BECOMING A DIGITAL NINJA

Todd Polke walks through digital privacy and security tools to protect yourself from tracking and surveillance. He ranks VPNs like NordVPN and ExpressVPN, browsers including Brave and Tor, password managers such as Bitwarden, and encrypted messaging apps. The session covers device setup, two-factor authentication alternatives, and includes a downloadable privacy checklist.
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been a, uh, been a really kind of fun and interesting week for me actually, where there's been a heck of a lot going on. But, um, been crushing a bunch of deals and we've got the birthing center that we're working towards which is, uh, coming to fruition. And got a new pergola thing I've ordered for the rainforest and there's lots of cool stuff going. So I'm really, really excited. Uh, but it's been a very busy week, that's for sure. Um, would love to know first and foremost as we're getting ready to rock and roll and a few people are diving on board now, what has been Uh, the coolest thing has happened for you this week? I would love to know. Let me know. I would love to hear all about it. Um, just going to make sure that we are all good to go today, um, and that everything is working okay. And, uh, looks like we are good to go. And if you can hear me and you can see me okay, please just let me know in the comments and let me know that everything is working, uh, A-okay and we're ready to rock and roll. So, um, today's session is, uh, all about Becoming a digital ninja. Now, I'd love to know from you: What are you concerned about in this space? What are you concerned about when it comes to privacy? When it comes to sovereignty? When it comes to keeping yourself safe in this day and age? What are you concerned about? Put in the comments for me. Let me know. Like, what have you been hearing? What what what have you been hearing? What do you know about? Were you back and go, oh, that's— that— oh, I don't feel good about that. Like, what are some of the things for you that has been coming up? I would love to know because I've got a whole bunch of things. One of the things that I do a lot of is that I follow the breadcrumbs, right? When I see something happening in the world or some change in policy or something, I'm seeing consistency, I want to actually follow the breadcrumbs and actually understand, well, why is that coming about and what are the potential Implications of that for the future, and quite frankly, it scares the shit out of me. Some of the stuff which is coming our way, which a lot of people are not equipped to handle. Firstly, way too complacent about. Secondly, or really just kind of believe that oh well, that's what the government says, so that's the way I should actually do things. I would love to know from you. What are some of the things that you might be concerned about when it comes to privacy, your safety, and your security? Um, put them in the comments for me. Let me know, and maybe let me know that I'm not the only one thinking this, uh, type of stuff. Here's what I know to be true: there has been a systematic creep going on on your liberties for a long time now, and what I have noticed is that systematic creep has been speeding up at a rate of knots. And the whole COVID situation and the COVID scenario was one of the— how do I put it— accelerators of this process. The suppression of people's liberty during that period of time was very, very extreme, something that we really haven't seen before. And on top of that, it brought in these whole other sweeping— a sweep of changes which is going on, including this Uh, increased tracking of people's movements and activities, the move towards the cashless society even faster, the, um, the, the digital identities which are coming at a rate of knots, the ability for you to be able to enter places or not enter places or travel or not travel based on as if you've been a good boy or girl comparing to the government standards associated to this. There has been so much which has been happening, which is honestly— when I say scared the shit out of me, what I mean by that is it means we need to take more notice. We need to kind of step up to the plate, and we need to take more notice, and we need to take more efforts in protecting ourselves moving forward. Because the other implications associated to this, with this increased level of control over people's movements and over people's freedoms, have meant that people's livelihood can be taken away much, much faster. And all we see— I mean, I don't know about you, but let me know— during the whole COVID situation, the number of people that I met who lost their jobs, had their businesses closed down completely, and got financially decimated from that experience was huge. And I also saw it happen, uh, during the global financial crisis as well. Absolutely and utterly decimated. So one of the things that I'm very, very big on is all about helping people create financial sovereignty in their life. And when I think about financial sovereignty, what I really mean by that is that, that no matter what comes your way in the future, that you are good, right? You've got the resources, you've got the structures, you've got the controls, and ultimately you have the choices that you can navigate and increasingly complex and increasingly overbearing environment ecosystem that we live in, that you and your family are good for the future, right? That is what this game is all about. Now, this guide that I'm talking