Reskillience

Catie Payne
Reskillience

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.

  1. Brenna Quinlan's 10 Foundations of an F YEAH! Existence

    NOV 3

    Brenna Quinlan's 10 Foundations of an F YEAH! Existence

    You already know today's guest. You've admired her art, chortled at her pithy permaculture puns and perhaps even listened to her rhyme along with Formidable Vegetable, those eco-funk, full of beans, electro-radish rockers.  It's the perennially brilliant Brenna Quinlan! Illustrator and educator who brandishes her watercolour brushes at the world's gnarliest problems, and paints beautiful alternatives. In this convo: 🪺 All about Brenna & Charlie's three year build. 🪺 The stories in the walls of their strawbale home. 🪺 Intentional community living. 🪺 Teasing out the finer strands of what brings you joy in groups, work, life. 🪺 What's next for Brenna? 🪺 Brenna's 10 things! Not gonna tell you what they are. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Brenna's home on the web [https://www.brennaquinlan.com/] Brenna on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/brenna_quinlan/] Grow Do It [https://www.growdoit.org/] ~ Permaculture + Sustainability Education Formidable Vegetable [https://formidablevegetable.com.au/] ~ Kimchi [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adoBoIwwxFo] [COMING SOON] Costa's Garden [https://www.instagram.com/p/DBawUBgTKKt/] ~ Costa Georgiadis & Brenna Quinlan Goodies Farm [https://www.goodiesfarm.com.au/] ~ Straw farmer Brenna on Futuresteadung [https://podcast.futuresteading.com.au/896866/episodes/3405637-e4-brenna-quinlan-permaculture-creative] Kirsten Dirksen/Sandor Katz [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VaTHYt7Ezc]

    1h 7m
  2. Farming, Self Care & Ceremony with Charlie Showers

    OCT 5

    Farming, Self Care & Ceremony with Charlie Showers

    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 [https://www.blackbarnfarm.com.au/] Black Barn Farm on Insta [https://www.instagram.com/black_barn_farm/] Black Barn Farm fruit trees [https://black-barn-farm-au.square.site/] Wendell Berry [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wendell-berry] Book ~ The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-complete-book-of-self-sufficiency-9780241593394] Castlemaine Rites of Passage Program [https://castlemainerop.org/] Organisation ~ The Men's Table [https://themenstable.org/] Menergy ~ Men's Gathering [https://menergy.org.au/] Non-Violent Communication [https://www.cnvc.org/] Sociocracy [https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/] Book ~ AntiFragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile] Concept ~ Ask vs. Guess Culture [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/change-life-asker-guesser] ***support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/Reskillience]***

    1h 18m
  3. One Billion Ways To Make Life Better with Brett Cooper

    SEPT 26

    One Billion Ways To Make Life Better with Brett Cooper

    *Recorded outdoors under a passionfruit vine with wind in the banana leaves* This is one of those conversations that'll shake you up, rattle your cage and light a fire under your butt to make change – because today's guest reckons we need to upskill, now! It might just be the greatest pep talk in Reskillience history, from one of the most passionate permies in the movement. It's Brett Cooper from Limestone Permaculture. Brett, his wife Nici and fam live on Worimi Country, mid-coast NSW. Not too long ago their one acre block was just grass and hoofprints in a sleepy little rural town. Now there are over 550 fruit and nut trees, 80-140 chooks, ducks and turkeys, veggies galore, herbs, medicines, outdoor classrooms, 4.4 million litres of stored water and one legendary pizza oven. Oh, and some bangin' community resilience. Over three million viewers have devoured Brett + Nici's farm tours on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztgMnaH1rw], pointing to more than just a fetish for gardening content but a deep yearning for the health, abundance and connection that overflows at Limestone Permaculture. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍ Visit Limestone Permaculture [https://www.limestonepermaculture.com/events/november-micro-farm-garden-tour] Or peruse their upcoming events [https://www.limestonepermaculture.com/upcoming-events] The Limestone PDC+HC! [https://www.limestonepermaculture.com/events/permaculture-design-certificate-homesteading-course-autumn-2025] Central Vic permie calendar 4 Day Residential Permaculture Retreat [https://holmgren.com.au/lp/permaculture-design-course/4-day-residential-permaculture-retreat-nov-2024/] with David Holmgren, Beck Loew + Su Dennett ~ November 1 - 5 The Rocklyn Ashram PDC [https://holmgren.com.au/lp/permaculture-design-course/rocklyn-ashram-2025/] ~ Feb 2025 Good stuff we mentioned Book: Roots Demystified ~ Robert Kourik [https://robertkourik.com/books/roots1.html] Book: Earth Restorer's Guide to Permaculture ~ Rosemary Morrow [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/earth-restorers-guide-to-permaculture/] (currently on sale at Permaculture Principles!) Book: Permaculture A Designer's Manual ~ Bill Mollison [https://permaculturesydneyinstitute.org/product/permaculture-design-manual-bill-mollison/] Book: Permaculture One ~ Bill Mollison + David Holmgren [https://au.permacultureprinciples.com/product/permaculture-one-ebook/] Eastern NSW ***join the Reskillience fam on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/Reskillience]***

    1h 32m
  4. Big Bug Energy with Amelie Vanderstock

    SEPT 18

    Big Bug Energy with Amelie Vanderstock

    🌼 A spring equinox special 🌼 Meet Amelie Vanderstock – science communicator, artist, musician, native bee pHD and total ray of sunshine. Amelie has a passion for pollinator-friendly cities, and raises awareness through workshops, collaborative art and obscenely catchy songs that celebrate weeds, bees and bin chickens. This ain't just an interview about invertebrates – though, there's plenty of insectivorous inspiration to be had – nay, it has a solid backbone of advice and solidarity for all those trying to merge their strange passions and professional skills, who are yearning for greater alignment and intentionality in everything, from study to travel to morning routines. Amelie also has a crowdfunding campaign to support the release of her debut album Let's Bee Scientists and the resource kit that goes with it, turning ecological knowledge into ear worms for the next generation of earth lovers. It's extremely close to reaching its target! You can pre-buy the album which will expedite its release and help Amelie do more of her sweet work. 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Pre-buy Amelie Ecology's album [https://chuffed.org/project/amelieecology] Amelie's home on the web [https://letsbeescientists.org/] Amelie on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/amelie_ecology/?hl=en] Amelie on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/artist/4nmFV8fngGljhtu9cOgPAy?si=3Mwft7NVSreWoLz4jFR1Vg&nd=1&dlsi=bd5e2daf384e47e9] Church Street Studios [https://www.churchstreetstudios.com.au/] Blinky Bill nostalgia [https://www.youtube.com/c/blinkybillofficialchannel] Australian Student Environment Network [https://asen.org.au/] ***support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/Reskillience]***

    1h 11m

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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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