The Wonder Dome

“Mythology is not just humanities fluff […] it’s: do you dare to understand how things have been coded from first principles?” -Rayner Jae Liu In a time where chaos is the word on everyone’s lips, Andy sits down with Rayner Jae Liu in a vast and reflective conversation about how humans make meaning when our familiar paradigms begin to crumble. Rayner is an evolutionary entrepreneur, executive coac...

“Convictions are beliefs strongly held. It’s responsibilities that have rebuilt societies.” -Christopher Spicer This week, Andy is joined by friend and neighbor Christopher Spicer — a writer, father, longtime human rights advocate, and recent candidate for Somerville City Councilor At-Large. He has served as Chair of the Somerville Human Rights Commission, participated in nonviolent protest and ci...

“When you drop a team in the realm of process […] they’re one step closer to getting to the human dimension.” -Alexander Caillet Alexander Caillet is an internationally recognized organizational psychologist, consultant, and coach dedicated to helping organizations achieve high performance through powerful teaming. As the CEO of Corentus, Inc. , Alexander has worked across more than 30 countries o...

“Service to others is my spiritual home.” -Max Klau This week Andy welcomes longtime friend, colleague, and returning Wonder Dome guest Dr. Max Klau . He’s an author, coach, developmental psychologist, and founder of the Center for Courageous Wholeness , who’s work sits at the intersection of inner development and systems change. His new book, Developing Servant Leadership at Scale: How to Do It a...

“In what way am I an example? In what way am I a warning?” -Ariane de Bonvoisin Ariane de Bonvoisin is a best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and change optimist. She is a renowned expert in leadership, change, and personal transformation with a global audience, speaking and coaching at major companies such as Google, Twitter, Morgan Stanley and more, bringing practical tools...

“We’ve worshipped a hungry monster. And the more you feed and worship a hungry monster, the hungrier it gets.” -Josh Schrei This week we welcome Josh Schrei — storyteller, mythologist, and creator of The Mythic Body . As host of The Emerald podcast , Josh shepherds listeners through explorations of our modern world through a vibrant lens of mythos, music and mindfulness. His work is a salve for mo...

“What if we served from what we love rather than what we’re against?” -Nina Simons Welcoming back two brilliant past guests of the Wonder Dome this week with Nina Simons (co-founder of Bioneers and author of Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership ) and Deborah Eden Tull (founder of Mindful Living Revolution and author of Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to E...

“Radical listening gives us agency — it’s something we can still do even when everything feels uncertain.” - Christian van Nieuwerburgh Robert Biswas-Diener and Christian van Nieuwerburgh , two distinguished voices in coaching, positive psychology, and leadership, join Andy to explore the radical and joyful art of listening. As co-authors of Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection , Robert a...

“We need an abundance of the things we need — safe homes, good jobs, healthcare — not an abundance of consumption.” - Saul Humphrey Saul Humphrey is a UK-based leader and sustainability advocate, a professor of sustainable construction at Anglia Ruskin University, and Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Building . He’s also the founder of an eponymously named consultancy practice that int...

“Your dream is a film written and directed by the real you.” -Martin Boroson What if every night, while you sleep, a deeper part of you is trying to speak? In this conversation, executive coach, psychotherapist, and Zen priest Martin Boroson joins Andy to explore the art of listening to that voice — the dreaming mind. Martin invites us to consider dreams as nightly messages from the larger intelli...

“Even when we feel alone, there’s this ancestral truth that all of these people…have carried us here.” -Jamie Hunt What does it mean to be carried—by ancestors, by friends, by music, by silence? This week, Andy gathers with three fellow travelers on the path of inquiry, growth, service and commitment: Jamie Hunt , Todd Marston , and Francis Briers . Together they’ve spent the past five years tendi...

“I know that I was brought on this world to create a multi-sector, multi-generational, intersectional global movement for healing, freedom, and justice.” — Dr. Annice Fisher What is power? Where does it come from? How does power flow through our lives, our communities, and our choices? This week, Dr. Annice Fisher , (leadership coach, founder of Developing Capacity Coaching and author of The Power...

