Summary What can weddings teach us? To be intentional, to build ritual, to connect with our community, to co-create celebration, to build co-relational practices. Weddings are the perfect ‘on ramp’ for people to consider their long term shift for the way they live their life - its feel good activism that's fun, love filled and purposeful. Show Notes Creating a wedding carbon calculator Her aha moment on the ground in Malawi The average western wedding costs $35k Incorporating more giving into ou...
Jul 17, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 6
As the host of the the 'regen-narration podcast, listening, learning and storytelling is this mans lens. Join us in getting comfortable sitting in silence while we wait for the insights With an intent for working collaboratively and creating a community of care, this conversation is flowing and abstract, reflecting on our life of fat, comfort and ease while we need to to embrace the discomforts of our future - learning new skills to navigate a world without rose coloured glasses while maintainin...
Jul 03, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Sustainability is not just what you consume. It's a deeply fulfilling way to be in the world. We ask why we can’t just build arks & sail away with a few privileged like minded people & instead define value in seeking a sensorial life w a connection to place & community. Since moving to Indonesia Kristine has learnt that you can’t count in minutes & hours the value of what you produce, she has watched her little boy learn to read nature & that when you unlearn some things it g...
Jun 19, 2022•57 min•Season 6Ep. 4
What would it be like to rely solely on yourself, lean into ecological literacy, to really notice the changing patterns of the season & offer yourself the time it genuinely takes to live intimately with the earth . Claire tells of her pathway to following a calling to initiation - a need to let her social identity rot away on the forest floor & go into a place of deep introspection. Spurred by a primal knowledge that we are living in a world with a deficit in: nature, elders, community, ...
Jun 05, 2022•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 3
Do 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 cheese. Show Notes Why food production is the avenue to create the most significant environmental change Finding a way to fit into the family farm as the 2...
May 22, 2022•58 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Following 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 & powerful. Show Notes Forced to be present - the pressure is off Living the now is how the body and mind forces you to be in grief "The ‘now’ ...
May 08, 2022•47 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry, we've created a short & sexy summer season of thought provocation by delving into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. If there's a human who represents the quintessential qualities of living like tomorrow matters, it just might be Hannah Maloney. A former front line picketer, Hannah transitioned to a more sustainable appr...
Feb 06, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry, we've created a short & sexy summer season of thought provocation by delving into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. Get to know the wild, wise and wonderful Steph Phillips (aka Green and Growing Things ) who's living the simple life in rural Tassie. Steph shares her four year transition from “Stiletto Steph” to “Simple ...
Jan 30, 2022•57 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry, we've created a short & sexy summer season of thought provocation by delving into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. Warning: this episode with Rob Greenfield might make you want to do something crazy - like sell all your material possessions, set off on an adventure with only a backpack and faith in human kindness, or b...
Jan 23, 2022•57 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry, we've created a short & sexy summer season of thought provocation by delving into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. Have you spent much time in the bush on your own? Do you listen to your heart when making life's big decisions? What about social media - ever given it the flick? This conversation with Tricia Hogbin of li...
Jan 16, 2022•57 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry, we've created a short & sexy summer season of thought provocation by delving into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. Kirsten Bradley has dedicated the last 13 years (in cahoots with partner Nick Ritar and a host of thinkers and doers) to helping people learn permaculture skills for living like it matters. We’re referring...
Jan 09, 2022•53 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Summer is for going slow with your people. We're making the most of this too here at FS HQ. But don't worry, we've created a short & sexy summer season of thought provocation by delving into the archives & reloading some of the best conversations we've recorded over the last two years. This week, Sadie Chrestman that beautiful soul from Fat Pig Farm shares her story of moving to Tassie with partner Matthew Evans to start a new, rural life - in her forties. We ask her what it’s like being...
Jan 02, 2022•57 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Much has changed since we last spoke with this illustrating educator. She shares the ins & outs of life in a house truck, seeking ‘normalcy’ while building her new home in WA & her lived experience of life in intentional communities all over the world. She delights at her recent discovery of sociocracy as a tool for empowering and engaging individuals and we delve into her efforts to stay kind, creative and connected in this time of great transition. Episode Summary Becoming comfortable ...
Dec 12, 2021•50 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Tyson 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 needs of the future. The way he thinks demands a longer term perspective. He is both philosophical and practical, compassionate yet realistic. H...
Dec 05, 2021•59 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Jo Smith is a self proclaimed generalist who juggles life as a twin mama, market gardener, yoga therapist & active contributor to her tiny Tasmanian community on Bruny Island. Jade & Jo shoot the breeze about farming life & decide that despite the hardships, she wouldn't trade it for the world - even the wind. Join them for tangents & truths of this beautiful, grounded, physical & dirty existence at the bottom of the world. Episode Summary Growing food for others to navigate ...
Nov 28, 2021•59 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Absorb permaculture wisdom from an elder who encourages us to look up to the sky and then act out across the earth, in unison with others and with dirt beneath our bare feet. Su Dennett lives at Meliodora a 2.25 acre, 35 year old permaculture demonstration property she has established with her partner David Holmgren. She is a force - as strong as she is soothing. This conversation pushes us to connect with self, place & community & to create a life that is small, localised, abundantly ri...
Nov 21, 2021•54 min•Season 4Ep. 7
A story teller for change, voice for young people and founder of Humiform. Megan became a professional dancer at 14, a fair fashion advocate who walked across South East Asia to share stories of good in her early 20’s and now has turned her efforts to working with kids in a way that gives them agency and a connection to the outside world. She speaks not only from her lived experience but also from a place of realness that is easily relatable and that kids gravitate towards. She asks ‘what if’, a...
