The Great Full

Are you wondering why things have been quiet over here at The Great Full podcast? It is because we have been working on an exciting new podcast for you! It is called Emotions of Change and here is what you can look forward to: Changemaking isn’t just strategy, indicators, or mission statements. It’s deeply emotional. In this show, we dive into the emotions behind doing work that tries to make the...

My guest in this episode is Rirhandzu Marivate , a regenerative food systems practitioner and socioecologist currently based in the Western Cape of South Africa. Rirhandzu leads the Living Soils Community Learning Farm initiative, which aims to empower young black women through jobs in regenerative farming to grow nutrient-rich produce, strengthen local community food security and create sustainab...

This week we are tackling a big topic together – your personal resilience and what it means for planetary resilience!  I dive into lessons I have learned working with this topic personally and professionally over the last decade and dig out key insights and practical tools that will help you on your journey to create a more just, generative and joyful life for yourself and others. Before you jump...

My guest today is Kylie Flanagan, the author of a brand new book called “Climate Resilience - How we can keep each other safe, care for our communities and fight back against climate change”. “Climate Resilience brought me to tears of recognition, relief, solidarity, and hope. It’s the book we need to survive this human moment together.” (Lily Diamond - author of Kale & Caramel and coauthor of...

This week I am delighted to chat with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and social entrepreneur passionate about reimagining leadership, restoring balance to the feminine and masculine, and helping to heal relations with ourselves, each other and the Earth. In this episode we talk about how Nina experienced her call to purpose, how healing imbalances in the world and within systems starts with h...

My guest this episode is Mona Mijthab, social entrepreneur, international speaker and designer with a focus on circular design and social innovation.  Mona founded Mosan, a social enterprise improving living conditions in low-income communities with circular sanitation systems, offering safe sanitation to people while also transforming human excreta into nutrient-rich biochar for soil health in ag...

On today’s episode I am joined by Sarela Herrada, co-founder of SIMPLi foods. Born and raised in Lima, Peru, with a background in industrial engineering and food supply chain management, she and her husband Matt have now founded SIMPLi - a food business that wants to do things differently. In this episode we chat about her journey to bring SIMPLi to life and how they are trying to simultaneously t...

In this episode we gathered in a small circle of The Great Full community members to chat about what community means to us and our work. We discuss how we have experienced community in our own personal and professional lives and what impact it has had on us. We explore how communities are built, run and sustained and in what ways they help people on their journeys of driving, and responding to, ch...

My guest this week is Dr. Ana Pantelić, Executive Director of MIT D-Lab. Ana is an international development professional who has guided and grown social impact organizations working at the interface of systems change, innovation, and economic opportunity for women and girls.  As the Executive Director of MIT D-Lab she leads a group that works with people around the world to develop and advance co...

This episode is a space for you to reflect on the relationship between your own wellbeing and your well-doing in the world. In other words, the connection between your self-care, systems of care and ability to make sustainable change. Join me for a chat about: What led me to start caring so deeply about this topic The wellbeing and contribution feedback loop Why it’s not your fault - how burnout a...

My guest this episode is Liz Ogutu, Policy, Advocacy and Regional Coordinator for Africa at HarvestPlus. Liz has dedicated her career to tackling malnutrition in Africa and currently focuses on using biofortification to improve nutrition while also giving agency back to smallholder farmers. In this episode, Liz and I talk about what biofortification is and how it can help tackle food system challe...

In this episode, Michelle Grant (Founder of The Great Full) explores meditation as a leadership practice. Michelle integrates meditation into her leadership trainings and uses this episode to answer common questions participants have around what meditation is and what makes it a leadership practice. The aim is to help you explore how mediation might be a tool that supports you on your journey to l...

My guests this week are Corinna Hawkes, Shu Wen Ng and Rebecca Namara from the Next Gen(D)eration Leadership Collective . Food presents a huge opportunity to improve the health of people and the planet while also supporting the livelihoods of millions. Yet, despite growing calls to reform our food systems for the sake of human and planetary health, things aren’t getting better.  What is missing is...

We are happy to be back with Season 3 of The Great Full podcast! In this episode, Michelle Grant (Founder of The Great Full) chats with participants of Lead the Change to dig deeper into their experience in the program. Lead the Change is a 6 month leadership and facilitation training for women wanting to lead sustainable change. It was created to support you to lead with intention, empower others...

This week I am chatting with Nabeeha and Yumna, two incredibly inspiring high school students who are on a mission to make healthy food accessible to all children in the UK through their engagement with Bite Back 2030.  Founded by Jamie Oliver but fully youth-led, Bite Back 2030’s mission is to enable better access to healthy food for everyone and to create more sustainable food systems. Yumna and...

My guest this episode is Jerusha Klemperer, the Director of FoodPrint.org , a media platform dedicated to helping people understand the impact of what they eat on animals, planet and people.   Prior to leading FoodPrint, Jerusha was a Co-Founder of FoodCorps, an organization that works with local communities around the US to serve healthy food in schools, and before that led campaigns at Slow Food...

My guest this week is Dr. Jessica Hernandez (Maya Ch’orti’ & Binnizá), the author of the new book “Fresh Banana Leaves - Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science”. Jessica is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Washington Bothell, a Climate Justice Policy Strategist at the International Mayan League and the Environmental Justice Representative of the City of Sea...

This episode is a special / unusual one. Instead of sharing the inspiring story of a human being leading sustainable change, I am sharing some wisdom for a little puppy named Polly! This last year we were foster parents or “puppy raisers” for a guide dog puppy. That meant volunteering our home, time and energy to socialise a little Labrador puppy before she goes off to school where she is trained...

My guest in this episode is the inspiring Jacquie McGlade, a professor of sustainability and resilience at University College London and Strathmore University in Kenya. She was formerly the Chief Scientist at the United Nations Environment Program and the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency for 10 years. Though originally from the UK, Jacquie now lives in the Masai Mara with her...

This episode I chat with Beccie D’Cunha, founder of the Courage Lab. Beccie has extensive experience in leadership roles in the not for profit sector and as a professional facilitator and conflict mediator.  At Courage Lab, Beccie offers coaching to enable courageous conversations, strengthen relationships and create the leadership we need for a positive change in our organizations and in the worl...

My guest this week is Louise Mabulo - chef, farmer, and founder of the Cacao project, a social venture and agroforestry project working with farmers in the Philippines. At just 23 years old, she’s a Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list maker, a  UN Environment Program Young Champion of the Earth,  and Outstanding Farmer of the Year 2018 in the Philippines. As a chef, Louise won the Best Dessert in Asia Aw...

In this episode we explore Imposter Syndrome - understanding better what it actually is, the myths surrounding it, the systemic issues that can lead to it and what we can do individually, and collectively, to manage it. At the moment, Imposter Syndrome holds back the very people we need to be leading change. It stands in the way of us shifting the status quo so that we can build a more sustainable...

My guest on this episode is Jehane Akiki, a Lebanese social entrepreneur and systems designer.  She’s the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Farms not Arms, a collective bringing Lebanese people and refugees together to build food security and social cohesion.  Jehane is also the Co-Founder of ioi Strategic Design and Learning Blocks. All of these efforts have seen her acknowledged as one of the...

Season 2 of The Great Full will include solo episodes like this one, where we dive into challenges you might face in your work to create change in the world.  One of the most common questions I hear from my coachees and students is: What to do when you face an inner resistance to being visible, using your voice and taking up space to make the contribution you want to? It is a topic I am all too fa...

My guest on the show today is Clara Rowe, CEO of Restor, an exciting new open-data platform enabling the global restoration movement. Restor was recently named as a finalist in the Earthshot prize for the incredible potential it offers to tackle climate and biodiversity challenges on our planet. Clara and I chat about how either-or-thinking in terms of restoration, and in our own lives, can be det...