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Andrea and Eric recap season one’s highlights and what season two might have in store.
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Chris Kavanagh is a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford in the Centre for Social Cohesion at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and an Associate Professor at the College of Contemporary Psychology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. His research interests include East Asian religions, ritual behavior, and the bonding effects of shared dysphoria. 
He is also co-host the podcast Decoding the Gurus.
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Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He was Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he held the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History. In 2018 he became a professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.  He has published several books including The Creedal Imperative, Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative, and, most recently in 2020, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.
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Dan Hooper is an American cosmologist and particle physicist specializing in the areas of dark matter, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics. He is a Senior Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.

Dan is the author of several books, including Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy,  Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force,  and At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds.

He is also the co-host of Why this Universe?  On the Chicago Podcast Network.
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Therese Rowley is an educator, business consultant, and spiritual medium. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern and a PhD in organizational leadership.  She is the author of Mapping a New Reality, Discovering Intuitive Intelligence.  She also describes herself as an audiovoyant, which means she’s able to access spiritual forces through sounds and voices that come to her but that are not normally heard.  She regularly gives readings to a wide client base and conducts seminars on helping people tap into their own intuitive powers.   
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As Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School and Founder of the Mentora Institute, Hitendra has coached dozens of Fortune 100 C-suite executives and taught 10,000+ MBAs and Executives. His class on Personal Leadership & Success is one of the most popular at Columbia Business School, for which he has won the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

Hitendra’s mission is to discover, codify and teach the laws of success in life and leadership. His research integrates the latest science of human nature, ancient wisdom, studies of great leaders, and the personal journeys of everyday heroes. Hitendra brings a mathematician’s rigor and a truth-seeker’s spirit to some of today’s most vexing questions about authenticity, success, leadership, human potential, and more.

Hitendra’s research and teaching on personal leadership have been covered by Inc., Forbes, Fortune, CNN, Psychology Today, BBC World Service, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal. His podcast, Intersections, features acclaimed thought leaders and practitioners in the fields of human potential and leadership.

Hitendra is the founder of Mentora Institute, which is at the forefront of creating a new model of leadership for the 21st-century that is agile, authentic, and attainable, where executives achieve ever-growing Outer Impact through ever-deepening Inner Mastery. Through its digital learning platform, Mentora has created a pocket “flight simulator” for leadership that helps learners gain mastery in a wide range of leadership skills through MicroPracticeTM. Hitendra’s clients include Accenture, SAP, Pfizer, Tata Group, Ericsson, GE, Kraft Heinz, Siemens, a Big-4 Accounting Firm, and Morgan Stanley. 

In the past, Hitendra was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and the CEO/founder of a Silicon Valley start-up, Paramark, which was twice recognized as a Top-100 Internet technology company by Technologic Partners/Venture Wire. Hitendra has an MBA and Ph.D. in Management Science from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. 
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