Best Carolyn Spring Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 162 Yarning with Mindy Woods from Karkalla on sisterhood, eldership + native foods 1:00:58

10d ago1:00:58

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Sign out of 2024 with this lively mastermind who suggests we take country into our body ! How? Build routine around food, Go barefoot to boost immunity, Stop seeing food as an inconvenience Cook & eat with family often Connect to the seasons of your life & the landscape Create & share ceremony Use food as a reconciliation tool Belonging to a matria…

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Ep 161 Helen Rebanks - In honour of the Farmers Wife! 42:23

8d ago42:23

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What started as a throw away title while supporting her husband James Rebanks on his book tours, Helen Rebanks now proudly refers to herself as the farmers wife - a title that has very much become her identity & set in her a burning desire to write her own book about invisible women who’s stories are not told. As a mother of four & the backbone for…

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Ep 160 Carolyn Parker - Living her daydream, waking up to the sunshine & pushing past deep shyness 58:52

16d ago58:52

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Summary As a super quiet, observing kid, Carolyn often had her head in a book or went adventuring on her own. As an adult this lead to naturally hermitty behaviour before she actively decided to show others that shy characters can do bold & hard things too - especially if they take tea wherever they go. Now, woven into a well connected community sh…

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Ep 159 Manda Scott - Asking how we became accidental gods of this land & seeking connection to it with humility not control 1:12:19

1M ago1:12:19

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Summary If we are going to lay the foundations of a world we are proud to leave as a legacy we need to be comfortable to move into elderhood - for Manda Scott this is about getting comfortable with emergence and asking the living web “what is mine to do”. We’ve created a world where separation, anxiety & powerlessness have become the underlying def…

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Ep 158 Alice Zaslavski - Serving your 'A 'game with salad & learning English with Big Ted 51:16

29d ago51:16

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Hungry? How bout a salad…trust me, after todays convo, you’re going to want to eat salad for breakfast, lunch & dinner. Not just the limp lettuce & store bought dressing kind of salad but one that tickles all your gastronomic senses. Once you've been satiated the convo settle into really chewing on the realities of this high energy lass' day to day…

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Ep 157 Matilda Brown - When hard things fill your heart w joy & husbands make the best business partners 58:48

1M ago58:48

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This is a pour-a-cuppa kinda convo - Matilda Brown is a rare kind-of open book where nothing is off limits and despite not actually being her friend you get the distinct feeling that you must be. Flipping a childhood acting career for a regnerative food business wasn’t part of her plan - actually nothing really is, this breath of fresh air claims t…

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Ep 156 Cynthia Jurs - Sacred Activism, Earth Treasure Vases & Combatting Atomic Bombs 46:03

1M ago46:03

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Summary Life is impermanent. Precious but not entitled to length. The past is behind us, the future is unknown & all we have is this moment. Our role is to meet the moment. Being overwhelmed with the assignment of bringing healing & protection to the earth, todays guest looked to Gaia as the source of guidance towards effortless harmony. Easier sai…

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Ep 155 Shane Simonsen - Taming the apocalypse, exploring a post industrial world & maize making people mad 1:11:50

2M ago1:11:50

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Summary The age of short termism now dominates - Todays guest however takes long termism the way we all take breakfast (those not on a fasting regime anyway) Apparently he was born this way. In his recently released book Taming the Apocalypse he states that the only remaining sustainable resources after industrialisation runs its course will be bio…

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Ep 154 Anisa Rogers & Michaela from the Degrowth Network - Downsizing for perpetuity in a new world! 59:10

2M ago59:10

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Summary In a world dominated by a striving for endless growth, it can be hard to see that while a drive towards money and individualism is great for the economy, it is fundamentally destructive for humanity, community & ecology. This conversation tackles us relearning our ability to grow our environment with each other & to meet our own needs rathe…

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Ep 153 Paulette Whitney - For the love of food, flowers & spring loaded seeds! 50:29

2M ago50:29

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As a food grower, lover of the natural world, cook and wizened plant expert, todays conversation meanders between the veggie patch & the kitchen, the garden shed & the pickling shelf. A reverence for the food we eat was planted deep inside Paulette's young mind by a mother who shared her skills and passion which then carried her onto this trajector…

