Executive Summary
This week on The Mel K Show, Clay Clark and Andrew Sorchini joined me for a conversation that fused two stories most outlets keep separate — the personal and the supranational. On the personal side, Clay walked through five concrete moves for building daily momentum: a power hour, intentional friendships, feeding your mind positive content, a calendar, and a daily to-do list. He told the story of being sideswiped by a semi on the way to Dallas and how a written list got him there the same day. We talked about the local business owner who kept a plexiglass wall up for six years after COVID — and what came down the day he finally took another job. We invited We the People to the ReAwaken Reunion event on June 19th and 20th, after I came back from Minneapolis where Lara Logan, Liz Collin, and the Child Protection League were in a room together with people who are still standing and still fighting. On the supranational side, Andrew laid out something most Americans have never heard. Jerome Powell announcing he is staying on the Federal Reserve Board makes him the first Fed chairman to do that since 1947. The UAE just walked out of OPEC, reshaping the petrodollar and Saudi Arabia’s role overnight. Gold that left American bank vaults in 1933 — when FDR outlawed private gold ownership — sat in European vaults for decades and only began returning in the 1960s. When governments local and national signal by their actions that gold is where real value belongs, they are telling you everything you need to know about what they think of their own paper. Two stories. One battle. Scroll to the bottom for Key Takeaways.
The Plexiglass Wall and the Mind That Is Fed
Clay opened with a story I keep replaying. A local business owner he visited weekly for six years kept a full plexiglass wall up between himself and his customers — a relic of 2020 panic that became permanent the moment nobody questioned it. Six years. Money slid under a little window. The day that man took another job, his coworkers tore the wall down before lunch.
The mind is what the mind is fed. By default — Clay’s word, by default — the inputs are negative. The cesspool of YouTube, the algorithmic outrage feed, the perpetual COVID-era anxiety that some of us never put down. If we are not intentional, we keep the wall up. If we are intentional — Luther Vandross, Jim Rohn, Napoleon Hill, the Bible, real friends — the wall comes down.
This is not new-age philosophy. This is recovery from the addiction to chaos at the personal scale. Sovereignty has to be practiced somewhere before it can be defended anywhere.
Five Moves for Daily Personal Momentum
Clay laid out the recovery toolkit step by step. Design the first hour of your day — the power hour. Be intentional with friendships — call somebody, take them to dinner, refuse to let proximity be an accident. Feed your mind positive content. Use a calendar. Make a daily to-do list, because what gets scheduled gets done and what doesn’t get scheduled doesn’t.
When a semi sideswiped Clay and his wife in Savannah, Oklahoma, on the way to Dallas, the to-do list did not change just because the tire did. He got up early, wrote out the steps in order — rent the car first, get the vehicle towed third — knocked on doors, found a man whose kid had a baseball game, paid him three times his working wage, and made it to Dallas the same day for a legal appointment.
Routine is what holds when the world hits a semi.
Find Your Tribe — Show Up in Person
I came back from an event in Minneapolis last week and I told Clay something I want every reader to hear. Lara Logan was in the room. Liz Collin was in the room. The Child Protection League. Courage Is a Habit. Real people. Solutions-oriented, action-oriented, positive, fighting, not laying down. I walked out and thought — this is what we have been missing.
Andrew and Anne are coming to the ReAwaken Reunion on June 19th and 20th, and so am I. So is Clay. So is General Flynn. So is Pastor Jackson. I wrote in Americans Anonymous that we should start We the People groups — not partisan, not divisive, liberty-oriented and freedom-oriented. That is what these reunions are. Block out time on your calendar for what matters. The world of perpetual distraction will not do it for you.
The Supranational Architecture Above Us
Now lift your eyes. Yesterday Jerome Powell announced he is staying on the Federal Reserve Board — the first Fed chairman since 1947 to do that. That is not a routine personnel decision. That is the watchdog of an international banking system digging in against a president who is trying to dismantle it.
Andrew said it cleanly. The Fed is neither federal nor a reserve. We have never been able to audit it. The supranational architecture, post-World War II, runs no matter who wins the presidency or the war. And maybe — for the first time in our adult lives — those of us who would like to see the books opened or the Fed ended can actually get traction.
