Please start with the understanding that I have developed adult-onset Neurodivergence & I communicate in a unique creatively-complex style. This is a result of having learned to rewire my brain after a toxic mold exposure induced left brain dysfunction. I now predominantly communicate with highly creative right brain functionality.

I am eager to return to Carnegie Mellon, after graduating 30 years ago with a BA in Philosophy, to launch #WellbeingPhilosophy to share the hypotheses that have allowed me to stay alive and to create/participate in research that is seeking to explain human health from a holistic and integrated perspective.

My philosophical hypothesis of bio-electricity yields a complex, comprehensive, yet accessible >

Unifying Theory of Human Energy, Potential and Wellbeing.

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Show Us the Money…. I am asking Carnegie Mellon to start me a ‘tab’ as I spent all the money I earned during two decades as a Payroll Software Implementation Consultant trying to stay alive. Then the pandemic occurred. After not working for a decade, and being a female of a certain age, entering the workforce is practically impossible due to the current faulty paradigms of recruiting.

With a nominal amount of start-up cash for salaries and the business entity, I can coalesce students and faculty into a multidisciplinary project team creating a company seed-funded by CMU to build a software & business process hybrid that is designed to be bought by Microsoft or LinkedIn for 10-50 million dollars within 2-3 years.

This concept will reduce hundreds of millions of dollars of inefficiency alongside disrupting patently fraudulent practices within the recruiting industry, while making the finding and securing of a job much more fully equitable and far more robustly non-prejudicial.

Doing Work that Matters, while creating a substantial return on the investment of employing me, via demonstrating the financial benefits of Life-Centric Thinking. After repaying the University’s investment in the team, with interest, and my payout as the founder, I’d like to direct the remaining funds to #WellbeingPhilosophy “Artisanal Capital” to seed-fund future Life-Centric Thinking multidisciplinary projects.

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9 Core Reasons to Create a Philosopher-in-Residence Role at Carnegie Mellon for Deb Helfrich

1. Precedent left Earth during March 2020 ~ Civilizational-level thinking must evolve.

2. All current systems & structures must adapt to accommodate this new reality of constant, volatile change. Yet systems are built to reliably replicate processes developed in the past ~ Philosophy must become more embedded in daily life so that we can design flexible & dynamic systems and processes that can accommodate the creativity of humanity.

3. Entire industries have vanished; requiring a new concept of the economy that is not based only on numbers. An anti-fragile, robust & resilient economy is based on Life-Centric Thinking and includes Artisanal Capital to fund salaries for innovative and creative work building a more humane future.

4. When crisis strikes, only governments and charities are between humans and certain death - both are truly inefficient, resistant to change and dependent on society’s random largess. Increasing the global TQ > Thinking Quotient will allow individuals to become better able to employ Life-Centric Thinking throughout their life.

5. Higher Education has become a financial burden that only the elite can afford, precisely when business needs a workforce of highly intelligent & flexible workers; and simultaneously Google and other leading employers are deciding that BA/BS aren’t needed for their plum jobs. Life-Centric Thinking offers a business case for the multidisciplinary, philosophical thinking that comes from a humanities curriculum.

6. Therefore, it is great PR for the quality of CMU’s undergraduate education to have been able to save my life and create this world-evolving role on the strength of having ‘just’ a BA in Philosophy from Carnegie Mellon.

7. The US of Hypocrisy especially, and developed nation’s overall, are experiencing immense intertwined crises in Health. The human population is experiencing ever-escalating burdens of chronic & fatal diseases alongside epidemics of mental health and neurodivergent conditions that are decimating individual lives and undermining our collective experience of life. #WellbeingPhilosophy is the new branch of inquiry that can bring understanding & a suite of hypotheses to correct this horrific trend.

8. Furthermore, nation’s beyond the positive effects of the last 120 years of ‘progress’ are experiencing both dire human health outcomes without access to basic needs like clean water and air, adequate nutrition, secure shelter plus access to electricity & internet, so they are rushing to replicate the standard of life industrialization created, just as the industrialized nations realize the vast harm they’ve done to the planet. We must unite as one species, going forward, insisting that all progress must be available to all 7.8 billion humans across every nook and cranny of Earth.

