Join women's coach, yoga teacher + social change catalyst Meg Berryman as she and a host of women's health + empowerment experts delve into love, purpose, wealth, nourishment + motherhood.
In this episode, I interview Podcast Host, Farmer and Nutritionist Kate Kavanaugh. We discuss: - health of land and bodies - kinship and belonging - why tending to the little things matters a great deal - the wonder of freeze - hope and grief and so much more. To follow Kate - www.instagram.com/kate_kavanaugh To learn more about my work - www.megberryman.com
Beth Berry is an author, coach, teacher, adventurer, mother of four daughters, and hopelessly hopeful human. In this podcast we talk about: motherwhelm and why we things feel so hard reimagining our conceptualisation of motherhood starting a revolution from home re-valuing care and examining unmet needs new world thinking developing intimacy with nature and so much more. To learn more about Beth - https://revolutionfromhome.com To see my upcoming journeys or pre-order your copy of Wilder - www.megberryman.com
I have a chinwag with Wellfolk Revival's Sarah Stutzman, chatting about: nature as teacher homesteading looking at income different ways building resilience and community the symbiosis between the way we look after land and bodies knowing our limitations and so much more. For more info on Sarah's work - https://www.wellfolkrevival.com For all our upcoming offers - www.megberryman.com For our consulting work - www.regenerativeways.org
We finally catch up for a chinwag and chat about: navigating financial stress in business neurodiversity building resilient communities homeschooling pivoting and adapting work and life And so many more things. For more details on what's coming up - www.megberryman.com For more details on our consulting work - www.regenerativeways.org
Briony Penn is a naturalist, writer, educator, and broadcaster well known for her indomitable spirit and tireless devotion to protecting endangered species and sensitive ecosystems in her native British Columbia, Canada. In this episode, Dave chats with Briony about: acting in service to the earth decolonizing and acting counter-culturally the politicisation of nature education barefoot mapping why we don't act reconnecting to a past we can be proud of fostering courage to stand by what you know in your bones For more information on Briony: https://www.brionypenn.com For more information on Meg's upcoming journeys: www.megberryman.com For more information Dave and Meg's consulting work: www.regenerativeways.org
A senior yoga teacher, Mei Lai Swan is a certified Embodied Flow™ teacher, with years of study and practice in Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Anusara yoga. From Melbourne, Australia, but now based on the road, she teaches in-depth workshops, retreats and international teacher trainings around the world, with a special focus on nada (sound) yoga, somatic and trauma-informed practices. A trained Doula, she is the founder, previous CEO and ongoing Board Director of Birth for Humankind, a non-profit organisation providing free birth support to women in disadvantaged circumstances. In this conversation we chat about: - Mei Lai's perspective on post-crisis regenerative recovery and repair from her experience working in flooded-affected communities - the importance of community and co-regulation in times of crisis - health and wellbeing as the cornerstones of regeneration - mobilising and shifting systems for regeneration and recovery - how trauma impacts repair and recovery - community-driven responses to crisis - regenerative leadership. For more information on the Northern Rivers Community Healing Hub - https://www.nrchh.org/ To learn more about Mei Lai - https://meilaiswan.com/about/ To learn more about our upcoming retreats and events - https://www.instagram.com/megjberryman/?hl=en For more information on Mei Lai -
Artist as Family (Meg Ulman and Patrick Jones) live in Daylesford, Australia on Djaara Country on a quarter-acre permaculture plot, home to their School of Applied Neopeasantry at Tree Elbow University. They practice a unique form of performance art, comprising how they live, get their food and medicine, and move around; performing modes of life making they call permacultural neopeasantry. Meg and Patrick are bloggers, fermentors, writers, public speakers, goatherders, gardeners and video makers who also make music, but mostly they're a family who belong to a bloody great community and a beautiful small patch of sacred forest, and therefore they're much more than the sum of our parts. In this episode we talk about: Meg and Patrick's vision for the world using grief and sorrow as fuel toward living differently de-schooling living communally and resolving conflict stepping into young eldership neopeasantry and using the way we live as activism embodied leadership and regenerative living finding our way back toward indigenous wisdom And so much more. For more info on Artist as Family: https://artistasfamily.is
