Laura Sextro is the CEO of The Unity Project which is one of the great connectors in the US and I had the privilege of meeting her at a conference in the US last month. Although they are based in California, the reach of The Unity Project is nationwide. How they have networked and built partnerships should be a roadmap for any organisation that seeks to promote truth and freedom. Their focus has been on uniting efforts and amplifying voices to secure medical freedoms and parental rights. Laura...
Laura Sextro is the CEO of The Unity Project which is one of the great connectors in the US and I had the privilege of meeting her at a conference in the US last month.
Although they are based in California, the reach of The Unity Project is nationwide.
How they have networked and built partnerships should be a roadmap for any organisation that seeks to promote truth and freedom.
Their focus has been on uniting efforts and amplifying voices to secure medical freedoms and parental rights.
Laura joins Hearts of Oak to discuss how The Unity Project has grown and how the issues of medical freedom and parental rights overlap in so many ways.
Through Laura's regular podcasts with focus on legislation, she seeks to educate the public and empower them to make a difference.
Join us this episode and be inspired.
Laura Sextro is the Chief Executive Officer of The Unity Project, including senior roles with purpose-driven organisations that include Bennufit Health, Ambry Genetics and more.
Her diverse experience in multiple industries including healthcare, bioinformatics, data analytics, non profit, real estate and technology has given her the opportunity to experience many different business models. She has been responsible for managing budgets of varying sizes up to $300 million in organisations ranging from small business to Fortune 500.
Laura is an active member of many volunteer organisations, presently working with the American Red Cross amongst others.
She has a background in public speaking as a key note speaker and is a former contributor to the Forbes Business Council.
Laura earnt her bachelors degree in business management from the University of La Verne.
The Unity Project are parents, doctors, first responders, teachers and concerned citizens who have found themselves at a crossroad.
They see their freedoms being stripped away, and can no longer stay silent.
Standing up for the basic human right to raise their own children, earn a living, and make their own medical decisions without the tyrannical overreach that has been forced upon the people in California, across the US and around the world.
The Unity Project amplifies the voices moving the needle, bringing forth truth, and providing education and resources with tangible tools and expert insights.
United in a thundering voice with an imperative mission that cannot, and will not, be ignored.
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Interview recorded 20.3.23
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[0:22] Hello, Hearts of Oak. Thank you for joining us on another interview, coming up with Laura Sextro, CEO of the Unity Project. And I had the privilege of meeting Laura back last month at a conference in Miami. It was actually Dr. Robert Malone connected us, and he is on their board on their advisory team, I think their chief medical counsel, and anyone who has any organization that has Dr. Robert Malone involved in them as well, we're speaking to. So we had a great conversation looking at their, I guess, their focus on medical freedoms and parental rights, how they've grown from being California-based to across the whole country, and how they're one of the great networkers that we so need. We need to connect voices, we need to amplify that, we need people to know they're not alone, and for organizations to know there are others standing shoulder to shoulder with them. And the Unity Project specifically has done this so, so successfully. Not only do they have the podcast, not only have the news items, not only are they focused on legislation, but actually it's that connecting which makes them so important and so vital. So we go into all of that and I know you will enjoy listening to Laura as much as I enjoyed speaking with her.
Laura Sextro, thank you so much for joining us today.
Thank you for having me.
[1:45] Absolutely wonderful to have you and theunityproject.org, there is the website.
You're the CEO of the Unity Project, which we'll get into in a little bit more detail.
And the title for this, which is your tagline, I think, is Uniting Efforts and Amplifying Voices to Secure Our Medical Freedoms and Parental Rights.
And there's a lot just in that line that we will unpack. But all the other links are in the description at unityprojectusa on all the social media links will be there in the description.
I actually watched your interview with, it was Kim Walker-Smith actually at AmericaFest in December, and I was very jealous.
I'd love to have been there, interviewing Kim, but also at the event, I would have loved to have been there.
She's fantastic.
[2:35] She really is. And her story is incredible too, her personal story, which we talked about in that interview.
Do you want to touch on it? Because people obviously can get that on. But yeah, it was her, not only was she leading worship and she's someone who I follow for many years and I've seen actually playing in our church, She Gave Me Jesus Culture, but actually her story of medical freedom, which I think probably connects with a big issue that you faced there in lovely California.
