Field Notes from the Future

Field Notes from the Future is a podcast for visionaries, builders, and changemakers who aren't just imagining a better future, they're making it real. Each episode captures insights, experiments, and lived experiences from women creating practical pathways toward possibility. Brought to you by Aurora Collective, a women-led collective of consultants and practitioners working at the intersection of environmental impact, conservation, systems change, and regenerative leadership. We center women in the story of systems change, because the future will be shaped by many voices, perspectives and lived experiences from women creating practical pathways. Each conversation traces what sustainability looks like in practice, not just in principle. These are the field notes from the edges of systems and the heart of communities, stories of practice, impact, and real change. About the Host: Shannon Salentine is the host of Field Notes from the Future, Founder and CEO of Lead for Good, and founding partner of Aurora Collective, a women-led collective of consultants and practitioners working at the intersection of systems change, environmental impact, and regenerative practice. Shannon has spent years sitting across from women who are rethinking how they work, live, and lead, asking the questions that don't usually make it into a bio or a pitch deck. That work is what led her to start this podcast. This is the kind of conversation where the goal isn't to arrive at an answer but to sit inside the moment before someone can fully articulate what's shifting in them. Each episode in this season of Field Notes from the Future follows that same instinct. Shannon talks with women who reached a point where the old way stopped working, and asks them to walk back through it, what they felt before they had language for it, what it cost to change course, and what became possible once they did. This is a show about discernment, tension, and what it looks like to change course in real time, hosted by someone who has spent her career helping other people do exactly that.