Reskillience
Catie Payne
Reskillience is a podcast about the hard, soft and surprising skills that'll help us stay afloat if our modern systems don't. Hosted by Catie Payne, released weekly.
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Work/Rest Balance with Koren Helbig
Reskillience
06/10/24 • 73 min
Many of you have requested interviews with folks who are making beautiful nests in less-than-perfect contexts, like the city. Who haven’t flown off to Planet Permaculture but are sticking with modern civilisation. You’ve asked to explore the personal terrain of chronic pain, limited energy and neurodivergence; highlighting radical self compassion as the necessary first step in the radical reimagining of everything.
And so I reached out to Koren Helbig, a restful role model for our times.
If you don’t know Koren, she’s a digital marketing strategist and journalist based in Tarntanya/Adelaide. She shares stories of gardening and climate positive futures for publications like the ABC and the guardian, and top quality fluffy poultry content over on instagram.
I’ve been watching Koren’s work from afar for ages, half envious and wholly admiring of her ability to weave permaculture principles throughout her entire life, from how she grows food, connects with neighbours, pays the mortgage and runs her business to — as I discovered in this conversation — deliberately building rest and reflection and fallowing into her schedule. Best of all, Koren is a real and warm human who exudes a quiet brilliance. I loved spending time with her, and know you will too.
The Art of Frugal Hedonism ~ Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb
Holistic Decision Making with Dan Palmer
Kirstin Neff ~ Self Compassion
Beyond Climate Grief ~ Jonica Newby
Vinyl For Climate with Lauren + Oberon Carter
Reskillience
05/27/24 • 69 min
Did you know that women represent less than one third of artists in the music industry? And just 12.6% of songwriters? I’m quoting my guests here, Lauren and Oberon Carter of Spiral Garden and, lately, Suffragette Records in Hobart, Lutruwita.
Suffragette Records stocks music made by women only, not for the sake of exclusion but to rebalance the scales. Because who and what we listen to patterns our thinking, beliefs, communities and civilization. When women aren’t part of our cultural soundscape, we miss out on stories and messages and melodic teachings from a whole portion of the population.
I was delighted to unpack Lauren + Oberon’s new-ish adventures in vinyl, how the’ve embedded permaculture ethics into their business, the day to day experience of running a record shop as a family of five, and the heartfelt chats they’re having with old dudes about music, climate change, the matriarchy and everything in between.
- Lauren + Oberon’s home on the web ~ Spiral Garden
- Lauren + Oberon’s record store ~ Suffragette Records
- Spiral Garden’s Substack
- Suffragette Records on the gram
Julia Jacklin ~ Don’t Let The Kids Win - Joni Mitchell ~ Court + Spark
- Vandana Shiva
- ***Support Reskillience on Patreon***
05/12/24 • 78 min
Scarcity mindsets + scrofulous zombies are no match for nature’s weedy abundance! So says Diego Bonetto, wild food advocate and forager with a heart of greenish-gold.
Diego calls Wiradjuri Country, NSW, home and leads foraging workshops, seasonal edible adventures, community art projects, wild storytelling events, makes more weedy media appearances than I can list here and is the author of the excellent Eat Weeds: A Field Guide to Foraging.
I’m utterly enamoured of Diego’s teachings and this conversation, filled with the language of plants, the wisdom of place, forest communions, not-quite-closed loops, ecological hypocrisy and pretty good reasons to never ever ever mow your lawn.
Find links to Diego’s wonderful work listed below.
Never Totally Lost with Tristan Gooley
Reskillience
05/05/24 • 43 min
Couldn't find your way out of a cardigan? Get into natural navigation with Tristan Gooley, award winning and bestselling author, expedition leader, and nicknamed “The Sherlock Holmes of Nature” by the BBC.
What I love about Tristan is that he is first and foremost a practitioner of fun, about how great it feels to notice nature’s signs and clues, about the fizzy thrill of uncorking our ancestral problem solving skills.
If you, like me, long to read the landscape and find your way through nature, Tristan’s books and courses will be your faithful guides.
