This is a conversation about the future. About creating a culture that values tomorrow. We reckon a slower, simpler, steadier existence is the first step - one that’s healthier for humans and the planet. We call it Futuresteading. Each week we chat to community builders, ritual makers, food growers, health wizards and environmental wisdom keepers, gathering practical advice and epic solidarity - so we can all nut this thing out together. Join our nitty, gritty, honest and hopeful convo every ...
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Land Pod: Conversations with Creatives connects and engages with creatives who embody regenerative ways of making and living. Through these conversations, we strengthen our collective capacity to heal, to imagine, and to kindle new ways of being in partnership with Land, Sea, and Sky. Dedicated to nurturing bonds between people and the planet, Land Pod offers sonic musings on the nature of creativity—a space to gently nourish, restore, and inspire through dialogue. This project is hosted and ...
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Ep 209 Manda Scott - Pondering how we became accidental gods of this land & seeking connection to it with humility not control
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1:11:41Summary 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 208 Tammy Huynh - Plants CAN be Companions and bridge us back to who we are!
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37:19As a new Mum, living in a new home, having just released a new book and fertilising the idea of reconnecting back to her Vietnamese heritage Tammy Huyhn is a light hearted joy. This lass knows a thing or two about plants - you may have seen her face on ABC's Gardening Australia and she runs her own hortucultural business Leaf an Impression which de…
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Ep 206 James McLennan From Playground to Paddock: Farming the Future of Education by creating 2.2 kms of garden bed in 24 hours
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50:06Come with us for a wander through the fertile grounds of possibility with James McLennon, the visionary behind Farm My School. Todays ep unearths how a patch of school soil can become so much more than a playground—it can nourish bodies, minds, and entire communities. From the thriving farm at Bellarine Secondary College to the ripple effects it’s …
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Ep 205 Dalee Ella - Connecting Humanity to the Inward and Outward Energies of Creativity
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2:07:49Jade and Dalee wander through the tender terrain where creativity, womanhood, and everyday life meet. Speaking openly about the way our inner cycles shape what we make and how we show up in the world — and how hard it can be to hold space for both art and livelihood. Together they explore the slow evolution of Dalee’s creative path, the courage it …
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EP 204 The Passage of Self: Dance, Grief, and Heart Wisdom with Eclectica (Demi Lee)
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1:08:00In this episode, Demi Lee takes us deep into the story of Eclectica — a movement, a community, and a living expression of embodiment and transformation. Together, we explore how dance becomes a language for healing, how grief can serve as an elder and sacred teacher, and how true empowerment begins with self-responsibility. Demi shares the evolutio…
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Ep 203 Meg Ulman - The Beautiful Weight Of Living a Neo Peasant Life
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1:09:41In this conversation, Jade sits down with Meg Ulman (sadly not in person) — heart led writer, mother, educator, maker & one part of Artists as Family — to unpick what it really means to live on your own terms. They trace the winding road toward a neo-peasant life — one defined less by nostalgia & more by intention. They talk about living with a fun…
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Ep 202 Navigating community - Life in an eco village with Suzie Brown
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1:05:01What does it really look like to live inside the dream of community? To share walls & gardens, decision-making & dinner tables — & to raise children in a village that actually lives its values? In this conversation, we sit down with Suzie Brown, long-time advocate for sustainable living & proud resident of the Narara Eco-Village. Suzie opens the ga…
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Ep 201 Tim Pilgrim - Creating Wild Spaces: The Art of Natural Design & The Interplay of Landscape & Storytelling
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59:00Today we wander into the layered world of Tim Pilgrim—a landscape architect and gardener who sees soil, water, and wildness as teachers. Tim invites us to connect with the land rather than control it, to design gardens that honour both human need and ecological integrity. Together we explore the art of observation and the quiet discipline of water …
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Ep 200 Sarah Firth - The Polyhuman Experience: Embracing Complex Curiosity as a Catalyst for Connection
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1:09:30Today we wander into the wild tangle that is Sarah Firth’s world—a place where curiosity is currency and difference is pure gold. Sarah calls herself a polyhuman, and you’ll feel why as she opens up about neurodivergence, the grit and grace of making art, and the small, daily rituals that stitch meaning into our messy lives. This is a conversation …
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Ep 199 Debra Silverman - Understanding Nature Through the Four Elements & Knowing 'The Angels Aren't Having Orgasms!