But do you want to just touch on her story?
Yeah. So her story, her personal story was really interesting. And to your point, it really aligns with what we're trying to talk about and to uncover and change, not only in California, but also in the country and really even the global community. And so her children, she chose not to vaccinate her child and her child ended up getting sick and she went through kind of a diagnostic process with her, you know, paediatrician and ended up that she had to take her child to the emergency room.
[3:35] When she went to the emergency room, there was a battery of questions about the child's vaccine status, which was interesting because, you know, the child had come in for a health ailment, not obviously to discuss the vaccine status.
So they got caught in this issue of, is your child vaccinated?
And she of course said, look, I've made the personal decision not to vaccinate my child, which by the way, is a very important right that parents should retain.
We're losing that right. We're very, very close to losing all those rights here in California and even other areas of the United States.
So what ends up happening is she gets put into a room and the nurse and the doctor can hear them talking. And then someone comes in and says to her, you know, we could call child protective services. So they're essentially threatening her because her child is not vaccinated.
And it's unbelievably troubling if you think about this. So now she's being held hostage and she goes through the whole, you know, mental scenario of what she went through, even describing, the fact that she called her husband and said, look, I might go to jail. And what I would love is for your viewers to think about this for a moment. Can you imagine making a choice that you believe is the best for your child's health based on your access to information, your access to a conversation with your medical practitioner.
[4:59] And then having that medical choice, which by the way, is a natural right.
It's not a constitutionally given right here in the United States.
It's an actual, it's a natural right.
[5:08] It is to parent your children, right? So think about being in a scenario where you've made a personal choice about your child's health and now you're being threatened to have your child taken away by a child protective services.
And here in the United States, child protective services has become weaponized against parents that practice medical freedom and that actually are interested in parenting their children without the government interference.
And I also should add that here in the United States, the Child Protective Services is not functioning in the way that it was intended to function, meaning it's not functioning going in where children are potentially being harmed and then taking them and putting them into a safe environment.
There's a lot of investigation going on here in the United States now about CPS.
There have been children that have actually been murdered while under the care of foster parents that children have been placed in through CPS.
So now she's being threatened not only to have her rights taken away as a parent, but she has to think about her... I think her daughter was under the age of two at the time, being taken away and put into an environment where her child could actually be in imminent danger.
[6:22] It was quite shocking.
It was and I watched it and it was shocking.
I want to delve into that a little bit deeper, but if I can just take a step back and you personally, Laura, you've got such a diverse background, experience multiple industries.
What led you to actually to the Unity project? What was that journey?
[6:44] Yeah, so to your point, I definitely do not have a linear background as it relates to my professional career. I started out, I actually was an EMT instructor, which is emergency medical response when I was very young. I engaged in medical missions in South America. And I was an officer in the Marine Corps. I was a pilot. I personally have a heart condition. Actually, I have a couple of different types of heart conditions that I suffer from and I've had a personal journey of how do I get myself back in terms of health.
I can no longer fly in any professional capacity. And...
Can I... What did you fly? I'm a pilot. I love aerospace. So can I just...
What did you fly? Let me ask you that before we jump back in.
Sorry.
Yeah. So I was just a private pilot. Okay.
Yeah. And in the Marine Corps, I had a guaranteed air contract.
And on that journey, you know, I've flown T-34s and several other types of planes.
My goal, quite honestly, was to fly F-18s.
[7:52] Isn't that always everyone's goal, right? And I do have quite a few friends that are still in the military and actively flying.
It seems that the pilot community, it's an interesting comment that you made about the fact that you're a pilot.
I always feel like it seems that the pilot community is one that tends to be in this fight, interestingly enough, and I know that we saw what happened in terms of the mandates in the aviation space, but I have to say that there are more pilots that I come across in this journey, in this particular fight, than not.
I would say it's like 50-50, surprisingly, when I speak to people, they say that they're also a pilot. What did you fly?
[8:33] Oh, well, I wanted to fly, I was looking military or civil, I just fly a PA-28, but 9-11 happened and that was the end of any career in the aerospace industry.
So you pivot and you change.
But I would have loved to flown an F-18, that would have been beautiful.
Wouldn't that be amazing? I mean, right now I think I would go for the F-35 or the F-22, those look like they're pretty fun as well.
