Big personal shares at the top of the ep (preview: podcasting terrifies me) before an utterly delightful conversation with Scots folk singer Josie Vallely aka. Quinie [https://www.quinie.co.uk/].

Quinie's album Forefowk, Mind Me was named The Guardian's best folk release of 2025, but don't worry if you're not into bagpipes because we mostly chat about:

Not making your art your career

Tips for slow art/seasonal living in a rushing world

The mind bending differences between relating with Country in Australia versus Scotland

Minority languages and evocation of place

The right to roam

Confused white settler syndrome

When you’re a cultural mongrel

Impure ancestry

Place as a surrogate elder

Tradition in motion

Where do songs live?

Journeying on horseback

Horses as bodyguards

Why we all just want to be got

🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS

Quinie’s home on the web [https://www.quinie.co.uk/]

Quinie on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/quinie.music/]

[album] Forefowk, Mind Me ~ Quinie [https://open.spotify.com/album/0xbYYtVhesOTeHJmzmT6np?si=BMDVtJNoQ1yDTzLsr797gg]

Quinie’s seasonal almanac ~ Things that happen every year in a cycle [https://quiniemerch.bigcartel.com/product/everything-happens-in-a-cycle-almanac-wall-hanger]

[film] Forefowk, Mind Me  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLd9k_WF40]

Guardian review of Quinie’s album [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/23/quinie-forefowk-mind-me-review-collecting-songs-on-horseback-this-scottish-musician-is-alive-with-ideas]

Cover art photo credit: Anthony Rintoul

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PLACE AS ELDER w/ QUINIE

A garden drama unfolds during a heatwave, and I share my summer solstice/New Year wishes for you.

Thanks for tuning into another year of Reskillience! We'll be back later in January full of fresh questions and custard. 

Shout out to my love Jordan Osmond for helping produce this episode.

Sound credit: BlackbirdFiltered.wav by acclivity [https://freesound.org/s/13531/] 

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It ain't over till the blackbird sings 

Cor blimey, we're getting equiney! Cast aside your Saddle Club trauma and learn how horses can help us be better humans and stewards of nature in this rich convo with Lisa Podosin.

Lisa is a horse listener, advocate and author who swapped Hollywood for a tiny home on shared land with a herd of seven horses. We get real deep on topics of:

🐴 not putting off till retirement what you wanna do today

🐴 choosing freedom over security at any age

🐴 land sharing gifts and tips (single women supporting women!)

🐴 how horses as prey animals reveal our inner misalignment

🐴 moving beyond control-based strategies (bridles, saddles, whips) and towards trust

🐴 how to be agents of liberation for both the more-than-human world and our own wild souls

🐴 learning interspecies communication

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️

Lisa’s home on the web [https://onewithhorses.com/]

Pre-order Lisa’s book [https://onewithhorses.com/book]

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Thanks for the birdsong straget [https://freesound.org/people/straget/sounds/432091/?]! Blackbird.wav by straget | License: Attribution 4.0

The Courage to Follow Your Path (and how to talk to animals) with Lisa Podosin

You want it, you got it: an open discussion about the cracks in our civilisation, and how to catch each other when it all falls apart.

Dave Pollard [https://howtosavetheworld.ca/] has been writing about culture, complexity, deep ecology and collapse for longer than some of us have been alive. While he continues to cheer on radical ‘deep green’ activists, he no longer believes that that we can change or reform The System. This convo is about what to do instead.

[first aired in 2023]

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️

Dave's writings [https://howtosavetheworld.ca/]

Dave’s recommended reading list ~ The Books That Have Influenced Me Most [https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2021/12/15/the-books-that-have-influenced-me-most/]

Dave’s article ~ How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse? [https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2022/09/10/how-do-we-teach-the-critical-skills-needed-to-face-collapse/]

Molly Housch Gordon's piece ~ How to Survive the End of The World [https://mollyhoushgordon.medium.com/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world-61f5119fcce2]

[watch] The New Peasants by Happen Films [https://www.happenfilms.com/films/the-new-peasants]

"It's going to be a blast... and scary as hell." Dave Pollard on Collapse

Could you live without money? No support payments, no savings account, no secret benefactors? 

Jo Nemeth [https://jolowimpact.wordpress.com/] has been doing so for the past decade, and reckons she is less stressed and more secure in her moneyless life (in which she shares a home with eight other humans and plays the role of house keeper/manager/grower/frugavore). 

This is a truly radical tale of a woman who went the whole hog and gave up the bacon 💰 to invest in relationships and reciprocity. We cover:

What is poverty/wealth?

Why live without money?

Jo has no hope!

