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How do we unfold future culture from our imagination? In this episode entitled New Memories For The Future, Amisha speaks with Rob Hopkins, an environmental activist and writer. Rob is the founder of Transition movement, cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network. He has written 6 books on environmentalism and activism, and was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists. His podcast ‘From What If, To What Next’ explores how we can make our future visions reality. He is a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project. Amisha and Rob explore the power of our imagination and spaces that allow us to vision the future. They reveal that we live in a survival mode culture designing imagination out of our lives causing its mass loss and collective fear of imagining the future in hopeful and positive ways.  Rob shares powerful examples from his latest book of how communities can de-activate this destructive way of being and step back into collective imagination. He talks about his work with Transition movement in Transition Towns, such as Totness, where communities are reimagining and rebuilding their world; setting examples of how we can imagine and build a new culture and tell a new story of positivity and hope for the future. We learn that in order to re-map our dysfunctional societies we need to re-activate our collective imagination. We need to give people a taste of a different future and spaces for exploring possibility. We need to re-imagine our relationship with technology, spend time in nature and with practices for quieting our minds, carve intentional time to be creative, to play and tell stories. The North Stars of our future are shining in the fine details we observe and in the ways we intertwine these.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2021/04/29/e134-rob-hopkins-on-collective-imagination-play-culture-and-future-mapping-new-memories-for-the-future/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How can we unlock purpose and new mindsets to forge ecological and systemic change? In this episode entitled Guided By Natures Epiphanies, Amisha talks to Jessica Ferrow, a climate activist, entrepreneur and sustainability strategist. Jessica co-founded climate impact agency ‘Twelve’. They support purpose-driven businesses to unlock purpose and impactful responses to the climate and ecological emergency. Jessica is a mentor and advisory board member of Catalyse Change, a director of the Bristol Green Capital Partnership, co-chair of the Bristol Climate Leaders Group and a member of the mayor’s One City Environment Board, helping her home city Bristol achieve its ambitious net zero 2030 carbon targets. Together, Amisha and Jessica recognise a rising sense of urgency in the world for meaningful responses to the climate and ecological crisis. They explore how inspiring leadership and human connection can shift mindsets and forge purpose driven changes in communities and businesses. Jessica shares her passion for bringing climate emergency activism into boardrooms. Her heart-based leadership and transformative experiences guide businesses and organisations into unlocking their purpose, leadership and strategic responses to the climate and ecological emergency that serve both, communities and ecologies. She talks about Bristol and the inspiring challenges of it transforming into a carbon neutral city by 2030 considering systemic inequalities, climate justice and our interconnectedness with global communities and nature.  We learn that community initiatives and young people are setting admirable examples of leadership taking agency to navigate the complexities of our time by freely standing in their power and truths to solve the climate crisis. We can all activate our purposeful leadership by spending time with nature. Nature is the teacher that can guide us into epiphanies and mindset shifts whilst providing sanctuaries of solace that can help us find purposeful responses during this great time of upheaval.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2021/04/22/e133-jessica-ferrow-on-climate-strategies-rewilding-and-purposeful-leadership-guided-by-natures-epiphanies/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How do we cultivate a life of deep listening and purpose? In this episode entitled Embodying Beautiful Leadership In A Complex World, Amisha Ghadiali, our inspiring host, shares a stream of consciousness exploring the practice of deep listening, intuitive leadership and holding vision whilst embracing the complexities of our time in cultural systems of oppression. Amisha reflects on her journey of bringing alive visions often met with resistance revealing personal challenges of honouring her visionary and creative self. She shares insights into ways of cultivating self-trust and intuition whilst challenging the difficult aspects of unpacking our systemic conditioning that undermines our inner guidance.  She gives a rare glimpse into her practice as an Intuitive Therapist and the ‘Beautiful Leadership Immersion’, where spiritual leaders share unique approaches and insights on how we can nurture ourselves to become the leaders of our own lives. Amisha’s offerings are communities for learning deep listening, embodiment and intuitive practices that help us release self-limiting patterns and that activate transformation, so that we may freely forge new pathways for potentiality, creativity and pleasure in our lives. We learn that Amisha’s book ‘Intuition’ is a guide for sensing and exploring the deeper qualities within our being that reveal the wisdom of who we are and enable us to let parts of ourselves fall into their rightful places. Connecting with our intuition is a powerful pursuit of redefining ourselves, that nurtures seeds of possibility into the visionary gardens of the new world we are craving for.   Links from this episode and more https://allthatweare.org/2021/04/15/e132-seeding-our-visionary-gardens-embodying-beautiful-leadership-in-a-complex-world/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How do we merge indigenous intelligence and modern technology to co-create better societies? In this episode entitled Our Reflections In Mirrors Of Hope, Amisha talks to Lily Cole, sometimes filmmaker, writer, public speaker, supermodel and actor. She is an advocate for sociopolitical and environmental issues and a patron of the Environmental Justice Foundation. She co-founded Impossible: a technology company that solves social and environmental problems. Lily’s most recent book and companion podcast, ‘Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in Our Changing World’, is a rousing call to action that will leave you feeling hopeful that we can make a difference. Amisha and Lily explore the idea of co-creating communities that are powered by our commonalities, indigenous intelligence and modern technology. Lily talks about her personal observations gathered during times spent with different indigenous communities. She speaks of the intelligence rooted in egalitarian value systems of indigenous cultures, the reverence and understanding of the natural world, storytelling and spirituality as powerful offerings to modern society lacking collective values systems.  Lily shares her experience and challenges building Impossible, applying cutting edge tech to build a digital community and gift economy. Together they reflect that we don’t need expensive apparatus to encourage a shift of consciousness and the activation of generous community spirit. It is the combination of all instruments and skills available to humankind that will afford us the co-creation of new types of conscious consumerism and dynamic communities for the future.  We learn that listening to each other, taking small actions and making more conscious lifestyle choices aligned with our personal truths, are the mirrors of hope that will affect change of the mainstream and the political economic status quo, so we may conceptualise new outcomes for society.   Links from this episode and more https://allthatweare.org/2021/04/08/e131-lily-cole-on-gift-economy-local-community-and-technology-optimism-our-reflections-in-mirrors-of-hope/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How do we create a world in which everything is sacred?  In this episode entitled Planting Future Intelligence, Amisha talks to Clare Dubois, an environmentalist, social entrepreneur and inspirational speaker. She is the founder and CEO of TreeSisters.org, a global women’s movement leading social change and tropical reforestation. Clare’s holistic approach aims to activate collective cultural transformation and feminine leadership principles to restore our reciprocity with nature. In this uplifting conversation, Amisha and Clare explore we can activate paradigm shifts away from dominant, extractive and patriarchal culture into a thriving reality guided by leadership with feminine principles and in reciprocity with nature. Clare shares that in order to flourish this kind of leadership we need to open up to our infinite possibilities and capacities as humans by falling from our minds into our hearts.  Clare talks about her awakening into mobilising women and environmental activism catalysed by a car crash into a tree that gifted her a unique vision of the future. She speaks of the challenges of being an activist for restoring feminine principles and nature in systems that devalue and destruct these. Her organisation Treesisters.org is a powerful antidote; a sisterhood with a call to action to restore our forests and feminine principles. It supports women to restore their relationship with life as an intelligence and history entwined with nature by listening to their deeper truths, redefining and embodying their sovereignty. We learn that we cannot create a new world with an economy that requires death of nature and subjugation of peoples. For a new world to emerge, old systems need to collapse. We need to slow down, listen to our bodies and honour ourselves as miracles in sacred relationship with life. We need to relearn what it means to be human by linking arms with sacred intelligence. That way we will plant beautiful forests for a reciprocal future.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2021/04/01/e130-clare-dubois-on-reforestation-feminine-leadership-and-radical-interconnectedness-planting-future-intelligence/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How can we learn to live from the heart and rebalance the impacts of patriarchal systems? In this episode entitled Catalysts For Wholehearted Change, Amisha talks with Joseph Tenzin Oliver, a social entrepreneur and change activist, who has dedicated his life to influence and design new business models improved by humanitarian and ecological practices. From advising on megacity development to Artificial Intelligence, he has contributed to shaping our world for over a decade consistently pushing the boundaries.  