What if the system isn’t broken—it’s doing exactly what it was built to do?

In this episode of Sense-Making Conversations, Andrea Sampson sits down with Arash Aazami—energy futurist and founder of the Universal Right to Energy initiative—to explore why real change won’t come from fixing old systems, but from redesigning them entirely. From the global energy transition to the way we think about power, Arash challenges us to shift from achieving missions to serving them—and shows how joy, imagination, and mindset can become the scaffolding for a different future. If you’ve ever felt burned out by trying to change a world that resists change, this conversation will give you new ways to imagine—and to build—what comes next.

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Arash Aazami is a visionary thinker and entrepreneur who works at the intersection of energy systems, ethics, and paradigm shift. Originally trained as a musician, Arash entered the energy sector and became disillusioned by its entrenched models of scarcity, profit-maximization, and centralized control. He eventually founded Kamangir, a venture committed to designing energy systems based on sufficiency, regeneration, and shared value.

His work centers on the idea that energy should be considered a public good — not a commodity — and that the systems we design must support life, not just survival. Arash speaks frequently about burnout among change-makers, including his own experience of emotional and spiritual depletion after years of advocating for change within resistant systems.

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He is an advocate for paradigm shifts at multiple levels: not just technological or economic, but cognitive, ethical, and spiritual.