🦁 Pride of Lionesses — a fearless moment from StudioZer0 | Beyond Survival Ep13 (Part B)

Democracy’s always been fragile — we’ve all known that. But what if democracy isn’t the final answer?

What if we need something beyond democracy or autocracy — something rooted in humanity itself?

💬 Guest Speaker & Commentator: Malcolm (Malkie)

🎙️ Hosts: Kelli Sharp & Geraldine Pillinger

🎥 Produced by: Stephanie Davis | Someday Pictures

This 1 minute 11 second short dives deep into the intersections of gender identity, power, and the evolving meaning of belonging — told with humour, honesty, and high-tea realness.

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There are moments where the inner voice stops whispering… and starts demanding motion.

Ep05 explores that exact threshold the point where waiting becomes avoidance, and urgency becomes alignment. This episode sits inside that catalytic pivot: where personal growth meets collective activism, and the kitchen table becomes a strategic organising space.

We ask:

If not now, then when?

If not us, then who?

We move through current protests, art practice, Richard Hames’ “Fluid Self,” community building, global tension, creative resistance, and the alchemy that happens when people choose to act rather than wait.

This is where self-inquiry turns into praxis.

It’s not just analysis, it’s momentum.

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This conversation sits right in that liminal zone between the physical and the metaphysical.

In this episode we explore the hardware vs software metaphor

The body vs the encoded spirit.

The physical machine vs the animating code.

The matter… vs the meaning.

Where do we locate purpose?

Is it something we build, or something we remember?

From Trump + Putin, to family systems, to soul architecture… this episode weaves the cosmic with the domestic because purpose is never ‘out there’ it always arrives through the tiny micro-decisions of daily life.

We speak about ghosts, not as spooky novelty but as metaphor for the trace of identity across timelines, trauma, ancestry, and memory.

hardware = vessel

software = consciousness

and the ‘update’ is internal.

Beyond Survival is NOT a wellness aesthetic, it is inner software development.

Iteration.

Debugging the psyche.

Patching emotional infrastructure against authoritarian propaganda + hopelessness.

When purpose becomes an active verb the whole field shifts.

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There are moments in life when the world outside is loud — but the deepest shift is happening internally.

This episode occupies that threshold.

Ep03 (Part A) is a meditation on identity — not as performance, not as brand — but as a quietly forming truth inside the psyche, before language arrives to describe it. We sit in the questions that shape us long before we have the courage to articulate them:

Who am I? What am I? Who have I believed myself to be?

…and who am I becoming now?

From childhood impressions to Eastern vs Western conceptions of the self — from pandemic awakenings to Australian geopolitics — this episode travels across inner and outer worlds. It explores how spiritual inquiry, political context, personal memory, global consciousness and small human rituals (tea, kitchen tables, pets, breath) co-inform selfhood.

Identity is not a static noun — it is a living verb.

This is a journey of self-recognition — a shifting into authorship over one’s own narrative — the moment where survival ends and meaning begins.

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Some stories are not told — they are survived first.

This episode is not theoretical — it is lived.

A body through a windscreen, an outback road, a hospital bed, and an encounter with an “impossible” nurse who vanished without ever checking out of the ward.

Ep03 (Part B) sits at the place where the physical world fractures, and another layer — subtle, luminous, inexplicable — moves into view. Here, trauma and transcendence blur. Here, survival is not just medical — it is metaphysical.

This is a conversation about:

* a car accident in the desert

* the invisible hands that lift us when we think we’re dying

* memory, shock, pain, and meaning-making

* how spirit returns when the body is almost gone

* how creativity metabolises the unspeakable

* how the supernatural is sometimes simply the real that doesn’t care if we believe in it

This is not fantasy — it is testimony.

For anyone who has experienced rupture — or who has quietly carried something that changed them forever — this episode is a companion. A witness. A soft landing place.

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Resilience is rarely glamorous.

It’s often quiet.

Unseen.

A decision made in private — long before change becomes visible in the public world.

This episode sits inside that paradox.

Ep04 explores the emotional physics of “Why me — why not me?” and the strange way that suffering becomes a classroom. We talk about NAIDOC Week, Indigenous sovereignty, planetary wellbeing, and the way local communities reflect global patterns.

What happens when survival is not the end of the story — but the beginning of the next one?

We move through environmental grief, Australian identity, activism layered with tea + cake, and the way the heart holds both tenderness and dissent at the very same table.

We explore how personal hardship, cultural truth-telling and global events mirror each other — and how spiritual maturity often begins where certainty ends.

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Sometimes silence is not absence — it is the pressure point before truth breaks through.

In this episode, we sit inside that tension — between personal voice and political chorus — between Frida Kahlo’s fiercely embodied selfhood and the strategic theatre of AUKUS. From Melbourne gallery floors to submarine diplomacy, we explore how women’s stories, artistic expression, global alliances, and inner narratives collide.

This is where art is not just aesthetic — it becomes political testimony.

And activism is not just external — it begins as a private ignition.

We speak to the places where grief, beauty, strategy, and sovereignty overlap. Where a brushstroke holds a revolution. Where kitchen conversations sit beside geopolitics. Where the Australian psyche is pulled between imperial legacies and the radical insistence of women finding voice.

This episode is about reclaimed agency.

The death of silence.

And the rebirth of articulation.

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There is a moment — before the shift becomes visible — where the soul knows the change is already happening.

This opening episode sits in that liminal place — where discomfort, questioning, intuition, and inner disruption collide. This is the mind leaning left of centre, before the world around you has noticed you’re changing. It’s the threshold between the survival instinct… and the quiet knowing that a new self is coming into view.

Here, we speak from lived experience — not as gurus, not as experts — but as artists and women who have learned to transmute personal chaos into creative action. From Perth to New York, from art studios to kitchen benches and political moments breaking across the news cycle — we explore the intersections of art, psyche, geopolitics, resilience and awakening.

This is where transformation begins.

In this conversation we explore:

* mind-shifts before life-shifts

* trauma recovery as a creative act

* global tension + personal identity

* resilience, hope, and tactical softness

* politics, international relations, spiritual courage

* the tension between inner change and outer resistance

These aren’t just conversations — they’re quiet revolutions.

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Respectful dialogue is welcome here — disagreement is not the enemy.

Curiosity is.

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In this Part A conversation, we sit down with Malcolm Ano — a Super Ager and LGBTQ+ advocate who has lived, worked, and loved across both Washington DC and Australia.

We explore the intersections of:

* identity & migration

* high tea ritual as cultural mirror

* community resilience

* queer belonging & exclusion

* ageing well in an era of loneliness

* advocacy inside & outside institutions

This is not just about politics — it’s about lived experience, social repair, and the small daily ceremonies that hold people together when systems fall apart.

Beyond Survival is a hybrid podcast blending art • spirit • culture • activism — taking real stories from kitchen tables, teacups, and the margins… and bringing them into public voice.

If you value art as medicine, and conversation as a political act — this one is for you.

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