Work In Progress (WIP) - is an newsletter brought to you by Conscious Talent that helps you keep a pulse on the intersection of inner work, consciousness, and new frontiers in how we work.

Every 3-4 weeks, we’ll highlight new job opportunities, funding announcements, breakthroughs in technology + research, and awesome people in our network we think you should know about.

🔥 Featured Job Opportunities

Head of Engineering and Head of Partnerships @ AI-powered Personal Growth Startup. Through blending cognitive science with intelligent technology, this company helps people through reflection, pattern recognition, and meaningful direction. With $1.5M in ARR and a team of 11 they are poised to scale something powerful for those who care about human potential.🌀👀

VP, Growth Marketing @ Pelago, a virtual clinic that brings personalized coaching, and medication support together. They've helped over 750,000 people take meaningful steps toward better health by making care accessible and effective. With $151M in funding and partnerships across major employers and health plans they’re looking for mission-driven teammates who want to build something that truly changes lives.

Chief Development Officer @ Xylo who is developing a new class of treatments known as Neuroplastogens. It is designed to restore brain function by helping neural circuits rewire and adapt. The combination of neuroscience with computational drug discovery creates precise therapies for complex neurological and psychiatric conditions to offer more lasting healing for patients.

Head of Branding @ Amarise who brings truly personalized wellness within reach. Ari their empathetic AI guide is rooted in both ancient healing traditions and modern understanding. They are building an inclusive community and are inviting kindred spirits to help shape a new era where healing and wholeness are accessible to all.

Lead Partnerships and Business Manager @ RoundGlass, a global wellbeing company focused on helping people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. As part of the Roundglass Living platform, you’ll help shape tools, teachings, and resources that empower individuals to create lasting change in their daily lives.

Director, Life Sciences @ The John Templeton Foundation which supports research and ideas that explore life’s deepest purpose, consciousness, and the nature of reality. It offers generous support, a clear grant process, and a rare opportunity to pursue inquiry that blends science, philosophy, and spiritual insight.

Senior DevOps Engineer @ Hume AI who is building an emotionally intelligent technology that understands human expression with empathy, nuance, and real-time clarity. Hume Ai is using deep scientific research that genuinely supports human well-being.

🧬 Innovation In “The Field”

Openwater unveiled the Open-LIFU. An emerging low-intensity focused ultrasound not only illuminates the nature of conscious experience but may offer a non-invasive bridge between neuroscience and healing especially for pain and depression.

Pathfinding published a study about intuition as an evolutionary path‑finding mechanism, shaped by dynamic brain states. Highlighting neural processes like hippocampus sharp-wave ripples and principles such as free energy minimization and metastability to explain how spontaneous insights emerge.

Serhii Kharchuk a Ukrainian researcher proposes a bold new theory of consciousness linking classical neurophysiology with quantum synchronization. His model suggests that unified awareness may arise from entangled microtubule networks reaching global coherence laying a possible foundation for building truly conscious synthetic minds.

FieldAI has raised $405 million to develop its Field Foundation Models. A class of physics-first embodied AI models serving as universal “brains” for robots. These models enable physical robots such as humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled platforms to navigate and adapt in real-world unstructured environments safely without maps or manual programming.

🔦 Community Spotlight

Maria Sipka is the founder of Linqia, an enterprise influencer agency and technology firm based in San Francisco, which pioneered the creator ecosystem in the early 2000s. Her mission was to introduce greater consciousness into the trillion dollar superhighway of attention.

Maria is a three-time founder and dedicated wife, mother and community leader for The Yearn, Stewardesses of Light, and OmYa. Maria’s core objective is to cultivate high-impact connections, ecosystems, and opportunities that foster harmony and well-being on Earth.

Favorite transformational resources:

Motherhood and marriage! 

My children are my greatest teachers, inspiring patience, presence, and unconditional love. I've always held in my heart Claude Debussy’s quote “it's the silence between the notes that makes the music”. Time slows to a snail's pace when I am with my children. They are the ultimate litmus test of mindfulness practice and meditation. 

My husband, Gary Moon, invited me on a magical carpet ride of epic internal and external adventures nearly a decade ago. After defining our core values three months into dating at Spirit Rock in Fairfax, CA, we vowed to prioritize:

• Mental, physical, and spiritual health

• Learning and growth

• Family

• Fostering conscious community

The fiery force of our sacred partnership has enabled and continues to surface every wound to be witnessed, transmuting into what feels like pure, potent energy to be channeled into portals of impact.

Words of wisdom to herself 10 years ago:

1. You are the sum of the five people you spend the most time with. Having grown up in Sydney, Australia, and subsequently lived in Hamburg, Zurich, and Barcelona before settling in San Francisco, I've scoured the earth for my core tribe. While people enter your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime and you never know which it will be the Bay Area is where I've experienced exponential growth and formed the most potent community of heart-centered and deeply awakened humans.

2. The stronger the wind, the stronger the tree. From the moment I incorporated Linqia, I knew it would be one of the most challenging creative journeys of my life. Relocating to San Francisco with a six-week-old baby, bringing on a co-founder with a completely different perspective, and entering a non-existent market felt like walking through fire for the first decade. Yet, it has been a necessary and immense gift, shaping how I approach the latter half of my life in service to the collective.  

3. Integrating the divine masculine and feminine energies. About a month into our relationship, Gary gave me an ultimatum, stating, “I have a strong masculine; if you’re going to be in your masculine all the time, this will make for a difficult relationship.” His words hit me hard, and I realized that for all of my life, I had been the one taking charge in my relationships. I felt safe enough to trust Gary to help draw out my feminine, and not long after, we attended a Michaela Boehm “Wild Woman’s Way” workshop at Esalen. The ripple effect of this experience on how I show up as a mother, co-founder, leader, peer, and for myself has been a beautiful, albeit precarious, dance.

🌀 Cool Things On The Internet

• Podcast - Dr K on Know Thyself - How Eastern Wisdom & Neuroscience Unite to Unlock Human Potential

• DJ Set - Deep in Mind Vol. 121 Part 3. By Manu DC

• Article - Decoding the ChatGPT-5 Revolt: They Tried to Build Skynet But They Got Eywa

• Book - Initiation by Elisabeth Haich - her lucid memories of initiation into the hidden mystical teachings of the priesthood in ancient Egypt

• Book - Shambala - The Sacred Path of the Warrior

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