In this episode, we explore:

04:34 How a near-death experience at age four sparked a lifelong search for truth.

11:50 Reporting to the NSA on 9/11

11:00 The "Shadow Lands" of secrecy: How government institutions become addicted to hiding the truth.

27:30 The cost of courage: Facing 10 felony counts and 35 years in prison for upholding the Constitution.

30:13 How intentionality collapses the future into our present reality.

36:42 Corporate Futurism vs. Conscious Futurism: Breaking the "spell" of inevitable technocracy.

38:20 Using ancient memory to navigate the complexity of the modern nexus point.

42:15 Why human governments fail and how we must learn to govern ourselves.

50:13 Moving past the pathology of power to find unity on our "privileged planet."

51:55 The vision of a redeemed Earth and the upcoming transition beyond the event horizon.

About Thomas Drake

Thomas Drake is a former senior executive at the National Security Agency turned whistleblower on post-9/11 mass surveillance, government malfeasance, and intelligence failures. A veteran of the Air Force, Navy, and CIA, he was the defendant in a signature Espionage Act case during the Obama administration where he faced 35 years in prison for telling the truth. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Administration, focusing on the consequences of secrecy. 

Today, Thomas is a dedicated defender of civil liberties and a "conscious futurist" peering past the abyss to glimpse a redeemed world. He has been featured in the documentary "Silenced," PBS Frontline’s "United States of Secrets," and 60 Minutes.

🔗 Connect with Thomas Drake: https://x.com/Thomas_Drake1

🎧 About Your Host, Stephanie Trager, JD

Stephanie Trager, is a conscious futurist, transformational coach, deep impact strategist, and lawyer, who for 25 years has been guiding visionary leaders, next gens, and entrepreneurs to remember who they really are so they can do the work they're really here to do. A conscious futurist, she’s on a mission to activate one million conscious futurists in the next two years, to help usher in a new paradigm of reality. 

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In this episode, I’m deeply honored to dive into the secrets of ancient Egypt, otherwise known as Khemet, with one of my esteemed teachers, Stephen Mehler.

Stephen is an archaeologist, prehistorian, and indigenous wisdom keeper who spent almost 16 years as a student and close friend of Egyptian-born Egyptologist, Abd’El Hakim Awyan (Hakim).

We explore the ancient Sufi wisdom passed down through his teacher, Hakim's oral tradition, challenging Greco-Roman Egyptology and diving into Khemet as a matriarchal civilization with advanced technology and consciousness.

We weave the sciences of archaeology and astrophysics with the spiritual truth that Consciousness is Love and that we are multi-dimensional beings.

👉🏽👉🏽 In this episode, we explore:

04:35 Ancient Sufi wisdom and the oral tradition of Khemet.

13:29 The matriarchal foundation of ancient Egypt.

15:13 The Great Sphinx's true age and the geological evidence for a civilization over 50,000 years old.

19:09 The Age of Ammon (darkness) and the current cycle of awakening.

30:54 Advanced technology: how the ancients used sound and water to create anti-gravity fields and free energy.

32:22 The Great Pyramid's true purpose.

45:54 The 360 senses and the awakening of consciousness.

53:05 The illusion of death, separation, soul, and time as taught by the Khemetian wisdom keepers.

About Stephen Mehler

Stephen Mehler’s lifelong fascination with ancient Egypt began at age eight and has guided his education and spiritual work. He holds three degrees in the sciences and is a trained field archaeologist and prehistorian.

For almost 16 years (1992-2008), Mehler was a student, disciple, and close friend of Egyptian-born Egyptologist and indigenous wisdom keeper, Abd’El Hakim Awyan (Hakim). Stephen is currently Director of Research of his own Land Of Osiris Research Project and continues to lead tours to Egypt. He has also researched the phenomenon of ancient crystal skulls since 1979.

🔗 Connect with Stephen Mehler:

🌐 https://www.facebook.com/stephen.mehler.1

Books by Stephen Mehler:

🌐 https://www.amazon.com/stores/Stephen-S.-Mehler/author/B00J1X9DWS

• Land of Osiris

• From Light Into Darkness: The Evolution Of Religion In Ancient Egypt

• The Crystal Skulls: Astonishing Portals To Man’s Past

🎧 About Your Host, Stephanie Trager, JD

Stephanie Trager, is an author, speaker, OG coach, medicine woman, and lawyer, who for 25 years has been guiding visionary leaders, next gens, and entrepreneurs to remember who they really are so they can do the work they're really here to do. A conscious futurist, she’s on a mission to activate one million conscious futurists in the next two years, to help usher in a new paradigm of reality.

