“A psychiatrist and a bartender walk into a podcast…” It sounds like the set-up for a joke, and while today’s episode offers a number of laughs, the underlying message is significant.

On today’s show, you’ll meet Liam Ellerby, the founder of The Curious Forge, a vibrant art center and maker space in Nevada City, California. An “artistic, technical and industrial playground,” the community comprises builders, tinkerers, artists and professionals who love to make.

Dr. Fred is joined on today’s episode with media relations professional Ben Cooke for a thought-provoking conversation. Ben Cooke brings a rare blend of creative talent and business savvy to communications strategy. Drawing from his background in production and public relations, his keen understanding of new media, and his business know-how, Cooke thrives at helping clients rethink and revitalize their businesses.

Today’s episode features entrepreneur, mentor, and activist Richard Million Burke, Jr. Richard recently founded ServeOne, a non-profit that combines youth leadership development programs with community service opportunities to help youth develop purpose and passion by seeing the positive impact they can have on the planet.

Sarah Marshall, ND, is a Naturopathic Physician, intuitive healer, and co-author of Food That Grows: A Practical Guide to Health and Healing. A visionary and pioneer in the transformation of Health Care, Dr. Marshall is the founder of a health coaching and consulting business designed to empower doctors, healers, business owners and organization leaders to heal their bodies and Master their Health so they can get back to transforming their communities and the world.

Dr. David Hanscom is an orthopedic complex spinal deformity surgeon who was based in Seattle, WA. He quit his practice and is on a mission to re-introduce true healing into medicine. Dr. Hanscom believes that doctors should spend quality time with their patients so they can listen and understand their situation. His most recent book is Do You Really Need Spine Surgery? Take Control With a Spine Surgeon's Advice.

If you’ve listened to this podcast before, you may have asked yourself, “Why Welcome To Humanity? What’s up with that?” Today’s show switches things up, as Welcome To Humanity producer Ryan Levesque invites Dr. Fred to the guest seat to explore the underlying philosophy and ethos driving his work as a psychiatrist, coach, and podcast host.

Today’s inspiring guest is Jerrie Ueberle, founder of the nonprofit World Academy for the Future of Women (WAFW), a bold and daring leadership program focused on developing young women for leadership roles that address and achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).

Toward the end of today’s episode, our guest Andrea Fono describes herself as someone who offers “beauty and distraction from the normalcy of life,” along with “a little silliness and delirium.” As an internationally recognized professional artist who works with various mediums, that’s perhaps a good of a way as any to introduce her.

Harvey Ruderian is a Rolfer with a full-time practice in Santa Monica, CA. After experiencing a series of transmutational healings and transformational awakenings, he enrolled in massage school in 1971 and began a lifelong journey as a student and practitioner of the healing arts.

Today’s guest, Mitch Jackson, describes himself as a husband, father, involved member of the community... and trial lawyer—in that order.

As a young girl, Stephanie Ray was drawn to the Earth – the smell, the feel and what it offered. Surrounded by its beautiful plant life and rich smells is where she felt most at home. Eventually this comfort enticed her search for a deeper appreciation of all the Earth had to offer. It was in this search that she came to find Chinese Medicine.

While many of us have faced challenges since the onset of COVID-19, today’s guest has experienced an onslaught of losses in the past several weeks, beginning with contracting Coronavirus, then unknowingly passing it to his father, who ended up dying from it. Add to that the end of a five year relationship, and the death of a beloved pet, and you’ll get to see a picture of how the last couple of months have gone for John Marshall Roberts.

There are a lot of ways Rita Tucker Williams could define herself. Tellingly, she chose to kick off today’s conversation defining herself as “someone who thinks that her life belongs to the community.”

Today’s fascinating guest is the daughter of the President and Founder of the Sheraton hotel chain, and wife of the late Frank Perdue, second generation of the famed poultry company that today operates in more than 50 countries. An entrepreneur herself, Mitzi founded CERES Farms in 1974, a vineyard selling grapes to some of today’s most well-known wine brands.

In 2019, Mitizi attended a lecture about human trafficking that deeply troubled her. With a desire to be part of the solution to this atrocity, she went on that same year to found an organization called Win This Fight.

Sean Rimokh is the founder of Zen House. His mission is to co-create high-impact and sustainable communities consisting of leaders, entrepreneurs and creatives through powerful authentic sharing, listening and connecting.

Sean is a solution-oriented professional with experience in operations management in the fashion and tech world. He’s a self-described “mega advocate of personal growth” and has worked with transformational and non-profit organizations throughout his twenties. In addition to running Zen House, he’s also pursuing a Masters in Applied Psychology at University of Southern California.

Kathy Fedori is the Founder and President of Canadian production company Starcastle Projects and regularly contributes as a media writer and producer. She also leads others in healing arts such as Qigong and she’s an advocate of bringing female voices to the table. Kathy is known as someone who brings peace, happiness, and a new relatedness to all in her world.

Kathy's commitment is to a world where everyone has a spectacular life with every breath in every scene, to the very last breath. She describes herself as “tenacious and occasionally charming.” She creates authentic glimpses into bright stories for the screens and pages from the “Wild West” of Canada.

Crystal Dwyer Hansen is an international transformational life coach, clinical hypnotherapist, author, and speaker with an incredible desire to help others discover the most extraordinary version of themselves.

Together with her husband, Mark Victor Hansen, she co-authored Ask!: The Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny, which reveals the “secret art of asking.” Crystal joins the show today to speak about her new book, and also to reflect upon the many challenges humanity faces today, and how “being a force for good” sits at the heart of solving them.