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What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why “I’m so busy” can quietly keep us stuck

- How Austin Classical Guitar grew into an organization built on beauty and kindness

- Bringing guitar into public schools at scale, and what it unlocked for students

- What Matt learned from working with incarcerated youth, and why music breaks through

- Why it was never about the guitar — it’s about belonging, confidence, and connection

- Where education focuses vs. what actually changes a life

- How music expresses the human-divine connection

- Breathwork, mantra, journaling, and daily inner training

- Why power requires awareness, responsibility, and choosing love over fear

- Art, story, and the hero’s journey as tools for meaning and healing

- A live performance by Matt

About Matt Hinsley:

Matt Hinsley is the Executive Director of Austin Classical Guitar, where he’s helped build one of the country’s leading classical guitar nonprofits by raising millions for concert, community, and education programs. ACG’s educational programs have expanded into GuitarCurriculum.com (used by schools worldwide) and LetsPlayGuitar.org, a braille lifelong-learning resource for blind and visually impaired students. Matt is also the author of 7 books, and across his work focuses on how beauty, kindness, and arts education can transform lives at scale — especially for young people who need belonging and possibility the most.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 — Preview

0:00:32 — Intro: Michael Collins’ documentary ‘INTUITION’

0:03:14 — Welcome Matt Hinsley

0:06:12 — Why Matt founded Austin Classical Guitar

0:11:34 — Adult ensembles; the shift from achievement to community

0:17:02 — Scaling guitar education through public schools

0:22:41 — Beauty, kindness, why music brings people together

0:28:19 — Why Matt wrote Form & Essence

0:33:55 — Education, consciousness, preparing humanity for the Age of Abundance

0:39:44 — What makes us human; how music expresses the human-divine connection

0:45:12 — How music transforms intention, identity, and even a courtroom

0:51:08 — Incarceration, meditation, leadership

0:56:47 — How spiritual practice builds inner stability

1:02:31 — Why inspiration matters more than duty in service and leadership

1:08:14 — Gratitude, awareness, reconnecting with the inner self

1:13:52 — Using fantasy to explore division, connection, and meaning

1:19:38 — Breaking down dogma; reuniting science and spirituality

1:25:41 — What music reveals about being human and creating abundance

1:33:17 — Matt performs Agustín Barrios’ “Julia Florida”

1:39:50 — Closing reflections

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Tao of Willie — Turk Pipkin, Willie Nelson

- Beauty — John O’Donohue

- Form & Essence — Matt Hinsley

- Conscious Capitalism — John Mackey, Raj Sisodia

- The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown

- Awareness — Anthony de Mello

- Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander

- The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien

- The Hero’s Journey — Joseph Campbell

- Creativity to Community — Matt Hinsley

- Classical Guitar for Young People — Matt Hinsley

- Tinder & Flint — Matt Hinsley, Billy Garretsen

- Rockmoor — Matt Hinsley, Billy Garretsen

- Meriden — Matt Hinsley, Billy Garretsen

- Dormarion — Matt Hinsley, Billy Garretsen

- Castle Hill — Matt Hinsley, Billy Garretsen

- How to Surrender to God — David R. Hawkins

- Power vs. Force — David R. Hawkins

- The Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell (tr.)

Links:

GuitarCurriculum.com: https://www.guitarcurriculum.com/

John O’Donohue on Krista Tippett's podcast: https://tinyurl.com/ycx4tyeh

Angela Duckworth’s TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/3ynxsuc5

The Telepathy Tapes: https://tinyurl.com/2khfa57m

Inner Worlds Outer Worlds: https://tinyurl.com/yd8ae57h

Qigong meditation: https://tinyurl.com/yc68ans5

‘The Fire of Inspiration’ blog post: https://tinyurl.com/yxtfy945

Michael Collins’ doc: https://tinyurl.com/mwhxwhwh

The Nobelity Project: https://www.nobelity.org/

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- What a “collective awakening” can look like

- Chris' journey through non-ordinary states of consciousness

- “Spiritual awakening” vs. “cosmological exploration”

- Collective trauma, purification, and long-term healing

- Reincarnation, evolution of the soul, and why compassion expands as we wake up

- How inner work reshapes relationships, culture, and the systems we build

- Why lived experience matters more than belief or dogma

- What exponential tech is forcing humanity to face

- Why more power requires more humility, care, and responsibility

- Why Brett was drawn to LSD and the Mind of the Universe

- What Chris means by “the mind of the universe”

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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.

