Latest Podcast Interviews:
E109 – Jonathon Porritt on Authentic Hope, Staying Grounded and Intergenerational Justice // A Call To Action – A Hope In Hell
“The call to action that comes from that spiritual heartland can be at least as moving for people, as...
October 22, 202000
E108 – Our 108th Episode with many voices on Celebration, Community and Transformation // Our Gifts Of Sacred Beauty
‘What the future is beautiful podcast does is give examples of interbeing and ways of interbeing and how to...
E107 – Tiokasin Ghosthorse on Earth Languages, Consciousness and Indigenous Intelligence // Walking Earth With The Gifts Of The Stars
“Indigenous peoples are a keystone species to the earth. We are the earth. We become the earth. We were...
E106 – Trust, Interbeing And Sacred Sanctuaries with Bayo Akomolafe, Charles Eisenstein and Manish Jain // Playing In The Wild Fields Of Trust
“If you want to find your way, you must become lost. The idea that we can just will our...
E105 – Mark Stevenson on Systemic Change, Fitness and Perseverance // Futurenauts Sailing With The Compass Of Change
“This is a crisis of the soul and the heart. I think, longer term could lead to a real...
E104 – Alan Moore on Beautiful Business, Regeneration And Wholesome Leadership // Weavers Of The Beautiful Future
“Reclaiming of beauty is absolutely fundamental to what a better future looks like for us all. If we start...
E103 – Amisha Ghadiali on Beautiful Leadership, Futurism and Style // Flourishing Possibilities Birthed From Our Intuitive Gardens
“Leadership is that reclaiming of the intentionality of how we spend our time, our money and our energy. We...
E102 – Sianna Sherman on Re-Imagination, Rasa Yoga And Collective Creativity // Weaving our soul gifts into this beautiful world
“What I see the call to for us at this time is for re-imagination, and, and also in the...
E101 – Nova Reid on Anti-Racism, Allyship and Curiosity // Allies Of Joy In A Systemically Racist World
“To be an ally is really about recognising that you’re doing something that’s greater than you. It’s not about...
E100 – Feminine Leadership, Resilience and Life’s Joy with Nina Simons, Stephanie Mines and Zerbanoo Gifford // Dancing Our Lives Into A Global Renaissance
“Women are in fact, and some men, reinventing leadership, and instead of a leadership that is externally conferred, this...
E99 – Lyla June on Indigenous Food Systems, Sacred Knowledge And Compassion // Paradigms Embedded In Our Languages Of Beauty
“We are sitting on the graveyard of vast, advanced, sophisticated, beautiful civilisations who we owe our very existence to...
E98 – Charles Eisenstein on Local Living, Sharing Economies and The Pandemic // What happens to the world happens to ourselves
“We can build a more beautiful world. It is available to us. It’s begging us to step into its...
E97 – Erin Dixon on Truth and Reconciliation, Living Systems and Reciprocity // Beyond the edge we soar together
“When we talked about the pathways of change and beauty that are happening, I feel like it comes when...
E96 – Rabiah Abdullah on Earth Medicine, Reciprocity and Ihsan/Excellence // Listening Is Seeing All The Beauty
“There is a big damage in taking people away or disconnecting people from their land and doing that intentionally....
E95 – Reem AlMealla on Privilege, Resilience & Marine Biology // Diving with the currents of change
“To me the ocean is a creature and this creature is amazing. It hosts so many other creatures within...
E94 – Honouring Transitions // A tribute to my father
“We can be courageous enough to meet these moments of transition with presence. To let ourselves be transformed in...
E93 – Rev. Jen Bailey on Radical Hope, Spiritual Leadership & Transformation // Brave Lives In Times Of Reckoning
“In a world where some of us don’t have the luxury of being safe, some of us have to...
E92 – Wisdom from our Elders // with Sally Kempton, Jyoti and Mac Macartney
To find out more about Sally’s work and to listen to our episode, go here To find out more...
