The Way Forward with Alec Zeck

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If you want to start a homestead because of what you saw on Instagram, you need to watch this episode.

I’ve spent a lot of time questioning the images of off-grid living and homesteading that dominate social media, especially the polished versions that assume massive capital, teams, or invisible support. Those images can feel paralyzing when you’re trying to build something real with limited time, money, or energy. The idea of total self-sufficiency often operates more like a story than a livable path, and holding it as the end goal can stop momentum before it starts.

Today I’m joined by Kymber Rae, a first-generation homesteader-to-be, living on the edge of farmland and Boreal Forest in Saskatchewan, Canada. She’s renovating a mobile home on a budget, gradually working the land, and raising a new family while learning as she goes.

This conversation centers on a grounded approach to simple living that values progress over fantasy and participation over perfection. There’s an honest look at starting a homestead incrementally, navigating relationships and parenthood, and building practical autonomy rooted in community, land, and time rather than aesthetic ideals.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[06:39] Kymber's calling to land and practical strategies for acquiring property
[13:36] Food sovereignty through community interdependence
[22:48] What’s to be said about eating food from the land you’re standing on
[25:43] Time management for gardening and learning through trial and error
[33:29] Food preservation methods, including canning, fermenting, and dehydrating
[36:43] Creative water solutions without well access or plumbing
[42:12] How badly you want it determines what barriers you'll overcome
[46:19] Motherhood's impact on homesteading, homeschooling priorities, and choosing growth over comfort
[55:08] Digital community as psyop, lost social skills, and healing polarized relationships

Resources Mentioned:

Freedom Fighters with Curtis Stone | YouTube
Veda Austin | Website
Dr. Masaru Emoto | Website

Find more from Kymber:

Kymber’s Cottage | YouTube
Kymber’s Cottage | Instagram
Kymber’s Cottage | Facebook

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram
Alec Zeck | X
The Way Forward | Instagram

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You’re not running your life… your belief system is.

Today I’m joined by Josh Trent, an identity transformation architect and the host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast. For nearly a decade, his work has centered on helping driven, burnt-out achievers unwind the emotional and belief patterns that run their lives.

Identity under pressure reveals how much of who we are was shaped long before we had a choice, with unconscious beliefs tracing back far beyond our own lived experiences. Nervous system regulation, money stories, and lineage show up as an interconnected web that influences how daily life is experienced and navigated. Addiction and self-abandonment surface as signals of deeper disconnection. Responsibility for the inner world becomes less about fixing what’s wrong and more about seeing what’s beneath the surface.

This episode speaks to anyone sensing that forward movement isn’t about more tactics, but by understanding the forces shaping personal choices, accumulated stress, and the kind of freedom that feels earned rather than chased.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[06:30] Breaking down the old identity: the practices Josh used for transformation
[19:02] Is plant medicine a necessity when it comes to transformation?
[34:07] Getting to your root beliefs with the BTFA practice: a breathwork walkthrough
[58:45] Traditional talk therapy vs somatic approaches
[01:11:23] Understanding addiction as disconnection and the trap of trading one addiction for another
[01:27:05] Facing your biggest fear in real-time: how Alec nearly shut down his podcast
[01:41:24] Emotional epigenetics and unconsciously passing patterns down through generations
[01:53:58] The single most powerful practice: emotional inventory

Related The Way Forward Episodes:

Health Freedom for Humanity with Josh Trent | Spotify or Apple

Resources Mentioned:

The Great Unlearn with Cal Callahan | Website
Fearful Memories Passed Down to Mouse Descendants by Callaway E. | Article

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Emotional Epigenetics™: You're Not Broken, You're Bio-Energetically Burdened:
Understanding and breaking free from your inherited unconscious beliefs, emotional patterns, and environmental expression will change the fabric and fruits of your life. In this video, Josh Trent uncovers the Science + Spiritual Truth of Emotional Epigenetics™ to show you how.

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast:
See life through a different lens™ to nourish the 5 sides of SELF: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual & financial ⬟ with Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Learn more from Josh:

Wellness + Wisdom | Website

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram
Alec Zeck | X
The Way Forward | Instagram

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This episode was recorded prior to the recent Epstein Files release.

The mass media have been hiding a lot of things from us, and it’s probably worse than you thought…

In this episode, I’m joined by Ian Carroll & Chris Crutchfield for a wide-ranging conversation on how modern systems shape perception, behavior, and control. Ian breaks down how banks, asset managers, and corporate structures exert influence not through headlines, but through incentive design and financial leverage. He shares how questioning COVID narratives, financial corruption, and media overload led him to trace power through banking, corporate ownership, and information flows rather than political theater.

Chris brings a complementary systems-level perspective, connecting money, energy, trust structures, and dynastic power across history. He reframes currency as current, attention as leverage, and technology as an amplifier of unresolved incentives. Together, we examine why scandals like Epstein distract from deeper networks, how controlled opposition and algorithmic feeds fracture reality, and why humility matters in an era of mass formation and information warfare.

