The Wonder Dome

My guest today is the singular Raj Sisodia , a founding member of the Conscious Capitalism movement and co-author of the book by the same name , along with Whole Foods founder John Mackey. Raj is a prolific author who has written a number of books, but his most recent one, The Healing Organization , is the centerpiece for our conversation. Raj makes a powerful case for a deeper orientation in our...

Wesley Morris is a pastor, facilitator, and mentor. He extends an invitation for all of us to walk towards the parts of life that cause us the most fear or uncertainty. Towards the deeper, emergent truth waiting for us in the so-called “darkness.” Wesley is the director of programs and strategy for the Southern Vision Alliance , working with on-the-ground activists who are facing systemic racism a...

Brad Rowe is doing incredible work at the forefront of cannabis policy and research. He is committed to making this emerging domain of entrepreneurship a space where people who have faced the worst injustices of the war on drugs have access to the entrepreneurial upsides of the legalization of cannabis . In addition to his own venture, Brad is a lecturer in Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School...

Ashley Munday is the director of Thrive by SweetRush . SweetRush Inc. is a global training and development firm where Ashley leads the Thrive team of culture and leadership consultants. She leads an expert team of culture and leadership consultants. She and her amazing team help guide clients to create human-centered cultures where authentic purpose becomes the beating heart of whatever else that...

Hana Ramat has a fascinating background in psychology, psychotherapy, mindfulness, and human development. Over the past 10+ years, she's worked with folks of all ages and backgrounds; from adults with severe and persistent mental illness at Bellevue Hospital in New York to children at Albert Einstein's College of Medicine’s early childhood center, and many in between. Most recently, she’...

My guest today is Amer Jandali, an energizing, creative human being who brings together a variety of different disciplines to imagine a world where a true human future is possible . A world in which we have not only tackled the challenge of climate change, but actually built a beautiful, more inclusive, more energizing - both metaphorically, but literally in the sense of where we get our energy, o...

Dr. Jeffrey Hull has been something of a “mentor at-a-distance” for me. His book, Flex: The Art and Science of Leadership in a Changing World , provided a framework for leadership that I had an intuitive sense for but didn’t quite know how to describe. Reading his book was an ‘a-ha!’ moment for me. I hadn't heard anyone else put into words in the way that he did. So having him on the show and...

Brooke Lavelle is the co-founder and president of the Courage of Care Coalition , a nonprofit that helps people from across cultures, backgrounds, and identities work together at the intersection of compassionate inquiry, self-discovery, mindfulness, and spirituality. Our conversation today dives into the question of what it is for us to be together, not in spite of our differences, but rather, as...

Liz Moyer Benferhat is a healer with a big question and a big dream: How do we heal ourselves collectively in the face of the damage and change that our entire planet is facing as our climate and culture shifts? How do we take care of each other and care for the world that we are a part of? Her dream is that we find a way to answer those questions through our individual journeys of healing, which...

David Sauvage is an empath , deeply attuned to the emotional states of people around him. He's best known for his performance art doing intuitive readings in front of audiences. His journey towards embracing his abilities - not only to understand other people's emotions but also to help them understand their own - is a remarkable one, fraught with challenges, struggle, loss. And, ultimat...

Nadja Taranczewski is a transformational coach, and I can attest firsthand to the power and impact of her work. I did two coaching sessions with Nadja a year ago and I still notice the impact of those sessions literally almost every day. She is truly someone who knows how to hold a transformative space. She navigates the process of taking a possibility and getting it all the way down to the cellul...

Well, it's hard to believe it, but it's been one year since I’ve launched The Wonder Dome . It was shortly after we went into lockdown here in the States, in April of 2020. It's now April 2021, and you are about to listen to the 50th episode. Today’s guests are no strangers to The Wonder Dome . They’re three distinctly talented, distinctly unique, and yet also deeply connected human...

