Wanderful - Inspiration On The Go

Wanderful: The Knickerbocker Glory Edition

With the World Wide Wander just weeks away, we've edited together just a few of our favourite guests from the Wanderful podcast - sharing what they love about taking their creativity for a walk. 

If you would like to join us in exercising your imagination, take a wander to https://www.theworldwidewander.com and sign up for free Walkshops across the globe, special guests, inspiration, ideas and laughter, all with like minded folk wanting to find #betterways 

Timeline:

00.00 - 00.47: Intro Theme

00.47 - 04.55: Introducing the World Wide Wander 

The Perfect Strangers

04.55 - 09.04: Pippa Evans

09.05 - 11.24: Ruby Rare

11.25 - 14.33: Sarah Ellis

15.12 - 16.50: Philip Cowell

16.51 - 21.01: Deborah Coughlin

21.02 - 23.13: Sir Tim Smit

24.19 - 25.50: Traci Ruble

25.51 - 27.20: Oli Barrett

27.21 - 31.05: Kia Cannons

31.06 - 34.24: Libby DeLana

34.25 - 38.17: Tom Morley

38.18 - 39.56: Satish Kumar

40.25 - 41.30: Sarah Corbett

41.31 - 42.40: Phillip Blom

42.41 - 44.18: Tina Roth Eisenberg

44.19 - 46.54: Introducing our Perfect Strangers / Reminder of the World Wide Wander

46.55 - 47.15 End Credits

Credits

David Pearl (Host)

Web: https://www.davidpearl.net

Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

Twitter: @davidpearlhere

Instagram: davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

 

 

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... Season 5 Omnibus

Hello wanderers… welcome to the finale of our fifth season of ‘Wanderful’".

If you’ve listened to any of the previous episodes, you will know this is a podcast which has been designed to be walked to, providing you with some ‘inspiration on the go’

Every week we invite an inspiring guest to join us… somebody with a refreshing take on life and its various twists and turns.

What you don’t know is that lots of the wonderful conversations get left on the cutting room floor.

However… David and our producer, Andrew, have scooped up some of that interview gold so you can take a wander through the magic we missed out on.

As ever… you can listen to this podcast in your home, but we think you will get the most inspiration if you boot up and join David @davidpearl_here @streetwisdom_ out on the streets or https://wanderfulpodcast.com

Season 5 finale features conversations with pianist, singer, choir leader, environmental campaigner and curator, Holly Cullen-Davies: Bestselling author, broadcaster and two-time TED speaker and voice of the Slow Movement, Carl Honoré: Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar: Senior Partner McKinsey & Co, Arne Gast: Historian and author of several novels, journalism, politics, and philosophy; radio presenter, documentary film maker and public lecturer, Philipp Blom: The ‘Stand Up Drummer’, musician, key note speaker and team builder, Tom Morley and executive creative director, founder of ‘This Morning Walk’, co-host of the podcast This Morning Walk and author of ‘Do Walk’, Libby De Lana

https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

Time Line

00.00 - 00.44: Theme

00.45 - 02.50: Introducing Season 5 Omnibus

02.51 - 03.55: Introducing Libby De Lana

03.57 - 08.09: Libby DeLana: The Hell Yes Chapter!

08.10 - 10.00: Introducing Tom Morley

10.02 - 15.53: Tom Morley: A Brush With The Law

15.55 - 18.40: Introducing Philipp Blom

18.42 - 21.29: Philipp Blom: Grouse & Imagine: The Culture Of The Cafe

21.30 - 23.52: Introducing Arne Gast

23.55 - 29.40: Arne Gast: Riding the S-Curves

29.45 - 31.08: Introducing Satish Kumar

31.10 - 33.13: Satish Kumar: A Maternal Wisdom

33.20 - 35.07: Introducing Carl Honoré

35.10 - 37.34: Carl Honoré: The Genesis of (B)older

37.40 - 39.00: Introducing Holly Cullen-Davies

39.04 - 41.54: Holly Cullen-Davies: Thula Mama

41.57 - 44.00: Epilogue: Gratitude

44.00 - 44.26: Closing credits

Quotes

Libby DeLana

“I’m a big believer in the beginner’s mind. Starting things is terrifying and wonderful and interesting, so am I a beginner? I’m a 60 year old beginner of everything.”

Tom Morley

“The Clash sung ‘I fought the law and the law won.” I would love to re-mix that and call it ‘I fought the law and the people won.’ We have to stand up for our eroding rights.”

Philipp Blom

“The coffee you buy (in the cafe) is in fact not a cup of coffee: it’s an entrance ticket. It entitles you to sit there as long as you want… that means of course, that things can develop and you can sit there and watch people, and sit there and read your novel or sit there and write your novel. It’s such a luxury in today’s world.”

Arne Gast

“ I see that my (S) curve is flattening when i become at ease; when I feel like I got this, I like this, that’s the moment the inner voice starts saying… hmm.. let’s do another near-death experience, start anew somewhere.”