E91 – brontë velez on Spiritual Ecology, Black Liberation & Prophetic Attention // Ancestral Gifts That Soften The Edges
“Why do we keep trying to fight inside a system that didn’t care for us and was built off...
E90 – Co-Creating A New-Normal // Emerging into this Now
“We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we...
The Future Is Beautiful LIVE Sessions // As we vision a new normal
The Future Is Beautiful Live Sessions // As we vision a new normal As we make our way towards...
E89 – A Beautiful Care package for the Age of Corona // Resources, practices and conversations to support and empower you at this time
“You were made for these times. Everything we have been exploring on this show over the years has been...
E88 – Atulya Bingham on Offgrid Living, Nature Connection and Earth Whispers // We Are All Sovereign Of Our Own Worlds
“We are all sovereign of our own worlds, and when we create our world it’s part of the whole...
E87 – Raphaël Colicci on Biodynamic Agriculture, Holistic Therapy and Earth Connection // Collaborating With Nature For Health And Healing
“For me it seems to be the solution to elevate the ground like I am elevating my spirituality. We...
E86 – Meynar Sihombing on Microfinance, Social Impact and Responsibility // Creative Solutions for Development
“All these businesses, street vendors and agricultural farmers – they are very very dynamic, which allows you and pushes...
E85 – Sam Branson on Storytelling, Adventure, and Self-acceptance // Climbing Mountains For A View From Within
“It’s not until we learn to hold our vulnerability and to be willing to ask for help and be...
E84 – Swaady Martin on Sacred Leadership, Intuition and Responsibility // The World Needs To Be Loved Not Saved
“People with privilege need to absolutely realise that there is a responsibility and also sometimes sacrifice. Sometimes to help...
E83 – Ibu Robin Lim on Birth, Parenting and Trauma // Protecting the future of earth’s smallest citizens
“If we can give babies the chance to live their optimal loving lives, they are going to become the...
E82 – Tara Judelle on Embodied Flow, Transformational Yoga and The BodyMind // Stepping into Flow as Meditation in Action
“The language of the body is the music of the universe. If I am able to resource me and...
E81 – Nina Simons on Leadership, Diversity and Restoring the Feminine // Nature, Culture and the Sacred: Listening for Leadership
“One of the systems errors that we as humans tend to make, is to think that people who think...
E80 – Living Life from our Truest Potential // Freeing the shackles to create a beautiful future
“The Future Is ours for the creating. It is made up of how we spend our time, money and...
E79 – Cultivating Courage and Presence // We Were Made For These Times
“I feel that this is the way we get towards creating a more beautiful future. Having the courage to...
E78 – Uma Dinsmore-Tuli on Deep Rest, Sacred Activism and Total Yoga Nidra // Rest As A Radical Act
“We talk about sustainable energy use in buildings, but what about having respect for human energy systems – the...
E77 – Drew Dellinger on Creativity, Social Justice and Spirituality // The Confluence of Two Rivers: Alchemy in Creativity
“The arts is a human manifestation of the universe reflecting on and celebrating itself. We are the unspooling of...
E76 – Layla Saad on Self Reclamation, White Supremacy and Understanding Privilege // Being A Good Ancestor
“I really believe our primary work is to do the work of healing and self-reclamation, because it has taken...
E75 – Terry Patten on Sacred Activism, Transformation and Meta Narratives // A New Republic of the Heart: Awakening to the mystery and the miracle
“Every time I go really deep with anyone, I discover a latent beauty, heroism, saintliness, and greatness that is...
E74 – Amanda Joy Ravenhill on Systems Thinking, Buckminster Fuller and Regenerative Design // The Awkward Era: Slowing down to act fast
“I like to think of the moment we are in like the Millenium Falcon in Star Wars; we need...
E73 – Will Scott on Wildfires, Relational Education and Nature Connection // Weaving Earth: Ecological, social and personal systems change
“I have an innate trust that if we go humbly and respectfully to nature with our questions, prayers, and...
E72 – Stephanie Mines on Climate Change, Consciousness and Sovereignty // Deep listening: Evoking unprecedented leadership
“Unprecedented leadership does not tell others what to do, it provokes the sovereignty, empowerment and alignment of the individual.”...
