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WORD UP with Dani Katz
by dani katz
Hosted by author, journalist and 5D word nerd, Dani Katz, WORD UP explores how language is programming our minds, our culture and our world, and – most importantly – how to transform ourselves and society for the infinitely more wonderful with our every word. Empowerment tools abound, along with reframes, upgrades, solutions and propaganda breakdowns, plus a generous smattering of cultural criticism, sprinkled with deep-diving, edge-pushing, solutions-based conversations with original thinkers, visionary weirdos and rebel badasses making the world more wonderful.
Episodes
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The Architecture of Technocracy: Santa Fe Institute and the Complexity Cartel with Courtenay Turner
What if the biggest battle of our time isn't political? What if it's psychological? In this wide-ranging conversation with journalist, author, researcher, Courtenay Turner, we connect the dots between technocracy, psychology, AI governance, education, propaganda, and the institutions shaping…
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The Cult of Me + Why/When Your Truth is Irrelevant
What do a rock concert, a customer service fail, AI, propaganda, the Santa Fe obelisk, and our collective obsession with "speaking our truth" have in common? More than you think. In this solo episode, I unpack the increasingly narcissistic programming that's convinced us self-expression is the...
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Somatopsychic Mapping with Dr. Sally Kleinbart
What if your body isn't broken? What if it's communicating? In this episode, Dani sits down with Dr. Sally Kleinbart to explore the difference between outsourcing authority to experts and developing a deeper relationship with our own bodies. From fascia and movement culture to emotional…
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Stop Making Your Problems Your Personality
What if the stories you're telling about your life are the very things keeping you stuck? In this solo romp, Dani dives into the cultural obsession with turning every challenge into an identity, every hardship into a personality trait, and every inconvenience into a lifelong narrative. From...
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Status Correction + the Citizenship Trap with Daniel Mentz
Daniel Mentz of Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship returns to the podcast for a mind-bending conversation about status correction, natural law, lawful remedy, and the hidden legal architecture most people never realize they’re operating inside. We unpack the confusion clouding the sovereignty...
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Tomboy Erasure + AI Infantilization
Dani returns for a wide-ranging solo pod romp on cultural programming, the extinction of the tomboy archetype, inequitable contracts, AI censorship, celebrity narcissism, and the subtle ways language and media shape perception. Also explored: beauty, discernment, manipulation, social engineering,...
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Rawdogging Menopause: No Hormones, No Pathologizing, No BS with Bett Williams
What happens when you opt out of the standard Western medical menopause playbook? In this episode, Dani sits down with author and babealicious badass Bett Williams to explore her experience navigating menopause without hormone replacement therapy—or the usual medical interventions. Together, they...
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Public vs. Private: The Hidden System You Don’t Realize You’re Trapped In with Michael Joseph and Marcia Ann
Most people think they understand the system they’re living in. They don’t. In this episode, Dani hosts Michael Joseph and Marcia Ann from Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship. Together, they break down the distinction between public and private systems, how contracts and consent actually…
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Follow the Money. Question Authority. Or Get Super Very Played.
In this solo romp, we explore how selective facts, omission, and “expert authority” are used to manipulate public perception, why following the money changes the story, and how philanthropic funding influences what gets amplified, reframed, or erased. I also dig into the persistent though...
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Why Trying to Wake Up Keeps You Asleep with Val Reznik
What happens when the mind stops? In this deep-dive of a soulful af conversation, Dani sits down with longtime friend, spiritual teacher, and author Val Reznik to explore his 30-year journey into consciousness, awakening, and the nature of the Self. After a spontaneous “no-mind” experience…
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ALL IN: Beating the Odds, Mastering the Mind + Rewriting the Rules with Alberto Crane || FULL EPISODE
BONUS episode note: In honor of Alberto’s new book drop, I am putting out this podcast – in its entirety – for the public. His attitude, experience and perspectives are so inspiring, I want to share it with the world, so we can all realize our potential and obliterate any and all perceived...
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The Business of Division: Narrative Control Explained || Part 1
In this solo episode, I unpack the mechanics of narrative control — and why separation isn’t accidental; it’s strategic. From identity fragmentation and linguistic manipulation to NGO-funded activism, monument vandalism in Santa Fe, and my own lived experience of platform censorship, this episode...
