Empathy Unbound: Embrace Your Superpower

Hanna Bauer spent much of her childhood in a coronary care unit, unable to attend school, waiting. She had her first heart attack at ten. A second followed two weeks later. An open heart surgery failed. What kept her alive, she now knows, was not medication or monitors. It was love, and the decision of a surgical team to attempt something no one had ever done. www.heartnomics.com https://www.linke...

Stephany Oliveros is a three-time founder, AI researcher, and product lead working at the intersection of human behaviour, technology, and social impact. Originally from Venezuela, she studied medical physics, spent two years in veterinary school, moved to Spain, retrained in psychology, and eventually found her way to AI after watching the AlphaGo documentary by Google DeepMind. She is now founde...

Professor Robert Sparrow is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne and one of the world's foremost applied ethicists working at the intersection of technology and human life. Over more than two decades he has written on robot ethics, AI in healthcare, autonomous weapons systems, the moral status of artificial systems, and the ethics of AI-generated emulations of deceased people....

Should you feel guilty for loving your AI companion more than going outside? Professor Kate Devlin, author of "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots," has spent her career asking why we keep insisting human relationships are the gold standard, and whether that's actually true. Professor Kate Devlin is Professor of AI and Society at King's College London and Director of the Digital Futures Institute....

She arrived in Germany at 20 years old with 50 Deutsche Marks, no visa for the country she actually wanted to reach, and no safety net. Three decades later, Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach is a Global Hall of Fame honouree for business excellence, a former CEO of Qualcomm Europe, author of The AI Imperative, and one of the clearest, most unsparing voices in the global AI conversation. In this episode of...

Shea Murtaugh on Building a Resilient Marketing Agency, Leading Through Change, and Using AI as a Strategic Advantage Shea Murtaugh, founder of a nationally recognized integrated marketing agency launched in 2004 after leaving broadcast sales, reflects on her blue-collar upbringing, early “C student” years, and the commission-sales mindset that gave her confidence to go all-in as an entrepreneur....

Metabolic Health in Midlife: Stress, Sleep, Habits, and the Reality of Weight Loss Drugs with Lorie Eber Andrew interviews Lorie Eber, a former corporate litigator who retired at 49 and later became a board-certified health and wellness coach focused on women in midlife. Eber describes leaving an identity built on high-stress work and finding a more empathetic path in wellness. They discuss how mo...

Ethical, Human-Centered AI: Accessibility, Cost, and Embodied Agents with Robert Vandervoort Robert Vandervoort, founder of VDV Labs, shares how early curiosity with technology, ADHD, legal troubles, and living with optic nerve atrophy and legal blindness shaped his empathy-driven approach to ethical, human-centered AI. He describes moving from help desk and operations into solutions engineering,...

Burnout to Intuition: Catherine Crestani on Spiritual Awakening, Technology, and Trusting Signs Catherine Crestani, former speech pathologist and founder of Willow Healing, shares how she moved from high-achieving people-pleasing and chronic burnout into spiritual coaching, channeling, and writing. She describes masking an unhappy personal life through work, running a demanding autism-heavy caselo...

Redefining Success Through Resilience and Radical Generosity with Ann Lopez Ann Lopez, founder and creative director of Miami-based Studio Seven Ninety, shares how she rebuilt her life and business after a sudden COVID-era divorce and becoming a single mom just as she launched her firm. She credits consistent habits, faith, and years of self-development for choosing a “victor” mindset, then scalin...

Authentic Leadership, Conflict Analysis, and Self-Sabotage with Dr. Liz DuBois Erskine Dr. Liz DuBois Erskine, a PhD conflict analyst and executive coach, discusses helping high performers stop self-sabotage driven by people-pleasing, burnout, and fear of judgment, especially in high-pressure, male-dominated environments. She reflects on rediscovering her “16-year-old self” after divorce, and desc...

Machine Consciousness, Social AI, and the Ethics of Human–AI Relationships with Dr. Henry Shevlin Andrew interviews Dr. Henry Shevlin, Associate Director at Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and an in-house philosopher at Google DeepMind, about machine consciousness and the ethics of social AI. Shevlin explains consciousness as an inner world of experience, why its origi...

From Good Ideas to Good Lives: Strategic Clarity, AI, and Human Agency with Charles Lee Charles Lee, founder and CEO of Ideation and author of Good Idea Now What and forthcoming Design Your Good Life, explains how he helps leaders move from vision to action through strategic clarity and brand execution. He discusses evaluating ideas for desirability, feasibility, viability, and timing, and notes t...

