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Universal Enlightenment & Flourishing
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Conversations on Flourishing

The UEF podcast: long-form conversations with academics, artists, and business leaders. Each episode explores how love, learn, and play have shaped their lives — and the questions that make those lives possible: flourishing, false narratives, religious literacy.

Rembrandt van Rijn's The Night Watch

Episode One

The Midnight Philosopher

Philosopher Matthew Nini on why our best thinking happens at night — and how wonder, learning, and serious play keep a mind alive.

Golden radiance over mountains and a lotus flower

Episode Two

Sonic Alchemy

Musician Lana Jade on making music with AI, the alchemy of self-love, and what a life of love, learning, and play sounds like.

Course catalog materials and mechanical drawing tools arranged on a warm desk

Episode Three

The Deep Water of Parent University

A conversation with Michael O'Neal on Parent University, love, learning, play, unity, service, and lifelong learning.

A warm evening family table with an open book, child drawings, wooden blocks, and Utah mountains outside the window

Episode Four

An Evening With a Flourishing Family

Christophe Porot speaks with Daniel and Natalie Gundersen about family, time, children, play, inner longings, and the love, learn, play mindset.

An illuminated Catholic manuscript, crucifix, rosary, palm-leaf Hindu manuscript, lotus, mandala, and oil lamp arranged on a dark scholar's table

Episode Five

Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar

A conversation with Francis X. Clooney, S.J., on comparative theology, Hindu and Catholic learning, spiritual play, doubt, abundance, and the love, learn, play mindset.