Green Planet Blue Planet Podcast

This is Not the End - A 360 review on Regeneration

After an incredible 7-year journey, Julian Guderley has recorded the 360th and (for now) final episode of Green Planet Blue Planet podcast. In this special episode, Julian is interviewed by his friend and collaborator Hope Paterson as they reflect on the genesis, evolution, and impact of the show.

What started as a childhood dream of having his own "radio show" blossomed into a platform for sharing the voices and visions of inspiring change-makers from around the world. As Julian shares, his intention was to "meet some of the world's impact creators, people that make change, people that bring positivity to the world" through projects, businesses, art and more.

Over 360 episodes, Julian has done just that - providing a space for authentic, insightful conversations that illuminate pathways towards individual and collective regeneration. The tagline "More than Sustainability" reveals the underlying ethos - going beyond superficial eco-trends to explore how to truly heal ourselves and build a more beautiful world.

The Power of Authentic Conversations

A central theme explored is the power of honest dialogue to connect, inspire and transform. Julian reflects that "every single person has something insightful, powerful and authentic to share" if you listen deeply. The intimate podcast format allows guests to "take off the makeup" and speak straight from the heart.

Julian's own voice as a host also evolved greatly, sharpening his ability to "sharpen my opinions and own them" rather than holding back. As Hope notes, his "bold voice" and willingness to break rules allowed for brave, unfiltered exchanges.

The Regenerative Renaissance

One of the most powerful aspects of Green Planet Blue Planet was its role in uplifting and spreading the concept of "regeneration" and "regenaissence" - a rebirth and modern renaissance of regenerative thinking and living.

Julian shares about celebrating the win of "contributing to the movement of people seeking a more beautiful world". The mission from the start was to create a platform to give a voice to elders and cultural leaders like: Bruce Lipton, Cynthia Jurs, Swami Chidananda, Charles Eisenstein, James Nestor, Alessa Berg, Daniel Christian Wahl and many more... The podcast surfed the "wave" of an evolving cultural consciousness.

Balancing Ambition and Appreciation

While celebrating the show's impact, Julian also explores the tension between ambition and contentment. As one of the top 2.5% most popular podcasts globally, there is success to appreciate. Yet the "competitive comparative culture" can breed a nagging sense of "what am I doing that it's not 100,000 listeners?"

Ultimately, Julian seems to land in an understanding that trusting the intention behind your authentic expression is what matters most. The podcast created a "360 degree circle of regeneration" - and that completeness is worth pausing to honor.

What's Next?

Though Green Planet Blue Planet is ending for now, Julian and Hope are already flowing their creative energy into new channels like the "Breaking Rules of Business as Usual" video series. They are excited about facilitating more in-person gatherings that "dive deeper into one's own evolution" in an intimate group setting.

As Julian shares, "This is not the end. This is just wrapping a 360 degree circle of the regeneration conversation." The wave of personal, cultural and planetary regenaissence continues to swell, with Julian riding alongside as a guide and catalyst.

So stay tuned for whatever surprising form Julian's voice takes next as he keeps embodying the core message: Invest in "the bonds of relationships" as we co-create a more beautiful world.

Summary

In this conversation, Julian speaks with Cynthia Jurs about her journey and the importance of community and global healing. Cynthia shares her experience of finding the original culture in New Mexico and the significance of connecting with indigenous traditions.

They discuss the concept of the next Buddha as a sangha, emphasizing the need for collective awakening and the power of community. Cynthia also shares her transformative pilgrimage experience and the practice of using Earth Treasure Vases for global healing. In this conversation, Cynthia Jurs and Julian discuss the importance of restoring balance and harmony in the world.

They explore indigenous practices of praying with objects and storing them in the ground as a way to connect with the deeper reality of the earth. Cynthia shares her connection to the Kogi people and their message about the disruption of the planet's lay lines. They also discuss the power of miracles and synchronicities in the journey of awakening.

