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Changemakers

Amanda Tattersall

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ChangeMakers Podcast tells stories of people trying the change the world. Host Amanda Tattersall travels the globe, talking to the people involved in extraordinary campaigns, finding out what works - and what doesn’t. Hopes, fears and regrets are revealed. Story by story, the lessons of how to change the world are teased out. Series One in 2017 featured ten episodes, and Series 2 released in 2018 covers campaigns from the democracy movement in Hong Kong to the Marriage Equality movement in A ...
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Starting a business can be challenging and if you build it, the customers won’t necessarily come. Conor McCarthy, entrepreneur and coach, interviews business builders on their First 10 Customers to find out who they were, how they found them, how they talked to them, and what effect they had on their business. From idea validation to market traction, The First 10 Podcast describes what the path of selling to the First 10 Customers (and beyond) looks like.
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The Queer Body

Dr. Laura Polak, D.C : LGBTQI, Healing

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Welcome to The Queer Body! We are redefining the edges of queer identity and healing. The show is hosted by Dr. Laura Polak, Somatic Healer and Chiropractor.Join us as we talk about how we define what Queer means and shapes the healing work we do for ourselves, our community, and as part of social justice." 'Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with ( that can be a dimension of it), but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to inven ...
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What would it take for communities reliant on fossil fuels to be leaders in the climate transition? In this chat Elise Ganley, the National Lead Organiser for the Real Deal for Australia project explores how communities like Gladstone and Geelong are leading the way in designing policies that create an economic transition in ways that are shaped by…
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Crystal and Jason walk the walk and teach us through word and modeling how to be a collective. Explore with us the topic of creating a community and chosen family moving beyond the carceral state and seeding dreams of abolitionism. We then talk about how to be in the system and break it at the same time. Learn about the creed of commons and a frank…
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We are all different - but some of these differences are hard to see. That includes differences based on our neurodiversity or our mental health. This conversation is with Jacinta Dietrich the co-host of the Differently Brained podcast. She is autistic and has lived with the challenges of mental health. She co-created a podcast to make a space for …
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If you are in Australia you might have heard of GetUp, or if you are in the United States you probably know about MoveOn - but you might not be aware that these kinds of digital advocacy movements operate in 20 countries around the world. These groups are linked through a global network called OPEN (Online Progressive Engagement Network) and today …
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Making change is be invaluable, but without resources it is hard to do. This episode digs into the question of how to raise money to make changemaking happen. We talk with Martha McKenzie the Executive Director of the Civic Power Fund in the United Kingdom. The Civic Power Fund is dedicated to raising resources for community organising - providing …
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It’s been one year since the Australian Federal Election that swooped an unprecedented number of community independents into the House of Representatives, and it’s been 10 years since that “Voices for” movement started. In celebration of Voices for Indi, we are sharing this Chat with Nick Haines - in case you missed it (ICYMI). Nick worked on Cathy…
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In the 2022 Australian Federal Election the Greens won an unprecedented number of seats in Queensland - producing what came to be known as the “Green Wave.” Max Chandler-Mather was at the centre of that movement - and is now the current Member for Griffith. In this conversation he shares how the Queensland Greens translated community organising tec…
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Join us today as Nick explains his journey as a gay man who did not feel he fit in the gay male culture, his work life, and his family and embraced his weirdness through the exploration of his being a queer human. He explains that on this journey he realized that many of the things that others were doing did not appeal to him, clubs and partying, m…
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Australia is in the middle of a national conversation that could transform our relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. But how much do you know about the long story that sits behind the Voice to Parliament referendum? Thomas Mayo is a Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal, Erubamle Torres Strait Islander man, born on Larrakia co…
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Few people have been as effective at agitating for a stronger climate and environment movement as Bill McKibben. He has consistently pushed new strategies and thinking in the battle to save our natural environment and our climate.In celebration of his agitator spirit, we are re-sharing this #InCaseYouMissedIt episode with Bill McKibben recorded in …
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Australian of the Year Grace Tame talks with us about her journey into change making and the challenges she has encountered. She talks about the power of even small action, and the impact that petitions had in the #LetHerSpeak movement. She talks about how the pathway to making change can be uneven, made difficult by the experience of trauma. It is…
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Today we talk with Claire O’Rouke - a former journalist, climate campaigner and author of Together We Can - about the diverse and creative grassroots movement of people around Australia taking action to respond to the threat of climate change. Together We Can canvassed over 70 stories of Australians who have developed novel community based response…
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Join us as we discuss how different communities influence our queer identity. Being a partner of a trans man things are not always what the appear to be. Straight communities assume we are straight, queer communities can question our right to be in queer spaces. There are so many assumptions about other identities and really, it's nobody's business…
