The Wonder Dome

This week we welcome back Raj Sisodia , acclaimed author of books like The Healing Organization , Firms of Endearment and Conscious Capitalism . Today we're here to discuss his latest book, Awaken . Raj has been on a mission to bring caring, humanity and healing to business since he first began writing books in 2007. He's spent this time thinking and feeling in the direction of how we can help gro...

Miles Enriquez-Morales is a poet, athlete and student in Los Angeles. His boxing journey began in Longmont, Colorado where he eventually became a coach for youth classes. He also hosts a class called Trans Boxing which is specifically for trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people in LA . He is a fellow student of past guest Tlotlo Tsamaase , who is a writer in the same Master of Fine Arts...

Our guest today is Rosi Greenberg : artist, author/illustrator, leadership development trainer, and a dear friend and colleague. Rosi is a master of the art of bringing people together to learn and grow . She recently released Everyone Has a Sam , an illustrated book about meeting your inner critic and re-writing the rules for motivation, accomplishment, and self-worth. Rosi's illustrations,...

Brandon Peele has built his profession around moving towards the most important and often triggering cultural and political topics. Brandon's willingness to look deeply and critically at the questions surrounding America's collective shadow and the horrors that shape our past and present comes through a lens of purpose. America e pluribus unum: out of many, one. What does it mean to actu...

Host of Mike's Search for Meaning , coach, and longtime supporter of the Wonder Dome, Mike Trugman has gone through a beautiful journey of growth and transformation of reorienting his career to include space for deep inner work for coaching, health and wellness, mindfulness, while coming from a background in accounting and finances.  He skillfully stands in both worlds now with a lot of curio...

It's a joy to be joined by my dear friend, the inspiring Edi Pasalis . Edi is a mindfulness teacher, a yoga teacher, and a leadership practitioner.  Arguably, she is the person who gave me my first job in the world of leadership development that I inhabit pretty robustly now. By inviting me to join the leadership team with Kripalu's RISE program , Edi opened this doorway, so generously a...

Amy Elizabeth Fox is the CEO and co-founder of Mobius Executive Leadership . It's safe to say that the work I do in the world at KONU and my private coaching practice would not be as enriched and as robust if not for the work of Mobius. Mobius weaves together an incredibly rich and deep intellectual spiritual heritage for how change happens in individuals, groups, and organizations. One of th...

Cheryl Ntumy is deeply committed to art as a vehicle for self-understanding and collective cultural growth. Her writing ranges widely, traversing everything from romance to speculative fiction. She speaks powerfully to writing as a journey into true empathy and understanding of yourself and others - across cultures, across identities, across time and space. We have a rich conversation about the wa...

This wonderful and inspiring conversation with Ray Martin has been a long time coming - and I'm so excited to finally share it with you! Note that it was recorded several months ago, and does not reflect current crises in Israel/Gaza, Armenia, or Sudan. As always, The Wonder Dome stands for a world where humanity and its wonderful diversity of cultures can thrive and co-exist. If you'd l...

The Wonder Dome is back after our summer hiatus! And we're kicking off the fall with  Jee Chang  - a leadership coach, creative director, designer, and professor who teaches at Parsons School of Design, The New School, and the Pratt Institute. She’s also the founder and leadership director of UME , an inside-out brand consultancy that works with radical visionaries and vanguard organizations...

Max Gladstone has a “galaxy brain” - he is deeply and widely read, he has thought deeply about many different dimensions of life and existence, and he has a remarkable gift for transmitting his insights in the form of wickedly smart stories that are equal parts devastatingly beautiful and laugh-out-loud funny. His recent novel Last Exit serves as the centerpiece for our conversation today. It asks...

O.B. Amaechi is a Nigerian-American author, entrepreneur, fashion designer, educator, and coach whose “purpose is soaked in beauty.” Our conversation delves deeply into the themes evoked by that phrase: Why does beauty move us so? And what does it have to do with our soul, our calling, our orientation in life? O.B. has walked the walk in many different contexts: working with young people and teach...