I particularly loved his podcast The Pursuit of Outdoor Clues, which, in just six episodes, soothed my jangled nerves and taught me so much about nature’s whispers.
I’ll leave you to explore Tristan’s back catalogue if you haven’t already – and maybe we’ll run into each other in his online Natural Navigation course?
Tristan’s Natural Navigator courses
Tristan’s podcast ~ The Pursuit of Outdoor Clues
Get on Tristan’s mailing list!
Thinking Fast & Slow ~ Daniel Kahnemann
Kathy Holowko ~ Artist + supporter
Joy Over Meaning with Elisa Rathje
Reskillience
04/29/24 • 77 min
Elisa Rathje lives on a small farm, on a small island, telling microscopic stories of resilience.
She's an artist, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, unschooler, grower, permaculturalist, goatherd and goose mistress whose work has fed me, and so many others, for years.
From Appleturnover Farm on Salt Spring Island (in the Strait of Georgia between mainland British Columbia, Vancouver Island and Canada), Elisa documents slow, simple approaches to skilling up and rooting down, normalising the pursuit of tiny joys.
This conversation roams between life as art, the illusion of security, community sufficiency, how to call on your inner grandma, decolonising the mind and becoming a propagator of small, ancient patterns of regeneration.
I hope you find much to savour in this sweet, soulful audio morsel. Check out + support Elisa's work!
Elisa Rathje/Appleturnover on Instagram
Elisa on The Accidental Gods podcast
Today I Go Slowly with Jade Miles
Reskillience
04/21/24 • 74 min
Jade Miles is a very special mate of mine. I turned up on her doorstep as a WWOOFer in 2018 and we got on like asparagus and eggs, which is what we had for dinner that night if I recall correctly.
You probs know Jade as the host of the Futuresteading podcast, keeper of Black Barn Farm and writer of the most personal and compelling instagram captions in all the land.
I love that Jade is consciously bridging the personal/professional schism, exploring ways to bring her whole, complex self to her roles as CEO, farmer, speaker, writer, facilitator, mother, friend and bush rat.
In this conversation, Jade gets more personal than ever — which is saying something because we love a juicy yarn. From her approach to podcasting, the creation of household rituals, how seasonal imperatives shape her schedule and why she is the way she is, this is one intimate Reskillience experience.
Jade has a new book on the cook called Huddle, coming next year, and if you don’t already have the Futuresteading handbook in your hot little hands I can highly recommend it.
Black Barn Farm’s home on the web
Beau Miles ~ Get Over Yourself
Anthony James ~ The RegenNarration
Tyson Yunkaporta on Futuresteading
Casper ter Kuile
Cecilia Macaulay
Claire Dunn ~ Rewilding the Urban Soul
Richard Powers ~ The Overstory
Indira Naidoo ~ The Space Between the Stars
HUDDLE is out Autumn 2025
Village Dreaming with Mara Ripani
Reskillience
03/31/24 • 74 min
I just polished off my last jar of blackberry jam and it’s only April, which is why I need today’s guest to assist me in the finer arts of sustainable homesteading.
It’s Mara Ripani of Village Dreaming and Orto cooking school, a force of and for nature with a passion for greening cities, growing food, permaculture, preserving food, baking bread and sowing seeds.
Mara is about as earthed as its possible to be while still having a social media presence, propagating skills of from-scratch cooking, foraging, fermenting, soap making and seasonal attunement from her breathtaking solar passive farmhouse here in Central Victoria.
In this conversation, you’ll hear Mara’s alarm go off a couple of times telling her she needs to tend the bread, and you might too hear us chewing on dried plums, sipping on fragrant bay leaf tea that Mara poured for me on arrival.
This chat feels really apt as we move towards the colder months, one last hurrah of abundance and colour and harvest before we drop all our leaves, exposed and ensconced for winter.
Mara’s home on the web ~ Village Dreaming
Floral syrup recipes (including Mugolio ~ pine cone syrup)
Take a tour of Village Dreaming
The Parenting Episode with Devon Harris
Reskillience
03/24/24 • 60 min
Are you keen to join the dots between parenting and activism? Want to grow a beautiful parallel paradigm in and through and with the yoof?
