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This podcast is for anyone who has ever been called naïve for thinking that we can create a world that is a kinder, more equitable and beautiful place to live. It is a treasure trove of evidence that there are people out there leading with kindness, caring for our planet and thriving. These are their very human stories of how they are doing it - so that you know you are not alone, this is possible, and you can find your way to help Reboot the Future.   Tune in to the consistent frequency of inspiring, relatable stories, learning how people are navigating challenges and acting with courage. Let's create the momentum towards a better way of being, let's Reboot the Future. podcast.rebootthefuture.org

  1. 1d ago

    Belly Bugs to the Rescue: David Bell

    David Bell, creator of Belly Bugs, has found a way to get children genuinely excited about eating well. After thirty years in advertising, David turned his skills to a new challenge: gamifying the science of gut health for kids. He introduces children to the “gang of little helpers" living inside them, turning gut microbes into characters they want to feed with colourful fruit and vegetables, and it works. In a Sunderland pilot, a school cook reported children coming in and ordering salad straight away. David describes his childhood in rural County Down as both heaven and hell: an idyllic dairy farm and close community, set against the backdrop of the Troubles. As a Protestant whose three best friends were Catholic, he wished everyone could cross divides as easily. His advice to his younger self, and it clearly runs deep, is simply this: never give up. This episode celebrates the launch of the Belly Bugs X Reboot the Future Academic Calendar, find it here. Read out blog 'Learning for Their World' based on David's episode here.  More about David Bell: Born in County Down, Northern Ireland in 1961, David graduated from Edinburgh University in 1987 with a PhD in Ancient Greek before joining ICI's marketing department in Manchester. In 1992 he founded his own advertising agency, Cheetham Bell, which became known as Manchester's "creative hotshop" and was bought by WPP in 2000. He went on to be CEO of JWT's Manchester office and Creative Director at global digital agency Mirum, before leaving advertising in 2017 to develop Belly Bugs, the children's IP he created to introduce kids to their gut microbes, which research is showing to be the silver bullet for childhood nutrition. He has published one Belly Bugs book with New River/Little River Books, with a second, "The Poo That Wouldn't Budge," due this autumn. A keen cyclist, David is fascinated by the natural world. Subscribe for more stories and practical tools from Reboot the Future. www.rebootthefuture.org

    Belly Bugs to the Rescue: David Bell

  2. Aug 25

    Wilder: Jon Conradi

    This week we're joined by Jon Conradi, founder of Wild Mosaic, who is getting people rewilding without needing to own acres of land or live beside a nature reserve. Rewilders choose a three-metre by three-metre tile to follow, and Jon sends personal updates on their patch, the wildlife spotted there, and the progress of the land. It began with a nature club he set up at primary school, sparked by watching a neighbour's tree cut down. Even then he sensed that caring about nature was one thing, but persuading others to take action invited the question, why does it matter? For Jon, rewilding has been a way through apathy and despair at environmental chaos, and what he loves most is the personal connection: knowing each rewilder, and the small joys of an otter sighting or a butterfly landing on someone's tile.  www.wildmosaic.eco More about Jon Conradi: Jon Conradi is the founder of Wild Mosaic. He is getting people rewilding without them needing to own acres of land or live next to a wildlife site. The UK led the world in exploiting wildness, it's now time for us to lead the world in restoring it. Subscribe for more stories and practical tools from Reboot the Future. www.rebootthefuture.org

    Wilder: Jon Conradi

  3. Aug 3

    Project: Kindness - Filippa Brundish

    Filippa Brundish, founder of The Kindness Cooporation, learned early just how much listening matters. A quiet child raised with little money but plenty of love, she spent her early years absorbing the world rather than speaking up in it, taking it all in like a sponge. In time, she wanted to put that attentiveness to work. A project manager who loves getting things done, she took the brave, some might say naive, step of leaving a well-paid job to found The Kindness Coorporation, using her skills to design and deliver programmes that build kindness. Their flagship project Project JOY (Joining Older and Younger), brought schoolchildren and care home residents together, lighting up both. She hopes to see this project grow far beyond her corner of the UK. Her advice to her younger self is about finding her voice: be bold, be brave, speak out sooner, but remain exactly who you are. The quiet dark horse, she's learned, has her own kind of strength, and people, and the relationships that matter, are everything. More about Filippa & The Kindness Cooperation CIC With 25 years' experience as a management consultant across both the private and public sectors, I've spent my career helping organisations plan, deliver and navigate change.  Three years ago, I decided to put that experience to work for good, founding The Kindness Cooperation CIC — a non-profit delivering projects with real social impacts, powered by the same project management skills I've honed throughout my career.   Outside of work, I'm mum to two wonderful kids and married to a very gifted primary teacher. When I'm not juggling family and work life, you'll find me on the tennis or padel court, planning our next family holiday to France, or being dragged around the park by Ruby, our endlessly energetic cocker spaniel. Subscribe for more stories and practical tools from Reboot the Future. www.rebootthefuture.org