about, I'm going to run you through, uh, today was really created because I wanted to level up my own security, my own sovereignty online, and how I interact in digital life. Like, and that was really was how it was created, right? I decided that, okay, I need to be better in this arena because I saw that, okay, well, there's some stuff that's happening over here that I don't like. And if you sit there and you look at the, the digital identities coming on, the fact they're about to move to a cashless society, and the banks that are pushing the exits on that, on, you know, literally getting rid of cash and moving towards the central bank digital currency, which is being tested as we speak in quite a big way. You know, I've had the privilege to talk to some of the people who are behind some of the areas in Blockchain Australia, right, and who are being consulted upon by the government for the central bank digital currency. And this is coming at a rate of knots, and very soon we're not going to be able to move or interact and do anything financially without every single dollar being tracked. And what this is going to mean is that the government is going to be able to tax people at their whim, they're going to be able to fine people at their whim, they're going to be able to understand where you spend your money and what you spend you spend your money on and, uh, is going to be able to track literally everything, right? That is what is coming our way at this point in time. And I completely agree with you, Teresa. Um, most people have no idea what is happening and they don't know what to do about it because we're not taught anything about it. So, uh, I created this guide, number one, because I wanted to level up my own finance, my own sovereignty, my own privacy, my own safety and security. And I know a lot of the people that come and join me in various spaces, whether you're working with me as one of my private individual clients, whether you work with me as part of my Invest program, or whether you're as part of the Wealth Dojo group, or you just kind of hang around my arena somewhere, shape, or form. I know a lot of people I talk to, a lot of people I meet are very, very sensitive to this type of stuff as well. And you know what? One of the big things that people say to me When they start to work with me, or one of the reasons they begin to work with me, is because they realize that I'm not just about, hey, let's go buy some property. I'm not just about, let's buy a few bits of crypto or something like that, right? To me, it's all about how do you 100% secure your financial future and 100% secure your freedoms on multiple different levels, right? It's something I'm really big on. So after all this said and done, this is where Digital Ninja the Privacy Code, becoming a digital ninja, really did come about right now. Um, uh, so I'm gonna share my screen on this now. If you want to copy this, you're going to see in the, uh, in the copy on this video, this Facebook, or this is streaming in multiple different places at the moment, you're going to see a link there for you to be able to go and join. And you've got to go and check out, um, that you're going to be able to see where you are. I mean, you can start now. Thank you. I appreciate the, um, the, uh, what am I trying to say? The permission. So thank you very much for the permission. Um, so I'm also going to grab a link and just drop it in there again just to make sure you've got that. So let's just pop that in there. So if you want to get a copy of this, you can go in and, uh, download that right now. Now what we're going to do, I'm going to share my screen and we're going to dive into this and we're going to have a bit of a run through this. And I'm going to share with you some of these different sections and some of the things that I was focusing on when I was putting this together. Now, what you are going to see here is— let me see if I can enter that full screen. Okay, okay. So what you're going to see here is, uh, hang on, that's not it. So what you're looking at is where you can go and download this. Now, that wasn't What I want to share— I want to share this. Oh, wrong one. Here we go, that's better. Unable to access screen sharing. Seriously? Of course it would. You gotta wonder how some of it— I— this is seriously— I clearly— someone doesn't want me to share this. It has literally just stopped me from accessing screen sharing to be able to share this. The first time I have ever, ever in my life had that occur. How fascinating. All right, give me a second, team. I'm just going to sort this out. That's bizarre. Okay, that is— they are watching me. Yeah, I know, seriously. Um, so let's try this again. Wow, how interesting. All right, I'm gonna download this from a web page as opposed to a, uh, to a document on, on this. So while I'm waiting for doing this, uh, while I'm just kind of organizing this so you can, um, so we can actually go through this again, I, I didn't hear from a bunch of you guys before. What are you seeing that's happening in the world at the moment where you're sitting there going, "Oh, that really concerns me," and why does it concern you? That's because I'm late. Of course it is. And why does it concern you? So the stuff that's going on in the world right now, why is it concerning you the way it is? Right? What are you seeing, and why is it concerning you? Okay, let's grab this. Dead set, that was really bizarre. Never had that happen before, ever. All right, of course it's