The Art of Humanity: Recent Episodes
Jessica Ann
The Art of Humanity with Jessica Ann is a weekly podcast that explores creativity and consciousness with artists, leaders, authors, and entrepreneurs. This podcast is a synthesis of groundbreaking interviews with celebrated thought leaders from across the globe in the fields of personal development, leadership, art, technology, marketing, and spirituality all rolled into one.
This show covers a breadth of topics including psychology, business, consciousness, creativity, spirituality, epigenetics, plant medicine, alternative health, mindfulness, sex, yoga, fitness, biohacking, sound healing, and meditation.
Prominent guests include authors Seth Godin, Jeff Brown, James Altucher, Richard Rudd, Douglas Rushkoff, Danielle Laporte and more!
Evolve your business with the Art of Humanity.
Jessica Ann is an author, speaker, educator and marketer. She is also the CEO + Creative Director of JAM which humanizes business with creativity + consciousness through storytelling.
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Silence is a guide to connecting with your Truth.
Silence allows you to tune into your own thoughts and let go of the relentless pursuit of algorithm-driven “popularity.”
In this episode, I share my journey of transformation, moving from a hustle-driven existence on the East Coast to living my dream life in California.
If you feel alienated or isolated in this noisy world, this episode is a reminder that silence is a powerful space for creativity and alignment, allowing you to speak with authenticity and leave a legacy.
SHOW NOTES:
Episode 76: Integrity is the Only Marketing Strategy https://artofhumanity.io/business/ep-76-integrity-is-the-only-marketing-strategy/
Resonance: The Quantum Way to Start Your Podcast: https://www.jessicaannmedia.com/start-podcast/
1:1 Mentorship: https://www.jessicaannmedia.com/mentoring/
Consideration is the highest form of love. It is often overlooked because of its simplicity. But it is essential for our evolution as humans.
When you embody consideration within your own relationships, it starts the alchemical transformation from lower states of being to higher levels of consciousness. And it’s not selfish. It forms the foundation upon which the prosperity and well-being of all members of your community can flourish.
But first...the roots of your own tree (your own family) must first be strong enough to support the growth…the branches, twigs, and flowers. So then it can transcend the boundaries of the self and extend into the communal realm.
This need for deep grounding in the material world not only nurtures our own growth but also contributes to the collective evolution towards a more harmonious society.
By practicing consideration, we can bridge the gap between spiritual ideals and tangible actions.
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Learn about my podcast program Resonance: https://www.jessicaannmedia.com/start-podcast/
Hope you have a magical day!
Throughout each episode, I explore the deeper truths of society and culture as I share my embodiment process.
In episode 78, I address how feminism stopped short of achieving true gender balance. I share how we can embrace femininity and bring balance to the broken system - so that we create a new way forward that values the strengths of both men and women.
Enrollment is now open for my podcast program!
This is not your average “how to start a podcast” course.
This is an invitation to meet your future self.
This is you, becoming a lightbeam for the planet
To learn more and get on the Wait List: jessicaannmedia.com/start-podcast
Today’s guest is a MUST RELEASE!! I interviewed Daniel back in January and feel that now is the perfect time to release this conversation - as Pluto enters into Aquarius.
Pluto isn’t afraid to question who’s in charge, navigating the most complex systematic networks and quietly ripping them apart from the inside out.
Queue up this conversation with Daniel Pinchbeck!
He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, How Soon Is Now, and When Plants Dream, among other works.
In his books and Substack, he explores philosophical and critical perspectives on shamanism, and his personal transformation from a cynic to a mystic. He’s a philosopher, author, psychonaut, and activist.
In this episode, we discuss:
- how his mom being part of the Beat generation influences his work
- how he explains the Aquarian, liminal age that we're now experiencing
- how we can grok this idea that this earth is reincarnating
- why thinking should be from the heart
- how integration + shadow work can circumvent the corporatization of psychedelics
- the importance of going beyond our traumas
- the importance of grief and sorrow
Follow Daniel's Substack: https://danielpinchbeck.substack.com/
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We are in a paradigm shift right now and we are moving into a unified flow state…in this episode, I share why there is a Divine order to things…and why being on the soul path means we are not on an ego timeline. And how yoga (and yoga teacher training) and the Gene Keys guided me in the early years of my business.
Learn more about my podcast program, Resonance: The divine feminine approach to launching a chart-topping podcast. Contact me to get on the waitlist: hello@jessicaannmedia.com or find me on instagram: @beingishuman
A sincere Thank You to all of my listeners…this podcast is in the Top 30% of all podcasts shared on Spotify!
In this episode I share why my commitment is to Truth over consistency - why I only speak and publish an episode when I have something to say (which breaks all of the rules of marketing).
Join me as I share the ups and downs of the early years of running my business - and how some of the early successes and synchronicities gave me the confidence to continue showing up.
Ways you can work with me:
1:1 Mentorship
Social Media Marketing
Podcast Program
Gene Keys reading
Email: hello@jessicaannmedia.com
Socials: @beingishuman
Plenty of people insist on freedom and independence.
More rare and far more effective is to claim responsibility instead.
“I’ve got this,” can go a long way.
In Episode 74, I share about shakti/kundalini energy and how this has activated me to take complete responsibility over every aspect of my life.
This episode is an ode to the Divine Feminine and Gemini.
I discuss:
- why birthing a new frequency isn’t codified by productivity or deadlines
- how the Gemini personality is a "double" instrument to my response to life and existence
- the importance of communicating and expressing your truth
- why Truth is lived experience
- the Summer Solstice
Let’s go to the show!
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In this show I discuss:
- My show's publishing schedule (and why I do it this way)
- How the highly filtered photos are turning us into cyborgs and what we can do about it
- Why it is OK to not be a consistent human.
- The importance of normalizing non-linear growth
- How to honor your Sacred No and the Sacred Pause
- Being Alone vs. Being Lonely
- Living with nuance
- The myth of Gaia Sophia - the world's soul is woman
In this show I discuss:
- What it means to be a 6/2 Role Model Hermit in Human Design
- The importance of waiting for the invitation
- How my Human Design aligns with the Gene Keys
- The purity of intention
- The literal meaning of surrender
- Why it's good to exist in the void
Let’s go to the show!
This episode is an introduction (or re-introduction) to who I am in the world In this show I discuss: * The importance of creative courage * Why it's important to honor Divine timing (and not compare yourself to other creators) * My thought process to starting my own business * Facts you may not know about me * How I integrate Human Design into my business model * The importance of deprogramming
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Asa is the owner and creator of the music project Source Vibrations, found at Sourcevibrations.com. as well as Youtube and Spotify. He is a hypnotherapist, sound healer, composer, artist and mystic who's music and sound healing sessions have benefited people all around the world.
