Leaving the Left for Liberty

As human rights advocates, The Sonic Universe is recognized for their performance at Defeat The Mandates in Los Angeles in 2022 and for their TikTok video address calling on humanity with over a quarter-million views. With releases like “Shatter (Unplugged)” which charted at #4 on Amazon Music USA, the group seeks to unify humanity one song at a time.

During his interview with host Sienna Mae Heath, founder and frontman Alex Arndt explores his spiritual growth, his adventures of spreading light on mainstream media, and the lines and vibrations he is currently holding.

Dr. James Coates is the pastor-teacher at GraceLife Church of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. He has been pastoring there for more than 13 years. In 2021, James was arrested for opening his church in violation of COVID-19 restrictions. He is a graduate of the Master’s Seminary (MDiv, DMin), co-author of “God vs. Government: Taking a Biblical Stand When Christ and Compliance Collide,” and author of “Preaching and Hearing God’s Word.” During his interview with host Sienna Mae Heath, Coates discusses the God-centered process of forgiving foes and showing love in adversity, commitment to faith during social upheaval and spiritual warfare, and how the story of The Garden of Eden offers wisdom on the creation of relationships.

Jo Rose is releasing an interview series with New Yorkers from all walks of life who faced discrimination during the pandemic. She is a first-generation Dominican American with a strong sense of justice. Jo is a medical freedom activist, former New York City Department of Education employee, and survivor of narcissistic abuse. In part 2 of her interview with host Sienna Mae Heath, Jo discusses examples of current power struggles, emotional intelligence being a sign of other forms of intelligence, and a fundamental disagreement on bodily autonomy regarding one’s body as a temple. Sienna asks Jo: How can stories of victory rather than victimhood be more attractive agents of change? And if the elites’ tactics are so lazy and absurd, how could they be smart enough to have some grand agenda?

Jo Rose is a medical freedom activist, former New York City Department of Education employee, and survivor of narcissistic abuse. Liberating herself from mental slavery, her activism has taken her from the streets of New York to the Defeat the Mandates rally in Los Angeles. During her interview with host Sienna Mae Heath, Rose explores the cycle of abuse, the dynamics of power and control, and her hero’s journey in breaking the cycle. Through personal stories of victory, not victimhood, we discuss triangulation, scapegoating, smear campaigns, developing a strong sense of justice, and how the side effects of abuse manifest differently in different people. Reflecting on the authoritarian tendency to resist questions and isolate people from their support system, we remember how the government took a stance of locking the people down under the guise of love.

Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, host of The Lou Perez Podcast, and author of the book, That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore. Free the People has teamed up with Lou to produce a new series, Comedy Is Murder. In the first episode, one of Lou’s characters is arrested for a murder “she” says she didn’t commit. During an interview with host Sienna Mae Heath, the morbid joke is on us as the smoke from the Canadian wildfires settles in the background. Lou and Sienna discuss his writing process, the dynamics of dry humor, and the difference between mocking and making light of a sacred cow. They explore the phenomenon of words being labeled “literal violence” and its effect on free speech.

Kyle J. Maxwell is an entrepreneur, business consultant, musician, philosopher, and author. He is the CEO of VivoMedia and founder of Vivo Group (a PR Agency). Kyle used to post black squares in support of BLM, but then encountered Jordan Peterson and announced in a viral Tweet that he had fundamentally changed his perception. Kyle is on a quest for seeking knowledge, growing closer to God, and finding a new way of being.

Leslie Elliott has come to realize that many universities are sterilizing language. In 2019, she began to learn valuable therapeutic approaches in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master’s program at Antioch University, but also encountered something deeply disturbing: the usurping of traditional therapy values by Critical Social Justice ideology.

Leslie took a leave of absence after her courses began requiring students to sign what was called a “civility pledge.” Frustrated in her attempts to communicate her concerns to the university, she decided to go public in October 2022 and expose how ideology is corrupting the fields of mental health and higher education.

Noelle Fitchett is a Christian cultural and political commentator originally from Los Angeles, CA. She’s a first-generation college grad and now a graduate student. Noelle lives by the motto “facts don’t change minds, rather friendships do” and seeks to amplify this message in the delivery of her commentary. Noelle is the host of “Out of Context,” where she aims to reach Gen Z through uncommon conversations. Along with host Sienna Mae Heath, Noelle discusses words as a form of cocreation, the limits of her bridge building, navigating her experience of getting doxxed, and learning to be “the bigger person” while growing up in Gen Z.