I have got a friend who used to instruct on F-22, but.
Oh, no kidding.
That's a whole nother story. But look, I could talk to you about this all day.
Let me bring you back to what led you to the UNI project.
So here I am, I'm going along in my corporate career. I'm no longer in the military.
I'm now an executive at First American CoreLogic.
And from there, I start this kind of journey where how do I pair my medical experience with my professional experience.
I had a passion for the medical field. I had a passion for helping people.
[9:33] And I ended up landing at a company called Ambry Genetics. Interestingly enough, Ambry Genetics was doing a lot of the testing early on for COVID.
Ended up leaving Ambry and I went to another genetic research company.
So at the time that COVID was happening, I actually was pretty heavy in the genetic research space operating in a, you know, executive role in corporate operations and business operations and COVID hits and going along and I'm starting to see, you know, I think it was about a week after COVID hit, you know, we get locked down here in the United States and everyone's glued to their TV. And I start realizing that if, if reality is as mainstream media here in the United States is reporting, I should open my front door and see dead bodies lying all over the street. I mean, it was that dramatic. So it was pretty quick, quickly, you know, in, in the beginning of COVID that I realized something was, was a miss. There was something wasn't reconciling with what was being reported and what reality seemed to be.
And so I had to sit down and really make a decision, how do we want to approach this as a family, personally? And I made the decision early on, it's just always been who I am, to ask a lot of questions.
[11:01] And we started seeing schools, of course, are locking down, our communities are locked down, and then the vaccine happens.
And then we're faced with the choice of, do we inject our self with something that is experimental?
And I wanna be very clear, these vaccines here in the United States are still experimental.
They're still under an emergency use authorization. They are not FDA approved.
Although at this point, I don't necessarily know that FDA approval
[11:27] carries much weight, and we can, I'm sure, dissect that.
So my husband and I said, what are we going to do? Because we're going to get to a point where neither one of us can actually engage in mainstream society.
Our child cannot engage in mainstream society. I knew very early on I was not going to vaccinate my children for this, not until I had a deeper understanding of what this was.
And so the decision was made. Look, we've got to get into this fight.
And so I ended up meeting a group of women that were also very passionate about this.
And because of my corporate background, one of the first things that I said was, listen, we've got to approach this almost like a business development role, where we're looking for and seeking out other organizations that are in this fight, that are doing this type of work, and they're doing it effectively.
And our goal was to become a conduit of communication and collaboration.
So we launched with about 60 groups that were already in this fight.
They were primarily based in California.
At the time, we were pretty myopically focused on the K through 12.
That's really the elementary school through graduation in high school here in the U.S. community, right?
Because we were very concerned about what they were doing to children.
[12:44] And that grew, right? So now we're focused on all parental rights and medical freedom.
We have over 200 organizations across the globe that are partnered with the Unity Project.
And as I said, working together in a collaborative way.
And they range from parents groups to more organized groups.
We work with vaccine injured, we work with firefighters, we work with medical professionals.
So we really run the gamut of people that are concerned about what's happening in this country and in the global community as it relates to parental rights and medical freedom.
And I should say that, you know, parental rights and medical freedom, there's an intersection
[13:24] point there that a lot of people don't realize.
And so we've branched out now and we're talking about everything from radical gender ideology and what's happening to, you know, critical race theory.
One of our newest board members is Curtis Hill. Curtis is a former attorney general for the state of Indiana, and he's a black man, and he is particularly passionate about stopping critical race theory in the schools and in corporate America.
Well, let me pick up on that networking, because I think Unity Project not only unites organizations and initiatives, but shines spotlight on bills, legislations, let me touch on that.
But with the networking, I think over the last three years, we've seen a collapse of any norms left and right.
And it's very different collaborations that have appeared and we've needed new connectors.
I think Unity Project is one of those key connectors. I mean, tell us about that because often organizations will be busy doing what they're doing, but I'm always intrigued with organizations that focus so heavily on that networking and collaboration which is essential.
[14:33] It's critical. I mean, I always say you can't be a party of one in this and move the needle forward.
We have to come together as a movement, as a people, as various organizations, and make sure that we are working in lockstep.
It's certainly not without challenges. And to your point, everyone has their particular passion, right?
