Ahead of season 3 of Wild, here's another bonus episode for the holiday period, a time we tend to reserve for getting our lives in order for the year ahead. These bonus eps are inspired by my New York Times bestselling book ‘first, we make the beast beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety'.In this episode I'm joined by Brooke McAlary from Slowyourhome.com and we explore some simple techniques to add to your morning routine for a less anxious life, along with a meditation to start your day.For more helpful tips for a better day, revisit my interview Oliver Burkeman, possibly the world's most knowledgeable self help expert, from season 2 of Wild here:https://pod.link/1548626341/episode/7447f7f0f918eac7f31be6324626cea1 And with Seth Godin from season 1 of Wild here:https://pod.link/1548626341/episode/cf69db6c45c403273b15599dde06b5ac Find out more about Sarah Wilson Subscribe to Sarah's Substack newsletter Get your copy of Sarah's book, This One Wild and Precious LifeConnect on InstagramSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before we launch season 3 of Wild, here's a few bonus episodes for over the holiday period.They're inspired by my New York Times bestselling book ‘first, we make the beast beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety' and the first one is a rundown of the best techniques and tricks to reduce anxiety while travelling, with a quick meditation, perfect to do on planes or on the bus or in a hotel room.I'm joined by Brooke McAlary from slowyourhome.comIf you're new to meditation or think you're bad at meditation, you might want to listen to the episode from Season 1 of Wild with Tim Brown, my meditation teacher, in which we chat the benefits of struggling with meditation: https://pod.link/1548626341/episode/7d30b85f13ff7b5d784b1c329fb66878 Find out more about Sarah Wilson Subscribe to Sarah's Substack newsletter Get your copy of Sarah's book, This One Wild and Precious LifeConnect on Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wild is returning for season 3 February 2022, until then:Follow Wild with Sarah Wilson: https://podfollow.com/1548626341 Find out more about Sarah Wilson: www.sarahwilson.comGet your copy of Sarah Wilson's book This One Wild and Precious Life: A hopeful path forward in a fractured world here https://amzn.to/3vs3tf2 Connect on Instagram: www.instagram.com/_sarahwilson_Sign up to my Substack Newsletter for more thoughts and more on Wild: https://sarahwilson.substack.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emily Atkin is America's foremost climate journalist and founder of the Heated newsletter, awarded Best Environmental Journalism of 2020.. I remember first coming across Emily on Twitter when she posted about fossil fuel media campaigns. Her Tweet targeted Twitter. The then Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren subsequently retweeted Emily's tweet, tagging Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …who then changed Twitter's policy around fossil fuel advertising. It was all just a bit meta. And super powerful. Emily and I then connected two years ago when she asked to repost a blog essay I'd written about Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's horrendous handling of the Summer bushfires which killed more than 3 billion animals and 37 people. It was a story of corruption, lies, ignorance and fossil fuel industry interests. The headline was Why we must rage at Prime Minister Sco Mo. Emily ran with a slightly different, but telling headline: Think American politics are bad? Wait 'til you hear about Australia. The wild idea I discuss with Emily in this episode is that the climate crisis didn't just happen to us, it was done to us. And it was done to us by the fossil fuel industry. And so the most appropriate reaction is rage. The fossil fuel industry likes to distract us from this with campaigns that get us counting our carbon footprint and blaming ourselves. I have to say, until this chat with Emily I had been somewhat sucked in. This is a super timely chat, landing right on the two-year anniversary of the bushfires. I have reposted my original essay to my latest substack newsletter if you want to check it out subscribe to my Substack newsletter https://sarahwilson.substack.com/And for more from Emily, check out her HEATED substack here: https://heated.world/ Follow Wild with Sarah Wilson: https://podfollow.com/1548626341 Find out more about Sarah Wilson: www.sarahwilson.comGet your copy of Sarah Wilson's book This One Wild and Precious Life: A hopeful path forward in a fractured world here https://amzn.to/3vs3tf2 Connect on Instagram: www.instagram.com/_sarahwilson_Sign up to my Substack Newsletter for more thoughts and more on Wild: https://sarahwilson.substack.