Wonder Dome

By Andy Cahill

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November 21, 2025#178 The Servant and the Shadow (with Max Klau)
“Service to others is my spiritual home.”
-Max Klau
This week Andy welcomes longtime friend, colleague, and returning Wonder Dome guest Dr. Max Klau. He’s an author, coach, developmental psychologist, and founder of the Center for Courageous Wholeness, who’s work sits at the intersection of inner development and systems change. His new book, Developing Servant Leadership at Scale: How to Do It and Why It Matters is part-memoir, part how-to guidebook that offers candid reflections on the challenges leaders face and the importance of engaging large numbers of people, both at scale and at a distance.
Max’s work explores how individuals and societies can confront both their “light” and their “shadow,” especially in an era of political toxicity, rising authoritarianism, and declining trust in institutions. Together with Andy, they grapple with what true servant-leadership requires of us, both individually and collectively; how leaders can stay anchored in values when stepping into a political arena rife with ego and fear; and a vision for an American civic life grounded in courageous wholeness.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"For Citizenship" by John O'Donohue
In these times when anger
Is turned into anxiety
And someone has stolen
The horizons and the mountains,
Our small emperors on parade
Never expect our indifference
To disturb their nakedness
They keep their heads down
And their eyes gleam with reflection
From Aluminum economic ground,
The media wraps everything
In a cellophane of sound,
And the ghost surface of the virtual
Overlays the breathing earth.
The industry of distraction
Makes us forget
That we live in a universe
We have become converts
To the religion of stress
And its deity of progress
That we may have courage
To turn aside from it all
And come to kneel down before the poor,
To discover what we must do,
How to turn anxiety
Back into anger,
How to find our way home.
Show Notes:
https://www.maxklau.com
https://www.centerforcourageouswholeness.org
#33 The Inner Flame (with Max Klau)
Developing Servant Leaders at Scale: How to Do It and Why It Matters by Max Klau
Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert K. Greenleaf
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November 14, 2025#177 Wholehearted Parenting (with Ariane de Bonvoisin)
“In what way am I an example? In what way am I a warning?”
-Ariane de Bonvoisin
Ariane de Bonvoisin is a best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and change optimist. She is a renowned expert in leadership, change, and personal transformation with a global audience, speaking and coaching at major companies such as Google, Twitter, Morgan Stanley and more, bringing practical tools for resilience, energy management, and leading through transition.
In this conversation, Ariane and Andy delve into the world of parenting; the significance of imbuing our approach to raising children with compassion, non-judgment, and an empathetic normalization of what makes us human. Through exploration of both the inner and outer worlds of ourselves and our children, and a willingness to allow our children to see themselves through us rather than looking at us for pre-prescribed expectations of how to be, we may better uplift them in their lifelong journeys of self-discovery.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published“Throwing Children” by Ross Gay
It is really something when a kid who has a hard time becomes a kid who’s having a good time in no small part thanks to you throwing that kid in the air again and again on a mile long walk home from the Indian joint as her mom looks sideways at you like you don’t need to keep doing this because you’re pouring with sweat and breathing a little bit now you’re getting a good workout but because the kid laughs like a horse up there laughs like a kangaroo beating her wings against the light because she laughs like a happy little kid and when coming down and grabbing your forearm to brace herself for the time when you will drop her which you don’t and slides her hand into yours as she says for the fortieth time the fiftieth time inexhaustible her delight again again again and again and you say give me til the redbud tree or give me til the persimmon tree because she knows the trees and so quiet you almost can’t hear through her giggles she says ok til the next tree when she explodes howling yanking your arm from the socket again again all the wolves and mourning doves flying from her tiny throat and you throw her so high she lives up there in the tree for a minute she notices the ants organizing on the bark and a bumblebee carousing the little unripe persimmon in its beret she laughs and laughs as she hovers up there like a bumblebee like a hummingbird up there giggling in the light like a giddy little girl up there the world knows how to love.
