Endless Threads and Spores: How Fungi Meet Their Needs

In this episode, we’ll learn how fungi meet their needs and the unique teachings they offer us through their millenia of experience adapting to life on Earth. Fungi are masters of absorption, decomposition, and collaboration, and most of us could use a dose of their teachings.

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Creating Pockets of Care, with Toi Smith

How can we make the tiny area of life that we inhabit more caring, less transactional, and free from extraction? In this conversation with Toi Smith, we discuss strategies for embodying more beauty and less exploitation, whether it’s in our parenting, work, relationships to one another, or our relationships to the wider world.

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Re-villaging, with Megan Hayne and Heather Dorfman

In this episode with anticapitalist, nature-loving co-conspirators Heather Dorfman and Megan Hayne, we discuss what the term “village” means to us, what needs might be met in a village setting that aren’t met in our modern way of living, and accessible ways to re-village right where we are, with what we’ve got.

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What Are Your True, Original Needs?

In this first episode of the Spring 2024 season of the A Wild New Work podcast, we’ll be discussing what our actual, original needs are, the extraneous needs put upon us by capitalism, why it’s so hard to meet our needs in this culture, and why we need fresh strategies for meeting the needs that will actually help us become who we deeply are.

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Stuck in Perpetual Adolescence

It’s painful to feel like you’re stuck in a stage that’s less empowered and resourced than you want to be. 

Adolescence is beautiful, but it needs to be integrated and intentionally passed through - we don’t want to stay in that inner heat and angst forever. There are many people in our culture who are technically adults because of their age, but who were never given the chance (or who never made the choice) to fully step into a meaningful adulthood.

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