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When I first set out to create my own podcast, I had a few goals in mind: 1) expand my personal knowledge of the planet and people to be a better conduit of service, 2) curate and amplify incredible leaders and experts who are on-the-ground making a difference across sectors, and 3) help our community evolve and transform into our highest selves. Season One definitely surpassed my expectations. Did it hit any of those hopes for you? If so, take to the comments section and let me know what you thought! I’m going to take a little break to breathe, reflect, and consider what the next chapter will be. I welcome your thoughts and suggestions! Just remember... It’s anything but small talk. See you soon!   Follow and support Simplexity: https://www.instagram.com/simplexitypodcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When it comes to the economy at large, it can be a rather daunting concept to wrap your head around, yet it controls and dictates so much of our experience, access, and well-being. There are also current economic risks and implications we need to understand so we can protect our assets (if you know what I mean) during this pandemic. If you don’t know how the economy works, you’ll definitely get worked by the economy. This week, I am thrilled to be partnering with Ray Dalio and his team to bring you his viral and iconic beginner’s breakdown of our economic structure. It’s clear, concise and some might say slightly unconventional. Use it to get your head in the game and take charge of your financial future.   Follow and support Ray Dalio and Learn More: https://www.principles.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0&feature=youtu.be https://www.principles.com/#get-the-books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alok Vaid-Menon is a linguistic savant and multifaceted artist whose work explores gender, race, trauma, belonging, and the human condition. We discuss living beyond the gender binary, self-determination, intersectional identities and so much more!   Follow and support Alok & Into Action: https://alokvmenon.myshopify.com/products/beyond-the-gender-binary-book https://www.alokvmenon.com/#new-page https://www.instagram.com/alokvmenon/ http://into-action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

oe Patitucci is a multimedia healing artist who curates bio-responsive systems to help people broaden their experience of mental, physical, and digital space as well as the community. He is one of the Founders of Data Garden, home of PlantWave as well as Plants FM, an online streaming service delivering live music generated by plants. While much of the profit-driven world is focused on power plants, today we’re tapping into the power of plants and all you have to do is listen. Join us as we dig into plant intelligence, algorithmic and generative music, his experience running a zero-waste record label, holographic theory because why not, and more.   Follow and support Joe Patitucci & PlantFM: https://www.plantwave.com/ https://www.datagarden.org/ https://www.plants.fm/ http://www.joepatitucci.net/ https://www.instagram.com/natureofnow/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Politics and government can be very complex and confusing. Maria Yuan is the founder and CEO of Issue Voter, a free nonpartisan public service that explains issues and bills in layman's terms, connects you directly to your representative in congress, and alerts you when bills are being voted on that you care about so you can make your voice heard. We examine how small, one-time actions can invoke real legislative change, why petitions don’t necessarily work on federal issues, mindfulness in politics, entrepreneurship, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Author Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three, is a man most famous for his darkest days. After being wrongly convicted as a teenager of murdering three boys, he spent 18 years on Death Row, including 10 in solitary confinement. Amidst unfathomable strife, loss, and fear, Damien discovered ceremonial Magick with a "k" (spoiler: it's not sleight of hand or evil spells) and this punctilious practice saved his life. We explore and compare Magick's ancient history with modern eastern and western traditions, controversial symbolism, concepts of reality, and practices we can use to access new states of being. Let's lift the veil on the often misunderstood ideologies of Magick... with a "k", that is. Buy Damien's new book "Angels and Archangels: A Magician's Guide" HERE: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1683643267/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1683643267&linkCode=as2&tag=damienechol00-20&linkId=2bd2a9742de3f80121eaf40c814126f1 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/angels-and-archangels-damien-echols/1135510113 Follow and support Damien Echols: https://www.patreon.com/Damienechols https://damienechols.com/ https://twitter.com/damienechols https://www.instagram.com/damienechols/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Amazon Biome expert and protector of Indigenous rights Atossa Soltani explains the critical tipping point we’ve reached with the Amazon rainforest. We discuss the lives of indigenous peoples who call it home, the impact of logging, agriculture, and COVID-19, the consequences of the world’s for-profit mindset, and the difference between biological productivity and economic productivity (“progress”). Join the conversation and listen for ways you can help, big and small. Follow and support Atossa Soltani and the Amazon Watch: https://amazonwatch.org/ https://www.amazonemergencyfund.org/ https://www.pachamama.org/ https://landing.pachamama.org/awakening-the-dreamer-2-hour-online-course https://www.pachamama.org/engage/intensive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, I sat down with chef, community wellness advocate, and food & feelings enthusiast, Sophia Roe. We get into the