James Bolden | Founder of Iris Cocreative, Creative Process Facilitator & Conscious Design Strategist
What if your mind is not telling you the truth, but protecting the version of reality you have already outgrown?
In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Zenka Caro sits down with James Bolden, founder of Iris Cocreative, a creative process facilitator working with conscious businesses, purpose-driven organizations, and emerging communities around the world.
James lives in the fertile in-between: design, philosophy, technology, evolution, consciousness, creativity, architecture, village building, flow, and intersubjective awareness. His work is about creating tools, systems, and design solutions that help communities see themselves, find each other, and build what wants to emerge.
This conversation moves from conscious technology and community mapping into something much deeper: identity, death, time, purpose, and liberation. James shares how a near-death experience in 2012 changed his relationship with time, surrender, and what it means to be available to something larger than the self.
Together, Zenka and James explore the mind’s strange little monarchy: how limiting narratives, inertia, and identity can masquerade as truth. They also explore the “we-space,” the intelligence between people, and what becomes possible when technology stops performing and starts serving connection.
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✦ About our Guest James Bolden ✦
James Bolden facilitates creative processes for conscious businesses and purpose-driven organizations. He loves operating in the interstitium between design, philosophy, technology, evolution, consciousness, creativity, architecture, village building, flow, and intersubjective awareness.
His company, Iris Cocreative, exists to create tools and design solutions for emerging communities around the world. James is also part of the creative force behind Hollows, the Holomovement’s emerging community platform, designed to help people connect through values, needs, offerings, location, and shared purpose.
✦ Guest Links ✦
James Bolden: https://james.today
Iris Cocreative: https://www.iriscocreative.com
Hollows: https://hollows.holomovement.net
✦ Interviewer & Host ✦
Zenka Caro is the founder of LightNet, host of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, and creator of the Holomovement Purpose Lab. Her work explores consciousness, purpose, human potential, future culture, and what happens when people stop waiting for permission to live what they came here to do.
✦ Time Codes ✦
00:00 – Technology That Gets Out of the Way
01:01 – Welcome James Bolden
02:11 – Designing Beyond the Box
03:05 – The Hollows Matchmaking System
05:55 – Why Iris Cocreative Exists
06:25 – Intuitive, Relational & Intersubjective Design
08:45 – James’s Early Work & Consciousness Communities
10:26 – What Is James’s Purpose?
10:58 – Liberation From Limiting Narratives
12:28 – Why Death Is Alive in James’s Inquiry
15:40 – Surrender, No Time & the Eternal
17:23 – James’s Near-Death Experience
18:33 – Falling From the Swing
22:01 – Time Completely Slows and Stops
23:20 – Why Worry Fell Away
24:20 – Returning to the Body
29:44 – The Struggle of Living a Purposeful Life
33:27 – Advice for People Just Starting Out
35:56 – Giving Yourself Permission to Be Who You Are
38:17 – What If Most People Lived Their Purpose?
41:34 – Hollows, Purpose Lab & the Future of Community
44:35 – James.today and Closing Reflections
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