Ibiza - The Reset Rebel

The Human library Returns to The House of Wow Ibiza and this time we were talking tech.  After the emergence of the islands very first Ibiza Tech Forum in April, we debated whether Ibiza could become a real tech hub for start ups, investors and developers? We questioned what is holding the island back from achieving its dreams to reset the narrative of what it is known for and what is needed to at...

Actress Nat Kelley joins us today for a chat about her indigenous roots and growing up in Sydney.  She was born in Peru and experienced her own struggles growing up. However she learned quickly how to find her tribe and now uses her voice as an actress to give voice to indigenous communities.  Nat, known for her role as Neela in the 2006 action film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and for h...

Ever wondered where those pre-party night drinks should take place in Ibiza Town? Jo and her guest Rosa of Vino Y Co take you on a whistle stop tour of Dalt Vila in today´s episode and their plans don´t quite go according to...well plan, after some rather fine french cocktails. The pair commence at a Bar De Vin aka Marjorelle in the old town and after some "Barbie Snacks" in true girly form, they...

In todays Episode we hear the first in a series of live talks I am hosting on Ibiza, under the banner of The Human Library. For Edition 01 I invited Tiffanie Darke who has spent most of her career in fashion as an editor, journalist, author and most recently, shopkeeper in Ibiza and Neliana Fuenmayor of A Transparent Company to join me at The House of Wow to talk about the world of sustainable fas...

For the month of July Ibiza has had a special resident creating a month of concerts and live experiences to reflect what Frank White calls The Over View Effect. That moment when astronauts experience their first glimpse of planet earth from Space. Through visual art, film, music, dance, talks and incredible food Eduardo has invited a selection of guests to join him for an intimate evening on the i...

Phat Phil Cooper has been an island resident since just before the pandemic. But his heart has been Balearic for much longer than that with regular visits to the island on and off since the 1990,  meaning he struck up friendships with some of the great sunset sound trackers of the islands time, like Jose Padilla. Phil owns the NuNorthern Soul label and his latest musical project that he is looking...

Ultra-endurance athlete and clean seas activist Neil Agius landed in Ibiza yesterday after deciding to voluntarily abandon his world record crossing from mallorca after suffering multiple jellyfish stings. He encountered a swarm of jellyfish around the 46 km mark of the crossing in the Mallorca-Ibiza channel at around 01:00 am. After almost four hours, several stings and several attempts to resume...

This week we hit the sandy shores of Fomentera and head to a brand new hot spot on Playa Mijorn to meet Maltese island resident, Alexea Grech.  Alexea fell in Love with Ibiza in the late 90’s and has since moved here full time with her family after starting out in the dot com world, she now creates magic for those who visit the Island  on holiday and does event planning and hosting to making every...

Stavroz hail from Ghent, a place they describe as the land of compromise.  The foursome share with us today their love for ibiza and the their attempts to try and find an unbeaten path in electronic music.  One that has culminated in their delicately acoustic, organic and cinematic approach. As a result they have been awarded second place for “best producer” and “best breakthrough artist” in natio...

In todays episode we meet CEO of the Association of Independent Music,  Silvia Montello.  My gorgeous co-host Sophie Shnapp of Earth Percent took the lead on todays conversation  at the International Music Summit in April and the pair spoke in front of a live audience about her new role leading AIM.  Silvia Says,  “AIM will continue its comittment to ensuring our independent creators and rights sh...

In 1983 todays guest was invited to ibiza for a visit to see family. 40 Years later he is still here and has four sons. Vaughn got a job dancing on the podiums of the island shortly after arriving and found his outlandish dress sense and wild style enabled him to fully express himself. He was abandoned in Chelsea as a baby and adopted by aristocrat parents who brought him into their family and gav...

YogaFit has been running for almost a decade in Ibiza. It now also runs across Greece and has found a brand new island home here at the just opened Cala Verde which gazes out across the stunning bay of Es Figueral. The event which was co-founded by our previous podcast guest Lindsay jay and her brother Ken and his wife Antonia has been growing year on year and was sold out this month when we spent...

