Notes From the New World
Society & Culture
About
The old world is crumbling. The new one is being built in real time... what are you building? Notes from the New World is a podcast for world builders: the deep thinkers, visionaries, philosophers and creators who ready to imagine something different, energizing and unconventional. We need new ways of operating now more than ever. Hosted by Chelsea Riffe, Internet Philosopher and Visibility Strategist, each episode explores how people are building new ways of living, working, and connecting, from unconventional business models to radically different ways of thinking about time, money, and relationships. What does it take to build a world you actually want to live in?
Episodes
- Predictions for the Next Era of the Online Coaching World
The episode discusses the current state and future predictions for the online coaching industry, considering factors like AI, coach behavior, and the decline of celebrity coaches. Predictions include shifts in offers, a rise in in-person e…
- Unwell Drama, Summer House Scandal, Substack Controversy: State of the Internet with Xanthe Appleyard
In a crossover episode, Xanthe Appleyard and Chelsea Riffe discuss the current state of the internet, covering the Substack controversy, the Summer House scandal, and the Unwell vs. The Media conflict. They examine online behavior, digital…
- The World Is Not Ending: How to Snap Out of Zombie Mode Through Creativity, Imagination and Art
This episode discusses the feeling that the world is ending due to constant negative news and social media exposure. The host shares personal experiences of overcoming "AI psychosis" and finding a way out through imagination, relationships…
- How to Become Obsessed with Yourself and Amplify Your Magnetism with Ashley B. Jones
This episode features Ashley B. Jones discussing self-obsession as a form of magnetism, the "Favorite Self" framework, and strategies for attracting relationships. Topics include managing negative reactions, focusing on self-improvement, a…
- Becoming Your Favorite Self, Unbridled Joy and How Being a Fangirl is the Ultimate Mirror with Ashley B. Jones
This episode features psychic, philosopher, and artist Ashley B. Jones discussing her "Favorite Self" framework. Topics include the five spiritual parts of oneself, the concept of the golden shadow as it relates to fandom, differentiating…
- Design Your Business Around Your Human Design's Cognitive Architecture with Keolani Young
This episode features Keolani Young discussing Human Design's Variable, an advanced concept detailing how the brain processes information, supports creativity, and influences perspective and motivation. It explores aligning business practi…
- The One Question That Changed How I Build My World
The host discusses a pivotal question about what world one is building, exploring three arcs: circular economies, capping income with wealth redistribution, and The Art of Enough. The episode details how to articulate a vision to attract o…
- Goodbye In My Non-Expert Opinion. Hello, New World.
The podcast 'In My Non-Expert Opinion,' launched in 2017, has been renamed 'Notes From the New World.' The episode details various ways to connect with host Chelsea Riffe and support the show.
- Writing the Unsendable, How Language Informs Expression, and The Void as a Creative Guide with Lois Mac
This episode features Lois Mac, a strategic communication expert, who discusses how language shapes expression and the concept of the void as a creative guide. Mac shares her personal experience of losing her words in a new environment and…
- The Visionary Gap, Identity Shapeshifting and Preparing for the 2027 Paradigm Shift with Nina Chin
Nina Chin, an Identity Mentor, joins the podcast to discuss the challenges faced by visionaries, including the "visionary gap" and identity shapeshifting. The episode also touches on wealth as redistribution, moving beyond traditional reve…
- Social Media Strategy for People Who Hate Social Media with KP Pilley
KP Pilley joins the podcast to discuss social media strategy for those who dislike the platforms. Topics include using the "9-Grid" as a digital bulletin board, pushing back against Meta's algorithmic control, and adopting ethical marketin…
- Making the Intellectual Visceral with Ximena
This episode features Ximena, a Mexican eco-philosopher, discussing the concept of making intellectual ideas visceral and embodied. Key themes include philosophy as a felt experience, the critique of capitalism's linear and productive conc…
- My New Podcast Era & Creating Work That Demands Presence
The host discusses moving to a new podcast era with a rebrand and increased episode frequency, inspired by a digital detox. The episode explores how challenging content, exemplified by artists like Rosalía and works like "Sinners" and "Hea…
- The Cult of Heated Rivalry with Shelly Baldasti PART 2
In part two, Shelly Baldasti and Chelsea continue their discussion on a popular series, examining its characters, the concept of situationships, and the nature of intense fandom. They also consider how to channel the enthusiasm generated b…
- The Cult of Heated Rivalry (That We Joined Too Easily) with Shelly Baldasti (PART 1)
This episode debriefs the show "Heated Rivalry," discussing its hype and perceived psychological effects on the hosts. It notes that the discussion contains spoilers and is part one of a two-part series.
