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Hand to Ground with Emily Sims

Emily Sims and her partner Alex are first generation farmers in their fifth year of running a small-scale regenerative farm business in Victoria, Australia. They are passionate about ethical animal husbandry, understanding local ecology, enhancing soil and pasture health and building relationships along the way. They believe locally grown, wholesome food is at the heart of healthy communities.

 

In this chat we talk about:

• how Emily came to farming and what she learned through mentorship
• why farming is healing 
• overcoming challenges
• learning in relationship to the land
• her experiment to ditch social media and focus on in person relationships
• creating diverse and reciprocal relationships 

and so much more.

To learn more about Hand to Ground- https://www.handtoground.com.au/

To subscribe to Emily's blog and seasonal newsletter - www.savourtheseasons.com

To enrol in our signature course Small is Beautiful - www.megberryman.com

 

Decolonise to Thrive with Ella Noah Bancroft

Ella Noah Bancroft is Bundjalung woman born in Australia. She is a descendant of the Bundjalung peoples of Northern NSW, and also has blood lines to Scotland and England.

She is a Connection Therapist, Mentor, activist and creative, carbon neutral event co-ordinator. She is passionate about re-wilding the world and the feminine force.

In this chat we talk about:

• choosing a technological or nature based future
• slowing the f*** down
• healing through connection and in relationship 
• rewilding and finding our way home 
• local futures and creating regenrative communities 

and so much more.

To learn more about Ella - https://www.ellanoahbancroft.net

To enrol in Unbound and spend three months learning the art of regenerative leadership and business - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound

 

Honouring your Inner Winter with Becca Piastrelli

Becca is the host of the Belonging podcast, the author of Root & Ritual and a facilitator of women’s gatherings both virtually and in person. She speaks on the nature of belonging and what it means to be alive in the Age of Loneliness and holds retreats to help women reconnect with their rooted sense of self.

She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner, child, two cats, and five chickens, where she gardens, cooks, mothers, and gathers with the ebb and flow of the seasons.

In this medicinal conversation, we chat about:

• honouring our inner winters 
• living seasonally 
• building community and re-villaging
• reimagining the village in a way that honours the past and looks to the future
• orienting relationally in life and business
• changing our relationship to chaos

and so much more.

For more info on Becca - visit https://beccapiastrelli.com

To learn the principles of regenerative business and leadership including living and working seasonally - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound

 

 

Regenerative Leadership with Laura Storm

Laura Storm is the Founder of Regenerators and has spent her entire career working in the intersection of sustainability, organizational development, climate change policy and the intelligence of nature. 

In this conversation, Laura and I chat about:

• regenerative leadership and why it's time for a new conceptualisation of leadership
• working within systems to transform them
• honouring cycles and seasons in work and life
• Laura's journey of regeneration
• regenerative business
• why the way we do things matters
• what is giving us hope

and much more.

For more information on Laura - https://laura-storm.com/

To join me for our three month regenerative business immersion - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound

 

Resilience and Recovery with Arrowyn Ambrose

Arrowyn Ambrose is an Advanced Certified Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit, Certified Teaching Artist, and Certified Race Equity and Healing Justice Facilitator. She has studied Viola Spolin’s long-form organic improvisation, creative writing, addiction, and group dynamics. With a background in the creative and performing arts, Arrowyn believes in the healing power of story and is passionate about ethical storytelling along with trauma-informed and resilience-oriented recovery, parenting, and social justice.

In this conversation we talk about:

• why we do what we do when we know what we know
• addiction, recovery and regeneration
• trauma and the body
• why we are all in recovery from culture 
• creating rituals of repair in relationship

And so much more.

To learn more about Arrowyn and the Resilience Toolkit - https://lumostransforms.com/team/arrowyn-ambrose/

 

To join our upcoming regenerative business community, Unbound - 

www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound

 

 

Birthing a regenerative future with Chloe Holloway

I interview New-Zealand based doula/daughter Chloe Holloway - @oh_mwanawanga about how our culture of birthing reflects the disconnections we see in our everyday - and how we can tend to this rite of passage with reverence, inclusion and radical support in order to step toward a more regenerative tomorrow.

 

We talk about:

* birthing cultures globally and how they differ

* what respectful care looks like and why we can extend this beyond the birthing room 

* feeling safe to move in the world in different ways 

* respecting traditions in antenatal, birth and postnatal care

* finding belonging

* being a death doula and what we can learn from death 

* finding different expressions of activism

 

and so much more.

 

For more information on Chloe - https://www.ohmwanawanga.com

For more information on our upcoming programs and evergreen courses - www.megberryman.com

 

Normal sucks with Jonathan Mooney

Jonathan Mooney is a dyslexic writer and activist who learned to read when he was 12-years-old. He since earned an honors degree in English Literature at Brown University and has written and published three books including Learning Outside the Lines and Normal Sucks.

In this compelling and uplifting conversation, we chat about:

• the origin of normal and why it sucks
• disrupting normal and the link with cultural regeneration
• uncovering our gifts and being loved for who we are
• why folks with atypical brains and bodies are wisdom keepers of regeneration...

and so much more. 

For more info on Jonathan - https://www.jonathanmooney.com

To enrol in our latest program - embodied regeneration - www.megberryman.com/journeys/embodied-regeneration

 

Walking them home with Zenith Virago

In this chat I speak with death doula Zenith Virago about living and dying well, befriending grief and what it all has to do with creating a more regenerative tomorrow. 

Zenith is a marriage celebrant, death walker, celebrant, educator and consultant - bringing contemporary, natural and holistic awareness to death, ceremony and loss. 

You can learn more about Zenith - https://www.zenithvirago.com

And about our courses and events - www.megberryman.com

 

Raising Luminaries with Ashia Ray

Ashia Ray is an Autistic, multiracial (Chinese/Irish) 2nd-generation settler raising two children alongside their partner on the homelands of the Wampanoag and Massachusett people. Their goal with Raising Luminaries is to collaborate with families and educators in raising the next generation of kind & courageous leaders, so we can all smash the kyriarchy together.

In this episode we chat about the difference between kind and nice, how to have and encourage courageous conversation, ableism, starting the work close in and so much more.

Whether you are raising little people or not, this episode is essential listening for any folks committed to cultural regeneration and transformative justice. 

For more information about Ashia - https://booksforlittles.com/info/about/

For more previous episodes - www.megberryman.com/podcast

 

Small is Beautiful

Dave and I catch up over a cuppa (in lockdown #6) and share where we are now, three months on from the miscarriage. We chat about:

* community and local living
* homeschooling and wildschooling
* our endless pursuit of working less and living more
* our wild brumby  
* regenerative relationships 
* and why ultimately, small is beautiful.

To enrol in Small is Beautiful - https://regenerativeways.thinkific.com/courses/small-is-beautiful