Brandon Stewart

Brandon Stewart

Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Content for Freethink Media

Brandon Stewart is a content strategist living in Los Angeles. He specializes in storytelling, creative strategy, and building exceptional teams that deliver amazing creative results. He currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Content for Freethink Media.

He writes a newsletter about trends in media and in his spare time hunts for murals at LAMuralMap.com.  

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44 min
Consciousness: Not just a problem for philosophers
Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”
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36 min
Stories: How humanity makes its meaning
Are we the stories we tell? Kmele sat down with legendary conservationist Jane Goodall, actor Terry Crews and psychologist Dan McAdams to discuss how humanity makes its meaning.
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42 min
A playground for geniuses: Inside the Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute is a cradle of modern research. Our host Kmele meets some of the brilliant minds who work there.
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38 min
Finding the secret of human existence in an atom-smasher
Our host Kmele went inside Fermilab, America’s premiere particle accelerator facility, to find out how the smallest particles in the universe can teach us about its biggest mysteries.
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35 min
Finding meaning in the darkest sky on earth
Dispatches host Kmele Foster is on a journey to understand humanity’s role in the cosmos. His first stop? The Atacama Plateau in Northern Chile, home to the darkest deserts and largest telescopes on earth.
I Have Seen the Future What’s the role of optimism in creating the future?
Our inaugural special issue is focused on progress — the search for, the study of, and the project towards a better world.
Expert Roundtable: What should progress look like?
We asked 11 experts about the future of progress for humanity.