A Winter Solstice Celebration for 2022 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai
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Upstream
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Happy Winter Solstice! In the 3rd year of this annual tradition, Upstream host and producer Della Duncan joins two friends to reflect on the past year.
Manda Scott is a novelist, podcaster, regenerative economist, and host of the Thrutopia Masterclass, which aims to help writers across all forms weave credible narratives that will lead us forward from exactly where we are, to a flourishing future we would be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. Her award-winning novels have been published in over 20 languages and have been best-sellers across the world. Now, she is turning from historical writing to Thrutopian fiction and her new book West of the Sunset, North of Tomorrow is due out in 2023. This fast-paced thriller embraces all of the ideals explored in the Accidental Gods podcast and membership project. She lives in the English Marches on the border with Wales, dreams of Scottish Independence, and shares her life with a wife, assorted four-legged friends and a community of dreamers intent on forging a flourishing future.
Nathalie Nahai is an author, keynote speaker, and host of The Hive Podcast, a series that enquires into our relationship with one another, with technology, and with the living world. With a diverse background in human behavior, persuasive tech and the arts, she brings a unique vantage point from which to examine the complex challenges we face today. She is also the author of bestselling books: Webs Of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion and Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience.
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| 1:02.8 | It's so interesting to think about how busy and full our lives get. And of course, I think about |
| 1:22.7 | how capitalism really finds new things for us to do and new products for us to buy and new |
| 1:29.2 | things to consume our time and focus and attention. So I think one thing in our global psyche that |
| 1:34.6 | I'm also noticing is just a busyness, a fullness, and the never-ending to-do lists and things like |
| 1:42.0 | that, at least I'm sensing that in myself. And yeah, I think the deeper question there is how do we |
| 1:47.8 | seek enoughness? How do we find sufficiency or find contentedness? And this of course goes to the |
| 1:53.9 | de-growth conversation too, so it's on all scales our individual lives collective and planetary. |
| 2:00.1 | You are listening to upstream upstream upstream upstream a podcast of documentaries and |
| 2:07.0 | conversations that invites you to unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics. |
| 2:12.3 | I'm Robert Raymond and I'm Deli Duncan. Happy winter solstice. In the third installment of this |
| 2:19.6 | annual tradition, Della will be joining two friends to reflect on the past year. |
| 2:25.3 | Manda Scott, based in Northern England, is a prolific novelist and the host of the podcast |
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