Best Speaking Advocates Program Podcasts (2026)

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PAWS for Empowerment! Veterinarian's Daughter Turns Animals into Advocates with Innovative Program 31:09

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Grace Coleman, Director of Crisis Center North, shares her unique background growing up in a small Irish-American village and her transition to combating domestic violence. The center serves over 2,500 clients annually, providing critical services including emergency shelter and long-term counseling. Grace highlights their unique housing program fo…

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Thoughts from the Edge: Navigating the turbulent seas of the incoming year with grace and courage (Manda solo) 47:00

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Well…2025 was the year the masks came off the old system: nobody is pretending it's there to help us, or that those who have stolen the reins of power have any intention of 'saving the planet', still less resolving the horrors of inequity or anything at all but feeding the ravenously hungry ghost of capitalism. So how do we bring power to those wit…

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Change is Coming! Solstice Reflections with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott 1:14:54

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At the end of a turbulent year that has seen the masks come off the death cult in ways that were probably predictable, but still shocking, we reconvene our December Solstice Traditional conversation. Manda is joined by Della Duncan of the Upstream Podcast and Nathalie Nahai of 'Nathalie Nahai in Conversation' to explore the things that have stood o…

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Bringing Global Resources and Hope to Millions of Survivors of Domestic Abuse 52:06

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DomesticShelter.Org's National Director, Ashley Rumschlag, and Hannah Craig, Director of Content, discuss their roles and backgrounds before and after joining the massive and prestigious organization which supports over 2.7 million annual visitors and has faciliated for than 55,000 "Hope Chat" conversations through their innovative technology partn…

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December Solstice meditation - suitable northern and southern hemispheres 22:31

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Here's our December Solstice Meditation for 2025 - please find a place and time where you can relax, take space for yourself, and build the connections to the web of life that will carry us forward. Details of 3iATLAS https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/3i-atlas-facts-and-faqs/By Accidental Gods

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Wild new stories: Weaving New Myths for a New Way of Being with Ally Kingston of Agency for Nature 1:25:10

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How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart's yearning for connection, relationship, being and belonging? This week's guest, Ally Kingston, is a creative facilitator and strategy lead at Purpose Disruptors, where she co-developed the br…

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Word Magic 2025 - Accidental Gods' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year 32:34

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Here's Manda's round up of (some of) the best books, poetry and podcasts she's come across this year. Most of the links are to Bookshop.org in the UK where you can link to an independent bookshop of your choice. In some cases, we've linked to the authors' website. Fiction Rachel Neumeier - Rihasi, Marag, Sekaran, Hedesa - all four are part of the T…

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Tanya and Maurice 36:04

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Welcome to the return of the "True Tales By Disability Advocates" podcast! In Episode 24, hosts MsBoye, Jennifer McKinney, and Adam Griebel hear multiple stories from Tanya Winters about "Maurice," the arm of her friend Susie Angel that has its own personality. This episode was recorded in September of 2024, and it will be the last episode hosted b…

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Barefoot Economics in a world of Hobnailed Boots with storyteller Inez Aponte 1:11:15

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If we are to build systems that meet our real needs we have to first understand what those needs are and start growing the stuff that will allow us to thrive: good food from healthy soils, safe and supportive homes and communities, space to develop and express our creativity, opportunities to increase our capacity for co-operation and kindness. As …

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Roots to Health - building Food Resilience at all Scales with Daphne du Cros of the Shropshire Good Food Partnership 1:03:04

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We all know by now that plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving, life-filled food... but the steps to getting there in the face of a multinational industry devoted to toxic, nutritionally empty, addictive - and highly profitable - ultra-processed 'food-like substances' are harder to see. This week's guest, Daphn…

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Dance of the Spiritual Warrior: Balancing Love and Power with Jamie Bristow 1:27:00

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What does it mean to (re)orient our entire culture around the power of love? To answer this, we have to understand the nature of love and of power and how both of these have many meanings in our culture, some of them essential to moving forward - and some of them so toxic they turn the entire concept into a poisoned cue. This week's guest is friend…

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Betrayal Trauma & The Holidays 45:23

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Mr. Jay, relationship coach and betrayal trauma practitioner, discusses his background and shares his approach to dealing with betrayal trauma during the holidays. He details his personal experiences of growing up with financial instability and the impact of his parents' behaviors on his relationship with money. Mr. Jay emphasizes the importance of…

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The Magic of Darkness: learning to love life in the night with author Leigh Ann Henion 1:06:31

