Soft + Savage Podcast

In this episode of Soft + Savage, Leonid Khanin breaks down wellness as architecture — not escape, but a system for restoring the body and mind.

In this episode of Soft + Savage, Marcina Hale and Stephen Apkon examine division, dialogue, and what it takes to choose another way in a world built for conflict.

In this episode of Soft + Savage, Jessica Francis explores ayahuasca beyond myth and spectacle — into the body, the story, and the work of real healing.

In this episode of Soft + Savage, Sean Dino Johnson reflects on rehabilitation, performance, and what it means to restore dignity after the system has already written someone off.

What does the body remember before the mind can explain it? In this episode of Soft + Savage, Louise Levin sits down with Angelo Musco , an Italian-born, New York-based contemporary artist whose work transforms the human body into large-scale living architectures. Angelo’s work uses bodies not simply as subjects, but as material — assembling thousands of human forms into nests, eggs, amniotic land...

In this episode, Louise Levin sits down with John Kirbow—a former U.S. Army Psyops specialist—to unmask the tactics used to fracture societies from the inside out. From the warzones abroad to the algorithm-driven battlefields of social media, Kirbow breaks down how psychological operations, false binaries, and engineered outrage erode our ability to think, connect, and choose freely. With the calm...

In this episode of Soft and Savage, Louise Levin speaks with Dr. Michelle Holko about the urgent crossroads at the intersection of biotechnology, AI, and national security. Holko explains how biology is shifting from discovery to design, unlocking new possibilities in medicine, food, energy, and defense. But she warns that while the U.S. pioneered breakthroughs like genome sequencing, China’s coor...

In this episode of Soft and Savage , John Hargrave—CEO of Media Shower and author of The Intelligent Crypto Investor —cuts through the confusion of crypto by reframing it in familiar terms: blockchains as shared spreadsheets, cryptos as companies, and tokens as stocks. Drawing on his own journey from early Bitcoin gains to devastating losses and recovery, Hargrave emphasizes disciplined, long-term...

Episode Summary: Dr. Samuel Vaknin unveils narcissism's dual nature: wounded children wearing masks of grandiosity. From love-bombing to discarding, they create psychological mazes for victims while their emptiness drives constant validation-seeking. Different types—overt, covert, somatic, cerebral—share childhood trauma origins, but their destructive patterns can captivate individuals and so...