What our Graduates say

Okay, is this recording? I can't really tell. Yes, it sounds like that's my voice. Okay, so my name is Sarah and I just had an interview with Holly. And what am I currently building? I'm not currently building anything and I guess that's the problem. I tried a lot of things and I just know that doing what I'm doing now, which is meeting me where I'm at and is a good thing, is not what I want to be doing in the next 10 years. I need to find a creative outlet and my interests lie in health and wellness. I've been a long time meditation practitioner and before that I was a long time yoga practitioner. And I'm interested in helping professions and tend to be service oriented. So I think that Autonomy could help me by giving me something to work with, to think about and get some wheels rolling in terms of how I want to plan out my future and who I want to be in the next five years. And I think the older that we get, time is short. So I'm really curious what autonomy has to offer and becoming part of the community and a 12 week course, what's the worst that could happen? I might learn something. So I think that Richard and the panel should consider me because I, I agree with, I actually agree with the idea of creating a community like Autonomy. I think it's an awesome idea that you've, that you're putting out into the world. And I would like to meet other people who want to transform. And I think people change because of other people, because of relationships that they develop. And I think people find hope and goodness and drive through inspiration of other people's examples and hopefully that's what happens with y'. All. So, yeah, I'd like to be part of that. And life's just too short to be bored and think about what could have happened. So, yeah, I hope that that is enough. I feel like I haven't really been talking for very long at all, but that's all I'll say. Thanks a lot. Bye.

Hi, this is. I'm Peter Haberkorn and I am applying for scholarship for autonomy. This is my first video. So this is going to be a little disorganized. I'm going off of bullet points. What am I trying to build? Well, I'm personally building a. I don't want to say business, but a sewing operation where I build essentially tactical equipment out of Cordura. Anything from armored plate carriers to bandoliers, other equipment pouches, other goofy things that have nothing to do with tactical related stuff. Just making things out of Cordura is quite satisfying, just checking the sound. But I've been trying to do this for several years because of health issues and I just haven't been able to physically handle a 9 to 5. So I decided to. It started with me trying to be an inventor and that was interesting. Getting into trademarking and copyright and. Sorry the word's given me at the moment, but getting my inventions patented was kind of more complex than I was prepared for. I've made all kinds of crazy things that I'm quite happy with. When I started out trying to be an inventor, I welded together essentially a cage that you could put inside of a JK Jeep and it would create curtains all along the driver's side and in the back of the car and the back of the vehicle. So you could stow the curtains away and you could pull them out anytime you wanted. Which helped when I had to park my car for a job and I had to park it in a very active alleyway. So I was really happy to have that invention wise that didn't really pan out, but it's cool to have in the car nonetheless. Let's see. One of the reasons. One of the other things that I want to do, other than pragmatically being able to stand on my own two feet financially, is this. Sewing tactical equipment allows me to speak to an audience that I'm very familiar with. You know, back in the day, I was all gung ho. I enlisted in the Navy. I was in the delayed entry program for 18 months and thank God I got injured and nothing permanent, just really bad patellar tendonitis. But it, it precluded me from getting in, which after, you know, 20 years of hindsight is. I'm kind of thankful I missed out on a career and a lot of stuff that I worked exceptionally hard at. I've never worked harder in anything in my life. I can get into that if I'm asked. It's kind of a long story, but yeah, I got good enough to be able to qualify for being special forces. And I'm happy with that. But to my point, with being able to speak to people in this sphere of tactical equipment, militia folk, people who are trying to safeguard liberty in any way, shape, form and fashion that they are able and willing, I want to primarily use my, my sewing as a way to speak natural law. We're getting to a point in history where not only do I think that the things that I make are unfortunately going to become relevant. I hope not. I'm, I'm, everything I'm doing is trying to prevent that. I gotta hurry. I can be a little, little bit too wordy, but I want to be able to teach, share information. I've got terabytes of information that I would like to put up on my website is if I can get it built. It's, that's, that's an entirely different skill, but I'm getting some help on that end. And it just costs a lot. And taking this route, more