The Being Human Podcast with Richard Atherton
Being Human is for people who want go deep on what it means to be a human making a difference. We’ll discover how to be better humans at work and in life. We’ll explore leadership, relationships and how to make changes in ourselves and our environments. Nothing will be off limits. Welcome.
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#361 How I Cured My GI Issues in 3 Months – with Nora Rodden
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/</p> <p> </p> <p>What if many chronic symptoms - pain, IBS, migraines, fatigue, insomnia - aren’t caused by damage in the body, but by patterns in the brain?</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode of Being Human, Richard Atherton speaks with Nora Rodden, CEO and co-founder of the health app Nirvana. After being hit by a car during university, Nora developed chronic back pain that persisted for five years despite countless treatments and no obvious lasting damage in her body. Later, severe digestive issues and insomnia...
#360 Why Therapy Can Fail Us - with author of Conscious Uncoupling, Katherine Woodward Thomas
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/</p> <p> </p> <p>Why do the same painful patterns keep repeating in our lives, in love, work, and relationships?</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode of Being Human, Richard Atherton is joined by New York Times Best Selling Author Katherine Woodward Thomas. Katherine originated the concept of Conscious Uncoupling through her book of the same name. She’s the author of the huge hit Calling in The One and has just released What's True About You.</p> <p> </p> <p>Katherine shares how the stories we developed...
#359 Why Hope Is a Leadership Skill - Jen Fisher
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/</p> <p> </p> <p>Is hope naïve or is it the missing ingredient in modern leadership?</p> <p>In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Jen Fisher, former Chief Wellbeing Officer at Deloitte and author of Hope Is the Strategy. After experiencing severe burnout herself, Jen discovered that hope isn’t wishful thinking — it’s a measurable, actionable skill grounded in research.</p> <p>We explore why burnout may actually be a symptom of hopelessness, how leaders unintentionally kill hope through language and behaviour, and why cultivat...
#358 When Trust Breaks — And How to Repair It - Dennis Reina & Michelle Reina
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/<br> <br> <br> </p> <p>What happens when trust breaks down in relationships, in leadership, in organisations?</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode of Being Human, I speak with Dennis and Michelle Reina, founders of the Reina Trust Building® Institute and authors of Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace. Drawing on decades of research and lived experience, they explain why trust is far more fragile than most leaders realise, and why rebuilding it requires courage, accountability, and choice.</p> <p> </p> <p>We explore the three dimensions of trust...
#357 Creativity Is What Makes Us Human - Fredrik Haren
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/</p> <p> </p> <p>What if creativity isn’t a talent for the few, but the defining quality of being human?</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode of Being Human, I’m joined by Fredrik Haren, global creativity expert, speaker, and author of The World of Creativity. Fredrik has spent decades travelling the world studying where ideas come from and why modern organisations and education systems so often crush creative thinking.</p> <p> </p> <p>We explore why creativity has little to do with confidence, why having ideas bring...
#356 What Happens When the Self Disappears? - Ken Wilber
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/</p> <p> </p> <p>What actually happens when the sense of “self” disappears — and does it make you wiser?</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode of Being Human, I’m joined by Ken Wilber, one of the most influential philosophers of human development and the founder of Integral Theory, something which played a big role in my own intellectual development. Ken shares his early awakening experience, in which he experienced a complete dissolution of the separate self, and explains why spiritual awakening alone does not equal psychological maturity or et...
#355 The Leadership Intelligence Everyone Ignores - Yosi Amram
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/</p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>And Yosi is not speaking only as an academic. Yosi held the record for th...
#354 Most Human Knowledge Work Gone by 2030 - Alastair Moore
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/</p> <p> </p> <p>Is AI about to take over knowledge work? And what does that mean for the rest of us?</p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>We explore how large models are resh...
#353 The Science of Energy Healing - Dr. Shamini Jain
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/</p> <p> </p> <p>Can energy healing be measured? And if so, what does it mean for medicine?<br> <br> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>We e...
#352 Pure Unlimited Love - with Dr. Stephen G. Post
<p>▶️ Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/</p> <p> </p> <p>What if love isn’t just an emotion — but the deepest truth of reality itself?<br> <br> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>Stephen shares extraordinary stories from medicine, caregiving, near-death research, and neuroscience, including a...
