THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

A spontaneous mix recorded just before the rise of the full moon yesterday. It’s a set I imagined playing to honour the full moon rising in the sky above me. A selection of tracks that have been connecting with me of late - deep, cosmic, entangled, emotional - Sort of how I’ve been feeling recently. I don’t know about you but I’ve been really missing dancing with people, dancing outside, feet on t...

In this episode I’m in conversation with Andy Cato, an award-winning mixed arable and livestock farmer and co-founder of Wildfarmed Grain. This was a treat on many fronts. Not just because Andy is a fascinating human doing extraordinary work to regenerate our planet but this conversation connects up many of my own deep interests. Before forming Wild Farmed Grain Andy was one half of music act Groo...

“When I lived in the Netherlands, even when you work on a project that you hope fixes something, like plastic recycling, at the end of the day you go to a supermarket to buy something, like a banana, shipped from Columbia. Then you sleep in a house that’s built from concrete, then you take a car somewhere, then there’s the roads, the lights that are always on, just to keep that Dutch system going....

“The truth of it seems to me that it’s not that the more than human world is something which some people have a particular affinity for and other people don’t, we all do. It’s something from childhood. Children adore animals, they dream of animals so often. Their sense of curiosity and comfort is often from animals. Their companions are very often from the more than human world. I think, in a sens...

“So when we start looking into ideas like regenerative cultures, you can see the ways we’ve learned to treat one another, which starts to link to the social justice element, of ways of using each other, abusing each other, and treating each other like shit, to be quite honest. And what we’ve done is taken that same energy to the earth, but the earth is kicking us out like we’re bad tenants; and th...

“I think we’ve had to move from teacher to student. On environmental work and on outdoor experiences, for a long time we’ve been in a position of authority, if that’s the right word, but at least a voice that people looked to or listened to when we’ve wanted to talk about outdoor sport, great product, and environmental work. But with regards to climate justice, social justice and anti-racism, we’v...

This is episode 3 of a 3 episode series from Dream Space hosted via The SpaceShip Earth podcast. “There has been a shift globally in the way in which racial disparities are spoken about. This is no longer a conversation happening ‘off the record’ for fear of backlash, this is a conversation happening out in the open. I truly believe that having conversations, listening to stories, and recognizing...

This is episode 2 of a 3 episode series from Dream Space hosted via The SpaceShip Earth podcast. “2020 was the hottest year on record, I mean, we’re just breaking records left, right and centre, is a terrifying reality, particularly when most of the world’s population didn’t go anywhere, and life as we know it was on hold. However, despite this huge huge challenge ahead of us, I do feel hopeful, a...

This is episode 1 of a 3 episode series from Dream Space hosted via The SpaceShip Earth podcast. “The pandemic has touched every single person in our city, but although we’re in the same storm, we’re all in very different boats. Life in Bath has changed forever. So, with the UK Government's big reveal of the roadmap onto the other side of the pandemic, I feel its increasingly important to take som...

“Really the best way to understand blue mind is to start with what I call, red mind, and that is our new normal, we’re stressed, we’re anxious, we’re falling behind in many aspects of our lives. We’re distracted. We’ve got this technology everywhere we look. I’ve got technology in my face and in my ears, and that’s our new normal. We dive into a melee of input of sensory overload. And it takes it’...

“The fact that other people were trying to save my life, I can’t give up. I’ve been given a second chance, I can’t stop or not try. It makes you think how precious life is, and really any second, any moment, you can be put at risk, which I was. I was on the edge of living and dying. And I was so grateful to be given a chance again.” - Olive Burgess I wasn’t sure I could continue with my podcast af...

“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...