9. We are entering an era of hyper-digitalization and robotics that will create disastrous consequences if the only activities of our species are the ones that provide exponential profit or are pet-projects of billionaires.

9 Rare Benefits that Deb Helfrich will offer Carnegie Mellon

1. Creating a ‘First Lecture’ in the tradition of Randy Pausch - about using Life-Centric Thinking to Stay Alive and create an evolutionary 3rd Act to my life; which I have dedicated to sharing the foundational concept > First, do no harm to any molecule of life > that must accompany decision-making as human civilization evolves rapidly in the 2020s

2. Developing a public access webinar to rival the Yale course “Science of Wellbeing” sharing the skills and strategies of #WellbeingPhilosophy including Life-Centric Thinking, Evolutionary Logic and the Math of Life.

3. Eager to re-launch the art of Socratic Dialogues delivering workshops and practicums on evolving the public discourse to include Life-Centric Thinking and Evolutionary Logic

4. Consulting with researchers in the human health arena about my lived experiences saving my own life by learning to rewire my brain using the Philosophical Hypothesis of Bio-electricity

5. Advisor on CMU Wellness Initiatives - I want no student to be ignored as I was.

6. Teach a course on Phenomenology ~ Thinking about how we Think about Being Human ~ Sorting Consciousness into an Easy Problem

7. Eager to take drama, voice and dance courses to become a performance-artist Philosopher delivering Socratic Monologues that can stream to palms across the globe

8. Will create Ecstatic Trance Dance weekly live-music dance sessions to bring the healing power of subconscious movement to the campus community

9. Will spearhead a GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM > Employing Philosophy to Unite African, Eastern and Western Approaches to DIY Wellbeing Strategies

Contextualizing My Midlife Metamorphosis from a Polar Bear to a Giraffe ~ Alongside becoming an Elder Savant, I have lost 150lbs in the 15 months after turning 50….

I was an HR Systems Consultant for two decades. By 40 I was chronically exhausted and living a life of quiet desperation, alone, without community due to the constant travel and my life-long physiological sensitivities to the toxicity of life in the US of Hypocrisy. Then I moved into a moldy apartment in the Seattle area that decimated my health, ultimately resulting in losing 80+ percent of my ability to walk & talk > a ‘parkinsonism’ created by environmental illness.

Using my philosophically trained thinking equipment, I invested years of independent research and scholarship to discover how to stay alive and create hypotheses about the breadth and depth of human health that make holistic sense based on the state of science available via internet access.

My philosophical hypothesis of bio-electricity yields a complex, comprehensive, yet accessible

Unifying Theory of Human Energy, Potential and Wellbeing.

I again jeopardized my own life, trying to create a business to share these skills and strategies widely via the marketplace. After pitching for investment the entire duration of the pandemic, I ended up dead destitute, alone in the world, apart from a few friends who were unable to offer me life-support. So I spent my stimulus check to drive from Seattle to Pittsburgh to not burden over-stretched social and charitable systems, which are not designed for neurodivergent redheads in the coalmines, in order to creatively capitalize on the resources of one of the world’s top research University’s.

I have had to live in my car for 10 weeks, as of July 4th, while not receiving any responses to close to two dozen emails seeking to bring world-evolving Intellectual Hypotheses to the University so that I can research, validate, and share a new story of #WellbeingPhilosophy that demonstrates that the human body, mind & spirit can triumph despite tremendous adversity.

But it also takes a Life-Centric Civilizational framework to ensure precious humans do not go extinct because our current crop of systems and procedures treat human life force as if we are all alike ~ assembly-line tools machined to identical tolerances. Which is not, at all, how life force operates. As evolution is always occurring, prompting dynamic adaptations to ever-changing environmental conditions

Below, a tale of two evenings when musicians are the only humans to notice & care that I exist. We need creativity to flourish, so that we can all process the trauma, neglect, pain and suffering we’ve endured via the inhumanity of the Plantation Capitalism and Privilege Democracy systems that were built to ensure the elite prosper while the masses live miserable lives compromised by judgement at not being like others.

