Beste Olivia Herrington Podcasts (2024)

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AMA: How do I explain collapse to someone?* 27:47

4d ago27:47

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*(and that the wars, climate disasters, democratic upheavals etc today are VERY different to crises in the past)? This episode’s question has been asked by too many of you to mention. Many of us have been in situations where we try to talk about the domino’ing of crisis - AI, nuclear, climate, food insecurity, democratic decline, political polarisa…

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NICK BRYANT: What has happened to America? 1:10:09

6d ago1:10:09

1:10:09

Dr Nick Bryant (BBC Washington correspondent, author) has spent most of his career covering the events that many of us see as spelling the decline of the US, a once-great nation – the school shootings, Trump presidency, Roe v Wade, storming of the Capitol, George Floyd, conspiracy theories and…all the rest. But in his new book The Forever War: Amer…

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CLIVE HAMILTON: CONTENTIOUS CLIMATE COLLAPSE TRUTH - how the “Electrify Everything” message + private schools could be our downfall if we don’t change course 1:12:45

13d ago1:12:45

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Professor Clive Hamilton (public ethicist; climate activist; founder of the Australia Institute) has led the emissions reduction conversation for decades. But he - controversially - has recently switched tack, arguing that climate mitigation is now impossible. And irresponsible. And that we must instead put our efforts (and last resources) into try…

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COLLAPSE SERIES: Jonathon Rowson - Welcome to the “metacrisis”. Now what? 1:00:30

20d ago1:00:30

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Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse, the meta-crisis, and the decline of the systems we've always known to grow—like GDP, technology, population, and prosperity. Many of you have joined my book serialization project on Substack, where …

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COLLAPSE SERIES: Olivia Lazard - The big fat renewable energy blindspot NO ONE wants to talk about 1:21:48

27d ago1:21:48

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Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse, the meta-crisis, and the decline of the systems we've always known to grow—like GDP, technology, population, and prosperity. Many of you have joined my book serialization project on Substack, where …

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COLLAPSE SERIES: Nate Hagens - On the “Great Simplification” 53:11

1M ago53:11

53:11

Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse, the meta-crisis, and the decline of the systems we've always known to grow—like GDP, technology, population, and prosperity. Many of you have joined my book serialization project on Substack, where …

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COLLAPSE SERIES: Margaret Wheatley - An episode on civilization collapse (warning: truly confronting) 51:00

1M ago51:00

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Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse, the meta-crisis, and the decline of the systems we've always known to grow—like GDP, technology, population, and prosperity. Many of you have joined my book serialization project on Substack, where …

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COLLAPSE SERIES: Gaya Herrington - Complete global collapse by 2040? The prediction is “right on track” 53:44

2M ago53:44

53:44

Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse, the meta-crisis, and the decline of the systems we've always known to grow—like GDP, technology, population, and prosperity. Many of you have joined my book serialization project on Substack, where …

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JEM BENDELL: Oh gosh! Finding beauty in a collapsing world. 1:23:58

2M ago1:23:58

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Jem Bendell (collapse “poster kid”, academic) wrote the paper that launched the “Deep Adaptation” movement and spawned Extinction Rebellion. That was in 2018. The paper argued that societal collapse was unavoidable and would happen in our lifetimes, probably before the end of the 2030s, and it went very, very viral. The University of Cumbria Emerit…

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JEAN TWENGE: Do millennials and Gen Z have it harder? 1:16:55

2M ago1:16:55

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Jean Twenge (psychologist; professor at San Diego State University) is regarded as the world expert on “generations”. She famously described millennials as “Generation Me” (also the name of her 2006 book) and first made the (controversial) connection back in 2017 between smartphones and the sharp uptick in anxiety and depression among Gen Z teens, …

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AMA: How do I parent in the face of so much existential crisis? 37:55