Nov 14, 2021•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 6
Hannah Maloney: Our fave IT girl is back in your ears to share her message of radical hope, living a life of joy and pushing past the overwhelm at the state of the world despite being furious at current politics. In her usual effervescent manner, we chat about all the hard things including her 'unlearning journey' and the power of self reflection. As charismatic and breathtaking as she is accessible-girl-next-door, listen in to this convo with Hannah Maloney for a little taste of the good life ....
Nov 07, 2021•52 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Clare is so much more than her MS diagnosis but when she contacted us, eager to share how living like tomorrow matters plays out after a diagnosis, we realised we'd never considered her perspective on the show and in that, our privilege became acutely apparent. 40% of Australians have a chronic illness yet so often it goes unacknowledged. With a pod of her own and a young family she is building awareness by sharing her every day reality while building solidarity for those in similar shoes. This ...
Oct 31, 2021•47 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Our most downloaded backyard adventurer is chatting with us again but this time with better sound and more sleep under his belt so we are witness to a more true version of this humorous, odd character. A self titled 'polyjobist; a generalist at many things, he shares the challenge of writing a book after a decade in academia, worrying about breaking the law to make films and shares why he took up his granddads wood chopping axes despite his mediochre capability. Our conversation is all 'Miles' -...
Oct 24, 2021•51 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Sharing her evolution from academic keyboard warrior to her current reality of being an agroecological pork and beef farmer who's pretty darned handy with the butchers knife and equally as sharp of mind in her contributions to the UN small scale farming policy initiatives. Tammi Jonas is indeed a force of the natural world, never backwards in coming forwards but mellowing with every decade and sharing her successes and failures for the sake of thousands who are following in her footsteps towards...
Oct 17, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 2
You might remember this pocket rocket from Masterchef, perhaps you've heard her on the wireless, has she entertained you at a conference or was she the genius who convinced your kids to love their veggies via 'phenom-e-nom '. Alice-in-frames loves life and doesn’t take herself too seriously but definitely has multi dimensional attributes. A poly-math who's mischevious pixie like-grin and twinkling eyes defy her hard working focus on reaching her singular goal of 'getting us all to love food - fr...
Oct 10, 2021•53 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Next season will kick off next Monday but in the meantime, we are satisfying your insatiable hunger with throwbacks to our fave episodes from season 1. Enjoy these wonderous humans and all their brilliance. Before you ask, yes this is Charlie Showers of Black Barn Farm - Jade's other half. Charlie is a fair food advocate, holistic orchardist, landscape scientist and insatiable reader, with an appetite for knowledge that sees him getting up before the birds to devour scientific papers, books and ...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Next season goes live Monday 11th October. Until then we've selected four of our faves to share with you again - they are just SOOOOO good, they're worth hearing again so enjoy having these wonderous humans back in your ears! If you've never met a Perma Pixie, prepare to be delighted. Taj, aka. The Perma Pixie , is bringing a little old school witchcraft and spades of permaculture wisdom to Melbourne - and now, to you. This chick beats to a drum of ‘reciprocity’, a philosophy that acknowledges t...
Oct 03, 2021•54 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Next season kicks off on Monday 11th October - until then, enjoy having these humans of wonder back in your ears! ARCHIVE 2 of 4 Dan Palmer is co-founder of Permablitz , Landed , Holistic Decision Making , Making Permaculture Stronger and Very Edible Gardens . He has a PhD in systems thinking and contagious levels of enthusiasm for supporting the journeys of others. He recently moved with his wife and two daughters back to New Zealand. We hear Dan’s thoughts on consciously shaping a vibrant and ...
Sep 29, 2021•51 min•Season 3Ep. 27
So we don't leave you twiddling your braincells while we record the next season, we've done you the favour of going waaaaaaaay back into the archives of season one and dusting off four our our faves for you to stick in your ears for your weekly dose of inspiration. Next season kicks off on Monday 11th October - until then, enjoy these humans of wonder! ARCHIVE 1 of 4 If you’re looking for reasons to be hopeful, this conversation with Brenna Quinlan provides a lifetime’s worth. You probably know ...
Sep 26, 2021•55 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Strap in for a fast paced chat with this natural born story teller. From the heady heights of top restaurants, starring in his own reality tv program and radio shows to his definition of “enough” - which begins with rude health and healthy kids before settling with sovereignty of time and community belonging. As practical and grounded as he is charismatic with a touch of aussie larrikin, ‘Westy’ is whip cracking fast making it easy to listen and laugh at his tales - like serving uncooked rice as...
Sep 19, 2021•58 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Bec Shann (who you might know from Think Big Live Simply) used to lead a pretty conventional life working in science, making rational decisions, and following the prescribed path towards success. But then she saw an ad for Milkwood Permaculture's Design Course -- and the rest, as they say, is compost. From taking on a commercial-scale market garden with no prior experience, to building a humble abode on the side of a hill and steeping herself in the home economy, Bec’s thoughtful and honest appr...
Sep 12, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Emily Ehlers describes herself as an illustrator, writer, environmentalist + very bad dancer. We know her as the lass whose witty and poignant pieces combine art and activism in the greatest possible way. Today Em speaks with Jade about writing a book about hope as a self-proclaimed anxious person, humour as a tool for resilience, mental health truths, value stacking and all kinds of good stuff that’ll, with any luck, lift you in this time of uncertainty. Em has a new book out called Hope Is A V...
Sep 05, 2021•42 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Jade speaks with Lisa Wells , award-winning poet, essayist and author. In her new book, Believers: Making A Life At The End of the World , Lisa seeks out and learns from trailblazers and outliers around the world who are pursuing radically hopeful lifestyles -- even in the face of climate despair. There's so much to glean from this conversation: stories and lessons from those living the change, the treasures that await outside the norm, the beauty of bird language, the mess and wonder of non-tec...
Aug 29, 2021•46 min•Season 3Ep. 21
