Voices of Emergence

We sit down with Samantha Sweetwater, author of True Human and founder of One Life Circle, for a deep and honest conversation about what it really means to become “truly human” in a world moving at breakneck speed. We talk about emergence as something both beautiful and destabilizing. We explore the difference between living from domination versus living from reciprocity. And we ask a simple but p...

In this episode, Stephanie Long Canavesio (Presence Embodied) shares what she means by emergence: the willingness to feel what we have pushed down, and the slow liberation from the chains of the mind. We talk about addiction and recovery, her pivotal meeting with Gabor Mate, nervous system safety, and why peak experiences do not equal healing. Real transformation, she argues, happens through integ...

What the Kogi teach us about balance, guardianship, and the living world We sit with Lucas Buchholz, author of A Book of Balance and founder of the Timeless Wisdom Academy and the nonprofit Sacred Future. Lucas spent around ten years in relationship with the indigenous Kogi people of Colombia, a living lineage carrying a pre-industrial cosmovision rooted in balance, reciprocity, and deep attunemen...

We are living through a time of acceleration, instability, and deep uncertainty. Institutions feel brittle. Old narratives no longer orient us. New ones have not yet fully emerged. In this conversation, Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele share a clear articulation of what Voices of Emergence is, why it exists, and where it is going. This is not a political discussion, and it is not an attempt to p...

We gathered for an online community gathering, bringing together podcast guests and members of our wider community for a relational, unscripted conversation. This was a space for presence, listening, and shared sensemaking in a time marked by uncertainty, grief, technological acceleration, geopolitical instability, and deep questions about what kind of humans we are becoming. Across voices from Eu...

This is a conversation with Samina Vabo Ansari, an Afghan-Norwegian lawyer with a background in diplomacy, having worked at the intersection of peacebuilding and innovation. She reflects on the global shift of our time and the deeper calling behind her book, A Call to Bloom Before Your Time, in a world that is asking us to be courageous.  Get your copy at https://whenthealmondtreesbloom.com Hosted...

In this episode of Voices of Emergence, the roles gently shift. For the first time, co-host and co-founder Rudy de Waele steps into the guest seat, and we slow down together to explore what shaped his path. This is not a standard biography. Its a reflective conversation about emergence as a relational process, and about leadership as stewardship of conditions rather than control of outcomes. We mo...

Myth As Biology, Rewilding Masculinity, And The Stories Shaping Our Future In this episode, we sit down with writer and mythopoetic thinker Sophie Strand for a wide-ranging conversation on myth, illness, ecology, and the stories shaping our future. Sophie shares how chronic illness changed her relationship to myth, not as metaphor, but as something cellular and lived: a way communities carry preci...

We sit down with Lucian Tarnowski, founder of United Planet, to explore one of the most important questions of our time: What does it take to shift from a dystopian worldview into a lived experience of possibility? Lucian argues that belief is a form of technology — and right now, humanity is being “conquered by dystopia.” Our collective pessimism feeds back into the systems we build. To change th...

Ancestral Memory, Decolonization, and Cultural Leadership What if museums were not monuments to the past, but living ecosystems in service of life? In this conversation, cultural strategist and regenerative thinker Lucimara Letelier joins Rudy de Waele and Alex de Carvalho to explore how museums—and all cultural institutions—can evolve from extractive, colonial structures into places of healing, b...

Fred Destin is co-founder of Stride. VC and one of Europe’s most respected venture capitalists. Over two decades, Fred has backed some of Europe’s most iconic startups, but this conversation goes far beyond business. Fred shares his deeply personal journey, revealing how he moved from hyper-performance to presence, from stoicism to stewardship, and from capitalism’s speed to life’s flow. We explor...

Reclaiming connection, community, and the wisdom of place We sit with Helena Norberg-Hodge, a pioneer of the localization movement, founder and director of Local Futures, and author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Helena begins by naming a painful truth she has witnessed on every continent over the last forty years: young people everywhere are struggling with depression. She invites us t...

A circle of inquiry into what money becomes when we treat it as a living system. In this Voices of Emergence gathering, we convene a deep dialogue with Ida Faldbakken, Alessa Berg, Dana Ulrike Glatz, and Fredrik Blomquist to explore the future of finance through the lenses of regeneration, reciprocity, and ecological intelligence. Together we ask: What happens when we shift from extraction to flow...