Watch on:

YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT

Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About Chris Bache:
Chris Bache is a professor emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University, adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and a member of the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. Known for bridging careful scholarship with direct experience, Chris has taught and spoken widely on mysticism, comparative spirituality, and transformative learning — with a focus on what non-ordinary states of consciousness reveal about mind, reality, and human development. His book LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven offers a firsthand account of decades of disciplined inner exploration and what it taught him about consciousness and the cosmos.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 — Preview

0:00:49 — Intro: Brett’s silent meditation retreat

0:10:35 — Welcome Chris Bache

0:13:38 — 73 high-dose LSD sessions; understanding the fundamental structure of spiritual reality

0:16:29 — Psychedelic journeys and best practices

0:28:02 — Collective suffering and experiencing life through other perspectives

0:33:39 — Entering deeper and deeper levels of reality

0:39:18 — The ocean of suffering, purification, and how the sessions unfolded over time

0:47:48 — Abundance for All, ancient wisdom, and the birth of the future human

0:59:11 — The death and rebirth of humanity; what diamond vision is

1:09:19 — Reincarnation and rediscovering meaning

1:19:32 — How forgetting accelerates learning; collectively choosing love over fear

1:29:12 — Deep spiritual truths and corporate America

1:39:25 — The next generation’s awareness, crisis leading to change, and diamond luminosity

1:49:15 — The illusion of a final destination; understanding human existence more clearly

1:59:57 — Healing humanity, The Whale’s Dream, and the most important lessons Chris learned from taking psychedelics

2:04:15 — Closing thoughts

Books mentioned in this episode:

- LSD and the Mind of the Universe — Christopher M. Bache

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- Realms of the Human Unconscious — Stanislav Grof

- The Whole Story — John Mackey

- We Are Agora — Byron Reese

- The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli

- Journey of Souls — Michael Newton

- Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

- Biocentrism — Robert Lanza and Bob Berman

- The Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell

- The Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell

Links:

Brett’s short story “The Whale’s Dream”: https://brettahurt.substack.com/p/the-whales-dream-a-short-story

Michael Collins’ documentary “INTUITION”: https://www.intuitionfilm.com/

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why the world is entering a period of profound structural change across economics, geopolitics, and technology

- How fear, uncertainty, and emotional reactions shape markets, policy decisions, and collective behavior

- How awareness of our own reactions shapes better responses to global change

- Why leaders need empathy and emotional awareness to navigate uncertainty

- How narratives, meaning, and shared stories influence economic and geopolitical outcomes

- What exponential technologies like AI reveal about power, governance, and responsibility

- How spirituality quietly informs better decision-making

- The importance of inner resilience, adaptability, and humility when facing uncertainty

- Choosing clarity and consciousness over fear in an age of rapid transformation

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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?

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About Pippa Malmgren:

Pippa Malmgren is a global economist, geopolitical strategist, and best-selling author who has advised governments, institutions, and investors around the world. She has served at the highest levels of policy and finance, including as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, advisor to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, and Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS. Known for her ability to connect geopolitics, markets, energy, technology, and human behavior, Pippa helps leaders make sense of complex global change. Her work increasingly explores how perception, psychology, and consciousness influence economic and geopolitical outcomes in times of uncertainty and transformation.

Follow Pippa on Substack: https://drpippa.substack.com/

Timestamps:

0:00:00 — Preview

0:00:35 — Intro: The Secret of Secrets; Bhutan as a model for some as the future of society

0:06:04 — Welcome Pippa Malmgren

0:07:46 — Pippa’s thesis on how we get to abundance

0:11:28 — 3D-printed neighborhoods, free energy, supersonic deliveries

0:13:37 — Why we’re at a moment of real revolution in human history

0:16:44 — Borderless spaces: AI, supercomputing, and the cloud

0:21:56 — Global superpowers, nuclear weapons, and the need for “heartware”

