THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

“Human beings have been very, very good at talking about themselves, but actually we need to be better at telling stories about the other lives with which we share our planet. Because we are the crew, we are the ones currently trying to steer and drive. But actually we need to really pay attention to the stories of the other organisms that are down in the engine room, and in the passenger seats, a...

“What is it to be a leader? To me it is to be a human at this time on spaceship earth, we all need to be activated in our worth and in our vision, to understand our traumas and to be courageous” Amisha Ghadiali Amisha Ghadiali is a practicing leadership mentor and guide, Yoga Teacher, healer, author and host of globally influential ‘The Future is Beautiful’ Podcast Recorded in October 2020, listen...

“What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we’re consumers 3000 times a day. Like, that’s the limit of your agency. The assumption that you’re a narrowly self-interested creature. When you’re surrounded with that story, whether that’s true or not, over time I have become increasingly convinced, and now absoloutely insistent, that human beings are not lazy and selfish, we’re creative, p...

The leaves are falling, autumn is coming, to me it's a season of tremendous gratitude, of reflection, change and of letting go. In this episode I offer you music, a mix to shuffle around your kitchen, car, headphones, garden etc. There is no conversation here, no guest, no me talking, just 70 mins of deep, cosmic house music, to dance to on the edges of an unravelling world, in times of huge uncer...

In this episode @dansolo__ is in conversation with Georgina Wilson-Powell, founder and editor in chief of @pebblemagazine. Pebble mag’s mission is to help folks live a more beautiful, fun and lower impact life on the spaceship earth. They are a magazine that inspires and informs about everything needed to crack on being more circular, less wasteful, more ethical, less plastic and so on. They want...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Josie Tucker and Richard Ashton founders of Adapt. Adapt is a climate club and creative organisation, using design, humour and contemporary culture to communicate climate issues in a new way. Adapt was created to share knowledge, encourage action and build a community of motivated activists. Josie and Rich are two creatives and climate activists. They were...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Cassie Robinson. Cassie is a strategic designer and senior leader, currently heading up the UK portfolio at the National Lottery Community Fund. Cassie has been pioneering change in systems and exploring how to serve the most vulnerable, oppressed and least understood in our society and culture since leaving the fashion world as a designer in 2006. An early...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Olivia Knight Liv is a social entrepreneur and the founder of collaborative gifting platform Patchwork. She is an activist on multiple dimensions at a community level and through serving social, climate and ecological challenges. She is playing a key role in the development of the UK sharing economy and is current chair of the movement. An ex brand strategi...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Tim Malnick. Tim is a coach, learning guide, activist, author, ex politician and Buddhist. He provides creative, thought provoking and highly impactful learning and development for individuals, groups and organisations who are waking up to the realisation that the way they work and do business contributes to the ecological, social and economic crises that w...

I emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could e...

I emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could e...

I emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could e...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Sophie Slater founder of ethical fashion brand BirdSong. In my opinion Sophie is building one of the most important fashion companies on the planet today. Birdsong is a total re-imagination of why a fashion brand exists and how it operates. She’s been working on this mission for several years since graduating from social change learning program Year Here. I...

I have emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping co...

I have emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping co...

I have emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping co...

A week ago I got an email from my friend Charlie Gladstone who hosts the excellent Mavericks Podcast as well as founding the GoodLife Experience Festival and other amazing things. Charlie was inviting me to contribute to a remote podcast he was making about life in lockdown. He asked 3 questions and I sent him my answers by audio. He's now on about 8 episodes and they are really wonderful things t...

In this episode I'm in conversation with the inspiring and wise Laura Storm and Giles Hutchins, co-authors of the book 'Regenerative Leadership'. Having booked this podcast weeks ago we recorded this conversation as the UK was preparing to lock down the country in the face of the coronavirus crisis, Laura based in Copenhagen was in her 10th day of isolation with her family. Because of this unprece...

In this episode, recorded in January, I’m in conversation with Sean Pillot De Chennecy. Sean is an author, speaker, researcher and strategy consultant who’s spent his professional life exploring the leading edges of culture and how business and brands respond authentically to an increasingly uncertain world. He has authored two recent books, the first: The Post Truth Business: How to Rebuild Brand...

In this shorter episode, I'm talking about a new collaborative leadership program for creative practitioners that I'm launching into the world in 2020 in partnership with Andres Roberts and The Bio-Leadership Project. I also have a chat with Andres to get an update on the Bio-Leadership journey and we talk about the Why, how and what of the collaboration. Show Notes: https://bio-leadership.org/ ht...

Ted Hunt is a one off. A designer for these times. His work is unique, brilliant, provocative and can help us challenge some deeply flawed assumptions. The world needs Ted Hunt right now, his ideas are of huge significance to the challenges we are facing as a species. He's also a wonderful human. Recorded in London at Acast studios

In this episode I welcomed award winning campaigner, activist, author and speaker Natalie Fee to the SpaceShed in my garden. Nat is a true maverick making incredible impacts through her organisation City to Sea and Refill - from an idea in her head which hatched a youtube video and a crowdfunder to bring attention to plastic pollution habits in our consumerist culture, Nat has built a 30 strong ca...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Zahra Davidson, Co-founder of Enrol Yourself. A venture helping people become lifelong learners through peer group supported 6 month learning marathons. Zahra created Enrol Yourself because she felt that there wasn’t anything out there which could help her explore her own curiosities and questions. What makes Enrol Yourself so interesting is there are no te...

When things get dark, getting lost in music is fine medicine I find. Going back to my DJ roots, I'm ending this year with a mix to shuffle around your kitchen, car, headphones etc. There is no conversation here, no guest, no me talking, just 80 mins of deep, emotional cosmic house music, to take the edges off the crazyness of an unravelling world. Dancing has always united people in my experience,...

Ecological breakdown, Creative Courage, Climate strikes and Rebelling for life This episode is a two for one bargain. The theme is the climate and ecological crisis and the enormous creative response needed from humanity at this moment in time. Kicks off with a ramble from me, some personal reflections into the sadness of the climate and ecological crisis and my journeying to deeper understanding...