"Stop being a trend settler and start being a trend setter. Settler and start being a trend setter. If you want a different world than the crappy one we're leaving you, you're going to have to rise up and do something about it, because, obviously, what we've been doing ain't working."  - Fatima Bey

Fátima Bey La Cambiamentes: 0:10

Welcome to MindShift Power Podcast, the world's only podcast built to empower the next generation. I'm your host, fatima Bey the MindShifter, because shaping tomorrow's world starts with conversations we have today, because shaping tomorrow's world starts with conversations we have today. And welcome everyone. I'm Fatima Bey the Mindshifter. Today's episode is going to be a little bit different. I'm doing another solo episode and I'm going to talk about something most of you probably aren't fully thinking about. Although this podcast is for the next generation, which is today's youth, teenagers and young adults, this episode is for everyone youth adults all around the world, and this is not just for people in Western civilizations. So listen up.

Fátima Bey, la transformadora de mentes: 0:56

Una de las razones por las que comencé este podcast es porque quería ayudar a nuestros jóvenes. Quería unir a jóvenes y adultos de una manera inusual. Existe una gran desconexión entre jóvenes y adultos, en general, en el mundo actual, probablemente más que nunca. Siempre hay cierta desconexión, pero nunca como ahora, porque nunca hemos vivido en los tiempos que vivimos. Otra de las razones por las que comencé este podcast es porque quiero ayudar a los jóvenes. Quiero ayudarlos a tener un futuro mejor. Por eso hablo de carreras profesionales, de la universidad, de la ayuda financiera, etc. Se trata de contribuir a su futuro. Pero hoy quiero explicar por qué hay una razón para hablar del futuro de nuestros jóvenes y qué debemos hacer al respecto. En esta conversación, me dirigiré a adultos y jóvenes, y tengo diferentes cosas que decirles a cada uno de ustedes. Así que, adultos que me escuchan, les hemos fallado a nuestros jóvenes. Están heredando un mundo roto e insostenible, y esto es un hecho innegable. No voy a edulcorarlo y decirles que es pan comido. No lo es. Este mundo no está bien ahora mismo y se lo estamos dejando. No lo crearon ellos. Lo hicimos nosotros. Entonces, ¿qué les estamos dejando? Les estamos dejando el cambio climático, que es realmente malo. Les estamos dejando inestabilidad política. Les estamos dejando inestabilidad económica. Esa es su herencia ahora mismo.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 2:32

Y, repito, hablo en términos generales, a nivel mundial. No me refiero a un país en particular en esta conversación. Hablo a nivel global, a todo el planeta. Hay zonas en las que algo de esto no es cierto, pero son la excepción, no la regla. Me gustaría decirlo así: les hemos dado un plato de mierda y esperar que hagan un pastel con él. No tiene ningún sentido, ¿verdad?

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 2:58

We have to stop telling our youth well, it was like this when we grew up. They don't give a crap what it was like when we grew up, because that's not the world they're living in. That is completely irrelevant to them. It goes in one ear and out the other because it's not relevant to them, because that's not the what they are experiencing. And adults listening. You need to understand that what it was like when you grew up is not the same for them. So let me give you some facts and figures to back up what I'm saying, just so you don't think I'm just talking out of my ass.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 3:28

Right now, the air that we breathe has more carbon dioxide than any other time in human history. Do y'all know what a big deal that is? How long have humans been on this earth? There has never been. Since we've been able to measure it, there has never been more carbon dioxide in the air than there is now. That is not a good thing, and for y'all non-sciencey people, that's bad. That's bad air, let's put it that way. It's gone up over 50% since factories and machines started running the world. Again, our youth did not do that. We did. Adults, we and our grandparents, we did that. And that extra pollution it is heating up the planet fast.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 4:11

I don't even understand why climate crisis is a debatable topic. It's real, it's happening, period. I really don't care what side of the aisle you fall on. That's the actual, scientifically proven truth. 2024 was the hottest year on record. Global temperatures were 1.28 Celsius warmer than the 20th century average, which means warmer than the average in the 1900s, following 15 consecutive months of record-breaking heat. So we've had a record-breaking heat in general terms on this earth right now. That's not good. And again, our youth did not do that. We did.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 4:55

3.6 billion people nearly half the world's population live in areas that are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts like drought, floods and extreme weather. 3.6 billion people, half the world's population. Do y'all hear that? This is the world we're leaving them? I really want you to get this picture. So cutting down trees is an issue too. We've heard about this. It's not just about losing forests. It's pumping more pollution into the air than all the cars in the world combined, and this is why Because trees clean our air, and the more we destroy them, the worse it gets. This is an actual fact. This is not opinions. This is facts. We're leaving them economic instability.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 5:37

Hablemos de algunos hechos. La situación financiera mundial no es tan buena como todos quieren hacerla parecer. China dice que nuestra economía está bien. Son mentiras geniales. Estados Unidos no está en recesión. Todo es mentira. Y muchos otros países, Japón y muchos otros, mienten sobre su economía porque nadie quiere admitirlo, nadie quiere que sus ciudadanos se asusten y nadie quiere que sus acciones bajen porque admitieron la verdad y ahora mismo son un desastre. La realidad es la economía mundial en general. Hay países que no lo están haciendo mal, por supuesto, pero en general, la economía mundial va muy mal. Los precios siguen subiendo, y esto no se limita a Estados Unidos. Muchas empresas están pasando apuros. Hay países enteros con problemas financieros, no solo Estados Unidos. Mucha gente lleva un tiempo enfrentándose a estos problemas, pero en Estados Unidos apenas estamos empezando a sentirlos.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 6:26

I am recording this in May of 2025. When this is listened to in the future, some of these facts may have changed. So I feel the need to say that I can only give you what is true right now. So people are working harder but getting less in return. And again, this is not just a US thing. This is across the globe and if this keeps up, this next generation will have even fewer opportunities.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 6:47

Y de nuevo, ellos no crearon la situación, los adultos, mis compañeros, nosotros sí. Escalada de guerras comerciales. Ahora todos sabemos que los sheriffs son malos y que están haciendo cosas malas ahora mismo, y no sé qué van a hacer en el futuro, porque solo puedo hablar de lo que están haciendo ahora mismo. Y actualmente Trump es presidente y ha estropeado muchas cosas, pero no todo es su culpa. Hubo muchas cosas estropeadas antes de que él llegara a la escena que no tenía nada que ver con las guerras comerciales. Empeoró las cosas con sus guerras comerciales, pero siempre hubo algunos problemas inestables antes de eso. Pero de cualquier manera, independientemente de quién sea la culpa o no, ninguno de nuestros jóvenes pidió eso, pero van a tener que lidiar con ello.

Fátima Bey, la transformadora de mentes: 7:28

El 40% de la población mundial vive en países en declive económico, con creciente desempleo e inestabilidad financiera. ¿Cómo se supone que un joven pueda tener esperanza en su futuro si sabe esto? Les soy sincero. Y, repito, no son opiniones ni sentimientos, son hechos. La inestabilidad política y los conflictos globales han aumentado muchísimo últimamente, y es una pena. Así que van 19 años consecutivos de declive.

Fátima Bey, la transformadora de mentes: 7:58

Global freedom has been shrieking for nearly two decades. Do you hear that? Adults that means our teenagers, our young adults do not know a world where global freedoms are not declining. Adults some of us actually do know that world, but our young people don't know that world. They didn't grow up in it. That's not a minor detail. That's not a minor detail at all. And then you wonder why some of our youth don't think it's a certain things are a big deal that we do. It's because they're used to it. They're used to the negativity. They're used to people making a big deal about everything. They're used to it. We didn't grow up that way. Adults think about that. Take that in your mind when you're dealing with youth and when you're talking to them. They are not growing up in the world we did so. Global freedom has been shrinking for almost 20 years.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 8:43

Political violence, election manipulation and armed conflicts have always been around, but they're increasing. I would say there was a lot of this back in the 80s and we're starting to reach that level again and going beyond it, and again, our youth did not ask for that. State-based armed conflict is the number one global risk right now. Did y'all know that Wars, coups and terrorism are escalating worldwide, making 2025 one of the most volatile years in modern history? This is what we're leaving them. They didn't ask for that and I'm going to keep saying that because I want y'all to understand what a big deal this is. And youth listening I want you to understand the world that you are actually living in 102% increase in civil unrest since 2011. That is about it's 2025. So in the past 14 years, protests, riots, strikes, et cetera, and the like have increased by 102%. Y'all hear that 102%. What does that tell you? That's not good, but hold on y'all.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 9:46

This whole message is not going to be hopeless. I'm just giving you some facts and figures so you can put a dot on the map and see where we really are, because you really can't figure out where to go if you don't know where you are. Worldwide, there's an increase in people being dissatisfied with their leadership and governance. There's legitimate reasons for that, and I'm not talking about one country, because this is a global issue right now. There are many, many reasons for that and the details vary per country, but that's a whole nother conversation. But the fact that it's increasing makes a lot of bad things more likely. So, as I said before, today's youth didn't cause any of this. Yet they're growing up in a world where they're going to have to deal with it.