Satish Kumar

“Whatever you see… is divine, is sacred. There is no separation between humans and nature and no separation between God and nature. This is the beauty of Indian culture: everything is God, everything is divine, everything is nature. This is what I learned from my Mother.”

Carl Honoré

“In the blink of an eye, I went from goal-scorer to Grandad… age took on this terrible power… defining and limiting me. I just thought this can’t be right. Why was I feeling a door was being slammed in my face just because of the numbers on my birth certificate?”

Holly Cullen-Davies

“Singing is proven to release endorphins in the same way as exercise is and it’s proven to release more endorphins when you do it with other people and I just see these people light up.”

Links

Libby DeLana

Web: https://libbydelana.com/

Twitter: @parkhere

Instagram: @parkhere

This Morning Walk: https://www.thismorningwalk.com/

Tom Morley

Website: https://tommorley.com/

Twitter: @TomMorley

Instagram: _tommorley_

Philipp Blom

Blomcast: https://blomcast.buzzsprout.com/

Website: https://philipp-blom.eu/cms/en/

Arne Gast

Website: https://aberkyn.com/humans/arne-gast/

Satish Kumar

Website: https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/

Carl Honore

Instagram: @carlhonore

Instagram: @carlhonore

Twitter: @carlhonore

YouTube:@carlhonore

Facebook: @carlhonore and @carlhonorepage

LinkedIn: @carlhonore

Pinterest: @carlhonore

TED Talk 1: Slow

TED Talk 2: Age

TED Course: How to slow down

Holly Cullen-Davies

Web: https://www.concertsdontcosttheearth.org/

Web: http://www.hollycullendavies.com/

Instagram @daviesanddaughters

Instagram @thulamamalondon

David Pearl (Host)

Web: https://www.davidpearl.net

Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

Twitter: @davidpearlhere

Instagram: davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Holly Cullen-Davies

“Find what you’re best at and do that”

Holly Cullen-Davies is a pianist, singer, choir leader, environmental campaigner and curator. Holly has been performing regularly since the age of six and working as a freelance musician for over fifteen years.

She studied at the CNR de Lyon, France, The Royal Northern College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying with Kasia Borowiak, Carole Presland, Charles Owen and Martin Roscoe. She set up Live Junction which received an Emerging Excellence Award from Help Musicians UK in 2013 and The Kids’ Concert Company which has been funded by The Arts Council for the last 4 years to take professional concerts in to primary schools.

More recently she set up Concerts Don't Cost The Earth to bring together the two things she is most passionate about: live music and protecting the planet for our next generation. Concerts Don't Cost The Earth supports both musicians and our precious world at the same time. You can find out more about how to support it or get involved here: www.concertsdontcosttheearth.org

Time Line

00.00 - 00.44 Intro

00.45 - 05.13 Introducing Holly Cullen-Davies

05.17 - 07.20 The inspiration behind 'Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth’

07.35 - 09.02 The role music can play in having difficult conversations about the climate

09.05 - 12.45 Holly’s musical journey

12.46 - 16.16 Introducing classical music to unusual spaces

17.12 - 21.46 Holly introduces and plays Chick Corea's Children Song no. 6 

21.48 - 24.15 The element of surprise and the juxtaposition of unusual things

25.10 - 26.54 The etymology of ‘concert’

26.55 - 31.37 What fuels Holly’s activism?

32.22 - 34.47 Find what you’re best at and do that: being the change you want to see

34.50 - 36.01 Subsidise the trains campaign - an activist’s song

36.03 - 41.27 Holly introduces and plays Alberto Ginastera's Danza del gaucho matrero (Dance of the outlaw cowboy) from Danzas Argentinas

41.30 - 43.50  How people can organise a ‘Concert Don’t Cost The Earth’ concert

44.00 - 47.34  David introduces ‘pogging’

47.35 - 48.00  Outro

Quotes

“I’ve always loved the intimate concerts… up close… where you can hear the workings of the instrument.” (Holly)

“Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth exist to start conversations about the climate crisis through the power of music.” (Holly)

“What I really got a kick out of was introducing classical music to people that didn’t usually hear it and putting it in spaces where you didn’t usually hear it. I did a lot of gigs early on where I was the classical act in a cabaret of other acts and it kind of blew people away.” (Holly)

“I hate people looking at a programme during a concert. I think that’s a shame for them to be sidetracked. I’m hoping that I’m compelling enough as a pianist that they’re just listening.” (Holly)

I want people to feel the breath, the moment between the pieces and not know what’s coming next.” (Holly)

“Every percentage of a degree is absolutely critical and going over 1.5 or certainly going over 2.0 degrees will have catastrophic runaway effects that could lead to the end of all life on earth.” (Holly)

“When we do risk assessment in other parts of life: medicine, building bridges, flying aeroplanes… we don’t take risks. If the scientists are saying this could be a disaster, we don’t administer that drug, we don’t build that bridge, we don’t fly that aeroplane. And the risk here (climate) is huge. And the answer is we have to stop using fossil fuels… we have to phase them out completely by 2030.” (Holly)

Links

Holly Cullen Davies (Guest)

Web: https://www.concertsdontcosttheearth.org/

Web: http://www.hollycullendavies.com/

Instagram @daviesanddaughters

Instagram @thulamamalondon

David Pearl (Host)

Web: https://www.davidpearl.net

Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

Twitter: @davidpearlhere

Instagram: davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Carl Honoré

‘I think of each year of my life now, as a level… in a game.’

