Humaning With a Difference

Recorded at golden hour at Karen's home near Pilliga Pottery, with sheep and birds in the background and the sun setting through the trees, this episode is a warm, funny and quietly profound conversation with the woman who taught Freya and Nick pottery on their outback adventure. Karen is a hand-builder, a poet, a teacher of 34 years in outdoor education, and, as of the day Freya and Nick arrived,...

Recorded around a campfire at Pilliga Pottery in Western New South Wales, under a starry sky with a gentle breeze, this episode flips the format. Freya and Nick hand the microphone to their adventure teammates Ellie and Sarah, who ask the questions many sighted people have always wondered about but never had the chance, or the courage, to ask. What follows is honest, funny, touching and occasional...

Something big is coming. In this episode, Freya and Nick introduce the adventure they have been quietly building towards: a trip to Coonabarabran in Western New South Wales, near the ancient Warrumbungle National Park, famous for its fossils, vegetation and dark night skies. This is not just a travel episode. It is a conversation about what happens when two people with vision loss decide to sleep...

Time is something everyone wrestles with. But when you live with disability, time takes on a whole different weight. In this reflective and wide ranging episode, Freya and Nick sit down to explore their very different relationships with time, from Nick's 5am mornings and meticulous punctuality, to Freya's self-described time optimism and the revelation that her vision loss had been quietly costing...

What happens when you invite a blind man to dance? This intimate and surprisingly moving episode finds Freya and Nick fresh off a one-on-one dance session, unpacking what it means to inhabit your body when so much of the world around you is invisible. From self-consciousness to sacred trust, this is a conversation about embodiment, expression and the courage it takes to move in new ways. Nick has...

It's New Year's Eve and Freya and Nick are choosing a spa day over a beach party. This warm and wandering episode begins with a story about drumming, fire, and a beach in Maroubra, and ends up somewhere much more interesting: an honest conversation about access needs, self-knowledge, adventure, and what it really means to honour your own reality. Along the way there are synchronicities, a sound he...

Networking is hard enough for most people. But what happens when you can't read body language, recognise faces, or make eye contact across a crowded room? In this candid and surprisingly fun episode, Freya and Nick unpack the art of building connections and community when you have low vision or blindness, recorded just hours before they head out to a real life networking event to put it all to the...

In the second of two episodes from Hotel Etico in the Blue Mountains, Freya and Nick go deeper into the heart of what makes this place so special. They speak with Harry, a multilingual rugby referee and Special Olympics basketball player training for the World Games in Chile, and Jacob, a newer trainee discovering what it means to work alongside people who do things differently. Then Andrea, the C...

In the first of two episodes recorded at Hotel Etico in the Blue Mountains, Freya and Nick sit down with Josh, a young man with vision impairment whose energy, warmth and ambition are completely infectious. From learning to pour the perfect beer to earning his RSA, Josh shares what it has meant to train, graduate and build a working life he is genuinely proud of. This episode is a celebration of w...

What does it mean to find a silver lining? In this rich and deeply personal episode, Freya and Nick explore one of life's most enduring concepts, tracing it all the way back to a 1635 poet and weaving it through their own lived experiences of blindness, loss, resilience and unexpected joy. From Nick running 90 kilometres at the Comrades ultramarathon in South Africa, to Freya navigating the grief...

Humaning with a Difference launches with a heartfelt and surprising origin story. Hosts Freya and Nick, two visually impaired creatives from Sydney, trace an unlikely connection that stretches back decades, from a primary school visit that left a lasting impression on a confused young girl, to a podcasting internship that finally brought them face to face. In this introductory episode, Freya and N...