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Harley Echlin (The Bitcoin Youth Podcast) interviewed me and here's the result:

Bitcoin and Life Advice with John Rhodes

https://fountain.fm/episode/sjd3hy6mUpdrv5wKKni1

It's also on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5X_-CaS4A

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In an effort to help everyone get the most out of this, I built out a "Follow Along" set of bullet points. Please let Harley know if this is useful!

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LESSON 1: “Everything Is Money” – The Corporate Illusion

Main Idea: Every benefit you get from a job—title, insurance, retirement plans—is just money in a different wrapper.

Breakthrough: Once you see this, you realize you can leave. You can replicate or exceed it on your own terms.

Quote: “Everything was money. The healthcare? Just money. The reputation? Money.”

Action: Translate all your job benefits into pure money. Then ask: Could I build this myself?

LESSON 2: “Freedom TO and Freedom FROM”

Main Idea: True freedom means two things:

Freedom to do what you want.

Freedom from systems that control you.

Connection to Bitcoin: Bitcoin enables both by giving you sovereignty over your time, energy, and mobility.

Illustration: During the pandemic, John refused to comply—not out of rebellion, but because he had already started the mental, financial, and philosophical escape.

LESSON 3: The Power of Ownership – “Buy, Then You See”

Main Idea: Buying even a tiny amount of Bitcoin changes you.

Why? Because ownership makes you pay attention. What you own, you study. What you study, you value.

Quote: “When you buy something, you become an owner. And when you’re an owner, you care.”

LESSON 4: Education = Sovereignty

Main Idea: Bitcoin isn’t just an asset. It’s a lens on reality. Learning about it changes how you see everything.

Supporting Ideas:

“The more people learn, the more they acquire.”

“Bitcoin takes 100 hours to understand. Maybe a lifetime.”

Example: Discovering The Creature from Jekyll Island was a mind-splitting moment. Reality itself cracked open.

LESSON 5: Bitcoin Is More Real Than Reality

Main Idea: Bitcoin exists as math, energy, and truth. That makes it more real than your furniture.

Quote: “Look around. It’s all vapor. Empty space. But Bitcoin? It’s there. It’s real.”

Philosophical Bridge: If you understand energy fields and atomic structure, you realize Bitcoin’s mathematical integrity makes it hyper-real.

LESSON 6: Bitcoin = Transportable Freedom

Main Idea: Bitcoin is the only asset you can memorize and carry across borders without anyone’s permission.

Metaphor: It’s a Star Trek transporter for your time, labor, and value.

Quote: “You don’t need a backpack. Just the seed in your mind. That’s enough.”

LESSON 7: Create Value, or Die Trying

Main Idea: Purpose is survival. You must create value for others, or you decay.

Tactical Exercise:

List everything you do.

Cross off what others don’t care about.

Circle what you love doing.

Highlight what people thank you for.

That’s your meaning+money zone.

Quote: “Shut up and create value.”

LESSON 8: Bitcoin as a Life Philosophy

Main Idea: It’s not about stacking sats. It’s about aligning to truth, integrity, and long-term thinking.

Quote: “It’s not that I have Bitcoin. It’s what Bitcoin enables.”

Why it matters: Owning Bitcoin helps you resist tyranny, propaganda, fear, and lies—not because it’s money, but because it’s truth.

LESSON 9: The Juggernaut Effect (Start, Then Become Unstoppable)

Main Idea: You are killable until you start. Once you start, you become unstoppable.

Metaphor: The Juggernaut (Marvel Comics character) only becomes invincible *after* he begins moving.

Quote: “Bitcoin is the Juggernaut. Once it started, it couldn’t be stopped.”

LESSON 10: Story = Identity = Memory = Power

Main Idea: What you believe about yourself comes from stories.

Danger: Read the wrong stories, become the wrong person.

Why Chaos Signal?

To inject a new narrative into Bitcoin culture.

To encode deep truths inside fiction.

To program the reader’s values, not just entertain.

LESSON 11: Use Fiction as a Weapon of Truth

Main Idea: To change culture, use fiction. Hard sci-fi grounded in reality alters the reader’s perception forever.

Favorite Examples:

Dune: Adversity produces the strongest warriors.

Juggernaut: Inertia beats weakness.

Quote: “You become the characters in the stories you read.”

LESSON 12: The Now Is All You Have – Choose Wisely

Main Idea: You don’t live in the past or future. You only live in the now.

Decision Test: “Right now, $1M in cash or $1M in Bitcoin?”

Lesson: The now is where choice and freedom happen. Choose Bitcoin now.

CONCLUSION: Live It Forward

Final Message: Bitcoin isn’t about money. It’s about becoming the version of yourself that can’t be manipulated, enslaved, or stopped.

How?

Learn deeply.

Create relentlessly.

Own your principles.

Move with unstoppable momentum.

Stack truth, not just sats.

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