Wild with Sarah Wilson
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Wild with Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson chats wild ideas for a fired up life.The multi-New York Times bestselling author, activist, minimalist and former news journalist who founded the global phenomenon ‘I Quit Sugar’ travelled the world for 10 years (living out of one bag) to explore the freshest ways to live fully…and to s...
Recent Episodes
215 episodes
INDY JOHAR: "How do we prepare the world for what’s coming?"
Indy Johar (founder of Dark Matter Labs, systems designer) closes this 12-part series on the life-enhancing “what comes next” that we need (and want)...
SARAH STEIN LUBRANO: How do we change people’s minds about what’s happening to the world?
Sarah Stein Lubrano (neuroscientist, political scientist, former obituary writer!) is an expert in how to change people’s minds most effectively and f...
JOHN SEED: Is Deep Ecology the answer?
John Seed (Deep Ecology OG, global rainforest steward) says we can’t save the world. And that the planetary crisis is not a failure of information or...
JEREMY LENT: Can humans build a (beautiful) new civilisation?
Jeremy Lent (author, systems thinker) is a leading authority on civilisations and has just created a manifesto on how to shift from the current crumbl...
FRANCIS WELLER: “Grief will wake us up”…so how do we do good grief again?
Francis Weller (psychotherapist, bestselling author + “soul activist”) believes we have entered a “Long Dark”, a multi-decade (century?) period of col...
RUTH BEN-GHIAT: How do we create a values-led politic from this mess?
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (historian of fascism +NYT bestselling author of Strongmen) is an internationally recognised expert in how psychologically unstable men...
ZAK STEIN: How do we raise kids in a metacrisis?
Zak Stein (Harvard philosopher of education, AI + kids expert) is worried that we are not raising and educating our kids for the kind of wobbly, harsh...
MICHAEL MUTHUKRISHNA: Can we cooperate our way out of this? (Warning: a tricky episode!)
Michael Muthukrishna (behavioural scientist, cultural evolution researcher) has a unified “theory of everyone” that says we evolved as a species, surv...
ECE TEMELKURAN: How to save ourselves from fascism
Ece Temelkuran (fascism expert, political exile, journalist) first began reporting on the global slide into fascism as a journalist witnessing it happ...
SHELDON SOLOMON: Can we gamify all the denial around us and save humanity?*
Dr Sheldon Solomon (psychologist, founder of terror management theory) has spent 45 years proving that our fear of death is responsible for the struct...
AUDREY TANG: Can we wrangle AI off the techno-fascists (and make it a force for good)?
Audrey Tang (“civic hacker", Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large, polymath) is one of the world’s most influential thinkers and she has a vision for pr...
SAMANTHA SWEETWATER: How do we *actually* emerge our way into “the what comes next”?
Samantha Sweetwater (systems thinker, Gaian futurist, expert facilitator) draws on complexity science, deep ecology, indigenous wisdom, and 30+ years...
WE’RE BACK! Series 2 of Wild is here
After a long-ish hiatus, we’re returning with a fresh series of Wild. This second series will be taking a slightly new direction and is now “watchable...
BEST OF: IAIN MCGILCHRIST - Our “wretchedness” is a left-brain issue
As many of us move into the holiday season and slower days, I wanted to reshare this conversation with Iain McGilchrist. It’s a spacious, illuminating...
BEST OF: MARTHA BECK - Only the most nourishing chat I’ve had about anxiety ever
As many of us head into the holiday season — travelling, slowing down, or looking for something good to listen to — I wanted to reshare this conversat...
A Wild Live with Dr Sharon Blackie about… fairytales and collapse
Wild has been on hiatus while I finish my most recent book. We’ll be back with a fresh direction and new guests in the coming months, but in the meant...
A Wild Live with Ohh that’s RICH on "extinction burst"
Wild has been on hiatus while I finish my most recent book. We’ll be back with a fresh direction and new guests in the coming months, but in the meant...
A Wild Live with Grace Blakeley about neoliberalism and collapse
Wild has been on hiatus while I finish my most recent book. We’ll be back with a fresh direction and new guests in the coming months, but in the meant...
