Self-improvement Episodes

Sept. 10, 2024

Psychological Fragility

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Dana Klisanin, a psychologist, futurist, and author. They discuss coping mechanisms for existential risk worries and events, including engaging in r...

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Dec. 14, 2021

How Executives Handle Crisis

In episode 129 of the podcast, the topic is How Executives Handle Crisis. Our guest is Stephynie Malik (@stephyniemalik), Host, Spin It podcast, Founder, Smalik Enterprises. In this conversation, they talk about how Stephynie came to do what she does …

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April 20, 2021

Workforce, Humanity, and Future Tech

Alexandra Levit, 8x author, speaker, and career expert, interviewed by Trond Undheim, futurist and author. In this conversation, we talk about the future of careers and strategic HR. We discuss a recent book by Levit: Humanity Works: merging tech and …

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March 16, 2021

Performance Food

Luci Gabel, Nutritionist, Adjunct Professor at San Jose State University, and author of Eat to Lead, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about Luci's own path to healthy eating. We go …

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Jan. 21, 2021

The Future of Personal Development

Nick Jankel, transformational futurist, the CEO and co-founder of Switch On, and author of the new book Now Lead The Change, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about The Personal Development Market. VUCA (volatil...

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Nov. 24, 2020

The Future of Peer-to-Peer

Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation and co-author of Peer-to-Peer: The Commons Manifesto, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, we talked about how the world may have reached a tipping point where the balance betwee...

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Nov. 17, 2020

The Urgency of a Social-Emotional Learning Fix

Shai Fuxman, Project Director at Education Development Center (EDC), interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about what’s the big deal with social and emotional learning. They cover the tremendous measurable benefits ...

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Nov. 17, 2020

Living the Future of Work

Gary Bolles, Chair for the future of work at Singularity University, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about how organizations try to channel human energy-but still need processes and practices, that can become ...

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Oct. 1, 2020

One Woman’s Empowerment Quest to help One Million

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Savi Barrowes, host of the Dream Big and Live Free podcast. In this conversation, which I initially had planned as a prep call, we instead dove straight in. We talked about Savi’s path to empowerment, …

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Aug. 17, 2020

The Future of K-12 Education

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jeff Wetzler, co-founder at Transcend Education, a nonprofit leading the way in holistic school design. They talk about learning science, the necessary leaps to make towards 21st century learning, as well as the imp...

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Aug. 12, 2020

Pandemic Aftermath: Introduction

In this episode, the topic is Pandemic Aftermath: How Coronavirus Changes Global Society. Trond Undheim reads from the introduction to his eponymous book which was published by Atmosphere Press in June, 2020. The first portion of the book is non-fiction....

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July 29, 2020

Disruption Games: How to Thrive on Serial Failure--Introduction

Futurist and author Trond Arne Undheim reads from the introduction to his book Disruption Games: How to Thrive on Serial Failure which was published by Atmosphere Press in May, 2020. The takeaway is that taking part in disruption games, just …

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