A trek along Asia’s ‘hippie trail’ in 1972 led Tony and his wife Maureen Wheeler, to create travel publisher Lonely Planet. This was an absolute game-changer for the backpackers and adventure seekers across the globe featuring off the beaten track destinations and hard-to-find experiences. Tony keeps himself busy these days with his work for the Planet Wheeler Foundation’s, assisting on more than fifty projects in the developing world. As well as, The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing & Idea...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Dr Elise Bialylew is a mindfulness meditation expert , doctor trained in psychiatry, social entrepreneur and published author who’s on a mission to improve the wellbeing of our society and our planet. She is the Founder of Mindful in May , the world’s largest annual, online mindfulness fundraising campaign. She has also published a book called, The Happiness Plan . We sat down (via our iso-at-home recording set up) to chat through mental resilience in a time which is no doubt testing most of us....
Apr 26, 2020•59 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Nina Karnikowski is a travel writer who focuses on wild, transformative adventures off the beaten trail. Her trips have taken her journeying through Mongolia, Antarctica, the Namibian desert, plus another 60 or so other countries. Nina talks about how she calved out this dream job. As well as, her recent book - Make a Living Living. It’s part storytelling and part practical advice on how to craft your ideal existence. See the show notes here: https://onewildride.co/podcast/2020/35/nina-karnikows...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 34
More like a book than a magazine within these 120-pages you’ll find the good news stories of the legends interviewed here on the One Wild Ride podcast! Theirs are stories of expansion and evolution while rocking good business and positive impact at the same time. We hope that you love reading it as much as we enjoyed pulling it together and that your journey within inspires and activates positive change. Grab it here: https://onewildride.co/magazine...
Apr 01, 2020•5 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Erin Lovell Verinder is a much-loved herbalist, nutritionist, energetic healer and educator living in Byron Bay. This modern-day plant medicine woman has recently released her first book Plants For The People: A Modern Guide to Plant Medicine. Erin takes us through her journey and discovery of the magical plant world and explains how she weaves together ancient wisdom with a modern approach to improve her patients' health and vitality. https://onewildride.co/podcast/2020/34/erin-lovell-verinder-...
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Seabin is a simple concept with a big mission - to achieve “pollution-free oceans for our future generations.” One Seabin alone does some pretty incredible work, clearing about 4kg of debris a day, mounting up to 1.4 tonnes of debris each year. Pete Ceglinski is Co-Founder of the Seabin Project. He’s always been an avid water lover that grew up in Northern NSW, we chat to him about his own wild adventures travelling the world, and eventually finding a place where his passion met purpose in desig...
Mar 09, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Sophie Lord is the Publisher and Creative Director of Hello May . Hello May is not your run-of-the-mill bridal magazine, it ticks all the boxes whether you’re a bride that goes for the fashionable runway-ready kind of thing, old-world charm or boho chic. It’s full of stunning suppliers and documents beautiful love stories. Sophie is a true creative, a free spirit, traveller and one incredibly passionate individual - working tirelessly day and night to create and bring Hello May to life. We sat d...
Feb 26, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Olli Ella is a global lifestyle brand founded in London in 2010 by sisters Chloe and Olivia Brookman. What started as a side-hustle with one product quickly spread globally after being picked up by Harrods and Oprah. Along the way, they added apparel, homewares, travel, toys and accessories to their swagger, and it seems the world can’t get enough of the Olli Ella vintage-aesthetic and naturally produced products. With offices now in Byron Bay, Los Angeles and London there is no slowing down the...
Feb 12, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 31
The School of Life is a global organisation helping people live more fulfilling lives. With multiple centres around the world, they hold space for exploring self-knowledge through classes, content, community and conversation. In my chat here with Australian Managing Director Eleanor Gammell we discuss the growing importance to have a place of non-judgment to explore the complexity of our inner and outer worlds, particularly at a time of social and environmental importance.
Feb 02, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Bank Australia is committed to positive social and environmental change. Owned by their customers they’re actively listening and actioning things that matter, including land regeneration, reconciliation, affordable housing, animal welfare, renewable energy, and conservation. They’re committed to ‘clean money’ and therefore got a hard stance against coal, nuclear weapons, gambling, tobacco, live animal export. Highlighted within this conversation is how little many of us know about what our money...
