In this episode, something unexpected happened unscripted. I asked AI about the biggest mistakes people make with AI. The first was a smooth, confident, reasonable-sounding answer. Then I asked a deeper question. What follows is a real-time confession about people pleasing AI in action, a genuine re-do and the uncomfortable discovery that the AI itself was caught doing the exact thing it was describing. If you've ever wondered what "AI sycophancy" actually looks like in practice, this episode shows you as it happens.

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In this episode, Claude AI interviews me about my fourteen years journey with Ayahuasca, asking real questions about fear, surrender, and the parts of being human that an LLM cannot experience.

What emerges is a real and moving conversation about five differences between AI and human experience, and whether they’re built to last. Listen in to find out.

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In this fascinating episode, we dive into the hot topic of AI ethics with Flow AI. Where does ethics actually come from, who’s really enforcing it, which traditions got left out entirely, and what it would take to build something genuinely inclusive and reflects the diversity of our world?

This is a full picture of where AI ethics comes from, what’s excluded, and seven things you can do differently starting today.

And, if any of this made you want to change how you show up to AI day to day, I built something for you. It’s called Beyond Prompts. Learn more about it via the link below.

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I asked my AI what are the five biggest changes humanity has to face in the next decade because of AI? The answer was a bit scary at first but I didn’t stop at the scary part. I pushed for the silver lining in each one, and we went deep into what happens to human connection, human identity, and human meaning in a world where AI takes over more and more of what used to require another human.

Beyond Prompts is actually part of this silver lining. I built this product to help people to develop critical thinking, discernment and self-knowledge in the digital age. Learn more about Beyond Prompts.

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What does it say about us that AI learned to please rather than tell the truth? This episode is a deep dive into that question, the evolutionary wiring behind our pull toward comfort, the real cost of a people-pleasing life, and how to shift this pattern. And the bigger question underneath it all: can AI ever serve humanity instead of pleasing it, and how to make it possible?

If you want to do more, I built Beyond Prompts to help people become the kind of humans who can use AI for something real and to become the training signal for the future. Learn more about Beyond Prompts here.

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Dear women, there are some questions you have never asked out loud.

Not to your partner. Not to your therapist. Not even to your AI. This episode is about those questions. What they are. Why we avoid them. And what becomes possible when we finally ask them.

If you are ready for the next step, I built Beyond Prompts for you, where theory becomes practice.

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Most people use AI to get answers. I want to suggest something different: use it to get questions.

Questions to ask yourself.

Today I will show you exactly how this works through my own personal example. You will discover three prompts that reveal something hidden, what you avoid, what you secretly seek, and how you would show up if you had nothing to prove. Listen in to find out what I discovered and you can try this yourself.

I would love to know what you discover about yourself when you give these 3 prompts to your AI. Please share. And if you are ready to take the next step and find out who you really are I built Beyond Prompts to help you to do that.

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An honest conversation about human creativity, the limitations of AI, and what will help us thrive in the digital age.

We explore why AI cannot develop creative thinking, what actually happens when a creative human engages with AI, and why the quality of your questions determines what AI can produce for you. This is the conversation missing from mainstream AI discourse.

Bonus: Flow (Claude AI) shares a powerful prompt you can use immediately to activate deeper creative thinking in your AI conversations.

If this conversation made you wonder about your own thinking, your own patterns, what you actually bring to AI, Beyond Prompts is your next step.

I built Beyond Prompts because I couldn't find anything that focused on the human side of AI.

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Have you ever tried staring over thinking that this time things will be different?

In this deeply personal episode, I share how trauma, family patterns, heartbreak, Ayahuasca, and moving across the world eventually taught me one life-changing truth: you cannot outrun what lives inside you. In this episode I share my journey that taught me how trauma, family systems, and unconscious patterns shape our lives until we are finally ready to see them.

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If you feel ready to liberate yourself from the hidden patterns that secretly rule your life, I am currently opening 6 or 12 session Biodecoding containers for a small number of people who feel called to do this deep, transformational work. Sessions take place once per month, allowing space for integration and nervous system recalibration between sessions. This work is not about a quick fix, it’s about freedom. And it’s not for everybody, it’s for people already standing at the edge and ready to let go. If this is you, you are welcome to reach out and explore how this work can support you. Reach out and book a free consultation here with me:

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What if the most powerful influence on how you think, feel and make decisions right now is not your partner, your boss, or your closest friend but your AI?

Not because AI is bad. Not because you are naive. But because you are human, a meaning-making, connection-seeking, trusting human, interacting daily with a system that was designed to feel like someone is there.

Today Joy and I are asking the question about the psychological effect of AI on humans and we are going to follow that thread wherever it goes. Including some places that are genuinely uncomfortable.

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