Gary shares his dream for the future of the Earth: a world where creative practice is recognised as essential to human wellbeing — not a luxury, but a daily practice as fundamental as movement or rest. As a composer, songwriter and founder of an online songwriting community, Gary has spent years helping people move through creative blocks and resistance, and he’s watched, again and again, how music synchronises us — our heart rates, our breath, our nervous systems — in a way that nothing else quite does.

We weave through the 6th Gene Key: the shift from Conflict to Diplomacy, and on to Peace. Gary embodies the archetype of the peacemaker: a songwriter who listens for what a room, a choir, a collective field needs, and finds the note that lets people meet there together.

We also touch on inclusive art: work that leaves room for many different feelings rather than prescribing one, and about how small, accessible acts like joining a community choir, singing to the people and animals we love are themselves real and meaningful musical connections that pave the path towards a more harmonious future.

Listen all the way to the end, and a special invitation is waiting for you as a Soulful Futures listener!

Connect with Gary

Gary Grundei is a NYC-based musician, composer, and teacher best known for his work with the band High Fiction and his original compositions for theatre, film, podcasts, and the concert stage. He has written music for NPR, MTV, The Kennedy Center, New York Stage and Film, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and has collaborated with artists including Meredith Monk, Bill Pullman, and Matt Berninger of the National. He is also the founder of golden lotus studio, an online home for songwriters, and has taught at universities like Naropa University, Occidental College, and The Ohio State University.

You can connect with Gary here:

Gary’s website: garygrundei.com

Golden Lustis Studio: goldenlotusstudio.com

Instagram: @gary.grundei

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gary-grundei/

Meet your inner songwriter!

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Klara’s current offer: Books are open for Summer Branding!

If you’re building a business for a beautiful world and have been looking to craft your brand so it truly feels like home, my books are open for projects starting in July 2026 – find our more here.

Jenna shares her dream for the future of the Earth: a world where people feel safe enough in their own bodies and lives to fully express their creative potential. We trace her path into Ayurveda, which began unexpectedly during the years she spent adopting her two children from India and Thailand. What started as a personal search for grounding became a calling: She trained as a certified Ayurveda therapist and, in 2020, founded her own company in Sweden to share this wisdom with others.

We talk about Ayurveda not as an abstract philosophy but as a daily practice — from morning rituals to aromatherapy and small acts of self-care — that build a true sense of safety in the body.

We talk about entrepreneurship and about following your genuine curiosity and your “why” rather than chasing outcomes, about not taking rejection personally, and about staying connected to enthusiasm even when the path is hard.

Connect with Jenna

Jenna is a mother, entrepreneur, and bodyworker who works closely with people through massage and holistic treatments. She is an adoptive parent with a deep interest in Ayurveda, alternative medicine, and a more holistic approach to health. Inspired by traditions from India and Thailand, she weaves together body, mind, and a touch of mysticism in both her work and her way of life.

You can find Jenna’s work on her website, and follow her on Facebook and Instagram @jennasayurvediska.

Klara’s current offer: Books are open for Summer Branding!

If you’re building a business for a beautiful world and have been looking to craft your brand so it truly feels like home, my books are open for projects starting in July 2026 – find our more here.

Violetta has spent 15 years in the personal development and coaching world, and she comes with a perspective that is refreshingly unafraid to challenge the industry she grew up in. We talked about what it really means to grow as a human being, and why so much of what gets sold as “personal development” might actually be pulling us away from ourselves and the exact thing we’re trying to chase.

We dive into the difference between ambition and anointing, and the shift from chasing external success to living from a deeper sense of identity and calling. Violetta shares how her own life changed after a period of significant loss in her 30s, and how she moved from performance mode into what she calls presence mode. Her vision for herself now? To be a good and godly woman. Simple words that carry enormous weight.

We also explore the world of neurodivergence and why neurodivergent people so often struggle within traditional personal development frameworks. Violetta sees neurodivergent individuals as barometers of what isn’t working in society, and as early signals of a more organic, authentic way of living.

