Futuresteading
This is a conversation about the future. About creating a culture that values tomorrow. We reckon a slower, simpler, steadier existence is the first step - one that’s healthier for humans and the planet. We call it Futuresteading. Each week we chat to community builders, ritual makers, food growers, health wizards and environmental wisdom keepers, gathering practical advice and epic solidarity - so we can all nut this thing out together. Join our nitty, gritty, honest and hopeful convo every Monday during our 16 episode seasons. Support the pod by shouting us a cuppa >>> buymeacoffee.com/futuresteading
Futuresteading
70 - Hope is a Verb with Emily Ehlers
Emily Ehlers describes herself as an illustrator, writer, environmentalist + very bad dancer.
We know her as the lass whose witty and poignant pieces combine art and activism in the greatest possible way.
Today Em speaks with Jade about writing a book about hope as a self-proclaimed anxious person, humour as a tool for resilience, mental health truths, value stacking and all kinds of good stuff that’ll, with any luck, lift you in this time of uncertainty.
Em has a new book out called Hope Is A Verb, so be sure to check it out if you like what you hear!
SHOW NOTES
- Writing a book about hope as an anxious person
- Finding reassurance in the doing
- Becoming a lighthouse that attracts like minded people
- Being aware of confirmation bias; actively being open to those you disagree with
- Using family to trial how you manage differing opinions
- Seeking to understand and then be understood
- Being more radical than the angle you present publicly for the sake of shifting the needle
- Providing tools that allow people to ‘enter the arena’
- Humour as a tool for resilience
- Fuelling our psyche with hope
- Hope isn't a stagnant thing, what it needs to be is ‘active hope’
- Having self compassion and understanding that we're human
- The things that make us most human are also the things which make us our most magnificent
- Going off antidepressants in order to write a book about hope and feeling the feelings
- Getting kids to know their values and to live within them
- Giving kids more credit than we do
- Value stacking
- Being aware of your marinade
- Inoculating yourself against regret
- Learning to unlearn takes balls, gumption and desire
- Acknowledging that we are in the system that dominates us and we just need to do our best with what we have
- Gently shifting narrative so that people want to join you not run from you
- Rebuilding culture
- Thinking of self like a veggie patch: seasonal, phased, nurtured from the ground up
- Just start. Pick a thing. Stop over analysing and just do.
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