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Big personal shares at the top of the ep (preview: podcasting terrifies me) before an utterly delightful conversation with Scots folk singer Josie Vallely aka. Quinie.
Quinie's album Forefowk, Mind Me was named The Guardian's best folk release of 2025, but don't worry if you're not into bagpipes because we mostly chat about:
Not making your art your career
Tips for slow art/seasonal living in a rushing world
The mind bending differences between relating with Country in Australia versus Scotland
Minority languages and evocation of place
The right to roam
Confused white settler syndrome
When you’re a cultural mongrel
Impure ancestry
Place as a surrogate elder
Tradition in motion
Where do songs live?
Journeying on horseback
Horses as bodyguards
Why we all just want to be got
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Quinie’s home on the web
Quinie on Instagram
[album] Forefowk, Mind Me ~ Quinie
Quinie’s seasonal almanac ~ Things that happen every year in a cycle
[film] Forefowk, Mind Me
Guardian review of Quinie’s album
Cover art photo credit: Anthony Rintoul
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A garden drama unfolds during a heatwave, and I share my summer solstice/New Year wishes for you.
Thanks for tuning into another year of Reskillience! We'll be back later in January full of fresh questions and custard.
Shout out to my love Jordan Osmond for helping produce this episode.
Sound credit: BlackbirdFiltered.wav by acclivity
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Cor blimey, we're getting equiney! Cast aside your Saddle Club trauma and learn how horses can help us be better humans and stewards of nature in this rich convo with Lisa Podosin.
Lisa is a horse listener, advocate and author who swapped Hollywood for a tiny home on shared land with a herd of seven horses. We get real deep on topics of:
🐴 not putting off till retirement what you wanna do today
🐴 choosing freedom over security at any age
🐴 land sharing gifts and tips (single women supporting women!)
🐴 how horses as prey animals reveal our inner misalignment
🐴 moving beyond control-based strategies (bridles, saddles, whips) and towards trust
🐴 how to be agents of liberation for both the more-than-human world and our own wild souls
🐴 learning interspecies communication
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Lisa’s home on the web
Pre-order Lisa’s book
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You want it, you got it: an open discussion about the cracks in our civilisation, and how to catch each other when it all falls apart.
Dave Pollard has been writing about culture, complexity, deep ecology and collapse for longer than some of us have been alive. While he continues to cheer on radical ‘deep green’ activists, he no longer believes that that we can change or reform The System. This convo is about what to do instead.
[first aired in 2023]
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Dave's writings
Dave’s recommended reading list ~ The Books That Have Influenced Me Most
Dave’s article ~ How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse?
Molly Housch Gordon's piece ~ How to Survive the End of The World
[watch] The New Peasants by Happen Films

Could you live without money? No support payments, no savings account, no secret benefactors?
Jo Nemeth has been doing so for the past decade, and reckons she is less stressed and more secure in her moneyless life (in which she shares a home with eight other humans and plays the role of house keeper/manager/grower/frugavore).
This is a truly radical tale of a woman who went the whole hog and gave up the bacon 💰 to invest in relationships and reciprocity. We cover:
What is poverty/wealth?
Why live without money?
Jo has no hope!
Less money = more freedom
Why to be a home economist
Issues in a nine person household
The deliciousness of aligning your actions with your values
Moneyless gift giving, cravings, medical and more
Waste food seagull mode
Receiving is harrrrd
Kids + collapse
On taking care of things
Collapse priorities
Growing locally adapted food
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Jo’s home on the web
Jo on Instagram ~ @jolowimpact
Jo in the Guardian
Mark Boyle ~ The Moneyless Man + The Way Home
Eaarth ~ Bill McKibben
Luke Kemp ~ Goliath’s Curse
Artist As Family
The Art of Frugal Hedonism ~ Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb
The really really free market
Just Collapse
Sound credits: first raven, flock of ravens.
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