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Donna Powell
Discernment is something that you don't get taught. In fact, they don't want you to know. But it is the most important thing and it's what's left out.
Billy Carson
There's core good values in a lot of different texts. And our job, I believe, is the discernment to take out what doesn't insult your soul and apply it in your life and get a good result out of it.
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Donna Powell and Billy Carson are visionary transformational leaders, bestselling authors and sought after speakers. Drawing from their passion for personal growth, self awareness and conscious living, they inspire people to lead with purpose, embrace transformation, and unlock their highest potential.
Donna Powell
You can't give respect to others if you don't respect yourself first. And you cannot have compassion for others if you don't first have compassion for yourself.
Billy Carson
Maya have a very ancient saying. It's called inlake ala kin and that means I am another you.
Donna Powell
What I do for self, I do for others. And what I do for others, I do for self. I have a land development project that is our first embassy for the new world, the new Earth, where we're unified in a regenerative agriculture project. Project. We're taking it from the clouds and turning it into the clay. We are the molding of new Earth.
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Jason
Welcome back, everybody to another episode of the Living your legacy podcast. I don't know if you guys can see this, but I may or may not be in the room with some heavy hitters today. Welcome to the show Ms. Donna Powell and the legendary Billy Carson.
Billy Carson
Thank you.
Jason
Thank you guys for being on the show. First of all, how are we feeling today? We are feeling excellent, fantastic, powerful, amazing. Another day in sunny South Florida. We. I got no complaints.
Donna Powell
77. Yeah.
Jason
So, Donna, we're about to go into filming your episode. And you know, I ask all my clients this before we go into filming. First of all, what do you think is like the most impactful part of your story that you want the audience to be able to take away from your episode?
Donna Powell
Transformation.
Jason
Talk to me a little bit more about transformation. What's the. What's on the other side of that transformation?
Donna Powell
Love.
Jason
We're giving.
Billy Carson
We got.
Jason
We got one more Answers here, but I'm going to need a little bit more from you.
Donna Powell
Right. Well, I'm on that. Well, if it's not love, it's an illusion. So transformation is taking the raw materials of lead and turning it into gold, taking hate and turning it into love. So realizing that we live in duality, and when you can transmute and rise to understanding that we live in duality and not taking it personally, then you can transmute it into love rather than hate or, you know, negativity, negativity, all that stuff that it's a waste of energy.
Jason
It serves us no purpose.
Donna Powell
It serves no purpose at all whatsoever.
Jason
And so I want to, you know, this is the audience's first time meeting you, Donna. Our audience is very, you know, they're very entrepreneurial, they're business minded. But I want to get a deeper dive on who is Donna Powell and who is Billy Carson? Where did this ethos of love come from? Kind of take me back to the, the, the moment of impetus that sparked this.
Donna Powell
Well, as a child was just a devout Jesus freak. You know, I love Jesus, and. And so I grew up in, you know, Texas and Oklahoma, where Bible Belt is, you know, that's where it is very prominent. Yeah, I live in the Bible Belt and I live in Oklahoma. And. And just from a young age, you know, my mom put me on the church bus, you know, with my, you know, we didn't have anything, but, you know, my mom still put us on the church bus, you know, and I noticed really early on in church that, you know, they bribed kids to go to church, you know, and we'd get the gifts and stuff, like.
Jason
So there was a, you know, there was an incentive.
Donna Powell
There was an incentive, yes. And the church bus came by and gathered up all the kids, took them to church. You know, that's what my memories are of going to church, because we were poor. Very, very poor. So, I mean, you got food and drinks and you got a little gift or something like that. So, I mean, that's where I first, you know, met Jesus and in Sunday school and, you know, and I was just naive and gullible enough to fall for it.
Jason
But it bleeds now into everything you do in the present day. It's gotta be something that is very hardwired into the core of who is Donna. Right.
Donna Powell
That is who I am.
