Mighty Pursuit Podcast

After a full year of being told AI was going to wipe out jobs, the collapse hasn’t happened.
At least not yet.
Unemployment hasn’t spiked. Most people still have their roles. On the surface, the economy looks familiar.
And that creates a strange tension. You’ve heard the warnings. You’ve felt the fear. But now you may be wondering if this is just another cycle of exaggerated tech panic. Maybe AI is like email or social media. Disruptive, yes. But not something that will replace you entirely.
Most people are sitting in that uncertainty right now. Waiting. Watching. Trying to figure out what’s real.
But history has a way of hiding the earliest cracks. Before the 2008 financial crisis, unemployment numbers didn’t collapse first. The warning signs showed up in places most people weren’t looking.
So the real question isn’t whether AI has replaced jobs yet.
It’s whether we’re watching the right indicators.
Is this stability real? Or is this the calm before the storm?
That’s why we sat down with Sinéad Bovell, one of the leading futurists working at the intersection of technology and society. She has spoken at the United Nations, been in rooms with the people building these systems, and hosts a global AI series with Microsoft.
What makes her rare is that she doesn’t just understand the tools. She understands the social, economic, and human shifts they create. And she has built a career helping people see inflection points before the rest of the world fully feels them.
If we’re misreading this moment, Sinéad is the person who can show us where the cracks actually are.
This conversation takes you behind the scenes of what’s coming, what most people are missing, and the practical insights you’ll need to navigate this year and the age ahead.
CHAPTERS:0:00 - Intro2:10 - The 2028 Timeline of Job Collapse15:58 - The Warning Signs of Big Change41:35 - Can This Technology Actually Replace Humans?1:13:51 - Are We Actually Powerless?1:24:32 - The Nine-To-Five Job Is Going Extinct1:57:57 - Big Tech Companies Aren’t Even Safe
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Think about the last time you felt invisible.
Maybe it was at work. Or in a social setting. Or while you were doing something for someone who barely noticed you were there.
For a lot of people, life starts to feel transactional. You’re treated well when you’re useful. Acknowledged when you’re needed. And quietly overlooked when you’re not. Maybe you’ve had the realization that many of your relationships feel like this — where being seen is conditional, and being ignored is the default.
What if this isn’t just bad manners or people having a rough day? What if we’re living inside an unspoken hierarchy — where people are valued based on their role, their status, and what they’re there to do for us? Not a caste system written into law or religion, but one enforced through everyday behavior.
Who gets celebrated. Who gets eye contact. Who gets respect.
Nowhere is this more visible than in the service industry, where entire groups of people are treated as interchangeable, easy to ignore, and even easier to dehumanize.
That’s why we sat down with Steve Fortunato. A pioneer in the hospitality world, Steve has spent years watching how people treat one another when power, money, and stress collide. He’s seen what this kind of invisibility does to individuals — and what it does to a culture that slowly learns to accept it as normal.
At our best, we’re most alive when we live beyond ourselves. Spiritual traditions have said this for centuries, and science now backs it up. In this episode, Steve helps us see how unspoken hierarchies block that way of living — how they show up in our work, our relationships, and our institutions.
But he doesn’t just name the problem. He shows us how it works. And then, he shows us a way out — one that restores dignity, presence, and freedom for both ourselves and the people around us.
Chapters:0:00 - Intro1:49 - The Social Hierarchy We Live In23:54 - Why We Feel Trapped By The System34:50 - Treating People As Tools or Threats44:02 - The Entitlement of Wealth, Fame & Power1:01:14 - How Powerful People Even Get Used1:07:42 - Escaping the Caste System1:26:46 - The Revolutionary Concept of Generativity1:37:13 - Embodying A Host Mindset
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You think you’re in control of your life. But most of the time, your emotions are making the decisions for you. You snap and immediately regret it. You shut down even though you wanted to say more. You feel overwhelmed, defensive, or numb — and don’t fully understand why.
All throughout the day, you have moments where a feeling takes over before you can even think. And over time, those moments add up. The way you respond to frustration, fear, shame, or anger doesn’t just affect how you feel in the moment — it quietly shapes your relationships, your work, your health, and the direction your life takes.
Without the tools to regulate what’s happening inside you, you become a passenger in your own life. Living with regret instead of intention.
That’s why we sat down with Dr. Marc Brackett — the world’s leading expert on emotional intelligence. He’s the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and one of the most cited emotion researchers alive.
In this episode, you’ll discover how to get back in the driver’s seat of your life. If you want to feel more in control of your reactions, more grounded in your decisions, and more aligned with the life you’re trying to live, this conversation is for you.
Chapters:0:00 - Intro1:51 - How We Became Emotional Infants23:29 - Dysfunctional Ways To Deal With Emotions33:13 - When Emotion Overtakes Us49:00 - How Bad Moods Destroy Our Decision Making57:41 - Emotions Are Not Your Identity1:12:30 - Emotions Are Information & Data1:32:26 - Every Emotion Requires A Different Response1:55:44 - The Plane Incident
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In the entire existence of our company, we've never made a public statement about politics.
Not because it wasn't relevant to what we do. We are a company focused on wellbeing — mentally, physically, and spiritually. And the way we engage with politics has a profound impact on all three. 
It shapes whether people live in fear or in hope. Whether they relate to each other through love or through hate. Whether society feels connected or like it's turning into tribal warfare.
But our thinking has never mapped cleanly onto a single political framework. We've consistently found ourselves agreeing with certain things and strongly disagreeing with others — across both sides. And over time, the more tribal things became, the more alienated we felt from it.
Until we started to wonder whether that was by design.
So we started looking into it.
And what we found changed how we see everything. Because the more we dug in, the more we realized that a lot of what we're seeing in modern politics follows very specific psychological patterns. Patterns that look surprisingly similar to the dynamics researchers use to describe high-control groups. Cults.
That's not a metaphor or an exaggeration. 
The people who study cults and the people who study politics are now citing each other's work. Because independently — across decades of research, across cultures, across countries — they've arrived at the same mechanisms.
And those mechanisms are operating on all of us. Right now.
Not just in the United States. You can see versions of this in France, the UK, Brazil, India. The specific issues change. The underlying playbook doesn't.
This episode is what we found. A research-backed breakdown of the four phases of political brainwash, the seven psychological tactics being used at scale across every major democracy, and the nine signs that you've already been affected — whether you know it or not.
This is not about telling you what to think. It's about showing you how thinking itself is being shaped. 
And once you see it, you won't be able to unsee it.
Chapters:0:00 - How We Got Here4:33 - Phase 1 (Emotional)5:08 - Find What You Care About12:18 - Put On The Savior Complex20:32 - Phase 2 (Social)20:43 - Create Us Vs. Them27:23 - Build The Shared Story32:29 - Phase 3 (Cognitive)32:46 - Create The Illusion of Progress38:44 - Force The Narrative40:58 - Phase 4 (Systemic)41:45 - Accelerate The Brainwash45:47 - Likelihood You’ve Been Brainwashed56:45 - Taking Back Your Mind
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Everyone knows someone who has been touched by cancer — a parent, a friend, a colleague. Maybe it's even you. And for most of us, the story we've inherited about cancer is this: it's an older person's disease, something that happens to people who didn't take care of themselves, something that — if you do the right things — you can largely avoid.
But that story is fracturing.
In November 2024, James Van Der Beek announced that he had been privately battling stage III colorectal cancer. He was forty-six when he was diagnosed. He'd been eating organic, doing cold plunges, exercising — and had no idea anything was wrong until a change in his bowel habits made him finally ask for a colonoscopy. He fought for over two years. In December 2025, he appeared on the Today show and said he felt good. Six weeks later, he was gone.
