
Finding Nature
Find inspiration and guidance for the change you want to create and learn how others have achieved it in their life and work in pursuit of a more just, equal and beautiful future.
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Episodes
68 episodes
From Bystanders of Financial Abuse to Action - Catherine Fitzpatrick Has The Answer to Disrupt Another Form of Perpetration
Catherine Fitzpatrick is on the show today, and what an impressive career she’s already had, all while her scope of influence continues to grow and the evidence of what she’s affecting is increasingly visible and demonstrable. Catherine has 30 ...
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Episode 68
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1:04:07

A Time of Monsters - Marco Lambertini Has The Recipe for Nature Positive
Marco Lambertini is on the show today, and where to start with describing one of the most iconic and visionary leaders of the environmental movement of the last 50 years. From eight years spent as the Global General Director of WWF, to being a ...
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Episode 67
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1:39:38

Start Again - Ben Rennie Wants You to Know It's Your Time to Build Creative Confidence and Be The Person You Dream of Being
Ben Rennie is on the show today. A jack of many trades, from life as a prodigious rising star of Australian cricket during one of it most remarkable periods of success, to Dolce and Gabana red carpet events in Milan with Brazilian Ronaldo to st...
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Episode 66
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1:36:13

Responsibilities, Duties & Obligations - Bec Blurton is Another Agent of Change
Bec Blurton is on the show today. A Noonga woman who has built a substantive career at the intersection of First Nations rights, climate action, justice, gender, policy and finance. Speaking with Bec was a pleasure and offered me many lessons. ...
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Episode 65
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1:36:13

Born to Rule: Carl Rhodes on the Myths of the Good Billionaire and How We’re All Paying
Today’s guest is Professor Carl Rhodes. It’s new book season at the moment and Carl’s latest offering is titled Stinking Rich - The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire. This is his latest work, coming after previous titles such as Woke Capitalis...
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Episode 64
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1:30:50

The Clean Energy Race - Dean Spaccavento Is On The Blocks
Dean Spaccavento is on the show today. And if there is someone who embodies the mind, body and spirit of the enormity we as attempted change makers more than Dean does, then I haven’t met them. In a week where we’ve seen nuclear energy and the ...
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Episode 63
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1:41:00

Imagining Human/Nature and Magical Thinking - Jane Rawson Is Examining Ideals of Purity
Today’s episode is with Jane Rawson - an author, novelist and essayist whose new book Human/Nature On Life in A Wild World is just out and she’s on the sh...
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Episode 62
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1:14:27

Decolonising Finance, Agriculture and Culture - Jocelyn King Is Interrupting Business As Usual
Jocelyn King is on the show today. Joc is a Bundjalung woman who over the course of her life and career has worked to develop her own understanding of and connection to traditional knowledge systems. She’s worked in and around finance for more ...
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Episode 61
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1:33:40

Landfall: James Bradley on Facing the Future, Today
Today’s show is with James Bradley - renowned Australian author who is returning to the show a year after releasing what was one of my favourite books of 2024 - Deep Water, Lif...
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Episode 60
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1:19:30

Breaking Moulds and Braving The Dark - Michael Bones on The Long Road to Individual, Collective & Planetary Health
Hello out there, this is the Finding Nature podcast and my name is Nathan Robertson-Ball. I started this show with the intent of creating the types of conversations that I knew I needed but also thought people that work in the broad tent of sus...
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Episode 59
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1:41:55

New Ways of Deciding - Victoria Whitaker Knows That How We Choose Matters
I’m very pleased to bringing you a chat with Victoria Whitaker. I was really excited to chat with Vic - she’s another of the originals of the Sydney and Australian sustainability crew like Lee Stewart and Nicolette Boele I’ve had the chance to ...
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Episode 58
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1:26:04

Hard Problems & Cosmic Acceleration - Brian Schmidt Is The Abnormal Cosmologist
Brian Schmidt is absolutely one of these extraordinary people - a normal person who’s lived an entirely abnormal life. Besides being awarded a Nobel Prize, Brian was also the Vice Chancellor of the Australian National University for eight years...
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Episode 57
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1:38:58

Kaylene Langford Wants You To Start Now - The Power of Creation and Owning Your Freedom
Today’s guest is someone I’ve wanted to bring on the show for a little while - Kaylene Langford. The reason why I wanted to have Kaylene on is because her job is all about helping people take their hare brained schemes or half concocted ideas a...
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Episode 56
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1:39:50

Kal Glanznig is a Force Among Us: Rising Up To Be The Change We All Need
Today’s guest is a larger than life personification of that change - Kal Glanznig. Kal is a force - animated, enthusiastic, humble, curious and as a youth climate leader he’s entirely committed to doing all he can to avert a climate catastrophe...
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Episode 55
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1:31:54

So Little Time, So Much To Do - Digby Hall Appreciates The Scale of Our Adaptation Requirement
Today’s guest though is someone I was very excited to spend some time with - Digby Hall. Digby is a renowned architect who for more than three decades has played a leading role in shaping and delivering versions of sustainability and resilient ...
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Episode 54
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1:27:19

A New Force We Haven't Reckoned With Before - Emma Bacon Knows The Heat That's Coming For Us All
Emma Bacon is the Executive Director of Sweltering Cities and she’s on the show this week to talk about and share more on the terrifying reality of what she describes as the personal tragedies of a hotter everywhere world.My name is Nath...
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Episode 53
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1:33:52

The Garbologist Has Your Waste Prescription - Bel Chellingworth is Pursuing Circularity
Today’s guest is a really fun one - Bel Chellingworth - none other than the Garbologist - joins to chat all things waste, packaging, circularity, business models, structural change and individual agency.Bel's career to date spans governm...
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Episode 52
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1:38:09

Not All Heroes Wear Capes - Zack Schofield Is Organising New Futures
Today’s guest is Zack Schofield - one of the lead organisers and who Murdoch media describe as a prominent member of the climate action and activist group Rising Tide. Now I know protest and civil disobedience isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I...
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Episode 51
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1:30:31

Introducing: The Encroaching Apocalypse or A Glorious New View
Today I’m launching and introducing to you the listener and the reader over on the Finding Nature Substack a project titled The Encroaching Apocalypse or A Glorious New View.Like all thing...
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Episode 50
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1:13:54

Re-plumbing the Global Financial System: Nathan Fabian is Ahead of The Curve for What’s Inevitable
Hello out there and welcome to or welcome back to the finding nature podcast. My name is Nathan Robertson-Ball and this is my show where I speak to the change makers and paradigm busters who are working towards and making a difference in our co...
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Episode 49
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1:33:59

Discovering Real Meaning In The Dismantling: Nadya Hutagalung Wants You To Find Contentment
This week’s guest is a huge one - the one and only Nadya Hutagalung. Activist, conservationist, film maker, model, mother and attuned citizen on Planet Earth. Nadya’s experiences, h...
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Episode 48
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2:15:30

Against, Inside and With Business: Richard Boele Finds Meaning In Giving Voice to The Voiceless
Today’s guest is someone who has absolutely been one of those people on the forefront of impacting business, our world and particularly the voiceless for the better. Richard Boele is on the show today to chat about his remarkable life and caree...
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Episode 47
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1:34:23

The Neuroscience of Change: The Role of Dopamine in Obstructing or Obtaining What We Want In Life With Dr Anastasia Hronis
Dr Anastasia Hronis is a clinical psychologist and founder of the Australian Institute for Human Wellness. She is a practicing clinician, as well as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney. She has published in a number...
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Episode 46
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1:20:04

Transforming The Year Ahead: Richard Burton Is On Purpose & Will Help You Uncover Yours
Finding Nature wouldn’t exist without today’s guest. 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. Why’s that? Being th...
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Episode 45
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