just taking a little bit of time to load up. So why is it concerning you? That's what I want to know. Okay, so it actually says it's sharing a window. Team, could you, um, let me know if you can see that or not? Yeah, control, absolutely. That's a big one. And what type of control do you see? That's the question, right? Like, what type of control? Yeah, that's bizarre. That really broke something. Hey, all right, I'm going to start talking through this just while it loads up, um, and, uh, so we can kind of keep moving on. So you're not just kind of— yeah, loss of freedom is a big one. Yeah, so and then as it loads up, I will go and make sure we've got it. Choose whether you want to. Okay. Okay. Wow. All right. That's not not giving me what I want at all. All right. I'm gonna do this. Crazy times. Lack of funds to survive. Live eating concerns around idea theft. Not even able to afford to afford to buy groceries or pay rent. Yeah, the whole like own nothing and be happy. The World Economic Forum side of things is something which is very much on my mind. So let me tell you what I'm going to be going. Through in this as once I finally kind of get the, get the sharing up and going. So, so the 4, the 4 big things I'm gonna be focusing on here is number one, I'm gonna be talking about how do you secure your devices. So I'm gonna be talking about security, I'll be talking about computer security, and I'm gonna be talking about phone security. Okay, one of the next things is all about how do you stay safe online, right? So how do you use a virtual private private network. I'm gonna be talking about how do you choose the right browser and search engine, and how do you level up on your online safety. I'm gonna specifically dive in on using a password manager and encrypted messaging tools. And then under each of these sections, one of the things that I've gone and done is actually created a shortlist of the most, the most highly rated privacy tools in each of these areas. So I've given you the top 6 highest-rated privacy tools when it comes to password managers, messaging tools, virtual private networks, browsers, and a whole lot more. And I've also got a guide in there of how do you actually go and set up a privacy-based phone so you're not being tracked across every single move that you do. Because a lot of people, you would have had the experience when you're talking about something and and your phone's nearby, then all of a sudden you start getting shown ads along the way. Yeah, further cost of living increases. Absolutely. We got losing control but not actually understanding enough to protect ourselves. That's a big one. And financially, um, you know, banks can suspend your bank account so you can't even use your money, right? And a lot of people I meet have actually experienced that as well, that they've actually had their bank accounts frozen. Uh, I know it's definitely happened to me in the past that my bank account has absolutely been frozen, um, and I haven't been able to access anything. And a lot of people have experienced this along the way, like fully get locked out. It's been absolutely crazy. So, um, yeah, the help section did not help me at all. All right, and I'm desperately trying to load it up online, but it's, uh, going super slow. So I'm gonna, um, go through these, uh, bit by bit with you guys just as we're kind of talking about it now. And I'm waiting for this kind of, um, to behave itself and play ball for me. So when it comes to securing your, uh, devices, the first thing you want to be thinking about is, uh, general device security. So when you think about general device security, this is where you're talking about like simple things like get— keep your software updated, using antivirus and anti-malware software, enabling firewall protection, and, um, securing your Wi-Fi network so you're not just kind of being careless about how you use that. And then using a virtual private network and enabling 2-factor authentication. Now, I was talking to a bunch of my private clients the other day, and when people talk about 2-factor authentication, one of the things that they think about mostly is, well, I would just use Google Authenticator. But you know what, like, that's still controlled by Google, and I still have some concerns associated to that. So Google's business is based on, you know, effectively, uh, grabbing your data and then using that as— and selling it as marketing tools. It's how one of their businesses primarily is actually, um, generating how they monetize what they do. So whenever you start to understand, well, how do they actually monetize, then you can actually start thinking about, well, maybe there's something behind that that I don't feel so bloody crash hot about, right? And, um, that's when you can start asking some different questions. Now, so I was talking to, um, my crew the other day all around, uh, some different ways you can do this because I have a privacy-based phone. So it was set up by, uh, someone who is a true digital ninja and there is no tracking, there's no anything. Like, it's just full just Fully set up, and so one of the things we were talking about is how you can find alternatives that do the exact same thing. So one of the alternatives that I that I've got on here as a Google two-factor authenticator is something called Aegis A E G I S, and it does the exact same thing as a as Google authenticator, but it's open source software. So rather than it being owned by a company like Google, for example, it