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/]

🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

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

🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡

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/]

🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡

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

🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡

Meditation, Interbeing & Emotional Upskilling with Suzie Brown

It's the RESKILLIENCE ROADTRIP where I'm intercepting all sorts of good sorts along Australia's east coast!

First up is Ceilidh Meo who teaches no less than 80 apocalypse skills (!!!) while also growing olives, shoring up the food system and being casually shamanic.

This is a ROMP of a convo that is INSPIRING ME TO USE CAPS. Such fun. Such depth. 

I also share about the caravan park we've just checked into.

🔥 WITHIN 

GEEK OUT ON MICRO NICHE OLIVE PRESSING

An antidote to the olive oil crisis

Cooperation is not the same as collaboration!

POMMUS

The gross truth about imported olive oil

THE FIVE C FRAMEWORK

When knowledge ain't power

Systems design thinking for avoiding monumental fuck ups

WHY 40s ARE THE BEST DECADE

Yay for confirmation bias!

Loyal soliders of the psyche

Birth story REWRITE

Learning types

Manifestation vs. MAGIC

Where does the need to know everything come from?

Do more of what you’re already good at, or challenge your comfort zone?

Not here to consume, but to create!

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS

Connect with Ceilidh ~ CIVILITAS [https://www.civilitas.online/]

Ceilidh's olive oil ~ Apulia Grove [https://apulia-grove.com.au/]

The Long Road Olive Coop [https://www.instagram.com/longroadolivecoop/]

Art exhibition + workshops ~ Ancient Roots in the New World [https://www.ancientroots.art/]

Mel Robbins ~ The Let Them Theory [https://www.melrobbins.com/book/the-let-them-theory/]

School of Shamanic Womancraft  [https://schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com/]

Happen Films ~ The New Peasants screening tour [https://www.happenfilms.com/films/the-new-peasants]

🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

Know this about people pleasing, olive pressing and apocalypse skills

It's a Jordan + Catie double bill for the Season Four finale 🎊  

Join us for a fireside D&M as two humans just tryna digest the microplastic casserole of modernity… and make something better. 

You’ll hear about my secret storytelling anxiety, Jord’s new award nominated film, my other boyfriends, law breaking, roadkill harvesting, why we took the Good Death-i-vore Pledge, sacred hunting, how to really give a shit about your ecosystem AAAAAND turning baboozlement into useful skills. 

⚠️ A warning for sensitive ears, we swear a lot in this episode.

LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️

Jord + Happen Films' newest doco ~ The New Peasants [https://www.happenfilms.com/films/the-new-peasants]

The New Peasants Australian screening tour (come meet us!) [https://www.happenfilms.com/films/the-new-peasants]

Film ~ In My Blood It Runs [https://inmyblooditruns.com/]

Film ~ Honeyland [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyland]

Best show ever ~ Bruce Parry’s TRIBE [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_(British_TV_series)]

Cal Newport  [https://calnewport.com/]

Richard Telford’s DIY mini biochar kiln [https://www.abdallahhouse.com/2025/06/how-to-make-mini-biochar-kiln.html]

Dylan Graves’ biochar podcast ~ Char Chit Chat [https://www.youtube.com/@CharChitChat]

The Do with Su zine [https://hub.holmgren.com.au/lp/do-with-su/zine/numero-uno/] ~ Su Dennett + Catie Payne (inc. the Good Death-i-vore Pledge)

David Holmgren [https://holmgren.com.au/]

Bill Mollison [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison]

🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡 [https://www.patreon.com/Reskillience]





Love in the Time of Collapse with Jordan + Catie

I share a recipe for de-zombifying your life before chatting with Imogen Ive, Director at Mittagundi [https://www.mittagundi.org.au/] – a remote 520 acre farm and off grid education centre built by and for young folks in the high country. This convo is a reminder that sometimes hard is good, together is better and a pack horse, tent and sense of adventure beats air conditioned comfort any day.

In the conversational cauldron:

🍯 Setting up a working farm and outdoor ed centre in the middle of nowhere

🍯 Living without modern comforts, electric tools, phones or watches

🍯 Wilderness adventures for young folks from all walks of life

🍯 An oh-snap safety vs. risk reframe

🍯 The dilution of outdoor ed in schools

🍯 How to facilitate confidence and capacity in young people

🍯 Why we don’t try new things, and how to hack our fear of failure

🍯 Bringing off grid flavours to the urban palate

LINKY POOS 

Mittagundi Outdoor Education Centre [https://www.mittagundi.org.au/]

Mittagundi on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mittagundi/]

🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡

✏️ Leave Reskillience a written review like a big old legend [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/reskillience/id1723090226] ✏️

Cabin in the Woods with Imogen Ive

Shrug off the cloak of secrecy and awkwardness around death with palliative care nurse Pippa White. I’ve been wanting to bring a death convo to the airwaves for ages, because there’s a huge imbalance between light/dark, above/below, waxing/waning, growth/decay, possessing/relinquishing energies in our culture (and I'm the first person to perpetuate it). Shout out to everyone who sent frank and thoughtful questions for Pippa to answer – you’ll hear them towards the end of the ep.

Pippa White is a palliative care nurse and death care advocate and educator in the Anthroposophical tradition. We discuss:

🖤 What is Anthroposophic philosophy?

🖤 Death care rituals, balms and vigils

🖤 Windows into the reality of spirit from people in transition

🖤 Why to “do the work” at the eleventh hour

🖤 Soothing suffering without drugs

🖤 How painful is death?

🖤 Different ways to relate to pain

🖤 Small, slow solutions to dying (tiny local end of life retreats)

🖤 Pet euthanasia, yay or nay?

🖤 How to deal with loved ones in denial?

🖤 Can you make a living in end of life care?

🖤 How do you document/cherish a life?

🖤 What folks find difficult when dying?

🖤 Grieving to breathe and to love

🖤 Birth and death thresholds

LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️

Pippa White [https://ndan.com.au/palliative-care/pippa-white]

Anthroposophical Society Australia [https://www.anthroposophyau.org.au/]

What is Advance Care Planning? [https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/understand-advance-care-planning/advance-care-planning-explained]

Wedgetail Retreat [https://www.tweedpalliativesupportandwedgetailretreat.com/]

Martín Prechtel [https://floweringmountain.com/]

Stephen Jenkinson [https://orphanwisdom.com/]

[poem] Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46569/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night]

🧡🧡🧡 Show Reskillience some love on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡🧡🧡

End of Life Matters with Pippa White

Do not listen to this unless you want to reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. I tell a story about being a grub, before having an animated chat with rural woman of the year Katie Finlay about staunching the loss of small farms in Australia and supporting emerging growers to step up – even and especially if they don’t own land. (What even is land ownership?) 

🍎 AND ALSO

Katie and Hugh Finlay are black belt orchardists whose online program Grow Great Fruit [https://growgreatfruit.com/] is just brilliant for anyone who wants to obtain a yield from fruit trees (with an organic and holistic tilt, of course). It gives me great joy to connect you with their work.

This is their Dream Orchard Masterclass [https://growgreatfruit.com/product/design-your-home-orchard-registration-0625/] starting REAL SOON on June 12.

🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS

Grow Great Fruit [https://growgreatfruit.com/]

Harcourt Organic Farming Coop [https://hofcoop.com.au/]

Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA)  [https://afsa.org.au/]

Tess Sellar ~ Sellar Dairy  [https://sellardairy.com.au/]

🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

Growing Against the Odds with Katie Finlay

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.