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A page built to support people understand their life map better and provide Humans with a pathway to move forward in their life in a way where their Life Map is clear and ready to grow and Expand. I am a strong believer in Humanity and the power of our Emotions, as a Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach and Assessor, I am positive that our emotions drives us and helps us build Empathy towards each other and it is definitely our way forward as individuals and leaders.Connect with me through ...
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#151 Ever Unfolding (with Steve March)
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What if everything you’ve learned about self-development is actually making things harder for you? What if there was a way to shift from the self-improvement paradigm, which leaves many of us feeling caught in a constant flux of trying to “fix” ourselves, towards one that nourishes our sense of innate wholeness and resourcefulness? For Steve March,…
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Four years ago, in the wake of nationwide lockdowns necessitated by the pandemic, the Wonder Dome was born from a need to foster a space for connection, healing, and hope for humanity. 150 episodes later it continues to endeavor to provide guests and listeners alike with a space of rest and repose for the soul. In this special episode, Andy takes a…
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Throwback Thursday Ep: #104 Showing Up For Life (with Parker Palmer & Carrie Newcomer)
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This Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes featuring long-time collaborators Parker Palmer and Carrie Newcomer. Parker is a celebrated author, educator, and activist. He and Carrie, the award-winning singer and songwriter, have produced a number of stage productions centered around collective healing and reimagining of o…
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Aaron Cantor is a movement coach, bodyworker, personal trainer, yogi, and movement generalist. He’s the founder of Primal Practice, an intuitive and playful method of fostering wellness through the development of mindfulness and movement skills. He’s also a coach with Evolve Move Play, a collective that empowers people to cultivate transformative m…
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#148 It Makes a Village (with Jonathan Smales)
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Jonathan Smales is the founder and CEO of Human + Nature, a campaigning development company working to create “a far, far better future” through sustainable building and design. As a former MD of Greenpeace (UK), a sustainability advisor to the government, and developer of some of the UK’s first major sustainability projects, Jonathan’s expertise i…
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#147 Playing in the Fourth Moment (with Catherine Bell)
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Catherine Bell is a successful entrepreneur, business leader, and best-selling author. She is the CEO and founder of The Awakened Company, which focuses on helping organizations foster healthy work cultures through the awakening of the self, relationships, and team dynamics. Her book of the same name is a response to the world-wide crisis of financ…
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#146 The Imagination Matrix (with Dr. Stephen Aizenstat)
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Dr. Stephen Aizenstat has devoted his life to understanding the profound wisdom and healing power that exists within our dreams and imaginations. “Dream tending” is a process he developed that can help us work with our own dreams and the dreams of the world around us to see the consciousness that exists in all things, and to utilize them as a sourc…
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#145 An Apprenticeship to the Future (with fahad punjwani)
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Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, fahad punjwani is a strategist, designer, poet, and uncle who now calls Houston home. Their work is rooted in creativity, beauty, and empathy. He is the founder of Suchee Studios, a collective that helps mission-driven leaders and organizations use design thinking to foster capacity for connection in order to tackle the…
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"Your Life, Your Shot" - Fouz Fahad Al-Sabah
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In this inspiring episode, I sit down with Fouz Fahad Al-Sabah, the visionary founder of Khaleejesque, to delve into her entrepreneurial journey. We explore her childhood and the pivotal role her parents played in shaping her entrepreneurial mindset. Fouz shares her experiences of moving, studying, and working, and how these experiences culminated …
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Throwback Thursday: Ep #111 Nature, Culture, and the Sacred (with Nina Simons)
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Next in our Throwback Thursday series is a fresh look at this ever-relevant conversation with Nina Simons, the co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist of Bioneers. For over 30 years, this organization has focused on helping the human species reach a place of true racial and gender justice for all, while also rekindling our sacred relationship …
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#144 Fictions and Factions (with Damien Walter)
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How does science fiction have the potential to shape our understanding of human nature, reality, and the universe? It’s a topic that Damien Walter — writer, video essayist, and lifelong enthusiast of science fiction — is continuously exploring. If you take a look at his popular YouTube channel (aptly titled “Science Fiction”) you’ll see a wealth of…
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Throwback Thursday: Ep #75 Making New Worlds Possible (with Lawrence Barriner II)
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In this new series, we revisit past episodes of The Wonder Dome that continue to resonate powerfully today. First published in October of 2021, this conversation with the incomparable Lawrence Barriner II surrounding the complexities of grief, the transformative power of understanding one’s own story, and the untapped potential that lies in the col…