Jason
And, you know, I meet a lot of folks, I talk to a lot of folks on this show about just values and what we value and how it bleeds into everything we do. Those values that were instilled in you from an early age. Talk to me about, like, what are some of your core beliefs that lead to the Donna that's sitting in front of me today?
Donna Powell
Forgiveness.
Jason
Huge one.
Donna Powell
Forgiveness. I mean, that's. That's, you know what? Forgiveness. Something that I don't teach you in church that you need to learn is discernment. Discernment is something that you don't get taught. In fact, they don't want you to know. But discernment is something that you're like.
Jason
That's one of the most important things.
Donna Powell
It is too. It is the most important thing. And it's what's left out. It is truly what's left out. Forgiving people every day, I mean, is very core principle. But without discernment, you forgive the wrong people.
Jason
Yeah, because the discernment kind of discernment is knowing that, like, I can. I forgive you. However, I don't need to continue to spend time in this scenario.
Donna Powell
That's right.
Jason
Because this is a, you know, you might be someone who's. Who's a serial offender of whatever. Whatever the act.
Donna Powell
Well, I live that. I'm forgetting I lived with serial offenders. I mean, that's was my life with serial offenders. But I thought that forgiveness and, you know, that's family. Blood's thicker than water. I mean, you hear all these scenarios, oh, you can't forget where you come from. You know, those are programmed in you at a young age. Oh, look at her. She forgets where she comes from. So even though I need to rise above that. You're conditioned to stay small because you don't want people to think that you forget your roots and where you come from and forget your family and forget those things. But those are programming to keep you from rising and to stay in. In lower vibration.
Jason
Now, Billy, I would love to get your take on religion and how it plays a role in building us into who we're meant to be.
Billy Carson
Yeah, well, religion is very powerful and it's very, you know, it's a structure, and a lot of people need a structure and a system. Matter of fact, that's what I teach in my. In my mentoring programs. And I teach a structure and a system that helps people get to the next level. So it has its purpose within structure and system. This, the deep core spiritual principles are the real true knowledge, Though, like, the spiritual aspect of, like Donna didn't really touch on, but that's really where she's into the spiritual aspect of understanding this on a deeper level. Not just a structured system that kind of man created. But these systems are there to help guide and ultimately it was to help people rise. Unfortunately, you know, anything that man corrupt, anything that man touches is corrupted. So there are some corrupt aspects of it. But there's really good information in the spiritual access to Jesus, to the biblical text, to other religious texts. There's core good values in a lot of different texts. And our job I believe is the discernment to take out what doesn't insult your soul and apply it in your life and get a good result out of it.
Jason
And you know, I love that you bring up other religious texts as well because kind of a core belief of mine, you know, I'm a Christian, I'm a follower of Christ, but I also believe that if you take, if you look at most religions from a 30,000 foot view, you can start to identify a lot of core principles that are unanimous amongst them. Right, Love thy neighbor, do no wrong unto others. That's kind of a core tenet that follows along. And then as you go back even further and further in history, you start to realize like we've been kind of
Donna Powell
saying the same thing, have been saying the same thing spiritually.
Jason
And where does it tie back to what we talked about in the beginning? Love, love, love is the, I think the ultimate thesis of religion. What would be your guys take on that?
Donna Powell
Yes, that's what my book is all about. I wrote a book, I've got a three book series that's called the A game. The original, the first one is called Awakening to Ascension and actually it takes the principles of 12 different religions along with psychology, neuroscience, ancient wisdom teachings and shows you where it's all saying the exact same thing. And it all points back to love. And before I started the research and once I started my crucifixion and tomb process, it was realizing that people don't live by these core principles, the ones that's preaching them and expecting you to live by them, they don't live themselves. And so I just set out on the journey and in my book on the a game Awakening to Ascension, it explains how to go through the process of 18 stages of how you awake to ascension. Ascension and how you become that Christ, you know, and it's through Christ consciousness and how you learn to raise your consciousness to that of Christ and to the Sophia Christ to, to not only embody it well, it teaches you how to embody it and how to teach others how to embody Christ.
Jason
I would love to.
Donna Powell
Through self awareness.
