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

David Perell is an entrepreneur, writer, and creator of Write of Passage , the online writing school that has helped thousands of people use writing to clarify their thinking and reshape their lives. In this episode, we talk about inner work and how faith, love, and surrender can guide leadership, creativity, and purpose. We explore how inner work helps people uncover purpose and meaning, trust th...

Stephen Zerfas is the co-founder of Jhourney, a company exploring how jhanas and neurofeedback can make profound meditative experiences more accessible. In this conversation, Stephen shares how altered states of consciousness moved from a personal breakthrough into a mission to help more people access healing, peace, and joy without relying on substances. In this episode, we talk about how altered...

Sarah McCrum is an author, teacher, and business owner whose work explores money, subtle energy, and human wellbeing. After decades of training with Chinese energy masters and writing Love Money, Money Loves You , she developed a practical framework for seeing money as a field of relationship rather than just a financial tool. In this episode, we explore how business as a spiritual path can change...

Steve March is the founder of Integral Unfoldment and Aletheia Coaching , where he helps people move beyond the self improvement trap through deep inner work, embodied wisdom, and a more human way of meeting complexity. In this conversation, he shares how self unfoldment can reconnect us to wholeness, creativity, and the kind of resourcefulness that supports real personal transformation. Learn mor...

Laura Coe is a former healthcare tech entrepreneur who sold her company in 2006 and returned to her first love, philosophy, which she studied at Brandeis and Tufts. She is the author of Emotional Obesity, host of The Art of Authenticity podcast, and founder of The Little Soul School, where she has taught over 12,000 students how to access the Akashic Records. In this episode, we explore the Akashi...

Leo Widrich (who now goes by Mo) is the co-founder of Buffer , one of the most successful social media management platforms. His entrepreneur spiritual awakening journey led him from massive business success to abandoning his company and living in Buddhist monasteries for two years. Despite accumulating millions in the bank, Leo experienced a profound spiritual crisis that transformed his entire l...

Ryan Vaughn is the founder of Lead Inside Out, one of the first executive coaching firms staffed entirely by former exited entrepreneurs who have gone on their own consciousness journeys. He's a former tech CEO who raised venture capital, built and scaled companies for over a decade, and now coaches founders on integrating consciousness leadership with peak performance. In this episode, we explore...

Mona Sobhani is a neuroscientist, author, and leading voice in consciousness science who has become known for exploring the space where rigorous research meets spiritual experience. After earning her PhD in neuroscience, Mona began questioning the limits of a purely materialist worldview and opened herself to evidence, experiences, and ideas that challenged conventional assumptions. She is the aut...

Hans Wilhelm is a renowned spiritual teacher, author of over 200 children's books, and creator of popular YouTube videos that explain complex spiritual concepts through simple visual illustrations. With 40 years of spiritual study and a unique ability to distill profound wisdom into accessible teachings, Hans has helped thousands understand their divine nature and purpose on Earth through spiritua...

Nicco Reggente and Leo Christov-Moore from are researchers at The Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies , a nonprofit exploring how consciousness research can turn rigorous science into practical tools for meditation, empathy, and self transcendent experience. Their work spans neurofeedback, ultrasound, technodelic systems, and studies of trust, meaning, and human potential. In this episode...

Brooks Barron is a leadership coach and founder of Starlight Leadership who guides leaders through conscious leadership, wilderness rites of passage, and the Power Awakening experience. His work helps high achievers reconnect with soul, nature, and purpose through inner work for entrepreneurs who want a more grounded path to human potential. In this episode, we talk about inner work for entreprene...

Dr. Mauro Zappaterra is a physician, osteopath, and researcher exploring embryology, anatomy, interoception, and the science of cerebrospinal fluid. His work connects inner awareness with healing, subtle energy, and human potential. In this episode, we explore consciousness science through the lens of cerebrospinal fluid. We talk about what cerebrospinal fluid is, how it supports brain development...

Steve Farrell is the co-founder of Humanity's Team, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur who helped build multiple fast growing companies, and the author of A New Universal Dream. Through Humanity's Team , he now helps people explore conscious living, spiritual evolution, and a deeper path of service. In this episode, we explore why inner work for entrepreneurs can become the doorway to a more mea...

Victoria Song is a former venture capitalist turned executive coach and leadership coach whose work centers on inner work for entrepreneurs who want more fulfillment, freedom, and sustainable success. She has worked with over 25 coaches herself across business, money, health, and spiritual development. Victoria is also the author of Bending Reality: How to Make the Impossible Probable. In this epi...

Jake Housdon is a former sales leader turned shamanic practitioner who left his tech career to pursue spiritual awakening in the Amazon jungle. After a health crisis led him to question his path, he bought a retreat center in Peru sight unseen and now bridges the gap between conscious business and spiritual development. In this episode, we explore the fascinating intersection of high performance a...

Dr. Michael Freeman is a psychiatrist, entrepreneur, and clinical professor who has founded 4-5 companies while conducting groundbreaking research on entrepreneurial psychology. His studies reveal how consciousness and self-awareness are essential for founders to understand their unique mental patterns and avoid burnout. In this episode, we explore the hidden psychological landscape of entrepreneu...

Dr. Bernard Beitman is a psychiatrist, researcher, and founder of The Coincidence Project. Former Chairman of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia for 17 years, Dr. Beitman has pioneered research into meaningful coincidences and coined the term "psychosphere" - describing a mental atmosphere through which we exchange energy and information. He's the author of "Meaningful Coincidences"...

Greg Kubin is an investor at Cymed Ventures focused on frontier mental health technologies, psychedelics, neurotechnology, and new models for human wellbeing. In this conversation, we explore how founders and investors are thinking about expanded consciousness across psychedelics, meditation, breathwork, dreams, prayer, sound, and light. We also unpack where expanded consciousness is becoming a re...

Trish Blain is a consciousness researcher and author who helps people access non-ordinary states through her Four Forces framework. In this episode, we explore how non-ordinary states can be cultivated through connection, expression, purpose, and growth, and why working with non-ordinary states can deepen both personal transformation and collective evolution. In this episode, we talk about Trish's...

Kathryn Devaney is a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and co founder of Berkeley Alembic, where she explores how consciousness science can help explain meditation, non dual awakening, and altered states of consciousness through rigorous research and deep practice. In this episode, we explore what modern meditation research can actually tell us about consciousness science, the default mode network, st...

Andrew Horn is the founder of Tribute , a leadership coach, and the creator of Junto for men. In this conversation, Andrew shares how founder spirituality can lead to more honesty, service, and deeper connection. He also explains how emotional literacy reshapes the way we lead and relate. In this episode, we talk about how founder spirituality matters when it changes how we show up in relationship...

Alexander Beiner is an author, teacher, and cofounder of Rebel Wisdom whose work explores psychedelic states, consciousness research, and the deeper cultural questions shaping human development. In this conversation, we also talk about his book The Bigger Picture and how non ordinary states can open new perspectives on healing, meaning, and reality. In this episode, we explore how psychedelic stat...

Rudy De Waele is the founder of RegenerateX and Unconditional Man , where he brings together entrepreneurs and community builders around regeneration, leadership, and inner transformation. After years in technology and innovation, Rudy now helps people reconnect with nature, community, and a more life centered way of building. In this episode, we talk about consciousness, regeneration, and why bus...

Angelo DiLullo is an anesthesiologist, author of Awake: It’s Your Turn , and teacher behind Simply Always Awake. In this conversation, he shares how childhood sensitivity, Zen practice, and direct self inquiry opened the door to spiritual awakening and a different relationship with identity, fear, and consciousness. In this episode, we explore what spiritual awakening feels like from the inside. W...

Mark Gober is the author of five books on consciousness, metaphysics, and personal evolution. After starting in investment banking during the 2008 financial crisis and later becoming a partner in Silicon Valley, he pivoted into consciousness science and now explores the nature of reality through his books and podcast Where Is My Mind. In this episode, we talk about consciousness science and the ev...