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1:03:06Summary Today we slip into a cosmic campfire chat with Debra Silverman based in Colorado—where psychology shakes hands with the stars & the four elements (wind, earth, fire and water) become our guides. Debra’s journey weaves scepticism with wonder, showing how astrology (despite its esoteric nature can actually ground us in community and help us r…
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Ep 198 Stephen Jenkinson -The Mother of a Culture, When You’re Asked to Make it "Real"
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1:05:29In this episode, we welcome Stephen Jenkinson—writer, teacher, storyteller, and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. Stephen is known for breaking open the marrow of language and returning it in all its poetic weight. His work on elderhood, grief, dying wise, and the making (and unmaking) of culture has touched people all over the world. His newest…
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Ep 197 Gregg Muller - Creating Climate Resilience with Community Saved Seeds!
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42:17Lets dig into the quiet, radical world of seeds with plant breeder & seed keeper Gregg Muller. Gregg’s journey has been about more than growing food — it’s about safeguarding diversity, resilience & flavour in the face of a changing climate. From his work on the Cross Hemisphere Dwarf Tomato Project to the community breeding groups he champions, Gr…
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Ep 196 Angela Clifford - Long Term Thinking in a Short-Term World, Empowering Food Citizens for Change
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55:41Today we’re pulling up a chair with Angela Clifford — farmer, food activist & founder of Eat New Zealand — to talk about the stuff that really matters: food, culture, community & the future our kids will inherit. Together we wander through big ideas & very real feelings — from the responsibility of feeding a nation to the grief & hope that come wit…
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Ep 195 Jaclyn Crupi - Getting messy outside for birds, bees & butterflies (+ anything else that wants to move in!)
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55:52Spring is peeking through here in Southern Australia, and today we’re heading into the garden — but not just for veggies. We’re going a little wild for the birds, bees, and butterflies. Our guest, Jaclyn Crupi, lifelong gardener and many times author, grew up with her nonna and nonno’s hands-in-the-dirt wisdom. These days, she’s transformed her pat…
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Ep 194 Jade Miles - Building Small Circles & Shared Rituals To Change the World
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1:02:51It’s about time Jade Miles takes the mic so we can pick her brain and her heart about ‘huddling’ for the future of all! We chat about what is our ecological work to do, our soul work to do as we come together in all kinds of communities. We decolonise our minds by moving into our hearts: away from extraction and spectacle, toward opulence of the or…
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Ep 193 Tanned Hides, Bark Brews & the Wild Within - Will & Eva from Wild Beings
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59:29Ever wondered what lines a deer’s stomach? Or how to turn bark into tincture—or tea into a gateway to your primal self? Meet Will and Eva: barefoot, leather-clad rewilders who traded ‘normal’ for firelight, foraging, and full-blown nature immersion. I first met them in a smoky tent at the Off Grid Living Festival—tea in hand, bird calls in the air,…
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Ep 192 Jane Hillard "Enoughness" - Do you have it? - Winter Windbacks 2025
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52:09When 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 191 Helena Norberg Hodge - Localism that Heals & Creates Oneness - Winter Windbacks 2025
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55:13Helena Norberg-Hodge is a writer, filmmaker, international speaker and leader of the global localisation movement. She’s been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than 40 years, and is one of the world’s most treasured environmentalists and visionaries. Today Helena pulls up an apple crate at the Futurestead…
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Ep 190 Rosemary Morrow - A Lifetime of Global Permaculture Service - Winter Windbacks 2025
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47:15Summary Akin to a cuppa while flicking through photo albums, this conversation is rich with stories of her lived experiences across every continent & through many decades. This wisdom holder has offered her life in service by knowledge sharing. A much respected permaculture educator, her foundation is science based, heart felt & relational in every…
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Ep 189 Joost Bakker - The Darling of Waste Free Living - Winter Windbacks 2025
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29:46We know that Western culture lives excessively, endlessly seeking the newest and shiniest new thing. Its shocking that 40% of our food goes to waste, one third of our building materials are never even used. But this way of life will be short lived and thankfully being wasteful is now on the nose and cool cats like Joost are making waves by making j…
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Ep 188 Nat Wilmott - Living the Dream, Her story! Winter Windbacks 2025
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56:50This 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 187 Sarah Wilson - Having less F%$# s to give - Winter Windbacks 2025
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53:48Described 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 186 Cade McConnell - Living With Intention, Initiation & More Earth In The Kitchen
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58:40Fire has long been a revered force, respected for its ceremonial holding, practical contribution to feeding, sterilising, warming, lighting and yarning around. These days though, few of us interact with fire regularly despite it connecting us to our ancestors and gently reminding us of what it means to be human. Off the back of tragic circumstances…
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Ep 185 Elspeth Hay - Feeding Ourselves With Trees + Singing Our Way to a New Culture
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1:01:05"Living as modern humans we are disconnected, out of place and don't belong in the same way as other species" "If you're feeling called to do something larger than you - you should follow that" Summary Todays guest Elspeth Hay experienced a rewriting of all she had known when when one day she was grappling with the frustration that the area she cal…