0:31:50 — Learning about consciousness from whales and indigenous populations

0:36:18 — How governments spend during moments of transformation

0:44:45 — Teaching AI empathy, care, and protection

1:00:42 — Pippa on the future of humanity and how to get more comfortable with change

1:09:27 — How quantum physics challenges how we understand reality

1:16:47 — Consciousness, hypnagogia, and the limits of material explanation

1:29:33 — Life on other planets, Robert Oppenheimer, and the Genesis Mission

1:38:12 — DeepSeek vs. Stargate, the illusion of an AI race, and Pippa’s spiritual experiences

1:45:01 — Faith, bravery, trusting the universe, and going to the top of the Himalayas

1:52:00 — Anomalous phenomena and ancient spiritual wisdom

2:00:04 — UAPs and how perception shapes reality

2:03:54 — Closing thoughts

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown

- The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson

- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

- The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien

- The Tao of Willie — Willie Nelson & Turk Pipkin

- Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell

- Signals — Pippa Malmgren

- LSD and the Mind of the Universe — Christopher M. Bache

Check out Brett’s short story “The Whale’s Dream:” https://brettahurt.substack.com/p/the-whales-dream-a-short-story

"The Thinking Game" – Google DeepMind documentary:

https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- How physical health, mental clarity, and spiritual awareness are deeply interconnected

- Ben’s approach to optimizing the body without losing touch with meaning or presence

- The role of discipline, ritual, and intention in sustaining long-term health

- Consciousness as more than cognition — how the body becomes a gateway to awareness

- Where biohacking helps and where it can become disconnected from wisdom

- Breathwork, recovery, and nervous system regulation as tools for inner balance

- Aging, vitality, and redefining what longevity actually means

- The difference between performance optimization and true well-being

- How faith, spirituality, and embodiment influence daily choices

- Choosing alignment over excess in the pursuit of health and longevity

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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.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/

X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt

Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

Watch on:

YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT

Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About Ben Greenfield:Ben Greenfield is a health consultant, author, and speaker known for blending cutting-edge science with ancestral wisdom in the pursuit of longevity, vitality, and purpose-driven living. His work spans fitness, nutrition, recovery, biohacking, and performance, while also exploring the role of faith, spirituality, and consciousness in true well-being. Through books, podcasts, and coaching, Ben emphasizes an integrated approach to health that values embodiment and inner alignment — asking not just how to live longer, but how to live more fully.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 — Preview

0:00:44 — Intro: Bhutan as a model for some as the future of society

0:04:35 — Welcome Ben Greenfield

0:12:12 — How Ben first got interested in biohacking

0:18:27 — How light at night affects sleep

0:20:19 — Keys to health: movement, sleep, nutrition, and meaningful relationships

0:28:16 — What Zone 2 cardio is and why it matters

0:33:33 — The benefits and drawbacks of a ketogenic diet

0:38:25 — Lots of sugar and the wrong kinds of fats

0:44:05 — Thermal stress, weightlifting, time outside, and healthy eating

0:48:58 — Ben’s reflection on the GLP-1 movement

0:56:34 — Why Ben is optimistic about the future of humanity

0:59:53 — Doubling down on family

1:07:21 — Ben on the dystopian views around AI

1:14:45 — The spiritual dimension to paranormal activity and plant medicines

1:17:53 — Plant medicine: use with caution

1:23:45 — The Book of Revelation, end-times symbolism, and spiritual imagery

1:31:18 — Consciousness as the unsolved frontier; applying faith to everyday decisions

1:38:45 — Closing thoughts

Books mentioned in this episode:

- Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation — Stephen Mitchell

- Boundless — Ben Greenfield

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- The Tao Te Ching — Laozi (Lao Tzu)

- Why Buddhism Is True — Robert Wright

Hilarious biohacking video referenced:

Biohackers On A First Date Be Like...

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- How incarceration can spark deep inner reflection and spiritual awakening

- Why education and literacy restore dignity, identity, and self-worth

- Why real change begins with shifts in consciousness before it becomes systemic

- Love as a lived practice that supports healing, presence, and human connection

- How fear shapes punishment-based systems and keeps people stuck

- Choosing love over fear in justice and community work

- How technology expands access to education without losing the human element

- Leadership that listens first and supports real growth, not control

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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.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/

X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt

Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/

Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

Watch on:

YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT

Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About Suzi Sosa:

Suzi Sosa is a serial entrepreneur and the president of Level’s board of directors. She has spent more than two decades creating technology companies focused on leadership, human development, and systems change. Across her career, Suzi has been drawn to spaces where personal transformation and social impact intersect. Her work centers on helping people reconnect with their purpose, values, and agency — particularly in environments shaped by constraint or transition.

About Alex Wright:

Alex Wright is the co-founder and Executive Director of Level, an organization focused on expanding access to education within incarcerated communities. His work is grounded in the belief that education is deeply humanizing — opening doors to self-awareness, dignity, and inner change. Alex approaches justice and reform through a compassionate, consciousness-informed perspective that emphasizes growth, responsibility, and the inherent potential in every person.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 — Preview

0:00:43 — Intro: Non-local consciousness and the observer effect

0:03:44 — Welcome Suzi Sosa and Alex Wright

0:04:24 — Suzi and Alex explain the work they're doing at Level

0:07:04 — The scale of U.S. incarceration and what it reveals

0:15:04 — Rehabilitation, social inequity, and a collective call for abundance

0:20:00 — Leveraging AI to scale abundance for all

0:28:41 — Books, education, and second chances inside prisons

0:32:12 — Technology at a crossroads

0:35:02 — Divine calling and Man’s Search for Meaning

0:40:02 — Seeing that your work is fulfilling and having an impact

0:47:33 — Free will, judgment, and the ego

0:54:04 — How despair and anguish lead to empathy and compassion

1:00:20 — Letting go of fear, the path to greater love, and A Course in Miracles

1:13:32 — The soul as divine energy and the path to lasting happiness

1:20:00 — Inequality, Enlightenment Now, and “God’s final exam”

1:29:08 — Closing thoughts

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown

- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir

- Observer — Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress

- Nonviolent Communication — Marshall Rosenberg

- Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

- 11 Days in May — J.D. Messinger

- Awareness — Anthony de Mello

- Free Will — Sam Harris

- When Things Fall Apart — Pema Chödrön

- Love Is Letting Go of Fear — Gerald G. Jampolsky

- Who Moved My Cheese? — Spencer Johnson

- Journey of Souls — Michael Newton

- Enlightenment Now — Steven Pinker

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why intuition and consciousness are moving from the margins into the mainstream

- The difference between intellect-driven living and heart-led perception

- How meditation, breathwork, and stillness unlock intuition and creativity

- What children practicing intuition reveal about human potential

- Non-local consciousness, perception beyond the five senses, and lived evidence

- Documentary filmmaking as service: telling stories that catalyze personal and social change

- Creativity as a universal human trait, not a special talent

- How fear contracts awareness while love expands it

- The relationship between technology, AI, and human consciousness

- Why a heart-centered awakening may be essential to humanity’s future

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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.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/

X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt

Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/

Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

Watch on:

YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT

Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About Michael Collins:

Michael Collins is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, the founder of documentary production company Thoughtful Robot, and a member of the Mountainfilm festival’s board of directors. Across more than two decades of filmmaking, Michael has paired rigorous storytelling with impact campaigns designed to create real-world change. His work spans investigative journalism, human rights, veterans’ issues, and consciousness, with films that have screened at major festivals worldwide and aired nationally on PBS. Michael’s feature documentaries include Give Up Tomorrow, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and helped expose a wrongful conviction on death row, and Almost Sunrise, an Emmy-nominated film exploring veteran suicide, healing, and resilience. His current work explores intuition, creativity, and consciousness as fundamental aspects of human experience.

Timestamps:

00:00 Episode preview

00:55 Episode opening

02:06 Rafting 277 miles through the Grand Canyon with no electronics

05:49 Listening to signs from the other side

11:11 A 13-minute film segment about intuition

16:59 A child moves an object with her mind

20:19 Blindfolded kids and intuition

27:23 The Telepathy Tapes and hope from non-speaking children

34:47 Processed food and the quiet hijacking of our bodies

42:57 Getting out of the head and into the heart through breath

45:56 A spiritual teacher and the problem of the noisy mind

49:06 A breathing practice that changed everything

50:06 Quitting a job and flying to the Philippines to make his first film

55:05 The making of Give Up Tomorrow

56:43 Dharma: service, art, and community

59:16 Showing up every day and listening to the calls

01:08:45 Practice until it becomes your nature

01:11:41 Spirituality isn’t hiding

01:13:52 Life as lessons and karma

01:17:31 A hot shower as a time machine

01:22:46 Why creativity can’t be replaced by AI

01:25:37 An ancient Chinese script

01:29:11 Staying present instead of outsourcing the edit

01:32:56 Rick Rubin on creativity, intuition, and AI

01:37:36 Making a film about intuition means practicing intuition

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- Signs — Laura Lynne Jackson

- The Seat of the Soul — Gary Zukav

- Into the Magic Shop — James R. Doty

- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why women’s health is decades behind other fields of medicine, and why that gap still exists

- How food, health, and biology have been systematically under-researched for women

- The economic and scientific blind spots that have shaped modern healthcare

- How precision medicine transformed cancer care, and why women’s health was left out

- The role of genomics, multi-omics, and AI in unlocking new treatments for women

- Why conditions like endometriosis and menopause remain underfunded and poorly understood

- The challenges of building deep science companies in women’s health

- How AI is accelerating drug discovery and making breakthroughs possible at smaller scales

- The vision behind extending ovarian function and rethinking reproductive health

- Why women’s health is ultimately human health and a catalyst for long-term flourishing

- Piraye’s beautiful spiritual awakening

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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.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/

X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt

Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/

Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

Watch on:

YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT

Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About Piraye Beim:

Piraye Beim is the Founder and CEO of Celmatix and a leading innovator in precision medicine for women’s health. For more than two decades, she has advanced understanding of ovarian health and reproductive aging by translating genomics and multi-omics research into first-in-class therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital health tools. Her work has been recognized by Fortune, Goldman Sachs, Crain’s, Rock Health, and the Aspen Global Leadership Network for its impact on biotechnology and women’s health.

Timestamps:

00:00 Episode preview

00:42 Episode opening

11:53 Why female healthcare is so underlooked

12:09 Women’s biology is cyclical: hormones rising and falling

14:27 Women weren’t mandated to be in clinical trials until the 1990s

14:59 Choosing to dedicate a career to women’s drug development

17:46 Endometriosis and the 10-year delay to diagnosis

19:05 Women’s health is human health

21:00 Precision medicine through a women’s health lens

24:03 Why modern drug discovery skipped women’s health

25:44 Screening, diagnosis, and better clinical trials

27:00 Conditions unique to women: menopause, infertility, endometriosis

28:55 Women’s health receives less than 1% of venture funding

30:58 Why developing drugs for women predates the VC industry

32:22 Extending ovarian function and rethinking IVF

41:48 Building an “ark” to preserve women’s health data

45:59 Artificial intelligence changing what’s possible in medicine

52:40 Regulation, evidence, and earning trust in healthcare

01:03:10 What success looks like for women’s health innovation

01:23:10 Beyond science: don’t explain, just feel

01:28:16 Piraye shares what it was like before and after her spiritual awakening

01:41:20 Closing reflections

Listen to 'Awesome God' by Hillsong UNITED:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXa75K0dftQ

https://music.apple.com/us/album/awesome-god-live/1827103356?i=1827103914

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- John Mackey’s journey from founding Whole Foods to championing conscious capitalism

- How Whole Foods’ values shaped its culture, growth, and long-term success

- A deep dive on spirituality and A Course in Miracles

- Why capitalism isn’t inherently good or bad

- How a stakeholder mindset differs from chasing short-term profits

- Entrepreneurship as a path for personal and spiritual growth

- Why improving food systems might be one of the most powerful ways to help people thrive

- The role incentives play in shaping behavior across business, government, and society

- How technology and AI can either amplify fear or unlock abundance

- What choosing love over fear looks like in leadership and life

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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.

Watch on:

YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT

Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About John Mackey:

John Mackey is the co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods Market, which he grew from a single natural foods store in Austin, Texas into the world’s largest natural and organic grocery company. Inspired early on by natural health, nutrition, and personal freedom, John has spent decades exploring how business can be a force for good. He is a leading advocate of conscious capitalism — emphasizing purpose, stakeholder value, and ethical leadership alongside profit. Today, John serves as co-founder and CEO of Love.Life, an integrated health and wellness company focused on prevention, lifestyle medicine, and whole-person care.

Timestamps:

00:00 Episode preview

01:16 Love vs. fear as the two core emotional states

01:53 Introducing John Mackey

02:06 Spiritual practice and A Course in Miracles

03:56 Forgiveness as a foundational discipline

09:48 Speaking from the heart in entrepreneurship

11:52 The historic flood that almost put Whole Foods out of business

13:49 Community response and collective love

15:51 How crisis reshaped John’s view of business

17:56 Choosing responsibility and rebuilding

19:53 Awakening, fear, and returning to love

20:07 Near-death experiences and redefining reality

23:44 Psychedelic experience and altered perception

23:50 Fear, courage, and launching Whole Foods

27:50 Forgiveness as an ongoing practice

43:50 A Course in Miracles and The Disappearance of the Universe

45:24 Perennial philosophy and the shared core of religions

47:52 Stillness, quieting the mind, and inner listening

51:54 Timeless spiritual texts: The Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching

56:02 Capitalism, socialism, and real-world outcomes

59:54 Systems that fail vs. systems that evolve

01:07:52 Steve Jobs, intuition, and creating without research

01:23:50 AI as savior vs. AI as threat

01:28:58 Post Whole Foods: John’s new venture, Love.Life

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin

- Love Is Letting Go of Fear — Gerald G. Jampolsky

- A Course in Miracles — Helen Schucman

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander

- The Whole Story — John Mackey

- LSD and the Mind of the Universe — Christopher M. Bache

- Journey of Souls — Michael Newton

- The Perennial Philosophy — Aldous Huxley

- The Disappearance of the Universe — Gary Renard

- Enlightenment Now — Steven Pinker

- The Rational Optimist — Matt Ridley

- The Capitalist Manifesto — Johan Norberg

- Superabundance — Marian L. Tupy & Gale L. Pooley

- Many Lives, Many Masters — Brian Weiss

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What you’ll hear in this episode:

• Why Gen Z / young leaders may be the most promising generation yet—and what older generations get wrong about them
• The origin story of Moonshot Platform and how it reframes “moonshots” as collective missions
• Real stories from Moonshot winners—including a teen who built a sign-language translation tool and later worked with Google DeepMind
• Why Yemi believes the biggest issue isn’t scarcity—it’s distribution shaped by trauma, fear, and extractive leadership
• A grounded take on AI + robotics: “robots can make us more human” and what it means for purpose, work, and identity
• Spiritual tech: breathwork, altered states, psychedelics research, and the idea that language is a limiting operating system
• Yemi’s deeply personal story: growing up as the only Black child in his town, family separation, and becoming “the rescuer”
• A closing call for active hope—and why the world needs mentors and allies who invest in youth with integrity

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.

About Yemi A.D.

Yemi A.D. is a Czech-born artist, entrepreneur, and social innovator working at the intersection of creativity, technology, and youth empowerment. He is the founder of Moonshot Platform, a global accelerator launched during the pandemic to support young leaders addressing humanity’s most pressing challenges through collective, values-driven action. Like Brett, Yemi is a member of the Henry Crown Fellowship community. He is deeply committed to ensuring that emerging technologies and future systems serve humanity with compassion, dignity, and hope.

Timestamps:

00:00 — Episode preview

01:30 — Consciousness, lucid dreaming, whales, and love as fundamental reality

03:37 — Creativity as an operating system: The Creative Act + business as art

04:23 — Introducing Yemi A.D. + Henry Crown Fellowship connection

06:23 — Identity across seasons: dancer → entrepreneur → creativity, tech & youth empowerment

09:34 — Generational reset: culture redesign, ending inherited bad habits

11:13 — What’s different about today’s teens (and why they give hope)

14:56 — Moonshot Platform origin: a “moonshot for Earth” born during the pandemic

16:30 — Moonshot vs the American Dream: collective success over individual gain

20:47 — Breakout Moonshot story: sign-language AI → Stanford → Google DeepMind

24:31 — The Moonshot model: holistic leadership, fear, money, pressure, head-to-heart

26:26 — Book rec: Into the Magic Shop + meditation, manifestation, heart-opening

28:54 — Yemi’s childhood: communism, identity, separation, resilience

33:19 — Family reunion, brother with Down syndrome, and redefining freedom

36:47 — Dyslexia, movement, and how struggle forged resilience

39:57 — First trip to LA at 18 + “the moment I wrote the date, everything aligned”

44:49 — The defining question: “What would happen if you didn’t do it?”