2M ago37:55

37:55

This week I asked fellow substacker Anya Kamenetz to help me answer the above question. Anya is a parent and climate activist, a former NPR journalist and she has written five books loosely related to the mental health of young people in the face of difficulty. She is also the producer of Joanna Macy’s incredible podcast with Jess Serrante, We Are …

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GREG LUKIANOFF: Cancel culture – the non-hysterical reason why we should be very worried 1:06:00

2M ago1:06:00

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Greg Lukianoff (New York Times best-selling author, attorney) co-wrote the blockbuster The Coddling of the American Mind, which argued we were failing young people by rendering them fragile victims. Then, 10 days after October 7, he came out with the first book to comprehensively track the rise of cancel culture -The Canceling of the American Mind.…

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JENNY ODELL: How to not save time (and creatively reject the productive, growth imperative!) 1:01:17

3M ago1:01:17

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Jenny Odell (NYT bestseller, artist) wrote a bestselling book five years ago that Barack Obama declared one of his “books of the year”. “How to Do Nothing” stuck two fingers up to the productivity industry. Jenny followed it up with the recently published, “Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond The Clock” that argues the original problem is our fr…

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AMA: Sarah, what's your take on dating apps? 29:51

3M ago29:51

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OK, this week is a kind of personal and also sociological muse-fest (from someone who's been on ALL the apps since shortly after the last ice age). I cover how I first went on the apps in 2010 (and share what I wrote about it at the time), about my experiences on Raya and, yes, on the latest app people are talking about, Feeld. I had to drop my sha…

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FRANK OSTASESKI: How to live fully when it feels like so much is dying 1:04:57

3M ago1:04:57

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Frank Ostaseski (Buddhist; end-of-life teacher; elder) helps people die best. He has accompanied over 1,000 people through the dying process and trained thousands of healthcare clinicians and family caregivers around the world. He was also a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and has taught at Google and Apple Inc., has been honoured by His Holines…

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AMA: BONUS menopause questions answered, plus my BIG announcement 15:31

3M ago15:31

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I need to give everyone here a bunch of updates…Plus, the BONUS video episode I promised with Dr Louise Newson is now live. Louise answers your questions about libido, whether to take HRT, how to manage menopause when you have Hashimotos etc, you can find it here. SHOW NOTES Here’s the Wild chat about perimenopause and menopause with Dr Louise News…

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DR LOUISE NEWSON: A wild chat about menopause 57:20

3M ago57:20

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Dr Louise Newson (British GP; hormone specialist) is regarded as the “medic who kickstarted the menopause revolution”. For two decades women have been denied treatment for a debilitating condition that affects more than half the population, thanks to one (faulty) study that linked hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to cancer. Louise has been on a mi…

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AMA: What is the best gear to pack for a minimalist camping trip? 19:36

3M ago19:36

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Today’s question is one I always love answering…what do I stuff into my backpack, and what backpack do I actually use (ditto hiking shoes, tent, gear etc)? I do a show and tell for this one, so the video version over at Substack probably makes sense. I throw in some minimalist hacks, too. SHOW NOTES Join the conversation over on Substack and post y…

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PARAG KHANNA: Where should we move to as climate collapses? 1:10:24

3M ago1:10:24

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Parag Khanna (climate migration expert; AI founder) is a global strategist who forecasts human movement around the world and has a company, Climate Alpha, that predicts real estate values based on exposure to climate risk. He’s also recently published a book - MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us - that details how billions of us will be migrating, and li…

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AMA: What is hypergamy? And explain why older women are dating younger men 25:37

3M ago25:37

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In today’s AMA, I cover an intriguing phenomenon in male-female dynamics playing out in the dark, twisted underworld that is dating culture - hypergamy. The phenomenon that has existed for eons whereby women date/marry “up” in educational status, income, age, height etc and men tend to partner “down”. Where does this sit today with a generation dat…

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OLIVIA LAZARD: The big fat renewable energy blindspot NO ONE wants to talk about 1:21:14