Matt Kibbe is President at Free the People, an educational foundation that uses video storytelling to turn on the next generation to the values of personal liberty and peaceful cooperation. He is the host of BlazeTV’s Kibbe on Liberty, a popular podcast that invites you to think for yourself.

Host Sienna Mae Heath continues the conversation started in Kibbe on Liberty | Ep 207 to explore Matt’s origin story: the song lyrics and hero’s journey novel that inspired him to start Free the People. Matt and Sienna discuss how artists can lead by inspiration, not force. They reflect on examples of art vs. authoritarianism around the world, including in Sienna’s mother’s native country of Iran where poets and musicians are targeted by the Islamic regime.

Sienna Mae Heath is joined by Teva Johnstone, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Children’s Mental Health Consultant and Parent Coach. She specializes in Autism Parent Training with a main focus of her work helping parents of gender questioning youth. Teva was born and raised in Southern California and is a lover of free speech and personal liberty. She is now libertarian-leaning and politically homeless after being a ‘lefty’ all her life. Teva is critical of the authoritarian methods used by what she calls ‘social justice culture.’ Teva has been a speaker on numerous Autism & Neurodiversity panels for professionals and parents. She is also a proud homeschooling mom.

Bahereh Khodadoost is an Iranian-American artist. She is also host Sienna Mae Heath’s mother. The present-day revolution in Iran is led by the chant “woman, life, freedom” or “zan, zendegi, azadi.” Bahereh and Sienna consider what these words evoke in a sociopolitical context in Iran, and here in the US, and what womanhood, liberty, and life mean at their core. Bahereh also shares more of her experience of leaving Iran in 1979 and what it was like to study at an American university during the hostage crisis. On this episode of Leaving the Left for Liberty, they explore the power of the pen, the voice, and art as a whole when they fly in the face of the censoriousness of the Islamic regime (which is technically leftist). As a clay artist, painter, and poet, Bahereh believes: “The beat of the world is in the hands of the artists.”

Bahereh Khodadoost is an Iranian-American artist and mystic. She is also host Sienna Mae Heath’s mother. As a member of the Baha’i Faith, Bahereh experienced human rights violations in Iran and left the country two months after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. During the interview, Sienna and Bahereh reflect on the recent killing of Mahsa Amini, which sparked a new revolution of men, women, and children, uniting across otherwise deep ideological boundaries to assert their rights in the face of a censorious, theocratic government. This latest uprising is being called a revolution—for and by the people, bravely led by the chant “zan, zendegi, azadi” translated as “woman, life, freedom.” 

Ryan Hartwig was a content moderator for nearly two years working for Cognizant, subcontracted by Facebook. He reviewed and deleted groups, pages, posts, comments, and videos for Facebook and Instagram. After noticing many trends that favored liberal viewpoints and banned conservative ideologies, Ryan went public in June 2020. He has done more than 170 interviews and his efforts have led to a criminal referral to the DOJ for Mark Zuckerberg.

Ryan has been working with Social Media Freedom Foundation founder Jason Fyk who filed the first ever Constitutional challenge to Section 230 in April 2022, asserting that it “lacks the lawful exercise of executive, legislative, or judicial oversight, and is arguably unconstitutional in its current form.” In this interview with host Sienna Mae Heath, Facebook whistleblower Ryan Hartwig explains how they have made massive strides and why it may finally go to the Supreme Court as an emergency case.

Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, LCSW is known as The Truthful Therapist. She is working to help people find support for their mental health during the rise of a new sect of Scientism enforcing gender identity theory. Pamela has spoken to many therapists who agree that pushing gender ideology is not healthy for children because it often asserts a one-size-fits-all approach for individuals with unique struggles. However, these therapists are being heavily silenced. In Part 2 of Sienna Mae Heath’s conversation with Pamela, they discuss how Pamela is taking her 20 years of experience and building a comprehensive online parents’ guide to mental health with the tag line “therapy not indoctrination.”

Pamela Garfield-Jaeger is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience. In her interview with host Sienna Mae Heath, Pamela describes how much the mental health profession has changed in just a few short years, particularly when it comes to treatment of gender dysphoric patients. In 2021, at a teen clinic in California, 3 out of 10 kids identified as non-binary and none of Pamela’s colleagues questioned it. There are other negative trends happening too, such as reinforcement of victim mentality and boys being dismissed as having toxic masculinity.

