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Wanderful the podcast is created and hosted by arts-in-business innovator David Pearl to help you bring a bit of wonder to your walking. Inspired by David’s not-profit social movement Street Wisdom that brings free guided in-person and online walking workshops to city streets in 80 countries and counting. Each episode takes an entertaining and light- hearted look at an aspect of life we all secretly struggle with or want to get better at: optimism, creativity, relationships, wealth, direction… you get the idea. We’ll start the walks by exploring the everyday challenge in the company of an entertaining and refreshingly, imperfectly human, guest. Then, following simple instructions provided by David, the walk becomes a way to get clarity, insight and learn new skills you can use every day to help you find answers to your life questions. All you need is some headphones and a phone so you can get outside and walk whilst listening, but if you are tuning in at home then walking (slowly) inside your house, also works well too. You can dig deeper into the power of wandering and getting off the beaten track in David’s book Wanderful: Human Navigation for a Complex World available at leading bookstores. Follow @streetwisdom_ @davidpearlhere for more ideas and inspiration on leading a Wanderful life https://wanderfulpodcast.com/
Episodes
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
"I'm a woo-woo scientist"
Gabrielle Walker, Founder and Director of Valence Solutions, is an expert strategist, speaker and moderator focused on unleashing capitalism on climate change. She works with global companies at boardroom-level, analysing emerging trends, challenging conventional thinking and driving meaningful action. Through its partnership with the UNFCCC High Level Champions for Climate Action, Valence Solutions participated in many COP26 events in Glasgow.
Gabrielle gives keynote addresses to corporate audiences around the world and is an accomplished moderator of high-level debates. She has presented many BBC TV and radio programmes, given a TED Countdown talk, was Climate Change Editor at Nature and Features Editor at New Scientist, has written extensively for many international newspapers and magazines including the FT, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and has authored four books. She earned her PhD at Cambridge University and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton.
‘Discover more stories of hope with Gabrielle and other climate innovators on the newly released The Green Room – What (On Earth’s) the Story film on You Tube’
Full film: https://youtu.be/UWoO9UmWscM
Trailer: https://youtu.be/zmQqj5WHSPM
Timeline
00.00 - 00.48: Theme
00.49 - 05.04: Introducing Gabrielle Walker
05.10 - 06.15: What’s Gabrielle’s story?
06.20 - 09.10: When the ‘stories’ are broken and the thirst for a better story
09.11 - 12.07: The ‘removals’ story
12.09 - 15.23: Saints and Sinners Story (Good Guys v Bad Guys)
15.24 - 17.35: Holding up a mirror to myself
17.40 - 19.32: The Wooly Pigs Story & Bringing Green (Natural) and Chrome (Technology) together
19.35 - 23.40: David’s ‘Green & Chrome’ exercise
23.59 - 27.50: Epilogue
27.51 - 28.35: End Credits
Quotes
“We cannot now get down to net zero by 2050. We can’t stay below 1.5 degrees, this target we’re trying to get to, with all the means that we’re currently trying. We have left it too late.” (Gabrielle)
“ A much more heartening reason for getting behind carbon removals and taking CO2 back out of the sky (is) we can stop the problem getting worse and we can start to make it better… we can clean up our own mess and give the world a chance to heal.. and that… is a magical story.” (Gabrielle)
“You can store CO2 in the earth, in the trees, in soils, in ocean chemistry… you can store it in buildings, clothes, rocks, geological formations deep underground and probably other places we haven’t even thought of yet. And that means we can take it out of the sky and put it in all these other places and actually fix the problem.” (Gabrielle)
“You can use stories to connect individuals with people who don’t think in the way that you do in a way that they enjoy. Then you can make them feel safe enough to feel comfortable enough, for long enough to maybe go well ‘maybe it could be different’.” (Gabrielle)
“Go to the place inside where you can feel who you are and then go outside to the place to the friends around you… who helped me hold up a mirror to myself. And when I looked into the mirror and could go deeper… it’s a loving mirror, it’s the most wonderful thing anyone can ever give you. If you look into it you find a source of strength and power and energy and love that’s really spectacular.” (Gabrielle)
“I’m a woo-woo scientist” (Gabrielle)
Social Media
Gabrielle Walker
Twitter @GabrielleWalk3r
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/GabrielleWalk3r
Vimeo Channel https://vimeo.com/gabriellewalker
Websites https://gabriellewalker.com/
https://rethinkingremovals.org/
David Pearl (Host)
Twitter @DavidPearlHere
Instagram @davidpearl_here
Website www.davidpearl.net
Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)
Twitter @ItPainesMe
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
“Hello wanderers… welcome to the finale of our second 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 the team 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.
