How do you know whether someone is genuinely a good person — or simply very good at appearing to be one?

After spending several days meeting people face-to-face at the Galactic Spiritual Informers Connection with  @DaniHenderson-GSIC   I came home thinking about something we ALL need to get better at: discernment. Not because the people there were not lovely (they were 😊) - but because  when so much of our information comes from online, that makes discernment harder. 

In this week's Coffee Chat, Brice from  @EsotericAtlanta  and I explore why we can trust people far too quickly online — and why we can be equally quick to label someone a shill, controlled or “bad” without actually looking at the evidence.

We talk about the halo effect, charisma, expertise versus character, parasocial relationships, confirmation bias, sunk-cost fallacy and why agreeing with someone about ONE thing doesn't mean you need to trust them about everything.

Perhaps the most useful question is incredibly simple:

What am I actually trusting this person FOR?

We also look at the little things that reveal character: how someone treats people who can do nothing for them, whether their actions match their words, how they respond to criticism or a NO, whether they can admit “I don't know” — and what happens when the camera is switched off.

In a world where almost anyone can build an impressive online persona, time may be one of the best bullshit detectors we've got.

Stay curious. Stay discerning. And don't outsource your judgement.

Catherine x

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👉 If you KNOW what you need to change but keep finding yourself repeating the same behaviours, my 1:1 Freedom From Self-Sabotage coaching helps you identify the patterns behind it, rebuild self-trust and actually follow through.

https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/freedom-from-self-sabotage-10-week-programme/

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💪 TRY FUSION BODY STUDIO

I genuinely love what Brice has created with Fusion Body Studio. There are workouts for different ages, abilities and starting points, including shorter workouts and options for people who need to begin more gently. Most importantly, Brice brings together movement with the WHY behind it.

Fusion Body Studio https://fusion-body-studio.mvt.so/

Use code CATHERINE5 for 20% off your first 6 months.

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Let me know in the comments:

Has everything you’ve learned about the world changed the way you live?

Stay curious. Stay free.

Catherine

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Disclaimer: This episode discusses topics for educational and commentary purposes only. Always use your own judgement.

How far down the rabbit hole is TOO far?

Gareth Icke joins me for a wide-ranging conversation about Britain, immigration, censorship, war, propaganda, division, financial pressure, AI — and why spending your entire life staring at everything that's wrong may not be quite as empowering as we like to think. 😬

We talk about tribalism, thinking for yourself, why “I don't know” is sometimes a very intelligent answer, the importance of actually LIVING what you believe — and why Gareth is perfectly happy enjoying a little “bread and circuses” when Derby County are playing.

Question everything? Absolutely.

Just make sure you don't become so consumed by the rabbit hole that you forget to live, think and ACT for yourself.

Keep questioning the world. Just don't leave yourself out of the investigation.

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Ready to look at what might be influencing YOUR health, behaviour, choices and future? Explore my coaching and consultations here:

Catherine’s Coaching & Consultations: https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/consultations-for-you/

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To Connect with Gareth:

https://linktr.ee/garethicke

To Join Ickonic:

https://ickonic.com/

Stay curious. Stay free.

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What if the most important war isn't the one we're being shown?

In this conversation, investigative journalist and war correspondent Michael Yon joins Dane Wigington of Geoengineering Watch for a wide-ranging discussion about geoengineering, weather modification, information warfare and the state of the planet's life-support systems.

Michael has spent decades studying warfare around the world. Dane has spent more than 20 years investigating climate engineering and what he believes is taking place in our skies.

Putting them together produced quite a conversation.

We look at the relationship between information warfare and weather warfare, why public attention may be focused on entirely the wrong things, the debate around geoengineering and climate engineering, wildfires, changing weather patterns, net zero, food and water security, declining insect and wildlife populations, our growing disconnection from nature — and the question I kept coming back to:

What can ordinary people actually DO with this information?

Whether you already follow Dane's work, remain completely sceptical about geoengineering, or sit somewhere in between, I would encourage you to listen with an open mind, question what you hear and do your own research.

We don't all need to understand every piece of science.

We DO need more people looking up, looking around them, asking better questions and paying attention to what is happening in the natural world.

