A Wild New Work: Ecological guidance for your work life Megan Leatherman
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Welcome to A Wild New Work. You'll learn about the Seasons, how the natural world "works," capitalism, animism, and what it can all mean for you and your life. Hosted by Megan Leatherman, a writer, mother, and teacher in the Pacific Northwest. Learn more on Instagram @awildnewwork or at awildnewwork.com.
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125. You Can Shapeshift: How Animals Meet Their Needs
Meeting our needs in today’s landscape requires that we remain flexible and shift how we relate to ourselves, our work, our income, and one another. Across the animal world, we find countless options for how to feed ourselves, and in this episode we explore some of the major strategies our animal friends employ and how we can adopt them in our own lives.
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June 17th: How to Expand Possibility and Choice Inside of Capitalism, a Summer Solstice class to help you reset for the rest of 2024: https://awildnewwork.com/events/2024/summer-solstice-workshop
Rise Up Rooted: Rite of Passage Program for Adults: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted -
124. Our True Nature is Generosity: How Plants Meet Their Needs
In this episode, we’re learning how plants meet their needs and what it can show us about how to be here in a good way. Plants receive sunlight and carbon dioxide freely and then, in turn, offer us an abundance of oxygen, medicines, building materials, and nourishment. Their truest nature is collaborative and generous, and the same is true for us.
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Rise Up Rooted: Rite of Passage Program for Adults: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted -
123. Endless Threads and Spores: How Fungi Meet Their Needs
In this episode, we’ll learn how fungi meet their needs and the unique teachings they offer us through their millenia of experience adapting to life on Earth. Fungi are masters of absorption, decomposition, and collaboration, and most of us could use a dose of their teachings.
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122. Creating Pockets of Care, with Toi Smith
How can we make the tiny area of life that we inhabit more caring, less transactional, and free from extraction? In this conversation with Toi Smith, we discuss strategies for embodying more beauty and less exploitation, whether it’s in our parenting, work, relationships to one another, or our relationships to the wider world.
About Toi:
Toi Smith is a Growth + Impact Strategist and her work centers on doing life, business, and motherhood differently. Toi works with people whose work is countercultural, liberatory, and revolutionary in nature...or people who desire and are committed to moving their work or lives in that direction.
To connect with Toi, visit:
www.toimarie.com
deepening.toimarie.com
www.lovingblacksinglemothers.com
www.projectbloom.com
Instagram @toimarie
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121. Re-villaging, with Megan Hayne and Heather Dorfman
Many of us yearn for a way of living that is evoked by the term “village,” and it’s true that for millenia, humans met their needs inside of a communal setting such as this. In this episode with anticapitalist, nature-loving co-conspirators Heather Dorfman and Megan Hayne, we discuss what the term “village” means to us, what needs might be met in a village setting that aren’t met in our modern way of living, and accessible ways to re-village right where we are, with what we’ve got.
Resources Mentioned:
*Rise Up Rooted: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted
About Megan:
Megan Hayne (she/her), is a shepherd’s daughter, mother, body worker, and menstrual circle facilitator. She is also an authorized Kum Nye (Tibetan Yoga) instructor, Licensed Massage Therapist, and holds a Bachelor of Health Science Degree. Megan is presently studying ritual with Old School Nate. You can learn more about Megan’s work at moonschoolcircle.com or on Instagram @mooncyclemegan
About Heather:
Heather Dorfman, LMSW (she/her) is the founder of Rose and Cedar Forest Therapy. Heather guides groups and individuals in the practice of Forest Therapy; offers Grief Care; provides organizational consulting, training, and retreats; and is also an adjunct professor of social work. In all of these realms, Heather is co-creating a world of justice and liberation for all beings. You can learn more about Heather’s work at roseandcedarforesttherapy.com or on Instagram @roseandcedarforest
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120. What Are Your True, Original Needs?
How does a seed grow to become the fruit? It does so by meeting its needs. In this first episode of the Spring 2024 season, we’ll be discussing what our actual, original needs are, the extraneous needs put upon us by capitalism, why it’s so hard to meet our needs in this culture, and why we need fresh strategies for meeting the needs that will actually help us become who we deeply are.
If you enjoyed this episode, please help get it to others by subscribing, rating the show, or sharing it with a friend! You can also pitch in to support the show once or monthly at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/meganleatherman
Resources mentioned:
*Rise Up Rooted: Rite of Passage Program for Adults: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted
*Eating Capitalism: https://awildnewwork.com/eating-capitalism
*One on One Work: https://awildnewwork.com/one-on-one-coaching
Customer Reviews
Breath of fresh air
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A breath of fresh air!
In a world where we are told we need to work harder, market ourselves more, and constantly improve and expand our skills ; Megan brings things back down to earth-level.
With a calm and compassionate approach, Megan reminds us what our priorities are, encourages us to find work that aligns with our values and to restore a healthy work-life balance.
This podcast is excellent for the times when one is feeling overworked and under appreciated. I’ve been listening to this podcast for the last three years; it is one of my favorite podcasts and Megan is one of my favorite people.