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Sunrise, Sacred Geometry & Reclaiming Your Biofield with Kristen Gilbert Part 1
Are WiFi, blue light, and modern tech quietly frying your mitochondria? Occupational Therapist (and championship Pole Dancer!) Kristen Gilbert joins me to break down quantum biology in a way that actually makes sense — from metabolic water (Gerald Pollack’s “fourth phase water”) to circadian…
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The Many Paths To Game B | Words | Episode 120 w/ Courtenay Turner
I don't normally post my Words with Dani and Emily podcast here, AND because this was such a juicy conversation with special guest, Courtenay Turner, I am inspired to share it with you here. Words is usually safeguarded behind a tall and remote paywall on our Locals community (link below), and on...
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Microdosing Satanism in a Fake Fendi Realm with Tom Zaimes Part 1
In this rollicking podcast conversation, Tom Zaimes breaks down how corruption actually works—not as a series of scandals or bad actors, but as a normalized operating system sustained by incentives, media narratives, and managed dissent. We explore why exposure rarely leads to reform, how...
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Propaganda, AI, and the Languaging Scam That Trains Your Body to Decline
In this solo episode, Dani breaks down how divide-and-conquer operations actually work—from NGO funding pipelines and philanthropic power to narrative change, activist training, and AI-driven propaganda. She also explores why outrage cycles around immigration, social justice, and politics are...
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Sloppy Psyops + Metaphysical Delinquency with James Mathers
What do street art, symbolism, secret societies, futurism, spirituality, and memetic warfare have in common? Apparently…a lot. In this episode, I sit down with artist, author, philosopher and friend, James Mathers for a free-wheeling conversation that moves from art to power pyramids, cultural...
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Reparations and the Rubberneck Rub
In this high-fashion sun spin celebration episode, Dani cuts through the emotional theatrics propping up the reparations/cultural appropriation sham to examine what’s actually happening beneath the rhetoric. We look at directionality, money flows, NGOs, philanthropy, and why backward-facing...
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You Are the Zone: Garret Kramer Dismantles Mindset Culture, Therapy, and Self-Help Myths
What if everything we’ve been taught about mindset, performance, healing, and “working on ourselves” is thoroughly ass-backwards? In this expansive and provocative conversation, former elite athlete, coach, and author Garret Kramer joins me to dismantle our modern obsession with tools…
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Propaganda 2.0: ChatGPT’s Ideological Agenda Exposed.
In this fiery solo episode, Dani rips the mask off ChatGPT and exposes how “neutral” AI quietly smuggles ideology, division, revisionist history, identity politics, and activist talking points into its super very editorialized responses to otherwise simple factual questions. Using a real-time AI...
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Plot Holes, Butt Buddies + Biodigital Convergence with Chris Crutchfield.
What if the real war isn’t political, cultural, or ideological—but biological, digital, and invisible? In this expansive and mind-bending conversation, Chris Crutchfield joins Word Up to expose the hidden architecture shaping modern reality—from global technology standards and biodigital...
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Twin Flames, Trigger Words + Hot Springs Psyops.
In this solo episode, Dani dismantles some of the most seductive cultural illusions of our time—spiritual, linguistic, and political. From the myth of twin flames and past-life romance to the weaponization of “forbidden” words, Dani explores how discernment—not mysticism, censorship, or virtue...
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The System Isn’t What You Think: How Consent Became Control with Phil Mederi.
In this deep-dive into the realms of law and self-governance, Phil Mederi breaks down equity jurisprudence—what it is, how it functions inside the modern legal and financial system, and why the distinction between public and private matters more than most people realize. We explore the 1933...
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Stop Speaking the Problem Into Power: A Betterarchy Take on Conflict + Coherence.
In this solo episode, Dani unpacks the messy and supremely human dynamics of conflict, repair, and responsibility, beginning with a real-life story about her landlord’s oopsie, and the lingering energetic impact of the apology she has yet to receive. From there, she deconstructs a batch of...
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Reclaiming the Holidays: The Oracle Deck, Solstice Rituals & Why We Need 13 Sacred Nights with Lara J. Day.
Dani sits down with Lara J. Day, creator of the 13 Sacred Nights Oracle, to explore the ritual’s Steiner-influenced origins, the homemade deck that became a published offering, and the uncanny clarity that emerges when we track the 13 nights that bridge solstice and the new year. Dani + Lara dig...
