THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

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

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