What you’ll hear in this episode:

- Why the world is entering a period of profound structural change across economics, geopolitics, and technology

- How fear, uncertainty, and emotional reactions shape markets, policy decisions, and collective behavior

- How awareness of our own reactions shapes better responses to global change

- Why leaders need empathy and emotional awareness to navigate uncertainty

- How narratives, meaning, and shared stories influence economic and geopolitical outcomes

- What exponential technologies like AI reveal about power, governance, and responsibility

- How spirituality quietly informs better decision-making

- The importance of inner resilience, adaptability, and humility when facing uncertainty

- Choosing clarity and consciousness over fear in an age of rapid transformation

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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?

Listen on:

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

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

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About Pippa Malmgren:

Pippa Malmgren is a global economist, geopolitical strategist, and best-selling author who has advised governments, institutions, and investors around the world. She has served at the highest levels of policy and finance, including as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, advisor to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, and Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS. Known for her ability to connect geopolitics, markets, energy, technology, and human behavior, Pippa helps leaders make sense of complex global change. Her work increasingly explores how perception, psychology, and consciousness influence economic and geopolitical outcomes in times of uncertainty and transformation.

Follow Pippa on Substack: https://drpippa.substack.com/

Timestamps:

0:00:00 — Preview

0:00:35 — Intro: The Secret of Secrets; Bhutan as a model for some as the future of society

0:06:04 — Welcome Pippa Malmgren

0:07:46 — Pippa’s thesis on how we get to abundance

0:11:28 — 3D-printed neighborhoods, free energy, supersonic deliveries

0:13:37 — Why we’re at a moment of real revolution in human history

0:16:44 — Borderless spaces: AI, supercomputing, and the cloud

0:21:56 — Global superpowers, nuclear weapons, and the need for “heartware”

0:31:50 — Learning about consciousness from whales and indigenous populations

0:36:18 — How governments spend during moments of transformation

0:44:45 — Teaching AI empathy, care, and protection

1:00:42 — Pippa on the future of humanity and how to get more comfortable with change

1:09:27 — How quantum physics challenges how we understand reality

1:16:47 — Consciousness, hypnagogia, and the limits of material explanation

1:29:33 — Life on other planets, Robert Oppenheimer, and the Genesis Mission

1:38:12 — DeepSeek vs. Stargate, the illusion of an AI race, and Pippa’s spiritual experiences

1:45:01 — Faith, bravery, trusting the universe, and going to the top of the Himalayas

1:52:00 — Anomalous phenomena and ancient spiritual wisdom

2:00:04 — UAPs and how perception shapes reality

2:03:54 — Closing thoughts

Books mentioned in this episode:

- The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown

- The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson

- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

- The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien

- The Tao of Willie — Willie Nelson & Turk Pipkin

- Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell

- Signals — Pippa Malmgren

- LSD and the Mind of the Universe — Christopher M. Bache

Check out Brett’s short story “The Whale’s Dream:” https://brettahurt.substack.com/p/the-whales-dream-a-short-story

"The Thinking Game" – Google DeepMind documentary:

https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