- 2025 BUSINESS Year in Review: Rejecting Endless Growth, Spacious Launches, and How My Sabbatical Changed Everything
Chelsea discusses her 2025 business year, noting she earned approximately $143K, similar to 2024, but with a 3-month sabbatical and reduced work hours. She explains retiring from being "The Podcast Queen" to focus on building intellectual…
- 2025 PERSONAL Year In Review: Emotional Whiplash, Creative Possession and Learning to Stay Put and Grow TF Up
Chelsea Riffe reviews her 2025, detailing emotional experiences like grief from a rafting accident and relationship issues. She also discusses the effects of AI on creativity and her journey toward maturity by staying put and addressing ch…
- Anti-Binary Leadership: Building a Business and Life That Can Hold Your Complexity with Giana Cerasia
Giana Cerasia joins "Notes From the New World" to discuss anti-binary leadership, rejecting niche culture, and embracing complexity in business and life. The conversation explores how businesses function like nervous systems, the limitatio…
- How to Travel on a Budget with U.S. Dropout Bianca Lynch
Bianca Lynch discusses how to travel abroad for less than half the cost of living in the U.S., sharing hacks for finding deals, accumulating reward points without credit cards, and reframing the concept of freedom through global travel.
- Ethical Sales, Black Friday Rules & Why a $5/Hour VA Isn't the Flex You Think It Is with Chelsea Quint
Chelsea Quint joins Notes From the New World to discuss ethical sales practices, including critiques of Black Friday tactics and the implications of hiring very low-wage virtual assistants. The conversation covers pricing integrity, the ch…
- Surrender is the Strategy with Maia Benaim (Part Two of Expanding Your Capacity)
In Part Two of expanding your capacity, Maia Benaim discusses cultivating deeper love, patience, and embracing new environments. She shares insights on relationships, letting life guide the way, and the power of surrender, referencing Rosa…
- "You Don't Attract What You Want, You Attract What You Can Hold" How to Expand Your Capacity with Maia Benaim
The Notes From the New World episode features Maia Benaim discussing how to expand one's capacity for wealth and visibility. The conversation covers energetics, the importance of releasing control, and building wealth through safety and em…
- Life Updates: Travel Whiplash, Settling Down (Or Nah?), and Why Committing is So Effing Hard
In this episode, Chelsea Riffe discusses recent life events including the complexities of travel planning, the feeling that settling down is a downgrade, and how the fear of committing to a place relates to intimacy. She also touches on co…
- Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and Modern Day Titans
In this episode, I dive deep into the cultural firestorm surrounding Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny — two modern day titans who've become lightning rods for conversations about identity, belonging, and makes me wonder all the things we project…
- How to Ask for Money (Repurposed from The Art of the Ask)
PLOT TWIST EPISODE: You're listening to a full episode from Chelsea's limited series podcast: The Art of the Ask . Get ready to learn HOW TO ASK FOR MONEY! I'm breaking down why money is such an anxiety-inducing topic, and the different wa…
- Treat Your Business Like a Dinner Party
Ever notice how we obsess over hitting these insane follower milestones, thinking that's when we'll finally feel legit? Chelsea's fed up with this narrative and breaks down why you don't need massive numbers to create something extraordina…
- Sustainable Creativity, Doing the Bare Minimum, The Beauty in Subtraction & Taking Unseriousness Very Seriously with Poster Journal
Your favorite creator is BACK - PJ aka Poster Journal returns to spill the tea on why they nuked their entire YouTube channel ( listen to Part 1 from last year for the lore), how they went from snark machine to reformed human who actually…
- The Art of Strategic Disruption and Why Travel Might Be the Best Business Coach You’ve Ever Had with Edila Smith
Ever notice how your most profound realizations happen when you're completely out of your element? In this episode, Chelsea sits down with Edila Smith (in-person in Lisbon!) to explore why disrupting your environment might be the fastest w…
- Why Your Body Keeps Sabotaging Your Success (And How to Finally Work WITH It) with Shantani Moore
If you've ever bulldozed through your day on black coffee and determination, ignoring every signal your body sends until you're bent over crippling in a parking garage (literally, in Shantani's case) — this episode is your wake-up call. Ch…
- Sabbatical Scene Report: Puerto Rico
The next stop on the sabbatical train: PUERTO RICOOOO! Chelsea takes us along for the ride through the island: family reunions the size of small weddings the beauty and chaos of island time the night that led to one violent hangover (!!) r…
- Sabbatical Scene Report: Chicago
279: Chelsea dishes on her sabbatical starting with Chicago: the extreme sticker shock, the regrets, and the revelations that came with finally not working. Here's what you didn't see on Instagram: A Hallmark movie moment on the airplane t…
- How To Build an Ethical Online Business on Morally Bankrupt Platforms & Why The Problem Isn't Social Media—It's How You're Using It with Xanthe Appleyard
278: " I am only interested in becoming known for what is true because one day you're going to fucking slip. And I think that is the scariest thing is to paint an entire picture around the most acceptable version of yourself and then fall…
- How I Planned My Sabbatical (So You Can Too) - Saving, Taking 2 Months Off and Why It’s Freaking Me Out