Dr Bayo Akomalafe is a philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of the Emergence Network. In this chat, Dave talks to Dr Bayo about: unschooling and non-schooling community as an organism trauma as an invitation to reimagine rupture and repair - individually and collectively surrendering to the non-human world localisation And so much more. To learn more about Bayo - https://www.bayoakomolafe.net To learn more about Regenerative Ways - www.megberryman.com
I chat with Author of the Art of Frugal Hedonism Annie Raser-Rowland about: how to consume less and live more why frugality and hedonism aren't a contradiction why we're afraid of having and consuming less - and how to overcome it orienting communally and relationally finding sensory pleasure in our mammalian bodies what our bodies are saying about the systems we live in and how to find compassion for yourself and others wherever you are in your regenerative journey. To buy the book - https://www.frugalhedonism.com To see what we're up to - www.megberryman.com
Emily Sims and her partner Alex are first generation farmers in their fifth year of running a small-scale regenerative farm business in Victoria, Australia. They are passionate about ethical animal husbandry, understanding local ecology, enhancing soil and pasture health and building relationships along the way. They believe locally grown, wholesome food is at the heart of healthy communities. In this chat we talk about: how Emily came to farming and what she learned through mentorship why farming is healing overcoming challenges learning in relationship to the land her experiment to ditch social media and focus on in person relationships creating diverse and reciprocal relationships and so much more. To learn more about Hand to Ground- https://www.handtoground.com.au/ To subscribe to Emily's blog and seasonal newsletter - www.savourtheseasons.com To enrol in our signature course Small is Beautiful - www.megberryman.com
Ella Noah Bancroft is Bundjalung woman born in Australia. She is a descendant of the Bundjalung peoples of Northern NSW, and also has blood lines to Scotland and England. She is a Connection Therapist, Mentor, activist and creative, carbon neutral event co-ordinator. She is passionate about re-wilding the world and the feminine force. In this chat we talk about: choosing a technological or nature based future slowing the f*** down healing through connection and in relationship rewilding and finding our way home local futures and creating regenrative communities and so much more. To learn more about Ella - https://www.ellanoahbancroft.net To enrol in Unbound and spend three months learning the art of regenerative leadership and business - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound
Becca is the host of the Belonging podcast, the author of Root & Ritual and a facilitator of women's gatherings both virtually and in person. She speaks on the nature of belonging and what it means to be alive in the Age of Loneliness and holds retreats to help women reconnect with their rooted sense of self. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner, child, two cats, and five chickens, where she gardens, cooks, mothers, and gathers with the ebb and flow of the seasons. In this medicinal conversation, we chat about: honouring our inner winters living seasonally building community and re-villaging reimagining the village in a way that honours the past and looks to the future orienting relationally in life and business changing our relationship to chaos and so much more. For more info on Becca - visit https://beccapiastrelli.com To learn the principles of regenerative business and leadership including living and working seasonally - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound
Laura Storm is the Founder of Regenerators and has spent her entire career working in the intersection of sustainability, organizational development, climate change policy and the intelligence of nature. In this conversation, Laura and I chat about: regenerative leadership and why it's time for a new conceptualisation of leadership working within systems to transform them honouring cycles and seasons in work and life Laura's journey of regeneration regenerative business why the way we do things matters what is giving us hope and much more. For more information on Laura - https://laura-storm.com/ To join me for our three month regenerative business immersion - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound
Arrowyn Ambrose is an Advanced Certified Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit, Certified Teaching Artist, and Certified Race Equity and Healing Justice Facilitator. She has studied Viola Spolin's long-form organic improvisation, creative writing, addiction, and group dynamics. With a background in the creative and performing arts, Arrowyn believes in the healing power of story and is passionate about ethical storytelling along with trauma-informed and resilience-oriented recovery, parenting, and social justice. In this conversation we talk about: why we do what we do when we know what we know addiction, recovery and regeneration trauma and the body why we are all in recovery from culture creating rituals of repair in relationship And so much more. To learn more about Arrowyn and the Resilience Toolkit - https://lumostransforms.com/team/arrowyn-ambrose/ To join our upcoming regenerative business community, Unbound - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound
I interview New-Zealand based doula/daughter Chloe Holloway - @oh_mwanawanga about how our culture of birthing reflects the disconnections we see in our everyday - and how we can tend to this rite of passage with reverence, inclusion and radical support in order to step toward a more regenerative tomorrow. We talk about: * birthing cultures globally and how they differ * what respectful care looks like and why we can extend this beyond the birthing room * feeling safe to move in the world in different ways * respecting traditions in antenatal, birth and postnatal care * finding belonging * being a death doula and what we can learn from death * finding different expressions of activism and so much more. For more information on Chloe - https://www.ohmwanawanga.com For more information on our upcoming programs and evergreen courses - www.megberryman.com
Jonathan Mooney is a dyslexic writer and activist who learned to read when he was 12-years-old. He since earned an honors degree in English Literature at Brown University and has written and published three books including Learning Outside the Lines and Normal Sucks. In this compelling and uplifting conversation, we chat about: the origin of normal and why it sucks disrupting normal and the link with cultural regeneration uncovering our gifts and being loved for who we are why folks with atypical brains and bodies are wisdom keepers of regeneration... and so much more. For more info on Jonathan - https://www.jonathanmooney.com To enrol in our latest program - embodied regeneration - www.megberryman.com/journeys/embodied-regeneration
I give listeners a little update about what's been going on here... strap in for a wild ride! To enrol in together - www.megberryman.com/journeys/together
In this chat I speak with death doula Zenith Virago about living and dying well, befriending grief and what it all has to do with creating a more regenerative tomorrow. Zenith is a marriage celebrant, death walker, celebrant, educator and consultant - bringing contemporary, natural and holistic awareness to death, ceremony and loss. You can learn more about Zenith - https://www.zenithvirago.com And about our courses and events - www.megberryman.com
Ashia Ray is an Autistic, multiracial (Chinese/Irish) 2nd-generation settler raising two children alongside their partner on the homelands of the Wampanoag and Massachusett people. Their goal with Raising Luminaries is to collaborate with families and educators in raising the next generation of kind & courageous leaders, so we can all smash the kyriarchy together. In this episode we chat about the difference between kind and nice, how to have and encourage courageous conversation, ableism, starting the work close in and so much more. Whether you are raising little people or not, this episode is essential listening for any folks committed to cultural regeneration and transformative justice. For more information about Ashia - https://booksforlittles.com/info/about/ For more previous episodes - www.megberryman.com/podcast
Dave and I catch up over a cuppa (in lockdown #6) and share where we are now, three months on from the miscarriage. We chat about: * community and local living * homeschooling and wildschooling * our endless pursuit of working less and living more * our wild brumby * regenerative relationships * and why ultimately, small is beautiful. To enrol in Small is Beautiful - https://regenerativeways.thinkific.com/courses/small-is-beautiful
I chat with Futuresteading podcast hosts and all round stellar humans Catie Payne and Jade Miles from Black Barn Farm about all things futuresteading, regenerative living and the challenge of living within systems as we try and disrupt and rebuild them. For more info on the Futuresteading podcast - https://www.futuresteading.com.au To enrol in Small is Beautiful - https://regenerativeways.thinkific.com/courses/small-is-beautiful
In this episode, Jen and I talk about the links between sobriety, recovery and regeneration - and how to step back into right relationship with alcohol - whatever that looks like for you. Jen Clements empowers women to revamp their relationship with alcohol and up-level their lives through her work as a certified Grey-Area Drinking Coach and Thrivalist Co-Founder. www.megberryman.com
Gill Howarth is a conscious educator, an educational changemaker, a mother, a storyteller and the Founder of Born Wise. In this chat, Gill shares her own journey as a teacher, a homeschool mum and as a conscious educator, reminding us of the innate capacity of our children and providing ways to reframe learning for the whole family. For more information on Gill: https://bornwise.com.au For more information on the Regenerative Ways spring retreat: www.megberryman.com/events