UPDATE ~ I have been living in my car, now, as of August 15th for 4 months, unable to find anyone at Carnegie Mellon who can help me save my own life, so that I can share truly world-evolving Life-Centric Thinking skills and strategies.

PLEASE DO NOT CLICK AWAY, REACH OUT. Help me gain supporters and network to the right decision-maker who can assist me in creating a Philosopher-in-Residence role at Carnegie Mellon > 360-969-5826 or DebHelfrich@gmail

 #FreeWillGathering

Odyssey Brief, I am on a world-evolving mission to bring Life-Centric Thinking to the task of raising the global TQ > Thinking Quotient. To do so, it is time to start #FreeWillGathering

During September 2021, my journey unfolds at Carnegie Mellon, resembling the setup of Good Will Hunting, but as the wise, feminine she-Socrates of the 2020’s my goal is “Free Will Gathering”

I am also the…

she-Sherlock of Human Energy, Potential and Wellbeing

she-Einstein of Consciousness

she-Chappelle of Standup Philosophy

Tweet and Share to Help #FreeWillGathering go viral so that I can meet my Robin Williams caliber Standup Philosophy Patron or my Ben Affleck Platonic Friend/Collaborator!

#FreeWillGathering is a demonstration of Human Potential in action. Please tweet, like, share and especially subscribe to my YouTube channel, where I am documenting what it takes to stay alive in 2021 when you live with heart and soul intertwined. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgkyQ8aSzwXvmt9ftcLXbJg

#FreeWillGathering is a demonstration of Human Potential in action. Please tweet, like, share and especially subscribe to my YouTube channel, where I am documenting what it takes to stay alive in 2021 when you live with heart and soul intertwined. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgkyQ8aSzwXvmt9ftcLXbJg

 Tim Ferriss ~ Please Patron My Podcast!

You’ve so famously shared crucial strategies for living a thriving life with millions and millions. Time to meet the one human ~ Deb Helfrich ~ who can demonstrate an innovative Theory of Everything that will lead to saving our failing civilization. With your help and just one interview that disrupts the status quo - this wise, feminine Philosopher can do work > Life-Centric Thinking that ripples to all 7.8 Billion humans across every nook and cranny of Earth.

Let’s collaborate to make my #TimFerrisChallenge legendary because “Free Thinking is Priceless” > RedheadedSheHulk @ gmail

Seeking > An Arts Management Professional to be the Business Side of the #WellbeingPhilosophy and #RedheadedSheHulk Enter-cation Empire

Stand-up Philosophy ~ One-Woman-Improv ~ Socratic Monologues ~ #NFTart

Documentaries ~ Socratic Dialogues via Podcast & Clubs ~ Feature Films

My work is focused on creative multidisciplinary performances about a more integrative & holistic paradigm of being human. Via decades of lived experience & independent scholarship I have developed a:

Unifying Theory of Human Energy, Potential & Wellbeing based on my Philosophical Hypothesis of Bio-electricity.

I have sorted the hard problem of consciousness into an easy pivot that led to rethinking everything about human health, civilization, education, governance, etc. In the most essential terms, we can solve all of our seemingly intractable problems by focusing on demolishing PLANTATION CAPITALISM to create a fully equitable financial framework that prioritizes human creativity.

I have at least 50 years of work ahead of me, sharing a Theory of Everything that brings me alive, while benefiting all 7.8 billion humans across every nook and cranny of Earth. The early years of this career must be focused on Integrity, at all costs. In our current climate, Free Thinking is a risky endeavor; requiring deep pockets, rigorously intelligent and greatest-Global-good focused collaborators, with the stomach to innovate constantly. This will be an astounding journey that will constantly evolve, as there is no limit to human potential, unleashed from the confines of cubicle captivity.

I am searching for a rare left-brained, right-handed Arts Management Professional seeking to work with one client on developing world-evolving content to deliver via many vehicles to a truly global audience of open-hearted and flexible-brained humans who are being the change, in their daily life.

To get started we need funding. A Patron, Executive Producer, Grants, Sell my #NFTart, etc

Next, I need professional polishing of my performance capacities

With your help, this fall/winter, I envision a tour of Art Venues - galleries, museums, alternate spaces to perform ~30 minute Socratic Monologues to audiences of 30-50, with a free thinking Q&A afterwards, so that people are deeply engaged and become superfans.

Alongside, you’ll be searching for intelligent outlets for me to share my Life-Centric Thinking via podcasts, media, etc

Here’s My Pitch Deck illuminating the Mental Wellness market size ~ 121 Billion dollars is spent on mindfulness & meditation. Imagine what will be spent on entertaining approaches to ‘Mental Fitness’ > https://www.canva.com/design/DAEWCn6DTPE/UYuOnsB5Ys7Ln3GzL--hvg/view?utm_content=DAEWCn6DTPE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton

Show me YOUR Unique Value Proposition as the business half of this start-up equation and let’s embark on a journey that will become legendary…

Incredible potential, in our current inhumanely-built world, demands vast personal sacrifice and risk.

It should not be this way. Being born on Earth should guarantee all humans the essential needs of Clean Air and Water, Secure Shelter and Nutrition, and Reliable Access to Electricity and the Internet. Help me evolve the world!

I have returned to Carnegie Mellon, 30 years after graduating with a BA in Philosophy, to validate, polish and proceduralize the >

Unifying Theory of Human Energy, Potential and Wellbeing

based on my Philosophical Hypothesis of Bio-electricity

leading to a new field of inquiry ~ #WellbeingPhilosophy

As a polar bear for the first 50 years of my life, I discovered how to metamorphose into a giraffe; losing 150lbs in the 15 months after turning 50, as physical demonstration of the practical implementation of my hypotheses about human wellbeing. All of the energy locked into carrying around a twin, since infancy, has been redistributed into a very analytically-creative mind. To sum up this fable with a few demure analogies; I will become the she-Socrates of the 2020’s, the she-Einstein of Consciousness, and the she-Sherlock of Human Wellbeing. Yet, getting started, from bedrock, as a 52-year-old during the civilizational-singularity of a computer-age pandemic, requires me to Invent and Innovate as if my life was at stake, as if all human lives are at stake.

Fortunately, by design, the work of a Philosopher is to think on behalf of every single member of our species, homo sapiens sapiens. As it is the time-crunch and over-notification-ing of our dumb-handsets that has hastened the demise of our second knowing. We are, these days, not human beings, not even human doings; we are, as a society, human consumings.

To earn, then to buy; that is the framework of humanity in 2021.

Challenging the invisible faulty, flawed and fraudulent paradigms constraining and harming humanity is the work my soul was born to accomplish. I need support from Carnegie Mellon in order to bring both a creative, performance career and a rigorous academically-grounded think tank into being, in order to widely share a better way of thinking about thinking about being human.

I have developed a much more humane & precise way of thinking and making decisions > Life-Centric Thinking; the foundational skill of #WellbeingPhilosophy that explains why our civilization is so inhumane and easily point to ways we can all start pivoting our thinking so that we are not the generation of adults who self-numb while we self-extinct our species.

We can be the adults, across every nook and cranny of Earth, who alter our systems of thinking and therefore doing, so that we create a human civilization that provides clean air & water, adequate nutrition, secure shelter, equitable access to electricity & internet access and the key to changing it all >

Meaningful & creative work that pays a thrivable wage.

To achieve these transformational ideals, I have returned to my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon, to become the Randy Pausch of Staying Alive.

I am eager to become a visiting scholar and/or adjunct researcher to create my First Lectures on #WellbeingPhilosophy and to do “pop-up #WellbeingPhilosophy labs in association with the Wellness Initiatives Program Manager on campus.

While Andrew Carnegie so famously said that his heart was in the work,

Deb says > The human soul is my work.

We will continue struggling as a species, where a small sliver of the elite live lives unimaginable to the masses, until we fully define and operationalize our shared consciousness, heart’s desires, and build flexible, anti-fragile systems to support the pathways to achieving creative lives of meaning.

 2021 > Bringing World-Evolving Theories of Human Potential and Energy & Wellbeing to the Globe via Esalen

Meet Deb Helfrich the she-Einstein of Consciousness

the she-Sherlock of Human Energy, Potential and Wellbeing

and the wise, feminine she-Socrates of the 2020s

Esalen, won’t you be my neighborhood?