    Project: Kindness - Filippa Brundish

  4. Jul 28

    Design, from the Ground Up: Oliver Lloyd

    Oliver Lloyd is a designer and systems thinker, with sustainability as the starting point of his work. He was once advised to "meet people where they are, but don't leave them there," and you get a strong sense of his enthusiasm for collaborating on projects where our connection to and care for nature is front and centre. Oliver shares how he's used this approach with a brand that makes multi-tools. Finding the point where his ethos and their brand met, he's been able to take them on an exciting journey, designing tools for city gardeners with small spaces to spark their engagement with nature. Considering planetary boundaries as a next step in design and production then became a natural conversation. Oliver is keen to share his work and methods, believing that an open source approach puts greater value on our planet, rather than only on the sale of the product. It's a challenge to business as usual, and it has met its share of pushback. But for Oliver, this way of working lets people feel part of a whole process, where their own agency and creative abilities are trusted and come to the fore. More about Oliver:  Oliver is a designer and systems thinker working at the intersection of physical product development, emerging technologies, and climate adaptation. I help early-stage ventures and mission-driven organisations design products, services, and systems that are regenerative from the ground up. My approach combines hands-on prototyping and manufacturing knowledge, co-creation, workshop facilitation, futures thinking and strategic foresight — so sustainability isn’t an afterthought, it’s the starting point.  Oliver Lloyd Design Subscribe for more stories and practical tools from Reboot the Future. www.rebootthefuture.org

    Design, from the Ground Up: Oliver Lloyd

  5. Jul 21

    Real Solidarity: Mary Ann Clements

    Mary Ann Clements, Co-CEO of ADD International, has spent her whole life refusing to accept that "this is just the way the world is." As a child in a small Oxfordshire village, she felt every injustice keenly and couldn't fathom why the grown-ups had all given up. That refusal became her work. At ADD, a participatory grant maker for disability justice across Africa and Asia, she led a full-scale rethink: ending the old programmes, handing the decisions to the disabled movements ADD exists to serve, and swapping "we know best" for genuine solidarity. Plenty called it naïve. She is honest about what was hard, and what helped get her through.  Mary Ann believes we need to be brave and hopeful. She has a photo on her desk of herself, aged four, dancing in the garden, a reminder to bring that free spirit into the messy, serious business of changing the world. Read our blog about this episode 'Turning the Ship' here. More about Mary Ann: Mary Ann Clements is a writer, facilitator and coach with over 25 years' international experience in social justice and organisational change. Most recently Co-CEO of ADD International, she helped transform it from a traditional NGO into a participatory grant-maker advancing disability justice, and was Co-Director of Healing Solidarity, which engaged over 3,500 people in reimagining global development through equity, care and collective action.  She shares reflections on leadership, power and change through her Substack, How We Transform , and at maryannclements.com, and co-authored Red Tents: Unravelling Our Past and Weaving a Shared Future (2021).  She is currently working on her first novel. Subscribe for more stories and practical tools from Reboot the Future. www.rebootthefuture.org

    Real Solidarity: Mary Ann Clements

  6. Jul 14

    The Case for Idealism: Satish Kumar

    Photo by Carles Rodriguez Marin Peace pilgrim, lifelong activist, former monk and founder of The Resurgence Trust, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years, and at 90 he is still choosing to be, in his own words, a naïve idealist. At nine he renounced the world to become a Jain monk, against the wishes of his businessmen brothers, who thought him too idealistic. He decided then that being naïve was exactly what he wanted, and he has never let go of it. In his twenties he walked 8,000 miles across 15 countries without money, from India towards the world's nuclear capitals, in the name of disarmament, meeting Bertrand Russell, Martin Luther King and others along the way.  The pragmatic people, he argues, are the ones ruining the world with war, waste and warming. It is the idealists, the Buddha, Gandhi, King, who actually change it. Idealism, for Satish, is not a flaw to grow out of but the very thing the world most needs us to hold onto. That conviction led him to found Schumacher College in Devon. He wanted an education of head, heart and hands, teaching young people courage, creativity and the confidence to make their own path rather than wait for one. It is idealism as a practical training, a way of seeing that dares young people to imagine differently and act on it. Satish now wants every country to establish a Minister of Peace, noting that 194 nations fund armies and defence while not one invests in peace itself. War, he says, achieves nothing: not in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine or Gaza, only lives lost. The age of war has passed, he believes, and the age of peace is what we must now build, spending our energy on how to be good neighbours rather than good enemies. It is a bracing, hopeful call from someone who has lived every word of it. More about Satish:  Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. He undertook a pilgrimage for peace, walking for two years without money from India to America for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration and social justice. He is a world-renown author and international speaker, founder of The Resurgence Trust and Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist – a change-making magazine he edited for over 40 years. To find more about Satish and join him in protecting people and planet click here.  Link here to the Resurgence Trust Subscribe for more stories and practical tools from Reboot the Future. www.rebootthefuture.org

