Hi, We’re Mike Gilliland and Euvie Ivanova.
Our work with Future Thinkers is our ongoing journey in thinking about the future of humanity, speaking with brilliant thinkers, reading hundreds of books, working as entrepreneurs, living with different cultures around the world, and practising personal transformation for over 15 years.
Future Thinkers started as a conversational podcast between just the two of us at the end of 2013. Over the years, it grew into everything it is today – podcasts, videos, courses, community, talks, events, and all the projects we are currently building.
Everything we do with Future Thinkers is centered around our goal of helping people wake up, evolve, and adapt to a changing world.
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From LinkedIn:
I co-host a podcast about technology, society, and consciousness. FutureThinkers.org. We talk about blockchain technologies, the technological singularity, artificial intelligence, meditation, future societies, and how we will be affected by the exponential curve of progress.
From Future Thinkers:
Mike Gilliland grew up in Western Canada and studied audio and video production at the Art Institute of Vancouver. He has a 10+ year background in the multimedia industry and is a jack of all trades when it comes to multimedia production and digital storytelling. He has been involved in online businesses for just as long and has started several companies. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to audiobooks, deep-diving into really obscure subjects, playing Minecraft, wearing neck pillows, and spilling coffee. He is an INTJ.
From Future Thinkers About page:
Euvie Ivanova grew up in a small town in Russia during the Perestroika era and immigrated to Canada as a teenager. She has a lifelong background in creative arts, and in the past was a freelance photographer, fashion designer, and worked in the film industry. She studied Psychology and Liberal Arts at the University of British Columbia and the University of Copenhagen. She has been working in online business for 8 years, mainly focused on media and marketing. In her spare time, she enjoys meditation, reading, drawing, doing yoga, and spending time in nature. Euvie speaks 3 languages fluently. She is an ENFP.
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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
Village Update: First Year On The Land
Published on: 24 Apr 22 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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We've officially started the Smart Village project!
Published on: 19 Aug 21 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Concepts for the Future Thinkers SEED Smart Village NFT
Published on: 17 Aug 21 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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NFTs to Plant Trees – Seeds of the Smart Village
Published on: 27 May 21 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Future Thinkers is dropping an NFT to fund a Smart Village in BC Canada
Published on: 26 May 21 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Geocaching Adventure
Published on: 21 May 21 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Smart Village Update
Published on: 28 Apr 21 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Rites of Passage Q&A with Michael Meade
Published on: 25 Feb 21 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Building an Intentional Community – Miriam Martineau
Published on: 11 Feb 21 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Smart Village Summit powered by Future Thinkers and RegenVillages
Published on: 27 Jan 21 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Jim Rutt – How to Transition to a GameB Society
Published on: 8 Dec 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Indigenous Thinking in Times of Transition – Tyson Yunkaporta and Megan Kelleher
Published on: 27 Nov 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Collaborative Governance & Self-Organising Q+A w/ Richard Bartlett
Published on: 23 Nov 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Bootstrapping Startup Societies Q+A w/ Mark Frazier
Published on: 23 Nov 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Q+A with Daniel Christian Wahl and Future Thinkers Community
Published on: 21 Nov 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Smart Village Summit #2 – Affordable Prefab Building
Published on: 30 Oct 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Smart Village Summit #3 – Game B & Civilization Re-Design
Published on: 29 Oct 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Daniel Christian Wahl: How to Ask Better Questions
Published on: 27 Oct 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Nora Bateson & Joe Brewer – Earth Regeneration Q&A
Published on: 22 Oct 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Smart Village Summit – Powered by Future Thinkers & ReGen Villages
Published on: 30 Sep 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Q&A w/ Don Roberto – Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Published on: 21 Sep 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Smart Village Summit – Powered by Future Thinkers & ReGen Villages
Published on: 21 Sep 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Future Thinkers Smart Village on The Stoa
Published on: 19 Sep 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Future Thinkers Smart Village
Published on: 12 Sep 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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The Benefits of Regenerative Agriculture – Richard Perkins
Published on: 17 Aug 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Future-Proofing Children – Nora Bateson
Published on: 23 Jul 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Regenerative Play – Joe Brewer
Published on: 8 Jul 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth – Joe Brewer
Published on: 6 Jul 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Living in Economic Collapse – Joe Brewer
Published on: 4 Jul 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Bonnitta Roy – Do We Need Institutions?
Published on: 3 Jul 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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ReGen Villages: Sustainable Communities of the Future
Published on: 8 Jun 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Pros and Cons of Ecovillages – James Ehrlich
Published on: 6 Jun 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Growing Smart Villages: James Ehrlich of ReGen Villages
Published on: 5 Jun 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Designing Regenerative Villages – James Ehrlich
Published on: 4 Jun 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Hacking Our Reality Perception – Donal Hoffman
Published on: 25 Apr 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Scientific Spirituality – Donald Hoffman
Published on: 22 Apr 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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The Case Against Reality – Donald Hoffman
Published on: 20 Apr 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Do We See Reality As It Is? – Donald Hoffman
Published on: 16 Apr 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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What To Do With The Ego – Bonnitta Roy
Published on: 27 Mar 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Collective Insight Practices – Bonnitta Roy
Published on: 25 Mar 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Trauma & Group Practices – Bonnita Roy
Published on: 23 Mar 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Ego & Group Processes – Bonnitta Roy
Published on: 20 Mar 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Live Streaming
Published on: 16 Mar 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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Live Streaming
Published on: 16 Mar 20 in Future Thinkers – YouTube
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“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” – Gregory Bateson
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Collective intelligence is not the same as groupthink. It’s a phenomenon that arises when a group of people are able to synchronize with each other and operate as a coherent unit while retaining their individuality, like organs in a collective body. On Human Geometry and Coherenceeuvieivanova.substack.comInsights for facilitating emergence in groups
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“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really touched the alchemical gold understood. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into
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Collective intelligence is not the same as groupthink. It’s a phenomenon that arises when a group of people are able to synchronize with each other and operate as a coherent unit while retaining their individuality, like organs in a collective body. On Human Geometry and Coherenceeuvieivanova.substack.comInsights for facilitating emergence in groups
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“You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” — Patrick Ness
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One of the most important skills this century: Learning how to learn
“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” — Carl Jung
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“You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.” – Buckminster Fuller
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller
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“Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.” – Gregory Bateson
“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later… Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.” — Mary Hunter Austin
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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness. ― Joy Page
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“Contradiction is barren and destructive, yet paradox is creative. It is a powerful embracing of reality.” – Robert A. Johnson
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“The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.” – Gregory Bateson
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A whole other level of responsibility
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” ― H.P. Lovecraft
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“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” — Plato
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It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment and the courage to pay the price. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing, open always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. – Morris West
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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” – Buckminster Fuller
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PortalDAO members have access to a 400-acre Campground and RV resort in BC, Canada, where physical experiments take place and exclusive annual events are hosted for the DAO participants. portaldao.io
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PortalDAO gives its NFT holders voting rights, early investment opportunities in related projects, airdrops and rewards, access to experts and educational courses, proprietary data from experiments, tickets to exclusive events, and many other perks. portaldao.io
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Some of the ways to participate in the PortalDAO community include collaborating on experiments in art, wisdom, resilience, and governance, taking part in journeys & rites of passage, taking courses, and attending exclusive online & offline events. portaldao.io
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FutureThinkers.eth🌲Village🌲Archetypes NFT retweeted: What are some of the main challenges of DAOs? If you work in a DAO, we’d love to talk to ask you about your experience. Comment below👇
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FutureThinkers.eth🌲Village🌲Archetypes NFT retweeted: Make Art Embody Wisdom Build Resilience
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FutureThinkers.eth🌲Village🌲Archetypes NFT retweeted: Make Art Embody Wisdom Build Resilience
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FutureThinkers.eth🌲Village🌲Archetypes NFT retweeted: New collection of archetypal masks is nearly complete… What do you think of the look?
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