Show Notes:
https://www.arianedebonvoisin.com
TED Talk: The Skills We Need to Teach Our Kids by Ariane de Bonvoisin
KidQuest
Interview: The Three Levels of Trust in Parenting
Interview: How to Raise Children Who Embrace Change
“5 Things We Most Project Onto Our Kids” by Ariane de Bonvoisin for Psychology Today
“Learning to Trust Your Child and Yourself” by Ariane de Bonvoisin for Psychology Today
“Ariane de Bonvoisin: The Executive Coach Leaders Call to Help Navigate Change and Uncertainty” by Lindsay Jeffords for NY Weekly
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November 07, 2025#176 The Initiatory Path (with Josh Schrei)
“We’ve worshipped a hungry monster. And the more you feed and worship a hungry monster, the hungrier it gets.”
-Josh Schrei
This week we welcome Josh Schrei — storyteller, mythologist, and creator of The Mythic Body. As host of The Emerald podcast, Josh shepherds listeners through explorations of our modern world through a vibrant lens of mythos, music and mindfulness. His work is a salve for modern wounds, using song and story to help us de-center the “hungry monster” of consumerism and bring us back to the sacred, animate center of the living world.
Josh and Andy trace a path back to the core truths we’ve forgotten in our contemporary times — that humanity’s innate desire for transcendence can be found not in the hungry maw of capitalism that encourages our relentless consumption, but in a return to ritual, presence, and belonging.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"Remember" by Joy Harjo
Remember the sky that you were born under,
know each of the star’s stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is.
Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the
strongest point of time. Remember sundown
and the giving away to night.
Remember your birth, how your mother struggled
to give you form and breath. You are evidence of
her life, and her mother’s, and hers.
Remember your father. He is your life, also.
Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,
listen to them. They are alive poems.
Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the
origin of this universe.
Remember you are all people and all people
are you.
Remember you are this universe and this
universe is you.
Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.
Remember language comes from this.
Remember the dance language is, that life is.
Remember.
Show Notes:
The Mythic Body
The Emerald Podcast with Josh Schrei
Let Us Sing of the Syncretic Gods of Outcasts and Wanderers
For the Intuitives (Part One)
Connect with Andy:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast
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November 02, 2025#175 Sacred Activism (with Nina Simons and Deborah Eden Tull)
“What if we served from what we love rather than what we’re against?”
-Nina Simons
Welcoming back two brilliant past guests of the Wonder Dome this week with Nina Simons (co-founder of Bioneers and author of Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership) and Deborah Eden Tull (founder of Mindful Living Revolution and author of Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown.)
“Sacred activism,” Eden says, “is a fusion with the mystic’s passion for God with the activist’s passion for justice — creating a third fire, the burning sacred heart that longs to help preserve and nurture every living thing.” A practice that integrates the connective tissue of inner transformation with outer engagement. With Andy, Nina and Eden delve into how to respond to ecological breakdown, political polarization, and personal loss not with despair, but with love and relational awareness, inviting us to see community and interbeing as the grounding force that holds us through times of crisis and possibility.
Together, Nina and Eden are launching a live online course called Sacred Activism: Meeting Our Challenges as Gateways for Embodying Connection beginning on November 13, 2025. To learn more and join this cohort exploring sacred activism as “a living practice that draws from your own lived experience, challenges, and discoveries,” visit this link.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"Lost" by David Wagoner
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
Show Notes:
https://www.ninasimons.com
https://www.deborahedentull.com
#111 Nature, Culture, and the Sacred (with Nina Simons)
#142 Luminous Darkness (with Deborah Eden Tull)
https://www.bioneers.org
Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership by Nina Simons
Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown by Deborah Eden Tull
Sacred Activism: Meeting Our Challenges as Gateways for Embodying Connection with Nina Simons and Deborah Eden Tull
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism by Andrew Harvey
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof Capra
Connect with Andy:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast
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October 24, 2025#174 Radical Listening (with Robert Biswas-Diener and Christian van Nieuwerburgh)
“Radical listening gives us agency — it’s something we can still do even when everything feels uncertain.”
- Christian van Nieuwerburgh
Robert Biswas-Diener and Christian van Nieuwerburgh, two distinguished voices in coaching, positive psychology, and leadership, join Andy to explore the radical and joyful art of listening.