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#143 Lyric Culture (with Bonnitta Roy)
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Bonnitta Roy is an author, award-winning teacher, and insight guide who helps individuals and groups break away from limiting patterns of thought so that they can grow into their full potential. Bonnie works across many levels of abstraction while remaining grounded in the important questions: Who are we? How do we want to be in the world, with our…
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#142 Luminous Darkness (with Deborah Eden Tull)
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Founder of the Mindful Living Revolution, Deborah Eden Tull is an author, Zen mindfulness/meditation teacher, and EcoDharma educator. Her latest book, “Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown” serves as a compass to our conversation today as we navigate the realm of shadows, the unspoken, and the rich mysteries to b…
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"Your Life, Your Shot" - Mrs. Fabienne Hajjar
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On this episode after a long break, we are back to bring you forward some amazing insights from our guest Fabienne Hajjar the General Manager of ServCorp Offices. In this Episode we explore with Fabienne about many topics, her role as a working mother, a mother, a leader and how does she find balance in this whole cycle. Join us on this amazing ins…
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#141 Widening the Frame (with Paul Zonneveld)
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We have yet another wonderful return guest this week with Paul Zonneveld. Last time, I had an opportunity to connect with Paul and his colleague Mieke Jacobs to discuss their book Emergent, which is an exploration of systemic intelligence, and how every system, whether naturally occurring or human made, exhibits certain qualities and patterns that …
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#140 The Transformed Leader (with Amy Elizabeth Fox)
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This week we welcome back Amy Fox, CEO and co-founder of Mobius Executive Leadership. Amy is a beacon of transformational leadership and a steward of spaces where healing and growth flourish. She joined us recently for a conversation about trauma-informed leadership, and what makes today’s episode special is that this conversation was recorded almo…
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#139 Leader as Mystic (with Robin Alfred)
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Robin Alfred is an executive coach, educator, and trainer in leadership development — as well as a dear friend and mentor. He has a unique capacity to facilitate depth work, which is the work of understanding ourselves fully across all levels of awareness, where we can allow thoughts, feelings, and possibilities to arise organically through our rel…
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#138 Beautiful Monster (with Miles Borrero)
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Miles Borrero is a self-described spirit and body geek. He is a trans-masculine, gender-fluid Latinx yoga teacher, writer, and body therapist based in New York City. His recent memoir, Beautiful Monster: A Becoming is the heart-wrenching story of Miles’ journey of breaching bounds of gender, cultures, and borders to become the person he truly is. M…
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#137 The Dao and the Dragon (with Ken Liu)
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Ken Liu is a multi-award winning speculative fiction author and third-time guest of The Wonder Dome. Even if you haven't read one of his dozens of stories, it’s likely you’ve seen work he’s contributed to on places like Netflix and AMC. His writing has reached a tremendous influence in the zeitgeist when we think about questions of humanity; identi…
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#136 Rebel Healing (with Noëlle Janka)
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How do we help ourselves live healthily in a system that conspires to keep us sick? Noëlle Janka, dear friend and author of Rebel Healing: Transforming Ourselves and the Systems That Make Us Sick, seeks to answer that question. Often in the world of healthcare and wellness, there’s a red herring debate between Western or “acute” medicine, and what …
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This week we welcome back Raj Sisodia, acclaimed author of books like The Healing Organization, Firms of Endearment and Conscious Capitalism. Today we're here to discuss his latest book, Awaken. Raj has been on a mission to bring caring, humanity and healing to business since he first began writing books in 2007. He's spent this time thinking and f…
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#134 Trans Boxing (with Miles Enriquez-Morales)
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Miles Enriquez-Morales is a poet, athlete and student in Los Angeles. His boxing journey began in Longmont, Colorado where he eventually became a coach for youth classes. He also hosts a class called Trans Boxing which is specifically for trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people in LA. He is a fellow student of past guest Tlotlo Tsamaase,…
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#133 Meeting Your Inner Critic (with Rosi Greenberg)
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Our guest today is Rosi Greenberg: artist, author/illustrator, leadership development trainer, and a dear friend and colleague. Rosi is a master of the art of bringing people together to learn and grow. She recently released Everyone Has a Sam, an illustrated book about meeting your inner critic and re-writing the rules for motivation, accomplishme…
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#132 To Make a Nation (with Brandon Peele)