This weeks we are back at the International Music Summit with a female led conversation on the Power of Voice. The episode was recorded LIVE in the Garden Suite of Destino Ibiza and was hosted by Eco activist, documentary maker and Co-founder of EarthRise Alice Aedy . Alice has travelled to the climate front lines to document the human cost of climate change to give a human face and share the huma...

Sandy toes are the order of the day as we meet Sephardic Persian flamenco dancer Leilah Broukhim in today´s episode on the shores of Es Figueral. Born in New York Leilah has been based in Spain since 2000 and began her Flamenco dance formation with respected New York-based professors who gave her the necessary foundation to follow her growth in Spain. In Madrid, she continued her studies at the re...

In todays Episode we are Live in the Garden Suite of the International Music Summit in Ibiza with my co-host Sophie Shnapp of Earth Percent. We speak to Luke from Bye Bye Plastic about how people can support the banning of plastic from the music industry and nightlife culture on Ibiza. Jurgis Didžiulis - a columbian Lithuanian - pops in for a chat and tells us how he is working with companies who...

Happy Earth Day. What better way to celebrate than to share the story of a Belgian nurse and a journalist who threw in their jobs in Antwerp to start Ibizas very first Alpaca Farm. Bart and San now tend to their 19 strong herd in the North of the island and the pair harvest their wool once a year in April to use for the creation of clothes. They have a weaving studio on their farm which they have...

Ruth Ramsay ditched a career in journalism to be a Strip Tease artist. In 2001 she signed up for classes at the London School Of Striptease and fell in love with the empowerment, creativity, freedom and fun she found in the artform.  That was the start of 12 exciting years which saw her dancing performing internationally, modelling, teaching striptease, pole dancing, and campaigning for the rights...

Musicology. The name of the 28th studio Album of legendary artist, Prince. Googling the name of it,  todays guest found that it in facts means "the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music." Nicc Johnson, who grew up on the island, promptly left his job as a DJ  after growing up on Ibiza, and went off to study.  He now runs a company called Music Health that looks at the way “m usic ac...

How can we use our grief as activism?  That was the subject of Holiday Phillips talk at this weeks TEDxDalt Vila.  Arm chair activism is one thing when you sign endless petitions from the comfort of being behind a screen, what does it mean to meet that pain, the discomfort and those feelings full force and process them before weaving them into a narrative that perhaps creates a while new discourse...

How do you create a soundtrack to a moment? Something that adds rather than takes something away? Sunset is always such a special moment on Ibiza. People have made whole careers out of soundtracking it on the island, including Jose Padilla, who is sadly no longer with us. He was managed once upon a time by todays guest, DJ and music lover, Pete Gooding who was a super fan and has many magic memori...

Ibiza is the place in the world where people miss their return flights more than any other.  But on the way to move here in 2006,  armed with this office chair, Mart Storck missed his. He was leaving Germany to become Art Director of the magazine, Ibiza Style and he never went back to living his former existence, as he was completely in Love with Ibiza after coming here to party for many years bef...

What makes a female founder ? Ahead of International Women´s day on 08 March and a speech Eleanor Manley will be giving at Nato, we meet the 25 year old who launched her tech company at the grand old age of 22. We talk about tech and her passion for the industry and why more girls should not just code, but get into the tech industry and why she is already mentoring  other women. She has already co...

Some people talk about writing books, some people actually do. In ibiza that is no mean feat. Hearing the story of how Christian Len gathered more than 80 interviews from the characters of the island in oral form and transformed them into Balearic - a book dedicated to charting the club history of the island, felt like a chat worth having. We also used to work together at Ibiza Sonica Radio when I...

Happy Belated Valentines Day! How Are you feeling this week  - the week when this day we are told should be all about Love falls?  Loved? Lonely?  Bewildered? Confused? Frustrated? Sad? Alone? I had some questions of my own when I returned to the magic sands of Goa a few weeks ago. But after 12 days Reconnecting to source and doing the things I LOVE  - life took a delightful and much needed UP tur...

In todays episode we catch up with a man who moved to Ibiza from New York during the pandemic. Giancarlo Canevesio has completely changed his life since his investment banking days and carved out a new life that fits the title o f Reset Rebel perfectly. In this episode the pair discuss: - What regeneration means. - How Ayahuasca helped him drop his "egoic armour" - He describes how he felt after b...