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Are you listening to yourself? 

How to build self trust in a time where influence is overwhelming: In this episode Stephanie shares practical tips on how to listen to yourself, build self trust, deepen self awareness and stand in your agency of choice through discernment.

A must listen! 

🎧 About Your Host, Stephanie Trager, JD

Stephanie Trager, is an author, speaker, OG coach, medicine woman, and lawyer, who for 25 years has been guiding visionary leaders, next gens, and entrepreneurs to remember who they really are so they can do the work they're really here to do.

A conscious futurist, she’s on a mission to activate one million conscious futurists in the next two years, to help usher in a new paradigm of reality. 

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Healing old trauma to manifesting future potentials, in this solo episode Stephanie shares how being impeccable with our words will create the world we wish to see, personally and collectively.

This episode explores:

• The crucial understanding that every word is a spell, a wand used to cast our personal and collective reality.

• Words create geometric forms in matter and water.

• How to empower your story so that it serves your highest potential.

• The Morphic Field (Rupert Sheldrake's work) and quantum entanglement

• How expanding perception uses words to open potentials for free energy, precognition, and full human potential.

🎧 About Your Host, Stephanie Trager, JD

Stephanie Trager, is an author, speaker, OG coach, medicine woman, and lawyer, who for 25 years has been guiding visionary leaders, next gens, and entrepreneurs to remember who they really are so they can do the work they're really here to do.

A conscious futurist, she’s on a mission to activate one million conscious futurists in the next two years, to help usher in a new paradigm of reality. 

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Episode Website with Chase Iron Eyes

I’m joined in this episode by Chase Iron Eyes, Native American member of the Lakota Nation, Attorney, Truth Speaker, and Executive Director of the Sacred Defense Fund.

We dive into the sacred knowledge systems of the Lakota Peoples exploring the  fundamental tensions between Western institutions of commerce and law versus the pursuit of spiritual sovereignty, truth, and environmental justice.

Chase shares the powerful stories and ceremonies that have fueled the indigenous journey for survival and dignity. 

We weave The linear world of justice and commerce with sacred wisdoms and cosmology. 

Dedicated to the pursuit of awareness...

👉🏽👉🏽 In this episode, we explore:

• The linear world of justice and commerce plus sacred wisdoms and cosmology.
• The tension between the need to fight for justice and walking the spiritual path of peace and liberation.
• The colonial façade of peace that requires injustice and spiritual warfare to maintain power.
• The vital role of Ceremony as a tool of transcendence that defies mind control and the laws of corporate reality.

• The "virus mind" of colonialism and the ongoing assault on the spiritual and imaginative capacity of the human being.
• Spiritual foundations for our future potential.
• The varied meanings of ‘Sovereignty’.
• Lakota origin stories- to the modern search for meaning.
• 1:00:17 Prophecies that restore divine order.

About Chase Iron Eyes

Chase Iron Eyes is a Native American activist-attorney, and citizen-member of the Lakota nation. Chase is the Executive Director of the Sacred Defense Fund, a nonprofit advocacy firm and the former Director of Native Policy for Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s 2024 US Presidential campaign.

Chase has appeared as a guest on numerous outlets including the Aubrey Marcus Podcast, CNN’s United Shades of America as well as VICE News. He holds bachelor’s degrees in political science and American Indian studies from the University of North Dakota, and a Juris Doctor of Law degree with an emphasis in Federal Indian Law from the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. Chase is focused on the cultivation and sharing of sacred knowledge systems.

🔗 Connect with Chase Iron Eyes:

🌐 Website | www.sacreddefense.org & https://lakotalaw.org/

🎧 About Your Host, Stephanie Trager, JD

Stephanie Trager, is an author, speaker, OG coach, medicine woman, and lawyer, who for 25 years has been guiding visionary leaders, next gens, and entrepreneurs to remember who they really are so they can do the work they're really here to do.

A conscious futurist, she’s on a mission to activate one million conscious futurists in the next two years, to help usher in a new paradigm of reality.

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After returning from deep research expeditions in Tibet, Nepal, and Kemet (Ancient Egypt), Stephanie shares an overview of why perceptual intelligence is the most important key for interfacing our awareness about the world we live in and our personal evolution.

She weaves the crucial interface between new (ancient) sciences (like plasma intelligence) and your personal, spiritual evolution sharing how you can expand your aperture of perception to embody emotional peace, mental freedom, physical vitality, and spiritual wisdom.

In this episode, we unpack:

• The interface between new sciences proving what we know, and personal soul evolution.

• The profound connection between your origin story and your current perception of reality.

• Why the further back we go in history is how far into the future we can see.

• The reality that we humans are perceiving a tiny fraction of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.

• How to clear perceptual filters (trauma, distortions, old narratives) to access what’s available to us now.

• The practice of knowing just because you know it to achieve coherence and step out of the collective "survival mode."

• How expanding your perception opens the potential for free energy, precognition, and full human potential.

  
  

🎧 About Your Host, Stephanie Trager, JD

Stephanie Trager, is an author, speaker, OG coach, medicine woman, and lawyer, who for 25 years has been guiding visionary leaders, next gens, and entrepreneurs to remember who they really are so they can do the work they're really here to do.

A conscious futurist, she’s on a mission to activate one million conscious futurists in the next two years, to help usher in a new paradigm of reality. 

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In this episode, I’m joined by Frank Jacobs, an award winning filmmaker, researcher and founder of CYPERHIVE.TV. We explore hidden layers of reality, from ancient texts to plasma cosmology to Gnostic origin stories, and Frank shares his extraordinary research and perspectives on who we really are and what we're here to do.

In this episode we explore:

• The hidden realms of Gnosticism
• What is Plasma intelligence, and why is our embrace the next frontier of consciousness evolution
• The divine blueprint in the human genome
• The modern crisis of sleepwalking through this great mystery called being human on Earth at this time
• Physics hidden in mythology
• A deeper story of creation
• Artificial intelligence and transhuman narrative
• Personal Sovereignty and choosing our reality
• And why suffering is a pattern we opt in or out of - by choice

About Frank Jacob

Frank Jacob is an international award-winning filmmaker, researcher, producer, and popular guest on many podcasts. Having produced and directed multi-award-winning films including Solar (R)evolution, ‘The Klaus Dona Chronicles', and 'Packing For Mars', Frank is a leading voice on the frontiers of fringe science and unexplained mysteries.

After a viral story he broke in 2022 on Project Looking Glass, Frank founded the channel CYBERHIVE.TV and developed a series of popular master class webinars, including ‘A Tale of Two Timelines’, ‘The Inner Looking Glass’, and 'Ancient X-Files and the Plasma Matrix'.

His work traces primary source documents found at Nag Hammadi to the very roots of Gnosticism, uncovering how this ancient interaction has impacted historical events all the way into modern times.

🔗 Connect with Frank Jacob:

🌐 Link Tree | https://linktr.ee/frankjacob

🌐 Master Class Webinars | https://www.cyberhive.tv

🌐 Latest Webinar ’Ancient X-Files and the Plasma Matrix' https://www.cyberhive.tv/ancient-x-files

🎧 About Your Host, Stephanie Trager, JD

Stephanie Trager, is an author, speaker, OG coach, medicine woman, and lawyer, who for 25 years has been guiding visionary leaders, next gens, and entrepreneurs to remember who they really are so they can do the work they're really here to do.

A conscious futurist, she’s on a mission to activate one million conscious futurists in the next two years, to help usher in a new paradigm of reality.

🔗 Connect with Stephanie:

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#frankjacob #plasmaintelligence #spiritualawakening #catalysttalks #pocast #evolutionarywisdom #transhumanism #exoconscioushuman #purehuman #xfiles #cyberhive #intelligence

Kute Blackson: The Magic of Surrender | How Letting Go Creates Freedom & Miracles

🌟 This episode is for visionaries, seekers, and leaders who feel the call to stop forcing life and start living from flow. Internationally renowned transformational teacher and best-selling author Kute Blackson joins me in this conversation breaking down why surrender is the highest form of strength—and the key to freedom, miracles, and living your soul’s true purpose.

Together, we explore how surrendering opens doors that force and control can never achieve. Kute shares his powerful journey, the inspiration behind his book The Magic of Surrender, and how trusting life’s intelligence can transform every area of our lives.

In this powerful episode, we explore:

0:00 – Kute Blackson: Your Story vs. Reality

5:23 Identity and Self-Discovery: Understanding Who You Are

17:15 What is Surrender? The Path to Freedom

19:08 Miracles as the Norm: Living in Flow

22:00 Finding Your True Life Path and Soul Purpose

30:00 Perceiving the Future: Aligning with Higher Intelligence

37:04 Surrendering to Your Life Purpose and Calling

40:08 True Surrender in the Face of Death: Lessons from the Soul

44:29 Surrender as the Secret to Manifestation and Abundance

49:59 How to Practice Surrender: Daily Practices for Personal Growth

About Kute Blackson

Kute Blackson is a transformational teacher and author of the national bestsellers You.Are.The.One. and The Magic of Surrender. With a mission to awaken and inspire, Kute has spoken on world stages like A-Fest, YPO, EO, and has been featured on Larry King Now, NPR, Impact Theory, and more. His retreats and teachings have helped thousands worldwide experience deep healing and freedom.

🔗 Connect with Kute Blackson:

🌐 Website | https://www.kuteblackson.com

🌐 Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/kuteblackson?

🌐 Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/kuteblacksonlovenow

🎧 Hosted by Stephanie Trager

Stephanie Trager, is an author, speaker, OG coach, medicine woman, and lawyer, who for 25 years has been guiding visionary leaders, next gens, and entrepreneurs to remember who they really are so they can do the work they're really here to do. A conscious futurist, she’s on a mission to activate one million conscious futurists in the next two years, to help usher in a new paradigm of reality. 

🔗 Connect with Stephanie:

🌐 Website | https://www.stephanietrager.com

🌐 YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@stephanietragercatalysttalks

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Remembering the Future: Hermetic Principles & Conscious Creation

🌟 This is a reality-shifting episode for visionary leaders, determined entrepreneurs, and anyone ready to transcend the intellectual understanding of ancient philosophies and step into the full embodiment of their power. Dr. Steven Young challenges us to see beyond conventional reality, offering a new perspective on how we create our world and inviting us to remember the utopian future that is already here.

In this powerful episode, we explore:

• Living a Miraculous Life
• The Guest's Spiritual Journey
• Living "As" vs. "Using" Principles
• The Seven Hermetic Principles
• The Law of Mentalism and Reality as a Simulation
• The Illusion of Manifesting
• The Purpose of the Soul
• The Portal to a Future Reality
• Activating Your Inner Knowing
  

Dr. Steven Young has dedicated 36 years to harmonizing mind, body, and spirit. With 5 businesses and over 9,000 patients, he brings a holistic approach to wellness. He leads spiritual missions to nurture Earth and expand love, focusing on helping people create a new reality of harmony rather than struggling within the illusion of separation.

🔗Connect with Dr. Steven Young:

🌐 Website | https://bodysolutions.kartra.com/page/Hermetics-access

🌐 Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/stevenyoungalchemist/

🎧 Hosted by Stephanie Trager

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Re-Evolutionary Finance, Regenerating Life, Love, and Currency to Solve Our World’s Pressing Opportunities 

🌟 This is a reality-shifting episode for visionary leaders, determined entrepreneurs, and anyone ready to move beyond problem-identification to truly architect a regenerative future. It's for those curious about the intersection of finance, nature, and consciousness, and anyone seeking to understand the power of language and intentions as crucial as our actions in shaping a regenerative future

In this powerful episode, we explore:

4:53 The Problem with "Problem Experts"

7:30 The "Next Problem" Theory and Intentions

10:32 Root Cause Investing and Mental Health

13:04 The Dilemma of Solutions from Problem Creators

19:52 The Value of Nature in Global Economic Systems

24:09 Creating New Markets with Different Rules

30:07 The Power of Narrative and Terminology

37:52 Conscious Futurism and Disagreement with Trends

40:18 Bottom-Up Utopia vs. Top-Down Approaches

51:27 Overcoming Fear and Continuous Self-Discovery

Alessa is a visionary entrepreneur, global impact leader, and the founder and CEO of Top Tier Impact, a global ecosystem of impact investors, LPs, entrepreneurs, professionals and public figures across more than 50 countries. Alessa brings a no-nonsense, solution-focused approach to the biggest questions facing our planet and economy. Full Bio at https://catalysttalks.com

🔗 Connect with Alessa Berg: 

🌐 Website | http://alessaberg.com

🌐 Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/toptierimpact/ 

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🌐 LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessaberg/

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