3M ago1:21:14

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Olivia Lazard (peace mediator; rare minerals expert) exposes missing chunks in the “green” energy transition that many of us assume to be the “fix” to the climate crisis. Via her work as a fellow at Carnegie Europe and advisor on global security, she explains how the mining and extraction of rare earth metals like lithium, graphite and cobalt - to …

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AMA: Is it doomist to talk about civilisational collapse? 16:14

4M ago16:14

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A cracking Ask Me Anything question this week that gives us a chance to talk about crazy-making tech bros and their antics. My answer sees me dive into p(doom) numbers, Freud, techno-optimistic manifestos and fertility collapse. Fun! Join the conversation over on Substack and post your own Ask Me Anything here. If you need to know a bit more about …

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KATE RAWORTH: Doughnut economics as the antidote to “death by growth” 1:06:07

4M ago1:06:07

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Kate Raworth (“renegade” economist; inventor of the “doughnut” systems model) has one of the most dynamic and controversial theories for “fixing” or adjusting to the planetary mess we’re in. Back in 2017 she released her book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist and it became a cult read – the Pope, Extinction Rebel…

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AMA: How do you manage information overload PLUS should white women activists get out of the arena? 28:54

4M ago28:54

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On today's AMA, I share my hacks and my “mindset” for sifting through, retaining and managing all the data inflow (amino supplements, tilting, biting off more than I can chew as a tactic and advice gleaned from systems thinkers). And I wade into when to speak out and when not to wade into a rally and take the mic (and the responsibility that comes …

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JOHANN HARI: Is Ozempic a miracle drug or something darker? 1:09:10

4M ago1:09:10

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Johann Hari (bestselling author Stolen Focus and Lost Connections) has written another system-rattling book, this time about the new weight loss drugs that everyone is both talking about AND not talking about. I’ve been wanting a wild mind to come chat about the phenomenon for over a year. Johann happened to reach out and tell me he’d been experime…

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AMA: How do you plan your life financially in a collapsing world? Do you bother? 21:46

5M ago21:46

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As we become aware of climate collapse and its ripple effect on the financial and energy systems, and as houses become uninsurable and fossil fuel markets get wobbly, do things like investing, mortgages, and retirement savings become moot? A Substack reader asks me how I’m personally prioritising these things, and I answer candidly. The chat moves …

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ANNABEL ABBS: The subversive, creative upside of insomnia (oh joy!) 1:08:21

5M ago1:08:21

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Annabel Abbs (English novelist; author of Sleepless) was crippled with insomnia. Rather than fight it she looked for its productive plus side and discovered that many incredible creatives have needed to stay awake to access their best selves – their Night Selves. Particularly women, as it turns out. Annabel chats to me about how famous writers, pai…

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The “Uncles” climate case that could change EVERYTHING 25:11

5M ago25:11

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Isabelle Reinecke (founder Grata Fund) is leading a super exciting landmark legal case that could force the Australian Government to actually stick to its climate commitments and stop approving fossil fuel projects immediately. By as early as the end of this year. Seriously! It’s called the Uncles Australian Climate Case (it’s being brought by two …

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ANNA FUNDER: On Wifedom (and calling out Orwellian “doublethink”) 1:12:12

5M ago1:12:12

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Anna Funder (international bestselling author of Wifedom) pens books about power. She is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland, about the Stasi, which is being made into a TV series starring Elizabeth Debicki, and All That I Am, about the Nazis, which won the Miles Franklin Award. Her latest book, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Lif…

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A FUN BACKSTORY: Because I promised it… 11:36

5M ago11:36

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In last week’s interview with a Palestinian and an Israeli Father, I promised to share how we met, a story that involves a famous actor, an Irish author and a bizarre email chain that starts in the Australian outback. Here it is. For some fun. And to remind us all of the power of story and of reaching out to humanity. SHOW NOTES Catch the original …

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HELEN LEWIS: A heterodox update from TERF island 1:25:08