Carl Honoré is a bestselling author, broadcaster and two-time TED speaker. He is also the voice of the Slow Movement.

After working with street children in Brazil, Carl covered Europe and South America for the Economist, Observer, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, National Post (Canada), Time and other publications.

His first book, In Praise of Slow, chronicles the global trend toward putting on the brakes in everything from work to food to parenting. The Financial Times said it is “to the Slow Movement what Das Kapital is to communism”.

Carl’s second book, Under Pressure explores how to raise and educate children in a fast world and was hailed by Time as a “gospel of the Slow Parenting movement”.

Carl’s third book, The Slow Fix, explores how to tackle complex problems in every walk of life, from health and relationships to business and politics, without falling for superficial, short-term quick fixes.

His fourth book, Bolder: How To Age Better And Feel Better About Ageing, is a spirited manifesto against ageism.

Carl recently published his first children’s book, It’s The Journey Not the Destination

Published in 35 languages, Carl has landed on bestseller lists in many countries.

In Praise of Slow was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and the inaugural choice for the Huffington Post Book Club. It also featured in a British TV sitcom, Argentina’s version of Big Brother and a TV commercial for the Motorola tablet.

Under Pressure was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Award, the top prize for non-fiction in Canada.

Bolder was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week as well as a Reader’s Digest (UK) Book of the Month.

Carl featured in a series for BBC Radio 4 called The Slow Coach in which he helped frazzled, over-scheduled people slow down. He also presented a television show called Frantic Family Rescue on Australia’s ABC 1.

Carl lives in London. While researching his first book on slowness he was slapped with a speeding ticket.

The Podcast was recorded live at The Kings Place London on the 27th February, 2023.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Theme & Intro

00.45 - 03.28 Introducing Carl Honore

03.30 - 07.55 How Carl came to write a book on ageing: The London Jets

07.56 - 10.09 Myth-busting Ageing: The Story of Jacko

10.10 - 13.14 The Effects of Ageism

13.15 - 14.00 The ‘Still' Syndrome

14.00 - 15.44 Inter-Generational Activities

15.45 - 18.00 The ‘Village’ School

18.00 - 23.52 David Pearl - ‘Tanzlied des Pierrots’ by Erich Korngold’s from Die tote Stadt (The Dead City)

23.54 - 32.34 Ageing and Singing: How the voice evolves with age

32.36 - 35.25 How does Carl now feel about age?

35.26 - 37.40 Drawing the line of your life: where do you put the ‘x’?

37.41 - 38.36 David Pearl - ‘Ideale’ by Paolo Tosti (excerpt)

38.38 - 40.15 Epilogue

40.16 - 40.37 End Titles

Quotes

“All of my books start with an existential crisis.” (Carl)

“The thing about ageism is that it falls more heavily on us who are in the later years of life, because it has got tangled up in the cult of youth, the idea that younger is better. Ageing is seen, especially in our western cultures, it is seen as something to be ashamed of, to feel guilty of, to be disgusted by… to deny.” (Carl)

“One of my bugbears is the phrase… showing my age. We should be showing off our age” (Carl)

‘When you don’t know people of different ages, into that space rush all the grim toxic stereotypes about ageing. What they do find is that as soon as you start breaking down the silos and mixing people up that the stereotypes start to fall away.” (Carl)

“Before writing ‘Bolder’ I was a full card carrying member of the cult of youth. I never would have given my age. I would have low-balled it. I just felt awful about the whole idea of growing older and would have pushed it away. Now I feel genuinely at ease with it.” (Carl)

“My metaphor for ageing is a gaming analogy. I think of each year as a level in a game. Right now I’m at level 55. I’m enjoying level 55 to the hilt. I’m gathering as much treasure as I can have. I’m enjoying all the adventures.” (Carl)

“Every age has its pros and cons. Every age can be glorious and wonderful but only if we embrace it.” (Carl)

Links

Carl Honore (Guest)

Instagram: @carlhonore

Instagram: @carlhonore

Twitter: @carlhonore

YouTube:@carlhonore

Facebook: @carlhonore and @carlhonorepage

LinkedIn: @carlhonore

Pinterest: @carlhonore

TED Talk 1: Slow

TED Talk 2: Age

TED Course: How to slow down

 

David Pearl (Host)

Web: https://www.davidpearl.net

Twitter: @davidpearlhere

Instagram: davidpearl_here

 

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

 

Anthony Ingle (Piano)

Website: https://impropera.co.uk

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-ingle-3339a915/

 

Fiona Finsbury (Opera Singer & Actor)

Instagram: @fionafinsbury

 

Genevieve Tawiah (Performance & Vocal Physiotherapist / Dancer)

Instagram: @tawiahphysio

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar

‘Goodbye, Rene Descartes!’

Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9, Satish renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Then in his 20s, he undertook a pilgrimage for peace, walking for two years without money from India to America for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice, and spiritual fulfilment.

A world-renown author and international speaker, Satish founded The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity that seeks to inform and inspire a just future for all. He was the Editor of the charity’s change-making magazine, Resurgence & Ecologist, for over 40 years, making him the UK's longest-serving editor of the same magazine. He continues to serve this publication as Editor Emeritus and by writing for each and every trailblazing issue.

Satish would like to offer you 20% off membership of The Resurgence Trust. When you join, you will receive a range of membership benefits including the hope-inspiring, bi-monthly Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, and support Satish (and the charity he founded) in protecting the future of people and planet. Find out more about Satish’s work and this offer.

https://www.resurgence.org/membership/satish-offer.html

Timeline

00.00 - 00.43 - Theme

00.44 - 05.05 - Introducing Satish Kumar

05.06 - 09.20 - Explaining Soil / Soul / Society: A new trinity for our time

09.21 - 11.55 - Making soil and planting our own food in cities

11.56 - 14.18 - Humans are nature too - we are not separate

14.19 - 15.40 - Revering nature at home

15.41 - 16.56 - Meditating on the river

16.57 - 20.20 - The intelligence of nature - a living organism

20.21 - 21.24 - Moving from ‘ego’ to ‘eco’

21.25 - 24.09 - Where Satish draws his energy, motivation and hope

24.10 - 26.50 - The link between economy and ecology

26.52 - 30.50 - Pilgrimages and walking for peace

30.51 - 32.41 - The freedom from walking

32.42 - 36.30 - How to engage with strangers: trust and love: the state of mind of the pilgrim

36.30 - 38.36 - Re-writing Descartes

38.43 - 40.35 - The Wanderful Exercise: The Trust Walk

40.56 - 44.05 - Epilogue: Trust is a powerful thing to spread around

44.06 - 45.18 - End Credits

Quotations

“I wanted to have a new trinity for our time and that trinity should represent holistic thinking… everything connecting with each other. So I came up with a new trinity for our time and I called it soil, soul and society.” (Satish)

“Human beings are literally soil beings. Human comes from the Latin ‘humus’ and humus means soil. So human beings are soil beings. Our bodies are soil transformed.” (Satish)

“We are all nature, there is no separation. We have to think about living in harmony with nature and making good use of nature not mis-use of nature, because we are nature.” (Satish)

“Don’t trust a philosophy that has not been tested by walking.” (Satish)

“When you are walking you are free. You are a free spirit. Your body is free. Your mind is free. You are not bound.” (Satish)

“When you are walking for peace, you are putting your body where your mouth is.” (Satish)

“My friend and I decided to walk to the four nuclear capitols of the world. So we started from New Deli and we walked to Moscow, Paris, London and Washington DC. 8000 miles. 2.5 years.” (Satish)

“If you are walking, even if in a city, if you are walking, you are free. Walk everyday if you want to experience and taste of freedom. When you are walking you carry no burden on your shoulders, you are not worried, you are just walking. By walking you connect with the soil, you connect with your soul, your spirit, your consciousness, your imagination, your answers come when you are walking. All your questions can be answered when you’re walking.” (Satish)

“Let go of fear and cultivate trust. Trust everybody and talk to everybody. People are good. Enemies are only creations of the mind.” (Satish)

“If you have the state of mind of a pilgrim, then you trust. If hardship comes, if difficulties come, welcome it. This will make you strong. “ (Satish)

Links

Satish Kumar (Guest)

Website: https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/

David Pearl (Host)

Website: https://www.davidpearl.net

Website: https://www.wanderfulpodcast.com

Intagram: @davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Instagram: @Sonicoyster

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Arne Gast

Arne Gast, Senior Partner McKinsey & Co

“We have to re-write all the rules.”

The core of Arne’s work is creating organisations for the future and making change personal and systemic in high-stake transitions.

As the global lead of McKinsey’s “Powering Performance Transformations” offering, Arne helps to create positive change – through shifts in culture, stronger leadership, new capabilities and liberating structures. McKinsey’s team of more than 1,000 change experts include their own Aberkyn facilitators, communication mavericks, implementation experts, learning architects and organization specialists – trying to combine the best ideas and evidence- based methods for the leaders they serve.

Currently, Arne is working on a book called “Schokland” – exploring the role of leadership teams in this decisive decade. Previously, he was part of the teams writing the books Leadership at Scale, Beyond Performance, Reorg and (as a student at INSEAD) Blue Ocean Strategy.