277: " Even though I have these mindset blocks and these patterns I'm trying to break doesn't mean that I can't take time off. And I hope that you realize that too. " - Chelsea Riffe In this solo episode, I spill the tea on how I planned t…
- The Anti-Capitalist Manifesto: Why Your Worth Isn't Your Output with Therapist Jazzmyn Proctor
276: “ We use numbers, we use status, we use all of these things to justify the hard work we've done. We have something to show for it, and we ultimately look for people to respond to that hard work. ” - Jazzmyn Proctor What if your worth…
- The Reason You Can’t Stop Working and Sit Still — Even When You Know You Should with Intuitively Wild’s Rachel Levine
275: “ We have trained our bodies to think that stillness and silence are unsafe, that simplicity isn’t safe, that just resting and softening and simply being is not safe. And although we can, you know, say in our brains that we don’t beli…
- Emotional Eating, Ditching Food Rules and Why You Don’t Need to Earn Your Brownie (and Never Did) with Jess Suchan, Holistic Health & Mindset Coach
274: “I gradually started adding back in fear foods. It wasn't like I ate carbs at every meal because that was the thing I was scared of. I would add in like carrots, which is crazy to say! I was scared of carrots. So I would add in carrot…
- How to Build a Business That Doesn’t Suck the Life Out of You with Workwomb Founder Abbi Miller
273: “ This is a together kind of thing. I say that 800 times a day and yet here I was doing it alone. And, at the time I had a team and, I had backend support, but not mojo support and not strategy support. ” - Abbi Miller If you’ve ever…
- Using Physical Spaces as Mirrors for Our Online Business and Digital Worlds
272: The next time you walk through your favorite matcha cafe, see how you can emulate pieces of it in your online business. Use the simple menu, with just 4 items, to inspire your offer suite. Take in the physical space, filled with imper…
- How to Be Yourself by Understanding the Language of Your Intuition with Energy Healer + Psychic Mari Roberts
271: “ I just can't see life without me being me, and that requires me to be okay with the possibility of disappointing someone or losing friends or being seen as odd or different. ” - Mari Roberts In a world that runs on chaos, disconnect…
- The Paradox of AI and What It Will Never Replace
270: “In trying to go faster, we bypass embodying the skill. We are slowly decaying our critical thinking.” - Chelsea Riffe AI was supposed to make us superhumans, right? Faster, smarter, wiser than Buddha? Instead... we're all out here co…
- How To Put Yourself in Other’s Orbits (Orbit Jumping 101)
269: “ Make it easy for interesting people to find you. ” - Chelsea Riffe In this episode, Chelsea shares the behind-the-scenes story of how one podcast interview changed her entire business trajectory. She unpacks the power of proximity,…
- Selling Without Social Media (Re-Air)
268: Exhausted of marketing on social media? Done with filming 67 takes for a lip sync TikTok? Over getting cut off right when you were about to drop a major truth bomb in IG Stories? Same. In this episode, I'm going to teach you how to…
- How to Stop Shrinking in Relationships, Self-Sabotage, Choosing vs. Attracting and More Unthinkable Thoughts with Africa Brooke
267: “ It all has to be in alignment. I have to be living very honestly in order to do my most honest work. And honesty is a fundamental requirement for the work that I do. I find that if I'm not living honestly, and it doesn't have to be…
- How to Gamify Your Life, Never Dread Work Again, and Experiment with Identity - Part 2 with Klara Hascakova, Systems Designer for Creative Geniuses
266: “I used to have a very toxic relationship with work. Then I realized—I don’t have to work. Who said I have to work? I choose to play instead.” - Klara Hascakova In this episode, Chelsea and Klara Hascakova explore the concept of "Anti…
- Everything Is Made Up — So Why Not Make Up Your Own Life? with Klara Hascakova, Systems Designer for Creative Geniuses
265: "I came to a point of realization that everything here is made up. And why I couldn't be just another human being that is going to make something up? I have this audacity within me...I'm very courageous. I love to experiment and see i…
- Why Are Men So Triggered by Astrology? with Jaz Borri
264: "“You believe in that shit?!” my date blurted out, eyebrows furrowing in disbelief. The cat was out of the bag: I was one of THOSE girls." LADIES - why the hell are men so triggered by astrology??? I enlisted the help of on an astrolo…
- Sober Curious? How to Stop Drinking Without Being a Buzzkill with Nisha Patel
263: "You can make a choice and still want to do the other thing. It’s not going to be like, 'Oh, it's all gone. The desire is gone.' I think that’s also a misconception because I made this choice, that means I’m all okay with it. Well, no…
- What the F Is Happening with Social Media? (And Why You Should Care)
262: “Social media is like sprinkles on top. It's nice to have, but it's not necessary. You would not fill an entire ice cream cone with only sprinkles unless you were high!” In this raw, unfiltered episode, Chelsea unpacks the question on…
- HONEST Year in Review : Business Edition - Losing My Biggest Client, De-centering Urgency, & Leisure as My North Star
261: “ Leisure is one of my number one values. Friendships are some of my most important relationships and I would rather cut back on working and maybe sacrifice some income to be able to spend more time with my friends. ” It’s here – the…
- HONEST Year in Review: Personal Edition - Intense Flings, Sobriety, Budgeting Wizardry & Hanging Up My Nomad Jersey
260: “I don't do well with vague, fluffy information. So when people just say, 'Oh, you know, I had a hard time and I learned a lesson and did some therapy and did this and that. And then I just woke up and I just realized it was gone.' I'…