E71 – Zaid Hassan on Complexity, Inclusion and Innovation // 10-in-10 : Tackling ten global challenges in ten years
“There will be more and more people in the world impacted by these challenges. What should they be doing?...
E70 – Erena Rangimarie Rereomaki Rhöse on Maori Wisdom, Nature Connection and Ancestors // The Water Inside Us
“One of the greatest things that has happened with many people who feel cut off from love is they...
E69 – Phap Linh on Monastic Life, Mindfulness and Engaged Buddhism // Drink a glass of clouds: finding joy in every moment
“The first spiritual practise for me is to listen – to really listen. To listen to ourselves, listen to...
E68 – Jyoti on Indigenous Grandmothers, Sacred Economics and Inner Work // Through the keyhole: walking with the Divine Mother
“Our work right now is to move around the planet and try to hold these pieces of people’s hearts...
E67 – Raki Ap on Colonial Racism, Climate Crisis and Empowered Activism // A voice in the darkness: speaking out for the silenced
“What I try to do is just storytelling, I want people to know what is happening in West Papua,...
E66 – Justine Huxley on Interbeing, Deep Adaptation and Regeneration // Deepening darkness and the regenerative spark: holding the wholeness
“This evolutionary doorway that we have the potential to step through is about interbeing, and that means not separating...
E65 – Jeff Brown on Grounded Spirituality, Enrealment and Spiritual Bypass // Ascending with both feet on the ground
“I think that critical review of spiritual teachings is essential to the preservation of the species – just like...
E64 – Jemma Foster on Alchemy, Plant Consciousness and Vibrational Medicine // Joining the dots between plants, planets and people
“Once you have a relationship, it’s the same with a person. You can bring a person to mind and...
E63 – Nick Mulvey on Self Knowledge, Songwriting and Ceremony // A voice for nature: playing from the heart strings
“Deeper self knowledge, true potential of the human, self realisation, happiness, suffering… it doesn’t belong in narrow places any...
E62 – Phoebe Tickell on Systems change, Courage, and Apocalypse // Striving to be consistent in an inconsistent world
“We all have something that we came to do. If more people were doing that soul work we would...
E61 – Mac Macartney on Leadership, Finding Purpose and Serving Future Generations // Keeping The Children’s Fire
“It’s an assumption from the people who taught me, that creation lodges a tiny piece of its genius inside...
E60 – Cindy Barnes on Emotional Leadership, Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Eco Anxiety// Entering the era of the sensitive person
“There’s a whole range of ways that highly sensitive people can show up in the consulting room in a...
E59 – Ed Gillespie on Going Beyond Sustainability, New Technologies and Systems Change // Building a bright green future: handicraft and spacecraft
“It ain’t just a techno fix. It’s not just about shifting an energy system into renewables. it’s not just...
E58 – Lex Empress on Improvisation, Presence and Surrender // Medicine songs for the soul
“If you find the courage to express yourself, you are an artist… The moment you show up to create...
E57 – Kamau Abayomi on Black Divinity, Creativity and Spiritual Activism // Liberating Maat energy through the arts
“The more artistic we can be, the more liberated we can be, the more free we can be. Freedom...
E56 – Michelle Lowe-Holder on On Art, Repurposing and Waste // No laughing matter: art from the gutter
“We need to start changing our mindset about waste in general – how we can repurpose, how we can...
E55 – Jonathan Kay on The Fool, Archetypal Play and Self Realisation // Making a Fool of yourself to find your truth
“Everything I’m saying is not so, it’s just a Foolish way of looking at things that can actually have...
E54 – Anna Murray on Pattern, Cycles and Balance // The positive power of pattern
“Honouring cycles in every part of our lives is so healing because it speaks to our universal connectedness to...
E53 – Alan Clements on Meditation, Intimacy and Sacred Activism // Oxygenating beautiful states of mind
“Mindful intelligence in context means changing the world right here, right now, one person at a time….If you want...
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...
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...
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