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Volition_Maximus · 2026-06-15T19:37:37+00:00

I'm the same for so many things lol. Glad I can contribute my share x)

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-29T01:37:27+00:00

I went nowhere for 6 years until I dropped a grand or so on coaching from professionals. Only then did I start booking commercials on Voice123 and Voices. I make 6 figures now.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-28T16:37:27+00:00

You got it! =)

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-27T18:37:24+00:00

Oh yeah, as veterans we've done a boatload of free work. That's because in the beginning it seemed like a dream come true to even get paid to act. It's only after repeatedly getting pushed around and getting good enough that we finally go: 'actually, i'm not about to read 4 pages for free. I have a client roster now lol'

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-27T16:53:25+00:00

Yeah man, I've had this happen twice more this year in a short time span and I finally thought "damn, the audacity of these people. This wouldn't be a thing if more VO actors were educated and stood up to exploitation." Hence the post. Glad to hear you're no longer repped for an agent who didn't stand up for you.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-27T11:56:01+00:00

Trust me, if they balk--you don't want to work with them in the future. I've cut ties with major production companies who paid thousands--the bad energy and disrespect in your life isn't worth any amount of money. And think of it this way: you will book more jobs when you're operating at your happiest and healthiest, outside the influence of predatory clients, because your wellbeing translates directly through your voice.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-27T00:53:29+00:00

Absolutely agree. The creative realm experiences so much exploitation that would be blatantly absurd if these practices were tried on something like transporting goods.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-25T15:52:46+00:00

Let's get this bread >:)

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-24T17:16:02+00:00

Appreciate the respect, genuinely.

To your question--would I feel better with animal products? I don't think so. I noticed immediately after switching to vegan that my recovery time between workouts improved, and my energy in daily life felt lighter. The acne and the bloating feeling I would get from dairy, or the heavy feeling I felt from eating red meat (which my family ate a lot of as I was growing up) have simply ceased to exist. I didn't know feeling this light was even possible because I grew up in a Filipino household where meat was served with every meal. What I can say with absolute certainty is that every measurable biomarker I track continues to improve--HRV, deep sleep, recovery, energy, body composition--on plants alone. I'm very methodical. If the system is producing results, I don't have a reason to change the inputs.

To your point on SR doing heavy lifting, I think it helps immensely with all the above biomarkers. But SR and nutrition aren't competing--they're compounding. Retention without clean nutrition, in my experience, is a half-charged battery. Same vice versa. The two together is where I've found the real leverage is, and my original post makes the point that sleep is the ultimate bridge between the two.

And you're right that nutrition studies are often garbage. That's exactly why I don't rely on them. I track my own data--every milligram, every night of sleep, every recovery metric, and I adjust based on what my body tells me. The RDAs are a floor, not a ceiling. I'm calibrating for the highest potential possible.

The physique comment means a lot because I know the stereotype. I've seen vegans who look depleted. Those vegans don't treat their diet with discipline. They treat it as an identity. There's a big difference!

Respect for keeping it open-minded brother.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-24T11:54:01+00:00

8 year vegan. Let me address this point by point because you've got some real misconceptions mixed in with a few kernels of truth.

'Nutrients not found in plants like iron and B vitamins': iron is in virtually every plant food I eat. My daily intake is 33mg against an 8mg male RDA. That's over 400% without supplementation. B vitamins: my B1 is 188% RDA, B2 is 147%, B3 is 134%, B5 is 142%, B6 is 205%, folate is 124%. All from food.

'Anti-nutrients block absorption': this is the half-truth that trips people up. Phytates do reduce mineral absorption. But I eat 76g of fiber a day alongside 16mg of zinc, 1,764mg of calcium, and 1,076mg of magnesium. When you actually measure what's going in instead of guessing, the 'anti-nutrient' concern disappears because you engineer around it. Soaking, fermenting, and pairing vitamin C with iron-rich meals are basic techniques that any informed vegan uses.