This is the structural moment. The institution that has outlasted every president since 1947 is being openly contested. Pay attention.
Gold, 1933, and Why It Is Coming Home
Andrew told a piece of history most Americans do not learn. In 1933 FDR outlawed private gold ownership. Citizens turned in their gold coins for paper. The large gold reserves sitting in American bank vaults were quietly shipped overseas — to France, to Italy — and sat in European vaults for decades. They began coming back in the 1960s. By the 1980s the American Eagle gold coin was on retail shelves.
When gold has to leave a country, Andrew said, or when it needs to come back because there is a problem somewhere, that tells you a lot. It is telling you something right now.
Andrew’s discipline is to buy gold and silver the first day of every month — not because he is emotional, not because of a headline, but because he wants to protect his hard-earned savings from the inflation a thin-air-dollar system bakes in. He believes we need to go back to a gold standard, and dollars backed by something real. Printing currency out of thin air is exactly why your spending power keeps falling.
The UAE Walks Out of OPEC
The other tremor this week — the UAE pulled out of OPEC. That single move reshapes the global oil game and the petrodollar. Producing countries are now positioned to set their own prices and their own markets. Saudi Arabia is going to feel it. The dollar tied to oil — the architecture none of us were told would ever change — is changing as we speak.
Nobody expected this. That is the headline.
We the People Are the Answer
The plexiglass wall in a small business and the Fed chairman digging in to protect the international banking system are the same story at different scales. Both are barriers built in fear and held up by habit. Both come down when somebody finally takes another job, walks out, and refuses to be the consumer of conflict and chaos any longer. The remnant rising is not a slogan — it is the morning routine, the to-do list, the friend you call instead of the algorithm you scroll, the in-person event you actually attend, and yes, the gold coin you tuck away the first day of every month while the supranational architecture cracks.
We the People do not have to dismantle the Fed by ourselves. We have to stop consenting to the wall.
Key Takeaways
- Jerome Powell is the first Fed chairman since 1947 to announce he is staying on the board — a defensive move by the international banking watchdog as Trump moves against the supranational architecture.
- In 1933 FDR outlawed private gold ownership; American gold went to European bank vaults and only started returning in the 1960s. Gold leaves a country when there is a problem.
- The UAE pulling out of OPEC reshapes the petrodollar and signals the postwar oil order is openly being challenged for the first time.
- The Fed is neither federal nor a reserve, has never been audited, and outlasts presidencies — which is why this moment matters more than coverage admits.
- The mind is what the mind is fed; by default the inputs are negative, so feeding it positively must be intentional and daily.
- What gets scheduled gets done, and what does not get scheduled does not — daily routine, calendar, and to-do list are the recovery toolkit.
- In-person community at events like the ReAwaken Reunion on June 19th and 20th is the antidote to a world of perpetual distraction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Federal Reserve actually a federal agency? No. As Andrew said on the show, the Fed is neither federal nor a reserve, and it has never been audited. It functions as the watchdog for an international banking system that operates above any single elected government. That is exactly why Jerome Powell announcing he is staying past his term is far bigger than mainstream coverage admits.
Why does Jerome Powell staying matter? Because no Fed chairman since 1947 has done it. That detail alone tells you the institution feels structurally threatened. Powell staying lines up directly against a sitting president who is openly working to dismantle the international banking architecture the Fed has anchored for nearly eighty years.
What does the UAE leaving OPEC actually change? The petrodollar has anchored the U.S. dollar’s reserve status since the 1970s. The UAE pulling out opens the door to unilateral oil deals where producing countries set their own prices and markets — and Saudi Arabia, the linchpin of the petrodollar, is going to feel it next. Nobody — including us — knows yet exactly where this lands.
Why buy gold the first day of every month? It is a discipline, not a reaction. Andrew does it to protect savings from inflation that a thin-air-dollar system bakes in. Governments local and national are signaling by their actions that gold is where real value sits. When governments are buying it, the question for the rest of us is why we wouldn’t.
How does daily routine connect to all of this? Because sovereignty has to be practiced somewhere before it can be defended anywhere. If you cannot govern your first hour, you cannot govern anything. Routine is recovery from the addiction to chaos at the personal scale, and it is the precondition for the collective work the moment is calling for.
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