WORD UP with Dani Katz
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The Architecture of Technocracy: Santa Fe Institute and the…
About this podcast
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
The newest 20 of 310 episodes
- The Architecture of Technocracy: Santa Fe Institute and the Complexity Cartel with Courtenay Turner · 1 h 24 min · Season 13 Episode 20What 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…
- The Cult of Me + Why/When Your Truth is Irrelevant · 54 min · Season 13 Episode 19What 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…
- Somatopsychic Mapping with Dr. Sally Kleinbart · 58 min · Season 13 Episode 18What 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…
- Stop Making Your Problems Your Personality · 45 min · Season 13 Episode 17What 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…
- Status Correction + the Citizenship Trap with Daniel Mentz · 1 h 2 min · Season 13 Episode 16Daniel 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…
- Tomboy Erasure + AI Infantilization · 38 min · Season 13 Episode 15Dani 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…
- Rawdogging Menopause: No Hormones, No Pathologizing, No BS with Bett Williams · 55 min · Season 13 Episode 14What 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…
- Public vs. Private: The Hidden System You Don’t Realize You’re Trapped In with Michael Joseph and Marcia Ann · 49 min · Season 13 Episode 13Most 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…
- Follow the Money. Question Authority. Or Get Super Very Played. · 55 min · Season 13 Episode 12In 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…
- Why Trying to Wake Up Keeps You Asleep with Val Reznik · 56 min · Season 13 Episode 11What 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…
- ALL IN: Beating the Odds, Mastering the Mind + Rewriting the Rules with Alberto Crane || FULL EPISODE · 1 h 4 min · Season 13 Episode 10BONUS 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…
- The Business of Division: Narrative Control Explained || Part 1 · 45 min · Season 13 Episode 9In 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…
- Sunrise, Sacred Geometry & Reclaiming Your Biofield with Kristen Gilbert Part 1 · 48 min · Season 13 Episode 8Are WiFi, blue light, and modern tech quietly frying your mitochondria? Occupational Therapist (and championship Pole Dancer!) Kristen Gilbert joins me to break down quantum…
- The Many Paths To Game B | Words | Episode 120 w/ Courtenay Turner · 2 h 14 min · Season 13 Episode 7I 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…
- Microdosing Satanism in a Fake Fendi Realm with Tom Zaimes Part 1 · 55 min · Season 13 Episode 6In 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…
- Propaganda, AI, and the Languaging Scam That Trains Your Body to Decline · 55 min · Season 13 Episode 5In 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…
- Sloppy Psyops + Metaphysical Delinquency with James Mathers · 55 min · Season 13 Episode 4What 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…
- Reparations and the Rubberneck Rub · 55 min · Season 13 Episode 3In 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…
- You Are the Zone: Garret Kramer Dismantles Mindset Culture, Therapy, and Self-Help Myths · 55 min · Season 13 Episode 2What if everything we’ve been taught about mindset, performance, healing, and “working on ourselves” is thoroughly ass-backwards? In this expansive and provocative conversation…
- Propaganda 2.0: ChatGPT’s Ideological Agenda Exposed. · 55 min · Season 13 Episode 1In 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…







