Tom Morgan is a former financier and founder of The Leading Edge, a media platform and transformational community dedicated to sharing world-changing ideas and facilitating life-changing experiences. An Oxford graduate with a Masters in Philosophy, Politics, and economics, he has spent 20 years navigating the finance industry, working at top firms like Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, and most recently Sapient Capital. After becoming disenchanted with finance he had an awakening experience that caused him to quit his job and explore paths of meaning leading to a challenging yet transformative multi-year existential crisis. Eventually, he was able to piece together his life, integrating finance with the pursuit of meaning & wisdom. Today he describes himself as a “curiosity sherpa” and spends his life seeking out the most interesting thinkers and ideas to share with the world. In this episode, we speak about Tom’s journey from working in finance to exploring wisdom, navigating an existential crisis, integrating left and right brain functioning, shadow work, how to connect to your curiosity, bridging money & meaning, and creating a network of transformational communities.



🔗[Links & Resources] 🔗

• Connect with Tom on X/Twitter 
• Read Tom’s writing 
• Join the Leading Edge community
• The Master & His Emissary by Iain McGhilchrist
• Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson (In-depth book summary)
• Syntropy by Ulisse Di Corpo
• Ervin Laszlo
• C.S. Lewis
• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned by Kenneth O. Stanley & Joel Lehman
• The Passion of the Western Mind (epilogue) by Richard Tarnas 
• Mona Sobhani
• Rebel Wisdom

📝[Show notes]📝

0:00 - Introduction
2:07 - Working in finance, existential crisis & exploring wisdom
8:30 - Navigating hell
11:21 - Reinventing yourself
13:55 - Integrating left and right brain functioning
20:22 - Applying a Mythic lens to life
25:06 - Shadow work, Monstrosity & Jordan Peterson 
32:29 - How to connect to your curiosity
36:44 - When you don’t listen to your daemon it becomes a demon
38:37 - Holistic living (What Tom’s day looks like now)
41:36 - Why greatness cannot be planned
45:38 - Bridging Money & Meaning
50:19 -  Navigating the Generalist-Specialist dynamic
55:44 - Does the world financially reward those who follow their bliss?
1:01:29 - Creating a network of transformational communities
1:03:16 - Unpacking the Leading Edge community
1:08:00 - The problems many online transformational communities face
1:14:58 - What makes Tom angry about society?
1:15:49 - Creating a community full of love
1:16:55 - What Tom believes to be true that most people disagree with


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