The Season 2 finale features conversations with the founder of ‘The Eden Project’, Sir Tim Smit KBE, chief listener and volunteer executive director of ‘Sidewalk Talk’, Traci Ruble, the great connector, presenter and co-creator, Oli Barrett, columnist for Psychologies magazine, host of the ‘Happy Hacks’ Podcast and founder of ‘Untold Happiness’, Kia Cannons and multi-grammy award singer / composer, Nmon Ford.
Time Line
00.00 – 00.09
Theme
00.10 – 03.29
David introduces the Omnibus edition & Traci Ruble
3.33 – 3.44
Traci Ruble ‘back stage’ and ‘on stage’
03.46 – 07.05
The world’s best cold caller
07.07 – 08.18
David introduces Kia Cannons
08.20 – 11.08
Natural Enthusiasm
11.10 – 14.06
Food intolerance and changing dietary lifestyle
14.10 – 15.28
David introduces Oli Barrett
15.32 – 18.45
The great re-framer
18.47 – 21.45
What gives us restoration?
21.49 – 23.02
David introduces Nmon Ford
23.05 – 29.03
How to promote yourself
29.07 – 30.54
David introduces to Sir Tim Smit
30.58 – 32.44
Things are getting boring at Eden – geo-thermal
32.50 – 40.32
Relations with China
42.28 – 44.57
The magic of improvisation
45.00 – 46.34
David circles back to Traci Ruble
46.38 – 47.56
Really meeting
48.49 – 50.14
End credits
Quotes
Traci Ruble
(On Sidewalk Talk) Its a practice. Its like meditation, but relational meditation. Can I meet you and can I meet myself in this encounter and cultivate this into a practice which is consciousness raising?”
Kia Cannons
“Something I’m grateful for is that I wake up happy. Life has not been easy on many levels but I do have this natural enthusiasm and attitude to life.”
“I have always known there is the tough stuff and the good stuff and you get to choose what you focus on.”
Oli Barrett
“The things that restore us could be nature, music, the company of the people we love. Finding those chances for restoration, not just rest, is absolutely crucial.”
Nmon Ford
“If somebody else with whom you’ve worked, who knows other people can simply send a text message, an email, pick up a phone and call somebody, with who you’d like to work, that would be avenue one and avenue number two would be just produce it yourself. Write it, find somebody else to write it, find some place to do it and just go ahead and do it.”
Sir Tim Smit
“From the beginning to the end of the concert… the audience was the concert. It was like the music was being drawn out of us, that they were the bards of our inner souls. Talk about happiness… I don’t think I’ve ever been to a concert wherever I looked, even people you imagined to be the shyest mice you’d ever seen, they were all singing, released by this… thing… and it felt like a joyous act of ensemble, with the conductors being the people who were the band. It was an extraordinary thing.”
Further Information
Traci Ruble
Twitter: @TraciRubleMFT
Instagram: @TraciRubleMFT
Instagram: @sidewalktalkorg
Kia Cannons
Web: kiacannons.com
Instagram: @kiacannons
Podcast: Happy Hacks
Oli Barrett
Twitter: @olibarrett
Nmon Ford
Web: www.nmonford.com
Twitter: @nmonford
Instagram: @nmonford
Sir Tim Smit KBE
Web: www.edenproject.com
Twitter: @edenproject
LinkedIn: eden-project
Facebook: theedenproject
Instagram: edenprojectcornwall
David Pearl
Twitter: @davidpearlhere
Instagram: @davidpearl_here
Andrew Paine (Producer)
Twitter: @ItPainesMe
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Nmon Ford
With multiple Grammy-winning albums to his credit, Nmon Ford began his musical journey at age three as a piano prodigy, moving quickly to the study of multiple other instruments and, ultimately, singing. He started the season as the composer and librettist (and title-role singer) of Orfeus, A House Music Opera, which was scheduled for its world premiere at London’s Young Vic Theatre (postponed due to Covid19). Nmon has appeared with the major orchestras of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis, as well as Mostly Mozart Festival (Lincoln Center), San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, English National Opera, Hamburg State Opera, and Teatro Comunale di Bologna, with conductors including Robert Spano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kent Nagano, John Adams, and Marin Alsop. He has recorded for Universal Decca, Naxos (Songs of Innocence and Experience, winner of 4 Grammy Awards), Telarc (Transmigrations, Grammy Award winner), Concord, and Koch International.
Additionally, Nmon is Managing Director of Branding, Marketing Strategy, and A&R for Lune Rouge Entertainment, a corporation started by Guy Laliberté, the founder and creative force behind Cirque du Soleil. Prior to Lune Rouge, Nmon was Vice President and Head of A&R at Universal Music Group’s Verve Label Group (VLG), where he oversaw U.S. media and creative projects for Verve, Decca Gold, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Mercury KX and Paragon, in addition to collaborations with artists signed to Republic, Interscope, Capitol, Warner, and Sony. In this role he also directly managed the Decca Gold and Paragon labels, for which he led global initiatives and partnerships. During his tenure at Universal, VLG earned an Oscar, a Golden Globe, 10 Grammys, 18 Grammy nominations, and Billboard #1 rankings on multiple charts.
Nmon joined Universal after having made a name for himself internationally as an artist and consultant. Prior to Universal, he was Co-Founder and Senior Director of Media and Communications at MATSTAT Consulting. In this position he led creative development and integrated marketing strategy for global clients including recording artists signed to Universal, Sony, Warner, and Live Nation; Target’s Community Initiatives; TED Talks; Gujarat Raffia LTD (NGO partnerships with United Nations, UNICEF, and American Red Cross); and Scallywag Productions (Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Awards from Los Angeles Independent, Berlin, Chicago, London, and Serbian Film Festivals).
Nmon is a Voting Member of the Recording Academy, a Contributing Member of the USC Alumni Association, and a Member of ASCAP. He earned his MBA in Marketing Management and Corporate Strategy and Entrepreneurship from California State University San Bernardino, and his Master of Music and Bachelor of Music—both with honors—from the University of Southern California, with additional studies in Journalism and Arts Administration.
Time Line
0.00 - 00.45
Intro Theme
00.46 - 4.49
Introducing Nmon
5.00 - 7.45
Nmon on being an artist
8.08 - 10.10
Detesting inconvenience
10.36 - 11.43
Practicality and evenness
12.48 - 14.30
The multiplicity of working roles
14.36 - 16.50
Self reflection and absence of self consciousness
17.08 - 21.08
Starting life as a performer - performing in church
23.40 - 24.40
Working at Universal Music
24.41 - 28.40
All artists have a twinge of crazy
28.51 - 35.57
Orpheus Production
37.32 - 41.00
The postponement of Orpheus
42.17 - 43.24
Star quality
43.25 - 47.12
Being the star of your own movie
47.30 - 50.28
Reflecting on the ‘exercise’
50.30 - 51.13
Outro
Quotes
“So much of what I do as an artist is a function of practical necessity.” (Nmon)
“Being an artist isn’t really difficult.. .the difficulty comes in trying to make the learning curve for new avenues of creativity as short as possible.” (Nmon)
“If there is a reasonable amount of time to get from one point to another and there’s something in the way, I don’t really have much patience for the thing that gets in the way. If it gets in the way of my structure… then it has to move. (Nmon)
“If the one thing I thought I wanted to do had worked out the way I thought I wanted it to work out, I probably would never have progressed to the other stuff I have done, because there would have been no need to.” (Nmon)
“I can either stick with this one thing and just keep hammering away at it and trying to force it into something else or I can simply do all of these things, which are presenting themselves as opportunities and see where they go.” (Nmon)
“Have you ever worked with an artist who is marginally sane or are they all a little crazy?” (Nmon)
“Orpheus is so simple; presented so simply; what ended up being archetypes were so clear; there was no misunderstanding… “ (Nmon)
“If I could have flicked the switch and turned off the pandemic for anything it would have been for going back to the communal experience of 'we’re all connecting on a certain level’ … and I felt blessed that the connective material was this thing… was Orpheus.” (Nmon)
References
Orpheus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus
Nmon performs ‘Slow Burn’ from Orfeus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCN1oxPc9-Y
Further information
Nmon Ford
Twitter: @nmonford
Instagram: @nmonford
David Pearl
Twitter: @davidpearlhere
Instagram: @davidpearl_here
Andrew Paine
Twitter: @ItPainesMe
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Kia Cannons
“Can we slow down to the pace of nature?”