is something which is truly completely separate and completely different. And so that is one of the things that we can kind of talk about as we're going through this. Now I might have it— here we go, I've got it. This will make it easier. All right, with any luck this is gonna— oh wow, it's not even letting me share my screen anymore. This is creepy as heck. Okay, and you'll try to load it up on Chrome. All right, let's try this. Okay, move tab to another window. Let's do that, and we should hopefully Be good to go. All right, let me know if you can see that. If you've got it, if you can see it, say scene. And we're just gonna have to go through it this way. This— that was so bizarre. Seriously, I've never experienced anything like it. So, um, here's how I've laid this out. Now, I'm not going to go through this in exhaustive detail because I have laid this out in exhaustive detail so you actually just kind of go through it and run it yourself. Now, one of the things that I've actually done down the bottom for you is to give you a shortlist, a cheat list that you can actually go and use, right? That's one of the things I've put down the bottom for you. Now, as you'll see here, I've got a whole section around, you know, general device security. I've got an element around computer security. I've got an element around phone security. And Around your devices. I then jumped into how you focus on staying safe online. Now, one of which is using a virtual private network. Who uses a VPN, by the way? Does anyone use a VPN? You do? Which VPN are you currently using? So those who don't know what a VPN is, it's a virtual private network. And as it says here, it's the technology that creates a secure and encrypted connection over the internet. Allowing users to access the internet as if they're connected to a private network. Yeah, so you could use it for free TV as an example. Now let me try and make this a bit bigger. So some people are on their phone and they may not be able to see it so well. Let me just try and make this a little bit bigger for you guys as I go through this. Hopefully that's a little bit easier to see. I wish I could get my my ugly mug out of the way, but I can't. So hopefully that's easy to see. So, uh, now there's lots of different types of virtual networks you can use. So rather than like just going out and, um, uh, you know, connecting to public Wi-Fi or things like that, or even on your phone when you're just generally browsing, right, just using the normal kind of 5G, uh, type of network or 4G or whatever it is, this actually sets up a private encrypted connection over the internet. So all of your data and all the things that you're doing cannot be Um, well, it's much harder to be tracked or much harder to be seen. Basically, it establishes a private encrypted tunnel between the user's device and a server operated by the VPN server. All data transmitted between the user device VPN is, is encrypted, ensuring that third parties such as hackers or government entities cannot easily intercept or access the information, right? Super powerful thing to be able to use. I've then got other reasons why you might go and use it, okay? So privacy protection, enhanced security, Bypass geo-restrictions. So for example, if you're trying to do business in a different area and you need to access something, you can actually set up a VPN which looks like you're operating from a different part of the world, right? So some of my VPNs will very often look like I'm— for different reasons, I might be operating from the US, or I might be operating from Singapore, or some different areas, right? Um, secure remote access, avoiding censorship. Protection on public Wi-Fi and protect prevent tracking along the way. Now one of the things that I did, and I'm going to show you another thing if it's going to allow me to. One of the things that I did is that I went nerding on this in a big way, and I went to find all the different. No, it's not going to let me. Oh well, we're just going to keep doing this. Um, I went to find all the different— uh, has anyone had a look online where they found, oh, here's the top 5 different hairstyles to have for 2024, or here's the top 5, you know, webcams to buy, here's the top 15 places to go to dinner, or things like that, right? Like, there's so many of these, these different sites out there. And so I went to find those in terms of the privacy-based tools. And so I went to town in actually going through each and every one of these. And so I found it for VPNs, I found it for password apps, and I went through around— yeah, review things. Yeah, I went through the top, you know, 20 of the top 10 to 5 to 10 to 15 to 20 of these for each and every one of these. I correlated all the data, so I would actually find all the top of the tops and the ones that were, were mentioned in all these different type of arenas and which were mentioned most. And I ranked them from 1 to 6 out of probably around on average about 30 different options, right, on each of these different things. And so I can tell you the list you find below is based on how many times they appeared in the list, their rankings how many times they appeared in the top 5 of these rankings. And here's what I found. Out of the VPNs, there were 6 which appeared more than others and 2 standouts, right? So NordVPN, ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Surfshark, IPVanish, and ProtonVPN. Out of the top, um, out of all the different ones that I looked at, NordVPN and ExpressVPN were the top ones. I personally use Nord when I do this. Um, so, uh, and so I've given all these different, different individual lists for you, right? I've done the same with choosing a browser and a search engine and all the reasons why you should focus on doing that. And so which then, um, ranked highest for privacy? Maybe you didn't know, but there are actually 23 different browsers, right? 23 different browsers. Most people just think about maybe Chrome, maybe Safari, and maybe a Brave browser or, or, or a Mozilla Firefox. And for a lot of people, that's about it. Now, there are 3 big standouts when it came to privacy-based, um, elements. One was Brave browser, Tor browser, and Firefox. Now, Tor browser was certainly, um, considered to be the most private, but it is also much more difficult to kind of use, right? Brave browser was definitely the standout associated to usability, but also so ease of use, but also privacy. Okay, now what you'll, uh, notice down here, um, so Tor is considered to be one of the most private, however it's far more complex to use, right? And you can put yourself at risk safety-wise with hackers when routing traffic in what's called an onion network. Okay, so if you don't know what you're doing then you're not willing to learn what to do, then maybe steer clear of that one because you can put yourself at risk of certain ways. Now, if you had a look at Safari versus Chrome and you had a look at the big 2, then Safari actually took the mantle between the 2 as the better option for mainstream browsers simply because it's not owned by Google, whose business is in data collection and storage. And Apple have taken active and public steps to help you protect your data and to stop tracking software. Much to the disdain of Google, of course. Apple is probably still capturing everything, to be quite frank, but at least it's held within their own data systems. But frankly, you can't win them all. Okay, now if you still want to use some of those big— the 2 big ones— then you want to increase your privacy and security, then consider adding a plugin like Ghostery, which blocks tracking software add-ons on your browsers. And there's others that I've created a bit of a link here that you can go and find them. Now, uh, that link actually doesn't look like it's, um, connected. I'll get the team to go and have a look at that. So you can also choose a default privacy-based search engine such as DuckDuckGo, which has more plugins and apps for both Google Chrome and Apple Safari. So there's a few different things that you can do. So rather than— when you look at this now, some of you will be completely nerd and go, Todd, I'm going full ninja, thank you for this, I'm going to do everything right. And some of you will go even further than what I've done, and some of you might even be more ninja than what I've done so far. And by the way, if you've got any other ninja tips as I've gone through this, make sure you put them in the comments so people can come and see it. Now, um, but, uh, there are some others that, that I may not even know of that may not even be here, right? But there was like— there's quite a, a big area. Now, how do you level up your online safety? Um, here's a few ways you can look at doing it and how you can go focus on it. And I've put this into a usable checklist for you as well. Um, so I've— and also a checklist as you do, uh, regularly. So what you may actually do is that you might decide that every 2 months you do a full clean of your system, and there's a checklist for you to go do here. So you schedule in your, um, in your calendar a digital cleanse, and you actually come along and you just go through and you clear your browser, clear your cookies, clear your cache, And do all these different type of things that I've got over here on this checklist for you. So you're regularly just doing a bit of a clean, so you're not clogging up your system with so much stuff. Now when we talk about a password manager, you can store a lot more than just passwords in here. It's really, really useful to be able to use. So once again, the— I went and did got through the list. The top six was one password, NordPass. Dashlane, Bitwarden, Keeper, and RoboForm. So what you might actually find is that there's some, some, um, uh, companies like Nord who have a whole lot of different stuff, like including password managers, including VPNs, and different things that you're actually able to use. And so you might be able to go to one system, for example, and one company, for example, and find a whole lot of things because their whole business is all about keeping you safe. So, uh, personally I use 1Password. Um, I'm exploring NordPass right now is what I'm having a look at at the moment. Uh, but that's what I'm using now. Encrypted communication tools, there was definitely some, uh, clear standouts associated to this. Now, uh, lots of different things you can look at. The clear standout for a long shot was Signal. Okay, number 2 was Telegram, number 3 was WhatsApp, number 4 was Threema, number 5 was Wire. Now, funny that WhatsApp is there, and this is where you've got to be careful of these lists right now. In a bunch of these lists, there was Facebook Messenger was actually in the list as the privacy-based tools. Now, um, you and I both know that's a load of nonsense straight off the bat, as if about as if anything in Facebook is Private. So in a lot of these lists, I actually found things like Facebook Messenger in there and stuff