Source Vibrations' listeners enjoy Asa's unique approach to methods of composing brainwave entrainment technology and intentionally tuned vibro-acoustic music. Asa employs geometric, mathematical and archetypal elements to inspire his creative process and to encode healing intentions into his compositions. With his work he creates nourishing musical experiences that assist his listener in accessing states of consciousness where deep healing and change more readily occur.
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Dr. Kelly Brogan explains why we don’t have to be medicating our mental, emotional, and physical pain away - and why the best way out is through our trauma.
Kelly Brogan, M.D. is a holistic psychiatrist, author of the NY Times Bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, Own Your Self, the children’s book, A Time For Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She is the founder of the online healing program Vital Mind Reset, and the membership community, Vital Life Project.
She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. from M.I.T. in Systems Neuroscience. She is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. She is a certified KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher and a mother of two.
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Hanzi Freinacht is a political philosopher, historian & sociologist, author of The Listening Society, Nordic Ideology, and the upcoming book The 6 Hidden Patterns of World History.
As a writer, Hanzi combines in-depth knowledge of several sciences and disciplines and offers maps of our time and the human condition with his characteristically accessible, poetic and humorous writing style – challenging the reader’s perspective of herself and the world. He epitomizes much of the metamodern philosophy and can be considered a personification of this strand of thought.
In this interview we talk about:
- Hanzi’s six types of politics
- The need to adopt a more holistic, or integral, or metamodern worldview
- How our subjective experiences are an important part of the metamodern perspective
- The difference between light depth and dark depth: And why light depth is a profoundly playful position and dark depth is profound seriousness. And why both of these are true
We also discuss:
- Why you can “out-depth” your partner and what to do about it.
- The cosmo-erotic relationship to the artist
- The importance of Integrating the part of yourself that's seeking a specific level of depth from a romantic partner
- Why not all people can become metamodernists
This episode is a solocast to kick off Season 7. This season focuses on alternative health...and by alternative I mean...not in the mainstream media. In this episode, I share my perspective on how we can heal addictions, trauma and toxic patterns through radical self-love, body positivity, yoga, meditation, and embodiment work.
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To download my free guided meditation, go to artofhumanity.io/meditation
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A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a wounded healer in private practice, helping others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality.
After writing Dispelling Wetiko, Paul became associated with the idea of wetiko. After the publication of The Quantum Revelation, he is now seen as connected with quantum physics. All three aspects - dreams, wetiko and quantum physics are interconnected and complementary facets of a deeper reality into which he is continually deepening his investigation.
In this interview, we discuss:
- the genius power of our creativity when we dispel wetiko
- how we can integrate Higher Consciousness into the medium of our message
- how we can dream ourselves awake
- how synchronicities can snap us out of the collective spell of hypnosis and helplessness
Please do not hesitate to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or email: hello@jessicaannmedia.com
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AoH website: http://artofhumanity.io/
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Heather is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and the creator of the Four Fertility Factors Training program. A board-certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she bridges the worlds of conventional and alternative medicine to help women and men heal their physical and emotional lives. Heather is on the board of directors for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and has consulted with doctors, governments, and insurance companies.
My guest today aligns with my mission of Truth.
Sarah is a serial entrepreneur and investor in startups, having founded 8 companies since 2009. Following several successful exits, she is currently the CEO of Grow My Team (global recruitment) and co-founder of League of Extraordinary Women. She is personally fueled by a passion for changing the status quo of how we work, conscious culture, community, gender equality and living life on one's own terms.
Sarah is a speaker, blogger and author of Get Rich Slow, appearing on TV and writing for many popular publications. She has also held board positions on several not-for-profit organisations including Project Futures, Entrepreneurs Organisation, the Association of Financial Advisers and the Institute for Global Women Leaders.
Recognised as the IFA Thought Leader of the Year, Sarah was also named as one of Melbourne’s Top 100 most influential, inspiring and creative citizens by The Age, and listed in the Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs under 40 by Shoestring. She has completed the Entrepreneurial Master Program at MIT, holds a Bachelor of Business (Financial Planning) and several diplomas.
In this episode, we discuss:
• How to develop an abundance mindset
• How remote work is delivering the biggest quality of life upgrade
• the divide between fixing the institutions and fixing ourselves – and why the real work is in fixing ourselves through self-actualization.
Let's go to the show!
Philip Goff is a philosopher who argues that the traditional approaches of materialism and dualism face insuperable difficulties. Materialism is the view that consciousness can be explained in terms of physical processes in the brain whereas dualism is the view that consciousness is separate from the body and brain. On the basis of this Philip defends a form of panpsychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world. It sounds a bit crazy, but he offers a compelling argument that avoids the difficulties faced by its rivals.
Pamela Pavliscak (pav-li-shock) guides organizations toward emotionally intelligent futures as founder of Change Sciences. Part ethnography, part psychology, part data science, her approach translates future vision into tangible everyday possibilities.
She specializes in emotionally intelligent design and emotion-sensing artificial intelligence. Her research has been featured on CBC's Spark, Salon, and Quartz. Her book, Emotionally Intelligent Design, focuses on how to design a future that has as much EQ as it does IQ.
Pamela is a TEDx speaker and has spoken at SxSW , TNW, Web Summit, Google Creative Labs, among many others. She teaches at the Pratt Institute School of Information in NYC and has lectured at the Stanford d.School, ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination, University of Washington, and Parsons.
In this interview, we discuss:
- How technology is giving us new emotions that we don’t know what to call them
- The emotional relationship we have with technology and how schadenfreude plays a part
- The "Uncanny Valley" aspect of technology and how I first experienced this myself during CES in 2015 with Toshiba's "Robot Hostess"
- Transhumanism andthe implication that human consciousness can be transferred to alternative media, known as mind uploading.
- The Singularity
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Note: This interview was recorded before the current unrest.
Michele is an artist, guide, creator & self-proclaimed techie, she has worked with thousands of people nationally and internationally to inspire and teach them the tools to live more fulfilled and prosperous lives. She works with her clients to connect more deeply with their own inner knowing in order for them to make empowered and soul expressed decisions. The author of Meditation for Everyday Living, 5 Step Emotional Clearing, Transforming Fear into Creativity among other books and CDs, the Host and Executive Producer of Awakenings Podcast, a Transpersonal Therapist, a Hypnotherapist, an Intuitive Life & Relationship Coach, a Fellow of the National Board for Hypnotherapy and a Hypnotic Anesthesiologist as well as a member of Transpersonal Psychology, she is a constant student of life and the mystery of All That Is.
Michele has extensive experience in television and media and, as a spiritual techie, she understands where spirituality meets technology and how technology is moving spirituality to the next level.
In this episode we discuss:
- Her interest in metaphysics which started at a young age
- How being an empath informed her interests and decisions
- How when you start awakening how it opens up so many other aspects of our life.
We also discuss:
- How we broadcast a certain signal or a frequency and how that reflects back to us
- The mind, body and spiritual component of everything that happens in life and the world
- What happens next is what we co-create
- How the individuals or individual communities
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Please note this episode was recorded before the current unrest.