Kia is the do what you love coach for creative women. Empowering women with the tools to figure out what they want to do with their life, Kia helps women shift from surviving to thriving.
Guiding people through essential self-discovery work to know what they want and tap into what they are called to do, Kia gets people unstuck so they can live a life without regret. She does this through teaching soul-led living and cultivating a killer mindset.
Kia is a monthly columnist for Psychologies Magazine, an Abstract Artist, Host of UK top 3 wellness podcast, Happy Hacks, and Founder of Untold Happiness.
Full episode https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl
Timeline
0.00 - 00.45
Theme / Introduction
00.45
Introducing Kia Cannons
5.20
How Kia named herself - finding her identity
7.40
Different personalities
8.30
The time Kia couldn’t walk
14.00
Is giving herself permission, key to Kia’s life?
18.00
Learning to love yourself - the lessons from coaching
20.22
Boundaries
22.00
Showing people what works in Kia’s life - Instagram
23.45
Kia is rising up and letting go of the beliefs that don’t serve her
24.20
The Manifesto of Beliefs
26.00
Taking time to rest
28.00
The benefits of slowing down
31.45
The benefits of grounding
36.20
Working on choices
37.10
David sets up the grounding exercise
40.20
Post exercise conversation - what was the learning?
43.04
End credits
Resources Mentioned
Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide To Personal Freedom
Standout Quotes
“I didn’t have a real aversion to my name (Vicky) but i just had a real longing to find my own identity.” (Kia)
“It’s just insane how the answers are so often out there, but so often we shut our lives down because of what one person says.” (Kia)
“The key to everything in life is love.” (Kia)
“I really feel like I came into this world, this little ball of sunshine, full of enthusiasm, hope and excitement and then I had the human experience… of being moulded, told what to do, given advice, well meaning but advice that then took away my permission to do things.” (Kia)
“When you learn to love yourself - it began with acceptance and then moving into a deep appreciation of myself and my journey and then it turns into love.” (Kia)
“When you learn to love yourself, you treat yourself very differently and will give yourself permission to do so many things that you wouldn’t have done when you didn’t love yourself.” (Kia)
‘With the desire to give comes the need to be able to not give at times otherwise you find yourself quite depleted.” (David)
“I empower my mind, body and soul when I take time to rest.” (Kia)
“I move through my life and business so much more powerfully when I slow down and especially when I come to it from a state of being… which is always a slow, restful place.” (Kia)
“Slow doesn’t mean lacking in energy… quite the opposite.” (David)
“Am I slowing down to the pace of nature? I realised… walking without shoes makes you slow down… because you’re looking at where you’re putting your feet.” (Kia)
“I now challenge myself when I’m bare feet walking to find evidence of what the pace of nature is.” (Kia)
Connect
Kia Cannons
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/happy-hacks/id1437716831
David Pearl
Twitter @davidpearlhere
Instagram @davidpearl_here
Andrew Paine (Producer)
Twitter @ItPainesMe
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Oli Barrett MBE – Connector, Presenter and Co- Creator
'Great Ideas Start With Laughter'
Described by WIRED magazine as "the most connected man in Britain", OIi Barrett is a serial co-founder who enjoys connecting people and ideas. He is a shareholder in several companies including Calm.com and Troubadour Theatres and co-founded the UK's largest schools enterprise competition, Tenner.
He co-founded StartUp Britain with support from the British Prime Minister and the Clean and Cool Mission, supporting cleantech scaleups to connect with global investors and markets.
He is a regular event host, including for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards and sits on the advisory boards of Tech London Advocates, One Million Mentors and Founders4Schools.
His latest audio course, Build a Better Network, has been taken by people around the world and his latest charity campaign (TOTS) encourages broadcasters and tech companies to turn on the subtitles, improving children's literacy.
Timeline
0.00
Theme
00.45
David introduces Oli Barrett
04.19
Tenner - The Schools Entrepreneurship Challenge
06.00
Where Do You Get Ideas From?
