Access to Inspiration Sue Stockdale

Clive Steeper and Sue Stockdale, founders of Access to Inspiration podcast, reflect on the recent guest-hosted series and the key insights that they gained including:



The value of reflectionHow to overcome fears and step into the unknownThe importance of leadership and self-leadership

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In our final guest-hosted episode, researcher and designer Josh Wasserman, from episode 44 talks to Andrew Freear, Director of Rural Studio which part of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture of Auburn University.

Freear lives in a small rural community in Hale County, West Alabama, where for twenty years he has directed this unique architecture program where students design and build community buildings, homes, and landscape projects for under-resourced local towns and non-profit organization.

Freear explains how the project has evolved over the years, and about the unique experience where the students live and work in-situ and are responsible for all aspects of the design and build process including liaison with community partners, local authorities, and those who will be using or living in the buildings.

About Andrew Freear:

Andrew Freear is the J. Streeter Wiatt Professor and Director of Rural Studio. He was educated at the University of Westminster and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He has designed and built exhibits for the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, the Milan Triennale, and the Venice Biennale. His honours include the Ralph Erskine Award, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Freear was a 2018 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and in 2020 received the President’s Medal from the Architectural League of New York.

Connect with Rural Studio:

Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Rural Studio Farm

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Key Quotes
We're here to educate architecture students and help them get a good design education.Architecture students get to not only design their projects, but they get to build their projects.There's a responsibility to make sure that you are building something that will be here a long time.In the late nineties we built a house out of carpet tiles.We asked ourselves could we come up with an affordable home that anyone and everybody could afford.We bring young folks into a place like this and they bring energy and it breaks down some boundaries. class boundaries, race boundaries, misconceptions about this place.We have ambitious students who want to, save the world and you can't come to a place like this and tell people how to live their livesI think we should care about the craft of things. We should care about the way things are put together. And from concept to compete completion. It's a richer world if it's that way.
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Cori Myka, from Orca Swim School talks to Rob Lawrence (from episode 42) about how she supports adult non-swimmers who often have a fear of deep water, to realize their dreams. And it's all to do with healing the mind. You will learn how she teaches learners remotely to help them become aware of their thoughts and change their subsequent behaviour.

About Cori Myka
Cori is co-owner of Orca Swim School and creator of the Foundations of Change learning method. For over 20 years Cori has been taking adult non-swimmers from fearful beginning to achieving their dreams. Her unique teaching is so highly regarded because it is based on training and healing the mind so individuals can learn physical steps which takes swimming beyond the pool and into life.

Based in Seattle, USA Cori has been training students and teachers locally, across the US and in the UK and Singapore.Cori started her swim teaching career at the young age of 14, when she volunteered at a local pool. In 1999, she co-founded Orca Swim School, together with her husband Bruce.

Cori’s continued love of learning and exploring has further developed Orca’s own curriculum to include the most recent developments of brain training, life coaching, mindfulness, and online learning.

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Connect with Rob Lawrence https://www.roblawrence.co

Key Quotes
What we are teaching our students is to learn to trust themselves.We start this process to notice the difference between the reactions our body has because of our thoughts.Children of color drown at a higher rate than white children in the US.Everything that we do in the world starts with our thoughts.We bring people to the present and sometimes what occurs to people in the present is a memory from the past.It is really about this process of bringing people's awareness and then slowing things down.Connect with Access to Inspiration on social media via Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and LinkedIn

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Pierre Heistein talks to Brendan Davis, from episode 58, about the documentary film he made telling the story of Atuel River in Mendoza region, Argentina.

In 2020 there were protests against the overturning of a water protection law that had successfully kept water-intensive mining projects out of the Mendoza province, the largest wine-producing region in Latin America that gets water from the Atuel River.

Pierre and two others decided to trace the route of the river from high up in the Andes to its end in the Cuyo Desert, becoming the first to do so, and recording perspectives of local people who engage with the river in different ways. The resulting documentary received an overwhelmingly positive response from the local community and has caused Pierre to reflect on society’s pace of life, reliance on, and connectedness to nature.

