Satyen Raja is known as the private transformational mentor, advisor and confidant to the powerful and influential. A remarkable living synthesis of eastern wisdom and western practicality, Satyen combines the power of the warrior and wisdom of the sage to inspire audiences & leaders worldwide to live their highest impact and personal fulfillment.

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Jessica Ann shares her reflections and predictions for 2018. Using quotes from musicians like Father John Misty, fused with ideas from previous guests she explores the art and science of what it means to be human in a world gone mad. 

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In this episode of The Art of Humanity, Jessica interviews Danielle LaPorte.  Danielle is an invited member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100, a group who, in Oprah Winfrey’s words, “is uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters. 

Named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes, millions of visitors go to DanielleLaPorte.com every month for her #Truthbombs and what’s been called “the best place online for kickass spirituality.”

Danielle keeps it real on the spiritual journey and dishes out some White Hot Truth. 

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Jessica Ann talks with Rob Kandell who has spent the last sixteen years helping people reenergize their lives and build better relationships through more honest and authentic connection.

After building a successful consulting firm in San Francisco, he then co-founded OneTaste in 2004 with Nicole Daedone. Taking on the challenging task of bringing conscious sexuality to the mainstream market, Robert built the company from scratch to a high seven-figure international corporation. He left OneTaste in 2014 to start his own Consulting firm helping small businesses become marketable and profitable.

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Bernhard’s blog “Piercing the Veil of Reality” is a wide-ranging collection of articles, films, and interviews/talks ranging from spirituality, shamanism, psychology, self-work, esotericism, history, to the paranormal and hyperdimensional realities. In this interview, Jessica Ann and Bernhard discuss how holistic healing can be applied to an array of spiritual paths. 

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Philip Shepherd is recognized as an international authority on embodiment.  His unique techniques have been developed to transform our experience of self and world, and are based on the vision articulated in his celebrated books, New Self New World (2010) and Radical Wholeness (expected for release on Nov 2017).  

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Welcome back to Season 3: Episode 22 of The Art of Humanity, where we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 22, Jessica Ann talks with Zach Leary.

 "Who are you today" is something that Ram Daas said to him back in the day. The whole idea of "be here now" have permeated our culture and part of the fabric of "being in the moment." But what does this do for our identity? 

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In Episode 21, Jessica Ann talks with tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar. 

Polgar digs below the surface to examine our tech use from an ethical, legal, and emotional perspective. With a background as an attorney and an educator, along with experience working with social media companies, he is able to take a Multidisciplinary approach to our evolving use of technology.

In this interview, David and Jessica discuss:

1. How Technology Impacts Us from an Ethical and Emotional Perspective
2. Why we lack appropriate terms for what we're even talking about. Everyone is struggling with this.
3. Why our rapturous submission to digital technology has led to an atrophying of human capacities like empathy and self-­reflection, and the time has come to reassert ourselves, behave like adults, and put technology in its place (h/t Sherry Turkle's Reclaiming Conversation."
4. What does it mean to be human in how we communicate and at the world at large? We're often living through a filter and that filter is coming through our screen.
5. How we're hooked up to the Google brain. If we all have access to it, it's not important. It's more important to step back, and have creativity and wisdom with access the information. It's more important to be creative today but we're struggling with the mass-consumption of information.
6. Creativity and wisdom are seen as the ability to connect dots. Creative people take things we wouldn't think and say "let's combine that." The problem that's happening is that we're struggling with something that never ends because we of unlimited consumption. When information becomes available we tend to gobble it up.
7. We need to say "Hey Facebook, make those cookies a little less delicious."
8. Silicon Valley is selling us a product that we're gobbling up but we do not know the nutritional content.
9. We need to allow for more moments of digestion: Don't check your phone, close the browser. This is easier said than done but we need to think of an information diet the same as we think of a food diet.
10. How do we not become a robot in a world that's trying to change us into robots? As a capitalist society, every revolution has a counter-revolution.
11. How and why Silicon Valley is selling us a product that we're gobbling up. And why we need to make an informed decision about the content we consume.
12. Do we humans have free-will with the endless use of algorithms?
13. How humanity is becoming "bot-ified" based on predictive analytics.
14. How LinkedIn automates intimacy and how we have gamified relationships.
15. Why social adoption is not solely focused on utility.

You can follow David on Twitter at @techethicist or visit his website here.

In Episode 20, Jessica Ann talks with fashion photographer and podcast host Michael Donovan. 

