Art of Humanity

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!

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!

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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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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:

1. How Technology Impacts Us from an Ethical and Emotional Perspective
2. Why we lack appropriate terms for what we're even talking about. Everyone is struggling with this.
3. 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."
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. We need to say "Hey Facebook, make those cookies a little less delicious."
8. Silicon Valley is selling us a product that we're gobbling up but we do not know the nutritional content.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Do we humans have free-will with the endless use of algorithms?
13. How humanity is becoming "bot-ified" based on predictive analytics.
14. How LinkedIn automates intimacy and how we have gamified relationships.
15. Why social adoption is not solely focused on utility.

You can follow David on Twitter at @techethicist or visit his website here.

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.