What you’ll hear in this episode:

- How incarceration can spark deep inner reflection and spiritual awakening

- Why education and literacy restore dignity, identity, and self-worth

- Why real change begins with shifts in consciousness before it becomes systemic

- Love as a lived practice that supports healing, presence, and human connection

- How fear shapes punishment-based systems and keeps people stuck

- Choosing love over fear in justice and community work

- How technology expands access to education without losing the human element

- Leadership that listens first and supports real growth, not control

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About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/

X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt

Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/

Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

Watch on:

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About Suzi Sosa:

Suzi Sosa is a serial entrepreneur and the president of Level’s board of directors. She has spent more than two decades creating technology companies focused on leadership, human development, and systems change. Across her career, Suzi has been drawn to spaces where personal transformation and social impact intersect. Her work centers on helping people reconnect with their purpose, values, and agency — particularly in environments shaped by constraint or transition.

About Alex Wright:

Alex Wright is the co-founder and Executive Director of Level, an organization focused on expanding access to education within incarcerated communities. His work is grounded in the belief that education is deeply humanizing — opening doors to self-awareness, dignity, and inner change. Alex approaches justice and reform through a compassionate, consciousness-informed perspective that emphasizes growth, responsibility, and the inherent potential in every person.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 — Preview

0:00:43 — Intro: Non-local consciousness and the observer effect

0:03:44 — Welcome Suzi Sosa and Alex Wright

0:04:24 — Suzi and Alex explain the work they're doing at Level

0:07:04 — The scale of U.S. incarceration and what it reveals

0:15:04 — Rehabilitation, social inequity, and a collective call for abundance

0:20:00 — Leveraging AI to scale abundance for all

0:28:41 — Books, education, and second chances inside prisons

0:32:12 — Technology at a crossroads

0:35:02 — Divine calling and Man’s Search for Meaning

0:40:02 — Seeing that your work is fulfilling and having an impact

0:47:33 — Free will, judgment, and the ego

0:54:04 — How despair and anguish lead to empathy and compassion

1:00:20 — Letting go of fear, the path to greater love, and A Course in Miracles

1:13:32 — The soul as divine energy and the path to lasting happiness

1:20:00 — Inequality, Enlightenment Now, and “God’s final exam”

1:29:08 — Closing thoughts

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown

- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir

- Observer — Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress

- Nonviolent Communication — Marshall Rosenberg

- Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

- 11 Days in May — J.D. Messinger

- Awareness — Anthony de Mello

- Free Will — Sam Harris

- When Things Fall Apart — Pema Chödrön

- Love Is Letting Go of Fear — Gerald G. Jampolsky

- Who Moved My Cheese? — Spencer Johnson

- Journey of Souls — Michael Newton

- Enlightenment Now — Steven Pinker

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why intuition and consciousness are moving from the margins into the mainstream

- The difference between intellect-driven living and heart-led perception

- How meditation, breathwork, and stillness unlock intuition and creativity

- What children practicing intuition reveal about human potential

- Non-local consciousness, perception beyond the five senses, and lived evidence

- Documentary filmmaking as service: telling stories that catalyze personal and social change

- Creativity as a universal human trait, not a special talent

- How fear contracts awareness while love expands it

- The relationship between technology, AI, and human consciousness

- Why a heart-centered awakening may be essential to humanity’s future

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About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/

X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt

Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/

Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

Watch on:

YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT

Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About Michael Collins:

Michael Collins is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, the founder of documentary production company Thoughtful Robot, and a member of the Mountainfilm festival’s board of directors. Across more than two decades of filmmaking, Michael has paired rigorous storytelling with impact campaigns designed to create real-world change. His work spans investigative journalism, human rights, veterans’ issues, and consciousness, with films that have screened at major festivals worldwide and aired nationally on PBS. Michael’s feature documentaries include Give Up Tomorrow, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and helped expose a wrongful conviction on death row, and Almost Sunrise, an Emmy-nominated film exploring veteran suicide, healing, and resilience. His current work explores intuition, creativity, and consciousness as fundamental aspects of human experience.