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So what do former Fire Chief Greg Mullins and Australian Cricket Captain Pat Cummins have in common? They both want action on climate change and they have both worked with Amanda McKenzie, CEO of Australia’s Climate Council, to build their strategy. Amanda is a climate communicator who has worked to catalyse different communities of people affected…
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Karen Iles is long time social changemaker, lawyer and victim survivor of aggravated sexual assault when she was a child. As a young adult she went to the police to lodge a statement so they would investigate the crime, only to be stymied at every turn. After almost 20 years of police inaction, she has launched a campaign to create a duty for polic…
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Join us as Trinity describes how her spiritual practice has helped her to examine the fluidity of masculine and feminine energies. By stepping out of the dominant paradigms understanding of Masculine and feminine she talks about how we can create ourselves with just the right blend in each situation. In the second half, we explore her work as a Kun…
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Modern society tells subtle but powerful stories that shape how we think about how we should live together, make decisions together and what we should value. Jon Alexander has identified three of these stories - the subject story of the tyrant strong man, the consumer story of the modern market and the citizen story, as alternative ways we can be. …
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Willi Queer identity and dominant culture. How we are sculpted. Looking at where we are shaped in a dominant culture and how do we unhook from it in Western culture and society, there are boxes where we can check off how people are supposed to be: male/female, straight/gay, and the praxis is moving into the variety and breadth the queer community h…
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There is a powerful movement led for and by the trans and gender diverse community building in Australia - and today’s ChangeMaker Chat is with one of its founders. Jackie Turner is a trans woman and a long time social justice and climate organiser. This chat explores how organising in her community has given her a new lens on how and why we make c…
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Today’s podcast looks at racism in the not for profit world. Aminata Conteh-Bigher has an extraordinary story; having developed powerful leadership qualities in Sierra Leonne civil war forced her to flee her home. In Australia she founded the Aminata Maternal Foundation to change the dangerous conditions that women face when giving birth in Sierra …
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Join us as we explore these definitions and the broadness of the queer term and its interconnectedness to nature. " Nature has been one of SJ biggest allies in learning about sexuality and their queerness. They would observe the features and shapes and characteristics of nature and realized the dynamic characteristics reflected their dynamics and o…
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Ursula Goulet Ursula Goulet is a somatic coach, bodyworker, ceremonial cacao facilitator, and ritual herbalist on a mission of liberation and healing through erotic awakening. In this episode, we explore the power of reclaiming our pleasure just for the joy of it as well as a transformational process to liberate life force and unwind cultural myths…
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In this episode, Dr. Sasha T. Goldberg explores what being queer and butch identity means. Over the years her relationship has evolved from the militant stage, which felt more like a response to the world to be more centered on self in the world. In the past 15 years, she has come to the place of not using the term queer as it feels more potent to …
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Terri Janke is an Aboriginal and Torrest Strait Islander Lawyer who uses the law to protect and advance Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property. As a Meriam and Wuthathi woman who grew up in Cairns in northern Queensland, for over 20 years she has crafted a set of legal instruments that allow for the protection of Indigenous Culture. From an …
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In this follow-up episode, Staci and I discuss the definition of Somatics and Embodiment and move right into 20 minutes of practice. Please note we originally planned three practices but decided that for this interview to do a deep dive on the body scan and centering practices. After doing the deeper dive we invite you to modify the practice and jo…
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In the US midterm elections, one of the extraordinary outcomes was how many young people turned their back on some of the more extreme candidates that denied the 2020 election result. Yet should it have been so surprising? Young people have been organising like their lives depended on it for a while - including through the March for Our Lives movem…
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The city of Barcelona has lived with an unprecedented housing crisis, and in its wake the city created a new kind of radical and successful political party. Former housing activist Ada Colou was elected as the city’s Mayor in 2015, and again in 2019. What led to her success? This story, a re-release of our very first episode back in 2017, shares th…
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Send us a text "The goal of this podcast is to help business builders learn some best practices when they go looking for their first 10, to expose the things worth doing and the things that might be dead ends and ultimately cost time and money. We should all be recycling these days, and when it comes to understanding your customers and how you talk…
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One of the biggest challenges facing any change maker is how to enlist help from the state, especially when it comes to the fight for economic justice. Australian Labor Party Member of Parliament, Daniel Mulino, has written about the history and future of the welfare state, and in his recent book Safety Net proposes new (and old) ways for imagining…
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Send us a text ‘’In a start-up, you can’t move slowly because your competition is not moving slowly.’’ – Rob Walling. On this bonus episode of the First 10 Podcast, I have something a little different for you. I asked Rob Walling, serial entrepreneur, investor, author, and host of the popular podcast ‘Startups for the Rest of Us’ , if I could resha…
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The Health Justice Commons' Founding Director, Mordecai Cohen Ettinger (they/them), joins me on this podcast episode to discuss the meaning of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). The Health Justice Commons offers a biannual Political Education Series about the MIC so we can learn and build our community of visionary resistance together. The curri…
