Mark Salazar teaches creators how to fund their vision by mastering money through both mindset and mechanics. He breaks financial independence into three levers: how much you earn, how fast you multiply it through leverage and crypto, and how much you keep via tax optimization and legal entity structuring. The goal is abundance mindset paired with concrete financial tools so artists can create instead of survive.
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I want to start by asking everyone here, raise your hand if you are an aspiring creator or you are a creator yourself, whether you create art, businesses, food, whatever it is. Raise your hand. Awesome, so pretty much everyone here. Would you all agree that in order to make and create things in the era that we live in now, we need resources? Would you guys disagree or would you agree with me? Agree. Agree. 100%. So the topic of the conversation today is creative currency. And funding our vision. 'Cause let's be real, in the world that we live in now, we need resources to be able to fund our vision. And that's the conversation that I wanna have with you guys today. Before I get into that though, why should you guys even listen to me, right? I'm just some guy coming up here talking to y'all. Why should we even listen to Mark? Great question. I was born in the Philippines. I moved here when I was 6 years old. My parents and I lost our home in the '08 crash, and I've known poverty and struggle from a young age, and it really shaped my beliefs, how I view the world, how I interact with people at that moment in my life, and I've always been carrying this fire of freedom. I grew up not having my parents around in the house because they're both working jobs, and I'm Gerbi's age, just watching my brothers at our house while they go work, heating up food, feeding them, and not having my parents around and watching them struggle. So that intention and that energy I've carried with me up until now. And it wasn't until, I want to say, a couple years ago, going on to a few years now, that I started to learn how to play the game like the 1%. Do you guys know who the 1% are? 1%? Okay, for sure, for sure. So there's a game that we're all playing, whether we realize it or not, we're playing a game. There's different games that we're all playing. There's the life game, the soul evolution game, there's the business game, the— we're all playing a game. Today I want to talk about specifically the money game that we're all playing and how we can learn how to play the game the right way to where we can, as conscious entrepreneurs and creators, be able to utilize this knowledge to fund our creation. And so 2 years ago, I was pretty much broke. I was living on my own, and I stumbled, I stumbled upon knowledge that basically taught me this this playbook to where I can leverage OPM. So I was able to acquire over $150,000 worth of business and personal funding to be able to invest into myself. I not only took this to invest in myself through mentorship, but I also took this and I invested in asset classes that allowed me to multiply my wealth. Yes, sir. We all know, is anyone here familiar with crypto? Yeah. Disruptive innovation. So it's a beautiful time to be alive right now because we're all awakening to this kind of sovereign energy, this energy of being able to take our power back because for a very long time we were enslaved Let's be real, we were enslaved. We were told, "Go to college, get a degree." And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but we were told to do this, and this necessarily didn't guarantee us anything, but we would work a job and then we'd work till we're 60, retire, and maybe work a retirement job just so we can barely make it through life. That doesn't allow us to have spiritual evolution. That doesn't allow us to have the space the ability to grow with our relationship with God and to be able to foster communities, to be able to engage with the people that we love. It doesn't allow us for space to do that. So I've been able to multiply my wealth through what I'm going to be talking about with you guys today, and it's allowed me to live a life of financial independence to where I can basically do what I want, when I want, where I want, with who I want. And it's a beautiful and it's a blessed— it's a blessed thing. Now I'm going to break this down into two parts. The first part is going to be the spiritual energetics of money and wealth, and then we're going to be talking about the practical strategies of how do we even apply this, right? So let's get into it.
I am loving this.
Yeah, let's get into it. So I'm gonna get into the subconscious money blockages that we may or may not be aware of. Now, being born in the Philippines, having all this ancestral trauma, and I remember when I was 22, 23 and I closed my first high-ticket sale, it was $8,000. I remember I closed that sale that same night, I went into my closet and I curled up like a ball and I just started shaking and I was like, Is this right? Why am I making this much money and there are people that are starving? And I just remember thinking about my grandparents who are still in the Philippines, who are living in a not so blessed environment. And so many things were coming out of me and it was like I was unraveling a little bit. I had beliefs, I had karmic things that I was going through and That's what I want to address before we even get into the practical stuff, because does anyone out here know what money is? If you want to take a guess, I'd love to.
