Catie Payne

Reskillience

A Earth Sciences , Science and Nature podcast Explicit

#5 in Earth Sciences · 🇦🇺 #11 in Earth Sciences · 🇳🇿

About the show

Reskillience is a podcast about the hard, soft and surprising skills that'll help us stay afloat if our modern systems don't. Hosted by Catie Payne, released weekly.

Newest episodes

Return to the Village with Kate Nottingham (or: how to be that fearless person who facilitates togetherness)

Oct 29, 2026 1 hr 14 min

BONUS EP three days early whaaaaat I’m bringing you this inspiring chat with Kate Nottingham (founder of the Off Grid Living Festival and director of the 2027 Permaculture Convergence/Return to the Village Festival) ahead of schedule because it contains time sensitive information! Last minute early bird tix to Return to the Village are available till midnight on October 31… so hop to it. In this episode I share a story about a spring love festival held in our local community, before quizzing Kate Nottingham on how the heck she makes such big shit happen, and why the #1 thing we need right now is TOGETHERNESS. Opting out when your career is taking you in a sickly direction Headstrong and confident in being different Relentless optimism as a superpower! Ecovillage immersion at Findhorn How to facilitate instant human connection We need to work harder on creating open hearted spaces where people can be themselves What makes a village work… or not De-emphasising failure Warehouse experiments in the city Creating the School of Self Sufficiency Do you need to be an expert to run a workshop? We need generalists/bumble bees! Heading up the Off Grid Living Festival Frugality and financial hacks to fund your passion Crowd-funding a property Running events under the radar It doesn’t really matter what you teach, just get people together! Top tips for successfully gathering people without awkwardness The commercial tension in running Off Grid Living Returning to the Village 50 years of permaculture! Kate’s POV on the near future and what we desperately need 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS [early bird tix till Oct 31] Return to the Village ~ April 2027 Return to the Village on Insta The Off Grid Living Festival 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡 Thanks to field recordist Romuald Mikusek for the birdsong

How to read nature's clues to predict & respond to emergencies (aka. the disaster preparedness pep talk you need to hear!) with Chris Gilmour

Oct 18, 2026 1 hr 16 min

I tell a story about a freak storm that flattened our summer crops before sharing a super inspiring convo with Chris Gilmour, an emergency and disaster preparedness expert who believes that deep nature connection is key to surviving and thriving through uncertain times. 🦌 In this episode: Addressing that shaky feeling underneath modern life of not being able to survive in the wild The birch bark canoe incident! When emergency apps don’t work Tuning into our own body radar How to weigh risk versus reward in high stakes situations Is the infrastructure that “keeps us safe” actually working? Can we rely on the authorities? The chronic low level stress of knowing something is up in the world Even emergency services peeps can’t read nature! The birds are your early warning system Learning to trust nature’s patterns Landscape design for resilience A pep talk for people who feel “old and behind” in nature knowledge Humans are designed to do MORE than what we think we’re capable of, yeehaw! The spiritual dimension of reclaiming endangered skills Is comfort always a good thing? How tracking wildlife teaches us to apply critical thinking and not fall into polarising narratives Solid ways to build individual and household preparedness Tending your nervous system so you can stay calm in a crisis Taking an All Hazards Approach 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Chris’s home on the web ~ Chris Outdoors Chris on Substack Chris on YouTube Chris’s other biz, Wild Muskoka Return to the Village Permaculture Convergence ~ Early bird tix available till Oct 31 Thanks for the field recording of a beautiful rufous whistler, Matt Thomas! 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

Kinking Collapse, Urgent Gratitude & Future Seeds with Shane Simonsen

Sep 20, 2026 1 hr 8 min

I tell a story about my inability to change before chatting with a guy who's obsessed with changing everything! Dr Shane Simonsen of Recombination Nation is a biochemist, research scientist and experimental farmer who is shaking up agriculture-as-usual by breeding plants that require ZERO INPUTS. No fertiliser, no pest protection, no weeding, no watering! We talk about how to run your own kinky plant breeding experiments at home, as well as: Why humans still have 50 million years left on the planet Shane's POV on GMO Low tech gene transfer you can do today! Are we addicted to working harder not smarter? Moving towards irrigation-free gardening Yet another neurodivergent superpower Being a plant snob Cities versus country towns during collapse Survival foods for the future How & why to take on projects that will outlive you CROSSING BRUSH TURKEYS & ASTRALORPS? Impermaculture Blessings on the internet SOLID real estate advice Where to buy crazy seeds 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Shane on Substack ~ Recombination Nation Shane's podcast ~ Recombination Nation Shane's book ~ Taming the apocalypse Folklore Pictures' film with Shane ~ Seeds for the Future Australian Grain Seed Bank Central Vic seed grower we love ~ Greg Mueller of Useful Seeds 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡 Sound credit ~ cheers Nicholas Allan!

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All episodes

Return to the Village with Kate Nottingham (or: how to be that fearless person who facilitates togetherness)

Oct 29, 2026 1 hr 14 min

How to read nature's clues to predict & respond to emergencies (aka. the disaster preparedness pep talk you need to hear!) with Chris Gilmour

Oct 18, 2026 1 hr 16 min

Kinking Collapse, Urgent Gratitude & Future Seeds with Shane Simonsen

Sep 20, 2026 1 hr 8 min

The climate-resilient nature-entangled way to garden with Duncan Cocking

Sep 6, 2026 1 hr 3 min

Planting guides and sow-what-when calendars are great and all, but what happens when the seasons don't play nice? When spring arrives earlier, frost hits later, or heatwaves burn your crops to a crisp? There's no controlling the weather, but with tools like phenology, you can make better predictions and grow more food! Duncan Cocking (of Leaf, Root & Fruit) is an amazing gardener and educator from Kyneton in Southern Australia. He helps people tune into more-than-human patterns and cycles to build their own hyper-local and climate resilient gardening calendars, and has a wealth of wisdom about living more joyfully too. In this convo: Why spring is two weeks earlier this year Duncan's early years immersed in nature and connected to country Why he's not that interested in working hard Mid-30s career change Pattern recognition in the veggie patch How to use phenology Nature based indicators to tell you went to plant The two most critical aspects of gardening!!! Connection through failures Why to RELAXXXXX about how to garden Wood ducks tell you when you plant tomatoes Crazy record keeping How the hell to collate so much data Habits of the highly observant How do nature’s patterns work, NO LIKE, HOW? Being conversant with the land Duncan is an ostrich Disconnecting from the World Wide Web How to preserve your mental health with a hyper-focus on local Getting kids into the garden Give your kids scary tools Garden gimmicks How to grow avos in cold climates Spring gardening to-dos RIGHT NOW 🧙‍♀ LINKY POOS Duncan’s home on the web Leaf, Root & Fruit on Substack Leaf, Root & Fruit on Instagram Andrew Turbill, the bird guy 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡 ☕ Buy Me A Coffee (or an avo or a loaf of bread) ☕ Gratitude to the field recordist Romuald Mikusek, XC935811. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/935811.