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dan Buettner is a National Geographic Fellow and New York Times-bestselling author. He holds three Guinness records for various ludicrous long bike treks across the planet and he's also a bone fide explorer who has discovered things about ancient civilizations and, most notably, about cultures where people live the longest, called the Blue Zones.Dan and I met when I wrote a blog post about his Blue Zones back shortly after the last ice age (2009) and he chimed in on the comments. We became long-distance friends with many common interests (we're both in the Guinness Book, we've both traversed the globe on our bikes, we love red wine and we are tireless nomads) and he wound up inviting me one of of his Nat Geo explorations in Ikaria in 2012, a wild Greek island not far off the coast of Turkey that has become a second home (some of you might recall the story of my goat herder lover?), and is one of the Blue Zones.It was almost 20 years ago that Dan travelled the world to reverse engineer longevity and discover 5 five Blue Zones - pockets of the world with the most centenarians. He then Identified 9 principles or secrets to living long and well. He wrote 5 books and in the lates,t called The Blue Zones Challenge, he outlines a 4-week plan to add 10 years to your life, and the wild idea he puts forward after all this – Friends, Don't try to change your behaviour with diets and exercise plans, change your surroundings. Which throws much of what we have been told about wellness on its head (I love it!).More recently Dan has rolled out his Blue Zones blueprint to cities across the US. Municipalities employ him to “reverse-reverse engineer” the principles into the infrastructure of their cities, which has added years to life expectancy, and produced massive reductions in smoking and health care costs within years.Get Dan's latest book, The Blue Zone challenge https://amzn.to/3ylQld3 Follow Wild with Sarah Wilson: https://podfollow.com/1548626341 Subscribe to my Substack newsletter https://sarahwilson.substack.com/Find out more about Sarah Wilson: www.sarahwilson.comGet your copy of Sarah Wilson's book This One Wild and Precious Life: A hopeful path forward in a fractured world here https://amzn.to/3vs3tf2 Connect on Instagram: www.instagram.com/_sarahwilson_See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you heard Abbie Chatfield let rip? You must. The 26-year-old is a reality TV star and vibrator saleswoman with an irreverent podcast (400,000 downloads a month) who will put her boobs, STI treatment plans and beliefs on the public line to make an often controversial and important point, invariably in support of female sexual rights and voice. Oh, and getting vaccinated.As a Gen X feminist, I find it a thing to behold. And I've been wonderfully challenged by the Peak 2021 Sensation that she is for some time. So many questions, so much to humbly learn from her ability to tread complex nuance, and to brazenly cut to awkward chases. In many ways she takes what feminists of my generation (and older) fought for (and struggled to land) and puts it back on the agenda, front and centre and says...right, deal with it, now, all of you!For some reality TV mash-up context: Abbie was a controversial star of the The Bachelor, The Bachelor In Paradise and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (which she won).  She's recently online feuded with a Married at First Sight star (calling them out for supporting rape humour) and a Home and Away star (on their anti-vax stance). She's just finished gig as host Love Island After Party, about to host Below Deck, done a project for Real Housewives where she sings a duet with comedian Joel Creasey…and has just announced she's dating a recent Bachelorette contestant. All in three years. She has sold 100,000 of her vibrators since April and is an ambassador to various brands, including Levis, which she models with her cellulite un-airbrushed.We talk all of the above, and drill down to what drives her, what it's like to be a young person wading into "Troll Territory" daily, and ultimately how she feels a responsibility to young women struggling to find their voice in the #metoo era. On air, I challenge her to join the climate movement...we need Abbie Chatfield (feel free to prod her on her socials).Her podcast It's A Lot has charted here in Australia and has 400,000 downloads a month.. A pretty good effort for a show made in her lounge room floor when she's “red wine drunk” with mates.  Listen to It's A Lot: https://pod.link/1500849438 Follow Wild with Sarah Wilson: https://podfollow.com/1548626341 Subscribe to my Subtack newsletter https://sarahwilson.substack.com/My Live Nation tour is coming up, get tickets and info: https://www.livenation.com.au/artist-sarah-wilson-1318486 Find out more about Sarah Wilson: www.sarahwilson.comGet your copy of Sarah Wilson's book This One Wild and Precious Life: A hopeful path forward in a fractured world here https://amzn.to/3vs3tf2  Connect on Instagram: www.instagram.com/_sarahwilson_See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we travel to the UK to chat with one of my favourite representatives of humanity. Fearne Cotton is British radio and TV royalty. She began her career age 15 as host of The Disney Club after winning some local competition…and then spent the next 25 years broadcasting to the nation, everything from Top of the Pops, BBC radio1 and 2, the Golden Globes, BAFTAS and a bunch of Royal family things. She's published 10 chart-topping books, including kids mental health books, is on The Prince's Trust, has a 3.4 million following on Instagram and has a podcast, Happy Place, that's had more than 40 million downloads.But I know Fearne only as a friend…and a social media pen pal type friend at that. We send VMs on WhatsApp late at night when we can't sleep and when we're troubled, and we talk about life and humans…not so much our lives…but Big Life.Fearne has just put out a book about living honestly and so I thought it might be a good time to have one of the chats we have at lonely hours but in a visual volley out in the open with you lot.Like me, Fearne is on that constant journey of managing her anxiety and the complexities of life. Which is why I trust her – she doesn't purport to have arrived. Oh, and FYI, in this chat we talk about EMDR, which is a type of therapy Fearne and I have both used. Read more: https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/ Get Fearne's latest book Speak Your Truth herehttps://amzn.to/3p5uRNn Subscribe to my Subtack newsletter https://sarahwilson.substack.com/My Live Nation tour is coming up, get tickets and info: https://www.livenation.com.au/artist-sarah-wilson-1318486 Find out more about Sarah Wilson: www.sarahwilson.comGet your copy of Sarah Wilson's book This One Wild and Precious Life: A hopeful path forward in a fractured world here https://amzn.to/3vs3tf2  Connect on Instagram: www.instagram.com/_sarahwilson_See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ok this is a little bonus we've thrown into the series. Going forward I'll do some random episodes where I go hunt down someone I mention in my books or travels broadly, someone you've got super curious about, to see where things wound up for them. A Where Are They Now with my nomadic encounters as dictated by your intrigue! Many of you who have read This One Wild and Precious Life will recall The Lady in Red and some of you became pretty obsessed with her. ‘Tho, if you've not read my book, this story should have universal appeal.Four years ago, while researching my book, I wound up in Ljubljana, the stunningly quaint capital of Slovenia and the world's only car-less capital city that's been voted greenest city in the EU several times over. I noticed this Lady In Red, a young woman sitting on her own who, for 45 minutes, just sat there with soft eyes in a chosen stillness. She became a social media meme, a story that spread, an inspiration (I've put her image up in my feed again, as a reminder, and for those of you still wanting to get a visual).Anyway, mid-pandemic lockdown I tracked down the Lady in Red (a fun journey in international connecting!) and got her update, asking her all the questions you've wanted to ask of her over the years….I also flag that I'm taking requests to track down other people-of-intrigue via my NEW! Newsletter sarahwilson.substack.com ...this is where I now do the considered connecting I seek (please do subscribe!).Find Lady in Red's image here (I'll also post video snippets of our recent chat)https://www.instagram.com/p/CE6IIlcDdXq/?utm_medium=copy_link   www.instagram.com/_sarahwilson_  If you want to do the hike I did in Slovenia, check out sarahwilsonhikes.comPlease rate Wild and leave a comment on Apple herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wild-with-sarah-wilson/id1548626341 Favourite Wild with Sarah Wilson on the LiSTNR app herehttps://www.listnr.com/podcasts/wild-with-sarah-wilson Get your copy of Sarah Wilson's book This One Wild and Precious Life: A hopeful path forward in a fractured world herehttps://amzn.to/3vs3tf2 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Irish poet and philosopher David Whyte joins Sarah Wilson to discuss the importance of asking beautiful questions. They reminisce about a memorable hiking trip and explore the connection between walking, nature, and poetry. They also delve into embracing silence, navigating the complexity of life, addressing climate change, and the invitation to simplify. This special episode offers insightful conversations and inspiring perspectives.

Saul Griffith is a mad inventor, an official “genius” (as per the prestigious Macarthur Fellowship, um, wait for it, for his prodigy of service in the world community) and he has a fix for the climate crisis! Electrify everything! US President Joe Biden vibed with it so much he made the Australian his climate advisor. I first came across Saul on one of my eternal searches for legit climate solutions that bring true excitement and hope to humans.  For years I've wanted to pick apart his wild idea summed up in his new book, written for President Joe Biden, Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook For Our Clean Energy Future. The gist is this: We can get to those 2030 targets required for our survival on this planet, using technology that already exists and if he had to choose a country in the world where it can happen the fastest and with the biggest economic win he'd say, Australia!Saul is a lot of fun, swears a touch (be warned!), rides a bike everywhere, barely wears shoes and rather infamously (according to the interwebs) pointed out the carbon footprint of his underpants in his 2006 TED talk. The Electrify the lot and fast mantra is one I buy into…to a point. We still must consume less…way less. Saul agrees. We are going to talk further...Watch Saul's TED Talk herehttps://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_everyday_inventions?language=en Saul's new book Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook For Our Clean Energy Future is available in the US now, find it here and getting an Australian version soon.Saul would love for you to source a copy from his favourite local book shop in Thirroul:https://collinsbooksthirroul.com.au/p/electrify-an-optimists-playbook-for-our-clean-energy-future-87f36d28-7c27-4d98-b406-c6fe0576ab68?barcode=9780262046237. Explore the exciting world of Saul's inventions and ideas herehttps://www.saulgriffith.com/ Listen to my Ask Me Anything on climate episode herehttps://pod.link/1548626341/episode/39f6573570b3837e65f7a5897d50592f Favourite Wild with Sarah Wilson on the LiSTNR app hereFind out more about Sarah Wilson: www.sarahwilson.comGet your copy of Sarah Wilson's book This One Wild and Precious Life: A hopeful path forward in a fractured world hereConnect on Instagram: www.instagram.com/_sarahwilson_  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.