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Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
The Art of Storytellingwith Shawn Callahan
The Ampliseed Podcast: Inspiring Stories, Episode 5
This is the fifth episode in Ampliseed’s Inspiring Stories series— interviews with leaders who inspire us on our pathway to an equitable and nature positive future, who share with us what brought them to this space, which opportunities inspired them, and what challenges they had to overcome.
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ON THIS EPISODE OF INSPIRING STORIES
How do we lift the profile of our work and excite others with our vision? What's the best way to share our progress and stories of impact with both communities and funders? Join us in conversation with Shawn Callahan, founder of storytelling company Anecdote, to learn what sparked his interest in storytelling for businesses and share his insights and tips into how to identify a good story, how to remember it when you need it, and how to make it work for your organization and audience.
ABOUT TODAY'S GUESTS
Shawn Callahan (Invited Guest)
Shawn Callahan is a story specialist and founder of the business storytelling company Anecdote, where he has helped some of the world’s top companies to make their strategies really stick. His specialty is helping executives and leaders find and tell the stories that engage the emotions of, and ultimately inspire action from, their employees, customers and communities. Shawn is based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne, Australia.
Ariadne Gorring (co-Host)
Ariadne is the co-CEO of Pollination Foundation. Ariadne is passionate about Indigenous-led cultural conservation, working with the Kimberley Land Council (KLC) for over 20 years on native title and cultural and natural resource management. She is a former Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity at Melbourne University, and recipient of the Barbara Thomas Fellowship in Conservation Financing via The Nature Conservancy Australia. Ariadne is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
Kirsty Galloway McLean (co-Host)
Kirsty leads Ampliseed, a global network connecting practitioners with a rights-based, human-centered approach to building environmental resilience. Her background includes over a decade with the United Nations working in Canada and Japan, and 15 years as CEO of a management and communications consulting firm in Australia. As Executive Director at Pollination Foundation, she works to connect and support international organisations, philanthropists, business, Indigenous and community leaders, and other corporate foundations to drive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Kirsty is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
SHOW NOTES
This interview was originally recorded in 2020.
Additional resources
Podcasts mentioned by Shawn in this interview include Anecdotally Speaking, This American Life, Freakonomics, Sway, The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe, and Malcolm Gladwell's Podcast.
To find out more about what Shawn and Anecdote are up to today, please check out the Anecdote website https://www.anecdote.com/, and follow them on social media. Twitter: @anecdote @ShawnCallahan
TRANSCRIPT
Shawn: We're immersed in a world which is full of stories. You've got to be good at spotting them.
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Mobilising Communities through Social Mediawith Zilanie Gondwe
The Ampliseed Podcast: Inspiring Stories, Episode 4
This is the fourth episode in Ampliseed’s Inspiring Stories series— interviews with leaders who inspire us on our pathway to an equitable and nature positive future, who share with us what brought them to this space, which opportunities inspired them, and what challenges they had to overcome.
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ON THIS EPISODE OF INSPIRING STORIES
"Storytelling is one of of those powerful ways that you can transform people's hearts. And then people's minds." As a well known movement builder in the creative industries and gender activism, over the last few years, Zilanie Gondwe has moved deeper into conservation advocacy. Join us to learn from Zilanie's experiences in how conservation movements can benefit from creative approaches that increase visibility and mobilize communities.
ABOUT TODAY'S GUESTS
Zilanie Gondwe (Invited Guest)
Zilanie Gondwe is the Director of Malawi's Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICON), an independent, non-partisan policy and research organization dedicated to driving nature conservation to the heart of development in Malawi. A well known movement builder in the creative industries and gender activism, over the last few years, Zilanie has moved deeper into conservation advocacy. Zilanie is based in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Ariadne Gorring (co-Host)
Ariadne is the co-CEO of Pollination Foundation. Ariadne is passionate about Indigenous-led cultural conservation, working with the Kimberley Land Council (KLC) for over 20 years on native title and cultural and natural resource management. She is a former Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity at Melbourne University, and recipient of the Barbara Thomas Fellowship in Conservation Financing via The Nature Conservancy Australia. Ariadne is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
Kirsty Galloway McLean (co-Host)
Kirsty leads Ampliseed, a global network connecting practitioners with a rights-based, human-centered approach to building environmental resilience. Her background includes over a decade with the United Nations working in Canada and Japan, and 15 years as CEO of a management and communications consulting firm in Australia. As Executive Director at Pollination Foundation, she works to connect and support international organisations, philanthropists, business, Indigenous and community leaders, and other corporate foundations to drive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Kirsty is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
SHOW NOTES
This interview was originally recorded in 2022.