granular about food scarcity and access, creative alternatives to supermarkets and urban agriculture, and how food intersects with poverty, education, race, and even the wage gap. Sophia shares the necessity of integrating community and intergenerational solutions to personal wellness and the growing wellness-for-profit movement. Get ready for a really cool human and truly rich conversation. Follow and support Sophia Roe: http://www.iamsophiaroe.com/ https://www.instagram.com/sophia_roe/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/thepillowtalksessions/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, we are pressing pause to reflect and learn how three of Simplexity’s previous guests are taking strong, heart-centered approaches to educate, process, and activate people during this time. Gloria Atanmo, CEO and travel blogger, is crafting unifying resources with a compassionate “take what you need” approach. Sexologist Shan Boodram has been candid about her exploration of colorism as a mixed-race woman, along with sharing how sex, love, and relationships play into conversations of race and activism. Singer-songwriter India Carney is using her superpower of music and art to find gratitude, dignity, and determination in a period that could easily lead to hopelessness. We revisit moments from earlier interviews to see how they tie in to today’s climate, and of course, it wouldn’t be complete without India’s breathtaking musical performance. Follow and support Glo, Shan, and India: https://www.instagram.com/glographics/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/shanboody/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/india_carney/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

21-year-old Ashton Attzs is a queer and non-binary Black award-winning artist based in the UK who uses traditional acrylic painting to platform underrepresented people and social issues. Having created for Adidas, Universal Music, VICE, Instagram and beyond, we discuss the power of art and media in social movements, the challenge of collaborating with large brands while retaining your values and vision, non-binary identities, intersex surgeries, and the road to inclusion, education and visibility. Follow and support Ashton Attsz: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/online-event/late/uniqlo-tate-lates-night https://www.instagram.com/attzs_/?hl=en https://twitter.com/AshtonAttzs?s=20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anyone else struggling to get quality sleep right now? The Sleep Doctor Michael Breus, Phd, shares everything we need to know about rest from sleep psychology, nighttime routines and the science of dreaming to fixing insomnia, identifying our chronotypes, understanding why our sleep changes as we age, and more. Follow and support Doctor Michael Breus: https://thesleepdoctor.com/ https://thesleepdoctor.com/sleep-pandemic/ https://twitter.com/thesleepdoctor?lang=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

West Point alum Tiffany Deng went on to serve as a Military Intelligence Officer. Today, she leads the Responsible Machine Learning team at Google. We take a frank look at life at West Point, inside the Military and what it’s like to work with giant institutions in a way that calls out bias, designs accessible products, and introduces ethics to protect against racism and discrimination, and serves society. We also hear how her inside access informs how she raises her kids (who make a few cute appearances, FYI). Follow and support Tiffany Deng:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanydeng/ https://www.facebook.com/tiffany.deng.752 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Four ballers (Alyson included, duh!) hit the Zoom court and take you inside the WNBA to see the truth about the league, its epic evolution, and the unique societal challenges reflected in women’s athletics. We discuss the impact of the revolutionary Collective Bargaining Act, how their careers intertwine business, entrepreneurship and medicine, and how sports can guide us to a better world. Alyson is joined by first-ever co-host Shanteona Keys, a former collegiate lead scorer now working at the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. Together they interview 3x champion, 4x Olympic Gold Medalist and this year’s co-host of the ESPYS, Sue Bird, and WNBA All Star, Atlanta Dream’s Elizabeth Williams.  Oh, yeah. And in the last quarter, it’s a rapid fire round. Can they handle the heat? Follow and support Sue Bird, Elizabeth Williams, Shanteona Keys and the WNBA: https://www.instagram.com/sbird10 https://twitter.com/s10bird https://www.facebook.com/suebird/ https://www.instagram.com/e_williams_1/ https://twitter.com/e_williams_1 https://twitter.com/shkeysss https://www.instagram.com/majorkeysinterviews https://www.instagram.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last week we began our conversation with architectural technologist Iddris Sandu, and we entered the world of using engineering and design to create operating systems in our own lives that equip us for the present and innovate for the future. Today we are continuing our dialogue on the genius frameworks behind his company’s: EthosDNA, spatialLABS and Halt, and how you can set your value and walk in your power just the same.  Part 2 of Iddris’ interview will begin with a conversation of what it means to become a self-identified architect utilizing engineering and design to create your own efficient system and internal infrastructure. Iddris will offer guidance on the 10 Principles of Design that everyone can implement into their lives ASAP, which as promised, will carry us down the best rabbit hole of conceptualizing meaningful personal growth by: identifying biases, building bridges, and thinking like a creator. No more excuses this time!   