Something that resonated deeply with me in our conversation was the question of language – how calling our work a vocation rather than a business changes something in the body, in the energy, in how we show up. Violetta is someone who takes language seriously as a force that shapes reality, and I felt that throughout our whole exchange.

This is a conversation for anyone who has ever felt like the personal development world wasn’t quite built for them – or who is ready to ask bigger questions about what a meaningful life actually looks like.

Connect with Violetta

Violetta Pleshakova is a leadership and business coach and founder of UNDENIABLE - a strategic advisory for founders and solopreneurs who are building purpose-driven brands.

With a PhD in cross-cultural complex project management, 15 years of coaching practice, and over 10,000 hours of facilitation across four continents, Violetta brings a rare combination of analytical rigor, psychological insight, and lived entrepreneurial experience.

Her signature methodology uses her gift of diagnostic intelligence to help her clients identify their true and timeless expertise and turn that into undeniably powerful market positioning and paradigm-shifting leadership.

Find her weebsite here - https://undeniableleadership.co/

Subscribe on Substack - https://undeniableleadership.substack.com/

Follow on IG - https://www.instagram.com/violettapleshakova

Connect on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/violettapleshakova/

PS: Her course Consecrate has been a huge eye-opener for me, and I cannot recommend it enough if you are someone who cares about doing work that is true. You can find it here.

Klara’s current offer – Books are open for Summer Branding!

If you’re building a business for a beautiful world and have been looking to craft your brand so it truly feels like home, my books are open for projects starting in June 2026 – find our more here.

Ania shares her dream for the future of the Earth: a world where people reclaim their power to create fulfilling lives from the ground up. Lives that are grown from within, from a place of truth and honesty. We trace her journey from high-achieving workaholic to co-creator of an off-grid community, and ask: what becomes possible when we finally let ourselves receive life?

We weave in her Gene Keys, particularly the 16th — the spectrum that moves from Indifference to Versatility. Ania’s story is a living embodiment of this arc. She tells her story about hitting a wall in her thirties, realising that the security she had built was a treadmill she couldn’t get off, and choosing, step by step, to step into the unknown — eventually landing in Mexico with a family that welcomed her into their realm, and receiving land she had never asked for.

We talk about the quiet revolution of shifting from transactional living to a mindset of sharing and overflow.

At the heart of it: when we learn to receive — love, land, rest, belonging — and dare to leave our comfort zone to find a way of being human that is full of life and truthful to our nature, we stop extracting. From ourselves, and the Earth. And that, Ania and I both believe, is where planetary healing actually begins.

If you want to discover your own Gene Keys profile for free, you can do so here.

Connect with Ania

You can find Ania over on her website, aniadrygalska.com, and follow her here on Substack: Ania ❤️‍🔥

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Cathy shares her dream for the future of the earth: a world where every person has deep self-love, knows themselves intimately, and takes responsibility for their inner world. We discuss how this inner work naturally ripples outward, transforming how we care for each other, for nature, and for the planet itself. When we're disconnected from ourselves, we're disconnected from everything. But when we remember who we really are, love flows naturally.

We weave through the Gene Keys, particularly Cathy's Life's Work, the 43rd key of Deafness, Insight, and Epiphany. We talk about what it means to be deaf to the status quo and attuned instead to our own inner voice, embodying the archetype of the Creative Rebel. Cathy reflects on her journey of shedding conditioning: the perfectionism, the "good girl" programming, the layers that buried her authentic voice, and how she's learning to trust what she already knows.

We explore the paradox that the collective dream and the individual dream are actually the same: that living authentically from love is the deepest service we can offer. We discuss how businesses built from soul and self-love cannot harm the earth, how retreats and containers create anchor points for transformation, and how the revolution we're part of is quiet, inward, and profoundly powerful.

