The change we need is human change, and it starts with you.

My guest in this episode is Rirhandzu Marivate, a regenerative food systems practitioner and socioecologist currently based in the Western Cape of South Africa. Rirhandzu leads the Living Soils Community Learning Farm initiative, which aims to empower young black women through jobs in regenerative farming to grow nutrient-rich produce, strengthen local community food security and create sustainable livelihoods. In this episode we talk to Rirhandzu about how she collaborates with the team and the community to really embody regenerative leadership while they do regenerative agriculture.

This week we are tackling a big topic together – your personal resilience and what it means for planetary resilience! I dive into lessons I have learned working with this topic personally and professionally over the last decade and dig out key insights and practical tools that will help you on your journey to create a more just, generative and joyful life for yourself and others. Together we explore: What personal resilience meanss; The myths surrounding vs what is actually backed up by science; What changemakers, or aspiring changemakers, need to know about how resilience impacts them; Six key science-based insights to help you build your resilience; The relationship between personal and planetary resilience; Some tools and practices you can use help build your resilience. Download the free workbook to apply the tools in your life and work!

My guest today is Kylie Flanagan, author of a brand new book called “Climate Resilience - How we can keep each other safe, care for our communities and fight back against climate change”. Kylie and I sat down together to chat about: the climate leadership we need; why she felt it was important to centre voices other than her own in this book; and how learning from people who do things differently and prioritise values like interconnectedness, humility can deepen the dominant climate conversations. Kylie also shares the deep lessons she learned from the 39 climate leaders who contributed to her book and how this helps her to navigate the overwhelm that is inevitable in climate justice work.