As co-authors of Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection, Robert and Christian provide a framework for cultivating this most vital (and often neglected) skill. In an increasingly divisive, distracted, and digitized world, it’s never been more essential to harness the power of listening as beyond a means of simply hearing words, but to co-create meaning and connection.
In this episode, you’ll learn why “active listening” as we know it may not be enough; the traps of certainty and comparison; and how curiosity, humility, and a sense of play can deepen our connections and help us listen with intention.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"Generous Listening" by Marilyn Nelson
A conversation can be a contest,
or a game of catch with invisible balloons.
They bounce between us, growing and shrinking,
sometimes floating like cloud medicine balls,
and sometimes bowling at us like round anvils.
You toss a phrase and understanding blooms
like an anemone of colored lights.
My mind fireworks with unasked questions.
Who is this miracle speaking to me?
And who is this miracle listening?
What amazingness are we creating?
Out of gray matter a star spark of thought
leaps between synapses into the air,
and pours through gray matter, into my heart:
how can I not listen generously?
Show Notes:
https://robertdiener.com/
https://coachonamotorcycle.com/
Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection by Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Robert Biswas-Diener
#162 Positive Provocation (with Robert Biswas-Diener)
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October 17, 2025#173 Getting More Right Than Wrong (with Saul Humphrey)
“We need an abundance of the things we need — safe homes, good jobs, healthcare — not an abundance of consumption.”
- Saul Humphrey
Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
Saul Humphrey is a UK-based leader and sustainability advocate, a professor of sustainable construction at Anglia Ruskin University, and Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Building. He’s also the founder of an eponymously named consultancy practice that integrates sustainable design with practical innovation. The arc of his career bends towards reducing carbon impact and creating long-term resilience in the built environment.
With both realism and hope, Saul and Andy explore the tension between growth and sustainability; what “abundance” means in an ever-warming world; how our built environment shapes our collective destiny; and how we can reimagine construction as an act of care for future generations.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"Design" by A.R. Ammons
The drop seeps whole
from boulder-lichen
or ledge moss and drops,
joining, to trickle,
run, fall, dash,
sprawl in held deeps,
to rush shallows, spill
thin through heights,
but then, edging,
to eddy aside, nothing
of all but nothing’s
curl of motion spent.
Show Notes:
https://www.sauldhumphrey.com
https://www.ciob.org
https://www.humannature-places.com
Values: Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney
Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamonds and Steven Kotler
Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection by Tsuyoshi Sekihara, Richard McCarthy, and Kathleen Finlay
#148 It Makes a Village (with Jonathan Smales)
#157 Eco-Responsive Envrionments (with Soham De & Prachi Rampuria)
#158 The Neutral Project (with Nate Helbach)
Connect with Andy:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast
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October 10, 2025#172 The Oracle in Your Dreams (with Martin Boroson)
“Your dream is a film written and directed by the real you.”
-Martin Boroson
What if every night, while you sleep, a deeper part of you is trying to speak?
In this conversation, executive coach, psychotherapist, and Zen priest Martin Boroson joins Andy to explore the art of listening to that voice — the dreaming mind.
Martin invites us to consider dreams as nightly messages from the larger intelligence that lives through us — not random noise, but a form of guidance. He describes the unconscious as “a vast storehouse of wisdom”, a living field of knowing we can access through the body, imagination, and attention. Together, he and Andy wander through questions of consciousness, creativity, and leadership in a polarized world — asking what might happen if we let our dreams shape how we act, lead, and love.
What emerges is a portrait of the psyche as both profoundly personal and beautifully collective. The unconscious, Marty suggests, is not just in us — it’s between us, whispering the next small, luminous step toward wholeness.
Ready to take your leadership to the next level? Unlock the transformational power of your dreams in coaching with Marty’s upcoming workshop, Waking UP to Dreams. Cohorts start November 2025, February 2026, and September 2026 with weekly classes held on Zoom.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"The Dream Keeper" by Langston Hughes
Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamers,
Bring me all of your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
Show Notes:
www.martinboroson.com
www.onemomentcompany.com
Waking UP to Dreams - a masterclass for coaches
One Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go by Martin Boroson
Jung on the Transcendent Function
www.nextpracticeinstitute.com
Connect with Andy:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast
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October 02, 2025#171 Those Who Carry Us (with Todd Marston, Francis Briers, and Jamie Hunt)
“Even when we feel alone, there’s this ancestral truth that all of these people…have carried us here.”