Cat Cattinson is a singer, writer, biology student, and social media personality. She identified as a transgender man for over 15 years and began taking testosterone at the recommendation of doctors and trans activists, which we talked about in episode 12. Now we explore how Cat is demystifying gender identity theory. She’s posted hundreds of videos on detransitioning, the serious risks of attempting to change one’s sex, and how gender ideology endangers women and children.

She has since received backlash from trans activists, allies, and even California senators. Cat has received death threats and has been banned from social media multiple times. Once a Democrat, she no longer feels supported by her party and considers herself politically homeless.

Cat Cattinson is a singer, writer, biology student, and social media personality. She identified as a transgender man for over 15 years and began taking testosterone at the recommendation of doctors and trans activists. When negative health effects and the loss of her singing voice forced her to stop transitioning, she became disillusioned with gender ideology and the experimental practice of “gender affirming care.”

Now happy living as a woman, she is filled with gratitude that she has come out the other side, and only hopes that sharing her story will help others see through the fog during this time of political censorship and mass hysteria.

Kyle Kemper is a Blockchain and cryptocurrency expert with a plan to return power to the people of Canada. As the half-brother of Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau, Kyle is actually grateful to Justin for pushing him to innovate. He is eager to explore ways of better representing the people and embrace the dawning of an abundant new age. Kyle’s vision for the future is a decentralized, autonomous organization—a new government model that would create a delegative liquid democracy, cultivating collaboration from the grassroots rather than dictating from the top down.

Tracy Bone is an Indigenous singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She, along with a group of other indigenous peoples, participated in Canada’s Freedom Convoy—making music and blessing the protest day after day. This episode was recorded from the streets of Ottawa where she and Chief JD Anderson continue to drum and pray. Tracy has said: “We are not leaving until every man, woman, and child is guaranteed free.”

Tracy shares her journey of healing from sexual abuse and generational trauma. She relates it to the exchanging of stories at the Freedom Convoy about revering bodily autonomy, honoring informed consent, and healing from the abuse of power, and then she invites Chief JD to share his insights on why the key to liberating Canadians is making sure that human rights are extended to people who have been marginalized, including the true natives of the land.

Tracy Bone (Anishinaabe, Saskiso “Ignites The Fire”) comes from the Keeseekoowenin Ojibway Nation (Father’s side) and the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation (Mother’s side). Chief JD Anderson Okima (“Blue Rattle Buffalo Man”) comes from the Keeseekoowenin Ojibway Nation (Mother’s side) and Rolling River First Nation (Father’s side).

Tricia Lindsay is a civil rights attorney in New York with a valuable perspective to offer on the vaccine mandates, the well-being of our children, parental rights, and freedom of religion. In this episode, we talk about the New York Senate’s Assembly Bill A416 which “relates to the removal of cases, contacts and carriers of communicable diseases who are potentially dangerous to the public health.” While the bill was withdrawn in December 2021, almost simultaneously Gov. Hochul proposed a regulation which is far more expansive and increases her powers to issue “mandatory quarantine” and “enforcement of an isolation or quarantine order through the use or possible use of law enforcement personnel.” Tricia shares her thoughts on why such measures and mandates are “the new segregation.” How can we escape this form of enslavement? And what might it look like to hold leaders accountable?

Zach Vorhies blew the whistle on Google’s push to create “a clean and regularly sanitized news corpus.” As we talked about in the last episode of Leaving the Left for Liberty, Google decided to no longer reflect the world we live in, but rather promote the world as they want it to be. In this episode, we explore how Google’s page ranking is becoming a social credit score of sorts. We talk about how the lab leak theory for COVID-19 was mocked and suppressed for months, and now it’s seen as legitimate due to the overwhelming pride and hubris rearing its head over the pandemic, and the danger of power-hungry narcissism in big tech and parts of human nature.

How might this approach to immunize the internet relate to the trend of dehumanization in the war on science? Could Google start locking our files? And is surveillance capitalism inevitable?

