Episodes
Monday Nov 25, 2019
Cindy Gallop: We Need To Talk About Porn. Here's How We Do It.
Monday Nov 25, 2019
Monday Nov 25, 2019
Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of www.makelovenotporn.com, which she launched with a viral TED talk in 2009 – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’. In 2013 she turned MakeLoveNotPorn into the world’s first user-generated, human-curated social sex video sharing platform https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/ socializing and normalizing sex in order to make it easier to talk about, to promote consent, communication, good sexual values and good sexual behavior. MakeLoveNotPorn is spearheading the Social Sex Revolution https://socialsexrevolution.com/ (the revolutionary part isn’t the sex, but the social). Cindy is raising the world’s first sextech fund http://www.alltheskyholdings.com/ . She speaks at conferences globally and consults, describing her approach as ‘I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.’
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Dr. Wednesday Martin is a feminist cultural critic and #1 NYT bestselling author. Her latest book, UNTRUE: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free was a Kirkus Review “Best Books of the Year” selection. Wednesday is also the co-host of the iTunes top-100 podcast "True Sex and Wild Love."
Wednesday Nov 06, 2019
James Maskell: The Power of Functional Medicine and Community to Transform Healthcare
Wednesday Nov 06, 2019
Wednesday Nov 06, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Sara Ness: The Power of Authentic Relating and Social Technologies
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Sara Ness is the Founder and Chief Instigator of Authentic Revolution. She began teaching Authentic Relating in 2012, founding a thousands-strong learning community in Austin, Texas and going on to train over 350 leaders and help found 30+ other communities worldwide. Sara is passionate about exposing the joy of human connection and exploring our creative potential through relationship. She has facilitated at schools, companies, yoga studios, a funeral, Burning Man, and more, bringing playful social technology into the mainstream and the non-mainstream.
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Aaron Rose is a transformational coach for public figures, inclusive culture consultant, motivational speaker and human being committed to changing and enjoying the world at the same time. He is devoted to healing our crisis of separation and political polarization by designing radically inclusive community cultures, facilitating individual recovery from trauma and isolation, and empowering the next generation of changemakers to lead the way.
Aaron has facilitated cultural transformation across multiple industries, from wellness and spirituality to tech and finance, using a unique mix of restorative justice, neuroscience, metaphysics, and meditation. His clients have included McKinsey & Co, Columbia University, Greenpeace, T-Mobile, and more. As a transformational coach and energy worker, Aaron helps public figures transcend their fears of criticism and embrace their unique role in building a better world. Having experienced both violent discrimination and unfounded privilege during his journey as a transgender man, Aaron is a champion of a world where we are celebrated for our unique incarnations while also transcending the labels that keep us divided.
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Arjuna Ardagh: The Life Changing Mindset Shift from Acquisition to Contribution
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Arjuna is a writer, public speaker and executive coach, who has trained more than 2000 coaches over the last 25 years.
He is the author of nine books, including the 2005 #1 National Bestseller The Translucent Revolution. His latest book, Radical Brilliance, is the anatomy of how and why people have original ideas which change the world.
He has been a speaker at conferences all over the world, including at Google and the United Nations. He lives with his wife, Chameli in Nevada City, California. They have two grown sons and two mischievous kittens.
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Michael Ventura: Applied Empathy - The New Language of Leadership
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Michael Ventura is the CEO and founder of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that has worked with some of the world's largest and most important brands: from Johnson & Johnson, Pantone, and Adobe to the TED Conference, Delta Airlines and The Daily Show.
While he wears many hats in his professional life, Michael can boil all his roles down to helping people and corporations overcome their most vexing challenges when it comes to personal development and understanding the obstacles when connecting with other people.
Michael has served as a board member and advisor to a variety of organizations, including Behance, the Burning Man Project, Cooper-Hewitt, and the U.N.'s Tribal Link Foundation. He is also a visiting lecturer at institutions such as Princeton University and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
In addition to these pursuits, Michael leads a thriving indigenous medicine practice, where he helps patients address illness and injury of all types on the road to better well-being. Applied Empathy, his first book, was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2018.
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Nir Eyal - How to become Indistractable in an Overwhelming World
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Nir Eyal is one of the leading behavioral design experts on the planet.
Nir is best known of author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, which sold over a quarter million copies and is a Silicon Valley must-read.
After writing the book and consulting for some of the top tech companies in the world (twitter, facebook etc) he realized that he had helped to create a monster. Technology companies were using these strategies so effectively that people were losing the power to control their attention, time and energy online.
So, he wrote another book to help people reclaim one of the most fundamental skills of the digital age...
Nir's new book recently launched and is called, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Nir’s perspective is very unique since he understands distraction from the inside out.
In this episode he shares some incredibly novel, practical insights, including:
- Why the root cause of distraction has nothing to do with our phones.
- Why we’re not actually “addicted” to our phones and why saying so is hurting us.
- How to finally focus and do what we say, in business and in life.
- How to create an indistractable workplace.
You can read what some very prominent people are saying about Indistractable here: NirAndFar.com/Indistractable.
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
For over a decade, AJ Harbinger has been helping people build confidence, deepen relationships, and create social capital. AJ has become one of the world’s top relationship development experts, and his company, the Art of Charm has become a leading training facility for top performers that want to overcome social anxiety, develop social capital and build relationships of the highest quality.
Following the path set out for him by his family, AJ studied biology in college and went on to pursue a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology at the University of Michigan. During this time, AJ realized he was struggling with social interactions and began exploring his interest in self-development. From this, The Art of Charm Podcast was born as AJ started recording episodes in the evenings. After seeing an opportunity to grow The Art of Charm, AJ made the difficult decision to leave the laboratory and graduate school and take a risky leap into the world of entrepreneurship.
The Art of Charm Podcast would go on to become one of the largest and most successful lifestyle podcasts in the world. What started out as two graduate students conversing and laughing in a basement in Ann Arbor has turned into a top-rated podcast and highly sought after coaching business.
Today, AJ and his co-founder at The Art of Charm teach people from all over the world how to create, develop, and maintain top business and personal relationships.
Thursday Sep 05, 2019
Nyla Rodgers - We Need to Disrupt Traditional Philanthropy
Thursday Sep 05, 2019
Thursday Sep 05, 2019
Nyla Rodgers is an activist, futurist, and non-profit leader with a passion for merging social impact with technology. She creates and runs organizations that transform communities, foster social entrepreneurship around the world, and advocates for greater generosity and partnership between the tech and non-profit worlds.
Nyla began her non-profit work in 2007 when she founded Mama Hope, a grassroots training program that equips social entrepreneurs with the tools to raise funding and build sustainable communities. The group has since built schools, health clinics, children’s centers, clean water systems and food security projects that have improved the health and economic standing of over 813,000 people throughout Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India and the U.S.
Nyla was inspired to create Mama Hope after her mother passed away of ovarian cancer. Before her death, she had raised $1,500 for a village in Kisumu, Kenya, and her gift made a massive impact, creating a bank that helped local women start their own businesses.
Nyla is also is a Co-Producer of the Stop The Pity campaign aimed at shifting the stereotypes of the global poor. Its videos have garnered over 14M views and were featured on CNN and Al Jazeera as well as at the Sundance Festival and SXSW.
In 2015 she was a finalist for the Global Citizen of the Year Award. In 2017 she was honored for her work as a Female Leader in Eileen Fisher’s Fall campaign “Power: In the Words of Women” and was profiled in Forbes under the headline: The Business of Hope: What It Takes and How One Woman Inspired it.
Recently, her work in fundraising has led her to become an activist and philosopher in the cryptocurrency space where she is a speaker and advocate for greater generosity and altruism in the crypto community.