Teaching Ourselves and Our Machines How to Live Better - MB6

Chrishell Stause is a luxury real estate agent and star of Netflix’s Selling Sunset. Enjoying the recent success of her bestselling book Under Construction, she is also recognized for her time on daytime tv including All My Children, The Young and the Restless, and Days of Our Lives. Chrishell has also been seen struggling through a cha cha on Dancing With the Stars and hosting Netflix Reality Games. She currently resides with her pooch Gracie in Los Angeles.

Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X]; host of the popular podcast, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat; author of the international bestselling books Solve for Happy and Scary Smart; and founder of One Billion Happy.

After a 30 year career in tech and serving as Chief Business Officer at Google [X], Google's 'moonshot factory' of innovation, Mo has made happiness his primary topic of research, diving deeply into literature and conversing on the topic with some of the wisest people in the world.

2014, motivated by the tragic loss of his son, Ali, Mo began pouring his findings into his international bestselling book, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy. His mission to help one billion people become happier, #OneBillionHappy, is his moonshot attempt to honor Ali by spreading the message that happiness can be learned and shared to one billion people.

In 2020, Mo launched his chart-topping podcast, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat, a weekly series of extraordinary interviews that explores the profound questions and obstacles we all face in the pursuit of purpose and happiness in our lives.

His latest book is Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World, a roadmap detailing how humanity can ensure a symbiotic coexistence with AI when it inevitably becomes a billion times smarter than we are.

For more than thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers; three of them (including his latest, How to Change Your Mind) were immediate #1 New York Times bestsellers. His newest book, This is Your Mind on Plants, an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants and the taboos we place on them, was a New York Times bestseller and one of the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021.

A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1987, Pollan’s writing has received numerous awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003; the John Burroughs prize (for the best natural history essay in 1997); the QPB New Vision Award (for his first book, Second Nature); the 2000 Reuters-I.U.C.N. Global Award for Environmental Journalism for his reporting on genetically modified crops; and the 2003 Humane Society of the United States’ Genesis Michael Pollan Bestselling Author & Sustainable Food Advocate “Michael Pollan [is a] distin - guished author and designated repository for the nation’ s food conscience.” — New York Times Photo: Tabitha Soren Award for his writing on animal agriculture; the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award (2014); the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2014); the Washburn Award for “outstanding contribution to public understanding of science” from the Boston Museum of Science; the 2013 Premio Nonino, an international literary prize; the 2015 Washington University Humanities Medal, and the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace in 2010. In 2009 Pollan was named one of the top 10 “New Thought Leaders” by Newsweek magazine. In 2010 he was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Pollan has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gastronomic Science and in 2015- 16 was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Pollan retired as the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism, and co-founder, along with Dacher Keltner and others, of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. In 2017, he was appointed Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction at Harvard and the university’s first Lewis Chan Lecturer in the Arts. He continues to lecture widely on food, agriculture, health, and psychedelic science.

Michael Pollan, who was born in 1955, grew up on Long Island, and was educated at Bennington College, Oxford University, and Columbia University, from which he received a Master’s in English. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, the painter Judith Belzer.

Mel Robbins became one of the most trusted experts in change and motivation the hard way: by first screwing up her own life. A New York Times Bestselling author and self-publishing phenom, Mel’s work includes The High 5 Habit, The 5 Second Rule, the #1 podcast on Audible, as well as signature online courses that have changed the lives of more than half a million students worldwide.

Mel distills complex ideas into simple, believable, and memorable advice that empowers people to take the actions that will change their lives.

As one of the most widely booked and followed keynote speakers in the world, Mel has amassed millions of followers and more than a billion video views, including her TEDx talk, which is one of the most popular of all time.

Her production company, 143 Studios, is currently working on its seventh original audio production for Audible and partners with brands like LinkedIn and Starbucks Global Academy to create courses on confidence and change. In less than five years, her work has been translated into 41 languages and is used by medical professionals, veterans’ organizations, and executives in every industry to inspire people to be more confident, effective, and fulfilled.

Mel lives in New England with her husband of 25 years and their three kids, but she is and will always be a Midwesterner at heart.