Reskillience
Episodes
Prioritise Spiritual Prepping with Emily Coats
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I tell a story about my grandpa’s deathbed song request before having a heart-to-heart with Emily Coats, a deep nature connection facilitator, ances...
Can you be aware of societal collapse and still want to have kids? w/ Jem Bendell
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018 Professor Jem Bendell published an academic paper that went viral; pretty weird for a piece of scholarly writing. The topic? Societal collapse...
How to cut loose from the industrial food system & forage 100% of your noms with Robin Greenfield
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I tell a story about Jar Power before sitting down with Robin Greenfield, an incredible fella best known for his radical experiments in simple living,...
Solo Elk Huntress w/ Christie Green
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Christie Green spends days at a time in the mountains, in the snow, tracking elk, solo. Her hunting journey began at 40 as a practical way to feed her...
You don't need willpower, you need PERMACULTURE w/ Cecilia Macaulay
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve heard of swales… but what about swales in the brain to slow and deepen our human experience? Join me and Cecilia Macaulay for one of those ...
PLACE AS ELDER w/ QUINIE
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Big personal shares at the top of the ep (preview: podcasting terrifies me) before an utterly delightful conversation with Scots folk singer Josie Val...
It ain't over till the blackbird sings
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A garden drama unfolds during a heatwave, and I share my summer solstice/New Year wishes for you.Thanks for tuning into another year of Reskillience! ...
The Courage to Follow Your Path (and how to talk to animals) with Lisa Podosin
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cor blimey, we're getting equiney! Cast aside your Saddle Club trauma and learn how horses can help us be better humans and stewards of nature in this...
"It's going to be a blast... and scary as hell." Dave Pollard on Collapse
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You want it, you got it: an open discussion about the cracks in our civilisation, and how to catch each other when it all falls apart.Dave Pollard has...
This Moneyless Life with Jo Nemeth
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Could you live without money? No support payments, no savings account, no secret benefactors? Jo Nemeth has been doing so for the past decade, an...
The Viking Approach to Pest Management (plus ALL the horticultural sorcery) with the Weedy Garden's David Trood
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I tell a story about becoming a gardening influencer before sharing an animated and long-awaited conversation with David Trood aka. The Weedy Gardener...
The Felt Sense of Success with Laura Jean
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I tell a story about the ironic demise of my keepcup, and the difference between light green and deep green choices, before a pot-of-tea-convo with La...
The Way of the Owl with Morag Gamble
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three unbelievable stories about owls, and how to be a myceliating, possibilitarian practivist with the phenomenal Morag Gamble.Morag has cornflower b...
Save the World by Becoming the World with John Seed
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can birdsong heal your hearing? Can a rainforest recruit humans to protect it? What is deep ecology, anyway?Of all the approaches to “saving the wor...
Meditation, Interbeing & Emotional Upskilling with Suzie Brown
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Friends! Here’s a D&M (Dharma & Meditation) conversation I recorded with mindfulness meditation teacher and founder of Australian Parents fo...
Know this about people pleasing, olive pressing and apocalypse skills
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the RESKILLIENCE ROADTRIP where I'm intercepting all sorts of good sorts along Australia's east coast!First up is Ceilidh Meo who teaches no less...
Love in the Time of Collapse with Jordan + Catie
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's a Jordan + Catie double bill for the Season Four finale 🎊 Join us for a fireside D&M as two humans just tryna digest the microplasti...
Cabin in the Woods with Imogen Ive
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I share a recipe for de-zombifying your life before chatting with Imogen Ive, Director at Mittagundi – a remote 520 acre farm and off grid education...
End of Life Matters with Pippa White
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shrug off the cloak of secrecy and awkwardness around death with palliative care nurse Pippa White. I’ve been wanting to bring a death convo to the ...
Growing Against the Odds with Katie Finlay
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do not listen to this unless you want to reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. I tell a story about being ...
Finding God in the Compost Pile with Gareth Devenish
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s colder than a penguin’s big toe here in Djaara Country, so we’re cosying up by the fire for a yarn with Gareth Devenish. I call Gareth the ...
Quit Your Job & Work in Reciprocity with Linda Cockburn
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I tell a story about making bugger all money but feeling filthy rich, before being joined by the incredible Linda Cockburn (pronounced “Co’burn”...
Loving What's Left with Tessa Campisi
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! I have been away in the bush for three days and three nights with just a tarp, sleeping bag and water to my name. No tent, no pillow, no torch,...
Permaculture on the Spectrum with Anna Matilda
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Me ranting about Couple Power and the Urban Nanna being brilliant. May all the single, neurospicy permies find ample inspiration in today’s intervie...
How To Grow Crazy Resilient Vegetables with Gregg Mueller
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're exploding the sanctity of heirloom seeds and exploring the world of adaptive gardening! Gregg Mueller is here to tell us how (and why) to ...
What if It's Not Dystopia? With Permaculture Elder Linda Woodrow
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Permaculture Week, friends and phascogales! And what better way to celebrate than a big old heart to heart with permie elder Linda Woodro...
The Health Episode // Sensitivity As Resilience with Anthia Koullouros
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A story about a free bottle of French perfume and whether sensitivity makes us more or less resilient. With esteemed and ever-so-lucid naturopath, her...
Slow Textile Revival with the makers of The Nettle Dress
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of today’s guests spent seven years spinning a dress from stinging nettles and the other spent five years documenting the process. The result wa...
Altered States, Imaginal Realms & Co-Becoming with Dr Maya Ward
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s subject matter is so slippery and mysterious that even my guest, Dr Maya Ward, finds it hard to describe, though she’s swimming in it. It ...
The Pursuit of Discomfort & Pirate Bananas With Charlie McGee
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Real good fun with this one! Join me and Formidable Vegetable’s kind and charismatic frontman Charlie McGee for a swashbuckling convo about pirate b...
Home As Habitat, Garden As Wild with Tanya Loos
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I tell a story about how Jord and I narrowly avoided getting shot before introducing Tanya Loos – local treasure and legendary naturalist – for a ...
Jord & Catie interview each other in the back of a van
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the season three finale with me and my man Jordan Osmond!We’re cranking the content couple cringe in this convo which covers our individual int...
Life, but Make It Herby with Caroline Parker
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The episode that nearly didn’t happen for reasons almost too embarrassing to share… but what else is the intro for? 🤷♀️Today we’re han...
It's the little things with Kat Lavers
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After countless requests I present to you: Kat Lavers 🐈⬛Wicking buckets, magic bug buttons, interspecies adventures, listener questions and mo...
Natural Beekeeping Magic with Adrian Iodice
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are bees a mammal in many bodies?Why do conventional beehives leave bees cold, stressed and defensive?How can beekeepers deal with varroa mite without...
Release Your Inner Bat Shit Crazy Bird Nerd with Andrew Turbill
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you prefer nature to people, birdsong to screeching tyres and secretly want to crash the economy via mass workplace dropout due to a bird language ...
Rewild Christmas Lunch! with Eva + Will of Wild Beings
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you're sick of ham sandwiches and Love Actually, why not bring spear throwing and possum skinning to Chrissy lunch? Eva and Will of Wild Beings hav...
Lucy Richards' 10 Ways To Regenerate Self, Soul & Business Strategy
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Things to know about this episode:🪶 It was recorded on Lucy's bedroom floor, smushy carpet under-butt and steaming cups of dandy tea in hand.🪶 I...
Blake Boles' 10-or-11 Dirtbag Rich Resolutions
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
FOR ONCE IT'S NOT A PERMIE 😱Please enjoy this fun-as-fuck conversation with Blake Boles, who, in an unexpected deviation from regular Reskillience ...
Artist As Family's 10 Ways To Be Rich, Feral and Free
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was recorded while sitting on Artist As Family's living room floor, glowing embers in the belly of the fire, cups of hawthorn and articho...
Brenna Quinlan's 10 Foundations of an F YEAH! Existence
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You already know today's guest. You’ve admired her art, chortled at her pithy permaculture puns and perhaps even listened to her rhyme along with Fo...
It's the season three trailer!
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🪶 MONDAYS FROM NOVEMBER 4 We’ve got a jazzy new format and just a couple of months till 2025, so let’s set some new years resolutions...Re...
Farming, Self Care & Ceremony with Charlie Showers
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t you love it when science geeks get spiritual? I do, because when highly rational folks admit that the world is far more mysterious than it is ...
One Billion Ways To Make Life Better with Brett Cooper
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*Recorded outdoors under a passionfruit vine with wind in the banana leaves*This is one of those conversations that’ll shake you up, rattle your cag...
Big Bug Energy with Amelie Vanderstock
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🌼 A spring equinox special 🌼Meet Amelie Vanderstock – science communicator, artist, musician, native bee pHD and total ray of sunshine.Amelie ...
Modest Income, Major Freedom with Anisa Rogers
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first time I saw Anisa Rogers (who was basking on the grass reading a book) I thought: this person looks hekkin relaxed, has a tan consistent with...
Green Tech Fact Check with Joel Meadows
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Joel Meadows, a phenomenal human who happens to be a permaculture teacher, rocket oven engineer, energy geek, green tech sceptic, sc...
Writing, Ice + Arctic Foxes with Robyn Mundy
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with the intrepid author of my favourite book in recent years, Robyn Mundy!(Word nerds, snow bunnies, penguin enthusiasts and fans of the...
Retire by 35 with Dylan Graves
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sit down and whip out your preferred pen* because Dylan Graves is doing back-of-the-envelope calculations to show you how to access land within three ...
Birthing Rites with Eleanor Young
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the story with free birthing, wild birthing, orgasmic births and births that don't go to plan?Here to deliver answers to all our laborious ques...
Voluntary Extinction with Annie Raser-Rowland
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would you pick up a schoolkid’s half eaten apple and eat it?Annie Raser-Rowland would, while shining a lopsided smile to passersby.Annie is the radi...
Work/Rest Balance with Koren Helbig
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many of you have requested interviews with folks who are making beautiful nests in less-than-perfect contexts, like the city. Who haven’t flown off ...
Vinyl For Climate with Lauren + Oberon Carter
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that women represent less than one third of artists in the music industry? And just 12.6% of songwriters? I’m quoting my guests here, L...
Here Come the Zombies, I Eat Weeds with Diego Bonetto
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scarcity mindsets + scrofulous zombies are no match for nature’s weedy abundance! So says Diego Bonetto, wild food advocate and forager with a heart...
Never Totally Lost with Tristan Gooley
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Couldn't find your way out of a cardigan? Get into natural navigation with Tristan Gooley, award winning and bestselling author, expedition leader, an...
Joy Over Meaning with Elisa Rathje
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elisa Rathje lives on a small farm, on a small island, telling microscopic stories of resilience. She's an artist, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, ...
Today I Go Slowly with Jade Miles
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jade Miles is a very special mate of mine. I turned up on her doorstep as a WWOOFer in 2018 and we got on like asparagus and eggs, which is what we ha...
Village Dreaming with Mara Ripani
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I just polished off my last jar of blackberry jam and it’s only April, which is why I need today’s guest to assist me in the finer arts of sustain...
The Parenting Episode with Devon Harris
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you keen to join the dots between parenting and activism? Want to grow a beautiful parallel paradigm in and through and with the yoof? I’m ...
The Church of Mother Country with Patrick Jones
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leaves and loam, feather and bone, it’s Patrick Jones from Artist as Family! Patrick is Meg Magpie Ulman’s partner in permaculture neopeasant...
Wild + Child with Claire Dunn
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's all very well to forage weeds and track wombats, weave baskets from willow and walk barefoot cross country... but how do you stay wild in the cit...
Oh, Miserable Modernity! with Yin Paradies
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Yin Paradies is a loving tearer downerer of teetering assumptions, a recalibrator of compasses, an Aboriginal-Asian-Anglo Australian conducting de...
Attachment Planeting with Josh McLean
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you considered the backstory of your leather shoes? Are you curious about the process that transforms raw hides into luxurious handbags? Do you w...
Cycles of Renewal with David Holmgren
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Holmgren is the co-originator of Permaculture, self-aware contrarian and contemplator of everything. I’m lucky enough to be part of his e...
Gut Lore with Su Dennett
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's yakkity yak is with one of the most radical women in permaculture -- and you know how wild those permies can be. It's Su Dennett! Life partner...
Sensual Herbalism with Taj Scicluna
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m not a doctor – though I wish I was because who wouldn’t want to take their petrified child to see Dr Payne? However, I did study herbal medi...
TOUGHEN UP with Beck Lowe
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Throw a chicken bone in the cogs of the never-say-die machine with this week’s convo about DEATHHHHH. Not going to coat this one in plum sauce ...
The Big Picture with Jordan Osmond
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oh happy day, it’s Jordan Osmond from Happen Films! Happen Films is one of the most powerful portals of inspiration in the sustainability space...
Deer Medicine with Suzy Muir
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can rocks be your besties? Are the shadows safer? How does Deer Medicine help women avoid becoming prey? Get into this conversation with adventur...
Magpie Tears with Meg Ulman
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can we tempt you sell your car, compost your shit and embrace a life of joyful frugality? You don't have to answer right away. Listen to this con...
Apocalypse Now-ish with Dave Pollard
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A convo about the collapse of civilization may not be everyone’s cuppa tea, but a spoonful of Dave Pollard makes the medicine go down! And today Dav...