Steve is the founder of the Developmental Trauma Training Institute and is a dual licensed psychotherapist. With over two decades of engaging with a wide range of client populations spanning a large variety of therapeutic settings, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He is a seasoned speaker, author and compassionate innovator. His ground breaking therapeutic approaches that fuel profound change include Cut from the Herd for addictions, Digging Roots Foundations for developmental trauma, and the High Acuity Care model of Brainspotting. Steve’s personal trauma and addictions recovery spark his passion for supporting vulnerable populations with a hope focused message. He is able to make meaningful connections with any audience around stress, trauma and most importantly igniting resiliency in today’s stressed world.

Conversations That Challenge Reality

Unimpressed Podcast offers a groundbreaking look into consciousness, ancient wisdom, and the nonconscious aspects of humanity via the Quantum Field. Hosted by John Edmonds Kozma, CEO of Bang Productions and a seasoned entertainment industry veteran with extensive experience, each episode delves deeper than typical discussions to reveal profound insights about reality, spirituality, and human potential. He has been likened to Albert Einstein for his innovative reasoning.

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Brett Hurt is a serial tech entrepreneur, investor, and a USA TODAY best-selling author. Most recently, he was the CEO and co-founder of data.world, the world’s leading data catalog platform, acquired by ServiceNow in 2025.

Previously, Brett founded Bazaarvoice ($1B IPO on NASDAQ) and Coremetrics, which was acquired by IBM for $300M.

Alongside his wife Debra, he co-leads Hurt Family Investments (HFI), backing more than 150 startups, 50+ venture funds, and a wide range of philanthropic initiatives.

Named Austin’s Best CEO (Legacy Award) and an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow, Brett has been building technology since the age of seven.

Love Conquers Fear is Brett’s new holding company—an expression of how he’s thinking about his highest utility over the next decade, and how he can influence the confluence of technology, consciousness, and courage to help humanity reach the Age of Abundance for All.

Conversations That Challenge Reality

Unimpressed Podcast offers a groundbreaking look into consciousness, ancient wisdom, and the nonconscious aspects of humanity via the Quantum Field. Hosted by John Edmonds Kozma, CEO of Bang Productions and a seasoned entertainment industry veteran with extensive experience, each episode delves deeper than typical discussions to reveal profound insights about reality, spirituality, and human potential. He has been likened to Albert Einstein for his innovative reasoning.

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Monica Marquez helps leaders turn AI ambition into adoption by building the trust, capability, and new ways of working that make transformation real.

AI changed the size of the gap, not the shape of the problem. Adoption stalls in trust, capability, and ways of working, not in the technology itself. The leaders she works with are not behind because they lack talent. They are behind because no one has handed them a system for turning their own judgment into something AI can amplify. Every leader already has a version of authentic intelligence. Her work is helping them codify it, so the artificial kind has something worth amplifying.

Monica spent twenty five years inside Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, EY, and Google, building the leadership development and professional growth systems that helped established professionals advance, stay relevant, and grow as the ground shifted under them. Talent, leadership, and transformation at scale, inside organizations that do not have room for guesswork.

In 2019 she left corporate to co-found Beyond Barriers with Nikki Barua, building on Nikki's bestselling book to create an AI powered professional development platform that accelerated success for women and all leaders. Today she is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of FlipWork. The throughline has never moved: she builds pathways into what comes next.

Conversations That Challenge Reality

Unimpressed Podcast offers a groundbreaking look into consciousness, ancient wisdom, and the nonconscious aspects of humanity via the Quantum Field. Hosted by John Edmonds Kozma, CEO of Bang Productions and a seasoned entertainment industry veteran with extensive experience, each episode delves deeper than typical discussions to reveal profound insights about reality, spirituality, and human potential. He has been likened to Albert Einstein for his innovative reasoning.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.