The Bitcoin Longevity Playbook: Health, Strength, & Vitality

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the main event of the evening. Come on over to the Genesis Stage, where we have the main event of the conference.

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Starting to my right, we have Pete Evans, world-famous restaurateur, Australia's favorite celebrity chef, and Australia's number one selling author of over 35 cookbooks. He's the creator of The Magic Pill documentary, and he was famously canceled during COVID for speaking out for your rights.

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Next up, we have Erin Crawford. She's a Bitcoin educator, a strength and conditioning coach for women, and a death doula. You might know her from her X handle, Death and Bitcoin.

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And last but not least, we have Kellie Okonek, a successful oil and gas veteran, now full-time Bitcoin maxi leading immersive experiences into the Alaskan wilderness through her work at Vital Systems.

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All right, I've been waiting all week to do that. Somebody gives you a microphone at the Bitcoin Conference, you yell into it.

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You better tell them who you are, Brian.

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Thank you for the segue. My name is Brian De Mint. I am the head of public relations at Club Orange. If you don't know what Club Orange is yet, we have a booth right over there. If you enjoyed the conference experience of meeting other Bitcoiners in real life, that is precisely what Club Orange does. When you go home, there are Bitcoiners in your neighborhood, and you will find them with Club Orange. So take this experience home and enjoy in-real-life connections with other Bitcoiners.

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We are talking about the Bitcoin longevity playbook. The reason why we have these three amazing individuals in front of you today is because they represent different pillars within health and wellness and longevity. Without further ado, I'll kick it over to the panel. I want you to introduce yourselves briefly and share a little bit about your work in health, wellness, longevity, and Bitcoin. Pete, I'm going to kick it over to you first.

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Thanks. Stoked to be up here with you all. G'day, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I'll keep it as simple as I can. I believe food is one of the solutions for many hurdles people face in life, understanding what food can do in a positive way.

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At the same time, understanding Bitcoin as a solution gives ourselves sovereignty, responsibility, and ownership again, potentially out of what some would call a corrupt financial system, and on the other side, maybe a corrupt medical system. Even though it has some benefits, I will do everything I can for myself and my family to keep us out of that system and to support the Bitcoiners in the world.

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I think this is a great meeting of two different walks of life, maybe one walk of life, but they intersect so beautifully. It's about your health, your wealth, and leading by example.

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Beautiful. Erin, I'm kicking it to you.

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Thank you. Ultimately, I would say that I work for myself, first and foremost. I focus on my own sovereignty, my own robustness, my own strength, and my own freedom. In doing that work for myself, it organically projects its way out onto other people.

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People come to me and ask, what are you doing? If they fit in with what I'm doing or if they're curious, then I take those people on and work with them.

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My whole thesis at this point is to be hard to kill. You want to be hard to kill. That doesn't mean you're trying to avoid death, because newsflash, that's not going to happen. But you do get to decide how you want to go into that death. Do you want to do it in a cognizant, robust, active sort of way? Or do you want to slowly disintegrate over the last decade or two of your life and lose all sense of agency and sovereignty as you go through that process?

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Just like Bitcoin, right? Bitcoin is a honey badger. Bitcoin is hard to kill. You get to a certain point in your Bitcoin journey when you look at the other areas of your life and ask, where am I still vulnerable? What are my vulnerabilities? I want to be more like Bitcoin. I want to embody all of the things that Bitcoin is.

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Currently, the phase that I'm in is putting on muscle. I can talk more about that later.

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Kellie, let me kick it down to you.

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My company is called Vital Systems, and I call myself a vitality architect because I help people design lives around the truth of who they really are and infuse vitality into the way we live and lead. My career was oil and gas, which for me was a playground in what brings people and systems to life, and how you drive change into a major oil and gas company. If you can do it there, you can do it anywhere.

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Then I left six years ago and educated myself. I was like, why did that work? What's the neurobiology behind it? And how can I craft those kinds of experiences for other people? So that's my jam. I want to live and lead with the truth of who we are, infuse vitality, and enjoy the heck out of it.

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Love it. As you can see, we have a banger panel for you. Now, I want to take this over to the audience. The next question is actually for the audience. I'm going to ask you, and we're going to do a raise of hands.