Cynthia offers practical steps for connecting with the breath, stopping the incessant thinking, and aligning with one's true source. They emphasize the importance of coming together in this time of collective awakening.

Takeaways

Finding and connecting with original cultures can provide a deeper understanding of our roots and the wisdom they hold.

The next Buddha will manifest as a collective awakening, emphasizing the importance of community and collaboration.

Community and sangha play a crucial role in healing and transforming ourselves and the world.

Practices like pilgrimage and using Earth Treasure Vases can be powerful tools for personal and global healing. Restoring balance and harmony in the world is essential for the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants.

Indigenous practices, such as praying with objects and storing them in the ground, can help us connect with the deeper reality of the earth.

Miracles and synchronicities are signs that we are aligned with our true purpose and the spirit we want to see blossom in the world.

Practical steps for awakening include stopping the incessant thinking, connecting with the breath, and aligning with one's true source.

In this time of collective awakening, it is important for us to come together and take action to create a better world.

Julian sits down with the creators of the original Bamboo House in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. A one-of-a-kind, cozy sustainable shelter. Curated by the natural environment found in the coast of Oaxaca.

Leah Rampy shares her journey of reconnecting with nature and spirituality in the face of climate chaos. She emphasizes the importance of falling in love with nature and recognizing that love as the language of nature. Leah explores the spiritual wisdom of trees and the lessons they teach us about resilience, connection, and cooperation.

She highlights the genius of the natural world and the need to honor and learn from it. Leah also discusses the interplay between human intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as the potential of regenerative agriculture to restore ecosystems.

In this conversation, Julian and Leah Rampy discuss the wisdom of indigenous peoples, the co-creation of the Amazon, and the intelligence of plants. They explore the importance of building beautiful communities and thriving ecosystems, and the need to fall in love with the world. They emphasize the significance of starting with one's own backyard and journeying to understand Earth and ourselves. They also discuss the seven generational perspective, the paradox of connection and individuality, and the importance of soil for health and ecosystems.

Takeaways

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Website: https://www.leahmoranrampy.com 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553196486975 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leahrampy/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahrampy/ 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29947301.Leah_Moran_Rampy 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Soul-Reconnecting-Climate-Chaos-ebook/dp/B0CQDD392Q/ 

Church of the Wild: https://www.churchofthewild2rivers.com/

Save our Soil:

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Join us in an enlightening discussion Host Julian Guderley had with Dr. Bruce Lipton. Dr. Bruce is the pioneering mind behind the concept of epigenetics & the transformative potential of subconscious re-programming. In this profound conversation, Dr. Lipton unveils the secrets of rewiring our subconscious minds to manifest our deepest desires and lead lives filled with health, happiness, and purpose. #brucelipton #epigenetics #subconsciousmind #subconscious #rewiring

Corey Gaidzionis Author of the Book of Big Emotions shares about: Family, Earth, and the Future of Education

In todays Green Planet Blue Planet Podcast, host Julian Guderley engages Corey Gaidzionis, Founder of Big Emotions Academy, in a conversation that weaves together the threads of family bonds, Earth connection, and the evolving landscape of education.

Nature's Impact: Corey, who lives in Australia, shares about a profound link between emotional well-being and our connection to the Earth. Drawing inspiration from Stef Sifandos, a mutual friend and co-founder of Asraya, the conversation highlights how nature revitalizes and nurtures the human spirit.

Oceanside Epiphanies: Corey shares his personal journey, touching on experiences with anti-depressants and the therapeutic power of the oceanside. The beach becomes a canvas for self-discovery, showcasing the symbiotic relationship between nature and emotional healing.

Bush Wisdom: Corey's work with young men and teenagers in the Australian bush is explored, revealing how outdoor experiences foster emotional growth. The conversation resonates with the transformative impact of nature on personal development.

The Little Book of Big Emotions: Corey introduces the audience to The Little Book of Big Emotions and the mission of Big Emotions Academy, emphasizing its role in strengthening family bonds. The book becomes a tool for accessible emotional intelligence, fostering resilience within families.

