The Earth Sea Love Podcast Sheree Mack

Hello and Welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
It's been a hot minute since we've shared one of our awesome conversations. But we're back now with your host Dr. Sheree Mack, getting over the mental and emotional and psychological blocks she created herself around the podcast and YouTube to bring you the podcast in its original form. The voices of inspiring women, feminine and non-binary people who are Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour and their connection with Mother Nature.
 
In this episode, Sheree has a conversation with Juanita Valture, is a South African born, Bristol based Creative Studio Manager, amateur potter and volunteer hike leader.
In this episode they all about:
* Stepping away from employment to rest
* Retreating from 'life' in order to find space and rest
* Recognising that things need to change instead of staying in the same loop
* Taking the leap and trusting that the universe will provide
* Trusting and Intuition
*Leaning into the belief in abundance rather than scarcity
*Creativity and Sustainability and Regenerative 
* Making small changes in our day to day lives
* Creating a Race Equity Network within the National Trust 
* Research into racism in rural settings could be retraumatising for volunteers
* Rhiane Fatinikun MBE, Creator of Black Girls Hike UK
* Diversifying Mountain Leadership within the UK
* Rest is active
* Mindful Pottery and moments within nature to {BE}
 
Bio: Juanita Valture is a South African born, Bristol based Creative Studio Manager, amateur potter and volunteer hike leader.Her love of the outdoors began from an early age, but her time working at the National Trust was where she discovered a profound connection with nature; and taking on the role as co-chair of the Race Equity Network allowed her to delve into the intersection of sustainability and creativity, advocating for inclusivity and representation in outdoor spaces. Recognising the disparities in access, safety and representation, particularly within Black spaces, Juanita has dedicated herself to fostering change by volunteering as a hike leader with Black Girls Hike, striving to create a safe space for Black women to connect and explore the beauty of nature. Juanita aims to become a qualified mountain leader to address the lack of representation in outdoor leadership, as currently there are only two Black female mountain leaders in the UK. Her hope is that this will pave the way for others and champion diversity in outdoor leadership. 
 
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Black Girls Hike UK

Hello again and welcome to the Earth Sea Love Podcast.
Episode 063 is a special episode being released in connection to the walkshops we completed in 2023 with a number of groups of the global majority with the help of funding from the Northumberland National Park Communities Fund. Northumberland National Park Communities Fund was a grant scheme set up for communities within the North-East of England to create projects that supported and contributed to the National Parks remit of being designated for everyone. This grant helped us in supporting the Northumberland National Park's purpose of  becoming more welcoming to more and different people.
 
Within this episode, your host, Dr. Sheree Mack talks about:
* her love affair with the concept of Palimpsest
* the different definitions and meanings of the term Palimpsest
* how the practice of Palimpsest turns up in her creative practice
* how Palimpsest was used within walkshops in Northumberland National Park
* what the participants of the walkshops have to say about their connection to nature.
 
 
Music within this episode is Melatonin Dub by Jangwa from Free Music Archive

Episode 062, ending season 5.
This is a recent episode recorded by your host, Dr Sheree Mack while walking the North-East coast and taking you along with her.
While filling her creative pot, Sheree shares the road ahead for the podcast with season 6 in 2024.
As the Earth Sea Love Podcast diversifies its guests, while  partnering with identity on tyne with their Black Nature in Residence Programme 2:0, they also thought it might be a good idea to broaden the audience through a Youtube channel. 
Here at Earth Sea Love CIC , they are just trying to tie everything in with the podcast, the zine, the website and the YouTube channel. Let's see how it goes but they're excited.
In this episode, Sheree walks and talks about eating out there and giving herself the gift of time and space. Not working to any agenda and changing up perspectives so she can work within a system which is beneficial for her wholeness. 