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Let's say in the West, because not everybody is from the United States. It could be Canada, Australia, or Western society generally. Are our health regulators benevolent, are they stupid, or are they nefarious?

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Who believes that our health regulators are benevolent? That means good. Who believes that they are stupid? Who believes that they're nefarious, that they are intentionally harming you?

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Wow. Panel, that is your audience. You just gave them permission to get into the dark web stuff right now, so they can share the good stuff.

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That leads me to my next question. Fat, sick, weak, and unhealthy: why would a system with these outcomes be the default system?

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Can I answer that?

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Please do. I want you all to answer.

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The state doesn't want you dead because you are their resource, right? The government, they're parasites, and they are feeding off of your time and your energy. They don't want you dead. They want Bitcoiners and open-source coders and people who don't follow the rules dead. But they want the majority of people just barely alive so that they can continue to siphon resources away from them. That's why everybody is sick and fat and weak and all the other things, in my opinion.

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Can I follow? I love that you use the word default, because I talk about living a default life. That's the life we're given, the way we wind up being. Our dopamine systems are routinely hijacked by everything in culture, right? Social media, food, substances, everything.

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The alternative to that is a creative life, connecting to the version of ourselves that we love the most and designing our lives around it. But the truth of that is that it takes work, and a lot of people don't do that work. Most people end up with the default unless they make a decision to create something better.

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And they're disabled from ever doing that work because they've been poisoned intentionally.

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Hijacked.

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I'll offer a little bit of a different perspective, similar lines. I've interviewed hundreds and hundreds of doctors over the years, and they're usually the doctors who have decided to expand their education. A lot of doctors, nurses, and the medical fraternity go into it for the right reasons. They do.

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But along the way, they realize that perhaps you've got great trauma care, but in managing chronic health or helping people with chronic health issues, they get to a point in their career where they're like, what I'm offering and what I've learned isn't working for my patient.

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The brave ones step out to find more information. They can look at bringing in natural remedies or cures. They can look at diet as one of the tools. There are so many tools that a lot of these doctors start to implement into their lives and into their practices. Then they finally start seeing the results that they went into medicine for.

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The one thing in common with these people is that it's a very small percentage of them, because it takes great courage and bravery to question everything they've learned at medical school for six, seven, eight years and then go against the grain.

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I think it's nefarious by nature, but I think change is going to take a lot more brave individuals questioning why the system they're currently working in isn't working. I think there are amazing doctors out there. I'm a big proponent of modern medicine, but also ancient wisdom and natural therapies. I think that is what being whole is: looking at the best of everything and incorporating it into your life in whichever way you can.

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So it's not us against them. It's actually us working with the ones who are open to working with us.

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That's a great answer. I think that leads us into why this panel is here. Why is this happening at a Bitcoin conference? Why do you think Bitcoiners are uniquely positioned to change the narrative on health, appropriate aging, and longevity? Why do we have the high ground, or why should we fight for the high ground based on our position as Bitcoiners? Why do those things overlap?

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I think I might go with this one, if that's okay. I've been in the Bitcoin space roughly seven years now, and the one thing I've noticed about Bitcoiners, and those doctors I was speaking about, is that Bitcoiners seem to look outside the box as well. They're curious about what else, what tools we have to help us navigate for the rest of our lives.

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As you were saying, we can die a great death when it's time and hopefully be able to pass on our wealth that we've worked so hard for to our children or grandchildren and create generational wealth. The people I've met in the Bitcoin space over the last six or seven years see a vision for humanity that I believe they're going to create, or are creating, at this particular point in time.

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I think we're so optimistic about the future, and Bitcoiners are going to play a significant role in the future of humanity. I think it's inevitable. I think we've already crossed that Rubicon, so to speak, and the future is looking very orange and bright.

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I would just say Bitcoiners are here to rewrite the narrative on everything, right? Once you see through the narrative that we've been taught about money and food and health and life in general, once you bust out of that and actually learn what money is and what time is and what energy is, you realize all that was bullshit.

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Then you look out at all the other shit you're being told, and you're like, maybe that's bullshit too. We're positioned to change the narrative on aging and dying because that's what Bitcoiners do. We change the narrative, period. We can't not.