5M ago1:25:08

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Helen Lewis (The Atlantic columnist, BBC podcaster, pop culture decoder) has become a darling of the heterodox podcasting community (and this podcast; catch my previous Wild chat with her about THAT GQ interview with Jordan Peterson here), and, relatedly, a pet target of the extreme Right and Left’s ongoing cancelling zeal. In this interview, I inv…

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A PALESTINIAN AND AN ISRAELI FATHER: “We must all stop being victims; victimhood causes the violence!” 53:04

5M ago53:04

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Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan (peace activists with Parent’s Circle) are the two protagonists from Colum McCann’s Booker-Prize-longlisted book Apeirogon. Both lost their daughters to the conflict, ten years apart. Yet in spite of – or because of - this horror they became dedicated friends, or “brothers”, committed to opposing the Israeli occupatio…

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LIV BOEREE: Explaining Moloch, the mysterious game theory force breaking the world (plus a fix!) 57:49

6M ago57:49

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Liv Boeree (world poker champion; astrophysicist; game theorist) is on a mission to explain why we are all trapped in a zero-sum, race to the bottom…with climate, AI, social media and politics. Why do we keep digging up resources, consuming carbon, getting stuck in nasty online spats and building robots that could kill us? Why don’t we just STOP?? …

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AMA: How do you, Sarah, deal with a broken heart? 24:35

6M ago24:35

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Substack subscribers have posed some beautiful thought-provoking questions this week. Do I suffer from a broken heart and how do I cope with it at a spiritual level? Do I stand by my I Quit Sugar message all these years later, particularly given an awareness of the triggering effect of restrictive messages? And where do we draw the line when someon…

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PROF JOEL PEARSON: Gut feeling is (scientifically) real; this is how to use it 1:13:06

6M ago1:13:06

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Prof. Joel Pearson (Neuroscientist; AI and intuition expert) developed the first scientific test to measure intuition, dragging it out of the woo-woo realm and into a cognitive framework. He’s now written The Intuition Toolkit: The New Science of Knowing What without Knowing Why to show us how and when to use this mysterious superpower in our lives…

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PETER FRANKOPAN: How climate collapsed civilisations (and will it ours?) 53:56

6M ago53:56

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Peter Frankopan (Silk Roads author, Oxford historian) has just written a mega-history book called The Earth Transformed that reframes human history not via various major battles and legendary leaders but through a climate lens. Floods, droughts and, invariably, a volcano or two, dictated the fall of the Roman Empire, the fate of Cleopatra, the rise…

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AMA with a Palestinian peace broker: What should we be doing to help, not hinder, the crisis? Does posting on social media do ANYTHING? 58:41

6M ago58:41

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Today’s question has come in from many of you over recent weeks. It’s an important one to ask as we grapple with the horror in the Middle East and our sense of powerlessness, as leaders around the world seem immobilised by geopolitical interests. I’ve invited Palestinian peace broker Aziz Abu Sarah to help answer it. Aziz is one of the world's most…

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KELLY WEINERSMITH: Why settling Mars is a really dumb idea 55:47

6M ago55:47

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Dr Kelly Weinersmith (behavioural ecologist and space expert) and her husband Zach have just spent four years researching a subject that perplexes many of us – why all the fuss about moving to Mars? Which begs, can we actually build a human settlement on Mars? And, would we want to? They share their findings in their new book A City on Mars: Can We…

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DEVIN MOSS: An atheist death row chaplain on how to die without God 49:45

6M ago49:45

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Devin Moss (atheist chaplain and humanist) late last year ministered a convicted murderer to his death by execution in the state of Oklahoma. Significantly he provided the prisoner, Phillip Hancock, spiritual counsel for more than a year, and “prayed” with him in the execution room…all without drawing on notions of an afterlife or a forgiving God e…

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AMA: Do we create art in the apocalypse? 18:05

7M ago18:05

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I’ve been doing a bunch of Substack meetups around Australia over the past few weeks (the Sydney and Northern NSW ones are happening in March and you can register in the Substack post here). And several people in the community have posed some related questions to do with balancing where the world is at with your need for creative freedom, our own m…

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MAGGIE JACKSON: Why “not knowing” is 2024’s survival superpower 1:00:01

7M ago1:00:01

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Maggie Jackson (award-winning author and journalist) has just written a book - Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure – that argues that while humans crave certainty, we actually experience a less anxious, more productive, happier life when we embrace not knowing. Maggie is known for her writing on social trends, particularly technology’s…

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AMA: Why does hiking “work”? 18:15

7M ago18:15

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More than 43,000 studies have been done to show how and why walking in nature (hiking) has so many mental and physical benefits. In this episode, prompted by listener Stefan’s question that came through on Substack, I talk through my favourite explainers and how it plays out for me. Conservatively, I would say I have done more than 500 hikes in my …

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MAGGIE DENT: What to do about boys (‘cos you asked) 1:03:32

7M ago1:03:32

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Maggie Dent (the “queen of common sense”; parenting expert) raised four sons, largely solo, and went on to write about her experiences and lessons learned. She soon became highly sought after for her candid and loving take on raising young men (she’s also known as the “boy champion”). Maggie is host of The Good Enough Dad and Parental As Anything p…

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AMA: Why are girls flocking Left and boys are flopping Right? 22:09

7M ago22:09

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Did you see the results of the survey published in the Financial Times that showed there is a growing political gap between millennial men and women? I was asked this week what my thoughts were, what’s causing the drift in both directions and other gaps, between young people, should we be worried and what to do? I reference lots of different articl…

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CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN: Exposing the Ultra-Processed Food Trap 57:53

7M ago57:53

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Chris van Tulleken (doctor, TV host) is a London infectious diseases specialist known for his popular BBC health TV programs that he hosts with his identical twin brother (including the kids series Operation Ouch; they’ve won two BAFTAs). In his recent book Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?, wh…

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AMA: Do you regret not having kids? 20:02

7M ago20:02

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A quick, breezy episode that talks about how to navigate decision-making regret, honing in on landing in one's post-repro years and not having had kids. Thank you Megan from my Substack community who sent in the question: Do you regret not having had kids? You have the option to WATCH these bonus episodes over on Substack where you can also join a …

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ALAIN DE BOTTON: A philosophical fix for anxiety 57:11

7M ago57:11

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Alain de Botton (School of Life founder; author) has written 15 books about the philosophy of living – such as The Art of Travel; Status Anxiety; Art as Therapy; and The Course of Love – but he has recently turned his focus to mental health and how philosophy can be used as a therapeutic aid. Alain argues that a mental breakdown can provide the ope…

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BEST OF: BEAU MILES: How to be a backyard adventurer 50:49

8M ago50:49

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Over the Australian summer, I’ve been picking out some cracker eps that you might have missed or would benefit from revisiting. This chat with Beau Miles, a Patagonia and Outward Bound ambassador, author and YouTube star, is perfectly calibrated to keep the holiday spirit alive just a little longer. Beau used to be a mad explorer – he’s indeed conq…

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BEST OF: TIM BROWN: Sarah’s interview with her meditation teacher 45:16

8M ago45:16

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Wild is having a bit of a break as the New Year gets started and we’ll be running a bunch of important or really poignant episodes that you might have missed along the way. Last year I lost my dear friend Tim Brown, my meditation teacher and confidente. He was an incredibly wise man and impacted a lot of people …some of you listening might have rea…

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BEST OF: JULIA CAMERON: How to live the artist's way 40:59

8M ago40:59

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Wild is having a break for a few weeks as the New Year gets started and we’ll be running a bunch of my favourite episodes that you might have missed along the way. I’ve chosen this chat with Julia Cameron, author of The Artists Way because her advice is the kind we all need for starting off something new, like a year, a year that’s likely going to …

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