Zach Vorhies is a Google whistleblower and a Project Veritas Insider. A former Senior Software Engineer, he says Google took a hard turn toward “authoritarianism” and began installing an “autocratic regime” of censorship in late 2016. Google began blacklisting Christian, conservative, and alternative health platforms like The Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Christian Times, Meghan Kelly’s website, and Natural News, polarizing many Americans. Google then red-flagged Zach with the San Francisco police. He’d put out a “dead man’s switch” on Twitter, threatening full disclosure of the 950 pages of internal files he would eventually leak to the public and deliver to the Department of Justice anti-trust division in August 2019.

Host Sienna Mae Heath gets Zach’s perspective on how Google went from reflecting objective reality to promoting a subjective reality, and exactly how we are being censored and having our information manipulated.

Kayla Henry is wielding the power of the pen through pure poetry. She is the author of the poem “Parrhesia,” which went viral last year, pointing fearlessly to the corrupt power of government and the top-down control surrounding COVID-19. Her crusade for truth elevates messages of medical freedom, the desire for clear language in media, and an eagerness to understand governance in the Western World. Kayla is a brilliant, budding Canadian artist. In her interview with host Sienna Mae Heath, she reads parts of her new book, “Rhymes to Rhetoric,” and maps out her hero’s journey—reflecting on her call to adventure to step out as an individual and to catch flight through creative freedom.

Charles Eisenstein is an author and speaker who is making waves in the face of medical control. In his essay, “Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed,” he explains how capital punishment first originated in the practice of human sacrifice. He raises concerns about the demonization of people who are unvaccinated for COVID-19 and analyzes the patterns of scapegoating and fanaticism throughout much of the world’s history—from the witch trials to the Holocaust to 9/11. In this episode of Leaving the Left for Liberty, Sienna Mae Heath talks to Charles about the grip of vaccine mandates, quarantine camps, and censorship. Charles explains the origins of the Left’s identification with science (as an institution) and why “following The Science” has become a secular religion of sorts with the ritual being vaccination in order to be granted inclusion into society.

Jacqueline Claire is a painter, illustrator, and storyteller. The focus of her work is to empower audiences of all ages to develop a deeper connection to their spiritual reality. She produces a biweekly podcast called Spiritual Conversation and an active YouTube channel that explores life, art, relationships, and the state of the world in a very raw and personal way. Sienna Mae Heath learns about her journey from Hollywood to small town Texas and how we can muster the courage to face a possibly corrupted New World Order and create a Divine Civilization.

David Johnson is a packaging engineer and Hasbro insider for Project Veritas. He entered the public light after bravely exposing the critical race theory ideology being pushed at Hasbro by a contractor called The Conscious Kid, which believes that babies can be racist and that five-year-old kids can be just as racist as their parents. In this episode, Sienna Mae Heath talks with David about being liberty-minded and politically independent, and how he became motivated to do his part to save this country.

Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster host the TRIGGERnometry Show in London, England. Both are comedians and know how to stay sane and serious when necessary, and to crack a joke at just the right moment to break the tension. Konstantin was born in Russia, and since moving to the UK, has been deemed a “Jewish Nazi” for stepping outside some very strictly drawn boundaries by woke comics. And Francis, being half Venezuelan, is known for his show “Mixed Race White Bloke.” But our interview transcends identity politics. We talk about Western Privilege and ask what country are we living in—Russia or the UK? China or USA?

Jodi Shaw is blowing the whistle on the racially hostile environment at Smith College. Her story shows us that the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a far cry from the mainstream approach to racial healing. It’s no secret that critical race theory is controversial. It has become common knowledge that people of many races and ethnicities have substantiated concerns about judging a person based on the color of their skin and not the content of their character. Jodi Shaw is one of many concerned Americans, and at the peak of political tension, she was one of the few who were brave enough to speak out.

What motivates a person to muster up courage in a time when it’s quite controversial to step out as an individual? And how many of us are there? Sienna Mae Heath has a plan to find out. In Free the People’s new series, Leaving the Left for Liberty, Sienna talks with whistleblowers, dissidents, and other alternative voices in the Western world who have left the culture of the political Left for more creative freedom, professional freedom, and personal freedom. They’re not necessarily leaving the Left for the Right. They are libertarians, independents, classically liberal, and newly outspoken voices, all cutting ties with dogma and in search of something new. No issue is off the table. We’ll explore critical race theory, woke comedy, censorship, mandates, the tango of individualism and collectivism, the desire for honest art, and more.