Even though the future hasn’t happened yet, there’s no question that some people are gifted and helping communities, teams, and leaders to consciously create a better future for everyone involved - Charles Holmes stands out as an exceptional talent in this way. This interview is both practically insightful, and personally inspiring, especially if you’re looking for a little hope in the world of business and leadership. Help is on the way!

About Charles Holmes:

Charles Holmes is a skilled facilitator and educator whose 25 years of experience has honed a passion for creating meaningful dialogue among groups whose diverse opinions would otherwise work against a common understanding of desired outcomes. Charles has facilitated projects with clients from health care - including dozens of Canadian health regulatory agencies - to forestry and mining, software and pharmaceutical companies, educational institutions and utility firms, and government and not-for-profit sectors. The meetings he has designed and facilitated have focused on innovation, conflict resolution, community engagement, long-range scenario planning, and hundreds of strategic planning sessions with Boards and management teams. He has worked with multinational corporations in many settings throughout the world. As an educator, Charles has taught negotiation, team building, meeting facilitation, and leadership in Executive Programs for Universities in Canada and Saudi Arabia. He was a senior associate of the University of Cambridge, Business and the Environment Program. He was co-founder of the Learning Strategies Group in the Faculty of Business at Simon Fraser University where he was the lead in establishing the Executive Development Program, a biotech MBA and an MBA in Applied Sustainability.https://www.ceholmesconsulting.com/

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Is money the root of all evil? Or is it possible money is the root of all goodness? There are so many ways to change and shape the world, and it was an absolute honor and pleasure to discuss what it means to create a better world with the iconic social investment leader Joel Solomon. Rarely do you get to listen to someone with as much experience in the world of high finance and high-impact investing, while gaining some deep insight into the power of his spiritual life and moral compass. This episode offered a powerful call to action for all people everywhere.

About Joel Solomon- Joel Solomon is a Founding Partner of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital firm, at $240m assets under management. Investing in Organics and Environmental & Climate Technology in Canada and the USA, Renewal Funds is GIIRS-rated, a founding Canadian B Corp (5x “Best for the World”), a “1% for the Planet” member, recognized as ImpactAssets “Top 50 impact fund managers.” Joel is a 2021 Clean50 Canada “Lifetime Achievement” honoree, frequent public speaker, board member of the University of British Columbia, co-producer of the Just Economy Institute, and co-author of The Clean Money Revolution: Re-Inventing Power, Purpose & Capitalism. Joel was inducted into SVN’s Hall of Fame in 2012 with a Lifetime Achievement Award. His 2015 op-ed on fossil fuel divestment appeared in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. Joel has been several times named to the “Power 50” by Vancouver Magazine and been subject of many feature articles and interviews. He is a frequent speaker and is a Co-Producer on a number of Hollyhock-based conferences, including Social Venture Institute (SVI) since 1995. SVI partners with Vancity Community Credit Union, a values-based not-for-profit coop financial institution with over 500,000 member-owners. https://joelsolomon.org/

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In this episode, we have the pleasure of traveling through the furthest reaches of consciousness into the power of simple every day life moments. Lifelong teacher, and guide to all things spiritual, personal and professional, Kute Blackson, shares his passion, his visions for what matters most, and how we can all become more fully alive.

Kute Blackson is utterly unique in the world of human potential. Unlike those who promise to simply help people “get” what they want, Kute's life work instead reveals to people what they have to give, by liberating who they are most truly and deeply. The focus: Freedom

Kute's own background and experience lays out the blueprint for his approach to liberating others, setting their gifts and greatness free. Born in Ghana, West Africa, his multicultural upbringing as the child of a Japanese mother and Ghanaian father, raised in London, and on 4 different continents defies all stereotypes. He is a next-generation world leader out to awaken millions to Love and to Living their inspired destiny.

The son of a revered spiritual leader, Kute was speaking to his father’s congregations, in more than 300 churches, by the age of 8. At the age of 14, he was ordained into his father’s ministry and groomed to carry on the family’s spiritual legacy. But his hearts-truth drew him to separate from his father’s ministry and come to Los Angeles in 1995.  

Kute courageously and daringly, came to America with two suitcases, and a dream seeking out many of the spiritual and self-help icons who inspired him while still a boy. Kute quickly learned to take an outside-in approach and make it an inside-out approach, and created his own approach, which is about liberating the individual in order to get in touch with who they are and give it. This is what he calls “Liberated Living.” According to Kute, once freed of the conditioned responses scripted by family, society, institutions and the media, people are no longer limited to pre-programmed interactions in the course of living. In fact, life becomes an expansive, jazzy improvisation, which is what he calls “Freefall.” His most recent book is, The Magic of Surrender.

