What is a Good Life? #170 - Recovering Right Relationship with Ally Kingston

What is a Good Life? #170 - Recovering Right Relationship with Ally Kingston

April 13, 2026 · 55 min · Episode 170

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Mark McCartney speaks with Ally Kingston about recovering the capacity for 'right relationship' with ourselves, nature, and community.

What does a truly good life look like - and how do we find our way back to it? In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney speaks with Ally Kingston about recovering the capacity for "right relationship": with ourselves, with nature, with community, and with something greater. Ally is a creative strategist and facilitator, and strategy lead at non-profit Purpose Disruptors and Agency for Nature. She designs interventions to galvanise public imagination and redirect our creative skills to work in harmony with the natural world. Also passionate about holding space for grief and loss in our changing times, she has also trained as a death doula and rites of passage holder. Once an advertising and sustainability leader, and one of Forbes’ 43 People Changing Advertising for the Climate, she writes & lectures on storytelling, imagination and new conceptions of the good life. They explore: - What "right relationship" actually means — and why we've lost it - Sobriety as a gateway to a fuller life - The Artist's Way and morning pages as a daily return to self - What four days alone in a forest teaches you about civilisation - The imagination crisis - why our vision of the…

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