Love Conquers Fear

Brett Alexander Hurt and guests
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In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms large: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is a podcast 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.

  1. 1d ago

    #66: Decoding Psychedelics: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Healing, and Journeying With Care

    Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Why psychedelics should be treated as sacred medicine, not party drugs or escapism - Intention, set, setting, legality, and trusted facilitation as the foundation for safety - Preparation, proper dosing, and entering journey space with reverence - How psychedelics can heal trauma — but also bring fear, pain, and old wounds to the surface - Women’s safety, predatory risks, and the need for trusted guides and references - The overlooked role of women and Indigenous communities in sacred plant medicine - Ayahuasca, veteran healing, and the power of deep integration after a journey - Why work after the journey — journaling, reflection, practice, and embodiment — matters most for integration - The danger of scaling psychedelics without wisdom, maturity, or tradition - Meditation, near-death experiences, spiritual awakening, and the many paths to the Divine 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 Timestamps: 0:00:56 — Intro: Many paths to the Divine, psychedelic safety and research, consciousness 0:05:45 — Patrick Gentempo, sacred medicine, proper dosing, trauma healing 0:09:14 — Episode 25: Non-escapism, ayahuasca, set and setting, integration, inner wisdom 0:18:41 — Pardis Mahdavi, women’s safety, indigenous wisdom, careful journeys 0:25:27 — Episode 64: Feminine medicine wisdom, trusted guides, humility, shadow work 0:31:50 — Maxi Cohen, From Shock to Awe, Ayahuasca Diaries, integration, embodiment, transformation 0:36:15 — Episode 55: Intention, ayahuasca, indigenous wisdom, the Amazon, healing suffering 0:45:58 — Brian C. Muraresku, ancient wisdom schools, psychedelics at scale, readiness, healing trauma 0:52:18 — Episode 48: Spiritual maturity, worldview, limits of Western frameworks, cultural co-opting, preparation 0:57:29 — Closing reflections Watch the full episodes: - Episode 25 (Patrick Gentempo): https://youtu.be/4TAGJRO-c1U - Episode 64 (Pardis Mahdavi): https://youtu.be/-AdUQ5xjNrc - Episode 55 (Maxi Cohen): https://youtu.be/yl_myJIPLww - Episode 48 (Brian C. Muraresku): https://youtu.be/CapnbGuxMQE Books mentioned in this episode: - How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan - The Immortality Key — Brian C. Muraresku - Awareness — Anthony de Mello Links: Charmaine & Gordon McGill Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy at the Dell Medical School: https://tinyurl.com/4kdkndwe Patrick Gentempo’s “Psychedelics Revealed” doc: https://tinyurl.com/4uhfa3f4 Americans for Ibogaine: https://tinyurl.com/27yhvjcs Executive order to fast-track psychedelic research: https://tinyurl.com/33by6ynm Maxi Cohen’s films: - “From Shock to Awe”: https://tinyurl.com/3sd6xcjj - “Ayahuasca Diaries”: https://tinyurl.com/mwzawvy5 - “The Holy Give Me”: https://tinyurl.com/6s5aeeyr “How to Change Your Mind” doc: https://tinyurl.com/5bvxm7er “In Waves and War” doc: https://tinyurl.com/456mf76w Brian C. Muraresku’s Harvard talk on the spiritual use of psychedelics: https://tinyurl.com/42szba7w

    59 min

  2. 6d ago

    #65: The Story Behind Love Conquers Fear: Brett Hurt’s Fireside Chat With Byron Reese — June 23, 2026

    Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How “Love Conquers Fear” grew from Brett’s search for meaning, reality, and humanity’s future - The psychedelic journey that inspired the book’s message, structure, and deeper calling - Choosing love over fear as AI, quantum computing, robotics, and brain-computer interfaces accelerate - Consciousness, the soul, reincarnation, spiritual texts, and the deeper nature of reality - Scarcity thinking, othering, social media fear loops, nuclear weapons, and zero-sum power - Agency, compassion, and global cooperation as paths to an Age of Abundance for All - Meditation, ancient wisdom, and spiritual awakening as catalysts for transformation - Josh Baer’s legacy of agency, generosity, entrepreneurship, and Austin’s startup ecosystem 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 About Byron Reese: Byron Reese is an author, speaker, futurist, and entrepreneur known for bringing a deeply philosophical lens to questions about AI, consciousness, progress, and human potential. Over more than two decades, he has built and sold multiple companies, written books including “The Fourth Age”, “Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think”, and “We Are Agora”, and spoken around the world about how emerging technologies may reshape work, education, society, and what it means to be human. His work is marked by curiosity, clarity, and a belief that humanity’s future can be better than its past. Timestamps: 0:00:00 — Preview 0:00:30 — Intro: Byron Reese, Josh Baer’s legacy, Amit Sharma 0:10:36 — Lifelong search to understand reality, Vedanta, David Judson 0:18:01 — Calling to write the book, existential questions, podcast, writing process  0:27:18 — Ancient spiritual texts, scarcity thinking, human agency, abundance, othering 0:34:13 — Unlimited energy, end of disease, broken constructs, global heart shift 0:45:03 — Human goodness, external accumulation, reincarnation, nuclear risk, awakening 0:56:37 — Hard moral choices, accountability, meditation, AI leadership, catalyzing change 1:14:27 — Open-source AI, AGI race, intentionality, decentralization, small acts of kindness 1:27:31 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - The Fourth Age — Byron Reese - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams - Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - Governing Business & Relationships — Avula Parthasarathy - Awareness — Anthony de Mello - How to Surrender to God — David R. Hawkins Links: Capital Factory: https://capitalfactory.com/ “Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine” doc: https://tinyurl.com/mw58x5vm “Disclosure Day” film: https://tinyurl.com/4karfc2r David Judson on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/y5p9nnwe Malala Yousafzai’s TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/z2mp67ft Dario Amodei’s essay “The Adolescence of Technology”: https://tinyurl.com/235a2n3t UN on global food insecurity: https://tinyurl.com/4v4dx5sm Swamiji Parthasarathy: https://tinyurl.com/4swp946w Fulfillionaire: https://tinyurl.com/5xtw29sn JP Newman’s “Fulfillionaire” podcast: https://tinyurl.com/2sezh553

    1h 29m

  3. Jun 23

    #64: Ancient Wisdom for a New Future: Culture, Women, and the Path to Liberation – Pardis Mahdavi

    Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Pardis’ Iranian-American story of exile, identity, and learning to bridge worlds - Persian mysticism, Sufism, Rumi, Hafez, and dance as direct paths to the Divine - Awakening as a cultural choice, and how consciousness can fuel progress - Pardis’ journey from achievement and despair back to God, love, purpose, and liberation - Psychedelics, meditation, and ceremony as sacred tools for healing and awakening - Why psychedelics need wisdom, reverence, integration, and real safety for women - Rethinking education for a world where creativity matters more than information - AI as a force for expanding creativity, storytelling, education, and imagination 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 About Pardis Mahdavi: Pardis Mahdavi is an author, entrepreneur, coach, keynote speaker, and medical anthropologist whose work explores human rights, gender, migration, education, consciousness, and culture change. She has written books including “Book of Queens”, “Hyphen”, “Passionate Uprisings”, and “Riding”, and has held senior leadership roles in higher education, including president, provost, dean, and professor. Through her writing, teaching, and work with Entheon, Pardis focuses on transformation, healing, creativity, and helping people imagine more liberated futures. Timestamps: 0:00:00 — Preview 0:00:25 — Intro: Meditation retreat in Bali, The Lattice, Brett's new book 0:03:20 — Welcome Pardis Mahdavi 0:06:17 — Ibogaine for healing, Iranian-American identity, pathways to love and the Divine 0:13:37 — Embodied consciousness, ancient wisdom traditions, creating a more awakened reality 0:21:25 — Revolutions start in culture, suffering shaping decisions, Iranian women’s resistance 0:30:41 — Bodily defiance as liberation, Oneness, abundance, transcending cultural constructs 0:41:36 — Storytelling, imagination, rethinking education and policy, creating the future 0:51:29 — Meditation as daily communion, education access, psychedelics, mystery schools 1:05:04 — Decoding reality, consciousness awakening, suffering, healing, purpose, inner journey 1:18:39 — Psychedelic safety for women, women's historic role in medicine, humility, integration 1:28:09 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - The Immortality Key — Brian C. Muraresku - Book of Queens — Pardis Mahdavi - Passionate Uprisings — Pardis Mahdavi - Horsepower (forthcoming) — Pardis Mahdavi - Falcon’s Flight (forthcoming) — Pardis Mahdavi - Genesis — Craig Mundie, Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger Links: Americans for Ibogaine: https://tinyurl.com/27yhvjcs Executive order to fast-track psychedelic research: https://tinyurl.com/33by6ynm The University of Texas Systemwide Brain Research Summit 2026: https://tinyurl.com/mwnampfe Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech: https://tinyurl.com/2dcxf33n Culturati Summit: https://tinyurl.com/4vzjuhd9