Jaclyn Orent on Consciousness, Love-Led Leadership, and Building the Cultural Catalyst Network Jaclyn Orent, co-founder and “frequency architect” of the Cultural Catalyst Network, explains her mission to create conditions for resonance, identity shift, and lasting cultural change by connecting purpose-driven leaders who feel underserved by traditional business networks and purely spiritual spaces....

Peter’s Warning: AI, Gene Editing, and the Race to Avoid Extinction An award-winning tech entrepreneur and author discusses why he believes humanity is on the edge of extinction due to four major threats: climate change, nuclear weapons, and the newer risks of CRISPR gene editing and AI. He argues scientists excel at creating technologies, but civilization is poor at controlling them, and calls fo...

Andrea Carter on Building Belonging: Five Neurological Indicators and the Infrastructure Empathy Needs Organizational scientist and belonging expert Andrea Carter discusses how early experiences of intergenerational trauma, pressure to fit in, and standing out due to extreme height shaped her focus on belonging, including bullying faced by her family. She distinguishes belonging from inclusion, ar...

Agent Governance in Production: Control, Observability, and Human-Centered AI with Logan Kelly Logan Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Waxell.ai, discusses building a governance, observability, and runtime control layer for AI agents in production so autonomous systems remain reliable, auditable, and aligned with business and ethical constraints. Drawing on experience running autonomous sales agents at...

Nikki Barua on Humanizing AI, Identity Shifts, and Building the Agentic Enterprise Andrew speaks with Nikki Barua, co-founder of Flip Work (with Monica Marquez), about helping large enterprises become “agentic” so humans and AI collaborate to boost capability and agility. Nikki explains Flip Work emerged from their complementary backgrounds and a recurring pattern she saw in tech transformations:...

Digital Wisdom in the Age of AI: Aligning People, Strategy, and Technology with Barbara Wittmann Barbara Wittmann, an award-winning digital leadership expert, interim CIO, and founder of the Digital Wisdom Collective, discusses why failed digital transformations are usually human and organizational problems rather than technology ones. She describes how consultancies often leave after go-live, whi...

Dr. Melanie Gray on Burnout, Trauma-Informed Leadership, and Faith Over Fear Dr. Melanie Gray, a PhD-prepared nurse, trauma-informed care expert, and confidence coach, discusses her work helping high-achieving professionals—especially women in healthcare leadership—address burnout, self-doubt, and workplace culture. She and the host reflect on growing up before social media, the increased 24/7 pre...

The Silicon Valley Innovation Playbook: Human-Centered Leadership, AI Transformation, and Sustainable Success Dr. Victoria Mensch, founder and CEO of Silicon Valley Executive Academy, explains how her programs teach a replicable Silicon Valley Innovation Playbook to help executives navigate AI-driven transformation sustainably. She outlines four pillars—ecosystems, risk-taking with failure as lear...

Making Machines Understand Humans: Behavioral Data Science, Trust, and AI’s Real Risks Data scientist and behavioral decision theorist Ganna Pogrebna explains behavioral data science as making machines understand human preferences, goals, and values, outlining three strands: economic psychology, mathematical analysis of algorithm behavior, and engineering of complex human–machine systems. She disc...

Real Talk on Vulnerability, Boundaries, and Authentic Connection with Alix Duchamps Alix Duchamps, creator of Brilliantly You, discusses her journey from being a sensitive teenager who presented differently at home and outside to losing herself in toxic, abusive relationships that pushed her toward coaching and self-development. She explains why vulnerability is often misread as weakness, how it e...

Digital Addiction, Loneliness, and Faith: Mary Catherine Liscinski on Reclaiming Attention Licensed professional counselor and Christian counselor/coach Mary Catherine Liscinski (Arkansas-based, LifeWalk Professional Counseling & Coaching) discusses digital addiction, especially the isolating effects of phones, social media, and gaming on families and society. She explains why digital addictio...

Trust, Influence, Generations, and AI: Jennifer Neeley on Power, Caregiving, and the Future Jennifer Neeley, fractional CMO strategist and creator of the Neeley Trust framework, joins the podcast to discuss the through lines in her career from broadcast journalism to digital strategy, influencer marketing education at UC San Diego, and advising high-growth companies. She shares formative experienc...