Michael Donovan’s images navigate an exploration into consumer culture, advertising and the emotions separating art and fashion photography. According to HungerTV: 

“Combining the beautiful with the bizarre, the controlled with the chaotic, Donovan´s photography attempts to destabilise the highly polished images expected of today´s consumer culture through the use of the psychedelic, androgyny, comedy, eroticism, surrealism, fantasy, Pop Art, cinema, fetishism and historical nuance.”

{Warning: Explicit language!}

In this interview, Michael and Jessica Ann discuss: 

1. His background as a photographer and the paradox of being an artist. 
2. How advertising is the old way of being propaganda and "product is perfect" is dead. It still works because not everyone has woken up. This old world still works but we're moving away from it. So there's this exciting new corridor.
3. The irrelevance of having a title: "I'm more than a photographer. I'm a spiritual being who happens to be plopped out of this body." 
4. Ram Dass's exploration as to why we’re here on earth, using TV channels as metaphors to get to the root of our existence and to understand the different planes of consciousness. Available to listen to here. 
5. How to balance the duality between the lower Channels 1, 2, and 3 and 4, 5, 6. 
6. Do we still need to have titles and "personas" when we live in an enlightened society? 
7. Most people want freedom, happiness, and peace. And most people want to give others freedom, happiness, and peace. 
8. If we don't recognize that each of us are consciousness, what's the point? Everything is pointing us towards togetherness. 
9. Technology is another animal like we're another animal. 
10. The importance of leaders talking about intuition and the need to create a shortcut//access point to make people understand the relationship between brands, businesses, and channel 6. 

Welcome to Episode 19 of The Art of Humanity, where we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 19, Jessica Ann talks with Ted Rubin.

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Many people in the social media world know Ted for his enthusiastic, energetic and undeniably personal connection to people. Ted is the most followed CMO on Twitter, according to Social Media Marketing Magazine; one of the most interesting CMOs on Twitter, according to Say Media, #13 on Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, and number #2 on the Leadtail list of Top 25 People Most Mentioned by digital marketers. ROR is the basis of his philosophy...it's all about relationships! His book, Return on Relationship, was released in 2013, and How to Look People in the Eye Digitally in 2015. 

In this interview, Jessica Ann and Ted Rubin talk about: 

1. His background with Seth Godin, starting back in 1997 (He sent Seth Godin a resume!) And the critical error that he made at the beginning of his career. 
2. His work with E.L.F. cosmetics in 2008 at the early stage of social and how he built a brand using ingenuity without a marketing budget.
3. (6:00) I speak my mind. I say what I think. I tell people that they have to get back to something that is near and dear to your heart: their humanity. It's about building relationships and being good to people. It's about how connecting with people in a real way will benefit your business. 
4. (9:15) I got to listen and learn from Seth Godin. A lot of what I got from Return on Relationship came from Seth's Permission Marketing...about bypassing the agencies whenever you can and talking directly to the people you want to do business with.  Agencies provide a great function but Seth's point was: instead
5. (10:45) A network gives you reach but communities give you power...Networks allow you to connect with various people but communities care. 
6. (11:33) This evolution to me has been like a God-send. Not only am I a community builder but now I have all of these platforms to build communities that enable and empower me. But I also love to interact and meet with people. I'm obsessed with interacting with people. If you're going to make responsive part of your personal brand, be prepared for when your following grows and you have to be responsive for what you care about. And for me, the beauty or the difficulty of it is not something I built into my brand...it's a part of who I am. 
7. (13:00) His definition of community in today's digital age. 
8. (17:46) It's not about the platform it's about the people. 
9. (22:00) This is how you separate yourself, and that you do care about humanity. When you pass people in the street, smile at them! A brand is what a business or a person does...a reputation is what people remember and share. 
10. It's less of a problem than an opportunity. If you're with someone, put the phone down and look at someone. This isn't so much about humanity (although that has a lot to do with it). It's about showing people how important they are to you. 
11. (26:30) He tells a true story that not a lot of people know. 
12. You will feel better if you treat people better. You will feel better if you default to happy. You will feel better if you stop before you go off on someone. Take a breath and smile :) 
13. (32:18) I'm not a big persona guy. And what I've learned is that it's very hard to maintain a persona. In other words, if I didn't really believe in what I do, it would be hard to keep it up. It would be hard to fight the naysayers. 
14. (33:30) The hilarious study that was done on Millennials about the reason that the consumption of cereal is going down is because Millennials are too lazy to clean the dishes from eating cereal. Here is the study in The Washington Post.

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In Episode 18, Jessica Ann talks with a former criminal defense lawyer, psychotherapist, author Jeff Brown. The interview starts off talking about his background, then goes into spirituality, the media, the "New Cage" movement, and the importance of clearing our emotional material. 