Whether it's, I'll say REACT 19, I don't know if you know Brie Dressen. She runs REACT 19.
I'd be happy to connect you. She's phenomenal.
And she sadly is someone who is severely vaccine injured. She is one of the first people that engaged in the AstraZeneca trial.
She runs REACT 19, which is a group of thousands of people that are vaccine injured that have come together.
They're doing incredible work.
And it's very important that their message get out there, and that we are able to connect them with other organizations.
We work with attorneys groups that are doing incredible work.
They're at the tip of the spear here in the United States from a legal standpoint.
[15:42] Litigating cases that have to do with parental rights and medical freedom.
And so it's been a very interesting journey, but what we found is that, whether you're focused on the legal aspect or you're focused on the vaccine injury aspect or you're focused maybe on the mandates as it relates to children, there's always an intersection point.
And it's actually been a really inspiring journey that we've had over the last year and a half as we work with these groups and connect them.
It's been exciting to watch how if we make a connection point with another group, then all of a sudden a strategy starts to form and we're working then with multiple organizations putting together joint calls to action.
[16:29] Tell me about the vaccine injured. What's that like? Because we have a number of events, actually we've got an event coming up this Saturday, which gives a platform to those who have been vaccinated, vaccinated to speak. And we have only one member of our parliament who actually speaks up, Andrew Bridgen. What is the situation like in the States regarding those people being able to have a voice and a platform?
Yeah, it's probably much like what you're experiencing, you know, unfortunately there's a very vested interest from the pharmaceutical companies as well as the CDC, the NIH, the FDA, even the presidential administration, to silence these individuals. Because obviously if you start talking about the folks that are vaccine injured, then it calls, it sheds light on the concerns that we've all been speaking about with regard to these particular vaccines. And so they have a very vested interest to be silenced.
It's quite awful what they're suffering from. Not only are they suffering physically and emotionally, but they're now, they're subject to people that are persecuting them on social media.
[17:38] Even in the media. We have some mainstream media over here that will publicly call out and and ostracize and make fun of people that are vaccine injured.
It's quite repulsive. The other unfortunate consequence to this, and again, this is probably something that the folks where you are also suffering from that are vaccine injured
[18:02] is when we do not acknowledge that people are vaccine injured, that also creates an environment, where they're denied access to care.
So can you imagine people that are vaccine injured, maybe they have a neurological disorder, maybe they have a cardiac disorder, and they're going to their mainstream doctor, whether it's their general practitioner, or they end up going to a cardiologist, and they're being told things like, you know, this might be depression if you have a neurological disorder, or, you know, myocarditis is totally normal.
We're just going to give you a pill and we'll send you on your way.
So what's happening is they're being dismissed and they're not able to access care.
So if you think about the crime that's been committed, there's this crime against humanity that's been committed, and it's continuing to be perpetrated, especially for the people that are vaccine injured, because they're suffering and now they're not even being given access to some type of medical intervention to help them with that vaccine injury.
What is that, the response from your politicians, we've seen some high-profile politicians speak up about it.
Is there any kind of help or assistance for those people? What is it like in terms of politicians stepping in and actually beginning to provide help and assistance.
[19:24] We're starting to see some. We've got some that are, you know, Ron Paul, excuse me, Rand Paul.
We've also got Ron Johnson, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz.
So we've got quite a few on the conservative side. And I want to be clear too, the Unity Project, we are a non-political organization.
I always say it really doesn't matter where you fall on the political spectrum, unless you're so extreme that you believe children should be genitally mutilated when they're infants.
Outside of that, and by the way, I should add that I believe that that group of people represents less than 10% of the overall population here in the U.S., and I would even venture to say globally.
It's just that they have a very loud voice, and they've created a lot of fear, so people feel as though they can't speak out.
So even though we're not a political organization, unfortunately, the media and the political establishment has very much made this a political issue.
I mean, I always say, look, here in California, there was a bill that was being pushed that said children as young as 12 years old can make their own medical decisions without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
[20:44] So think about that, you send your kid to school and at 12 years old, they can go in and make their own medical decisions about
anything sexual, they can make their own medical decisions about vaccines, any number of topics that should be resting with the parents, not the government, not the school.
And so I always say, you know, it really doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum.
I think we can all agree that a 12 year old probably doesn't have the mental faculty and understanding to make and engage in their own medical decisions that could be life ending, certainly irreparable damage to them. You're obviously you mentioned you're in California there and that's really the part of the the front line or the epicentre of some of the the madness and I mean tell us about that because obviously we know in the UK it is state by state and it isn't across the country but that certainly shows exemplifies the real battle line.
[21:50] It does, you know a lot of times people will say I'm frustrated with California Californians. It's just crazy there We're gonna move and we've actually seen a mass exodus from the state of California. This is historic, exodus from California, but what I always say is look California is the tip of the spear when it comes to bad legislation here in the United States and And what happens in California tends to trickle across the US.
So it's really for the rest of the country to look at and dissect and understand what's happening here.
[22:22] And stop what's happening here in this state.
I mean, we have a battery of legislation like never before. I mean, COVID was used as a tool behind closed doors to author terrible legislation and then push it through virtually uncontested.
So we had bills that ranged from
things like kids can't go to school unless they're all vaccinated.
We had bills that said kids obviously can make their own medical decisions.
We just discussed that one.
We had bills that say, and this bill passed, I think it was SB207.
It passed. It says that we're now a sanctuary state for genital mutilation.
So that essentially means that anyone can come into the state of California, they can have their child receive what's called gender affirming care.
And I have a problem with that terminology in general because there is no such thing as gender affirming.
There's no such thing as transgender. Transgender is an actual made up word.
You can't trans, infers that you're in transition of something.
There's something called a transvestite, which is where a person from one gender dresses and acts in another way, or another, excuse me, dresses and acts like another gender, right?
[23:41] And so this particular bill has implications outside of just the act of physically harming a child.
It actually says, so let's say I'm in the state of Texas and someone takes my child, let's say it's an aunt or an uncle or a friend, and takes my child into the state of California.
We've crossed state lines.
[24:05] I could potentially lose custody of my child, right, in addition to going through the process of having my child genitally mutilated.
So there's huge implications. And the scary part about this is that particular author, Scott Weiner, who's a state senator here in California, and he also happens to be the author of a majority of these terrible bills.
He has said that he is so proud of this bill that he is working with 19 other states to author similar legislation.
And we're seeing it in places like Vermont and New York and other areas, and even in states that tend to be more conservative.
We still are seeing bad legislation. So one of the things that we've done on our website, we're in the process of developing this, is a nationwide campaign to call attention to bad legislation and also good legislation because we are seeing some states really push back on this and develop laws that fight against people's ability to harm children.
And so we're going through and we're dissecting that and people can, will be able to go on our website, pull up whatever state they're in, and get a list of both bad and good legislation.
[25:18] Let me come back to that. But can I ask you, you mentioned about not being political, and that must be difficult because obviously it's become a Republican-Democrat issue. In the UK, we don't have that divide. It's just all bad. So we don't have that pushback. Supposedly, conservatives are conserving, but they're not conserving anything, over the last 13 years.
So how is it to kind of be in this space and not be political when the political ideologies are there for all to see?
Yeah, I mean we tend to be invited to a lot of conservative events. We are still waiting for our invite to some of the more left-leaning events. But what I will share, and it's been interesting and I think educational for me is that,
[26:10] you know, politically, I have always leaned more conservative, and that's a public point that it's not hidden, that's no surprise to people.
That being said, a lot of our biggest supporters, especially donors, are people that are on the left, and they've come to us and they've said, listen, we feel politically marooned.
We don't know what our political party is. We're the party of, you know, John F. Kennedy.
We're the party where we want to help the American people.
We are not the party of telling children that they can be 17 different genders.
We are not the party of telling children that are white that they must repent for the sins of their ancestors.
We are not the party of saying we're going to tax the American people an exorbitant amount and give reparations to the black community, a community that a lot of these individuals, some of them can't even tie their ancestry back to slavery here in the United States.
And I think there's some high profile people that are going through that right now.
[27:26] And so interestingly enough, we have people, believe it or not, that are aligned with the the left or the traditionally the left that have now sought us out and are very interested in supporting this mission because, you know, one of the things that I'm starting to believe here in the U.S., we do have our traditional political systems, right?
We've got the conservative party, we've got the liberal party, we've got libertarians, we've got, you know, but the primary dominant political aspects are the conservative and the left-leaning parties, the Republicans and the Democrats.
