The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton

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What if great leadership requires more than IQ and EQ? In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Dr. Yosi Amram, psychologist, executive coach, and pioneer in developing our understanding of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ). Yosi offers a research-backed framework for translating spiritual values into practical action. Drawing on extensive empirical studies, Yosi shows how SQ predicts leadership effectiveness and personal well-being in ways traditional models miss.

 

And Yosi is not speaking only as an academic. Yosi held the record for the fastest promotion to captain in the history of his regiment in the Israeli Air Force.  He has taken two tech start-ups to IPO. He’s a man who knows how to lead.

 

We explore how to make spirituality accessible without dogma, how SQ helps leaders navigate complexity and suffering, and why meaning, purpose, and inspiration are no longer optional in modern work. Yosi also shares principles from his clinical and executive coaching work on how to lead with integrity, compassion, and presence.

 

We explore:

What SQ actually is

Spirit → action translation

Leadership + meaning + purpose

Beyond IQ and EQ

His recommendations for developing SQ

Links:
Yosi’s Website

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Is AI about to take over knowledge work? And what does that mean for the rest of us?

 

In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Alastair Moore, AI strategist and co-founder of ventures helping organisations navigate the machine intelligence revolution. Alastair argues that we’ve already crossed a threshold: AI isn’t just assisting knowledge workers — it’s now performing tasks at the frontier of research, science, and complex problem-solving.

 

We explore how large models are reshaping entire categories of white-collar work, why organisations are unprepared for the acceleration curve, and what skills will matter in a world where cognition becomes a shared capability between humans and machines. This is a grounded, practical, and sometimes unsettling conversation about the next decade of work.

 

We discuss:

AI at the scientific frontier

Automation of knowledge work

Human–machine complementarities

Skills for the post-GPT economy

Links:

DeepFlow - the company co-founded by Alastair

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Can energy healing be measured? And if so, what does it mean for medicine?

In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Dr. Shamini Jain, founder of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI) and one of the leading scientific voices bridging mind-body medicine and biofield science. Drawing on controlled laboratory studies on cells, tumors, animals, and humans, Dr. Jain explains why the evidence for biofield mechanisms can no longer be dismissed as placebo or wishful thinking.

 

We explore how ancient healing practices map onto modern physics, why the biomedical model struggles with subtle energy, and what a paradigm shift in healthcare could look like. This conversation sits at the frontier where science, spirit, and healing converge.

We discuss:

Evidence beyond placebo

What “biofield” actually means

Cancer and cell line studies

Why medicine must evolve

Links:
Dr. Jain’s Website

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What if love isn’t just an emotion — but the deepest truth of reality itself?

In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Dr. Stephen G. Post — bioethicist, medical humanities professor, and founder of the Institute for Research on Pure Unlimited Love. Drawing on decades of work in medicine, neuroscience, spirituality, and ethics, Stephen explores love as a lived practice, not a vague ideal.

 

Stephen shares extraordinary stories from medicine, caregiving, near-death research, and neuroscience, including a striking insight: pure unlimited love may be the first thing we encounter when life ends. We explore why modern education and culture often strip meaning from life, how service transforms suffering, and what it means to live aligned with a deeper calling.

 

A profound conversation about love, purpose, and what truly matters.

 

We explore:

Following your calling

All are suffering

Love tough vs the 'carefrontation'

Addressing the Nature Deficit Disorder

Pure unlimited love in the workplace

Links:
The Institute for Research on Pure Unlimited Love
Stephen’s Website

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Is modern education preparing us for the world we’re actually living in? Or is it accelerating our collapse? In this episode of Being Human, I’m joined by Jim Garrison, founder of Ubiquity University, to explore why today’s education system may be failing humanity at the deepest level.

 

Jim argues that Western education prioritises left-brain development: memorisation, analysis and knowledge acquisition, while neglecting ethics, inner growth, and wisdom. Drawing on philosophy, systems thinking, and decades of institutional leadership, he explains how this imbalance fuels ecological destruction, political instability, and moral drift. We explore what a new educational paradigm could look like. It includes somatic, creative, and experiential learning, along with the development of our rationality. Ultimately, it focuses on pursuing the good, the beautiful and the true. 

 

We discuss:

Why memorisation replaces wisdom

Education’s role in global crises

The loss of ethics and values

What transformative learning requires

Jim is a brilliant orator and true pioneer of a new educational paradigm.

Links:
Uniquity University