The Social Regeneration Podcast

How a community project reclaims African heritage and fights climate injustice This episode is for anyone who cares about grassroots social change, environmental justice, and real community-led transformation. It is especially relevant for social entrepreneurs, development workers, and educators. This episode is for anyone who believes that real change starts from the ground up, and who wants to h...

Why we as Change Agents need to continue composting and start organizing - and how we could do it This episode is for change agents, social entrepreneurs, and activists who feel that the old tools are no longer working and sense that something fundamentally different is needed. We explore why the transformation field is exhausted and fragmented, why burnout in crisis work is a collective trauma re...

How a Colombian community turns pain into connection In this powerful episode, Luis Campos and Jenna Yates, co-founders and core members of the Colombian community El Juego, share with us what happens when you stop hiding your shadows and face them with others. We talk about how conflicts ranging from household chores to community finances became gateways for deeper self-awareness, and how emotion...

Johanna Hallbauer explains the ERDE Method to help address Eco-Anxiety and Finding Yourself This episode is for coaches, facilitators, social entrepreneurs, and anyone who has ever felt stuck, burned out, or like they are doing things that no longer align with their values. It is also for those working in the sustainability or regeneration space who sense that their own cup is running low. In this...

The SolarPunk NOW Pioneers explain how Infinity Tools and the Context Craft Method can turn your Workshop into a Garden This episode features Agnes and Denny from SolarPunk NOW, a project at the intersection of permaculture, regenerative design, and hands-on facilitation tools. It is for facilitators, educators, coaches, team leaders, workshop designers, and anyone curious about regenerative appro...

Ilja Maiber on why meeting people where they are is the most radical thing a change agent can do This episode is for anyone who has ever confused knowing something in theory with actually being able to do it, for impact-driven professionals who find sales and marketing uncomfortable, and for facilitators, leaders, and changemakers who want to understand when to involve others and when to decide al...

Sustainability Consultant Suela Tahiraj on: Strategies how Tourism can and must become a Vehicle for Social Regeneration Suela Tahiraj, sustainability consultant and GSTC auditor, joins us to explore whether tourism can genuinely be a force for good - with a focus on the Balkans. We trace the region's journey from communist-era hospitality to today's sustainable tourism movement, and what that arc...

🎉 The SOCIAL REGENERATION Podcast is celebrating its 1 YEAR Anniversary! 🎊 ✨ Thank you all for your presence and contribution on this journey 🤍 Wellbeing and Mental Health seem to be "Hot Topic" No.1 on this Show and something we need to tend to for Social Regeneration and working as Change Agents. Hence my lovely colleague Asya and I are inviting you on a 8-week-Positive-Intelligence® journey...

A conversation with Merlina Missimer on Formal Education for Social Transformation In this episode, I get to talk to my former "teacher" Merlina Missimer, co-director of the Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) program in Karlskrona, Sweden, and a researcher with nearly 20 years of experience in sustainability leadership and social sustainability. We explore what makes a...

How Lorena is crafting her own "Job in Sustainability" through curiosity & community In this episode, we talk about Lorena’s journey from a leadership role in fintech to becoming a sustainability professional and founder in the circular textiles space. We reflect on how career disruption became an opportunity to explore values, follow curiosity and purpose rather than just searching for the ne...

Why acknowledging grief and using humour & stories matters In this conversation with Climate activist and Philanthropy Advisor Raysa França from Impatience Earth, we talk about what it really means to work in climate action without sacrificing ourselves in the process. We reflect on how many people in the social and environmental impact sector are deeply motivated, yet constantly overstretched...

Exploring what it takes to build regenerative spaces and redefining leadership I sit down with the initiator and founder of CREATE Regeneration, Cathérine Lehman and listen to her personal journey from sustainability consulting and academic frustration to a deep personal crisis, which became the turning point leading her toward regeneration and the founding of CREATE. We both share how we experien...

How to set up thriving community-owned and women-led projects internationally For this Episode, you should bring your pen and notebook, especially if you are working at a non-profit, planning to start your own social impact project, or looking to transition from the corporate world into the impact world. 📝 I speak with Shilpa Alva, founder and executive director of Surge for Water, about the long...

Why we need Brave Spaces and grounding in Place to go beyond the Bubbles and Patriarchy This episode is for people who feel called to work in the impact space, heal their own and therewith our social wounds - and for anyone longing for deeper, more relational approaches to systems change. Jack's pathway into systems change facilitation has been shaped by activism, academic frustration with silos a...

How following Threads, Community and Inner Work can define your Journey of Becoming Marina Henriques, who introduces herself as Luz Marina, is a multilingual, multicultural “Light of the Sea” shaped by experiences across continents, rooted in the Mediterranean and the Amazon. In this episode, she shares her story about belonging, identity and purpose. She shares how her non-linear journey led her...

How Juliana bridges art, leadership, and social change between Argentina and Europe In this episode of the Social Regeneration Podcast, you get to meet my dear friend Juliana Salamone from Argentina, where we reflect on how our paths in sustainability have twisted, evolved, and sometimes collided. And how we supported each other on "finding our own way" and the practice of bringing social change t...

Mindfulness as fertile ground for care and resilience In this grounding conversation, we explore the connection between mindfulness, leadership and regeneration with facilitator and space holder Daniela Tablado. Daniela shares her path from sustainability studies to guiding individuals and groups in cultivating mindful presence and compassion. She explains how inner work shapes outer change, and w...

What happens when Teams allow for Winter I sit together with Amelie Salameh, and we explore what regenerative entrepreneurship looks like when it is lived, not only philosophied upon. Amelie shares how gardening taught her to design work as interlinked cycles with beginnings, harvests, endings, and renewal. We talk about the courage to start before you feel ready, and the humility to say, 'I don't...

Learn from Katy Shields & Joshua Stehr about principles, visions, and money narratives We have the privilege and joy of listening to Katy Shields and Joshua Stehr and their pioneering explorations on a Regenerative Economy. Both share examples, principles, visions, and seeds of a Regenerative Economic System. Katy, now joined by Joshua, has designed and hosted a space for practitioners to coll...

Redesigning how to travel, build community, and lead change - from certification checklists over inner development to #impactpreneurship [🔔 Announcement: from September, THE SOCIAL REGENERATION PODCAST 🎀 moves to a bi-weekly rhythm 🎵] One reason: We are making space to launch a larger programme for #impactpreneurs who want to solidify their impact project idea - starting in October ✨😍 [👀 Fir...

"Why saying no, asking honest questions, and having empathy can build the career & impact you aspire to" We meet designer Joshua Stehr, whose path runs from industrial design and mass manufacturing into UX, service design, and ultimately impact-driven work. Early in his studies, he began asking why we keep putting “more of this stuff” into the world, a question that never left.  A trip to New...

(Economic) Transformation & Socio-Ecological Resilience - Through Social Innovation and regional ecosystems of community-based practices Charlotte von Wulffen, board member of the CSX Network and research associate at Leuphana University for Social Innovation, shares how “community-supported everything” is evolving from its agricultural roots into a broader economic practice. We trace CSX back...

When isolation becomes a movement – the birth of HEY MOMIE & HEY BRUDI In this episode of the Social Regeneration Podcast, we explore how personal change can spark societal change. Aurora Moon and Artem Beckmann share how becoming parents ignited their ventures HEY MOMIE and Hey Brudi, tackling overlooked social challenges around identity, isolation, and community for new mothers and fathers....

Why imagining alternative futures might be our most radical sustainability tool In this episode of the Social Regeneration Podcast, I talk with my friend and former colleague Thomas Klaffke, a foresight analyst and author of the newsletter Creative Destruction. Thomas explains why foresight isn’t about predicting the future, but about exploring possibilities and shaping the stories that influence...

Insider strategies from fundraiser and field expert Ni Hsieh In this episode, I speak with Ni Hsieh, a long-time social impact professional and fundraiser based in the UK, whom I met during a volunteer project in Peru. What began as a promising eco-social adventure turned into a shared disillusionment as we uncovered layers of greenwashing and exploitation. This personal experience sets the tone f...