Joe reveals his entrepreneurial paths as a changemaker with a career that covers many different industries and multi-potential themes. He describes living and testing life outside of systemic norms in arms with spiritual and life practices that transcended boundaries and conventions. Joe shares the unfolding of his unique way of life and his ultimate calling into service of helping others to create businesses and products that catalyse change and reconfigure our systems for the greater good.  Together Amisha and Joe explore their life changing experiences of grief and death as a constant life process that prepares us for crisis and a life lived from the heart. They describe these as a powerful initiation, where we meet vulnerability and resilience as skills that can help us build life and businesses drawing on the wisdom of compassion and love in service to humanity and ecologies.  They talk about male privileges, societal biases and generational brutalism that have constructed skewed perceptions of masculinity forming destructive norms of how we do business, design products and build society. We learn there is a sea change occurring with men are blossoming new brotherhoods. These are spaces where men purposefully teach men how to speak emotions and vulnerabilities; how to live their dreams from the heart and how to integrate histories of destruction, extraction and toxic behavior so the pendulum of change may swing to balance masculine and feminine for a wholehearted future.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2021/03/25/e129-joe-tenzin-oliver-on-masculinity-grief-and-serial-entrepreneurship-catalysts-for-wholehearted-change/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How can we walk the paths of tradition to become true collaborators with nature?  In this episode entitled The Wonderment Of Our Nature, Amisha talks with Sam Lee, Mercury Prize-nominated and BBC Folk Award-winning singer, conservationist and curator. Sam is a folk music collector and specialist with a passion for wilderness studies and nature connection sharing and interpreting ancient oral music from Britain and Ireland. Sam works holistically in challenging the very nature of our heritage music in the 21st Century and he will soon release his 1st book about the songs of ‘The Nightingale’. Amisha and Sam explore oral folk traditions as initiations into a way of life in harmony with nature. Sam describes folk songs as the stories that hold the wisdom of our ancestors, the old stories that connect us to renovation, adoration and the essence of the land.  Together the talk about the unfolding of Sam’s calling into folk and nature’s song; a journey of intention, deep listening and experiencing nature from a sensory place with an activists heart. Sam shares his profound encounter with the beautiful song of the Nightingale, which led him to create an immersive and sensory pilgrimage where we can experience the concerts of this endangered bird species. It is an enchanting way to experience the birds in their habitat whilst bringing us into tune with nature’s beauty through folk song, fireside stories and community. In his new book, Sam gathers the stories of ‘The Nightingale’ giving insights into the bird’s significance in different cultures. We learn that nature is the cord principle of life and that the pandemic offers the opportunity for us to become its true collaborators by honouring our interbeingness and the wisdom traditions of song; by investing our money into its conservation, sustainable forestry and sustainable agriculture preventing vast habitat loss and population crash of species.    Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2021/03/18/e128-sam-lee-on-folk-pilgrimage-and-the-nightingale-the-wonderment-of-our-nature/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How can we make better choices with what we have and who we are for the good of humanity?  In this episode entitled Collective Empowerment From The Heart, Amisha talks with Nasreen Sheikh, a survivor of modern-day slavery, social entrepreneur, human rights advocate and an international speaker. Born in a small rural village on the border of India and Nepal, she escaped forced marriage, child labor and extreme poverty risking everything to experience freedom. Today she runs several social enterprises working to eradicate modern-day slavery and advocating for basic human rights. Nasreen reveals her life’s path from her childhood living in underserved communities falling victim to modern day slavery, her escape from this ‘modern war’ into birthing her life’s calling as a global campaigner and budding social entrepreneur empowering women, girls and local artisans. Her work transforms the lives of many exploited by fashion sweatshop culture fuelled by our habits and systems of over-consumption. Carelessly designed toxic fashion supply chains, not only exploit humans, but pollute our rivers, our soil and our air, perpetuate sickness, disease and death. Nasreen shares that raising awareness of these destructive impacts and simultaneously securing basic human rights, such as nutritious food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, safe environment and access to technology in underserved communities will forge systemic and cultural change needed to create a future where we may collectively thrive. Together they explore the potency of good leadership, good technology and the cultivation of our intuition as essential support systems for solving the world’s biggest problems, to secure basic human rights and to form a new society, where we are active leaders and change-makers.  