Additional resources
Learn more about the pangolin
History of the ivory trade via National Geographic
The Lilongwe Ecological Corridor Initiative (LECI)
To find out more about what Zilanie and ICON are up to today, please check out the ICON website https://icon.mw/.
TRANSCRIPT
Zilanie: I live by the words in the work that I do of Sir David Attenborough. He said that saving our planet is a communications challenge. It really is, because storytelling is one of those powerful ways that you can transform people's hearts. And then people's minds.
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Yarning Time - How to create a culturally safe workspacewith Sam Murray
The Ampliseed Podcast: Inspiring Stories, Episode 3
This is the third episode in Ampliseed’s Inspiring Stories series— interviews with leaders who inspire us on our pathway to an equitable and nature positive future, who share with us what brought them to this space, which opportunities inspired them, and what challenges they had to overcome.
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ON THIS EPISODE OF INSPIRING STORIES
How do we build culturally safe workplaces? Samantha Murray from the Indigenous Desert Alliance knows first hand how working in the city can be a daunting prospect for Aboriginal people who have grown up in remote desert communities. In this episode, Sam shares strategies on how organisations and companies can create culturally safe environments where First Nations people can feel spiritually, socially and emotionally safe.
ABOUT TODAY'S GUESTS
Sam Murray (Invited Guest)
Samantha Murray is Deputy CEO of the Indigenous Desert Alliance (IDA). Sam is a proud Yilka/Wongutha/Nyoongar woman who grew up in Cosmo Newberry (where she has traditional owner links) and Laverton. She is a currently a director of Yilka Heritage and Land Care, and has also worked with Central Desert Native Title Services and Desert Support Services as a human resources officer. She has also worked in a range of other government-based roles in education, public housing and TAFE. Sam is based on the Whadjuk Nyoongar lands of Perth.
Ariadne Gorring (co-Host)
Ariadne is the co-CEO of Pollination Foundation. Ariadne is passionate about Indigenous-led cultural conservation, working with the Kimberley Land Council (KLC) for over 20 years on native title and cultural and natural resource management. She is a former Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity at Melbourne University, and recipient of the Barbara Thomas Fellowship in Conservation Financing via The Nature Conservancy Australia. Ariadne is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
Kirsty Galloway McLean (co-Host)
Kirsty leads Ampliseed, a global network connecting practitioners with a rights-based, human-centered approach to building environmental resilience. Her background includes over a decade with the United Nations working in Canada and Japan, and 15 years as CEO of a management and communications consulting firm in Australia. As Executive Director at Pollination Foundation, she works to connect and support international organisations, philanthropists, business, Indigenous and community leaders, and other corporate foundations to drive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Kirsty is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
SHOW NOTES
This interview was originally recorded in 2021.
Additional resources
Map:
To find out more about what Sam and IDA are up to today, please check out the Indigenous Desert Alliance website https://www.indigenousdesertalliance.com/, and follow them on social media. Facebook: @indigenousdesertalliance | Tiktok: @indigenousdesertalliance | Twitter: @IDA_Australia | LinkedIn: @indigenous-desert-alliance | YouTube: @indigenousdesertalliance
TRANSCRIPT
Sam: Cultural safety is about trying to remove that very strong line. You know, trying to at least diminish that a little bit, so that person in the middle can feel like they can be themselves in both worlds: at home or country, and also in the corporate professional environment.
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
The Importance of Cultural Safetywith Janine Mohamed
The Ampliseed Podcast: Inspiring Stories, Episode 2
This is the second episode in Ampliseed’s Inspiring Stories series— interviews with leaders who inspire us on our pathway to an equitable and nature positive future, who share with us what brought them to this space, which opportunities inspired them, and what challenges they had to overcome.
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ON THIS EPISODE OF INSPIRING STORIES
"We can only ever travel at the speed of trust, and trust takes time". This second episode of our Inspiring Stories podcast brings you a powerful story of lived experience from Dr Janine Mohamed. Janine is a Narrunga Kaurna woman and the Chief Executive of the Lowitja Institute. In this podcast she takes listeners on a journey of Australian history through the very personal, moving lens of her own family’s history.
ABOUT TODAY'S GUESTS
Janine Mohamed (Invited Guest)
Dr Janine Mohamed is the CEO of The Lowitja Institute – Australia’s National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research. She was recently awarded an Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Fellowship in 2019, a Doctorate of Nursing honoris causa by Edith Cowan University in January 2020, and a Distinguished Fellowship by The George Institute for Global Health Australia in 2021. Janine is based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne.
