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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...

Nina Simons is the co-founder of Bioneers , an organization focused on helping the human species reach a place of true racial and gender justice for all, while also rekindling our sacred relationship with the planet Earth - and in the process, supporting a just transition to a future that's regenerative, sustainable, and allows every living being on this planet to flourish. The mission of Bio...

This episode officially marks the end of 10 episodes celebrating 100 conversations in The Dome ! The opportunity to bring together past guests in new constellations has been a deeply meaningful gift. Hopefully, if you've been listening to these incredibly rich, deep, robust gatherings in The Dome, something has expanded or opened for you. Perhaps helping you see and feel in new ways, and, per...

My guests today for this continued celebration of 100 episodes of the Wonder Dome are Dr. Jeff Hull and Ben Preston. Jeff was on episode #55 of the Dome, "Meta Leadership," and Ben was on Episode #81, "The Space Where Worlds Meet." In this return conversation, we explore one of the key constraints of our dominant capitalist culture : we often only know each other through the ro...

I've been bringing back different constellations of past guests to celebrate 100 episodes of The Wonder Dome. For this one, I decided to do something a little different. My returning guest is the amazing human being, Rayshauna Gray . She's a historian, essayist, creator, teacher, and facilitator. She originally joined me for episode #21 "With Clear Eyes and a Full Heart." And i...

Continuing my celebration with past guests are Joel Monk (founder of Coaches Rising ) and Ishita Sharma (founder of Come to Center ). Coaches Rising is an amazing resource for practitioners who are working to evolve the field of coaching, exploring how to show up for our clients with deep questions, presence, openness. And Ishita is a faculty member for one of their more recent programs, The Power...

Both Lawrence Barriner and Yotam Schachter have built their careers and callings around helping others grow and evolve. A big part of that for both of them is facilitating experiences where men can work together to reckon with masculinity, violence, healing, and repair. In this conversation, we play at this intersection of what it is to be a man in relationship to the violence in our culture and i...

For episode 105, I am joined from across the pond by Lee Chambers and Robert Stephenson . Lee and Robert each bring a distinct essence to the question: what becomes possible when we discover that our singular point of view on reality is just a small part of a bigger, more complex, more diverse human story? Together, the three of us tap into the insight that we all need places to meet, nourish, and...

Returning to The Wonder Dome this week are long-time collaborators Parker Palme r and Carrie Newcomer. Parker is the author of many books and a celebrated teacher and educator. Carrie is the writer of many songs and creator of many albums and she too is a celebrated educator and teacher in her own right. Together they have produced a number of stage productions centered around collective healing a...

Today’s guests already know each other quite well. Chelsea Simpson and Michael Stern are co-founders of The Emerging Leaders Project . This beautiful offering to the world stands for the recognition that our societies are in transition. The systems that we've relied upon for centuries are breaking down. And they're doing so at an accelerating rate, which can be pretty damn scary. But Che...

For episode 102, I'm bringing together two past Wonder Dome guests who know each other quite well: Kim Loh and Gabe Wilson . They’ve worked together as facilitators, trainers, and coaches, and they co-authored Compassionate Conversations alongside master practitioner Diane Hamilton. As the three of us come together again in The Wonder Dome, we deepen into one of the core themes from our prior...

Back for our second episode of the Summer Celebration Series are Ken Liu , Tochi Onyebuchi , and Ray Nayler . All three of these writers add so much depth and richness to the tapestry of our lives. When you leave this conversation today, I encourage you to listen to my other interviews with them and to read their work. Their writing has the potential to change your relationship to what's poss...

Welcome to the 100th episode of The Wonder Dome! I've spent the past two years showing up as fully as I can for each one of these conversations. In the process, I've been repeatedly humbled and inspired by the amazing humans I've had the privilege to meet here in The Dome. Thank you for being here with me. In a sense, every person who listens to these recordings is in the room with...

Angella Okawa is a certified Integral coach and a licensed marriage and family therapist and the founder of Mindful Diversity . She brings together a wide range of modalities to help people navigate questions of identity, belonging, community, diversity, and equity. These questions permeate our social fabric, pushing us to explore who we are and who we might become. This is a deeply experiential e...

Cat Tweedie is the CEO and co-founder of Sleepawake Camp , a four-week residential intensive for 18 to 24-year-olds to explore how to live life with authenticity and awareness. Up through graduating high school, the average young person has spent 18,000 hours studying science, math, language, arts, and social studies. But there's a really good chance that those same students have spent zero h...

Rev. Dr. Nóirín Ní Riain is a theologian, philosopher, and teacher of music and music history. She is a Reverend minister, a master of ritual, and uses sound to help people mark the most important milestones in their lives: birth, marriage, death, and many others along the way. She also originated the concept of Theosony which is the sound of God or the sound of the Divine, a way of engaging with...

Monique Schubert is a dear friend who I've had the privilege of studying with, learning from, and teaching alongside. She is a beautiful soul who sees life as an extended project to make the world more beautiful, more kind, and more inclusive. She uses the tools of art, yoga, and music to educate, inspire, and connect. Monique is also a Kripalu certified teacher and helps design their teacher...

My conversation with Sessei Meg Levie works with the possibility that sitting in stillness, attending to what is without judging yourself or the world, and simply noticing, can open whole new doorways of possibility in your life and the lives of those around you. Sessei Meg Levie is the head priest of the Stone Creek Zen Center in Sonoma County, CA, and she has been practicing Soto Zen for 30+ yea...

Dominic Longo is the founder of Flourishing Gays , a coaching and consulting firm that works especially with gay, bi, queer, and trans men to support their leadership, personal development, growth, and flourishing. He is a remarkable scholar, teacher, coach, thinker, theologian, bringing together a number of different streams of understanding about how we humans are made, and who we can become if...