
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
87 episodes
Making Better Decisions - Ben Newell Knows The Power and Limitations Of Our Cognition
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...
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Episode 87
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1:43:37

Ask Tammi Anything - The Help We All Need In Pursuit Of What We Are Seeking
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...
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Episode 86
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1:42:47

Deceit Or Dignity - David Kinley Explains The Leadership Dilemma To Respect Human Rights
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...
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Episode 85
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1:48:29

All The Change That Could Have Happened - Cameron Tonkinwise On The Necessity For Constant Hard Work
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...
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Episode 84
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1:18:59

Creating New Politics - Licia Heath Is A Channel For More Female Representation
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...
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Episode 83
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1:17:16

The Youth Are Calling and They’re Ready to Listen - Emily and Jack Rowland Are Willing Gen Z Allies
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...
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Episode 82
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1:28:28

The Lawyers are Coming and Elaine Johnson is Leading the Climate Litigation Charge
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...
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Episode 81
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1:27:33

The Fresh Start Effect - A Spring Renewal Masterclass
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...
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Episode 80
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1:39:39

Reinvigorating Humanity's Relationship To Earth and Time - Surya Deva is the Special Rapporteur For This Moment
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...
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Episode 79
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1:25:55

Welcome To The Unimaginable - John Vaillant Has Stories For All Of Us From A Hotter World
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...
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Episode 78
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1:30:24

Leading Resistance on the Global Front Lines of Abuse and Repression - Ken Roth Rights Wrongs
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...
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Episode 77
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1:24:06

Healing Country, Culture and Self - Half Measures Avail Jimmy Stanton-Cooke Nothing
Jimmy Stanton-Cooke is on the show this week, and I am so pleased to be bringing you this chat. Already Jimmy has lived the life of a vagabond, a ratbag and a pioneer as well as an agricultural science high school teacher. Few are like him, and...
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Episode 76
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1:07:14

Project Homes to PassiveHaus with Andy Marlow - Australia’s Housing Need a Fix
Andy Marlow is on the show today. He’s one of Australia’s most credentialed and awarded architects and passivhaus designers, and has built a career on the forefront of imagining, designing and creating better places for people who breathe. Andy...
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Episode 75
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1:30:56

When the Music Stops - Alexander Pui and Preparing For The Worst
Alexander Pui returns to the show today to chat all things climate science, climate risks and climate impacts. Alex is an old colleague who’s made an indelible mark on my career and it’s a pleasure to have him back while he’s in town escaping T...
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Episode 74
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1:17:00

Making Good Men - Daniel Principe Champions Boys and Challenges Culture
Daniel Principe is today’s guest, and this is a conversation I’ve been wanting to have for the entire year, so I’m very pleased to be bringing him onto the show and into your earbuds. I can’t over...
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Episode 73
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1:22:04

On The Hook - Emily M Bender Isn’t Falling for the AI Hype Machine
Today’s guest is Emily M Bender. She was recently in Sydney from Seattle to talk about her new book that she wrote with her co-author Alex Hanna called The AI Con; How to fight...
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Episode 72
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1:17:32

Conflict & Consequence, Compromise & Sacrifice - Hugh White Has a Clear Picture of The Hard New World
Today’s show is with Hugh White, one of Australia’s most prominent figures on strategic and defence policy, whose career has spanned government and academia. Hugh was a senior advisor to Kim Beazley and Bob Hawke through the 80s and 90s in what...
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Episode 71
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1:51:46

Insider to Outsider & Gas's Place in The Energy Transition - Alex Hillman Has Been On Both Sides of The Debate
Alex Hillman joins the show today. With the approval of the Woodside North West Shelf approval in recent weeks and the metaphorical fires that’s flamed, Alex’s visit to Sydney was serendipitous to say the least. He’s got 15 years working in the...
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Episode 70
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1:40:08

A Fragile World & Inevitable Conflict - Sam Jones Has Seen The Unimaginable & Wants Us To Act Before We Do Too
Sam Jones is today’s guest, he’s the President and Co-founder of the Heartland Initiative and was recently in town from Atlanta in the US. His work at Heartland Initiative focuses on helping invest...
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Episode 69
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1:39:11

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
