Today’s guest is Reece Proudfoot, a co-founder and director at Regen Labs. I’ve known Reece for nearly a decade - and he’s always struck me as someone at the forefront of attempting to organise and reform systems and structures. Across his care...

On the show today is Iain Walker, Executive Director at the newDemocracy Foundation, a Sydney-based organisation that works to develop and deliver alternative decision making processes and outcomes ...

Imagine if there was a way to improve your quality of living and wellbeing - from your sense of creativity to feelings of clarity, boost the performance of your immune system and reduce stress, enhance your sleep and gain insights into your sub...

So imagine swimming with humpback whales in the tropical waters of Tonga. Now imagine spending enough time swimming with them over five years to end up with 11,000 portrait photographs of them. Not wide angle shots from afar, but up close and p...

This best of anthology is about showcasing the year that was on this show, as well as offering snippets from some of the brilliant people I had the pleasure of speaking with this year - either to be reminded of their wisdom or to discover who y...

I’ve had 50 incredible guests in 2025, and you guys, the audience, have been there throughout, I’m grateful for that and for your support and for everything that I've had the good fortune of experiencing as a result of going on this podcast jou...

Now today’s guest has experienced the despairing lows of being an exile from his home country, and the terrifying traumas of torture, being disappeared and the murder of his family and closest friends. When the daily going’s on seem overwhelmin...

This week’s guest is an icon of Australia’s environmental movement and someone I was both thrilled and daunted getting to spend some time with recently. Bob Brown is on the show and he is someone who needs little introduction. Politician, envir...

Welcome to or welcome back to the Finding Nature podcast. My name is Nathan Robertson-Ball and this is my show where each week I go longer form with the people who are on the vanguard of driving and delivering work that matters in pursuit of sa...

Today on the show is James O’Hanlon, an author, artist and scientist whose career includes painting building-scale murals, several kids stories and now multiple fascinating and fun adult books. His latest bo...

I’ve learnt the hard way over the years that I need help. And not just help in a way that lightens my to do list or makes things slightly easier on a day to day basis, but the help from those around me in being able to withstand the part terrif...

As a kid I was obsessed with two things - the Balmain Tigers rugby league team and animals. When I was about seven or eight years old I was gifted a big hardcover book with a tiger on the front cover. The book was hundreds of pages in length, c...

Today I’m joined by two film makers - Tim and Tristan Kenyon - to talk about their remarkable and emotional documentary, Changing Track. Tim and Tristan are brothers whose lives and careers to date make t...

Today’s guest is Abby Bloom. I first met Abby in late 2017 and we’ve stayed in close contact since. She’s a remarkable woman and this is her second time on the show, and we get into a lot of her backstory way back in episode three, like being a...

All of us want to make better decisions, and lots of us wish the people around us would make decisions that we thought were better. Imagine being able to do this just by understanding the mechanics and mechanisms of our cognition, by re-organin...

Today on the show is Tammi Miller, who was previously a guest in episode 38 after she released her terrific and first book, Paperback Therapy. She’s back today for a different type of episode - a take on the AMA format, but instead of me it’s A...

Today’s guest is Professor David Kinley, someone who has deeply influenced and inspired my personal approach to a corporate’s responsibility to respect human rights. David holds the chair of human rights law at the university of Sydney, is an a...

Today on the show is the first and second most popular guest to date - Cameron Tonkinwise. Making his third appearance, Cameron’s previous episodes - number 9 and 40 - equated to a gigantic jump in listenership as well as the number of places t...

Licia Heath is the CEO of Women for Election and she’s on the show today to talk many things politics, women in politics and the future of women in politics. Despite being in a context where slowly slowly increm...

This week on the show I have the sister and brother duo Emily and Jack Rowland. Individually Emily and Jack are up to vital work across ocean conservation, plastics eradication, food system revitalisation and equitable health care outcomes, but...

Today on the show I have Elaine Johnson - a leading landowner advocate and environment and climate lawyer who’s led some of the most consequential cases against fossil fuel expansion in this state. Her work in and with communities who are oppos...

Today’s episode is a different one and coincides wth the beginning of Spring here in the Southern Hemisphere. Spring is a time of renewal, rebirth and new beginnings. From ecosystems and landscapes bursting with new life to warmer days and long...

I’m joined on the show today by Surya Deva. He’s a Professor at the Macquarie Law School, where he’s also the Director of the Environmental Law Research Centre and Business & Human Rights Justice Lab. Surya is also part way through his firs...

John Vaillant is today’s guest, and this was a very special conversation that sat within a few days of spending a lot of time together and riffing on everything from new types of fires to debating the merits and qualities of RM Williams or Blun...

Speaking of the best in the business, today’s guest is Kenneth Roth, a global icon of the human rights movement who perhaps more than just anybody else on this planet has shaped and influenced the defence and promotion of human rights everywher...