Pearl Bates is an incredibly talented visual artist. John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, has referred to her art as some of the most original work he's ever seen. That's no understatement. It takes inspiration from all kinds of places: street style, haute couture, music, film, theater, dance, nature. These incredible ingredients come together in Pearl's work to produce sensual, atmos...

Tochi Onyebuchi is the award-winning author of several works of speculative fiction. His most recent novel, Riot Baby , strikes at the heart of our collective reckoning with systemic racism. It is a searing, powerful, and deeply insightful take on what it is to be Black in America, on our prison industrial complex, on what it is to have power and freedom. The title of this episode is a subtle nod...

If you care about what it means to skillfully and meaningfully navigate inter-group conflict towards resolution, connection, and new possibility, then this conversation is for you. Gabe Wilson is the founder of Developmental Design . He's a leadership coach and organizational consultant, and he specializes in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. He is also the co-author of Compassionate...

Tai Sunnanon is a whirling dervish of a human, incredibly energetic, driven, persistent, intelligent, creative, and caring. He's the founder and CEO of Strategic Insights Group , a mission-driven consulting firm based out of LA. He's a life coach and executive coach. He's a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. He is involved with COVID vaccine distribution across Southe...

Eric Larson has become a dear friend and colleague over the past year (and what a year!), and I'm really psyched to have him on the show. He's a coach of coaches, working with people like me to master our art and craft, enabling us to show up for our clients by staying deeply attuned to the present moment. Eric and I first started to deepen our connection when he helped launch something...

Paul Zonneveld and Mieke Jacobs are the co-authors of the recent book Emergent , which brings a systemic intelligence lens to the questions of how organizations get into and ultimately resolve complex challenges, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. Paul and Mieke have both spent decades working with the question of how to help leaders and organizations thrive. What surprised me most about th...

Jackie Knechtel is a deeply loving, generous, and brilliant soul. We met at a training together, and from the moment I connected with her presence over Zoom, I said, this person has something happening that I want to know more about. In the months since, we’ve been able to talk about the meaning of life and the future of humanity, and we pretty quickly realized that we needed to just go ahead and...

Laura Cortese is a Grammy-nominated songwriter, singer, fiddler, and all-around ultra-talented artist. We have such an awesome conversation about where her music comes from. Her music threads together darkness and light, stillness and motion, joy and sorrow. It’s beautiful. I also had the good fortune of working briefly with Laura and her partner, Kristin Andreassen (who I hope to also get on the...

As you'll hear in our conversation, Eddie Turner is an incredibly dynamic and charismatic human being who spends a lot of time and energy working with the question of how leaders lead. He's the author of 140 Simple Messages to Guide Emerging Leaders . He is the founder of the Leadership Excelerator. And he’s the host of the award-winning Keep Leading podcast.  During his journey helping...

Gregory Koufacos is the author of the recently released book The Primal Method , which distills his approach to helping men of all ages, particularly young men, work with addiction, move past a place of stuckness or self-doubt and step wholeheartedly into life. He is a believer, and he's made me a believer, in the power of therapy rooted not just in talk, but rooted in action, in our bodies,...

I'm finding it hard to put into words how special this conversation with Lee Chambers was for me. I know I say that about every episode :-) but this one truly was. Lee is an environmental psychologist and well-being consultant. As the founder of Essentialise , he helps bring well-being to the workplace. He's also part of a movement in his hometown of Lancashire, England to bring well-bei...

Aaron Finbloom is delightfully hard to pin down. I experience him as a sort of entrepreneur-philosopher-trickster, sitting at this beautiful intersection where a penetrating inquiry into the nature of existence meets an unerring drive to create, to express, to play. His work with The Deep Play Institute and The School of Making Thinking brings artists, scholars, and change-agents together in unexp...

My first guest to kick off 2021 is Chris Herndon , founder of Growth Mindset Coach and director of coaching for Lucidly , a company working to democratize coaching for all. But as you’ll quickly hear in this conversation, Chris is someone who lives outside labels. And he invites his clients, his peers, and his community members to step outside those labels with him to create new, more expansive an...