Best Kamea Chayne Podcasts (2025)

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Ixchel Lunar: Decolonial time and reclaiming flow as a birthright 1:00:38

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What have been the impacts of colonial time on individual well-being and community dynamics? What does it mean to reclaim the state of flow as a birthright? And how can rethinking our perceptions of time enable us to experience life with deeper attunement, responsiveness, and senses of aliveness? In this episode, Green Dreamer’s kaméa is joined by …

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Thomas Parker: Taste as biocultural, relational, and experiential 45:09

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Why is it that cuisines have historically been dismissed as a serious field of study? How have social factors, such as cultural norms and class, influenced people’s perceptions of the prestige or disgust of different foods across different times? And how are acquired tastes and market demands for food shaped by the broader food landscape that peopl…

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Darcia Narvaez: Cultivating nestedness for children and future generations 51:36

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What does it mean to cultivate “nestedness” for young children, infants, and future generations? What can we learn from how other species care for their offspring? And what is the importance of recognizing that our desires and cravings are often socially and culturally shaped? In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa Chayne speaks with Darcia Narvaez…

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John Protevi: Towards rhizomatic acts of mutual empowerment 1:02:52

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What are the psychological aspects of how military combat personnel are often socialized in training to feel more comfortable with carrying out acts of violence? Why is it important to note that many people, not just those in positions of power, actually desire fascism and power imbalance, and aren't simply operating from states of being deceived? …

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Tiokasin Ghosthorse: Learning from the Earth as an Elder 1:11:07

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What does it mean to focus on learning from Earth, as opposed to learning about the earth? How might learning Ianguages of Indigeneity invite us into different ways of seeing and relating to the more-than-human world? And how do we honor the pain and emotional weight of these sobering times — while also staying present to the magic and the beauty o…

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Stacy Alaimo: Sinking into our entanglement with the deep seas 55:29

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How have the deep seas already been altered by industrial human activity? What is the relationship between art and science within the world of ocean conservation? And how do our culturally shaped senses of aesthetics influence our ethics of land care? In this episode, Green Dreamer’s kaméa speaks with Stacy Alaimo, whose latest book is The Abyss St…

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Melinda Adams: Cultural fire and the longings of the land 53:43

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How does historical processes of colonization relate to the increasing prevalence of more intense, destructive wildfires? How can Indigenous-led cultural burning support the regeneration of fire-dependent ecosystems — as well as the healing of communities experiencing "solastalgia"? And how are fire cycles and water cycles entangled? In this episod…

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Sasha Davis: What do we do when protests and elections fail? 59:14

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How do we navigate the overwhelm that comes from staying informed about the world’s many interconnected crises — many of which may feel extremely dire and with grave urgency? Why do we need to look beyond conventional approaches to social change, such as electoral politics and even protests asking for things to be changed? And what does it mean to …

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Mike Albertus: Reshuffling land, reconfiguring power 53:25

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What does it mean to look at power through the lens of land stewardship and ownership? How have different social factors influenced how the “reshuffling” of land has historically played out?And what does it mean to navigate the tensions between how land is valued as commodity through capitalist reductionism, versus in much more multi-dimensional wa…

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[LIVE RECORDING] Dr. Rupa Marya: What are we willing to risk for collective liberation? 39:47

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This original, un-edited recording is from kaméa's Substack live interview early July of 2025 with Dr. Rupa Marya, who was fired by her employer for her advocacy for Palestinian liberation. The featured music woven into this episode is "New Song Old Prayer" by Johanna Warren. Watch the video version of this conversation at kaméa.substack.com. Discl…

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Sophie Strand: Glitching towards a return to each other 56:52

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What do we need to interrogate about our dominant culture’s obsession with “wellness” — as well as its discomforts when confronted by illness? What does it mean to queer the concept of reciprocity and understand it as much more expansive than a palpable exchange of a give and take? And why do we need to refocus the idea of “community” on something …

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Tyson Yunkaporta: Shifting from ‘health & wellness’ to communities of care 1:06:56

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What does it mean to reject the monocultural delusion of separation and endless growth, and to nurture systems that honor context and the brilliance of neurodiversity? What is the relationship between altered states of mind from ceremonies and our shared senses of “reality”? And how do we shift our focuses away from “health and wellness” — towards …

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[REPLAY] A. Naomi Paik: Immigration, deportation, and military recruits of the disenfranchised 53:53

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This is a replay from May 2022 on Sanctuary for All, Sanctuary Everywhere — on the deportability of workers as labor discipline, immigration policy as labor policy, military recruits from disenfranchised communities and migrant workers, challenging the “nation of immigrants” narrative, and more. Disclaimer: Please note that Green Dreamer’s intervie…

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Paul Hawken: Carbon is the flow of life 55:45

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What is there to question about the dominant framing of “climate crisis”? What does it mean to understand carbon not just as an element but as the flow of life? And how do we begin to recalibrate our senses of delusion or reality in a world where often up is portrayed is down and down as up? In this conversation, we are joined by Paul Hawken, a wor…

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Kazu Haga: Building "Beloved Community" and becoming healers of collective trauma 44:14

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How does sensing into our zones of stretch, comfort, and panic help us to expand our capacities for love and nonviolence — in their more radical iterations? Where might accountability come from in a world that seems to reward behaviors that are extractive, exploitative, and narcissistic? Our latest conversation features Kazu Haga, the author of Fie…

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Abby Reyes: Engaging ‘the slow work’ in the face of urgency and crises 47:00

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In 1999, Terence Unity Freitas, the partner of our guest today, along with two other Indigenous activists Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa and Lahe’ena’e Gay, were murdered in Colombia after they left the U’wa territory, where they were visiting to support the Indigenous U’wa community. Now, in one of her first interviews about her new book, Truth Deman…

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Mitch Anderson: Join the Amazon’s resistance against oil expansion 54:41

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The Ecuadorian government is currently planning to auction off 8.7 million acres of the Amazon rainforest to oil interests. What is at stake — for the Indigenous communities of the Amazon, for people outside of the Amazon, and for the planet — with millions of acres of lively, intact rainforest being put on the line? What can we learn from how the …

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[ES/UNTRANSLATED] Nemonte Nenquimo: Listen to the voices of the Amazon Rainforest 30:36

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(By request, this is the raw, untranslated version of our interview with Nemonte Nenquimo — in which you will hear Nemonte's original responses in Spanish to Kaméa's questions presented in English.) What has been the historical relationship between missionary work and the development of the oil industry in the Ecuadorian Amazon? What does it mean t…

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Nemonte Nenquimo: Listen to the voices of the Amazon Rainforest 31:35

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What has been the historical relationship between missionary work and the development of the oil industry in the Ecuadorian Amazon? What does it mean to listen to the voices — both human and more-than-human — of the Amazon Rainforest? And how do the Waorani navigate tensions between their Indigenous cosmovisions and ways of life, and the outside wo…

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Prentis Hemphill: Becoming strange to the normalcies of this world 47:44

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What is at stake if we bypass the “inner” work of personal transformation while we rally forward in the “external” work of dismantling systemic injustice? What does it mean to imbue wonder, mystery, and magic within movements for collective liberation? And what if these troubled times actually require us to become strange to its often-normalized va…

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Serene Thin Elk: An invitation into collective, generational healing 46:01

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A lot of people seem to be struggling with our senses of belonging. So many people have been uprooted and forcibly displaced. Many have chosen out of free will to relocate. Many are born into places where they don't have deep ancestral roots. And many don’t have the privilege of feeling like their families and communities with whom they grew up are…

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Sandor Katz: Fermentation as catalyst for social transformation 52:28

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What does it mean to recognize that so much of the world has become “anti-microbial”? Why is it that some bacteria make us sick while others are vital to our wellbeing? And how can we understand social transformation as a form of fermentation? In this episode, we are joined by fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, who guides us through the foundatio…

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Joseph Oleshangay: Honoring nomadic, pastoral, and communal land relations 51:12

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How is the Maasai community continually being displaced and disenfranchised in the name of “wildlife conservation”? What are some of the common propaganda used to justify their mass evictions? And how do the Maasai’s communal land relations, rooted in nomadism and pastoralism, ultimately challenge the laws of their nation-state — revealing the subj…

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Martín Prechtel: Relearning the languages of land, plants, and place 57:26

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In this conversation, kaméa chayne is joined by Martín Prechtel, who speaks to us from Northern New Mexico where he presently lives with his family and their Native Mesta horses. Having grown up with a Pueblo Indian upbringing and later becoming a full member of the Tzutujil Mayan community in the village of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, Prechtel dr…

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Ferris Jabr: Re-rooting science in the aliveness of the Earth 59:52

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How do the biological life forms of the Amazon rainforest — from pollen grains, fungal spores, to microbes — play active roles in their regional water cycle? How might we connect chemistry, biology, physics, ecology, and other less quantifiable measures of aliveness to look at our planetary crises in much more holistic ways? And if the Earth's “sys…