Dr. Jack Kruse is a well-respected neurosurgeon who’s on a mission to help people find radiant, life-long health. He’s been published in dental and medical journals, authored the transformative book Epi-Paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health, co-invented the Quantlet light therapy wristband, and helped countless people through his blog and practice. His research proves that our modern indoor lifestyle negatively impacts your health in a shocking way and teaches how bathing in natural light from the sun, moon and stars can have a mind-blowing effect on your vitality. Now as the CEO of Optimized Life, Dr. Kruse works to help humanity reconnect to the environment, increase their longevity and beat healthcare burdens that arise as we age.
We’re back with the season debut of The Art of Humanity! We have a brand new season that focuses on "Uncertainty" during these...weird times. And what better way to start the season than with a fellow podcast host of a show called..."You Made It Weird!"
Today’s guest is someone who aligns with my mission for Humor: My favorite living comedian Pete Holmes!
Pete is a comedian, actor, writer, producer, television host, spiritual seeker, and podcast host. His wildly popular podcast You Made it Weird is a comedic exploration of the meaning of life with guests ranging from Deepak Chopra and Elizabeth Gilbert to Seth Rogen and Garry Shandlin. Pete also created and starred in the semi-auto-bio-graphical HBO show Crashing, which he executive produced alongside Judd Apatow. An accomplished stand-up with three hour-long television specials and late-night appearances, he tours regularly (when we’re not in a pandemic) to sold-out crowds.
This is a solo episode where I’m reflecting on 2019 and realigning with new intentions for 2020.
Instead of a New Year’s resolution, I choose a few words as intentions – and then I apply them to my life. It’s more about how I want to feel instead of goals. When I align in this way, I end up creating more serendipity and ease with my life and business.
Let’s go to the show!
Chandresh acknowledges darkness and light, lust and love, rebels and rule makers, and all facets of the human spirit. He’s a modern-age spiritual advisor who encourages people to flourish as their true selves.
Chandresh hails from a lineage of seven generations of Indian spiritual healers and is a disciple of his father, His Holiness Shree Chamunda Swami, who is a universally recognized authority in spiritual healing. Initially bound to the financial world, he attended Zicklin School of Business in New York. Upon graduating, he pursued his passion for unleashing human potential with the help of meditation. Chandresh's experiences lend to his teaching philosophy, which combines ancient wisdom with a modern approach to spirituality.
A speaker and author, Chandresh is the author of bestselling book Break the Norms (which by the way has a foreword by his holiness Dalai Lama) to help people rethink everything they know about the world around us.
In this episode we discuss:
- Chandresh's journey from a Wall Street exec to a spiritual advisor
- how to have the courage to live your Truth and trust the unknown
- the power of gratitude
We also discuss:
- Why simplicity is necessary on the spiritual path
- How to plant the seed that waters the feminine
- Gender expression and more
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Today I’m joined by someone who aligns with my mission for Higher Consciousness and Utopia, Alexandra Cousins.
Alex’s passion has always been in health and human optimization. From the age of 5 she was obsessed with finding out what was the source of disease. She grew up believing that so much more was possible for humanity and with a deep innate connection to the Christ Consciousness. Alex’s past is deeply varied -having studied Ayurveda and Yoga in India in her 20s, working in some of the top spas in the world, as well as stints in high fashion, and deep dives into the world of African and South American shamanism.
Looking back, she realizes how her own suffering and illness was the greatest teacher – propelling her to keep pushing the edges to carve a radical new way of being. Her teachings are a very unique amalgamation of shamanism, mysticism, a deep understanding of the human body through her studies of Ayurveda and Natural Hygiene; steeped deeply into Christ consciousness and the knowing, that we as a species are evolving beyond what we ever thought possible.
Everything Alex teaches, she lives -fully without compromise whilst constantly evolving and refining the process. Alex is a true pioneer in her field and has the ability to guide people through massive transformations and healings in the most elegant and deeply authentic way. Her ways are simple -she works totally intuitively and with full presence with the focus of giving her clients a first-hand experience of what it feels like to become the embodiment of their Divine and highest selves.
Disclaimer: This is not medical advice. Talk to your doctor.
Jim Rutt is a complexity researcher, systems thinker, podcaster, and former key player in several technology companies. The New York Times once referred to him as "the Internet's bad boy" due to his reputation for creative mischief. Jim is the past Chairman of the Santa Fe Institute, former CEO of Network Solutions, and the first CTO of Thomson-Reuters.
We discuss the divide between fixing the institutions and fixing ourselves - and why the real work is in fixing ourselves through self-actualization, Jordan Hall's Game A vs. Game B and what it takes to be a Game B "vulcan spartan" early adopter.
Note: We use adult language in this episode.
Mitch Horowitz is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, a lecturer-in-residence at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; and The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality. Mitch has written on everything from the war on witches to the secret life of Ronald Reagan for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon, Time.com, and Politico.
The Washington Post says Mitch “treats esoteric ideas and movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness that is too often lost in today’s raised-voice discussions.”
Mitch has discussed alternative spirituality on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, NPR’S All Things Considered, CNN, and throughout the national media. He received the 2019 Walden Award for Interfaith/Intercultural Understanding. The Chinese government has censored his work.
In this interview, we discuss:
- How to use our senses as data
- How to experiment with beliefs using everyday reality
- How the participatory style of journalism, and the earnestness of the observer, can be practical yet exploratory
We also discuss:
- What it means to hypnagogically program yourself
- Why experimentation is the best yielder of Truth
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My guest today aligns with my mission for authenticity and Being Human, Jeff Brown.
Born in Toronto, Canada, Jeff Brown did all the things he was supposed to do to become successful in the eyes of the world. He was on the Dean's Honor List as an undergraduate. He won the Law and Medicine prize in law school. He apprenticed with top criminal lawyer Eddie Greenspan. It had been Brown's lifelong dream to practice criminal law and search for the truth in the courtroom.
But then, on the verge of opening a law practice, he heard a little voice inside telling him to stop, just stop. With great difficulty, he honored this voice and began a heartfelt quest for the truth that lived within him. Although he didn't realize it at the time, Brown was actually questing for his innate image, the essential being that he came into this lifetime to embody. He was searching for his authentic face.
As part of his journey, Brown surrendered to his confusion and explored many possible paths. He studied Bioenergetics and did session work with co-founder Alexander Lowen. He practiced as a body-centered psychotherapist. He completed an MA in Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco and co-founded the Open Heart Gang, a benevolent gang with a heartfelt intention. He started his own business and became a successful entrepreneur.
In this episode we discuss:
- Why the inner work is the most important work that he's done
- Is spiritual bypassing a necessary part of the process?
- Why self-avoidance masquerading as "enlightenment" is causing people to commit suicide
Say hi on socials! 👋 New handle 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
(screenshot the show, tag me @beingishuman and you'll get a shout out)
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Email: hello@artofhumanity.io
The last time James and I talked on my podcast was four years ago!
