How do we really engage and create cultures of healing and resistance? This episode, recorded at Lovejam, explores exactly that. Through song, poetry and shared wisdom, this circle brings together five incredible women from diverse backgrounds: Zena Rouse Winterbottom, Jude جودْ, Jessica Epperson-Lusty,  Jimena Paratcha and Nikita Llerana. Together they reflect on ways to respond to violence and societal collapse through community, art, joy and reverence.

Even in the most difficult circumstances, people continue to celebrate life - singing, dancing, and gathering together. Acts of resistance that become powerful forms of resilience, helping us hold grief and hope at the same time and reminding us what it means to stay human amid struggle.

We hope that you are inspired and activated by the wisdom and courage of these incredible women and reminded of the power we have when we gather.

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In this timeless, we explore the “ladder” - the system of hierarchies that tells us which bodies are worthy and which are not. From racism, ableism and capitalism to beauty standards and perfectionism, the ladder keeps us climbing for external validation and always leaves us feeling not enough.

Radical self-love offers another way. It asks us to step off the ladder, to revisit the stories that placed us on it and to begin divesting from the messages that keep us trapped. It calls us back to our inherent worth, our divinity and our wholeness.

Sonya Renee Taylor Sonya lays out her radical self-love vision. She is a New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation and transformational change, international award winning artist, and founder of The Body Is Not an Apology (TBINAA), a global digital media and education company exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice through the framework of radical self-love. 

This is not easy work, but it is possible through honesty, community, grace and a willingness to embrace our own complexity. And as we do it, we create the conditions not only to free ourselves, but to dismantle the ladder for everyone.

We hope this short piece roots softly in your body.

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How do we mend the fractures of modern life and find our way back to each other?

In this conversation, Bryony Greenhill shares a vision for repairing our communities - through land, song and the everyday acts that weave us back together.

We explore why so many of us feel disconnected, what’s been lost in our modern way of living, and how we can start to rebuild trust, care, and shared purpose in our neighbourhoods and daily lives. Bryony shares stories and ideas for bringing the ‘village’ back as a living, breathing way of being together that can meet the challenges of our time.

Briony is a teaching artist, a vocal improviser, performer, pianist, composer, and teacher of collaborative vocal improvisation. She's one of the main people who brought this art-form to the UK from West Coast USA where she lived for 10 years. She cares passionately about the transition to regenerative culture, shifting from modernity / coloniality to indigeneity, and particularly in this moment, about peace, justice and decolonisation, and as such is the co-founder of Regenerate UK.

We hope this conversation reminds you that you are not alone, and that together we can imagine and build the future we know we belong to.

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In this timeless, we explore the art of weaving the many threads of our lives into a unified whole. Drawing on the discipline of a monk, and the humility of a lifelong pilgrim, we are invited to see ecology, spirituality, social justice, and human connection as one interwoven journey.

Satish Kumar is a former monk and long-term peace and environment activist, he has been quietly setting the Global Agenda for change for over 50 years. He shares how walking without fear, living with less, and dropping expectations can open us to the sacredness of all life - from a butterfly’s flight to a stranger’s kindness. He invites us to live simply yet fully, to choose time over money, and to bring reverence and celebration to each moment, whatever it holds.

This timeless is about cultivating a pilgrim’s mindset in a world that often pushes us into the rush of commuting, consuming, and competing. It is a gentle yet powerful call to slow down, walk lightly, and recognise that the whole Earth is sacred, and so is every step we take upon it.

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“The most radical thing any of us can do right now is to be fully present to what is.” Joanna Macy

In this deeply special episode, we honour the extraordinary life and legacy of Joanna Macy PHD, visionary teacher, spiritual elder, systems thinker, and sacred activist, whose work has profoundly shaped the heart of All That We Are. 

Known for The Great Turning, The Work That Reconnects, and Active Hope, Joanna gave us language and permission to meet this moment fully. To face the grief, uncertainty, and unraveling of our world not with numbness, but with courage, community, and fierce devotional love.

Joanna left her body on Saturday 19th July 2025, in her ninety-sixth year. Her spirit, teachings, and the deep soulprint of her work continue to move through so many of us and the guests, listeners, and circles that shape this podcast. 

This tribute brings Joanna’s own tender and galvanising voice as she shares The Five Gifts of Uncertainty and we gather a constellation of stories and reflections from a few of the many who’ve been deeply touched by her work. 

You will hear from Will Scott, Nina Simons, Tibet Sprague, Louis Weinstock, Jewels Wingfield and Phoebe Tickell. As well as Holly Ebony, with her song Born For These Times.

Together, we weave a tapestry of respect, love, and courage. An invitation to revisit or begin to explore the teachings that Joanna has to offer.

For links and more, visit www.allthatweare.org

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In this deeply moving and courageous episode, we hear from a woman whose life has been shaped by unimaginable hardship and who has transformed that pain into powerful service.

