Man Up & Get Your Life Together - Bedros Keuilian - #718

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Bedros Keuilian. He's an entrepreneur, author, speaker, podcaster and a business coach. Everyone could do with a bit more confidence in their abilities, a bit more certainty about what they can achieve and the power to overcome obstacles. Maybe telling people to man up isn't so bad after all. Expect to learn what it truly means to improve, why the story you tell yourself about yourself matters, how to overcome the traumas you're struggling with, tactics to fix the negative voice in your head, the most common problems men are facing, why you should never cheat on your partner, the biggest issue with incels and much more. But now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Bedros Keuilian. What does man up mean to you?

**Bedros Keuilian** (1:06)
Man up just simply means to me to human up, as in human up to your highest potential. I think as humans, we're not all created equally. In other words, many of us, 95% of us, maybe even greater operate as human animals, impulsive, instinctive, reactive, selfish, necessary for survival. However, consciousness dictates that we evolve to our highest self, that we become selfless, that we become servants, and that there is no user's manual that teaches Chris how to go from human animal to human being, being, consciousness, radiance, connected to source or creator. And so man up, I manned up my way, which is why that was the title of my book, manned up my way to becoming a better human, less emotional, more responsive, less reactive. And that led to becoming a better leader, better entrepreneur, better husband, better father, led to overcoming many of my childhood traumas, sexual abuse, physical abuse. But I can tell you that when you man up to your higher self or human up to your higher self, it's a gift. It's a gift. And we all start as human animals because I believe that is our number one purpose. We have to first develop and work through to then find our true purpose to serve humanity.

**Chris Williamson** (2:36)
I'm feeling the word ascend here, you know, to...

**Bedros Keuilian** (2:41)
Transcend.

**Chris Williamson** (2:41)
Yeah, to become better than your base instincts, to transcend and include in Wilburian language. Yeah, it's a... I think an awful lot about how the mercy of the confused chemical signals of our body we are, you know, the reason that we do many things is because of the paths of least resistance or societal norms or what we learned when we were a kid or the way that we dealt with past traumas or that thing that we want right now.

**Bedros Keuilian** (3:08)
Yeah.

**Chris Williamson** (3:08)
And that to me doesn't feel like liberation, that feels like slavery.

**Bedros Keuilian** (3:13)
It is. It is modern day slavery. And I do believe that the opposition, you know, news media, big pharma, military industrial complex, the food industry, the government, certainly controlled by all those elements, have a oppressive benefit, to have a reason to oppress humanity and keep them as human animals, as dependent and needy and reactive and emotional as possible, because that is how you then manipulate and get control and compliance.

**Chris Williamson** (3:48)
So I had this conversation with Eric Weinstein a couple of months ago about the objective of modern media is not to convince you of any one narrative, but to make belief in all narratives be less certain. And I don't disagree. I think that firehosing as a tool is very useful in making people uncertain about the future. What I couldn't get to, and Eric couldn't either, was what is the end goal usefulness of that? Because I don't just see people being pliable, complicit, compliant citizens. I have seen as many, if not more people, use their new distrust in mainstream media and pharma companies and so on and so forth. I've seen as many people use that as the activation energy to become almost rebels as I have people roll over backward and say, please, Mr. Big Government, just tell me what to do. So I was skeptical, at least a little skeptical, that this strategy is either achieving the outcomes that they meant or is actually coordinated because it doesn't seem to be making a pliable populace as far as I can see. Do you get where I'm coming from here?

**Bedros Keuilian** (5:11)
I do, but I do wonder, is it because of the circles that you're running in that you see more people who are rebellious against this? Does that make sense?

**Chris Williamson** (5:21)
A friend group of middle fingers.

**Bedros Keuilian** (5:22)
Yeah, if we were to go hang out, and I'll use this term exactly as I mean it, with the peasants of humanity, the majority, the unwashed masses, the human animals, they are the majority, you would see that we and the circles that you hang out with are the minority. It's just our circles consist of people who are rebellious, who are freethinkers, who are sovereign, who will give the middle finger to the man. We are the minority.