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...
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197 EpisodenVANESSA 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...
AMA: How do I parent in the face of so much existential crisis?
This week I asked fellow substacker Anya Kamenetz to help me answer the above question. Anya is a parent and climate activist, a former NPR journalist...
GREG LUKIANOFF: Cancel culture – the *non-hysterical* reason why we should be very worried
Greg Lukianoff (New York Times best-selling author, attorney) co-wrote the blockbuster The Coddling of the American Mind, which argued we were failing...
JENNY ODELL: How to *not* save time (and *creatively* reject the productive, growth imperative!)
Jenny Odell (NYT bestseller, artist) wrote a bestselling book five years ago that Barack Obama declared one of his “books of the year”. “How to Do Not...
AMA: Sarah, what's your take on dating apps?
OK, this week is a kind of personal and also sociological muse-fest (from someone who's been on ALL the apps since shortly after the last ice age). I...
FRANK OSTASESKI: How to live fully when it feels like so much is dying
Frank Ostaseski (Buddhist; end-of-life teacher; elder) helps people die best. He has accompanied over 1,000 people through the dying process and train...
AMA: BONUS menopause questions answered, plus my BIG announcement
I need to give everyone here a bunch of updates…Plus, the BONUS video episode I promised with Dr Louise Newson is now live. Louise answers your questi...
DR LOUISE NEWSON: A wild chat about menopause
Dr Louise Newson (British GP; hormone specialist) is regarded as the “medic who kickstarted the menopause revolution”. For two decades women have been...
AMA: What is the best gear to pack for a minimalist camping trip?
Today’s question is one I always love answering…what do I stuff into my backpack, and what backpack do I actually use (ditto hiking shoes, tent, gear...
PARAG KHANNA: Where should we move to as climate collapses?
Parag Khanna (climate migration expert; AI founder) is a global strategist who forecasts human movement around the world and has a company, Climate Al...
AMA: What is hypergamy? And explain why older women are dating younger men
In today’s AMA, I cover an intriguing phenomenon in male-female dynamics playing out in the dark, twisted underworld that is dating culture - hypergam...
OLIVIA LAZARD: The big fat renewable energy blindspot NO ONE wants to talk about
Olivia Lazard (peace mediator; rare minerals expert) exposes missing chunks in the “green” energy transition that many of us assume to be the “fix” to...
AMA: Is it doomist to talk about civilisational collapse?
A cracking Ask Me Anything question this week that gives us a chance to talk about crazy-making tech bros and their antics. My answer sees me dive int...
KATE RAWORTH: Doughnut economics as the antidote to “death by growth”
Kate Raworth (“renegade” economist; inventor of the “doughnut” systems model) has one of the most dynamic and controversial theories for “fixing” or a...
AMA: How do you manage information overload PLUS should white women activists get out of the arena?
On today's AMA, I share my hacks and my “mindset” for sifting through, retaining and managing all the data inflow (amino supplements, tilting, biting...
JOHANN HARI: Is Ozempic a miracle drug or something darker?
Johann Hari (bestselling author Stolen Focus and Lost Connections) has written another system-rattling book, this time about the new weight loss drugs...
AMA: How do you plan your life financially in a collapsing world? Do you bother?
As we become aware of climate collapse and its ripple effect on the financial and energy systems, and as houses become uninsurable and fossil fuel mar...
ANNABEL ABBS: The subversive, creative upside of insomnia (oh joy!)
Annabel Abbs (English novelist; author of Sleepless) was crippled with insomnia. Rather than fight it she looked for its productive plus side and disc...
The “Uncles” climate case that could change EVERYTHING
Isabelle Reinecke (founder Grata Fund) is leading a super exciting landmark legal case that could force the Australian Government to actually stick to...