Jason
Through self awareness is the key there as well. And I. I would love to get. I've talked about this a couple of times on this show. So anybody that's a serial watcher of the show will know that what I'm about to bring up. But I would love to get you guys take on. Have you guys heard of cosmic egg theory?
Billy Carson
Cosmic Egg theory?
Jason
Yes.
Billy Carson
That's interesting. Can you give me a brief summary?
Jason
So cosmic egg theory posits that there's. That the universe in and of itself is an egg, and there's actually only one consciousness in the universe. And that singular consciousness is going to embody every living being throughout time. So time is nonlinear. So say, for example, I die and I go up, I become one with the Creator again, and then he sends me back down to come and have another experience. Right. And next time when I come back, I might be sitting in your chair. I might be sitting in Billy's chair.
Donna Powell
Yeah.
Billy Carson
These are the core things that I actually teach.
Donna Powell
Yes.
Jason
And so if that one soul is coming back down to. And so the purpose of the egg, right. Is for that one soul or that one consciousness to experience every variable of consciousness and every variable of experience.
Donna Powell
And that's what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches you got 12 disciples and you have to live through every life of the disciple and then be crucified and resurrected back as your Christ self. And then you get to escape the
Jason
egg, and you escape the egg and the egg hatches. Right.
Donna Powell
And then create a new world.
Jason
And then you repeat the process. Let's create another one, let's do it again. And so like within cosmic egg theory, the whole thing is experience is the point.
Donna Powell
The point.
Jason
The experience is the point. And when you're tr. When we say, when we talk about love and we talk about treat others as you would want to be treated, not only from the perspective of like, just do good for good sake, but also from the perspective of you are me, I am you. Yeah, right.
Donna Powell
Like, you are just a projection of me.
Jason
Exactly. And so like I, when I heard about cosmic egg theory, I was like, oh, that makes a lot of sense actually.
Donna Powell
And until I embody the same spirit as you, then I'm going to automatically attract you to me. And until I have raised my conscious to that of your vibration, then I'm going to vibrate you into my radius, you know, into my nucleus, you know.
Billy Carson
And then the core principles that I taught for so many years, understanding that God, the creator that created this entire multiverse, is living subjectively through each and every one of us, but not even through every one of us, even through each and every individual atom. Correct. Each atom vibrates and each atom is vibrating and transmitting. And I believe that how you get omnipotence and omniscience is through this vibration, through this frequency, that everything is resonating and transmitting its experience back to source.
Jason
You know, it's funny, there's a recent study that came out that it's a theory, more than a study, but it theorizes that DNA in and of itself functions similarly to an antenna. And that antenna is like you were
Donna Powell
saying, through your chakra system.
Billy Carson
Yeah.
Jason
Transmitting vibrational frequencies back to. We don't know where. Yeah, we don't know where source is or what source.
Donna Powell
Everything and all things.
Jason
Everything is source.
Donna Powell
Nothing and everything.
Jason
Then go back to quantum. Quantum mechanics. And there's. So I. I could nerd out about this.
Billy Carson
They made a lot of progress in that area you're talking about right now in quantum mechanics.
Donna Powell
Oh.
Billy Carson
They discovered George Church scientist named George Trist was able to convert his ebook into From Zeros and ones into ACs, Ts and GS and download it onto a drop of DNA.1 gram. He then replicated the ebook 80 billion times. And he discovered that one drop of DNA can store 433 petabytes of data.
Jason
Petabytes.
Billy Carson
Petabytes.
Jason
All right. I work in film, I work in production. I think I probably have in storage about 250tb. What is a petabyte?
Billy Carson
A thousand terabytes.
Jason
Oh, wow.
Donna Powell
We are the quantum computer. Yeah, I mean, we. This is a quantum computer that. We are the computer. We can. I mean, there's nothing that's going to outsmart us. I mean, because we are the ones that create it.
Jason
And when we think about, you know, computational, when we think about ourselves as a computer, we mostly think about the mind. When you think about what a human being is, we're technically, we are the brain, a central nervous system and our nerves that. And then everything else is kind of just a flesh suit to protect that. Right. And so we experience everything through our vagus nervous system and through the brain that is processing what the nervous system is telling it.
Donna Powell
And when you activate your pineal gland and that's when you activate. Which is calcified now. And we've lost so, so much of it. We've lost so much. But you can activate it, I mean, with intention. And you can also clear your chakra systems to where you are a direct antenna, you know, and there's your chakra system goes above your head and below your feet. And once you get these all clear and spinning correctly, and then you can start that yourself as the, the nucleus of the whole universe is flowing through you, and you can feel it and see it, and your heart does radiate a beacon. I mean, you can close your eyes and see the beacon.
Jason
Now, for you guys out there that are watching, you might be seeing this episode and being like, oh my God, Jason's having his ultimate nerd out experience. And I am. But I do want to make sure that you guys check out Donna's episode of Kingdom Creators, which is going to come out shortly following this podcast episode. So if you think we're a deep dive now, I want you to simply imagine taking that into a 90 minute interview session and then compressing that down into her episode. I mean, it's going to be, I'm, I'm super excited.
Donna Powell
We're taking it from the clouds and turn it into the clay. We are the molding of new Earth
Jason
that, you know what that goes back to? That goes back to the experience thing, right? Which is like when, when an idea comes into your head. I'm, I'm a creator, right? I'm a creative. So I, when an idea floats into my brain from wherever, wherever it comes from, from, from source, right? My job as a creative is all right. I have to make that manifest into reality. And that is when we're in the truest sense, acting as God.
Billy Carson
Absolutely. Without a doubt.
Donna Powell
If we are not creating, we're not, we're not, we're not being our godly selves. God wants us to create because he is a creator. And if we're him, then we are creating. And as long as we're creating and building, he's, you know, oh my gosh, he's excited. But if you're just sitting there, not creating, then of course you're just an npc.
Jason
Yeah, I, I, I never like using the term npc because I, I, I love to view everyone around me as
Donna Powell
like, well, they can rise.
Jason
They can rise.
Donna Powell
And every time we rise, they rise with us.
Jason
Absolutely.
Donna Powell
Because you, what we do for ourselves, we do for every other person. Because every other person is us.
Jason
See that? And that goes back to the whole core of this conversation, which is treating like I, I love every human being as if they are not only an extension of myself, but as if they are Christ or as if they are my brother, my sister, my mother, my, my father. You know what I mean? I love God's creation. I love every one of his kids. Sometimes I might not like him so much.
Donna Powell
But of course. And we disappointed that we're human. We are here on earth to experience five senses, you know, so those. I mean, that's incredible. To be here and to be able to experience our five senses. I mean, that's. That's understanding your anger, that it's reason. That's to burn those old ways away. Yes, you got to get angry. Yes. You got to show your power. Do you need to project that onto everybody and everything? No, but you can be powerful and you can use that anger. You got to. That's called alchemy. You cannot transmute without the fire. You know, the anger is going to give you the energy to say, I want to change. But until you get the fire, then you can't turn it to gold.
Jason
Until you get the fire, you can't start the process of forging.
Donna Powell
That's 100%. You can't forge it. You can't take it from the clouds and put into the clay because you. You need that energy. And then you, like, you take all that power and. Hush, Calm down, Donna. Oh, don't talk about that. You know, because they don't want. They're scared of your power because they're scared of what you're gonna. What you're gonna create.
Jason
Now, there's one. As we sort of wind down here, because I. I mean, we could sit here and do the. We'll just do the whole episode as a podcast, but as we wind down here, there's one key question. We're here at Inside Success. I asked this of all my guests here on the show, and I want to pose this question to both of you guys. What is. And I'll start with you, Donna. What is your number one key for success?
Donna Powell
Love.
Jason
The key is love, love, love.
Donna Powell
Loving myself and loving others equally.
Jason
I'm 100% in agreement with you on that, and I'll pose the same question to you, Billy. What is your number one key for success?
Billy Carson
Well, for me, the number one key for success, of course, love's involved in it, but it's really understanding the recipe and the recipe that exists. It works in anything that you do. The recipe first is believing in yourself, trusting yourself, finding your passion, right? And working within that passion. Because the secret to making money is to find a need and fill it. But if you can do it within your passion, something that you're passionate about, you can find a need for that passion in the world, and you exchange energy for that need and that want for what you're good at, then money is just a side effect in your bank account so you don't have to chase money. You just follow your passion. Money shows up in your account, and
Donna Powell
it's no longer work. So then one work becomes one world unified on respect and compassion first for yourself, because you can't give respect to others if you don't respect yourself first. And you cannot have compassion for others if you don't first have compassion for yourself. So it's like the dragon eating its tail, you know, what I do for self, I do for others, and what I do for others, I do for self. And it's a. It's. It's just.
Jason
I think that's one of the hardest things for people to realize, is that the love for self projects outward and becomes love for others.
Billy Carson
Yeah.
Donna Powell
Well, we go back to ancient wisdom teaching, know thyself, because once you know yourself, nobody can tell you who you are and what you're capable of. So that's the first step. And then as above, so below, as within, so without. You can now have peace outside of you if you don't first have peace within. And you can't bring heaven to earth, you know, if you don't again have peace within to have it without and to bring, you know, heaven above to earth. And that's how you take it out of the clouds and bring it into the clay.
Jason
Even when you go back to just the story of creation, Right. God's first words to Moses were, I am.
Donna Powell
I am the I am. And who is the I am?
Jason
I am.
Donna Powell
Correct. So no one's outside of you. It's nothing outside of you. You said it from the beginning. I am the I am. And who is the I am? I am.
Billy Carson
Well, the thing about it, Don, is your project is called, you know, the Maya Cocoon.
Donna Powell
Yes.
Billy Carson
And the Maya have a very ancient saying. It's called Inlake Alakin. And that means I am another you.
Jason
That's right. And so, man, I could do.
Donna Powell
And we've got big projects coming on about the Maya Cocoon and how we take this one world united on respect and compassion, and we build this new earth together and, you know, become ambassadors of the new Earth and say, you know, what if we quit looking at the old Earth and worrying about what everybody else is doing and focus on our full attention and our full power as creator beings, you know, on new Earth and creating unity, you know, the 1 of the 99. You know, we unite the 99. You know, we're not worried about the 1%. You know, let's unite the 99. And then we become the 1% and it starts back at 199.
Jason
And then the cycle in the cycle again.
Donna Powell
Yes. And then we create what? The Age of Aquarius, which is out of the Age of Pisces, which was, you know, a different time. You know what? And we're moving on. Let's move on. Let's move on.
Jason
Shout out to the rest of my Aquarians in the building, big up Aquarius. As we kind of wind down here, I want to back to what you were talking about just a moment ago, which is your projects coming up. Where, first of all, where can people find you guys on social media, on your different websites? I know, Donna, you've got several different
Donna Powell
businesses, but I do, I do. And I've put my full focus in Belize. It's a small country in Central America. English is their speak first language. Their USD is tied to the. I mean, their money, their currency is tied to the USD 2 to 1. And their laws is based on like British laws. So it's very same as us. I'm sorry, I don't know how to speak.
Billy Carson
But.
Donna Powell
But I have a land development project that. That is our first embassy for new. The new World, the new Earth of where we're unified in a regenerative agriculture project that Billy Carson is in. Forbidden Knowledge is working with me on. And, and we're looking for funders who wants to be part of a regenerative program that we have. Once we blueprint it and we show that it's functioning, we want to take the same blueprint and create it in Sierra Leone and other countries throughout the world that we have our own embassies, you know, and you know what? We're just, we're saying we're starting it. No one's above anybody. We're just willing to say that we're going to. I'm going to put my. I put my money and my name on it, you know, because this is where I'm going. I don't know where everybody else is going to, and it's not my problem. All I have to do is know where I'm going, I know who I am, I know where I've been and I know where I'm going and I'm going.
Jason
And that's the creation again.
Donna Powell
That's creation.
Jason
You had the idea, you said, you know what? I'm putting pen to paper. I'm putting action into it. And now it is manifest.
Donna Powell
It is manifesting. It's manifesting fast and it's in real time. I mean, we're in real time. We're not. This isn't something that we're thinking about or we're dreaming about. No, it's in the clay. I mean, we've got the contract signed. We got the deposits done. Now we're just looking for the 91 people who want to help fund our
Jason
project for the viewers out there, anywhere that they can find your organization. I know you mentioned that you have. You also have your coaching program. Where can people find you?
Billy Carson
Well, they can go to the four. The number four for bkacademy.com that's my online mentoring program, as well as forbidden knowledge.com again with the number four. Or forbidden knowledge AI with the number four. And of course, podcasts. Any platform, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Unite the 99, my own social media platform. Just look for the forbidden knowledge information.
Donna Powell
And mine is a game of alchemy.com
Jason
per and11.org one work.org and I'll make sure, you know, I'll have our editors throw up some different links down here. I'm just pointing in directions, but I'm sure it'll show up on the screen somewhere in the edit. But, guys, it has been an absolute pleasure having you on the show, and I think we're ready to roll into your interview. You ready?
Donna Powell
Thank you.
Jason
Let's do it. Let's do it. All right, guys, this has been another episode of the legacy podcast.
Donna Powell
Let's play the aame.
Jason
Let's play the aame. Let's do it. I'll catch you guys in the next one.
Episode Title: How Discernment Turned Pain Into Purpose
Date: August 7, 2026
Host: Jason (for Rudy Mawer)
Guests: Donna Powell & Billy Carson
This episode of Living Your Legacy dives deep into the themes of discernment, transformation, and the alchemy of turning pain into purpose. Visionary leaders Donna Powell and Billy Carson share their personal journeys—from navigating the challenges of upbringing and religion to building impactful businesses and movements centered on love, consciousness, and self-awareness. The conversation covers practical spirituality, the power of self-respect, ancient wisdom, and how legacy entrepreneurs can harness their life experiences to create meaningful change.
| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|---------------|-------| | 00:00 | Donna Powell | “Discernment is something that you don't get taught. In fact, they don't want you to know. But it is the most important thing and it's what's left out.” | | 02:32 | Donna Powell | “If it's not love, it's an illusion. So transformation is taking the raw materials of lead and turning it into gold, taking hate and turning it into love.” | | 05:39 | Donna Powell | “Those are programming to keep you from rising and to stay in lower vibration.” | | 11:29 | Billy Carson | “God, the creator that created this entire multiverse, is living subjectively through each and every one of us, but not even through every one of us, even through each and every individual atom.” | | 12:40 | Billy Carson | “He discovered that one drop of DNA can store 433 petabytes of data.” | | 15:27 | Donna Powell | “If we are not creating, we're not, we're not, we're not being our godly selves...As long as we're creating and building, he's excited.” | | 17:42 | Donna Powell | “Love. Loving myself and loving others equally.” | | 17:54 | Billy Carson | “The secret to making money is to find a need and fill it. But if you can do it within your passion...money is just a side effect.” | | 19:01 | Donna Powell | “Know thyself, because once you know yourself, nobody can tell you who you are and what you're capable of.” | | 19:46 | Billy Carson | “The Maya have a very ancient saying. It's called Inlake Alakin, and that means ‘I am another you.’” |
Donna Powell:
Billy Carson:
Reflective, passionate, action-oriented, and filled with practical wisdom. The dialogue is candid yet hopeful, blending deep spiritual concepts with entrepreneurial energy.
This episode articulates a holistic approach to entrepreneurship and legacy-building, rooted in discernment, self-love, unity, and the courageous pursuit of purpose amid pain. Donna Powell and Billy Carson encourage listeners to cultivate awareness, embody ancient wisdom, and actively create the future—both for themselves and for the world.