Fátima Bey, la transformadora de mentes: 10:29

Cómo llegamos aquí no es su culpa. Es nuestra culpa, la de mi generación y la de las generaciones anteriores. Creamos el mundo en el que ahora crecen, pero esa no es la conversación en la que quiero centrarme. Cómo llegamos aquí es cómo llegamos aquí. Esa es otra conversación, y muchos podcasts hablan de ello. Pero quiero hablar de qué hacemos a partir de ahora. Aquí es donde estamos, no una fantasía de dónde queremos estar, ni un futuro esperanzador. Aquí es donde estamos. Entonces, ¿cómo llegamos a un lugar mejor?

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 11:02

Voy a usar esta analogía: estamos en una zanja. Cómo caímos en la zanja, de quién fue la culpa. Caímos en la zanja. ¿De verdad importa si quieres salir? No importa. Ahora, examina cómo caíste en la zanja, de quién fue la culpa, etc. ¿Quién es el dueño de la zanja? Todo ese examen posterior te ayudará a no volver a caer en una zanja. Genial, pero no te ayuda a salir de la zanja.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 11:24

So I want to focus on the conversation about how to get out of the ditch. I just sat here and explained only some facts about the ditch that we're in. How do we get out of the ditch? And I want to let you know that every single listener. Right now, you are part of that solution, so why does all of this matters? Right now, you are part of that solution, so why does all of this matters? Well, why am I talking about this? Adults? If we don't shift our thinking and get rid and shed some of the old bullshit that we were taught, this generation is going to suffer even more because, in order for things to change, they need our help. They need our help and if we want to get stuck in, this is the way it's been done for the past 45,000 years in my family. Well, guess what? It ain't freaking working, is it? Because we're in a ditch? It's time to help them and us climb out. We're going to need your help to do that.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 12:12

Youth, I want to plant a seed in your head today. If you are a young adult or a teenager, I don't care what country you're in A 17-year-old boy in China, 13-year-old girl in Zimbabwe, mongolia, guatemala, name a place. I don't care where you are in the world. I want you to rearrange your thinking to this. Stop being a trend settler and start being a trend setter. Settler and start being a trend setter. If you want a different world than the crappy one we're leaving you, you're going to have to rise up and do something about it, because, obviously, what we've been doing ain't working.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 12:50

Esto se refiere tanto a adultos como a jóvenes: los sistemas, las tradiciones y las normas culturales que nos han dejado tan mal como estamos. Nos han dejado destrozados. Necesitan ser desafiados, necesitan cambiar. ¿Qué significa esto? Se refiere a los adultos. Por difícil que sea, tendremos que reorganizar nuestra forma de pensar. Tendremos que deshacer algunas de las cosas malas que nos han enseñado, y algunas de las cosas que tal vez funcionaron de verdad para la generación de nuestros abuelos, la generación de nuestros padres, ya no funcionan. Tenemos que empezar a reconocer qué funciona y qué no. Tenemos que empezar a analizar y a pensar críticamente. Si no nos tomamos el tiempo para hacerlo, estamos condenados, al igual que nuestros jóvenes, y no quiero eso para ellos. No me molestaría en salir al aire y tener todo este episodio si no me importara. No quiero eso para ellos. Espero que a ustedes tampoco.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 13:45

Y, jóvenes, quiero retarlos hoy, ahora mismo, a que se levanten y dejen de conformarse con lo que les están enseñando. No estoy diciendo que deban ser unos idiotas rebeldes e irrespetuosos con los adultos que los rodean y que lo saben todo. No tienen que escuchar. No estoy diciendo nada de eso. Lo que estoy diciendo es que necesitan cuestionarlo todo y dejar de aceptar lo que ha sido, porque lo que ha sido no funciona. Si funcionara, estarían en una gran situación ahora mismo, y no lo estamos. Quiero que comiencen a desafiar todo lo que les enseñan en la escuela, todo lo que les enseñan en su cultura, y no me importa en qué parte del mundo se encuentren. Cuestionen todo en su cultura, y no me importa en qué parte del mundo se encuentren. Cuestionen todo. Ahora. Puede que lleguen a algunas de las mismas respuestas, porque no es que todo esté mal. No es que todas las tradiciones sean malas. Puede que lleguen a algunas de las mismas respuestas Hermoso, genial, pero cuestionenlas primero.