47:48 — Integrity, mission clarity, and synchronicity

52:11 — AI, robotics, leadership vacuum, and the risk of extractive power

1:02:59 — “We’ll make it” — the real question is how much suffering it takes

1:04:17 — Teaching robots to move + “robots can make us more human”

1:14:16 — Imagination precedes innovation: sci-fi → art → science → reality

1:18:24 — Psychedelics, healing, breathwork, and expanded consciousness

01:21:21 — Language as programming + truth vs interpretation

01:33:23 — Warren Buffett quote + humility and shared humanity

01:36:19 — Closing reflections + upcoming episodes

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• Why creativity is not limited to artists—and how entrepreneurship itself is a creative act
• How Techstars shaped Amos Schwartzfarb’s purpose as a mentor, leader, and guide
• The difference between intuition vs. ego, and why ignoring your gut causes the biggest mistakes
• Lessons learned from startup wins, failures, and boardroom decisions
• A powerful exploration of AI, abundance, fear, and humanity’s “final exam”
• How psychedelics, meditation, and inner work can deprogram fear-based thinking
• Why small, daily acts of kindness may determine whether humanity thrives or collapses
• Amos’s return to music as spiritual expression and creative healing
• A hopeful, grounded vision for how love can still conquer fear

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.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/⁠

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on Medium: ⁠https://databrett.medium.com⁠

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on Substack: ⁠https://brettahurt.substack.com/⁠

Love Conquers Fear on Youtube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@LoveConquersFear2025⁠

Love Conquers Fear on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/6wngdSw7FmdibLC9mu300q⁠

Love Conquers Fear on Apple: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-conquers-fear/id1841734456⁠

About Amos Schwartzfarb

Amos Schwartzfarb is a longtime entrepreneur, investor, and leadership coach. He served as Managing Director of Techstars Austin for nearly a decade, mentoring and investing in over 100 startups. Today, Amos works as a CEO coach and board member, helping founders and leaders grow into their highest potential through conscious leadership, intuition-driven decision-making, and purpose-aligned work.

00:00 – Episode preview

01:16 – Rick Rubin, creativity, and business as art

03:38 – Writing books, abundance, and creative flow

04:32 – Introducing Amos Schwartzfarb

04:53 – Creativity in business & early inspiration

07:17 – Big Magic, inspiration, and creative downloads

08:53 – The War of Art and channeling creativity

10:33 – Time, aging, and exponential technology

12:38 – Health, vitality, and redefining age

14:14 – Hearing loss, fear, and faith in future science

20:29 – Techstars Austin origin story

24:28 – Lessons from mentoring founders

25:54 – Helping people evolve (not fixing them)

28:47 – Discovering life purpose through service

37:10 – Intuition vs rationalization

43:12 – Childhood doubt, identity, and resilience

55:56 – Psychedelics, inner work, and deprogramming fear

01:04:00 – Reincarnation, consciousness, and quantum reality

01:12:29 – Abundance vs fear-based scarcity

01:16:03 – How kindness scales through leadership

01:23:55 – CEO coaching and board work

01:28:30 – Music, creativity, and healing

01:34:00 – Humanity’s future & final reflections

Books and other resources mentioned:

• The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
• *The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding* based on Lao Tzu, Adapted by Rick Rubin
• Business is an ART - Keys to Success in Entrepreneurship w/ Brett Hurt (JP Newman’s podcast)
• Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds (documentary by Daniel Schmidt)
• The Last Book a Human Will Ever Write by Jeff Birmingham
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr. Brian Weiss
• Journey of Souls by Dr. Michael Newton
• The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
• Love Is Letting Go of Fear by Jerry Jampolsky
• A Course in Miracles
• The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
• No Boundary by Ken Wilber