In this next instalment of the Evolve series on the evolution of culture and society, Beth is joined by historian, journalist, author, speaker, editor, and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation, Matt Ehret, for a wide-angle conversation on geopolitics.

This episode asks deeper questions than the usual headlines allow.

Rather than focusing solely on villains, conspiracies, or surface-level power struggles, this conversation explores how power itself has evolved over time — and how culture, creativity, and human intention have shaped (and reshaped) the geopolitical landscape.

Together, we explore:

• How power structures have historically formed, fractured, and transformed
• What arose organically from culture versus what was engineered by shifting centers of power
• How empires, ideologies, and institutions evolve in response to human consciousness
• Why understanding history matters if we want a different future
• How to stay oriented toward optimism and agency without denying real harm or corruption

Matt brings a rare blend of historical depth and future-oriented vision, offering a perspective that doesn’t collapse into despair — but instead points toward human creativity as an active force in history.

This episode of Beth of Fresh Air is an invitation to look at geopolitics not as a fixed chessboard controlled by unseen hands, but as a living process — one that is still unfolding, and still open to influence.

Learn More About Matt Ehret

🌐 Website: https://risingtidefoundation.net
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Matthew is a journalist and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Patriot Review, Dean of Political Science at the American University of Moscow and host of Pluralia Dialogos. He has authored the book series “The Untold History of Canada”, the four volume “Clash of the Two Americas”, “Science Unshackled” and his three volume series “Revenge of the Mystery Cults.”

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Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

In this upcoming King Hero interview, Brandon Sterling joins me again to pull the curtain back on what’s *actually* happening in the economy.
We’ll dig into recent economic events like Venezuela, what Trump’s oil plan really means, and why Brandon is bullish on oil—despite widespread uncertainty. We’ll also explore what so-called “dumb money” is doing right now, the employment crash no one wants to talk about, stock market volatility, and what the dramatic rise in precious metals may be signalling.
This isn’t surface-level commentary or fear-based forecasting. It’s a grounded look at economic patterns, historical context, and what Brandon sees coming next—now, and into 2026.
If you want to understand the bigger picture instead of reacting to headlines, join us live.
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I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.

Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

In this special episode of Beth of Fresh Air, we begin a new series titled Evolve, exploring how society and culture have changed and are changing — and where they may be headed next.

For this first conversation, I’m blessed to MAYBE be joined by my nineteen-year-old, Liam, for an intergenerational dialogue about what it’s like to grow up inside the world that many adults are worried about.

If you’ve ever felt concerned, cynical, or quietly hopeless about future generations, this episode offers a rare opportunity to listen directly to someone living inside that future now.

Together, we explore:

• What Liam has noticed changing socially and culturally over the course of his lifetime
• How younger generations are relating differently to identity, authority, meaning, and community
• Where he senses things are headed — and what feels genuinely different this time around
• What he feels called to contribute to society and culture as it continues to evolve

This conversation isn’t about nostalgia or judgment. It’s about listening, bridging perspectives, and allowing a more nuanced picture of the future to emerge.

The Evolve series is an invitation to move beyond fear-based narratives and into dialogue — across ages, experiences, and worldviews — so we can better understand ourselves in relation to the world we’re becoming.

Beth of Fresh Air is where we pause, breathe, and make room for new ways of seeing — one honest conversation at a time.

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I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.

Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

A good friend, colleague, past student and apprentice, teacher, coach, and musician, Melanie Johannesson, is going to be here in person! So this week on the BoFA livestream we’re going to geek out about some of our favourite things.

Together, we’ll be diving into...

• Deprogramming — what it really looks like in lived experience
• Archetypes and how they shape identity, behaviour, and healing
• Melanie’s personal journey working with deprogramming and archetypal patterns
• What happens when unconscious programs start to loosen — creatively, relationally, and practically
  This conversation is for anyone who loves depth, pattern recognition, and the moment when things suddenly click.

You can visit Melanie and learn more about her here: https://www.facebook.com/melanie.johannesson

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I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.

Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

Is corruption the exception… or the rule?

“People assume you fall for a con because you’re naïve.
In reality, you fall because the con aligns with what you already know to be true.”