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Full Frontal Propaganda
In this week’s solo pod romp, Dani breaks down this bizarre cultural moment we’re navigating — from full-frontal pornified propaganda to Santa Fe’s NGO takeover, theatrical/tyrannical multilingualism, and the psychological operations shaping our collective perception. Along the way, she touches…
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Mind Control, Coffee + the Cult of Compliance with Jason Christoff
In this explosive conversation, Dani Katz sits down with mind-control researcher Jason Christoff to break down how modern culture programs the masses — not metaphorically, but neurologically. We get into repetitive messaging, TV hypnosis, childhood conditioning, “word-magic,” the weaponization of...
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The Perils of Playing “Nice” + the Fake Power-Play That Is “Privilege
In this solo deep dive, Dani unpacks the deleterious dark side of “niceness,” and explores how our cultural obsession with being good, polite, and palatable keeps us dishonest, disconnected, and disempowered — and how reclaiming authenticity is the only path to real integrity and intimacy. Along...
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Quantum Physics as Terma: Awakening from the Dream of Separation with Paul Levy.
Author and Word Up podcast fave Paul Levy joined Dani for a(nother) rollicking conversation about wetiko (the collective mind virus), the reflections world events are offering us as ever-evolving souls, and how quantum physics is a terma – a hidden treasure designed to awaken humanity at key…
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Patriarchy, Polarity, and the Cult of Safe Speech
In this solo Word Up romp, Dani dives deep into the cultural psychosis of our times: the demonization of masculinity, the distortion of paternalism, and the weaponization of language. She unpacks hierarchy versus “betterarchy,” calls out the infantilizing scripts that keep us compliant, and...
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The Consent Trap Exposed: Reclaiming Self-Governance with Michael Joseph + Daniel Mentz.
What if your “consent” to be governed was the biggest con in history? We’ve been duped into thinking “government” was meant to serve us, when our so-called consent has been the control mechanism all along. In this straight-shooting conversation, I sit down with Michael Joseph and Daniel Mentz of...
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SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: The Fight to Take Back Santa Fe with Ron Trujillo
Santa Fe mayoral candidate Ron Trujillo joined my on the podcast to talk leadership, collaborative solutions, and restoring pride to America’s oldest capital. From forensic audits to forgotten neighborhoods, Trujillo lays out his plan to clean house at City Hall, rebuild trust, and reunite a city...
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Propaganda Stacking
In this solo episode, Dani rides the adrenaline wave of finishing her investigative exposé on Santa Fe’s philanthropy-activism complex while unpacking what happens when friends project doubt instead of support. From the Feminine shadow’s subtle sabotage to the importance of energetic reciprocity,...
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Cults, Control and Conscious Rebellion with Amandha Vollmer
In this wildly expansive and uncensored conversation, Dani sits down with Amandha Vollmer (Yummy.Doctor) — naturopath, truth-teller, and fearless decoder of medical, metaphysical, and worldly deception. Together, they trace the roots of the Rockefeller medical monopoly, unpack the cult-like...
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Neutrality is Power: Denormalizing the Divide + Rule Playbook
In this week’s solo pod romp, I rip into propaganda’s favorite trick: the false dichotomy. From the engineered clash between Indigenous and Hispanic culture in Santa Fe, to the broader Left/Right puppet show, I expose how billionaire foundations and activist networks bankroll division while…
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From Toxic to Superhuman: Detoxing + Optimizing with Tim James
What happens when a financial advisor on the brink of bodily collapse discovers the real roots of health and healing? Tim James — founder of Chemical Free Body — went from overweight, exhausted, and inflamed to radically vibrant and thriving. In this candid conversation, we unpack his healing...
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De-Normalizing the War on Aging
It’s solo pod romp time, superstars; and in this episode I’m pulling back the curtain on the youth-worship scam, the war on aging, and why elderhood is being erased from our culture. I get into vanity, propaganda, the recycling hustle (yup, you’re probably paying more to “be sustainable”), and…
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How to Opt-Out of the Surveillance State with Hakeem Anwar.
Your iPhone, your Android, your smarty-smart-smart phone isn’t just a phone or a map or a camera — it’s a pre-hacked surveillance device. And Palantir, the CIA’s favorite data-mining beast, is quietly weaving together a new AI-powered control grid to track, predict, and police us all. In this...
