Love Conquers Fear

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms large: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is a podcast 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.

Love Conquers Fear is a society podcast hosted by Brett Alexander Hurt and guests, with 77 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 #74

  #74: Cowgirl Leadership: Women, Entrepreneurship & The Next Generation of Great Leaders — Gay Gaddis

  Aug 18, 20261h 40mS1

  Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - How childhood adversity and “cowgirl” values shaped Gay’s resilience, independence, and personal agency - Building T3 from scratch during a recession and learning to lead through constant change - Breaking barriers for women through preparation, competence, and confidence - Turning decades of experience into mentorship through leadership programs - Why creativity, intuition, and human connection matter even more in the age of AI - Gay’s near-fatal car accident, her husband’s presence after he crossed over, and discovering a deeper power beyond ourselves 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. Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/ Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/ Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/ Watch on: YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify Listen on: Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon About Gay Gaddis: Gay Gaddis is an entrepreneur, author, artist, and longtime advocate for women in leadership. She founded T3 (now Material) in 1989 and spent more than three decades building it into the largest independent female-owned advertising agency in the U.S. Today, she focuses on developing the next generation of entrepreneurs and leaders through her work at UT Austin, including programs such as “Women Who Mean Business” and “Texas Trailblazers,” while continuing to write, paint, speak, and explore themes of creativity, resilience, leadership, and personal agency. Timestamps: 0:01:15 — Preview 0:02:03 — Intro: Speaking in Aspen, open-source AI 0:10:12 — Welcome Gay Gaddis 0:13:32 — Losing her father at age 13, WW2 trauma, resilience, money lessons, cowgirl values, founding T3 0:32:24 — Dell, digital marketing, data, women's agency, AI fear, human creativity, love through loss 0:55:53 — UT leadership programs, values, diversity of thought, Austin business, AI medicine, women's health 1:09:42 — AI consciousness, the soul, near-death experiences, divine signs, presence after death, ancient wisdom 1:35:33 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - The AI Ten Commandments — Jamie Metzl, GPT-5 - Cowgirl Power — Gay Gaddis - The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers - Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) Links: “Love Conquers Fear” a USA TODAY bestseller: https://tinyurl.com/4u9fmwdd LCF episode #72 (Brett + Jamie Metzl speaking at Aspen Institute): https://youtu.be/LLSeOdJvcO8 Bill Gurley’s Washington Post op-ed on open-source AI: https://tinyurl.com/3pbp9ew2 March 2023 letter calling for pause in AI development: https://tinyurl.com/42se6998 Jensen Huang’s first X post backing open-source models: https://tinyurl.com/48f4pk8r Subscribe to Brett’s newsletter “The Superfecta Signal”: LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/2fzwfmtk Substack: https://tinyurl.com/mw66fus7 Gay Gaddis on Rachel Hurt’s “Radiant Resilience” podcast: https://tinyurl.com/3epr7h93 Capital Factory: https://capitalfactory.com/ Gay Gaddis’ UT Austin leadership program “Texas Trailblazers”: https://tinyurl.com/z82tthna Michael and Susan Dell giving over $1B to UT Austin: https://tinyurl.com/yd8zcfyz LCF episode #54 (part 2) with Sol Rashidi at Culturati Summit: https://youtu.be/mScAzD26mq0 Michael Collins’ documentary “INTUITION”: https://www.intuitionfilm.com/ Demis Hassabis’ TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/mmabm42d

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  Episode #73

  #73: Reinventing Construction: Robotics, 3D Printing & Building a More Human World — Jason Ballard

  Aug 11, 20261h 25mS1

  Order the Book! ► ⁠http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Jason’s path from conservation biology and sustainable building to founding ICON - How ICON is reinventing construction with robotics, software, advanced materials, and 3D printing - Building for everyone — from people experiencing homelessness to future communities on the Moon - Trusting intuition, holding the vision, and putting people where they can thrive - Why technology should expand human potential, restore beauty, and stay in service to humanity - Grief, prayer, and Jason’s profound spiritual experience after his wife crossed over - Jason’s belief in the Divine and an enduring soul, and the role of humility, gratitude, and love in human flourishing 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. Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/ Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/ Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/ Watch on: YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify Listen on: Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon About Jason Ballard: Jason Ballard is the co-founder and CEO of ICON, an Austin-based construction technology company using robotics, materials, software, and 3D printing to transform how we build. ICON’s work spans homes, neighborhoods, military and commercial structures, hospitality, and technologies for building on the Moon. Before ICON, Jason founded sustainable home-improvement company TreeHouse and worked in green building and homelessness services. Today, he is focused on making construction faster, more affordable, resilient, and beautiful while expanding access to better housing and building a more abundant future. Timestamps: 0:00:00 — Preview 0:00:50 — Intro: Pure Human, transhumanism, consciousness 0:05:30 — Welcome Jason Ballard 0:08:57 — Josh Baer's legacy, Austin's tech ecosystem, spirit of helping 0:26:53 — Trusting intuition, leading ICON, making hard decisions, grit, robotics, beauty, abundance 0:42:37 — AI optimism, human potential, 3D printing, nanotech, social media, tech responsibility, zero-sum thinking 0:59:28 — Nature of reality, the Divine, consciousness, ancient wisdom, selfless service, grief, the enduring soul 1:21:20 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - Pure Human — Gregg Braden - The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams - Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell and David Bentley Hart’s translations - Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) Links: ICON: https://www.iconbuild.com/ Capital Factory: https://capitalfactory.com/ Community First! Village: https://tinyurl.com/mryc8xbk World’s first 3D-printed community in Georgetown, TX: https://tinyurl.com/mtty6xf3 ICON’s contract with NASA for lunar construction system: https://tinyurl.com/3mj69kft LCF episode #54 (part 2) with Sol Rashidi at Culturati Summit: https://youtu.be/mScAzD26mq0 “Love Conquers Fear” a USA TODAY bestseller: https://tinyurl.com/4u9fmwdd Dario Amodei’s essay “The Adolescence of Technology”: https://tinyurl.com/235a2n3t Demis Hassabis' call for US-led body to oversee frontier AI models: https://tinyurl.com/3434b4mp Pope Leo’s first encyclical: https://tinyurl.com/3s9u2dwk Demis Hassabis on the quest for the nature of our reality: TED Talk: https://tinyurl.com/mmabm42d X post: https://tinyurl.com/yc4fcfnw “UNKNOWN: Cosmic Time Machine” documentary: https://tinyurl.com/mw58x5vm

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  Episode #71

  #71: Decoding Leadership (Part 1): Courage, Conscious Capitalism, and Leading With Heart

  Aug 4, 20261h 4mS1

  Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - The role of spirituality in shaping how leaders think about infinity, mortality, and the value of their limited time - Moving beyond comparison, competition, and self-doubt through gratitude and unconditional love - The concept of “World Positive Capitalism” and investing in companies that create meaningful value for society - Why bringing your whole self to leadership helps attract others who share your purpose and values - “Love Quotient” as a distinctly human capability that can’t be replicated by AI, automation, or robotics - Conscious capitalism as a model built around interconnected relationships among stakeholders - How synchronicity, transparency, service, and trust can help leaders move from fear to love 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. Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/ Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/ Watch on: YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify Listen on: Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon Timestamps: 0:01:19 — Intro: "Decoding" series, leading with love, optimism, USA TODAY bestseller 0:04:18 — Mike Maples Jr., spiritual openness, authentic leadership, trust, and fear 0:08:56 — Jesus, human rights, infinity, René Girard, AI, the soul, mimetic rivalry, gratitude, service, inner growth 0:23:23 — Vishal Vasishth, World Positive Capitalism, Obvious Ventures, Warren Buffett, values 0:26:51 — Companies that matter, planet/human/economic health, authenticity, manifesting love, Celestine Prophecy 0:37:32 — Michael Zeisser, Jack Ma, Love Quotient (LQ), love in business, consciousness awakening 0:41:18 — LQ, robots, consciousness shift, Eckhart Tolle, human evolution 0:46:22 — Carla Piñeyro Sublett, Warren Buffett, Goldman Sachs, financial crisis, conviction 0:50:08 — John Mackey, Whole Foods, the 1981 Austin flood and love, stakeholders, capitalism, resilience 1:02:19 — Closing reflections Watch the full episodes: - Episode 20 (Mike Maples Jr.): https://youtu.be/3yTyAyweLe8 - Episode 15 (Vishal Vasishth): https://youtu.be/SnyMeBqisy4 - Episode 14 (Michael Zeisser): https://youtu.be/PZ3NxSp8HBY - Episode 7 (Brett Hurt with Carla Piñeyro Sublett): https://youtu.be/rm64TvSYouc - Episode 30 (John Mackey): https://youtu.be/NUnkEuZwC4I Books mentioned in this episode: - The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield - Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach - Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield - The Seat of the Soul — Gary Zukav - A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle - Conscious Capitalism — John Mackey, Raj Sisodia Links: “Love Conquers Fear” on USA TODAY’s Best-selling Booklist: https://tinyurl.com/4u9fmwdd Pope Leo’s first encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas”: https://tinyurl.com/3s9u2dwk Follow Vishal Vasishth on LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4hu3sfkt Henry Crown Fellowship Program: https://tinyurl.com/3f7awp2e Culturati Summit: https://tinyurl.com/385fjvyu Carla Piñeyro Sublett’s “let’s go there” podcast: https://tinyurl.com/3cjf8cbh Conscious Capitalism: https://tinyurl.com/27bmytmp

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  Episode #70

  #70: What AI Can’t Replicate: The Irreducible Soul, Faith, and the Goodness of Creation — Doyt Conn

  Jul 28, 20261h 52mS1

  Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Doyt’s path from organized religion to meditation, God, and the priesthood - The meditation that took Doyt into the void and back to prayer, worship, and creation - Pastoral care at life’s sacred thresholds: birth, death, grief, illness, and transition - Lazarus as the beloved disciple and his resurrection as a near-death experience (NDE) that turns fear into love - The soul as God’s real estate, the equality of every person, and what AI can never replicate - AI, the internet, and technology as catalysts for a new awakening around what it means to be human - Why “NPC” thinking dehumanizes people made in God’s image 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. Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/ Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/ Watch on: YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify Listen on: Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon About Doyt Conn: Doyt Conn is the 10th Rector of Epiphany Parish Seattle, where he has served since 2008. Before becoming a priest, he helped deliver medicines and medical supplies into war zones and disaster areas with AmeriCares, then worked in mergers and acquisitions in industrial manufacturing. Today, his ministry brings together pastoral care, spiritual formation, scripture, worship, leadership, and public theology — helping people encounter God, practice gratitude, build authentic community, and live with less fear and more love. Timestamps: 0:00:57 — Preview 0:01:35 — Intro: USA TODAY bestseller, Gregg Braden 0:06:36 — Welcome Doyt Conn 0:09:47 — Love Conquers Fear, spiritual seeking, meditation, relief work, emptiness, God's presence 0:22:53 — Prayer, worship, the Eucharist, church as uncurated community, priesthood as service, Lazarus theory 0:45:43 — Lazarus as beloved disciple and his resurrection as NDE, spiritual awakening, AI, abundance 1:03:01 — Love in business, the soul, what AI can't replicate, human dignity, simulation theory, Desmond Tutu 1:25:42 — Soul equality, kindness, vulnerability, spiritual arrogance, reconciliation, relational God 1:48:32 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - Pure Human — Gregg Braden - Thank You for Smoking — Christopher Buckley - Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander - The Map of Heaven — Eben Alexander - God Has a Dream — Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrahms - The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli - Tao Te Ching — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - Bhagavad Gita — Stephen Mitchell (tr.) - The Whole Story — John Mackey Links: “Love Conquers Fear” on USA TODAY’s Best-selling Booklist: https://tinyurl.com/4u9fmwdd “ILLUSION” doc: https://tinyurl.com/4brr55w3 Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship Program: https://tinyurl.com/3f7awp2e Epiphany Seattle: https://tinyurl.com/bdddndsj Conscious Capitalism: https://tinyurl.com/27bmytmp Culturati Summit: https://tinyurl.com/385fjvyu “No, We Don’t Live in a Simulation” by Brett and Byron Reese: https://tinyurl.com/wfj88ztd Pope Leo’s first encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas”: https://tinyurl.com/3s9u2dwk Desmond Tutu memorial service: https://tinyurl.com/muwfdf2j “Buddha at the Gas Pump” podcast: https://tinyurl.com/66u4zyxc Doyt Conn’s sermon on Paul in Romans 7 on our 250th anniversary: https://tinyurl.com/ma69xw8j