like that, and I automatically went, what a load of crap, that is not true in any way, shape, or form. But you know what, if I was putting together a list of what I found online, Facebook Messenger was actually in there. It was listed many times when it was absolute nonsense. I decided to ignore it completely. Now, a couple of things you have to ask the questions around. A second place was Telegram. Now, according to the numbers, this was in fact the next best option. However, unfortunately, there are a few flaws— flaws, F-L-A-W-S, that should be— in the fact the encryption setting is not default and you have to turn it on yourself. So if you're going to download Telegram to use, yes, it was actually well placed in terms of the privacy, But the encryption setting is not on default, so you have to go and turn it on. So more importantly, the encryption protocol is not open source, meaning the code cannot be verified. So no one except for the internal Telegram coders really know how secure it actually is. So you've got to be super careful about that. So based on that, I would choose not to actually use it right now. The third place is WhatsApp, only the most popular messaging app in the world. The first you have to ask is Who owns WhatsApp? Answer: Meta, aka Facebook. Major red flag when its parent company makes money from collecting data. I then did a bit of further digging around this and discovered an updated, um, 2021 policy which reads: WhatsApp receives information from and shares information with the other Facebook companies. We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them to help operate. What, what the hell does that say? Like, they will receive the information, they can use it any way they want, and they updated the terms and conditions and the policy, which they reserve the right to be able to do. So unless you're reading these, which no one does, let's face it, then you don't even realize that they're actually feeding data back to Facebook. Therefore, users must agree that Facebook can share their data with advertisers. Business conversations hosted with the social network might be readable and used by companies. Companies to target consumers. In addition to Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users' encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty. Reports also suggest governments can easily access encrypted WhatsApp data through WhatsApp Web. This was from restoreprivacy.com, and, uh, there should have been a link there, but I'll get that updated. Um, so, so when you've downloaded this, you may go back and re-download it, by the way, because I'm going to get the team in about a week Because I'm going to get the team to update this. I'm not sure why it's not there, um, unless maybe it's just on— it's not allowing me to do it because it's this web-based version. Let me just check that, um, make sure these links are all working okay for you. All right, let's have a look. No, they're not linked. I'll get the team to upload those, team, and apologies about that. Um, but this was— I found this to be a really cool site, by the way. This is restoreprivacy.com. Now, um, the final 2, Threema and Wire, seem more legit. However, Signal was a standout, so like everybody recommended this. So I don't know why you'd go to something else, like, unless you know something that I don't know. Privacy email was a similar type of scenario. ProtonMail was the clear standout, there's no doubt about it. And they ranked number 1 out of the 15 sites explored a total of 14 times. Okay, so I looked at 15 different sites comparing all these, and ProtonMail came up as number 1 for all of these, right? So, um, certainly what I use, and that what most people tend to use. So that ProtonMail would be. Now, what I've then gone and provided here is a short list of these. Now, by the way, who's liking this so far? Is anyone? Is anyone liking this? Is this useful? Is this a useful tool? So I've then created a bit of a consolidated list for you here: the virtual private network, the secure browser to use, the password management, encrypted messaging tools, and the private email. Okay, so these are the the you know. 2, 4, 5 different tools that you could begin using straight away to start leveling up your digital safety. Now, what I've also done is given you a Digital Ninja checklist. What this simply means is that you can just go through here and you can just use as a checklist. So you're going to schedule your digital cleanse and you're going to go through here and you're going to start ticking these off one at a time and one at a time and go and check all these to make sure that you're going to be safe along the way as you're I'm going through, um, you know, doing everything in, uh, in the digital world. And then finally, what I've done for those of you who really want to nerd out a bit, I've set up this thing called a privacy base. I've given you the instructions how to set up a privacy base phone. So there are some different operating systems that you can go and choose. Like, you can go get like an old phone or an old Android phone or whatever it is and just completely wipe it and start going and downloading these different operating systems and and use some different, um, operate open source operating systems associated to it, right, with a lot of privacy-focused considerations. So those of you that want to be able to go and, uh, you know, really nerd out on this, um, all the instructions are literally here, right, for you to be