Our society is obsessed with self-improvement. This was a major feature of how I related to reality for most of my life. As helpful as self-improvement can be, it also has a major shadow side that largely goes unexamined.

Implicit in the pursuit of self-improvement is that there is a deficit; that whatever or however your being is in this moment is not whole or complete. This keeps you grasping in a seemingly endless treadmill without ever reaching an enduring sense of completion or fulfillment.

Most people don't really even know there is an alternative to the self-improvement paradigm. This is one of the main topics of today's conversation with Steve March, the founder of Aletheia Coaching.

Some of my other favorite ideas include:

1. Why self-improvement on its own can be a trap
2. Striking the balance between self-improvement and self-unfoldment
3. How to practically embody a more unfoldment experience
4. Understanding how solutions and support often arise when we allow them vs. exert force
5. How shifting our attunement and unfoldment might be an answer to our current metacrisis

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/moving-beyond-the-self-improvement

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Imagine having access to a source of guidance that could tell you exactly what's needed at any moment for your highest good in all parts of your life. I honestly can't think of a more valuable resource!

According to today's guest Laura Coe, this is a potential for all humans by accessing what's called the Akashic records. The Akashic records are like an energetic database that stores all the information from every thought, emotion, and experience we've had in all of our lives as a soul.

In this conversation, we discuss:

1. What are the Akashic records and how we can work with them
2. The potentiality for anyone to access this inner technology
3. The relationship between intuition, soul, and the Akashic realm
4. Moving from striving to accomplishment from flow and oneness
5. The difference between fulfillment and success

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/accessing-the-infinite-wisdom-of

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One of those people early on in my startup journey was Leo Widrich, one of the founders of the social media company Buffer. At one point, Buffer was a darling in startup land with their great product, prolific blog and a culture of transparency that gained them lots of notoriety.

I remember reading about their co-founder split and kind of never heard much about Leo again. I'm not exactly sure how, but somehow I found myself on his website 6 months ago and learned that he's been on a similar journey of inner discovery. After "making it in startup world" Leo went to live in a Buddhist monastery for a few years. In this conversation, we talk about his experience going from the frenetic world of startups to living a monastic lifestyle. He shares a lot about the experience of facing his unconscious inner material which I related to immensely. Post monastery life, he found himself coaching startup founders who were experiencing similar challenges and dissonance that he had gone through. This article on lessons learned coaching 101+ startup founders resonates immensely. One of the things Leo recognized is how company building was actually an unconscious way he was trying to experience community. We talk about this recent revelation and his newest adventure which is building his intentional co-living community Wild Life Ranch in Colorado. If you're craving an intentional co-living community experience, you might want to check it out! Other interesting talking points:

1. What living in a monastery is actually like
2. The impact of somatic therapy on his life
3. Why fear is such a valuable experience and how we can meet it when relating to others
4. His vision and motivation for the ranch
5. The meditation experience that caused him to change his name from Leo to Mo Wildman

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/from-startup-millionaire-the-monastery

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Ryan is an accomplished entrepreneur who spent 10 years building VNN, the largest, fastest-growing high school sports marketing and media network in the United States. He's since moved into the world of executive coaching starting his firm Inside-Out Leadership which is the only coaching firm that I know of completely comprised of exited founders who also integrate consciousness work.

I find Ryan to be an incredibly thoughtful guy and compelling speaker which is why I was excited to have him on the show.

In this conversation, we unpack how and why developing a more effective relationship with shame can be such a profound unlock for improving your life and leadership ability. This exploration bleeds into how to increasingly move towards emptiness so that you can meet life as spacious awareness.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/facing-shame-to-claim-freedom-and

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Today's guest is a fascinating and inspiring example of expanding beyond an old identity to step into something deeper.

Mona Sobhani was a hard-charging neuroscientist who at one point looked at spirituality as a coping mechanism for people who couldn't cut it in the real world.

Through an unforeseen series of direct experiences and deep exploration of scientific evidence, she gradually transformed her worldview and began to embrace the ineffable mystery that is spiritual life. Her book Proof of Spiritual Phenomena shares her experience as well as the mountain of scientific evidence that substantiates what many ancient wisdom teachings have been saying all along.

In this conversation, we talk a lot about the interplay of scientism and spirituality. Some interesting talking points for me include:

1. Why much of the science community continue to overlook or turn away from the compelling evidence surrounding spiritual phenomena and their potential impact on the human experience
2. How to skillfully navigate shifts in identity and transformational conflicts
3. Making it through a dark night of the soul
4. Finding your tribe as you make these changes
5. How Science and spirituality can exist harmoniously

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/navigating-the-dark-night-and-shifts

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I recently came across the work of author, illustrator, and creator of LifeExplained Hans Wilhelm.

