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Erai Beckman has spent his career building things before the regulations existed to govern them — co-founding the world’s first CBD pharmaceutical company to legally import into Latin America, helping legalize CBD and THC for medical use in Brazil in 2015, and scaling that venture to a $9 billion private valuation. Now he’s applying the same playbook — build according to the law before the industry gets regulated, not after — to Web3. Erai joins Oto to break down Peace Through Trade, a layer 1 proof-of-work blockchain built on two pillars: full legal compliance (ICO 20022, KYC/AML) and sustainability, including the ability to mine from a home laptop instead of industrial-scale rigs. They cover his own first encounter with Bitcoin in 2012, why regulated industries always see a changing of the guard (and what that means for crypto right now), how AI is being used to secure the network, Peace Through Trade’s UN recognition and first official government partnership, and the legal distinction between a utility coin and a security that sank XRP’s court case. Technical note: Around 1:20:35, Erai’s camera briefly cut out due to a connectivity issue on his end. We’ve left the audio intact through the transition — we apologize for the short visual interruption and appreciate your understanding. DISCLAIMER: NOTHING IN THIS EPISODE IS FINANCIAL ADVICE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. CHAPTERS 00:00 Trailer 00:59 Welcome & introducing Erai Beckman 04:00 Erai’s entrepreneurial upbringing — two family influences 10:00 The CBD pharmaceutical story — saving kids’ lives in Brazil 19:00 What is Peace Through Trade? The two core pillars 22:00 Erai’s first brush with Bitcoin in 2012 30:00 Why build a new blockchain now — lessons from CBD and the dot-com era 42:00 DeFi’s pros and cons, and how PTT approaches security 51:00 Protecting the vulnerable — insurance for crypto holdings 53:00 Layer 1 vs. Layer 2, and mining PTT from your laptop 1:01:00 How AI powers Peace Through Trade’s security 1:06:00 The UN award and first official government partnership 1:10:00 Utility coin vs. security — the XRP lesson 1:13:00 What’s next: the Clarity Act and the Bitcoin cycle 1:19:00 150M+ views and growing the Peacemaker community 1:20:35 Technical note (camera interruption — see description) 1:24:00 How to join Peace Through Trade and Oto’s academy

Who are you in an agreement, what are its terms, and where do you fit within it? Oto Gomes sits down with Shawn Rice of Shawn Rice and Associates to discuss trusts, contracts, property, legal authority, and freedom. In a FIRST EVER PUBLIC INTERVIEW, Shawn shares how his Marine Corps experience and a 1992 visit to Cambodia shaped his path, then explains the three questions he asks when examining an agreement. In this episode, Shawn discusses why he returns to legal texts, how he approaches documentation, and what happens during his firm’s client intake process. Oto also asks him to make these complex ideas easier to understand. CHAPTERS 00:00 Meet Shawn Rice 01:45 The Marine Corps and Cambodia 03:00 Shawn’s approach to trusts and legal sources 10:00 Why he pursued this work 16:15 Explaining complex ideas through stories 22:45 Working with institutions 28:45 Trusts in practice 34:00 Teaching, scripture, and agreements 54:45 What Shawn’s firm does 1:16:35 The three questions to ask about an agreement 1:21:30 Education and documentation 1:28:30 Shawn’s views on banking and money 1:36:00 Services and client intake 1:47:45 What freedom means to Shawn KEY TAKEAWAYS Shawn’s three questions are: Who am I? What is the nature of the agreement? Where in the hierarchy of agreements do I attach? He explains how these questions guide his approach to legal relationships. For Shawn, understanding an idea is only the beginning. He discusses the research, documents, and administrative work involved in applying his approach. The conversation closes with a question for listeners: What is freedom worth to you, and how much effort are you willing to put into understanding the rules that affect your life? CONNECT WITH SHAWN Contact Shawn Rice and Associates through Oto: APPLY HERE **WORKING WITH SR&A REQUIRES APPROVAL THROUGH VETTING BY OTO & HIS TEAM** CONNECT WITH OTO Instagram: https://instagram.com/otogomes Website: https://otogomes.live YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@otogomes DISCLAIMER This episode is for educational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, or medical advice. The speakers’ views and interpretations are their own. Consult a qualified professional about your circumstances.

Michael D'alton was a mechanical engineering student fighting asthma and eczema that steroids couldn't touch. After a two-year wait to see a specialist ended with "you have eczema" and nothing else, he stumbled into a bioenergy healing session — and by day three, his symptoms were gone. That was 33 years ago. He's spent the decades since training thousands of people in the practice, building an international healing school, and appearing on Oprah's network, BBC, and outlets across Ireland and the UK. Oto and Michael go deep on the difference between Reiki and bioenergy work, the biofield and how frequency shapes the body, why identity is the real obstacle standing between people and their health, and what happened when COVID shut down the 27-year-old school that had become his whole sense of self. It closes with Michael's answer to Oto's signature question: two minutes, a million people, one thing to say before you drop the mic. DISCLAIMER: NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:00 The specialist appointment that changed everything 05:00 The treatment that convinced him the energy was real 07:00 Reiki vs. bioenergy: "first aid vs. surgery" 10:00 Lockdowns in Ireland and Canada, and losing the filter 12:00 The biofield, frequency, and the Hawkins scale of consciousness 25:00 The radio station analogy — identity and why people relapse 27:00 "We have the innernet" — the technology inside you 29:00 Why finance is the next collective reckoning 34:00 Dependency, identity, and re-internalizing self-worth 45:00 Timelines, doom vs. hope, and one person's frequency vs. thousands 53:00 Losing his identity when COVID shut down his school 1:21:00 Final message: "You're always winning" KEY TAKEAWAYS Bioenergy healing works on the biofield rather than through touch, and Michael draws a clear line between it and Reiki — he calls Reiki "first aid" and bioenergy "surgery" for how deep and specific the work can go. Identity is the throughline of the whole conversation. Michael's read is that people don't stay sick because of the illness itself — they stay sick because being sick has become who they are, and changing that requires a different sense of self, not just a different treatment. The COVID years form the hinge of his own story. He talks candidly about the identity crisis that hit when his 27-year-old healing school shut down overnight, and what it took to find out who he was without the stage.

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Oto sits down with Hans Toohey — former Navy helicopter pilot, Harvard Kennedy School grad, and co-founder of Remnant Finance — for a conversation that starts with a broken contract and ends somewhere very few finance conversations go. Hans was twelve years into a career he'd planned his whole adult life around when he refused the mandate, filed a religious accommodation request, and got benched from the cockpit for two years while the Navy sat on his appeal. What he did with those two years is why this episode exists. He'd studied contract law as an elective at Harvard, so when the Navy tried to rewrite his contract retroactively, recoup a bonus they'd already paid, and claw back years of flight pay, he recognized exactly what he was looking at. He fought it. The class action won. But the bigger shift was what he taught himself while grounded — that the same contractual thinking he'd used against the Navy applies to how a family holds and controls its money. From there they dig into human life value, why most fathers are "a McLaren insured like a Civic," the protect-save-grow order of operations, the average-rate-of-return sleight of hand in conventional financial planning, and how whole life cash value works as a contractual, guaranteed, liability-protected asset rather than an expense. This is a long one and it earns it. Grab a notebook. DISCLAIMER: NOT LEGAL, MEDICAL, OR FINANCIAL ADVICE. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. CHAPTERS 0:00 – Intro 0:45 – Meet Hans Toohey & the Red Pill Moment 3:05 – Navy Pilot by Trade 3:45 – Cambridge, 2020 & Watching the World Lose Its Mind 8:15 – The Mandate & the Religious Accommodation Request 13:15 – Boilerplate Denials: How the Shell Game Got Exposed 14:35 – Benched From Flying for Two Years 16:25 – "You Wrote the Contract, I Just Signed It" 18:25 – They Recoup the Bonus & Cancel the Third Payment 20:05 – Sent Across the Country to a Job That Didn't Exist 22:05 – Separating With a Debt to the US Treasury 25:05 – The Class Action & What Winning Against the Government Looks Like 26:45 – Rebuilding Assumptions From Scratch 33:45 – Golden Handcuffs: Pensions, UCMJ & the Fine Print 40:45 – Harvard Kennedy School: Learning Macro From Central Bankers 44:05 – Jekyll Island & the Turn Toward Austrian Economics 46:25 – A Book Arrives in the Mail. He Throws It Aside. 51:45 – Getting Licensed & Trying to Disprove It 54:15 – Life Insurance Is a Contract With 200 Years of Case Law 55:45 – The CFP Model: Buy Term and Invest the Rest 1:01:15 – Human Life Value: What Does Your Family Miss Out On? 1:03:35 – "A McLaren Insured Like a Civic" 1:05:35 – Protect, Save, Grow: The Order of Operations 1:08:45 – Disability, Liability & Creditor Protection 1:12:15 – The Average Rate of Return Fallacy 1:17:45 – Planning in 1990 for a World That No Longer Exists 1:20:45 – How Cash Value Actually Works 1:24:05 – The Power of a Policy Loan 1:31:05 – The Neighbor, the Bank & the $4M Loan 1:38:15 – What Institutions Actually Want From You 1:41:15 – Net Worth vs. Cash Flow 1:42:05 – The River, the Mill & the Dam 1:46:05 – Who This Is NOT For 1:52:45 – Remnant Frontier: Bridging the Two Advisors 2:03:15 – The Distribution Problem Nobody Plans For 2:09:25 – One Minute in Front of Two Million People KEY TAKEAWAYS Hans filed a religious accommodation request against the military's COVID vaccine mandate and was immediately benched from flying. In naval aviation the timing is rigid enough that two years out of the cockpit ends a career regardless of how the appeal resolves. When the Navy demanded he restart a three-year contract they had prevented him from fulfilling, he refused on frustration-of-contract grounds. They charged him with breach, recouped roughly $50,000, and assigned it as a debt that followed him to the US Treasury with 30% added on separation. His framing on protection: your ability to produce income is your greatest asset, and most people insure a fraction of it — "a McLaren insured like a Civi