able to do this. So select compatible device, check for hardware kill switches, here's the operating system that you should use, here's the app selection, right, here's how you can go and get it. Like Like it just gives you all the instructions on how to do it step by step, right? Um, so, uh, there's a bunch for you to be able to use, and there's a bunch for you to be able to kind of, um, check off as you're going about using that. So out of that, uh, what was the most interesting or useful for you out of that brief conversation where I'm really just kind of running through this with you guys? To show you what I've created and give you guys a bit of a gift to help you stay more ninja online. What was the most interesting or most useful out of that? And importantly, what are you going to do? What are you going to start with? What how what are you going to do first and foremost just to level up a little bit around your tools? Now there's a lot put down in the comments for me, but so I want you to be clear. There's a lot more that you can do in other areas of your life to be able to go and set yourself up to be more ninja in life. Right? And you know, one of the things I talked a lot of my students about is keeping yourself safe in terms of your structures and how you set yourself up. And do you consider like in the system structuring and out of the system, like public versus private structuring and onshore and offshore structuring and you know different ways to kind of set up your portfolio so that you're safe and that you your what your business has kept your business and keeping out of the eyes of you know, the governments and tax offices and all those different type of things. Because you got to understand that wealth building is not just about buying assets. If that's all you're thinking about, or that's all you've been taught— oh, well, how do I go out and buy a property— then you're missing literally the majority of the game. Your wealth building and your strategy should be going way over and above just buying a property or buying some shares or buying some crypto, because that's where your true financial safety and security and sovereignty is going to be in the future. So, um, I'm a big believer in you creating financial sovereignty in your life so you're in control of your financial future once and for all. It's not going to be controlled by anyone. No government, no person, no nothing is going to be, uh, controlling your movements and tracking you from the ends of the earth. And, uh, I hope this guide is the start of that for you. Now, if you want some more help with this type of stuff, to be able to create financial sovereignty for yourself, which means In terms of too easy, thank you, appreciate you. In terms of setting up your portfolio, investing strategically, getting yourself safer, like structuring in a more ninja type of way so you're safer, reducing your inefficiencies, reducing your tax around a big way, and just setting yourself up for the future that no matter what comes your way, no matter what stupid shit the government does next, no matter what control mechanisms they put in place. That you're going to be safe, right? If you want some help with that, then, uh, comment in— put a comment in there, invest, and my team will reach out to you and we can talk to you about some ways we might be able to help you do that. So if you want some support becoming more financially sovereign, financially secure, type in the word invest into the comments and my team will reach out to you and book in a free conversation with one of my team to talk about, um, how we might be able to help you be able do that, right? Um, so other than that, hope it's been super useful, team. Uh, but guys, I just can't— I can't stress this enough, and I know I keep saying goodbye, and then— but I can't stress this enough. You've got to be really careful what's coming, coming along, right? Um, you notice that the, the World Health Organization, World Economic Forum, and all that type of stuff they're talking about putting together based on Disease X, right? So before the next global pandemic, when it comes along, how the governments in a united way are going to, uh, respond to that, right? Just follow the breadcrumbs. That means there will be one coming. Notice the digital bank currencies that are coming along, um, central bank digital currencies which are happening, and they're going to be here within a few years. Notice that the, um, the director's ID Notice the digital identities. Notice the start of the social credit scoring system. Notice the, um, the fact that most everyday people can't afford to buy their own home anymore, and that's not going to be getting any better despite the fact that Australia has infinite levels of land. But, uh, in a government which will not release the land that's needed to increase the supply to make it more affordable, just notice what's going on and then ask yourself, how safe do you feel? Right? And if the answer is you don't, then A, I'm not surprised, and B, quite frankly, you are being smart in what you're focusing on, right? And I think it's really, really important. So team, hope this has been useful. Go and enjoy the rest of your Friday evening and enjoy your weekend. And I look forward to chatting to you guys soon. And if you guys want any help, let me know. Type in the word invest and my team will reach out and let's have some conversations. Other than that, Much love. Gonna enjoy your weekend. Thanks, everyone.