I believe it's a way to exchange energy.
Okay, energy. Okay, so we all agree that money is just energy. Now, this energy of money, it's not good nor bad, it's just neutral. It amplifies who we're being in that very moment when we're holding that money. And so, has anyone here ever heard that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever been told that?
Yes.
Yeah, I remember being told that. I remember being told by family members that money is dirty, you should wash your hands after you handle it. I don't know what they thought was happening with the exchange of money. They were— I remember, I think they told me that it probably came from a stripper or something. I should wash my hands. And so I grew up and I started having like this belief that I should wash my hands because money is dirty and I should handle it appropriately. Let's pretend right now that money is a human being. If I interacted with money and I was like, "Hey, you're low-key dirty. If I dab you up right now, I have to go wash my hands." Do you think money will want to be around me?
No.
Right, right.
That's a lot of ick.
That's a lot of what money is. Money is just this neutral, energy, and how we view it subconsciously is going to determine how much of that we are able to not only hold but attract. So what if we've— what we've been told about wealth and money is subconsciously holding us back from accessing this abundance? So now the question then becomes, how do we reframe our inner state of being and also our mindset towards money so we can shift from scarcity into abundance?
I'm curious to know, like, what are some of your guys' money blockages?
Great question. This is a safe space.
Well, in the past for me it's been work. You have to work really, really hard and sacrifice a lot in order to like make enough money to live the life you want. And I've definitely been trying my best to re-pattern that.
Yeah.
That's definitely one for me.
That's a great one. Very common one too.
Anyone else?
I just remember when I was a kid, I would go to restaurants and with my parents, I wouldn't order the thing I wanted. I would order the thing I thought they could afford.
Mm-hmm. Mm.
Yeah.
So now I'm like, it's become like a way to demonstrate to myself that I am worthy of something more, you know. Like when I spend money, it's like, like it's, it's a way to bless myself.
Yeah, I remember being a kid and my mom buying me like an outfit that was like new clothes, and then I was so excited, and then after like 8 or something. And then after she was like something like, yeah, like this was like a whole new— like this was an expensive— like your clothes were expensive or something like that. And I felt so guilty, so bad. I felt like, like I don't know if I'm worthy of this.
Yeah.
And so it was a sense of like, I don't know, like it's really special. I, I don't get it unless it— like it's a— somebody else is losing something for me to get it. It was like feel it, which is sometimes true, but not— yeah, not always.
Yeah.
Yeah, I should feel guilty for having to do this.
Yeah, that's the belief that comes up. Thank you guys for sharing. Our natural state is abundance. Would anyone disagree with me?
No.
Our natural state is abundance. I mean, let's just go into our blood, like all the cells, all the organs, the protons and neutrons that make us who we are. How many other semen did we have to fight over to even be born right now? It's like, hey, it's like, I'm the chosen one. Somebody had to get there. Somebody had to. Our natural state is abundance. And when we have these beliefs and these blockages within ourselves that allow us to view wealth and money, which is neutral, in this way, it is subconsciously holding us back from being able to attract more of that, let alone hold it. So in order to shift— and you, everyone here strikes me as the type to do a lot of inner work, so I think you guys would be familiar with this— but does anyone here work with frequencies, self-hypnosis, anything like that?
Yes.
A little bit. A little bit? Okay. Well, in order to shift our way of being towards money, we have to do the inner work to be able to be comfortable with money, to view money as our beloved friend who is here to support us and to help us be of service to people that we're meant to. I know we journal a lot about our vision and our dream life, for how we want to live life, but how many of us actually go in and we tell ourselves that, "I love money. Money is my friend. I attract more money with ease and little effort so that I can use it to be of service." Hypnotizing ourselves to reprogram what we were programmed by people who didn't know any better, were just doing their part. But to reprogram ourselves to be able to access this inner state of abundance and carry that energy towards any endeavor that we do. And what I found from personal experience is that when you do the inner work to open yourself up to this state of abundance, money just flows to you like, like crazy. I know it sounds kind of woo-woo and out there, but there's a law, a higher law at work here when you allow yourself to be and to be comfortable with wealth. I agree. This is a woo-woo safe space.
You're good. Woo it up.
When we start viewing money as this thing that's just around us circulating, can't get away from us, is constantly attracted to us, we start bringing that energy into our everyday life, into the interactions we make, the risks that we take, the belief that we have in ourselves when we start this thing and we invest into ourself and our future. Because I mean, we weren't told this before. Like, nobody ever told me that money could be my friend and I could just have it around and it'd just be there, support me along the journey. That's how we should view money. Absolutely. It's not this evil thing, it's not this thing where any wealthy or rich person out there, they had to scam someone or do them dirty in order to have the wealth that they have. And while yes, there may have been people that have done that, not everyone is like that. For the most of the entrepreneurs I know, they have gotten to where they are because they were of service to others. And so that's our divine rights. Our divine right is to have this wealth so that we can co-create heaven on earth with our brothers and sisters. Would you guys agree or disagree?
Yeah, I agree.
Heck yeah, absolutely. I mean, shit, it's allowed me to live my dream, just make music, to be able to share this information with you guys. So now let's anchor this in into something more grounded. Like, we're doing the inner work. Let's say we're doing the inner work where magnetizing wealth more rather than seeing it as something that's foreign to us and we have to always try to chase it in order for it to be in our life. How do we anchor this in? So does anyone here know the 3 buttons for financial independence? Would anyone like to take a guess what these 3 buttons are?
I don't know, the old school part of me would say like minimizing like fixed expenses and maximizing like cash flow. Okay.
Manifestation consciousness. Okay. What I've come to learn is that there are only 3 buttons that we need to focus on when it comes to financial independence and maximizing our wealth. The first button is obviously how much money you make, okay? Pretty simple, straightforward. But these other two are the lesser-known ones. So You have your money multiplier. I like to call these the 3 Ms, by the way, too. First one is how much money you make. The second one is how much and how fast can you multiply your existing wealth and money. And the third one is minus taxes, because it's not about how much you make, it's It's about how much you keep. There are a lot of entrepreneurs, people out there that— and bless their hearts— they like to boast about how much money they make. Oh, I make six figures. I make $250K. But then I think to myself, like, not really. You're paying 40% of that to Uncle Sam. I don't know about you guys, but if I made $100K and I was giving 30 to 40% of that to someone that doesn't necessarily have my best intention in mind, I would feel some type of way.
Mm-hmm. Preach.
Think of this as kind of a flywheel. They feed into each other. How much money you make feeds into how much you're able to multiply that money. Basically, it allows you to make money and in your sleep and not always having to rely on trading your time for money. That's the piece that allows people to have that independence. And the other piece is how much can you minimize taxes? Because even if you're, say, investing, you have to pay short-term capital gains taxes and long-term capital gains taxes. So they're always trying to get their hand in the cookie jar. One way or the other. So the game then becomes, how do we multiply our wealth, and how do we reduce the amount of taxes that we're paying? Well, I just laid out the blueprint for you guys earlier when I told you about my journey. We have access to wealth and we don't even know it. Raise your hand if you have a Social Security card here.
Yeah, somewhere.
Cool. FICO score.
Yeah, I have one. It's very low.
We were taught to view debts and credit as something that's bad. You don't want to accumulate debt. Donald Trump. Billions of dollars in debts. Do you think he paid any of that?
Doesn't look like it.