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I would just say Bitcoiners have a long time horizon, an orientation toward truth, and an ability to step outside the current. With those things, we can choose truth in our lives, and we can go through the work, oftentimes very uncomfortable, not for the faint of heart, as I like to say, of authoring our own lives, bringing our own dopamine systems back, and resisting whatever forces are fighting against us being who we are and who we love.

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Well said. If you're like me, at some point you found yourself muttering, the rich and the powerful, they made things this way. Are you not Bitcoiners? Are you not the new rich and powerful? Start acting like it. It takes riches and power to change things, and Bitcoiners, from the bottom up, are going to become the rich and powerful. The ball is absolutely in our court.

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That leads into the next question. We've talked about death and longevity, but what does it mean to be alive? I think we often ask, how do I prolong my life? But what does it even mean? What is the foundational premise that we're talking about? What are we trying to preserve? What does it mean to be alive? What does that mean to you?

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I think every single human being on the face of the planet is a genius. Each and every one of us has our own unique talents, abilities, and gifts that we can share if we're unafraid and brave, without having any expectation of whether they will be received or not.

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Each one of us can cultivate a new skill and a new talent. Some of us are born with certain gifts and talents. I think true purpose in life is just to express that in whatever way brings us joy. I think that adds to the longevity equation, where you are authentically you.

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Human beings by nature are curious. Fear can be something that can be celebrated. If we have insecurities and fears, and we dive deep into why that belief about that insecurity or fear has arisen, it could be from our parents, it could be from our culture, from speaking out, from being canceled. Every time we confront our insecurities and fears, however small or large they may be, that brings us greater freedom, greater resilience, and more of an opportunity to express who we are and share those talents with whoever is out there that resonates with your unique coherence, frequency, vibration, whatever woo-woo you want to call it, just your beautiful, unique self.

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Never be ashamed of who you are. I think that is our true nature, to be authentically, unapologetically our unique selves in life and share that in whatever way brings you joy.

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Thank you, Pete. Kellie, you were excited to answer that.

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I forgot what the question was.

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What does it mean to be alive?

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I'm honestly just imagining when I dropped off the summit of Aconcagua and arced the most powerful turn down the most beautiful snow, impossibly perfect. I think, God damn, that's what it means for me to be alive.

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Generally speaking, being alive is pulsing with the current of my own life force, feeling it all, and being so thrilled with the entire experience. For me, that's carving turns and landing my airplane in the middle of nowhere and finding a gorgeous glacier. Whatever it is for everybody, that's what I want.

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I want a world full of people who know how to connect to their pulsing life force, share their ideas, and put their contributions into the world. If we're all doing that in our own unique ways, life gets so fascinating. It's so interesting, so vibrant, so colorful. That's what I want to be a part of.

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When we treat people like machines, it's almost like we're cogs in a wheel, the leftover of the Industrial Revolution. We suck the life out of everything, and we're not machines. We're humans. Messy, complicated humans. When we lean into that and just human hard and enjoy the hell out of it, yes, please. That's what life is to me, and that's the world I want to live in.

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I think the idea of being alive is a very broad spectrum, so it all depends on how you define it as an individual. Obviously, there's a major difference between being kept alive by artificial external means versus being alive on the inside.

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Do I feel a connection to self? Do I feel a connection to others? Do I feel a connection to God? Am I part of something outside of myself so that I'm not just trapped in here? I want to know that I'm living in an expansive, connected existence so that I can get the juice out of the squeeze.

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I don't always feel that way. I think it's cyclical. I've had times where I've felt really aimless and really depressed, even on this Bitcoin journey. But then I read the Bible because I thought maybe I'd find some shit in there. And I did. It's all a process, really. That's what it means for me anyhow.

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Can I build on that? I do think being alive is feeling all the feels, right, and going with the cycles of it. That's one thing, ironically, Bitcoin offers. Those cycles can bring out our own humanity. Actually letting our humanity be there, letting it be hard, letting it be painful, and being able to stay with it is part of what allows us not to be hijacked by the world out there, which tries to teach us that feeling discomfort means something is wrong or something is bad. It just means something is natural.