importantly allows me to live by my principles. I've seen a company called T. Rex Arms where that guy, Lucas Botkin, his company became very large and successful by essentially having principles and values and standing by them. I couldn't think of anything more that I want to do than that, frankly. I want to earn money. Just, just so I've got a pot to go in and a window to throw it out of. But beyond that, you know, it's a tool. But I'm not motivated by money. Okay. What's in my way? Mostly myself. A lot of my issues like have been health issues. I've had sleep apnea my entire life. I didn't realize it. And also I was an insomniac. So I was basically running off of adrenaline and cortisol for most of my life and sleeping 18 to 12 hours a week. That was it. That was if I got lucky. So that caused a lot of issues. And five years ago, at the same time my father was passing, I got my sleep pack machine and actually started getting sleep. And just being able to calm down for the past few years has been very much needed. I, I, I'm no longer on death's doorstep. Blood pressure was 281 or 171. So it was, it was a kind of a scary few years. But with talking with Holly on the autonomy call, I guess it's apparent that I probably have some self esteem issues. The fact that she was talking, saying that my time is valuable, you know, not even knowing me, I don't really think that she was personally speaking to me. But I. She was still telling me that my time was valuable, and that kind of. Kind of hit me harder than I thought it would. And I really appreciated it. That's part of it. Having a community of people to bounce ideas off of. Sorry. Moving on to the next point without segueing. Excuse me. I'm getting my thoughts together. And part of what's been in my way is I've not been able to have a steady enough job to where I can have enough money put back to be able to afford something like autonomy, which is, you know, like, don't feel sorry for me in any of this. I don't want sympathy or pity. That's all I can say there. Let's see why autonomy might be right for me. I think the community, the accountability, the bouncing ideas off of other creative people, that helps me so much. I specifically go to mom and pop stores for all my needs. I barely go to King Supers or any of those name brand places because I personally despise them. So I. I'm trying as hard as I can to walk the walk and not just talk. Easier said than done. The. One of the reasons why I want to be in autonomy, the questions that Holly asked me, I was surprised mostly because it showed a deeper competency than I was expecting. They were very probing questions to see how far along I've been. I was surprised. It's almost like y' all might know what you're doing, which is pretty cool. Okay, what can I. What can I bring to autonomy? What do I want to bring to autonomy? I would love to be able to be competent in my own life and be able to bring those experiences and knowledge to somebody else. I definitely wouldn't be here at all, even. Even right here, this moment, without the kindness of others. You know, like my sewing machine. I couldn't afford to get a sewing machine, and I couldn't qualify for any money or any loans to get the machine. But the kindness of the gentleman at the sewing shop allowed me to do this. And now I've got. This is. One of the things that I make is. This is an armored plate carrier. Nice and slick. All right, I think my 10 minutes are up.

Good morning. This is Marcella Cruz. I followed your work for years, Richard, and on my own and with my husband until I lost him a couple years ago. In four months, Turbo cancer. We were both working to do exactly what you do as well, which is to empower people to remember that humans are powerful beings. We've been disconnected from that. And now that my husband is gone, I'm having to live on my Social Security, which does not give me any room to breathe in the aftermath of his death. On top of it all, I was human trafficked. I'm in the process of reclaiming my life. As the police say, I'm lucky to be alive. But it is courage and keeping my head during that whole incredibly stressful situation that saved me. And that's what I've used all of my life. I've always tried to help other people, and now I'm in a position that needs help to get back on my feet. I want to establish a presence on media, whether it's YouTube or some other format, to keep spreading my husband's message of standing in our power, in strength and courage, and reclaiming what it is to be human. And I could use, really use some help. The. The tools, the knowledge and the community that autonomy offers are exactly what I need to pull myself back up by the bootstraps with that assistance. So I am applying for a scholarship. I would appreciate your considering my situation. I can be contacted for more details, obviously. And I am going to go back because it looks like this process bypassed my contact information. I will send an email as well to make sure you connect this response from me with my contact information. I would be so privileged and appreciative of being a part of the autonomy community and humankind efforts. Thank you, Richard.

