Climbing Deeper

On this episode, interview Alan Newton, Founder of virtuall, and an entrepreneur who's looking to create products that connect people, and the world, in a way that's profitable and sustainable.

This conversation was full of gems for personal development and finding peace in the world. Alan's been hacking his own productivity and mental health for a while, and we go down some very fruitful wormholes together in this epsiode. 

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In this episode, I talk to Luca Pandolfi, Founder of Eterna Green Energy. He's a clean tech entrepreneur. He's also creating a transition to sustainability by working with forests, biofuels, and local economic development.

Luca shares how Eterna Green Energy originated when he was in college while studying environmental science. In his studies, he noticed, from a business perspective, "that a bunch of businesses that had linear sup...

Was there ever a point in your life when a traumatic experience changed the trajectory of things and made you focus on creating impact and changing the world? This episode is for you.

I talk to Cam Woodsum, a social impact founder, a serial founder, and venture creator who has created eight startups through his studio Nomad Impact Ventures, from beaches all around the world. He shares about making money online, passive income, goin...

I talk to Robyn O’Brien, a serial food founder, speaker, systems thinker, and an insightful builder of a more regenerative and just food system and we discuss systemic change, the importance of farming and farmers being at the front and center of development and financial security, and the impact of food to the health of the next generation. 

She also shares that the food in the 21st century is making people sick and so she ha...

In this episode, I talk to Kyle Vaughan, a design strategist, a researcher, an advocate and builder of a sustainable future. He's the founder of the Greatest Possible Good, which is a design strategy and research firm that uplifts everyone they come into contact with.

We delve into how Kyle and his best friend Kenneth Wayman stumbled into the design thinking process by accident because of their desire to create change in the commun...

In this episode, I talk to Breanne Gibson, a holistic life designer, whose life goal is to empower people through a regenerative lifestyle that is intertwined with nature and our true human nature. We discuss about the environment, food, health, medicine, and grounding.

In addition, Breanne shares how she grew up on a 10-acre farm in British Columbia, Canada and how she joined the military when she was 17. She also points out how a...

I talk to my good friend Jérémy Chevallier—a purpose-driven human, an experienced start-up marketer, and an amazing product designer—and we discuss community, design, and connecting people.

He shares his experience how he started in design by doodling and sketching comic strips as a child, and then in high school started getting into Photoshop, then eventually became part of DeviantArt, one of the first social networks of thriving ...

In this episode, I sit down with Bill Reed, a regenerative rebel, an accomplished architect, and a visionary in the community transformation area. He’s led and assisted on regenerative design projects over the last decade. 

We talk about taking risks, how he has changed the attitude of communities in Bill’s past projects, regeneration and reconstructing our relationship with the world, the benefits of his projects to communiti...

On this episode, I speak with Hildy Gottleib, founder of I interview

Hildy Gottleib, the renowned social scientist and founder of

Creating the Future, a non-profit that’s creating a more humane world through systems change.

We discuss how social movements have been a consistent factor in the human experience, and break down Hildy’s framework of Catalytic Thinking, which is used to inspire and maintain social and cultu...

Happy Thanksgiving!

In this episode, I talk about the impact that gratitude can have when practiced on a daily basis. 

It decreases your stress levels, bolsters your immune response, and makes you more likely to share gratitude with others.

Think about the widespread impact you could create if you showed gratitude to someone each day

Hidden brain episode that inspired this one: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/where-g...

This episode we have Julian Guderley from Green Planet Blue Planet which is a top podcast to help you grow rated by Entrepreneur Magazine. He is a yogi, master coach, and empowerer of individuals who are changing the world. We had a wonderful conversation about

• gaining perspective through traveling
• seeking connection in uncomfortable situations
• pitfalls of wanton capitalism
• finding your unique purpose

I hope you gu...

In this Episode, I interview Ryan Stoll, PhD - Designer, Psychologist, Entrepreneur, and founder of Humanity x Design and Compass for Courage. We discuss his journey in taking 30 years of research on anxiety and turning it into a productized program that helps school administrators and parents train kids in methods to overcome anxiety. We discuss why projects don't make it out of academia, how founders and designers can create bett...

I'm Re-Introducing Applying Awareness as Designing Impact! 

On this new show, I'll be having discussions around three main topics: 

1. Specific tactics you can use to improve and grow your impact-driven business
   
2. Habits and lifestyle shifts to improve your individual performance and how you feel everyday
   
3. Stories of how creative social innovators disrupted the status quo and created something new
   

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In this episode, I cover all things breathing techniques. How were they viewed by ancient cultures and spiritualities? Which techniques do I use to relax and to invigorate myself? How does breath interact with your body to change your mood? I explore all of these questions in this episode.

This is my last episode of Season 0, so It will be 1-2 months before Season 1, Society and Politics starts up again. I'll still be producin...

Connecting with your spirituality is giving you access to power and energy that you didn't have before hand. I discuss how Sharon Hess, an author, spirituality guide, and wise wanderer of the intuition found her connection with the spiritual, and how she's helped many people do the same. We cover some awesome ground:

-Getting started on your unique spiritual path.
- How persistence comes from the soul.
- Why our soul ...

In this Episode, I chat with Jordan Gross about how to integrate a cloud nine moment into your day.

Jordan is a Northwestern and Kellogg School of Management graduate, a writer, a leadership coach, a speaker, and a self-proclaimed multipotentialite, having experienced positions in large banks like Merrill Lynch to small startup companies like Chowbus.

He's also a best-selling author of a book called Getting COMFY: Your M...

On this episode, I chat with the incredibly kind soul Curtis Barrett about his new creation, Kindpoints. 

  Kindpoints is a mobile app that by design cultivates a community of people striving to share and inspire with their deeds of kindness.  

He wants the people feeding the needy to go viral, not perpetual travelers. 

Curtis wants Kindpoints to change our social media paradigm to one that rewards and spre...

Bias.

As human beings, we all experience this phenomenon. If we didn't have these biases, or mental shortcuts, to process the incredible amount of information that we intake through our senses, we'd be overwhelmed with sensation and information and unable to make any decisions.

However, these mental shortcuts can have many negative effects when proliferated across a society and imbued into our power structures and societ...

Want to level up your mindset and how you move through this world?

Move with Passion, Persistence, and Patience. These are the three key pillars that have lifted D'Andre Evans from a podcaster struggling to find an audience to a community builder and Top 20 podcast host.

We explained how we implement these pillars in our lives,  the benefits they've brought, and how you can incorporate them when building your persona...