ReConnect with Plant Wisdom

This conversation with Penelope Mavor took an unexpected—and beautiful—turn. We set out to talk about land-based leadership and Earth connection... and instead uncovered the deeper threads of solitude, sovereignty, and the paradox of being “solo together.”Penelope and I reflect on our own practices, the myths of separateness, and why solitude isn't about isolation—it’s about reconnection.This one’s for the sensitive leaders, the multipotentialites navigating inner noise, and anyone who’s forgotten that stillness is also a superpower.// MY GUEST // Penelope Mavor is the founder of nature-based leadership collaborative, Earth Converse supporting leaders step up for people and planet. With over 25 years of experience in sustainability and leadership development.Topics Covered about nature-based leadership➡️ “Solo Together” is a model for wholeness: sovereign AND interconnected.➡️ Nature helps us attune without overwhelm—by softening into presence.➡️ Real leadership starts with self—embodied, relational, and intuitive.➡️ The land teaches in ways no human teacher can—through vibration and co-creation.Chapters00:00 - Intro & Guest Welcome01:55 - What Is Earth Conversing?06:16 - Redefining Sustainability & Leadership24:11 - 🌳 Who Gives A Crap Ad Break26:04 - Learning Attunement from Nature31:06 - Nature as Co-Creator, Not Tool36:17 - From Loneliness to Sacred Stillness51:01 - Nature-Based Coaching in Practice56:05 - Final Reflections: Independent and InterrelatedResources Mentioned🌱  Earth Converse by Penelope Mavor🌱  What's Your Spirit Wild Plant?🌱  Personalized mentorship with me and the PlantsExpanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Who Gives A Crap? Ecological Toilet Paper USA | UK | AUMore PartnersOpening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

The most powerful transformations often start with the simplest questions. In this episode, I explore one of the most essential, yet overlooked, relationships in our lives—the one we have with food and the land it comes from.Together with Samantha Jewel, we unpack how carbon in the soil is not just about climate—it's about connection, health, and the future of our ecosystem.  We talk about plant intelligence on a systems level—how carbon sequestration, nutrient density, and farmer consciousness all co-create the future. And we ask the deeper questions: What if beauty wasn’t the measure of food quality? What if joy and relationship were?Topics Covered about Conscious Food Choices and Regenerative Food Systems ➡️ The link between soil carbon, nutrient density, and plant-human co-creation. ➡️ Why the consciousness of the farmer affects the vitality of the land. ➡️ The myth of "organic" as a guarantee of health. ➡️ How the food we eat reflects our collective values and relationships.Chapters00:00 Introduction01:20 Meet Samantha Jewel06:00 Rethinking Carbon and Soil10:00 What Regenerative Farming Really Looks Like15:30 Gaia18:00 Local Food & Land-Based Intelligence 26:00 The Consciousness of Farming 34:00 Reclaiming Food as Medicine 42:00 Final Thoughts + Samantha’s Book//My Guest//  Samantha Jewel, a soil carbon expert of some 27 years giving her the title an “OG” in the carbon space, whose insights bridge the gap between sustainable agriculture and impactful environmental practices. With a wealth of experience as the CEO of Urth.io, her company specializes in carbon aggregation and the pivotal role farmer credits play in the ESG landscape. Resources Mentioned 🌱  Samantha’s Book: Carbon is Not a Dirty Word🌱  What's Your Spirit Wild Plant? 🌱  Personalized mentorship with me and the PlantsExpanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Important Messages for Humanity on GaiaMore PartnersOpening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