And most importantly, we cannot leave people believing they're powerless.

As we discuss towards the end of this conversation, awareness means very little if it simply leaves us frightened and paralysed. What matters is what we do next.

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CONNECT WITH DANE

🎥 Watch The Dimming:

https://geoengineeringwatch.org/the-dimming-full-length-climate-engineering-documentary/

🌍 Dane Wigington / Geoengineering Watch:

https://geoengineeringwatch.org/

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CONNECT WITH MICHAEL YON

Michael on Substack:

https://substack.com/@michaelyon

Michael on X:

https://x.com/michael_yon

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Previous Videos on Geoengineering with Dane:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY4jttkmCdzU17NRndOrA3gXVUvsgjG3r

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Ready to stop repeating the same patterns?

If you're ready to understand the subconscious beliefs and behaviours that may be keeping you stuck...

Freedom From Self-Sabotage 

https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/freedom-from-self-sabotage-10-week-programme/

Behavioural Coaching for High-Performing Professionals

https://coachcatherineedwards.com/

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Let me know in the comments:

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Catherine

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Disclaimer: This episode discusses topics for educational and commentary purposes only. Always use your own judgement.

Is knowing more isn't actually making us more free? Where is the balance between information & action?

In this conversation with Makia Freeman and Christian White, we go everywhere: technocracy, tokenisation, propaganda, AI, fear, subconscious programming, health, self-reliance, government, money and the growing danger of becoming overwhelmed by it ALL.

Most importantly, we ask the question I think matters now:

What are we actually going to DO about it?

This isn't about hiding from the world or living in fear of it.

It's about becoming stronger, more capable, more aware and much harder to control.

A brilliant conversation. Let me know what YOU take from it below.

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👇 Makia & Christian's links/resources below.

Learn more from Christian White

🌐 christianevanwhite.com

▶ https://www.youtube.com/@UCszp0eJuQapwObUlNwG15eA

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FIND MAKIA FREEMAN

🌐 The Freedom Articles https://thefreedomarticles.com/

▶ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MakiaFreeman99

▶ Rumble https://rumble.com/user/TheFreedomArticles

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Ready to stop repeating the same patterns?

If you're ready to understand the subconscious beliefs and behaviours that may be keeping you stuck...

Freedom From Self-Sabotage 

https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/freedom-from-self-sabotage-10-week-programme/

Behavioural Coaching for High-Performing Professionals

https://coachcatherineedwards.com/

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Catherine

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Disclaimer: This episode discusses topics for educational and commentary purposes only. Always use your own judgement.

Think geoengineering is real? Think it's nonsense? Or simply don't know what to believe? This conversation is for you.

I sat down with Dane Wigington, lead researcher at GeoengineeringWatch.org and producer of The Dimming, and asked him to start RIGHT at the beginning.

What exactly is geoengineering? Is “chemtrails” even the right terminology? What's the difference between geoengineering, weather modification and cloud seeding? What is HAARP? Who is actually flying the aircraft? What evidence should sceptics look at? And what could all of this mean for our weather, food, water, wildlife and health?

We also get into some much bigger questions around extreme weather, fires, climate change, propaganda, the environment — and the question I really wanted answered:

If this IS happening, what can ordinary people actually DO about it?

Dane's answer isn't to panic. It's to investigate, share credible information and get this conversation out into the open.

I'm not asking you to blindly believe Dane.

I'm not asking you to blindly believe me.

Watch. Question. Investigate. Make up your own mind.

And if you know somebody who's never really looked into geoengineering before, THIS is the interview I'd send them.

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🎥 Watch The Dimming: https://geoengineeringwatch.org/the-dimming-full-length-climate-engineering-documentary/

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🌍 Dane Wigington / Geoengineering Watch: https://geoengineeringwatch.org/

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Ready to stop repeating the same patterns?

If you're ready to understand the subconscious beliefs and behaviours that may be keeping you stuck...

Freedom From Self-Sabotage 

https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/freedom-from-self-sabotage-10-week-programme/

Behavioural Coaching for High-Performing Professionals

https://coachcatherineedwards.com/

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Catherine

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Disclaimer: This episode discusses topics for educational and commentary purposes only. Always use your own judgement.

Who feels that the wars, crises and upheavals we're watching aren't separate events at all?

Michael Yon and Christian White join me for a wide-ranging conversation connecting Nepal, Iran, Tibet, propaganda, ideology, mind control, technology and the changing world around us.

Michael describes war through three words: routes, resources and ideology, and explains why understanding the bigger picture matters.

This isn't just another conversation about everything that's wrong.

We ask the more important question: what can ordinary people actually DO?

From clear thinking and strong communities to resilience, speaking up and reconnecting with nature, this conversation ultimately comes back to something we too easily forget:

We are the descendants of survivors.

Question more. Become more. Live better.

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To Connect with Michael https://substack.com/@michaelyon

Michael on X: https://x.com/michael_yon

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Learn more from Christian White

🌐 christianevanwhite.com

▶ https://www.youtube.com/@UCszp0eJuQapwObUlNwG15eA 

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Ready to stop repeating the same patterns?

If you're ready to understand the subconscious beliefs and behaviours that may be keeping you stuck...

Freedom From Self-Sabotage 

https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/freedom-from-self-sabotage-10-week-programme/

Behavioural Coaching for High-Performing Professionals

https://coachcatherineedwards.com/

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Let me know in the comments:

Has everything you’ve learned about the world changed the way you live?

Stay curious. Stay free.

Catherine

© Catherine Edwards

Disclaimer: This episode discusses topics for educational and commentary purposes only. Always use your own judgement.

“I don’t know who to trust anymore.”

Perhaps that's the wrong question.

In this Coffee Chat, Brice and I explore what happens when you stop trusting governments, media, medicine and institutions, only to hand that trust straight over to alternative media, influencers or the next person who sounds convincing.

We talk cognitive dissonance, intuition versus fear, information overload, belief systems, personal responsibility and why being able to say “I don’t know yet” might be one of the most powerful skills you can develop.

Most importantly: can you become someone you trust to work things out for yourself?

Freedom isn't finding the perfect person to follow.

It's learning how to think, question and choose for yourself.

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👉 If you KNOW what you need to change but keep finding yourself repeating the same behaviours, my 1:1 Freedom From Self-Sabotage coaching helps you identify the patterns behind it, rebuild self-trust and actually follow through.

https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/freedom-from-self-sabotage-10-week-programme/

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💪 TRY FUSION BODY STUDIO

I genuinely love what Brice has created with Fusion Body Studio. There are workouts for different ages, abilities and starting points, including shorter workouts and options for people who need to begin more gently. Most importantly, Brice brings together movement with the WHY behind it.

Fusion Body Studio https://fusion-body-studio.mvt.so/home

Use code CATHERINE5 for 20% off your first 6 months.

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Let me know in the comments:

Has everything you’ve learned about the world changed the way you live?

Stay curious. Stay free.

Catherine

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Disclaimer: This episode discusses topics for educational and commentary purposes only. Always use your own judgement.

Michael Yon has spent decades inside war zones, studying cults, propaganda, mass behaviour and societies under extreme pressure.

In this extraordinary conversation, we explore how human beings are influenced and controlled — and why we so rarely recognise it when it's happening to us.

We get into cult psychology, war, propaganda, depopulation, food and water, victimhood, resilience, raising strong children, information overload, intuition and Michael's predictions about what may be coming next.

Most importantly: how do we stop being so easy to manipulate?

This isn't about telling you what to think.

It's about getting much better at recognising who — or what — may be doing your thinking for you.

Stay curious. Stay free.

Michael Yon | Catherine Edwards

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To Connect with Michael https://substack.com/@michaelyon

Michael on X: https://x.com/michael_yon

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READY TO CHANGE YOUR OWN PATTERNS?

If you know what you should be doing but keep repeating the same habits, beliefs or self-sabotaging behaviours, discover my 10-week Freedom From Self-Sabotage Programme:

https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/freedom-from-self-sabotage-10-week-programme/

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FOR HIGH-PERFORMING PROFESSIONALS

If you're successful on paper but know certain patterns are limiting your performance, confidence or potential, explore my private behavioural coaching for high-performing professionals:

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Catherine

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Disclaimer: This episode discusses topics for educational and commentary purposes only. Always use your own judgement.

