Harvest Series

This podcast is here to help you ask yourself the right questions, boost your critical thinking, and broaden your horizons. Journalist Rose Claverie (@rose.claverie on Instagram) is interviewing for the Harvest Series summit inspiring speakers such as emotional trauma specialist Dr Gabor Maté, nutrition experts Dr. Mark Hyman or Dr. Andrew Weil, and Relationships expert Esther Perel. They share their stories and practical advice to help listeners better care for themselves, their relationships and the planet. Episodes last around 30mn and are released every Wednesday. We hope you will enjoy the episodes and the diversity of the topics to increase your consciousness :)

Harvest Series is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 151 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #144

  An Aurevoir!

  Aug 12, 20265 minS10

  What This Episode Is About This is the final episode of the Harvest Series, and for the first time in ten seasons, the host is the guest. After 143 conversations with scientists, philosophers, monks, activists, and artists, Rose Claverie turns the microphone on herself. What did a decade of listening actually do to her? What changed? What came too late? What surprised her most? This is not a highlights reel. It's an honest account of a slow, quiet transformation, the kind that happens when you spend years asking other people the hardest questions. A huge thank you to Roman and Burak, the visionaries behind Harvest. Joel Moriasi (producer), Alice (les Belles Fréquences), and Chambord for the music! and also Naz, Rita, Neil, and Alix for their support, and the gorgeous Harvest team! This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit: https://sparkofsouls.com/ You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates. Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series . Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

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  Episode #143

  The Blue Zones Blueprint: Longevity, Purpose, and Living Well with Dan Buettner

  Jul 29, 202640 minS10

  On this episode of the Harvest Series, host Rose Claverie sits down with explorer and Blue Zones creator Dan Buettner to explore what really helps people live longer, healthier lives. After decades studying the world’s longest-living populations, Dan argues that longevity is less about supplements, discipline, or biohacking and more about environment, social connection, movement, purpose, and community. The conversation explores modern society, processed food, loneliness, urban design, capitalism, faith, friendship, happiness, and aging. Dan explains why healthy environments shape healthy behavior more effectively than willpower ever can and why governments and cities play a major role in public health outcomes. The episode also examines purpose, family, meaningful relationships, and how modern life quietly disconnects humans from the conditions they evolved for. Dan also reflects on parenting, legacy, curiosity, and his future work redesigning cities around Blue Zone principles. This is a conversation about longevity, but also about creating lives that feel more connected, meaningful, and human. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Dan Buettner 00:52 Imagination and exploration 02:02 Why modern life is going in the wrong direction 03:20 The lessons of the Blue Zones 04:16 Stop changing behavior, change environment 05:05 Neighborhoods and life expectancy 06:24 Can governments create new Blue Zones? 07:55 Food systems, capitalism, and responsibility 10:13 Government policy and public health 11:09 Faith, friendship, and longevity 13:31 Freedom, discipline, and social structures 14:50 Governments, health, and regulation 16:51 Food or friendship: what matters more? 17:25 Reflections on Shaka Senghor 19:28 George Plimpton and changing his life 20:35 Feeling different and curiosity 21:08 Visiting the Blue Zones 22:39 Living in Ikaria 23:14 Wine, pleasure, and joy in longevity 25:18 Plant medicine and altered states 25:43 The secret to healthy skin 26:21 AI and the future of longevity 27:15 Aging, happiness, and emotional wellbeing 28:01 What creates a “dark zone”? 28:38 Legacy and raising children 29:48 How to end things gracefully 30:15 Beau Lotto’s question about action 31:05 Purpose, values, and meaning 32:47 Curating your social circle 34:01 Why people don’t act on good advice 35:35 Question for Michael Pollan 36:11 New Blue Zones and future projects 37:04 Designing healthier cities 37:32 Closing reflections This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit: https://sparkofsouls.com/ You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates. Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series . Credits: Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi Music by: Chambord Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

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  Episode #142

  The Art of Uncertainty: Perception, Curiosity, and Human Potential with Beau Lotto

  Jul 15, 202650 minS10

  On this episode of the Harvest Series, host Rose Claverie sits down with neuroscientist and perception researcher Beau Lotto to explore how the brain constructs reality. Rather than simply observing the world, Beau argues that humans actively create meaning through perception shaped by evolution, emotion, memory, and social experience. The conversation explores anxiety, stress, uncertainty, social belonging, resilience, and why humans are biologically wired toward threat detection. Beau explains how perception influences behavior, why accountability matters, and why modern education systems often reward certainty while suppressing curiosity and experimentation. Through neuroscience and practical examples, he challenges the idea that people truly see reality objectively. The episode also focuses heavily on growth, parenting, leadership, and creativity. Beau shares powerful stories about raising children, encouraging curiosity, creating environments for discovery, and helping people embrace uncertainty rather than fear it. This is a conversation about perception, adaptation, and learning how to navigate an unpredictable world with courage and openness. To know more about Beau Lotto and his work : www.be.evolvabel.me Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Beau Lotto 01:07 Perception as imagination 01:28 Anxiety and imagined threats 02:15 Holding multiple realities at once 03:02 Sensations, emotions, and perception 04:30 Hormones, stress, and cortisol 05:16 Why humans focus on negativity 06:29 Social exclusion as a modern threat 08:29 How perception shapes behavior 09:15 Reducing stress vs reducing its source 10:26 Preparing how you enter each moment 11:57 The brain as a practice system 13:20 Emotional contagion and relationships 15:05 Why conflict is necessary for learning 17:33 Growth vs true understanding 19:52 Why education rewards certainty 20:47 Travel, identity, and perspective 22:14 Why life has always been uncertain 24:23 Subjective feelings vs objective reality 25:29 Raising resilient children 27:51 AI, rapid change, and the future of education 31:05 Awareness, action, and accountability 35:24 Harvest reflections and imagination 38:11 Adding energy vs consuming energy 39:10 Beau Lotto’s mother and childhood curiosity 42:12 Happiness vs meaningful living 44:12 The bee experiments and child scientists 49:00 Question for Dan Buettner 50:33 Why accountability matters 51:06 The importance of doubt 52:13 How to deal with endings 53:39 Love, uncertainty, and parenting You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates. Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series . Credits: Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi Music by: Chambord This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit: https://sparkofsouls.com/ Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

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  Episode #141

  The Edge of Understanding: Black Holes, Mortality, and the Power of Wonder with Janna Levin

  Jul 1, 202631 minS10

  The Harvest Series podcast , hosted by Rose Claverie , welcomes theoretical physicist and cosmologist Janna Levin for a conversation on black holes, imagination, mortality, and the limits of human understanding. Recorded during Harvest, this episode explores how science and wonder coexist at the edge of the known universe. Levin reflects on black holes, gravitational waves, infinity, and why scientists must become comfortable with uncertainty. Moving between philosophy, cosmology, death, and human meaning, the conversation reveals science not as cold certainty, but as an ongoing relationship with mystery. What happens when the deeper we look into the universe, the less certain we become about ourselves? You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates. Chapters 00:00 – Introduction to Janna Levin 01:05 – Why science needs imagination 02:03 – Einstein and thought experiments 03:06 – Conversations and contradictions at Harvest 05:10 – Parents, risk, and unconventional paths 06:06 – What black holes really are 08:24 – Why black holes fascinate us 09:06 – Infinity and the shape of the universe 11:02 – Why scientists say “I don’t know” 12:34 – Women in science and identity 13:06 – Does the universe have a sound? 14:28 – What humans are actually made of 14:59 – What happened before the Big Bang? 16:04 – Space race, SpaceX, and geopolitics 19:54 – Seeing Earth as one planet 20:47 – From philosophy to physics 22:01 – Science, spirituality, and meaning 23:54 – Death, nature, and continuity 25:25 – Ordinary life and cosmic thinking 26:19 – Legacy and curiosity 27:11 – How to deal with endings 28:18 – When will the universe end? 29:14 – Music on the moon 30:10 – Children, bees, and scientific discovery 30:49 – Living at the edge of comprehension 31:21 – Closing reflections Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series . Credits: Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi Music by: Chambord This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit: https://sparkofsouls.com/ Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

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  Episode #140

  The Path of Resilience: Imagination, Forgiveness, and Reinvention with Shaka Senghor

  Jun 17, 202654 minS9

  On this episode of the Harvest Series, host Rose Claverie sits down with Shaka Senghor for a deeply personal conversation about survival, transformation, and imagination. After spending 19 years in prison, including years in solitary confinement, Shaka rebuilt his life through storytelling, philosophy, meditation, and writing. His journey raises difficult questions about justice, trauma, violence, and redemption. Shaka reflects on growing up in Detroit during the crack epidemic, surviving gun violence, and the emotional weight of incarceration in America. He speaks candidly about shame, masculinity, systemic racism, forgiveness, and what it means to heal without denying responsibility for the past. The discussion moves beyond prison reform into something much more human: how people rebuild themselves after devastation. The episode also explores creativity and ambition. Shaka explains why imagination became essential to his survival, how writing transformed his understanding of himself, and why he now wants to focus on fiction, film, and art rather than only being viewed through the lens of incarceration. This is a conversation about resilience, identity, and refusing to live a small life. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Shaka Senghor 01:18 Imagination as survival 02:08 Solitary confinement and mental freedom 04:12 Reflections from Harvest 05:27 Childhood abuse and running away 06:14 Detroit, crack cocaine, and violence 06:39 The shooting and prison sentence 07:38 Trauma, PTSD, and accountability 09:02 Receiving a 17-to-40-year sentence 09:58 Mentors and transformation in prison 11:00 Meditation, journaling, and mindfulness 12:11 Malcolm X and self-education 13:17 Discovering writing in prison 15:13 Radical honesty and self-examination 17:20 Ambition, imagination, and dreaming bigger 19:57 How parole and release worked 21:51 Spirituality and questioning God 24:14 Forgiveness and healing with his mother 27:20 Breaking cycles of violence 30:03 What prisons ask him most often 32:02 Rich and poor people are more alike than different 35:19 Forgiveness as liberation 37:48 Masculinity and modern culture 39:27 Parenting, resilience, and overprotection 41:12 Wanting to move beyond prison identity 43:12 Returning to fiction and screenwriting 45:03 Legacy and resilience 47:25 Intentional endings and closure 49:03 What writing taught him about himself 52:20 Question for the next Harvest guest 52:58 Final reflections You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates. Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series . Credits: Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences Producer in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi & team Music by: Chambord This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit https://sparkofsouls.com/ . Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

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