The Wonder Dome

Cynthia Scott has carried a lifelong curiosity about how people thrive, regenerate, and transform. She's done extensive research on burnout prevention, personal and organizational resilience, and the development of true agility and adaptability. She asks how do we grow, evolve, and stay resilient, especially as the world around us becomes so much more uncertain and things we once took for gra...

One of the coolest things about hosting The Wonder Dome is that I get to dive deep into conversations with some of the most dynamic human beings on the planet. Aidan McCullen is one of those people. He is the author of Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention for Individuals, Organisations, and Life. He also hosts the fantastic podcast, The Innovation Show , which served as an exemplar fo...

Nathan Blair is the founder and lead trainer at the Somatic School , a school for coaches and other practitioners who want to understand how our bodies serve as the vessel for deep connection and understanding between each other, with the entire planet, and with the universe. During his teens, Nathan was diagnosed with ADHD and took medication to manage his “symptoms.” But over time, through mindf...

Gayle Karen Young is a catalyst for human and organizational development. She is a mentor, a teacher, an empath, a systems thinker, and a healer. For many years, she worked as the chief culture and talent officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the foundation responsible for Wikipedia and all of its sister projects devoted to free knowledge and free information. Now Gayle is in private practice, work...

Janet Allison's work asks and helps us answer the question, how do we raise boys to become good men? She is the founder of Boys Alive , an organization that provides coaching and education to parents of boys of all ages. She's also the host of the ON BOYS podcast , which is now four years running with hundreds of thousands of downloads, featuring experts in the worlds of child psychology...

Kyrah Altman is the Chill Executive Officer and co-founder of LEAD an organization devoted to cultivating mental health and wellbeing in organizations and communities around the world.  She is one of those rare, wholehearted leaders pushing back against the dominant narrative that constantly drives us to produce, to perform, to be perfect without ever revealing our full humanity. Kyrah co-founded...

Since he was a kid, Howard Prager has been living the question, “how can I make someone else’s day?”  Howard is the Founder and Executive Director of the Advanced Learning Group . He is a generous, kind-hearted human who is taking a stand for bringing “memorable, cherished moments” into leadership. His recent book, Make Someone's Day: Becoming a Memorable Leader in Work and Life , explores wh...

Owen Ó Súilleabháin lives the belief that art has the power to awaken the most dynamic and creative aspects of ourselves in the world, regardless of whether or not we identify as “artists.” He's a singer, composer, and a teacher who has collaborated with world-class artists including Steven Spielberg, Russell Crowe, Nigel Kennedy, the Chieftains, and David Whyte. He’s usually found working al...

Do you ever ask yourself, “What can I do in the face of these deep, pervasive social, cultural, and spiritual dilemmas that our species has faced and will continue to face in the decades and centuries to come?” Stephen Cope’s latest work The Dharma in Difficult Times dives deep into this question. He weaves ancient wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita together with an exploration of the lives of eight di...

My guest today is Ariel Burger : scholar, artist, poet, musician, rabbi, professor, nonprofit leader, and former student of Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. Ariel is an incredibly playful, creative, and devoted servant of the public good. He is the author of Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom . Elie Wiesel was perhaps one of the most important voices fo...

I’m excited to have Sam Chase on the show today. Sam is one of the most gifted mindfulness & meditation practitioners I have ever met. He is the author of a wonderfully rich book called Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness. It is a deep, dense, and humorous exploration of ancient wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras, paired with the latest research in neurobiology and mindfulness. I...

Ralph Waldo Emerson said that “language is fossil poetry.” If that's true, then Báyò Akómoláfé is one of the most remarkable archaeologists and excavators of language's hidden meanings and of our shared human past. What I love about Báyò is his capacity to reformulate, reimagine, reconfigure, and remember. He works with language in a way that deepens our understandings of what's tru...

Ben Preston is an Ulsterman from Northern Ireland who currently lives and works across Australia and New Zealand as a regenerative engineer and designer. Regenerative designers think about what is it to make a space that comes to life and invites people in. One that invites people to name their biggest hopes, dreams, and fears, connect around them, and in the process, take care of and support each...

Those of you who have been listening for a while know that I care deeply about the creative process. About the ways in which insight can come to us from the most unexpected places. One of our opportunities as human beings is to show up for whatever life brings. Carrie Newcomer is someone who embodies that as fully as any of us might hope for. Carrie is a songwriter, a recording artist, a performer...

Allie Middleton is deeply attuned to the future possibilities that might be. She has been meditating and practicing yoga for over 45 years and is the author of Yoga Radicals - a curated set of inspiring stories from 36 pioneers in the field. The book emerged from a conference that brought together a collection of a truly remarkable and diverse set of yoga practitioners from around the world. As a...

In all aspects of her work and life, Tiffany Wen beautifully models the capacity to share our stories with authenticity and vulnerability. As a yoga teacher, as an activist, as a podcast host, as a storyteller. In all of those contexts, she's helping people tap into inner wisdom and actually listen instead of repressing it or ignoring it. She hosts the Alt-Normal , a podcast centering on dive...

Mattias Olsson is a remarkable independent documentary filmmaker and the creator of Campfire Stories , making films that touch the roots of change. His films invite us into the lives of people who are actively imagining and creating a world of ecological balance and human sanity. Campfire Stories ascribes to something called the gift economy, the understanding that the beauty that any one of us ca...

Michael J. Bobbitt is the executive director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council , working to elevate cultural life across the state with an emphasis on improving arts education, promoting diversity, and encouraging excellence in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. In our conversation, Michael shares that he is actually moving away from language like “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” because it...

The first time I had the good fortune to meet Lawrence Barriner II , I was so deeply touched and moved that I immediately invited him to come on this podcast. We spent about 45 minutes together and we went deeper in our sharing than I suspect some people get a chance to do in even their most intimate friendships (which is its own kind of tragedy). Lawrence offered the very unique and simple invita...

Robert Hanig is a pioneer in the field of systems thinking and systems sensing. He's been doing this work for decades, helping organizations and groups of people more deeply understand the self-evident interconnectedness of everything that they do. He says at one point in our conversation, if it feels like your system is dysfunctional, you need to start paying closer attention because the sys...

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing the power duo of Shannon Lucas and Tracey Lovejoy , co-founders of Catalyst Constellations. These two are true forces of nature. Catalysts are the kind of people who have a vision and also have the energy, skill, and persistence to bring that vision to life - often at a pace that can leave other people spinning if they’re not careful.  Catalyst Constellati...

Robert Stephenson is a coach, trainer, mentor, and inspirational speaker. For a number of years, he was the director for coaching at Animas , one of the most diversified and impactful coaching schools in UK and Europe. He has a deeply humanistic approach to his work that's grounded in his clear love of human beings and the ways in which we can engage with all aspects of ourselves to write and...

Dorie Clark is seemingly unstoppable. She's been named one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world. She's been recognized as the number one communication coach in the world. She's a consultant, a keynote speaker. She teaches Exec Ed at Duke University and Columbia Business School. She's authored multiple books, including Entrepreneurial You (which, in part, inspired this p...

My guest today is the wise, generous, courageous soul, Parker Palmer.   You'll hear him touch into his sense of how he was born into the world and how that shaped him moving through life. And how, at age 82, he continues to reckon with the big questions of who we are as a people and what it is to take a stand for what you believe in. As he says in his most recent book, “Old is just another wo...

Elizabeth Segran is a senior staff writer at Fast Company, and her work has appeared in a broad range of publications, including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Salon. We focus the bulk of our conversation on her fantastic book, The Rocket Years , which explores the impact that choices we make in our 20s have through the rest of our life. Havin...