Liv Boeree spent more than a decade as one of the most successful women in professional poker, winning on the game's biggest stages before walking away near the top. On episode 757 of the Digital Social Hour, she joins Sean Kelly to talk about what she has built since: a podcast, a platform, and a sharper set of questions.
The conversation moves the way Boeree's mind does — from the strategic habits poker drilled into her, to an open-minded exploration of energy healing and intuition, to the big themes of her Win-Win podcast: incentives, conscious capitalism, AI, and whether we are actually doomed.
About Liv Boeree
Liv Boeree is a British former professional poker player with an astrophysics degree, a European Poker Tour title, and a World Series of Poker bracelet to her name. After retiring from the game in 2019, she turned to science communication, exploring game theory, competition, and existential risk through her talks and the Win-Win podcast.
She also co-founded Raising for Effective Giving, which channeled poker winnings toward high-impact charities — an early sign of the question that now drives her work: how do you turn zero-sum games into win-wins? That framing runs through this entire episode, from market incentives to loneliness and local community.
What Liv Boeree and Sean Kelly Talked About
- Why Liv Boeree retired from professional poker and what the decision taught her
- The strategic habits poker builds, and how they transfer to podcasting and media
- Her open-minded exploration of energy healing, intuition, and the inner voice
- How the Win-Win podcast reframes competition, cooperation, and positive-sum thinking
- Boeree's perspective on incentives, conscious capitalism, and where modern markets misfire
- How she weighs the genuine risks of AI against reflexive doom
- Why strengthening local communities may be the most practical answer to loneliness
- Her thoughts on embracing aging, karma, and playing longer games
Why This Conversation Matters
Liv Boeree brings a rare combination to the table: a champion's competitive instincts and a scientist's discomfort with easy answers. This episode shows both — she is as willing to sit with questions about intuition and energy healing as she is to dissect incentive structures and AI risk. It is a conversation about thinking clearly, from someone who made a living doing exactly that.
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About Sean Kelly & the Digital Social Hour
Sean Kelly is an entrepreneur and the host of the Digital Social Hour, one of the fastest-growing interview podcasts in the world, where he sits down with entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and cultural voices for candid, long-form conversations. The show draws over 100 million views a month across platforms. Explore more guest features on SeanKelly.io.
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