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Could you live without money? No support payments, no savings account, no secret benefactors? Jo Nemeth [https://jolowimpact.wordpress.com/] has been doing so for the past decade, and reckons she is less stressed and more secure in her moneyless life (in which she shares a home with eight other humans and plays the role of house keeper/manager/grower/frugavore). This is a truly radical tale of a woman who went the whole hog and gave up the bacon 💰 to invest in relationships and reciprocity. We cover: What is poverty/wealth? Why live without money? Jo has no hope! Less money = more freedom Why to be a home economist Issues in a nine person household The deliciousness of aligning your actions with your values Moneyless gift giving, cravings, medical and more Waste food seagull mode Receiving is harrrrd Kids + collapse On taking care of things Collapse priorities Growing locally adapted food 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Jo's home on the web [https://jolowimpact.wordpress.com/] Jo on Instagram ~ @jolowimpact [https://www.instagram.com/jolowimpact/?hl=en] Jo in the Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/01/meet-the-woman-who-lives-without-money-i-feel-more-secure-than-when-i-was-earning] Mark Boyle ~ The Moneyless Man [https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-au/products/moneyless-man-book-mark-boyle-9781786075994?sku=GOR010143080&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17920610358&gbraid=0AAAAADFDvN0dB-PefieiFKHxw5txjzZow&gclid=CjwKCAiA8bvIBhBJEiwAu5ayrMl5bQBWKtYsFjuhuu6C2vQxk5cCAAqnVUlneDZlCdmrDZJiH6_SdBoCW_kQAvD_BwE] + The Way Home [https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-way-home-mark-boyle/book/9781786077271.html?source=pla&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21618361565&gbraid=0AAAAA-Ia9hNfX40zPbcSPid12Fkj4QSfe&gclid=CjwKCAiA8bvIBhBJEiwAu5ayrCe7q_b4gjH5t_8jTJBScFucyS2a_64p4SV1bZcdrKZhTD1uGE7-VxoC8r8QAvD_BwE] Eaarth ~ Bill McKibben [https://billmckibben.com/books/eaarth/] Luke Kemp ~ Goliath's Curse [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/goliaths-curse-9780241741245] Artist As Family [https://artistasfamily.is/] The Art of Frugal Hedonism [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/the-art-frugal-hedonism/] ~ Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb The really really free market [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Really_Free_Market] Just Collapse [https://justcollapse.org/] Sound credits: first raven [https://freesound.org/people/shaunie_p/sounds/807467/], flock of ravens [https://freesound.org/people/dbache/sounds/555187/]. 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

I tell a story about the ironic demise of my keepcup, and the difference between light green and deep green choices, before a pot-of-tea-convo with Laura Jean [https://www.dietitianvalues.com/]. Laura is a renegade business coach, dietician and permaculturalist who will help you see VALUES in a whole new light, and how to use them to illuminate the life/business/world you really want. Prepare to cry tears of recognition and possibility. 🐝 Building trust in yourself for changes that take courage 🐝 Eating disorder shares and healing strategies 🐝 The very worst thing that can possibly happen 🐝 Body check for making decisions 🐝 Do we change, or choose? 🐝 Laura's values 🐝 Why we recreate the same old shit even when living "alternatively" 🐝 Figuring out your Bare Ass Minimum 🐝 The felt sense of success 🐝 Money as a tool to enact your values 🐝 Three steps towards a regenerative business 🐝 Commerce vs. capitalism 🐝 Activities for clarifying your values 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️ Laura on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dietitianvalues/] Laura's podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dietitian-values/id1569166478] Dietician Values [https://www.dietitianvalues.com/] Gundaroo Growers Canberra Environment Center [https://www.canberraenvironment.org/] 🙏 Yellow-tailed black cockatoo sound credit [https://freesound.org/people/guyburns/sounds/336002/?attribution=javascript%3Avoid%280%29%3B]🙏 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡🧡🧡

