How a Childhood Trauma Survivor Found His Purpose

We're leaving footprints in the sand, right? And that's the legacy, but those footprints get washed away. The legacies that get left are the ones that actually have value and a meaning. Your life has value. Absolutely. Any way you look at it. Don't compare yourself to others. You've heard that a million times. Absolutely, yeah. There's a reason for that. There's a reason for that. And guess what? If you be you and you be authentic, people will gravitate towards that energy. John Crotech is a resilient, purpose-driven and visionary entrepreneur and the founder of Neo-Masculinity Solutions. Drawing from his journey of healing and military service, he helps individuals reclaim their personal truth and master self-leadership, creating a lasting legacy of emotional resilience, clarity, and fearless authenticity. Be your person. That's what it's all about. I think that's what this journey is all about. It's about helping each other, loving on each other, and being authentic, and being okay with I am me. Oh, that is sensational! Open. Chicago with the lead. You said Paul is the fastest man on the planet. You can live your dream. Welcome back to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast. For Insight Success, I am Ray Gutierrez. Fresh off his taping of his filming of his Legacy Maker's episode, joining me today is John Crotech, an army veteran, entrepreneur, writer, and founder of Neo-Masculinity.Solutions. Brother. Oh, man. You make me sound like the most famous person in the world. You are! Oh, thank you for that. You know, but before we get started, I just want to let the listeners and the viewers know you have got to visit this small studio. There's so much good vibe going on in here. It's incredible. And this is a great place to decompress. Thanks, John. But you all have made everything really nice here. No, man, I appreciate that, brother. Happy Tuesday to you. It's Tuesday, right? It is. Yeah, it is. Time is flying. I'm glad that you are in such a dissension. This is what this is about to capture the moment of your power. You just finished filming your episode for Legacy Makers. John, what are we going to learn about you? You know, authenticity is everything. And you know what? The professionals that you all have working here bring that out. And we go through our lives wondering, who are we? And why are we here? You know, all those same questions that people ask forever. And you've done this before. So you have a way of drawing that out. And when somebody leaves the studio, I can assure you they're going to feel authentic and they're going to feel welcome and they're going to feel like they've been cared about. So that's cool. Gosh, man, thank you so much for that affirmation. I think we're nearing our anniversary, our first year as Insight Success. And the story started in that corner in that studio and I made sure when I spoke to Rudy, every cable, every angle, everything needs to be a certain way because folks like yourself that see reality in two ways. What's in front of our eyeball is the 10 percent. And then there's the other 90 percent that folks don't recognize. I'm chasing the 90 percent. The way everything is at. So when you walk into a room, into a production, you feel it. You're just that easy. And all you want to do is like, where's the camera? Let's do this. That's kind of the aura that we've designed here. Well, you've created it. Let me tell you something. And this is no nonsense. I'm old school, right? And I'm used to shaking somebody's hand and telling them that we're going to do that. And then it doesn't get done. But in the digital space today, companies like yours are so badly needed and I say to restore the faith. And I'll tell you what I mean, because everybody build a website and they will come. That's not true. No, anymore. There's so much more to building a personal brand and sharing your story with others. And this puts faith back into that. So it's a one year anniversary. I can probably visit you again on the 10th year anniversary. Wow. Because you're going to it's brilliant. I can't wait to see what you look like in 10 years, my friend. Well, you know, I'm hope I'm still around. Oh, you did well, my friend. Let's talk about this neo masculinity. What is this about and sign me up? Okay, well, if you great question, but if you go if you go online and you look up neo masculinity and basically what it says is that you have for man to be masculine, he has to accept changing social norms. Oh, yeah. Well, we're all about changing all this. But what happens if the social norm is not based on facts or the truth? What happens if it's an ideology that you don't necessarily support? So you're telling me that I in order for me to be a masculine man that I have to accept something that's not true. Yeah, I know. So immediately you get disempowered and a disempowered man is an angry man. Yep. He's an inauthentic man. So what do we do? Neo masculinity. Dot solutions. Emphasis dot solutions. Dot solutions. Correct. So here we are, we are creating tools and processes and curricula to reignite human intuition. Yes, sir. Critical thinking. Oh, what is that? Right. Logic and reason and common sense. Yep. So a man's primary role is to protect his loved ones. We did the research. That's it. That's his primary role in life. Protect his family from threats. Yep. It could be the same for a woman too. For sure. So we're not talking about anything other than roles here. Right. And so that's what we've done. So we're creating this curricula. We've got some really cool things coming online in the next six months. We have a rock solid professional team of men and women helping us to build this company. Yep. And being with legacy makers is like a dream come true because