Finding Nature

🎙️ Huge Weekly Friend of The Pod Announcement 📢 One of the world's most recognisable and impactful environmental activists and change makers joins the show this week. Nadya Hutagalung has done just about everything. UN Environmental Goodwill Ambassador. TV host and media personality on MTV, Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Named one of Singapore's Top 20 most influential people. Film maker. Model. Buddhist. Mother. Her bio and list of achievements and accolades is way too long to list here. Nadya's journey has been laced with the pain of care, the grief of loss and fears of an uncertain future. Her own dismantling has brought her greater inner peace and the tools to handle what can often seem too overwhelming. Something I and many others require. This is a remarkable conversation with a remarkable person. Listen, subscribe, share & rate 🙏 Get it where you pod. Ep. 48

The Best of Finding Nature podcast Parts 1 & 2 went up over the festive season. Picking from all of my wonderful guests was difficult and tormenting - how to pick just some?! In the end I tried to capture the breadth and quality of the remarkable people I had the privilege to spend time with in 2024. The show explores how to be more impactful in our roles towards more sustainable future, what we need as people to do this work and the role of being clear on our purpose and meaning to help focus on the signal and all the noise that's always out there. From the climate to crisis to our relationship with and to nature, our cognitive and physical health, mis and disinformation, re-shaping politics and whistleblowing. There is something for everyone. These were an honour to put together and to share. If you're new to the show, it'll give you a flavour for what Finding Nature is about. If you're a fan already, hopefully you're reminded of some of your favourite guests. If any pique your interest, the whole episodes are available in the back catalogue. Happy listening. Nina Jankowicz Emma Pocock Chris Andrew Rob Rogers Jess Miller Cameron Tonkinwise Kate Cotter Lee Stewart Regina Featherstone Dr Vanessa Pirotta Chris Nunn Tammi Miller Mark Rowland Nicolette Boele Davina Rooney Jorge Chapa Kevin Bell Catherine Fox AM Dr John Panagopoulos Pablo Berrutti

📢 Weekly Friend of The Announcement 🎙️ The incomparable Richard Boele joins the show this week. Where to start with Richard? A career and life like no other - activist, campaigner, change maker, leader, father, husband, friend, business executive, humanist. The list goes on. This was a special pleasure to chat with my old pal and boss who has worked against, inside and with business to contribute to a more sustainable and equitable future. Few in the world of corporate responsibility and sustainability have contributed so much too. We chat about getting caught up in violence in Tibet in the late 80s, the tragic execution of his friend Ken Saro-Wira as part of the The Ogoni Nine and their partnership to bring the shocking practices of Shell in Nigeria to light, through to the tenuous landscape of business, responsible business and sustainable business in an ever clouded and daunting present day. This is a must listen for anyone in the world of attempting to turn the titanics that are large corporates. Get it where you pod. Listen, subscribe, rate & share 🙏 Ep.47

🔔 Another Friend of The Pod Announcement 📣 The Neuroscience of Change: The Role of Dopamine in Obstructing or Obtaining What We Want In Life With Dr Anastasia Hronis With the growth in interest and understanding of how our brains work and the neurology that lays down the wires that inform and influence every one of our choices, behaviours and actions, dopamine has gone from being an abstract topic discussed in universities and health clinics, to a hot topic across social media, the news and in our culture. Seemingly all of a sudden everyone is an expert in dopamine, or neurotransmitters or how our brains operate and drive our lives. Her book The Dopamine Brain myth busts, defines, explains and brings to life the incredible ways by which our brains work. Anastasia and I chat about this but also the role dopamine plays in both resisting and enabling what we do, which is relevant as we enter the second week of January and those resolutions or goals for 2025 become increasingly difficult to stay on track with. As you try to change or help those around you shift, this is essential listening to appreciate the neurology that could help or hinder. Get it where you pod. Listen, subscribe, share & subscribe 🙏🏼 Ep.46

