The Power Couple

Today we had the privilege of interviewing  Howard Vliegar.Howard is a third generation family farmer who has been a “student of the soil,” studying why and how the soil works as it does, since 1989. Howard lives on the family farm where he was born and raised in northwest Iowa, and helps his son with some of the farming duties.Since 1992 Howard has been a crop nutrition adviser and has founded two companies to help family farmers reduce their dependency on chemical-based farming and transition to biological and/or organic production.He now works and teaches as an independent crop nutrition advisor, helping both crop and livestock farmers all across the U.S.Howard works with scientists and researchers around the world to develop effective solutions, based on the latest science, for the real-life problems farmers are experiencing because of GMO crops and glyphosate.He is a co-author and the primary coordinator of a first of its kind scientific study: the feeding of GMO grain and non-GMO grain to hogs for their lifetime as a meat animal. Howard is an internationally recognized speaker on the topic of GMOs.Howard also serves on the board of directors for the Council for Healthy Food Systems. His greatest accomplishment is that of being a Christian husband to his wonderful wife Pamela of 44 plus years, a father of three young adult children and proud grandfather of three Join us as we discuss:✔️ Why Howard became a student of the soil✔️ What’s the future of regenerative agriculture?✔️ How to capture rainwater and create healthy soil✔️ The Big Pharma to Big Farma profit wheelSUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe

Join us as we discuss:Why Tesla isn’t a carInsurance implications of driving a TeslaHow other cars are privacy nightmaresWhere is the electric vehicle trend going?SUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe

Today we had the privilege of interviewing Michael Colligan!Michael is a seasoned lighting professional, entrepreneur, inventor, and the co-founder of Get a Grip Studios Inc.Join us as we discuss:How Michael became involved in the lighting industryHow we’re living in a fishtank of night pollutionHow to filter dirty electricity using incandescent bulbsWho is the Deep State of the lighting industry?What’s the future of light and LEDs in our society?Michael is best known as the creator and host of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, one of the most influential and the longest-running show in the lighting industry.With over 1,000 episodes recorded across various platforms, Michael has sparked conversations with hundreds of founders, innovators, and thought leaders in lighting, sustainability, night pollution, and darkness restoration.Beyond podcasting, Michael is also an inventor with a commercially successful U.S. patent for a recycling container designed to aid in mercury capture, with over 10,000 units sold to date. He has spent his career blending deep industry knowledge with raw, insightful dialogue.Often described as the jester in the lighting industry’s court, Michael uses humor, irreverence, and sharp wit to speak truth to power, even when the truth makes people uncomfortable.He coined the term “lighting industry deep state” to expose the quiet web of corrupt vested interests that extract hundreds of millions of dollars in valueless rents from the industry under the guise of charitable initiatives and non-profit work, shaping public policy and manipulating the perceptions of stakeholders and governments alike.These dark actors have caused significant damage to society, including the near-total pollution of the night and the quietude and solace it represents with various electric light sources, the inability to change a light bulb or repair a fixture, the destruction of domestic lighting manufacturing, and the emerging health risks caused by exposure to high-luminance LED light sources.Michael encourages his colleagues who listen to the shows he hosts and produces to investigate and expose these self-serving, corrupt parasites who enrich themselves by exploiting our society through the lighting industry.Let us know what you think of the episode, and let’s take back the night!We are more powerful than we know,SUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe

Dan is a former tech executive who served Fortune 100 clients like Microsoft & Amazon during the foundational rise of wireless infrastructures like Cloud and AI. Intersecting with his family’s health crisis, he became an EMF researcher—specializing in quantum biophysics and light-optimizing technologies, with the aim to holistically mitigate EMF stress, from junk lighting to satellite radiation and other environmental stressors.Combined with his foundation in chemistry from the University of Washington, Dan’s multi-disciplinary background makes him an expert in functional-energy stewardship.Today, he leads Essential Energy, a non-profit on a mission to better a billion lives with harmonizing photonic therapy. These EMF conditioning devices are used worldwide, advancing photonic health for people, plants, and animals.Dan is also a member of the Holistic Leadership Council, host of the Quantum Healing 4 Family show on the Braveheart Nation platform, and a featured speaker at leading holistic health conferences. His work is supported by peer-reviewed studies and acknowledged by leading doctors and health professionals.Join us as we discuss:✔️ The impact of EMF on agriculture & farmers✔️ The emerging field of biophotonic nutrition✔️ Why Dan quit his job as a tech executive and dove into remediating EMF✔️ Quantum cellular health: mitochondria & biophotonic communicationSUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe

Join us as we discuss:The world’s oldest health freedom organization - the NHFHow Scott lobbies for healthier food safety regulationsChemicals modern dishware and food manufacturingRFK Jr. and the rise of the biomedical surveillance stateA California-licensed attorney, Scott has specialized in food-and-drug law and trademark law, but also engages in business litigation, general business law, and nonprofit organizations, with an international clientele. Since 1989, Scott has been a board member of the National Health Federation, the World’s oldest health-freedom organization for consumers, as well as the Editor In Chief of its magazine, Health Freedom News. In 2007, he became NHF President, and has been a frequent speaker for the organization and for health freedom on several continents and through many radio and other programs.A legal columnist, Scott writes a column for Whole Foods Magazine called “LegalTips,” a column he started several decades ago. Currently, he is primarily occupied with health freedom issues arising from national governments and such international organizations as the Codex Alimentarius Commission’s attempts to limit individual freedom of choice in health matters.Scott has compiled, edited, and published a book on the subject entitled Codex Alimentarius – Global Food Imperialism. He also attends Codex meetings worldwide and has attended more Codex meetings than all other health-freedom activists combined.Bohdanna and I recently met Scott at the Healthy America 2025 conference in Washington DC, where we were honored to meet and learn from other leaders in health freedom as well. To honor the mission of NHF, we’ll be conducting a slew of podcast interviews called the Healthy America series. We hope you can join us for them all, as this organization keeps it mission going strong with more conferences throughout the US this fall and next year.We are more powerful than we know,SUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe

Join us as we discuss:✔️ The History of Identification Documents✔️ The Case for and against Biometric IDs✔️ Identity Theft in India tied to Biometrics✔️ How People are Fighting BackSUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe

Recently Bohdanna and I attended The Healthy Conference in Washington DC, where we met with leaders in health freedom who are helping turn the tide against the surveillance state slowly being built around us all. To celebrate all the meaningful connections we made, we are launching a series of episodes with the wonderful people we met during our trip. Today we have the honor of interviewing Odette Wilkins!We are more powerful than we know,Odette was a technology transactional attorney for over 20 years, and co-founded The National Call for Safe Technology where she is President & General Counsel.Join us as we discuss:How we can put pressure on lawmakers to take back our wired infrastructureHow the telecomm industry has admitted harms of cellular technologyWhy wireless and 5G is a national security threatHow we can solve the digital divideOdette was a technology transactional attorney for over 20 years, and co-founded The National Call for Safe Technology where she is President & General Counsel.The National Call (thenationalcall.org) is a coalition with partners reaching about 1,365,000 Americans across the country, advocates for safe communications networks for phone and Internet access.After seeing that many people across the country were being injured and disabled by wireless radiation from cell towers, “smart” meters and other wireless devices, Odette co-founded the National Call with Virginians for Safe Technology. She also co-founded Wired Broadband, Inc., a non-profit based in New York also advocating for safe communications networks where she is also President & General Counsel.In 2024, Odette served as a volunteer on the Communications Equity & Diversity Council at the Federal Communications Commission on bridging the digital divide for those without access to broadband.If you or a loved one does not know where to turn in the fight against the digital prison, rest assured you are not alone! There is so much we can do. Why not take the first step, and join the National Call?SUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe

The history of labor day from the 1800s to todayHow skin became a status symbol during the Industrial RevolutionWhat we can do to help curb child labor in the Post Industrial RevolutionThank you for listening, and for supporting our work.We are more powerful than we know,SUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe

The history and benefits of color therapyHow chromotherapy was suppressed: the story of Dinshah GhadialiModern applications of chromotherapyHow colors are used to steer human psychologyHow to incorporate chromotherapy into your life!SUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe

The history of the telephone, and its controversial beginningsWhy switchboard operators developed neurastheniaWho is phasing out landlines and why you should have oneWhat was your favorite, or least favorite phone growing up? Let us know!SUBSCRIBE to our SUBSTACK for the full experience! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit romanshapoval.substack.com/subscribe