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Denormalizing Cheeks, Gossip and Other Clown World Culture Vices
In her latest solo pod romp, Dani riffs on gossip, relationship drama, and why we’ve got to quit normalizing the demoralization sitch. From messy relationships to kvetchy communities, she breaks down how gossip wrecks trust, warps perception, and poisons the social contract/construct — and why...
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Shattering Consensus Reality + Why ‘I Don’t Know’ is the Smartest Answer with Mark Gober
What happens when a buttoned-up Silicon Valley exec ditches the hamster wheel and starts writing books that dismantle everything we’ve been spoon-fed about consciousness, cosmology, government, and science itself? Enter: Mark Gober. In this fiery, brain-tingling convo, Mark and Dani rip into the...
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Operation Bleed
A solo pod romp, wherein Dani offers some candid reflections on Pluto in Aquarius, a recent Paul Levy interview, and how she is reorienting to friendship and community. Moving onto the meat of the matter, Dani reads from “Operation Bleed,” a raw, real, darkly funny, and unflinching essay from her...
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Vows vs. Promises: Matrimony in the Age of Broken Rituals with Stephen Jenkinson
Author and wisdom-carrier Stephen Jenkinson returns for a deeply textured, no-BS unpacking of Matrimony — his newest cultural autopsy. We track the broken shards of our seemingly antiquated wedding traditions back to their source, dissect the difference between promises and vows, and talk about...
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ChatGPT Is Lying to You, and So Is the Wedding Industrial Complex
In this solo episode, Dani unpacks how ChatGPT subtly rewrites history and perpetuates ideological spin — using the Santa Fe Obelisk protest as a case study in AI-driven propaganda. She calls out the not-so-neutral role language models play in reshaping public perception, especially around...
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Toltec Tools for a Hijacked Reality with Joel Schafer.
Joel Schafer joined me for a deep and rollicking conversation wherein we unpack the psyops, perceptual traps, and narrative spells that have been keeping us, as in our human family, fragmented, divided and confused. We track the weaponization of language, the commodification of “healing,” and the...
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Reactive by Design: A Case for Messy Healing.
Glass shards, shadow projections, rogue electronics and sovereign reclamations abound in today’s solo pod romp, as Dani unpacks some recent paranormal weirdness, reframes diagnoses, and dismantles some popular-but-problematic distortions around consent, victimhood, and reactive shadow…
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Wetter, Better Hydration with Gina Bria
Most of our high-vibe tribe already knows that water is intelligent. Responsive. Multidimensional. But are we actually hydrating in ways that honor water’s quantum consciousness? In this episode, Dani drops into the deep end with anthropologist, author, and Hydration Foundation founder Gina Bria,...
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Performative Polarities, AI Propaganda + the Fallacy of Foreversies.
In this solo firestarter, Dani dives deep into the linguistic traps and weaponized narratives shaping our world—from activist orthodoxy to AI-generated propaganda. She unpacks how binary thinking, “I am” language, and identity-based scripts keep us small, sick, and compliant. She calls out the...
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Birthing the New Human: Psychic Kids, Luminous Education + Deprogramming Reality with Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan
Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan joins Dani for an edge-pushing, heart-expanding deep dive into human potential, conscious parenting, and the wild multidimensionality of this thing we call “reality.” From cosmic awakenings to blindfolded psychic kids, from spirit baby visitations to the deconstruction of...
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Death, Denial + the Great Vax Amnesia
In this week’s solo pod romp, Dani touches in on negative space speak, the great vax injury gaslight and Obama’s latest blow to the First Amendment. And other things… Part 2: danikatz.locals.com www.patreon.com/danikatz All things Dani, including books, courses, coaching + consulting:...
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Freedom, Fallouts + Finding Your People: The Real-Talk Episode with Yerasimos Stilianessis
It was a real-deal pleasure to have Yerasimos Stilianessis, of Here for the Truth podcast fame, on the show for some authentic, down ‘n deep conversationalings. See the show notes below for the full laundry list of topics covered, and enjoy the listen! Part 2: danikatz.locals.com...
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Hosted by author, journalist and 5D word nerd, Dani Katz, WORD UP explores how language is programming our minds, our culture and our world, and – most importantly – how to transform ourselves and society for the infinitely more wonderful with our every word. Empowerment tools abound, along with reframes, upgrades, solutions and propaganda breakdowns, plus a generous smattering of cultural criticism, sprinkled with deep-diving, edge-pushing, solutions-based conversations with original thinkers, visionary weirdos and rebel badasses making the world more wonderful.
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