Arne’s social impact passion is education. He co-founded Leerkracht Foundation with a committed team, and over the years helped more than 1000 Dutch schools with an inspiring cultural change approach to improve outcomes. He also worked with the Dutch-Moroccan Leadership Institute, Young Leaders Malaysia, schools for highly gifted children, and multiple universities including the founding of ISB in Hyderabad, India. His own educational background includes an MBA from INSEAD Fontainebleau, and a MSc Organization Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam –preceded by a year of Liberal Arts at Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi.

Arne splits his time between the Netherlands and Malaysia, with his wife, 4 children and a selection of dogs and cats. In his free time, he loves playing or coaching field hockey, gardening and growing apples, dabbling with black-white Leica photography, and visiting small book stores and reading many, many books.

 

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Theme & Intro.

00.45 - 05:08 Introducing Arne Gast.

05.10 - 08.45 An inspiring teacher: the story of Mr Bone and the thirst for knowledge.

08:47 - 10.02 The areas of unknowing: the mischievous desire to help people touch the areas they are not familiar with.

10.05 - 11.30 How things work and re-writing the rules: re-inventing and finding a new world.

11.31 - 15.35 Arne’s appetite for the future comes from hope.

15.35 - 16.30 What we can learn from the Nordic countries.

17.00 - 19.39 Re-inventing how we talk to each other.

19.40 - 23:50 Rejoicing in the not knowing: thriving on reinvention.

23.51 - 26.43 Life was ‘easy’ for companies in the past - now we have to do things differently - considering C02 neutral / net positive / digital transformation /

you cannot source from China or Russia anymore / full diversity / climate cri sis - how do we do all of this?

26:48 - 30.40 The role of story and the methods we like to work with: What’s the new narrative?

31.00 - 31.30 What is to what if… rather than concentrate on what the current stories are and let’s imagine different futures.

31.31 - 33.15 The mind is like an art gallery - a lot of Rothko at the moment - can we put a Van Gough in there?

33.48 - 38.22 Telling stories and using experimentation as a way forward.

38.24 - 41:22 Arne’s metaphor - Schokland

41.25 - 44.00 The Wanderful Exercise: Seeing the world as an art gallery

44.15 - 48.45 Epilogue

48.47 - 49.54 Outro and Credits

 

Quotations

“We have to re-write all the rules. It is not the end of history. It is only beginning. It is our time in the next decade that we are going to re-invent it. We are going to do regenerative agriculture together and find the new world.” (Arne)

’Men will not survive, they will prevail.’ (William Faulkner)

“I like starting things anew and when something gets too stable, I want to move on.” (Arne)

“The wisdom is in so many different fragments of people that if we can talk to each other and co-create with each other then we can find a new place.” (Arne)

“I like to spark some joy in the unknowing. It’s all an experiment we are doing. There are no answers anymore and even the questions are unclear right now.” (Arne)

“Be kind with people.” (Arne)

“Narrative is one of the most powerful tools we have. It’s a way to really inspire people.” (Arne)

“Amplification of the bad news is going up and it limits people from taking agency to say what do I want and what is the world I want to create.” (Arne)

“Imagine different futures - let’s use that.” (David)

“The story is the first step. I’ve seen it without really being there. Just by thinking we get the medicine.” (Arne)

“Dip a toe in the water as an experiment but just keep telling yourself… it’s just an experiment.” (Arne)

 

Links

Arne Gast (Guest)

Website: https://aberkyn.com/humans/arne-gast/

David Pearl (Host)

Website: https://www.davidpearl.net/

Instagram: @davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Instagram: @Sonicoyster

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Philipp Blom

Philipp Blom

“History is a mess of facts.”

Philipp Blom (1970) is a historian and author of several novels, journalism, politics, and philosophy. He also works a radio presenter, documentary film maker and as a public lecturer.

Philipp was born in Hamburg and grew up in Detmold, in northern Germany. After studying history, philosophy and Jewish studies in Vienna and Oxford, he gained a D.Phil. on nationalism. During this period, he also worked in journalism, taught at a high school, and wrote a novel. Like many of his subsequent books it was written in English and translated into German by himself.

From 1997 to 2001 Blom and his wife, the writer Veronica Buckley, lived in London, where Philipp initially worked as an editor in a publishing house and as a foreign correspondent for German, Swiss and British newspapers and magazines (Guardian, Independent, the TLS, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Züricher Zeitung) and for radio stations (BBC, ORF, Deutschlandfunk). 2001 the couple moved to Paris to concentrate on their books. Since 2007 they live in Vienna.

Next to his work in history, fiction, philosophy and art, Philipp presents the program „Punkt 1“ on the Austrian radio station Ö1. He wrote and presented a TV documentary, and curated exhibitions for, among others, the Wien Museum and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, where Philipp invited in 2010 to work for one year. Lecture tours and festivals take Philipp throughout Europe as well as to the USA, Canada, and South America.

