The Kitchen Table Sue Bradley

James Perrin is a father, thinker, philospher, podcaster and a community conscious human.

He hosts a podcast called The Overview Effect which is the paradigm shift astronauts experience when viewing Earth from space; where their outlook on life changes, they experience an emotional and spiritual transformation, and they return to Earth profoundly connected to nature and humanity.  Have you ever experienced this effect in your own life?  We delve into James' own experience of The Overview Effect in this episode of The Kitchen Table.

James is someone who loves to share and listen into story, speaking to others who have experienced this overview effect in their lives and sharing their story of how it profoundly impacted them.  When we connect on this level we connect deeper into what being human means.  Story is where our truth lives, where there are no boundaries, we share in differences, perspectives and experiences and this can change the world.

Please tune into James' own podcast and listen into the incredible stories he encounters and inspires and stirs much humility and courage within us all.



https://www.jamesperrin.com.au/

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-overview-effect-with-james-perrin/id1525053808






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Joshua is a Worimi man, farmer and academic, Josh pursues transformation through modern truth-telling, bringing new concepts to the forefront through acknowledgement of the past. His work combines the old and the new, weaving them together to develop new insights and findings.

He is an entrepreneur and business advisor, working predominantly in the Aboriginal cultural, agricultural and environmental spheres and has worked with numerous not for profits, businesses and government to develop change and bring people on a journey of change.

Currently Josh is working as a researcher at the University of Technology, Sydney while working on achieving a PhD from Charles Sturt University. He is the first Aboriginal person to conduct higher degree research in the agricultural sector, exploring the role of Indigenous identity and culture through Western agriculture.

While he currently lives in Gloucester, his family has a farm at Nabiac, breeding Clydesdale horses and Braford cattle. He and his family are regulars at local shows.



You can find out more about Josh here https://www.joshuagilbert.co/

Here is a recent article from Sustainable Table where Joshua is an advisor https://sustainabletable.org.au/hey-australian-agriculture/


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Cyndi O’Meara is a nutritionist, film maker – ‘What’s With Wheat?’, best-selling author, international and TEDx speaker and founder of Changing Habits. 

Cyndi is about educating, her greatest love is to teach people, in order for them to make better choices in their life, so they too can enjoy greater health throughout their life. 

Her unique, surprisingly simple and down-to-earth approach challenges and encourages others to eliminate unhealthy habits and has inspired thousands to make smarter choices about the food they choose to put into their body.

Concerned by the state of our health system and the lack of educated consumers, Cyndi explores relevant and confronting issues such as cancer, diseases, diets, drugs and medication and asks people to make a choice about what they are willing to consume. She raises serious questions such as ‘Is margarine really the answer or is it a major contributor to obesity, cancer, diabetes and heart disease? Are artificial sweeteners the great low calorie alternative or deadly neurotoxins?’ 

Her unique, surprisingly simple and down-to-earth approach challenges and encourages others to eliminate unhealthy habits and has inspired thousands to make smarter choices about the food they choose to put into their body. By educating people on how to read food labels, why diets don’t work, and how drugs can affect your total well-being and vitality, Cyndi confronts her audiences with new truths and empowers them to make long lasting changes with simple and achievable steps on how to create healthier habits.

Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Nutrition from Deakin University in Victoria and the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Cyndi also undertook postgraduate studies from RMIT Victoria in human anatomy, pathology, physiology and diplomas in diagnosis and management of health issues. 

A highly successful and award-winning businesswomen, Cyndi has been included in the Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards for 2016, 2016 Australian Organic Retailer of the Year Finalist and within Queensland, Australia received the Sunshine Coast Business Women of the Year in 2003, Sunshine Coast Sustainable Business Woman of the Year 2016 and Finalist for the Sunshine Coast Business Awards. 

In every aspect of her life, she looks outside conventional thinking to find new ways of balancing her time with family, business and good health to create a wonderful, balanced lifestyle. 

A lively and inspiring health expert and lifestyle coach, Cyndi O’Meara has regularly appeared on national talk-back radio to educate listeners on how to overcome health problems and lead a happy, healthy, high-energy lifestyle. Her ground breaking book Changing Habits Changing Lives (1998) became an instant best seller and its accompaniment ‘Changing Habits, Changing Lives Cookbook’, Cyndi is in high demand both nationally and internationally as a keynote speaker, especially since her TEDx Talk ‘What’s With Wheat?’. 

She has also grown a successful organic food company, is the founder of Functional Nutrition Academy and is currently building a 60-acre organic food bowl which will be used as an education centre for sustainable farming practices.



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Lisa has a rare gift for working with communities, and an awesome commitment to recycling which has seen her travel all over Australia.  She was instrumental in the establishment of the Kariong Eco Garden over 15 years ago. Which involved many negotiations with council to find an appropriate community space that could be used. The garden is a place for the community to learn about managing vegetable gardens, composting, worm farms, reducing food miles and natural ecosystems.  Local teachers have also been to the garden for numerous professional development sessions and students have been involved in workshops to maintain vegetable gardens and composts. Kariong Eco Garden is also the site for Boomerang Bags which is a community group that Lisa co-ordinates to meet once a month to make shopping bags from recycled material.

As an active member of the central coast environmental education network Lisa helped to develop the Green Canteen project that encouraged schools to reduce the use of single use plastics in schools. Lisa organised the survey for schools and assisted to deliver sustainable cutlery and paper straws for schools to try in their canteens. She has continued to help lead this project in schools for 2019.

Lisa was instrumental in creating and developing resources for the Total Environment Centre ‘s Ocean Action Pod (including lesson plans for schools). The pod is a trailer full of informative displays to raise community and school awareness of the issue of plastic waste, marine debris and microplastics on the environment. Lisa is one of the presenters for the trailer and has successfully delivered the program across Sydney and the Central Coast.

Her passion is treading lightly on this sacred earth - particularly with regard to our use of what we call the earth's resources: living soil, minerals, air, water, biodiversity (the vast collection of plants/animals/life on earth). 

"I want to leave the planet in a better way than when I arrived".

"Born in 1971, I have arrived on this planet at a time when human population and ways of living have become utterly unsustainable. Our dominant economic system is based on growth theories that ignore the fact that our planet is finite. We are quickly using up resources like oil, which have formed over millions of years. I try to think globally and act locally."

My passion is treading lightly on this sacred earth. .... I want to leave the planet in a better way than when I arrived.
— Lisa Wriley

We spoke about her new project which has been an absolute labour of love is the re-creation of the game called conservation which orginated in New Zealand.  This game is a fun way to explore the many ways we can care for earth.  To learn more go to https://www.earthcaregame.org/.  There is a huge story behind each and every piece created for the game from the pieces, the paper sourced, the packaging.  




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Sarah has over 30 years’ experience in film and television production. 

She has delivered content to commercial clients, broadcasters and for feature release as a production manager and producer across a number of disciplines including; documentary, visual effects, feature films, television commercials and long-form children’s cartoon series. This has given her an extensive understanding of the broader industry. 

Her passion is making content that both celebrates our natural world but also raises awareness around its decline. Sarah co-produced and was also the impact producer for the award winning feature ocean conservation film, BLUE, that continues to screen around the world inspiring audiences to take action to protect our oceans. Her most recent feature documentary is Sea Lions - Life By A Whisker, for Imax, that chronicles the critical status of the little known Australian Sea Lion.

In 2020 Sarah accepted the role as CEO of Take 3 for the Sea. Sarah's journey with Take 3 started in 2013 when she became increasingly aware of the insidious plastic problem in our oceans and its impacts on marine wildlife. Initially joining Take 3 as a volunteer, Sarah developed and launched the Take 3 Surf Life Saving Clubs Project and served on the organisation's Board of Directors while continuing her film and television career. Sarah’s connection with Take 3 continued, with co-founder Tim Silverwood featuring in her award-winning ocean conservation film, BLUE in 2017. 

Aligning with BLUE’s theatrical release in October 2017, Sarah and the BLUE team developed and implemented a 3-year multi-faceted impact campaign, which included over 65 partners from the not-for-profit, education, government, philanthropic and private sectors in Australia, the Pacific Region, Europe and North America. The BLUE education curricula has been used by over half a million Australian school kids, and the film and its outreach won the Banksia Foundation Sustainability Media Award for its contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Since this recording Sarah has resigned as CEO for Take 3 for the Sea to pursue further her passion and committment to the conservations of our oceans through film and other projects.




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Adam Byrnes is a Garigal/Gadigal man. He is one of the co-founders of Bush to Bowl which aims to create spaces where families and community members can engage with Australia’s native plants and traditional Aboriginal knowledge and culture. 

Bush to bowl is a way of giving back to Culture and to Country as it gives so much to us on a daily basis. He believes strongly about protecting both these spaces now and into the future. 

Bush to Bowl also run workshops, programs & tours plus landscaping gardens. Adam is a man who deeply cares for community and connecting community, his heart is committed to making a difference and for us to connect to the one story that connects us all and that is the land we walk on. Our land has many stories to tell and it is up to us to listen and learn.

I was so grateful for this opportunity to sit and have a yarn with Adam, we have met a few times and I love what he is all about and I am very eager to see what the future holds for him and for the community he holds dear.


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