165. Voices of the Wayfinders
Leaving the Nicole Masters intensive in Orange
You don’t need to have heard last week’s episode with Nicole Masters and Meagan Lannan to listen to this one, but they certainly go together. After I was fortunate to have been welcomed in to Nicole’s intensive 4-day course near Orange in Australia last month, I was moved to conduct a kind of exit poll with a half dozen people. It wasn’t planned, so I just pulled out the lapel mic’s I always have with me for such occasions, plugged them into the phone, contemplated dealing with some breeze and departing traffic, and nabbed a few willing souls as they passed. And I was so glad I did.
A view from the back of the room during the course (pic: Anthony James).
“A lot of the answers to our nutritional problems lie in the paddocks of our producers. And so I am really grateful to be learning about what solutions they are implementing, and what we can learn from a human health perspective.”
The last few of the six people you’ll hear from, I hadn’t met before. The first two, I’d met at the Convergence conference staged by RCS Australia in Brisbane last July. And the 3rd, as you’ll hear, I met only six months prior at the Haggerty farm here in WA.
What I heard from them felt like another chapter in my observations of paradigm change happening in people wherever I go right now - and across different walks of life. And sure enough, here I was at an agriculture course, but what’s being said and felt largely applies to everything. You could even say it feels like a resurgence of some deep traditions of culture that for a while we’d lost touch with.
My guests are:
Dave Murphy from Farmer’s Footprint Australia
Stacey Curcio from Cultivating Wellness, and also the daughter of Terry and Pam McCosker, founders of RCS Australia
Emily Alexander, who happened to be at the Haggerty farm for the event that became episodes 142 and 143
Missy, a young home-school student who is running her own profitable business called The Cow Whisperer
Rachael Treasure, best-selling novelist (including her most recent book that was inspired by the Haggerty’s)
Jake Chandler, who stopped the room with one of his comments, which we talk about here.
This conversation was recorded near Orange NSW, on 15 April 2023.
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Find more:
To hear from Nicole herself, tune into the previous episode 164, on training the wayfinders (you’ll see a few links there for more info too, along with some photos).
Join me at the Regenerative Agriculture Conference in Margaret River in September 2023.
Music:
The sounds of Exmouth.