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Brandon Peele has built his profession around moving towards the most important and often triggering cultural and political topics. Brandon's willingness to look deeply and critically at the questions surrounding America's collective shadow and the horrors that shape our past and present comes through a lens of purpose. America e pluribus unum: out…
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#131 Becoming a Father, Being a Son (with Mike Trugman)
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Host of Mike's Search for Meaning, coach, and longtime supporter of the Wonder Dome, Mike Trugman has gone through a beautiful journey of growth and transformation of reorienting his career to include space for deep inner work for coaching, health and wellness, mindfulness, while coming from a background in accounting and finances. He skillfully st…
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#130 Mindfulness and Menopause (with Edi Pasalis)
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It's a joy to be joined by my dear friend, the inspiring Edi Pasalis. Edi is a mindfulness teacher, a yoga teacher, and a leadership practitioner. Arguably, she is the person who gave me my first job in the world of leadership development that I inhabit pretty robustly now. By inviting me to join the leadership team with Kripalu's RISE program, Edi…
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#129 Trauma-Informed Leadership (with Amy Elizabeth Fox)
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Amy Elizabeth Fox is the CEO and co-founder of Mobius Executive Leadership. It's safe to say that the work I do in the world at KONU and my private coaching practice would not be as enriched and as robust if not for the work of Mobius. Mobius weaves together an incredibly rich and deep intellectual spiritual heritage for how change happens in indiv…
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#128 Art as Sacred Practice (with Cheryl Ntumy)
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Cheryl Ntumy is deeply committed to art as a vehicle for self-understanding and collective cultural growth. Her writing ranges widely, traversing everything from romance to speculative fiction. She speaks powerfully to writing as a journey into true empathy and understanding of yourself and others - across cultures, across identities, across time a…
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#127 Life Without a Tie (with Ray Martin)
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This wonderful and inspiring conversation with Ray Martin has been a long time coming - and I'm so excited to finally share it with you! Note that it was recorded several months ago, and does not reflect current crises in Israel/Gaza, Armenia, or Sudan. As always, The Wonder Dome stands for a world where humanity and its wonderful diversity of cult…
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#126 Leading with Design (with Jee Chang)
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The Wonder Dome is back after our summer hiatus! And we're kicking off the fall with Jee Chang - a leadership coach, creative director, designer, and professor who teaches at Parsons School of Design, The New School, and the Pratt Institute. She’s also the founder and leadership director of UME, an inside-out brand consultancy that works with radic…
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Join us on "Your Life, Your Shot" as we explore the incredible journey of Hamza Zaid, a former trainer and bodybuilder who discovered the importance of balance and self-discovery. In this episode, Hamza shares his experiences of pushing his body to extreme limits in pursuit of physical perfection, the setbacks he faced, and the pivotal moment that …
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"Your Life, Your Shot" - Dr. Reem Ali Al-Ansari
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In this Episode we have one of Qatar's first Female Professors and practicing Lawyers. She tells us about the moment she discovered her early passion for defending people and standing by their side since she was at school, and also shares with us her passion about law and the criticality of it in today's world. She also shares with us her passion i…
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#125 Last Exit (with Max Gladstone)
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Max Gladstone has a “galaxy brain” - he is deeply and widely read, he has thought deeply about many different dimensions of life and existence, and he has a remarkable gift for transmitting his insights in the form of wickedly smart stories that are equal parts devastatingly beautiful and laugh-out-loud funny. His recent novel Last Exit serves as t…
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#124 Purpose Soaked in Beauty (with O.B. Amaechi)
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O.B. Amaechi is a Nigerian-American author, entrepreneur, fashion designer, educator, and coach whose “purpose is soaked in beauty.” Our conversation delves deeply into the themes evoked by that phrase: Why does beauty move us so? And what does it have to do with our soul, our calling, our orientation in life? O.B. has walked the walk in many diffe…
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#123 To Sleep, Perchance to Wake (with Jeff Lieberman)
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Jeff Lieberman is the co-founder of Sleepawake Camp. A play on the “sleep away camp,” Sleepawake is a boot camp for the body, heart, and mind. The summer program is geared towards people ages 18 to 27 who are ready to learn all of the things that are never taught in school: conflict resolution, emotional regulation, mindful communication, and so mu…
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#122 When Life Gets You Right (with Paul Dunion)
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Paul Dunion has been working for decades to help people of all ages - especially men - step more fully into their maturity, their identity, and their potential. And to do so in a way that engages, integrates, and heals the shadow sides of our lives: the parts of ourselves that we don't want people to see. The parts that others may have told us is u…
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#121 Healing America's Narrative (with Reggie Marra)
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My guest today is Reggie Mara, author of the new book Healing America's Narratives: The Feminine, The Masculine, and Our Collective National Shadow. It provides a deep look at how we could build a country actually rooted in wisdom, equality, and possibility as imagined in our founding documents. Overall, Reggie’s work is about helping people become…
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#120 The Stories That Might Set Us Free (with Tlotlo Tsamaase)
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Tlotlo Tsamaase is a remarkably talented author of speculative fiction. Her novella The Slience of the Wilting Skin - a provocative, psychedelic, heartwrenching novella that explores the devastating impacts of colonialism - served as the centerpiece of our first conversation. Tragically, something went wrong with that recording and the audio was un…
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#119 When All Seems Lost...Love (with R.S.A. Garcia)
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R.S.A. Garcia is a Trinbagonian speculative fiction author who lives in Trinidad and Tobago with her extended family, and as she says, too many cats and dogs :^) Her debut science fiction mystery novel, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, silver medal for best sci-fi fantasy horror ebook from the Independent Publishers a…
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"Your Life, Your Shot" - Mr. Nasser AlAnsari
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تشرفنا باستضافة الأستاذ / ناصر الأنصاري في بودكاست خريطة حياتي في سلسلة الحلقات التي تدور حول "حياتي فرصتي". أخذنا السيد ناصر في رحلة جميلة، لمساعدتنا على فهم كيف أن قطر على خريطة العالم اليوم من خلال القيادة المتفانية وذات الرؤية. كما تحدث عن دور سمو الشيخة موزا في تمكين المرأة في قطر ، وأعرب عن اعتزازه بدور شقيقته الدكتورة بثينة الانصاري وتأثيرها…
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#118 Reset the Frame (with Eric Larson and SB Rawz)
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Eric Larson, SB Rawz, and I met several years ago. We're all coaches, and we're all on varying parts of our journey into the profession: building our careers, building our businesses, and I immediately felt a deep resonance with both of them. Eric is a return visitor to The Wonder Dome. SB is a new arrival, but feels like an old friend to The Dome.…
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#117 Dreams From Beyond (with Julie Nováková)
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Julie Nováková is an award-winning Czech author of science fiction and detective stories. She tells inspiring stories of possible futures rooted in a really solid understanding of practical science, without sacrificing the heart and humanity of her characters. She's published seven novels, one anthology, one story collection, and over thirty short …
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#116 Speculative Realities (with Sara Daniele Rivera)
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Sara Rivera is a Cuban/Peruvian artist, writer, translator, and educator. Her poetry and fiction have been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies. She was awarded a 2017 St. Botolph's Emerging Artist Award and won the 2018 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry. Her drawings, sculptures, and community-based installations focus on text-in-…
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"Your Life, Your Shot" - Mrs. Farah Chazbeck
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Join us in this Episode of "Your Life, Your Shot" with Mrs. Farah Chazbeck where she speaks to us about how a Female presenter who had no sports background, made it in one of the biggest Sports network channels in Qatar. A mother and a determined person who fought through and is still fighting through a very difficult auto-immune disease and also t…
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#115 The Gold in the Silence (with Leigh Marz and Justin Zorn)
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The world is as noisy as ever, and only getting more so. And we're not just talking about the actual sound waves produced by machines, cars, televisions, etc. There's a lot of real noise, but there's also informational noise (news, videos, updates, ‘likes’, ‘feeds’, etc) and interior noise (anxiety, worry, doubt, anger, fear, rumination, self-judgm…
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"Your Life, Your Shot" - Mr. Nayef Al Ibrahim
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In this Episode Mr. Nayef Al Ibrahim takes us through his journey of Career transformation and self discovery. He talks about how his father showed him how an engineer can be part of turning a barren piece of land to an amazing house for their family and how Nayef used this example to play a role at university to encourage student to pursue enginee…
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#114 Finding Inner Safety (with Dr. Nerina Ramlakhan)
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Dr. Nerina Ramlakhan has worked 25+ years as a physiologist and sleep and energy expert. At the core of our conversation is her most recent book, Finding Inner Safety, which she describes as a natural extension of and deepening of her expertise and human physiology, the science of sleep, and the behaviors that can help us sleep better. Underneath o…
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#113 Unconquerable Sun (with Kate Elliott)
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From the moment I first encountered Kate Elliott’s short story, ”I am a handsome man, said Apollo Crow,” I knew I was in the hands of a master storyteller. Kate is an incredibly talented and prolific author who has written so many cool, fun, enriching books - and they serve as the spine of our conversation today. One of her most recent books, Uncon…
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On this Episode we explore what is it like to find our Element, to go and find that our life map exists, we actually own it. How did Moe find it ? How did Moe's Humanity as a leader get effected due to Covid? Did he give in, how many people did he decide to let go off? Many surprising questions, along with a surprise question to me, the Host of the…
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