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E52 – Daniela Plattner on Embodiment, Movement and Integration // Moving into our future potential
“When I have the biggest challenges I put them on the dancefloor… and a lot is revealed.” ~ Daniela...
February 14, 20190
E51 – Aurelio on Sound, Mysticism and Healing // The art, craft and science of sonic experience.
“Hearing is a receptive sense, the shell, nautilus, snail, spiral… The rise in interest in sound goes together with...
E50 – Safia Minney on Modern Slavery, Ethical Fashion and Sustainability // Slaves to fashion: a voice for the voiceless
“We all have a disquieting feeling when we can calculate that the price of something doesn’t cover a living...
E49 – Justin Faerman on Flow Consciousness, Intuition and Effortlessness // Finding our way to flow consciousness… and staying there.
“ If you can train yourself to perceive the world in a certain way, you can basically lock yourself...
E48 – Jo Hunter on Creativity, Shame and Connection // 64 million artists: unlocking the creative potential of a nation
“Creativity is the essence of who you are, it’s absolutely connected to spirituality and the true expression of yourself....
E47 – Johann Hari on Depression, Addiction and Connection // Lost Connections: Finding others instead of ourselves
“The best journeys are not where you find yourself, the best journeys are where you find other people…Trying to...
E46 – Amisha Ghadiali on Courage, Receptivity and Elegant Rebellion // Understanding the beauty of our worlds
“We can’t create a beautiful future by bypassing everything we don’t like and creating a fake utopia that sits...
E45 – Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation, Climate Change and Societal Collapse // Acceptance and evolution in the face of global meltdown
“Getting busy with action can be a distraction from full acceptance of our predicament, where our predicament is that...
E44 – Erika Gagnon on Plant Medicine, Tobacco and The Eagle and Condor Prophecy // Healing wisdom of The Americas
“The sacred master plant medicines help us remember who we are, where we have come from and where we...
E43 – Vinay Gupta on Blockchain, Biotech and Consciousness // Raising the floor of humanity through cultural activism and hard capitalism
“What is required is not more creation, but extremely precise clinical destruction. We need the old world to die...
E42 – Polly Higgins on Ecocide Law, Living Your Purpose and Earth Protection // Eradicating Ecocide by an Earth Lawyer
“For me it’s not about whether or not you are an environmentalist, it’s about whether or not you care....
E41 – Stephen Reid on Psychedelics, Extinction Rebellion and Metamodernism // Reconnecting with nature in these urgent times
“I don’t think we are that far away from the point where it is more acceptable to consume psilocybin...
E40 – Indra Adnan on New Politics, Soft Power and The Feminine // Politics is Broken. It’s time for the Alternative
“We are living in an era in which people are finding their own autonomy and their own agency and...
E39 – Manish Jain on Unschooling, Gift Culture and Deep Localisation // Freedom from the shackles of education
“The current education system is based on an 18th century factory industrial model … at best it is irrelevant...
E38 – Adah Parris on Identity, Freedom and Inclusion // The Four Freedoms
“I hate the idea of labels, you end up trying to fit into things and hide parts of yourself....
E37 – Daniel Pinchbeck on Ecological Crisis, Systemic Change and Collective Action // How soon is now? A call to action
“Figuring out how we take care of our context and help as best we can to shift to something...
E36 – Tyler Wetherall on Secrets, Story and Identity // The stories we tell in order to survive
“I genuinely believe it is almost impossible to choose one version of the truth, one version of a story...
E35 – David Wood on AI (Artificial Intelligence), Ethics and Technology // Sustainable superabundance or a new dark age for humanity?
“We will only get to humanity 2.0 by using the very best of humanity 1.0. Which part of our...
E34 – Prabhavati Dwabha on Giving, Child Poverty, Education and Philanthropy // Breaking the cycle of poverty, ignorance, and homelessness
“Life is better if you are honestly doing your best to make a difference for another being. If you...
E33 – Jamie Catto on Creativity, Shadows and Panic Attacks // One Giant Leap for permission to feel
“If there was a crying pill our whole culture would be saved- there would be no more war…. I...
E32 – Tiu de Haan on Ritual, Grief and Wonder // The importance of ritual and creativity
“Focusing on the brevity of life and sanctity of nature and fragility of the planet can sharpen our awareness...
E31 – Sacha Stone on Self Actualisation, Activism and Sovereignty // A new earth beyond our personal and planetary borders
“All systems are entropic – all systems that define human beings into organised patterns of behaviour and outcome, like...
E30 – Roma Norriss on Parenting, Listening and Relationships // Birthing & raising a better world
“When parents respond to their children with connection, we will see adults who have a lot less hurt to...
E29 – Kriss Akabusi on Human Potential, Success and Happiness // Living your best life in every moment
“While I am here, let me be here, let me really engage with the here and now as presented...
E28 – Almunis Alejandra Ortiz on Sound Healing, Indigenous Wisdom and Ayahuasca // Singing the ancient codes of mother earth to heal and remember
“We are all finding ourselves in this time of not knowing and needing to learn from each other.” –...
