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#15, Planting trees to save the world PART 1, with Maximo Bottaro

Release Date: 11/06/2020

#29, Hope for the World: The Benefits of Purposeful Business Practices

The FutureSeeds Podcast

In Episode 29, we continue our conversation with Phil Preston on the topic of aligning business with purpose. This episode explores the connection between purpose and performance, as well as the relationship between purpose and well-being. We also delve into the significance of purpose for society as a whole. Finally, as always, our guest delivers a hopeful message to conclude the episode. About Phil Preston Phil left a corporate career in 2007 where he was overseeing billions of dollars of investments to help businesses go beyond token and symbolic acts of charity to really making a...

#28, Committing business to purpose, with Phil Preston

The FutureSeeds Podcast

This episode is part of a series on purpose.  In episode 28 we will be exploring a specific angle, the question of purpose through the business lens.  My guest for this episode is Phil Preston. Phil used to work in the finance world, more specifically he was in the investment realm, overseeing 50 Billion dollars of global investments. But in 2007, he starting asking himself “Why am I doing this?”. This question lead him to build his current business two years later, in 2009, where he now a speaker a facilitator and a consultant, whose mission is to bring more purpose to the business...

#27, True Resilience is mental, emotional and spiritual, with Dr Jean Renouf

The FutureSeeds Podcast

The Great Unravelling has started and will be part of our story for the rest of our life. It is an ineluctable dismantling of the fabric of life as we know it, leading to rapid and at times violent, changes to human societies. It is the result of humans pushing the boundaries of our planet beyond sustainable levels, leading among others to climate change, but also rapid loss of biodiversity, pressure on freshwater, and more. We are currently going through an acceleration of the Great Unravelling due to the confluence of the environmental crises with other crises. While the 2020-2030 decade...

#26, The New Normal: Disasters, Resilience and Regeneration, with Jean Renouf

The FutureSeeds Podcast

#25, Building an economy that values the planet, with Mara Bun

The FutureSeeds Podcast

Episode 25 was recorded live on stage during the first FutureSeeds event, on May 26th 2021. Mara Bun is a true legend. She has been a non-executive director of Australian Ethical for the past five years. She was the founding CEO of Green Cross Australia, an organisation set up in 1993 by Mikhail Gorbachev to create a new approach to solving the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. In early 2018 it was also announced that she will become the first female President of the Australian Conservation Foundation.  Previously, Mara has worked for The Wilderness Society, Greenpeace...

#24, How the whole world is shifting towards shared ownership, with Donnie Maclurcan

The FutureSeeds Podcast

This is the second part of my interview with Donnie Maclurcan, Professor of Economics at the Southern Oregon University. We focus on the shift from a world ran by private individual for-profit businesses, to a world lead by non-for-profits organizations and how this movement is already taking place worldwide. We also describe the believes and fear that make people hold on to misleading capitalist values, and how to discuss the benefits of shifting our economic system with a defender of liberal capitalism.

#23, Is Capitalism Collapsing? with Donnie Maclurcan

The FutureSeeds Podcast

In this episode, I interview Donnie Maclurcan, an Affiliate Professor of Economics at Southern Oregon University and an Executive Director of the Post Growth Institute. We explore the roots of capitalism, its pros and cons, how money is created, what’s missing in economic models, the problem that arises with too much privatization of wealth, and the clever paradigm shift that Donnie proposes with the Post Growth Institute.

#22, The Science of Happiness: moving through fear and finding purpose, with Shadé Zahrai

The FutureSeeds Podcast

Shadé Zahrai has trained in Law, Psychology, and Business. She was twice a finalist for the Telstra Women in Business awards, is a TED and TEDx presenter and was featured in The New York Times, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, and Adriana Huffington's Thrive Global. Known for her supernatural abilities to translate neuroscience and psychology research into practical strategies, she gives us in this episode her antidote to the inner critic, as well as mindset strategies for fear, purpose, money, and work-life balance

#21, The Science of Happiness: 5 areas of fulfillment and 5 inner critics, with Shadé Zahrai

The FutureSeeds Podcast

Shadé Zahrai has trained in Law, Psychology, and Business. She was twice a finalist for the Telstra Women in Business awards, is a TED and TEDx presenter and was featured in The New York Times, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, and Adriana Huffington's Thrive Global. Known for her supernatural abilities to translate neuroscience and psychology research into practical strategies, she describes in this episode a psychology model for happiness, and then goes through the inner critics that keep us from thriving.

#20, How to open difficult conversations with your husband, boss or friend, with Dorset Campbell-Ross

The FutureSeeds Podcast

Dorset Campbell-Ross is a counsellor, certified in non-violent communication. In episode 19 we explored the four steps of NVC, namely observation, feelings, needs and requests. In EP20, Dorset shows us the way he would approach difficult conversations in different contexts: in a workplace, in a relationship and with a friend. He also gives valuable tips on written communication (emails and text messages), and sends a beautiful message to the world at the end of this interview.

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In this episode, I interview Maximo Bottaro. Maximo is the co-founder of ReForest Now, an NGO whose purpose is to grow and plant trees, and educate people about biodiversity and forests. Maximo’s knowledge of ecology is impressive. After studying science degrees and genetic research in rainforests, working for Greenpeace, Rainforest Rescue and Rainforest Trust, he’s decided to start his own enterprise, uninhibited. You will learn in this episode how the decrease in rainfall, the loss of biodiversity, the bushfires and climate change are all related, how planting trees can greatly help with all of these problems, and how rainforests play an important role in making it rain and distributing the water all around the planet.

About Reforest Now:
Reforest Now has a partnership with the search engine Ecosia, employs 16 staff members, and has donors in 40 countries.
https://www.reforestnow.org.au

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