At 23, the Ghanaian-born, Compton-raised architectural technologist has designed, programmed and built critical tech for the world’s corporate giants (Google, Boeing) and top apps and services (Uber, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Facebook). He engineered the world’s first smartstore with the late Nipsey Hussle (rest in power), and he’s the founder and owner of spatialLABS, EthosDNA, and Halt, not to mention a rising music video director and artist.  Follow and support Iddris Sandu: https://twitter.com/iddris_sandu https://www.instagram.com/iddrissandu https://www.facebook.com/iddrissandu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What do the Kardashev Scale, Deiter Rams, Nipsey Hussle, and C# together? Today’s guest: Iddris Sandu.  At 23, the Ghanaian-born, Compton-raised architectural technologist has designed, programmed and built critical tech for the world’s corporate giants (Google, Boeing) and top apps and services (Uber, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Facebook). He engineered the world’s first smartstore with the late Nipsey Hussle (rest in power), and he’s the founder and owner of spatialLABS, EthosDNA, and Halt, not to mention a rising music video director and artist.  Over Part 1 and 2 of Iddris’ interview, we’ll use hip hop to break down computer programming and vertical integration, nature to understand technology and design, and engineering hacks that we can apply to our own lives. He’ll offer predictions for the future of digitalization and advice for self- and public education, and he’ll help us ditch the excuses that hold us back. Don’t worry, you’ll fall down the best rabbithole after this. Follow and support Iddris Sandu: https://twitter.com/iddris_sandu https://www.instagram.com/iddrissandu https://www.facebook.com/iddrissandu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We continue with rising star, Annie Gonzalez of Netflix’s “Gentefied”, who dives into social and political issues presented in the show that are extremely relevant in our current climate. We also discuss Annie’s experience with fame, notoriety and her Latinx identity and humanity. Support Annie Gonzalez: https://www.instagram.com/annieggonzalez/ https://twitter.com/annie_ggonzalez https://www.facebook.com/Annie-Gonzalez-1400084300061474/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If your life was a movie and you are a character in the story, what is your beginning, middle, and end? Today we take an intimate and vulnerable dive into the mind of an actor with star of Netflix’s “Gentefied”, Annie Gonzalez. Discover the “why” behind your own life story and decisions. Hear her personal experiences from the audition room and set while we explore the big question (“Who am I?”) and prepare for our Oscar-winning performance in real life. Support Annie Gonzalez: https://www.instagram.com/annieggonzalez/ https://twitter.com/annie_ggonzalez https://www.facebook.com/Annie-Gonzalez-1400084300061474/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Death is the surest part of life and can sharply clarify our intent to live meaningfully, but society is often silent around such conversations, making processes like grief, finding closure, and accepting our own mortality quite complex and even frightening. The afterlife is relegated to ghost stories, near death experiences, gossip over family drama postmortem, and scrutiny over which religion, psychic, or scientific theory holds the ultimate truth. What if we’re missing the keys to life because of our refusal to accept our own death? Today’s guest, a clairvoyant medium and star of E! Network’s “Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry”, communicates with the other side to bring healing and closure. Tyler and I discuss wisdom from the deceased and bereaved, soul contracts, ego deaths, and attaining peace and acceptance while we’re alive.  Follow Tyler Henry: https://www.tylerhenryhollywoodmedium.com/ https://www.facebook.com/mediumtylerhenry/ https://www.instagram.com/tylerhenrymedium/ https://twitter.com/tyhenrymedium Watch Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry: https://www.nbc.com/hollywood-medium-with-tyler-henry Purchase Between Two Worlds Book By Tyler Henry: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Between-Two-Worlds/Tyler-Henry/9781501152634 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We continue our conversation with Jim Kwik, renowned brain coach and Limitless author, who sheds light on mental self-care during isolation, and how to find clarity, creativity, your contribution, new capabilities, and self-love through tested and proven techniques used by CEOs, top athletes, celebrities and tens of thousands of Jim’s students.  Pre-order Jim Kwik’s book, Limitless, out April 28, 2020! https://www.limitlessbook.com/ Support Jim Kwik: https://jimkwik.com/ https://www.facebook.com/jimkwikofficial/ https://www.instagram.com/jimkwik/ https://twitter.com/jimkwik Support Kwik Learning: https://kwiklearning.com/ https://www.facebook.com/KwikLearning/ https://www.instagram.com/KwikLearning/ https://twitter.com/kwiklearning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today’s climate, it’s more important than ever to level up our minds. Our brains are being overloaded by information, distractions, and anxiety of the present and future. As we navigate the unknown, renowned brain coach and Limitless author Jim Kwik helps us manage our mindset, reduce fear, optimize focus and productivity from home, and improve our mental self-care. Hear how to truly unlock your brainpower and maximize your potential with proven methods used by world leaders, CEOs, athletes, celebrities, and tens of thousands of Kwik brains. Pre-order Jim Kwik’s book, Limitless, out April 28, 2020! https://www.limitlessbook.com/ Support Jim Kwik: https://jimkwik.com/ https://www.facebook.com/jimkwikofficial/ https://www.instagram.com/jimkwik/ https://twitter.com/jimkwik Support Kwik Learning: https://kwiklearning.com/ https://www.facebook.com/KwikLearning/ https://www.instagram.com/KwikLearning/ https://twitter.com/kwiklearning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices