Fear vs Faith vs Future: Jeff Booth on AI, Bitcoin & The Abundance Mindset
- DJ Valerie B LOVE 🩷
- 1 day ago
- 10 min read
Bitcoin Entrepreneur Jeff Booth on Transcending Fear, Trusting Your Mission, and Building the Future
Jeff Booth is the kind of human who makes you cry—not from sadness, but from opening your heart. An entrepreneur, Bitcoin advocate, and unapologetic believer in humanity's potential, Jeff has spent decades proving that success isn't about climbing a ladder. It's about finding your genius, seeing the genius in others, and building something that matters. And he does it all with a humility that disarms you.
This is the episode for anyone trapped by fear, doubting their mission, or wondering if they're enough. For everyone who's felt impostor syndrome—regardless of their net worth. For anyone ready to trade fear for faith and build something real.
🎬 Watch the Full Episode
🎧 Listen to the Podcast
✨ Key Takeaways
1. We Are All Equal Nodes in the Cosmic Soup
Jeff opens with a powerful reminder about humility. He doesn't see himself as above anyone else.
I don't see anyone above me, I don't see anyone below me. I see us all as finding a path and learning on that path. — Jeff Booth
He reminds us that we all seek love and belonging, and "imposter syndrome" is just a symptom of that universal human need.
2. The Best AI Play on the Planet is Bitcoin
This is a mind-bending concept. Jeff argues that AI in a fiat system leads to centralization and control. However, Bitcoin forces productivity to flow to the individual.
Playing AI without Bitcoin is essentially centralizing a system that extracts from you... Bitcoin is a forcing function to allow the productivity from our brain that we create to flow to us. If we want a future where robots serve us rather than control us, we need a decentralized money layer.
3. Abundance is Not About Money
Jeff shares a vulnerable story about 2017, when he walked away from a business and technically "lost everything" financially. In that moment of having zero in the bank, he realized he was actually rich because he had his family, friends, and integrity.
4. Deep Connections > Wide Audiences
In a world obsessed with follower counts, Jeff advises focusing on "narrow and deep" relationships. You don't need millions of fans; you need a circle of people who truly know and love you. That is where real security and happiness live.
5. Moving Time to the New System
You don't need to save the whole world or convince everyone. You just need to start moving your time and energy from the extractive system (Fiat/Fear) to the cooperative system (Bitcoin/Love). By living your best life and providing value, you become a signal for others.
Episode Overview
In this deeply transformative episode, I sit down with the legendary Jeff Booth. We go far beyond the charts to explore the human side of the global transition we are living through. Jeff opens up about his own battles with imposter syndrome and shares a deeply personal story about "losing everything" financially in 2017—only to discover he actually had everything that mattered.
We explore the profound connection between AI and Bitcoin, with Jeff explaining why "the best AI play on the planet is Bitcoin" and how a decentralized money layer is the only way to ensure technology serves humanity rather than extracting from it. From the philosophy of abundance to the practical freedom of NOSTR, this conversation is a roadmap for shifting your internal state from Fear to Faith in a chaotic world.
About Jeff Booth
Jeff Booth is a visionary leader, technology entrepreneur, and the author of the best-selling book The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future. He is a General Partner at Ego Death Capital, a venture firm focused on the Bitcoin ecosystem. Jeff is known for his ability to bridge the gap between technology, economics, and humanity, helping people understand how to navigate the transition to a digital age.
He's a Bitcoin advocate not because he's chasing profit (he already has plenty), but because he genuinely believes Bitcoin represents human freedom—freedom from monetary manipulation, freedom from financial coercion, freedom to build on a level playing field.
Connect With [Guest Name]:
⏱️ Episode Timestamps
(00:00:40) Who is Jeff Booth
(00:03:15) Impostor Syndrome
(00:04:55) Vibrations and Energy
(00:14:14) The Illusion of Separation
(00:18:20) Giving Back
(00:22:15) You Never Know
(00:26:12) Bitcoin for Peace
(00:28:22) Best AI Play (00:31:04) The Power of AI (00:32:54) The Free Market (00:40:22) Human Needs (00:43:19) Identity (00:46:54) Insurance (00:51:59) Trust (00:56:49) The Circle: Why deep connections matter more than follower counts
(01:13:35) Security: Why Bitcoin cannot be cheated
(01:30:28) Nostr: Freedom of speech and the future of connection
🙋♀️ Common Questions About Fear, Faith, and Building Your Future
What does Jeff mean by "there's no better or worse, only different superpowers"?