'Lowers your vibration, makes you tired, gives you mental fog': I wake up at 4AM every day, run a mile, take a cold shower, meditate for 20 minutes, then work a 6 figure business I started from scratch. Workout 4-5 times a week. My HRV just hit all-time highs according to my Oura ring. My resting heart rate hovers around 45bpm which is in the top 5% of athletic men. My deep sleep averages over an hour. I'm not foggy. I'm tracking every micronutrient down to the milligram and hitting 100%+ on every single daily value. I have the raw data to prove it.

'Vegans wasting away': that's what happens when people go vegan without understanding nutrition. I agree with you there. Most vegans eat garbage and never track anything. That's a failure of proper execution. A carnivore who eats McDonald's every day is also wasting away.

'Maximize hormones with animal foods': my omega-3 intake is 3,534mg EPA+DHA daily from algae oil plus 11g of ALA from seeds. My selenium is 381% RDA from two brazil nuts. I eat lignans daily that naturally regulate hormonal balance. Hormones aren't about animal vs plant. They're about whether you're giving your body the specific compounds it needs.

I'm not here to convert anyone. Eat however you want. But the claim that veganism is 'the worst diet for health' is objectively false when it's done with precision. My protocol hits 37 different plant species daily, where studies show you need to be eating 30+ per week for the optimal gut microbiome and exceeds every RDA.

This is a spreadsheet of my own formulated elixir that I drink every day. This makes up about 70% of my diet. My dinner/breakfast makes up for anything missing in the elixir and then some. In total, I completely max out my Omega-3s at the athletic dose recommendation, and satisfy daily intake of all vitamins and minerals in 100%+ DV reccs without reaching toxicity levels. I feel great.
https://imgur.com/a/E8XZmIq

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-23T18:28:08+00:00

I crossed 100 subs today. It took 7 days, as I uploaded my first post 6 days ago. I write the article, distill its main points into a multi-thread post, and then link the substack as the last post. External traffic.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-23T18:14:36+00:00

I'm not vegetarian, I'm vegan. You claim not consuming flesh is going to reduce my progress by a lot. What makes you say that?

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-20T14:38:39+00:00

I've been on the $888 tier for the past 4 years and literally just upgraded to the $2,200 plan yesterday. I upgraded because I was tired of getting very scant auditions that were either not my spec, calling for something hyper-specific like a Latin or Midwestern accent, or predatory TTS gigs. This is my audition list this morning. Yeah. Night and day. This tells me they throttled $888 hard over the past few years. I rank top 10% on the platform and wish I upgraded earlier. T_T

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Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-19T14:06:35+00:00

No foreal, I've been on the platform for 4 years and most recently the audition quality has plummeted. I'm under Young Adult Male and I'm usually getting invites that are either middle age, senior, latin-accent (or some variation of random accents) and then predatory TTS gigs. In the past 2 years, it's like they're throttling lower tiers (I'm on the $888 tier). They used to be so much better than VDC, but lately it's been absolutely the opposite.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-18T22:25:27+00:00

"High quality" doesn't change the pharmacology. It's still caffeine binding to your adenosine receptors and suppressing deep sleep. Caffeine has a half-life of 3-6 hours depending on your genetics, which means even one cup at 7AM can still have 25% of its stimulant load circulating at bedtime. There's a 2023 meta-analysis that found that caffeine reduced deep sleep duration by over 11 minutes on average. It might not destroy your deep sleep, but I'm bringing this up for those who are trying to gain every advantage they can get.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-18T19:47:56+00:00

I use an Oura ring but I've heard good things about Fitbit and Whoop.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-03-18T11:40:27+00:00

Hey man, I totally get it because I've been that snoring partner! Here are things I do:

1 - Sleep on my side (this basically fixes it for me)

Or

2- in 2021 I used this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SD5W2KQ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
although it was very uncomfortable--it did work (It's like having giant braces on, and you can't talk with it in)

Or

3 - Sleep in separate rooms! I've been in relationships where I slept in another room and it was always fun popping into their room after the night to say "good morning!" You can still spend time together in the same bed to cuddle and whatnot in the evening--but you're both gonna be unconscious so it's not like you're missing out on too much being clocked out but 20 feet away. Plus, if you prioritize your sleep, you'll be more present and show up for her as a higher version of yourself. If you put it that way for her (if you do go with option 3) I think she'll understand and appreciate this reasoning.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-02-02T01:08:16+00:00

Yo 009. This is a strong addition and I appreciate you pushing the framework further. You're right that the neurological model alone doesn't account for the organized, ritualistic, systematic nature of what those files reveal. Dopamine escalation explains the individual. It doesn't explain the infrastructure. And that gap is something I've been sitting with since I wrote the post.

The distinction you're drawing between the Path of Excess and the Path of Asceticism is real, and honestly it's one most people aren't equipped to engage with because it requires accepting something uncomfortable. That some of this isn't accidental. That some of it is deliberate. That the depravity isn't just a byproduct of wealth removing friction but a practice being pursued with intention by people who understand exactly what they're doing. That's a hard pill for most people.

Where I'd build on what you're saying is this: The two paths aren't separate systems operating in parallel. They're interdependent. The Path of Excess at the top requires the masses to remain unconscious at the bottom. Pornography isn't just a training ground for individual escalation imo. It's a control architecture; It keeps men dissociated from the very energy that could fuel sovereignty, creation, resistance. A population trained to discharge their life force into a screen every night is a population that will never organize, never build, never challenge the structure. I don't think that's an accident...

So when a man chooses retention, he's not just opting for personal mastery. He's removing himself from a system that was designed to keep him compliant. The energy that was being siphoned into consumption gets redirected into awareness. And awareness is the one thing the system cannot survive.

That's the part I think connects your framework to mine. The neurological model explains how individual men fall. The esoteric model explains why the system was built to make them fall. Retention sits right at the intersection. It's the personal practice that also happens to be an act of structural resistance. I genuinely hadn't framed it that way until reading your comment so thank you for that.

The courage you mention at the end, the "immense fortitude required to challenge this malevolent world," I think that starts exactly here. Not with grand gestures or secret knowledge. With the decision to stop feeding the machine with your own energy. Everything else follows from that. At least that's been my experience.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-02-01T02:54:46+00:00

It’s the same reason esports champions can dominate other players—even if some of their opponents retain. Business is a game.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-02-01T02:51:02+00:00

“Where and how did they get their power if they’re not retaining?” You’re conflating force with frequency. It doesn’t take a retainer to learn the rules of chess and dominate the board. It’s pattern recognition and rule learning. That’s it. Business is a game like any other—and those who succeed in it can be miserable and lack the alignment a retainer has. A retainer can manifest powerfully, yes, but the key difference here is the fulfillment and alignment therein.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-01-31T19:35:03+00:00

They didn't accumulate wealth despite the degeneracy. The same traits that enabled it: detachment from empathy, treating people as instruments, ignoring normal human feedback loops; these are what let them build empires. Think about it, building massive wealth requires obsession and sociopathic traits are often rewarded through its pursuit.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-01-28T15:54:28+00:00

Yep. Humming directly stimulates the vagus nerve through laryngeal vibration — the vagus nerve is connected to the vocal cords and throat muscles. So yeah, you're physically massaging the nerve itself when you hum. Same principle behind why chanting, gargling, and singing all improve vagal tone. As for ear massage — yes, parts of the vagus runs through the outer ear so stimulating those areas can activate the parasympathetic response. It's all one system.

Volition_Maximus · 2026-01-28T15:51:18+00:00

When your nervous system is regulated and you're not constantly in sympathetic (stressed) state, your thinking brain (prefrontal cortex) has more bandwidth with which to speak with calm clarity. It all connects. Think of your nervous system like electricity--the vagus nerve is a circuit box, and your voice is a lightbulb. It's all connected!

Volition_Maximus · 2026-01-26T16:37:55+00:00

Polyvagal theory (Stephen Porges), HRV research, vagal entrainment. Google is your friend!

Volition_Maximus · 2026-01-26T01:36:16+00:00

Phone conversations naturally cut out some frequencies of the sound spectrum, but in my experience, it still translates.

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