THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

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 could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?And finally anything you wish to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like.They are starting to come in, observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. In this episode there are offerings from Matt Golding, Ella Saltmarshe, Matt Smith, Linzi Hawkin and Andy MiddletonI hope you enjoy listening to themPeace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

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 could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?And finally anything you wish to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like.They are starting to come in, observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. This episode features offerings from Saskia Rysenbry, Andrew Wanliss Orlebar and Easkey BrittonI hope you enjoy listening to themPeace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

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 could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?And finally anything you wish to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like.They are starting to come in, observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. Episode 2 features Tom Kay from Finisterre, Lucy Von Sturmer from The HumbleBrag/Creatives for Climate and Mark Sears.I hope you enjoy listening to themPeace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

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 to listen to, I link to my contribution episode below. Anyway Charlie inspired me to do something similar. So I have emailed a range of friends, previous guests and folks I admire to share some of their reflections during this great pause. 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 emerge from these extraordinary times 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?And finally anything you want to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like.They are starting to come in and they are full of beauty, and I’m so grateful for all the contributions, so I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days.I hope you enjoy listening to them.I hope you enjoy listening to them. In this episode listen to George McCallum, Lauren Currie and Matt Barr.Peace and out Danhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-ep-7/id1249333134?i=1000471468366 Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

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 unprecedented context, this conversation is an open, honest, sometimes vulnerable exploration of living in this moment in time, the uncertainties we face as business, leaders, communities, citizens, parents and ultimately humans, as we rapidly adapt to global lockdown and how the principles of regenerative leadership might offer ways for navigating towards a thriving and flourishing world, a new way of being on this planet. We riff on everything from trust and letting go of old ways and the logic of command and control, how to work in these new remote times, dealing with the huge uncertainty of income and job loss, integrating family and community back into our lives, how to support the most vulnerable, noticing the natural world, and how we might move forward beyond this crisis.https://www.regenerativeleadership.co/https://laura-storm.com/https://www.instagram.com/storm_laura/https://www.instagram.com/regenerators.cohttp://gileshutchins.com/https://thenatureofbusiness.org/2020/03/22/can-the-darkness-of-crisis-reveal-a-new-dawn/https://www.dominomusic.com/news/uk/jon-hopkins-shares-new-composition-scene-suspended-listen-now Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

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 Authenticity in a Distrusting World out in 2018 and his latest Influencers and Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming BusinessThis episode is a lively and lengthy exploration which meanders through fake news, technology disruption, populist politics, brand trust, UK Labour leadership, climate change and the ecological emergency, Extinction Rebellion and permanent protest through to surveillance capitalism and more.We’re ultimately riffing on one of the biggest challenges that faces humanity - how do you mobilise the planet to act together on the urgency of climate and ecological collapse when what is true and what is fake is becoming increasingly difficult to figure out, dividing people more than ever.Enjoy!Gratitude to Bean Downes for the editGraeme Douglas/Bountiful Cow for hostingShow notes:https://www.instagram.com/seanpdec/?hl=en https://www.koganpage.com/author/sean-pillot-de-chenecey Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

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/https://bio-leadership.org/clusters/creativecommunicationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIX-4DJLwRw&feature=youtu.behttps://medium.com/@hiutdenim/100-makers-and-mavericks-2019-2f9a6be1c0b2 Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

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 Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

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 campaigning organisation and a fast growing community driven movement to encourage the spread of refill culture in our society. We riff on Nat’s journey from dropping out of University, searching for spiritual meaning, achieving material and financial success and not finding happiness with that and how stumbling across Chris Jordan’s Albatross project catalysed her to act on plastic pollution.We talk about the rise of consumerism, plastic pollution, searching for meaning, community action, individual change and action as system change, following your heart and putting yourself out into the world and much much more. This is an open, honest conversation about Nat’s journeying to find meaning and purpose in her life which led to campaigning and innovating on plastic pollution, which has become a catalyst to connect more deeply to the earth and how Nat believes individual action to be a creative, powerful and regenerative act. Which is exactly what her new book ‘How to Change the World for Free’ riffs on. We talk about toilets a fair bit too and porn and flax seed lube. Enjoy!www.citytosea.org.uk/refill.org.uk/nataliefee.com/nataliefee.com/books/www.instagram.com/nataliefee_/www.instagram.com/citytosea_/www.instagram.com/refillhq/ Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

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 teachers or tutors, you write your own curriculum and you are part of a peer group who all support each other on their learning journeys. We explore how Enrol Yourself was born, in itself a brilliant example in the power of following your curiosity, prototyping and experimenting with many constraints and openly inviting others to participate in a pilot. We get into the development of the offer, developing learning questions, the role of learning hosts instead of experts, the magic of learning with and supporting others through peer supported groups. We riff on how our institutionalised learning systems are so ripe for change and dig into the enormous opportunity at this moment in time to develop an accessible culture of inquiry and lifelong learning and the positive role for self directed, peer and social supported learning in responses to the complex challenges we are facing today on our spaceship earth.With a new year upon us, maybe you are starting the year with your own big questions, curiosity for new adventures or just feeling the need for personal growth and exploration. Perhaps you’re searching endlessly for that elusive course online or contemplating career changes or new skills or frankly maybe you’re just asking what to point your energy at in the world at this moment in time. Maybe it’s time to Enrol Yourself.https://www.enrolyourself.com/https://www.instagram.com/enrol_yourself/https://twitter.com/zahradavidsonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_for_Realistshttps://www.theschoolinthecloud.org/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Organised_Learning_Environmenthttps://lumiar.co/en/https://yearhere.org/ Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe