Best Darren Hansen Podcasts (2025)

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388 Justin Bruch - Organic out-earn conventional, how do we transition more farms and farmers? 1:17:17

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A conversation with Justin Bruch, Cofounder-President & CEO of Clear Frontier, born and raised 5th generation Iowa farmer. He has actively farmed on 4 continents and has spent his entire career working in agriculture across North America (USA/Canada), South America, Europe, and Africa. Organic makes more money. This is a financial decision first. O…

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#80 - Alex Gibson: Athlete Development and Building a Business With a Family 44:13

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In this conversation, Darren Hansen and Alex Gibson discuss the complexities of athlete development, balancing personal life with business, and the importance of foundational skills in sports training. They explore the misconceptions surrounding fitness in sports, the significance of speed and high outputs, and the role of coaches in guiding young …

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387 Douglas Sheil - Why fixing water fixes carbon 1:01:48

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Yes, we’re talking again about water cycles and this time with Douglas Sheil, Professor of Forest Ecology and Forest Management at Wageningen University, one of the most famous agricultural universities in the world. Why has it been so difficult to get scientific discoveries, like the biotic pump theory in physics, to enter other fields like climat…

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386 Lauren Tucker - Inner regen work, gut molds, almonds groves in the Central Valley and taste buds 1:06:09

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385 Maria Jensen - Giving cows a voice through epigenetics while improving animal welfare and profitability 1:28:52

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A conversation with Maria Jensen, co-founder of Antler Bio, helping dairy farmers identify and address factors limiting their herd’s full potential. What if cows could speak? Especially dairy cows. They would probably share not only the horrors of the dairy industry, but also stories of many dairy farmers who truly try their best to care for their …

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384 Thomas Kliemt - A farming incubator with a 75% success rate (that nobody knows about) lands in Germany 53:59

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A check-in conversation with Thomas Kliemt, formerly part of Kulturland, which has been growing and they are suddenly, after 10 years in the making, an overnight success. In the first 6 months of 2025, they accelerated their fundraising by 100%, raising the same €2.5m they raised in all of 2024. Once you enable access to land, transition it into th…

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383 Rasmus Nørgaard - From bricks to soil: rethinking real estate from the ground up 1:23:35

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Straight from Copenhagen, a conversation with Rasmus Nørgaard, co-founder of Urban Partners, Home.Earth and Nordhus with over two decades of experience in real estate, pushing the boundaries of sustainability within conventional systems. With Rasmus we dive deep into the world of real estate. The built environment is one of the three major sectors …

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Inside the Jewel Vault with Eve Goldberg 45:15

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Step into the world of big diamonds, family legacy, and unforgettable heirlooms with our guest, Eve Goldberg — creative director and a principal at the legendary William Goldberg Diamonds - legendary business at the pinnacle of New York diamond industry. Following in her father's legendary footsteps, she and her family continue to offer the world's…

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382 Dianne, Ian and Matthew Haggerty - Food, not commodities: how regenerative agriculture works at scale on 63,000 acres 1:31:51

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Legend alarm on the podcast! We are happy to welcome the Haggerty's family, Ian and Dianne, together with their son Matthew, on the podcast sharing their 30+ year journey- from being considered the hippie weirdos to leading a movement in Western Australia- showing that you can absolutely farm regeneratively at scale, in this case over 60,000 acres,…

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Implementing AI in Your Business and Personal Life for Max Productivity, Natalie Contreraz with Jim Rohn International Founder, Kyle Wilson 1:05:14

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Jim Rohn International Founder Kyle Wilson has an in-depth conversation with AI expert Natalie Contreraz. Natalie shares why now is the time to go all-in on AI! She shares: How to use AI as your mentor and in checking 5-year goals How to build while you sleep: automation, datasets, and the new content engine How to go from zero to omnipresent: turn…

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381 Sarah Hellebek - Training Denmark’s next farmers with practitioners, not professors 59:20

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A walking the land episode with Sarah Hellebek, deputy head at Krogerup Højskole, who spent years at the heart of Denmark’s climate activist movement. By most measures, she was successful, climate made it onto the political agenda, though never strongly enough. But the fight came with a cost: it also made her pretty depressed, she was- in her own w…

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380 Frederik Lean Hansen - Double-purpose chickens and the regen dating agency matching landowners with land seekers 1:06:06

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A barefoot conversation across his Danish farmland with Frederik Lean Hansen, advisor on regenerative farm finance, revealing the efficiency of his pasture-raised chicken operation and Abunda, the revolutionary business he's building to connect land holders with entrepreneurial farmers. How many times have you visited a farm or heard a story from a…

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#79 - Maximizing Athlete Performance During In-Season Training 6:11

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Darren Hansen discusses the importance of in-season training for athletes, emphasizing the need for consistent training to maintain performance levels. He highlights the significance of mental and physical development, the role of recovery, and the necessity of proper nutrition. The conversation aims to educate parents and coaches on how to support…

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379 Cindie Christiansen - Top 50 Farmers update and the simple tweak to raise millions for regeneration 55:03

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A check in conversation with Cindie Christiansen, founder of Foodprint Nordic and Top 50 Farmers (no, it’s not a ranking, so nobody “won”). We spoke just six months ago, but this time we met in person to talk about the progress of turning farmers into the next superheroes of climate, water, health, and more. We unpack her vision for systems change …

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378 Darren Doherty - 35 years in regeneration training farmers and the role of tech and AI 1:43:00

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A conversation with Darren J Doherty, co-founder of Regrarians, in the space of regeneration and regenerating for over 35 years, about the role of technology, AI, and large language models in training farmers and agronomists. We touch on how expensive and too-short workshops are hurting everyone, and why a hybrid model, grounded on the land and in …

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377 Rob de Laet - Water is key to cool the planet within 20 years 1:12:42

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A conversation with Rob de Laet, project lead of Cooling the Climate and co-author of the book Cooling the Climate: How to Revive the Biosphere and Cool the Earth Within 20 Years. The science is pretty clear and getting clearer by the day: water cools the planet. The more living, healthy vegetation we have on this planet, predominately perennials a…

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376 Sheila Darmos - Why Greece is leading the regenerative agriculture movement and what the world can learn 1:04:32

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A conversation with Sheila Darmos, co-founder of the Southern Lights, based in the southern Peloponnese, Greece with the mission is to spread knowledge, techniques, and the mindset for regenerative practices across all domains of human activity. Sheila is also a co-founding farmer of the European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture (EARA) and ser…

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375 Matt Orlando - From Noma to building the world’s most circular restaurant and disrupting the chocolate industry 1:56:37

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A conversation with Matt Orlando, chef, entrepreneur, and former head chef at Noma. He is also the founder of Amass, one of the most circular and fully organic restaurants in the world, which closed at the end of 2022. He then focused on a project in Singapore and is now back in Denmark, currently very busy with, among other things, a new restauran…

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374 Birker, Bösel, Mazzola – The Regenerative Agronomy Gap: who do farmers call? 49:46

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A conversation with farmer Benedikt Bösel, farmer and regen agronomist Matteo Mazzola and Philippe Birker, co-founder of Climate Farmers. We need regenerative agronomists. Because let’s face it — most farmers trust their agronomist, and the chances that their agronomist is trained in regen are pretty small. We’re moving from the first group of supe…

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373 Anat Shenker-Osorio - Why climate messages don’t land and how to rewrite the regenerative narrative 51:11

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A conversation with Anat Shenker-Osorio, founder of A.S.O. Communications, a progressive political communication bureau known for slogans such as “Don’t take the temperature, change it” and “A great message doesn’t say what’s already popular; a great message makes popular what needs to be said". We try so hard in the regenerative (and probably any …

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372 Anand Ethirajalu - Harvesting the clouds: how to transition over 10,000 farmers a year, reducing input costs and increasing profits 1:23:22

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A conversation with Anand Ethirajalu, farmer-turned-ecologist and project director for the Save Soil movement. We don’t talk about it much, but we should: a remarkable transition has been unfolding on the Indian subcontinent over the past few decades. Hundreds of thousands- if not millions- of farmers have been trained in regenerative practicesand …

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371 Benedikt Boesel - Fully integrating 300 cows into a 1000-hectare arable very sandy farm 1:11:57

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It just doesn’t happen very often we record in a field surrounded by cows just after a cow gave birth to a calf. There is not more fitting place to explore the super complex role of animals in the food and agriculture space than walking the landing- and standing amongst the cows- with Benedikt Boesel, founder and farmer at Gut&Bosël, in Alt Madlitz…

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370 Thomas Hogenhaven – The €22M regen fund that said no to €7M 1:14:05

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After three years, Thomas Hogenhaven, founder and managing partner of Planetary Impact Ventures, is back on the podcast. Thomas and his team just turned down a $7 million investment in their fund. That’s right—said no to $7 million. And this wasn’t some shady source of capital either. This was a serious, institutional investor, fully compliant with…

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369 Ichsani Wheeler - We need more large animals in our landscapes 1:22:47

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Ichsani Wheeler, co-founder of OpenGeoHub and Envirometrix, challenges dominant assumptions in land use and agricultural design, making the case for more large animals in our landscapes—not fewer. She explains why understanding the maximum ecological carrying capacity of agro-ecological systems is essential for restoring function, productivity, and…

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368 Béla Hatvany - Born in 1938, now thinking AI, enoughness, precision fermentation and building a care economy 1:00:57

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A conversation with Béla Hatvany, pioneering entrepreneur in the automation of libraries and the information industry, born in 1938, turned into angel investor and philanthropist, on his journey, what’s enough, the role of AI and EI (empathetic intelligence), and the potential of precision fermentation. Growing up during WWII with bombs literally b…

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367 Anthony James - Learning from the legends how to become a positive keystone species 1:28:52

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A conversation with Anthony James, host of The RegenNarration podcast, a Prime Ministerial award winner for service to the international community and Honorary Research Fellow at UWA. He has had many legends at his microphone and joins us to share what he’s learned, what he sees, and what he thinks is coming next in regenerative food and agricultur…

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366 Austin Unruh - Silvopasture, planting trees on millions of acres of grassland, is the most scalable and profitable regen solution 1:07:05

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A conversation with Austin Unruh, founder of Trees for Graziers, about the investment case for silvopasture. What if we could plant hundreds of millions of trees on degraded, low-value pasture land and make money from it? What if we planted trees that are beneficial for livestock—ruminants, pigs, and poultry? The market for meat and animal products…

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365 Philip Kauders - From Goldman Sachs to investing hundreds of millions in agroforestry in Brazil 1:13:26

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A conversation with Philip Kauders, CEO and co-founder of Courageous Land, working on reforesting landscapes via large-scale biodiverse agroforestry. We can invest hundreds of millions into regenerative agroforestry, maybe even billions. No, we don’t need new regulations or new technology (drones that prune, for example— sure, they’ll help, and the…

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364 Paul McMahon - Why regen forestry is natural capital’s Trojan horse for institutional investors 1:07:38

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A conversation with Paul McMahon, co-founder SLM partners, about forestry being the gateway drug for natural capital for institutional investors to put money to work. Why? Because they are used to investing in forestry — it is a well-established investment sector with very long-time horizons. Rotations here are 30+ years, but it’s also one with man…

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363 James Arthur Smith - Mercury-free, microplastic-free, and Omega-3 rich: the future of seafood 1:08:33

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A check in conversation with James Arthur Smith, founder of Seatopia, about their data-driven focus on nutrient density (plus mercury/microplastics testing) resonates more strongly than abstract “sustainability” marketing strategy and it ultimately driving real ecosystem restoration. We explore how Seatopia defines regenerative aquaculture in a mul…

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362 Mike Velings - VC & PE won’t deliver regeneration — €250M evergreen proves it 1:25:56

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A conversation with Mike Velings, co-founder of Aqua-Spark, a global investment fund for sustainable aquaculture, about how an invite he should have never received lead to the creation of the largest aquaculture fund in history, with over $250 million in assets under management (AUM) and ambitious plans to grow to $2 billion or more. This conversat…

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#78 - Chris Frye: The Balance Between School and Private Training 33:37

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In this episode of HansenAthletics Radio, Chris Fry shares his extensive experience in private training and school settings. He discusses the nuances of working with athletes in different environments, the importance of communication between coaches and athletes, and the need for recovery in training. Chris emphasizes the role of technology in moni…

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361 Herb Young - After 36 years at Bayer, growing regen citrus with 8x the nutrients 1:07:13

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A conversation with Herb Young, farmer who, after 36 years in the chemical industry working for Bayer, retired and bought a small farm in Georgia—where things quickly got out of hand. While researching organic premiums, Herb came across regenerative agriculture—and fell deep, very deep, down the rabbit hole. For over a year, he read everything, lis…

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360 Ethan Soloviev - AI, good food at Davos, food as medicine and regen taking off 57:19

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A check- in conversation with Ethan Soloviev, Chief Innovation Officer at HowGood, about how regenerative agriculture is truly taking off, its position within large food and agriculture companies, and whether we risk watering it down or falling into greenwashing (Spoiler: Surprisingly, we're doing a lot about it!). We also get an update on HowGood—…

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359 Louis De Jaeger - Eat More Trees: a Masterclass with thé storyteller of the Regen Space 1:20:30

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A conversation with Louis De Jaeger, international keynote speaker, author, award-winning filmmaker, and landscape designer, about dreams, action, and storytelling—how to reach and touch people. We discuss why storytelling is highly underrated and underfunded, and why he is organizing a festival—not the next Burning Man, but a regeneration festival…

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358 Laimonas Noreika - From FinTech to Farms: bridging the €60B loan gap for Europe's small farms 53:57

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A conversation with Laimonas Noreika, founder of HeavyFinance, about providing loans to farmers, bringing innovation to the traditionally stagnant agri-loan sector (some numbers: over €70M loaned to farmers and over 13,000 individual investors have invested through them). The profitability of regenerative agriculture isn't just a theory—it's backed…

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#77 - Talent is No Longer Enough 8:14

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In this episode of HansenAthletics Radio, Darren Hansen discusses the critical factors that separate successful athletes from their peers. He emphasizes the importance of character, preparation, consistency, and a relentless mindset in achieving athletic success. Drawing from his extensive experience as a coach, Hansen highlights how talent alone i…

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Inside the Jewel Vault with Belinda Morris 39:39

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Belinda Morris has a curious family story about one of the Crown Jewels, and is the long reigning editor of "The Jeweller" magazine produced by the National Association of Jewellers, the UK's leading trade body. Starting out in fashion journalism, before turning her attention to watches and jewellery, Belinda boasts a decades long career in trade j…

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357 Kiira Heymann - From Non-GMO to Non-ultra-processed: everyone has the right to know what’s in their food 45:08

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A conversation with Kiira Heymann, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Non-GMO Project and the Food Integrity Collective. After the success of the Non-GMO Project in the U.S., which is now featured on almost 63,000 products, the team is launching the Non-Ultra-Processed Food verification. In this conversation, we discuss why—why introduce ano…

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Kyle Wilson and Chris Gronkowski on Preparation, Working With Mark Cuban, Being on Shark Tank, and Greatest Lesson From Jim Rohn 47:20

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Kyle Wilson and Chris Gronkowski, discuss the topic of being prepared, working with Mark Cuban, lessons from Shark Tank, and Kyle shares his greatest lessons from Jim Rohn and much more! Plus details on how to win free Ice Shakers, signed copies of Lessons From Thought Leaders and access to events with Kyle and Chris. You can follow Chris on IG @ch…

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#76 - Dade Dieterich 35:09

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In this episode of HansenAthletics Radio, Darren Hansen interviews Dade Dieterich, a performance coach who emphasizes the importance of simplicity in training for youth athletes. Dade shares his journey in the coaching world, including his experiences at IMG Academy and his unique approach to speed development and strength training. He discusses th…

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356 Dimitri Tsitos - Making regenerative intensive tree crops profitable 1:30:02

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A deep dive into the world of intensive—or super-intensive—tree crops, particularly olives and almonds with Dimitri Tsitos, co-founder of Agrosystemic, the Regenerative Agroforestry Podcast, the Arbo-Innova project and Mazi Farm. In Portugal, the sector is booming—highly profitable yet highly destructive—due to its high- input, high-output nature, …

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355 Tom Hengl - We should reward the stewards of the land like we celebrate Olympic champions 1:03:24

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A long-overdue check-in conversation with Tom Hengl, director at OpenGeoHub, one of the leading scientists in earth observation and remote sensing—one of the most cited in his field, belonging to the top 0.1% (based on Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers). We discuss the significant changes in the world of remote sensing, satellites, and the hype su…

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#75 - Brandon Stephens: Idaho State S&C 58:49

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For coaches, athletes, and parents. In this conversation, Brandon Stephens, Associate Athletic Director of Sports Performance and Wellness at Idaho State University, discusses his transition from a strength and conditioning coach to an administrative role. He shares insights on the challenges of managing people, the importance of building relations…

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354 Dan Barber - AI-Powered natural breeding: The End of GMOs, Gene Editing, and CRISPR? 1:06:54

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An overdue check-in conversation with Dan Barber, chef, co-owner of Blue Hill restaurants and co-founder of Row 7 Seeds, where we dive into the fascinating world of seeds and how breeding is evolving with the explosion of AI and other technologies. No, we don’t need GMOs, CRISPR, or other risky blunt instruments. We discuss the implosion of the fak…

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Inside the Jewel Vault with Lucia van der Post 36:18

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What does the doyenne of luxury have in her Vault? Lucia van der Post is the long reigning queen of luxury journalism. Born and educated in South Africa, the daughter of famous author Sir Laurens van der Post, she’s forged a decades long career in journalism. Starting out on London’s Fleet Street she became founding editor of the Financial Times Ho…

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353 Sébastien Crépieux - Insects, the perfect livestock to reintegrate into an arable farm 1:07:29

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A conversation with Sébastien Crépieux, founder of Invers, developing a decentralised insect farming supply chain for animal nutrition, placing farmers at the heart of the model. The role of animals and livestock in farming is something we cover frequently, but we’ve never discussed insects which can transform immense amounts of agricultural waste—…

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352 Matt Schmitt - How to make regenerative food and agriculture bankable 1:08:03

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A conversation with Matt Schmitt, founder of Structure Climate, about how to get institutional investors invest in the regenerative food and agriculture transitions. These are big terms we use regularly, but what do they actually mean and, more importantly, how do we get there? How do we get novel climate technologies- like biochar machinery, chest…

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351 Paul Clarke - Smart Machines, AI and Modeling: engineering our way out 1:00:09

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A conversation with Paul Clarke, technologist, innovator, inventor about technology and innovative tools from various domains, including modelling, digital twins, digital shadows, robots, and other smart hardware solutions that are crucial for the regenerative transition—tools we’ve barely begun to consider, let alone adopt. We often hear about AI,…

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350 Alice Henry - Finally real money for cover crops from sustainable aviation fuel 58:25

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Crops and sustainable aviation fuel—probably not something you think about every day. Alice Henry, co-founder of Regenrate, took a deep dive into why cover crops, which provide amazing benefits to farmers and farmland, are not more widely used. No big surprise—it’s about the money. Planting cover crops costs money, and the business model of carbon …