Better humans, better business, better planet
A podcast bringing ideas for happier, more balanced and fulfilling lives.
The Better Beings Podcast brings together innovative and diverse thinkers to discuss the key challenges facing humanity - from the worlds of business, creativity, spirituality and wider society.
We believe that a more human approach will unlock the future we need. Kinder connection - to ourselves and each other - is the starting point.
Better Beings is a home for diversity of thought and backgrounds and a safe space for authentic and challenging perspectives.
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Better humans, better business, better planet
A podcast bringing ideas for happier, more balanced and fulfilling lives.
The Better Beings Podcast brings together innovative and diverse thinkers to discuss the key challenges facing humanity - from the worlds of business, creativity, spirituality and wider society.
We believe that a more human approach will unlock the future we need. Kinder connection - to ourselves and each other - is the starting point.
Better Beings is a home for diversity of thought and backgrounds and a safe space for authentic and challenging perspectives.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Better business genius and spiritual leader John Featherby joins us to discuss the limits to materialism, a crisis of meaning and what spirituality means in the modern world.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE
QUOTES & SNIPPETS
“We’re in a meaning crisis. Spiritual Capital doesn’t ‘belong’ to big businesses. You cant import purpose, ritual, philosophical ideas etc”
“It’s a pattern and we’re all in one”
“Consumerism doesn’t provide the meaning people thought it would so they’ve gone looking for meaning in something else”
“All people have now IS their work - home - and hobby. People's lives have gone from many layers to work and home. Back in the day, people belonged to a community organisation, there were layers between the individual and the state that gave them meaning and a sense of grounding but we’ve stripped them out”
“Most of the stuff you read in these modern business books about purpose and good culture - they exist in all the great scriptures. We’ve had this stuff forever.”
REFERENCES
Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton
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