
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
61 episodes
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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56:10

Best of 2024 - Part II
Welcome to the show and my podcast where I endeavour to have long form in depth conversations that matter - or at least I hope they matter - with thought and action leaders who are making positive change across business, health, society and pol...
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Episode 44
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2:12:36

Best of 2024 - Part I
Hey everybody, how are you all doing. Happy holidays to all the good people out there, and welcome to or welcome back to the Finding Nature podcast. I do my best on this show to have meaningful, insightful and valuable conversations with people...
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Episode 43
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2:09:42

Lee Schofield Is An Unusual Suspect in Artificial Intelligence's Mirror Dimension
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 th...
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Episode 42
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1:24:12

The Slow Road to Gender Equality: Catherine Fox Wants to Break The Delusion and Realise The Power of Intention and Imagination
Today’s guest is the indomitable Catherine Fox. A woman of such immense fierceness, incisive analytical powers and a mastery of craft that has led to authoring or co-authoring six books. Catherine was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia i...
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Episode 41
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1:16:14

Collective Voices for Different Futures: Cameron Tonkinwise On Interdependence, Designing Support & Sustainable Transitions
Cameron Tonkinwise is back on the show today. The first repeat guest which is fun and exciting for me, but also because he is someone who I think more than anyone I’ve met in my career deeply understands and seeks to learn about and apply novel...
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Episode 40
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1:34:42

Climate Councillor Lesley Hughes on the Race To Catastrophe and The Power of Unity
Today's guest is a very wonderful privilege to be bringing to you - Lesley Hughes. Lesley is one of Australia's most distinguished and recognised experts on climate change. Beginning her career as an ecologist where she studied the role ants pl...
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Episode 39
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1:43:03

Tammi Miller Will See You Now: Work Addiction, Identity and The Perils of Pursuing It All
Today's guest is Tammi Miller - a Certified Practising Counsellor registered with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia. She works with people to improve mental wellbeing, improve health literacy and looks to facilitate a pa...
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Episode 38
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1:35:45

The Voice of A Community: Nicolette Boele on Local Politics, Local Change and the Potential For A Real Shift
Hello earthlings, my name is Nathan Robertson-Ball and welcome to or welcome back to the finding nature show. What a week it's been on planet earth too. Election results, the beginning of the latest COP kicking off in an authoritarian oil state...
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Episode 37
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1:21:01
