Shobukai Shift

About Shobukai Shift

Fractals of Change explores the hidden patterns that shape how individuals, relationships, organizations, and societies evolve—from human psychology to leadership, organizations, and society. Through solo reflections and conversations with thinkers, researchers, leaders, and creators, the podcast uncovers how these patterns appear across domains of life, revealing the deeper architecture behind transformation. Each episode explores one pattern. Together, they form a larger composition about how change actually works—and how we can navigate it more skillfully.

Publisher

Mary Schaub

Category

business · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

12 Feb 2025

Latest episode

23 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Jun 2026

   We Are Nature

   In the season's final interview episode, Mary sits down with Alexandra Bowen, founder of the Biophilic Design Community and co-creator of the Learn Biophilic Design course, to explore why the spaces we inhabit shape the people we become. Alexandra traces her path from a childhood immersed in Hawaii's natural world to the disorientation of moving to the mainland — a feeling now recognized as "green withdrawal" — and how a single potted plant on her desk reopened that connection and eventually ...

2. 

   16 Jun 2026

   Are You Gonna Listen?

   What does it mean to truly listen — to a child, to grief, to the signs the universe leaves when we're paying attention? Writer and former biology teacher Katie Rizzo joins Mary for a conversation of rare honesty about loss, addiction, guilt, and the unexpected ways art saves us. Katie's son Nicholas died from opioid addiction, and rather than turn away from the pain, she turned toward it — writing her way through the experience in two forthcoming books: The Trimesters of Grief, a ...

3. 

   9 Jun 2026

   Energy

   Energy is the most fundamental pattern running through every living system—and most of us are barely paying attention to it. In this solo episode, Mary Schaub traces the pattern of energy from thermodynamics and cellular biology through psychology, relationships, organizations, and social movements, making the case that energy is not a metaphor or a wellness buzzword—it's a precise, observable, cross-domain force that shapes how we live, work, love, and change. Drawing on her own story of how...

Who has been a guest on Shobukai Shift

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jerome Elam
• Penelope Cottrell
• Ria Glenn DeMay

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

610

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

68

Social presence

0

YouTube

66

Engagement

32