And his story is not the exception. Chadwick Boseman passed away at forty-three. Kate Middleton was diagnosed at forty-two. Just a couple of months ago, Tatiana Schlossberg — JFK's granddaughter — died at thirty-five.
The numbers behind these stories are staggering. From 1990 to 2019, early-onset cancer rates rose nearly eighty percent globally. One in two people will receive a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. This isn't a distant threat — it's the most personal health reality of our time.
So what is actually happening? How much of this is lifestyle, and how much is just bad luck? In this episode, we go all the way into it with two of the most respected doctors you'll find anywhere on this topic.
Dr. William Li is one of the world's leading cancer researchers. He helped develop over forty treatments that are actively changing outcomes for patients right now. He has also watched someone he loves face a stage IV diagnosis and be told by her doctor there was nothing left to do. He didn't accept that. She is alive today because of it.
Dr. Dawn Mussallem spent over two decades as an integrative oncologist at Mayo Clinic. She has sat with hundreds of people at every stage of this disease. She has also been one of them. In her mid-twenties, three months into medical school, she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer and given months to live. That was twenty-five years ago, and she is still here, healed.
If there are two people on earth who can tell you what you actually need to know about cancer, it's the two people in this conversation.
Chapters:0:00 - Intro2:17 - The Nine3:35 - Why Young People Are Getting Cancer11:30 - Cancer is Mostly Lifestyle (Not Genes)1:08:01 - Stage Four Cancer Can Be Reversed1:40:38 - Screening for Cancer Is Critical
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We're living in the era of sexual freedom or at least, that's the story we were told. Have sex whenever you want, with whoever you want, as much as you want. As long as there's consent, you're fine. That became the new moral baseline, and many of us embraced it. We swiped, experimented and called it empowerment. 
But privately, the results haven't always matched the promise.
If you're a woman, you may have felt that tension most clearly. Moments that were technically consensual, but left you wondering why something still felt off. Because consent was supposed to solve everything — but consent only answers one question: "Was this allowed legally?" 
It doesn't ask: "Was this wise? Was this safe? Was this actually good for me?" So here's the uncomfortable possibility: what if the framework we were given was incomplete? What if freedom, without a deeper ethic, leaves people navigating something far more complicated than we expected?
If there's anyone who stepped into that tension early, it's Louise Perry. She was one of the first feminists to publicly ask whether the sexual revolution had actually made women happier — not from outside the movement, but from within it. Her book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, didn't just get attention. It became one of the most talked-about texts of the decade, igniting international debate and forcing a serious reconsideration of what "sexual liberation" actually means. Because it said something many women were already thinking — but weren't sure they were allowed to say out loud.
Nothing is off-limits. We talk about orgasms, hookup culture, and the environments we've normalized, as well as the ones we left behind. Some of what she says may shock you. Some of it may convict you. But if we're serious about living well, this conversation is unavoidable.
Chapters0:00 - Intro2:13 - The Nine3:32 - Women Are Conflicted About Sex15:29 - The Emergence of “Sexual Empowerment”36:00 - Major Flaws in Today’s Narratives1:02:54 - How Men & Women Are Different1:22:09 - Grandma’s Sex Culture Wasn’t All Bad1:33:19 - How Sexual Repression Be Empowering1:42:27 - The Social Cost Of A Higher Standard
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Masculinity has become radioactive.
It’s one of the most polarizing forces in modern culture. Families fracture over it, politics feeds on it and entire online ecosystems monetize it. And no one seems to agree on what it is anymore.
If you’re a woman, you may feel fatigue from patterns that don’t seem to change. And if you’re a man, you may feel disoriented. Pulled between two extremes. Told you’re dangerous if you’re strong. Told you’re weak if you’re sensitive. Unsure whether to soften or harden.
For a moment, the phrase “toxic masculinity” felt like progress. It named real harm. But critique without construction creates a vacuum — and vacuums don’t stay empty.