that's how the universe works. It brings authenticity to authenticity. Yes, sir. And this is a real value. I can feel it. How can you walk into your studio and not feel value? Right on board. Or feel like you want me here? Oh, I definitely want you here. And I'm just eager to learn more about you. We here collectively, we are all energy based. We recognize the, let's say, all of your senses. So to feel this energy from you is amazing. Where do you think you land? Five years ago, being a man was Andrew Tate. It was very, it was very lead with fire. And a lot of folks didn't quite understand why is, why is this character that's speaking this way so misogynistic, so grotesque, so binary is getting all these clicks, all this attention. And I want to go ahead and tell you because men are afraid to be men. And then when you kind of define what is a man, doesn't it play sports, doesn't kick everyone's ass and punch the door in and put some men are like that. But absolutely necessary. That's why we have operation CEO. We've got Marines. We've got trained killers. But then the intuition isn't getting a lot of love. The frequencies are out of tune. You, you are about tuning things up, getting men aligned into their frequency, into their higher power. We've evolved the red pill into now something much greater. Talk about that evolution. Well, thank you for that question. You know, that my masculinity was violated when I was very young. And so I had questions of masculinity in the third grade when a young man, young boy shouldn't have those questions. Right. But what I've learned in my journey and you'll find out as time goes by, but does time really exist? But we'll figure it out, right? So I, a man and you doesn't have to be violent to be a man. And violence is to me, quite honestly, the last emotion. A man will go to the ends of the earth not to be violent, protect his loved ones. Watch Fight Club. Right. Exactly. You know, but we're all, we're all capable of violence. It takes a stronger person. The mental maturity. Right. To not be violent. And the whole thing with disempowering men, there's a reason for that. Oh yeah. If you take a man off his game, what do you do? You divide his family. You take him off his purpose. And we said earlier, a man off his purpose isn't an angry, violent man. And so I was talking to somebody earlier, one of your professionals here about the bracelet. She asked me about it. And I said, well, there's some men that wouldn't wear it. They wouldn't wear a bracelet. Oh, that's not a manly thing. But the reality is man, woman, it's who we are. Oh yeah. It doesn't have to be some construct. You know, and what it does is it comes from your heart. It comes from that authenticity. And check out these socks. That is as authentic as it freaking gets. And that's what raises the energy. Yep. And you talked about frequencies. Yep. I don't know how they did it, but they'd been able to monitor frequencies, right? You got these lower frequencies of hate and anger and, you know, all the things that you shouldn't be doing that you don't need to do. And then you got all this higher consciousness, love, honesty, real virtues, not just signaling. And then there's a right in the middle. There's this emotion called courage. And if people took a moment to breathe and to be really courageous, it's not courageous to tell somebody you hate them. That's like low vibration. Yes, sir. Find the courage to change. Find the courage to be yourself and be grateful and proud of who you are. That's a tough place for a lot of people to get to. Yes, sir. And what's cool is, is you talked about energy, right? So I don't know. But I was on a spirit molecule journey once in my healing journey. See that one more time? A spirit? What? Yeah, yeah, plant medicine. Hell yeah. But see the way you said it before, because that was sexy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was in a spirit molecule journey. Hell yeah. That's awesome. All in a laboratory, right? But what I learned in those journeys, it was part of the healing process because the proverbial drugs weren't working. I was suicidal on those, trying to deal with the demon of childhood assault, right? And what I saw in those three times that I journeyed in the DMT world was different dimensions. Now look at me. Do I look like a crazy guy? Not at all. I was on a spaceship. I was in places that I never dreamed of. And one of those journeys, a demon was in my face and you'd say, oh, he's just doing drugs. No. DMT is produced in the human body. The God of the future. When a woman gives birth, it's in this little gland in the middle of your brain, right? Or when you die, the human body. So I've been there. There's other dimensions. This isn't everything that you see, but the dimension that legacy makers has created is real. Oh yeah. I love how that was quite the segue, my friend. No, no, no. We've got from DMT to legacy makers. What about, think about that. There's a bridge there. Oh, absolutely. And it's all authenticity. Absolutely. Plant medicine. So we talked about this. Oh yeah. You know, when you're violated and we all have been through traumas, what's it? 70% of people have been through traumas in their lives. Oh, sure. Yeah. And 40% have been through multiple traumas. Our souls get separated from our physical being and they spend a lifetime. We spend a lifetime trying to get it back. And all those plant medicines do is help us on that journey. There was a reason shamans used to be respected. Oh, for sure. Yeah. They still are. Yeah. With inserted circles. I probably digress too much. No, no, you're right. But what I wanted to get back to was the authenticity of it all. And in an earlier conversation I had with somebody, that's what makes the world go around. Sure. Quite the