In this King Hero interview, I’m joined by Achille Currado, whose nearly 20 years in policing gave him a front-row seat to realities most people never see—and few are willing to talk about.

Long before corruption became a public talking point, Achille had already witnessed it firsthand.

During his career, he was exposed to:

• Systemic corruption

• Cultural corruption—where unethical behavior becomes normalized

• Blatant abuse of power

He personally witnessed:

• Careers destroyed for personal and political reasons

• Reputations manipulated behind the scenes

• Criminal acts quietly covered up in the name of “the system”

Over time, a clear pattern emerged:

• Advancement often required compromising one’s morals

• Those who refused to comply became problems

• A deeply entrenched “us vs. them” mentality took hold

Within this culture:

• Officers came to see themselves as above civilians

• Accountability became optional

• Loyalty to the system outweighed loyalty to truth

“That context matters—because cons don’t start with lies. They start with truths.”

In this conversation, we explore how corruption sustains itself not through deception alone, but through alignment with partial truths, cultural conditioning, and unspoken agreements. We’ll look at how systems drift, how good people get caught inside them, and what it takes to see clearly once you’re already in.

This is a grounded, sobering, and deeply human conversation about power, perception, and the cost of integrity.

Bio:

Born and raised in London, Ontario, I began my career as a youth worker in a maximum-security facility for young offenders, where I worked for seven years. Driven by a desire to serve the community, I joined the London Police Service in 1998. Over nearly two decades, I worked as a patrol officer, in recruiting and training, within the detective office as a crime analyst and in Intelligence, and as a report auditor. These experiences offered a unique perspective on how policing operates from the inside.

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I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.

Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

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Join us live for part 4 of De-Cult Natural Health with guest, Dagmar Stansova!

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I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.

Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

In this King Hero interview I’m welcoming author and visionary, Dr. Jacob Lieberman, for his third interview to talk about vision.

While he was remarkably successful at healing his own eyesight, this interview will focus on the vision behind the vision — what does clear seeing really mean, how has it impacted and changed his life, and how has it allowed him to be a beacon of awakening to many people.

“Gently piercing the heart and mind with timeless principles and common sense wisdom, Liberman illuminates the seamless connection between light, vision and consciousness, offering a whole new way of seeing and being.”

BioDr. Jacob Israel Liberman’s discoveries in the fields of light, vision, and consciousness have been enthusiastically endorsed by luminaries in the fields of health, science, and spirituality from Deepak Chopra and Bruce Lipton to Eckhart Tolle. His newest book, Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living, reveals how light guides our every step, so we may fulfill our reason for being. 

Website: https://www.jacobliberman.org/   

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJacobLiberman  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjacobliberman/   

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I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.

Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

It turns out that de-culting natural health is a rather large subject. Join us for another round of De-Cult Natural Health, with guest, Dagmar Stansova.

And just like in part 1 & 2, so we don’t just baby-and-the-bathwater black pill everyone about natural health diets, not only are we speaking to where individual systems fail, but where they were heading in the right direction.

And because we are in the Christmas days of eating too much or the wrong foods, if we have time we’re going to give you some tips on bouncing back from holiday eating more easily.

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I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and  business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.

Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air

I have been a fan of Alex Michael, aka Conspiracy Music Guru, for several years, especially post plandemic. I’ve found his True Solfeggio recordings to be not only beautiful, but highly conducive to healing and creative work.

Join us on the shortest day of the year for the live King Hero interview to talk sound, the secrets of “true Solfeggio”, how his music career has evolved, and what keeps him going through the madness.

About Michael:

Conspiracy Music Guru, exposes the world’s greatest deceptions with lyrics that inform and teach, and together with an understanding of the power of 432Hz his music delivers a natural vibration which has had a profound impact and resonance with his fans. Conscious music is what the Conspiracy Music Guru is all about.
Alex Michael, a multi instrumentalist and music producer is the mastermind behind the Conspiracy Music Guru and is as passionate about truth as he is about music.
His music is diverse, covering musical genres from comedic country, with the popular character and album Flat Earth Man to instrumental healing music with his albums True Solfeggio. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. His latest album entitled Black Sheep utilises rock while the album Unplug has a more natural softer acoustic sound to convey the truth filled messages.

You can find reviews of his Solfeggio recordings here:
https://www.conspiracymusicguru.com/true-solfeggio-reviews

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I’m Beth Martens—founder of the House of Free Will, pattern hunter, archetype reader, podcaster, author, coach trainer, and business coach. My calling has truly been a life-or-death matter. After a decade as a corporate VP in my family’s firm, eight transformative trips to India, and a three-year battle with cancer nearly 25 years ago, I turned to archetypes and deep deprogramming work to save my life.

Despite doing everything wrong based on limited health knowledge, I accessed the hidden inner roots of what was keeping me sick, stuck, and unconscious. Letting those patterns go changed everything. I went from dying to living almost overnight.

Today, I help people who love truth more than their beliefs—people who want to serve with their life’s work and walk their Hero’s Journey—to deprogram the beast system from within and stop unconsciously feeding the forces that harm us.

I host the King Hero interview series, where I spotlight leaders, entrepreneurs, movement makers, and lovers of freedom who are carving new paths in a world that desperately needs them. And I also share my own voice, insights, and stories through my new solo podcast, Beth of Fresh Air.

De-Cult Natural Health (Part 2) With Guest Dagmar Stansova!

Conventional medicine is failing louder than ever — and when people are scared, sick, and searching for answers, natural health cults rush in to fill the void.

In Episode 10 of Beth of Fresh Air, With Guest Dagmar Stansova joining again, we continue dismantling the cult dynamics embedded in modern natural health culture by walking through a wide range of popular diets — highlighting where they do have merit, why they ultimately fail, and how they quietly hijack people’s health, intuition, and autonomy.

This episode isn’t about attacking individuals. It’s about exposing rigid belief systems, nutritional absolutism, and identity-based eating that keep people stuck while promising salvation.

What We Cover in This Episode

We examine the good intentions, blind spots, and cult mechanics behind the following diets and protocols:

1. Body Ecology Diet (Donna Gates) – anti-candida, fermented foods, food combining
2. Fit for Life Diet (Harvey & Marilyn Diamond) – fruit-based mornings, “live” foods
3. The Zone Diet (Barry Sears) – macro ratios & omega-3 focus
4. Blood Type Diet (Peter D’Adamo) – lectin avoidance based on ancestry
5. Genefit Nutrition – blindfolded raw eating guided by smell
6. Raw Primal Diet (Aajonus Vonderplanitz) – raw animal foods & detox ideology
7. 80/10/10 Diet (Douglas Graham) – high-carb raw vegan tissue breakdown
8. Hippocrates Institute Diet (Ann Wigmore / Brian Clement) – raw vegan & wheatgrass
9. Fruitarianism
10. Macrobiotic Diet (Michio Kushi) – yin/yang balance & seasonal eating
11. Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) – legal/illegal foods for gut conditions
12. Low Glycemic Index Diet
13. Anti-Parasite Diet – herbs, antimicrobials & fear-based protocols
14. Superfoods Diet (David Wolfe) – exotic supplements & nutritional mysticism
15. Green Smoothie Revolution (Victoria Boutenko) – gut damage via oxalates & carotenoids
16. Healer’s Protocol (Darko Velcek) – plasma water & raw animal focus
17. Urine Therapy (Ayurvedic offshoots)
18. Epi-Paleo Diet (Jack Kruse) – seafood-heavy biohacking origins
19. The Plant Paradox (Dr. Gundry) – lectin fear framework
20. High-Fat Carnivore (Paul Saladino)
21. Muscle Meat & Water Carnivore (Dr. Chaffee)
22. Low Oxalate Diet (Sally Norton) – hidden vitamin toxicity tradeoffs
23. Low Histamine Diet
24. Stick of Butter a Day Diet – cortisol myths & hormone claims
25. Raw Milk Cure
26. Anti-Inflammatory Diet
27. Low Deuterium Diet – mitochondrial theory & ketogenic overlap

Core Themes Explored

• Why suppression masquerades as healing
• How detox narratives keep people trapped in cycles of breakdown
• The difference between practical nutrition and ideological diets
• How cult thinking sneaks into “natural” spaces just as easily as pharmaceutical ones

This episode is for anyone who’s tried everything, followed all the rules, and still feels worse — or is quietly afraid to stop.

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