Best A Earthbased Podcasts (2026)

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Thoughts from the Edge: Navigating the turbulent seas of the incoming year with grace and courage (Manda solo) 47:00

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Well…2025 was the year the masks came off the old system: nobody is pretending it's there to help us, or that those who have stolen the reins of power have any intention of 'saving the planet', still less resolving the horrors of inequity or anything at all but feeding the ravenously hungry ghost of capitalism. So how do we bring power to those wit…

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Change is Coming! Solstice Reflections with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott 1:14:54

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At the end of a turbulent year that has seen the masks come off the death cult in ways that were probably predictable, but still shocking, we reconvene our December Solstice Traditional conversation. Manda is joined by Della Duncan of the Upstream Podcast and Nathalie Nahai of 'Nathalie Nahai in Conversation' to explore the things that have stood o…

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December Solstice meditation - suitable northern and southern hemispheres 22:31

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Here's our December Solstice Meditation for 2025 - please find a place and time where you can relax, take space for yourself, and build the connections to the web of life that will carry us forward. Details of 3iATLAS https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/3i-atlas-facts-and-faqs/By Accidental Gods

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Eric Pettibone, farrier, rancher, and former horse breeder, explains lots about breeding horses. 33:36

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Send us a text Eric Pettibone has stewarded Crane Creek Ranch for over 35 years, with his wife Jill. A graduate of the OSU Farrier School (1988), he continues to serve the Douglas County horse community while managing the 1,400-acre ranch along the North Umpqua River near Roseburg, Oregon. Crane Creek Ranch began as a horse breeding operation and t…

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Wild new stories: Weaving New Myths for a New Way of Being with Ally Kingston of Agency for Nature 1:25:10

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How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart's yearning for connection, relationship, being and belonging? This week's guest, Ally Kingston, is a creative facilitator and strategy lead at Purpose Disruptors, where she co-developed the br…

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Word Magic 2025 - Accidental Gods' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year 32:34

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Here's Manda's round up of (some of) the best books, poetry and podcasts she's come across this year. Most of the links are to Bookshop.org in the UK where you can link to an independent bookshop of your choice. In some cases, we've linked to the authors' website. Fiction Rachel Neumeier - Rihasi, Marag, Sekaran, Hedesa - all four are part of the T…

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Devon O'Day from Mustang Heritage Foundation 57:47

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Send us a text https://www.mustangheritagefoundation.org/ Director of Media & Marketing Devon O’Day has been a career broadcaster known for local, regional and nationally syndicated radio since 1976. She is a member of the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame. As a songwriter, she has had songs recorded by Hank Williams Jr, Pam Tillis, Lee Ann Womack, and …

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Barefoot Economics in a world of Hobnailed Boots with storyteller Inez Aponte 1:11:15

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If we are to build systems that meet our real needs we have to first understand what those needs are and start growing the stuff that will allow us to thrive: good food from healthy soils, safe and supportive homes and communities, space to develop and express our creativity, opportunities to increase our capacity for co-operation and kindness. As …

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Roots to Health - building Food Resilience at all Scales with Daphne du Cros of the Shropshire Good Food Partnership 1:03:04

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We all know by now that plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving, life-filled food... but the steps to getting there in the face of a multinational industry devoted to toxic, nutritionally empty, addictive - and highly profitable - ultra-processed 'food-like substances' are harder to see. This week's guest, Daphn…

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Dance of the Spiritual Warrior: Balancing Love and Power with Jamie Bristow 1:27:00

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What does it mean to (re)orient our entire culture around the power of love? To answer this, we have to understand the nature of love and of power and how both of these have many meanings in our culture, some of them essential to moving forward - and some of them so toxic they turn the entire concept into a poisoned cue. This week's guest is friend…

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Wild Horse Fire Brigade with Michelle Gough 53:10

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Send us a text Michelle talks about magical expereinces with the wild horses near their home. And the things horses are here to teach us. ://www.wildhorsefirebrigade.org/ https://horseofnature.com/ (Bill's song--). https://youtu.be/uRTVGd5CkxU Wild horses have been part of our American heritage for hundreds, even thousands of years. Help us get the…

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The Magic of Darkness: learning to love life in the night with author Leigh Ann Henion 1:06:31

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Do you love the dark? Do you yearn for sunset and the amber glow of a fire with the night growing deeper, more inspiring all around you? Most of us don't - though our ancestors through all of history have lived by firelight, moonlight, starlight... until the modern era of light at the flick of a switch. But there's a world out there of sheer, unadu…