E27 – Jon Alexander on Citizenship, Participation and Consumerism // Freeing the citizen within from the shackles of consumerism
“We are in the dying throes of a consumer era of democracy where choosing between the options that someone...
E26 – Servane Mouazan on Social Enterprise, Women and Networks // Tending the roots of social business
“Women are active in the space where they have been historically confined to. It’s not something you are born...
E25 – Peter Macfadyen on Democracy, Community and Local Government // Rewriting the rules for local politics
“This is about trying to create participatory democracy not representative democracy….It’s saying elect 17 people and then their job...
E24 – Mallence Bart-Williams on Patriarchy, Ancestry and The Womb // Cleansing the crucible of creation
“There is no redemption big enough to make up for what has been done to the womb.” ~ Mallence...
E23 – Nimo Patel on Simplicity, Service and Songwriting // Serving with empty hands – learning the law of love
“I like the idea that we come empty handed and we go empty handed. It’s like two moments of...
E22 – Helena Norberg-Hodge on Corporate Control, Systemic Change and Localism // Escaping the jaws of hungry giants
“We are swimming in a sea shaped by corporate desires. They are not thinking beings they are structures shaped...
E21 – Jeremy Lent on Patterns, Integration and Meaning // Humanity’s patterns of meaning
“We have an instinct as humans to pattern meaning into the cosmos. It’s a way of looking at an otherwise...
E20 – Jo Royle on Marine Science, Ocean Plastics and Environmental Activism // Remembering the ocean – an urgent call to reconnect and save our seas
“We are living in a time of ocean crisis and the biggest loss of biodiversity to have ever been...
E19 – William Etundi on Activism, Creativity and Evolution // Fuelling creative fire to inspire culture change
“I think it is essential that when you feel that creative fire inside to be true to that. It...
E18 – Lucile Yaney on Food, Healing and Consciousness // Raising vibrations and starting conversations with food
“Restaurants are this wonderful way to convey a body of knowledge because on Monday morning when they went back...
E17 – Aviram Rozin on Reforestation, Compassion and Volunteering // Growing forests and community off the grid
“To come to a place where people are willingly here to serve you, to give you a safe and...
E16 – MARTI on Climate Change, Community & Transformation // Facing climate change with grounded optimism
“When you hear a glacier melting, the rivers of water emerging from beneath it, it is enough to make...
E15 – Anand Semalty on Yoga, Veda & Health // Why yoga is much more than moving your body
“I understand that health is your present and health is your future. If we are not healthy today it’s...
E14 – Lynne Franks on Collaboration, Creativity & Community // How women will shape a more beautiful future
“A certain naivety and enthusiasm has compelled me into situations where I didn’t know what the hell I was...
E13 – Bayo Akomolafe on Sacred Activism, Post-Truth & Reality // These times are urgent, let us slow down
“Dancing with my daughter and singing my son to sleep is just as cosmic as a star exploding and...
E12 – Boe Huntress on Music, Menstruation & Mythology // Unveiling a female power
“The more I am in my power the more everything can be empowered – it’s not a personal thing...
E11 – Tony Riddle on Rewilding, Wellbeing & Health // Ancestral health is modern wealth
“People know more about their cell phone than they do about their own cells.” – Tony Riddle EPISODE...
E10 – Imogen Butler-Cole on Sexual Assualt, Me Too & Creative Activism // The power of theatre to change perspectives
“We have to get really clear about the fact that any sex without full consent is rape. I think...
E9 – James Hanusa on Blockchain, Burning Man & Consciousness // Creating new worlds at the frontiers of technology and human potential
“The questions about reality are going to become deeper and deeper as these technologies are adopted more and our...
E8 – Sally Kempton on Meditation, Authenticity & The Goddess // Awakening the true blueprint within
“Learning to walk humbly on the cusp of what needs to be done and what we are capable and...
E7 – Satish Kumar on Jainism, Economy & Ecology // Soil, Soul and Society: A new trinity for our time
“Become the CEO of your own life… Earn less money, have more time. Consume less, buy less, have less...
E6 – Zerbanoo Gifford on Politics, Beauty & Karma // Riding chariots into battle and building paradise gardens
“We can transform the world by transforming ourselves and being there as an example to other people so they...
E5 – Bruce Parry on Tribes, Connection & Plant Medicine // Finding our way home to the collective
“I feel that beneath our layers we are positive beings and we do look for positive ways to be...
E4 – Sam Roddick on Death, Sex & Activism // Life as a disobedient woman
“I was literally born out of the womb of a lineage of disobedient women” – Samantha Roddick EPISODE...
E3 – Christopher Hareesh Wallis on Yoga, Tantra & Politics // Entering the subtle depths of Tantrik Yoga
“Yoga is the cultivation of a subtle internal state, and the the truth is that you can’t tell whether...
E2 – Annegret Affolderbach on Sustainable Fashion, Change-Making & The Berlin Wall // Forging new forms in the heart of luxury
“I remember everything about what it felt like growing up in that place. I have become more aware of...
E1 – Charles Eisenstein on Awakening, Courage & Climate Change // Love as an ecological act
“The Courage is what enables us to perform our mission. I am sure that everybody listening to this can...
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The Launch of The Future Is Beautiful
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