Love Conquers Fear

Order the Book! ► http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How Joanna broke into venture capital after hundreds of investor meetings and repeated rejection - Turning professional success into greater impact through listening, service, and leadership - Why women need more access to investment opportunities and more freedom to talk about money - Preparing workers for AI w...

Order the Book! ► http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How a baseball statistics lecture launched Eric’s career in data science and AI - What humans contribute when AI can solve problems once reserved for experts - How Wharton is rethinking teaching, research, and learning for the AI era - How AI could reshape careers, entrepreneurship, and access to opportunity - W...

Order the Book! ► http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Payam’s journey from religious persecution in Iran to refugee, entrepreneur, investor, and mission-driven leader - How the Bahá’í faith shaped his belief in one God, one humanity, and the common spiritual foundation of the world’s religions - Building businesses around purpose, human betterment, and values - Why...

Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Psychedelic therapy for trauma, PTSD, addiction, and mental health - Vance’s journey from combat trauma and survivor’s guilt to healing through psilocybin - Mary’s path from Whole Foods and cannabis advocacy to plant medicine, Indigenous wisdom, and psychedelic policy - Why veterans are helping push psychedelic...

Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book A special conversation with Brett Hurt and Mark Gober — recorded live in collaboration with BookPeople in Austin, TX on August 23, 2026 What you’ll hear in this episode: - The spiritual experiences behind “Love Conquers Fear”, including Brett’s psychedelic journey and studying Vedanta - Moving from fear to hope, and using human agency to shape a...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Trusting intuition as a form of intelligence and learning how it speaks through the body - Bringing intuition into leadership and business decisions alongside rigorous analysis - Unlearning childhood conditioning around fear, vulnerability, creativity, and self-trust - Self-love as the deeper path beneath grow...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How Foresight has spent 40 years anticipating breakthrough technologies and steering them toward human flourishing - Why AI could accelerate nanotechnology, longevity, molecular engineering, and scientific discovery - What abundance could mean for economics, energy, identity, and human potential - Why “existen...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How childhood adversity and “cowgirl” values shaped Gay’s resilience, independence, and personal agency - Building T3 from scratch during a recession and learning to lead through constant change - Breaking barriers for women through preparation, competence, and confidence - Turning decades of experience into m...

Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Jason’s path from conservation biology and sustainable building to founding ICON - How ICON is reinventing construction with robotics, software, advanced materials, and 3D printing - Building for everyone — from people experiencing homelessness to future communities on the Moon - Trusting intuition, holding the...

Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book A special conversation with Brett Hurt and Jamie Metzl, moderated by Chadia El Meouchi — recorded live in collaboration with the Aspen Institute in Aspen, CO on July 24, 2026 What you’ll hear in this episode: - How AI and other converging technologies could create unprecedented abundance or profound harm - Why humanity needs a moral compass for t...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - The role of spirituality in shaping how leaders think about infinity, mortality, and the value of their limited time - Moving beyond comparison, competition, and self-doubt through gratitude and unconditional love - The concept of “World Positive Capitalism” and investing in companies that create meaningful va...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Doyt’s path from organized religion to meditation, God, and the priesthood - The meditation that took Doyt into the void and back to prayer, worship, and creation - Pastoral care at life’s sacred thresholds: birth, death, grief, illness, and transition - Lazarus as the beloved disciple and his resurrection as...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Apptronik’s mission to build humanoid robots that help people live and work better - Why humanoid robots could become the next major platform after personal computers - Jeff’s lifelong search for meaning, purpose, and service to future generations - What we choose to do with technology once almost anything bec...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How near-death experiences (NDEs), psychedelics, meditation, and awakenings reveal what lies beyond the veil - What consciousness beyond the brain means for free will, life reviews, and the OneMind - Why Heaven, Source, the cosmic mind, diamond light, and infinite love point to a deeper reality - What quantum...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Omani’s journey from childhood fear, trauma, and scarcity to healing, joy, and spiritual freedom - Why financial success couldn’t create the love, peace, and belonging Omani was searching for - Conscious capitalism, heart-centered leadership, and redefining true wealth beyond money - How psychedelics, Bufo, br...

Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Why psychedelics should be treated as sacred medicine, not party drugs or escapism - Intention, set, setting, legality, and trusted facilitation as the foundation for safety - Preparation, proper dosing, and entering journey space with reverence - How psychedelics can heal trauma — but also bring fear, pain, an...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How “Love Conquers Fear” grew from Brett’s search for meaning, reality, and humanity’s future - The psychedelic journey that inspired the book’s message, structure, and deeper calling - Choosing love over fear as AI, quantum computing, robotics, and brain-computer interfaces accelerate - Consciousness, the sou...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Pardis’ Iranian-American story of exile, identity, and learning to bridge worlds - Persian mysticism, Sufism, Rumi, Hafez, and dance as direct paths to the Divine - Awakening as a cultural choice, and how consciousness can fuel progress - Pardis’ journey from achievement and despair back to God, love, purpose,...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Why Doug says careers aren’t linear, and how “purpose” shaped his biggest choices - Doug’s leadership philosophy: empower the people closest to the work, then lock in accountability - Why cloud security plays by different rules when everyone is shipping fast - Aviatrix’s core idea: contain the blast radius whe...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How fear-fed algorithms and fake news break shared reality - Why trust is scarce in the AI era, and how AI can rebuild it at scale - The abundance gap in education, with hundreds of millions still at risk of never learning to read - AI as a coach and cheerleader that can expand human potential - Universal Basi...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Greg’s research on the brain circuits that drive depression, PTSD, and chronic stress - How brain imaging and targeted treatments aim to shift threat, fear, and survival states - What psychedelics can unlock when other treatments fail and why the research is accelerating - Ibogaine’s promise and safety risks,...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Brandon’s path from creative work to business to tech - The data.world origin story and the “aha” moment that pulled Brandon into AI adoption - The AI demos and breakthroughs that shifted Brandon’s view of what’s coming next - Why AI adoption is really change management, and why rollout is the hard part - AI a...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Why AI isn’t just a tool, it’s a test of how human you stay - The answer-engine trap vs. keeping your agency and sharpening your thinking - Why “pretty good” becomes the baseline and what actually makes you stand out - Brand and story as the real moat in an AI-saturated world - The power question behind AI: en...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Why choosing love over fear is the difference between healthy culture and toxic leadership - How Ross uses Zen Buddhism and Stoicism as daily inner-work for leadership decisions - Ross’ “Fear Is a Liar” mantra (and upcoming book) and how it shaped his leadership mindset - How ZenBusiness went all-in on AI earl...

Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Why AI is the human and civil rights issue of this decade because of how much power it concentrates - The AGI race and why “who gets there first” could lock in values and ideology - Hallucinations and bias as built-in failure modes you have to design around - Why Chris is pushing public-interest tech so AI ben...