Hello and happy 2025, friends. This is the first episode in a series of episodes on how to live in 2025, focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions we need to thrive, develop, create, and resist.

At the end of each of these episodes, I'll offer an exercise, a thought exercise, a spiritual exercise, or a practical exercise, that brings

an experiential dimension to what I and the show guests talk about. That way, you won't

only be participating by listening, but you can actually bring some of the vitality of the

conversations forward into your world. As 2025 begins, it does feel like we're heading into uncharted territory.

It's an unilluminated path, which cannot be navigated using the cultural, political, and economic

tools and structures that we're used to. I think more importantly, we don't want to just make our

way through. We want to improve things as we go.

We want to deliver ourselves, each other, and everyone into a future that's beautiful and

creative, a future where we're able to follow out our own genuine interest into our talents

and into the living out of our karma.

We want to act not just against disasters, but in ways that create good, good that works

for ourselves as individuals and at the same time does not clash with the good we offer

to the rest of the world.

In other words, what I'm talking about

is spiritual development rather than self-development. Survival tools that don't dead-end us

and staying alive, but assist us in nourishing each other and the world and our inner lives

and each person's development.

That's why I'm offering this series of episodes on How to Live.

The theme and action of this episode is Envision, and my guest is Rob Hopkins.

Before I talk about the theme and the guest, I just want to put it out there that this

show is only going for almost seven years now and up to 300 episodes because people who

...