Distilling a big idea and making it something beautifully simple
08.50
Turn on the subtitles (TOTS)
11.35
The get-up-and-go mentality?
14.19
Bringing people together & the process of collaboration
17.50
The love of hosting events
- The amazing people you get to meet
- Breadth of subject
- The process of being on stage and making other people feel comfortable.
- Creating authenticity and honesty in the room.
22.00
Oli’s network - the golden rules
24.10
The joy of meandering - life is a search for people
28.15
The lessons of ‘seize the day’ - action / restoration
31.20
Getting to know other people more easily - the sense of the fellow traveller
34.30
The ‘Wanderful’ experience - seeing the funny side
The link between lightness and creativity
38.08
Post ‘Wanderful’ exercise - what did we learn?
40.37
End credits
Resources
Tenner
https://www.10xchallenge.org.uk/
Turning on The Subtitles (TOTS)
https://turnonthesubtitles.org/
David Ogilvy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ogilvy_(businessman)
Brij Kathari - TED Talk: Reading For A Billion, With Bollywood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP4xfN89Ss
Nudge Theory - Richard H Thaler & Cass R Sunstein
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/nudge-the-final-edition-9780241552100/9780241552100
Start Up Britain
https://www.greatbritishentrepreneurawards.com/startup-britain-2/
Quotes
‘Make your thinking as funny as possible’ (Oli Barrett)
“Most of the things I’ve started have come through experiencing or reading about a problem.” (Oli Barrett)
“TOTS is all about the power of same language subtitles… if you put subtitles on kids TV you double the chances of them becoming a proficient reader.” (Oli Barrett)
“That process of connecting ideas and people - you create conditions for people to inspire each other, which means that quietly and respectfully, you can step back and enable them to get on with it.” (Oli Barrett)
“If something I’ve been involved with in any gets mentioned publicly and I’m not mentioned, I take that as a huge compliment, because it gives me that sense that it really could carry on without me.” (Oli Barrett)
“I do like process of making people feel comfortable, who wouldn’t normally feel comfortable and getting something from them that almost surprises them.” (Oli Barrett)
“You can travel the world looking for joy but they’re also on your doorstep.” (David Pearl)
“Life is a search for people is a beautiful thought” (Oli Barrett)
“To solve some of the biggest problems in the world you have to join unusual forces together.” (Oli Barrett)
“If you think you’ll live forever you do give yourself time to moan, whereas if you remember its finite, you may make more use of your day.” (David Pearl)
Connect
Oli Barrett
Twitter @OliBarrett
David Pearl
Twitter @davidpearlhere
Instagram @davidpearl_here
Andrew Paine (Producer)
Twitter @ItPainesMe
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
“When I listen, I am not alone…”
Biography
Traci Ruble has worked with people on their relationships for over 16 years as a couples counsellor and psychotherapist; describing herself as a “candid, clever, and integrative psychotherapist / couples therapist. I talk like a regular person and love "getting in the mud" with clients as an equal.”
Having survived six divorces as a child, born to a teen mom, she says “really I’ve been working with couples since I was four. I have my own lived experience of not being heard and being an outsider.”
In addition, Traci is the chief listener and volunteer executive director for Sidewalk Talk, a listening and volunteer-led global movement and non-profit, now in 15 countries across 90 locations with 8500 listeners listening as their own activism and growth practice.
She sat on the sidewalk in San Francisco in 2015 and continues to be moved by the changes this project has made in her own life. From getting more conscious about her own privilege, the challenges of leading while female, the link between connection and boundaries, and sustainable heart-centered organisational growth.
Traci is working on her first book and is a sought after speaker and couples expert. Aside from thoroughly loving her work, Traci also loves to be outside wandering in the trees, running, and goofing off with her husband of 17 years and two tween sons. She also loves couch surfing on some of the Sidewalk Talk chapter leader’s couches and listening with other teams around the world. Traci is currently living in Germany until 2022
Timeline
0.00 - 00.45
Theme / Introduction
00.45 - 05.03
Introducing Tracy Ruble
05.03 - 09.20
Traci explains ‘Sidewalk Talk’
- The importance of listening and compassion
- Confronting bias about people
- Falling in love with a stranger after 10 minutes
- Paying attention to economic injustice
9.20
Compassion happens between equals
11.00
How do you know when the (sidewalk) talk is done?