VANESSA ANDREOTTI: And now we have hospice modernity…(and a goodbye from Wild)
Dr Vanessa Andreotti (Indigenous Knowledge advocate; author) is a Brazilian academic who has developed a radical thesis for how to move through the mu...
MARTHA BECK: Only the most nourishing chat I’ve had about anxiety ever
Dr. Martha Beck (author; “best-known life coach in America”) is about to release a book on anxiety. The international best-selling author – who holds...
INDY JOHAR: The starkest collapse prognosis I’ve heard
Indy Johar (founder of Dark Matter Labs, systems designer) re-imagines and redesigns systems for a changed world. The architect and Professor of Plane...
LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE: How would Hannah Arendt explain Trump?
Lyndsey Stonebridge (Humans rights academic, Hannah Arendt biographer) was worried about the banality of evil she was observing in the world and so du...
LUKE KEMP: Will our global civilisation go the way of the Roman Empire?
Luke Kemp (historical collapse expert; associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk) has studied past civilisations and mapped out a pict...
AMA: A post on how I write a book about collapse on Substack
Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of “Ask Me Anything” questions about the minutiae of writing about - and having to live through - collapse. I try to...
JOEL PEARSON: Do we have free will? Is anything our fault?
Prof. Joel Pearson (Neuroscientist; AI and cognition scientist) returns to Wild, this time to discuss whether free will is an illusion. In our last ch...
CHRISTIANA FIGUERES: On “stubborn optimism”
Christiana Figueres (the woman behind the Paris Agreement) is possibly the best-known official in the global climate change movement. The former Costa...
ELIZABETH OLDFIELD X ME: How to be Fully Alive in a collapsing world
In this SPECIAL EPISODE British coach, author and broadcaster Elizabeth Oldfield and I sit down in her London intentional community home and interview...
BONUS EP: Nika Kovač the activist from the Slovenian gondola
I do these bonus episodes occasionally whereby I interview someone I serendipitously met on my adventures and who I wrote about in my books AND who st...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST: Our “wretchedness” is a left-brain issue
Dr Iain McGilchrist (neuroscientist, psychiatrist, polymath, author of The Master and His Emissary) devised a thesis that sets out how the two sides o...
COREY BRADSHAW: Are humans going extinct? (And how soon?)
Professor Corey Bradshaw (global ecologist; author) has spent a career studying species populations and biodiversity loss and has the starkest of mess...
AMA: How do I explain collapse to someone?*
*(and that the wars, climate disasters, democratic upheavals etc today are VERY different to crises in the past)?
This episode’s question has be...
NICK BRYANT: What has happened to America?
Dr Nick Bryant (BBC Washington correspondent, author) has spent most of his career covering the events that many of us see as spelling the decline of...
CLIVE HAMILTON: CONTENTIOUS CLIMATE COLLAPSE TRUTH - how the “Electrify Everything” message + private schools could be our downfall if we don’t change course
Professor Clive Hamilton (public ethicist; climate activist; founder of the Australia Institute) has led the emissions reduction conversation for deca...
COLLAPSE SERIES: Jonathon Rowson - Welcome to the “metacrisis”. Now what?
Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse...
COLLAPSE SERIES: Olivia Lazard - The big fat renewable energy blindspot NO ONE wants to talk about
Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse...
COLLAPSE SERIES: Nate Hagens - On the “Great Simplification”
Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse...
COLLAPSE SERIES: Margaret Wheatley - An episode on civilization collapse (warning: truly confronting)
Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse...
COLLAPSE SERIES: Gaya Herrington - Complete global collapse by 2040? The prediction is “right on track”
Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with guests who delve into themes of collapse...
JEM BENDELL: Oh gosh! Finding beauty in a collapsing world.
Jem Bendell (collapse “poster kid”, academic) wrote the paper that launched the “Deep Adaptation” movement and spawned Extinction Rebellion. That was...
JEAN TWENGE: Do millennials and Gen Z have it harder?
Jean Twenge (psychologist; professor at San Diego State University) is regarded as the world expert on “generations”. She famously described millennia...