Instead of seeing people in a hierarchy (CEO > manager > employee), Jeff sees everyone as having unique gifts. A CEO's gift might be vision. A social worker's gift might be empathy at scale. A janitor's gift might be creating beautiful, orderly spaces. None is "better." They're different. And each can teach the others.
If everyone has impostor syndrome, how do you actually move forward?
You feel the doubt and do the work anyway. The doubts don't disappear when you become successful. You just get better at moving despite them. Billionaires still feel it. Beginners feel it. The difference between people who win and people who quit isn't the absence of doubt—it's the decision to move forward anyway.
Why does Jeff focus on helping people "on the way up" instead of mainstream media?
Two reasons: (1) People still building are more hungry and teachable. (2) Genuine impact happens through direct relationships, not broadcast fame. When you help 10 people who are serious about their mission, those 10 people help 100 others. That multiplier effect is more powerful than a viral TED talk.
What is the "ladder vs. path" distinction?
The ladder assumes a fixed route to the top. You climb rung by rung, competing with others for positions. The path assumes everyone's journey is different. You don't "climb" a path; you walk it. You can't fail at walking your own path. You can only learn.
How does quantum spirituality connect to building and success?
The idea: reality is made of energy and vibration. Your frequency (the energy you emit) affects what you attract and create. If you operate from fear, you attract fearful situations. If you operate from faith, you attract opportunities. It's not magic—it's intention meeting preparation.
Does Bitcoin really change everything?
In Jeff's view: yes. Bitcoin represents honest money—money that can't be manipulated by governments or central banks. That changes the power dynamics of the entire world. It doesn't happen overnight, but over time, sound money reshapes civilization. It's not about getting rich quick. It's about human freedom.
🩷 Subscribe + Join the LOVE Tribe
Subscribe to 11x LOVE Notes — New episodes and sticky notes for your soul
🔥 Ready to Transform Your Life?
Join the 11x LOVE LaB — Daily LOVE Practices + Joyful Sober Support Community
Book a Discovery Call — Explore 1:1 VIP 11x LOVE coaching options
Wishing YOU and Your LOVED Ones,
Peace, LOVE & Warm Aloha
DJ Valerie B LOVE 🩷
💜 p.s. ALL of my digital content and courses are "Value for Value", which means no ads or paywalls so everyone has access. If you received value and enjoyed this content, please consider a giving Value for Value tip. Thanks 🙏
✅ Follow Here:
Fountain - earn and tip in Bitcoin while you listen
📚 Resources & Links Mentioned
Book: The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth
Social Protocol: Nostr (Jeff recommends getting started via Primal.net)
Book Recommendation: The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn
📜 Full Episode Transcript
DJ Valerie: Aloha Love Tribe, welcome to 2025! Who would have thought we've gotten all the way here? My very first guest is somebody who I've been admiring and being inspired by over the last couple of years since I've become a bitcoiner. I am so honored, a little bit nervous, but I'm also just like—let's go, let's do this! Jeff Booth is my very special guest this morning on January 6, 2025. Aloha, Jeff!
Jeff Booth: Aloha! So good to be here with you.
DJ Valerie: You know, Jeff, I brought tissues because I know I'm going to cry during this interview. You're somebody who I aspire to be like. You have shown the Bitcoin community, and the entrepreneurial community at large, how to achieve dreams and then also how to give back. You give back in such a generous way. You give your time, treasure, and talent to those of us who are on the stairway up of doing our missions in life.
I want to ask you: Have you always been like this?
Jeff: I think I just have a different frame of what things look like—what "success" looks like. I don't think it's a ladder up. Ultimately, what drives our friendship? Forget Bitcoin, forget anything else. It's the thing you see in me, and I see in you.
I don't think of people as being better or worse. I think about each person having a superpower, a genius that I can learn from. I don't see anyone above me or below me. I see us all as finding a path and learning on that path. Each person can be instructive—whether you're taking a negative that you don't want to be, or a positive in somebody that you think, "Wow, they have a brilliance I want to take into me."
DJ Valerie: That’s such a great point, Jeff, because a lot of people have imposter syndrome. It doesn't matter if you're a billionaire or just starting out. Have you ever felt imposter syndrome?