11.48
Traci’s communication style (listening versus talking)
12.15
The joy of listening to other people’s stories
13.30
Traci is an anxiety sufferer - Traci wants to be liked
16.00
Traci’s new relationship to Leaders and Leadership
17.02
How Traci made life difficult for previous leaders?
‘High maintenance but worth it’
21.10
Are we asking for what we really want?
23.30
The questions we ask people on Sidewalk Talk
27.00
How does Traci experience and tolerate the word NO?
The importance of developing a capacity to say NO
28.30
Cherishing the tender parts of Traci Ruble
31.00
How does Traci meet the world in cool ways?
- Giving people the ‘cherishing’ face
- Meeting people with the ‘sparkle’ in their eyes
35.05
How to amplify your own sparkle - Inviting clients to put themselves in an ‘egg’ and put inside what ever nourishes them.
36.53
Using Metaphor and creativity to create resilience
39.43
The ‘Wanderful’ Exercise: the ‘egg’ walk
42.38
Post-Wanderful Exercise - What came up for David Pearl?
45.41
Additional thinking about your ‘egg’
Resources Mentioned
Sidewalk Talk (Traci Ruble TED talk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRNtEuyQtQA
Sidewalk Talk
https://www.sidewalk-talk.org/
Internal Family Systems by Richard Shwartz
Standout Quotes
“It’s super pleasurable to start listening to other people’s stories and to start listening in a way you can illicit more of their personal story - it’s just incredibly gratifying and enlivening.” (Traci Ruble)
“Compassion happens between equals.” (Traci Ruble)
“When I’m listening, I just think, I’m not alone, I’m human with you and that feels really good.” (Traci Ruble)
“Thank you for leading me today, I feel so appreciated.” (Traci Ruble)
“As I’ve stepped into a leadership role, have I made myself approachable enough as a leader? to have people feel safe enough to know that they could ask (for what they need or want) ? (Traci Ruble)
“I smile at you and I say ‘how’s your day going? Would you like to sit down and be listened to?’ “ (Traci Ruble)
“Tolerating the No because No is a representation of a boundary and all boundaries are between two humans is the defining ground of what I need in order to be in connection with you and if I’m saying no, I’m saying I’m not available to be in connection with you.” (Traci Ruble)
“When we’re little kids we don’t like No, because we’re on our way to a goal, we don’t like our directionality being thwarted. But as we age into adulthood we need to develop the capacity to hear No with grace and not make it all about us.” (Traci Ruble)
“When you seek somebody who ‘sparkles’, notice what part of you rises to meet the ‘sparkle’” (Traci Ruble)
Connect
Traci Ruble
Twitter @TraciRubleMFT
Instagram @TraciRubleMFT
Instagram @sidewalktalkorg
David Pearl
Twitter @davidpearlhere
Instagram @davidpearl_here
Andrew Paine (Producer)
Twitter @ItPainesMe
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
"I am completely turned on by being a frog kisser."
Sir Tim Smit KBE is one of the most recognisable and respected characters in the field of environment and sustainability. He is probably best known for his achievements in Cornwall where he ‘discovered’ and then restored The Lost Gardens of Heligan with John Nelson, which is now one of the UK’s best-loved gardens.
Tim is Executive Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the multi-award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Since its opening in 2001, over 22 million people have come to see a once sterile pit, turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour. Tim is also Executive Co-Chair for Eden Project International which aims to have an Eden Project on every inhabited continent by 2025.
In this warm and engaging episode of Wanderful, David gets to have a meandering talk with one of his heroes exploring the inspiration behind Tim’s projects and what makes them magnetic to the thousands of people who keep them vibrant and alive.
Tim touches upon the problem of male vanity & ego at a time when there is a need for more collaboration and ensemble-working as we turn our attention to the challenges of climate change.
The conversation ends with a gentle analysis of the word ‘community’ and the importance of gifting and relationship building.
Full episode https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl
Timeline
0.00 – 00.45
Theme / Introduction
00.45
Introducing Sir Tim Smit
04.16
The word ‘sustainability’ versus the word ‘nature’
06.47
How does Sir Tim get so much done?
The people who are drawn to Eden
11.17
The biggest barrier to resolving climate change is male vanity
12.50
How is the Tim of today compared to the Tim of the early days?