📢 Weekly Friend of The Pod Announcement 🎙️ Ready for 2025? Not ready for 2025? Catching up as reality returns, Richard Burton kicked off the line up this year with a masterclass on finding meaning, understanding your purpose and getting on mission. He is one of the best in helping people - no matter where they're at in their career - to connect with what lights them up and to discover their unique gifts. The last 12 months I've had hundreds of people express to me their own uncertainty and questions about where to next in their life and work - Richard helped me and this conversation exists to help you get the ball moving this year. Finding Nature wouldn’t exist without him. A man I’ve known for 25 years and has been a role model, coach and mentor to me through much of that. Richard Burton is the perfect person to be kicking off the new year. One of the most rewarding conversations I've had so far. Get it wherever you pod by searching for Finding Nature. Listen, subscribe, rate & share 🙏 Ep. 45

The Finding Nature pod is taking a week off from the usual interview format - but you'll still get your weekly release (a Chrissy morning gift from me!), plus one extra. The reason - I'm chopping up a bunch of my favourite chats and releasing 2x Best of 2024 of the Finding Nature Podcast. If you haven't listened get ready to find your new favourite listens, and if you're a dedicated listener, be prepared to be reminded of some of the phenomenal guests who've graced the airwaves this year.

🎶🎵 Oh, what a night Late December back in twenty four What a very special time for me As I remember, what a night Oh, what a night, you know I didn't even know all your names But I was never gonna be the same What a community, what a night Oh, I, I got a funny feelin' when you all walked in the room And my, as I recall it ended much too soon Oh what a night, hypnotisin' mesmerising me You were all ev'rything I dreamed you’d be Sweet surrender, what a night I felt a rush like a rollin' ball of thunder Spinnin' my head around and takin' my body under Oh, what a night 🎶🎵 We did it! 80 people, 27 prizes, balloon darts, plant-based hot dogs, Grifters, bubbles, fun chats, new friends, old friends. Thank you to those who came - see you all in 2025!

📣 Weekly Friend of The Pod Announcement 📣 A topic and issue I’ve been grappling with is artificial intelligence. It’s a space that has dominated so much in 2024 - news, investment, executive wish lists, fears, hopes, fantasies. Personally, I’ve just been overwhelmed and it’s a topic that’s allowed me to find compassion and empathy for all the folks out there that aren’t consumed and living the issues of environmental protection, human rights and sustainability more broadly - this stuff is technical, expansive and has a lexicon all of its own. Artificial intelligence is something I want to explore more in 2025, but to begin today’s guest is Lee Schofield. Lee is an unusual character in the realm of AI - and not just because she’s a woman, but she's a trained economist, and her professional career has spanned investment, sales, marketing, product management and strategy. I first came across Lee at a conference in 2023 where she spoke about AI, responsible technology, and the shift from the attention economy to that of the intimacy attention. She spoke like a normal person - not an acolyte of a general purpose technology that has arrived to reshape every element and aspect of our lives for the better. She wasn’t banging a big drum proclaiming that AI was the messiah to the climate crisis, the plastic crisis, the inequality crisis, the cancer crisis, the loneliness crisis. Lee and I chat about the AI mirror dimension - how to engage, the perils of generative tech, bias, creation, it’s use for visualising different sustainable and unsustainable futures, theft and how much of its tail can the snake eat. Get it where you pod. Listen, subscribe, rate & share 🙏 Ep.42 (A heads up that this is the last interview format of the pod for 2024. Over the coming weeks I’m going to release a version of a best of that offers moments and glimpses from many of the wonderful and extraordinary guests who’ve graced Finding Nature this year. I’m really looking forward to it, and if you’re new to the show you’re in for a treat and if you’re a loyal listener get prepared to re-engage with some of your favourite listens. We’ll be back on the first of January with a very special guest who is the perfect person to help you and I think about the year ahead, the year gone and whatever may lay ahead for all of us. I’m excited to be bringing all of this to you, so please hit that subscribe button and share it around.)

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(Sound on) Prana. Vim. Qi. Ka. Anima. Mana. Orenda. Waugal. The Finding Nature nights at San Telmo have a lot of life. A lot. Folks in the change making community turn up with plenty of life - when we get together the atmosphere and energy explodes. Come & get an end of year injection. An Actual End of Year Party next Wednesday night, from 6pm.