THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

“Human beings have been very, very good at talking about themselves, but actually we need to be better at telling stories about the other lives with which we share our planet. Because we are the crew, we are the ones currently trying to steer and drive. But actually we need to really pay attention to the stories of the other organisms that are down in the engine room, and in the passenger seats, and tell their stories too.”Nicola Davies is a writer, author and activist. Trained as a zoologist, she went on to co-present the BBC wildlife programme, The Really Wild Show. However, more recently she has made her name as a children’s author including the book, The Promise a picture book of great beauty and hope about the power we have to transform our world. Recorded in October 2020 - Listen to Dan and Nicola discuss:- Nature as a childhood companion. Zoology, TV presenting and writing - Emergent and sometimes laborious process of writing- Imaginal realm, connectivity, despair and resilience - Fundamental readjustment of our education system- Visceral experiences of our actions and attitudinal shifts- Unravelling the constructed world and imagining futures- The Promise, a book and animation empowering children to engage with the natural world- Indigenous cultures and linguistics as a catalyst for change- The skill to seek pleasure and comfort from the natural world- Eco-nomics. Good and sustainable management of our planetary household- Poo. A tool to understand animal behaviourLinks: The Promise Website: https://www.thepromise.earthThe Promise on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CFLQ04nBZB4Grow - Secrets of our DNA: https://wordery.com/grow-secrets-of-our-dna-nicola-davies-9781406382778Last (Nicola’s debut in Illustration): https://wordery.com/last-nicola-davies-9781910328484Ride The Wind: https://wordery.com/ride-the-wind-nicola-davies-9781406379556Connect: Web : https://www.nicola-davies.comTwitter : @nicolakidsbooks(Sorry for the glitch on Nicola's microphone)—————Thanks for listening to The Spaceship Earth PodcastHost: Dan Burgess @dansolo__Edit: Charlie ShreadShownotes: Vicki TurnerMusic: Escape Goat by Soren LorensonJoin us on Instagram: @thespaceship.earth Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

“What is it to be a leader? To me it is to be a human at this time on spaceship earth, we all need to be activated in our worth and in our vision, to understand our traumas and to be courageous” Amisha Ghadiali Amisha Ghadiali is a practicing leadership mentor and guide, Yoga Teacher, healer, author and host of globally influential ‘The Future is Beautiful’ PodcastRecorded in October 2020, listen to Dan and Amisha as they explore:- Origin and perceptions of ‘The Future is Beautiful’- Lived experiences, threads of connection and the tools gathered- Acts of care- Awakenings, breakthroughs and vulnerabilities- Self expression, awareness and community- Learnings in times of uncertainty- Exploring intuition- Visioning and non-attachment to outcomes- New forms of Leadership and embodiment- Creativity from chaosLinks: Book : INTUITION Course : The Beautiful Leadership ImmersionConnect: Web : Amisha Ghadiali https://www.amisha.co.uk/Instagram : @amishaghadialiPodcast and Community : The Future is Beautiful https://www.thefutureisbeautiful.co/—————Thanks for listening to The Spaceship Earth PodcastHost: Dan Burgess @dansolo__Edit: Charlie ShreadShownotes: Vicki TurnerMusic: Escape Goat by Soren Lorenson, published by BMGJoin us on Instagram: @thespaceship.earth Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

“What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we’re consumers 3000 times a day. Like, that’s the limit of your agency. The assumption that you’re a narrowly self-interested creature. When you’re surrounded with that story, whether that’s true or not, over time I have become increasingly convinced, and now absoloutely insistent, that human beings are not lazy and selfish, we’re creative, participatory, empathic, wonderful creatures.”Episode Overview: Jon Alexander is the co-founder of the New Citizenship Project, an innovation company that inspires and equips organisations of all kinds to involve people as citizens, not just consumers. Listen to Dan and Jon discuss how we can move from individualistic and passive consumers to participatory and creative agents of change. This episode was recorded in June 2020.- Transitioning from the advertising world to co-founding, The New Citizen Project- For new ideas to flourish, what do we need to dismantle?- Having creative agency and participating in the world. - Moving from individualistic interest to collective interest.- How a crisis can bring us together. - Breakdown. Breakthrough. - New utopia. Organic (unorganised), localised, shared values and understanding. - Deep ingrained obedience, to a messy, joyful and participatory world. - Unpicking of colonial history. - Human goodness.