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#17: Christine Owenell — Leader as Listener, Regeneration & Alchemising Chaos

Posted on September 15, 2020
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Whether you’re leading an organisation, team, or not, we’re all leading in many ways – in our lives, our loves and our work. Maybe, it’s the claiming of our role as stewards and leaders that is in many ways our step into being of service with integrity. Honouring the impact our very being-in-the-world has on our concentric circles of relationship. Christine is an executive coach, alchemist and advocate for regenerative leadership and culture. 

Both with a vision for a world where the words ‘love,’ ’soul,’ ‘money,’ ‘profit’ and ‘business’ are spoken often in the same sentence in leadership conversations, we explore the power of ‘listening as midwifery,’ the courage to abandon outcomes, humility in leading amidst the unknown and familiarising ourselves with play as a way of courting the muse and building a relationship to disorder and unknowing. 

This one’s juicy, has many hidden nuggets and many moments of ‘pregnant silence.’ To leadership, love and living in ways that hold more of the whole. 


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Guest bio


Christine Owenell is an executive coach, teamwork facilitator, offsite wizard, and purpose economist.

She is the creator of Alchemy of Chaos, which is a group program experience for high-level leaders, a podcast, and a forthcoming book.

Christine’s work supports deep behavioural change through experiential strategy and elevating self-awareness. She is an advisor to the Kauffman Fellows, serves on the Leadership Council of the Women Business Collaborative, and spent several years as a Global Shaper commissioned by the World Economic Forum. Christine has coached leaders at Slack, WeWork, Vanderbilt, SC Johnson, Ticketmaster, Radiology Partners, Pure Storage, Northwestern Mutual, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Cloud9, Grameen Bank, and others.

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#16: Joshua Ackman — Money, Meaning & Funding the Emerging Future

Posted on September 2, 2020
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When money is remembered as energy, we begin to relate to it with reverence, with choice. Joshua Ackman is the former Head of Co-Investment at River Capital and is an “impact” investor I admire for his intentionality and somewhat Tantric relationship to capital – a man who is known for speaking the words love, spirit and money all in the one sentence.


In our conversation, we explore what an integrated approach to investing that includes the ‘irrational,’ emotional, and relational might look like. We also explore what opens up to us when we see money as energy flow, the fact that we are all ‘investors,’ and how aligning our values and our decisions might support the weaving of the world our hearts know is possible. 


Whether you consider yourself an investor or not just yet, we all are and this episode will support you in stepping into your investor of time, energy and money in a meaningful, values-aligned way!


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Guest bio


Investing has been Josh’s professional passion for 25 years, and creating great social outcomes has been a life long passion. In all his work Josh balances heart and mind, bringing financial discipline and analytical rigour to investments while aligning investments with each client’s values. With 25 year’s professional investment management experience, Josh spent 12 years in London, Tokyo and New York, holding senior roles at top tier firms including Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. 


Returning to Australia in 2006 Josh worked at Lehman Brothers in Sydney before returning to Melbourne in 2009 to establish the Credit Fund at River Capital. Josh was promoted to Principal at River Capital in 2015, investing and managing investments for well-known institutions, foundations and high net worth clients. 


Josh left River Capital in 2020 to help families and institutions to manage their investments to achieve the best financial and social outcomes, integrating wealth and money as an integral expression of each client’s whole self. Josh remains on the Credit Investment Committee at River Capital and also works at Whitebox Finance (Whitebox Enterprises), a leading Social Enterprise, as Head of Investment, and sits on the Investment Committee of The Village Well, a community-oriented lender based in Byron Bay.


Josh holds a Bachelor degree in Business from Monash University, and a Masters degree in Accounting & Finance from The London School of Economics.

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#15: Day Schildkret —Beauty, Impermanence & Queering Our Cultural Imagination

Posted on August 18, 2020
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Another queer brother from abroad, Day is internationally known for his work using Morning Altars to inspire thousands around the world to renew their relationship to nature, creativity and impermanence through ritual and the practice of Earth art.


Diving into some of the threads of our cultural imagination keeping us at odds with our own wholeness, Day and I explore themes of impermanence, queering masculinity and non-binary ways of being in lived relationality with uncertainty and mystery. In a time exposing rigid patterns of being-together, we dance with the wisdom of queerness in illuminating what it might mean to navigate change and liminality with openness and curiousity. 


Join us for a playful exploration of how Earth Art, practices of impermanence and “queering” might support us in our restoration of wholeness. 


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Guest bio

Day Schildkret is internationally known for Morning Altars and has inspired tens of thousands of people of all ages across the globe to renew our relationship to nature, creativity, and impermanence with the ritual and practice of earth art.


Day is the author of, “Morning Altars: A 7 Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit Through Nature, Art and Ritual” published by The Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton.Morning Altars has been featured in BuzzFeed, VICE, Spirituality & Health Magazine, and many others and has 85k followers on Instagram and Facebook combined. 


Large scale Morning Altars installations and workshops have been featured at Google, Wanderlust Festival, Wisdom 2.0 Conference, Treefort Music Festival, Bioneers Conference, The Andy Warhol Preserve, Beloved Festival, The Culture Conference, Symbiosis Festival, Lighting in a Bottle Festival, Red Rock Arts Festival, Butte College and live on-stage with East Forest at the Legendary Old Church Music Hall.  


With workshops, book readings and large-scale earth art installations worldwide, Morning Altars is bringing ephemeral art to the collective human imagination.

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Opening Prose: David Abram – In the Ground of Our Unknowing

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