Timestamps:

00:00 Episode preview

00:55 Episode opening

02:06 Rafting 277 miles through the Grand Canyon with no electronics

05:49 Listening to signs from the other side

11:11 A 13-minute film segment about intuition

16:59 A child moves an object with her mind

20:19 Blindfolded kids and intuition

27:23 The Telepathy Tapes and hope from non-speaking children

34:47 Processed food and the quiet hijacking of our bodies

42:57 Getting out of the head and into the heart through breath

45:56 A spiritual teacher and the problem of the noisy mind

49:06 A breathing practice that changed everything

50:06 Quitting a job and flying to the Philippines to make his first film

55:05 The making of Give Up Tomorrow

56:43 Dharma: service, art, and community

59:16 Showing up every day and listening to the calls

01:08:45 Practice until it becomes your nature

01:11:41 Spirituality isn’t hiding

01:13:52 Life as lessons and karma

01:17:31 A hot shower as a time machine

01:22:46 Why creativity can’t be replaced by AI

01:25:37 An ancient Chinese script

01:29:11 Staying present instead of outsourcing the edit

01:32:56 Rick Rubin on creativity, intuition, and AI

01:37:36 Making a film about intuition means practicing intuition

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- Signs — Laura Lynne Jackson

- The Seat of the Soul — Gary Zukav

- Into the Magic Shop — James R. Doty

- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why women’s health is decades behind other fields of medicine, and why that gap still exists

- How food, health, and biology have been systematically under-researched for women

- The economic and scientific blind spots that have shaped modern healthcare

- How precision medicine transformed cancer care, and why women’s health was left out

- The role of genomics, multi-omics, and AI in unlocking new treatments for women

- Why conditions like endometriosis and menopause remain underfunded and poorly understood

- The challenges of building deep science companies in women’s health

- How AI is accelerating drug discovery and making breakthroughs possible at smaller scales

- The vision behind extending ovarian function and rethinking reproductive health

- Why women’s health is ultimately human health and a catalyst for long-term flourishing

- Piraye’s beautiful spiritual awakening

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About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/

X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt

Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/

Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

Watch on:

YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT

Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About Piraye Beim:

Piraye Beim is the Founder and CEO of Celmatix and a leading innovator in precision medicine for women’s health. For more than two decades, she has advanced understanding of ovarian health and reproductive aging by translating genomics and multi-omics research into first-in-class therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital health tools. Her work has been recognized by Fortune, Goldman Sachs, Crain’s, Rock Health, and the Aspen Global Leadership Network for its impact on biotechnology and women’s health.

Timestamps:

00:00 Episode preview

00:42 Episode opening

11:53 Why female healthcare is so underlooked

12:09 Women’s biology is cyclical: hormones rising and falling

14:27 Women weren’t mandated to be in clinical trials until the 1990s

14:59 Choosing to dedicate a career to women’s drug development

17:46 Endometriosis and the 10-year delay to diagnosis

19:05 Women’s health is human health

21:00 Precision medicine through a women’s health lens

24:03 Why modern drug discovery skipped women’s health

25:44 Screening, diagnosis, and better clinical trials

27:00 Conditions unique to women: menopause, infertility, endometriosis

28:55 Women’s health receives less than 1% of venture funding

30:58 Why developing drugs for women predates the VC industry

32:22 Extending ovarian function and rethinking IVF

41:48 Building an “ark” to preserve women’s health data

45:59 Artificial intelligence changing what’s possible in medicine

52:40 Regulation, evidence, and earning trust in healthcare

01:03:10 What success looks like for women’s health innovation

01:23:10 Beyond science: don’t explain, just feel

01:28:16 Piraye shares what it was like before and after her spiritual awakening

01:41:20 Closing reflections

Books mentioned in this episode:

- After the Ecstasy, the Laundry — Jack Kornfield

- The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown

- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin

- How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan

- Lights On — Annaka Harris

- Signs — Laura Lynne Jackson

- The Fourth Age — Byron Reese

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

- Why Buddhism Is True — Robert Wright

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- John Mackey’s journey from founding Whole Foods to championing conscious capitalism

- How Whole Foods’ values shaped its culture, growth, and long-term success

- A deep dive on spirituality and A Course in Miracles

- Why capitalism isn’t inherently good or bad

- How a stakeholder mindset differs from chasing short-term profits

- Entrepreneurship as a path for personal and spiritual growth

- Why improving food systems might be one of the most powerful ways to help people thrive

- The role incentives play in shaping behavior across business, government, and society

- How technology and AI can either amplify fear or unlock abundance

- What choosing love over fear looks like in leadership and life

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About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

Watch on:

YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT

Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify

Listen on:

Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About John Mackey:

John Mackey is the co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods Market, which he grew from a single natural foods store in Austin, Texas into the world’s largest natural and organic grocery company. Inspired early on by natural health, nutrition, and personal freedom, John has spent decades exploring how business can be a force for good. He is a leading advocate of conscious capitalism — emphasizing purpose, stakeholder value, and ethical leadership alongside profit. Today, John serves as co-founder and CEO of Love.Life, an integrated health and wellness company focused on prevention, lifestyle medicine, and whole-person care.