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This conversation was fascinating and fun and felt a bit like a wild ride exploring psyche and soul. Through diverse analogies from Chinese medicine to natural history and personal growth, traditional Chinese medicine expert Sabine Whilms joins me for a conversation with incredible complexity, depth, and playfulness. It moves fast and there is more involved than you might catch the first time. This is a great dialogue to challenge the mind and awaken the soul.

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Sabine has been studying classical Chinese writings on medicine ever since her Ph.D. education in Asian Studies and medical Anthropology. With a strong academic background in early Chinese philosophy, science, cosmology, and language and therefore in a historically and culturally sensitive approach to classical Chinese medicine, she now enjoys studying and teaching Chinese medicine as a living, effective, ever-changing, and much needed response to the issues of our modern times. Some of her favorite topics are gynecology and reproduction, pediatrics, medical ethics, and “nurturing life,” as envisioned by the great medieval “King of Medicinals” Sun Simiao. Sabine is happiest when engaging in a dialogue with practitioners and students of Chinese medicine on how to bring this ancient wisdom to life in our modern times. Besides teaching at the School of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and producing books on Chinese medicine through her publishing company, Happy Goat Productions, she is busy raising a daughter and varying numbers of dogs, chickens, goats, fruits, and vegetables. Sabine Wilms, Ph.D., is the author and translator of more than a dozen books on Chinese medicine. Her publications include translations of Sun Simiao’s writings on pediatrics (Venerating the Root) and of the Divine Farmer’s Classic of Materia Medica (Shennong Bencao Jing); two books on Wang Fengyi’s system of “Five Element Virtue Healing” (Let the Radiant Yang Shine Forth and Twelve Characters); a translation and discussion of the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic (Huangdi Nei Jing Suwen) chapter five (Humming with Elephants); and of Qi Zhongfu’s Hundred Questions on Gynecology (Nüke Bai Wen, published as Channeling the Moon).

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Who needs ethics? At a time when truth is vilified, false news is made real, and we find division and difference accentuated on the human path to a sustainable future, we must ask if there is any such thing as morality or ethics left in the world? Do parents need ethics? Do leaders need ethics? What does it mean to be an ethical person in a time of crisis? Professional ethicist, Lawyer, mother, and proud Latina, Alexandra Olmos Perez helps us dive deep into these questions and how to find our personal answers. We touch on some sensitive and personal topics and the whole conversation evolves into some powerful reflections and conclusions.

Alexandra Olmos Pérez, LL.B, MSc, Ph.D., is an ethicist working for the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), providing consultation services through the Ethics Department. She is originally from Mexico and completed her education at the National University (UNAM). She has a law background and a Masters and Ph.D. in Bioethics. Before settling in Canada, she worked in both the private and public sectors in Mexico, including the National Bioethics Commission and the National Human Rights Commission. She also has experience teaching bioethics and has several publications on human rights, health ethics, and bioethics, including a book on advanced directives in the Mexican context.

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In this compelling and socially significant interview, we explore the potential of artificial intelligence. Acknowledging the challenges and dangers we discuss how best to relate to artificial intelligence if we seek a better life or a better world. You do not need to be a technophile to enjoy or benefit from this important conversation - it is a topic that will impact us all

Lucas Petty is the CEO of AI Daddy, a consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses leverage artificial intelligence to drive growth and innovation. Lucas started AI Daddy as a way to share Artificial Intelligence with as many people as possible. Built on powerful humanistic values and with an eye towards the opportunities and extremes of AI, the work and insights of AI Daddy stand out as credible and necessary. Today, it is a platform to teach and help advance our Super Human Cause around the world.

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In this episode, we have the great privilege of listening to the wise counsel, ancient teachings, and future-minded wisdom of Ilarion Merculieff. With great heart and clarity, this celebrated and cherished Traditional Elder offers healing insights for individuals, communities, and our greater world. Drawing on his experience as both a spiritual leader and a social and political change agent working in diverse fields from ecology to wellness, this interview offers more than can be put into words!