Cathy shares a recent experience at a retreat center in the mountains, where she witnessed people doing deep inner work and opening their hearts—a living example of the ripple effect of self-love moving out into the world. We also touch on embodiment, joy, synchronicity, and remembering that self-love is a revolutionary act in a world designed to keep us disconnected.

At the heart of it all: awareness, intention, and the practice of catching our inner critic and choosing love instead.

Connect with Cathy

Cathy Fenwick is a marketing and business strategist and the founder of Jewel in the Lotus Consulting. She works with holistic, women-led businesses to translate vision into grounded strategy, blending deep business experience, intuition, and Human Design with clear execution. Her work helps founders move from scattered effort to focused momentum, so they can return to the heart of their work with clarity and confidence.

You can find her at www.jewelinthelotus.co or on Instagram @cathfenwick.

Klara’s current offer – 1:1 Business Clarity Intensive with the Gene Keys

My 1:1 intensive Quintessence is open for enrolment! Have a look here if you’re ready for business clarity that comes from your soul, not someone else’s playbook.

Mary shares her journey toward prioritising joy and self-love through motherhood, academic pursuits, and daily life experiences. We discuss the importance of finding beauty in the ordinary: not as mundane, but as the beauty of "being in order", and how present moment awareness allows us to accumulate small, meaningful experiences that shape a fulfilling life.

We dive into the Gene Keys system, exploring how Mary's 21st Gene Key, moving from the Shadow of Control, through the Gift of Authority, to the Siddhi of Valor, reflects her natural leadership qualities and ability to inspire through energy and joy. Mary describes the Gene Keys as a modern tool that provides structure to otherwise uncontrolled energy.

We also touch on dreams for the future: Mary's vision of a world where humans live in harmony with nature, contributing to Earth's beauty rather than extracting from it, and my own aspirations for creating a countryside space where my writing and design work can flourish.

Throughout our conversation, we explore the value of patience, the wisdom available to younger generations navigating rapid change, and the importance of slowing down to trust one's intuition and embrace the present moment.

Do you have the 21st Gene Key in your profile, too? You can find out for free here.

Connect with Mary

Mary Burke is a graphic designer, artist, photographer, writer and educator working from her studio just outside Cambridge.

Her graphic design practice centres mainly on book design and visual storytelling, often shaped by poetic imagery, rich materiality and a sensitivity to language and form. Alongside design, Mary is a painter and photographer - many pieces of her design work include her photography. Her large-scale paintings explore the relationship between gesture, process and form, while her photographic work quietly documents light, stillness and everyday beauty.

Mary is particularly drawn to creative partnerships within the arts, anyone working at the convergence of imagination, material culture and meaning. Across disciplines, she approaches each project with care, curiosity and an openness to the unexpected.

Find her on maryburkedesigns.net or on Instagram @l.i.t.t.l.e.l.a.m.b.

Klara's current offer – 1:1 Business Clarity Intensive with the Gene Keys

My 1:1 intensive Quintessence is open for enrolment! I have one Case Study spot at a special rate left – have a look here if you're ready for business clarity that comes from your soul, not someone else's playbook.

As always, we touch on my guest’s Life’s Work Gene Key in the conversation – this time it’s the 6th, known as The Path to Peace, moving from the Shadow of Conflict, via the Gift of Diplomacy to the Siddhi of Peace.

Do you have this Gene Key in your profile, too? You can find out for free here.

Connect with Edi

Edi is a Fractional COO, simplifying the strategy, systems and software for creative and wellbeing brands so they can scale without losing their soul. At the heart of her work, she crafts systems that expand capacity, while shrinking stress, all from a matriarchal, body-honoring approach. Her years as an engineer, operations leader, spiritual student and co-owner of a business have culminated in where she is now - building beautiful businesses with beautiful people. Outside of work, she Latin dances, reconnects with her indigenous spirituality, and enjoys Indianapolis with her little family of four.

Head over to edithoduraa.me/library to get her semi-monthly magazine on regenerative business growth.

Are you curious to learn more about how your own Gene Keys are reflected in your experience and how they can inform your work?