Education's Evolution: Delving into the future of education, Julian and Corey highlight the pivotal role of inspired teachers, guides, and mentors. The discussion underscores the transformative influence of educators in shaping the emotional intelligence and well-being of future generations.

Closing Inspiration: The episode concludes with a powerful message about the ripple effect of emotionally resilient families and the role of inspired educators in creating a brighter future. Corey's anecdotes, coupled with the emphasis on the evolving educational landscape, leave listeners inspired to embrace emotional well-being and strengthen family connections.

The Boring Revolution.

The matter of this Better Worlds episode is far from mundane. As advocated by Indy Johar, co-founder of Dark Matter Labs, who visited with Green Planet Blue Planet Host Julian Guderley for this podcast episode, a boring revolution is a fundamental shift in how we as humans perceive ourselves, our relationships, and the institutional frameworks that reinforce those perceptions. The old world view created over time, positions humans as dominion over everything instead of recognizing the agency and aliveness of everything, including objects.

This episode explores multiple facets of this paradigm shift challenges us to fundamentally rethink what it means to be human and how we relate to each other and the planet. Indy suggests our current worldview and societal structures are extractive, guided by externalities, and they put humanity at risk of self-termination.

In other words, we have constructed a language of humans being in dominion over the world, in control of the world through theories constructed in various ways, including by religions. Next, Indy says, we constructed perspective, which put distance between us and put control into bureaucracy, governance, kings etc. Humans then separated themselves from the world, turned things into objects rather than perceiving them as entanglements in relationship with humans. That led to classifications and language shifts from verb - action oriented terms - to nouns, and finally moved into a thesis of property as a universal means of organizing. The worldview became one of control over, and property - ownership - became an enslavement of things.

To hear more about these fascinating and complex theories, tune in now, let us know what you think, like it and share, and then visit us at betterworlds.com for more shows and podcast subjects. 

About Indy Johar

Indy Johar is focused on the strategic design of new super scale civic assets for transition - specifically at the intersection of financing, contracting and governance for deeply democratic futures.

Indy is co-founder of darkmatterlabs.org and of the RIBA award winning architecture and urban practice Architecture00 - https://www.architecture00.net, a founding director of open systems lab - https://www.opensystemslab.io (digitising planning), seeded WikiHouse (open source housing) - https://www.wikihouse.cc  and Open Desk (open source furniture company) https://www.opendesk.cc.

Indy is a non-executive international Director of the BloxHub https://bloxhub.org (Denmark Copenhagen) - the Nordic Hub for sustainable urbanization and was 2016-17 Graham Willis Visiting Professorship at Sheffield University.  He was also Studio Master at the Architectural Association - 2019-2020, UNDP Innovation Facility Advisory Board Member  2016-20 and RIBA Trustee 2017-20. He has taught & lectured at various institutions from the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT and New School. 

Most recently, he was awarded the London Design Medal for Innovation in 2022.

About Dark Matter Labs 

Dark Matter Labs is not-for-profit designing and building the underlying infrastructure to support this new civic economy, exploring how ownership, legal systems, governance, accountancy and insurance might begin to change. 

The boring revolution︎ is designed propel wider societal transition. The team is establishing toolkits and blueprints, pilots, and case studies, supporting communities and institutions with applications, digital products and civic technologies that challenge established thought and demonstrate that an alternative is possible.

In this conversation, Ted Rau, Author of Collective Power: Patterns for a Self-Organized Future, discusses the concept of sociocracy as a governance method that connects people and their purpose. He explains that sociocracy provides a decision-making method and a framework for determining who decides what. Ted also explores the interplay between being and doing, emphasizing the importance of integrating both in organizations. He highlights the role of self-sovereignty and personal responsibility in sociocracy and how it can empower individuals to make meaningful contributions. Additionally, Ted addresses the challenge of scaling governance systems like sociocracy and the need to balance individual agency with collective responsibility.