Hello and Welcome back to a special episode of The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
Your host, Dr. Sheree Mack, is recoding this episode out on location while walking The West Highland Way. A 96 mile hike from the lowlands to the highlands of Scotland, running through some of the most breathtaking, iconic and remote parts of Scotland, this is a life-changing long distance hike, which is Sheree's third attempt at completing. 
During this episode, you'll hear Sheree talking through the wind and rain about:
* the walk and the stages she's walking
* what is happening with the podcast for the rest of the year
* what is happening with the podcast in 2024
* what her dreams are concerning walking
* what it's like to walk the way and what it means to Sheree
* looking for diversity on the trails
* collaborating with identity on tyne with their new project
* the Black Nature in Residence programme
 
The call out details for the Black Nature in Residence programme which will see 5 creatives of the global majority in 5 Northern National Parks can be found here. The closing date for applications is 31st October 2023. 
For images of the Way, please check out the Earth Sea Love website for this episode. 

Hello and Welcome Back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast.
Dr Sheree Mack, your host here. 
I'll not lie. The promise I made at the beginning of 2023 of dropping at least one episode each month of the podcast was in the balance this month. July. A time I love to tie up loose end, retreat and rest. Call it the teacher in me, as I'm someone from time who loves to take the summer holidays off the clock. This year is no exception, except that I've just moved house and needed a rest more than ever.
So this episode has been on the back burner. Knowing it's something I wanted to do, and promised to do, didn't help the process of getting it done.
But finally it is here. I needed to get out of my head and just get into my body to produce it. I needed to get out of my way and just talk from the heart about my current learning. Permaculture Design.
So I started a Permaculture Design Certificate course with Liz Postlethwaite this spring. It will take me a year to complete and along the way, I'm learning a lot of new things about regenerative systems and how to apply this to my practice and creative projects.
I am just about getting into it now, after a slow, tentative, reluctant start as I discuss within this episode. I've been experiencing a fair about of conflict and tension about Permaculture and Permaculture Design basically because of its roots and their acknowledgment. 
So within this beginning episode of a mini series around Permaculture Design, I discuss:
* the difference between Permaculture and Permaculture Design
* the purpose of Permaculture Design
* the ethics and principles of Permaculture Design
* the creation of the terms and concepts of Permaculture Design
* the indigenous roots of Permaculture Design
* the roots of my conflict and tensions with Permaculture Design
* what to expect in the forthcoming episodes of the mini-series. 
 
Keep an eye out on The Earth Sea Love Zine over on substack for more thinking and discussions around the issues raised and practices learnt throughout this mini series as well as the Permaculture Design Certificate course as a whole. 
 

Happy June
Soon the Summer Solstice will be amongst us, here in the Northern Hemisphere, so let us take this moment from The Earth Sea Love Podcast to wish you LIGHT!
And thank you for coming back for a listen to our next episode. 
We are so proud that we are continuing to bring you, our listeners, beautiful and thought-provoking episodes which we hope inspire and support your healing and creative journeys. 
This episode your host, Dr Sheree Mack is talking with Mindy Tsonas, a maker and creator of spaces where healing and radical change are welcome. 
In this episode the conversation explores:
* place in nature
* {BEING} is a changing thing
* the magic of seeds
* how we must put ourselves in the way of belonging
* how we all already belong
* dismantling the stories that we don't belong
* taking inspiration and wisdom from nature
* our interconnectedness
* self care is community care
* radicale and radical - the root of it all
* generative practices and systems
* creativity and nature
* co-creation and community
* giving indigenous practices and wisdom their proper respect and recognition. 
 
Bio: Mindy Tsonas is a maker, manyeo and cultural organizer who facilitates circles of creativity, collective belonging and care. She believes in using art and alchemy as mediums for generative connection, somatic healing and radical change. As a transracial, transnational adopted person from the South Korean diaspora, this deeply informs her embodied perspective on land and lineage throughout all of her work and organizing.Links:

Mindy's Website: witchcraftivism.com
Instagram: @mindytsonaschoi
Patreon: Community, Art and practices https://www.patreon.com/mindytsonaschoi
Substack: Writing & Stories https://mindytsonaschoi.substack.com/ (should be up by the time this airs)

Collective Belonging: @collectivebelonging  collectivebelonging.com