Timestamps:

00:00 Episode preview

01:16 Love vs. fear as the two core emotional states

01:53 Introducing John Mackey

02:06 Spiritual practice and A Course in Miracles

03:56 Forgiveness as a foundational discipline

09:48 Speaking from the heart in entrepreneurship

11:52 The historic flood that almost put Whole Foods out of business

13:49 Community response and collective love

15:51 How crisis reshaped John’s view of business

17:56 Choosing responsibility and rebuilding

19:53 Awakening, fear, and returning to love

20:07 Near-death experiences and redefining reality

23:44 Psychedelic experience and altered perception

23:50 Fear, courage, and launching Whole Foods

27:50 Forgiveness as an ongoing practice

43:50 A Course in Miracles and The Disappearance of the Universe

45:24 Perennial philosophy and the shared core of religions

47:52 Stillness, quieting the mind, and inner listening

51:54 Timeless spiritual texts: The Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching

56:02 Capitalism, socialism, and real-world outcomes

59:54 Systems that fail vs. systems that evolve

01:07:52 Steve Jobs, intuition, and creating without research

01:23:50 AI as savior vs. AI as threat

01:28:58 Post Whole Foods: John’s new venture, Love.Life

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin

- Love Is Letting Go of Fear — Gerald G. Jampolsky

- A Course in Miracles — Helen Schucman

- The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield

- Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander

- The Whole Story — John Mackey

- LSD and the Mind of the Universe — Christopher M. Bache

- Journey of Souls — Michael Newton

- The Perennial Philosophy — Aldous Huxley

- The Disappearance of the Universe — Gary Renard

- Enlightenment Now — Steven Pinker

- The Rational Optimist — Matt Ridley

- The Capitalist Manifesto — Johan Norberg

- Superabundance — Marian L. Tupy & Gale L. Pooley

- Many Lives, Many Masters — Brian Weiss

Here’s a full, unabridged reading of my science fiction novella, The Lattice. About the Book:The Lattice is a 35-page novella compromised of three short stories, starting with God's Final Exam. The novella follows the life arc of Dr. Alexander Bliss, a quantum chromodynamics physicist, who has an audacious idea about how to unite humanity to understand the nature of our reality before we destroy ourselves. Science and spirituality (not religious dogma) comes together to heal. This becomes especially important as humanity grapples with technology that is more powerful than we've ever had, triggered by the exponential acceleration of AI, robotics, quantum computing, and brain-computer interfaces. What happens to Earth, humanity, alien lifeforms, and the universe is astonishing as the work of Dr. Bliss's life unfolds.The weaving of AI, quantum physics, consciousness, and spirituality has never been more exciting. Reality truly is stranger (and more loving) than (science) fiction.—Further Discussion: I conclude the video by sharing some of the inspirations, references, and experiences behind the novella and what I hope readers will take away after the last page.Timestamps00:00 – Intro01:40 – The Lattice, a novella by Brett Alexander Hurt02:48 – Part 1: God’s Final Exam18:35 – Part 2: God’s Creative Power31:06 – Part 3: God’s Infinite Game48:34 – End of book; key references and inspirations explained1:08:36 – OutroBooks Mentioned:Journey of Souls — Michael NewtonMany Lives, Many Masters — Brian WeissThe Untethered Soul — Michael A. SingerThe Order of Time — Carlo RovelliThe Bhagavad Gita (translation by Stephen Mitchell)Tao Te Ching (translation by Stephen Mitchell)The Immortality Key — Brian MurareskuSigns: The Secret Language of the Universe — Laura Lynne JacksonThe Hobbit — J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. TolkienLSD and the Mind of the Universe — Christopher BacheCatch the full ‘Love Conquers Fear’ reading list on the website: https://www.loveconquersfear.org/reading-listFind 'The Lattice' on Amazon: https://a.co/d/74SWbM5Watch “Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gARiKdMN-W0