Can birdsong heal your hearing? Can a rainforest recruit humans to protect it? What is deep ecology, anyway? Of all the approaches to "saving the world", this one has my heart. Join me in conversation with elder John Seed as we get to the marrow of the environmental crisis, from the illusion of separation between human beings and nature, to the rituals, ceremonies and stories that can heal it. About John Seed Just last year at age 79 John was arrested for strapping himself to logging machinery in the Bulga State Forest, and has been awarded the Order of Australia medal for his services to the environment. John launched the Rainforest Information Center, has initiated global rainforest action networks and campaigns, developed The Council of All Beings with Joanna Macy, co-authored Thinking Like A Mountain with Joanna Macy Pat Fleming and Arne Ness, and spent decades facilitating experiential deep ecology workshops. IN THIS CONVO John's story of being called into service by Nature Collaborating with Joanna Macy The root of the planetary crisis Community therapies to heal civilisational wounds Business As Usual, The Great Unravelling, The Great Turning The Work That Reconnects Activism as ceremony The antidote to cultural amnesia Why John loves podcasts! How not to judge gross human behaviour Honouring our pain for the world Feelings as ancient intelligence Can anyone run a grief circle? The council of all beings The cosmic walk 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS John Seed's home on the web [https://johnseed.net/] The Rainforest Information Center [https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/] [read online] Thinking Like A Mountain by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming & Arne Ness [https://www.deepecology.org.au/philosophy/thinking-like-a-mountain-towards-a-council-of-all-beings/] Deep Ecology [https://www.deepecology.net/] The Work That Reconnects [https://workthatreconnects.org/] 🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡 Field recording credit: Thrushes, golden whistlers, yellow faced honeyeaters and a spotted marsh frog by Afro408 [https://freesound.org/s/815260/] License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

It's the RESKILLIENCE ROADTRIP where I'm intercepting all sorts of good sorts along Australia's east coast! First up is Ceilidh Meo who teaches no less than 80 apocalypse skills (!!!) while also growing olives, shoring up the food system and being casually shamanic. This is a ROMP of a convo that is INSPIRING ME TO USE CAPS. Such fun. Such depth. I also share about the caravan park we've just checked into. 🔥 WITHIN GEEK OUT ON MICRO NICHE OLIVE PRESSING An antidote to the olive oil crisis Cooperation is not the same as collaboration! POMMUS The gross truth about imported olive oil THE FIVE C FRAMEWORK When knowledge ain't power Systems design thinking for avoiding monumental fuck ups WHY 40s ARE THE BEST DECADE Yay for confirmation bias! Loyal soliders of the psyche Birth story REWRITE Learning types Manifestation vs. MAGIC Where does the need to know everything come from? Do more of what you're already good at, or challenge your comfort zone? Not here to consume, but to create! 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Connect with Ceilidh ~ CIVILITAS [https://www.civilitas.online/] Ceilidh's olive oil ~ Apulia Grove [https://apulia-grove.com.au/] The Long Road Olive Coop [https://www.instagram.com/longroadolivecoop/] Art exhibition + workshops ~ Ancient Roots in the New World [https://www.ancientroots.art/] Mel Robbins ~ The Let Them Theory [https://www.melrobbins.com/book/the-let-them-theory/] School of Shamanic Womancraft [https://schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com/] Happen Films ~ The New Peasants screening tour [https://www.happenfilms.com/films/the-new-peasants] 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

I share a recipe for de-zombifying your life before chatting with Imogen Ive, Director at Mittagundi [https://www.mittagundi.org.au/] – a remote 520 acre farm and off grid education centre built by and for young folks in the high country. This convo is a reminder that sometimes hard is good, together is better and a pack horse, tent and sense of adventure beats air conditioned comfort any day. In the conversational cauldron: 🍯 Setting up a working farm and outdoor ed centre in the middle of nowhere 🍯 Living without modern comforts, electric tools, phones or watches 🍯 Wilderness adventures for young folks from all walks of life 🍯 An oh-snap safety vs. risk reframe 🍯 The dilution of outdoor ed in schools 🍯 How to facilitate confidence and capacity in young people 🍯 Why we don't try new things, and how to hack our fear of failure 🍯 Bringing off grid flavours to the urban palate LINKY POOS Mittagundi Outdoor Education Centre [https://www.mittagundi.org.au/] Mittagundi on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mittagundi/] 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience]🧡 ✏️ Leave Reskillience a written review like a big old legend [https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/reskillience/id1723090226] ✏️

