The AHA Moment Podcast

Dr. Bruce Damer discusses a cure for Coronavirus (COVID-19), other historical viruses that went viral and what this means for the long span of humanity.   Dr. Bruce Damer is a multi disciplinary scientist, designer, and author. Dr. Bruce Damer collaborates with colleagues developing and testing a new model for the origin of life on Earth and in the design of spacecraft architectures to provide a viable path for expansion of human civilization beyond the Earth. He began his career in the 1980s developing some of the earliest user interfaces for personal computers, led a community in the 1990s bringing the first multi-user virtual worlds to the Internet, and since 2000 supported NASA and the space industry on numerous simulations and spacecraft designs. He has spent 25 years chronicling the history of computing in his DigiBarn Computer Museum and curates archives of counterculture figures such as Dr. Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna and others. He currently serves as Principal Scientist at DigitalSpace; to name a few.  

Brian Robertson is the world’s foremost expert on Holacracy, a revolutionary framework for self-managing organizations. After years as CEO of an award-winning software company, he co-founded HolacracyOne to share this innovative method with other organizations. The Holacracy framework integrates the collective wisdom of individuals throughout an organization and offers a toolset for each person to enact meaningful change at any level of work. The result is increased transparency, greater accountability, constant innovation, and agility across the company. Holacracy is used by over 1000 companies today – in healthcare, insurance, banking, retail, technology, nonprofit and government sectors and in places as diverse as Dubai, Shanghai, Amsterdam, London, Berlin, New York, Bangalore, Las Vegas and rural Africa. Brian is thrilled to see this method take root and grow with such force.Brian is the author of the book Holacracy:The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World​. He speaks at conferences, holds trainings and consults for organizations across the globe.

Episode 5: Camilla Fayed, Author of Farmacy Camilla Fayed is the originator and founder of Farmacy. Having always been passionate about healthy eating and conscious living, Camilla began her journey into the world of plant-based living after the birth of her first child. Having experienced the powerful, healing benefits of a plant-based diet herself, and after extensive research and travels, Camilla was inspired to create Farmacy; a place where she could share her philosophy on nutrition and help bring the conscious eating revolution to London. Camilla's aim with Farmacy was to make healthy eating fun, in a beautiful setting. Since its launch in 2016, the flagship Notting Hill restaurant, has become renowned for its innovative and delicious organic dishes, as well as its exciting array of plant-based comfort foods. Labelled as the 'friendly face' of plant-based eating in London, Farmacy champions the notion that 'food is medicine' and supports both local farming and sustainability. Under Camilla's direction, the Farmacy team work hard to constantly experiment and evolve the menu, with the regular introduction of new seasonal dishes and superfood ingredients. In 2017, Camilla and her executive chef team created London's first 100% plant-based, cannabidiol (CBD)-themed afternoon tea offering; it was an instant success.

How will Artificial Intelligence improve the world? Are we on our way to creating a Utopia where the tech does the work for us, and we sit back and enjoy? Jared Carl - the Global Enterprise Strategist at NVIDIA shares his expert opinion on the future. Get Ready!Two women, Sofya and Nicole interview experts with the goal of creating a moment for listeners that shifts perspective and opens new doors for thought, this is what we call the AHA moment!Jared Carl joins the A-Ha Moment from NVIDIA where is the Global Enterprise Strategist for Dell Technologies. Here, he leads the engagements that helps to accelerate companies’ adoption of NVIDIA technologies with a primary focus on Artificial Intelligence with Deep and Machine Learning solutions. In this role, he gets to talk to both the sellers and customers, hearing firsthand the challenges and perspectives of adopting new technology while solving business problems. Previously, he worked at Dell where he focused on the University of Texas system that included the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) where he helped design and build two major NSF projects: Stampede 2 and Frontera. Hailing originally from Dallas, he has made the Texas Triangle of living in Houston before making his (hopefully final) move to Austin in 2017.He has a Masters degree in Military History from Norwich University and a Bachelors in Business/IT. When he isn’t up to his eyes in solving technology problems, he loves to travel, read (history naturally but also SciFi/Fantasy), relax with his family, drink a fine whiskey, and pretend he knows what he’s doing when fixing cars.