When masculinity was dismantled without being rebuilt, something predictable happened. The pendulum swung back. The loudest voices reclaimed the conversation — charismatic, certain, and unapologetic. Offering simple frameworks for a complicated world.
And men of every age have been drawn in. Not because they’re villains, but because they’re searching for something solid.
So the question isn’t whether masculinity is broken. It’s whether we can define it — and live it — in a way that strengthens men, honors women, and becomes a healing force in the world.
That’s why we sat down with Terry Crews.
For more than two decades, he’s been one of the most recognizable figures in Hollywood. The star of major action franchises like The Expendables. A physique synonymous with strength. By every cultural measure, he is the prototype of the strong man.
But what makes Terry different is that he didn’t just perform masculinity. He lived its extremes. The rage, the control and the caricature of toughness.
And then — he dismantled it. Over the last decade, he’s been confronting what masculinity actually is. Because if masculinity is going to be rebuilt, it won’t be rebuilt in theory. It will be rebuilt by men who have embodied it — and are willing to offer a better story.
The cameras have followed Terry Crews for years.
This conversation is about what happened when the cameras were off.
CHAPTERS:0:00 - Intro2:11 - The Kiss That Changed Everything13:55 - “Toxic” Masculinity Is A Polarizing Term27:17 - The Emergence of the Manosphere48:05 - What Men Are Wrestling With1:11:10 - Why Men Have So Much Anger 1:26:32 - When Terry Chose Not To Fight A Man1:36:42 - The Ultimate Definition of Masculinity1:53:26 - How Men Treat Women2:05:41 - A Warning To The Manosphere
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Everywhere you turned in 2025, it was the same headline.
AI will replace 50% of jobs. 70% of jobs. White-collar work won’t survive the decade. If not now, then soon.
You were told your industry might disappear. Your skillset might expire. Your role might be automated. Even if you tried to brush it off, it still created a quiet kind of fear. Is my job safe? Is this overblown? Am I about to become irrelevant?
So now you wait and watch, trying to figure out what’s real and what’s hype. And you’re not alone. Everyone feels like they’re in a holding pattern — caught between a technological revolution and a narrative that may be moving faster than reality itself.
What most people don’t realize is that the same fears driving this conversation are also driving capital. Over the last five years, more than $1.8 trillion has flowed into AI.
Which raises a deeper question: are we watching the future unfold, or are we watching the most powerful hype cycle in modern history?
That’s why we sat down with Bill Gurley.
For decades, he’s been at the center of the biggest shifts in Silicon Valley — not watching from the outside, but inside the rooms where they were unfolding. As an early investor in Uber and billionaire, he built a reputation not for chasing trends, but for understanding how technology reshapes markets, labor, and incentives at their core.
In this conversation, he helps us separate what’s real from what’s exaggerated — and what it actually means for how we work going forward.
Think of this episode as a survival guide for the coming age.
Chapters0:00 - Intro2:17 - The Manufacturing of A.I. Fear10:57 - The Truth About How A.I. Impacts Jobs25:59 - Breaking Down Elon Musk’s Prediction29:52 - Protect Your Future With This Strategy48:38 - The Illusion of Any Job Being Safe54:34 - Don’t Look At Other People As Competition1:04:46 - The Unique Value Of People vs. A.I.1:24:22 - A Final Word For The Coming Age
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For the last sixty years, psychedelics have been in exile. After the cultural fallout of the 1960s, serious research shut down. Funding evaporated, careers were quietly derailed and what had once been a legitimate scientific inquiry was pushed to the margins. 
Labeled reckless, irresponsible, even dangerous.
And most of us inherited that conclusion without ever examining it. Psychedelics were party drugs— nothing more than a hallucination. A cultural mistake we took care of decades ago.
But over the last thirteen years, something shifted. Labs reopened, clinical trials restarted and peer-reviewed journals filled with data no one could ignore. Every substance went back under the microscope — psilocybin, DMT, MDMA, LSD, Ayahuasca and more.
And what researchers have found is seismic. In the coming decades, this will become one of the defining frontiers of science with implications that reach far beyond the lab.
At the center of this resurgence is Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris.
Film has the Oscars, music has the Grammys and sports has the Hall of Fame. However imperfect the comparison, in science, the closest equivalent is something called an h-index — a measure of how often a researcher’s work is cited by other scientists.
Robin’s is 95.
For context: 20 is good, 40 is outstanding, and anything above 60 is typically reserved for Nobel-level scientists.
Most researchers would dream to reach 95 by the end of a long career. Robin reached it at forty-five years old. One of the fastest rises in modern scientific history.  So when it comes to the revival of psychedelic science, he hasn’t just participated— he has defined it. 
And for that reason, TIME named him among the people most poised to shape the future. In today's episode, he’s here to lay out the truth, revealing why psychedelics have already changed millions of lives.
Because the fallout from this research is massive. People diagnosed with severe trauma suddenly breaking free. Treatment-resistant depression reversing course. Conditions once described as chronic, incurable and lifelong.
And that’s not the only disruptive part. In controlled studies, self-identified atheists are reporting experiences powerful enough to completely change their worldview — at rates that far exceed what we typically see inside traditional religious settings. It’s clear something big is happening, so it's time to get into it.
Chapters0:00 - Intro3:12 - Patient Zero12:40 - The Explosion of Psychedelic Research28:57 - Why Psychedelics Got A Bad Reputation54:44 - How Psychedelics Transform The Brain1:07:06 - Mystical Experiences & Other Dimensions1:48:43 - The Differences Between Each Psychedelic2:06:15 - Psychedelics On Cusp of Legalization2:15:52 - Major Risks of Psychedelics

The Body Keeps the Score.
The book was published twelve years ago. And yet here we are — it’s 2026, and it’s still sitting on bestseller lists week after week. Not just in psychology. Across all categories.
It has become one of the bestselling books of the modern era. And it didn’t just contribute to the trauma conversation — it defined how an entire generation understands it.
Chances are, you’ve encountered it. Maybe you’ve read it. Maybe someone sent you a quote from it. Maybe its language changed how you understand your own story.
Even if you’ve never opened the book, you’ve felt its impact. Trauma is no longer a clinical term. It’s part of everyday conversation.
But something happened along the way.
As trauma entered the mainstream, nuance didn’t always come with it. Complex biology got reduced to slogans. Healing became aesthetic. Language spread faster than understanding. Truth mixed with myth — and for some people, that confusion has kept them stuck.
Which raises a bigger question: what did we get right? What did we get wrong? And what has the science uncovered since the book was first written?
The man behind the book, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, joins us to revisit these questions.
And he’s not alone.
With him is Dr. Frank Anderson. For two decades, Frank worked inside Bessel’s trauma center — learning, practicing, and refining the science at its source. In many ways, he represents the next chapter of this work. In recent years, his rise has been dramatic, helping bring trauma research into a new generation and a new cultural moment.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is not at the beginning of his career. He’s in its final chapter.
As his public appearances have become more selective, conversations like this have become rare. It’s one of the last opportunities to hear him step back and reflect — not just on what trauma is, but where this work must go next.
Alongside Dr. Anderson, they lay out what may amount to a blueprint for the coming age of trauma healing.
And some of what they say may surprise you.
Chapters:0:00 - Intro2:22 - Sign Up For The Nine3:37 - A Typical Story of Trauma15:04 - Reducing Trauma To Slogans & Myths26:32 - How Trauma Changes The Brain40:48 - Trauma Leads To Physical Illness55:03 - Survival Strategies 1:15:15 - New 2026 Breakthroughs1:30:55 - Psychedelics1:38:14 - EMDR1:42:58 - Why Talk Therapy Can Fail1:53:26 - Trauma Caused By Parents & Family2:06:03 - Bessel’s Final Word on Trauma
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