Fátima Bey, la transformadora de mentes: 14:29

I want to challenge you to rise up and stop settling for everything you're told. Stop just believing everything you're told, because half of what you're being told is a lie. And I don't care what country you're from, I don't care what color you are, what culture you're from A lot of lies in every culture in the world. Stop just believing everything you're told. Practice some critical thinking. Try to figure it out. Do some research. Don't just settle for everything you're told and take it, because if you do, you're going to drown with everybody else. The told and take it, because if you do, you're going to drown with everybody else.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 15:02

The change that needs to happen is going to have to come from you. You're the one that's going to have to live in this world. You're the one that's going to have to navigate your adulthood not being able to buy a house. You're the one that's going to have to navigate your adulthood not being able to have a job or find a way to make a living because of the economic status. Now, that's not true everywhere in the world. There's still some pockets in the world where things are good, but I'm talking in general terms.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 15:21

There's a lot of you that are going to suffer because you're not doing anything now and within this conversation, who I really want to talk to? My youth, my teenagers. Some of you are undiscovered leaders. Some of you have the solutions to our problems, but you're too busy trying to fit in. You're too busy trying to be accepted, so you don't allow that big brain of yours to come out your mouth. You've got to stop doing that, please. We need the great gifts that are in you.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 15:54

There's so many of you who are under 24 right now who actually have the answers that this world needs, or at least a piece of the answer that this world needs, but we're not getting it because you're believing everything you're told and you're shutting up and conforming and falling in line with the bullshit that your culture is teaching you. Stop it. We need what's in you and, yes, as you can hear, I'm very passionate about this because I see what's happening and I see where we're headed and I see the damage that's been done and if we don't rise up and make some waves right now, there's no way it's going to get better. I'm sorry, but there's no hope for the future. We leave things the way they are. That's just the truth, and I'm the first person to speak hope, but I'm also the first person.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 16:39

Para ser honestos, quiero que entiendan que el liderazgo no siempre implica un puesto o un título. Algunos de ustedes son líderes desconocidos, porque no se dan cuenta de que son líderes. Las soluciones están en su pensamiento. Cuando dije eso, es porque algunos de los descubrimientos científicos que aún no se han realizado se deben a que siguen reprimiéndolos. Dejen de reprimir su verdadero yo. Los necesitamos.

Fátima Bey, la transformadora de mentes: 17:01

There are so many of you that are so intelligent and so oh my God, so amazing, but you suppress the amazingness and you become like this mannequin dummy, just fitting in with everybody else. And the truth is is your greatness needs to be revealed. Everybody around you is not going to accept it. So, the hell, what? What do they know? I want you to understand that many of you are put on this earth to create change, and I'm encouraging you to make an effort at manifesting the things that are in your head, the solutions that you actually think about, but you think no one will accept. Those things need to be said out loud and let me explain this to you. I don't know if most of you realize this, but most inventions that we use right now, that are vital in our lives, were invented by someone who thought differently than everybody around them at the time, and that's why we have them.

Fátima Bey, la transformadora de mentes: 17:52

Many of you are the next innovators, the next politicians that are going to change countries, the next leaders that are going to help people to not starve and have clean water or whatever that are going to cure illnesses. But you're not going to get there unless you start rising up now and stop accepting everything as well. This is the way it has to be done. No, it doesn't. You are the one that needs to rise up and make this world better so that you can navigate it better, so that you and your future children can have a place to live in. That's good, that's decent, that's at least better. So again, question everything and don't just accept everything that we adults just tell you as well the way it is, so that no, no, no. Question everything. So this is not just a podcast episode where we tell you all the niceties and give you information. This is a movement and it needs to start now. Call it the mind shift movement. It needs to start now.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 18:51

Our, our youth. I want you to have a better future. I really do, but I want you to want that too. Stop accepting everything, and I want you to also know, youth, you have more power than you realize. If all y'all and we can, as adults say shut up, you don't know nothing, you're just young and stupid and all the other dumb stuff that adults say, we can say all that, but you have more power than you realize. You can move past that and do anyway. If all of you were to rise up together, us adults couldn't hold you back.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 19:22

Again, I'm not saying that you need to be crazy, rebellious and take over and try to kill all the adults or go crazy or whatever. I am not saying to go that far. What I'm saying is you need to rise up and take a stand. Become the next systems that actually work instead of the broken ones we're handing you. Create the next systems that actually work instead of the crumbling ones we're handing you. That's how you rise up. You rise up by taking a stand and not just settling.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 19:49

Demand better, demand better, and I don't mean spoiled brat. Demand better, I mean demand better systems. Demand better, and I don't mean spoiled brat. Demand better, I mean demand better systems, demand better government, demand better jobs. You don't just demand by walking up and say gimme, gimme, gimme. You demand by accepting not accepting less but at the same time, creating a solution that's better than what we have. You want a better world. Create the next solution instead of complaining about today's mess. The complaints about today's mess are very valid. However, don't just sit there and whine and complain. Stand up and create the systems that will do better than the ones that are failing you now.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 20:32

