Light the Campfire is a space for the big, messy questions shaping our lives and futures. Hosts Lise Pretorius and Hedda Rehnberg explore inner and outer transformation with thought leaders within inner development, tech, spirituality, sustainability, finance, climate, and beyond - with humility, courage, collective wisdom - joined by experts with cosmic mischief.
The Rise of Spirit Tech: The Questions We Need to Ask Now | Eddy Vaisberg
We're living through the most rapid technological acceleration in human history and at the same time an acceleration of spiritual yearning. Millions of people are turning to AI for spiritual and emotional guidance, reflection, and support, while a new suite of tech builders are building what we might call "Spirit Tech".
What does that reveal about the yearnings and the collective shadows of our time, and the possibilities we have yet to imagine?
We sit down with Eddy Vaisberg, an ex BCG consultant, tech builder in Kenya and founder of Spirit Tech Collective, to ask some hard and expansive questions:
Can technology ever truly honor the sacred?
What happens when spiritual yearning meets a growth-at-all-costs funding model?
How do we create tools that bring people back to themselves rather than become one more thing pulling them away?
This episode sits right at the edge of what's emerging, and we believe it's one of the most important conversations of our time
23 Jun 2026
Too Sensitive? Think Again: Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person | Dr. Elaine Aron
In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Elaine Aron — the world's leading voice on the trait of high sensitivity. Over twenty-five years ago, Elaine was the first researcher to identify, name, and study this trait scientifically, coining the idea of the highly sensitive person (HSP), and her work has since become the foundation for how the world understands and talks about sensitivity.
Through her research, books, and the resource hsperson.com (http://hsperson.com/), she has given language to something millions of people have felt their whole lives but never had a word for.
In this conversation, Elaine challenges the idea that highly sensitive people are all alike, explaining how childhood environment, gender, introversion versus extroversion, and even high sensation-seeking can make HSPs more different from one another than people without the trait.
We explore what a "highly sensitive superhero" might actually look like, why depth of processing is often invisible until a crisis hits, and how sensitive people can learn to stand up for the value they bring.
And finally, We’ve had a vision of making Light the Campfire a place to also explore intergenerational wisdom, or a place to capture what we can learn from our elders.
Elaine shares with us why spiritual awakening alone doesn't guarantee wisdom or goodness, what collective responsibility is, and why it would serve us to grow from group-centered thinking toward a world-centered one.
This conversation is not only for people who identify as sensitive, but for anyone wanting to show up more fully in the world.
16 May 2026
How to Think Differently: Why Thinking Isn't Enough | Michelle Zucker
We often overlook the many layers of what forms our human experience. If we want to think differently - whether for our love of life, our work or own transformation - what else do we need to truly create something different? Is thinking enough or do we need to access other dimensions and sensory layers in the way we process, access and integrate various insights from within ourselves and across domains?
We sit down with Michelle Zucker, a systems change designer and Dark Matter Labs collaborator, and an expert in how to think and be differently. We invite the powers of our sensory tentacles, serendipity, awe and more.
16 Apr 2026
Brave Space: Say the Unsaid, Lead Anyway
Many of us have learned to hold back what we really feel to keep things smooth, to avoid tension. But in doing so, our conversations often stay on the surface, and the real work is left undone.
Our guest, Patrick Frick, has spent 25 years bringing leaders together to collaborate on challenges where no one is in charge. In this episode, we explore what it takes to lead in the messy in-between: where no one has formal authority, agendas collide, and contexts can shift from complex to chaotic rather than towards consensus and understanding. A brave space isn't about having the right title or the perfect answer, it's about stepping in anyway: naming the tension rather than managing it, welcoming discomfort rather than smoothing it over, and meeting honesty with care.
This conversation helps us get honest about what that actually requires of us - the willingness to show up and act when no one else will, whether around the family table, our most intimate relationships, or in the rooms where our shared future gets decided.
17 Feb 2026
From Punishment to Relationship: A Conversation on Restorative Justice | Patrick Heneghan
What if justice wasn’t about punishment, but about accountability, repair, and our shared humanity?
Today we’re around the campfire with Patrick Heneghan, Director of Restorative Justice for Cheshire County, New Hampshire, exploring what it truly means to repair harm with compassion. In this episode, we learn how to make room for restorative healing - whether within the justice system or in our day-to-day relationships. These interrelational tools aren’t something most of us are taught, which is exactly why this conversation matters.
Whether you’re curious about criminal justice, community conflict, or navigating challenges in your own life, this dialogue invites you into a different understanding of justice - one rooted in courage, responsibility, and connection.
Patrick’s journey bridges adult education, systems change, and deep relational practice. Since creating and leading the Cheshire County Restorative Justice program in 2020, he has worked with victims, those who have caused harm, community members, prosecutors, and correctional institutions to transform how justice is understood and experienced, shifting the focus from punishment to restoration.
17 Jan 2026
The Cyclical Wisdom of Womanhood | Sanna Aulén
Sanna Aulén, expert in women's holistic health, discusses embracing cyclical wisdom to rediscover self, empower emotions, and deepen connections in this interview episode.
17 Jan 2026
The Cyclical Wisdom of Womanhood | Sanne Aulén
What if PMS could be a superpower?
We as women are cyclical beings, yet often move as if life was linear. Instead of attuning to natural phases and the wisdom they bring, we tend to adapt to be constantly “likable”, nurturing, and extroverted. And it seems we’re missing out.
In this episode, we speak with Sanna Aulén, expert in women’s holistic and postpartum health, somatics and therapeutic bodywork. We explore how listening differently to our body, honouring our emotions (without getting attached to them) and embracing our cyclical wisdom can guide us back to self-discovery, empowerment, more energy and deeper connection.
This is also for everyone who has women in their lives, this conversation is an invitation: to celebrate sensitivity (as receptiveness to life around us), reclaim power, and tap into the gifts that being a cyclical being brings to ourselves, our relationships, and our world.
16 Dec 2025
The Economy Is an Invention - Let’s Unmake It, and Make It Again | Prof. Lorenzo Fioramonti
Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti argues that the current competitive economy should be redesigned for collaboration, highlighting global innovations that prioritize well-being over mere growth in this interview.
18 Nov 2025
Talking Pensions to Fuck You Funds: Women Breaking the Money | Elisabeth Prager
Elisabeth Prager discusses women's investment habits, the gender wealth gap, and strategies for women to engage more confidently with their financial futures in this interview.
31 Oct 2025
The New Power race: AI, Ethics, and the Future of our Planet
TechAmbassador Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard discusses the intersection of AI, ethics, and global governance, questioning the prioritization of speed over wisdom in technology development in this interview.
7 Oct 2025
Generation Dread: Turning Climate Collapse Into Collective Purpose | Dr. Britt Wray
Dr. Britt Wray, Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, discusses the intersection of climate change and mental health, exploring how individuals can navigate anxiety and grief to find purpose in the face of ecological loss in this interview.
11 Sept 2025
Who Owns the Future? Rethinking Women and Wealth | Emma Heikensten
Host [Host Name] interviews economist and Ownershift co-founder Emma Heikensten about how rethinking ownership can close the staggering wealth gap between men and women, reshaping power and societal outcomes.
21 Aug 2025
From Industrialism to Spiritualism: Can AI Help Us Find Our Purpose? | Jennie Sinclair
Host [Host Name] interviews tech entrepreneur, futurist, and storyteller Jennie Sinclair about how AI can help humanity find purpose by weaving spirituality into technology.
30 Jul 2025
In Defence of Masculinity | Mikaal Bates
Men's work coach Mikaal Bates discusses the deeper wounds underlying toxic masculinity, exploring the collapse of connection and meaning that drives men to despair in this interview episode.
8 Jul 2025
Human Library: How to Unjudge Someone | Ronni Abergel
Ronni Abergel discusses the Human Library's 25th anniversary and its mission to challenge biases through conversation, promoting empathy and understanding for individual and collective well-being in this interview.
17 Jun 2025
The Language of Connection - How Nonviolent Communication Changes Everything | Kathleen De Laet
Kathleen De Laet explores Nonviolent Communication as a means to foster deeper connections by recognizing and communicating feelings and needs, promoting understanding in this interview.
27 May 2025
The Real Work of Meditation - Are We Doing It? | Katrine Bregengaard
Katrine Bregengaard discusses how to stay vigilant within the wellness industry and remain faithful to the deeper teachings of mindfulness, avoiding the trap of consumerism in an interview.
6 May 2025
What is Intimacy, Really?
Are we experiencing a crisis of intimacy in an age of hyperconnection? In this episode, hosts Lise Pretorius and Hedda Rehnberg sit down with intimacy and mens work coach Mikaal Bates, to explore what intimacy truly asks of us. From the effects of apps and our focus on independence, to the bravery required to know ourselves, we question how genuine connection survives in a world of endless choice and digital touchpoints - and how to reclaim it.
15 Apr 2025
Will AI Make Us Think Smaller?
As our adoption of AI expands, is our collective imagination contracting? In this episode, we're joined by tech expert and political economist Märtha Rehnberg to explore the intuition needed to navigate a high-tech future. Can we stay expansive in a world that wants to optimize us into patterns? Let’s stretch beyond the algorithm.
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