    The Case for Idealism: Satish Kumar

  7. Jul 7

    An Eye For Nature: Xander Beks

    This week we're joined by Xander Beks, founder of Eye For Nature, whose whole way of working began with a simple willingness to step up. As a teenager, when others met a good idea with "that will never happen," his instinct was different: nothing is impossible until we have tried. More often than not, it became a success. He puts it down to an open, generous approach, one he traces to his Dutch roots,  and a saying that "you always have no as an answer, and maybe you will get a yes." Coming to people with kindness rather than self-interest builds trust, he found. Much of our conversation turns to intergenerational learning, and Xander's belief that we waste the potential of young people. Through Eye For Nature he works to put them in the driver's seat, helping shape how they learn and matching them with mentors and experts around the world. What he describes is a genuine two-way exchange: older generations sharing experience, and younger ones, often the real experts now, teaching in return.  Find out more about Eye For Nature here. Read our blog about this episode here. More about Xander Beks:  Xander Beks is the Founder and Leader of Eye for Nature Cooperative, bringing over 20 years of international experience across nature-related fields, youth engagement, learning design and system transition, spanning government (national, EU and UN), education, civil society and the private sector. With more than 30 years of hands-on farming experience, he combines a deep understanding of farming realities with strategic expertise in regenerative agriculture, landscape restoration and value-chain transformation, put into practice on the farm he runs with his wife and parents-in-law, the home base of Eye for Nature and part of a future Polder Campus. He has extensive experience designing learning programmes for young people, farmers and changemakers, with a focus on leadership, experiential learning and system change. He has led national and international initiatives across youth, food systems and regenerative agriculture, including Harvest of Tomorrow, Youth Food Lab, World Food Forum national chapters, Groundswell NL, and the School of Sustainable Food and Farming NL. He has also held senior roles in public-sector policy and defence-related sustainability and energy-transition programmes, bringing strong capability in multi-stakeholder coordination, governance and complex delivery. Xander holds a Master's in Agricultural Engineering from Wageningen University & Research, is a Nuffield Scholar (2023), and is a reserve officer (Major) at the Dutch Centre of Expertise for Military Engineering, filling several roles in European and NATO fora. Subscribe for more stories and practical tools from Reboot the Future. www.rebootthefuture.org

    An Eye For Nature: Xander Beks

  8. Jun 29

    Adventures in Understanding: Alice Morrison

    Explorer, TV presenter and author Alice Morrison joins us this week, fresh from a world first: becoming the first recorded person to cross Saudi Arabia from north to south on foot. For Alice, the heart of adventure is understanding, and not only of the people next door. Through the stories she gathers and shares from her journeys, she helps us get to know other people, countries, religions and places, so we can no longer stand back and condemn them from a distance. We see where they are coming from, and make better decisions. She honestly wrestles with her beliefs about our world. She once believed life would simply keep getting better. Reporting from Northern Ireland, she saw the peace reached at Stormont as a template the rest of the world might follow, and the rise of conflict and violence since has been hard to bear. Yet she still believes we have to face it and keep acting for a better humanity. In a Scottish word from her upbringing, we must "gird" ourselves for the tough and necessary work ahead. More about Alice: Alice Morrison is an explorer, TV presenter and author, fresh from a world first as the first recorded person to cross Saudi Arabia north to south on foot. A Scot brought up partly in Africa, she studied Arabic and Turkish and worked in journalism before changing course in mid-life, cycling 12,000km from Cairo to Cape Town on the longest bike race on earth. Now based in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, she has since walked the length of the Draa river as the first woman to do so, crossed the Sahara with camels and Amazigh guides, and presented BBC series including her latest, Arabian Adventures: Secrets of the Nabateans. She is the author of four books, among them Walking with Nomads, runner-up for the Best Travel Book Award 2023, and hosts the podcast Alice in Wanderland. Link here to learn more about Alice’s adventures and her 4 books here.  Link here for Alice’s podcast ‘Alice in Wanderland’.  Read our blog about this episode here. Subscribe for more stories and practical tools from Reboot the Future. www.rebootthefuture.org

    Adventures in Understanding: Alice Morrison
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This podcast is for anyone who has ever been called naïve for thinking that we can create a world that is a kinder, more equitable and beautiful place to live. It is a treasure trove of evidence that there are people out there leading with kindness, caring for our planet and thriving. These are their very human stories of how they are doing it - so that you know you are not alone, this is possible, and you can find your way to help Reboot the Future.   Tune in to the consistent frequency of inspiring, relatable stories, learning how people are navigating challenges and acting with courage. Let's create the momentum towards a better way of being, let's Reboot the Future. podcast.rebootthefuture.org

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    Reboot the Future
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
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