A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

Anya Kaats

I started this podcast because I was tired of being stereotyped as lazy, triggered and entitled. I wanted to give voice to a different kind of millennial and invite us to write a new story - one of a generation willing to challenge the status quo, embrace nuance and paradox, and reject PC-culture. This podcast isn’t about finding answers, it’s about asking the right questions. How can we reinvent ourselves and the narratives we’ve been expected to inherit? How can we take ownership over the ways we participate in our own suffering? How can we move beyond victimization and into empowerment? How can we fix ourselves to fix the world? It’s time for new dreams, new stories and new futures… anyakaats.substack.com

  1. 10/30/2023

    #141 The Final Episode

    After an incredibly meaningful and successful five years, I’ve decided to end the podcast. Thank you for all of your support, time, and trust. I’m off to begin a new chapter, and I’ll hope you’ll continue to follow along. To stay in touch, subscribe for free at anyakaats.substack.com. Song featured: “A Better Son/Daughter” by Rilo Kiley Sign up for the MGSW book club here. How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Become a paid subscriber on Substack Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to Dirt Road Dispatch at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 22m

  2. 10/27/2023

    #140 Catalyzing Wider Organisms of Belonging with Ian MacKenzie

    Ian MacKenzie is a new paradigm artist who’s been tracking the global emergence of imaginal culture for the past 15 years. From the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St, Ian has amplified the voices of visionaries, artists and activists who have been working toward planetary system change. He is the co-director of The Village of Lovers, as well as the host of The Mythic Masculine podcast and co-founder of The School of Mythopoetics. Ian and I speak about masculinity, community, elderhood, Eros, trust, and the vital, yet challenging work of turning ideas into action. Find Ian at ianmack.com, and on Instagram and Facebook Songs featured: “Mountain to Move” by Nick Mulvey and “Feed Your Horses” by Gregory Alan Isakov Sign up for the MGSW book club here. How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Become a paid subscriber on Substack Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to Dirt Road Dispatch at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 30m

  3. 08/10/2023

    #139 A Holistic and Intuitive Approach to Life and Ecology with Peter May

    Peter May is an alchemist, a Grammy award-winning musician, a tree whisperer, a firefighter (and firemaker), an athlete, an architect, and an all around fascinating human being. Peter and I discuss how his love of ecology first developed as a kid living outside Detroit on Lake St. Clair, and how this passion later influenced almost every aspect of his life. From his multiple careers in natural building, native permaculture, sustainable landscape design, and land management, to helping produce and create a Grammy-award winning album with Paul Winter, to the creation of E3 Ecologic, a Crestone-based ecological nonprofit, it’s hard not to be inspired by Peter’s dedication to following a path dedicated to holism, intuition, and shameless curiosity. Find Peter May at windhorsealchemy.com, and e3ecologic.org Songs featured: “Awaken and Allow” by Shannon Lay and “Woods Rose and Evening Primrose” by The Sonic Apothecary Join myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the 2023 Sex at Dawn Retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here. Sign up for the MGSW book club here. How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Become a paid subscriber on Substack Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to Dirt Road Dispatch at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

    2h 4m

  4. 08/02/2023

    #138 Taking Advantage of Everything That Makes Life Worth Living with Sarah Jones

    Sarah Jones and her husband Michael are fourth generation potato farmers in Hooper, CO. Their farm, Jones Farms Organics, is paving the way in the San Luis Valley (the nation’s second largest fresh potato growing region in the U.S.) for regenerative and sustainable farming practices. In addition to helping manage day to day operations at the farm, Sarah has also recently transformed a local gas station and café into a neighborhood whole-food eatery, and helped to bring Marguerite Humeau’s 160-acre earthwork “Orisons” to life by convincing her in-laws to donate an unused/fallow circle-pivot to the project. Sarah and I discuss the unexpected and humbling path life sets forth for us when we stop getting in our own way, and how fulfilled and grateful we feel to live in a place where dreams can so easily become a reality. Find the Jones Farm at JonesFarmsOrganics.com, and on Instagram Songs featured: “Without You” by Sjors Mans, “Appaloosa Bones” by Gregory Alan Isakov & “Happiness Does Not Wait” by Ólafur Arnalds Poem that I read: “To Be Of Use” by Marge Piercy Sign up for the MGSW book club here. How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Become a paid subscriber on Substack Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram Get full access to Dirt Road Dispatch at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 24m

  5. 07/17/2023

    #137 Critical Ethnobotany and Reimagining Our Role in Ecology with Kelly Moody

    Kelly Moody is a critical ethnobotanist, philosopher, teacher, writer, and podcast host. After growing up in rural southern Virginia on her grandmother’s tobacco farm, Kelly’s interest in plants and ecology never left her. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies, and then left Virginia to travel cross-country, studying herbal medicine, land tending, ecology and botany. In the summer of 2020, she hiked the Colorado Trail documenting plants on foot and made notes on wild food and medicine gardens found along the old Ute pathways. Kelly and I discuss what it means to approach fields like ethnobotany, archeology, and anthropology both holistically and with a critical lens, rethinking relationships between people and plants, and questioning the ways we’ve explored, preserved, and defined “ecology”, “nature”, and “wilderness”. We also speak about the limits of capitalism, and reimagine a future in which infrastructure and capital could work toward ecological regeneration instead of against it. Find Kelly at OfSedgeAndSalt.com, on Instagram, on Substack and listen to her podcast The Ground Shots Podcast, available on Substack and all streaming apps. Songs featured: “Feet Keep Moving” by Natural Self & “Desert Dove” by Holly Arrowsmith Sign up for the MGSW book club here. Join myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the 2023 Sex at Dawn Retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here. How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Become a paid subscriber on Substack Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to Dirt Road Dispatch at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 38m

  6. 06/30/2023

    #136 Critical Spirituality, Ecstatic Literacy & Psychedelic Harm Reduction with Jules Evans

    Jules Evans is a philosopher, journalist, and author, whose work centers around the interplay between rational and ecstatic states of consciousness. Currently, Jules is leading the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project - researching psychedelic harm reduction, ethics, and integration. Jules and I speak about our shared disillusionment with Western spiritual wellness culture, the role discernment plays in realm of mystery, and why it’s dangerous to be overconfident about ones “truth”. We discuss how Western religion has always been both a belief system and a business structure, inexorably interwoven with wellness, medicine, and an individualistic approach to self-improvement and healing, and explore how the burgeoning industry of psychedelic therapy may be following in those same footsteps. Find Jules at PhilosophyForLife.Org, on Twitter, Instagram, and on Substack Songs featured: “Meet Me In the Woods” by Lord Huron & “I Wanna Get Better” by Bleachers Sign up for the MGSW book club here. Join myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the Sex at Dawn retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here. Attend the Orisons art opening on July 29th int he SLV! Get the info here. Come hang out at the Crestone Energy Fair September 16th & 17th! Here is the link for more info. How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Become a paid subscriber on Substack Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to Dirt Road Dispatch at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 29m

  7. 06/01/2023

    #135 Making a Living From Sunlight and Soil with George Whitten and Sam Schmidt

    George Whitten, along with his wife Julie, own Blue Range Ranch (also known as San Juan Ranch) located in the high desert of Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Originally pastoralists, George and his family have been ranching on the same land for well over a century, and have been practicing regenerative agriculture and holistic land management since 1893, long before either of those terms even existed. Sam Schmidt, a New York City-area native, joined the ranch in 2020 through an apprentice program, and is now the Assistant Ranch Manager, alongside his partner Noelle. George, Sam and I speak about the rise and fall of industrial agriculture, the challenges of making a living from land stewardship, what it means to bridge the divide between environmentalism and agriculture, and how taking a regenerative and holistic approach to the land also means applying those same principles to our relationships and communities. Find Blue Range Ranch at bluerangeranch.com, on Instagram, and learn more about the ranch’s apprenticeship program here. For those local to Crestone and the SLV, check out my article about Blue Range Ranch in the June edition of The Crestone Eagle. Songs featured: “El Jardin” by Hermanos Gutiérrez & “The Universe” by Gregory Alan Isakov Sign up for the MGSW book club here. Join myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the Sex at Dawn retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here. Come hang out at the Crestone Energy Fair September 16th & 17th! Here is the link for more info. How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Become a paid subscriber on Substack Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to Dirt Road Dispatch at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 40m

  8. 05/02/2023

    #134 To Worship at the Altar of Life, Death, Sex, and Love with Erin Ginder-Shaw

    Erin is a professional writer who’s currently studying to get her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Erin is also one of my closest friends, and my former Whore Rapport co-host. Since ending Whore Rapport last fall, Erin and I both felt that there was more to say about our decision to stop the podcast. We speak about the animate, sacred nature of identity, the challenge of overcoming projections and idealizations, and the dangers of leaning too far into intellectualization to the point where it becomes a defense. We also talk about our evolving and deepening relationship to the archetype of the Whore, and discuss what it means to live and love from a place of sacred devotion. Songs featured: “Path 5 (delta)” by Max Richter & Grace Davidson and “You Want What You Can’t” by Natalie Tate Sign up for the MGSW book club here. Learn more about advaya and their courses here. Join myself and Christopher Ryan + Cameron and Melayne Shayne in Montana this summer for the Sex at Dawn retreat, August 20-25. To apply, click here. How to support the show: * Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes * Become a paid subscriber on Substack * Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on Instagram A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable, and have the means to contribute financially, please consider becoming a paid supporter for only $5/month and get access to bonus content, a community book club, and more: anyakaats.substack.com Get full access to Dirt Road Dispatch at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 58m
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I started this podcast because I was tired of being stereotyped as lazy, triggered and entitled. I wanted to give voice to a different kind of millennial and invite us to write a new story - one of a generation willing to challenge the status quo, embrace nuance and paradox, and reject PC-culture. This podcast isn’t about finding answers, it’s about asking the right questions. How can we reinvent ourselves and the narratives we’ve been expected to inherit? How can we take ownership over the ways we participate in our own suffering? How can we move beyond victimization and into empowerment? How can we fix ourselves to fix the world? It’s time for new dreams, new stories and new futures… anyakaats.substack.com

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