Nasreen Sheikh is a survivor of modern-day slavery, a social entrepreneur, human rights advocate and international speaker. Born in a small rural village on the border of India and Nepal, she risked everything to escape forced marriage, child labour, and extreme poverty in search of freedom. Her lived experience now fuels her mission. Nasreen has founded several social enterprises working to end modern-day slavery and uplift the voices of those who are too often silenced. Through her work, she advocates for basic human rights as a foundation for global justice. 

From collecting firewood as a child in a village without electricity, to surviving abuse, bonded labour and severe poverty, this conversation brings to light the hidden realities of modern-day slavery and the strength it takes to break free from systems that are designed to keep people silent. But what emerges through her words is not despair, but an unwavering vision, a belief in the human spirit and in the belief that even the smallest act of kindness can ripple into profound change. Nasreen shares how her healing journey led her to create change, and how we can all be part of building a world where dignity, safety, and freedom are a given, not a privilege.

Each of us has a role to play in shaping a more just, beautiful, and liberated world. We hope this timeless episode empowers you.

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Can altered states shift our collective future?

In this week’s episode, we share a powerful moment recorded at Breaking Convention, where Amisha brings together Rose Cartwright, Moudou Baqui, Iyad El-Baghdadi, Shannon Dames, Dr Simon Ruffel and Akua Ofosuhene. Each bringing their own lived experience, they explore what becomes possible when psychedelic experiences meet social change and the deep remembering of older, wiser ways of being.

There is a profound bravery and deep vulnerability in this conversation that lingers long after the listening ends. Speaking of grief and revelation, darkness and rebirth, community and disconnection, they reflect on what it means to be a host for new realities, to clear the landing pad for the future and to walk with integrity as stewards of both ancient and emerging ways of knowing.

We explore:

:: What becomes possible when psychedelic experiences meet social change and ancestral remembering

:: How extraordinary gifts are returning to people

:: What it means to host new realities and prepare the landing pad for beneficial energies

:: How Indigenous and Western sciences can learn from one another through mutual listening and respect

:: Why we may be at the end of many paradigms and the beginning of something entirely new

:: How remembering the body can be a gateway to reconciling with each other and the earth

:: What happens when people stop holding back and speak from the depth of lived experience

:: How the healing of community lives deep in our bones

:: Why you can be hopeful even when you're pessimistic

:: How psychedelics can loosen the rigidity we carry and reconnect us to what is real

We hope that this episode invites you to understand differently your own healing journey and the role that psychedelics can play for all of us.

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In this episode, Amisha speaks with Richard Rudd, international spiritual teacher, writer, award-winning poet and creator of the Gene Keys, who shares the story of how the teachings came to him through a path of inner listening, travel, and deep surrender.

They explore how to live off the map, trust the body’s wisdom, and meet life as a living mystery. A gentle yet transformative conversation for those seeking clarity, connection, and the courage to walk their own path.

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What does it mean to winter - deeply, wisely, and together?

In this episode, we explore the idea of wintering in community - how we might not only survive the cold seasons of our lives, but move through them together. 

The Wilder Kin are a collective of five women holding space for seasonal, regenerative ways of being together in nature. Together they created Wintering - a deep invitation to slow down, reflect, and reweave community through the wisdom of the dark months.

There’s something powerful that happens when we slow down, not in isolation, but in connection. When we make room for rest, reflection, and the kind of honest tending that can only happen in darker times.

We talk about: 

:: How important it is to support ourselves and each other - not just when things are easy, but when everything feels uncertain or chaotic 

:: Personal winter stories and reflections about the warmth that can still be found in winter through shared meals, songs by candlelight, the quiet noticing of tiny shifts

:: What becomes possible when we winter together

:: How we can build our capacity to be with the endings - personal, collective, systemic

:: What it means to compost the old, to let things fall, and to trust in what’s becoming

This is an invitation to be with the seasons and to remember that even in winter, you are not alone.

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How are we shaped by the world around us and what is our role in shaping it?

Amisha is honored to walk with Alnoor Ladha in this transformative episode that blends the personal and political, the spiritual and systemic. Alnoor has spent years at the intersection of activism, mysticism, and storytelling - working to reimagine how we relate to power, care, and community.

In this episode we get into all kinds of things: taking real responsibility (like, the kind that doesn’t burn you out), how our inner healing connects to outer systems, grounded spiritual practice as a form of resistance, what post-capitalism could actually feel like in the body, and how deprogramming scarcity can open us up to deeper connection and joy.

We talk about:

:: Power, entitlement, and victimhood - not as buzzwords, but as energies we carry and can transform :: Why separating the spiritual from the political just doesn’t make sense anymore :: Living your values without needing to be perfect :: How systems like capitalism got made - and why we can unmake them :: What becomes possible when we choose compassion over competition, and care over control

This one’s for anyone who feels the overwhelm of the world and still believes something else is possible. Alnoor offers a grounded, tender invitation to look at what’s happening globally as a mirror of what’s going on in our relationships, our bodies, and our everyday choices.

We hope this conversation lands in your chest, loosens some old stories, and opens up space for something more generous, more collective, and way more alive.