Breathwork for grief, connection & coming to your senses with Ella Maryska

Aug 25, 2026 1 hr 1 min

NOTE: I’ve done breathwork every day since this interview and – you gaias! – it’s really helping me human. Meet today’s guest Ella Maryska, who is responsible for getting me into this breathwork thing that I am the last person on the planet to know about. Ella is 21 years old, wise as the hills, a certified breathwork instructor, and brings a fresh and youthful perspective to the pod which has been sorely absent to date (sorry sorry sorry). In this sweet convo, you’ll hear about the geeky physiology of breathwork; how it rebalances our nervous system, changes circulation to our brain, oxygenates tissues and connects us to plants, as well as Ella’s own experience as a young person living through the polycrisis, navigating novel life paths as the old routes fall away. I learned so much from Ella. Let me know if you’re on the breathwork bandwagon, a brilliant tool for staying steady in the tumult. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Ella’s home on the web Ella/Coming Home Breathwork on IG Tuesday evening group class Guided breathwork sesh on YouTube [book] Atlas of the Heart ~ Brené Brown Catie’s natto Reskillience live recording at Words in Winter The Australasian Permaculture Convergence 🧡🧡🧡 Join the Reskillience community on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡 Catie on Substack

On Slowing Down & Looking Up with Kirsten Bradley

Aug 9, 2026 1 hr 11 min

“In a time of fracturing seasons, when everything’s going awry, there are still cycles that we can set our hearts by.” It's Kirsten Bradley of Milkwood! She's writing a new book about the moon, penning love letters to parsley and currawongs on Substack, and here to share all about her daily rhythms in lutruwita, Tasmania. Oh, what a lovely conversation! Within 🌙 AI or not to AI Morning routines! Morning stargazing! Tea choices Moving to lutruwita/Tassie Fish farm woes and responses How to make decisions about where to move When the body says no Slow activism “You can rest. The problems will be there when you get up again. And the solutions.” Perimenopause rearrangements Coming back to creativity after burnout Wrapping knowledge in story Learning injuries Writing as a welcome Cultural astronomies Should we follow our interests? What does activism look like for Kirsten now? The Common Book of the Moon 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Kirsten on Substack Kirsten + Milkwood 🧡🧡🧡 Join the Reskillience community on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

Use less compost, make less money & follow your passion 100% with Steve Solomon

Jul 26, 2026 1 hr 13 min

BYO wheelbarrow to load up on Solomon’s wisdom, cos today we’re chatting with the grandaddy of beyond-organic gardening himself, Steve Solomon! If you don’t know Steve, he’s a bit of cult hero in food growing circles thanks to his deep research into soil remineralisation and why it is absolutely critical for human health. In this convo: How pre-industrial communities ate 4 x more nutrient-dense food Why MINERALS are the key to healthy soil and healthy humans Better nutrition… lower libido? Why compost is really bloody complicated …and how compost can ruin your soil if you’re not careful How to calculate how much organic matter your soil actually needs The ugly truth about commercial compost COF ~ Complete Organic Fertiliser Why Steve doesn’t recommend soil testing for everyone EVIL GOVERNMENT EDICTS Steve’s pact to intentionally follow his interests 100% “THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE IS TO DO WHATEVER IT IS I’M INTERESTED IN” LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Steve’s homepage The Soil & Health Library [book] The Intelligent Gardener ~ Steve Solomon [just released!] Growing Nutrient-Dense Vegetables: A Cool Climate Guide~ Steve Solomon Google: Steve Solomon gardening books Nutrition and Physical Degeneration ~ Weston A. Price Soil fertility and Animal Health ~ William Albrecht 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡 Words in Winter ~ Live podcast with Mara Ripani & Natasha Morgan Return to the Village ~ Australasian Permaculture Convergence.

The Holy Fool, Hallowed Weeds & How To Just Start Writing Already with Helen Lehndorf

May 26, 2026 1 hr 14 min

I share a GRIPPING TALE about a droplet of water before sitting down with Helen Lehndorf, who is a radical forager, author, anarchist, poet and plenty more wonderful things besides. I loved her memoir A Forager's Life so much! Helen and I dive straight into the weeds about permaculture life strategies, unlocking creativity, writing for nature and how to rebel against The Machine by playing the Holy Fool. Medicine for muddled, blocked or chronically shy creatives. IN THIS CONVO Swimming upstream of the over culture Undoing cultural entrainment Social permaculture Permaculture design web Establishing a daily writing habit The world isn’t saying PLEASE ARTIST MAKE MORE ART but you should anyway Anarchism The YES, AND rule The Holy Fool archetype AI? *shrugs* Enspiriting your art ECOPOETICS Getting past sharing insecurity Writing for nature Why little lives are worth sharing Invisible care work Journalling versus publishing Blackberry medicine What is it to relate with plants? PUNK GRANDDAD DANDY Synesthesia The future has an ancient heart 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Helen’s home on the web A Forager’s Life ~ Helen Lehndorf The Bruise Palette ~ Helen Lehndorf Social permaculture ~ Looby Macnamara Kirsty Porter Wild ~ Cheryl Strayed E.M Forster ~ Howard’s End Annie Dillard Sound credit: Morepork / Ruru (Owl) - Auckland, New Zealand by tdes -- https://freesound.org/s/319539/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

Emotionally Processing Peak Oil & Em-Powering Community Action! with Nathan Surendran

May 10, 2026 1 hr 18 min

We built this city on rock n roll! And cheap oil. And it’s currently running out… so what happens now? This week I chat with Nathan Surendran to get a foothold on the fossil fuel crisis (which is the Everything Crisis) and how we can keep our balance, together. Nathan is a systems thinker, recovering engineer, energy and security analyst, policy advisor, author of the Energy and Resilience substack and chair of the Wise Response society. He is also seriously kind, and provides so much practical, empowering advice in this convo, including: Moving far far away from civilisation The unsustainability of cities Neurodivergence leading to deep research The Energy Elephant in the room: WHAT AREN’T WE SEEING Why oil (diesel) is the lifeblood of industrial society Drawing down ancient sunlight 1 million times faster than it’s being recharged Every calorie of food takes 10 calories of fossil fuels, oof The Iran War Why we can’t just switch to renewables Right relationship with renewables What are baseline standards of living? Household appliance heroes for the energy descent What is Energy Blindness? Emotionally processing peak oil One barrel of oil = 5 years of human labour (!) Are we being gaslit about the situation in the strait? The industrial system schools us to comply, not think Why the rich aren’t as protected as they might think Less affluent people are ahead of the game What is mutual aid? Un-pathologising co-dependence Maori concepts of community care Why we need danger from a mental health perspective 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Nathan on Substack ~ Energy and Resilience Nathan’s home on the web [doc] When The Trucks Stop ~ mutual aid guidelines Wise Response on Substack Jason Bradford ~ The Future Is Rural Steve Keene Ian McGilchrist Charlie Hoyle Nate Hagens Steve Keen Howard T Odum 📸 Photo credit: Jason Hosking 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

How to practice hybrid permaculture (and worry less about the news) with Ian Lillington & Marita Zeh

Apr 26, 2026 1 hr 0 min

Ever wish you could sit down with permie elders to hear their take on the current chaos; what to do, where to live, and whether it’s really that bad in the grand scheme of things? Well just call me Genie cos this convo with permaculture educators and radical homemakers Ian Lillington and Marita Zeh will deliver. Ian and Marita live in a solar passive straw-bale home on the edge of Castlemaine, Victoria, surrounded by fruit and nut trees and veggie gardens, where students come to see – and feel – what it is to be wrapped in abundance. And this is where I found them, on a sunny autumn morning, in the cosy warmth of their kitchen, dealing with masses of peaches, pistachios and zucchini. And we all sat down and chopped and chatted, eventually remembering to turn on the mics. In this convo: Pursuing a hybrid model of permaculture Rat poison sandwich Renting till your 40s What is good debt? Where is even affordable anymore? How to deal with gluts Giving to community Small garden farming Being strategically connected to the grid Diverse household energy systems Scales of usage An elder’s perspective on current affairs Sharing permaculture as a political act Permaculture priorities Gratitude vs. fear Impermaculture 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Send Ian an email ~ Ian.lillington@protonmail.com Or keep it old school with a text ~ 0478 297 057 The Castlemaine Permaculture Hub PDC (for locals) Castlemaine Permaculture FB group (national) Permaculture Australia FB group