cliche. Yeah. But they're flat earther. Yeah. Okay. But the reality is this, and I totally believe this, is that everything is love based. Yep. And it's not the creepy kind of love. Sure, sure. It's the natural love that permeates from somewhere deep in our being. It's universal. Why is there so much hate? Why is there so much anger and vitriol? Why is there so much division? It's yin and yang. You got to have a balance. You got to have a balance. But imagine a world that's balanced with love. Imagine that world. For sure. So that's what we're doing. We're creating tools to help people find themselves really. But really to protect their families and their loved ones from the threats that are being caused by unreliable information. So what do you tell to someone like myself that is a 42 year old man without children and is held on to this unreliable information, well, has held on to this truth that I do not want to create my legacy into this unreliable reality until I fix it. What do you tell men like me? Where do I find my purpose? My purpose is to procreate, to create love, but my love is different. My love is into my children. My love is through my work, through the energy, through the conversations that I have. What do you tell to men like me? Are we lost or are we on a different divine path? Sir. Well, first of all, you're not lost. You're not unlike probably quite a few men like that out there. Everybody's on a different journey. And this is why I like legacy makers. Simply the name. Because we're all, and I explain this one time, we're leaving footprints in the sand. And that's the legacy, but those footprints get washed away. The legacies that get left are the ones that actually have value and a meaning. Your life has value. Absolutely. Any way you look at it, don't compare yourself to others. You've heard that a million times. Absolutely, yeah. There's a reason for that. There's a reason for that. And guess what? If you be you and you be authentic, people will gravitate towards that energy. Yes, sir. That's why I'm not just joking that this studio, there's an energy in here. That's really authentic and really cool and honest. And anytime we can have honesty in a conversation, anytime you can make your people that you're interviewing relax like this. That's 99% of the battle because it's all about trust. And how often do we go through life? People tell us something, they do something and we don't trust them. Without that trust, without your primary purpose in life, I'm not even here. We're not here. You're not here. So, you know, there's nothing wrong with you and you're not alone. Do what you have to do to be you and be integral about it. And we talked about this. Look in the mirror. When you get done today, go, there's a mirror over there. Look in the mirror and say to yourself, I love you, man. I love you, man. You know that commercial? You're not getting my Budweiser. No, but that was a commercial. But that's, but so many guys are uncomfortable. Oh yeah. No, 100%. I wish my dad, God bless him, he's gone now, but I wish my dad, he was tough, man. Oh yeah. I was, you know, I was raised between love and corporal punishment somewhere. If my dad had told me more, he'd loved me. That I could have gotten over some pitfalls very quickly, but you have to find the love inside yourself first. For sure. For sure. Love who you are. Don't listen to what the naysayers say. Stop going through all that ridiculous propaganda or go through it. Analyze it. Educate it from an educated point of view. Use the higher ground if you want to. Use your human intuition. It's something that we don't use anymore. We don't use our intuition. Yes, sir. If the hairs on the back of your neck go up and somebody tells you something and you know it's just flat out wrong, you don't have to believe it. Sure. Be your person. That's what it's all about. I think that's what this journey is all about. It's about helping each other, loving on each other, and being authentic and being okay with I am me. We're working on a company. You might hear about it later on because you'll probably help us do some work with it. But it's called Task Force Zen. And I'm kind of proud of this because in the logo, we use some special air service wings from the British special, but on a cracked heart that's been stitched up. And in the stitches with the logo, it says, I am. It's a global holistic healing project with commerce and education involved. And we're going to teach people all about these different modalities that can help them lead better lives. Really excited about that. But we're also very super excited to be working with you all on Neomastical Unity.solutions. Because you're helping us to put some final pieces into place. And we know that to work with professionals is what it's all about. Special professionals that understand what's really happening, reading between the lines and understanding we're releasing this frequency, this energy into the war. It's really a sonar. And we're expecting it to bounce. It's totally working in here. The fifth dimension, we want to have that in this podcast. No, we could. Fifth dimension. Yes. There's more dimensions than that. Yes. Apparently, 11. That's a different 11th podcast. But I do want to talk about this DMT experience. A couple of years ago, I was purvy to two, and I have yet to try it, but I am eager to try it. And I'm surrounding myself with folks that are now intravenously doing the DMT experience and they've expanded the 15 minute moment into an hour or two. So point where... That's kind of interesting. I don't know if I want to be there for that long. But that's the thing. We are entering into a world where folks are plugging in and plugging out and returning to realities, internal dimensions, starting to map it. We're