Purchase Ted's new book, "COLLECTIVE POWER: Patterns for a Self-Organized Future" here: http://tiny.cc/tedrau-book

Todays guest JM Ryerson is a Best Selling Author of the books “Let's Go Win”, “Champion's Daily Playbook”, and “Upgrade”. He founded and sold 3 businesses and is now helping leadership teams do the same. He is a Leadership & Performance Coach, International Speaker, host of the Let’s Go Win podcast.

JM has been building companies and leading sales teams for over 20 years. He is the co-founder and CEO of Let's Go Win whose mission is to increase leadership, enhance culture, and help teams achieve peak performance. JM’s great passions are inspiring people to live their best lives and become open to what life has in store for them.

His ultimate goal is to give others the tools that will allow them to transcend their self-limiting beliefs. JM was raised in Montana and lives in Boca Raton, Florida with his wife Lisa and their two amazing boys.

Find Your Leadership Style And Show Up As The Best Version Of You, here are three layers of JM's leadership process:

Define Your Values

Misaligned and hazy values hold back your growth, your well-being, and your business. Get clear on these and everything else falls into place.

Be Yourself

If you can’t show up as your true self, then you’re always going to be unhappy. Be clear on who you are, what you stand for, and embrace a growth mindset.

Find The Leader Within

Leaders don’t need to act or look a certain way. The best leader is already within you - and together, let’s uncover and empower this best version of you.

Contact JM:

This week’s episode of Green Planet Blue Planet perfectly reflects Dana Meadows’s messages from 1972 in her book Limits to Growth. More than a half-century later, humanity is still grappling with the same question. David Peter Stroh, author of “Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practice Guide to Solving Complex Problems” dives into the subject of  empowering individuals to create change when the world needs it most.

"People don't need enormous cars; they need respect. They don't need closets full of clothes; they need to feel attractive and they need excitement, challenge, acknowledgment, love, joy. To try to fill these needs with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to real and never satisfied problems." … Dana Meadows from the book Limits to Growth, 1972 

Stroh outlines systems thinking in this episode of Green Planet Blue Planet with host Julian Guderley, beginning with the enormous question: What does the world need most from people?

Simply - it is a deeper appreciation of where joy truly originates.

Taught by the advertisers in the free market, people expect joy to come from the acquisition of stuff. With the gifting holidays approaching, it’s definitely on peoples’ minds and weighing heavy on hearts as they are bombarded with continuous messages to acquire more and more things. 

Stroh said research shows human joy comes from connecting: Connecting with nature, and being nourished by nature, connecting with other people, and certainly connecting with different experiences and different places. Starting out as a transportation designer in government, he ultimately gravitated toward the spiritual aspects of connections and his passion for acting, both useful to him in his next movement into the field of organizational development.  This led him to question the conventional approaches to organizational development to shift to a focus on the underlying visions and aspirations and the way in which individuals relate to each other and the larger environment.

Stroh co-founded Innovation Associates in the 1970s with Peter Senge, who in 1990 authored a book on the art and practices of learning organizations, entitled The Fifth Discipline, based on their pioneering work on systems thinking, which is core to understanding the often non obvious connections between different parts of an evolving system. 

Listen to the entire podcast and engage in the discussion to explore new perspectives on transforming our mindset for effective solutions to chronic complex issues, as well as navigating the paradoxes involved in gaining control of large and unwieldy systems.

About Peter David Stroh

David Peter Stroh is internationally recognized for his work in enabling leaders to apply systems thinking to achieve breakthroughs around chronic, complex problems and to develop strategies that improve system-wide performance over time. He has been described as “a magician” and “the master at providing interesting and useful ways to look at the complexity of systems thinking”, who “helped us tremendously in getting to the core issues” with “the mind of a scientist and the heart of a healer.”

David is the author of the best-selling book Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide for Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results (Chelsea Green, 2015), which readers praise as “an essential – and long overdue – guide to applied systems thinking” that “shows you how to enlist others in the effort” by “masterfully weaving metaphor, story, and practical tools” using “down-to-earth language.”