I chat with author, teacher and nature connection guide Claire Dunn about rewilding the urban soul. We talk about slowing down, reconnecting and building a regenerative culture from the inside out. For more information on Claire including her latest book - https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au For more information on the Regenerative Ways Spring retreat - www.megberryman.com/events
Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne. In this conversation, Tyson and I talk about: how indigenous thinking can change the world relationship and regeneration belonging to place - and how we can do so even when we move around trusting in co-creation - yarning and sand talk the shortcomings of the education system and so much more. Buy the book: https://www.booktopia.com.au/sand-talk-tyson-yunkaporta/book/9781925773996.html?source=pla&gclid=CjwKCAjw8cCGBhB6EiwAgORey6eJi420_QE8-h8F-haHKVHhsfcO2KgCPdlsEyiXFUIUSm2-xITAZBoCgogQAvD_BwE Enrol in the Regenerative Ways Retreat: www.megberryman.com/events
In this conversation, I talk to writer and agroecology soil advocate Holly Rose about her journey into advocacy and activism through personal and collective exploration and storytelling. We talk about sustainability versus regeneration, animism, human design, creating a regenerative culture and connecting with place in this rich and diverse discussion. To follow Holly - https://www.instagram.com/hollyrose.eco/ https://hollyrose.eco/ To enrol in the Regenerative Ways mentorship with me - www.megberryman.com/mentorship
Dave and I catch up and share more about our journey through miscarriage and everything else that 2021 has thrown at us. We also talk more about what to expect this season on the podcast - and how we feel more at home than ever. More about the Regenerative Ways - www.megberryman.com/mentorship www.megberryman.com/events
Dave and I get real about the year that was for each of us and how we are reimagining 2020 in a more regenerative way. In this episode we chat about: negotiating health challenges, building pandemic-resilient businesses, our thoughts on adding another baby into the mix and why we're optimistic about 2021.
In this podcast I share my journey from maiden to mother and the flow on effects that has had in creating a regenerative business.
This week I share a big decision that we made and what it means for business, motherhood and beyond. To enrol in unbound or learn more about working 1-1 - www.megberryman.com
In this beautiful meditation, I share a process for reconnecting with the flow of your business - whether your business is a seed of an idea or an established tree with a deep root system, this meditation will leave you feeling inspired, engaged and connected. This meditation is based on the design of our regenerative business biome - Unbound. We start November 12 - to enrol - go to https://megberryman.com/courses/regenerative-business-eco-system/
This week I sit down with my co-conspiritor TraceKay Coe to chat about regenerative business, why it's time for a new paradigm, leadership versus eldership and creating a regenerative, living, breathing learning eco-system. Unbound starts October 29 - Enrol: https://megberryman.com/courses/regenerative-business-eco-system/
In this episode I share what has been going on behind the scenes of life and business - and how my relationship with my body, money and making change has evolved over the last few years. For all the new course info - www.megberryman.com
This week I chat to the Raising Wildlings podcast co-host Nikki Farrell about wildschooling, homeschooling and using wellbeing as a measure of success. For more information about Nikki's school go to -https://www.wildlingsforestschool.com To take a peak at my new website go to www.megberryman.com
This week I paint a new vision for deep, nourishing and mutually supportive relationships - and speak to how to regenerate relationships that are feeling challenging and hard right now. To join the free Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourregeneration To enrol in Embodied Changemaker: https://events.humanitix.com/embodied-changemaker
This week I interview Bridget Wood - Founder of Suburban Sandcastles and co-Founder of Nourishing the Mother about embodied activism and how to be the change, as we go about making change in our lives, families, communities and beyond. To join my program - Embodied Changemaker - https://events.humanitix.com/embodied-changemaker To learn more about Bridget - http://www.suburbansandcastles.com
This week I interview Desiree Adaway about embodied leadership, white supremacy and other systems of oppression, social equity, liberation, abundance and regeneration. It's essential listening for anyone seeking reimagined, equitable and inclusive ways of being, doing, working and doing business.For more information on Desiree's Freedom School - https://adawaygroup.com/freedom-school/ For more information on Embodied Changemaker - https://events.humanitix.com/embodied-changemaker
