Re-imagining our future through food and hunting with Danny Christensen. EP 29

The illustration for this weeks podcast Is made by beautiful artist Cille Vengberg

This week I speak to Danny Christensen, a hunter among many things. And also a man with a passion for nature, animal welfare and health.

I learned a lot from my 1 and a half hour conversation. One that rolled with me for days after. New questions arrived, New threads and a real desire to have more conversations around the way we consume, produce and honor the food we eat.

There are many questions still. We both want to keep this thread alive, as it is something we need to have a serious look at.

As for hunting there are many opinions and feelings attached. Should we eat meat? Should we hunt as modern people. Or should we think differently about the system as a whole?

Please listen in and bring your thoughts and questions!

In this episode we touch on

• Food production and consumption.

• Rejecting the general food system.

• Consuming and harvesting wildlife.

• Ethical dilemmas in food consumption.

• Ethical consumption and environmental impact.

• Veganism and connection to nature.

• Environmental impact of avocados.

““I don’t want people to wash their hands with the organic labeling and say, well, then everything is okay. It’s not, it’s not. You still have an enormous environmental footprint.”

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— Danny Christensen

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About Danny

He shares about his path “I grew up on a small farm in Denmark, close to a metropolis city. I spend most of my youth dreaming, fishing, hunting, and talking to trees.

As my world evolved, I developed a strong interest and appreciation of the design, architecture, fashion, art, and the food that were always all around me.

I met the most amazing and inspiring people in the world but the ones that I really admire and remember are the passionate men and women that live their lives to the fullest with a burning fire in their heart for everything they do. I like to think I'm one of those men.”

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Find Danny here

Instagram

Website

Woniya Thibeault - Never alone. Episode 23

Artist: Cille Vengberg - find her here

In this episode, I speak with Woniya Thibeault who appeared on the show "Alone" and was the first woman to win a season.

Woniya joined two seasons of the show. First lasting 73 days alone in the wild on the brink of starvation. And won the second season ‘Frozen’, as the first woman in ‘Alone’ show history. It felt even more special to speak to her, as she won the show on my birth land of Labrador.

We talk about shares her experience in Labrador and the similarities and differences between that location and the Northwest Territories. Woniya reflects on the importance of self-care and the societal pressures around winning and money.

She has such a special way of speaking about the land and how it held her through her time there.

I hope you enjoy what she has to offer as much as I did.

““Usually big, tough men with bulging muscles with a bunch of military training. I was that small woman coming at it with a really, really different perspective””

— Woniya Thibeault episode 23

Woniya Thibeault is a naturalist, craftsperson, and ancestral skills instructor, whose passion is inspiring and empowering people to live their wildest, freest, most abundant lives. She accomplished this through teaching land-based living skills such as those our ancestors used, and nature connection practices. While never describing herself as a survivalist, she is best known for being the first woman to win a solo survival wilderness challenge on the History Channel’s Alone.

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Find out more about Woniya

Her book ‘Never Alone’

Buckskin revolution

Patreon

Instagram

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Other Episodes you might enjoy

HOLISTIC SURVIVAL WITH LUKE MCLAUGHLIN ☾ 9

WILD AND ALONE WITH CALLIE NORTH ☾ 8

PLANT WHISPERING WITH RACHEL CORBY ☾ 13

{Conversations with the Earth} A Story by Clara Pagliaro

A story: 

The rain slowly moved in,

the ocean calling her name.

Finding herself walking down nearly bare,

perhaps showing up to be.

Hesitation encompassed her mind as she stood upon the waves 

gently showing her her own currents. 

"Do not fear" sang the sea.

She sat, surrendering and immersing her body in the vast and salty milk of the mother. 

Every hair on her body stood, her breath deep. 

Her mind whispering prayers to the universe,

"Don't let me go, keep me right here"

The ocean pushed her small body back and forth like a child being rocked. 

Her body frozen, desperate to shut

yet every breath releasing discomfort and opening her soul. 