A global shift needs to start happening, and you know how a global shift will happen One person at a time. You think you're alone, but if you rise up, there's going to be two or three others that see you rise up and be like you know what. She's right, I'm going to rise up with her. And then two or three people are watching those two or three people and they start rising up too. Next thing, you know, you got the whole room risen. Change happens one person at a time, not a magical one-time movement. Change happens by you making a decision, one decision at a time.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 21:02

You know the reason why a lot of things are tolerated in certain societies, like domestic violence. I'll use that as an example. It's because not enough people stand up and say uh-uh, we're not allowing that. Oh hell, no. Because not enough people stand up and say, uh-uh, we're not allowing that. Oh, hell, no. So some of y'all need to have a hell no attitude when it comes to how things are handled in your school, in your church, in your mosque, in your government, at the job, at wherever. Some of you need to have a hell no when it comes to things that are actually wrong, not things that are uncomfortable, not just things that, well, I'm just, I don't like that. That's not good enough. I mean, when things are actually wrong and damaging, you need to have a hell no attitude. You know, where domestic violence doesn't happen, in the areas where the little coward who is the domestic abuser knows that he'll get his ass beat, he chooses another way. That's just a small example.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 21:58

Si tomas una posición, si decides que vas a tomar una posición, incluso si es sobre algo pequeño, es difícil ignorarlo. Entonces, aunque puedas ponernos de los nervios a los jóvenes adultos y jóvenes, puede que nos pongas de los nervios cuando tomas una posición porque no solo nos lo estás poniendo fácil. Entonces, ¿qué carajo? ¿Entonces qué? ¿Hacerlo de todos modos? Porque mereces un futuro mejor que el que te estamos dando. Así que este es tu futuro. No dejes que los sistemas obsoletos y las ideas erróneas te lo dicten, mis jóvenes adultos, mis adolescentes, por favor no dejes que sigamos arruinándolo. Este es tu futuro. Tómalo, porque nosotros no lo hemos hecho. ¿Y los adultos? He hablado tan mal de cómo nosotros, nuestros abuelos y nuestros bisabuelos hemos dejado este mundo, y es verdad, pero no es demasiado tarde para que hagamos una diferencia. Estoy marcando la diferencia al crear un podcast y un espacio para tener conversaciones que desencadenen algunas de estas cosas que mejoran lo que ya está sucediendo.

Fátima Bey, la transformadora de mentes: 22:57

¿Qué puedes hacer? No necesitas una plataforma como la mía para hacer algo. Soy una figura pública. Estoy en todas partes. Puedes buscarme en Google y verme. Estoy en todas partes. Soy una figura pública. Así que uso mi visión pública, mi plataforma pública, para ayudar. No tienes que ser visto como yo. Eres tan importante como yo. Puedes hacer algo en tu barrio. Puedes hacer algo ayudando a los jóvenes que te rodean, animándolos a emprender, animándolos a buscar más y a dejar de conformarse. Animándolos a dar lo mejor de sí mismos en lugar de conformarse. Si haces eso, estás haciendo tanto como yo. Eres igual de importante. Tú también puedes hacer algo, y algunas de las cosas de quienes son culpables son la razón por la que estamos aquí de nuevo.

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 23:42

I've stated some of that, but that's not really the point, and it's less important than the fact that our youth matter and if you want them to have a better future, start helping the youth around you now, not trying to bring them back to the olden times that we don't live in, but helping them to adjust and be realistic for the world that they're headed for, not just where we are, but where are we headed, and how can you help prepare them mentally to create a better world that they need? The world needs minds that are challenged and changed, and it all starts with you. You, listener. I don't care what age you are, I don't care what country you're in, what gender you are, what your economic status is. It starts with you, and I want to also state this real leaders don't wait for permission, they just take action, and some of you need to start doing that, because if we all started doing it, it would be hard to ignore and things would actually get done. So I want to ask you what are you willing to do today, listener?

Fatima Bey The MindShifter: 24:39

Les dejo esta cita. Es mía: "Hoy puede cambiar el mañana, pero solo si haces algo". Gracias por escuchar. No olviden seguir y suscribirse al podcast MindShift Power en cualquiera de nuestras plataformas internacionales y formar parte de las conversaciones que están moldeando el mundo del mañana. Este podcast es solo una rama del universo MindShift. Exploren más en FatimaBay.com y recuerden siempre que cambiar su forma de pensar tiene poder. Nos vemos la próxima semana.