This conversation isn’t about picking sides. It’s about learning how to see the machinery clearly, without letting it claim your identity, attention, or sovereignty.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[09:40] Secret societies and old money families: the power structures that leave money trails
[21:56] Currency as electrical energy, human bodies as current, and banking's trust-based control system
[39:09] Controlled opposition, COINTELPRO tactics, and verifying information by fruits not trees
[52:32] How algorithms control perception, create false realities, and trap you in identity labels
[01:10:45] The social media paradox, finding community through devices, and humanity's infant stage with technology
[01:24:47] Protecting authenticity over access: why Binder Gate chose influencers over real journalists
[01:45:32] Why Charlie Kirk's assassination is the most important story in the world right now
[01:57:33] JD Vance as technocratic camp's unwitting front man and the Truman Show presidency
[02:20:11] How government biofield manipulation and MK Ultra tactics created the perfect patsy
[02:44:26] Maduro's capture with microwave weapons, DOD bio-widgets in every American, and ICE tyranny theater
[03:05:48] Vegas shooting blacked out, MBS assassination attempt, and the flip about who really does evil

Related The Way Forward Episodes:

Debunking All the Myths About Slavery, Civil Rights, MLK & Ku Klux Klan with Chad O. Jackson | YouTube
The Biofield & The Internet of Psyops with Chris Crutchfield | YouTube

Resources Mentioned:

Ian Carroll on America’s Deadliest Mass Shooting and Unanswered Questions They Don’t Want You to Ask | YouTube
The Great Unlearn | Website

Learn more from Ian and Chris:

Ian Carroll | Website
Ian Carroll | X
SixSeven | Instagram
SixSeven | YouTube

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram
Alec Zeck | X
The Way Forward | Instagram

The Way Forward is Sponsored By:

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It’s time to re-evaluate the commonly accepted narratives about MLK, civil rights and the KKK…

In this episode, I sit down with Chad O. Jackson for a long-form conversation about Martin Luther King Jr. and why his legacy still provokes such strong emotional and political reactions. Chad is an independent filmmaker and researcher whose work returns to primary sources and overlooked voices, and that lens shapes everything we talk about here.

He recently participated in an MLK debate that ran for hours, creating space for historical context instead of sound bites and patience instead of performative rebuttals. That debate opens the door into a much larger conversation about history, memory, and how certain narratives become culturally untouchable.

We dig into how the Civil Rights Movement is taught, celebrated, and reinforced from an early age, often without room for deeper examination. Chad draws from archival research, period publications, and primary documents, showing how interpretation influences public memory just as much as the facts themselves.

This episode is for listeners who value critical thinking and aren’t afraid to sit with uncomfortable questions.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[08:52] What triggered Chad to investigate the MLK narrative
[17:13] Challenging northern propaganda about slavery
[27:40]  Life for black Americans prior to the Civil Rights Movement
[44:45] King's upbringing: born into wealthy black elite family, Daddy King's social gospel, and rejecting Christ's divinity by age 12
[01:03:13] Why both the FBI and communists wanted the civil rights movement
[01:09:38] The aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement
[01:17:03] The MLK docuseries structure
[01:34:42] The century-long project to separate blacks from Western civilization
[01:49:41] Why classism is just another victimization trap
[02:08:55] How hip hop culture has negatively impacted the black community
[02:22:40] Malcom X and the Civil Rights Movement
[02:42:02] The notion that fascism is a reaction to hyper liberalism

Resources Mentioned:

Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan by Fryer G. R. and Levitt D. S. | Article
Christianity and the Social Crisis by Walter Rauschenbusch | Book
Miss Anne in Harlem by Carla Kaplan | Book
Movers and Shakers by Mabel Dodge Luhan | Book

Find more from Chad:

Chad O. Jackson | Website
Chad O. Jackson | Instagram
Chad O. Jackson | YouTube
Chad O. Jackson | X
The MLK Project | Vimeo
The MLK Project | IMDb

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram
Alec Zeck | X
The Way Forward | Instagram

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If you think you know everything about water and how hydration works, think again.

Contrary to popular belief, hydration isn’t about how much you drink… It’s about how water functions inside the body. Most people focus on intake while missing the form water needs to support energy, clarity, and resilience at the cellular level. That’s why many feel foggy or depleted despite constantly drinking. Liquid water alone doesn’t create hydration. Ancestral cultures understood this long before measuring ounces. Desert peoples stayed hydrated well before modern plumbing existed.

In this episode, I talk with Erin Sojourner, Chief Strategic Officer at Spring Aqua with decades of experience in regenerative agriculture, and Gina Bria, an anthropologist and founder of the Hydration Foundation who studies hydration across cultures and ecosystems. Their work bridges structured water science, living systems, and real-world applications—from soil and food to human energy.

Together, we dismantle hydration myths, discuss fourth phase water, and challenge the assumption that more drinking is always better.

This conversation replaces hydration confusion with a functional model of how water creates energy.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction
[08:14] What does true hydration really look like?
[16:53] The three ways water functions beyond being a simple material substance
[21:22] The reason we are walking around still feeling so dehydrated, regardless of how much water we drink
[26:27] The limitations of reverse osmosis and distilled water, and what chia seeds can help with
[42:43] Why trace minerals in water are essential even with nutrient-dense food
[57:05] The biomimicry technology behind Spring Aqua's system
[01:15:56] Erin’s path from first customer to joining the company
[01:27:40] The upcoming agricultural device
[01:31:23] How water operates at subatomic wave levels
[01:37:43] Why humans are 99% water molecularly and how hydration expands perception
[01:47:41] Gina's vision for a water-based economy

Resources Mentioned:

Quench by Gina Bria | Book or Audiobook
How to Grow Water — It’s Not Only Blue, It’s Green by Gina Bria | TEDx Talk
The Gnosis and the Law by Tellis S. Papastavro Book
Electrons, The Building Blocks of the Universe and the Elemental Kingdom by Werner and Annette Schroeder | Book

Discover more from:

Spring Aqua | Website
Hydration Foundation | Website
Hydration Foundation | Instagram
Erin Sojourner | Substack

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram
Alec Zeck | X
The Way Forward | Instagram

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