Shabnam Mogharabi: We Need A Spiritual Revolution!

About this episode

Shabnam Mogharabi discusses her work in mission-driven media and the need for a spiritual revolution.

🎉 It’s Shabnam Mogharabi week on the podcast! ❤️ Before I share more about our guest, ⁠ consider supporting us on Patreon ⁠! We need your help to make this podcast happen. Thanks, friends. 👉🏽 Shabnam Mogharabi is an entertainment executive, producer, and New York Times bestselling author with 20 years of experience in mission-driven media. She currently runs The Joy Brigade , a boutique film and media production company. Prior to that, Shabnam was an EVP at film company Participant and also co-founded the uplifting content studio SoulPancake with actor Rainn Wilson, which she ran as CEO for nearly a decade, amassing 1B video views and dozens of awards. She and Rainn are still collaborating today on Rainn's Soul Boom platform, which seeks to unlock a modern spiritual revolution through playful, practical, and profound media. Shabnam is a Henry Crown Fellow, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network , and serves on a number of private and non-profit boards. She also got a certification in positive psychology in her spare time and is a frequent keynote speaker on the power of joy and storytelling. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and young children. ✅ We spend…

People in this episode

Host: Nick Laparra

Guest: Shabnam Mogharabi

Topics covered

• spiritual revolution
• media production
• storytelling
• positive psychology
• joy

Keywords

• Shabnam Mogharabi
• spiritual revolution
• media
• joy
• Soul Boom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Joy Brigade, Participant, SoulPancake, Aspen Global Leadership Network

Books & works: Soul Boom Workbook

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