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Ep 152 Satyajit Das - Are we just Neanderthals' living with smart phones? 58:53

2M ago58:53

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This gent who goes by the name of Das is eccentric, passionate, articulate & intelligent so strap in for this fast paced, heady conversation framed through the lens of equal rights for species other than humans to the very resources we are destroying. His voice grins, setting a positive tone & his true love of the natural world is just a tad intoxi…

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Ep 151 Charlie Showers - Farming as his laboratory for life + initiating boys into manhood 1:14:06

3M ago1:14:06

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Meet Jades husband - Charlie Showers. Perched at the kitchen table, this conversation is steered by questions received from listeners. For an oft reserved gent, Charlie emotionally opens the doors about why he leans into the 'uncomfortable' to realise his humanity, to the grief of facing his own mortality, taking his boys through rites of passage &…

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Ep 150 Dani Wolff - Mashing earth wisdom + mama wisdom 51:25

3M ago51:25

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Dani Wolff is a roll-your-sleeves-up-&-get-shit-done kinda girl who oozes earth wisdom and mama wisdom but most of all she personifies what it means to be collaborative. From her years in an intentional community to her globe trotting earth building projects and now her multi fingered prongs in collaborations that take her from veggie gardens to ma…

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Ep 149 Digby Hall - The power sits in the many so it's time to collect your huddle 1:02:34

3M ago1:02:34

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No-one else is coming in to solve the human induced problems & it's not about us anymore - we all have a responsibility to do something for the generations still to come Digby Hall reckons that if joined together we have wisdom, integrity & immense power to bring change but we must learn how to self manage the whiplash of constantly changing enviro…

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Ep 148 Matthew Evans - The Man is Mad about Milk 53:13

3M ago53:13

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MILK…despite the fact that 6 billion people on the planet drink it and we have been for 10,00 years, most of us rarely give it a moments thought. Todays conversation with Matthew Evans takes us swimming in vats of the stuff. Milk looms large in our culture and it's complex, layered, nutritionally interesting and culturally rich. Milk doesn't just f…

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Ep 147 Hannah Churton - The Worm Monger, creating community over kitchen scraps 45:10

4M ago45:10

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How do you create community and influence people? Hannah Churton made friends over bucketloads of kitchen scraps and believes that compost can salve climate anxiety? It’s not simply the creation of black gold that returns the goods - it’s the strength and power in the community that has been built around it. Much like a warm cuddle - just like this…

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Ep 146 Leah Rampy - The trees teach resilience - Beginning & ending in silence 1:07:07

4M ago1:07:07

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"When did we start othering earth to be overused & under-respected"? We humans are the younger brother & sister of other beings who have been here for longer than us & have more experience. Now it's time for humans to have humility, unlearn & relearn from those who haven't been so lured by the lux. Storytelling stepping stones will help us move to …

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Ep 145 Winter Windbacks 2024 Anthony James - Powerful Regen-narration w words 1:03:09

4M ago1:03:09

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As the host of the the 'regen-narration podcast, listening, learning and storytelling is this mans lens. Join us in getting comfortable sitting in silence while we wait for the insights With an intent for working collaboratively and creating a community of care, this conversation is flowing and abstract, reflecting on our life of fat, comfort and e…

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Ep 144 Winter Windbacks 2024 Alex Elliot the firecracker from Cornersmith defying perfection 46:57

4M ago46:57

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Bugger off dogmatic rules - who wrote those anyway. Push off unfaltering sustainable existence - you're leave us feeling guilty. Shhhh up incessant Instagram perfection - it's not real! Tune in to this fire cracker of fresh air to recalibrate your judgment beacon and give yourself a break while you learn to a make a difference in a way that works f…

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Podcast #21 – Learning to tolerate positive emotions 34:14

5M ago34:14

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We're often used to the idea that it's hard to tolerate distressing emotions. But for many of us as trauma survivors, we can be easily triggered by positive emotions too. Good feelings can be strange, novel and frightening. When we've experienced grooming, they can appear to be the prelude to abuse. And they can feel just plain wrong! In this podca…

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Ep 143 Winter Windbacks 2024 - Beaudy Miles an odd storyteller 51:20

5M ago51:20

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Our most downloaded backyard adventurer is chatting with us again but this time with better sound and more sleep under his belt so we are witness to a more true version of this humorous, odd character. A self titled 'polyjobist; a generalist at many things, he shares the challenge of writing a book after a decade in academia, worrying about breakin…

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Ep 142 Winter Windbacks 2024 Charlie McGee from Formidable Vegetable 1:02:23

5M ago1:02:23

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Charlie Mgee -- permaculture troubadour and Formidable Vegetable frontman -- composes swingin' tunes on a ukulele that address climate change, food security and regenerative sustainable living. From 'energy-descent electroswing' to 'post-apocalypso', his unforgettable music provides permaculture earworms that entertain and educate. Maybe you're hum…

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Ep 141 Winter Windbacks 2024 Claire Dunn - Rewilding our souls 1:00:06

5M ago1:00:06

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What would it be like to rely solely on yourself, lean into ecological literacy, to really notice the changing patterns of the season & offer yourself the time it genuinely takes to live intimately with the earth . Claire tells of her pathway to following a calling to initiation - a need to let her social identity rot away on the forest floor & go …

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Ep 140 Winter Windbacks Mara from Orto Farm - creating a village life of circularity and love 58:25

6M ago58:25

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Today Jade sits down with one of those luminous beings who’s living like tomorrow matters with deep intention and integrity. Mara of Village Dreaming and ORTO Farm near Daylesford shares stories from her slow food life and lyrical observations (to the tune of ‘riding a bike to work in the city is like experiencing a musical’) that’ll linger long af…

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Ep 139 Sadie Chrestman - Farm schools, sharing white goods & building bloody great partnerships 47:43

6M ago47:43

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This episode is akin to being a fly on the wall as you overhear a convo… a warm, convivial, personal conversation to round out season nine. Listening back, while editing - with the Sunday roast cooking - it felt intimate to be part of this natter between Sadie and Jade which was recorded in late Spring art the end of their respective days. They pou…

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Ep 138 Osprey Oriel Lake - The Story Is In Our Bones, together we will rewrite it! 47:12

6M ago47:12

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How do we become a life enhancing species? How do we remember in our bones our earth lineage? Osprey asks us to consider 'How are we each ‘efforting’ towards a different way of being? If you said Together...SNAP. While acknowledging that we're each complicit in living & swimming in an extractive economy & extractive world - its about the way we nav…

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Ep 137 Jane Stevens - By the grace of Gaia goes she! 47:22

6M ago47:22

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Jane Stevens is passing on the knowledge from her lifelong poly passions of gardening, herbalism, astrology and moon cycles as a gift to the world in the from of a book (one that carries a Chelsea green publishers mark on the spine & a Rosemary Gladstar forward no less). This Wisconsin based wealth of other-worldly wisdom shares why writing a book …

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Ep 136 Sarah Andrews - Huddling by design + doing what it says on the box 46:36

7M ago46:36

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Sarah Andrews has this way of stripping back the noise & replacing hustle with humility. A gentle woman, who describes herself as '90% introvert', she has crated beautiful spaces by considering them her palette to tell stories & then inviting in a global community of folk to share her special space. The key, she says, to creating spaces that are wa…

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Ep 135 Casper Ter Kuile - (rhymes with smile) - Ritual, relationship covenants & why we can practice sacred reading with any book 58:44

7M ago58:44

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Summary: In a world of consumption & content this chat ponders which containers for connection are going to hold us in relationships that are strong enough to navigate sickness & health, vitality & misery & how we build bridges to thread our significant worlds into one place so we can be ‘whole’. Over & above the individual, we ask ‘how do we build…

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Ep 134 Brenna Quinlan - Celebrities at funerals, shared mulberry trees & dried fruit for Halloween 49:54

7M ago49:54

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Illustrator extraordinaire is back to chat! Brenna's talent lies in taking hairy, complex systemic issues and distilling them into bite-sized, actionable messages using just her pencil (& of course her magnificent capacity for critical thought). We check in with her latest updates from life on the road with her partner Charlie McGee touring with hi…

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Ep 133 Billa - The Woman at the Wild School shares her earth wisdom 58:56

8M ago58:56

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SHOW SUMMARY Join Billa, co founder of the Wild School, as we navigate back into our custodial selves. Where we use head, hands & heart to rebuild the connective processes that help us become deeply connected people to place & each other. This process requires us to not only think but to really feel, 'It needs to be remembered in the body at a cell…

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Ep 132 Jamie Loveday - Sowing seeds for food deserts in the city 51:43

8M ago51:43

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The majority of us are living in cities, and the sad truth is that these highly inhabited hubs are food deserts. Places where food certainty is uncertain and what we do have available is a rapidly homogenising food landscape. The Food Lab is a program based in Sydney and designed to find ways to bring people closer to the soil that grows our food. …

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Ep 131 Maria Konecsny - Nourishing your kinfolk 1:01:16

8M ago1:01:16

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Maria Konecsky refers often to her ancestral memory. For her the way back to those who came before her has been through food. She says “Our food lines, hold our story, no matter what it is, whether its pretty or ugly, grand or humble it holds richness and grit and love and loss” It’s such a beautiful way to unpack our heritage - through food, in he…

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Ep 130 Hannah Maloney - Love, small potato fame and putting yourself in the way of opportunities 46:05

8M ago46:05

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Join Jade and the tall, smiling pink haired gem as she ponders the many right ways of doing things - when care, intellect & heart goes into the building of skills, earth care & people care we need to honour the effort which is more important than the approach taken. Learn why she actively puts herself in front of opportunities & why she uses her pl…

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Podcast #20 – How therapy transformed me 28:41

8M ago28:41

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Therapy can be, and often is, transformational. But why? I benefitted greatly from the empathy and attunement offered by my therapist, but over time I also had to adjust my expectations about how change would occur in me. I had to learn to consider what's really going on when we feel misattuned-to as well. I needed validation and acceptance, but I …

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Ep 129 What shade of green are you? with Dr Kate Luckins 52:41

9M ago52:41

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Dr Kate Luckins asks what shade of green are you? The answer is of little consequence and will most certainly ebb with the hokey poke of life - finding your own shade, in your own way is the secret…along with an audit or two of your cupboards, sheds, fridge and mind. With a doctorate in sustainability, this Dr knows a thing or two about how we can …

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Ep 128 Kirsten Bradley Brings us back for season 9 - 'HUDDLE' 51:13

9M ago51:13

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Kirsten Bradley is one half of permacultures favourite educators MILKWOOD and she joins us as our opening night (very early morning actually) star in the spectacular line up of season nine guests. We've had her in our ears before but not since she crossed Bass Straight to set up home and release her new book. The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbo…

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Podcast #19 – How do we learn to trust people after trauma? 30:20

9M ago30:20

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Trust is so key for smooth human relationships, but it's also invariably damaged after we have suffered trauma, especially abuse. So how do we learn to build it again? In this episode I talk about how there aren't 'three top tips', but how it's a meticulous process of firstly learning to trust ourselves, to tune into our internal radar, and then to…

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Podcast #18 – How to keep going through challenging times (part 2) 26:12

11M ago26:12

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In this second and final part, I look at the cognitive mindsets and practical approaches I've employed to keep going even when everything in me wants to give up: because 'keeping on keeping on' matters to me, not least because by doing so, things do invariably improve.By Carolyn Spring

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Podcast #17 – How to keep going through challenging times (part 1) 26:16

12M ago26:16

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There's often nothing we can do to prevent challenging times happening – they're part of life. But when they hit, how do we keep going? In this episode (part 1 of 2), I look at the painfulness of overwhelm of trauma, the heart-cry of which is often 'There's nobody there' and the need for us, in learnable ways, to develop self-compassion.…

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Ep 127 Catie Payne - Bookending 8 seasons of Futuresteading w her trademark wit, charm & oddball intellect 1:13:14

1+ y ago1:13:14

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Remember this beautiful human? She spent some time in your ears way back in series one & two before heading off for a life of adventure & learning in the intellectual home of permaculture. Catie Payne is a courageous one-of-a-kind character full of love and laughter who challenges 'normal' and beats to her own drum. Join us for this joyful, 'been-t…

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Ep 126 Ella Noah Bancroft - Dispossession, living an ancestrally connected life & finding your feminine power 1:01:27

1+ y ago1:01:27

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Summary "We’ve never been sicker as a species, we've never experienced such high levels of extinction and its time to look past the ‘machine that’s working’ and actively choose not to contribute to it. Instead, its time to share ancestral knowledge, naturopathy, movement & earth based skills with each other & the next generation and nod to our ance…

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Ep 125 Jane Hilliard - "Enoughness" do you have it? 52:09

1+ y ago52:09

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When did having twin basins and three toilets become the norm? As an architect who bucks the idea of bigger-is-better Jane Hilliard uses the principle of “Enoughness” as a design principle for the built environment. Its better for both the natural environment and the people around us. It allows us to be rich in ways that matter instead of buying in…

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Ep 124 Tammy White - The one woman farmer from Wing & a Prayer creating community wherever she goes 47:59

1+ y ago47:59

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"Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze" and what's the point in that. Life as a shepherd in Vermont USA can be lonely but farm time provides opportunity for reflection & cup filling so there's more energy to give to community. "Although I don’t say no to help - I don’t let no help stop me" is the can-do attitude Tammy exudes not…

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Ep 123 Megan Grant - Futuresteading artist following her gut + noticing the weeds at the service station 49:45

1+ y ago49:45

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The talented Megan Grant bought the futuresteading book to life with her vibrant depictions of a seasonal, intentional and ritual rich life. After a year of being asked, this introvert who dreams and thinks in colours and pictures finally said yes to being interviewed. We chat about her intuitive approach to creativity, her deep need to keep trying…

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Ep 122 Hayley Morris - Leading the investment world away from extraction & into their hearts 58:11

1+ y ago58:11

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SUMMARY We need an economic system based on values and trust to see genuine change in this critical decade. This intuition led powerhouse is collaboratively leading the thinking for philanthropy & impact investment to shift away from reductionist outcomes to a 'relationship first' approach where she believes the place to begin is with inner work to…

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Ep 121 Nat Wilmott - Living the dream. Her story! 56:50

2y ago56:50

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This homeschooling mum of three spends her days foraging, growing, swapping & upskilling all in the name of continuing to live her version of normal in an abnormal world where we've lost touch with our food, medicine & the natural world. After taking her time with her families transition to this way of life, her newfound confidence & conviction ens…

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Ep 120 Just Collapse - The illusion of techno-solutions “We can’t swallow horses to solve this problem” 57:43

2y ago57:43

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This conversation is difficult to process but important to hear. It asks: "How does Socioecological justice prevail in the face of an irreversible collapse"? Its time to accept that infinite growth on a finite planet will be short lived and that those who have agency & privilege have much to do - in big or small ways It’s hard to really accept coll…

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Ep 119 Sarah Wilson - Feeling through humanity's dissonance, humans hunger for hard work & avoiding the diet version of life 53:48

2y ago53:48

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Described as 'all striving no arriving…' Sarah thrives in the early stages of a movement - feeling her way into the zeitgeist of now & unpacks in ways that resonate with reality. Ultimately driven by curiosity & shunning growth, she talks about Wild Activism as a responsibility of the current age with agency in tact. Having less fucks to give about…

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Ep 118 Ginny 1000 hours outside - Replacing Screen time with Green Time 50:27

2y ago50:27

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What if all the memories you made as a kid had been replaced by screens? When an aha moment makes you realise that its time to reframe childhood and embrace an analogue life - one that stimulates creativity, imagination and experiences that instill a need to fight for the natural world over technification. With a biological need for at least 3 hour…

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