The official Gene Keys Sage’s Golden Path Retreats has begun, but you can still join the online journey with the official Gene Keys Team, lead by Richard Rudd.

Alongside the retreat I will be offering a Study Group for business owners (or those who desire to become one), which will support you in deepening your insights into your Gene Keys profile and apply what you have learned in your work – so that you can create the ideal foundations for your business that support you in your vision building.

Come join us!

Astrid is a soulful entrepreneur and system weaver devoted to bridging the inner and outer worlds. With roots in business, technology, and holistic practice, she founded Apricity — a platform exploring how awareness, care, and creativity can guide a more regenerative future for both people and planet. Through her writing and work, she invites others to reconnect with themselves, nature, and the systems we build.

Connect with Astrid here:

Homepage: https://www.apricity.no/

Substack: https://substack.com/@astridnygaard?

Instagram: https://instagram.com/apricity_byastrid

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/astrid-nygaard-5b5a7281/

We explore Alyssa's vision for the reincarnation of the Divine Feminine on Earth and her dream of reconnecting humanity with cyclical nature—the seasons, lunar cycles, and solar rhythms. We dive deep into the interconnectedness of personal and collective healing, the importance of reconnecting with our bodies and intuition, and how opening the heart becomes the portal for planetary transformation.

Connect with Alyssa

Alyssa is a Spiritual Mentor & Bookkeeper who supports soulful women in life and business. After working in corporate finance for 7 years, she took the leap into spiritual entrepreneurship, blending her passion for spirituality with her financial skills to create a unique offering suite.

She lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband and dog, and loves animals, books, yoga, and nature.

You can follow Alyssa on Instagram @authentically.alyssa.

Are you curious to learn more about your own Gene Keys and how they interconnect with your dream of the future?

In January 2026, the official Gene Keys Sage's Golden Path Retreats begin! It will be a magical online journey, live with Richard Rudd.

Alongside the retreat I will be offering a Study Group for entrepreneurs, which will support you in deepening your insights into your Gene Keys profile and apply what you have learned in your business – so that your dreams can take shape in the world.

Join us here

We will explore Delphine's vision for living in harmony with nature and her aspirations to create a retreat center that blends luxury with simplicity. We will dive deep into the interconnectedness of personal dreams with the Earth's desires and the importance of living in alignment with our intuition.

Find out more about her work on Instagram, or on her website on embodymytruth.com.

Enrolling now for 2026: Join Delphine’s Guided Intuitive Mentorship Group

Perfectly in time for the new year, the mystery school opens its doors and Delphine’s Guided intuitive mentorshop group within the Sovereign Oracle Sanctuary Mystery School is open for new members to join.

Enter the Sanctuary

If you are curious and would like to enjoy a taste of Delphine’s work for free, there’s currently an Oracle Manifesto activation experience running live! You can still sign up and dive in over the Christmas break.

Join Manifesto for free

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Are you curious to learn more about your own Gene Keys and how they interconnect with your dream of the future?

In January 2026, the official Gene Keys Sage’s Golden Path Retreats begin! It will be a magical online journey, live with Richard Rudd.

Alongside the retreat Klara will be offering a Study Group for entrepreneurs, which will support you in deepening your insights into your Gene Keys profile and apply what you have learned in your business – so that your dreams can take shape in the world.

Join us here

To learn more about Klara's work, head over to mossmind.se or subscribe to her Substack.

We explore what it means to hold a vision for the new earth while navigating uncertainty and darkness. Through personal stories of radical trust and divine surrender, Klara's guest Tara offers guidance on building our collective future one soul-aligned step at a time.

Tara Coughlan is an energetics mentor for spiritual entrepreneurs who specialises in quantum field work. She helps clients clear energetic blocks by seeing the unseen in their field, so they can align with their soul's true purpose.

Find out more about her work on Instagram.

To learn more about Klara's work, head over to mossmind.se or subscribe to her Substack.