entering into that. That's pretty cool. I know. I know. His eyes are like, wait, what? I'm like, oh yeah. And it's happening off a resort, a collective few. We're escaping to this island and plugging in and going, all right, let's start mapping. What is in that fifth dimension that is speaking to the third? I'm a person that believes, are you in your antagonist role? You're a protagonist. Are you walking forward? Are you walking backwards? Am I the hero in your story or the villain? I can even take even further. What we're saying to each other, these words are just noises, constructs, and you are in our communication. That's all we're doing. That's all we're doing. We're not alone in this room. I mean, Lawrence here, but we're not alone. Lawrence right over there as well. Hey girl, what you doing up? But we, you know what? You talk about fifth dimension and from what I understand quantum theory and all of the things that are higher consciousness type conversation, there's like 22 dimensions. 22. And this is the latest number. One of my friends, one of my mentors is actually an engineer and he believes that everything is consciousness. Every single thing that happens on this planet is that. We call it life. You know, we call it, yeah, that's a simple way of putting it. But you know what? But what, here's the thing is fear. So we developed a sitting, having lunch in Sarasota several years ago with a really freaking awesome intelligent woman overweighed a little bit, but she was working on a program to help kids with overeating, right? And we started thinking about humans as galaxies. Yep. I didn't share this before. First time ever right here on this show. We started talking about, are we classified people as being galaxies? And most people are black hole galaxies. Their energies inside, they wallow in the mire of guilt, shame, blame, and they spin throughout their whole lives sucking in people's energy. And it's just not healthy, but there's a lot of black hole people out there. All it takes when you're talking about frequencies is courage to step outside of yourself and to take a look. And when that break off point happens, you start to become, look up spiral galaxy on Google and you'll see what it looks like. They start to spin. A spiral galaxy spins. They're beautiful. They're a ball of energy and they have these arms and spiral. They start to meet each other. It's really cool. And then spiral galaxy people are intersecting with each other. Yes, sir. They're sharing ideas. They're trading stuff. They're spinning. It's a universe. They're talking through their eyes. They'll even open their mind. It's freaking incredible. But the last, and then when they finally reached that fifth dimension, they get into what I call a contributory galaxy person. A contributory galaxy. Not even in the... We're making it up. It's fucking awesome. But it's contributory galaxy. A contributory galaxy person is you. Hell yeah. A creator. It's Lauren. Fundamental creators, man. Yeah, dude. It's fundamental creators and we're giving back. And the world in general despises fundamental creators. We're pushing the needle forward. Think about this. What's an algorithm? Algorithm. It's the formula of this technology that can predict what you're going to do and then once you do it, it will feed you something else. There are rules based on computations. There are constructs. You cannot take a human organism and create an algorithm to make him something else. These algorithms, these computations are changing humanity in a negative way. We need you. You. And you. We need her. Lauren. Thank you. And because we need real people to create the love and to create the trust and to propel humankind forward. It's beautiful what you just described. Thank you for that. And only here on this set, that's the first time I've ever shared. That's awesome. The human galaxy theory. No, it's absolutely true. It's absolutely. I always say if you look up, you see all these stars and you look down, you see these tiny microscopic things and you kind of look up and you kind of look down like, this is the exact same thing. Well, no, no, you raise the good points. This is crystals, right? It's all crystals. Oh, yeah. You know, so I got this one crystal that a friend of mine gave me. She was awesome. And it's a really nice polish. Yes, sir. It's a really cool crystal and there's a red spot in it formed millions of years ago. And that red spot, if you were to take a radioisotope, it's iron, right? So it's a really cool crystal with a little iron spot in it. Now you look at the sun, you just mentioned what makes fusion is iron. It's the same if you were to take that crystal and take that iron in the sun, it's the same, right? But even better, we'll take it another step. Take your blood. That's where it goes. It's red. It's the iron that's in your blood. That isn't that kind of crazy. Yeah, yeah. And your blood isn't red in space, by the way. The same iron that's in your blood is in the sun and it's in that crystal. Yes, sir. How can you deny that the universe is not one? Oh, yeah. You cannot deny that. And that's what makes this experience so gratifying and satisfying is that it's iron on steroids. Oh, yeah. So it's the universe on steroids here. That's a beautiful thing after a DMT experience or myself with LSD. You're not quite sure if the experience ever ends. I stepped out of it. I can still manipulate time and reality around me. Did I unlock something? And then you realize, oh, shit, I kind of did. And then you start to meet other folks that have unlocked this superpower. Yeah, yeah. And you know what he says, but it's true. I'll share one experience real quickly. So I didn't know what to expect. I come from old school and I'm not into drugs really, but I've tried a lot of them. So