Awkward Insights with Deb Helfrich: Philosopher
Episode 29 of the Own Your Awkward podcast, hosted by Andy Vargo, titled "Awkward Insights with Deb Helfrich: Philosopher" was published on August 9, 2019 and runs 30 minutes.
August 9, 2019 ·30m · Own Your Awkward
Summary
Deb Helfrich has been on a lifelong journey to learn how to best use our thinking equipment. After earning a degree in Philosophy from Carnegie Mellon, she worked as a software consultant for two decades making sure that HR systems worked impeccably to ensure employee's paychecks landed in their bank accounts at the precise moment the money was relied on. Bridging communication canyons between HR and IT was a piece of cake compared to her 2nd career - bridging the hostile suspension detente between western and woo-woo knowledge systems. As a Wellbeing Philosopher, she is on a mission to surface the hidden presumptions in the ‘western scientific tradition’ that are killing life, because of a foundational lack of context. She wholeheartedly believes the next frontier for humanity is unlocking the potential of consciousness as transduced through the instrument of the human body. We can easily fix our most intractable problems via trust, respect, honoring our physiological needs, placing our species as a mammal in its proper evolutionary logic context, and re-establishing connection and collaboration as the core of sustainable life-generating activities - even making a profit becomes dynamic when we start by caring for life. Find Deb online: https://www.insightsoccur.com Her corporate workshop offering > https://www.insightsoccur.com/strategy-packages/wellbeing-philosophy-mindfulness-inclusivity-training Get merch, join a course and more! Check out all the ways you can support this show and host at: https://linktr.ee/OwnYourAwkward For more information on how you can Own Your Awkward with Andy Vargo, check out https://www.awkwardcareer.com/ #podcast #awkward #ownyourawkward #acceptance #authentiicity #motivation #inspiration
Episode Description
Deb Helfrich has been on a lifelong journey to learn how to best use our thinking equipment. After earning a degree in Philosophy from Carnegie Mellon, she worked as a software consultant for two decades making sure that HR systems worked impeccably to ensure employee's paychecks landed in their bank accounts at the precise moment the money was relied on. Bridging communication canyons between HR and IT was a piece of cake compared to her 2nd career - bridging the hostile suspension detente between western and woo-woo knowledge systems.
As a Wellbeing Philosopher, she is on a mission to surface the hidden presumptions in the ‘western scientific tradition’ that are killing life, because of a foundational lack of context. She wholeheartedly believes the next frontier for humanity is unlocking the potential of consciousness as transduced through the instrument of the human body. We can easily fix our most intractable problems via trust, respect, honoring our physiological needs, placing our species as a mammal in its proper evolutionary logic context, and re-establishing connection and collaboration as the core of sustainable life-generating activities - even making a profit becomes dynamic when we start by caring for life.
Find Deb online: https://www.insightsoccur.com
Her corporate workshop offering > https://www.insightsoccur.com/strategy-packages/wellbeing-philosophy-mindfulness-inclusivity-training
Get merch, join a course and more! Check out all the ways you can support this show and host at: https://linktr.ee/OwnYourAwkward
For more information on how you can Own Your Awkward with Andy Vargo, check out https://www.awkwardcareer.com/
#podcast #awkward #ownyourawkward #acceptance #authentiicity #motivation #inspiration
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