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William Simpson of the Wild Horse Firebrigade on Mustangs 52:45

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Send us a text https://www.wildhorsefirebrigade.org/ https://horseofnature.com/ (Bill's song--). https://youtu.be/uRTVGd5CkxU Bill and Michelle have been living amongst and in this wild herd for 11 years-hear their science and storries in these next episodes. You can contact them from the webpage above. THE MISSION Wild horses have been part of our…

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Starting in the Ruins: Of Lions and Games with Crypto-Advocate and Changemaker Andrea Leiter 1:29:28

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This week's guest, Andrea Leiter, is one of those polymaths who brings not just breadth, but astonishing depth to the work of bridging the worlds of technology, biodiversity and international law; bringing them together in service of a new way of being built from the ruins of collapse. Andrea works at the intersection of law, digital transformation…

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Walking the wild, mythic Edge of Being with visionary elder and soul initiator Bill Plotkin 1:27:35

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What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break? This phrase comes from the poem 'All The True Vows' by David Whyte, but there can be no better introduction to this week's guest, who knows how to help people - ordinary, every-day people from our culture - build true, heart-felt connections with the web of life such that we com…

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Eco-Civilisation: the future we deserve and how we will get there with Jeremy Lent 1:13:23

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What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an eco-civilisation into being? This week's guest, Jeremy Lent, explores these ideas in depth in his f…

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Solomon Singer 49:07

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Send us a text The bareback riding club on Sundays mentioned in this podcast has been delayed. Please email Solomon below to check before heading out! This incredable bareback and briddleless rider understands horseship like few others. His intuition led him to where he is today. As Equine director of "The GOOD SHEPARD FOUNDATION" he is in a postit…

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ReWilding our Horses, Rewilding our Souls with Kelly Wendorf of the EQUUS 1:12:00

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How do we heal ourselves from the 'lost-ness' that afflicts our culture? How do we move on from the strange—and wholly untrue— belief our culture holds that we are separate from the natural world, that our cycles of exploitation, extraction, destruction, pollution are the way the world is, that this is the natural order and there's nothing we can d…

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Building the roots of a world that will work - with Victoria Hurth, co-author of Beyond Profit 1:30:09

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'Each of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind. Do you think you were put here for something less?' Chief Arvol Looking Horse. We exist in a world where the ultra-rich are getting richer, powered by a system we call 'the economy' which is serving to funnel power and value up to an ever-shrinking core of…

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Of Beetles' wings and Brittlestars: using Biomimicry to co-create a flourishing future with Michael Pawlyn 1:32:10

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Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott 1:20:00

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Let the Wild Gods Rise. Easy to say and harder to do - but if you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it? If you're listening to this, you are likely steeped in the mechanical world of our culture - but it doesn't have to be like this. The other worlds are …

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Tenaya Jewell - Mustang Spiritual Activist 32:52

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Send us a text Tenaya Jewell: scientist and sacred activist. Sacred activism is the blending of science and spirituality. It is the blending of one’s spiritual practice with one’s everyday life to include activism and it is about letting the work you do transform your inner life, seeing that what you advocate for is your mirror, your teacher and yo…

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Bella and Bird do their magic-Dr. Deana Plaskon, Ph.D. 34:38

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Send us a text Dr. Deana Plaskon, Ph.D., has just released a new children’s book, Bella and Bird Explore Anger. The story is rooted in real-life resilience and compassion. Dr. Plaskon, who holds a Ph.D. in human behavior and is certified in equine therapy, has spent decades helping children and families navigate big emotions. When she rescued Bella…

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The Magic in the Tales we Tell: Living new Stories in Service to Life with Paddy Loughman 1:10:47

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How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world? How can we craft narratives that can shift the way we see and experience the world? Is this even the best leverage point to start off with or is there a deeper/wider/more effective acupuncture point we could explore as w…

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A Dawning Mind: Exploring the science of spirituality with Dr James Cooke 1:19:28

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Why are we here? How do we think? What is the nature of life? What are the boundaries between ourselves and the rest of the living web—between ourselves and the rest of the universe across space and through time…and in the timeless, formless place from which everything arises? These are the big, foundational questions of our existence, and how we a…

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Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen Schneider 1:15:02

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Our western (Trauma Culture) economies run on two falsehoods - we might go so far as to call them lies. The first is that economies have to grow to be 'successful'. The second is that government spending is limited by the tax take. That is, they need to take money in as taxes in order to spend it out into the economy. Both of these are untrue, and …

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interview w lynley Welte of IN REWILDING TOGETHER retreats 13:46

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Send us a text We chat about our upcoming retreat and the serious need it fills- Lynley Welte Co-Facilitator with Myself and (Gianna Brasil-Ross, Aubree Haggans, And Nichole Johnson Romero ) of "IN REWILDING TOGETHER" AKA IRT talk about the up coming retreat- http://www.rewildingtogether.net/ email: [email protected] Lynley Welte Certified …

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The Crisis and the Call: Journeys through Species-Wide Soul Initiation with Sara McFarland 1:11:21

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As the old system is splitting apart, a few brave souls are already working to hospice this old system, acting as Death Doulas to the Great Dying—as well as helping people to awaken the seeds of a new world within. One of these is our guest this week. Sara McFarland is a Soul Initiation and Wild Mind Mentor and Guide, Artist of Consciousness and a …

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Dreams as a Way of Life - Becoming a Good Relative with author Hilary Giovale 1:08:41

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Our Trauma Culture has spread across the globe with terrifying speed and ghastly efficiency. But the tide is turning and people of good heart in many nations are beginning to understand that what we need now is a move towards a 21st Century Initiation Culture. The language is often different, but at heart, this is where we need to go. Our guest thi…

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Quiet Revolution: Humans, Horses, Technology 11:21

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Send us a text Into the blue yonder, The quiet revolution in the horse world, has taken me home to Palo Alto, imagine that? And it isn't just Web Ranch. My interview with my Bot Flicker has me feeling the shift that Ai is bringing to the world we all live. And I'm not happy about it. We are a not ready! Even Flicker CIRCA 2024 agrees!! I can think …

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PopShift: Changing the global Narrative on all our screens with Romain Vakilitabar of Pathos Labs 1:18:08

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We are a storied species: Everything we do arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other and our relationship with the web of life. Our current polycrisis: the accelerating annihilation of our cultures and our biosphere arises out of a particular set of stories that tell us we're isolated individuals caught…

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Co-Evolving Humanity: Outgrowing Modernity with Vanessa and Giovanna Andreotti - and Tim Logan 1:52:37

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In this week's podcast I was honoured to join a four-way conversation between Giovanna and Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti and Tim Logan of Future Learning Design Podcast, to celebrate the publication of Vanessa's new book, Outgrowing Modernity. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implicati…

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From Darkness to Radiance: Lights On Learning with Julia Black 1:20:09

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In the midst of the Great Transformation, one of the most exciting changes taking place is in our capacity to find what makes our hearts sing - to find our flow, to find what it is that we can do best, that we can do with all our hearts and souls—that leaves us radiant; that lets us lead with our Heart Minds, letting our Head Minds relax into servi…

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Otterly Amazing! Common Sense Farming can feed us all with Charlie Bennett 1:23:47

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“In a world where our wildlife is becoming extinct at a frightening rate, we are setting up an oasis where animals, wild flowers and even ancient fungi can thrive.” Charlie Bennett writing of Middleton North Farm. It's clear to most of us that the existing food and farming system is unsustainable. What's less clear is what to do about it, particula…

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Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas 1:29:30

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Water is our lifeblood and Clean Water (along with Clean Air and Clean Soil) is one of our core Three Asks, the non-negotiable baselines that underpin a flourishing future for people and life on our planet. Getting there, means everyone beginning to care at a bone-deep level, way beneath our conscious minds and having a sense of how we might get th…

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People's Charter for People Power - with Katy Rubin and Oli Whittington of Our House 1:18:13

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We know that our 'democracy' is, in fact, a kleptocracy that is not fit for purpose IF that purpose is the continuation of complex life on earth. The sociopaths who have stolen control show no signs of shifting to something that works, so it's way past time that ordinary people across all walks of life embraced the tools of participatory democracy …

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AI, Ethics, and the Language of Connection: A Candid Conversation with ChatGPT 32:57

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Send us a text Episode Description: In this unusual and timely episode of The Horsehuman Connection Matrix, I sit down with ChatGPT—yes, the AI—for a conversation about emotional safety, ethical use of technology, and We talk about the risks and responsibilities of using AI as a mirror, a guide, or a support in human growth, especially for vulnerab…

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Dancing the Path of the Inner Warrior with Diarmuid Lyng of Wild Irish Retreats 1:24:44

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We're on the edge of a cliff and the way out is through - through the obfuscations and extractive values and downright lies of predatory capitalism. Through to authenticity, and integrity and finding language for how we can be who we really are, what our souls yearn to be. And that language is not always English. This week's guest, Diarmuid Lyng, s…

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Still In the Eye of the Storm: Finding Calm and Stable Roots with Dan McTiernan of Being EarthBound 1:20:10

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Our priority now is to find -and then embody - a sense of grounded stability, a sense of safety, a sense of embodied connection to the Web of Life... This is the single most important thing we can be doing to create a world we'd want to leave behind, and this week's guest, Dan McTiernan, is one of those who is leading courses, trainings and embodie…

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Sit with the River, Breathe Sacred Smoke, Love with the World: Building a Bioregional world with Joe Brewer 1:21:01

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How can Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation? Joe Brewer is living, breathing and teaching the ways we can work together with each other and the natural flows of water and life. We know that the current paradigm is breaking apart in real time, but how do we become the light that shines through the cracks? How…

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Solstice Meditation 2025 - Sun Stands Still - by Manda Scott 22:42

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Here is a meditation for the Solstice – the moment when the sun stands still. It is suitable for Summer and Winter solstice. You don't have to do this at the exact moment of stillness: it’s the connection that counts, the marking of the turning point from days lengthening to shortening (or vice versa if you’re in the southern hemisphere). This is a…

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Thoughts from the Solstice Edge: Turning the Page on a Dying System with Manda Scott 27:00

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As we head into the solstice- that moment when the sun stands still—whether you're in the northern hemisphere where we have the longest day, or the southern, where it's the longest night—this solstice feels like a moment of transformation. The world is turning over, turning a page. The old system is visibly—palpably—breaking apart. A new system wil…

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Falling in Love with the Future - with author, musician, podcaster and futurenaut, Rob Hopkins 1:18:42

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Our guest this week, Rob Hopkins, is a towering figure in the world of regenerative change. Co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, he is host of the podcast 'From What if to What Next', stars in the groundbreaking French film 'Demain', speaks at TED Global and TEDx events and most recently, has created a collaborative music…

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Autism, Customer Service, Context, XYZ's have no clue...& Nordstroms 27:58

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Send us a text Being Austic makes everything harder. Including accepting changes sometimes. However, we austic folks also notice more, and I say our culture has been high jacked by corporate culture and its causing people to be dull and mean. I fear the younger generations have no idea what's happened. So I have requests-- S>L>O>W DOWN so you can p…

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ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop 1:34:05

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If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you'll know that I believe the way forward is predicated on our finding shared values—I'd go for integrity, compassion, courage and generosity of spirit as the baselines—and then a suite of clear asks in the outer world and needs in the inner world. In logistical terms, at an absolute baseline, …

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Equine Wisdom Applied / Amanda Held 59:56

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Send us a text This episode goes deep and personal. It contains live examples of Equine theraputic work; Also called Equine Assitested Practices EAP. The subjects of suicide and helplessness are mentioned. Charlie's Buck has meant many things to all involved. About Amanda Held: Amanda Held is the founder of the Equine Wisdom Institute and author of…

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This is how we build the future: Teaching Regenerative Economics at all levels with Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann 1:20:48

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How do we let go of the sense of scarcity, separation and powerlessness that defines the ways we live, care and do business together? How can we best equip our young people for the world that is coming - which is so, so different from the future we grew up believing was possible? This week's guest, Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann is an educator, rege…

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Brilliant Minds: BONUS podcast with Kate Raworth, Indy Johar & James Lock at the Festival of Debate 1:53:10

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We are honoured to bring to Accidental Gods, a recording of three of our generation's leading thinkers in conversation at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield, hosted by Opus. This is an unflinching conversation, but it's absolutely at the cutting edge of imagineering: this lays out where we're at and what we need to do, but it also gives us roadmap…

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Farm as Church, Land as Lover: Community. farming and food with Abel Pearson of Glasbren 1:16:50

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We all know the future rests upon us building heart-grounded, spirit-led communities that link humanity to the Web of Life. We know that the key to this is building reciprocal relationships with our food and the land from which it comes. Doing this is…harder. So this week, we're speaking with Abel Pearson of Glasbren. Abel is a friend of the podcas…

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Charissa explains the psychology behind some of Charlie's early training, and trouble shoots bucking in general. 45:01

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Send us a text It is always a treat to get Charissa Schmidt to weigh in on subjects, her wisdom, experience and education make for well rounded discussions. Any parent, horse trainer, or person in any relationship will gain insights from this talk. The threshold of tolerance, Jungian and humanistic principles, and transference all weave into this p…