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  Episode #69

  #69: Building Robots With Heart: The Next Great Technology Frontier — Jeff Cardenas

  Jul 21, 20261h 16mS1

  Order the Book! ► ⁠ http://loveconquersfear.org/book What you’ll hear in this episode: - Apptronik’s mission to build humanoid robots that help people live and work better - Why humanoid robots could become the next major platform after personal computers - Jeff’s lifelong search for meaning, purpose, and service to future generations - What we choose to do with technology once almost anything becomes possible - How robotics could expand abundance, caregiving, healthcare, and human freedom - Building robots with safety, reliability, heart, and humanity at the center - Synchronicity, dreams, prayer, music, creativity, and the mystery of human consciousness 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. Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/brettahurt Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/ Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/ Watch on: YouTube: http://tiny.cc/LCF-YT Spotify: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Spotify Listen on: Apple Podcasts: http://tiny.cc/LCF-Apple Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/LCF-Amazon About Jeff Cardenas: Jeff Cardenas is the co-founder and CEO of Apptronik, an Austin-based company building humanoid robots designed to work alongside people. He has spent his career thinking about how powerful technology can solve real human problems, from the future of work to healthcare, caregiving, and daily life. Through Apollo — Apptronik’s humanoid robot — Jeff and his team are working to build a future where AI doesn’t just live on screens, but shows up in the physical world in ways that are useful, safe, and deeply human-centered. Timestamps: 0:01:15 — Josh Baer 0:02:12 — Preview 0:03:04 — Intro: Brett’s new book, Mark Twain, Anthropic, SpaceX, “Cosmic Time Machine” doc 0:09:35 — Welcome Jeff Cardenas 0:12:14 — Search for meaning, Apptronik origins, humanoid robots as source of abundance and anxiety 0:19:33 — Helping people live better, improving caregiving, family influences, love of service 0:31:24 — Synchronicity and soulmates, prayer, following signs, mystery of consciousness 0:39:32 — Mystery of human experience, abundance and distribution, sacrifices of entrepreneurship 0:50:29 — Service as meaning of life, spiritual convergence, selfless love, meditation, infinite universe 1:01:47 — Space exploration, cosmic symbolism, creativity, prayer, leading with love 1:11:59 — Apptronik’s innovation, building safe and trustworthy robots with love to help humanity 1:14:23 — Closing reflections Books mentioned in this episode: - The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield - The AI Ten Commandments — Jamie Metzl - Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl - The Creative Act — Rick Rubin - A World Appears — Michael Pollan - Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander Links: Apptronik: https://apptronik.com/ “UNKNOWN: Cosmic Time Machine” doc: https://tinyurl.com/mw58x5vm Brett’s “Austin Tech Hall of Fame” induction speech: https://tinyurl.com/cpu97un5 Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech: https://tinyurl.com/2dcxf33n Dario Amodei’s essay “The Adolescence of Technology”: https://tinyurl.com/235a2n3t Anil Seth’s TED Talk on consciousness: https://tinyurl.com/465a9jyt

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