Prioritise Spiritual Prepping with Emily Coats

Apr 12, 2026 1 hr 14 min

I tell a story about my grandpa’s deathbed song request before having a heart-to-heart with Emily Coats, a deep nature connection facilitator, ancestral skills practitioner, threshold-crossing guide and dreamworker. In this convo: Shakespearean activism What the world needs right now (hint: not more intellect) Ways to wholeness Does activism have to feel hard and gnarly? Being precise in the ripples we cast What happens at Tracker School Ancient skills… for survival? Why to prioritise spiritual preparedness How we live and how we die Losing her dad; the gifts and lessons Intentions vs. realities of living in a handmade black wattle shelter offline, offgrid and alone for 7.5 months How to use spirit tracking to find lost stuff 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ [starts soon in Naarm] Earth Time: The Lost Art of Being Human Emily’s home on the web Emily on Instagram Nature's Apprentice Nature Based Leadership Training Bill Plotkin & Animas Valley Institute Jon Young The Animal Communicator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpG1nkM5jc Jon Young Australia workshop 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

Can you be collapse aware and still want kids? w/ Jem Bendell

Mar 22, 2026 1 hr 7 min

In 2018 Professor Jem Bendell published an academic paper that went viral; pretty weird for a piece of scholarly writing. The topic? Societal collapse caused by runaway climate change. The timeline? Soon. Deep Adaptation presented a frank, delusion-free framework for facing the end of the world as we know it, sparked a movement, and copped a lot of flack. I wanted to chat with Jem not so much about the grim facts but about how, “as that collapse guy”*, he is filling his life with meaning at the eleventh hour. And it turns out, that includes becoming a farmer, writing folk songs and considering having kids. *Jem happily identifies as a doomster 🎙️ In this convo Experiencing climate change first hand as a farmer in Bali How to act on knowledge about collapse and climate? Making the leap towards your values (with the help of a global pandemic) Why the wellness community is full of shit Farming fails Picking up music at 48 and writing comedy rock Faulty beliefs we have about our creative gifts Living fully at the eleventh hour Letting go of status and security Why it’s all ok when everything’s not ok Kirtan and ecospirituality practices Jem’s evolving views about how collapse will unfold Bringing kids into this world, yay or nay? The Deep Adaptation framework Becoming NURTURANT How to help others through the grief Jem’s simple pleasures Oracle cards for cynics 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS Jem’s home on the web [paper] Deep Adaptation ~ Jem Bendell [book] Breaking Together ~ Jem Bendell The Metacrisis Initiative Jem’s collapse-aware oracle cards Jem’s music Songbird credit: Australia Outback Birds by EduFigueres License: Attribution 4.0 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

How to cut loose from the industrial food system & forage 100% of your noms w/ Robin Greenfield

Mar 8, 2026 1 hr 0 min

I tell a story about Jar Power before sitting down with Robin Greenfield, an incredible fella best known for his radical experiments in simple living, food reclamation, waste minimisation and wild foraging. He has been called “the Robin Hood of our times”, “the Forrest Gump of ecology”, and “the best kind of crazy”. To me, Robin is a torch bearer for truth, leading the way towards justice – with a whole lotta joy and integrity. This year he is eating 100% foraged foods – unreal! – so we chat about that, as well as: Why Robin is so gassy How it feels to break free from the global industrial food system Why Robin is not into human optimisation Practicing non-attachment and impermanence Freedom in community What gives Robin the power to do crazy stuff? Non-delusionalism How to identify your purpose and niche The most limiting factor in figuring out who you really are Pursuing radical honesty Robin’s simple finances Skills + relationships = freedom Transition ethics Compassionate communication What IS foraging, really? All the foraging nuances you never thought about! How our language is built around disconnection What would happen if everyone foraged? Joy as resistance 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Robin’s website Robin’s books Robin on Instagram [book] Mark Boyle ~ The Moneyless Man 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

Solo Elk Huntress w/ Christie Green

Feb 22, 2026 1 hr 10 min

Christie Green spends days at a time in the mountains, in the snow, tracking elk, solo. Her hunting journey began at 40 as a practical way to feed herself and her family, and became a fierce and fluid exploration of womanhood, motherhood, stewardship, intuition, listening and kinship. Christie wrote a memoir about her experiences called Moonlight Elk that I rapturously devoured, licking my fingertips with every turn of the page, it is that delicious. 🦌 Terrain covered: Life in Sante Fe, New Mexico Hunting as a deep and embodied exploration of just about everything. Listening to other than human perspectives as a landscape architect Designing for soil, water, animal, pollination; landscapes in service of wild nature Learning to hunt at 40 Weaving values into business How to catch dreams Why would you want to hunt alone? Being an “other-centred” person Following desire and intuition The extreme paradox of loving and killing Defying categories and boxes Are there better and worse ways to hunt? Could and should everyone hunt? Communal local food relationships Walking in fear as a woman, as prey Dreams as soul expression Writing sex scenes that feature yourself The choiceless choice of creativity 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Christie’s home on the web Christie on Instagram Get your mitts on Moonlight Elk (note: you can buy it anywhere, or ask your library for copies) Moonlight Elk audiobook Selected essays by Christie Green 🧡 Join the Reskillience community on Patreon 🧡 Outro birdsong credit: Afro408 - License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

You don't need willpower, you need PERMACULTURE w/ Cecilia Macaulay

Feb 8, 2026 1 hr 20 min

You’ve heard of swales… but what about swales in the brain to slow and deepen our human experience? Join me and Cecilia Macaulay for one of those special convos that gets to the heart of life’s gnarliest struggles; our biggest messes, our greatest failures, our everyday chaos… and uses permaculture design to harness their power. This episode will particularly chime with “forgetful, distractible” types, clutter accumulators, chaos agents, overwhelm junkies, and anyone with a hunch that a few elegant household systems could MASSIVELY increase their effectiveness in the world. WE COVER Insane wisdom from Bill Mollison Meeting Masanobu Fukuoka The FIVE RULES OF HARMONIOUS PERMIE SHAREHOUSES Japanese rules of Non-Complaint and Taking Full Responsibility Growing an enduring permaculture spirit How to become a world expert in a tiny little thing Creating a failure protocol Upward spirals Permaculture for heartbreak Being an effective human later in life More than medication for neurodiversity The connection between untidy houses and trauma Making your kitchen sink a shrine to beauty and goodness Setting a household culture using mirror neurons The eco-footprint of university STOP AWFULISING! Permaculture zones in the home Why to share what’s spare STOP COLONISING CREATIVE VOID! Expanding the edges of our gifts and talents Beautiful messcapes Knolling What “can’t be bothered” really codes for How to use imagination to improve your memory 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Cecilia’s home on the web Cecilia’s nine month home harmonising project The Edible Balcony Garden ~ Indira Naidoo Sand Talk ~ Tyson Yunkaporta Screen Zen App WWOOF, HelpX & Workaway Polyvagal theory 🧡Join the Reskillience community on Patreon 🧡 Thanks to kangaroovindaloo for the singing bowls: License: Attribution 4.0

PLACE AS ELDER w/ QUINIE

Jan 18, 2026 1 hr 12 min

Big personal shares at the top of the ep (preview: podcasting terrifies me) before an utterly delightful conversation with Scots folk singer Josie Vallely aka. Quinie. Quinie's album Forefowk, Mind Me was named The Guardian's best folk release of 2025, but don't worry if you're not into bagpipes because we mostly chat about: Not making your art your career Tips for slow art/seasonal living in a rushing world The mind bending differences between relating with Country in Australia versus Scotland Minority languages and evocation of place The right to roam Confused white settler syndrome When you’re a cultural mongrel Impure ancestry Place as a surrogate elder Tradition in motion Where do songs live? Journeying on horseback Horses as bodyguards Why we all just want to be got 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS Quinie’s home on the web Quinie on Instagram [album] Forefowk, Mind Me ~ Quinie Quinie’s seasonal almanac ~ Things that happen every year in a cycle [film] Forefowk, Mind Me Guardian review of Quinie’s album Cover art photo credit: Anthony Rintoul 🧡🧡🧡 Join the Reskillience community on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

It ain't over till the blackbird sings

Dec 21, 2025 6 min

A garden drama unfolds during a heatwave, and I share my summer solstice/New Year wishes for you. Thanks for tuning into another year of Reskillience! We'll be back later in January full of fresh questions and custard. Shout out to my love Jordan Osmond for helping produce this episode. Sound credit: BlackbirdFiltered.wav by acclivity 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

The Courage to Follow Your Path (and how to talk to animals) with Lisa Podosin

Dec 7, 2025 1 hr 7 min

Cor blimey, we're getting equiney! Cast aside your Saddle Club trauma and learn how horses can help us be better humans and stewards of nature in this rich convo with Lisa Podosin. Lisa is a horse listener, advocate and author who swapped Hollywood for a tiny home on shared land with a herd of seven horses. We get real deep on topics of: 🐴 not putting off till retirement what you wanna do today 🐴 choosing freedom over security at any age 🐴 land sharing gifts and tips (single women supporting women!) 🐴 how horses as prey animals reveal our inner misalignment 🐴 moving beyond control-based strategies (bridles, saddles, whips) and towards trust 🐴 how to be agents of liberation for both the more-than-human world and our own wild souls 🐴 learning interspecies communication 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Lisa’s home on the web Pre-order Lisa’s book 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon (and join our December meetup) 🧡🧡🧡 Thanks for the birdsong straget! Blackbird.wav by straget | License: Attribution 4.0

"It's going to be a blast... and scary as hell." Dave Pollard on Collapse

Nov 23, 2025 1 hr 14 min

You want it, you got it: an open discussion about the cracks in our civilisation, and how to catch each other when it all falls apart. Dave Pollard has been writing about culture, complexity, deep ecology and collapse for longer than some of us have been alive. While he continues to cheer on radical ‘deep green’ activists, he no longer believes that that we can change or reform The System. This convo is about what to do instead. [first aired in 2023] 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Dave's writings Dave’s recommended reading list ~ The Books That Have Influenced Me Most Dave’s article ~ How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse? Molly Housch Gordon's piece ~ How to Survive the End of The World [watch] The New Peasants by Happen Films

This Moneyless Life with Jo Nemeth

Nov 9, 2025 1 hr 13 min

Could you live without money? No support payments, no savings account, no secret benefactors? Jo Nemeth has been doing so for the past decade, and reckons she is less stressed and more secure in her moneyless life (in which she shares a home with eight other humans and plays the role of house keeper/manager/grower/frugavore). This is a truly radical tale of a woman who went the whole hog and gave up the bacon 💰 to invest in relationships and reciprocity. We cover: What is poverty/wealth? Why live without money? Jo has no hope! Less money = more freedom Why to be a home economist Issues in a nine person household The deliciousness of aligning your actions with your values Moneyless gift giving, cravings, medical and more Waste food seagull mode Receiving is harrrrd Kids + collapse On taking care of things Collapse priorities Growing locally adapted food 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Jo’s home on the web Jo on Instagram ~ @jolowimpact Jo in the Guardian Mark Boyle ~ The Moneyless Man + The Way Home Eaarth ~ Bill McKibben Luke Kemp ~ Goliath’s Curse Artist As Family The Art of Frugal Hedonism ~ Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb The really really free market Just Collapse Sound credits: first raven, flock of ravens. 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

The Viking Approach to Pest Management (plus ALL the horticultural sorcery) with the Weedy Garden's David Trood

Oct 26, 2025 1 hr 0 min

I tell a story about becoming a gardening influencer before sharing an animated and long-awaited conversation with David Trood aka. The Weedy Gardener! Weedy, Jord and I discuss: 🌱 Creative land access 🌱 Body as compost 🌱 Hearing nature's call 🌱 Being an eye cell for humanity 🌱 Showing your failures 🌱 Why to love the small stuff 🌱 The all important nutrient cycle 🌱 Decomposing cane toad 🌱 Pest management, the Viking way 🌱 Rhizophagy 🌱 Nitty gritty on why organic produce is healthier 🌱 From grandpa bod to garden god 🌱 Weedy Garden Makeovers 🌱 Sacred social media spaces 🌱 Why garden? 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ The Weedy Garden on YouTube The Weedy Garden online 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

The Felt Sense of Success with Laura Jean

Oct 12, 2025 1 hr 6 min

I tell a story about the ironic demise of my keepcup, and the difference between light green and deep green choices, before a pot-of-tea-convo with Laura Jean. Laura is a renegade business coach, dietician and permaculturalist who will help you see VALUES in a whole new light, and how to use them to illuminate the life/business/world you really want. Prepare to cry tears of recognition and possibility. 🐝 Building trust in yourself for changes that take courage 🐝 Eating disorder shares and healing strategies 🐝 The very worst thing that can possibly happen 🐝 Body check for making decisions 🐝 Do we change, or choose? 🐝 Laura’s values 🐝 Why we recreate the same old shit even when living “alternatively” 🐝 Figuring out your Bare Ass Minimum 🐝 The felt sense of success 🐝 Money as a tool to enact your values 🐝 Three steps towards a regenerative business 🐝 Commerce vs. capitalism 🐝 Activities for clarifying your values 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Laura on Instagram Laura’s podcast Dietician Values Gundaroo Growers Canberra Environment Center 🙏 Yellow-tailed black cockatoo sound credit 🙏 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

The Way of the Owl with Morag Gamble

Sep 28, 2025 1 hr 0 min

Three unbelievable stories about owls, and how to be a myceliating, possibilitarian practivist with the phenomenal Morag Gamble. Morag has cornflower blue eyes and a glorious crop of hair that curls at the ends like pea shoots. She consorts with broad beans and leafy greens in bare feet, and has sent no dig gardening viral on YouTube. This convo was recorded at Crystal Waters Eco Village where Morag lives with her family and 200+ other humans on 640 acres shared with a teeming assortment of subtropical wildlife. 📝 SHOW NOTES Building your livelihood around the seasons of your life How to find your flow and live with intention More than human helpers and teachers “I am the garden gardening” Ways to access land when accessing land is insane Myceliating ideas around the world Why aren’t permaculture villages everywhere? Possibilitarianism Nourish threads of connection rather than fighting the fight How the new unfolds through collapse of the old The vital role of the arts How are we to live? What is enough in these times? Why permaculture is everything Gift economy how-to Do you have what it takes to be a permaculture teacher? Integrating permaculture with your profession Morag is a beloved permaculture teacher and designer, founder of The Permaculture Education Institute, pioneer of urban permaculture projects like Northey Street City Farm, and an international changemaker who has led changemaking programs in 22 countries. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Morag’s home on the web Morag’s podcast ~ Sense-making in a changing world Morag on YouTube Become a permaculture teacher ~ The Permaculture Education Institute Rob Hopkins Jeremy Lent Schumacher College Vandana Shiva Arne Ness Helena Norberg-Hodge Fritjof Capra 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