-Jamie Hunt
What does it mean to be carried—by ancestors, by friends, by music, by silence?
This week, Andy gathers with three fellow travelers on the path of inquiry, growth, service and commitment: Jamie Hunt, Todd Marston, and Francis Briers. Together they’ve spent the past five years tending a peer-led men’s circle, a space where vulnerability and creativity meet, where fatherhood is both question and verb, and where the wisdom of ancestry intertwines with the urgencies of our present moment. It’s a brotherhood where 30 or more men from across continents join in dialogues around what it means to be a man, a brother, a father, a partner; what it means to become a man if you’re born into a different body; what our culture recognizes as masculine; and what it means to walk a path of service in this moment in our collective history.
You’ll hear Todd’s original composition Those Who Carried Us Here, Jamie’s moving poem Exhale, and Francis’ prayerful reflection If I Am to Learn. Their words and music trace pathways through grief, kinship, service, and the sacred ordinariness of male friendship.
Whether you identify as a man, love men, or are simply a human in search of community, this episode offers a glimpse of how brotherhood can become a living practice—one that nourishes, challenges, and carries us forward together.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"Exhale" by Jamie Hunt
Overcome by gravity,
raindrops on an oak branch relax their grasp and fall,
unlike the tears I fear.
Is that why I feel homesick while still at home,
alternating between comfort and pain,
hope and disappointment,
in this almost frozen silence?
I inhale charred white oak.
The exhale comes like a December rain.
Yesterday, I noticed a ring of moss-covered stones among the oaks.
A pocket knife revealed them to be a tree stump felled centuries ago,
yet kept green,
kept alive by its great grandchildren.
Life support along fungal lines for an elder,
or perhaps an exchange, wisdom for nutrients.
What about those steel blue eyes and his continuity of attention?
What about joy over results long after I canceled a dinner reservation
as he needed to fly to San Francisco for yet another surgery?
Is he still with us?
What about the child?
A surgeon’s blade,
a beloved belly,
born still and now disintegrating,
like a darkened ember in a brown bag removed from last night’s firelight.
Yet this winter,
before the nine months,
the potential for a spirit grew within me
as the leaves danced a movement meditation in the dwindling light.
And now my exhale is her inhale, overcome by gravity.
"If I Am to Learn" by Francis Briers
If I am to learn, let me learn to answer my soul’s callings.
Let me learn to listen to kindness and let it land when it is spoken.
Let me learn to embrace love and eschew certainty.
Let me learn to seek truth,
but do so with an appreciation for the vast spaces beyond what is known.
Let me learn to follow the twisting pathways of imagination.
Let me learn to breathe deeply and savor each breath.
Let me learn to make mischief with friends and play joyfully.
Let me learn to meet others fiercely and tenderly.
Let me learn to stand up for what I believe in,
but not to fight fruitless battles.
Let me learn to be a friend and ally to myself as well as to others.
If I am to learn,
let me learn to answer,
listen,
embrace,
seek,
follow,
breathe,
make,
meet,
stand and be.
Show Notes:
#01 May the Creative Force Be With You (with Todd Marston)
#10 Coming Home to Ourselves (with Francis Briers)
#50 When Four Paths Converse (with Cyrus Shahrad, Lee Chambers, and Francis Briers)
#100 One Hundred Ways to Imagine (with Todd Marston)
https://toddmarston.bandcamp.com/
https://instagram.com/integermusic
https://francisbriers.com
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries From a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
On Dialogue by David Bohm
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Connect with Andy:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast
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September 19, 2025#170 The Flow of Power (with Dr. Annice Fisher & O.B. Amaechi)
“I know that I was brought on this world to create a multi-sector, multi-generational, intersectional global movement for healing, freedom, and justice.”
— Dr. Annice Fisher
What is power? Where does it come from? How does power flow through our lives, our communities, and our choices?
