My Press Preparation gifted to me by 📝The Moment Lab.
Singular narrative: How you and other male tech enthusiasts were seeing the world through a negative lens and you employed healing practices and tech to think more positively and spiritually, an experience you are now sharing with the world via Spiritual Bro.
Avoid discussing BrianBot, Mythos, or One Inc. We also should stay clear of stunts.
Questions
- What is your business background?
- Inherently driven to create
- Unconsciously started a marketing agency
- Work-for-hire was not enriching, adapted biz models over time
- Iterated and explored for a decade, now here
- tl;dr — years of practice and play
- How did you get into tech?
- Curiosity, naivety, and a desire for freedom from (creative) constraint
- tl;dr — by accident; unintended outcome of play
- What was your childhood like?
- Lots of feeling alone and misunderstood
- Were you social?
- No, parents/sister were social, I was socially awkward
- Didn't understand the difference between their doings and mine
- Logically deconstructed social interactions for 30 years, became social
- Were you spiritual as a kid?
- No. Practiced first, explored and understood later.
- Went to temple and had my Bar Mitzvah out of obligation.
- Did you have friends?
- A few people tolerated me, none felt close.
- What purpose did tech serve in your life?
- There was mutually understanding between us
- It was a safe space for exploration and feeling of certainty/sense
- What was your college experiences like?
- I was physically present and emotionally anguished; spiritually disconnected.
- How did tech influence your mindset?
- Amplified my anxieties, compounded comparison, deepened depression, etc.
- Did tech make you negative?
- Yes. Self-obsession, looping anxiety, endless comparison.
- How did you get into Reddit?
- In so 📝Becoming Attuned to the energy as an audience for 📝Facebook Ads Prank
- Is Reddit and your marketing just fun for you, or is it serious?
- When did the idea for Spiritual Bro emerge?
- When **I saw myself saying what I knew I should not say. **
- I started telling stories of what I could not yet change, and it became satire.
- I wrote about it and it became real, see: 📝Aligning Your Spirit
- What male friends did you meet through tech and Reddit?
- Thru tech: 📝John Zdanowski, 📝Wil Schroter, 📝David Gonzalez,
- Thru Reddit: 📝Robert Allam, 📝Will Cady, 📝Matty Benedetto, 📝Sam Chiet
- When did you notice you were negative?
- Many times, usually prompted by a potent reflection.
- One was an advisor saying, "📝Stop manifesting 'just enough'."
- Another was an advisor saying, "📝Stop working on it, but keep doing it."
- Were you negative like any stereotypes of men who use Reddit?
- It's a safe space to process emotions and an incubator for toxicity, both for same reasons
- Were you using healers during this time?
- No
- How did you get into healers?
- 📝Burning Man 2016 > 📝Swing City > 📝Original Muscle Beach > 📝AcroYoga
- Being around a community of beautiful monkeys was a major catalyst
- How does LA factor into which healers you saw?
- Location, location, location.
- How often did you see them?
- When they call to me. Usually when I've heard something a few times, from a few people, and it aligns with the energy I'm moving through.
- Do you think more men use healers than people think?
- Avoid ...
- Are healers a part of your daily life?
- Yes. When they are not present physically, they are present spiritually and in practice.
- My daily practice is influenced by many learnings, including those from healers.
- How did your healers differ?
- Mind, body, spirit.
- Knowledge, practice, meditation.
- How did Spiritual Bro correct this?
- It prompts moments of 📝presence as expressions of negativity are about to be expressed.
- How does the tech work?
- Boolean triggers, and linked context.
- The latter grants people the space to accept new 📝frames.
- Is it serious for you, or just a money grab?
- 📝I am not being serious, but I am being sincere.
- It's free and welcomes those of resonance into a conversation/community.
- Do you hope to bring it to the masses?
- Hope is not a strategy, we are.
- Are men using it?
- Yes.
- How is it helping your friends?
- The same way it helped me; prompting me to presence.
- By making the intention of our language less transparent, less automatic.
- Describes how an emerging language of truth will transform the human drama from an unconsciously scripted tragicomedy into a conscious play, a great work of the story-teller’s art. Through language, humanity will become a conscious agent of the universe’s unfolding.
- "I recall the amount of "buts" and "I needs" that polluted my text habits, and how this extension (+ the people behind it) helped me align positivity before all into my tone."
- How is the extension helping them?
- Yes. They self-correct verbally; in person, on calls, etc. when no tech is present.
- How is Spiritual Bro similar to healers?
- It offers paths while 📝making space for people to choose what resonantes
- Many people believe tech is making the world more negative. Can tech solve this problem?
- Yes, by avoiding an ideology of 📝Techno-Fundamentalism and making space for agency.
Avoid
- talking about MLM
