Sarah Wilson chats wild ideas for a fired up life.The multi-New York Times bestselling author, activist, minimalist and former news journalist who founded the global phenomenon ‘I Quit Sugar’ travelled the world for 10 years (living out of one bag) to explore the freshest ways to live fully…and to save this one wild and precious life we have together.She riffs with philosophers, creatives, poets, scientists (and at least one nun!) on the Big Questions that haunt us. What goes through the mind of a prisoner on death row? How does Sia invent her art? Will we die from climat...
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INDY JOHAR: "How do we prepare the world for what’s coming?"
Indy Johar (founder of Dark Matter Labs, systems designer) closes this 12-part series on the life-enhancing “what comes next” that we need (and want) to be creating. Indy is one of…
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SARAH STEIN LUBRANO: How do we change people’s minds about what’s happening to the world?
Sarah Stein Lubrano (neuroscientist, political scientist, former obituary writer!) is an expert in how to change people’s minds most effectively and for the betterment of all being…
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57 min
JOHN SEED: Is Deep Ecology the answer?
John Seed (Deep Ecology OG, global rainforest steward) says we can’t save the world. And that the planetary crisis is not a failure of information or awareness; it’s a failure of h…
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56 min
JEREMY LENT: Can humans build a (beautiful) new civilisation?
Jeremy Lent (author, systems thinker) is a leading authority on civilisations and has just created a manifesto on how to shift from the current crumbling one to what he calls an Ec…
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1 h 01
FRANCIS WELLER: “Grief will wake us up”…so how do we do good grief again?
Francis Weller (psychotherapist, bestselling author + “soul activist”) believes we have entered a “Long Dark”, a multi-decade (century?) period of collapse and psychological pain t…
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59 min
RUTH BEN-GHIAT: How do we create a values-led politic from this mess?
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (historian of fascism +NYT bestselling author of Strongmen) is an internationally recognised expert in how psychologically unstable men come to power and use corrupt…
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1 h 11
ZAK STEIN: How do we raise kids in a metacrisis?
Zak Stein (Harvard philosopher of education, AI + kids expert) is worried that we are not raising and educating our kids for the kind of wobbly, harsh future they will be inheritin…
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1 h 16
MICHAEL MUTHUKRISHNA: Can we cooperate our way out of this? (Warning: a tricky episode!)
Michael Muthukrishna (behavioural scientist, cultural evolution researcher) has a unified “theory of everyone” that says we evolved as a species, surviving crises and collapses, th…
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56 min
ECE TEMELKURAN: How to save ourselves from fascism
Ece Temelkuran (fascism expert, political exile, journalist) first began reporting on the global slide into fascism as a journalist witnessing it happen in her home country, Turkey…
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1 h 08
SHELDON SOLOMON: Can we gamify all the denial around us and save humanity?*
Dr Sheldon Solomon (psychologist, founder of terror management theory) has spent 45 years proving that our fear of death is responsible for the structures of civilisation, such as…
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1 h 02
AUDREY TANG: Can we wrangle AI off the techno-fascists (and make it a force for good)?
Audrey Tang (“civic hacker", Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large, polymath) is one of the world’s most influential thinkers and she has a vision for pro-social AI that is exciting l…
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1 h 13
SAMANTHA SWEETWATER: How do we *actually* emerge our way into “the what comes next”?
Samantha Sweetwater (systems thinker, Gaian futurist, expert facilitator) draws on complexity science, deep ecology, indigenous wisdom, and 30+ years of experience guiding embodied…
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14 min
WE’RE BACK! Series 2 of Wild is here
After a long-ish hiatus, we’re returning with a fresh series of Wild. This second series will be taking a slightly new direction and is now “watchable” on YouTube and Substack.Ther…
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1 h 16
BEST OF: IAIN MCGILCHRIST - Our “wretchedness” is a left-brain issue
As many of us move into the holiday season and slower days, I wanted to reshare this conversation with Iain McGilchrist. It’s a spacious, illuminating exploration of how we’ve come…
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1 h 12
BEST OF: MARTHA BECK - Only the most nourishing chat I’ve had about anxiety ever
As many of us head into the holiday season — travelling, slowing down, or looking for something good to listen to — I wanted to reshare this conversation with Martha Beck. It’s a t…
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34 min
A Wild Live with Dr Sharon Blackie about… fairytales and collapse
Wild has been on hiatus while I finish my most recent book. We’ll be back with a fresh direction and new guests in the coming months, but in the meantime, I’m dropping in a small h…
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38 min
A Wild Live with Ohh that’s RICH on "extinction burst"
Wild has been on hiatus while I finish my most recent book. We’ll be back with a fresh direction and new guests in the coming months, but in the meantime, I’m dropping in a small h…
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43 min
A Wild Live with Grace Blakeley about neoliberalism and collapse
Wild has been on hiatus while I finish my most recent book. We’ll be back with a fresh direction and new guests in the coming months, but in the meantime I’m dropping in a small ha…
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1 h 05
VANESSA ANDREOTTI: And now we have hospice modernity…(and a goodbye from Wild)
Dr Vanessa Andreotti (Indigenous Knowledge advocate; author) is a Brazilian academic who has developed a radical thesis for how to move through the multi-crises we face. In her boo…
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1 h 12
MARTHA BECK: Only the most nourishing chat I’ve had about anxiety ever
Dr. Martha Beck (author; “best-known life coach in America”) is about to release a book on anxiety. The international best-selling author – who holds three Harvard degrees in socia…