Greetings. My name is Ife Shepsi Ma' at and I am a mother of a family of four and a co founder of a movement called the Wellsprings of Umoja foundation and it's outreach branches, Journey Home Vitals which is amplifying outreach branch and seven gen trusts. What we're currently building is a movement around the values of wisdom which stands for wellness, interconnection and sovereignty. We're anchoring it into our fellowship which is a 508C1A faith based organization who anchors those values in faith by believing that those values are the fundamental qualities of existence based in our experience in the womb. So a physically referential universal experience that we all shared primarily. And then we are working on our offering our amplified outreach which is basically embodying and supporting wisdom so that we can all feel more home on this earth through resources, courses one on ones and presentations. Right now we're focusing primarily on our how which is home overflowing wealth which is our way of sharing a whole ecosystem, a nine element ecosystem of our integral wellness for what we say is real wealth creation. And the real is an acronym standing for relevant, effective, accessible and lasting wealth. And we're sharing that through on the ground by working supporting people's community resilience. We call this gather well where we're just basically supporting communities to come together to nurture this sense of home wherever they are. And we're doing that by having a flagship technology of a water ionizer that we see as like the next step in humans evolution around our relationship to water. And it's, it's Sorry, my son's in the background, go ahead. And it's. And we were basically saying we've always gathered around water, we all still need water. So we see it as, it's something that takes water and turns it into something with 100 uses. Like definitely internally it's medicinal, but it also is really powerful for external use and also for your space cleaning and sanitizing in an extremely effective way that's not toxic. And yeah, this mission is really important to me because I really believe that we could really be home on this earth if we were to work together and also to feel home within ourselves initially and then focus. If we were to focus on our wellness, our wisdom, we could feel home within ourselves and nurture that home all over so that we can all feel home on this earth. Our primary challenge has been finding effective offers that bring in the income we need to make this really sustainable. We have like we said, this high ticket offer we just got it like a month ago and we're trying it out. We've yet to make any sales. I believe we will, but it would be nice if I had, if I could connect that with other things. I also do create content and my numbers are growing every day and I'm also creating courses and ebooks and all of that's happening. And, and I know that because of AI a lot of the informational content is getting very inundated. So I'm not putting that much energy into it, but I am putting enough to feel consistent and to feel like I'm serving the community that, that is inspired by the work that me and my family does. But really organizing some specific skills that I can utilize through these liminal times would be, I feel like really helpful. And so that's why I think that autonomy and how it's presenting itself as far as I understand and as having these skills that are relevant to these times and relevant to us moving forward and accessing more autonomy in our lives, I really think that it could support this work. And one of the things that we're doing with our how, like I said, our how is a nine element ecosystem. And it basically each element touches something in our lives that we feel like we can bring an integral wellness for real wealth with and for number basically, you know, basically number eight of the nine is livelihood. And we would love to be able to share these skills, these, these methods and be able to even link people to you to nurture certain skills as we continue to grow. This to say this is how you can stay relevant and stay in nurturing wealth within, you know, your, your values and the, the needs of the times. Like you said, relevant, effective, accessible and lasting. It feels like what you all are presenting is real wealth. So I think that it would fit extremely in alignment with our branding and, and we would be able to share your work with others and send them to you as we integrate it more. So yeah, thanks for listening and I look forward to hearing back from you. I mean look at how do you plan to be. Yeah, that's mainly. And also like, like I said, I am, I create content. So and one thing that I do really well is I take really complicated ideas and I simplify them and I know that AI can do that well too, so. But it's definitely something that's been my skill set to really make things accessible to 3 year olds and 6 year olds like my own children. So I may be able to help with that. And yeah, I'm curious to see like I feel like a lot of my skills, many of them AI can do, except for the basic skill, which is getting us access to our basic needs and our symbiotic ones. That's something that I feel like AI can never take. But outside of that, I'm really curious to see what other skills I could potentially acquire to offer to these liminal times. All right, I think that's everything. Thanks for listening.