Wild with Sarah Wilson

Six months ago my friend linked me to an interview with British entrepreneur and troublemaking activist Clare Dubois  because he reckoned “she talks your language, Sarah”. I was moved to my viscera from the moment she launched her gloriously, inspired riff. Clare talks a profoundly wild idea that resonates for me:  We are about to send ourselves, as a species, extinct. No one...

British philosopher and environmentalist Timothy Morton is regarded as the most powerful figure in the contemporary art world. Tim - who goes by the pronoun “they" - has worked with Bjork, Jeff Bridges, Pharrell Williams, NASA and on Steve Coogan's series The Trip . They've also written more than 250 essays on ecology, Mary Shelley, gastronomy, Talking Heads, Heidegger and… concrete....

Tara June Winch is the Miles Franklin winning author of The Yield and a proud Wiradjuri woman. I reached out to her after seeing her speak on an emotional, all-female panel at the Sydney Writer's Festival earlier this year where she  brought the room to tears with her confronting and - to my mind - true comments about Australian identity; "being Aussie is a mental health crisis”. In thi...

Dr Jud Brewer is a New York-based surfer (yep!) and psychiatrist and neuroscientist specialising in habit change and he's helped thousands of people quit smoking and overcome binge eating. But his latest research treats anxiety like it's any other habit. I reached out to him because I'd tried out his technique and it worked…substituting fretting for curiosity as a meta approach to life! In...

I discovered Jill's story in her viral TED Talk from 2008 (it became the most watched TED talk ever!) in which the brain scientist describes watching the left side of her brain deteriorate over the course of four hours on the morning of her stroke and how she used her right brain to stay present and get help. I was transfixed. Ever since I've wondered, what ever happened to Jill Bolte Taylor? Did...

Producer Lindsey volleys me with VMs from listeners. I answer off the cuff. What's good about having anxiety? Who do I vote for the climate in elections? How do you live with bipolar? For part two of this special Ask Me Anything episode Sarah answers your questions about her own wild ways of living. In this episode Sarah shares her experience living with anxiety and bipolar disorder, voting for th...

Producer Lindsey volleys me with VMs from listeners. I answer off the cuff. How do I raise my kids as conscious consumers? What do you think happens when we die? For this special Ask Me Anything episode Sarah turned the tables on herself and asked for your questions about her own wild ideas and ways of living differently. In this episode Sarah opens up about her meditation practice, solo hiking an...

Tim  trained with the Vedic tradition and has taught meditation to elite athletes, jail inmates, billionaires and kids for more than 20 years. And me. Tim has been part of my spiritual journey for 12 years and has guided me on my career, love life and various calamities. We meet for coffee and peanut butter toast most weeks…this episode we bring a recorder and discuss: trusting in the...

James Hollis is one of the most respected Jungian psychoanalysts and teachers in the world and the author of 16 books about what matters most in life.  He famously writes – and this is the wildly a-ha-ish idea this episode - that our souls are calling us to an appointment with life. Together we break down how this can be applied to our lives right now. TBH, it's the mantra that has...

Rutger Bregman reckons we're kinder than we think we are.  He's a Dutch journalist and international best-selling author of  Humankind: A Hopeful History , a book that lights a fire under the idea that humans are inherently selfish and doomed to self-destruct.  Rutger and I chat about hope, calling out billionaires for not paying enough tax and what our society could look like if we...

Margaret Klein Salamon is a climate psychologist and Founder & Board President of The Climate Mobilization, a US organisation that has seen almost 2,000 governments worldwide declare a climate emergency. Margaret and I spoke a few times when I was researching my book This One Wild and Precious Life . I followed her up for this episode to get her brutal-and-yet-hopeful take on the wild-but-true...

Seth Godin is a one of the world's most famous marketing gurus, a serial entrepreneur, the author of 19 bestselling books and believes in the ‘magical responsibility' – as he tells me - of being a creative who gives. Seth and I chatted the first time 12 years ago and the advice he gave me shaped how I grew my business I Quit Sugar…and then sold it (and gave everything to ch...

He was the captain of the Wallabies, the only Australian player to be included in World Rugby's team of the decade, but - wildly – retired at the height of his career to devoted his life to climate activist projects here in Australia and in Africa. Dave and I became friends talking activism, Jungian psychology and the meaning of life over Instagram some time back. In this chat, he talks with...

Sia is one of the most gifted and wild creatives on the planet, best known for the hundreds of hit pop songs she's written for herself, Beyonce, Rihanna and Kanye West , and for being notoriously private, rarely doing interviews.  But in this chat, Sia gets intimate with me around fostering, why she uses medication to support her art (and keep her alive), and her wild idea - how she, as an ar...

Sarah Wilson speaks with the world's Big Minds about living a more beautiful and fired-up life.  Through deep conversations with philosophers, celebrities who live at the edge and leading gurus she's met on her 10-year nomadic journey, Sarah will explore the issues keeping us all awake at night, including climate change, loneliness, disconnection and capitalism. She and her guest will un...