Jessica Ann took some time away to release her new book, Humanize Your Brand: How to Create Content that Connects with Your Customers, published to rave reviews in February 2016. It's available on Amazon as a paperback and ebook, and an audiobook version will be released soon. 

Thanks for your patience as the show took a bit of a break.

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In Episode 17, Jessica Ann talks with one of the world's greatest thinkers: media theorist and futurist Douglass Rushkoff.

Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He is the author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, Life Inc and the novel Ecstasy Club.

His latest book is called Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, available for pre-order on Amazon.

He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world.

The interview starts off talking about his background, then goes into technology, humanity, and maybe a little bit about...Donald Trump.

Welcome to another episode of the Art of Humanity, where we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 16, Jessica chats with photographer and author Geoff Livingston. 

Jessica and Geoff discuss: 

Bryan Kramer is one of the world’s foremost leaders in the art and science of sharing, and has been credited with instigating the #H2H business movement in marketing and social. With over 300K social fans and followers, and an intimate understanding of the intricacies and interworking of both social technologies and social behaviors, Bryan is both a practitioner and authority on the subject.Bryan is also a renowned global speaker, consultant and trainer.

In this episode, Jessica Ann and Brian discuss:

• How Brian reinvented himself after 10 years of running a successful Silicon Valley marketing firm to get where he is today
• How social technologies are sparking the shift in human evolution
• Why emotional intelligence is increasingly valuable as our society progresses with robotic technology
• How we can better learn to blend digital technologies into our physical world - and the challenges that happen when we incorporate digital into the human experience. How can we rise above these challenges?
• How SMB's can produce experiences around their content 
• The books that Bryan's reading 

From a young age, Tina Bock has always found an importance of connecting the physical body with the mental body. As her mother always likes to say, "she was doing back flips in the womb before she was born". Tina was first introduced to yoga as a teen, by her father in a headstand on the living room floor. While studying Music Industry at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Tina found yoga as a compliment to her dancing. After studying and practicing daily with some of New Jersey's most recognized yoga teachers, she soon became completely dedicated to the practice and lifestyle of yoga. 

In this episode, international yoga instructor Tina Bock and Jessica Ann discuss: 

• New Jersey (yes it deserves its own bullet point)
• What it's like to teach yoga in Abu Dhabi 
• Teacher training in India 
• How her yoga practice continues to evolve

Welcome to another episode of the Art of Humanity, where we explore creativity + consciousness to allow you and your business to evolve. In Episode 13, Jessica Ann talks with Ira Haberman.

Ira is the Director of Storytelling at Brainrider Grateful Dead listener, Toronto Blue Jay Watcher, dad, and host of The Ira Haberman Experience.

In this episode, Ira and Jessica Ann discuss:

• What makes for a great story?
• How do you tell a great story?
• Where should you be telling your story?
• How do you define success?

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In Episode 12, Jessica Ann talks with Molly McCord. 

Molly is an author and a practicing intuitive astrologer who has connected with clients in over 20 countries. She hosts a popular weekly radio show which has attracted over 70,000 downloads in the first year.

Molly has a B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Studies, and a Master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy as a formal channel for understanding Global Consciousness with a Jungian perspective. She is TESOL certified and volunteers her time teaching English to college-level international students.

Molly is currently an Ambassador for Women for Women International, a non-profit organization which provides education and and business training for marginalized women in developing countries.

She is the Founder and Director of Spirituality University.com, an online destination for Mastery Courses and consciousness-raising resources.

In this episode, Molly and Jessica Ann discuss: 

• What "consciousness" really means 
• How to make conscious choices
• How dreams allow you to better trust your intuition 
• Why joy and bliss are signs of an expanding consciousness 
• How grounding and self-care can make you more powerful 
• The lifecycle states of consciousness 
• Why today - in this current state of humanity - we are urgently feeling the need to go back in time, to relearn ancient wisdom

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In Episode 11, Jessica Ann talks with James Altucher.

James is the former president and founder of Stockpickr LLC, which was one of the first sites to combine social networking with stock investment ideas.

He is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, and best-seller writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies. His writing has appeared in major outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Tech Crunch, and Positively Positive.

He runs two podcasts "The James Altucher Show" and "Ask Altucher" in which he answers questions from listeners. His blog, The Altucher Confidential, has attracted 15+ million readers since its launch. He is the author of 14 books, including two WSJ best-sellers: Choose Yourself and The Power of No.