What if death wasn’t an ending, but an invitation to evolve?In this episode, I sit down with Munay, a visionary medicine woman who brings together ancient wisdom and quantum science to explore the cellular essence of life and death. We dive deep into what it means to die every day—not in fear, but as an act of regeneration and reprogramming. Together, we explore the sacred role of self-responsibility, the invisible threads of mycelial connection (both Earthly and celestial), and how working with plants reveals truths about who we really are.You’ll hear stories of Aloe Vera as a boundary-setting mentor, the concept of energetic placentas, and the way plants gently guide us to reclaim our essence. This episode is rich with perspective-shifting insight and gentle power.Feeling a shift within? This might be the transformation you’ve been sensing.Tap into this powerful conversation and explore the wisdom your body and the natural world already know.Topics Covered about Cellular Transformation and Death Cycles➡️ Embrace death as a natural and essential part of evolution—personally and collectively➡️ Plants as co-regulators, mirrors, and mentors for self-responsibility and presence➡️ The role of the “energetic placenta” and mycelial networks in transmitting wisdom➡️ How daily micro-deaths release old patterns and nourish new growthChapters00:00 Welcome & Guest Intro02:09 Who is Munay?11:51 Plants as Teachers & Personal Reflections20:28 Hope, Presence, and the Power of Being27:21 Ad Break – The Shift Network28:30 Reclaiming Death Through the Plant Lens49:17 The Celestial and Earth Mycelium Connection54:07 The Path of the Visionary59:01 Final Thoughts and Embodied EncouragementResources Mentioned🌱 The Path of the Visionary (Munay’s program) 🌱 Reconnect with the Plant Kingdom course (by Tigrilla) 🌱 Music of the Plants🌱 Personalized mentorship with me and the PlantsExpanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Expand Your Consciousness with The Shift NetworkMore PartnersOpening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

What happens when you give plants a visual voice in the digital world? In this episode, I talk with Sophie Gardner, a pioneering artist who creates stunning visual and audio expressions generated directly from plant data. Our conversation explores the deep interconnection between plants, creativity, and technology—and how plants can inform our artistic processes in ways we never imagined. Sophie shares how plants “doodle” in 3D space, create abstract self-portraits, and even orchestrate bird-song-like soundscapes. This is more than art—it's co-creation at a new level of consciousness.We also talk about rest, resilience, and soft power in a world addicted to constant output. There’s wisdom here for all of us trying to live more present, connected lives—especially if you're a nature-inspired creative, artist, or visionary.This one will expand your mind and nourish your soul. 🌱💫Topics Covered about Plant-Generated Art➡️ How plants create visual “self-portraits” through live-coded systems➡️ Why presence, not performance, is central to creative evolution➡️ Rest as a form of natural intelligence➡️ The role of plant co-creation in future-focused genres like solarpunk and ecopunk Chapters00:00 Introduction06:58 Sacred Self and Nature13:26 Who Gives A Crap?15:27 Holistic Thinking for Mental Health23:33 Nature's Wonder and Intellectualization37:12 Interconnectedness of Human and Non-Human Entities42:52 Gratitude and Connection in Daily Life46:39 Intuition and Non-Logic in Consciousness53:21 One Sacred Earth ProjectResources Mentioned🌱 Music of the Plants🌱 flow & echo (Sophie Gardner’s site)🌱 Personalized mentorship with me and the Plants Expanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Music of the PlantsMore Partners: https://tigrillagardenia.com/shop/Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

This episode was one of those soul-nourishing conversations that had me reflecting long after we hit stop. I sat down with Jamie Harvie—an engineer, strategist, and bridge-builder between healthcare, ecological wellbeing, and sacred connection. We explored what it really means to be in relationship with the world around and within us, not as isolated individuals but as deeply interconnected beings.From the fragmentation of modern life to the beauty of feeling held by the microbes in our bodies and the kin in our communities, this episode invites you into the mystery of being alive. Jamie and I talked about the power of gratitude, the importance of somatic knowing, and how to build inner and outer ecosystems that support thriving—not just surviving.If you’ve ever felt like your love for Nature and your many passions didn’t fit into modern frameworks of success or mental health, this conversation is your invitation to honor that difference. You are not broken. You are deeply alive.Topics Covered about Mental Health through Nature Connection➡️ Positive mental health is more than the absence of struggle—it’s about connection, meaning, and gratitude.➡️ We are never truly alone: plants, microbes, and kin surround and support us.➡️ Complexity science is helping us normalize mystery and nonlinear understanding.➡️ Gratitude isn’t fluffy—it’s foundational to wellbeing and collaboration.Chapters00:00 Introduction06:58 Sacred Self and Nature13:26 Who Gives A Crap?15:27 Holistic Thinking for Mental Health23:33 Nature's Wonder and Intellectualization37:12 Interconnectedness of Human and Non-Human Entities42:52 Gratitude and Connection in Daily Life46:39 Intuition and Non-Logic in Consciousness53:21 One Sacred Earth ProjectResources Mentioned🌱 About Jamie Harvie🌱 One Sacred Earth Project🌱 Aliveness Initiative🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club🌱 Chaste Mimosa by Terence McMullenExpanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Important Messages for Humanity on GaiaMore Partners: https://tigrillagardenia.com/shop/Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