[28:00] Unfortunately, the Democrat Party has been mutated, and I don't think that it's intact anymore in the sense that, let's say, someone who is traditionally a Democrat can identify with, can align with.
And so those people really are looking for another party to associate with.
And we're seeing more and more people come over that were traditionally Democrat coming over to the Republican or the Conservative party. So it'll be an interesting journey and evolution of the political parties here in the United States once I think we come to the other end of this, what we're experiencing.
Yeah, we're having exactly the same thing here, where the traditional values of the left have been completely wiped away by a lunacy of progressivism and wokeism and voters now no longer know where they stand when they traditionally vote and they're still in that mindset traditionally we vote for this side therefore we continue even though what is happening appals us but then they've got nowhere else to go here in the UK and the US has been the same as generally being a two-party system and that's I guess where individuals like that will struggle.
That's correct yeah we're seeing it here in the US for sure.
[29:25] Unity Project, if you go back to that, brings a whole wide range of, I mean looking at the website, you've got podcasts, you've got news, you've got different events, you've got the press, you've got the whole partnership and networking we've talked about, you've got the legislation side. I mean tell me how kind of all those different aspects fit into what you're attempting to do.
So, I've always been a believer that you approach this probably in a holistic way, right?
There's no way you can win this or move the needle forward by just saying, look, we're going to educate people, or we're going to approach from a legal standpoint, or we're just going to focus on the political aspect.
If a country goes into battle, you very rarely would ever, I don't think ever, have a military assault where you say, we're just going to have a land assault, or we're just going to have an air assault.
There's multiple aspects to this campaign, if you will.
And so for us, it's really important that we address to the extent that we can, every one of those aspects.
We want to educate the American people and the global community about the dangers of the vaccines about the importance of parental rights and medical freedom.
We want to engage in a media campaign.
[30:53] We're working, as I said, with several attorneys that are doing incredible work legally
[30:59] to fight what's happening with people that are vaccine injured.
They're also fighting the bad legislation.
We had a bill here in California called AB2098. I don't know if you've heard of this bill.
[31:11] But it was, I say it's probably the single piece legislation that is the most destructive to the medical system.
And what it did was it said any doctor that goes against the COVID narrative could potentially lose their medical license.
So let me make sure that I explain that because this is a really important point.
So let's say that you're an endocrinologist and you're treating a patient for a known autoimmune disorder. And let's say you've been treating that person for years for this autoimmune disorder.
If that patient comes to you and says, how do you feel about the vaccines?
And you say to them, based on your medical history of an autoimmune disorder, I believe that you may end up having an adverse reaction to this vaccine, and I have to recommend against taking it, that doctor could lose their medical license.
So it's the total destruction of informed consent. It's the government and the pharmaceutical companies inserting themselves in the doctor-patient relationship. It's a First Amendment violation.
So it was just a terrible piece of legislation. The governor in California actually signed it into law as of January 1st, 2023.
Dr. Aaron Carioti, who is our chief of medical ethics, and several other doctors filed suit, and we were able to get a preliminary injunction.
And so that's an example of some of the legal work. And that's really, really important because can you imagine going to your doctor
[32:41] and having this idea that you're not having an open conversation with your doctor about, your medical ailment. That conversation is being guided and restricted by the pharmaceutical companies and the government. So there's legal, going back to your question about kind of, everything that we have going on, there's legal. And then of course, there is some political.
We're a 501c3 and that's a nonprofit. And here in the United States, if you're a 501c3, you can only do 20 percent political work. So we don't do a lot of political work. We also don't do a lot of political work because obviously we're not a political organization and we want people across the political spectrum to work with us. So we wouldn't align ourselves regardless with one political affiliation or not. But it is important for us to call attention to the legislation that's happening. That's critical. One of the ways that here in the U.S. a lot of of this has happened is that people are unaware.
You know, there's been this incredible censorship campaign, which I know you guys are experiencing as well in the UK.
And so I spoke at an event and there was about 600 people.
And I said, you know, just by show of hands, how many people in the room are aware of
[34:00] SB 866, which is the bill that said kids as young as 12 could make their own medical decisions without the knowledge or consent of their parents. Less than four people out of 500 raised their hand. So it was quite telling to me that, you know, if the American people were truly aware of what was happening legislatively, I don't think that they would be able to get much through uncontested. You know, one of the things that happened to us was we took an excerpt out of the california.gov website of one of the bills. It was literally a cut and paste.
[34:35] Put it on our social media of one of the bills that was being proposed. And we were told that we were going to be shut down for mis or disinformation. We fought it and we won.
But that is an example, I think, of how aggressively these political parties and these authors of these terrible legislative actions are fighting, right?
So that's a big aspect for us as well, is making sure that people understand what is happening legislatively so they know where they can get involved.
Yeah, the same here. It's that threat of punishment if you speak up and therefore people remain silent out of fear of losing their job, their children, anything like that. But then part, of that pushback, I guess, is the podcast highlighting some of those issues. Tell us about those.
Yeah. Well, we've had many issues. Actually, the podcast is where I get to have a lot of, fun and interview a lot of amazing guests. And we don't keep it just tied to the vaccines.
We've spoken to everyone from doctors and scientists to activists and everyone in between.
I actually did an interview the other day with Jennifer Say.
She was the former president, And
[35:57] was on her way to being the CEO of Levi's Strauss. Have you heard of Levi's?
It's not a small company, and she talks about her journey of how she was cancelled for speaking out about the school closures.
I did an interview with Tim Kennedy. Are you familiar with Tim Kennedy?
Tim is an interesting guy. I would recommend following him. Tim is probably, I would say, the number one special operator here in the United States.
If you remember in Afghanistan, there was a group of people that kind of clandestine organization that went in and rescued about 12,000 people from behind enemy lines.
That was, really Tim had a lot to do with that.
He's in a documentary called Send Me and it's on Amazon. It's a phenomenal documentary.
And Tim was a former champion UFC fighter. He's an MMA fighter.
So he's got this really incredible background.
And we had a long conversation with him and Matt Boudreau. Matt's his business partner.
They've started an organization called Apogee Strong.
[37:07] And it's all about mentoring men. And so we had a long conversation about the war on masculinity and how this is one step in destroying the nuclear family and parental rights.
And so that was a real fun conversation.
We work with James Lindsay. I don't know if you know who James Lindsay is, but he's fantastic. We just had him on and we talked all about, you know, the education system and the Marxification of the education system here in the U.S.
And tomorrow we'll be doing a Twitter spaces event
[37:41] with Matt and Jennifer Say, and we're going to be talking about how the education system here in the U.S. is actually not broken. A lot of people talk about how the system is broken.
It's actually not broken. It's working exactly how it's been intended to work.
And we are now a century into this type of education, and we're seeing the impact that it has had.
And again, it has been very, very effective. So it's been, the podcast is fun, the Twitter space events are fun.
We get to really hear from a whole host of people. We hope to have Dennis Prager on shortly to talk about freedom of speech and how that's been impacted here in this country.
And in the US, we are very passionate about our constitution.
We are very passionate about our first amendment, our second amendment.
And that's, interestingly enough, that's not something that we talk about a lot here at the Unity Project, but it is something that I think is critically important.
The Second Amendment really guarantees all of our other amendments, and so including our ability to parent our children in the way that we see fit, because we believe that, there is no greater right than your right to parent your children, free of the government intervention.
[39:07] If only we in the UK had that, we have nothing like that, but that before I get too depressed, I'll hold off on that. You mentioned some of the great names you've had on the podcast and you've also got great names on your team. Obviously, Dr. Robert Malone connected us when we were there in Miami, tell us how you've kind of pulled together such a great network off, I guess, a team as an advisory role.
Sure. Yeah, that was something that I cannot take credit for. Jeff Hansen, who is our chairman
[39:43] was really responsible for helping to launch FLCCC, which is the Frontline Critical COVID Care Alliance, run by Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Paul Merrick. And so, because he was so intimately involved from the very beginning, he had a pretty good relationship with a lot of these doctors.
And so Jeff reached out to Dr. Robert Malone, who's our chief medical officer, Dr. Aaron Carioti, who's our chief of medical ethics, Dr. Peter McCullough, who's on our strategic advisory council, Dr. Harvey Reisch.
I mean, the list goes on.
We're quite grateful to have this powerhouse team of doctors and scientists.
And, you know, early on we explained, look, this is critically important.
Obviously the work that they're doing is vital, bringing attention to the medical and scientific aspects of what's happened once it relates to COVID.
But there's this, again, this whole concept of how do we get this information in the hands of the groups that are actually doing the work and tie these groups together so that we can work in lockstep?
And that's really how it came together with those doctors and scientists.
And they're fantastic. I mean, we're talking about
[41:02] individuals that have been publicly persecuted, have lost their ability to function in their previous careers, have been socially ostracized, have been the target of media campaigns.
I mean, it's really been a tremendous journey for them.
Tell me all about, your focus initially was California, and you've grown past that, although California needs more help than most.
But tell us about that growth, because what you're doing, obviously in California, is that networking, highlighting, that's needed across the country.
So tell us how you've grown.
[41:42] How we've grown outside of California or how we've grown in California?
I mean, as you've consulted in California, then realize what you're doing is needed across the country.
You know, it's been a couple of ways. We've done it somewhat organically.
So when we started, we started hosting these calls. We were hosting calls once a week within our network.
And then we were inviting doctors to speak.
We were having webinars where we were asking our, we call them strategic partners, to promote the work that they're doing and to connect with the scientific community.
And then we started having organizations outside of California that, in the global community, it actually started reaching out to us.
As an example, we had a group in Australia, Voices for Choices, they've reached out to us.
They're very active in Australia. We have groups actually in the UK, the World Council for Health was one of our strategic partners doing a lot of work.
And so the growth interestingly enough has happened organically.
And there's an aspect to this that is through that organic growth that is somewhat concerning, in that it seems like a very small, I guess, movement, right?
[43:07] Everyone kind of knows everyone. And I say concerning because my goal is to have this movement be so vast that we're not so intimately familiar with one another, right?
We have that many people in that many organizations that are doing the work.
Yeah, not completely. I think that's all our goals to take it past those limitations and restrictions and make it much wider.
Can I ask just as we finish, individuals watching maybe have an organization they'd like to connect or just individuals wanting to
[43:44] be more of a part of what Unity Project is doing, tell them how they can get more involved whether they're organization level or just an individual.
So they can go to the unityproject.org and there's all kinds of resources from an individual standpoint.
We've got recent like scientific and medical data that's on the website.
We've got a podcast and reading books, a whole segment on recommended reading.
We've got resources on how to speak to your school boards.
I know in the UK, it's probably different, but I would imagine that in some sense, you've got parents that are there that are just as passionate as the parents here in the United States, maybe more so, right?
[44:31] And in the sense that you alluded to the fact that you guys don't have as many parental rights as we do here in the US.
So maybe people in the UK are galvanized and ready to stand up and say, look, we are going to raise our children in the way that we believe is the best way.
So there's resources on there. There's also the ability to reach out and connect with other groups.
So we have every one of our strategic partners linked on our strategic partner page, and they can go through and see the work that's being done.
And if there's someone or some organization that they're particularly passionate or aligned with, they can connect with those organizations. They can also connect with the Unity Project, and become part of our database.
And we put together joint calls to action all the time where we reach out to everyone in our database and say, look, we need your help getting out information in this area.
So if they go to the unityproject.org, whether you're an individual or an organization, there's ways to connect with the work that we're doing.
[45:35] Okay, Laura, thank you for your time. I have obviously seen the Unity Project and then it was great meeting you there in Miami, but what you're doing is fantastic. That networking, that connecting, and also the educational side is absolutely fundamental. So thank you for coming on and sharing what you are doing.
Thank you for having me. This has been fun. I would love at some point to have you on our podcast so we can talk about what's happening in the UK. We had Katie Hobbs?
Katie Hopkins.
Hopkins.
Thank you.
She's a force of nature. She's phenomenal.
She really is. It was one of my more fun podcasts, I will say. She's quite energetic, but it's inspiring, right? And so I would love to hear about what's happening in your communities and how you guys are fighting back and the tools that you're using, because this is not just a United States issue. This is a global issue. And I think that the more collaboration we can do globally, the more we're going to be able to fight back against this.
[46:44] Oh, completely. Well, thank you so much for coming on and sharing. All the links are in the description for all our viewers or for listening on any podcasting apps, Podbean then. It is also there. So thank you so much, Laura.
Thank you so much.
