all that we are

How to engage moral courage to carry torches of justice, beauty and possibility where shadows loom. In this episode entitled Riding Chariots into Battle and Building Paradise Gardens, Amisha is in conversation with author and humanitarian  Zerbanoo Gifford - founder of the Asha centre for young people in the Forest of Dean, former politician, award-winning activist for social justice, cosmic networker, and total badass force for change. Zerbanoo shares some of the most shocking and inspiring moments from her decades of pioneering work as a woman of colour in British politics - opening doors for others in the political arena and going into battle spurred on by the moral courage to stand up to hatred and prejudice. She speaks of the absolute importance of beauty and how we all deserve to experience a paradise garden on earth, as well as the importance of keeping a little madness in the mix and the near-death experience that changed the course of her life completely. "We can transform the world by transforming ourselves and being there as an example to other people so they can see that everything is possible." Zerbanoo Gifford Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2017/12/14/e6-zerbanoo-gifford-riding-chariots-battle-building-paradise-gardens/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link, https://love.allthatweare.org/membership  

A journey through loss, discovery, and cultivation of our connection to something bigger. In this episode entitled Finding Our Way Home to the Collective, Amisha meets explorer, documentary filmmaker, and author Bruce Parry.Bruce shares with Amisha some deeply personal stories about finding the place where neuroscience meets indigenous ritual medicines, the chance encounters that changed his life - including with the Kogi, whose intercontinental "interventions" turned him celibate, his theory on how the dawn of agriculture killed meditation and the breakdowns and breakthroughs of a seven-year journey to produce his new film Tawai. From his early days "deep in the machine" as an institutionalised, privately educated military career-man to his recent expeditions into the mystical depths of Amazonian tribal medicine, Bruce tracks the unfolding of his present worldview and the crises and revelations that brought him to it."The Penan are anarchists. They have no leader no law, no shamans no chiefs... They are allegedly the most peaceful people on the planet." ~Bruce Parry   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2017/12/07/e5-bruce-parry-tribes-connection-plant-medicine/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

Facing the fundamental teachings of our deepest drivers and greatest taboos and the social dynamics they engender. In this episode entitled Life as a Disobedient Woman, Amisha sits down with activist, artist, provocateur, and entrepreneur Sam Roddick, founder of lingerie brand and sex shop Coco De Mer, and daughter of Body Shop founder Anita Roddick. Sam shares her experience of the formative family dynamics that cultivate activism and their shared passion for delivering education through entrepreneurship. Together Amisha and Sam discuss how to live in balance as an activist, the illusion of individual success and the power of individual actions, the difference between values and politics, the personal and cultural landscapes of sexuality and death, the birth-like initiatory ripples and bio-rhythms of grief and her early education in feminist sexual politics. "I was literally born out of the womb of a lineage of disobedient women" - Sam Roddick   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2017/11/30/e4-sam-roddick-death-sex-activism/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link, https://love.allthatweare.org/membership

We explore the ancient stories, modern manifestations, and internal expanses of tantra and yogic practice. In this episode entitled Entering the Subtle Depths of Tantrik Yoga, Amisha gets together with Christopher Hareesh Wallis, a scholar and practitioner of the yoga tradition and author of two books on the classical Tantra tradition. Hareesh - whose name meaning "remover of sorrows" was given to him as an "invitation to grow into" by the guru of his mother when he was just 9 years old - joins Amisha in the discussion of what it truly means to be a yogi, what happens when we become a focal point of unified consciousness on public transport, the non-difference between the body, mind and bodymind, how you can tell if a person is doing tantra and what the yoga tradition teaches us about politics.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2017/11/27/e3-christopher-hareesh-wallis-yoga-tantra-politics/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link, https://love.allthatweare.org/membership  

This week's episode etitled Forging New Forms in the Heart of Luxury, Amisha meets Cultural Futurist & Creative Director Annegret Affolderbach. As well as being a major contributor to The Future is Beautiful book which inspired this podcast, Annegret is an award-winning, disruptive innovator and social entrepreneur in the world of fashion. Her Choolips fashion brand was produced by a Ghanaian women's co-op, trained by Annegret herself to create exceptional designs using revamped forms of traditional techniques such as batik. The collection flew off the rails of Topshop in Oxford Circus, successfully connecting with a young audience who understands what is behind creating a fair and sustainable product. Amisha and Annegret discuss life as a global citizen, the challenges of going it alone as a change-maker and social entrepreneur, and what it really takes to set up a sustainable creative project.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2017/11/26/e2-annegret-affolderbach-forging-new-forms-heart-luxury/ Link for Annegret Affolderbach – The Futures(allthatweare.org) Interview  - https://allthatweare.org/2012/05/08/annegret-affolderbach-the-futures-interview/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

How can individual experiences of empathy and community with the human and non-human world around us create radical shifts in our planetary ecology? In this first episode of The Future is Beautiful Podcast entitled Love as an Ecological Act, Amisha Ghadiali meets author and speaker Charles Eisenstein. Here the old stories, the current stories, and the new stories of humanity encounter one another and offer their gifts, challenges, and questions.   Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2017/11/25/e1-charles-eisenstein-love-ecological-act/ For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/ To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/