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Do you love the dark? Do you yearn for sunset and the amber glow of a fire with the night growing deeper, more inspiring all around you? Most of us don't - though our ancestors through all of history have lived by firelight, moonlight, starlight... until the modern era of light at the flick of a switch. But there's a world out there of sheer, unadu…

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Starting in the Ruins: Of Lions and Games with Crypto-Advocate and Changemaker Andrea Leiter 1:29:28

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This week's guest, Andrea Leiter, is one of those polymaths who brings not just breadth, but astonishing depth to the work of bridging the worlds of technology, biodiversity and international law; bringing them together in service of a new way of being built from the ruins of collapse. Andrea works at the intersection of law, digital transformation…

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Learning Pet Nutrition Science: How Four Cats Taught This Couple Everything About Pet Food 35:28

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Learning Pet Nutrition Science may be easier than you realize. In this episode, I sit down with Holly Baer from Superior Feline to explore the world of homemade pet nutrition. Holly's journey began when her own cats faced serious health challenges—kidney disease, fish allergies, and inflammatory conditions that commercial foods couldn't address. Wh…

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Walking the wild, mythic Edge of Being with visionary elder and soul initiator Bill Plotkin 1:27:35

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What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break? This phrase comes from the poem 'All The True Vows' by David Whyte, but there can be no better introduction to this week's guest, who knows how to help people - ordinary, every-day people from our culture - build true, heart-felt connections with the web of life such that we com…

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Eco-Civilisation: the future we deserve and how we will get there with Jeremy Lent 1:13:23

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What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an eco-civilisation into being? This week's guest, Jeremy Lent, explores these ideas in depth in his f…

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Paw Prints on Our Hearts: Navigating Pet Loss and Love with Ami King 35:33

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Have you ever wondered about the profound impact pets can have on our lives? In this heartwarming episode, Julie sits down with Amy King, a fellow animal lover and writer, to explore the joys and challenges of pet ownership. Amy shares her journey from childhood fish tanks to adopting rescue dogs with complex needs. We discuss the emotional rollerc…

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ReWilding our Horses, Rewilding our Souls with Kelly Wendorf of the EQUUS 1:12:00

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How do we heal ourselves from the 'lost-ness' that afflicts our culture? How do we move on from the strange—and wholly untrue— belief our culture holds that we are separate from the natural world, that our cycles of exploitation, extraction, destruction, pollution are the way the world is, that this is the natural order and there's nothing we can d…

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From Rink to Rescue: How the Chicago Wolves Score Big for Rescue Dogs 28:01

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Are you ready for a heartwarming tale that combines the thrill of hockey with the joy of pet adoption? In this episode, Julie sits down with Jason Shaver, the play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Wolves Hockey Team, to discuss their incredible Adopt-A-Dog Program. A Unique Blend of Sports and Animal Welfare Jason shares how the Chicago Wolves hav…

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Enriching Island Communities With Domestic Abuse Resources 30:36

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Ana Jimenez, Case Manager and Advocate with Family Resource Center in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, discusses the growth of domestic abuse resources throughout the island communities and how resources are provided for victims and survivors of abuse. The center, serving St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix and Water Islands, has been operational for near…

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Building the roots of a world that will work - with Victoria Hurth, co-author of Beyond Profit 1:30:09

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'Each of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind. Do you think you were put here for something less?' Chief Arvol Looking Horse. We exist in a world where the ultra-rich are getting richer, powered by a system we call 'the economy' which is serving to funnel power and value up to an ever-shrinking core of…

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Of Beetles' wings and Brittlestars: using Biomimicry to co-create a flourishing future with Michael Pawlyn 1:32:10

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Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott 1:20:00

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Let the Wild Gods Rise. Easy to say and harder to do - but if you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it? If you're listening to this, you are likely steeped in the mechanical world of our culture - but it doesn't have to be like this. The other worlds are …

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The Magic in the Tales we Tell: Living new Stories in Service to Life with Paddy Loughman 1:10:47

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How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world? How can we craft narratives that can shift the way we see and experience the world? Is this even the best leverage point to start off with or is there a deeper/wider/more effective acupuncture point we could explore as w…

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Leading the Change to End Domestic Violence 27:27

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Today's guest, Meghan Scanlon, President and CEO of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, discusses her journey from Virginia to Connecticut, her involvement with social justice at an early age, and her career in advocacy. She highlights the CCADV's role in supporting 18 member organizations, providing advocacy, outreach and educatio…

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A Dawning Mind: Exploring the science of spirituality with Dr James Cooke 1:19:28

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Why are we here? How do we think? What is the nature of life? What are the boundaries between ourselves and the rest of the living web—between ourselves and the rest of the universe across space and through time…and in the timeless, formless place from which everything arises? These are the big, foundational questions of our existence, and how we a…

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Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen Schneider 1:15:02

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Our western (Trauma Culture) economies run on two falsehoods - we might go so far as to call them lies. The first is that economies have to grow to be 'successful'. The second is that government spending is limited by the tax take. That is, they need to take money in as taxes in order to spend it out into the economy. Both of these are untrue, and …

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The Crisis and the Call: Journeys through Species-Wide Soul Initiation with Sara McFarland 1:11:21

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As the old system is splitting apart, a few brave souls are already working to hospice this old system, acting as Death Doulas to the Great Dying—as well as helping people to awaken the seeds of a new world within. One of these is our guest this week. Sara McFarland is a Soul Initiation and Wild Mind Mentor and Guide, Artist of Consciousness and a …

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Dreams as a Way of Life - Becoming a Good Relative with author Hilary Giovale 1:08:41

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Our Trauma Culture has spread across the globe with terrifying speed and ghastly efficiency. But the tide is turning and people of good heart in many nations are beginning to understand that what we need now is a move towards a 21st Century Initiation Culture. The language is often different, but at heart, this is where we need to go. Our guest thi…

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Empowering UK Women to Live Free of Abuse and Fear 37:01

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Claire Holcombe, a domestic abuse advocate from the UK, recounts her journey from wanting to be an English teacher to working with homeless and abused women. She details Women's Aid Luton's 50-year history, including its founding by feminist activists and a secret visit from Princess Diana. The organization provides refuges, a helpline and support …

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PopShift: Changing the global Narrative on all our screens with Romain Vakilitabar of Pathos Labs 1:18:08

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We are a storied species: Everything we do arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other and our relationship with the web of life. Our current polycrisis: the accelerating annihilation of our cultures and our biosphere arises out of a particular set of stories that tell us we're isolated individuals caught…

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Co-Evolving Humanity: Outgrowing Modernity with Vanessa and Giovanna Andreotti - and Tim Logan 1:52:37

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In this week's podcast I was honoured to join a four-way conversation between Giovanna and Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti and Tim Logan of Future Learning Design Podcast, to celebrate the publication of Vanessa's new book, Outgrowing Modernity. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implicati…

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How Trauma Informed Coaching Can Help Heal Survivors 34:46

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Kathy McAtee Young, a trauma-trained certified mental health coach, discusses her path from a survivor of an abusive marriage to a a trauma-informed coach and educator for survivors and victims of domestic violence. She emphasizes the importance of understanding trauma, particularly the nervous system's response, and the need for somatic techniques…

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From Darkness to Radiance: Lights On Learning with Julia Black 1:20:09

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In the midst of the Great Transformation, one of the most exciting changes taking place is in our capacity to find what makes our hearts sing - to find our flow, to find what it is that we can do best, that we can do with all our hearts and souls—that leaves us radiant; that lets us lead with our Heart Minds, letting our Head Minds relax into servi…

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Otterly Amazing! Common Sense Farming can feed us all with Charlie Bennett 1:23:47

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“In a world where our wildlife is becoming extinct at a frightening rate, we are setting up an oasis where animals, wild flowers and even ancient fungi can thrive.” Charlie Bennett writing of Middleton North Farm. It's clear to most of us that the existing food and farming system is unsustainable. What's less clear is what to do about it, particula…

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Capturing Unconditional Love for Pets: A New Way to Remember Pets with DNA is Love 55:42

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Have you ever wished you could hold onto a piece of your beloved pet forever? In this heartwarming episode, I sit down with Dave Latorra and Stephanie Ford, the innovative minds behind DNA is Love, a company that's revolutionizing the way we memorialize our furry friends. As a scientist with a PhD in molecular biology, Dave brings his expertise to …

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Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas 1:29:30

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Water is our lifeblood and Clean Water (along with Clean Air and Clean Soil) is one of our core Three Asks, the non-negotiable baselines that underpin a flourishing future for people and life on our planet. Getting there, means everyone beginning to care at a bone-deep level, way beneath our conscious minds and having a sense of how we might get th…