James Altucher has started and ran more than 20 companies and is currently an investor in & advisor to over 30, but at one point, James lost everything. In a matter of months, his account drained from $15 million to $143. Depressed and on the floor, James realized that today's standard view of success comes with conditions and the only way to be truly successful and fulfilled is to “Choose Yourself.” Now, James Altucher is a bestselling author, successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master, and host of The James Altucher Show podcast.
In this interview, we also discuss:
• How to get out of your own way and prevent the same failures from happening again
• The psychological effects of our improved emotional, spiritual and physical health
• How comedy and writing have transferrable skills
We also discuss:
• An experiment that he did with 50 Shades of Grey called “How to satisfy a billionaire”
• Our shared experience of minimalism/buying/purging and why you should never have a mortgage
• Why the flow state is necessary to be a good writer
• The deprogramming that’s necessary as an entrepreneur
• The benefits of having a traditional publisher vs. self-publishing
Towards the end of this interview, we talk about the brand safety of working with a mainstream publisher - which is something that I’m shooting for right now! My new book is going live with my crowdfunding literary agency, Publishizer. If you liked my first book, you will LOVE this next one. It’s called Myth, Meaning and Marketing: How the Emotion of Story Creates Your Reality and it’s available for pre-order. I’ll put the link in the show notes.
Let's go to the show!
Today I’m so excited to talk with someone that aligns with my mission of Expanding Consciousness and Accessing our Higher Purpose, Tim Freke.
Tim Freke is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality and the bestselling author of more than 20 books, including the Jesus Mysteries, Soul Story and Lucid Living. He is pioneering a new philosophy of awakening that has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. He presents life-changing events internationally and online. He has a new controversial TEDx talk out.
In this conversation, we dive into a number of topics such as:
- a revolutionary new philosophy called Emergent spirituality
- how emotions create your reality
- how the internet is an extension of our nervous system and much more!
I’m beyond thrilled to bring you this episode.
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My guest today aligns with my mission for self-empowerment and creativity.
Sarah Zucker is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her work merges the gorgeous and grotesque through humor, psychedelia, mysticism, and the interplay of cutting edge + obsolete technologies.
She works across mediums, specializing in mixing digital and analog video techniques and the use of VHS. Her GIF art has been viewed over 3 billion times. She incorporates elements of performance, drawing, painting and collage into her interdimensional rainbow visions. She runs YoMeryl, an art + animation studio, with partner Bronwyn Lundberg. She produces media projects as fancy nothing (formerly known as The Current Sea).
In this episode we discuss:
- the benefits of failure
- how we're reversing the ego-based metrics of success in the new paradigm
- podcasting as a spiritual practice
*Please note that this episode contains depictions of reality that some people may find disturbing.*
In this interview we discuss:
- The benefits of failure
- How we're reversing the ego-based metrics of success in the new paradigm
- Podcasting as a spiritual practice...and much more!
Let's go to the show!
Do not hesitate to reach out to me on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or email:
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Email: hello@artofhumanity.io
In this episode, Michael Phillip and I discuss techno-dharma and how we can recontextualize the mystical experience through technology.
This interview is more of an intellectual investigation of reality.
Please note that this episode contains depictions of reality that some people may find disturbing.
Sabine Messner is a multi-dimensional Soul Seer, visionary Futurist and creative Expressionist on a mission to liberate the Prosperity Consciousness locked in the human potential. Combining her unique Soul Purpose Branding® approach with her intuitive Soul Purpose Wealth™ activation process, she shows seemingly ordinary professionals as well as extraordinary luminaries how to thrive with their Soul's purpose in business.
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Noah Lampert is the host of the Synchronicity podcast where he examines the subtle realities that connect us all. Noah is a musician and podcaster based out of New York’s Hudson Valley.
Noah also runs the MindPod Network, a podcast collective of like-minded artists, creatives and aspirants (note: the Art of Humanity is on this network)!
In this interview we discuss:
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How he came up with the Synchronicity podcast
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How imagination creates reality
We also discuss:
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How to put yourself in a hypnogogic state so that you can embody what you want in your future
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What exactly happens when you enter the state of Christ consciousness
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How to use enlightenment to create a reality that's for the better
Dr. Theresa Bullard is a Physicist, Author, International Spiritual Teacher, and Advanced Initiate of the Modern Mystery School, a worldwide organization dedicated to the mission of world peace and the awakening of humanity. Dr. Bullard weaves together her formal background in science with her deep training in the western mystery school lineage. Drawing from diverse fields of science and metaphysics, she teaches the keys to apply universal principles directly to life for powerful results. Her goal is to empower people to accelerate their progression, activate inner gifts, expand consciousness, and create their ultimate life.
Since 2001, Dr. Bullard has been guiding individuals and groups to reach their potential and become more successful in multiple areas of life. Dr. Bullard is the host of Mystery Teachings on Gaia TV, as well as author of The Game Changers: Social Alchemists in the 21st Century, co-author of several meditation albums, and contributing author in several other books and media platforms.
In this conversation, we dive into a number of topics such as:
- What happened when she integrated her formal education in Physics with Spirituality
- How the art and science of Alchemy makes us Superhuman
- How we can work with nature to support the speeding up of our transformational process
We also discuss:
- How the Transcendental Poets (such as Emerson and Thoreau) help us harmonize with the rhythm of the Universe and the flow of nature
- How we can use modern-day technology as a metaphor to explain deeper principles
- How we're shifting away from materialism into realizing that everything is energy and vibration.
- Why our soul progression is intimately linked to our DNA and how sacred geometry ties into this
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We’re back with the season debut of The Art of Humanity! We’ve got a brand new season that focuses on empowering the next paradigm of consciousness. Today's guest is someone who aligns with my mission for Embodiment and New Thought: Erik Davis.
Erik is an American writer, scholar, journalist and public speaker whose writings have ranged from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is perhaps best known for his book Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information, as well as his work on California counterculture, including Burning Man, the human potential movement, and the writings of Philip K. Dick.
If you’re into exploring the deeper layers of reality (but some of the New Age stuff no longer resonates), this conversation is for you! Feel free to get in touch with me on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or email!
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Steve Canal desires to positively impact the lives of business professionals worldwide prompting his exploration into authorship. His debut book, “The Mind of a Winner” is a #1 best seller on Amazon. His book takes a deep dive into personal growth with the intent to cut down the learning curve of success and inspire a winning mindset that puts readers on the path to achieving success with purpose.
In this interview we discuss:
- The difference between an "intrapreneur" and a "corporate-preneur"
- Why being an entrepreneur requires full ownership
- how to build better habits
We also discuss:
- Why desire is a key determining factor to success
- What he learned from traveling to all fifty states
- Why he spends at least three hours a day on his mindset - and his book recommendations
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This is a solo episode where I’m reflecting on 2018 and sharing my annual list of what I learned throughout the past year.
Happy 2019!
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Today I’m so excited to share a solo episode with some personal thoughts//dreams. Then I’m going to end it with some spoken word poetry. I hope that this episode inspires you to awaken the dreams that are dormant inside of you in 2019.
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Today I’m so excited to talk with someone that aligns with my mission of Truth, integrity and purpose: Seth Godin.
Seth is an entrepreneur, author of 19 books that have been best-sellers around the world. His newest book is called This is Marketing which is already a Wall Street Journal, Amazon and New York Times bestseller. He’s been on the internet since 1976, invented permission-based email, founded two significant net companies, and he defines his working life by the many projects he’s launched, the failures he’s learned from, and the people he’s taught. By focusing on everything from effective marketing and leadership, to the spread of ideas, Seth has been able to motivate and inspire countless people around the world.
In this conversation, I talk with Seth about a number of topics such as:
- Why hustling is a form of hiding
- How to look into the eye of what matters
- How to get better clients
We also discuss:
- Why having a traditional book publisher won't make you famous
- How to build an asset as a writer
- Why memes are genes and why technology is a species
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Rima is an entrepreneur, psychotherapist, vegan lifestyle advocate & yoga teacher from LA. She hosts "The Rima the Jungle Girl" podcast from her jungle house in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, where she lives the life of her dreams every single day. She hosts adventure, healing, and couples retreats around Costa Rica.
Rima and I hung out in-real-life in Costa Rica when I was there in August. And this woman walks her talk…
In this conversation, we dive deep into a number of topics such as:
- How she ended up in Costa Rica
- How a comic book changed her life
- Hypnotherapy and past life regression
We also discuss:
- How she sat in silence for 7 days...and what this experience was really like
- How plant medicine opens up our consciousness (and why this is one of many tools
- Veganism
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Andréa Ranae is deeply committed to doing her part to cultivate a world that works for everyone. Her work sits at the intersections of personal growth, social justice and conscious business. She embraces a unique lens on leadership by fusing coaching, activism and awareness, and is the creator of Coaching as Activism.
She supports people doing transformative work to deepen their impact by taking a critical look at how their work and lives are connected to social change. As the co-founder of Whole / Self Liberation, she offers and uplifts practical tools, resources and wisdom for those who want to make change happen in their lives and communities.
Andréa works with entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations that want to be more inclusive and impactful in their work through their approach to leadership, their brand and their company culture.
In this episode Andrea and I discuss:
- Why peeling back our layers honors our humanity
- The difference between "othering" and marginalization
- Steps to create a more just world
We also discuss:
- The importance of feeling our emotions so that we can transmute them into higher service
- how we can act from a place of integrity and purity without it being performative
- Why the Self-Help Industry is Not Changing the World
I’m so excited to bring you this episode.
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Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD. She is Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. She's Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay.
In this interview, Loretta and I jam about so much good stuff like:
- what neurotic dogs can teach us about our primal responses
- how the happy chemicals in the brain actually work when you meet a survival need (dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphin)
- why happiness does not equal "serving others"
We also discuss:
- how to build a new safety circuit to divert your electricity in a moment of anxiety
- how to stop filtering reality through the lens built by the gatekeepers of political correctness
- synchronicity and reality creation
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Michelle Mazur, Ph.D. delivers audacious breakthroughs for business owners & speakers who want to stand out, be the best-in-class in their field, and position themselves in a category of one.
She is the CEO of Communication Rebel and the author of Speak Up for Your Business and Speak for Impact. The speakers and business owners she works with have gone on to book speaking gigs across the United States, raise 3x the amount of money expected for the launch of a charity, and speak in front of world leaders. Her rebel yell has appeared in Fast Company, Inc., Entrepreneur, PR Daily, and She Owns It.
Michelle is one of the many people who has given me the confidence to stand on the stage at Google in NYC to deliver my Keynote. I’m so grateful I worked with Michelle before my speech. I was excited instead of terrified when Google invited me to speak because Michelle helped me to make sure that my message was clear.
In this interview, Michelle and I jam about so much good stuff like:
- the Three Word Rebellion
- how you can use speaking to grow your confidence
- the importance of simplicity in your message
We also discuss:
- why visibility is a common challenge for online business owners
- the dirty little secrets of the speaking industry
- the importance of designing your "speaking lifestyle"
I’m so excited to bring you my guest today!
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In episode 35, I talk with Richard Rudd about his book, The Gene Keys, which has had a profound impact on my life. Richard Rudd suggests that humanity is on the verge of a major shift in consciousness rooted in a new understanding of how our genes operate. He introduces this fantastic possibility, showing how the “gene keys” are an inner language designed to transform our core beliefs about ourselves and raise us to a higher level of awareness.
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In episode 34, I talk with Byron Reese about technology and the future of humanity.
We discuss:
- Why most people in Silicon Valley think they’re machines - and why this is a good thing
- The meaning of Artificial Intelligence
- The difference between narrow AI (spot spam in your inbox) and general intelligence
We also talk about:
- How to adopt technology responsibly
- Why everyone is going to be vegetarian in the future
- Whether we’ve reached a saturation point with our intelligence? If so, what are the precautions we should be taking.
Technology magnifies human abilities. And in turn, it allows us to be more creative.
I’m so excited to bring you this episode.
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Today's guest is someone who aligns with my mission for productivity and creativity: Srini Rao.
Srini is the host and founder of The Unmistakable Creative podcast where he’s conducted over 600 interviews with thought leaders and people from all walks of life. He’s the author of three books: the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Art of Being Unmistakable, Unmistakable: Why Only is Better than Best, and his most recent book An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake.
His work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Inc, Business Insider, and The Blaze.
Srini and I discuss why getting fired was helpful to his career, why creativity without a purpose is valuable, and how he cultivates a commitment to mastery.
In Srini’s latest book, An Audience of One, he makes the case for why creating for your own pleasure is essential to a creative and meaningful life.
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Season 4 focuses on empowering the next paradigm of creativity.
Today's guest is someone who aligns with my mission for truth and humanity: Bob Lefsetz. Bob is the writer of the independently produced Lefsetz Letter, which according to the LATimes is read by just about everyone who’s anyone in the music industry. Bob and I sat down to discuss how he started writing, advice he has for aspiring writers and musicians, the future of writing, and why it's important to be a hermit on purpose.
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Josh Adam Meyers is a Los Angeles comedian and the creator of The Comedy Jam. He has appeared on Workaholics on Comedy Central, F is for Family on Netflix, and tours the country doing stand-up and empowering comedians to live their dream of performing music onstage.
In this episode, I talk with Josh about the journey of becoming a comedian, and the similarities between comedy and entrepreneurship.
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This episode is all about transparency in marketing and technology. Douglas Karr is a MarTech expert who shares his story about being an entrepreneur and risk-taking. We also dive into Cambridge Analytica, SEO, and native advertising.
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Welcome to episode 29 of Season 3 of The Art of Humanity. My guest today is someone who has focused on the long -term. While pitching and sales funnels are sexy topics in the Internet marketing world, Mitch Joel focuses on longevity.
We discuss:
- The biggest transformation that's happening today in marketing and business.
- Why Mitch wakes up on fire trying to figure out what to read/know/do/today.
- Why he doesn't focus on SEO and instead focuses on longevity - emoting and connecting to his audience
- The dynamic between being a podcast host and being a speaker.
- The state of content marketing today
- Why he chooses not to write the typical marketing headlines and articles
- How businesses can learn from the music industry
- What the intersection of technology, art, marketing means for the state of journalism
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Satyen Raja is known as the private transformational mentor, advisor and confidant to the powerful and influential. A remarkable living synthesis of eastern wisdom and western practicality, Satyen combines the power of the warrior and wisdom of the sage to inspire audiences & leaders worldwide to live their highest impact and personal fulfillment.
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Jessica Ann shares her reflections and predictions for 2018. Using quotes from musicians like Father John Misty, fused with ideas from previous guests she explores the art and science of what it means to be human in a world gone mad.
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In this episode of The Art of Humanity, Jessica interviews Danielle LaPorte. Danielle is an invited member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100, a group who, in Oprah Winfrey’s words, “is uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters.
Named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes, millions of visitors go to DanielleLaPorte.com every month for her #Truthbombs and what’s been called “the best place online for kickass spirituality.”
Danielle keeps it real on the spiritual journey and dishes out some White Hot Truth.
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Jessica Ann talks with Rob Kandell who has spent the last sixteen years helping people reenergize their lives and build better relationships through more honest and authentic connection.
After building a successful consulting firm in San Francisco, he then co-founded OneTaste in 2004 with Nicole Daedone. Taking on the challenging task of bringing conscious sexuality to the mainstream market, Robert built the company from scratch to a high seven-figure international corporation. He left OneTaste in 2014 to start his own Consulting firm helping small businesses become marketable and profitable.
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Bernhard’s blog “Piercing the Veil of Reality” is a wide-ranging collection of articles, films, and interviews/talks ranging from spirituality, shamanism, psychology, self-work, esotericism, history, to the paranormal and hyperdimensional realities. In this interview, Jessica Ann and Bernhard discuss how holistic healing can be applied to an array of spiritual paths.
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Philip Shepherd is recognized as an international authority on embodiment. His unique techniques have been developed to transform our experience of self and world, and are based on the vision articulated in his celebrated books, New Self New World (2010) and Radical Wholeness (expected for release on Nov 2017).
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Welcome back to Season 3: Episode 22 of The Art of Humanity, where we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 22, Jessica Ann talks with Zach Leary.
"Who are you today" is something that Ram Daas said to him back in the day. The whole idea of "be here now" have permeated our culture and part of the fabric of "being in the moment." But what does this do for our identity?
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In Episode 21, Jessica Ann talks with tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar.
Polgar digs below the surface to examine our tech use from an ethical, legal, and emotional perspective. With a background as an attorney and an educator, along with experience working with social media companies, he is able to take a Multidisciplinary approach to our evolving use of technology.
In this interview, David and Jessica discuss:
- How Technology Impacts Us from an Ethical and Emotional Perspective
- Why we lack appropriate terms for what we're even talking about. Everyone is struggling with this.
- Why our rapturous submission to digital technology has led to an atrophying of human capacities like empathy and self-reflection, and the time has come to reassert ourselves, behave like adults, and put technology in its place (h/t Sherry Turkle's Reclaiming Conversation."
- What does it mean to be human in how we communicate and at the world at large? We're often living through a filter and that filter is coming through our screen.
- How we're hooked up to the Google brain. If we all have access to it, it's not important. It's more important to step back, and have creativity and wisdom with access the information. It's more important to be creative today but we're struggling with the mass-consumption of information.
- Creativity and wisdom are seen as the ability to connect dots. Creative people take things we wouldn't think and say "let's combine that." The problem that's happening is that we're struggling with something that never ends because we of unlimited consumption. When information becomes available we tend to gobble it up.
- We need to say "Hey Facebook, make those cookies a little less delicious."
- Silicon Valley is selling us a product that we're gobbling up but we do not know the nutritional content.
- We need to allow for more moments of digestion: Don't check your phone, close the browser. This is easier said than done but we need to think of an information diet the same as we think of a food diet.
- How do we not become a robot in a world that's trying to change us into robots? As a capitalist society, every revolution has a counter-revolution.
- How and why Silicon Valley is selling us a product that we're gobbling up. And why we need to make an informed decision about the content we consume.
- Do we humans have free-will with the endless use of algorithms?
- How humanity is becoming "bot-ified" based on predictive analytics.
- How LinkedIn automates intimacy and how we have gamified relationships.
- Why social adoption is not solely focused on utility.
You can follow David on Twitter at @techethicist or visit his website here.
In Episode 20, Jessica Ann talks with fashion photographer and podcast host Michael Donovan.
Michael Donovan’s images navigate an exploration into consumer culture, advertising and the emotions separating art and fashion photography. According to HungerTV:
“Combining the beautiful with the bizarre, the controlled with the chaotic, Donovan´s photography attempts to destabilise the highly polished images expected of today´s consumer culture through the use of the psychedelic, androgyny, comedy, eroticism, surrealism, fantasy, Pop Art, cinema, fetishism and historical nuance.”
{Warning: Explicit language!}
In this interview, Michael and Jessica Ann discuss:
- His background as a photographer and the paradox of being an artist.
- How advertising is the old way of being propaganda and "product is perfect" is dead. It still works because not everyone has woken up. This old world still works but we're moving away from it. So there's this exciting new corridor.
- The irrelevance of having a title: "I'm more than a photographer. I'm a spiritual being who happens to be plopped out of this body."
- Ram Dass's exploration as to why we’re here on earth, using TV channels as metaphors to get to the root of our existence and to understand the different planes of consciousness. Available to listen to here.
- How to balance the duality between the lower Channels 1, 2, and 3 and 4, 5, 6.
- Do we still need to have titles and "personas" when we live in an enlightened society?
- Most people want freedom, happiness, and peace. And most people want to give others freedom, happiness, and peace.
- If we don't recognize that each of us are consciousness, what's the point? Everything is pointing us towards togetherness.
- Technology is another animal like we're another animal.
- The importance of leaders talking about intuition and the need to create a shortcut//access point to make people understand the relationship between brands, businesses, and channel 6.
Welcome to Episode 19 of The Art of Humanity, where we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 19, Jessica Ann talks with Ted Rubin.
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Many people in the social media world know Ted for his enthusiastic, energetic and undeniably personal connection to people. Ted is the most followed CMO on Twitter, according to Social Media Marketing Magazine; one of the most interesting CMOs on Twitter, according to Say Media, #13 on Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, and number #2 on the Leadtail list of Top 25 People Most Mentioned by digital marketers. ROR is the basis of his philosophy...it's all about relationships! His book, Return on Relationship, was released in 2013, and How to Look People in the Eye Digitally in 2015.
In this interview, Jessica Ann and Ted Rubin talk about:
- His background with Seth Godin, starting back in 1997 (He sent Seth Godin a resume!) And the critical error that he made at the beginning of his career.
- His work with E.L.F. cosmetics in 2008 at the early stage of social and how he built a brand using ingenuity without a marketing budget.
- (6:00) I speak my mind. I say what I think. I tell people that they have to get back to something that is near and dear to your heart: their humanity. It's about building relationships and being good to people. It's about how connecting with people in a real way will benefit your business.
- (9:15) I got to listen and learn from Seth Godin. A lot of what I got from Return on Relationship came from Seth's Permission Marketing...about bypassing the agencies whenever you can and talking directly to the people you want to do business with. Agencies provide a great function but Seth's point was: instead
- (10:45) A network gives you reach but communities give you power...Networks allow you to connect with various people but communities care.
- (11:33) This evolution to me has been like a God-send. Not only am I a community builder but now I have all of these platforms to build communities that enable and empower me. But I also love to interact and meet with people. I'm obsessed with interacting with people. If you're going to make responsive part of your personal brand, be prepared for when your following grows and you have to be responsive for what you care about. And for me, the beauty or the difficulty of it is not something I built into my brand...it's a part of who I am.
- (13:00) His definition of community in today's digital age.
- (17:46) It's not about the platform it's about the people.
- (22:00) This is how you separate yourself, and that you do care about humanity. When you pass people in the street, smile at them! A brand is what a business or a person does...a reputation is what people remember and share.
- It's less of a problem than an opportunity. If you're with someone, put the phone down and look at someone. This isn't so much about humanity (although that has a lot to do with it). It's about showing people how important they are to you.
- (26:30) He tells a true story that not a lot of people know.
- You will feel better if you treat people better. You will feel better if you default to happy. You will feel better if you stop before you go off on someone. Take a breath and smile :)
- (32:18) I'm not a big persona guy. And what I've learned is that it's very hard to maintain a persona. In other words, if I didn't really believe in what I do, it would be hard to keep it up. It would be hard to fight the naysayers.
- (33:30) The hilarious study that was done on Millennials about the reason that the consumption of cereal is going down is because Millennials are too lazy to clean the dishes from eating cereal. Here is the study in The Washington Post.
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In Episode 18, Jessica Ann talks with a former criminal defense lawyer, psychotherapist, author Jeff Brown. The interview starts off talking about his background, then goes into spirituality, the media, the "New Cage" movement, and the importance of clearing our emotional material.
Jessica Ann took some time away to release her new book, Humanize Your Brand: How to Create Content that Connects with Your Customers, published to rave reviews in February 2016. It's available on Amazon as a paperback and ebook, and an audiobook version will be released soon.
Thanks for your patience as the show took a bit of a break.
In the Art of Humanity, we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve.
In Episode 17, Jessica Ann talks with one of the world's greatest thinkers: media theorist and futurist Douglass Rushkoff.
Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He is the author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, Life Inc and the novel Ecstasy Club.
His latest book is called Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, available for pre-order on Amazon.
He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world.
The interview starts off talking about his background, then goes into technology, humanity, and maybe a little bit about...Donald Trump.
Welcome to another episode of the Art of Humanity, where we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 16, Jessica chats with photographer and author Geoff Livingston.
Jessica and Geoff discuss:
- How and why he evolved into a photographer
- How we can use technology to transform
- Why the medium is still the message
- The Instagram vs. Flickr battle
- Why he refuses to tell his story
- The xPotomac event in Washington, DC on August 27th
Bryan Kramer is one of the world’s foremost leaders in the art and science of sharing, and has been credited with instigating the #H2H business movement in marketing and social. With over 300K social fans and followers, and an intimate understanding of the intricacies and interworking of both social technologies and social behaviors, Bryan is both a practitioner and authority on the subject.Bryan is also a renowned global speaker, consultant and trainer.
In this episode, Jessica Ann and Brian discuss:
- How Brian reinvented himself after 10 years of running a successful Silicon Valley marketing firm to get where he is today
- How social technologies are sparking the shift in human evolution
- Why emotional intelligence is increasingly valuable as our society progresses with robotic technology
- How we can better learn to blend digital technologies into our physical world - and the challenges that happen when we incorporate digital into the human experience. How can we rise above these challenges?
- How SMB's can produce experiences around their content
- The books that Bryan's reading
From a young age, Tina Bock has always found an importance of connecting the physical body with the mental body. As her mother always likes to say, "she was doing back flips in the womb before she was born". Tina was first introduced to yoga as a teen, by her father in a headstand on the living room floor. While studying Music Industry at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Tina found yoga as a compliment to her dancing. After studying and practicing daily with some of New Jersey's most recognized yoga teachers, she soon became completely dedicated to the practice and lifestyle of yoga.
In this episode, international yoga instructor Tina Bock and Jessica Ann discuss:
- New Jersey (yes it deserves its own bullet point)
- What it's like to teach yoga in Abu Dhabi
- Teacher training in India
- How her yoga practice continues to evolve
Welcome to another episode of the Art of Humanity, where we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 13, Jessica Ann talks with Ira Haberman.
Ira is the Director of Storytelling at BrainriderGrateful Dead listener, Toronto Blue Jay Watcher, dad, and host of The Ira Haberman Experience.
In this episode, Ira and Jessica Ann discuss:
- What makes for a great story?
- How do you tell a great story?
- Where should you be telling your story?
- How do you define success?
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In Episode 12, Jessica Ann talks with Molly McCord.
Molly is an author and a practicing intuitive astrologer who has connected with clients in over 20 countries. She hosts a popular weekly radio show which has attracted over 70,000 downloads in the first year.
Molly has a B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Studies, and a Master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy as a formal channel for understanding Global Consciousness with a Jungian perspective. She is TESOL certified and volunteers her time teaching English to college-level international students.
Molly is currently an Ambassador for Women for Women International, a non-profit organization which provides education and and business training for marginalized women in developing countries.
She is the Founder and Director of Spirituality University.com, an online destination for Mastery Courses and consciousness-raising resources.
In this episode, Molly and Jessica Ann discuss:
- What "consciousness" really means
- How to make conscious choices
- How dreams allow you to better trust your intuition
- Why joy and bliss are signs of an expanding consciousness
- How grounding and self-care can make you more powerful
- The lifecycle states of consciousness
- Why today - in this current state of humanity - we are urgently feeling the need to go back in time, to relearn ancient wisdom
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In Episode 11, Jessica Ann talks with James Altucher.
James is the former president and founder of Stockpickr LLC, which was one of the first sites to combine social networking with stock investment ideas.
He is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, and best-seller writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies. His writing has appeared in major outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Tech Crunch, and Positively Positive.
He runs two podcasts "The James Altucher Show" and "Ask Altucher" in which he answers questions from listeners. His blog, The Altucher Confidential, has attracted 15+ million readers since its launch. He is the author of 14 books, including two WSJ best-sellers: Choose Yourself and The Power of No.
In this episode, Jessica Ann and James discuss:
- How he achieves freedom
- Why he stopped writing to please others
- How curiosity prevents "having an opinion"
- The importance of writing 10 ideas a day
- How he mentally keeps young
- Meditation and the current books he's reading
In Episode 11, Jessica Ann talks with James Altucher.
James is the former president and founder of Stockpickr LLC, which was one of the first sites to combine social networking with stock investment ideas.
He is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, and best-seller writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies. His writing has appeared in major outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Tech Crunch, and Positively Positive.
He runs two podcasts "The James Altucher Show" and "Ask Altucher" in which he answers questions from listeners. His blog, The Altucher Confidential, has attracted 15+ million readers since its launch. He is the author of 14 books, including two WSJ best-sellers: Choose Yourself and The Power of No.
In this episode, Jessica Ann and James discuss:
- How he achieves freedom
- Why he stopped writing to please others
- How curiosity prevents "having an opinion"
- The importance of writing 10 ideas a day
- How he mentally keeps young
- Meditation and the current books he's reading
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In this episode, Tony and Jessica Ann discuss:
- Why context around Instagram is crucial
- Whether selfies will go out of style
- How to develop loyalty among your audience
- Whether the new live-streaming apps take away from the solitude that is felt on the more quieter platforms (like Instagram)
In Episode 8, Jessica Ann talks with Annie Q. Syed.
Annie has been telling stories since she was eight years old. She attained her B.A. from the University of Kansas in English Literature and International Studies and her Master's in Secondary English Education from City College in New York where she was a NYC Department of Education teacher. She then went on to receive her J.D. from CUNY School of Law in New York and thereafter completed a clerk-ship for a judge. She remains an activist in projects involving human rights in the United States, Africa and Asia. She is working on finishing a novel and other short stories.
She calls New York City home although she lives a bicoastal, transcontinental life practicing yoga as often as possible.
In this episode, Jessica and Annie discuss:
- How words help us make sense of the world
- What it means to be a "writer" today
- The meaning behind the word "community"
- Why "being a writer" today is mutually exclusive from "being in a community"
- The story and meaning behind her book, Collection of Auguries
- Why some of the biggest moments of our growth aren't shareable on social media
In Episode 8, I talk with Mark Schaefer.
Mark is a globally-recognized author, speaker, educator, and business consultant who blogs at {grow} – one of the top marketing blogs of the world.
Mark teaches graduate marketing classes at Rutgers University and has written four best-selling books including The Tao of Twitter (the best-selling book on Twitter in the world) and Return On Influence, which was named one of the top business titles of the year by the American Library Association. And his most recent book is called Content Code Shock.
Mark’s clients include Dell, Adidas, and the US Air Force. He has been a keynote speaker at prestigious events all over the world including SXSW, Marketing Summit Tokyo, and the Institute for International and European Affairs.
Mark's latest book is called The Content Code (I got an advanced copy of this book before this interview).
In this episode, Mark and I discuss:
- How "getting his heart beat out of him" made him a more balanced person - and gave him the courage to be more human
- How Mark's core values help to create unique content
- Why "love" is an important part of content creation
- How he stays grounded amid the "social media celebrity" scene
- Why "how we deal with suffering" defines us as humans
- The future of publishing + podcasting
- Our favorite band, The National
In Episode 7 of The Art of Humanity, I talk with sound healer Asa Idoni.
Asa is a composer and sound healer, a certified hypnotherapist, and practitioner of neurolinguistic programing.
In this interview, Asa and I discuss:
- How he incorporates music into his therapeutic practice so that evolution and change can occur more easily.
- How he lets the muse work through him by having an open schedule
- Why "integral theory" catalyzes the evolutionary process
- How we can see the deeper interconnectivity between all forms of insight
In this interview, Miss Metaverse and I get super nerdy as we discuss:
- How her blog (and Pinterest!) helped create her future
- How spirituality will converge with artificial intelligence
- How wearable tech can help us meditate
- Sex, love, and...robots (yep, robots)
- Why scientists will soon prove that we live in a holographic Universe
The Art of Humanity is a weekly 30-minute podcast that explores creativity and consciousness with artists, leaders, authors, and entrepreneurs.
Welcome to Episode 5 of the Art of Humanity. I'm so excited to bring you this next guest...
Episode 5: Concert cellist Gjilberta Lucaj
In this interview, Gjilberta and I discuss:
- The private "aha!" moments that happen during practice
- The best advice she can give to other artists who are pursuing a professional career in music
- How being an only child motivates success
- Her path with "making it" in NYC, the melting pot of art
- The "secret language" of music and live performances
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Episode 4: Relationship coach Mark Groves (@createthelove on instagram)
Mark Groves is a relationship coach and writer who shares inspiration on love, honesty, trust, sex and magic.
In this interview, Mark and I discuss:
- What prompted him to start writing about love
- How he lives in alignment with his intuition and his heart
- Societal constructs around love and relationships
- The paradox of love and freedom
- How to build a relationship that feels free
- Why being true to love means existing within the integrity of what you know
- How men can be expressive and assertive in how they feel without it affecting their masculinity
Shannon Hernandez is Dave Grohl’s shorter twin. He has a passion for being on the radio and educating the everyday man/woman to do what he does. During our conversation we discuss:
- What it's like to live the dream he's had since a little boy
- How to get used to the sound of your own voice
- The music that inspires him
- Books and philosophy
- How he rewired his mind to lose a ton of weight
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I'm already breaking the rules in this second episode. I'm supposed to stick to the "30 minute" format (blah blah blah) but I already got bored with that idea. I have 30 minute episodes planned with guests for future shows but for now, it's just you, me, and Dupree.
I figure that you want to know a little bit about me...since I am your host. So, in this episode, I share a story about me and a stranger. I may or may not say the word "erectus." You'll have to listen to find out.
And then...I describe what this podcast series is about...humanity and the awakening of human consciousness. Consciousness helps us to awaken and expand to our human desires. It makes you open to the totality of receiving. And all that good stuff.
My hope is that my guests inspire you to Awaken, to find balance, and to seek consciousness and creativity in the face of change.
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Jeff Pulver discusses:
- His early influences in life, and why he wanted to connect the world together
- How radio gave him the chance to connect and engage with people from all walks of life
- The paradox of vulnerability and strength
- How music and lyrics guide his life
- How to allow yourself to connect to your flow and have the confidence to "just Be."
- The spiritual moments that happen by being outdoors in Nature.