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The Best of The Breakout Room: 2024 Edition
By reflecting on the past, we can make sense of the future we’re creating
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Brain Nourishment
Brain rot bankrupts the soul and senses. Brain nourishment replenishes and enhances it
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Monetary Consciousness: The Perception and Reality of Money
I sit down with Brett Scott, author, journalist, economic anthropologist and former financial broker, to discuss the politics of money systems and how…
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Word of the Year: Manifest
We are drawn to manifesting because we are each seeking our own personal breakthrough moment, on our own terms, regardless of what’s going on in the…
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November 2024

The Rise of the Political Entrepreneur
I sit down with Catherine De Vries, Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University and co-author of “Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of…
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Political Metamorphosis Through Paintings
Paintings paint a vision and provide nuance. We also see and feel things words can’t or won’t express.
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Why Help is the Greatest Human Accelerator
Yet many of us have a weird relationship with help…why?
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October 2024

September 2024

Well Beings: The Cultural Evolution of Wellness
I sit down with Dr James Riley, Associate Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, and author of "Well Beings: How the Seventies Lost…
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Fluke: Power, Perception and Paying Attention
I sit down with Dr Brian Klaas, Associate Professor of Global Politics at University College London, and author of "FLUKE: Chance, Chaos, and Why…
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Vibes, Values and Policies Create Our Political Reality
Political reality, like the creation of a powerful story, has a couple of core components
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