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Sarah Wilson chats wild ideas for a fired up life.
The multi-New York Times bestselling author, activist, minimalist and former news journalist who founded the global phenomenon ‘I Quit Sugar’ travelled the world for 10 years (living out of one bag) to explore the freshest ways to live fully…and to save this one wild and precious life we have together.
She riffs with philosophers, creatives, poets, scientists (and at least one nun!) on the Big Questions that haunt us. What goes through the mind of a prisoner on death row? How does Sia invent her art? Will we die from climate change and can our rage save us? Is being Australian a mental health crisis? Join Sarah as she wrestles a path to the answers…
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SARAH STEIN LUBRANO: How do we change people’s minds about what’s happening to the world?
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ZAK STEIN: How do we raise kids in a metacrisis?
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SHELDON SOLOMON: Can we gamify all the denial around us and save humanity?*
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AUDREY TANG: Can we wrangle AI off the techno-fascists (and make it a force for good)?
Audrey Tang (“civic hacker", Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large, polymath) is one of the world’s most influential thinkers and she has a vision for pro-social AI that is exciting leaders around the world. Audrey became Taiwan’s former Digit
SAMANTHA SWEETWATER: How do we *actually* emerge our way into “the what comes next”?
Samantha Sweetwater (systems thinker, Gaian futurist, expert facilitator) draws on complexity science, deep ecology, indigenous wisdom, and 30+ years of experience guiding embodied transformation to help humans navigate civilizational trans
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A Wild Live with Dr Sharon Blackie about… fairytales and collapse
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A Wild Live with Grace Blakeley about neoliberalism and collapse
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VANESSA ANDREOTTI: And now we have hospice modernity…(and a goodbye from Wild)
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BONUS EP: Nika Kovač the activist from the Slovenian gondola
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