Jeff: I don't know if I'd call it imposter syndrome, but to say that I didn't feel it... Even what I'm doing right now—I never listen to myself on a podcast. Here's why: I often start a sentence and never finish it because I don't know where to start. My head is going through all the different levels of the question at the same time.
To answer specifically: We all want love and belonging. We're so desperate for love and belonging that we'll do almost anything to get it. We often push it away by trying too hard to get it. I use the "victim analogy" all the time. People act as victims to get attention and love, but they are actually stopping the thing they want most.
Imposter syndrome is a symptom of that. I want to look a certain way so I matter to other people, and then I feel like I don't matter, so I feel inauthentic. Once you see that in yourself and realize you're just like every single other person, you can frame it in a totally different light. If the "victim" is hurting themselves by desperately trying to get attention, then where in my life don't I have everything I could ever want?
That was my first block to uncover things in me that were stopping my success. I realized it wasn't the world conspiring against me; it was me conspiring against the world.
DJ Valerie: You nailed it. The minute any of us self-identify as a "thing"—whether it's a Christian, a Bitcoiner, or a woman—we're creating the illusion of separation. At the quantum level, we are all just part of the same Oneness. Bitcoin, to me, is one of the variables that is mathematically able to unite us. It's time, energy, and numbers.
Jeff: I truly believe that. I see it everywhere around me. Take Daniela, for example. She flew to Madeira for our conference to ask to ghostwrite my new book. Out of that conversation, I asked her to create her own book. Watching her path and success is super exciting.
People ask why I give back. It looks like giving back, but clarify this: I'm actually selfish with my time. It’s a 10x to 100x return on my time because I care so much about the people I'm with. If it looked like a ladder-climbing game with someone who believes they are above or below me, I'd stop spending time with them.
Jeff: I just said on a recent podcast: The best AI play on the planet is Bitcoin.
DJ Valerie: Can you help people understand what you mean?
Jeff: Playing AI without Bitcoin is essentially concentrating and centralizing a system that extracts from you. It has to. It takes the existing financial system and extracts more.
Bitcoin is a forcing function that allows the productivity from our brains to flow to us. Because it is decentralized and secure, it allows all prices to fall to the marginal cost of production, which a free market demands. If you have Bitcoin, it means all the productivity in the entire planet is being delivered to you through the first global free market the world has ever experienced.
If you own Bitcoin in self-custody, and especially if you run a node, you are gaining that productivity.
DJ Valerie: There is a sense of disempowerment with technology. People are asking: What are people going to do with their time? Where do humans come into play where they can still earn a living?
Jeff: Imagine an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and robots that can do anything you can do. If you live in a system of manipulated money, all that productivity gain gets extracted from you into a system that controls you.
But if you have Bitcoin, all of those prices go to zero, and the AI and robots are in service of us because they came from us. If we stay decentralized and secure, this world is inevitable. It imposes a discipline where the only way to get "richer" (providing more value) is to provide more service to your fellow humans.
Jeff: In late 2017, I was completely broke. We sold our family house to fund the business. I walked away from a business that was at one time worth $100 million. Everyone thought that's who I was. I walked away with zero—no severance, nothing. I couldn't pay rent at the end of the month with three young kids.
What I found in that moment is that I had everything I ever wanted. I didn't lose. I had all my friends, I had all my family, I had everything important to me. I could have lived in a tent and had abundance.
Three friends called me that same day, investors in my company, and said, "I'm going to wire $100,000 to your personal bank account. You never have to pay me back. Don't tell your wife." I never needed to take it, but the generosity showed me that at "nothing," I had everything.
DJ Valerie: I was talking to a guy on the beach who said you only need four or five people that you're really deep with. Everything else is just fake.
Jeff: That circle can be as big as you want, but you create abundance by developing deep connections with people you truly care about, not thin connections with thousands on social media.
DJ Valerie: We are being programmed to think numbers, likes, and followers matter. But being on Nostr feels like being in a beautiful retreat in the jungle with the coolest people, discussing important topics without algorithms suppressing you.
Jeff: Nostr is a protocol on top of Bitcoin. Right now, it's like Twitter, but in time it will move into many things. Nobody can silence you. You aren't a feature of the algorithm trying to monetize you. Being early there is a benefit—you are showing people the way.
DJ Valerie: Jeff, thank you so much for kicking off this year. I wish you the best year yet. Buckle up everybody, it's going to be a ride! Peace, Love, and warm Aloha!
Comments