The rain slowly moved in, 

It is only here she can see herself in all her wholeness. 

Mind still, body numb, lost in nature's power. 

It is here she listens. 

Clara Pagliaro

Other people's mess and restoring the earth

the 3rd load of the day

There was a time where we believed that everything we buried in the ground would disappear. Very literally. Also very metaphorically. Once our trash has been picked up it’s gone. But it’s not. Most plastic ever made stil exists on the planet. We know it, but somehow we don’t really believe it. Out of sight, out of…

A few weeks ago my partner and I took the wheelbarrow to the back of our rented land. We have done this several times a year since moving here 8 years ago. The practice of burying trash was easy back in the day. Who cared what went on up there in the forest. We have cleared this land of car batteries, toilets, kilometers of rusty fence, buckets, tools, cans, glass and all shapes of plastic.

It is never ending. It is as if the earth turns once a year. Offering our shit back to us. ‘Here, clean up your mess’. We have thought ‘this must be it’ so many times. As it turns out, there are always more surprises. It’s not our mess. We don’t know who turned this beautiful spot into a dumping ground. But we are taking responsibility for undoing it.

Another item that has become part of the tree. On the other side cans have grown into the bark.

The glass could cut animals and kids. They could eat something that was stuck to a plant etc. We both get annoyed as we drag all this stuff out of the forest. Spending days clearing the ground, because other people didn’t know better or didn’t care.

Sometimes people have asked why we’ve done so much to this rented land, especially knowing how little our landlord cares.

The thing is, even with the illusion of ‘my land’ this will always be our shared earth. In that perspective how could we not?

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Kinship and Foraging Stories with Gavin Van Horn

Last year I bought the book series ‘Kinship, Beloning in a World of Relations’. Weaving words, poems, wisdom from some of my favorite artists and authors. Gavin’s introduction resonated deeply. Our longing for nature experience to be sensational. I believe that too. We may pass so much by due to this.

I was so excited that he agreed to speak with me, about his work, kinship and belonging. As I listened back, there was so much more I wanted to ask and uncover. It’s always that way it seems.

Gavin’s way of speaking about nature and his experience has a special tone and felt sense. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

About Gavin

Dr. Gavin Van Horn is Executive Editor at the Center for Humans and Nature and leads the Book Series for the Center for Humans and Nature Press. His writing is an entangled, ongoing conversation between humans, our nonhuman kin, and the animate landscape. He is the co-editor, with Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Hausdoerffer, of the five-volume series, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations; and the author of The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds.

He currently resides in the ancestral lands of the Northern Chumash people in San Luis Obispo, California. You might find him gazing out at ocean waves hoping to spot sea otters, digging his toes deep into beach sand, staring up through flickering manzanita or live oak leaves, inhaling bay laurel, or turning feathers, stones, or clam shells between his fingers.

Find Gavn Van Horn and the kinship series here:

www.storyforager.com.

https://www.humansandnature.org/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/humansandnature/

https://www.instagram.com/storyforager/

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Discovering the cracks in the mirror with Bayo Akomolafe

Most often we talk about the cracks being where the light comes in. In this conversation with Bayo Akomolafe, he says “Sometimes mirrors rupture and cracks start to emerge. And then our images start to get distorted. And in those would could despair and seek to polish the mirror back to it’s shininess again. Or we could use in a different ethical move, use the cracks to seek out the darknesses, the shadows the cracks occlude”

This conversation has invited me to look at those in my mirror. Where I try to polish and where I accept the invitation. In the broader scale where we in West are so busy polishing that our arms are falling off. It takes some breathing deeply and a commitment to not turn away.

I had so much emotion running through my veins as he spoke, words fell short and felt that as well. He is an important voice of our day. In his words, poetry and in the way those ask me as the receiver to reflect!

Please let us know what you take away from this conversation.

Listen here:

About Bayo:

Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books,

These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will dance with Mountains’.

