#327  Call to Adventure! Crafting an Integral Altruism with Jonas Søvik

What is Integral Altruism and how could it crowd-source the answers to our meta crisis?

It’s a while since I learned about ‘reverse mentoring’: a young person mentoring someone of an older generation. The idea really took hold, so when a mutual friend connected Jonas Søvik and me, I knew I’d found someone from whom I could learn a huge amount about life, ideas, thoughts and how the world feels in circles I would otherwise never reach.

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#Honouring Fear as Your Mentor: Thoughts from the Edge with Manda Scott

Manda dives deep into the nature of fear, what it is and how we might find our own resources, resilience and capacity to work with the parts that catch our attention. Given this, it is recommended that you listen at a time and place where you can give it full attention.

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#326 Co-ordiNations vs the Network State: Greenland and the Schism in Global Vision with Dr Andrea Leiter

What is a Network State and how does the concept matter in relation to the Trump administration’s attempts to take Greenland – and their ‘peace’ proposals in Gaza and Ukraine?

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#325  Tracking the Wild Things, Inside and Out – with Jon Young of Living Connection 1st

How can we step into our birthright as fully conscious nodes in the Web of Life, offering the astonishing creativity of humanity in service to life? Our guest this week helps people do just this…

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#324  Water, Water Everywhere and none of it fit to drink! With Claire Kirby of Up Sewage Creek – ahead of World Water Day

Today, we’re talking about water, that utterly essential part of our biological and spiritual lives.  It should be clean. It should be safe to drink, to swim in, for us and all the species with whom we share our beautiful blue pearl of a watery planet. As we all know… it’s not. 

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#323  Kindling Quiet Romance: Reimagining the Law for Nature with Brontie Ansell of Lawyers for Nature

In the midst of collapse, as we watch our governments lay waste to our social agreements, it can be hard to imagine extending the franchise of legal rights and sovereignties to the More than Human world.  And yet, if we’re to transcend this moment, it must be because we have become something other than we are now – and to do this, we need the roadmaps that show us how to move through—and beyond, the collapse of the old into something new…

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#322  Healing our Fractured World: Re-Awakening Indigenous Consciousness with Marc-John Brown of the Native Wisdom Hub

As the old paradigm splinters into rage-filled, grief-stricken fragments, how can we lay the foundation for the total systemic change we so badly need?
Even beyond the listeners to this podcast, it is obvious by now that there is no going back. As Oliver Kornetzke wrote in a particularly sharply written piece on Facebook back on 22nd January – before Alex Pretti was murdered by Trump’s Federal Agents – what white America is not experiencing is not new, and is not a flaw in the system, it is the system…

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#321  Laws of Nature, Laws with Nature: Nature on Board with Alexandra Pimor of the Earth Law Center

Across the world, our legal systems are crumbling, the rule of sane law dismantled in real time. Yet at the same time, rivers, mountains, bees are being granted legal rights in ways that would have been thought impossible even a few years ago.  And in boardrooms around the planet, C-suites and businesses are increasingly looking to the natural world for guidance on how to be in ways that heal the web of life. So how do we make this work? How do we ensure that it’s not just another layer of corporate greenwash?

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#320 What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

We live in an ever-changing world, but it is not always obvious what kinds of evolutionary change we are seeing in the broader web of life: in physiology, behaviour, language – and human responses to these.  How plastic is the natural world? How resilient?  How capable – or not – of adapting to the chaos of the climate emergency, the cascade of toxins in our air, soil and water, to the plastics, heavy metals and other detritus we throw out into the world as if the entire planet were one vast sewer for waste we forget about as soon as we’ve had the dopamine drip that acquiring it evoked?

How thin is the ice on which we are skating?  And how can we change the ways we do things so we don’t fall into the void of extinction.

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#319 Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

If we ever had a genuine democracy (and I would argue we never have) then it is clearly disintegrating now, along with the entire system with which it was entwined.  Everyone agrees we need something new, what we don’t necessarily agree on across the board is the design of this new thing.  This week’s guests are two people who spend their lives imagining how things might be different, particularly in the US, where even the pretence of democracy has been abandoned.

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#Thoughts from the Edge: Navigating the turbulent seas of the incoming year with grace and courage (Manda solo)

In this solo episode, Manda reflects on the year just gone and looks ahead to the one that’s coming and lays out ideas for how we can be the change we need to see in the world. Join us for New Year’s eve and let’s find ways we can step into 2026 with grace, courage, bringing the best of ourselves in service to life.

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#318  Change is Coming! Solstice Reflections with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott 

At the end of a turbulent year that has seen the masks come off the death cult in ways that were probably predictable, but still shocking, we reconvene our December Solstice Traditional conversation. Manda is joined by Della Duncan of the Upstream Podcast and Nathalie Nahai of ‘Nathalie Nahai in Conversation’ to explore the things that have stood out for each of us in our explorations this year—and to look forward to the year about to begin for what will be our baselines.

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#BONUS: December Solstice meditation –  suitable for northern and southern hemispheres

Here’s our December Solstice Meditation for 2025 – please find a place and time where you can relax, take space for yourself, and build the connections to the web of life that will carry us forward.

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#317  Wild new stories: Weaving New Myths for a New Way of Being with Ally Kingston of Agency for Nature

How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart’s yearning for connection, relationship, being and belonging?

This week’s guest, Ally Kingston, is a creative facilitator and strategy lead at Purpose Disruptors, where she co-developed the breakthrough Agency for Nature, a pop-up agency bringing nature into youth culture. A former advertising strategist, she is curious about how creativity intersects with myth, meaning, consumerism and desire, and how we might design new cultural infrastructures that seed fresh possibilities for how to live.

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#Manda Bonus: Word Magic 2025 – Accidental Gods’ pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year

Here’s Manda’s round up of (some of) the best books, poetry and podcasts she’s come across this year.   Most of the links are to Bookshop.org in the UK where you can link to an independent bookshop of your choice.  In some cases, we’ve linked to the authors’ website.

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#316  Barefoot Economics in a world of Hobnailed Boots with storyteller Inez Aponte

If we are to build systems that meet our real needs we have to first understand what those needs are and start growing the stuff that will allow us to thrive: good food from healthy soils, safe and supportive homes and communities, space to develop and express our creativity, opportunities to increase our capacity for co-operation and kindness.  As much as these, though, we need to understand what an economy is for – why it does what it does. And while we’re all clear that the death cult of Predatory Capitalism exists to enrich the few at the expense of the rest of the living web, it’s not always clear what a flourishing economy might look like.

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