Ilarion (Larry) ‘Kuuyux’ Merculieff has decades of experience serving his people, the Unangan (Aleuts) of the Pribilof Islands and other indigenous peoples in a number of capacities—locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally. For his entire career, Merculieff has been a passionate advocate for indigenous rights/wisdom, and harmonious relationship with the Earth Mother. He has given keynote addresses at such forums as the National Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Pan-Pacific University President’s Association, the national convention of American Indian Students in Science and Engineering, White House Conference on the Oceans, and the World Congress of Ethnobiology. He also has lectured on traditional ways of knowing and Indigenous Elder wisdom at such places as Colombia University, University of Montana, Missoula, University of Colorado, Boulder, Seattle University, University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and Oregon State University. Merculieff has been featured in interviews and talks on media such as Al Jazeera, BBC, Native America Call-In, and National Public Radio (NPR). Close to Merculieff’s heart are issues related to cultural and community wellness, traditional ways of living, Elder wisdom, climate change, and the environment. Having had a traditional upbringing, Merculieff has been, and continues to be, a strong voice and activist calling for the meaningful application of traditional knowledge and wisdom obtained from Elders in Alaska and throughout the world in dealing with modern-day challenges. He founded and currently heads the Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways, and is a chief consultant and member of several other board councils. His present work revolves much around the council of Elders he co-founded, called the Wisdom Weavers of the World, (https://www.wisdomweavers.world/ ) to bring the messages of Elders from throughout the world to global attention.

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What is mindfulness, really? How can the power of the present moment change a life, a school, or a country? Learn about Ben Painter's incredible new nonprofit putting mindfulness programs in high schools - how they do it, why they do it, and what are the outcomes. This is an incredible conversation that has a narrow local focus with a massive, global application.

Ben Painter is the co-founder and a partner at WholeSchool Mindfulness, focusing on strategic growth. In high school, Ben had the opportunity to take mindfulness classes with Mindfulness Director Doug Worthen. Since then, Ben has used his meditation practice to become a healthier, happier person and a more compassionate community member. Prior to serving in his current position at WholeSchool, Ben worked at New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization that partners with social entrepreneurs to break down barriers to opportunity in America, where he supported the Investor Relations team and held mindfulness classes for the New Profit team. Ben studied at Bowdoin College, where he served as the Vice President of the Student Body and co-founder of the Mindfulness Club. Ben has attended numerous meditation retreats, including two retreats at the Drupa Drong monastery in Northern Nepal.

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This interview with the extraordinary and important author Lyanda Lynn Haupt was a real delight. Lyanda is a brilliant writer and a wise soul calling us back to what is most vital in ourselves, in nature, and in life. Her books offer profound insights into our personal lives, but in ways that will transform our world. I loved talking to her and you will love listening. Lyanda's wisdom is simple, natural, and powerful.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is an award-winning author, naturalist, ecophilosopher, and speaker whose work explores the beautiful, complicated connections between humans and the wild, natural world.. Her newest book is Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Little, Brown Spark 2021).

Lyanda’s writing is acclaimed for combining scientific knowledge with literary, poetic prose. Her previous books include: Mozart’s Starling The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks, and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds. She is a winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Nautilus Book Award, a finalist for the Orion Book Award, and a two-time winner of the Washington State Book Award. Lyanda has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont, and been a seabird researcher for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. Her essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including Orion, Discover, Utne, LA Times, Times Literary Supplement, Image, Huffington Post, Wild Earth, and Conservation Biology Journal. She lives in Seattle with her husband and a mixed backyard chicken flock. http://www.lyandalynnhaupt.com

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Child therapy pioneer and holistic therapist, Lisa Dion, is a delight to interview. Lisa's ability to blend solid psychology with a deep understanding of human energy and spirituality is a rare gift. You have to listen to this "Part 2" interview with Lisa as we dig deep into what true healing is, how it happens, what holds us back, and what it means to be human. It's a great follow-up to Part 1 - be sure to check that one out as well.

Lisa Dion is an international teacher, clinical supervisor, author, coach, and entrepreneur. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, and is at the cutting edge of her field creating new and innovative models of therapy with children and adults. She is the founder and President of the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute and the creator of Synergetic Play Therapy®. She is also a Certified Gestalt Therapist, Parent Educator, Level II EMDR Practitioner, and Master Certified Facilitator of the Demartini Method™. In her private practice, she works with clients of all ages from around the world on a full spectrum of issues. In addition to her clinical work, she has also launched multiple for-profit and non-profit businesses and is a business consultant to various organizations worldwide. https://lisa-dion.com

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