Save the World by Becoming the World with John Seed

Sep 14, 2025 58 min

Can birdsong heal your hearing? Can a rainforest recruit humans to protect it? What is deep ecology, anyway? Of all the approaches to “saving the world”, this one has my heart. Join me in conversation with elder John Seed as we get to the marrow of the environmental crisis, from the illusion of separation between human beings and nature, to the rituals, ceremonies and stories that can heal it. About John Seed Just last year at age 79 John was arrested for strapping himself to logging machinery in the Bulga State Forest, and has been awarded the Order of Australia medal for his services to the environment. John launched the Rainforest Information Center, has initiated global rainforest action networks and campaigns, developed The Council of All Beings with Joanna Macy, co-authored Thinking Like A Mountain with Joanna Macy Pat Fleming and Arne Ness, and spent decades facilitating experiential deep ecology workshops. IN THIS CONVO John’s story of being called into service by Nature Collaborating with Joanna Macy The root of the planetary crisis Community therapies to heal civilisational wounds Business As Usual, The Great Unravelling, The Great Turning The Work That Reconnects Activism as ceremony The antidote to cultural amnesia Why John loves podcasts! How not to judge gross human behaviour Honouring our pain for the world Feelings as ancient intelligence Can anyone run a grief circle? The council of all beings The cosmic walk 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS John Seed’s home on the web The Rainforest Information Center [read online] Thinking Like A Mountain by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming & Arne Ness Deep Ecology The Work That Reconnects 🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon🧡 Field recording credit: Thrushes, golden whistlers, yellow faced honeyeaters and a spotted marsh frog by Afro408 License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

Meditation, Interbeing & Emotional Upskilling with Suzie Brown

Aug 31, 2025 55 min

Friends! Here’s a D&M (Dharma & Meditation) conversation I recorded with mindfulness meditation teacher and founder of Australian Parents for Climate Action Suzie Brown while visiting Narara Eco Village last week. If you’ve ever felt anxious, unsure how to process difficult/obstinate emotions, or sad for no reason, this episode will provide ample tools for stilling the mind and relating to yourself – and the world – with kindness. On that note, I start the ep with an emo travel diary entry, and how a snaggy creek helped me see my internal struggles in a whole new light. IN THIS CONVO 🕊️ When you feel sad for no reason despite the trappings of success 🕊️ Can we *really* choose happiness? 🕊️ The pleasant/unpleasant emotional pinball machine 🕊️ The magic of noticing 🕊️ Name it to tame it 🕊️ Kindfulness 🕊️ How to establish a non-militant meditation habit 🕊️ Rejigging negativity bias 🕊️ The R.A.I.N practice for difficult emotions 🕊️ Dharma + ecodharma explained 🕊️ How interbeing can solve the polycrisis 🕊️ Long Shower Syndrome 🕊️ Resource guilt 🕊️ Parents for Climate! 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Insight Meditation Australia Sydney Insight Meditators Suzie’s teaching profile Banyan Together Weekly online (by donation) Sky Sangha Meditation gathering Australian Parents for Climate Action! Give Suzie a hoy at hello@suziebrown.au 🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon🧡

Know this about people pleasing, olive pressing and apocalypse skills

Aug 17, 2025 1 hr 9 min

It's the RESKILLIENCE ROADTRIP where I'm intercepting all sorts of good sorts along Australia's east coast! First up is Ceilidh Meo who teaches no less than 80 apocalypse skills (!!!) while also growing olives, shoring up the food system and being casually shamanic. This is a ROMP of a convo that is INSPIRING ME TO USE CAPS. Such fun. Such depth. I also share about the caravan park we've just checked into. 🔥 WITHIN GEEK OUT ON MICRO NICHE OLIVE PRESSING An antidote to the olive oil crisis Cooperation is not the same as collaboration! POMMUS The gross truth about imported olive oil THE FIVE C FRAMEWORK When knowledge ain't power Systems design thinking for avoiding monumental f**k ups WHY 40s ARE THE BEST DECADE Yay for confirmation bias! Loyal soliders of the psyche Birth story REWRITE Learning types Manifestation vs. MAGIC Where does the need to know everything come from? Do more of what you’re already good at, or challenge your comfort zone? Not here to consume, but to create! 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Connect with Ceilidh ~ CIVILITAS Ceilidh's olive oil ~ Apulia Grove The Long Road Olive Coop Art exhibition + workshops ~ Ancient Roots in the New World Mel Robbins ~ The Let Them Theory School of Shamanic Womancraft Happen Films ~ The New Peasants screening tour 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

Love in the Time of Collapse with Jordan + Catie

Jul 20, 2025 1 hr 18 min

It's a Jordan + Catie double bill for the Season Four finale 🎊 Join us for a fireside D&M as two humans just tryna digest the microplastic casserole of modernity… and make something better. You’ll hear about my secret storytelling anxiety, Jord’s new award nominated film, my other boyfriends, law breaking, roadkill harvesting, why we took the Good Death-i-vore Pledge, sacred hunting, how to really give a shit about your ecosystem AAAAAND turning baboozlement into useful skills. ⚠️ A warning for sensitive ears, we swear a lot in this episode. LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Jord + Happen Films' newest doco ~ The New Peasants The New Peasants Australian screening tour (come meet us!) Film ~ In My Blood It Runs Film ~ Honeyland Best show ever ~ Bruce Parry’s TRIBE Cal Newport Richard Telford’s DIY mini biochar kiln Dylan Graves’ biochar podcast ~ Char Chit Chat The Do with Su zine ~ Su Dennett + Catie Payne (inc. the Good Death-i-vore Pledge) David Holmgren Bill Mollison 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

Cabin in the Woods with Imogen Ive

Jul 6, 2025 1 hr 1 min

I share a recipe for de-zombifying your life before chatting with Imogen Ive, Director at Mittagundi – a remote 520 acre farm and off grid education centre built by and for young folks in the high country. This convo is a reminder that sometimes hard is good, together is better and a pack horse, tent and sense of adventure beats air conditioned comfort any day. In the conversational cauldron: 🍯 Setting up a working farm and outdoor ed centre in the middle of nowhere 🍯 Living without modern comforts, electric tools, phones or watches 🍯 Wilderness adventures for young folks from all walks of life 🍯 An oh-snap safety vs. risk reframe 🍯 The dilution of outdoor ed in schools 🍯 How to facilitate confidence and capacity in young people 🍯 Why we don’t try new things, and how to hack our fear of failure 🍯 Bringing off grid flavours to the urban palate LINKY POOS Mittagundi Outdoor Education Centre Mittagundi on Instagram 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡 ✏️ Leave Reskillience a written review like a big old legend ✏️

End of Life Matters with Pippa White

Jun 22, 2025 1 hr 4 min

Shrug off the cloak of secrecy and awkwardness around death with palliative care nurse Pippa White. I’ve been wanting to bring a death convo to the airwaves for ages, because there’s a huge imbalance between light/dark, above/below, waxing/waning, growth/decay, possessing/relinquishing energies in our culture (and I'm the first person to perpetuate it). Shout out to everyone who sent frank and thoughtful questions for Pippa to answer – you’ll hear them towards the end of the ep. Pippa White is a palliative care nurse and death care advocate and educator in the Anthroposophical tradition. We discuss: 🖤 What is Anthroposophic philosophy? 🖤 Death care rituals, balms and vigils 🖤 Windows into the reality of spirit from people in transition 🖤 Why to “do the work” at the eleventh hour 🖤 Soothing suffering without drugs 🖤 How painful is death? 🖤 Different ways to relate to pain 🖤 Small, slow solutions to dying (tiny local end of life retreats) 🖤 Pet euthanasia, yay or nay? 🖤 How to deal with loved ones in denial? 🖤 Can you make a living in end of life care? 🖤 How do you document/cherish a life? 🖤 What folks find difficult when dying? 🖤 Grieving to breathe and to love 🖤 Birth and death thresholds LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Pippa White Anthroposophical Society Australia What is Advance Care Planning? Wedgetail Retreat Martín Prechtel Stephen Jenkinson [poem] Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas 🧡🧡🧡 Show Reskillience some love on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

Growing Against the Odds with Katie Finlay

Jun 8, 2025 58 min

Do not listen to this unless you want to reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. I tell a story about being a grub, before having an animated chat with rural woman of the year Katie Finlay about staunching the loss of small farms in Australia and supporting emerging growers to step up – even and especially if they don’t own land. (What even is land ownership?) 🍎 AND ALSO Katie and Hugh Finlay are black belt orchardists whose online program Grow Great Fruit is just brilliant for anyone who wants to obtain a yield from fruit trees (with an organic and holistic tilt, of course). It gives me great joy to connect you with their work. This is their Dream Orchard Masterclass starting REAL SOON on June 12. 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS Grow Great Fruit Harcourt Organic Farming Coop Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) Tess Sellar ~ Sellar Dairy 🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

Finding God in the Compost Pile with Gareth Devenish

May 25, 2025 1 hr 14 min

It’s colder than a penguin’s big toe here in Djaara Country, so we’re cosying up by the fire for a yarn with Gareth Devenish. I call Gareth the Snoop Dogg of permaculture, he calls himself a sovereign man walking in Country, subject to natural lore, seeking a connection with the cosmos. Call off your obligations for the next hour because Gareth’s crackling mix of irreverence and truth telling is something really special. 🔥 How to yarn 🔥 Why land ownership is a furphy 🔥 Native vs. exotic trees and colonial malaise 🔥 What is our responsibility to Country? 🔥 Nomadic agriculture 🔥 Quantum physics, free will and a post-truth era 🔥 Useful jobs in the time of AI 🔥 Why peacemaking with first nations people should be our #1 priority 🔥 Pay the rent! 🔥 Finding god in the compost heap 🔥 Does consciousness even exist? 🔥 Tips for planting and growing healthy trees 🔥 The best way to learn new skills 🔥 The scars which make us beautiful 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Gareth’s tree nursery ~ The Farm Tree Nursery (ships around Aus!) Gareth’s email ~ garethdevenish@gmail.com 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon (plz don’t use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡

Quit Your Job & Work in Reciprocity with Linda Cockburn

May 11, 2025 1 hr 5 min

I tell a story about making bugger all money but feeling filthy rich, before being joined by the incredible Linda Cockburn (pronounced “Co’burn” cos it’s Scottish) who explains why Capitalism is a death cult, and ways to crowd it out with reciprocity. Ample brain fodder and fiery inspiration here, folks! We cover: 🪶 Being unmade by successive tragedies. 🪶 Quitting employment to work in the home economy. 🪶 Going six months without spending a dollar. 🪶 How to grow your own toilet paper! 🪶 Will politicians ever “solve” climate change? 🪶 Why you can’t question capitalism 🪶 How the growth imperative works 🪶 Changing the narrative through language 🪶 The debt treadmill for “developing” nations 🪶 The closest thing we’ve had to utopia in human history! 🪶 Old and new indigeneity through storytelling 🪶 Hitting bodily limits 🪶 How to get owwwfff the hamster wheel 🪶 Riches without an income 🪶 The Eudaimonia Index & Reciprocity 🪶 Black Soldier Fly Revolution! 🪶 How to share even when you’re a scoundrel only child like me 🪶 Why it feels great to give your best stuff away 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Linda’s books The Quiet Revolution (basically why & how to decouple from the death cult of capitalism & start giving back to all life) Eat My Shadow (hopeful and instructive collapse fiction!) Living the Good Life Linda’s articles in Organic Gardener magazine A kickass essay by Linda ~ My Planet Saving Superpowers Linda on Instagram The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann Seed Freaks ~ open pollinated seeds Tasmania David Holmgren’s RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future Sound credit: Bruny Island Ambience by guyburns License: Attribution 4.0 🧡🧡🧡 support Reskillience on Patreon (plz don’t use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡🧡🧡

Loving What's Left with Tessa Campisi

Apr 27, 2025 1 hr 0 min

Hello! I have been away in the bush for three days and three nights with just a tarp, sleeping bag and water to my name. No tent, no pillow, no torch, NO BREAKFAST. Off the back of this deeply moving ritual (which I'll tell you about soon), I wanted to release this equally as moving and foresty interview with Tessa Campisi. Tessa is a writer, poet, audio visual artist, activist and radio host who speaks with the timbre of an old growth tree and tells stories that will rustle your leaves. In this chat: 🌳 What it's like to live through a catastrophic flood 🌳 How anarchic networks can rise to meet a crisis, fast 🌳 What happens when forest conservationists are at loggerheads with traditional owners? 🌳 Strawman vs. steelman arguments 🌳 A new approach to deep listening to those you disagree with 🌳 What traditional activism gets wrong and how to be a more effective change agent 🌳 How and why to love the scraps of our beautiful, broken world 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Tessa's home on the web Tessa's (online) exhibition ~ Framings of Wombat Forest Article of interest ~ Reflections on forest gardening by Cam Walker https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/galk_galk_dhelkunya Paper of interest ~ History of Environmentalist-Indigenous alliances and conflicts Essay of interest ~ The Trouble with Wilderness by William Cronon *** Become a Reskillience supporter on Patreon!***

Permaculture on the Spectrum with Anna Matilda

Apr 13, 2025 1 hr 8 min

Me ranting about Couple Power and the Urban Nanna being brilliant. May all the single, neurospicy permies find ample inspiration in today’s interview with Anna Matilda! Teacher of traditional skills, crafts and non-judgey sustainability. Anna is a breath of fresh air in the stale bedchamber of the status quo, sharing openly about how she does permaculture solo, in the city, in a rental property, with limited energy and Captain Anxiety occasionally taking the wheel. Mistakes as teachers Out ya come, Captain Anxiety Feeling out of step with the whole world The stress and physical fallout of masking Personal energy that can be budgeted The F**k It Wave FYI: You don’t need a compost toilet or a goat Guide Beside learning (Nanna education) Is permaculture uniquely attractive to people on the spectrum? For the single women renters! Spoon Theory Building community with a capital C Giving and receiving Banking energy and goodwill in people, in community Community as forest Skills as security Mudhuts Theory Revelling in knowing nothing Can we change? Swedish wisdom ~ lagom & mysig Japanese wisdom ~ kintsugi & shishiko embroidery 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Anna’s new book is out now! Everyday Permaculture ~ Anna Matilda The Urban Nanna’s on the interwebs The Urban Nanna on Instagram ⭐ Reskillience on Patreon ⭐

How To Grow Crazy Resilient Vegetables with Gregg Mueller

Mar 30, 2025 1 hr 10 min

Today we're exploding the sanctity of heirloom seeds and exploring the world of adaptive gardening! Gregg Mueller is here to tell us how (and why) to breed wacky new varieties of veggies like red snow peas, rainbow carrots and miniature melons in the name of climate-proof food. We also talk about seed monopolies and sovereignty, open source seeds, permaculture pitfalls aaaaaand sad and depressed garlic with no sex drive. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Gregg’s seed shop ~ Useful Seeds Gregg on Instagram Gregg on Facebook The Open Source Seed Initiative The Central Victorian Adaptive Crop Breeding Group on Facebook Going to Seed ~ International Community of Adaptive Crop Breeding 📕 READ Carol Deppe ~ Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties Joseph Lofthouse ~ Landrace Gardening [free eBook] Raoul A Robinson ~ Return to Resistance Noel Kingsbury ~ Hybrid CONTACT Send Gregg an email ~ gregg.muller@gmail.com 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

What if It's Not Dystopia? With Permaculture Elder Linda Woodrow

Mar 23, 2025 57 min

It’s Permaculture Week, friends and phascogales! And what better way to celebrate than a big old heart to heart with permie elder Linda Woodrow. Linda is the author of 470, The Permaculture Home Garden, and the Witches Kitchen blog which is now in its 17th year. She is humble and extraordinary, and I think you’ll dig what she has to say about finding our niches, neighbours, purpose and freedom in the throes of collapse. 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS Linda Woodrow’s home on the web Linda Woodrow’s blog The Witches Kitchen 470 ~ Linda Woodrow The Permaculture Home Garden ~ Linda Woodrow Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual ~ Bill Mollison RetroSuburbia ~ David Holmgren Permaculture One ~ Bill Mollison & David Holmgren Donut Economics ~ Kate Raworth ***Show Reskillience some love on Patreon***