Do not listen to this unless you want to reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. I tell a story about being a grub, before having an animated chat with rural woman of the year Katie Finlay about staunching the loss of small farms in Australia and supporting emerging growers to step up – even and especially if they don't own land. (What even is land ownership?) 🍎 AND ALSO Katie and Hugh Finlay are black belt orchardists whose online program Grow Great Fruit [https://growgreatfruit.com/] is just brilliant for anyone who wants to obtain a yield from fruit trees (with an organic and holistic tilt, of course). It gives me great joy to connect you with their work. This is their Dream Orchard Masterclass [https://growgreatfruit.com/product/design-your-home-orchard-registration-0625/] starting REAL SOON on June 12. 🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS Grow Great Fruit [https://growgreatfruit.com/] Harcourt Organic Farming Coop [https://hofcoop.com.au/] Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) [https://afsa.org.au/] Tess Sellar ~ Sellar Dairy [https://sellardairy.com.au/] 🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] 🧡

I tell a story about making bugger all money but feeling filthy rich, before being joined by the incredible Linda Cockburn (pronounced "Co'burn" cos it's Scottish) who explains why Capitalism is a death cult, and ways to crowd it out with reciprocity. Ample brain fodder and fiery inspiration here, folks! We cover: 🪶 Being unmade by successive tragedies. 🪶 Quitting employment to work in the home economy. 🪶 Going six months without spending a dollar. 🪶 How to grow your own toilet paper! 🪶 Will politicians ever "solve" climate change? 🪶 Why you can't question capitalism 🪶 How the growth imperative works 🪶 Changing the narrative through language 🪶 The debt treadmill for "developing" nations 🪶 The closest thing we've had to utopia in human history! 🪶 Old and new indigeneity through storytelling 🪶 Hitting bodily limits 🪶 How to get owwwfff the hamster wheel 🪶 Riches without an income 🪶 The Eudaimonia Index & Reciprocity 🪶 Black Soldier Fly Revolution! 🪶 How to share even when you're a scoundrel only child like me 🪶 Why it feels great to give your best stuff away 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Linda's books The Quiet Revolution [https://www.togetherpress.com.au/product/the-quiet-revolution/] (basically why & how to decouple from the death cult of capitalism & start giving back to all life) Eat My Shadow [https://www.togetherpress.com.au/product/eat-my-shadow-pb/] (hopeful and instructive collapse fiction!) Living the Good Life [https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/living-the-good-life-by-linda-cockburn/9781740663120] Linda's articles in Organic Gardener magazine [https://www.organicgardener.com.au/author/linda-cockburn/] A kickass essay by Linda ~ My Planet Saving Superpowers [https://greenagenda.org.au/2024/06/my-planet-saving-superpowers/] Linda on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/_the_quiet_revolution_/] The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-last-hours-of-ancient-sunlight-9781742747323] Seed Freaks [https://seedfreaks.com.au/] ~ open pollinated seeds Tasmania David Holmgren's RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter's Guide to a Resilient Future [https://retrosuburbia.com/] Sound credit: Bruny Island Ambience by guyburns [https://freesound.org/s/321466/] License: Attribution 4.0 🧡🧡🧡 support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] (plz don't use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡🧡🧡

Me ranting about Couple Power and the Urban Nanna being brilliant. May all the single, neurospicy permies find ample inspiration in today's interview with Anna Matilda! Teacher of traditional skills, crafts and non-judgey sustainability. Anna is a breath of fresh air in the stale bedchamber of the status quo, sharing openly about how she does permaculture solo, in the city, in a rental property, with limited energy and Captain Anxiety occasionally taking the wheel. Mistakes as teachers Out ya come, Captain Anxiety Feeling out of step with the whole world The stress and physical fallout of masking Personal energy that can be budgeted The Fuck It Wave FYI: You don't need a compost toilet or a goat Guide Beside learning (Nanna education) Is permaculture uniquely attractive to people on the spectrum? For the single women renters! Spoon Theory Building community with a capital C Giving and receiving Banking energy and goodwill in people, in community Community as forest Skills as security Mudhuts Theory Revelling in knowing nothing Can we change? Swedish wisdom ~ lagom & mysig Japanese wisdom ~ kintsugi & shishiko embroidery 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Anna's new book is out now! Everyday Permaculture ~ Anna Matilda [https://theurbannanna.com/book/] The Urban Nanna's on the interwebs [https://theurbannanna.com/] The Urban Nanna on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/theurbannanna/] ⭐ Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience?redirect=true] ⭐