my first journey, we smoked it. It lasted, I don't know, seven, eight, nine, 10 minutes. Who's counting, right? And immediately after inhaling a couple of blasts, right, I was transported into another place and it was dark and there was a corridor. And it sounded like somebody was tapping on metal, like taking a pipe wrench and tapping on metal, but I was obviously not on earth anymore. So I walked down this corridor and I see this light emanating from this room. This is all happening right up here. And I walk into this room and there's these two beings. I kid you not, so in at a table, I believe it, with a screen of the universe, all the stars in the universe and they're manipulating something, but they both turned and they both looked like they expected me. Oh, it's him. And they went back to doing whatever they were doing. So what was cool was there were these plexiglass or glass tubes in that room with red liquid. Looked like blood, but there were high glyphics floating in it. I was on that spaceship. Nice. I was in a different dementia and the feeling that I got was this. It's a big universe. It's massive. And you are not alone. Yeah. And it's huge because you're only operating in this frequency and there's so many other frequencies, all sorts of things that we only can feel and instinctually kind of understand and realize, but we cannot see because our eyes are not designed to see those things. Right. And you know what? I just had cataract surgery. I did. Wow. And this I was acting up last week and it was weird because I actually saw my eye healing itself. Beautiful. I could see the cells. I don't look half-baked, do I? I can see the cells. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. It's a little like. I was fixing my eyeball. I was fixing it. I was telling Lauren, who's another professional here, that last week my eye was shut and look at it now. Yeah. So the universe does work in a miraculous way. Oh, for sure. And you can too. You can come out of the black hole. Right on. And but visit Neomascularity.solutions. Just go there. Look at what we've got. There's a complementary strategy guide where you can change your life right now. This is awesome. Neomascularity.solutions downloaded. It's a PDF. We've got a Sentinel handbook that's really trippy. I love these names. And that we've all got copies for you. But it's in nine languages for eighth graders. And I know that you're beyond that. Oh, no. I don't go beyond fifth grade. Being heath of really good. Can we say that? We totally can. We are podcasting. Yes. But yeah. So there's a lot of interesting things. And all I can say is this. I can say a lot of things. But be open-minded. Shut yourself out from a world out there that's got so many experiences. And I can assure you you haven't experienced everything yet. No. Yeah. Yeah. We're just experiencing life. This is part one. Maybe part three. And two dimensions. Somebody was saying two dimensions and now it's fit. Now there's 22 dimensions. And my my mentor is a combat veteran from Vietnam who has taught me a lot about human interaction. Yes, sir. And I'm just going to put it in the face and coming back from a jungle to a world that hated you for it. And you know, just doing your duty. And you know, we've all got a duty to ourselves. Yes, sir. Be you. I was going to say just to give you that affirmation, wrap it up here. Everything you just described is literally the first meeting you have when you sign to a music label back in the 80s and 90s and the early 2000s when record labels were a thing and you had a hundred guys at a hundred individuals that are at A&R and they're they're scouting, they're hunting. And you hear the phrase a star is born. It is quite literally what that means. It's true. A label was designed to scour and find the stars and you sit with John Ivy in the room and go, this is how the world works. We've discovered you a star is born. We're going to put all these resources into you. We're going to create your music or this or that. Yeah. And all you are is a star. And then you will go through the artist's journey. You'll ascend. You'll create. You'll go around. You will make money. And then we hide you because now we have to protect your energy. You're going to go on tour and you were going to surround you and put you in a green room. We're going to give you the skittles, the television, everything you need to be in this high frequency because when you're in that high frequency, you're performing, you're working because we just spent half a million dollars on your music video. So you're happy. So the other 10,000 people that are working for you are happy as well because a star is born. Now they're called influencers. They're called different podcasts, right? They're called celebrities and there is no more music labels. Shit. There is no more Warner Brothers for God fucking sakes. I know. I know. You know what? No, no, don't go. I'm going to hold you back. No, we're going to wrap it up now. It's funny. So I'll say this to the thank you for listening. Thank you to viewers. Thank you for this opportunity. So go in, get on YouTube, plug it in. You've heard the song before. John Lennon, the Beatles, All You Need Is Love. Think about that for a while. And that's a beautiful thing. Back then you had the Bowies, the Princes, the Jacksons, all of these people that just took that first jump. Led Zeppelin. The Zeppelins. And now you look around and it's like, we're at the artist. John Kugler, Mellon Camp. You know, Bon Jovi. And now we're channeling these energies of all these peoples that influenced us. And now it's our job to be the rising stars, the celebrities, the influencers, all these dumb names. We're just alive. This is John. I'm Ray. That's Lauren. That's Jason. And we are Inside Success.