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In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms large: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is a podcast where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host Brett Alexander Hurt—tech entrepreneur and investor—sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

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Episode thumbnail for #66: Decoding Psychedelics: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Healing, and Journeying With Care

June 30, 2026

#66: Decoding Psychedelics: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Healing, and Journeying With Care

<p>Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book</p><p><br></p><p>What you’ll hear in this episode:</p><p>- Why psychedelics should be treated as sacred medicine, not party drugs or escapism</p><p>- Intention, set, setting, legality, and trusted facilitation as the foundation for safety</p><p>- Preparation, proper dosing, and entering journey space with reverence</p><p>- How psychedelics can heal trauma — but also bring fear, pain, and old wounds to the surface</p><p>- Women’s safety, predatory risks, and the need for trusted guides and references</p><p>- The overlooked role of women and Indigenous communities in sacred plant medicine</p><p>- Ayahuasca, veteran healing, and the power of deep integration after a journey</p><p>- Why work after the journey — journaling, reflection, practice, and embodiment — matters most for integration</p><p>- The danger of scaling psychedelics without wisdom, maturity, or tradition</p><p>- Meditation, near-death experiences, spiritual awakening, and the many paths to the Divine</p><p><br></p><p>About Love Conquers Fear:</p><p>In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:</p><p>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/</p><p>X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt</p><p>Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/</p><p>Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Watch on:</p><p>YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT</p><p>Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify</p><p><br></p><p>Listen on:</p><p>Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple</p><p>Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>0:00:56 — Intro: Many paths to the Divine, psychedelic safety and research, consciousness</p><p>0:05:45 — Patrick Gentempo, sacred medicine, proper dosing, trauma healing</p><p>0:09:14 — Episode 25: Non-escapism, ayahuasca, set and setting, integration, inner wisdom</p><p>0:18:41 — Pardis Mahdavi, women’s safety, indigenous wisdom, careful journeys</p><p>0:25:27 — Episode 64: Feminine medicine wisdom, trusted guides, humility, shadow work</p><p>0:31:50 — Maxi Cohen, From Shock to Awe, Ayahuasca Diaries, integration, embodiment, transformation</p><p>0:36:15 — Episode 55: Intention, ayahuasca, indigenous wisdom, the Amazon, healing suffering</p><p>0:45:58 — Brian C. Muraresku, ancient wisdom schools, psychedelics at scale, readiness, healing trauma</p><p>0:52:18 — Episode 48: Spiritual maturity, worldview, limits of Western frameworks, cultural co-opting, preparation</p><p>0:57:29 — Closing reflections</p><p><br>Watch the full episodes:</p><p>- Episode 25 (Patrick Gentempo): https://youtu.be/4TAGJRO-c1U</p><p>- Episode 64 (Pardis Mahdavi): https://youtu.be/-AdUQ5xjNrc</p><p>- Episode 55 (Maxi Cohen): https://youtu.be/yl_myJIPLww</p><p>- Episode 48 (Brian C. Muraresku): https://youtu.be/CapnbGuxMQE</p><p><br></p><p>Books mentioned in this episode:</p><p>- How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan</p><p>- The Immortality Key — Brian C. Muraresku</p><p>- Awareness — Anthony de Mello</p><p><br></p><p>Links:</p><p>Charmaine &amp; Gordon McGill Center for Psychedelic Research &amp; Therapy at the Dell Medical School: https://tinyurl.com/4kdkndwe</p><p>Patrick Gentempo’s “Psychedelics Revealed” doc: https://tinyurl.com/4uhfa3f4</p><p>Americans for Ibogaine: https://tinyurl.com/27yhvjcs</p><p>Executive order to fast-track psychedelic research: https://tinyurl.com/33by6ynm</p><p>Maxi Cohen’s films:</p><p>- “From Shock to Awe”: https://tinyurl.com/3sd6xcjj</p><p>- “Ayahuasca Diaries”: https://tinyurl.com/mwzawvy5</p><p>- “The Holy Give Me”: https://tinyurl.com/6s5aeeyr</p><p>“How to Change Your Mind” doc: https://tinyurl.com/5bvxm7er</p><p>“In Waves and War” doc: https://tinyurl.com/456mf76w</p><p>Brian C. Muraresku’s Harvard talk on the spiritual use of psychedelics: https://tinyurl.com/42szba7w</p>

Episode thumbnail for #65: The Story Behind Love Conquers Fear: Brett Hurt’s Fireside Chat With Byron Reese — June 23, 2026

June 25, 2026

#65: The Story Behind Love Conquers Fear: Brett Hurt’s Fireside Chat With Byron Reese — June 23, 2026

<p>Order the Book! ► ⁠<a href="http://loveconquersfear.org/book" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://loveconquersfear.org/book</a></p><p><br></p><p>What you’ll hear in this episode:</p><p>- How “Love Conquers Fear” grew from Brett’s search for meaning, reality, and humanity’s future</p><p>- The psychedelic journey that inspired the book’s message, structure, and deeper calling</p><p>- Choosing love over fear as AI, quantum computing, robotics, and brain-computer interfaces accelerate</p><p>- Consciousness, the soul, reincarnation, spiritual texts, and the deeper nature of reality</p><p>- Scarcity thinking, othering, social media fear loops, nuclear weapons, and zero-sum power</p><p>- Agency, compassion, and global cooperation as paths to an Age of Abundance for All</p><p>- Meditation, ancient wisdom, and spiritual awakening as catalysts for transformation</p><p>- Josh Baer’s legacy of agency, generosity, entrepreneurship, and Austin’s startup ecosystem</p><p><br></p><p>About Love Conquers Fear:</p><p>In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:</p><p>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/</p><p>X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt</p><p>Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/</p><p>Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Watch on:</p><p>YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT</p><p>Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify</p><p><br></p><p>Listen on:</p><p>Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple</p><p>Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon</p><p><br></p><p>About Byron Reese:</p><p>Byron Reese is an author, speaker, futurist, and entrepreneur known for bringing a deeply philosophical lens to questions about AI, consciousness, progress, and human potential. Over more than two decades, he has built and sold multiple companies, written books including “The Fourth Age”, “Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think”, and “We Are Agora”, and spoken around the world about how emerging technologies may reshape work, education, society, and what it means to be human. His work is marked by curiosity, clarity, and a belief that humanity’s future can be better than its past.</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>0:00:00 — Preview</p><p>0:00:30 — Intro: Byron Reese, Josh Baer’s legacy, Amit Sharma</p><p>0:10:36 — Lifelong search to understand reality, Vedanta, David Judson</p><p>0:18:01 — Calling to write the book, existential questions, podcast, writing process </p><p>0:27:18 — Ancient spiritual texts, scarcity thinking, human agency, abundance, othering</p><p>0:34:13 — Unlimited energy, end of disease, broken constructs, global heart shift</p><p>0:45:03 — Human goodness, external accumulation, reincarnation, nuclear risk, awakening</p><p>0:56:37 — Hard moral choices, accountability, meditation, AI leadership, catalyzing change</p><p>1:14:27 — Open-source AI, AGI race, intentionality, decentralization, small acts of kindness</p><p>1:27:31 — Closing reflections</p><p><br></p><p>Books mentioned in this episode:</p><p>- The Fourth Age — Byron Reese</p><p>- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams</p><p>- Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell (tr.)</p><p>- Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell (tr.)</p><p>- Governing Business &amp; Relationships — Avula Parthasarathy</p><p>- Awareness — Anthony de Mello</p><p>- How to Surrender to God — David R. Hawkins</p><p><br></p><p>Links:</p><p>Capital Factory: <a href="https://capitalfactory.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://capitalfactory.com/</a></p><p>“Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine” doc: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/mw58x5vm" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/mw58x5vm</a></p><p>“Disclosure Day” film: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4karfc2r" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/4karfc2r</a></p><p>David Judson on LinkedIn: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5p9nnwe" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/y5p9nnwe</a></p><p>Malala Yousafzai’s TED Talk: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/z2mp67ft" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/z2mp67ft</a></p><p>Dario Amodei’s essay “The Adolescence of Technology”: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/235a2n3t" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/235a2n3t</a></p><p>UN on global food insecurity: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4v4dx5sm" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/4v4dx5sm</a></p><p>Swamiji Parthasarathy: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4swp946w" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/4swp946w</a></p><p>Fulfillionaire: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/5xtw29sn" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/5xtw29sn</a></p><p>JP Newman’s “Fulfillionaire” podcast: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2sezh553" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/2sezh553</a><br></p>

Episode thumbnail for #64: Ancient Wisdom for a New Future: Culture, Women, and the Path to Liberation – Pardis Mahdavi

June 23, 2026

#64: Ancient Wisdom for a New Future: Culture, Women, and the Path to Liberation – Pardis Mahdavi

<p>Order the Book! ► ⁠<a href="http://loveconquersfear.org/book"><u>http://loveconquersfear.org/book</u></a></p><p><br></p><p>What you’ll hear in this episode:</p><p>- Pardis’ Iranian-American story of exile, identity, and learning to bridge worlds</p><p>- Persian mysticism, Sufism, Rumi, Hafez, and dance as direct paths to the Divine</p><p>- Awakening as a cultural choice, and how consciousness can fuel progress</p><p>- Pardis’ journey from achievement and despair back to God, love, purpose, and liberation</p><p>- Psychedelics, meditation, and ceremony as sacred tools for healing and awakening</p><p>- Why psychedelics need wisdom, reverence, integration, and real safety for women</p><p>- Rethinking education for a world where creativity matters more than information</p><p>- AI as a force for expanding creativity, storytelling, education, and imagination</p><p><br></p><p>About Love Conquers Fear:</p><p>In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:</p><p>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/</p><p>X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt</p><p>Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/</p><p>Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Watch on:</p><p>YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT</p><p>Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify</p><p><br></p><p>Listen on:</p><p>Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple</p><p>Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon</p><p><br></p><p>About Pardis Mahdavi:</p><p>Pardis Mahdavi is an author, entrepreneur, coach, keynote speaker, and medical anthropologist whose work explores human rights, gender, migration, education, consciousness, and culture change. She has written books including “Book of Queens”, “Hyphen”, “Passionate Uprisings”, and “Riding”, and has held senior leadership roles in higher education, including president, provost, dean, and professor. Through her writing, teaching, and work with Entheon, Pardis focuses on transformation, healing, creativity, and helping people imagine more liberated futures.</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>0:00:00 — Preview</p><p>0:00:25 — Intro: Meditation retreat in Bali, The Lattice, Brett&#39;s new book</p><p>0:03:20 — Welcome Pardis Mahdavi</p><p>0:06:17 — Ibogaine for healing, Iranian-American identity, pathways to love and the Divine</p><p>0:13:37 — Embodied consciousness, ancient wisdom traditions, creating a more awakened reality</p><p>0:21:25 — Revolutions start in culture, suffering shaping decisions, Iranian women’s resistance</p><p>0:30:41 — Bodily defiance as liberation, Oneness, abundance, transcending cultural constructs</p><p>0:41:36 — Storytelling, imagination, rethinking education and policy, creating the future</p><p>0:51:29 — Meditation as daily communion, education access, psychedelics, mystery schools</p><p>1:05:04 — Decoding reality, consciousness awakening, suffering, healing, purpose, inner journey</p><p>1:18:39 — Psychedelic safety for women, women&#39;s historic role in medicine, humility, integration</p><p>1:28:09 — Closing reflections</p><p><br></p><p>Books mentioned in this episode:</p><p>- The Immortality Key — Brian C. Muraresku</p><p>- Book of Queens — Pardis Mahdavi</p><p>- Passionate Uprisings — Pardis Mahdavi</p><p>- Horsepower (forthcoming) — Pardis Mahdavi</p><p>- Falcon’s Flight (forthcoming) — Pardis Mahdavi</p><p>- Genesis — Craig Mundie, Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger</p><p><br></p><p>Links:</p><p>Americans for Ibogaine: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/27yhvjcs"><u>https://tinyurl.com/27yhvjcs</u></a></p><p>Executive order to fast-track psychedelic research: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/33by6ynm"><u>https://tinyurl.com/33by6ynm</u></a></p><p>The University of Texas Systemwide Brain Research Summit 2026: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/mwnampfe"><u>https://tinyurl.com/mwnampfe</u></a></p><p>Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2dcxf33n"><u>https://tinyurl.com/2dcxf33n</u></a></p><p>Culturati Summit: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4vzjuhd9"><u>https://tinyurl.com/4vzjuhd9</u></a><br></p>

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What is Love Conquers Fear?

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms large: Will humanity make it?

Love Conquers Fear is a podcast where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host Brett Alexander Hurt—tech entrepreneur and investor—sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All?

These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

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