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Ep 184 Simon Mustoe - Surviving The Next 100 Years by Valuing A Whale At $3 Million Dollars
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59:33“We’ve lived fantastic lives because we’ve taken for granted the ecological damage we’ve done. Now we owe a debt" Well respected ecologist Simon Mustoe has written a new book How to Survive the Next 100 Years: Lessons from Nature. In its pages there's a definite sense of encouragement because ultimately Simon believes we are already seeing indicato…
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Ep 183 Matt Defina - Rethinking Purpose: From Lost to Liberated
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1:00:32Have you ever had that moment where you question - but there MUST be another way? Well in this conversation, Hayley and Matt Defina explore the journey of finding purpose and reprogramming our outdated ways or patterns to reach a more meaningful way of living. Matt shares the importance of emotional expression in mental health and his personal expe…
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Ep 182 Elle Jenkins - Creating a 'Seed to Packet' Business with Australian Medicinal Herbs
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55:40Do you fancy the idea of growing your own medicinal herbs for tinctures & tea Todays guest Elle from Australian Medicinal Herbs took the plunge following a career sidestep when she was diagnosed with PTSD & replaced a 17 year career in the police force with a seed to packet business that slowly but surely healed her trauma, engaged her girls & now …
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Ep 181 Anna Nanna - EVERYDAY Permaculture for EVERYBODY!
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59:29Rarely in life do you meet someone who moves through the world in complete service of others, filling their cup through small but regular actions that offer the world gifts of time, seeds, toilet paper, knowledge. Todays guest is just this person, intrinsically generous…even going so far as to say she stores her excess yields in other humans which …
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Ep 180 Nic Warner - Awakening Through Rites of Passage & Relationships
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58:33"We live in a society where uninitiated men grow up" In this conversation, Hayley and Nick Warner explore the profound themes of transformation, relationships, and the importance of rites of passage in personal growth. They discuss the challenges of authenticity, the journey back to self, and the cost of inauthenticity in life and relationships. Ni…
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Ep 179 Adrian Black - Creating Community Via a State of Enquiry & Raising the 'Numbness' Bar
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1:20:09"What would it mean for us to start asking questions via embodied feelings rather than spreadsheets & rational outcomes…turn off our head and turn on our belly." “You don’t build communities you build relationships - communities build themselves” Adrian Black is fresh off the plane from 5 weeks of living in an intentional community - a program desi…
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Ep 178 Hilary Giovale - Becoming a Good Relative , Ancestral Alters & Learning to Let Our Tears Fall
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55:58“Those who have descended from the colonisers, we carry privilege but we also suffer the need to apologise” Landscapes can etch into your very being & create a remembering. Making us feel whole & reminding us that we are just a thread in the complex web of the natural world. While somewhat insignificant your thread has a role to play as a relative …
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Ep 177 Dan Kittredge - Redefining Wealth From Cash to Culture
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1:03:48“How we raise our children is facilitating a denaturing of our human-ness. The opportunity is to be centred within & rebuild our culture” Dan Kittridge is the bare footed gent who coined the term Nutrient density off the back of his dao-ist strategy to create a life that afforded him the time & space to be at home with his young family, living simp…
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Ep 176 Alice Irene Whittaker - Finding Seeds of Presence In The Woods
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48:54"I could live a lifetime here and still be learning - it’s a relationship - the greatest relationship of my life" Alice Irene Whitaker lives in a small cabin in the woods, is a mother of three, an author of the book “Homing" and host of the 'Reseed podcast, which is about rebuilding our relationship with nature. Surrounded by creek, meadow, and for…
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Ep 175 Andrew Skeoch - Nature’s Symphony, A Journey Towards Deep Listening
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1:10:23"We need to cultivate a culture of listening in society." But what does it truly mean to listen? In this episode, we delve into the profound impact that sound can have on our lives as we speak with renowned sound recordist Andrew Skeoch. With his expertise in capturing the essence of nature through sound, Andrew shares his journey of deep listening…
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Ep 174 Claire Taylor - The Scottish Storyteller Connecting Is To Our Farmers
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58:37Claire is a multi generational Scottish beef farmer who says 'Ag has potency and potential to be a catalyst on the front line of climate catastrophe'. As a Nuffield scholar 'exploring the scrutiny being placed on agriculture and how perceptions are changing', she embarked on a world research tour. While travelling, she fell in love with an Australi…
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Ep 173 Fleur Chambers - Riding the Waves of Life w the Essence of Presence
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58:11"Creativity is a life force - the universe is inherently creative - once we realise it's not ours - it takes the ego out of it & encourages all of us to utilise it as a gift for the greater good" Fleur Chambers is a best selling author, mama, philanthropist & of course a master meditator. Actually she is the creator of the free meditation app: The …
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Ep 172 Valerie Ringland - Indigenous Wisdom Healing
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59:18"The deepest trauma is disconnection from country." What does it truly mean to heal? How can we reclaim our ancestral wisdom and break free from patterns of diseased thinking? In this episode, we sit down with Valerie Ringland, a powerful voice in the world of Indigenous healing and restorative justice. Born on traditional Shawnee land in the U.S. …
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Ep 171 Megan Dalla Camina - Empowering Women to Rise!!
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49:29Megan has made it her life work to bring the voice of the feminine into our stories, workplaces, communities & ultimately our culture. Ensuring they are heard & have agency to do what we do so well - be women with feminine traits which are celebrated & valued. You'll be delighted to hear its not about minimising the power of men but allowing women …
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Ep 170 Jason Fox - Casting Wizardry Spells On a Path For Humanity
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1:07:51Its not every day you talk with a flaming locked, beard faced wizard. This one sees through the illusions of modernity & revels in an oscillating state of making progress through decay while genuinely attuning to the living systems in order to see our dire reality. He attempts to embody our meta crises & seeks insights outside of mere numbers by go…
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Ep 169 Hayley Jessup - Stories From The Heart to Kickstart Season 11
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52:00Meet Hayley - the whizz who usually sits in the editing suite of the Futuresteading pod is in the hot seat today...and a few other days actually...todays episode is the chance to get to know the voice behind a mini series within this season of the futuresteading pod we are calling Stories from the heart. Hayley has been the producer on the pod for …
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Ep 168 Tyson Yunkaporta - The real economy of mutual aid & LORE - Summer Days Throwbacks 2025
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59:16Tyson Yunkaporta is an Apalech man who is an academic, researcher arts critic & father. He is also the author of Sand Talk, an extraordinary reading experience. Like many of Australia’s First Peoples, he has a complex identity and history but it's this that gives him authority to write and speak in a way which connects the wisdom of the past to the…
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Ep 167 Becoming Creatures Of The Planet w Indira Naidoo - Summer Days Throwbacks 2025
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46:34Following the shocking & heartbreaking death of her younger sister Indira leant into grief with the help of the natural world. She formed a deep friendship with a tree, learnt the power of self trust & became conscious of death in a way that led her to see puddles as portals into another world. Despite the genesis, this conversation is joyful & pow…
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Ep 166 Meg Berryman, regenerative wisdom birthed on the bathroom floor - Summer Days throwbacks 2025
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56:17If climate reports and dystopian vibes are getting you down, this conversation with Meg Berryman might just lift you (gently) from the tiles. Meg is the host of the Regenerative Life podcast, where she holds activating and catalysing conversations about social change, sustainable business, holistic wellbeing, personal development and regeneration, …
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Ep 165 Flora Fauna & Fungi w Dr Saphire McMullen-Fisher - Summer Days Throwback 2025
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59:19Catie chats with Dr. Sapphire McMullan-Fisher, an ecologist with a special interest in biodiversity conservation, particularly macrofungi and mosses. Sapphire is a renowned scientific researcher, speaker, teacher and author with a knack for communicating fungi’s vital ecological roles — and why we should all pay a lot more attention to these remark…
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Ep 164 Courtney Young - Changing The Last Local Food Frontier: Grain - Summer Days Thowbacks 2025
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57:30Do you know where your grain comes from... the farmers name... how they grow it? Woodstock flour are doing their level best to change the last frontier via the power of building relationships and connecting. Join Jade and Courtenay as they get gritty on grains and hear why we need to value its diversity and regionality just like we do wine or chees…
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Ep 163 Gabrielle Chan "We're all making it up" - Summer Days Throwback 2025
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51:52Recorded just days after the Federal election, Gabrielle Chan doesn't mince words - even when bone tired. A celebrated journalist with the Guardian, outspoken advocate for rural Australia and encourager of individual agency. "Our system has been made up by people and it can be rewritten by people". Lets not wait for Government to bring change but g…
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Ep 162 Yarning w Mindy Woods From Karkalla on Sisterhood, Eldership + Native foods
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1:00:58Sign 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!
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42:23What 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
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58:52Summary 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 - Pondering how we became accidental gods of this land & seeking connection to it with humility not control
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1:12:19Summary 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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