No. Somebody had to do it. Because here's the, here's the thing. Donald knows how to play the game like the 1%. He's not going to trade his time for money. How fast can you make 6 figures just working a job? Very fast. Depends what you do, right? And what stage of the journey you're at. But for most aspiring creators who are just starting out, who have to invest into equipment, have to invest in themselves, they don't— they're not starting out with a whole lot. So compare that to how fast you can go into a bank with the right credit score, the right strategy, to be able to access $100K? I would argue it takes a few months. Now, what would $100K do for you guys? For your business, for your creation, what would that do for you guys? Now you Now you take that $100K. What if you took a portion of that and you invested it? And let's say that investment, you were able to multiply it 2x, 3x. Should I've had 500% ROIs? All because I understand asymmetric opportunities in the market right now because we're going through a once-in-a-lifetime generational wealth transfer. If anyone here studies secular trends, the rise and fall of civilizations, there's always been a, an uprising or a rebellion from the common people because they understand that they're being sold a lie in a dream. And so if we look even deeper and we look at the currency system, we're undergoing that transition with digital currency. Is anyone here familiar with how money works, how the US dollar works, what it is?
You talking about like fractional reserve and fiat currency and fiat currency? There you go.
Yeah. Absolutely.
It's worth what people believe it's worth. Yeah. And they print more whenever they want more in circulation.
Absolutely.
The US dollar, it doesn't even exist. It's just a concept that we made up to be able to barter and do exchanges with each other. The dollar has been devalued over 33 times since its inception. Are you guys aware of that?
Inflation.
Inflation. A lot of different things that went into it, but yeah, that's one of them. That's why when people say they've made money on real estate It's not really because— well, yeah, the value of it goes up, but most of the time it's because the value of the dollar has decreased. And so of course the value of real estate is going to go up. Now that's where we're being ushered into this new era of how money works, because the dollar It's not even backed by anything. At least when you buy a house, you have the land, right? But this dollar, it used to be backed by the gold standard, and then it was removed. Now it's just a debt note. If you pull up— does anyone have a dollar bill or cash on them right now?
Wash your hands.
Seriously.
On the left-hand side right here, it says, this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private. What does that mean? ChatGPT, what does this mean? Back in the day, you could take this, you go to the bank, hey, I want some gold for this. And they'd go to their vault, pull out some gold, and exchange it. Nowadays, of course, you're not gonna be able to do that. You can buy gold with the debt note, but it's not worth anything. It's made up. And so why, oh why, are we— why are we hustling so hard, trading our life force energy to make something that isn't even real. That's where it becomes our duty and our obligation to be able to figure out how this game works. Is anyone here familiar with cryptocurrency? Does anyone invest in crypto here? Sweet, everyone.
Awesome.
Roller coaster. Does anyone understand the inherent value of what crypto brings to the table here.
Yeah, it's wild.
Okay, pretty soon, sometime in the near future, I don't know when it's going to be because I don't have a crystal ball, but in the near future we're going to be moved to a digital currency. No longer will we be having money. I mean, it's already kind of happening as we speak. All of our trades are done digitally. We Venmo, we PayPal, we Apple Pay. It's like a slow build there, but essentially we won't be relying on this anymore. And the beautiful thing about crypto, let's just say for example Bitcoin, is that it is backed by something. Yes, it's the belief that we all have in it, but its inherent technology is what makes it so unique. And that's where the asymmetric opportunity is. Bitcoin allows you to invest into something that is tangible and real, although it's digital and we can't touch it with our physical hands. It's realer than this. I would argue that cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is somewhat regulated nowadays because, well, all the wealthy own most of it, but they can never take it down. They can print this, they can devalue it all they want, but they can never go into Bitcoin and take more of what's— or rather, they can't devalue it, they can't print it. What's there is there, and that's it. It's a code that was written, and when that code was executed, it is, and that's how it will be. That's why it's so powerful.
So now we know how to multiply a little bit of our wealth.