Where to find him:

www.bayoakomolafe.net

www.emergencenetwork.org

Resources mentioned:

Feminist Scholar Karen Barad

Bayo on Facebook

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The Will of the Wild with Jay Griffiths

Nearly 10 years ago I read Jay Griffiths book ‘Wild’, it had a great impact on me, in a subtle way. Because it was hard to put into words, what it was like to read her’s.

She spent 7 years writing the book, about her journey around the World, meeting indigenous people and seeking the will of wild.

This is where this conversation begins.

• what is wild, wilderness

• what is it to be an apprentice to something

• what does it mean to give time

• a note on activism and climate despair and fatigue

It was just as rich speaking with her, as it is reading her book.

Or listen on

Spotify

iTunes

or where you listen to your podcasts

ABOUT Jay Griffiths

Jay Griffiths has written on the politics of time, and the importance of wildness in the human spirit and the natural world in childhood. She was born in Manchester, studied at Oxford and has lived in Wales since 2000. 

With her first book, Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, she won the Discover award for the best new non-fiction writer to be published in the USA and with her second, Wild: An Elemental Journey she won the inaugural 2007 Orion Book Award. She is the author of Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression and Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape. 

Her fiction includes A Love Letter from a Stray Moon, about the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, and Anarchipelago, about the road protests. 

She was the Hay Festival International Fellow for 2016.

“Her work isn't just good - it's necessary.” - Philip Pullman

She is to be found on social media, but find more about her and her work here:

http://jaygriffiths.com

Other sites mentioned

https://rebellion.global

Melting the ice in the heart of man with Angaangaq

This interview is special to me. I got to sit with elder and storyteller Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq from Icewisdom.com.

He is a shaman, traditional healer, storyteller and carrier of the Qilaut (winddrum), whose family belongs to the traditional healers of the Far North from Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland. His name means ‘The Man Who Looks Like His Uncle’. Since he was a child he was trained by his family- especially by his Grandmother Aanakasaa – for becoming a shaman. The spiritual task given by his mother is: “Melting the Ice in the Heart of Man”.

The conversation started very personal, about his visit to the tiny town where I was born, North West River - Labrador. I haven’t met many who have been there. The conversation took off from there, with the question of ‘What is the spiritual significance of climate change’.

He is warm, full of heart and wisdom. I hope you enjoy his words. He closed our talk with a song. It still sits in my body.

LISTEN HERE:

Find his work here:

https://icewisdom.com/

Donate to the Healing Center - Healing Center - Aanakasaap Illua - Icewisdom - EN - Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq

The Body and Envisioning a New World with Stefana Serafina ☾ 14

Oh my has this episode been a long time coming. But it is landing here at just the right time.

My dear friend and mentor Stefana Serafina is our guest today. Her work has transformed my life. The way I live in my body and what I experience because of the intimate relationship with its language.

It became a very rich conversation about body, my body, your body, the body as the extension of Earth. .

A conversation and reflection about the risk of not including our bodies (again!) in the visioning for the new world that might be shaping with this crisis. 

About the body having to be the guide and the way in this hopeful emergence of a renewed human race. 

I’m so excited to share her work with you! We would love to hear what you take away from this episode.

ABOUT STEFANA:

Stefana Serafina, M.A., is an embodiment educator, writer, and embodied empowerment facilitator based in the San Francisco Bay. She is recognized for her unique and multi-faceted approach to body–based self–discovery and transformation.

She is the founder of Intuitive Body and Dance ©, which has grown into an international platform providing resources, experiences, and education for returning to our bodies’ inherent intelligence

For over a decade, Stefana has been teaching and facilitating transformative, movement-based embodiment in California, Europe, Central America, and online, and developing the Deep–Body model that is at the foundation of the work.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

My Grandmother's Hands : Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem

The Body Keeps the Score : Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk

My bodies, My earth - Ruby Gibson

Waking the Tiger - Peter Levine

FIND STEFANAS WORK HERE:
https://www.intuitivedance.org

Plant Whispering with Rachel Corby ☾ 13

Well well well, back again with a new episode for you. This time with a woman I love dearly. Rachel Corby is a very special teacher, and I’ve had the privilege to have her teach courses 2 years in a row.