Philipp Blom’s book combine historical research, philosophical enquiry and an essayistic, literary approach. Among his best-selling works are The Vertigo Years and Fracture, dealing with the cultural history of the early twentieth century, A Wicked Company, about the radical Enlightenment, Nature’s Mutiny an investigation into history and climate change in the seventeenth century and, more recently, What is at Stake, dealing with climate change, digitization, and democracy.

Philipp’s wide-ranging work and research interests have received numerous accolades. He won several international prizes (Premis Terenci Moix, Barcelona, Groene Waterman Prijs, Antwerpen, NDR Kultur Buchpreis, Wolfenbüttel), and his books are translated into sixteen languages. From 2009-2010 he was Fellow of the IFK, 2017 Visiting Fellow at the IWM, both in Vienna. 2018 he opened the prestigious Salzburg Festspiele with a widely-discussed speech on the future of the Enlightenment in a time of climate change.

Having wanted to become a violinist early in life, Philipp also continues to make music and presents a series of concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Wanderful Intro theme

00.45 - 04.22 Introducing Philipp Blom

04.33 - 07.07 The Flaneurs: deliberately getting lost in the city

07.08 - 08.36 History as a mess of facts: knitting things together to make a pattern

08.37 - 11.00 Map making: showing the world as it isn’t

11.03 - 16.50 Nature’s Mutiny: What happened when Europe became 2 Degrees colder

16.51 - 18.27 Transforming society: the emergence of the enlightenment

18.28 - 23.25 Surviving the climate crisis: the need to change the way we see the world and how we see ourselves in it

23.28 - 26.25 Where the creativity for writing comes from

26.26 - 28.25 The monster of European colonialism

28.26 - 30.00 The Yeast Metaphor

30.01 - 36.20 Let’s talk about ‘systems’

36.23 - 39.18 Discovering your true self and exploring the weirdness of the world

39.20 - 41.38 David introduces the ‘Wanderful’ mapping exercise

41.55 - 44.23 Epilogue: Insights from the exercise

44.24 - 45.30 End Credits and Outro

Quotes

“History is a mess of facts. Out of all those facts you have to distil the fact that you think means something. You have to knit them together into a pattern and relate them to one another. ” (Philipp)

“Maps are useful because they show the world as it isn’t. They select, they say you don’t need to know that, but you need to know that. Whatever you want to know, there is a map for it.” (Philipp)

“If we want to survive this current (climate) crisis in some decent form… we need to accept the total transformation of our economic system, our political system , the way we see the world and how we see ourselves in the world.” (Philipp)

“If you live in a completely commercialised imagination, then the amount of stories you can tell declines dramatically… imagination becomes deadened by commercial interests.” (Philipp)

“If we are learning anything about nature it is simply the fact that we need to talk about ‘systems’.” (Philipp)

“The individual is only the mirroring of something which comes back from others.” (Philipp)

“We want to survive? We will need to find our survival inside.” (Philipp)

“With fossil fuels our technological reach has become so devastating, that it’s no longer a helpful way of thinking.” (Philipp)

“If we want to thrive, we need to foster what we rely on. We need to make it deeper and better and broader and then we can live better with it. If we’re constantly exploiting and impoverishing what we rely on… we’re part of that system… it’s going to come back.” (Philipp)

Links

Philipp Blom

Blomcast: https://blomcast.buzzsprout.com/

Website: https://philipp-blom.eu/cms/en/

David Pearl (Host)

Website: https://www.davidpearl.net/

Instagram: @davidpearl_here

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Instagram: @Sonicoyster

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Tom Morley... ’irreverence, justified’

Wanderful with Tom Morley

“Irreverence, justified”

Team Building is needed more than ever in 2023. Face to face onsite interaction. A reason to come together. 200 people drumming. A thousand people singing in harmony. Things we can't do on Zoom.  

Tom Morley has a 40- year track record of doing this. Scritti Politti, David Bowie, Madness, Blue Chips everywhere and now you. Exactly where you are. That's Tom's speciality, finding out where you are and starting there. 

Following his time in the music business with the 80s band Scritti Politti Tom has developed a truly artistic way of living where every experience leads him to the humorous uncovering of some universal truth. He turns his disasters and successes into Keynote inspiration for tired conference audiences who think they've seen it all. Maybe they HAVE seen it all, but have they FELT it? Have they DRUMMED it? Have they CHANTED it? Have they HARMONISED it?

Four decades onstage, first behind a drum kit then being the front man for whole troupes of performers has earned him the name ‘The Stand Up Drummer’. What's he standing up for? You're about to find out.

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Theme & Intro

00.45 - 05.30 David introduces Tom Morley

05.30 - 10.00 Tom discovers ‘analog instagram’ and describes the way he looks

10.10 - 13.05 How the ‘groove’ is found at the intersection of discipline, surrender and mischief.