Will Homo Sapiens be replaced by Artificial Intelligence? Jaan Tallinn, the engineering co founder of Skype warns us about the creation of Super Human AI that can manage the world as it pleases. His main worries are related to artificial intelligence, unknowns coming from technological development, and biological risk. He believes humanity is not spending enough resources on long-term planning and mitigating threats that could wipe us out as a species. Recommendations from Jaan: * https://futureoflife.org/ * https://80000hours.org/ Two women, Sofya and Nicole interview experts with the goal of creating a moment for listeners that shifts perspective and opens new doors for thought, this is what we call the AHA moment! Jaan Tallinn - trained physicist, investor, founding engineer of Skype and FastTrack/Kazaa. He founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with Huw Price and Martin Rees. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organizations. Jaan Tallinn is partner and co-founder of the development company Bluemoon which created the game SkyRoads.

Can you challenge yourself to see if you would be elated for your partner if they go on a happy date with someone else?Cathy Reisenwitz tells us everything we need to know about ethical non monogamy. What is it? How people practice it? and how does Jealousy play into the equation? Two women, Sofya and Nicole interview experts with the goal of creating a moment for listeners that shifts perspective and opens new doors for thought, this is what we call the AHA moment!In this episode, we tackled the topic of Jealousy. We interviewed:Cathy Reisenwitz - SF-based writer and columnist. She has a column in the Bay City Beacon and has been published in Newsweek, The Week, VICE Motherboard, Forbes, and the Chicago Tribune. Cathy is practicing ethical non - monogamy and has first hand experience with tackling Jealousy in romantic relationships  

Dr. Lanae St. John explains where fantasies come from, why people think secrets are sexy and how different cultures approach jealousy. Two women, Sofya and Nicole interview experts with the goal of creating a moment for listeners that shifts perspective and opens new doors for thought, this is what we call the AHA moment!In this episode, we tackled the topic of Jealousy. We interviewed:Dr. Lanae St. John - Board Certified Sexologist, former Human Sexuality Professor, Relationship and Parenting Coach, founder of MamaSutra. Doctorate - human sexuality from The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She is the advisory board member for the world association of sex coaches and holds awards for Top 100 Sex Bloggers, Kinkly.com.

Let's go back to the past and see how philosophers tackled Jealousy. How does beauty play into the equation? Birney Young explains all! Two women, Sofya and Nicole, interview experts with the goal of creating a moment for listeners that shifts perspective and opens new doors for thought, this is what we call the AHA moment!In this episode, we tackled the topic of Jealousy. We interviewed:Birney Young - Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. His research has appeared at national conferences for Communication and Cultural Studies. His research is aligned around rhetoric's relationship to power. Young argues that the classical Greek world in which rhetoric originated as a discipline was one of curious ambivalences regarding the power of beauty; it was a power of the weak which could be stronger than strength and yet the possessor of beauty rarely wields that power but is instead possessed by it. In the midst of the sophistic ascendancy of the 5th and 4th century B.C.E. rhetoric is developed and offered as an attempt to give individuals agency over beauty's potency.

What are the facts? See what research tell us about the Green Eyed Monster, Dr. Madeline Redlick tells all! Two women, Sofya and Nicole interview experts with the goal of creating a moment for listeners that shifts perspective and opens new doors for thought, this is what we call the AHA moment!In this episode, we tackled the topic of Jealousy. We interviewed:Dr. Madeline Redlick  -assistant professor UT Austin. Dr. Redlick's research is focused on relational communication. Specifically she is interested in how individuals perceive their romantic relationships, and how those perceptions contribute to experiences of emotions like uncertainty, jealousy, stigmatization as well as feeling committed, invested and satisfied. Dr. Redlick's research focuses strongly on the role that gender plays in influencing how people feel about their romantic relationships. Dr. Redlick's research has appeared in a variety of journals in the field including Personal Relationships, Communication Education, and Psychology and Sexuality as well as Psychology Today.