15.35
Ensembles need leaders
17.33
The Eden Project allows people to find meaning
18.56
The Big Lunch – local connections & true community
25.21
The meaning of community
26.21
Identity & Violence by Amartya Sen
The polymathy that makes us
27.32
What is Sir Tim’s ‘verb?’
32.02
What does Tim do when he is wandering?
35.51
David sets up the ‘Wanderful’ exercise
38.27
What happened during the exercise
Resources Mentioned
The Lost Gardens of Heligan
The Eden Project
The Big Lunch
https://www.purpose-done-right.com/the-big-lunch
Identity & Violence by Amartya Sen
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/558/55882/identity-and-violence/9780141027807.html
Ulysses by Lord Tennyson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31463.Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd
Standout Quotes
“Almost everybody who comes towards or who is drawn to Eden is a slightly square peg looking for a square hole.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“The biggest barrier to resolving climate change is male vanity” (David Pearl attributed to Sir Tim Smit)
‘Vanity leads you to not listening enough. Nobody ever learnt anything by talking” (Sir Tim Smit)
“True genius is generally a construct of many different people” (Sir Tim Smit)
“The key code to you is noticing that a whole bunch of people needed you and valued you.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“The thing about the Big Lunch is not the day that’s important, it’s all the socialising and organising before.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“People are basically good. They don’t know how to be given permission to do good things sometimes.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“The origin of community is ‘comm' meaning together and ‘munos’, meaning gift. It’s about the relationships of the people. You can’t be in a community if its passive” (Sir Tim Smit)
“Can I have a verb which is to kiss frogs? I am completely turned on by being a frog kisser. I love putting things into good heart. (Sir Tim Smit)
“You can’t always re-build but you can if you are thoughtful, gentle and kind, make things content again.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“Contentment is a deeper running river.” (Sir Tim Smit)
“We take water as a simple thing at our peril.” (Sir Tim Smit)
Street Wisdom is an everyday creative practise founded by David Pearl which you use as you walk to help you unblock your mind to find clarity and inspiration.
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Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
"Hello wanderers… welcome to the finale of our first 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 the team 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.
This omnibus edition features conversations with improviser Pippa Evans @Iampippaevans, creative genius Philip Cowell @goodchancetheatre, career guru Sarah Ellis @amazingif, mental health pioneer Deborah Coughlin @deborahcoughlin & adult sex educator Ruby Rare @rubyrare.
Let’s wander.
For further information on David please go to Twitter @davidpearlhere or Instagram @davidpearl_here
Wanderful is produced and edited by Andrew Paine @ItPainesMe
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Deborah Coughlin is a creative innovator and entrepreneur, subverting the usual way we look at things: A creator of stories, products, communities and business all designed to empower.
During her conversation with David she speaks about past innovations including her feminist punk choir ‘Gaggle’; the long road leading to the publication of ‘Outspoken’, a pluralist collection of inspiring speeches by inspiring women; her current mission to democratise good mental health and end the mental health poverty gap, and where she gathers her energy to do all this changing.
For further information on Deborah go to https://www.deborahcoughlin.com
Instagram @deborahcoughlin
Twitter @wakeylife
For further information on David please go to Twitter @davidpearlhere or Instagram @davidpearl_here
Wanderful is produced and edited by Andrew Paine: Twitter @ItPainesMe
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Philip Cowell is the Creative Development Director of The Good Chance Theatre, which creates productions that tell big stories of hope and humanity, building Dome theatres across the world, working together with refugees and local people and collaborating with a large ensemble of refugee artists to create visionary new art.
Philip is also an established author, curator, creator and poet. In fact… he is the poet-at-large for David Pearl’s social venture, Street Wisdom: a brilliant creator of poems with an uncanny ability to make poems up on the spot.
David caught up with Philip in his new home, Berlin, where he talks about his delight in ‘not-knowing’… and how this colours his approach to writing poetry. Along the way we discover more about his coming-out as a gay man, why science loves getting it wrong and how we can be okay with that nudge which pushes you in a direction which you feel you have to take... but you just… don’t… know… why.
You can find out more about Philip and the latest Good Chance Theatre project, The Walk, at http://www.philipcowell.co.uk
For further information on David please go to Twitter @davidpearlhere or Instagram @davidpearl_here
Wanderful is produced and edited by Andrew Paine @ItPainesMe