Books that Make the World Better

In this episode, host Jennifer Browdy talks with Dr. Craig Chalquist, a depth philosopher, psychologist and mythologist, Academic Program Director of Consciousness, Psychology and Transformation at National University, and author of more than 20 books of nonfiction and fiction.

Dr. Chalquist shares his interest in thrutopian or prosocial futurist fiction, and discusses several inspiring, thought-provoking novels he has written in this genre.

More about Craig Chalquist: https://www.chalquist.com

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In this episode, host Jennifer Browdy talks with Zoe Weil, co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education, and the author of eight books, including The World Becomes What We Teach, and her latest, The Solutionary Way.

Zoe's life work has been to open up the new field of humane education, which links human rights, environmental sustainability and animal protection. She created the first graduate program in solutionary-focused humane education, and has trained thousands of teachers at all levels to open up solutionary pathways for their students. Her new book makes this work accessible for people...

In this conversation, host Jennifer Browdy PhD talks with visionary Scottish author Manda Scott about her new Thrutopian novel, Any Human Power, which has been hailed as a ‘visionary and seismic’ mytho-political thriller.

Best known as the author of the Boudica: Dreaming series of historical novels, Manda was once a veterinary surgeon and is now a contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast and well as the co-creator of the Thrutopia Masterclass.

Her latest novel, Any Human Power, maps out routes across the ghost-lines of tomorrow, in the hope that huma...

In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, host Jennifer Browdy talks with Margaret Randall, author of more than 200 books of poetry and essays in English and Spanish, focusing with unwavering intensity on social and environmental justice.

Margaret turns 90 in December 2026, and she shares part of her remarkable life story here, as well as what she is doing now to continue to make the world better.

More on Margaret Randall: https://margaretrandall.org

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In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, host Jennifer Browdy talks with author and jeweler Linda Kaye-Moses about her new novel, The Argentera and the Takes of the Six Arabesques, a mystery that spans centuries, cultures, geographies as it weaves together the stories of generations of creative people from ancient India to Europe of the Middle Ages, to 20th century Venice and a cozy corner of New England.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Linda shares her creative process and the dedication to beauty and craft that has kept her at her jeweler's workbench and her...

Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy, the host of Books That Make the World Better, talks with positive psychologist Maria Sirois about her award-winning book The Generous Exchange, a collection of essays about the individual and collective benefits of the appreciation of beauty, goodness and excellence in the world around us.

More about the book: https://greenfirepress.com/books/the-generous-exchange/

More about Maria Sirois: https://www.mariasirois.com

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In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy talks with poet Anne Yeomans, who has been a psychotherapist for over 50 years. She has facilitated dialogue groups and sacred women’s circles for decades in both the US and Russia.

Anne is the co-founder of The Women's Well, an organization devoted to the healing and empowerment of women and girls and the reclaiming of the sacred feminine, which offered programs in the Boston area from 1994 to 2012, centered around essential questions in women’s spirituality: What do women experience as sacred? How...

In this episode of Books That Make the World Better, podcast host Jennifer Browdy PhD talks with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and the Everywomans Leadership Program, and the author of Nature, Culture & the Sacred, a Woman Listens for Leadership, a beautiful book about the wisdom and power of full-spectrum leadership.

More about Nina Simons: https://ninasimons.com

More about Bioneers: https://bioneers.org

More about Nature, Culture & the Sacred: https://greenfirepress.com/books/nature-culture-and-the-sacred-a-woman-listens-for-leadership/

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In this inspiring conversation, Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy talks with Hilary Giovale, author of Becoming A Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing and Repair.

Going deep and ranging widely, Hilary talks with Jennifer about her identity as a ninth-generation American settler whose ancestors benefitted from grants of stolen land, the stolen lives and labor of enslaved peoples, and systemic racism.

Becoming a Good Relative shares remedies for the debilitating shame that can overtake white Americans when we face our peoples’ colonial past and our current complicity with systemic white supremacy. It of...

Host Jennifer Browdy engages in deep conversation with author Leah Rampy about her book Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos. The book invites us to relax into the space of not knowing, where we can reconnect with our soul purpose for being on the Earth today, in such trying times.

As Leah writes: "We are on the threshold. We cannot return to the past. The future is not yet clear. Our responsibility is to listen for what is waiting to be born and to understand what we are called to midwife. Typical leadership is woefully insufficient...

Host Jennifer Browdy talks with leadership development coach and horse whisperer Kelly Wendorf, founder of the EQUUS Experience program, which she runs at her ranch in Sante Fe, New Mexico, and the author of Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living.

Since we live in rapidly changing times, our lives and our organizations need to be highly adaptive in order to thrive. Conventional approaches to living and leading are no longer effective for today’s challenges. New capacities of awareness, wisdom, and presence are now required, yet these cannot be learned in the sa...

Another inspiring author conversation hosted by Green Fire Press Publisher Jennifer Browdy, PhD.

“Get to China before it changes too much,” Mary was advised. It was 1982, and China was beginning to transform itself after years of isolation. When Mary, a seasoned Delta flight attendant, arrived in Hangzhou a year later, her life also began a major transformation. China became her passion—at times her nemesis and ultimately her teacher—as she returned year after year, decade after decade.

Her memoir, Butterfly Dreams, tells the story of how, through years of friendship and exploration, Mary came to disco...

Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy in conversation with Ojibwe Great Grandmother Mary Lyons, bearing witness to the events of early 2026 in her homelands of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Great Grandmother Mary Lyons is an Ojibwe Elder who holds space with the United Nations Indigenous Knowledge Holders and Wisdom-keepers of the seven regions of the world.

The author of Wisdom Lessons: Spirited Guidance from an Ojibwe Great-Grandmother (Green Fire Press, 2018), Mary Lyons is a documentarian and circle keeper of wellness, holding freedom for all close to her heart through her work as a spiritual advisor and storyteller.<...

Green Fire Press publisher Jennifer Browdy in conversation with Adrian Dubow and Laura Koffsky, authors of a memoir of the Covid years: Good Work, Grit and Gratitude: The Bittersweet Lessons of the Lemonade Generation.

Even in the sourest of times, there is still good to be found. This is one of the lessons of the pandemic and the ethos of the Lemonade Generation.

In this co-authored memoir, two veteran moms and partners in non-profit work watched as the world came to a halt and their adult sons moved back into their homes in March 2020. With...

In this inspiring conversation, Green Fire Press Publisher Jennifer Browdy talks with author and influential podcaster Manda Scott about why imagination plays a key role in changing our world for the better.

This interview is excerpted from a longer presentation recorded in December 2024 as part of the Humanity Rising Writing to Right the World Summit hosted by Jim Garrison of Ubiquity University.

Born in Scotland at 318ppm CO2, Manda Scott was once a veterinary surgeon and is now a novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast and well...

Listen in on a soul-stirring event: Jennifer Browdy in conversation with Penny Gill, author of the new book Radiant Heart of the Cosmos, in which a great teacher and her Teachers share wisdom and compassion that we desperately need now.

More about Penny Gill: https://www.pennygillwisdomteachings.org

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From the book:

"The cosmos—the en...

This interview is excerpted from a longer presentation recorded in December 2024 as part of the Humanity Rising Writing to Right the World Summit hosted by Jim Garrison of Ubiquity University.

More about Nina Simons: https://ninasimons.com

More about Bioneers: https://bioneers.org

More about Nature, Culture & the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership: https://greenfirepress.com/books/nature-culture-and-the-sacred-a-woman-listens-for-leadership/

More about Green Fire Press: https://greenfirepress.com

More about Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com

Nina Simons is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers and leads...

Another inspiring author interview hosted by Green Fire Press Publisher Jennifer Browdy, PhD.

This interview is excerpted from a longer presentation recorded in December 2024 as part of the Humanity Rising Writing to Right the World Summit hosted by Jim Garrison of Ubiquity University.

Maria Sirois, Psy.D. has spent more than three decades in the boardrooms of business, bedsides of the dying and everywhere in between to do one thing: offer the data, stories, tools and perspectives that enable us to cultivate resilience, health, wisdom and a greater capacity to lead ourselves and others well...

Host Jennifer Browdy talks with author Kathryn Girard about her new channeled book It Is Time: The Evolution of Earth and Humanity.

In It is Time, a group of spiritual and extraplanetary Teachers explain the transition to a higher plane of consciousness and existence currently underway on Earth, and how human beings who yearn for connection, kindness and love can continue to grow and find peace despite the dramatic changes on the planet. While at times it may feel like the dark forces of greed, corruption, rage and war are winning, the message here is that new...

A deep dive into the practice and rewards of contemplative memoir, with Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, author of the memoir Ley Lines of Love: Adventures Along the Spiritual Path (Green Fire Press, 2024), as well as Ten Thousand Joys, Ten Thousand Sorrows and Aging with Wisdom.

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle: https://www.oliviahoblitzelle.com

Jennifer Browdy: https://www.jenniferbrowdy.com

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