Jeff Lieberman is the co-founder of Sleepawake Camp . A play on the “sleep away camp,” Sleepawake is a boot camp for the body, heart, and mind. The summer program is geared towards people ages 18 to 27 who are ready to learn all of the things that are never taught in school: conflict resolution, emotional regulation, mindful communication, and so much more. Jeff, along with his co-founder (and for...

Paul Dunion has been working for decades to help people of all ages - especially men - step more fully into their maturity, their identity, and their potential. And to do so in a way that engages, integrates, and heals the shadow sides of our lives: the parts of ourselves that we don't want people to see. The parts that others may have told us is unacceptable. Paul writes and speaks beautiful...

My guest today is Reggie Mara , author of the new book Healing America's Narratives: The Feminine, The Masculine, and Our Collective National Shadow. It provides a deep look at how we could build a country actually rooted in wisdom, equality, and possibility as imagined in our founding documents. Overall, Reggie’s work is about helping people become more fully human . He embodies the recognit...

Tlotlo Tsamaase is a remarkably talented author of speculative fiction. Her novella The Slience of the Wilting Skin - a provocative, psychedelic, heartwrenching novella that explores the devastating impacts of colonialism - served as the centerpiece of our first conversation. Tragically, something went wrong with that recording and the audio was unlistenable. We had a great time, but we couldn&apo...

R.S.A. Garcia is a Trinbagonian speculative fiction author who lives in Trinidad and Tobago with her extended family, and as she says, too many cats and dogs :^) Her debut science fiction mystery novel, Lex Talionis , received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, silver medal for best sci-fi fantasy horror ebook from the Independent Publishers award, and became an Amazon Best Seller. She'...

Eric Larson , SB Rawz, and I met several years ago. We're all coaches, and we're all on varying parts of our journey into the profession: building our careers, building our businesses, and I immediately felt a deep resonance with both of them. Eric is a return visitor to The Wonder Dome. SB is a new arrival, but feels like an old friend to The Dome. She brings a wonderful depth of insigh...

Julie Nováková is an award-winning Czech author of science fiction and detective stories. She tells inspiring stories of possible futures rooted in a really solid understanding of practical science, without sacrificing the heart and humanity of her characters. She's published seven novels, one anthology, one story collection, and over thirty short pieces in Czech. And her work in English has...

Sara Rivera is a Cuban/Peruvian artist, writer, translator, and educator. Her poetry and fiction have been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies. She was awarded a 2017 St. Botolph's Emerging Artist Award and won the 2018 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry. Her drawings, sculptures, and community-based installations focus on text-in-space as social intervention, and her public...

The world is as noisy as ever , and only getting more so. And we're not just talking about the actual sound waves produced by machines, cars, televisions, etc. There's a lot of real noise, but there's also informational noise (news, videos, updates, ‘likes’, ‘feeds’, etc) and interior noise (anxiety, worry, doubt, anger, fear, rumination, self-judgment, etc). Today’s guests, Leigh M...

Dr. Nerina Ramlakhan has worked 25+ years as a physiologist and sleep and energy expert. At the core of our conversation is her most recent book, Finding Inner Safety , which she describes as a natural extension of and deepening of her expertise and human physiology, the science of sleep, and the behaviors that can help us sleep better. Underneath our ability to sleep is our capacity to feel safe....

From the moment I first encountered Kate Elliott’s short story, ”I am a handsome man, said Apollo Crow,” I knew I was in the hands of a master storyteller . Kate is an incredibly talented and prolific author who has written so many cool, fun, enriching books - and they serve as the spine of our conversation today. One of her most recent books, Unconquerable Sun , is a gender-swapped story of Alexa...

I’ve had the pleasure of bringing Yotam Schachter into The Wonder Dome several times now. This particular conversation is a bonus mini-episode where Yotam walks us through his method of Self-Coaching , a simple and powerful practice for engaging with life’s many growth opportunities. Self-coaching teaches us how to dialog with ourselves, acting as both client and coach. Just like a professional co...

Rebecca F. Kuang is a multi-award winning Best Selling Author and an accomplished scholar and academic. Her epic fantasy trilogy, The Poppy War , is a beautiful, brutal, story that combines the history of 20th-century China with a universe of monsters, magic, and gods. It is a heartbreaking and powerful piece of art, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in things like Game of Thro...