Ariadne Gorring (co-Host)
Ariadne is the co-CEO of Pollination Foundation. Ariadne is passionate about Indigenous-led cultural conservation, working with the Kimberley Land Council (KLC) for over 20 years on native title and cultural and natural resource management. She is a former Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity at Melbourne University, and recipient of the Barbara Thomas Fellowship in Conservation Financing via The Nature Conservancy Australia. Ariadne is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
Kirsty Galloway McLean (co-Host)
Kirsty leads Ampliseed, a global network connecting practitioners with a rights-based, human-centered approach to building environmental resilience. Her background includes over a decade with the United Nations working in Canada and Japan, and 15 years as CEO of a management and communications consulting firm in Australia. As Executive Director at Pollination Foundation, she works to connect and support international organisations, philanthropists, business, Indigenous and community leaders, and other corporate foundations to drive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Kirsty is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
SHOW NOTES
This interview was originally recorded in 2020.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that the following program contains a reference to an Elder who is sadly no longer with us.
Additional resources
Materials referenced
Movie: Rabbit Proof-Fence (a 2002 film based on the 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilikington Garimara).
Book: Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Book: Talkin' Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
To find out more about what Janine and the Lowitja Institute are up to today, please check out the Lowitja website https://www.lowitja.org.au/, and follow them on social media. Facebook: @lowitjainstitute | Twitter: @lowitjainstitut | YouTube: @lowitjainstitute
TRANSCRIPT
Janine: We can only ever travel at the speed of trust, and trust takes time. Being strong in my culture and my cultural identity really helped protect me from the slings and arrows of racism that I experienced when I ventured out into dominant culture spaces, like mainstream schools or health services, because when you come up against those slings, those things that people tell you about yourself, you'll know they're not true.
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Indigenous Storytelling Meets Virtual Realitywith Mikaela Jade
The Ampliseed Podcast: Inspiring Stories, Episode 1
This is the first episode in Ampliseed’s Inspiring Stories series— interviews with leaders who inspire us on our pathway to an equitable and nature positive future, who share with us what brought them to this space, which opportunities inspired them, and what challenges they had to overcome.
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ON THIS EPISODE OF INSPIRING STORIES
Augmented reality. It’s a technology that can superimpose a computer-generated image over someone’s actual view of the real world, creating a composite picture. And not long after Mikaela Jade, a First Nations Cabrogal woman of the Dharug-speaking nation of Sydney, was first exposed to augmented reality, she had a daring idea. She wondered, "What if we could go to our cultural places and people could hold their phones up and ... our old people appeared in holographic format, so they can tell the right stories in the right place, at the right time?"
ABOUT TODAY'S GUESTS
Mikaela Jade (Invited Guest)
Mikaela is the CEO and Founder of Indigital. As a proud Cabrogal woman of the Dharug-speaking nations of Sydney, Australia, Mikaela comes from the world’s oldest storytellers. She loves technology and is a strong proponent of working together, in person, with communities. Named on The Australian’s 100 Top Innovators List and recognised as the 2021 Indigenous Leader of the Year at the Women in Digital awards, Mikaela has been widely recognised as a leader in the technology space, and her company Indigital has received numerous awards. Mikaela is based on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra.
Ariadne Gorring (co-Host)
Ariadne is the co-CEO of Pollination Foundation. Ariadne is passionate about Indigenous-led cultural conservation, working with the Kimberley Land Council (KLC) for over 20 years on native title and cultural and natural resource management. She is a former Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity at Melbourne University, and recipient of the Barbara Thomas Fellowship in Conservation Financing via The Nature Conservancy Australia. Ariadne is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
Kirsty Galloway McLean (co-Host)
Kirsty leads Ampliseed, a global network connecting practitioners with a rights-based, human-centered approach to building environmental resilience. Her background includes over a decade with the United Nations working in Canada and Japan, and 15 years as CEO of a management and communications consulting firm in Australia. As Executive Director at Pollination Foundation, she works to connect and support international organisations, philanthropists, business, Indigenous and community leaders, and other corporate foundations to drive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Kirsty is based on Bunurong Country in Melbourne.
SHOW NOTES
This interview was originally recorded in 2020.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that the following program contains a reference to an Elder who is sadly no longer with us.
Additional resources
Video: Indigital Schools in Action
To find out more about what Mikaela and Indigital are up to today, please check out the Indigital website indigital.net.au, and follow them on social media. Facebook: @indigitaledutech | Instagram: @indigitaledutech | Twitter: @Indigitaledu | LinkedIn: @Indigitaledutech
TRANSCRIPT
Mikaela: Something that really stuck with me was one of the Aunties from Torres Strait Islands had been very quiet during the week. And I was like, are you okay Auntie? And she said, yes, I'm thinking about that blockchain. And I wanna use that blockchain to help manage our fisheries.