We learn that we have agency over our lives to break free from the conditioning of systems and cultures that don’t serve the good of humanity. Every small action and decision we make has impact and can be of service; whatever we choose will be our future.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2021/03/11/e127-nasreen-sheikh-on-modern-day-slavery-womens-rights-and-cultural-change-collective-empowerment-from-the-heart/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How can technology and story expand cultural possibilities of the future?  In this episode entitled Blueprints For The Future, Amisha talks with Sarah Drew, author, teacher and creator of visionary media. Sarah catalyses powerful blueprints for the future deeply rooted in the gnosis of the past. She is the author of the eco-feminist novel, GAIA CODEX, and a featured speaker at the graduate level and at Google, ABC Deepak Homebase, The Assemblage and Bioneers. She is currently a popular teacher and mentor for women worldwide on topics such as Feminine Wisdom and  Evolutionary Culture. Together Amisha and Sarah recognise the current season as a gift for regenesis, reclamation and reconnection into ways of being innate to our nature and grounded in infinite potentiality of our souls. It is a time to cultivate quiet practices that bring  us into resonance with awe-inspiring creativity, higher consciousness and Earth.   Sarah shares insights into her meditative writing practice that opens doorways to feminine wisdom and blueprints for the future through myths, stories, alchemy and science. Her eco-feminist novel ‘GAIA CODEX’, is a visionary activation into feminine wisdom as a collective experience in story form, a book club in a tree planting sisterhood, and experiences in multiple media mediums. As students of goddesses and archetypes, they reveal that embodying feminine wisdom means to be aligned with our courage, our inner calling and potentiality so we can bring forth clarity of vision, creativity and beauty. It means to practice discernment that can be somatically guided, so we may cultivate ideas that enhance life for all. We learn that Virtual Reality can provide us with eye-opening and visceral experiences that give us more agency by growing our consciousness, empathy and communion with nature. Such fertile applications of technology are invitations for rewilding our evolutionary paths to remedy the extractive ‘hunger culture’ of our times.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2021/03/04/e126-sarah-drew-on-virtual-reality-rewilding-and-feminine-wisdom-blueprints-for-the-future/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How do you bring your idea to life and make disruptive change in this world? In this conversation entitled Powered By The Fire Of Being, Amisha talks to Miki Agrawal, social entrepreneur and founder of acclaimed social enterprises: WILD, THINX & TUSHY. She is also the author of the #1 best-selling books ‘DO COOL SH*T’ and ‘DISRUPT-HER’, a modern manifesto that questions & confronts thirteen major areas in our lives - money, career, relationships, friendships, the culture of owning “more stuff”, perfectionism, takedown culture etc - and disrupts them one by one. Miki shares her experiences of growing powerful businesses birthed as responses to social and environmental challenges, designed as solutions that disrupt cultural norms by moving society forward without band aids. She shares how she understands failure as revelation and her entrepreneurial paths as learning experiences that are about growing partnerships and business models that can be awesome spaces for exploring ground-breaking work, where we can celebrate the soulful parts of our existence and human experience.  Together they speak about take down culture that’s fired up by social media etiquette of shaming and perfectionism resulting in generations caught up in fear of stepping out, taking creative risks and leaps with new ideas. They reveal that the antidotes are innovations and social media conversations focused on celebrating and building community, human connection, belonging and wellness of body and spirit. Miki shares the story behind creating TUSHY, the company that has revolutionised how we poop by reducing use of toilet paper, and providing toilets to communities that didn’t have them.  We learn that we can reclaim our sense of agency, worthiness and creativity by unwiring our indoctrinations guided by the principles of the disrupter triangle, explained in Miki’s book ‘‘DISRUPT-HER’. They share that listening to our intuition, resting and healing is an investment that will see us act from a place of abundance, trust and solidarity and participate in equality and wealth formation.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2021/02/25/e125-miki-agrawal-on-miki-agrawal-on-disruption-social-entrepreneurship-and-audacious-resilience-powered-by-the-fire-of-being/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link,  https://love.allthatweare.org/membership To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/