In this episode, Jessica Ann and James discuss:

• How he achieves freedom
• Why he stopped writing to please others
• How curiosity prevents "having an opinion" 
• The importance of writing 10 ideas a day
• How he mentally keeps young 
• Meditation and the current books he's reading

In Episode 11, Jessica Ann talks with James Altucher.

James is the former president and founder of Stockpickr LLC, which was one of the first sites to combine social networking with stock investment ideas.

He is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, and best-seller writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies. His writing has appeared in major outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Tech Crunch, and Positively Positive.

He runs two podcasts "The James Altucher Show" and "Ask Altucher" in which he answers questions from listeners. His blog, The Altucher Confidential, has attracted 15+ million readers since its launch. He is the author of 14 books, including two WSJ best-sellers: Choose Yourself and The Power of No.

In this episode, Jessica Ann and James discuss:

• How he achieves freedom
• Why he stopped writing to please others
• How curiosity prevents "having an opinion" 
• The importance of writing 10 ideas a day
• How he mentally keeps young 
• Meditation and the current books he's reading

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In this episode, Tony and Jessica Ann discuss:

• Why context around Instagram is crucial 
• Whether selfies will go out of style 
• How to develop loyalty among your audience
• Whether the new live-streaming apps take away from the solitude that is felt on the more quieter platforms (like Instagram)

In Episode 8, Jessica Ann talks with Annie Q. Syed. 

Annie has been telling stories since she was eight years old. She attained her B.A. from the University of Kansas in English Literature and International Studies and her Master's in Secondary English Education from City College in New York where she was a NYC Department of Education teacher. She then went on to receive her J.D. from CUNY School of Law in New York and thereafter completed a clerk-ship for a judge. She remains an activist in projects involving human rights in the United States, Africa and Asia. She is working on finishing a novel and other short stories.

She calls New York City home although she lives a bicoastal, transcontinental life practicing yoga as often as possible.

In this episode, Jessica and Annie discuss:

• How words help us make sense of the world 
• What it means to be a "writer" today
• The meaning behind the word "community" 
• Why "being a writer" today is mutually exclusive from "being in a community"
• The story and meaning behind her book, Collection of Auguries 
• Why some of the biggest moments of our growth aren't shareable on social media 

In Episode 8, I talk with Mark Schaefer.

Mark is a globally-recognized author, speaker, educator, and business consultant who blogs at {grow} – one of the top marketing blogs of the world.

Mark teaches graduate marketing classes at Rutgers University and has written four best-selling books including The Tao of Twitter (the best-selling book on Twitter in the world) and Return On Influence, which was named one of the top business titles of the year by the American Library Association. And his most recent book is called Content Code Shock.

Mark’s clients include Dell, Adidas, and the US Air Force. He has been a keynote speaker at prestigious events all over the world including SXSW, Marketing Summit Tokyo, and the Institute for International and European Affairs.

Mark's latest book is called The Content Code (I got an advanced copy of this book before this interview).

In this episode, Mark and I discuss: 

• How "getting his heart beat out of him" made him a more balanced person - and gave him the courage to be more human
• How Mark's core values help to create unique content 
• Why "love" is an important part of content creation 
• How he stays grounded amid the "social media celebrity" scene 
• Why "how we deal with suffering" defines us as humans 
• The future of publishing + podcasting 
• Our favorite band, The National 

In Episode 7 of The Art of Humanity, I talk with sound healer Asa Idoni. 

Asa is a composer and sound healer, a certified hypnotherapist, and practitioner of neurolinguistic programing. 

In this interview, Asa and I discuss: 

• How he incorporates music into his therapeutic practice so that evolution and change can occur more easily.
• How he lets the muse work through him by having an open schedule
• Why "integral theory" catalyzes the evolutionary process
• How we can see the deeper interconnectivity between all forms of insight

In this interview, Miss Metaverse and I get super nerdy as we discuss:

• How her blog (and Pinterest!) helped create her future
• How spirituality will converge with artificial intelligence
• How wearable tech can help us meditate 
• Sex, love, and...robots (yep, robots)
• Why scientists will soon prove that we live in a holographic Universe

The Art of Humanity is a weekly 30-minute podcast that explores creativity and consciousness with artists, leaders, authors, and entrepreneurs.

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Art of Humanity. I'm so excited to bring you this next guest... 

Episode 5: Concert cellist Gjilberta Lucaj 

In this interview, Gjilberta and I discuss: 

• The private "aha!" moments that happen during practice 
• The best advice she can give to other artists who are pursuing a professional career in music
• How being an only child motivates success
• Her path with "making it" in NYC, the melting pot of art
• The "secret language" of music and live performances

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