Evolution FM: Consciousness, Human Potential, & Inner Work for Entrepreneurs

Gabriel Charalambides is the aerospace engineer who left a career in space engineering to build America's first legal psilocybin retreat after his own transcendent experiences changed the course of his life. Aaron Nesmith-Beck 's path into this work was shaped by his own transcendent experiences as well, leading him to cofound one of the first legal psilocybin retreats in Jamaica before joining Od...

Maverick Kuhn is the co-founder of Thyself , an always available AI emotional work guide built on modalities like Internal Family Systems and somatic inquiry to help people do real inner work between practitioner sessions. In this episode, we explore how AI is making the most powerful psychotechnologies for personal transformation accessible to anyone. Maverick unpacks why healing has always happe...

Shauheen Etminan is co-founder of Ancestral Magi , a consciousness supplement company rooted in ancient Iranian shamanic traditions, and co-founder of vCenna , a plant alkaloid extraction technology company. In this episode, Shauheen traces the history of the Magi, the ancient Iranian priests who gave the world the word "magic," and reveals the psychoactive plant compound they used for thousands o...

Brandon Evans is the founder of One Heart , a transformational retreat program that has guided over 1,000 leaders through ayahuasca journeys and deep community immersion, and author of the viral essay Lost on Purpose. In this episode, Brandon shares the story behind his departure from a fast-growing startup world and the moment he realized that checking all the boxes was not filling him up. He wal...

Josh Schrei is the host of The Emerald , one of the most artistically rich mythology and spirituality podcasts available today, and the creator of The Mythic Body, a year long deep dive into mythic traditions from around the world. In this episode, Josh explores what he calls the difference between right story and wrong story, and why the stories we inherit and absorb shape every dimension of how...

Mickaela Grace is the founder of The Graceline Institute , a spiritual sciences school dedicated to emotional intelligence, consciousness education, and sacred temple technology, and a performance poet, filmmaker, and ceremonial guide who has spent over 25 years gathering transmission from sacred sites around the world. In this episode, Mickaela shares her framework for raising consciousness as a...

Diana Chapman is co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership and co-founder of the Conscious Leadership Group, an organization that has helped thousands of leaders across companies like Asana drop drama, build trust, and create cultures rooted in genuine inner work for entrepreneurs and the teams they lead. In this episode, Diana shares what is happening in her own life as she steps ba...

Franziska Gonder is a somatic leadership coach who helps leaders build nervous system regulation capacity and lead from authentic presence. After navigating deep personal loss and her own healing journey through somatics, EMDR, and breathwork, she developed a framework bridging the mind-body connection with real-world leadership. She hosts the Leadership That Heals podcast and leads a research ini...

Dr. David Hamilton is a former pharmaceutical scientist, bestselling author of 11 books on consciousness and healing, and leading researcher in mind-body connection science. In this episode, Scott explores the scientific foundations of how our minds literally shape our physical reality. David shares his journey from pharmaceutical research to studying the placebo effect, breakthrough studies showi...

Joe Hudson is the founder of the Art of Accomplishment , where he helps CEOs, founders, and ambitious leaders use self awareness to build companies, deepen purpose, and create a life they would not trade away. In this conversation, we explore how self awareness can strengthen ambition instead of softening it, and why aligned ambition creates more joy, creativity, and impact. In this episode, I sit...

Peter Corbett is an executive coach, former founder, and meditation practitioner who sold his digital agency in his thirties, then devoted himself to deeper inner work, consciousness, and helping leaders reconnect with what actually matters. His work explores founder spirituality, human potential, and business as a spiritual path for entrepreneurs navigating success, meaning, and personal transfor...

Jay Sanguinetti is a neuroscientist and meditation teacher at the University of Arizona, where he leads SEMA Lab , the Science Enhanced Mindful Awareness Lab. Trained in philosophy, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, he completed his doctorate on conscious and unconscious visual perception. His consciousness research explores how focused ultrasound can augment meditation practice and make its...

Kim Barta is a psychotherapist and shadow work teacher whose approach was shaped by years of working with deep intergenerational trauma as the only full time therapist on a Native American reservation. Her work helps people understand how shadow work can become more precise, effective, and compassionate by matching the right healing method to the right unconscious pattern. In this episode, I talk...

Andrés Gómez-Emilsson is a consciousness researcher, writer, and director at the Qualia Research Institute , where his work explores consciousness research, altered states of consciousness, meditation, psychedelics, embodiment, and the mathematical structure of subjective experience. In this episode, we explore consciousness research and how consciousness research may help explain the shape of sub...

Steve Schlafman is a professional transition coach and guide who helps high performers navigate change with more presence, intention, and clarity. Through his new program Downshift , Steve is creating a decelerator for people in transition who want to slow down, reconnect with what matters, and move forward in a more aligned way. In this episode, I sit down with Steve Schlafman to explore why inne...

Ron Michael helps people restore vitality by working with the body's intelligence through frequency healing, muscle testing, detox sequencing, and energetic assessment. After surviving a near death experience and decades of chronic pain, surgeries, and medication dependence, Ron rebuilt his health and now helps others reconnect with their human potential through a radically different approach to h...

Master Kambo is a spiritual teacher, energy practitioner, and founder of The Mind of Matter . Through his work with Qigong, Kundalini Yoga, inner alchemy, and the Kamotion Qigong Mastery Commune , he helps people awaken consciousness, balance energy, and deepen their connection to divine intelligence. In this episode, we talked about kundalini awakening, divine intelligence, and the deeper inner w...

Burgs is a meditation teacher, former Buddhist monk, and founder of the Wheel of Merit, a non-profit that runs retreats, resets, and online courses helping people return to a state of inner coherence and ease. He has practiced and taught meditation for decades and his work bridges ancient contemplative traditions with the lived reality of modern life. In this episode, we explore what it means to b...

Delson Armstrong is a world-renowned meditator and dharma teacher who has been verified to reach the highest levels of attainment across multiple contemplative systems including the Yoga Sutras, Kriya Yoga, the eight jhanas, and the four stages of Buddhist Awakening. He is the author of A Mind Without Craving and guides students worldwide in Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation (TWIM). In this episo...

And the inner gold that comes with it I was recently in a text thread about how to find truth in our current times? There has never been more people with microphones in history telling us how to live, what to believe, and what is happening in the world. Although this diversity of information has created an immense amount of opportunity and freedom, it's also made discernment more important than ev...

Scott Shute is the co-founder of Changing Work and the first-ever Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn. After 25 years in corporate leadership, he built a career dedicated to raising consciousness at work and is the author of Full Body Yes. In this episode, we explore raising consciousness from the inside out as a business leader. We cover his journey from a one-person LinkedIn meditatio...

Mark Krassner is a founder coach and former CEO of Expectful, the wellness platform supporting fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood. In recent years, he has focused his work on helping entrepreneurs recognize how inner work for entrepreneurs shapes confidence, relationships, decision making, and the results they create. In this episode, we explore why inner work for entrepreneurs is less about abs...

Garret Yount is a scientist, author, and longtime researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences whose work explores subtle energy, biofield healing, consciousness research, and the deeper edges of human potential. Over the past two decades, he has studied spiritual healers, energy medicine, and the mind-body connection while bridging rigorous science with direct experience. In this episode, talk...

Joe Hudson is the founder of Art of Accomplishment and a renowned executive coach who has guided thousands of leaders through deep inner work while helping them thrive in the real demands of business. His work sits at the intersection of consciousness, self realization, personal transformation, and business as a spiritual path. In this episode, we explore why business as a spiritual path can revea...

Arnaud Delorme is a research scientist at the University of California San Diego and the Institute of Noetic Sciences who has spent more than 20 years studying the brain. He created EEGLAB, the most widely used EEG analysis software in the world, and is the author of Why Our Minds Wander. His consciousness research spans mind wandering, meditation, and the question of whether the mind is purely a...