About Pierre Heistein
Pierre believes that we really are capable of creating more harmonious relationships with each other and the natural world that supports us. He contributes to this through photography, entrepreneurship, teaching, and fatherhood.

Find out more at: ATUEL Documentary Spanish version and Instagram
Email: Pierre DOT Heistein @ Gmail.com
Connect with Brendan Davis https://www.crazyinagoodway.com

Key Quotes
We felt that it was very important to make the river the main subject, the protagonist of this
film.We were forced to move at the river’s pace and we were forced to move at the pace of nature itself.It made me reflect on how to work better, how to live better, how to produce better and to do so at a far more natural pace of ebb and flow of passion and rest.I think the river just taught me that just how to ebb and flow, how to speed up, slow down, go stop and really integrate that into the rest of my lifeWe are a manmade oasis in the middle of the desert, it is impossible to live here without having a deep connection to the river.Our little planet earth in this immense of expansive space is the only place we can live. And we depend on it. And if we don’t look after it, we’re probably not gonna be able to live here, at least with not any level of quality of life.It has made me really question, what am I working towards and reminded me to, to just always be very conscious of the jobs I seek and understand why.We are not here to serve nature. Nature’s not here to serve us. It’s a relationship. and just like any relationship in our lives, it needs to be as healthy as possible.This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations.

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In the first of our series of guest-hosted episodes Racheal Wanjiku Kigame, Country Director, Help a Child Africa, who was a guest on episode 12 talks to her mentor Dr. James Kisia about using mentorship to cultivate leadership in Africa.

They discuss:
why leaders must listen and be curiouswhy mentors should '‘walk their talk’ if they want to encourage others to grow and developwhy there is a greater focus on localisation of NGO (non-government organisation) support today, to meet the needs of local communities.About Dr. James Kisia
Dr. James Kisia is Country Director for Catholic Medical Mission Board Kenya (CMMB), is a medical doctor who worked within the public, private, and NGO sectors. He has more than twenty years of combined clinical and humanitarian program work. He has led large, multi-county implementation of projects in reproductive and maternal health in areas of low resource settings and difficult-to-access services in Kenya. James has been involved in setting up emergency and health services in some of the largest refugee camps in the world in Dadaab and Kakuma.

James loves the outdoors and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya several times. He is passionate about the environment and has planted and cared for over three thousand trees within the last four years, most of them indigenous.

Connect with Dr Kisia at LinkedIn and at the Catholic Medical Mission Board
Connect with guest host Racheal Wanjiku Kigame on LinkedIn.

Key Quotes
I realised that I had actually put aside my dream and so I rekindled it, and moved from my clinical practice to work for Kenya Red Cross. And I never looked back.My father was a mathematics teacher in the fifties, and my mother was an English teacher. And what they imparted in me was the importance of education.I derive great pleasure at seeing people just develop. Context is very important for leadership, and the way in which we respond to the world is largely influenced by our own perception of the world. I've always admired those kind of leaders that have clarity of thought, and clarity of action. Sometimes it's feast or famine. You have too much money within a short time when disasters occur. And then once the disasters disappear, you don't have any money.If I do my part and leave somebody feeling that it was useful for me to be in their lives then I think that's good enough.This series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations.

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Sue Stockdale previews the guest-hosted episodes that will be featured in Series 12. They are:
Dr. James Kisia talks to guest host Racheal Wanjiku Kigame from episode 12 about using mentorship to cultivate leadership in AfricaPierre Heistein talks to guest host Brendan Davis from episode 58 about recording the story of the Atuel RiverCori Myka talks to guest host Rob Lawrence from episode 42 about helping non-swimmers overcome fear of deep waterAndrew Freear talks to guest host Josh Wasserman from episode 44 about how Rural Studio creates sustainable impactThis series is kindly supported by Squadcast –the remote recording platform which empowers podcasters by capturing high-quality audio and video conversations.

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Sound Editor: Matias de Ezcurra (he/him)
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