- Emergence of the citizen. - “Its not about citizens trusting government, it's the government trusting citizens.”- The power to unlock agency in citizens.- Local authorities aiding a citizen future.- Rapid democracy. - Hope & vision. - Holding different points of view.- Active not passive.Mentions: Rebecca Solnit - A Paradise Built in Hell http://rebeccasolnit.net/book/a-paradise-built-in-hell/Paul Hawken - Drawdownhttp://www.paulhawken.comJanine Benyus - Biomimicry https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/Alex Evans - Collective Psychologyhttps://www.collectivepsychology.org/who/Vinay Gupta - Repairing Societyhttps://medium.com/@vinay_12336/a-simple-plan-for-repairing-our-society-we-need-new-human-rights-and-this-is-how-we-get-them-cee5d6ededa9Matthew Taylor - Bridges To The Future https://bridges-to-the-future.simplecast.com/episodesBain - RAPIDhttps://www.bain.com/insights/rapid-tool-to-clarify-decision-accountability/Paddy Ashdown - Citizens of Britain. A Radical Agenda for the 1990’s https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/paddy-ashdown/citizen-s-britain/9781872180458?gclid=Cj0KCQjwreT8BRDTARIsAJLI0KLJzD0fhzz_cRPbqPhhQaDSTN6wUZYJFfgwPWkvLVXgA0e7N7UuBuYaAv25EALw_wcB_____________Jon Alexander:https://twitter.com/jonjalexhttps://jonjalex.medium.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-alexander-11b66345/https://www.newcitizenship.org.uk/Editor: Charlie ShreadShownotes: Vicki Turner Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

The leaves are falling, autumn is coming, to me it's a season of tremendous gratitude, of reflection, change and of letting go. In this episode I offer you music, a mix to shuffle around your kitchen, car, headphones, garden etc. There is no conversation here, no guest, no me talking, just 70 mins of deep, cosmic house music, to dance to on the edges of an unravelling world, in times of huge uncertainty, unknowing, confusion, fear and grief and yet at the same time on the edges of huge possibility, potential and beauty. Leaves falling in Autumn to me always expresses a letting go, a beautiful expression of another cycle in the great circle of life. A time of change and of deep gratitude. Leaves seem to dance almost, to spin, float and move with grace as they take their final journey and leave the safety of their home tree. Leaves go on to break down, compost and feed the soil, helping new life to breakthrough, continuing the gifting principle of the more than human world, where there is no such thing as waste ( if they're not sucked up by pesky leaf blowing machines) What are you being called to let go of right now? How might that be compost for your future journey ? How might you move towards these edges of change and not knowing with more comfort? Are you being called to begin a new story? To serve life in new ways ? I know for me there are some very specific shifts arising. Huge gratitude to the most excellent producers of these tracks (you can shazam them, track list below). The intro is beautiful words I stumbled across on the web 'The Crucible of Corona' from Mind Sovereignty (link below), the outro is some owls in my garden recorded one night in lockdown. I hope this mix moves you and helps you to let go of whatever it is that seeks to move through you at this time. What a time it is to be alive. I believe we must keep this space of uncertainty open and resist the urge to 'go back to normal', I think we all know 'normal' never was. The unravelling will continue, but it is clearing the way for new growth, new beginnings, new space, for real breakthroughs in what it means to be human. What we do decide to do now in these times I'm certain will be how we are judged by future generations. We are not separate from nature , we are part of it, we are not separate from each other, we are interconnected with all life. Keep loving, keep caring, keep giving, keep listening, keep collaborating, keep dreaming, keep laughing, keep experimenting, keep reaching out to help others, keep standing up for the more than human world, keep looking after yourself, keep learning, keep the awe and wonder, keep noticing nature, keep dancing, keep the heart open, keep the courage up, keep on creating a more beautiful world. Feeling anxious and scared sometimes I believe means you are fully awake and alive! Keep on becoming crew on this spaceship earth.Turn the volume up! Peace and Out.______________________________________'The Crucible of Corona' from Mind Sovereignty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKEsCGnyrY4 Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode @dansolo__ is in conversation with Georgina Wilson-Powell, founder and editor in chief of @pebblemagazine. Pebble mag’s mission is to help folks live a more beautiful, fun and lower impact life on the spaceship earth. They are a magazine that inspires and informs about everything needed to crack on being more circular, less wasteful, more ethical, less plastic and so on. They want to help folks move away from overconsumption. They are big on community, and their online spaces are lively places to ask questions, share tips, eco-wins, new brands and anything else you love to talk about. And in a pre covid world they are all about events. We talk about the story of Pebble and its recent relaunch, what the community has been learning through lock down, exploring our relationship to stuff, food, community, waste, travel, fixing and mending, the responsibility of brands, having time vs materials. We explore hyper consumption culture, life in lockdown, fast living vs slow living, how folks have been feeling, this moment in time and the opportunity to hold on to new behaviours and lessons learned during the lockdown which might lead us to a more beautiful way of living on this planet. We also dive into the enormous tension and power of vested interests to get us ‘back to normal’. ( we get a bit ranty here, but this was recorded 4 months into lockdown) We get into the role of brands and stories in shifting behavior and tackling the big issues of our time, we touch on Facebook and media platforms and the ethics of advertising on platforms that are supporting hate. And much more. Georgina is an inspiration and her dedication and drive to build Pebble is something else. Do check out PebbleMag and hope you enjoy. Show notes: https://pebblemag.com/ https://www.instagram.com/pebblemagazine/?hl=en https://www.stophateforprofit.org/ Dee Montero track > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRX8XyMLnLw Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I’m in conversation with Josie Tucker and Richard Ashton founders of Adapt. Adapt is a climate club and creative organisation, using design, humour and contemporary culture to communicate climate issues in a new way. Adapt was created to share knowledge, encourage action and build a community of motivated activists. Josie and Rich are two creatives and climate activists. They were listed as one of the British Councils 10 emerging designers of 2019.Recorded in June during the easing of lockdown this conversation explores their journey to forming Adapt, their interest in working with humour as a way of engaging people with climate breakdown and action. We riff on their work, how they work together and highlights from events and exhibitions to climate speed dating experiments. We reflect on the pandemic and what it might mean for climate action, the intersectional crises of racial injustice, inequality and climate and ecological breakdown. We explore what’s been experienced during lockdown when it comes to climate action and living with lighter impacts on the planet. We talk about climate grief and the role of humour in helping people let go of old worldviews and ideas. These two are incredible committed humans and prolific creators dedicated to serving our home planet and the future - check out their work and get involved - enjoy!https://www.instagram.com/adapt_____/https://www.adapt-climate.world/https://www.adapt-climate.world/2-0-workhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CDQzBfDnKTG/ Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I’m in conversation with Cassie Robinson.Cassie is a strategic designer and senior leader, currently heading up the UK portfolio at the National Lottery Community Fund.Cassie has been pioneering change in systems and exploring how to serve the most vulnerable, oppressed and least understood in our society and culture since leaving the fashion world as a designer in 2006. An early service and social design practitioner working with organisations like thinkpublic, Participle, 00:// and the Young Foundation, her experience extends to Local and National Government - working with Government Digital Service, the Social Finance team in the Cabinet Office, and the Libraries Taskforce in DCMS. Cassie has also worked with corporates like the Co-op, designing ways national brands can be useful for local, social infrastructure.Prior to joining The National Lottery Community Fund she was the Strategic Design Director at Doteveryone, where her work focussed on ways of strengthening society - people, communities and organisations - to build a new social contract for the digital age. She is also the Co-founder of the Point People, helping organisations work together wisely and systemically to address the large, complex issues of our time.She’s a Fellow at the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL where her research focusses on how society and social infrastructure can be supported to adapt and change as technology alters the fabric of our lives and communities. Social and climate justice sit at the heart of her work.Recorded at the beginning of June, we explore Cassie’s journey, and riff on the converging crises of post pandemic social inequalities, racism, climate and ecology, the black lives matter movement and the role of community led change. We zone in on an emerging thread of Cassie’s work exploring living systems, the dying processes of organisations, and the role of intentional hospicing structures for organisations and ideas that are no longer serving society. We chat about another related and emerging field of work for Cassie around social dreaming, community imagination and collective consciousness and the role of dreaming and imagination in bringing forth a more beautiful world. Cassie is an extraordinary force for social justice and system change, do check out her work. Enjoy.