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Work Besties Who PodcastUnlocking Career Success Through Relationships with Morag BarrettYou, Me, We: Why Work Besties Are a Career Superpower (with Morag Barrett) Ready to upgrade your 9–5 relationships from “cordial coworkers” to ride-or-die allies? In this energizing episode, Jess & Claude sit down with leadership expert and author Morag Barrett to chat about why having work besties isn’t just nice—it’s necessary.Drawing from her brilliant book You, Me, We, Why we all NEED a Friend at Work; Morag shares actionable tips on how to build meaningful connections at work, navigate tricky power dynamics, and bring emotional awareness into every meeting (without the eye rolls). From...2025-04-2141 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldPermaculture and Money with Laura Oldanie and Morag GambleIn this episode, Morag Gamble engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Laura Oldanie about the contested intersection of permaculture and money. They explore the redefinition of wealth, the myths surrounding conventional financial systems, and the importance of community and social capital in creating a resilient and abundant life. Laura shares insights on how permaculture principles can guide financial decisions, the concept of 'enoughness', and innovative strategies for investing in regenerative assets. Laura is the founder of Rich & Resilient Living. Since she received her Permaculture Design Certificate in 2009, she's been exploring ways to earn, spend, invest, and manage...2025-03-0656 min
Relationships at Work - The Leadership Guide to Building Workplace Connections and Avoiding Blind Spots.How to Establish and Build Connection in the Workplace w/ Morag BarrettIn this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with author, executive coach and leadership expert Morag Barrett on how to establish and build workplace connections.Morag shares her insights and experience in..The importance of trust in work relationships.Building and recognizing connection.Loneliness in leadership is a real issue.Intentional relationship management.Power of an abundant mindset.Addressing diversity in communication styles.And connect with me for more great content! Sign Up for R@W Notes Subscribe on Youtube Follow on Linkedin Follow on Instagram Follow me on Threads Follow o...2024-08-1344 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldPermaculture and Localization with Helena Norberg-Hodge and Morag GambleJoin Morag Gamble in a deep-dive conversation with Helena Norberg-Hodge - internationally acclaimed localization advocate, filmmaker and author. This was recorded live at our June Permaculture Education Institute masterclass. exploring permaculture and localization - the final of our four part world localization day series we hosted in collaboration with Helena’s organisation Local Futures. Helena and Morag explore how we can grow the movement and foster ecological economies, thriving communities and healthy local food systems.ABOUT HELENA NORBERG-HODGEHelena is the author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Futu...2024-06-301h 27
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldMusic and Ecology with Amelie Ecology and Morag GambleHello, I'm Morag. Welcome to this episode of Sense-making in a Changing World podcast - a project of the Permaculture Education Institute . This is a special episode as part of the International Permaculture Festival of IdeasI invite you to join me each week in conversation with leading permaculture-related educators, thinkers, activists, authors, designers and practitioners to explore the kind of thinking AND ACTION we need to navigate a positive and regenerative way forward, to myceliate possibilities, and share ideas of what a thriving one-planet way of life could look like. My guests offer voices of clarity...2024-06-2447 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldCommunity Composting with Clytie Binder and Morag GambleIn this second International Women's Series conversation, Clytie Binder joins Morag Gamble in discussing her Churchill Fellowship research on composting and the hyperlocal systems she has observed around the world. Tune in to learn about the importance in 'handmade' composting wherever you are and how it is being used to address the climate crisis. Clare emphasises the need to prioritise household composting and avoid food waste as the first step in the waste hierarchy. She also explores innovations in composting, from institutional composting in zoos, schools, and prisons to house level systems.Most of all...2024-03-0748 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldLoving Nature & Gardening with Poppy Okotcha and Morag GambleHello and welcome to the Sense-making in a Changing World podcast. I’m Morag Gamble and this show is hosted by the Permaculture Education Institute . Join me each week in conversation with leading ecological thinkers, activists, authors, designers and practitioners to explore 'What Now?' What IS the kind of thinking we need to navigate a positive and regenerative way forward, to myceliate possibilities, to explore what a thriving one-planet way of life could look like. My guests offer voices of clarity and common sense.In this episode I am speaking with the wonderful Poppy Oko...2023-08-3155 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldThe Medicinal Forest with Dr Anne Stobart and Morag GambleWelcome to the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast. This episode is part of our special permaculture writer's series. My name is Morag Gamble. I am speaking with Devon based herbal practitioner and herb grower, educator, author and founder of the Herbal History Research Network Dr Anne Stobart.Anne has two books available through Permanent Publications, The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook (2020), and coming out this year, Trees and Shrubs That Heal: Reconnecting with the Medicinal Forest - with 80 plants profiled, each with a simple recipe. Ann has also published her PhD research, Household Medicine of 17t...2023-08-231h 06