In this episode we will be talking about working with plants. About what plant whispering means and how this work is more important today than ever. She is a very experienced and respectful teacher - to the plants and students and her wisdom runs deep.

ABOUT RACHEL CORBY
Rachel Corby is a plant whisperer, medicine woman and organic permaculture gardener. Rachel has been working with plants and their healing properties since having her eyes opened to the incredible healing world of plants whilst working on a volunteer project in Guatemala back in 1998.

Rachel has been teaching remedy making and how to make more spiritual connections with plants since 2006. She runs workshops, online courses and retreats teaching these skills and encouraging the rewilding process. She is the author of the book, Rewilding Yourself; Becoming Nature. 

GO FOLLOW RACHEL HERE:

FACEBOOK

INSTAGRAM

WEBSITE

Sacred Storytelling with Leah Lamb ☾ 12

Welcome, welcome, welcome. If you are returning you know that this episode has been a long time coming. If you are here for the first time, thank you for being here. But to all welcome to the new home of ‘The Becoming Nature Podcast Show’. 

I can’t wait to bring you new interviews and converstations. I can’t wait to continue connecting with you all. I can’t wait to see what this new Podcast home can bring. ENJOY TODAY’S episode. <3

I’m excited about bringing a new episode to you and this interview was fun to do. This conversation is with Leah Lamb. She is a storyteller, a writer and thinker. An activist. Last year I joined her course and dived in to the world of storytelling and storytellers from around the world. This art is revolutionary and we are all storytellers. So what stories are we telling? Listening to? And trusting?

In this episode talk about: 

☾What a storyteller is today

☾What a storyteller’s role was years ago

☾What a scared story and a zombie story are

☾We talk about how story can change our  ways

☾We talk about how the current story about climate isn’t helpful

And so much more… 

Please enjoy her words of wisdom. 

About Leah

Leah Lamb is a writer and producer. She is the creator of Soul Stories and the Speak the Spark, storytelling for a new paradigm, program. 

Her work plays with a lexicon that weaves myths, archetypes, and the hero’s journey into our modern world. She’s been a voice for the environment as a producer and host of the green channel at Current TV, and have written for Fast Company, Vice, Spirituality & Health Magazine, National Geographic News Watch, GOOD, The Huffington Post, and the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green. 

Also Leah’s first novel, The Whale Dreamer, is almost ready for you to read. 

Where to find more about her work: 

www.leahlamb.com

www.speakthespark.com

ALSO MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

Stephen Jenkinson - listen to my interview with Stephen here…

Find his work here - Orphan Wisdom

Gode resourcer til tiden, foråret og nye veje...

Igår delte jeg nedenstående liste i mit nyhedsbrev . Det er nogle gratis resourcer som er fantastisk 'food for thought'. Resourcer som giver næring og måske svar, på de store spørgsmål vi sidder med om klima, natur, bæredygtighed. Især om livet efter denne situation, krise, pause, tid - lige meget hvordan vi forholder os, så er vi på ukendt grund.

Disse film, bøger, mennesker giver mig, håb og lyst til at tænke vores fremtid i et andet lys. Og hvis man ikke er til de store følelser, så er de bare virkelig spændende input. 

Hvad synes jeg så du skal tjekke ud:

1. Filmen 'INHABIT'. Jeg købte filmen. lige da den kom ud og har set den flere gange nu. Da krisen brød ud, så lagde de filmen om gratis. Den vil jeg anbefale! Den er tankevækkende, fyldt med håb og fremtid.
Se den her...

2. Gratis 52 ugers Permakultur kursus hos Permaculturwomen.com - for dig med have, som vil bruge denne tid på at forstå økosystemer, haven, flerårige planter og hvordan du kan skabe en have der er fremtid i, så kan jeg anbefale det KÆMPE arbejde disse kvinder har lavet her. Jeg har fået rigtig meget ud af det. 
Læs mere her...

3. Min veninde Laura Storm har sammen med Giles Hutchins, skrevet bogen 'Regenerative Leadership' og den jeg vil anbefale alle at læse. Nu har de gjort 1. kapitel tilgængelig gratis. Og den i sig selv kan give ny næring til, at se sin vej gennem, ikke kun corona krise, men det der er lige bag (eller foran) klimakrisen. Den ser fremad og jeg elsker det de giver os med deres bog.
Læs den her...

4. Det seneste afsnit af min podcast 'Becoming Nature' udkom igår. Her taler jeg med Rachel Corby om Plant Whispering og rewilding. Hun er en vanvittig vis kvinde og på instagram kan du lige nu deltage i en give away hvor du kan vinde hendes seneste bog 'Plant Whispering and the art of rewilding'. 
Lyt med her...

Jeg håber, der er til timers underholdning og fordybelse til dig her. Det var der for mig. <3

Enjoy :)

C

Regenerative Leadership with Laura Storm ☾ 11

We are back and we kick off season two with a talk about sustainability, leadership.

In this episode I talk to Laura Storm. Laura is my friend, inspiration and, in May, also my partner as we open the ‘doors’ to a retreat we’ve called ‘Rewilding yourself in the Workplace’.

In our talk we take a journey back to where we began moving away from nature and it’s intelligence and more importantly - where we stopped seeing ourselves as nature, a part of this eco-system. Laura talks to how we can take leadership, a new definition of efficiency and creating a language for tapping into nature’s intelligence.

Laura is a wealth of knowledge! This is one to listen to.

Listen in on our conversation here:

Laura Storm has spent her entire career working in the intersection between business, leadership, sustainability, climate change policy and innovation leading and creating impact- and purpose-driven organizations, conferences, campaigns and movements. 

Currently she dedicates all her work to Regenerators that she started in February 2018 and is getting ready to launch her book on Regenerative Leadership in June 2019 with her colleague and leadership expert Giles Hutchins. 

For her work, she has been awarded the title World changer by Greenbiz and is selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. She serves on multiple Boards – including the Danish Design Council, World Economic Forums Expert Network on sustainable development and climate change. She holds a Master in Political Communication and Leadership, with special focus on sustainability leadership, Copenhagen Business School.

Find Laura Storm here:

https://www.regenerators.co/the-collective

And our retreat in May here:

http://www.carinalyall.com/rewild-yourself-in-the-workplace

Sacred Ceremony with Sandra Ingerman ☾ 10

This talk was important. With the increase in longing and ceremonial offers, I wanted to talk about what we understand, when we talk about ceremony. Sandra’s newest book ‘The Book of Ceremony’ was released just before the interview and it too is worth a read.

Ceremony is beautiful, it takes intention and preparation. For me it brings us together to honor the things we don’t in everyday life. To give thanks. To give back before we take. To lean back and listen. To honor the life-giving foundations.

This talk evolved into how we bring this work to our children and why it is so important to include them.

Listen to Sandra <3

About Sandra Ingermann

Sandra is a world renowned teacher of shamanism and has been teaching for more than 30 years. She has taught workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times.

 Sandra is known for gathering the global spiritual community together to perform powerful transformative ceremonies as well as inspires us to stand strong in unity so we do our own spiritual and social activism work while keeping a vision of hope and being a light in the world.

 She is passionate about helping people to reconnect with nature.

Find her here

http://www.sandraingerman.com

https://www.facebook.com/SandraIngerman/

Holistic Survival with Luke McLaughlin ☾ 9

I was so excited to interview Luke, and now get to share it with you. The way he shares his knowledge and skills is super inspiring. His love for this Earth poors through the screen.

His mission is close to mine and I feel honored to ham him on the show. The work speaks to our cells and hands more than the modern ways of comfort. But it is a language more and more are beginning to speak and learn.

Listen in on our down to Earth talk about earth based skills, survival in a modern World and what it means to live close to the nature of being human.

Also get is fire starting record… you may want to take the challenge. ;)

About Luke:

Luke McLaughln is a naturalist, teacher, rewilder, mentor, survivalist, and founder of Holistic Survival School. Luke has committed his life to mastering and teaching ancestral and indigenous living skills in order to help people find their balance and connection to the Natural World.  Luke learned his skills working at a primitive wilderness therapy program in the West Desert of Utah.  With over 500 days on the trail, Luke has mentored hundreds of people in the wilderness and learned how Earth skills teach us vital life lessons. Furthermore, Luke has witnessed first hand how nature connection helps bring about growth, health, and vitality to everyone’s life.

Luke combines humor, knowledge, and patience to create an easy-going, yet informative experience. He is dedicated to meeting people where they are at, with love and compassion in order to help foster a new (actually old) way of being human. 

Go follow Luke and his work here:

Instagram - it is a treat

His site <3

And youtube channel

Wild and Alone with Callie North ☾ 8

I can’t begin to tell you how much I looked forward to interviewing this woman. I watched her on the Alone Show and was blown away by how she approached going out into the wild Alone.

She is a true inspiration. Her love or the planet can only rub off on you.

It became talk about the practical and down to earth ways of connecting - and why it is important.

Listen here:

About Callie:

Folk Herbalist. Songstress. Gardener. Witch. Magic Maker. Seeker. Life Enthusiast.  

Born and raised on Lopez Island, Callie spent her formative years living a nature-based lifestyle in the Pacific Northwest. Her love of the outdoors and relationship with sacred plant medicine led her to open Pachamama Apothecary in the spring of 2016. Shortly after the shop opened, Callie was blessed with the opportunity to spend 72 days living alone in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in Patagonia, Argentina. She fished, foraged and relied completely on the land for survival. Her journey can be viewed on Season 3 of ALONE, on the History Channel.

 Callie currently lives off grid in a small cabin in the mossy woods, gathering wild medicine, writing songs, and planning her next adventure.

Find her here:

https://www.pmapothecary.com

https://www.instagram.com/pachamama.apothecary/

Also mentioned on the Podcast: A Wilder Year:

Wild Power - exploring your cycle with Alexandra Pope ☾ 7

Today’s guest is Alexandra Pope.

Alexandra is the co founder of redschool.net along side Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer. She is also the author of several books including 'The Wild Genie: The Healing Power of Menstruation', 'The Women’s Quest Workbook' and co author of 'The Pill: are you sure it’s for you' and their book Wild Power 

Alexandra is a women’s leadership coach and educator at the forefront of the emerging new field of menstruality, exploring woman’s psycho-spiritual journey from menarche to menopause and beyond.

5 years ago I followed a calling and did a menstrual, women’s body training with a beautiful teacher Laila Torsheim here in Denmark. It became confirmation of so many truths in my body, that I simply did not have a fully developed language for. She introduced us to our lovely guest today. A woman and a mission worth knowing. 

I had the privilege of working a little closer with them during the launch of their book ‘Wild Power’ and it is a must read for women wanting to get intimate with their cycle. I will leave a link in the show notes. 

To learn more about their amazing work go here: www.redschool.net

Zero Waste Home with Bea Johnson ☾ 6

I interviewed Bea for the first time four years ago. At that time zero waste was beginning to grow. Today it is not only for the *fanatics* who like? to chill, it is becoming a well known and even more importantly - integratable life style. In our family we are still not close to zero Waste. But we have made many changes and are working our way there slowly.

As you will hear Bea talk about the 5 R's, I know where I still feel challenged - the refuse one. We don't buy a lot. But we say yes to way too much stuff we don't need.

I feel fueled and filled again with inspiration after speaking to her. And even though you may not feel called to go *all the way*, I guarantee you will be called to make a few changes in your home. If we all did just a fraction of what she is doing, I can hardly imagine how it could shift things around.