Less money = more freedom

Why to be a home economist

Issues in a nine person household

The deliciousness of aligning your actions with your values

Moneyless gift giving, cravings, medical and more

Waste food seagull mode

Receiving is harrrrd

Kids + collapse

On taking care of things

Collapse priorities

Growing locally adapted food

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️

Jo’s home on the web [https://jolowimpact.wordpress.com/]

Jo on Instagram ~ @jolowimpact [https://www.instagram.com/jolowimpact/?hl=en]

Jo in the Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/01/meet-the-woman-who-lives-without-money-i-feel-more-secure-than-when-i-was-earning]

Mark Boyle ~ The Moneyless Man [https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-au/products/moneyless-man-book-mark-boyle-9781786075994?sku=GOR010143080&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17920610358&gbraid=0AAAAADFDvN0dB-PefieiFKHxw5txjzZow&gclid=CjwKCAiA8bvIBhBJEiwAu5ayrMl5bQBWKtYsFjuhuu6C2vQxk5cCAAqnVUlneDZlCdmrDZJiH6_SdBoCW_kQAvD_BwE] + The Way Home [https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-way-home-mark-boyle/book/9781786077271.html?source=pla&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21618361565&gbraid=0AAAAA-Ia9hNfX40zPbcSPid12Fkj4QSfe&gclid=CjwKCAiA8bvIBhBJEiwAu5ayrCe7q_b4gjH5t_8jTJBScFucyS2a_64p4SV1bZcdrKZhTD1uGE7-VxoC8r8QAvD_BwE]

Eaarth ~ Bill McKibben [https://billmckibben.com/books/eaarth/]

Luke Kemp ~ Goliath’s Curse [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/goliaths-curse-9780241741245]

Artist As Family [https://artistasfamily.is/]

The Art of Frugal Hedonism [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/the-art-frugal-hedonism/] ~ Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb

The really really free market [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Really_Free_Market]

Just Collapse [https://justcollapse.org/]

Sound credits: first raven [https://freesound.org/people/shaunie_p/sounds/807467/], flock of ravens [https://freesound.org/people/dbache/sounds/555187/].

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This Moneyless Life with Jo Nemeth

I tell a story about becoming a gardening influencer before sharing an animated and long-awaited conversation with David Trood aka. The Weedy Gardener [https://www.youtube.com/c/theweedygarden]!  

Weedy, Jord and I discuss:

🌱 Creative land access

🌱 Body as compost

🌱 Hearing nature's call

🌱 Being an eye cell for humanity

🌱 Showing your failures

🌱 Why to love the small stuff

🌱 The all important nutrient cycle

🌱 Decomposing cane toad

🌱 Pest management, the Viking way

🌱 Rhizophagy

🌱 Nitty gritty on why organic produce is healthier

🌱 From grandpa bod to garden god

🌱 Weedy Garden Makeovers

🌱 Sacred social media spaces

🌱 Why garden?

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️

The Weedy Garden on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/c/theweedygarden]

The Weedy Garden online [https://www.theweedygarden.com/]

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The Viking Approach to Pest Management (plus ALL the horticultural sorcery) with the Weedy Garden’s David Trood

I tell a story about the ironic demise of my keepcup, and the difference between light green and deep green choices, before a pot-of-tea-convo with Laura Jean [https://www.dietitianvalues.com/]. Laura is a renegade business coach, dietician and permaculturalist who will help you see VALUES in a whole new light, and how to use them to illuminate the life/business/world you really want. Prepare to cry tears of recognition and possibility.

🐝 Building trust in yourself for changes that take courage

🐝 Eating disorder shares and healing strategies

🐝 The very worst thing that can possibly happen

🐝 Body check for making decisions

🐝 Do we change, or choose?

🐝 Laura’s values

🐝 Why we recreate the same old shit even when living “alternatively”

🐝 Figuring out your Bare Ass Minimum

🐝 The felt sense of success

🐝 Money as a tool to enact your values

🐝 Three steps towards a regenerative business

🐝 Commerce vs. capitalism

🐝 Activities for clarifying your values

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️

Laura on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dietitianvalues/]

Laura’s podcast  [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dietitian-values/id1569166478]

Dietician Values [https://www.dietitianvalues.com/]

Gundaroo Growers

Canberra Environment Center [https://www.canberraenvironment.org/]

🙏 Yellow-tailed black cockatoo sound credit [https://freesound.org/people/guyburns/sounds/336002/?attribution=javascript%3Avoid%280%29%3B]🙏 

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The Felt Sense of Success with Laura Jean

Three unbelievable stories about owls, and how to be a myceliating, possibilitarian practivist with the phenomenal Morag Gamble.

Morag has cornflower blue eyes and a glorious crop of hair that curls at the ends like pea shoots. She consorts with broad beans and leafy greens in bare feet, and has sent no dig gardening viral on YouTube.

This convo was recorded at Crystal Waters Eco Village [https://crystalwaters.org.au/] where Morag lives with her family and 200+ other humans on 640 acres shared with a teeming assortment of subtropical wildlife.

📝 SHOW NOTES

Building your livelihood around the seasons of your life

How to find your flow and live with intention

More than human helpers and teachers

“I am the garden gardening”

Ways to access land when accessing land is insane

Myceliating ideas around the world

Why aren’t permaculture villages everywhere?

Possibilitarianism

Nourish threads of connection rather than fighting the fight

How the new unfolds through collapse of the old

The vital role of the arts

How are we to live?

What is enough in these times?

Why permaculture is everything

Gift economy how-to

Do you have what it takes to be a permaculture teacher?

Integrating permaculture with your profession

Morag is a beloved permaculture teacher and designer, founder of The Permaculture Education Institute, pioneer of urban permaculture projects like Northey Street City Farm, and an international changemaker who has led changemaking programs in 22 countries.

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS

Morag’s home on the web [https://ourpermaculturelife.com/]

Morag’s podcast ~ Sense-making in a changing world [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sense-making-in-a-changing-world/id1517044365]

Morag on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/c/MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Become a permaculture teacher ~ The Permaculture Education Institute [https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/]

Rob Hopkins [https://www.robhopkins.net/]

Jeremy Lent [https://www.jeremylent.com/]

Schumacher College [https://www.schumachercollege.org/]

Vandana Shiva

Arne Ness

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Fritjof Capra

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The Way of the Owl with Morag Gamble

Can birdsong heal your hearing? Can a rainforest recruit humans to protect it? What is deep ecology, anyway?

Of all the approaches to “saving the world”, this one has my heart. Join me in conversation with elder John Seed as we get to the marrow of the environmental crisis, from the illusion of separation between human beings and nature, to the rituals, ceremonies and stories that can heal it.

About John Seed

Just last year at age 79 John was arrested for strapping himself to logging machinery in the Bulga State Forest, and has been awarded the Order of Australia medal for his services to the environment. John launched the Rainforest Information Center, has initiated global rainforest action networks and campaigns, developed The Council of All Beings with Joanna Macy, co-authored Thinking Like A Mountain with Joanna Macy Pat Fleming and Arne Ness, and spent decades facilitating experiential deep ecology workshops.

IN THIS CONVO

John’s story of being called into service by Nature

Collaborating with Joanna Macy

The root of the planetary crisis

Community therapies to heal civilisational wounds

Business As Usual, The Great Unravelling, The Great Turning

The Work That Reconnects

Activism as ceremony

The antidote to cultural amnesia

Why John loves podcasts!

How not to judge gross human behaviour

Honouring our pain for the world

Feelings as ancient intelligence

Can anyone run a grief circle?

The council of all beings

The cosmic walk

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS

John Seed’s home on the web [https://johnseed.net/]

The Rainforest Information Center [https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/]

[read online] Thinking Like A Mountain by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming & Arne Ness [https://www.deepecology.org.au/philosophy/thinking-like-a-mountain-towards-a-council-of-all-beings/]

Deep Ecology  [https://www.deepecology.net/]

The Work That Reconnects [https://workthatreconnects.org/]

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Field recording credit: Thrushes, golden whistlers, yellow faced honeyeaters and a spotted marsh frog by Afro408 [https://freesound.org/s/815260/] License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

Save the World by Becoming the World with John Seed

Friends! Here’s a D&M (Dharma & Meditation) conversation I recorded with mindfulness meditation teacher and founder of Australian Parents for Climate Action Suzie Brown while visiting Narara Eco Village [https://nararaecovillage.com/] last week. 

If you’ve ever felt anxious, unsure how to process difficult/obstinate emotions, or sad for no reason, this episode will provide ample tools for stilling the mind and relating to yourself – and the world – with kindness. 

On that note, I start the ep with an emo travel diary entry, and how a snaggy creek helped me see my internal struggles in a whole new light.

IN THIS CONVO

🕊️ When you feel sad for no reason despite the trappings of success

🕊️ Can we *really* choose happiness?

🕊️ The pleasant/unpleasant emotional pinball machine

🕊️ The magic of noticing

🕊️ Name it to tame it

🕊️ Kindfulness

🕊️ How to establish a non-militant meditation habit

🕊️ Rejigging negativity bias

🕊️ The R.A.I.N practice for difficult emotions

🕊️ Dharma + ecodharma explained

🕊️ How interbeing can solve the polycrisis

🕊️ Long Shower Syndrome

🕊️ Resource guilt

🕊️ Parents for Climate!

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS

Insight Meditation Australia [https://www.insightmeditationaustralia.org/]

Sydney Insight Meditators [https://www.sydneyinsightmeditators.org/]

Suzie’s teaching profile [https://www.insightmeditationaustralia.org/suzie-brown.html]

Banyan Together [https://banyantogether.com/]

Weekly online (by donation) Sky Sangha Meditation gathering [https://events.humanitix.com/hello-sky-sangha]

Australian Parents for Climate Action! [https://www.parentsforclimate.org/]

Give Suzie a hoy at hello@suziebrown.au

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Meditation, Interbeing & Emotional Upskilling with Suzie Brown

Reskillience is a podcast about the hard, soft and surprising skills that'll help us stay afloat if our modern systems don't. Hosted by Catie Payne, released weekly.