I’m not a parent, but I am someone who believes that our “impact” starts at home; that the work of our times begins with ourselves and the beings in our orbit.
So I reached out to one of the greatest women I know who also happens to be a parenthood black belt. Her name is Devon Harris and she’s here to school us in Aware Parenting, which is a thrillingly disruptive alternative to parenting-as-usual.
Devon is a parenting coach, consultant and mother who helps just as many kiddos as she does adult people, because the Aware Parenting approach is relevant to everybody – especially, as I discovered, to our petulant civilisation that’s stuck somewhere been the terrible twos and teenage angst.
We talk about compassion and non-punitive discipline, power reversal games and listening partners, community childcare and schools as feedlots.
I loved this conversation and feel great about bringing it to Reskillience – and grateful to Devon for being such a wise and hilarious guest. Syd, Devon’s kid, was also hanging out as we recorded so you’ll have the pleasure of hearing from him too. So, without further ado, here’s Devon Harris to show us just how radically rewarding raising children can be.
The Church of Mother Country with Patrick Jones
Reskillience
03/17/24 • 85 min
Leaves and loam, feather and bone, it’s Patrick Jones from Artist as Family!
Patrick is Meg Magpie Ulman’s partner in permaculture neopeasantry, father of Blackwood and Zephyr, creature of Tree Elbow, songsmith, wordsmith, goatherd, grower, speaker, radical homemaker and reverential rubbish collector, most often seen on two wheels towing a load of scrap wood as one might bear a royal being, carried in a scared procession.
In this conversation Patrick shares a really special story about how he came to be Blue Wren as well as tales of anger, renewal, goddesses and content creation. It’s a gentle and beautiful thing which I’m really excited to share with you.
Artist as Family’s home on the web
Artist as Family’s blog (READ IT)
Artist as Family on YouTube (YOUTUBE SUX)
Happen Films ~ Creatures of Place
Martín Prechtel ~ Long life, honey in the heart
10/05/24 • 77 min
Don’t you love it when science geeks get spiritual? I do, because when highly rational folks admit that the world is far more mysterious than it is predictable, it’s intensely validating for us intuitive hippies who’ve believed in magic all along.
This is one of those beautiful and surprising conversations with one of my farming idols Charlie Showers from Black Barn Farm that’ll have you rethinking everything. And/or thinking you want to get into apple growing. DO IT.
Charlie is a geological engineer, agricultural researcher, bushfire and natural disaster expert, fruit tree grafting jedi, permaculture ninja, dad, husband, unapologetically ritualistic bloke and bloody legend.
We traverse:
🍏 Eldership
🍏 The meaning of life
🍏 Men’s circles + gatherings
🍏 Permaculture farming
🍏 Orchard rituals
🍏 First gen farming
🍏 Losing freedom, gaining depth
🍏 Schooling regrets
🍏 Father/son rites of passage
🍏 Self care for men
🍏 Recharging as an introvert
🍏 Advance sleep phase disorder
🍏 Charlie’s #1 most important skill (surprising)
🍏 Anti-fragility
🧙♀️LINKY POOS
Black Barn Farm’s home on the web
Book ~ The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour
Castlemaine Rites of Passage Program
Organisation ~ The Men’s Table
Book ~ AntiFragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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FAQ
How many episodes does Reskillience have?
Reskillience currently has 37 episodes available.
What topics does Reskillience cover?
The podcast is about Permaculture, Earth Sciences, Nature, Podcasts, Science and Sustainability.
What is the most popular episode on Reskillience?
The episode title 'Vinyl For Climate with Lauren + Oberon Carter' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Reskillience?
The average episode length on Reskillience is 71 minutes.
How often are episodes of Reskillience released?
Episodes of Reskillience are typically released every 7 days, 1 hour.
When was the first episode of Reskillience?
The first episode of Reskillience was released on Dec 26, 2023.
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