This week, Dr. Annice Fisher, (leadership coach, founder of Developing Capacity Coaching and author of The Power Within Me) and O.B. Amaechi, (multimodal educator, fashion entrepreneur, and founder of Wake Up The Soul) return to the Wonder Dome to explore how power is misused, how it can be reclaimed, and how each of us can channel it toward healing and justice.
Annice and O.B. draw from their work in leadership, education, and social innovation, sharing stories from classrooms, correctional facilities, and creative spaces where power is embraced not as a tool for domination or destruction, but connection. Through reflective meditations on influence as a flow of energy, the legacy we leave across generations, and the small choices we make that become catalysts for transformation, Annice and O.B. call on us to step into our individual power and wield it with collective care.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"Sorrow Is Not My Name" by Ross Gay
No matter the pull toward brink. No
matter the florid, deep sleep awaits.
There is a time for everything. Look,
just this morning a vulture
nodded his red, grizzled head at me,
and I looked at him, admiring
the sickle of his beak.
Then the wind kicked up, and,
after arranging that good suit of feathers
he up and took off.
Just like that. And to boot,
there are, on this planet alone, something like two
million naturally occurring sweet things,
some with names so generous as to kick
the steel from my knees: agave, persimmon,
stick ball, the purple okra I bought for two bucks
at the market. Think of that. The long night,
the skeleton in the mirror, the man behind me
on the bus taking notes, yeah, yeah.
But look; my niece is running through a field
calling my name. My neighbor sings like an angel
and at the end of my block is a basketball court.
I remember. My color's green. I'm spring.
Show Notes:
#04 Healing the World Through Conscious Leadership (with Dr. Annice Fisher)
#124 Purpose Soaked in Beauty (with O.B. Amaechi)
developcapacity.com
wakeupthesoul.com
socialchangemap.com
thepowerwithinmecollective.com
The Power Within Me: The Road Back to the Real You by Annice E Fisher
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast
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September 04, 2025#169 Soul Journeys (with Owen & Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin)
“All of this art is a metaphor for yourself. You are the song. You are the poem. You are the painting.”
-Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin
What are we for? This timeless question becomes the ground on which brothers Owen and Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin walk in this conversation. As musicians, poets, and teachers, they inherit and carry forward a lineage of song and story that reveals how art is not separate from life but a mirror of it—a way of giving voice to the unspoken parts of ourselves.
Along with their mother, Nóirín Ní Riain (also a previous guest of The Wonder Dome) they’re the leaders of Turas d’Anam, which provides both online and in person experiences offering unique and personal expressions of their rich musical and cultural heritage.
This episode is a meditation on soul and purpose, on tradition and innovation, and on the way beauty sustains us in difficult times. Along the way, we travel from Irish monasteries and chants echoing across the globe, to the words of Seamus Heaney, Rumi, and James Joyce, to the everyday practice of committing poems and songs to memory, allowing them to take root in the body and shape the life of the spirit.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"Turas d’Anam (Journey Of Your Soul)" by Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin
Often times
the step backward
lets the soul catch up.
So that all our happy
hindsight’s harmonise
and wisdom builds.
Share your luck.
Be miserly only
with misfortune.
In each seismic
shudder we learn
to trust the ground
again, humble again,
knowingly broken,
unrepentantly wounded,
proud to bare pain.
Laying claim to
the joy factory
of your body.
No more tariffs, or sanctions.
Wage cuts and glass ceilings.
Conventions, expenses paid, nor
lanyards or company position.
Often times,
this way you can live
in ways others simply
will not, develop sides
of you others simply
would not.
So feel the rhythm
beyond the beat.
Begin with a break,
and let your soul
catch up.
Show Notes:
YouTube: “Turas d'Anam (a poem by Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin)”
Turas d’Anam | Celtic Wisdom, Creative Practice, and Tours of Ireland
"For Ireland I’ll Not Speak Her Name” Digital Album
Owen and Moley on AppleMusic
Invitas with David Whyte
#86 The Deep Heart's Core (with Owen Ó Súilleabháin)
#97 What the Heart Hears (with Rev. Dr. Nóirín Ní Riain)
Connect with Andy:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast
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