What you’ll hear in this episode:

- A powerful opening on Governor Rick Perry’s Ibogaine initiative and the fight to heal veterans.

- Lauren Betzing’s journey from psychology and health policy to consciousness and quantum physics.

- Jon Warren’s engineering path, startup success, and shift toward human-centered tech.

- The Evolve VR headset: how it reads real-time biometric data to train regulation and awareness.

- How algorithmic manipulation impacts human biology and why Evolve aims to reverse that.

- Spiritual frameworks — Tao Te Ching, quantum physics, and meditation — meeting technology.

- How AI, VR, and biofeedback might accelerate humanity toward the Age of Abundance for All.

About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

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Lauren Betzing — Co-Founder, Evolve

Lauren Betzing is a health innovator, consciousness researcher, and co-founder of Evolve. With a background in psychology, neuroscience, and health policy (Yale School of Public Health & School of Management), she spent over a decade driving health innovation across startups and think tanks in Washington, D.C. A lifelong student of quantum physics, meditation, and embodied practices, Lauren brings together scientific rigor and deep spiritual wisdom to help people reconnect to their innate capacity for healing and awareness.

Lauren on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenbetzing/

Jon Warren — Co-Founder & CEO, Evolve

Jon Warren is an engineer, entrepreneur, and technologist who previously founded and sold a cutting-edge optics company to Meta, where his team’s technology powers next-generation AR/VR devices. A lifelong builder with roots in engineering and data infrastructure, Jon shifted his focus toward human-centered technology after a profound spiritual awakening. Through Evolve, he’s bridging advanced biometric sensing with immersive VR to accelerate personal transformation and collective consciousness.

Jon on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathonwarren/

Evolve: https://evolvetoyou.com

Timestamps:

00:00 - Episode preview

01:20 - Brett opens

04:32 - $50M for Ibogaine research in Texas

10:20 - Welcome Lauren & Jon: the creators of Evolve

12:17 - Lauren’s origin story: psychology, health, & healing

17:18 - Spiritual awakening: quantum physics & meditation

21:40 - Jon’s origin story: small-town roots to engineering

29:40 - Selling a startup to Meta & shifting toward impact

31:36 - How Jon & Lauren met: a synchronicity story, plus Brett’s synchronicity with Debra

39:33 - Introducing Evolve: bridging science and spirituality

44:50 - Algorithmic manipulation & why we must “deprogram”

49:25 - How the Evolve headset works (VR + biofeedback)

57:36 - Human-centered tech & collective consciousness

1:00:03 - Real-time physiological feedback explained

1:05:28 - Measuring state change & nervous system regulation

1:13:46 - Ancient wisdom meets modern technology

1:19:16 - Consciousness awakening & collective remembering

1:22:54 - Dr. Joe Dispenza, healing, and coherence fields

1:27:10 - The mind-blowing Fred LeFranc synchronicity story

1:39:12 - The Age of Abundance for All: tech, AI, & human potential

1:51:02 - Closing reflections