13.06 - 14.07 Addressing the ‘thing’ which the audience is thinking.

14.08 - 15.39 Irreverence Justified

15.40 - 21.21 Tom describes his work as a ‘polymath’.

21.22 - 23.00 Scritti Politti Anecdote - Mischief in action

23.10 - 29.02 Making good trouble - re-introducing people to their own creativity

29.03 - 35.27 The importance of dancing around the room - finding the flow - safety in the ‘groove’.

35.28 - 39.03 Playing with the walking rhythm - getting into the groove on the 2nd and 4th beat.

39.05 - 42.34 Don’t just walk from A to B - dance to A to B: Bring out the inner-adult

42.35 - 44.24 The Wanderful Exercise: Finding the Groove

44.24 - 48.48 Epilogue & End Credits

Quotations

“My mantra is ‘we’re better than this’. That’s what drives me on.” (David)

“Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin… all those people… they gave us permission to just jam clothes together.” (Tom)

“I look like someone you would want to have a conversation with and that’s because I’m shy. I can’t really start conversations from scratch, I have to get people to start conversations with me.” (Tom)

“The ‘groove’ is found at the intersection of discipline, surrender and mischief.” (Tom)

“Irreverence, justified.” (Tom)

“We are our own powerpoint. We just need to turn ourselves on.” (Tom)

“I’m there to re-introduce people to their own creativity.” (Tom)

“We are up against the very well funded status-quo.” (Tom)

“Drummers… what we do is make it safe for everybody… we keep the groove going.” (Tom)

“The irony is, the safer they feel with the groove, the groovier the groove is, the more attractive… then they will feel something new.” (Tom)

“We walk in rhythm, so you can play with the rhythm of walking. We pretty much walk in 4/4. If you want to get into the groove, emphasise the 2nd and the 4th beat. Then you get into the groove. It’s called the off-beat.” (Tom)

“What’s the purpose of the dance? It’s to dance.” (Tom)

“There is a lot to get done. As we do it, lets dance our way there, because we’ll get to better places if we do that.” (David)

“I’m not interested in bringing out their inner-child. I’m interested in bringing out their inner-adult.” (Tom)

Links

Tom Morley (Guest)

Website: https://tommorley.com/

Twitter: @TomMorley

Instagram: _tommorley_

 

David Pearl (Host)

Website: https://www.davidpearl.net/

Instagram: @davidpearl_here

 

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter: @ItPainesMe

Instagram: @Sonicoyster

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Libby DeLana

“I have exquisite wanderlust”

Libby DeLana is an executive creative director, founder of This Morning Walk and co-host of the podcast This Morning Walk with Alex Elle. She spoke at the 2022 Do Lectures with Cheryl Strayed about the transformative power of a walk.

Libby spent her career in advertising. She was the Director of Design at MullenLowe for 15 years, then went on to co-found the boutique agency Mechanica. Libby’s work has won many industry awards and been featured in publications including PRINT Design Annual, Fast Company, Graphis and Communication Arts. She has been profiled by the BBC Radio 4 series The Chain in which 'leading figures name the woman who has inspired their success'.

She is an advocate for female leadership, an aspiring pilot, rookie fly fisher, fan of a strong cup of tea and mum to two tall, smart, kind men. Do Walk is her first published book.

https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

Timeline

00.00 - 00.46

The Wanderful Theme

00.47 - 05.55

Introducing Libby DeLana

05.57 - 11.18

Libby talks about ‘wandering’: The back story - How ‘This Morning Walk’ began:

• What did Libby need to nourish her?
• Missing the outdoors - the space between
• Walking every day for the last 11 years
• The ‘Practice’ is not about mileage
• Treating the walk as a ‘practice’ in the same way as a seated meditation or a yoga sequence.
• Even a 3 minute walk can have a profound effect
• Libby’s mission to share this knowledge with all

11.19 - 14.30

• Learning new lessons through every walk
• Loving the fidelity of the practice: Keeping a commitment to herself
• The ‘practice’ as a ‘radical act of love’: Attentiveness and mindfulness - taking a walk for ‘me’
• Libby learns the most on the days she doesn’t want to go

14.31 - 21.08

• What Libby learn’s from the practice and what’s the magic state?
• Learning to tap into the inherent wisdom of what goes on in the chest (heart) and the gut (intuition), rather than ‘thinking’
• Walking allowed Libby to put ideas down into heart and gut - what was embodied in that?
• Libby holds a thought - takes it for a walk and it softens and she begins to understand it.