Any cash that we make, let's of course do research. And for the people watching, you don't want to just invest into something you don't know. That you don't understand, because that's the fastest way to lose your money. And that's why before I even began talking about this, I worked with the spiritual energetic aspect of money. And something that I want to anchor into is our why. Why do we want money? So now we move into the taxes aspect of things. Fun part. Who loves doing their taxes every year? Does anyone know, remember the Boston Tea Party?
Yeah.
Does anyone remember why that happened?
They were taxing—
what?
Tea.
Bruh, it's like 1 or 3% tax on tea and people threw a fit. They rebelled. Tae spilled the tea. So you mean to tell me we live in a world where we're paying 30 to 40% on what we make and the blood and sweat tears that we poured into our business and what we created just so we can give that up? Yeah, yeah, really think about that. That's crazy. If you understand how money works and you understand law, specifically admiralty maritime law and trust law, you can buy— you can bypass taxes because taxes is inherently a blood-sucking leech that is siphoning your energy and going towards something that doesn't even make sense. Who's been keeping up with Doge? The Department of Government Efficiency.
Mm, they're real.
Bro, they just found out that a lot of our tax money was going towards people who are dead.
What? Yeah.
So as you can see, it's leeching something out of us, but it's not going towards what we think it's going to. I was told that it was going towards schooling, roads. And while yes, maybe some of it, I would argue that most of it is not really going towards where we think it's going. So now that's where trust law comes in. Has anyone heard of trusts? Trust fund babies? Where that term— basically we live in— there's a matrix and in the world, a veil that's been pulled between our eyes. And this veil is— it doesn't exist, but it only exists because of word magic and spells that are casted. And these spells, we could call them man-made laws, statutes, regulatory Did you guys know that when you're driving, that is an act of commerce? Does anyone know that?
Yeah.
When you get a license, you have to pay for it, don't you? When you're driving, you have to pay attention to these mandates and regulations that you should be driving under a certain miles per hour or else you're gonna get pulled over. What do they do when they pull you over for speeding? They give you a speeding ticket. So here's the funny part: when that officer pulls you over for going over the speeding limit, he's doing business with you. You're affirming what he's saying. License and registration, what's your name? Were you aware that you were going so-and-so? Yes, officer. You're agreeing to do business with him. The only reason you're being taxed is because you're unknowingly agreeing to be taxed. This isn't something they teach us, but Rockefeller knew it when he created the education system. Trust law is basically knowing what this game and this matrix is and being able to walk in your divine right, in essence, that you are a son of the Most High. You don't have to agree to anything that's been said by any corporation. Or entity that told you that you had to do something. So in the back of the debt note, it says, "In God We Trust." What did I just say we're going over? What type of law? Trust law, baby. Trust law. The American patriot would be like, "Yeah, in God we trust." Yes, and while they're not necessarily wrong for feeling that way, it's all word magic. Our money is going into the "In God We Trust," which is just a contract that was put together so that you can pay for it. Crazy, right? How are you guys feeling after all that? I just want to make sure everyone's good, you know. Again, it's why it's a game, because when you know how to play the game, then you know how you can win.
So like the name of their business or their trust is called In God We—
In God We Trust.
Very creative.
Very creative. Word magic.
Yeah.
Right now we're operating from a trust of our own. It's our Social Security number, our EIN, our— it's basically an entity that was birthed when our parents signed the birth certificates. We were given a Social Security number, and that's how they do business with us. We have two types, two types of ways we can engage with people. We can engage as the Social Security number, all caps. You guys ever receive in the mail and it says your name but it's all caps? Why do they do that? Why isn't it just like first name, first letter capitalized, and then rest of my name? Because they're engaging with an entity, not actually the living flesh and blood Andrew or Dijon. They're engaging with an entity that was signed by your parents unknowingly so that the United States Corporation can do business with you and tax you for your life force energy and make money in the In God We Trust. I've been able to create a trust for myself and it's allowed me to basically not pay taxes. Legally, because I understand trust law and admiralty maritime law. Trust law is the highest form of law when it comes to commerce in this game that we're playing with money and business and finances. Allows you to take your power back. Because when 100% of your money and your efforts are going back towards what you're building, you're essentially becoming more whole. As— I'm not saying your soul is perfect, but this human creation and what we're building becomes more whole because we're no longer feeding something that is leeching off of us. We're so used to once a year doing our taxes, doing this, and we've done that for most of our lives. We weren't told that there was another way to where we can show up in integrity and in our power and say, listen, I want all of my money, all of it, because I deserve it. I worked for it. And it's not hurting anybody. Nobody's being hurt by us not paying taxes.
We just—
it just is. The money that you make feeds into how much you're able to multiply that. So it's basically money that can grow into new ways of earning that work even while you sleep. So when you invest in crypto and it goes up, your money is working for you. And this is where the long-term mindset starts to become a thing, because this isn't— I want to make it very important that what we're talking about here is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It's not a pyramid scheme. This is generational wealth that we're talking about. Bitcoin went from $10 to $88,000. That's only one project. There are multiple projects out there that are actually very beneficial and usher in a new way of doing barter in the real world where the veil isn't put over our eyes and we don't know what it's doing. Let that sink in. And not even just crypto too, but what I talk about is disruptive innovation, wherein there are companies that have asymmetric opportunities, meaning the risk is significantly lower than the potential upside. And if we start viewing things from a more macro lens of, instead of always thinking about, I gotta pay my rent next month, I gotta do this next month, let's think of 5 to 10 years. What is the world going to look like in 5 to 10 years? I mean, AI just, you You know, it just happened all of a sudden. A year ago we were making memes about how AI made this funny thing about Will Smith eating spaghetti. Has anyone seen that?
Yeah.
And now it's so integrated into our work life fairly quick.
Yeah.
That is where the opportunity is, my friends. Now you're thinking as an investor. Now you're thinking of ways that you can multiply your money. It's simple, but it's not easy. It takes being able to step into unknown territory, not being so used to having to always do something for money, but instead having it work for you. Because every dollar that you have, you can deploy that into something that can make more dollars, in the simplest form. And then when you understand trust law, you're not paying for what you make. You just make 100% of your money. So it's a flywheel, feeds into each other, and what it gives you is financial independence. Now you're not limited by having to work for something and then wondering how you're going to pay for this creation that you have. Now You can sleep peacefully at night and know that you have funds always available to you. You're embodying the energy of abundance. That's where the practical strategy is. It's not just about manifesting money. Well, yes, that's very important. It's important to align yourself energetically with the frequency of money. But it's also about knowing how the game works and taking action. It's the culmination of the masculine and feminine energies coming into union, the left and the right brain coming into union. That's why it's called creative currency. It's very simple. 3 buttons. All you got to focus on: how much money you're making, how fast and and how much are you multiplying that money by, and how much of that money are you keeping? I just gave you guys a million dollars worth of game. You can literally take this and run with it and absolutely make a ton of money and buy your financial independence. That is the game. That is just the small nuance of how this whole thing works. Now, me personally, I've been able to leverage these 3 buttons so that I can do what I do now. I've taught my friend how to do the same thing, and he's been able to get over 150% ROI on on his investment. I teach this because I remember what it's like as that young boy, watching my parents struggle the way they did to barely make ends meet for us. And although I'm very blessed, they gave me a really good life, and I'm so grateful for them. It always broke my heart to see them like that, to barely even see them actually. And that's why I'm so passionate about this, because we're all creators. We all have something so beautiful to give to the world and to the people. So money shouldn't even be a block or hindrance to that. In the Edenic ideal, money would not even be a thing. We would just create. I hear the chants from all those around the world. Here's the mic. If you can't feel what freedom feels like, born into slavery, killed in them cages while we profit off your energy, man, it's really killing me. Don't we know that love is free?
Free.