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldCommunity Food Forests with Gavin Hardy and Morag GambleIn this episode I am speaking with Churchill Fellow, Community Food Forester, Community Gardens Australia - QLD Coordinator, muliti-award-winning Landscape Architect and Permaculture Educator, Gavin Hardy - based not far from me in Meanjin Brisbane.Gav and I go way back - to the early days of setting up Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane, where he is now the education coordinator.In 2020 Gav was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate the potential of community food forests and orchards . Because of the pandemic his journey was delayed, but finally he got to visit 10 of the w...2023-08-021h 20
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldBackyard Forest Garden with Pippa Chapman and Morag GambleThe Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast, hosted by Morag Gamble is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute. We teach permaculture teachers around the world, and host global permaculture conversations and learning communities. Our Permaculture Life is our permaculture gardening Youtube channel with hundreds of helpful videos.I am joined here by the wonderful Pippa Chapman - author, permaculture designer, forest gardener and mother - based in Yorkshire, who has been gardening for 30 years. In 2007 she left her job as Head Gardener on a private estate, to take a year-long practical apprenticeship at RHS Harlow Carr and...2023-05-0958 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldWriting with PIP Magazine with Robyn Rosenfeldt and Morag GambleWelcome to this Permaculture Writer's Club episode of the Sense-making in a Changing World Podcast hosted Morag Gamble. This series is a chance to explore different forms of permaculture writing and speak with a range of authors and publishers. Morag is joined here in this conversation by Robyn Rosenfeldt, founding editor and publisher of Pip Magazine. Come behind the scenes of PIP Magazine - Australia's permaculture magazine, learn what makes a good article or story, what magazine editors are looking for and ways to approach PIP with your story.I'd love to hear fro...2023-01-1048 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldUrban Off-Grid Living with Michael Mobbs and Morag GambleIn the new episode of Morag Gamble’s podcast, Michael Mobbs shares insights from his 50 + years experience living and breathing environmentalism and sustainability.Starting out as Australia’s first environmental lawyer in 1978, Michael went on to create an off-grid home for his family in the 1990s – right in the heart of Sydney. His passion for sustainability led him to write two books: Sustainable House, and, Sustainable Food.Michael’s off-grid home is featured in Zac Efron’s latest season of Down to Earth on Netflix, and a model of the home is on display in the Powerh...2022-12-1431 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldCommunity Gardens with Chris Smyth and Morag Gamble - Urban Agriculture Month #5This episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World is the final of our 5 part Urban Agriculture series released during Urban Agriculture Month in November 2022.Here, Morag Gamble is joined by Chris Smyth, a coordinator of Community Gardens Australia (WA). They talk about the gardens he co-founded on the Murdoch University Campus, as well as the community gardening movement around the country.Chris, a retired Assoc. Professor and Dean of the School of Media Communication & Culture at Murdoch University, was able to assist students negotiating the university landscape to enable this garden to happen, and link...2022-11-291h 00
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldUrban Mushrooms with Buttons Testa and Morag Gamble - Urban Agriculture Month #4In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, host Morag Gamble speaks with Buttons Testa - the creator of The Mushroomery - a micro mushroom farm she set up in her Brunswick backyard in Naarm (Melbourne) in a 10m2 growing space.The little farm supplies two restaurants and a farm gate from time to time with tasty oyster mushrooms. She is influenced by the ethics and principles of permaculture. She is working on closing multiple loops of waste within her farm. Being a massive foodie she is keen on making farming more visible in the city...2022-11-2242 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldHyper-local farming at Fawkner Food Bowls with Hilary Hoggett and Morag Gamble - Urban Agriculture Month #3Landscape Architect and urban farmer, Hilary Hoggett - President of Fawkner Food Bowls in Naarm (Melbourne) - takes us on a journey into hyper local food systems. This is part 3 of our 5 part Urban Agriculture podcast series celebrating Urban Agriculture Month (Nov 2022) Fawkner Food Bowls is a community market garden which grows herbs, vegetables, and seedlings for their very local area. They work with volunteers and community members providing culturally relevant food in a thriving growing space where community can learn about urban food growing through sustainable and regenerative growing practices. They strive to address loc...2022-11-1532 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldUrban Beekeeping with Amanda Collins and Morag Gamble - Urban Agriculture Month #2This episode is all about keeping bees in our backyards. This is part of our 5 part Urban Agriculture podcast series celebrating Urban Agriculture Month (Nov 2022). My guest today is Amanda Collins of Ballarat Backyard Beehives and member of the Ballarat Permaculture Guild. Amanda and her partner Scott became accidental beekeepers ten years ago after being gifted a hive and falling in love with the bees.Since then, their passion for beekeeping has grown into a small apiary of 80 hives, delivering beekeeping courses and undertaking formalised training in beekeeping, training and assessment and Agribusiness. Ama...2022-11-0847 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldCity Farming with Jacqui Besgrove and Morag Gamble - Urban Agriculture Month #1Welcome to this special Urban Agriculture podcast series celebrating Urban Agriculture Month (Nov 2022). My first guest is Jacqui Besgrove of Pocket City Farms in central Sydney. Back in 2015, they began the transformation of a disused bowling green into a wonderfully thriving community food hub, and they want to contribute to urban farming becoming a normal part of our society and urban fabric.Local sustainable food production close to where the bulk of our population live - and can connect with and learn from - is integral in securing a healthy future for our communities and our planet. P...2022-11-0141 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldBig Picture Activism with Helena Norberg-Hodge and Morag Gamble - World Localization Day Series Part 4 of 4Welcome to the fourth and final part of this special localisation series on Sense-making in a Changing World podcast with internationally claimed localisation activist Helena Norberg-Hodge . We all know that a radical shift in the way humanity is living is essential for our future. Where do we spend our energy as activists to have the most impact possible? Here we explores the concept of Big Picture activism - acting locally and globally simultaneously and what role permaculture can play. In the first 3 parts we talked about the global economy, localising our food system and the importance of fo...2022-06-221h 20
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldCommunity and Ecology with Helena Norberg-Hodge and Morag Gamble - World Localization Day Series Part 3 of 4In episode three of our four-part conversation for World Localisation Day, Morag Gamble talks with Helena Norberg-Hodge about the central role of community and ecology in our world. And, how localising both of these things can improve the health of people and the planet.Helena is a filmmaker, author and founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures. Helena and I first met in 1992, working on the Ladakh Project over the other side of the Himalayas in the Indus Valley. This time we spent together (and since) as well as her film, Ancient Futures, led...2022-06-1457 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldThe Food System with Helena Norberg-Hodge and Morag Gamble - World Localization Day Series Part 2 of 4Welcome to the second of this special 4 part series on Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast. I am talking with a pioneer of the new economy movement - internationally claimed localisation activist Helena Norberg-Hodge about the food system. Relocalising the food system is central to creating a shift in the global economy, restoring communities and regenerating landscapes. Regenerative food systems are locally-adapted biodiverse agro-ecosystems deeply connected to place and community.Helena is the initiator of the global celebration of World Localization Day which is being celebrated on 21 June in 2022. Together with Helena, we are celebrating all month...2022-06-0859 min
Sense-Making in a Changing WorldWorld Localization Day Series Part 1 of 4: The Global Economy with Helena Norberg-Hodge and Morag GambleWelcome to the first of this special 4 part series on Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast. I am talking with a pioneer of the new economy movement - internationally claimed localisation activist Helena Norberg-Hodge. She initiated a global celebration of World Localization Day which is being celebrated on 21 June in 2022, but we are celebrating all month with weekly episodes with Helena.Helena is the founder and Director of Local Futures, an international nonprofit organisation dedicated to renewing ecological and social wellbeing by strengthening communities and local economies worldwide.Helena's first book Ancient Futures has been tr...2022-06-011h 01