This week I reflect on our full treechanging journey and share some ideas and elements you may wish to consider if you've ever thought about treechanging. Enrol in Sacred Steward: www.megberryman.com/sacred-steward Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megjberryman/?hl=en
In this chat, I chat with Brittany Eastman about how human design can help us as change makers, rule breakers and truth seekers. For more information on Sacred Steward: www.megberryman.com/sacred-steward To book a once-off reading with Britt's team and get her free Money & Exchange course gifted to you: https://brittanyeastman.com/hd-co-x-meg-affiliate
In this episode I share a framework and a vision for regeneration - working from the inside out. I share about my own work creating individual and collective safety via nervous system healing and talk about how we can take our place in the cycle of life in order to create and catalyse change from the inside out. More details about Sacred Steward - www.megberryman.com/sacred-steward Join the free FB group - www.facebook.com/sacredsocialleaders
This week I dive deep into our need to plan and write to do lists, and offer a pathway to internal and planetary regeneration that challenges productivity over receptivity. To join the free group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/sacredsocialleaders/ For more information on Sacred Steward - www.megberryman.com/
In this solo episode, I share how to break down your fears about things returning to 'normal' and integrate the wisdom of this 'rona-related hiatus into your everyday life. A rebellious call to action and invitation to leave behind the should and expectations of your pre-virus life. To join the free Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/sacredsocialleaders/ For more information - www.megberryman.com
This week I share what I've been learning as a manifesting generator in human design, and how it relates to my bigger perspectives on slowing down, regenerative wellness and co-creating a new paradigm of living that honours our 'yeses' and 'no's'. To enrol in the Parenting with Purpose program for just AUD 99 - go to www.megberryman.com/parentingwithpurpose
I chat with emotional embodiment facilitator and intuitive plant medicine facilitator Claire Murray on opening and deepening the dialogue we have with other living beings on the planet. We talk about the profound implications of doing so - within ourselves, with others and in societies and we explore different pathways to beginning the conversation with plants, animals and elements. Want more content like this? Join my free Facebook group - the School for Sacred Social Leaders. For more information on Claire - https://naturopathclairemurray.com
In this chat, Emma and I talk about the moments that require us to stop in our tracks, and create more simplicity and sustainability from within. For more info about the Grounded and Unbound programs - www.megberryman.com To follow Emma - @makepeacelifestyle on Instagram
Today I talk to Becca Shern from Minimal Wellness about: transforming the wellness industry from the inside out what nourishment actually is how to go back to basics with wellness self compassion and dealing with shame binge eating interrupting food systems For more information on Becca - go to http://minimalwellness.com For more info on the Grounded and Unbound programs - go to www.megberryman.com
I check in with my husband Dave about how he's doing - a real and honest conversation about what comes up for us in times of crisis. Caring in the time of Covid-19: Free Online Circle for Frontline Workershttps://www.facebook.com/events/205375687354959/Facebook: www.facebook.com/megjberryman Grounded: www.megberryman.com/grounded Instagram: @megjberryman
I interview Seven Women Founder and OAM recipient Stephanie Woollard about moving from charity to empowerment, founding a women's empowerment social enterprise in Nepal, and creating change from the inside out. Enjoy the show? I'd love if you could leave a rating and review - so we may grow our community of care and build a network of change makers passionate about weaving sustainability, social change and spirit. For all the details on upcoming courses - and to stay updated - join me on instagram - @megjberryman- https://www.instagram.com/megjberryman/ Or email me - meg@megberryman.com
I interview educator, founder and author of Low Tox Life Alexx Stuart on social change, leadership, integrating grief in the face of the climate crisis + how she's built a socially conscious business. To join the Unbound program - www.megberryman.com/unbound
This week I chat with Nikki Silvestri - Founder of consulting and coaching firm Soil and Shadow. Nikki and I chat about leadership, burnout, consciousness, social change, regenerative agriculture and self empowerment. A must listen for those desiring more impact and joy in life, work + leadership. To join the Unbound program: www.megberryman.com/unbound
In this episode we talk about how to use business as a force for good - and how to weave together your magic + gifts to create impact + flow in your business.