When I started this podcast, I had no idea how much it would change me—not just as a host, but as a person in deep collaboration with plants. Over the past 100 episodes, I’ve learned that true growth isn’t about having a perfect plan; it’s about showing up, refining, and co-creating with the world around you.In this milestone episode, I reflect on three major lessons I’ve learned from working with plants, podcasting, and life itself:🌱 Perseverance and Finding My Voice – Trusting the process, even when it felt unclear.🌱 Co-Creation with Plants and People – Recognizing that wisdom isn’t something we own; it’s something we cultivate together.🌱 The Power of Asking for Help – Understanding that receiving support isn’t weakness—it’s part of how ecosystems thrive. Topics Covered about Plant Wisdom Podcast Reflection➡️ Growth happens through presence, not perfection.➡️ Plants (and life) respond when we engage with curiosity, not control.➡️ Collaboration deepens impact—whether with plants or people.➡️ Asking for help strengthens, rather than weakens, our work.Chapters00:00 Welcome02:37 Reflecting on 100 Episodes04:56 Perseverance & Finding My Voice12:41 Important Messages for Humanity on Gaia25:13 Co-Creating with Plants & People32:59 The Strength in Asking for Help48:07 Banyan’s Wisdom: A Closing Reflection55:45 Final Thoughts & OutroResources Mentioned🌱 Watch Gaia Original Series 🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club🌱 Sprouts Writing & Creativity Group🌱 What's Your Spirit Wild Plant? 🌱 Personalized mentorship with me and the PlantsExpanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Important Messages for Humanity on GaiaMore Partners: https://tigrillagardenia.com/shop/Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

What if the way we work is fundamentally out of sync with our nature?In this episode, I sit down with Tommy Serafinski to explore how modern life has stripped us of the deep, intuitive connection to land that our ancestors once had. We dive into hunter-gatherer wisdom, seasonal rhythms, and attunement to the ecosystem, revealing how these natural cycles foster a sense of safety, balance, and ease—things we often feel are missing in our structured, productivity-driven world.Hunter-gatherers weren’t constantly stressed about survival. They understood the landscape so well that gathering food was not a daily grind but a rhythmic, flowing relationship with the land. Meanwhile, we push through work in artificial cycles that ignore our bodies’ needs, making stress feel inevitable.So how do we reclaim our natural rhythm? How do we break free from the myth that structure equals security?This episode will shift how you think about time, work, and your own inner landscape. Tune in to rediscover the natural intelligence that already lives within you. Topics Covered about Natural Rhythms and Productivity➡️ Hunter-gatherer societies were less stressed than we are, not more.➡️ Our obsession with structure and productivity disconnects us from natural rhythms.➡️ True attunement comes from deep observation, relationship with the land, and trust in cycles.➡️ Business and life can function like an ecosystem—responsive, adaptable, and deeply connected.Chapters00:00 Introduction04:12 Transition to Outdoor and Science14:23 Stone Age Economics and Modern Stress20:43 Natural Rhythms for Enhanced Productivity28:35 Shift your Personal Transformation34:10 Self-Awareness and Tuning Into the Body48:49 Control and InsecurityResources Mentioned🌱  Tommy's Podcast: Conservation and Science🌱  Personalized mentorship with me and the PlantsExpanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Important Messages for Humanity on GaiaMore Partners: https://tigrillagardenia.com/shop/Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

Have you ever felt a plant’s presence shift something deep inside you—an emotion, a memory, a sensation? Communication with kin isn’t limited to words. Plants don’t just “speak”—they resonate, evoke, and co-create. And the more we open to their language, the more we transform how we listen to ourselves, others, and the world.In this episode, I explore the many ways plants communicate beyond thought and logic—through the body, spontaneous creativity, and emotions we don’t always understand at first. Some messages arrive as a physical nudge, an image in your mind, or a sound that lingers long after you’ve left their presence.This isn't about translating their language into something human—it’s about dissolving our conditioning so we can hear what’s always been there. When we stop looking for meaning in the usual places, we unlock a richer, more dynamic dialogue—one that doesn’t just connect us to kin, but redefines how we engage with life itself🌿 Are you ready to expand the way you receive messages from kin?Topics Covered about Nonverbal Plant Communication➡️ Plants communicate through sensation, movement, and subtle energetic shifts, not just thoughts.➡️ Doodles, music, and body movement can be bridges for plant messages.➡️ Plants can trigger forgotten emotions or past experiences as a form of insight.➡️ Learning to receive plant communication deepens self-trust and refines discernment.Chapters00:00 Introduction15:06 Plant Music Transforms Lives22:20 Plant Communication Evolves Skills33:50 Embracing One's Artistic Side37:15 Creativity Through Plant Communication45:30 Through Images and Movement51:30 Community EngagementResources Mentioned🌱 Voices of Plants for a Better World🌱 Music of the Plants🌱  Personalized mentorship with me and the PlantsExpanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Important Messages for Humanity on GaiaMore Partners: https://tigrillagardenia.com/shop/Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

I never expected this conversation to unfold the way it did. When I sat down with Scottie, I thought we’d talk about plant medicine, but what emerged was a deeply intricate journey—one that weaves military discipline, salsa dancing, ayahuasca, and ancestral connection into a path of profound transformation.Scottie embodies the true essence of a multipotentialite—moving through diverse experiences, seemingly unrelated at first, yet all leading to his calling as a plant witch and steward of the land. If you’ve ever felt like your many passions pull you in different directions, this episode will give you a new lens: What if all of your experiences are threads of the same tapestry, waiting to reveal their pattern?We explore what it means to serve the plants, to let nature—not society—shape our purpose, and how stepping into deep relationship with land, music, and medicine plants can create unexpected clarity.Topics Covered about Multipassionate Spiritual Journey ➡️ How seemingly unrelated passions can come together to reveal your purpose. ➡️ The difference between using plants and being in reciprocal service to them. ➡️ Why deep attunement to place matters in personal and spiritual evolution. ➡️ Music as a portal to plant consciousness and ancestral wisdom.Resources Mentioned 🌱 Coyotipi Escuela de Musica🌱 Music of the Plants 🌱 Personalized mentorship with me and the PlantsExpanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners //Make Music with PlantsMore Partners: https://tigrillagardenia.com/shop/Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube

What if we stopped thinking of gardening as just a way to grow food and instead saw it as a co-creative partnership with nature? In this episode, I sit down with Spence Madden to explore frequency gardening and electroculture—practices that go beyond neat rows and control-based agriculture.Spence is on a mission to cultivate food sovereignty by working with nature’s intelligence rather than imposing human will. We dive into how tuning into land, listening to plant kin, and embracing natural synchronicities can create wildly productive, high-frequency gardens—whether you're growing on a patio or a multi-acre farm.Plus, we explore why most gardening still operates from fear and scarcity rather than flow and reciprocity, and how shifting our mindset can unlock deeper relationships with plants. If you’re ready to see food and nature in a whole new way, this episode will expand your perspective. Topics Covered about Co-Creative Gardening➡️ Moving beyond control-based gardening methods leads to higher yields and deeper connections with nature.➡️ Self-sustaining food systems are directly linked to spiritual expansion and greater consciousness.➡️ Earth's natural electromagnetic fields can be harnessed to nourish plants through frequency gardening and electroculture.➡️ By tuning into nature’s cues, you can allow the land to guide what and how you grow.Chapters00:00 Introduction03:19 Food Sovereignty and Spiritual Evolution10:59 Co-Creative Gardening16:20 Messages for Humanity on Gaia26:28 Nature, Technology, and Intuitive Gardening46:03 Gardening, Permaculture, and Tomato Reflections50:58 Frequency Gardening and Conscious CultivationResources Mentioned🌱 Learn Electroculture with Spence🌱 Plant Wisdom Book Club🌱 Sprouts Writing and Creativity Group🌱 Personalized mentorship with me and the PlantsExpanded Show Notes☝🏽ReConnect with Plant Wisdom podcast Ancient and modern knowledge from biology to spirituality about the wondrous ways plants help you lead a Naturally Conscious life.Subscribe here and on your favorite podcast player.👉🏽 Join the Naturally Conscious Community to nourish human-plant relationships// Get to Know Me, Tigrilla //// Let's Work Together //// Shop from EcoConscious Partners // Important Messages for Humanity on GaiaMore Partners: https://tigrillagardenia.com/shop/ Opening and Closing music by @Cyberinga  and Poinsettia.// Let's Connect on Social // Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube