My guest today is Kate Bidstrup who travels through the Australian outback with her husband Tim Gentle, on a brightly coloured coach called Rocky, using story-telling and the latest technology to educate children and adults about where their food and fibre comes from, and to inspire them to enter into the Australian food industry. Personally, I think we need to fly her and Rocky the coach over to the UK to do the same over here.

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Welcome to my conversation with Vidya Frazier, who is one of the world's leading speakers on how humanity is currently experiencing a chaotic process of transformation.

She believes people across the globe are waking up to a profound understanding that old structures need to crumble before new ways of being can emerge. And, it is time to answer the call to assist, in anyway way we can, the ushering in of a new age of human evolution on the planet.

If you would like to contact Vidya, please go her website: https://vidyafrazier.com/

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Welcome to Embracing Your Mortality Podcast. Sophia Campbell-Shaw is the founder of Woven Farewell Coffins, where you can learn to weave your own coffin. She believes that facing death is a gift which brings meaning and purpose into focus.

What’s more, 5% of the proceeds from of your willow coffin making goes to the The Woodland Trust, the UK's leading woodland conservation charity. Sophia believes this gifting towards a life-sustaining organisation is symbolic of the life-death-life cycle, an essential pillar of our philosophy in crafting coffins.

You can find out more about Sophia and her wonderful woven coffins by going to her website: https://www.wovenfarewell.co.uk

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Today my guests are Lin Carruthers and Kate Clark, authors of a wonderfully helpful and practical book called Slow Down When Someone Dies.

Lin is a trustee of Pushing up the Daisies, a charity formed in 2016 by Kate Clark. Their work is aimed at anyone who wants and needs practical options and to know their legal rights immediately after someone dies, especially for those wanting to keep the body at home after death.

For more information about Lin and Kate, and Pushing Up the Daisies charity, please go to https://pushingupthedaisies.org.uk/about/

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Today, my guest is Micheál Connors, director of The Natural Academy, a not for profit Eco Social Enterprise, which offers accredited training courses for organisations wanting to work with nature and for people seeking a career in health, and wellbeing, ecotherapy and eco-depth psychology.

Lots of people are talking about the importance of connecting with Nature to find a sense of inner safety and healing, and the Natural Academy is taking this deeper by addressing the deep longing and yearning to be fully human.
https://www.naturalacademy.org/

Our conversation ends with the most beautiful song written by Micheál to honour our death and dying process.

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My guest is Terry Le Page, author of Eye of the Storm: facing climate and social chaos with calm and Courage.

Terry is an American transitional minister and hospice chaplain. She facilitates non-violent communications groups, grief circles, and social justice groups locally and for the international Deep Adaptation Forum.

Due to increasing global volatility I believe Terry's book will be one of the most important to come out this year. I recommend it to everyone and I hope you will be inspired and uplifted by our conversation.

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Happy New Year to you all! What a year's it's been, and I think 2024 will continue to be just as intense.

This is why I am delighted that Neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick is my first guest of the year, talking about consciousness and his own dying process. Peter has reached the grand age of 89, and is engaging robustly with his end of life preparations.

For me, he certainly puts life back into perspective, and makes me question my own life path and the importance of preparing for death with a fearless open heart. I hope you will enjoy our conversation and become inspired by Peter's beautiful engagement with his mortality.

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Today my guest is bee expert Paula Carnell who is an international speaker on bees, head beekeeper at the wonderful Newt in Somerset, and the author of ‘A’s to Bees', and 'Bees in Bhutan.' Such is her passion for bees that she runs Bee Safaris to educate people about the importance of these amazing life-giving and life-enhancing buzzy creature. She is also the Winner of ‘Environmental Consultant of the Year 2023’

You can find out all the information about her work with bees, where she is speaking next, and also listen to her podcast, Creating a Buzz about Health through her website, https://paulacarnell.com

Episode sponsored by The Wisdom Space
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