The Key to Sovereignty

Say his name out loud: DonTSelly. Don't sell. The only financial advice he's ever needed.

Fifteen years in sales and mortgages, a cubicle where you clicked a button to go to the bathroom, and $106,000 of student debt. Then a car crash changed everything. Today DonTSelly lives on 103 acres in the Carolinas with chickens, geese, ravens and a goose called Frank the Tank who runs the place.

Nell and DonTSelly talk debt slavery, finding Bitcoin, what the Amish got right, homeschooling, catching AI bots pretending to be human, and why privacy, food and community matter most.

Meet DonTSelly in person at the Sovereignty Summit, Queenstown, New Zealand, April 2027.

Tickets and info: https://sovereigntysummit.nz/

Mentioned in this episode

DonTSelly on X: x.com/Don_Tsell

Chicken Tender: x.com/21CHICKENTENDER

Tselly and Frens: x.com/TsellyAndFrens

The Maxis Club Show: x.com/MaxisClub

Crypto Cloaks: cryptocloaks.com

SVRN Society: svrnsociety.com

Sovereign Hybrid Compute: sovereignhybridcompute.com

IndeeHub: indeehub.studio

Bitcoin FilmFest: bitcoinfilmfest.com

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:04 Hats and Satoshi

03:19 103 acres, sheep, wool and cats

07:14 Frank the Tank and the flock

08:40 Falconry and ravens

12:09 Life in the cubicle

17:26 Mortgages, a car crash and the way out

20:46 Finding Bitcoin

23:01 What the Amish got right

27:18 Why they homeschool

30:38 Stigma, flat earth and the moon

35:28 Waking up after COVID

37:43 Freemasons and secret societies

41:43 Chicken Tender and Tselly and Frens

47:02 Catching AI bots

51:00 Drones, cameras and getting out of the city

53:31 The Sovereignty Summit pillars

55:16 Privacy and Sovereign Hybrid Compute

1:00:10 Wrap up

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Why do we keep defending a money system that's gaslighting us?

Helena Andrejko grew up behind the Iron Curtain in communist Czechoslovakia. Now a psychotherapist and psychedelic assisted therapist in Sydney, she's writing a book on the psychology of money.

We talk life under communism, the 1953 currency reform, why we stay loyal to money we can't exit, Agamben's "bare life", and psychedelic therapy in Australia.

See Helena at the Sovereignty Summit, 2 to 3 April 2027, Queenstown.

🎟️ https://sovereigntysummit.nz/tickets

HELENA

https://handrejko.com

https://x.com/MindTheBlock21

MENTIONED

Under a Cruel Star, Heda Margolius Kovály

The Mandibles, Lionel Shriver

Moral Economies of Money, Jakob Feinig

Good People Break Bad Laws, Topher Field

Where Are We Now?, Giorgio Agamben

Animal Farm, George Orwell

What Bitcoin Did: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com

CHAPTERS

00:00 Welcome Helena

02:29 Czechoslovakia to London to Sydney

06:57 Behind the Iron Curtain

12:03 Propaganda and the 1953 currency reform

16:42 How COVID woke Nell up

20:07 From altcoins to Bitcoin

24:54 Nostr and slow adoption

27:46 Why we can't leave fiat

35:11 The language wall around money

39:43 What will wake people up?

45:59 Agamben and bare life

49:11 Laws that never go away

52:50 Psychedelic assisted therapy

59:37 MDMA, psilocybin and palliative care

1:03:55 The seven pillars

1:07:03 Helena's book

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Michael O'Keefe dredges for gold in freezing Alpine creeks, stacks Bitcoin every single day, and homeschools his kids in Queenstown. He holds both kinds of hard money: one dug out of the ground, one secured with energy.Nell sits down with Michael to talk about how a birthday gold pan turned into a mining claim, why it was Bitcoin (not gold) that taught him about money, and how listening to The Bitcoin Standard in a digger changed his life. He bought near the top, held through the drop, and came out with more conviction than ever.They also get into his 500 day Bitcoin stacking challenge, having his first son at 17 and getting a second chance at fatherhood, why he's moving away from the word "homeschooling", and stepping into the ring because his teenage son said "if you do, I will."Michael is speaking at the Sovereignty Summit, 2 and 3 April 2027, Coronet Peak, Queenstown. Tickets at sovereigntysummit.nz/ticketsChapters00:00 Listening to The Bitcoin Standard in a digger00:35 Welcome Michael O'Keefe01:03 How do you become a gold miner in 2026?02:30 Seven mil wetsuits and four degree creeks05:14 From a gold pan to a mining claim07:40 Gold didn't lead him to Bitcoin09:43 Buying in near the top11:52 Holding through the drop15:07 Women in Bitcoin: curiosity vs trust16:30 The 500 day stacking challenge20:58 Gold, calisthenics, homeschooling and Bitcoin23:24 A dad at 17 and a second chance26:36 Moving beyond "homeschooling"29:22 The seven pillars of the Sovereignty Summit31:21 Talking to your kids about Bitcoin34:32 Fighting alongside his son37:44 Calisthenics and small daily habits39:41 "My journey is enough"Follow on X: @SovSummitNZ and @TheBitcoinBasinInstagram: @sovereigntysummitnz and @thebitcoinbasinMusic licensed through Soundstripe.License code: 7EZPPWBNVNTCLKXI#Bitcoin #Sovereignty #NewZealand

Jordi Llonch Esteve spent years as an airline pilot, waking up in a new country almost every morning. What was always missing was community. Today he's Head of Growth at Satlantis, the Bitcoin native events platform built on Nostr, and he helps run the Barcelona Bitcoin community.

We talk about:

- Swapping the cockpit for Bitcoin

- How he met Aleksandar Svetski and joined Satlantis

- Satlantis growing from a travel app for nomads into a Bitcoin events platform with 1,000 events hosted

- Why the Sovereignty Summit chose Satlantis for ticketing

- Why meeting real Bitcoiners in person matters more than ever

Jordi is speaking at the Sovereignty Summit 2027 at Coronet Peak, Queenstown. Tickets : https://sovereigntysummit.nz/tickets

Connect with Jordi

X: https://x.com/jordi_llonch

Satlantis: https://satlantis.io/jordi

Nostr: @[email protected]

Follow us

X: @SovSummitNZ and @TheBitcoinBasin

Instagram: @sovereigntysummitnz and @thebitcoinbasin

#Bitcoin #Sovereignty #NewZealand

What if the energy we waste could secure the money we save? Nell sits down with Simon Collins, co-founder of Stacked, CEO of Stackr and general partner at Horizon Power.

From mining on a borrowed university computer to building a Bitcoin only exchange in Queenstown, Simon shares why Stacked sells nothing but Bitcoin, why community is the real return and the idea behind his book, Every Last Joule. Then the conversation turns to the land, food sovereignty and the future of the family farm.

Broken money shapes what we grow, what we build and what we value. Sound money offers another way.

Disclosure: Stacked is the Founding Partner of Sovereignty Summit 2027.

Every Last Joule: https://everylastjoule.com
Stacked: https://stackedbitcoin.com
Eat New Zealand: https://www.eatnewzealand.nz
Sovereignty Summit 2027, Queenstown, 2 and 3 April: https://sovereigntysummit.nz