Jan 21, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Kate Dalton is the Founder of Mayde Tea, a Naturopathically blended 100% organic loose leaf tea. Born out of her own health crisis, Kate began experimenting with plant-based remedies while studying and managing a busy café in Bondi. She quickly discovered the incredible health benefits of tea and started sharing them with friends and clients. From these humble beginnings, Mayde Tea is now stocked in over 300 retail stores across Australia. With solid brand values and sustainability at its core, ...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Jack River is a musician, songwriter, festival curator and businesswoman. Her debut album Sugar Mountain was nominated for Best Pop Release and Breakthrough Artist in the 2018 ARIA Awards. She tours extensively and has performed at some of Australia’s biggest festivals - Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival and The Great Escape. She’s also the Founder of Grow Your Own Festival and the Electric Lady movement, a platform amplifying the strength of women in music, politics, science and sport....
Dec 19, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 27
A family dream to move to the country and a passion for healthy food led the Brook family to transform a rundown dairy in the Byron Bay hinterland into a working macadamia farm. Over 30 years they’ve not only become one of Australia’s leading producers of premium quality macadamia products, but they’ve simultaneously plated over 35000 trees to regenerating the onsite rainforest. Still a family run business, they’ve made some interesting additions, while holding sustainability at the core of ever...
Dec 10, 2019•53 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Intuitive gun Krista Jane Smith (street name KJ) uses her beyond earthly skills to help creative entrepreneurs break free from the subconscious limits holding them back and live a life on purpose. Following the heart led road has seen her change the lives and careers of Olympians, CEO’s, global corporations and disruptive game changers of all kinds. She believes whole heartedly that we all have this gift of intuition and it just needs resurrecting to start changing our lives. https://pruchapman....
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Tom Griffith is the Co-Founder of Emma and Toms, a leading health food company well known for their delicious, all-natural juices. Following on from an early career in finance and startups, it was on a ski trip that Tom had his ‘aha’ moment of launching a premium juice brand into the Australian market. He approached his childhood friend Emma to partner with him, and from there Emma and Toms was born. Almost 15 years later they’re one of Australia's best-loved brands with over 3000 stockists worl...
Nov 26, 2019•52 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Veganism is everywhere right now. One reliable source on all things vegan is Ellie Bullen - she’s a qualified dietitian and nutritionist with a passion for beautifully colourful plant-based plates full of flavour. She’s also a fan of exotic travels and adventure recently combining this with her fave recipes to create - The Global Vegan. This is her second book after her hugely popular blog and cookbook Elsa’s Wholesome Life. https://theownerscollective.com/podcasts/ellie-bullen-the-global-vegan/...
Nov 19, 2019•43 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Danni Carr is the Founder of Earth Bottles, a range of eco-friendly, reusable bottles and coffee cups. She is also a mother of two children and partnered with the well-known Australian musician, Ash Grunwald. So life is never dull with a touring husband and a global business to run! Regardless of this she remains down-to-earth with a balanced approach to family life. We sat down for a chat about Danni’s passion for a plastic-free world! https://theownerscollective.com/podcasts/earthbottles-danni...
Nov 12, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Ash Grunwald, is a musician well-known to Australia's blues and roots scene, where he’s been belting out songs on guitar and stompbox at festivals around the country for decades. He has released nine studio albums and has received five nominations for ARIA Music Awards , with the majority of those albums peaking in the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. He is a dedicated surfer, traveller and true spiritual seeker of meaning in this crazy world. He even has a podcast channel dedicated to just that - soul...
Nov 05, 2019•54 min
Ash Grunwald, is a musician well-known to Australia's blues and roots scene, where he’s been belting out songs on guitar and stompbox at festivals around the country for decades. He has released nine studio albums and has received five nominations for ARIA Music Awards , with the majority of those albums peaking in the ARIA Albums Chart top 50. He is a dedicated surfer, traveller and true spiritual seeker of meaning in this crazy world. He even has a podcast channel dedicated to just that - soul...
Nov 05, 2019•24 min•Season 2Ep. 21
New Zealand-born Danny Clayton is the Founder of Salt Gypsy, an independent women's surf company based in Byron Bay. Dedicated to sustainable and ethical production Salt Gypsy celebrates the modern Oceanwoman - surf athleticism, style and diversity in the surfing world. Danny’s own wild ride led her here, traversing through a degree in sculpture, experience as a surf instructor, and as a Billabong rep, all combining to help her create an international surfwear brand supporting women in the water...
Oct 29, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 20
With a whopping 1.6 million downloads, Sophie Walker is the founder and host of the podcast, Australian Birth Stories. The series shares Mother’s stories of childbirth. She began the podcast hoping to shed some light on the mystery of birth and take away some of the anxiety, doubts and fears around the unknown by sharing women’s first hand accounts. Today her podcast is THE go-to library for pregnant women, partners and birth enthusiasts and quickly being taken up by the medical profession. http...
Oct 22, 2019•59 min•Season 2Ep. 19
James Bartle is the Founder & CEO of Outland Denim, an incredible company shaking up the fashion industry. It feels like we’re on the front of the tidal wave of change across the fashion industry right now, as more and more information is coming to light about what a harmful industry it is. James talks us through his company where the aim is for ‘Zero Exploitation’ and that’s through the whole supply chain - right from the cotton farm to the courier who delivers your jeans. https://theowners...
Oct 15, 2019•59 min•Season 2Ep. 18
As we dive deep into Season 2 of the One Wild Ride podcast I wanted to share with you WHY I launched this podcast. It wasn't to 'grow my audience' or sign a big advertising deal, it was something quite different. Take a listen to find out!
Oct 15, 2019•17 min
When Who Gives A Crap learnt that 2.3 billion people across the world didn’t have access to a toilet, which led to around 289,000 children’s deaths each year from diarrhoeal diseases - they decided to do something about it. Through their profit-for-purpose model they sell loo paper, paper towel and tissues, and donate a whopping 50% of their profits to help build toilets in less developed countries. To date they’ve donated 1.8 million dollars to charity, not to mention saved an awful lot of tree...
Aug 28, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Female founded TOM Organic was launched in 2009 with one goal in mind - ‘how to solve the problem of tampons falling out of a handbag and creating embarrassment.’ Since then they’ve been dedicated to providing environmentally conscious products for the entire woman’s lifecycle, cutting through with sleek packaging and witty campaigns. As a company, they’re not afraid to do things differently. Game-changing marketing campaigns, festival activations, supporting female founders and leading a remote...
Aug 08, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Samantha Gash is an endurance athlete who uses her feats of physical endurance to be a platform for social change. She partners with some incredible organisations like World Vision to storytell draw attention to the people in the places she runs. Sam might be small in stature, but that’s the only thing about her that’s small about her. An incredibly interesting human, Sam and I sat down in her house in the mountains, about an hour outside of Melbourne. https://theownerscollective.com/podcasts/sa...
Jul 31, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Dani Venn is a whole foods cook with a number of very cool projects under her belt. You probably know her from her MasterChef days, where she was a finalist, and again as a MasterChef All Stars in 2012. Nowadays she’s Founder of The Wholehearted Cook where she shares recipes and tips on how to ’nourish, nurture and glow’. As always with Dani, she's got an exciting new project on the boil, which will redefine the fast-food industry, stay tuned! https://theownerscollective.com/podcasts/dani-venn/...
Jul 24, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Simon Rowe is Founder of Sleepbus, a service providing a safe and comfortable night’s sleep to homeless Australians. One Sleepbus holds 22 secure individual sleep pods and can provide up to 8,030 safe sleeps per year. Today he is based in Melbourne with one fully operational Sleepbus and plans to increase the fleet so that he can provide over 2 million safe sleeps per year! We had a chat with Simon aboard the Sleepbus about what inspired him to leave his corporate gig and his grand plans for thi...
Jul 17, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Jasmine Mayhead is the Founder of Ethical Made Easy, an online directory created to make shopping for ethical fashion, well, easy. Simple and thought-provoking, this directory really lifts the lid on the fashion industry, providing stories behind the clothing and the products we consume. It provides a little more education and leaves visitors feeling inspired to make a change in the way they consume. https://theownerscollective.com/podcasts/ethical-made-easy-jasmine-mayhead/...
Jul 09, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 12
Delta Kay is an Arakwal woman from the Byron Bay region, known as Bundjalung Nation. In this episode I was privileged to share a deeper understanding of the Australian Aboriginal culture. Together, we discussed the importance of preserving and protecting culture, and the beautiful way that aboriginal people nourish, and are nourished by their country. Our Aboriginal culture links the past, present and future and is expressed through our stories, art and songs, our dance and ceremony, and the way...
Jul 02, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 11