@cassierobinson https://medium.com/@cassierobinsonhttps://www.cassierobinson.work/http://www.thepointpeople.com/https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/Berkana Two Loopshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQWKmtx8L2sClosing trackhttp://livingcolour.com/ Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I’m in conversation with Olivia KnightLiv is a social entrepreneur and the founder of collaborative gifting platform Patchwork. She is an activist on multiple dimensions at a community level and through serving social, climate and ecological challenges.She is playing a key role in the development of the UK sharing economy and is current chair of the movement.An ex brand strategist, she was a partner and strategist at eatbigfish and a creative director at climate and environmental creative platform Do The Green Thing Liv is someone with tremendous energy and vision, and a fierce believer in equality, fairness and social justice.We riff on her story, the birth of the Patchwork platform, consumption culture vs sharing and community participation, the social inequalities that the pandemic is revealing, how the sharing economy could develop as we look beyond just physical stuff to human connection, ecological healing and regenerating and re-imagining the places we live.This was recorded in early May. Hope you enjoy!Available all usual platforms.#thespaceshipearth #becomingcrew https://patchworkit.com/#https://twitter.com/projectpatchwrkhttps://www.instagram.com/patchwork_ithttps://www.sharingeconomyuk.com/ Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I’m in conversation with Tim Malnick. Tim is a coach, learning guide, activist, author, ex politician and Buddhist. He provides creative, thought provoking and highly impactful learning and development for individuals, groups and organisations who are waking up to the realisation that the way they work and do business contributes to the ecological, social and economic crises that we face today. He was a faculty member of Ashridge Business School where in addition to research and consulting work, was a core member of the team teaching the MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility and was my tutor when I completed it in 2010. This programme described in Harvard Business Review as ‘path breaking’  and ‘transformative’ maintains an international reputation for transforming people’s thinking and doing, allowing them to act more creatively and courageously for change within their professions and organisations. Tim has one foot in academic settings and one foot in practical settings – once referred to as a ‘scholar activist’ - he likes deep thinking connected with practical and bold doing.A core belief underlying all his work is that individually and as a culture, people are waking up to the realisation that current patterns of work, organisation and business are unwittingly contributing to the ecological, social and economic crises that we face. Many people in every type of organisation now struggle with how to balance the demands of ‘making a living’ with their own sense of values, and a deep wish for their work to contribute to wider flourishing of communities, cultures and the planet.He offers safe and structured space, proven frameworks and powerful practices to take that question seriously, and to help people use it as a gateway into more meaningful, creative and empowering ways of working and running organisations.We talk about Tim’s story, and reflect on how his work is showing up in these times of interconnected crises. We also explore Tim’s work with Money, helping people makes sense of their relationship with money and the barriers and issues it creates in our lives. Tim speaks with wonderful wisdom and encourages a curiosity and awareness with ideas and practices to help reveal who we really are, to embrace that and go forth to co-create the more beautiful world. Do check out Tim’s work. I hope you enjoy this and please share and review if you do.https://differentspace.co.uk/https://differentspace.co.uk/events/@differentspace1https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crystal-Mirror-Stories-Tim-Malnick/dp/1908363096 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. This is episode 7 featuring offerings from Deepak Ramola, Gina Rembe and Amisha GhadialiI hope you enjoy listening to themPeace and OutDan Get full access to Becoming Crew at becomingcrew.substack.com/subscribe