“All of this art is a metaphor for yourself. You are the song. You are the poem. You are the painting.” -Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin What are we for ? This timeless question becomes the ground on which brothers Owen and Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin walk in this conversation. As musicians, poets, and teachers, they inherit and carry forward a lineage of song and story that reveals how art is not s...

“Walking together is one of the most ancient human practices. It’s how we’ve always learned to be in relationship—with each other, with the land, and with God.” -Reverend Rita Powell Reverend Rita Powell is the Episcopal chaplain at Harvard, formerly a priest at Trinity Church in Boston, and a longtime spiritual innovator whose journey has included living in the monastic community of Taizé in Fran...

“Mysticism is about meeting life as it is. It’s about leaning into discomfort, leaning into obstacles, leaning into challenges and saying, there’s a reason why they’re here.” -Robin Alfred What does it mean to live a mystical life? Not on a mountaintop or in a monastery, but in the midst of work deadlines, childcare chaos, and the messiness of everyday life? Once again we welcome back Robin Alfred...

“Ritual makes the invisible visible.” — Casper ter Kuile Casper ter Kuile shares insight and inspiration on the future of community, ritual, and spirituality. His work explores how we’ll make meaning, deepen our relationships, and experience beauty in the 21st century. He’s the author of The Power of Ritual and co-founder of The Nearness , a digital community of people exploring life’s big questio...

“We need our most weird parts to be our most wonderful selves. And as we become more wonderful, we become more weird! And that’s kind of what flourishing looks like in the universe.” — Dominic Longo This Pride Month we are thrilled to welcome back Dominic Longo , founder of Flourishing Gays and author of Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults . Domini...

As a Certified Hakomi Practitioner and coach, much of Ketriellah Goldfeder’s ethos is rooted in transforming the self-help paradigm of “working on yourself” to “working with yourself.” While many of us feel that we are fundamentally broken and that one day, when we work hard enough, we will be fixed, Ketriellah helps her clients embrace the beautiful messiness that is synonymous with being human....

In this special, inter-generational episode we welcome Dr. Sousan Abadian and her daughter, Ariana Abadian-Heifetz. Ariana is an experiential educator with expertise in social-emotional learning and gender-based violence. Sousan has an independent practice, teaching, speaking, and consulting internationally on leadership, innovation, and culture change. Currently, she serves as the Executive Direc...

Robert Biswas-Diener is a researcher, author, and well-known executive coach. His work has taken him all over the globe, studying culture as it relates to well-being. In addition to happiness, he’s researched subjects such as strengths, hospitality, friendship, and leadership. In 2024, Thinkers50 recognized Robert as one of the 50 most influential executive coaches in the world. A prolific author,...

Eleanor Robins writes in service of imagination. Her work has been featured in publications such as the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. Her Substack, How to Go Home , is a newsletter devoted to essays, reflections, and conversations about imagination and the imaginal realm. A steward of dreams and stories, Eleanor studies the phenomena of the imagina...

Cecily Sommers is a futurist, business consultant, and author of Think Like a Futurist . Cecily defines her practice as a futurist in terms of someone who studies the principles and mechanisms of change by looking at history, biology, and the universe in order to understand how societies transform over time. As a business futurist, Cecily’s zone of genius is as a consultant to some of the world’s...

Mieke Jacobs (poet, coach, thought leader and systemic teacher) returns to the Dome to share from her book Poet Assassin ; a fittingly-titled collection of “dense and ethereal” poems that excavate the collective psyche. It’s a fitting title for a body of work that flows through the mind and heart and yet is also sharp like an edge that cuts through the noise and speaks truth in a way that can be d...

Nate Helbach is the founder and CEO of Neutral , a regenerative development company that crafts economically viable and ecologically sustainable built environments. Neutral creates beautiful housing developments that enhance existing neighborhoods, encourage the fostering of human connectivity, and generate profits all while mitigating the harmful effects traditional development tends to inflict o...

Housing is one of the greatest adaptive challenges we currently face as a species. It’s also a key solution to many other complexities around population, community, civic engagement, and the ecological crisis. Navigating our current global political landscape often feels like patching up a sinking ship, where the tools we use to mend it often reproduce the status quo that created the holes in the...