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A special conversation with Brett Hurt and Mark Gober — recorded live in collaboration with BookPeople in Austin, TX on August 23, 2026

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- The spiritual experiences behind “Love Conquers Fear”, including Brett’s psychedelic journey and studying Vedanta

- Moving from fear to hope, and using human agency to shape a more abundant future

- Why humanity’s consciousness must evolve alongside increasingly powerful technology

- How AI, quantum computing, robotics, and other exponential technologies could transform life at scale

- Conscious capitalism and building systems that put people ahead of profit

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About Love Conquers Fear:

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.

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Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple

Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon

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About Mark Gober:

Mark Gober is an award-winning author, business strategist, and consciousness researcher. He is the author of the seven-book “Upside Down” series, including the IPPY Award-winning “An End to Upside Down Thinking”. Previously, Mark was a partner at Silicon Valley’s Sherpa Technology Group and was named to IAM’s “Strategy 300” list of the world’s leading intellectual property strategists. He also serves on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Timestamps:

0:01:00 — Preview

0:01:30 — Intro: Interview with Mark Gober at BookPeople

0:03:09 — Brett and Mark's backgrounds, Brett’s soul quest, Vedanta, spiritual awakening

0:12:55 — AI, cultural programming, nuclear risk, fear states, abundance

0:21:43 — Quantum computing, novel science, solar energy, AI jobs, food systems

0:36:44 — Bhutan, spirituality, writing process, punching down, hope, consciousness

0:49:15 — Energy, material breakthroughs, leveraging AI

0:55:04 — Patents, open-source AI, innovation, responsibility

Books mentioned in this episode:

- An End to Upside Down Thinking — Mark Gober

- An End to Upside Down Living — Mark Gober

- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares

- Why Buddhism Is True — Robert Wright

- The Hero’s Journey — Joseph Campbell

- Deep Future — Pablos Holman

- Abundance — Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams

Links:

“Love Conquers Fear” a USA TODAY bestseller: https://tinyurl.com/4u9fmwdd

LCF episode #2 (Mark Gober): https://youtu.be/p5xCJw_Yo1M

BookPeople: https://bookpeople.com/

Institute of Noetic Sciences: https://noetic.org/

Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship Program: https://tinyurl.com/3f7awp2e

LCF episode #31 (Piraye Beim): https://youtu.be/cgjv-4aAdYA

Vedanta: https://tinyurl.com/ydxzyc5c

LCF episode #43 (Peter Wang): https://youtu.be/036KjyuudWE

Xi Jinping calling for global governance of AI: https://tinyurl.com/ycys2t2v

Pope Leo’s first encyclical: https://tinyurl.com/3s9u2dwk

Hartmut Neven’s TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/535w253c

Subscribe to Brett’s newsletter “The Superfecta Signal”:

LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/2fzwfmtk

Substack: https://tinyurl.com/mr8rxsz3

Demis Hassabis on “60 Minutes”: https://tinyurl.com/3hu2jdwm

Foresight Institute: https://foresight.org/

Peter Diamandis’ “Moonshots” podcast: https://tinyurl.com/43j2rvja

Jensen Huang’s first post on X backing open-source models: https://tinyurl.com/48f4pk8r