The Health Episode // Sensitivity As Resilience with Anthia Koullouros

Mar 9, 2025 1 hr 3 min

A story about a free bottle of French perfume and whether sensitivity makes us more or less resilient. With esteemed and ever-so-lucid naturopath, herbalist & author Anthia Koullouros of Apothēca Organic Teas & Apothecary. * What’s making us all so sick? * How to untangle complex & confounding health crises * Polyvagal theory & nervous system truths * Practitioner perspectives: holding space for uncertainty * What a regulated nervous system isn’t * Resisting business growth & hustle culture LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Anthia’s home on the web Anthia’s Autumn reset [Starts March 17!] Anthia on Instagram Anthia on Substack What is polyvagal theory? 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

Slow Textile Revival with the makers of The Nettle Dress

Mar 2, 2025 1 hr 5 min

One of today’s guests spent seven years spinning a dress from stinging nettles and the other spent five years documenting the process. The result was the incredibly moving documentary The Nettle Dress — which I have now seen twice — co-created by Dylan Howitt and Allan Brown. It’s a love letter to old skills, hand crafts and everything that cannot be hurried; to fibersheds, foraged threads, gentle stories, and the magic of following your heart. Dylan Howitt is a BAFTA nominated filmmaker whose roll call includes BBC, Netflix and Discovery. Allan Brown is a textile artist and subject of the film whose steady commitment to disrupting consumer culture is contagious. It’s hard to sing The Nettle Dress’s praises highly enough without shattering a window, but I truly hope you’re moved to watch it after this conversation, perhaps with a posse of pals and a cauldron of nettle soup. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS ***Watch The Nettle Dress*** The Nettle Dress’s home on the web The Nettle Dress on Instagram Short film & group ~ Nettles for Textiles Flaxland UK **Support Reskillience on Patreon***

Altered States, Imaginal Realms & Co-Becoming with Dr Maya Ward

Feb 24, 2025 1 hr 12 min

Today’s subject matter is so slippery and mysterious that even my guest, Dr Maya Ward, finds it hard to describe, though she’s swimming in it. It concerns the aliveness of rivers and the rivers inside us; the nature of reality and realms invisible yet objectively real. It’s about catching the whispers and shouts of the world with pen and paper. It’s shamanic, ecstatic and emphatically esoteric. It’s bloody wild – and I suggest bringing your passport because the places this convo will take you are far out. But also, deep within. If you love all things complex, paradoxical and perspective-shifting, I dedicate this episode to you 🙌 After we recorded, Maya sent this thoughtful epilogue: We are innately of the world, yet we are also this witness consciousness, experiencing separation. Forgetting, then remembering. “Inside human beings is where God learns”, said Rilke. Does separation itself create the possibility of learning? In my exhibition, on the wall, I have a quote from Robert Bringhurst: “Language is not for talking about the world – that's for dilettantes. Language is for talking with the world.” I wish I'd said that. ***Support Reskillience on Patreon!*** 🧵Threads A new old way to introduce ourselves Original meanings of yin and yang The right ratio between humans and more-than-human The role of the artist and poet Ecstatic and mystical experiences in nature Building beauty and vernacular architecture Where a lack of trust in the system takes you Initiated vs. uninitiated ways of being Small, potent work Third wheeling the love affair between sun and earth Altered state work The imaginal realm Sufi mysticism The danger of unwitnessed initiation Automatic/shamanic writing Reclaiming ‘esoteric’ Acknowledgement of Country spellcasting 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS Maya Ward’s home on the web Maya’s events, workshops & exhibitions Maya’s book: The Comfort of Water Nature Based Leadership Training CERES William Wordsworth Tyson Yunkaporta Henri Corbin Carl Jung Rudolf Steiner Pl...

The Pursuit of Discomfort & Pirate Bananas With Charlie McGee

Feb 16, 2025 1 hr 7 min

Real good fun with this one! Join me and Formidable Vegetable’s kind and charismatic frontman Charlie McGee for a swashbuckling convo about pirate bananas, working the edges, growing up in Arnhem Land, dumpster diving to feed your art, staying in your integrity (while saying yes to flying), the deep discomfort of home ownership and remembering your interconnectedness. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Formidable Vegetable’s home on the web Grow Do It (Charlie & Brenna's hub of ecological goodness) Find secret track Pirate Banana on Formidable Vegetable’s Micro Biome CD, only available in person at gigs! Vandana Shiva Bill Mollison & David Holmgren ~ Permaculture One ***Become a legendary supporter of the podcast on Patreon***

Home As Habitat, Garden As Wild with Tanya Loos

Feb 10, 2025 1 hr 6 min

I tell a story about how Jord and I narrowly avoided getting shot before introducing Tanya Loos – local treasure and legendary naturalist – for a deep and meaningful chat about wild life, and all life. We cover: How to be a nature positive pet owner Are cats evil? How to save a bunch of lives Gardens as habitat The housing crisis facing possums (and other critters) How to recklessly pursue your passion and make it your profession GETTING THE ANIMALS ON THE ARK How to avoid roadkill (even frogs) Bee feelings + monogamous lizards The intersection between conservation, permaculture & animal welfare Patreon Qs 24/7 nature connection Beetle PaceLINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Tanya Loos’ home on the web Tanya on Instagram Living with Wildlife ~ Tanya Loos Daylesford Nature Diary ~ Tanya Loos Tanya on ABC Radio ~ Backyard Critters (every second Friday 9.50am) Paradise Bookshop Daylesford Wild Neighbours ~ Ian Temby Campaspe Valley Landcare Gerald Durrell Connecting Country Zoos Victoria Safe Cat, Safe Wildlife Alison Pouliot iNaturalist ***Support Reskillience on Patreon*** Frog sounds care of markushablizel -- https://freesound.org/s/32394/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 THANKS M8

Jord & Catie interview each other in the back of a van

Jan 13, 2025 1 hr 16 min

It's the season three finale with me and my man Jordan Osmond! We’re cranking the content couple cringe in this convo which covers our individual intentions for 2025, and chatting them through like a pair of old codgers. Jordan is one half of Happen Films, sharing stories for a more beautiful world, and precisely one year ago we recorded a Reskillience interview which was later to become our first date. Back with new eps in three weeks or less 💥 Big love to all the legends supporting the show on Patreon 3

Life, but Make It Herby with Caroline Parker

Dec 29, 2024 58 min

The episode that nearly didn’t happen for reasons almost too embarrassing to share… but what else is the intro for? 🤷‍♀️ Today we’re hanging out with CAROLINE PARKER ~ The Cottage Herbalist ~ bigtime girl crush and quite possibly the love child of a 1950s rock star and wiccan goddess. Caroline is an author, speaker, grower, educator, forager, herbalist and award-winning teasmith who is just TOO COOL. We bask in her garden eating elderflower cookies talking about treat-os, herbal speed dating, what to cook when you CBF cooking, the cuppa that Caroline would serve to power hungry pollies and why she’s not a prepper. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Caroline’s witchy little home on the web Caroline aka. The Cottage Herbalist on Instagram Caroline’s book baby ~ The Medicinal Garden Caroline’s upcoming workshops [FILM] The Nettle Dress ***Support Reskillience on Patreon!*** Make a garden tea Make herby sauce Make pesto! Make herbal infused oils Make a garden balm Get into the garden! Make time for thyme Yarrow, yarrow, yarrow Make people in power a cup of love Garden with others

It's the little things with Kat Lavers

Dec 22, 2024 1 hr 25 min

After countless requests I present to you: Kat Lavers 🐈‍⬛ Wicking buckets, magic bug buttons, interspecies adventures, listener questions and more! Kat and I recorded this convo at her kitchen table, surrounded by ferments and preserves and garlands of dried chilli. At just 1/14th of an acre, Kat's urban homestead The Plummery has been known to pump out 428kg of fresh produce in any given year, meeting almost all the fruit/veggie requirements for two people. I M P R E S S I V E S T U F F. Kat is a beloved permaculture educator, passionate gardener, and sustainable food system furtherer whose compassion for all living things could fill five football stadiums, whilst also being the poster child for small wonders. You may have seen Kat featured on Gardening Australia, Happen Films, myriad permie/green media channels, and in this one-and-a-bit hour yarn we plumb the depths of her mind, heart and utterly delightful psyche through her list of 10 things. LINKY POOS Kat’s home on the web Kat on Instagram (which she doesn’t really use) Wildlife Homestead YouTube Channel [BOOK] Once ~ Annie Raser-Rowland Reskillience with Annie Raser-Rowland The Group Work Center ~ Groups + Facilitation training ***join the Reskillience community on Patreon***

Natural Beekeeping Magic with Adrian Iodice

Dec 15, 2024 1 hr 14 min

Are bees a mammal in many bodies? Why do conventional beehives leave bees cold, stressed and defensive? How can beekeepers deal with varroa mite without any chemicals? Do European honeybees even belong in Australia? What is Australia’s best honey and where to get it? All this and more in today’s GLORIOUS conversation with leading natural beekeeper Adrian Iodice. Such a special one folks 🐝🐝🐝 LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ The Beekeeping Naturally website Adrian on Insta Adrian’s courses & workshops Adrian’s Kenyan Top Bar hives Adrian’s YouTube channel – so many how-tos Embody Bee Save the Bees Australia Biodynamics – Tobias Mager Tim Malfroy ~ Malfroy’s Gold Natural Beekeeping Australia ***Support Reskillience on Patreon!***

Release Your Inner Bat Shit Crazy Bird Nerd with Andrew Turbill

Dec 11, 2024 1 hr 23 min

If you prefer nature to people, birdsong to screeching tyres and secretly want to crash the economy via mass workplace dropout due to a bird language contagion, you will go absolutely crackers for this convo. Andrew Turbill aka. THE BIRD GUY is here to share his epic and somewhat perilous birding quests for 2025, from stalking Logrunners to sidestepping fascists and recording a full blown predator attack in the sky. F****** fabulous listening for anyone under the spell of birds. Andrew’s 2025 to-do list find out where our local superb lyrebirds (well, at least 1 lyrebird anyway) nest and get an audio recording of the young bird begging or alarm calls get a decent photo of a logrunner build an elevated sit spot platform in the forest spend more time in the forest socialising with songbirds and less time doom-scrolling about the callous and cruel manifestations of psychopaths, narcissists and fascists record audio of a full-sequence aerial predator attack keep my bird baths full 365 days of the year devise a way to dissuade catbirds and fairy-wrens from mercilessly pummeling my windows at dawn throughout spring and summer find someone desperate enough to make some walking-around money to enter 30 years of my naturalist seasonal field observations into a data base or excel spreadsheet so i make some effing sense of them take on a bird language apprentice visit my mum more oftenLINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Robin Wall Kimmerer Andrew Turbill’s online nest Andrew on ABC Radio National You were once a Bird Language Samurai, and can be again ~ Andrew Turbill Megalania goanna!!! Jon Young Voices of birds page on Andrew’s website Upcoming Bird Language events + retreats ****support Reskillience on Patreon****

Rewild Christmas Lunch! with Eva + Will of Wild Beings

Dec 1, 2024 1 hr 11 min

If you're sick of ham sandwiches and Love Actually, why not bring spear throwing and possum skinning to Chrissy lunch? Eva and Will of Wild Beings have some cracking ideas for rewilding family gatherings -- and every other facet of modern existence, for that matter. These two intrepid humans lead a radically connected life on/in/with the land, and inspire others to do the same. Tracking, hunting, foraging, tanning, weaving, bush medicine and bird language... this conversation harks back to the OG roots of Reskillience; re-membering that old, wise body of ecological knowledge and running with it... into the shrubbery. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Wild Beings’ home on the web Wild Beings on Instagram Seasonal Earth Skills Gathering [book] Wild Food Plants of Australia ~ Tim Lowe [book] Wondrous World of Weeds – Pat Collins ***Show Reskillience some love on Patreon***

Lucy Richards' 10 Ways To Regenerate Self, Soul & Business Strategy

Nov 24, 2024 1 hr 1 min

Things to know about this episode: 🪶 It was recorded on Lucy's bedroom floor, smushy carpet under-butt and steaming cups of dandy tea in hand. 🪶 It’s a day spa for your weary weary soul, the one who yearns for alignment between what you love and what you earn. 🪶 It includes a grounding practice & ways to attune to your evolutionary purpose. 🪶 It’s kinda like a personal session with a business strategist, social entrepreneur, poet, writer and regenerator… in podcast form. 🪶 It’s a brave and nuanced take on capitalism, less about poisoning it with roundup, more about seeing it as part of the garden we humans have grown and can therefore gently, intentionally supplant. ❤️ Listen right to the end for a poetry reading. 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS 🏡 Lucy’s home on the web 🏝️ Lucy’s Instagram 📕 Lucy’s book ~ Divine Postal Service 🌕 Lucy’s full moon Substack ***Support Reskillience on Patreon (but don’t use the Patreon app cos Apple will charge yo ass a fee. GO DESKTOP)***

Blake Boles' 10-or-11 Dirtbag Rich Resolutions

Nov 17, 2024 1 hr 8 min

FOR ONCE IT'S NOT A PERMIE 😱 Please enjoy this fun-as-f**k conversation with Blake Boles, who, in an unexpected deviation from regular Reskillience programming, is not a permaculture educator and is in fact a renegade unschooler, vagabonding wordsmith, teen travel leader, bikepacking blogger, tango maestro and passionate spokesperson for the Dirtbag Rich life. We romp through topics such as quitting school, defying relocalisation, AI playdates, post-app dating and failure resumes. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS The Dirtbag Rich podcast! Blake’s home on the web Dateblake Blake on Substack A bit more about Dirtbag Richness Couchsurfing.com Warmshowers.org Semi-rad.com Tim Mathis ~ The Dirtbag’s Guide To Life

Artist As Family's 10 Ways To Be Rich, Feral and Free

Nov 10, 2024 1 hr 4 min

This episode was recorded while sitting on Artist As Family's living room floor, glowing embers in the belly of the fire, cups of hawthorn and artichoke tea on the coffee table, and Meg’s famous ferments watching over us from the shelves. You’ll hear us accidentally knocking the microphones, some quality heavy breathing and Zero the dog dreaming and yipping away on the couch. And it's our first audio quartet! Meg, Patrick and twelve-year-old Woody offer their list of ten permaculture neopeasant provocations as a whole family; a huge highlight was hearing Woody share wisdoms from his unconventional upbringing complete with knives and chainsaws and flames and the freedom to learn lessons the hard way. LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ [EVENT] Artist as Family’s all day house + garden tour ~ Sunday November 17 in Central Vic Artist as Family’s nook on the web Artist as Family on Substack [FILM] A Day in the Life of Woody ~ Happen Films Paul Kingsnorth on Substack

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Created by: Catie Payne
Status: Active
Latest episode: Oct 29, 2026
Episodes: 81
Release period: Every two weeks
Avg. episode length: 1 hr 8 min
Explicit: Yes
Language: English

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