The 5 R’s:
Refuse

Reuse

Reduce

Recycle

Rot

Listen in here:

Also check out:

Episode 1 - With A Plastic Planet

Episode 2 - 5 Simple Ways to Swap for Plastic free

About Bea:

Bea Johnson and her family have produced a mere pint of trash per year since 2008. Dubbed "The Priestess of Waste-Free Living" by the New York Times, Bea has been featured on TV shows and in publications all over the world. She shatters misconceptions, proving that zero waste can not only be stylish, but can also lead to significant health benefits, and time and money savings. With her simple 5R methodology and blog turned bestselling book (Zero Waste Home, translated in 25 languages, #1 on Amazon waste cat.), Bea initiated a global movement. She has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to adopt waste-free living, open unpackaged shops, conceive reusable products, and launch organizations. Leading spokesperson for the zero waste lifestyle, she has completed fourteen international speaking tours and given talks in 50+ countries on 6 continents. Her clients include Google, Amazon, Starbucks, TEDx, the European Parliament and the United Nations. She is a Grand Prize winner of The Green Awards, and a French native who currently lives in Mill Valley, California.

Move Like Water with Easkey Britton ☾ 5

Today’s guest is Easkey Britton. A scientist, academic and social activist, with a PhD in Environment and Society, Easkey is always one to look in places others aren’t for the answers to difficult questions. Her curiosity and passion for fairness and gender equality are the qualities that others to her.

She currently works as a research scientist at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she explores the use of blue and green space to restore health and wellbeing. Most recently she joined the EU-funded SOPHIE project on Oceans and Human Health and her work will focus on ensuring everyone has a voice in setting the direction of oceans and human health research, identifying key people who should be involved in the stakeholder discussions.

credit ANDREW KAINEDER / @kaineder

A life-long surfer, Easkey’s parents taught her to surf when she was four years old and she channels her passion for surfing and the sea into social change. Her work is deeply influenced by the ocean and the lessons learned pioneering women’s big-wave surfing in Ireland and introducing the sport of surfing with women in Iran.

Passionate about facilitating creative & collaborative processes, Easkey founded Like Water, a platform to explore innovative ways to reconnect with who we are, our environment and each other, through water.

Easkey is a one off, wild hearted and free spirit. She’s ridden some of the biggest waves in Ireland; no audience, no blue skies, no golden sands, just her and a crew she trusts. Doing something she loves; chasing cold water mountains.

Watch a recent film Easkey made about her connection to the sea and its cycles below.

A Lunar Cycle: https://vimeo.com/288338638

Links mentioned in this episode:

http://easkeybritton.com

http://likewater.blue

https://movelikewater.splashthat.com

She is one to listen to if you are interested in how we can take action and re-connect to nature. How we can heal the overwhelm and fear and begin to create the change we desire.

The Wise Ones with Stephen Jenkinson ☾ 4

You know those times you listen to a voice, a talk, a something that when it’s over you feel changed? That’s how I felt the first time I listened to Stephen Jenkinson talk.

Even more so after interviewing him. 

I could sit next to him around a fire and listen forever. In the lack of many elders in my life who I go to with my questions, in many ways here is a man who leads the way.

In this episode we talk about

*elderhood and the disappearance of elders in our society

*wisdom and what it is to be wise

*his new book ‘Come of Age’. 

*his work with people facing death

His way of presenting these important themes is not full of fear, it is full of life and hope. 

Enjoy his words. 

STEPHEN JENKINSON is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer. He has a master's degree in theology from Harvard University and a master's degree in social work from the University of Toronto. Formerly a program director at a major Canadian hospital and medical-school assistant professor, Stephen is now a sought-after workshop leader, speaker, and consultant to palliative care and hospice organizations. He is the founder of The Orphan Wisdom School in Canada and the subject of the documentary film Griefwalker.

Find more about him here: 

https://orphanwisdom.com/events/

His books:

Come of Age

Die Wise

His Orphan Wisdom Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/orphanwisdom/