21.10 - 27.48

• Walking the same loop: Focusing on each step and each breath
• Submitting to the routine
• Flipping the ‘inquiry’ from external to internal
• Seeing the world feet first rather than head first
• Not just walking through the streets - you were walking through yourself: what you find beautiful out there - resides in you.
• Finding the internal beauty - is the ultimate self-care: By doing that - we are caring for our community
• Walking with others - the walk-pod

27.50 - 31.10

• Libby’s navigation system: trusting gut / age
• Inquiry & Curiosity - what’s going to show up each day?
• Things change all the time - embrace and lean into change?
• The ‘Beginners Mind’

31.11 - 35.49

• Waking up with the grumps - curiosity about the deep dark depths.
• One of the most challenging walks Libby did.
• Do I crawl into bed and pour a bourbon or do I need / want to get outside and walk?
• Did the loop? And repeated the loop? After each loop - ask self - how are you doing?
• Loops - Stomping / Screaming / Beyonce Lemonade / Crying - the best therapist and loving friend was the walk. Needing to know ‘what would come up’?
• Not all walks are beautiful but there are lessons in it.
• Libby loves her partnership with the walk and cannot imagine her life without it.

35.50 - 38.30

• Moving through grief and sadness
• Being curious about whats in the heart and in the gut.
• Taking your ‘discomfort’ for a walk.

38.32 - 45.03

The ‘Wanderful’ Exercise: Holding your discomfort and taking it for a walk

45.04 - 46.04

End credits

Quotations

“Walking is an equivalent practice to one of meditation or yoga. It has become a place of quiet, of nourishment, sanctuary, healing of inspiration. I find it’s my most creative part of the day.” (Libby)

“Even a three minute walk can have a profound effect.” (Libby)

“I just love the fidelity of the (walking) practice - it feels like fidelity for myself. It’s not about steps and miles. It’s about keeping that commitment to myself. It’s a radical act of love.” (Libby)

“It’s about an attentiveness and a consciousness, about taking a walk for ‘me’.” (Libby)

“As I walked with a thought in my head… slowly it would come down into my heart and then down to my belly… it’s a way of me understanding my ancient knowing.” (Libby)

“As I walk, that ‘ball of string’ softens and loosens and I can become to see the individual thread.”

“(Walking) enables me to know more, feel more… and trust my heart and gut, versus everything I’m telling myself up in my head.” (Libby)

“I’m seeing the feet first and changing my gaze from external to internal.” (Libby)

“You’re not just walking through the street, you were walking through yourself. The thing you find beautiful out there is a reflection of the thing you find beautiful within.” (David)

“For me it’s constant curiosity and inquiry - what is going to show up each day. Who is going to show up? What kind of conversations are we going to have? Those are my navigation tools.” (Libby)

Links

Libby DeLana

Web: https://libbydelana.com/

Twitter: @parkhere

Instagram: @parkhere

This Morning Walk: https://www.thismorningwalk.com/

 

David Pearl (host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

 

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

 

Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Paul Bulencea

“I sit for an hour and I get to know the neighbours - the more than human neighbours.”

Paul Bulencea is an experience designer focused on the nature of the transformational experience. He has created many experience concepts globally and is currently focusing on collaborating with wilderness to spark and maintain a much needed shift in perception. He is the co-founder of the College of Extraordinary Experiences, a global gathering that takes place in a 13th century castle in Poland with the aim of exploring the field of experience design. He is the co-author of Gamification in Tourism: Designing Memorable Experiences and is currently working on a second book about guiding transformations. 

https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl

Timeline

00.00 - 00.44 Intro Theme

00.46 - 04.32 Introducing Paul Bulencea

04.34 - 06.20  Native Seed Shakers

06.25 - 09.40 Noticing the wilderness in the city

11.41 - 14.08 Creating edible landscapes

14.08 - 18.56 Community Supported Agriculture

18.56 - 21.50 Deconditioning industrial thinking

23.00 - How to do a ‘sit spot’ - connecting with nature

26.45 - 28.00 Honey (a sit-spot poem)

28.00 - 33.38 Wanderful Exercise: The Sit Spot

33.40 - Epilogue: The bells! The bells!

Quotes

“When you’re looking for wildlife, you will be surprised at the amount of wildlife in the cities… but that’s where the food is.” (Paul)

“You can eat all mushrooms, but some of them you can only eat once.” (Paul)

“What if we had cities inside edible landscapes?.” (Paul)

“We’re eating very few edible crops. We cultivate very few because we have this industrial thinking.” (Paul)

“This push for consistency - what’s so great about consistency?” (David)

“I sit for an hour and I get to know the neighbours - the more than human neighbours.” (Paul)

Further Information

Community Supported Agriculture - https://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/

George Monibot - Regenesis - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/317018/regenesis-by-monbiot-george/9780241447642

The plant David is sitting next to…we think…any knowledgeable horticulturalists, let us know! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerodendrum_infortunatum

Links

Paul Bulencea (Guest)

www.extraordinary.college

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbulencea/

Instagram @paul.bulencea

David Pearl (Host)

Twitter @DavidPearlHere

Instagram @davidpearl_here

Website www.davidpearl.net

Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

Twitter @ItPainesMe

The Green Room at COP26 - What (On Earth's) The Story?

Full film: https://youtu.be/UWoO9UmWscM

Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM