This week's show is with Chris Salisbury. Chris Salisbury founded founded WildWise in 1999 after many years as education officer for Devon Wildlife Trust. With a background in the theatre, a training in therapy and a career in environmental education, he uses every creative means at his disposal to encourage people to enjoy and value the natural world. Chris directs the acclaimed ‘Call of the Wild’ year-programme for educators-in-training as well as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, a rewilding adventure based at Embercombe in Devon.

He is a professional storyteller WildWise (www.wildwise.co.uk) and the co-founder of the Westcountry and Oxford Storytelling Festivals. His book ‘Wild Nights Out – the Magic of Exploring the Outdoors at Night’ was published in 2021 (pub. Chelsea Green). Chris is married with 4 children and lives in enchantment on the edge of a forest in the Dart valley, Devon.

In this show, Chris and Lian explored the topic of the wild at night - what the benefits are compared to being in the wild during daylight, how to create the most powerful experience when you're there, and practical suggestions that will allow even those who are frightened to take a step into the wild in darkness. 

I’d love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let’s carry on the conversation…  please leave a comment below.

What you'll learn from this episode:

• The benefits of nature connection are turned up at night - with our sight dimmed, our other senses can come alive
• The night sky gives us perspective - shows us our place in the universe of things
• Follow the next breadcrumb into the night... maybe with an organised group event or agreeing to go with a friend with a  conscious agreement to spend time in silence or alone

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• WildWise Official Website
• WildWise Social Media accounts:
  • Facebook: WildWise Events
  • Twitter: @WildWiseDevon
  • Instagram: @wildwise

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Lian & Jonathan

This week's show is with Daniel Pinchbeck. Daniel Pinchbeck is the New York Times bestselling author of Breaking Open the Head, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, How Soon Is Now, and When Plants Dream (with Sophia Roklhin).

He hosted the talk show Mind Shift on Gaia TV and was featured in the 2010 documentary, 2012: Time for Change. He has written for many publications including The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, Dazed & Confused, Purple, and ArtForum. He is the director of Liminal.news, an online course platform, and publishes a regular newsletter, Danielpinchbeck.substack.com .

In this conversation, Daniel and I explored the fascinating topic of DMT, (N, N-Dimethyltryptamine) also known as the Spirit Molecule. We covered what DMT is, its history and research that's been done about it, and how Daniel sees its role in human consciousness and the challenges of the world today.

I’d love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment below.

What you'll learn from this episode:

• Daniel described the two schools of thought around the use of psychedelics, one ceremonial and one purely focused on their medical use, given the wider benefits of modern humans reclaiming our connection to nature and to the ancient practice of ceremony and ritual, if you're listening to this show then you don't need to choose between those options - you can have both!
• I loved what Daniel said about the ways that different spiritual traditions have practices such as darkness immersion and meditation that open humans to the kinds of experiences that taking DMT can create... ultimately all of these practices appear to be giving us an experience of reality beyond that of our ordinary human consciousness
• There's a renaissance in the use of DMT in its various forms happening now and we're discovering uses and benefits in all kinds of fields - as Daniel said, this could be akin to the period in which we discovered electricity and how to harness it

Resources and stuff that we spoke about

• Daniel's Official Newsletter

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Lian & Jonathan

This week's show is with Steve Sims. Quoted as “The Real Life Wizard of Oz" by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine, Steve Sims is a best selling Author of 'Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen, sought-after coach', top-rated speaker in the US speaker after keynoting at a variety of networks, groups and associations as well as the Pentagon and Harvard – twice. He is the founder and CEO of the luxury concierge service Bluefish. 

He's someone who has worked with Sir Elton John and Elon Musk, sent people down to see the wreck of the Titanic on the sea bed and managed to get the museum in Florence, Italy that houses the most famous sculpture on Earth, The Statue of David, to shut down in order to host a private dinner for his client at the foot of the statue with Andrea Bocelli serenading them while they ate their pasta.

In this show, we explored the question: what would you create if you weren't afraid of being laughed at? We spoke about cancel culture, the lack of true conversation, how we kill our dreams when people mock us - and why those people are rarely the ones to take notice of. And lastly, why and how you can go for stupid!

I’d love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let’s carry on the conversation…  please leave a comment below.

What you'll learn from this episode:

• I loved what Steve said about needing to have the conversation with ourselves about our dreams first - often we're the first person to mock ourselves, instead how about we become the first person to acknowledge ourselves for our dream?
• People will almost certain laugh at you, especially to begin with, the choice is whether to take notice of them or to listen to the people whose opinion you respect
• Steve's car analogy was a great one! I wonder what lives we'd create if we made it natural for us to go for stupid?

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• Steve Sims' Official Website: http://stevedsims.com
• Follow Steve in Social Media:

  • FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/stevedsims/

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevedsims

  • IG: https://www.instagram.com/stevedsims

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdsims/

  • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/stevedsims

  • Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stevedsims

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Lian & Jonathan

This week's show is with Jez Hughes. Jez is a British shaman, having studied intensively the path of shamanism for 30 years. His healing journey began when, as a teenager, he experienced a fit that propelled him into an altered state of consciousness. It took a long time to integrate that experience and find healing for the physical and mental disturbances it initiated. This journey that he now understands as a shamanic one lasted for around 17 years and took him through healing and spiritual traditions across the earth until he finally came home to shamanism and found practical methods to cure himself. He has studied with various teachers and indigenous elders across the world.

Jez's work has featured in the national press, as well as TV and radio and magazines including Sacred Hoop, Natural Health, Kindred Spirit and Soul & Spirit. His first book, The Heart of Life – Shamanic Initiation and Healing in the Modern World, was published in 2015 and his new book The Wisdom of Mental Illness – Shamanism, Mental Health and the Renewal of the World was published by Watkins in 2021. Jez’s passion is empowering people to reawaken their ancestors, the land where they reside and their spiritual heritages to heal the relationship between the human and natural world.

In this conversation, Jez and I explored the practice of making offerings as part of a relationship and conversation with Spirit - what offerings are, the benefits of making them, and how we can begin or deepen that practice.

I’d love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment below.

What you'll learn from this episode:

• There are two important levels to making offerings:
  • As a thank you and giving back when we take so much
  • As a way of slowing progress so we don't make things so quickly that we take at a rate that throws things out of balance
• Making offerings is an embodied conversation with Spirit, it takes it out of our heads and into life
• When we give, we also give back to ourselves, we know our place in the universe and that we're not alone

Resources and stuff that we spoke about

• • Jez's Official Website: Second Sight Healing
  • Jez's Book:
    • The Heart of Life – Shamanic Initiation and Healing in the Modern World
    • The Wisdom of Mental Illness – Shamanism, Mental Health and the Renewal of the World
  • Follow Jez's in Social Media
    • Facebook Account
    • Facebook Page
    • Twitter
    • Youtube Channel

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Lian & Jonathan

This week’s show is Lian’s All The Everything where she jams on an eclectic mix of topics, including questions from listeners.

The LIVE making of the show is recorded in our Facebook group and for the first 30mins before Lian hits the record button you are invited to a pre-show party to get up close and personal with Lian and have your questions on the month’s topic answered.

To receive a reminder of when the pre-show party and LIVE making of All The Everything is happening, make sure you’re subscribed to our email list and are a member of the Facebook group.

In this episode, I dived deep into the topic: How to stop being just another coach and become your unique Medicine

I explored:

• The deeper, more powerful archetypes that lie behind the coach
• What do I mean by medicine and why our sacred wound is vital to understand it
• Our soul essence
• The role of Human design and Gene Keys
• The difference it makes not just to your business but to your whole life

Resources and stuff that I spoke about:

• Medicine webinar replays:
  • How to BE your Wild Medicine
  • Money, magic & medicine: Q&A
• Which Magical Archetype are you?
• Episodes about Human Design:
  • How to use human design to create more loving relationships
  • How to use human design to discover your unique flavour of magic
• Gene Keys Website
• Discovering and embodying your unique way of being with Adam Quiney
• Subscribe to the Moonly News
• Go deeper

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Lian & Jonathan