How do you control billions of people without physically forcing them to do anything?

In this fascinating conversation, researcher and author Makia Freeman joins me to connect some very big dots: from WW3, AI, data centres and surveillance to graphene oxide, propaganda, food and energy security, Net Zero and the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.

We also ask a question that I think is too often missing from these conversations:

WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

We can spend years researching governments, corporations, technology and systems of control.

We can understand propaganda and manipulation.

We can know what’s happening.

But knowing isn’t the same as doing.

So we turn the conversation back on ourselves too.

How easily are our own beliefs and behaviours being manipulated?

Why are fear, division, authority and belonging so powerful?

And can we really talk about sovereignty and freedom without taking responsibility for our own choices?

We discuss:

• WW3 and the changing geopolitical landscape

• The psychology of control

• AI, data centres and surveillance

• Graphene oxide

• Propaganda and manipulation

• Food and energy independence

• China and BRICS

• Self-knowledge and personal responsibility

• Sovereignty

• And, importantly, what ordinary people can actually DO

Perhaps the biggest question from this conversation is simply:

WHAT AM I DOING DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE OF WHAT I KNOW?

Makia Freeman is a researcher, author of five books and editor of The Freedom Articles, exploring power, propaganda, technology, health, surveillance, consciousness and sovereignty.

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FIND MAKIA FREEMAN

The Freedom Articles

https://thefreedomarticles.com/

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@MakiaFreeman99

Rumble

https://rumble.com/user/TheFreedomArticles

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WORK WITH CATHERINE

Freedom From Self-Sabotage — 10 Week Programme

https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/freedom-from-self-sabotage-10-week-programme/

Website

https://www.catherineedwards.life/

Substack

https://substack.com/@catherineedwards

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/catherine.edwards.life

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Let me know in the comments:

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Catherine

© Catherine Edwards

Disclaimer: This episode discusses topics for educational and commentary purposes only. Always use your own judgement.

We can spend six hours watching videos about freedom... while barely moving off the bl***y chair. 😂

At some point, surely we have to ask: what are we actually DOING with everything we've learned?

In this week's Coffee Chat, Brice and I have a laugh at some of the madness currently doing the rounds, including the endless waiting for someone, something or some magical solution to come and save us.

Then we get into the conversation I really wanted to have:

MOVE YOUR BODY.

Not because you need the perfect body.

Not because you need another complicated health regime.

And definitely not because you need another thing to obsess about.

Because your physical health, mental resilience, self-trust, behaviour and ability to take responsibility for your own life are deeply connected.

We talk about why movement matters physically, mentally and spiritually; the relationship between exercise and subconscious patterns; why doing difficult things teaches us something about our own minds; why strength is about far more than muscles; and why we've made exercise FAR more complicated than it needs to be.

We also talk about something I think the "awake" community desperately needs more of:

FUN.

Walk. Dance. Stretch. Ride your horse. Play football. Lift something. Put some ridiculously loud music on and make a complete idiot of yourself in your living room.

You don't have to be good at it.

JUST START.

As we discuss in the episode, being a beginner can actually be the fun part — and even difficult movement doesn't have to be miserable.

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💪 TRY FUSION BODY STUDIO

I genuinely love what Brice has created with Fusion Body Studio. There are workouts for different ages, abilities and starting points, including shorter workouts and options for people who need to begin more gently. Most importantly, Brice brings together movement with the WHY behind it.

Fusion Body Studio

Use code CATHERINE5 for 20% off your first 6 months.

At the time we recorded this, Brice also explained that new members can try the platform for seven days before being charged.

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Ready to Understand What's Really Driving Your Behaviour?

Knowing what to do isn't always enough.

Many of the habits, fears and decisions that shape our lives are driven by subconscious beliefs and patterns we don't even realise are there.

To learn more about my Freedom From Self-Sabotage Behavioural Coaching, visit:

https://www.catherineedwards.life/consults/consultations-for-you/ and 

https://CoachCatherineEdwards.com

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Let me know in the comments:

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Catherine

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Disclaimer: This episode discusses topics for educational and commentary purposes only. Always use your own judgement.