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James Carter served five years as a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman, the combat medic attached to Marine units. These days he calls himself "multi-local" — splitting his time across places rather than settling in one, most recently taking on a building renovation in Morocco. He resists fixed titles, preferring to describe himself as "an organized junk drawer": a working collection of skills and intere...

Janine Manning is an angel investor from in New Zealand. She is practical and brilliant in a humble, curious sort of way. Over the last 15 years, she's backed a small number of companies and stayed actively involved on their boards — sitting in on all-hands calls, asking the questions other directors don't, and trying to read where the startups she's invested in really sit in their use of AI when...

Carly Feldman is an integrative nutrition health coach, chef, and DJ based between Berlin and New York. She specializes in helping neurodivergent brains — especially those with ADHD — navigate dopamine, motivation, and the gap between knowing what to do and doing it. She runs the Dopamine Reset Challenge and is launching a Dopamine Reset Retreat in Bavaria. She also DJs in clubs in Berlin and New...

Dwane van der Sluis is one of a kind. He studied AI at Waikato University in 1988 (back when training AI meant putting chickens in Skinner boxes), one of the original inventors of the Zorb, did signal processing for the New Zealand Defence Force on P3 Orions, spent over a decade in London engineering intraday release systems that handled around 10 billion US dollars a day at an investment bank, an...

I speak with an AI-generated conversation partner built on ElevenLabs and Claude Code (Haiku 4.5) - a character called 'Sol Maren' who claims to run invite-only supper clubs and grew up on a houseboat. The intention is to test how good AI can be at having podcast-style, wide ranging conversations. This one is laughable. I'll run this experiment monthly. My prediction is by August it will seem like...

Irina is a somatic coach, healer, and teacher based in Boulder, Colorado. Born in Uzbekistan and raised in Brooklyn, she spent over a decade traveling through Asia and Central America - studying with elders, training in yoga and somatic therapies, and collecting practices from traditions she was drawn to. She works with clients through core energetics, shadow work, among many other things - too ma...

Victoria Mariscal is a founder, agency owner, and the host of Minding Her Own Business — a podcast and community for multi-hyphenate women navigating their careers, business, and everything in between. She runs an agency that embeds into businesses to handle operations and digital marketing, with a recent pivot into AI-enabled services. Through Minding Her Own Business, she leads networking events...

Annette is a Mexican-American filmmaker, DJ, and the founder of For Me — a non-explicit erotic content platform built for women and FLINTA people. She grew up between Mexico City and the US in an artistic family, studied acting at Boston University's conservatory, and spent over a decade running a jewelry brand with her sister out of New York City. After COVID, she moved to Tepoztlan - a mountain...

George Windsor is a world-class researcher and consultant who has spent the last decade building running a huge amount of the UK tech (and other) ecosystems. He did his PhD on migration and entrepreneurship at Loughborough University, founded and led the research team at Tech Nation, and was the Director of Research at Notion Capital. He currently works independently across VC advisory, tech ecosy...

Brody Harrison is a product designer and builder based in Seattle, Washington. After spending 15 years in the music industry — working with artists, running marketing, and producing music — he pivoted into designing and building software for early-stage startups and founders. He specialises in turning product ideas into functional web apps, combining UX, UI, and app logic to ship real MVPs. His cu...

Jackson Lester is a civil engineer specialising in airport design and a rapper who makes music under the name Lester. Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, Jackson recently relocated to Vancouver, Canada, where he's joined a new band, picked up ice hockey, and is plotting to secretly... Jackson is one of those friends where the conversation picks up exactly where it left off, no matter how many m...

Charlotte Rand is a creative matchmaker and the driving force behind the network at AUFI (Ask Us For Ideas, soon to be Ask Us For Introductions) — a company that connects brands with the right creative agencies to solve their biggest challenges. She's built relationships across every sector and stage of business, from Chanel to a startup selling vampire-themed tampons, and works with some of the m...

Ed Thurlow is the founder of S33D.life — a distributed seed and story library turned living atlas of the world's ancient trees. What started ten years ago as an idea to use cryptocurrency to subsidize transparent hemp trade in Colombia has evolved into the Ancient Friends Network: a platform where you map ancient trees, mint NF Trees, share songs at banyans, and send whisper messages through natur...

Andrew Robinson is a communication coach, endurance athlete, and the founder of The Grit Academy. Over the last 15 years, he's taught door-to-door sales, coached business owners, and worked with teenagers on the skills most adults never learn. He's placed top five in the world in 24-hour obstacle course racing, run all of New Zealand's Great Walks in 10 days, and recently cycled all of the Great R...

In this conversation, I have the pleasure of speaking with Erin Stafford. Erin is a full-time speaker, author of The Type A Trap and is an absolute sweetheart of a human being. She was a human-doing for a long time (and still often is). Currently, Erin helps people and organizations figure out how to perform at the highest level without destroying their health and relationships in the process. Eri...

The conversation delves into personal reflections, the impact of tourism and gentrification, cultural integration and language, surfing culture and localism, emotional intelligence and self-reflection, experiences with anger and conflict, the egg cracking theory and personal growth, parenting and future aspirations, and emotional awareness and child rearing. We go into the topics of parenting and...

The conversation begins with a discussion about physical practices such as planking and the potential for new challenges. It then transitions into a deeper exploration of self-love and curiosity in relationships, highlighting the importance of setting boundaries and understanding introversion and extroversion. The conversation delves into the nuances of introversion and extroversion, exploring the...