    1h 29m

  4. Jun 16

    #63: The Cyber Arms Race: Securing the Cloud as AI Escalates Risk — Doug Merritt

    Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Why Doug says careers aren’t linear, and how “purpose” shaped his biggest choices - Doug’s leadership philosophy: empower the people closest to the work, then lock in accountability - Why cloud security plays by different rules when everyone is shipping fast - Aviatrix’s core idea: contain the blast radius when something breaks - AI agents as the next cyber risk, with attacks and defenses running at machine speed - Psychedelic-assisted therapy as sacred healing when done safely - Doug’s grounding practices: meditation and time in nature, with a push for more consistent quiet time - Souls and reincarnation as a lens for growth, with discipline as the way back to love faster 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 About Doug Merritt: Doug Merritt is a tech CEO and longtime enterprise software builder who has led companies through major inflection points in cloud and cybersecurity. He previously served as CEO of Splunk and now serves as Chairman, CEO, and President of Aviatrix, focused on securing cloud infrastructure as AI raises both the upside and the risks of software at scale. Doug’s leadership approach emphasizes empowering teams close to the work and building clear accountability as organizations navigate rapid change. Timestamps: 0:00:00 — Preview 0:01:09 — Intro: Psychedelic research, Jim Fadiman, Culturati Summit, Brett's new book 0:11:03 — Welcome Doug Merritt 0:13:41 — Non-linear career path, tech as a force for good, early SaaS and workforce analytics 0:22:19 — Timing as the decisive factor, inflection points, market waves, empowering teams 0:34:09 — Scaling Spunk, cloud transformation, cybersecurity pivot, public-company turbulence 0:43:17 — AI agents escalating cyber risk, workload-layer cloud security, containment 0:50:53 — Why AI makes hacking easier, breach locks, exponential tech, abundance potential 0:58:59 — AI panic, navigating today’s risks and long-term abundance, no slowing down AI 1:12:15 — Truth-seeing models, messy emergence, UBI vs. concentration, consciousness, meditation 1:33:21 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide — James Fadiman - Deep Future — Pablos Holman - Pattern Breakers — Mike Maples Jr., Peter Ziebelman - The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli - Journey of Souls — Michael Newton - After the Ecstasy, the Laundry — Jack Kornfield Links: Executive order to fast-track psychedelic research: https://tinyurl.com/33by6ynm Americans for Ibogaine: https://tinyurl.com/27yhvjcs Jim Fadiman on The Tim Ferriss Show: https://tinyurl.com/ycka6tsx Culturati Summit: https://tinyurl.com/4vzjuhd9 Aaron Levie on the opportunity with AI consulting: https://tinyurl.com/537knwwj Bill Gross’ TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/mpdd46yt Michael and Susan Dell giving over $1B to UT Austin: https://tinyurl.com/yd8zcfyz UT Dell Medical Center: https://tinyurl.com/33pd2fue “The AI Doc” documentary: https://tinyurl.com/mt7wj8ct Malala Yousafzai’s TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/454j5bk3

    1h 35m

  5. Jun 9

    #62: Rebuilding Trust: AI Agents, Human Dignity, and Universal Basic Capital — Peng T. Ong

    Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How fear-fed algorithms and fake news break shared reality - Why trust is scarce in the AI era, and how AI can rebuild it at scale - The abundance gap in education, with hundreds of millions still at risk of never learning to read - AI as a coach and cheerleader that can expand human potential - Universal Basic Capital (UBC) as a stronger answer than UBI when intelligence gets cheap - How AI forces a metaphysics conversation, and why “AI is conscious” is premature 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 About Peng Ong: Peng Ong is a Singapore-based entrepreneur and investor who has spent decades building and backing technology companies across the U.S. and Asia. He’s the founding partner of Monk’s Hill Ventures, and his work spans company building, venture investing, and long-range thinking about how technology reshapes society. Peng’s core focus is what comes next as AI scales: trust, education, human-centered guidance, and economic models designed for abundance. Timestamps: 0:00:00 — Preview 0:01:09 — Intro: UT Dell Medical School, Brett's new book 0:05:06 — Welcome Peng Ong 0:07:43 — Singapore roots, purpose, entrepreneurship, unlocking human potential 0:24:17 — AI commoditizing intelligence, scarcity of trust, fact-checking + trust agents 0:40:11 — WW2 survival, AGI race, tribalism, economic singularity 0:56:23 — Algorithmic fear, UBI vs. universal basic capital, spiritual texts, human-centered tech 1:12:17 — Avoiding a future of inequality, freedom vs. control, consciousness vs. intelligence 1:24:07 — Consciousness as a full-body mystery + consciousness books 1:29:35 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - The Tao of Willie — Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin - From Third World to First — Lee Kuan Yew - The AI Ten Commandments — Jamie Metzl - The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson - The Fourth Age — Byron Reese - Deep Future — Pablos Holman - Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - The Singularity Is Nearer — Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity Is Near — Ray Kurzweil - A World Appears — Michael Pollan - The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown - Living in a Mindful Universe — Eben Alexander, Karen Newell - Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander - The Map of Heaven — Eben Alexander - Stalking the Wild Pendulum — Itzhak Bentov Links: UT Dell Medical Center: https://tinyurl.com/33pd2fue Michael and Susan Dell giving over $1B to UT Austin: https://tinyurl.com/yd8zcfyz Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" (8-Bit Philosophy): https://tinyurl.com/46kh4632 Fix the News: https://fixthenews.com/ The Progress Network: https://tinyurl.com/4sdm8ddf Elon Musk’s interview with Larry Fink at Davos 2026: https://tinyurl.com/nhj4uef7 Michael Dell gifting $6.25B to U.S. children born from 2025 to 2028: https://tinyurl.com/3xak6e3a Dario Amodei’s essay “The Adolescence of Technology”: https://tinyurl.com/235a2n3t Hartmut Neven’s TED Talk on quantum computing: https://tinyurl.com/535w253c Anil Seth’s TED Talk on AI intelligence vs. human consciousness: https://tinyurl.com/465a9jyt

    1h 33m

  6. Jun 2

    #61: Psychedelic Science: What the Latest Research Teaches Us About Transcending Fear — Greg Fonzo

    Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Greg’s research on the brain circuits that drive depression, PTSD, and chronic stress - How brain imaging and targeted treatments aim to shift threat, fear, and survival states - What psychedelics can unlock when other treatments fail and why the research is accelerating - Ibogaine’s promise and safety risks, and why clinical standards matter - How Ram Dass and psilocybin influenced Greg’s interest in psychedelics and mental health - Why psychedelics challenge the idea that consciousness is just brain chemistry - Meditation and psychedelics as paths to altered states, expanded awareness, and love 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 About Greg Fonzo: Greg Fonzo is an assistant professor at UT Austin’s Dell Medical School and co-director of the Charmaine and Gordon McGill Center for Psychedelic Research and Therapy. He studies the brain circuitry behind depression and PTSD, combining neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and psychedelic therapies to pinpoint what drives suffering and what helps people heal. Greg’s work focuses on how the brain’s threat responses can be retrained to support recovery and long-term resilience. Timestamps: 0:00:00 — Preview 0:01:08 — Intro: Dells' gift to UT Austin, Brett's new book 0:03:22 — Welcome Greg Fonzo 0:06:31 — Spiritual roots, AI ethics, psychedelics, brain imaging, fear circuits, psychedelic research 0:20:15 — Ibogaine’s promise, limited data, safety risks, clinical standards, psychedelics as last resort 0:35:07 — Panpsychism, non-local consciousness, science + spirituality, meditation as path to altered states 0:54:17 — Focused ultrasound, ego + division, abundance + energy, surrender vs. control 1:10:22 — Fear as constricted awareness, infinite layers of reality, letting go of ego, returning to love 1:26:49 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - Be Here Now — Ram Dass - Quantum Psychology — Robert Anton Wilson - The Fabric of the Cosmos — Brian Greene - Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - We Are Agora — Byron Reese - Stalking the Wild Pendulum — Itzhak Bentov - Irreducible — Federico Faggin - The AI Ten Commandments — Jamie Metzl - The Last Question — Isaac Asimov - LSD and the Mind of the Universe — Christopher M. Bache - A World Appears — Michael Pollan - Deep Future — Pablos Holman Links: Michael and Susan Dell giving over $1 billion to UT Austin: https://tinyurl.com/yd8zcfyz The Vatican’s report on AI: https://tinyurl.com/3bz23w2y “Ram Dass, Going Home” doc: https://tinyurl.com/yms8t4w7 Executive order to fast-track psychedelic research: https://tinyurl.com/33by6ynm Americans for Ibogaine: https://tinyurl.com/27yhvjcs “In Waves and War” doc: https://tinyurl.com/456mf76w The Telepathy Tapes: (S1): https://tinyurl.com/4pyansfe (S2): https://tinyurl.com/2khfa57m Swamiji Parthasarathy: https://tinyurl.com/4swp946w Jim Carrey videos on his awakening and finding true happiness: https://tinyurl.com/3cy93jpc https://tinyurl.com/2j9n4mz7

    1h 28m

  7. May 26

    #60: AI Without Layoffs: The Enterprise Playbook for Upskilling at Scale — Brandon Gadoci

    Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Brandon’s path from creative work to business to tech - The data.world origin story and the “aha” moment that pulled Brandon into AI adoption - The AI demos and breakthroughs that shifted Brandon’s view of what’s coming next - Why AI adoption is really change management, and why rollout is the hard part - AI and jobs, and why Brandon prioritizes AI upskilling over layoffs - How Brandon’s path to faith ran through reasoned debate and Christian apologetics - Synchronicities as signs and meditation as a way to become more aware of them 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 About Brandon Gadoci: Brandon Gadoci is an AI adoption and change-management leader and the founder of Gadoci Consulting, where he helps companies transform AI from experimentation into repeatable day-to-day use. He was the first employee at data.world where he helped build early enterprise applications that let teams search and use internal knowledge through conversational AI. His focus is on helping everyday teams adopt AI with clear use cases, internal champions, and momentum. Timestamps: 0:01:08 — Preview 0:01:28 — Intro: Psychedelic research, ibogaine, Brett’s new book 0:10:01 — Welcome Brandon Gadoci 0:12:55 — Alternative to cold calls, building RAG-based chat, AI creativity + productivity 0:28:21 — AI adoption, change management, internal champions, “aha” moments 0:43:58 — AI tool acceleration, systems to track new releases, abundance and responsibility 0:59:33 — Consciousness + identity, synchronicity + meditation, faith through service 1:15:12 — Divine spark, human destiny, automated science + energy, Bhutan, rising stakes 1:31:04 — Pace and scale of change, existential risk, love as governance 1:48:18 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - Who Moved My Cheese? — Spencer Johnson - Abundance — Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler - An End to Upside Down Thinking — Mark Gober - The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield - Extreme Ownership — Jocko Willink, Leif Babin - Pattern Breakers — Mike Maples Jr., Peter Ziebelman - The Singularity Is Nearer — Ray Kurzweil - A World Appears — Michael Pollan Links: Brandon Gadoci on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/58638nb3 Gadoci Consulting: https://tinyurl.com/2en5bkwf Executive order to fast-track psychedelic research: https://tinyurl.com/33by6ynm Americans for Ibogaine: https://tinyurl.com/27yhvjcs Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech: https://tinyurl.com/2dcxf33n Michael and Susan Dell giving over $1 billion to UT Austin: https://tinyurl.com/yd8zcfyz Ethan Holland’s weekly AI newsletter: https://ethanbholland.com Viral “Claude update” meme: https://tinyurl.com/3rfxxyv9 Chris Hyams’ “Responsible AI” course: https://tinyurl.com/46vn3cy7 Anil Seth’s TED Talk on consciousness: https://tinyurl.com/465a9jyt “You Can Do Magic” by America: https://tinyurl.com/3p2y3xfr Ethan Mollick on Mythos as marketing hype: https://tinyurl.com/4yztavev OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger’s TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/bd47pnz Hartmut Neven’s TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/535w253c

    1h 50m

  8. May 19

    #59: The Big Differentiator: How to Stand Out When Everyone Has the Power of AI — Mitch Joel

    Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Why AI isn’t just a tool, it’s a test of how human you stay - The answer-engine trap vs. keeping your agency and sharpening your thinking - Why “pretty good” becomes the baseline and what actually makes you stand out - Brand and story as the real moat in an AI-saturated world - The power question behind AI: energy, infrastructure, and control - Meditation as an exhaust valve for anxiety, overthinking, and screen-driven attention overload 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 About Mitch Joel: Mitch Joel is a digital strategist, author, keynote speaker, and host of the “Thinking With Mitch Joel” podcast, where he’s interviewed business and culture leaders for nearly two decades. He founded the agency Twist Image, and wrote “Six Pixels of Separation” and “Ctrl Alt Delete”. Today, as co-founder of ThinkersOne, he advises leaders on navigating tech shifts through the lens of culture, humanity, and trust. Timestamps: 0:01:08 — Preview 0:02:02 — Intro: TED2026, Anthropic, Brett’s new book 0:10:48 — Welcome Mitch Joel 0:13:21 — Love as business advantage, AI as answer engine vs. thinking tool, brand as differentiator 0:49:17 — Open source vs. monopoly control, real progress vs. hype, abundance, scarcity, trust 1:25:11 — AI hope + risk, redistribution, UBI, meditation, sleep hypnosis, books 2:02:43 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - Sam Walton: Made in America — Sam Walton - Six Pixels of Separation — Mitch Joel - Ctrl Alt Delete — Mitch Joel - In the Beginning… was the Command Line — Neal Stephenson - Enshittification — Cory Doctorow - The AI Ten Commandments — Jamie Metzl - The Seat of the Soul — Gary Zukav - The Cluetrain Manifesto — C. Locke, D. Searls, D. Weinberger - Purple Cow — Seth Godin - Atomic Habits — James Clear - The War of Art — Steven Pressfield - Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott - Aflame — Pico Iyer - Work — James Suzman - Trust — Hernan Diaz - 11 Days in May — JD Messinger - An End to Upside Down Thinking — Mark Gober - LSD and the Mind of the Universe — Christopher M. Bache - Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander - The Map of Heaven — Eben Alexander Links: AI-generated TED Talk on humanity’s past and future: https://tinyurl.com/34cfbpaw “Free Hugs” video by Sick Puppies: https://tinyurl.com/3jruswnb Culturati Summit: https://tinyurl.com/4vzjuhd9 “Thinking With Mitch Joel” podcast: https://tinyurl.com/4nb8addh Demis Hassabis on the quest for the nature of our reality: TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/mmabm42d X post: https://tinyurl.com/yc4fcfnw Ethan Mollick’s LinkedIn post on AI water use: https://tinyurl.com/34hyu4ss Dario Amodei’s essays: “Machines of Loving Grace”: https://tinyurl.com/mvteumf2 “The Adolescence of Technology”: https://tinyurl.com/235a2n3t Chris Hyams’ “Responsible AI” course: https://tinyurl.com/46vn3cy7 “The AI Doc” documentary: https://tinyurl.com/mt7wj8ct Rory Sutherland on Alex O’Connor’s podcast: https://tinyurl.com/5ekp5rzy Sleep hypnosis videos recommended by Mitch: https://tinyurl.com/3axc9v92 https://tinyurl.com/tu7jv5nr

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In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms large: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is a podcast 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.

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    Brett Alexander Hurt and guests
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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    70
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