We sit with Hajar Tazi, storyteller, poet, and ecosystem weaver devoted to Pachamama’s flourishing. Hajar shares how childhood moments of mystical union shaped her life, why ecosystem weaving is “care over control,” and how bioregional networks can become islands of coherence in a sea of chaos. We explore the imaginal as a real field of collaboration, the Rights of Nature as a bridge toward lived...

Meet Alessa Berg, founder and CEO of Top Tier Impact, the global ecosystem of impact and sustainability leaders shaping the future of capital and culture. Alessa shares her journey from traditional finance to regenerative economics, and how her multilingual, cross-cultural background turned her into a translator between worlds—between capital and consciousness, systems and stories. Together, we ex...

Systems entrepreneur and impact investor Dana Ulrike Glatz joins us to explore how capital can flow in service of life—guided by indigenous wisdom, embodied leadership, and alliances rooted in reciprocity. We trace Dana’s path from a grounded childhood in rural Germany to spiritual initiation in India, through World Economic Forum rooms and into the Amazon—where she’s convening an Ancestral Wisdom...

In this luminous conversation, we sit down with Canay Atalay — transformation architect, regenerative innovation strategist, and founder of the RX Innovation Institute — to explore how we can redesign the operating systems of business, technology, and leadership through the feminine principle and a regenerative lens. Canay shares her journey from the pharmaceutical and media industries to pioneeri...

In this episode, we sit down with Louie Valotti — founder of Genesis Health and guide at the intersection of biology, consciousness, and healing. Trained in Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Maté and initiated into the Peruvian Q’ero lineage of shamanism, Louie bridges modern trauma work with ancient ritual and spiritual science. Together we explore: - how trauma becomes a portal for the soul’s...

A circle of inquiry into the soul of intelligence — human, artificial, and planetary. In this special Voices of Emergence gathering, we convene a deep dialogue with Amanda Efthimiou, Lisanne Buik, Timothée Brès, and Fred Destin — exploring what it means to stay human in an age of accelerating intelligence. Together we ask: How can AI serve life, not control? What does it mean to “parent” artificia...

We speak with biologist, whole-systems designer, and author Daniel Christian Wahl, whose book Designing Regenerative Cultures has inspired changemakers and communities worldwide. Together they explore how regeneration moves beyond sustainability — not as a brand or technique, but as life’s innate process of creating the conditions for more life. Daniel reflects on emergence and complexity, the dee...

What if the way we speak, listen, and relate could regenerate culture itself? In this episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with Jean-Philippe Steeger—narrative practitioner, facilitator, and founder of Perspectivist—to explore communication as a living, relational art. Drawing from his personal story and professional work at the intersection of systems change, story, and somatics, Jean-Phil...

What happens when ancestral wisdom meets frontier tech? In this conversation, Mamadou Touré — founder of Ubuntu Tribe — lays out a living philosophy of “shared prosperity” where finance becomes regenerative, transparent, and truly inclusive. We explore: Ubuntu as a practical operating system for business (“I am because we are”) Why Western finance skews toward accumulation (collateral + info asymm...

What if emergence wasn’t a trend, but a remembering? What if complexity is not something to solve, but to compost? In this rich and deeply poetic conversation, we sit with Ryan (Ra) James Kemp, a systems futurist, relational architect, and cultural integration guide who walks between quantum systems, indigenous cosmologies, regenerative design, and embodied remembrance. From the sacred flow of wat...

In a world built on speed, separation, and distraction, what happens when we pause long enough to feel the world again? Writer and researcher Virginia Vigliar explores what it means to live with attention, to move with awe, and to reclaim the quiet power of connection. Known for her sensorial essays and poetic activism, Virginia speaks of “soft deconditioning” as a gentle rebellion against systems...

What does it take to lead from courage when the old system makes one last stand?  In this episode, cultural futurist and ecosystem builder Ida Faldbakken joins us to explore daring as a practice, naming what’s hard, finding beauty in the mess, and cultivating creative resilience in a world moving fast. We go deep on: Daring & vocalization Creativity as grounded force Ancestral memory & rit...