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People's Charter for People Power - with Katy Rubin and Oli Whittington of Our House 1:18:13

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We know that our 'democracy' is, in fact, a kleptocracy that is not fit for purpose IF that purpose is the continuation of complex life on earth. The sociopaths who have stolen control show no signs of shifting to something that works, so it's way past time that ordinary people across all walks of life embraced the tools of participatory democracy …

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Dancing the Path of the Inner Warrior with Diarmuid Lyng of Wild Irish Retreats 1:24:44

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We're on the edge of a cliff and the way out is through - through the obfuscations and extractive values and downright lies of predatory capitalism. Through to authenticity, and integrity and finding language for how we can be who we really are, what our souls yearn to be. And that language is not always English. This week's guest, Diarmuid Lyng, s…

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Getting Out Without a Scorched Earth Divorce 43:03

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Joe Dillon, divorce mediator and co-founder of Equitable Mediation, discusses his background and the benefits of mediation over a litigated divorce. He contrasts the aggressive, financially draining nature of litigated divorces with the cost effective, cooperative approach of mediation, which he has practiced for over two decades. Joe emphasizes th…

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Still In the Eye of the Storm: Finding Calm and Stable Roots with Dan McTiernan of Being EarthBound 1:20:10

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Our priority now is to find -and then embody - a sense of grounded stability, a sense of safety, a sense of embodied connection to the Web of Life... This is the single most important thing we can be doing to create a world we'd want to leave behind, and this week's guest, Dan McTiernan, is one of those who is leading courses, trainings and embodie…

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Sit with the River, Breathe Sacred Smoke, Love with the World: Building a Bioregional world with Joe Brewer 1:21:01

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How can Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation? Joe Brewer is living, breathing and teaching the ways we can work together with each other and the natural flows of water and life. We know that the current paradigm is breaking apart in real time, but how do we become the light that shines through the cracks? How…

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Marley's Mutts Launches New Veterans Therapy Program: Shelter Dogs Healing Others 45:28

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Are you ready to discover how rescued dogs are transforming the lives of veterans and first responders? In this eye-opening episode, I welcome back Connor Long, Operations Manager at Marley's Mutts Dog Rescue, to discuss their groundbreaking program, Troops N Tails. Connor shares his personal journey with equine therapy and how it inspired this inn…

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Solstice Meditation 2025 - Sun Stands Still - by Manda Scott 22:42

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Here is a meditation for the Solstice – the moment when the sun stands still. It is suitable for Summer and Winter solstice. You don't have to do this at the exact moment of stillness: it’s the connection that counts, the marking of the turning point from days lengthening to shortening (or vice versa if you’re in the southern hemisphere). This is a…

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Thoughts from the Solstice Edge: Turning the Page on a Dying System with Manda Scott 27:00

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As we head into the solstice- that moment when the sun stands still—whether you're in the northern hemisphere where we have the longest day, or the southern, where it's the longest night—this solstice feels like a moment of transformation. The world is turning over, turning a page. The old system is visibly—palpably—breaking apart. A new system wil…

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Going Solo: Survivor Founds New Resource to Support DV Organizations 26:16

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Joy Ingram, CEO and Founder of Love & Joy, discusses her journey from Georgia to Virginia, where she began advocacy work for domestic violence survivors. She highlights her roles at New Directions and RAFT, emphasizing the importance of supporting advocates to prevent burnout. Joy also shares her personal experience as a survivor of domestic violen…

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Falling in Love with the Future - with author, musician, podcaster and futurenaut, Rob Hopkins 1:18:42

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Our guest this week, Rob Hopkins, is a towering figure in the world of regenerative change. Co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, he is host of the podcast 'From What if to What Next', stars in the groundbreaking French film 'Demain', speaks at TED Global and TEDx events and most recently, has created a collaborative music…

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ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop 1:34:05

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If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you'll know that I believe the way forward is predicated on our finding shared values—I'd go for integrity, compassion, courage and generosity of spirit as the baselines—and then a suite of clear asks in the outer world and needs in the inner world. In logistical terms, at an absolute baseline, …

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Episode 12: Meet Dr. Ernest Brown, House Call Physician & Healthcare Advocate 25:28

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In this episode, Christine D. Gagnon sits down with Dr. Ernest Brown, known as the "Punk Rock Doc." He is a house call physician for the elderly and disabled in Washington, D.C., and founder of Humans for Healthcare, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring patient-centered care through direct service, advocacy, and technology. ----- TEDxCatawba is named…