THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

I emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?What has come in is deep observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. This is episode 6 featuring offerings from Alice Howard-Vyse, Al Kennedy and Natalie Fee.I hope you enjoy listening to themPeace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

I emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?What has come in is deep observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I get get them out every day or so as I can. This episode features Charlie Gladstone, Jeff Bowman and Louise MiddletonI hope you enjoy listening to themPeace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I’m in conversation with Sophie Slater founder of ethical fashion brand BirdSong. In my opinion Sophie is building one of the most important fashion companies on the planet today. Birdsong is a total re-imagination of why a fashion brand exists and how it operates. She’s been working on this mission for several years since graduating from social change learning program Year Here. It's a super tough challenge, because to build a brand that actually looks after the people in the supply chain, that designs the business model around them and that seeks to cause minimum impacts to the natural world is really hard and not normal practice by the way. Because most fashion products we consume today support a system that creates misery for many in the supply chain and accelerate the extraction of natural resources and the destruction and pollution of critical ecosystems. You know, so we look cool. Birdsong challenges this model and system on every front. We riff on the challenges of building a social enterprise in a category where investors demand scale and fast returns, where destruction and misery is hidden behind the shiny cheap items we crave. We talk about the learnings from building something for a world and system that doesn't yet exist, yet you know intuitively is emerging fast and wanting to happen. Sophie is an extraordinary human, activist, co-designer and social entrepreneur with a deep drive for fairness when it comes to gender and the most vulnerable in our society. If you like what Birdsong are doing, please support them through their products and/or their Patreon - details below. These lockdown times are even tougher for small social businesses, let's make sure businesses like Birdsong become the new normal. We are what we wear.We recorded this episode as the UK was preparing for the pandemic lockdown on 20th March, so we were both a little anxious as things were super uncertain and changing fast!Enjoy@birdsonglondon@sophie_avalonwww.birdsong.london www.patreon.com/birdsonglondon Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

I have emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?And finally anything you wish to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like.They are starting to come in, observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. In this episode there are offerings from Matt Golding, Ella Saltmarshe, Matt Smith, Linzi Hawkin and Andy MiddletonI hope you enjoy listening to themPeace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

I have emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?And finally anything you wish to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like.They are starting to come in, observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. This episode features offerings from Saskia Rysenbry, Andrew Wanliss Orlebar and Easkey BrittonI hope you enjoy listening to themPeace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

I have emailed a range of friends and previous guests to record and send me some reflections during this great pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with? 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times? 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times ? 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times? 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?And finally anything you wish to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like.They are starting to come in, observations, reflections, feelings, fears, insights and they are full of beauty, and I’m very grateful for all the contributions. So I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days. Episode 2 features Tom Kay from Finisterre, Lucy Von Sturmer from The HumbleBrag/Creatives for Climate and Mark Sears.I hope you enjoy listening to themPeace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

A week ago I got an email from my friend Charlie Gladstone who hosts the excellent Mavericks Podcast as well as founding the GoodLife Experience Festival and other amazing things. Charlie was inviting me to contribute to a remote podcast he was making about life in lockdown. He asked 3 questions and I sent him my answers by audio. He's now on about 8 episodes and they are really wonderful things to listen to, I link to my contribution episode below. Anyway Charlie inspired me to do something similar. So I have emailed a range of friends, previous guests and folks I admire to share some of their reflections during this great pause. I ask them 5 questions. 1. Where are you and who are you with 2. What are you struggling with the most during these times 3. Have you started doing/discovered/always done something that is bringing you joy in these times 4. What are you hoping could emerge from these extraordinary times 5. What bits of 'getting back to normal' do you hope will not return?And finally anything you want to share with others right now - e.g a project, poem, song, book, action, words, story whatever you like.They are starting to come in and they are full of beauty, and I’m so grateful for all the contributions, so I’m stitching them together 3 or 4 at a time, pretty much as they came to me. I plan to get them out every day or so if I can for the next few days.I hope you enjoy listening to them.I hope you enjoy listening to them. In this episode listen to George McCallum, Lauren Currie and Matt Barr.Peace and out Danhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-ep-7/id1249333134?i=1000471468366 Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I'm in conversation with the inspiring and wise Laura Storm and Giles Hutchins, co-authors of the book 'Regenerative Leadership'. Having booked this podcast weeks ago we recorded this conversation as the UK was preparing to lock down the country in the face of the coronavirus crisis, Laura based in Copenhagen was in her 10th day of isolation with her family. Because of this unprecedented context, this conversation is an open, honest, sometimes vulnerable exploration of living in this moment in time, the uncertainties we face as business, leaders, communities, citizens, parents and ultimately humans, as we rapidly adapt to global lockdown and how the principles of regenerative leadership might offer ways for navigating towards a thriving and flourishing world, a new way of being on this planet. We riff on everything from trust and letting go of old ways and the logic of command and control, how to work in these new remote times, dealing with the huge uncertainty of income and job loss, integrating family and community back into our lives, how to support the most vulnerable, noticing the natural world, and how we might move forward beyond this crisis.https://www.regenerativeleadership.co/https://laura-storm.com/https://www.instagram.com/storm_laura/https://www.instagram.com/regenerators.cohttp://gileshutchins.com/https://thenatureofbusiness.org/2020/03/22/can-the-darkness-of-crisis-reveal-a-new-dawn/https://www.dominomusic.com/news/uk/jon-hopkins-shares-new-composition-scene-suspended-listen-now Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, recorded in January, I’m in conversation with Sean Pillot De Chennecy. Sean is an author, speaker, researcher and strategy consultant who’s spent his professional life exploring the leading edges of culture and how business and brands respond authentically to an increasingly uncertain world.He has authored two recent books, the first: The Post Truth Business: How to Rebuild Brand Authenticity in a Distrusting World out in 2018 and his latest Influencers and Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming BusinessThis episode is a lively and lengthy exploration which meanders through fake news, technology disruption, populist politics, brand trust, UK Labour leadership, climate change and the ecological emergency, Extinction Rebellion and permanent protest through to surveillance capitalism and more.We’re ultimately riffing on one of the biggest challenges that faces humanity - how do you mobilise the planet to act together on the urgency of climate and ecological collapse when what is true and what is fake is becoming increasingly difficult to figure out, dividing people more than ever.Enjoy!Gratitude to Bean Downes for the editGraeme Douglas/Bountiful Cow for hostingShow notes:https://www.instagram.com/seanpdec/?hl=en https://www.koganpage.com/author/sean-pillot-de-chenecey Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

In this shorter episode, I'm talking about a new collaborative leadership program for creative practitioners that I'm launching into the world in 2020 in partnership with Andres Roberts and The Bio-Leadership Project. I also have a chat with Andres to get an update on the Bio-Leadership journey and we talk about the Why, how and what of the collaboration.Show Notes:https://bio-leadership.org/https://bio-leadership.org/clusters/creativecommunicationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIX-4DJLwRw&feature=youtu.behttps://medium.com/@hiutdenim/100-makers-and-mavericks-2019-2f9a6be1c0b2 Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe