Wisdom Ventures Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Here at Wisdom Ventures, we believe it’s time for a new paradigm, one where technology and business needs align to be in service to humanity.
We are a group of people dedicated to our own personal growth, learning, and healing while investing in entrepreneurs and early stage companies that are creating ways to nurture human connection, help heal addictions, support equality and social justice, and enable us to live more mindfully.
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In this episode, Ruchika Sikri interviews Danielle Krettek Cobb, founder and head of The Empathy Lab at Google.
They discuss the origins of the Empathy Lab; it's focus on creating an enlivening technology that is informed by empathy, reslience, and the wisdom of the heart; the power of deep listening and generative design; and the importance of having empathetic conversations with ourselves and others, so that we might connect more deeply.
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In this episode, Ruchika Sikri interviews Vlada Bortnik, founder of Marco Polo App, Marco Polo is an asynchronous video chat based app, driven by the heartfelt purpose of helping people feel close.
They discuss the value of staying connected across time and distance, and how Marco Polo helps connect community, familes and coworkers in authentic and meaningful ways. They explore the goal of creating technology that is good for you, the importance of being accountable for the impact of technology on wellbeing, and the experience of being a Woman Founder.
Learn more at https://www.marcopolo.me/
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In this episode, Ruchika Sikri interviews Srini Pillay and Patrick C Candela of Reulay App. Reulay, is a virtual reality and video based therapeutic platform designed to reduce stress and increase focus with personalized, scalable, and evidence-backed digital therapeutics.
They discuss the origins of Reulay, features of the app, the future of wellbeing at work, the potential of VR as a theraputic tool for emotional and mental wellbeing.
Learn more at https://www.reulay.com/
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In this episode, Ruchika Sikri interviews Richard and Theresa Lee, founders of Puur app, a brain-body wellbeing app that focuses on 10-min power conversations, supported by science, with a legacy in Rinzai Zen.
They discuss their journey to wellbeing, the impact of trauma on connection, the power of transformational conversation, compassionate inquiry, sharing and connecting with others.
PUUR is the integration of the most regarded practices for human wellbeing: pure connection, somatic experiencing, and shadow work; all delivered in a gentle peer-to-peer compassionate inquiry format. PUUR is the practice to share love and build love: the best self-care, change agent, and brain-body therapeutics.
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In this episode, we explore how one can innovate and develop platforms and businesses that enable human flourishing, and avoid creating conditions of distraction, addiction and depletion of energy.
Through his own story and experience working with many tech executives, Soren Gordhamer shares how our inner climate, is key to addressing what we see externally in our environment.
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Today's guest is Diego Perez, also known as Yung Pueblo. Diego is general partner for Wisdom Ventures Fund, a meditator and NY Times best selling author.
His writing focuses on the power of self healing, healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves. His two books, Inward, and Clarity and Connection were instant best sellers. In this episode Diego shares about his journey to writing and mindfulness, attachment in relation to mental struggle, the relationship between healing and creativity, self acceptance and self love, compassionate design, web 3.0, and how he got involved with Widom Ventures Fund,
His new book "Lighter" is a radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world. Now availalble for pre-order at https://yungpueblo.com/
Links mentioned in this episode:
- https://yungpueblo.com/
- https://www.wisdomventuresfund.com/
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In this episode, Wisdom Ventures Podcast interviews the co-founding member and General Partner, Cecily Mak.
Cecily has been working with startups and their founders to bridge analog and digital experiences for 20 years in the fields of music, publishing, VR, mindfulness, wellbeing and now crypto.
In addition to her GP role with Wisdom Ventures, she serves as the COO of Blockdaemon, the world's largest independent crypto infrastructure company; chairs the Board of Directors for SIY Global (previously the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute); and is a confounding Limited Partner of How Women Invest- a fund exclusively committed to investing in women founded and operated companies.
Her most heartfelt work, in addition to the privilege of raising her two sons, is being an ally and a guide for people seeking to move from a life dictated by fear and numbing, to one of deeper connection, clarity, and wellbeing in a broad project she refers to as ClearLife.
Cecily Mak speaks with Wisdom Ventures Podcast about authenticity and vulnerability in relationships and business; balancing parenthood, entrepreneurship and leadership; living a multidimensional life; the origins of the Wisdom Ventures Fund; how Wisdom Ventures Fund supports entrepreneurs and startups in upholding values of mindfulness and compassion; and the opportunities of Web3.
Welcome to the Wisdom Ventures Podcast, intro episode where you'll hear from our host Ruchika Sikri and learn what to expect from upcoming episodes.
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