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And if you go to your doctor and they ask how you're feeling lately, and you say, well, I'm kind of feeling depressed, they'll say, here, just take this pill. Don't worry about those feelings. You'll be fine on this. But then you miss a massive opportunity to find joy and blessings amidst your suffering, right? And the next opportunity. Because you have to know that you're suffering for a reason.

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Unfortunately, we have to wind this up in a few minutes here. I did want to push back and play devil's advocate for just a second. We're here saying Bitcoiners and holistic health and longevity, adding to people's lives. But under Western medicine, we've seen life expectancy increase. You're telling me that we need to go back to the old way of doing things, that we need to be in touch with Mother Nature or whatever you hippies are saying over here. Does that not completely disprove your point? Western medicine has added years to people's lives. What do you say to that?

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I say it's a yes-and proposition. You say it's added years. I say, at what cost? Are those good years? I don't think it's a numerical question. What's the quality?

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While I do advocate return to nature, it's a yes-and proposition. I'm going to return to nature with my iPhone for navigation. I want to eat good food, but when I have a torn ACL, I would like an orthopedic surgeon, thank you very much.

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I think it's a yes-and, and I do think Western medicine has a place in healthspan. But I think the game is healthspan, not lifespan. Good years, not necessarily more years. But the path to more years is good years.

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For me, when I envision what kind of old lady I want to be, there's no way I'm going to be that hunched-over little old lady shuffling down the street. Bitcoiners aren't going out like that. Frailty is fiat. If you're frail as you get old, you're fucked. There you go. I said it.

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Can we be old ladies together?

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In terms of quality versus quantity, there are a lot of old people out there, but they no longer have the mobility or functionality to wipe their own ass. That's not for me. That's why I lift weights: so I can always wipe my own ass.

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Sounds like a shirt.

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I like to think that we can add decades to our life and life to our decades. Not just years or minutes, but decades. I'm 53 in a couple of months, and I surf and I ski occasionally. One thing that gives me inspiration is when I go surfing, I'm surfing with 78-year-olds. When I go skiing, I see 80- and 90-year-olds out there on the slopes.

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Going back to what I was saying before, we have our gifts, talents, and expressions. But finding things we love to do, things we actually really love to do, like surfing and skiing, apart from cooking for our family, eating a good meal, and having great conversations up on stage. Finding the things that bring us joy, filling our car up as often as we can with passionate things that bring us so much joy. I believe it's as simple as that.

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If you do not know what brings you joy, go back to your childhood and think about what brought a smile to your face, made you laugh, and made you curious. Keep finding the things that every day, or once a week, or whatever you can, bring you joy. This is what's going to extend our life, because we're going to look forward to doing the things we love, because we love doing them. I think it is that simple.

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Don't get stagnant. Don't stop moving. Don't stop learning. Don't stop being open. If you stop the flow of your own energy, you're done for. You're not plugged into the energetic flow anymore. That's it. Stay curious, have fun, learn shit.

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I would add community. I think that's the wrapper around that. If you have a place where you belong, and you have people you belong with, there's an accountability factor that can aid that.

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There are so many things we can do, but staying curious and staying fun, like you said, you get to fill your cup. There are different ways to do it. What was so amazing about this panel today was that they each have a full competency, but you can clearly see that there's so much overlap.

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We have 60 seconds left. We've kind of knocked on Western medicine and talked about holistic health. Is the future what you are hinting at, that Bitcoiners take the high ground and there becomes a merging of what works from old medicine and new medicine, and we get the best medicine? Can you give a buttoned-up, quick yes, no, and maybe one-sentence answer?

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Yes.

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That's right. We have the best medicine physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and energetically, and Bitcoin prepares you for that. If you're new to Bitcoin, you might not understand what I'm talking about right now, but I'm telling you, if you keep going down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, you will see how all that comes together. It will change your life, if you let it, in every possible way.

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This was an amazing conference. Thank you, Bitcoin Conference, for having us out. We are appreciative. Everybody in the audience, you were marvelous. This was Pete, Erin, and Kellie. Go find them on Club Orange, wherever you can find them. We'll be backstage if you want to talk some more. Thank you, everyone.