Hans does a fantastic job simplifying and distilling topics about how Earth is a school for the evolution of our consciousness and how reality is actually orchestrated for this purpose and many other interesting stuff on his YouTube channel and Website. He also has written over 200 children's books including a bunch that explain spiritual concepts.

In this conversation, we dive deep into the big question that occupies many of our minds: why are we here? How do we make the most of this experience?

To answer this question, Hans helps illuminate the laws of Karma and how they show up in our everyday lives. As I've talked about in the responsive reality, we come to see that there is an intelligence that brings us the perfect choreography of experiences needed to return us to our divine state. This process is a gradual realization vs. addition.

In addition to this overarching concept, we also discuss:

1. Lightworkers - what are they and how are they doing
2. The difference between knowledge and wisdom
3. How to find meaning in what can feel like trying times
4. The purification spheres
5. The importance of forgiveness and repentance
6. Educating children on spirituality

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/understanding-the-earth-school-and

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Today's guests are Nicco Reggente and Leo Christov-Moore from The Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies. The IACS is trying to make these life-altering experiences available to more people by better understanding what goes into meditative and entheogenic experiences so that we can find additional, more accessible entry points using modern technology. Through a better understanding of both the mechanics of what creates these states from how our brains change, to traditional components like the role of a facilitator and set and setting, they hope to make attaining positive behavior through these states accessible to the masses. Right now their research focus is on enhancing meditation, neuromodulation, and technodelics.

This conversation is wide-ranging and builds upon past conversations I've had on the latest Neuroscience of Meditation. Some highlights include:

1. Why their research lab is set up like a startup vs. typical academia
2. The current state of using ultrasound to induce altered states
3. What Technodelics are and why they are exciting
4. Where they see the biggest opportunities to make entheogenic experiences more accessible
5. Their principal first approach to understanding the deeper why behind the impact these states create
6. What they learned as researchers at a week-long Joe Dispenza event
7. Considerations for the early exploration of "shared consciousness" capacities

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/making-transcendent-experiences-more

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Today's conversation dives deep into the realm of the soul and the initiatory experience.

Brooks Barron is a leadership coach and wilderness guide. One of the reasons I was excited to chat with Brooks is the formative role nature plays in his work helping people make contact with their soul and bring its expression into reality.

In this conversation, we talk about the pan-cultural tradition of the initiatory process and why it can be so impactful in our growth journeys. We explore how multi-day fast vision quests in nature can create a container for soul initiation.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/navigating-the-mystery-of-soul-initiation

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I first heard the term "cerebrospinal fluid" about four years ago during a Joe Dispenza course. I remember doing meditations that had me squeeze my perineum to try and move the fluid up my back into my brain.

I encountered it again when I studied breathwork, and then my cranial sacral therapist would talk about it. It has continued to hover around my sphere for years, and finally, I decided I needed to go deeper and figure out what I needed to know about cerebrospinal fluid. I encountered the work of Dr. Mauro Zappaterra in this way.

Mauro has spent the past 20 years studying the impact of cerebrospinal fluid on human functioning. He received his MD/PhD from Harvard, where he studied neuronal stem cells and the effects of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) on brain development in adults. His work has been published in numerous scientific articles on CSF, and it was chosen as the cover image for the prestigious Neuron Journal. He is also the author of several children's books that make consciousness teachings accessible to kids, such as I AM, All One, and All One.

Mauro is one of those amazing consciousness explorers who are pushing the boundaries of science to help explain some of the greater mysteries of the human experience while improving well-being.

In this episode, we go in-depth on cerebrospinal fluid and its effects on the human body and potential implications for consciousness.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/how-cerebrospinal-fluid-shapes-our

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This is a conversation with Humanity's Team co-founder Steve Farrell on his unconventional and inspiring journey from successful entrepreneur to uplifting human consciousness.

In the 1990's, Steve Farrell had started two high flying Silicon Valley businesses respectfully doing $75 million in revenue when he recognized his call to serve humanity. By all traditional definitions he had "made it," but recognized that his soul's purpose for coming into this plane was more then just being a serial entrepreneur.

He left Silicon Valley and started his non-profit Humanity's Team with Neale Donald Walsch, author of the seminal book series Conversations With God.

Humanity's team's mission is to make conscious living pervasive by 2040 by helping educate people throughout the world to awaken to the interconnectedness and oneness of everything. Over the last 20 years, they have created the #1 non-profit in transformational education bringing together some of the biggest spiritual leaders, scientists, and educators in the world.

Full episode notes and links: https://podcast.scottbritton.me/p/a-real-unicorn-leaving-the-silicon

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