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Send us a text Welcome back to the final episode of season four, and what a season it has been – but it’s not over just yet! Joining me to wrap up this serial-entrepreneur season is founder and chief side hustler of Side Hustle Nation, Nick Loper. Have you ever had the itch to get a side hustle going!? If so, you will love this episode! If you have…
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Could there be a single lever in the global marketplace that could transform the stakes for climate change? Yes - the insurance industry. Over the past 5 years insurance has been turned upside down by a nimble network of climate campaigners that have set new rules to end insurance for fossil fuel projects. We are re-releasing this 2021 story of the…
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How on earth did all those community independents win seats in the May 2022 Election? This ChangeMaker Chat talks to Katerina Gaita the Field Organiser and Volunteer Coordinator for Zoe Daniel’s campaign in Goldstein. She unpacks the long march of the independents, starting with Cathy McGowan winning in Indi to the ‘Wave of Teal’ in 2022. As a comm…
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While the world is striving to stop catastrophic climate change, there is plenty of conflict over how climate campaign goals are chosen and the language that is used to express them. A key fault line is between the Global North and Global South and whether campaigns about energy transition are imposed onto communities, or connected to solutions tha…
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Send us a text "When people are actively looking for a product like yours, and you're not marketing it, you are actually doing an act of disservice. You are starving them of something that they need, that they could use. By not marketing, you're putting a ceiling on your potential." – Corey Haines. Are you currently creating or marketing a product …
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Lots of people say they co-design research and policy with communities, but how do you know when co-design is being done well (and when it isn’t)? We talk to one of the world’s leading autistic participatory researchers, Professor Liz Pellicano from University College London. She shares the elements of good co-design, such as the process of interde…
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This week we interview one of the world’s leading climate action warriors, Bill McKibben. Bill began as a writer, where his passion for the story and his love of nature drew him to write the first popular global book about climate change - The End of Nature. In the 2000s, dismayed at the lack of grassroots action to stop climate change he founded 3…
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Join us for an amazing conversation on how music heals. What it is like to traverse living in a world as a plus-sized femme and ssocial activism in her first album Enough. She then tackles mental divergency in her second album glimmer and is currently working on a third album where she discusses consent.. Please note this might be a difficult conve…
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Australian party politics can seriously lack diversity. This conversation is about how that can be changed. Osmond Chiu has been pushing to increase cultural diversity in the Australian Labor Party for a while. Today he shares some of the triumphs, tribulations and lessons about how change is possible - including some reflections on the highs and l…
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How do we keep healing and transforming and changing the social conditions? Staci and I discuss how Somatics is defined as a living organism of our wholeness and embodied transformation is knowing that transformation occurs when our visions and values align even under pressure. Staci continues to work in somatics because she notes that the soma pro…
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In what ways are public servants ChangeMakers, and how can advocacy groups build more powerful relationships with them? This chat is with one of Australia’s most senior former public servants - Peter Shergold - who was a senior official in both the Hawke Labor Government and the Howard conservative Liberal Government. He shares stories about what i…
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Send us a text Wondering how best to grow your audience or perhaps, how to fund your next trip to Ireland? If so, this week's podcast is a must-listen for you! This week, joining Conor on the show is special guest and serial entrepreneur Brennan Dunn. Brennan is the co-founder of RightMessage, a platform for online businesses to enhance their autom…
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Join us as Kinfolxz in living time, models how to create community-based healing at the Queer Healing Arts Center in Oakland, CA. " Because self-care is a collective effort: we are not intended to be alone." She helps us see that one of the ways we can create this is by asking the right questions of the communities we serve. such as " What is it yo…
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Nick Haines - ChangeMaker Chats - Independents and ElectionsThe 2022 Australian Election is all about the Independent ‘Teal’ Candidates - but where did this Independent movement come from? Today we talk with Nick Haines, Voices for Indi activist, and son of Helen Haines, Member for Indi, about how it all began. He shares his family’s story and how …
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Join us for a delightful conversation with Shauna about how to listen to your body and its wants and needs without worries about getting it right or embaressment. We talk about what somatic coaching is and what an individual somatic sex education appointment looks like. Shauna Farabaugh is a certified Somatic Sex Educator and Tension and Trauma Rel…
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Send us a text This week, joining the podcast is special guest, serial entrepreneur, and the king of shiny objects, Brian Casel. Brian is the founder of Zip Message, a popular video messaging tool for async conversations, which launched at the beginning of 2021. Brian recently sold and exited some of his earlier businesses, including Audience Ops a…
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This is the first of two episodes about people power in election campaigns. Today we feature a campaign by the Australian digital campaign group GetUp. This independent community movement worked to change the electoral outcome in the Tasmanian seat of Bass in 2016. The story shares lessons about how people can work in elections to have their needs …
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Luke Lintott talks about reprograming your mind and body so that you can be who you want to be and who you are becoming. He discusses his journey as a bisexual and bi-cultural man and finding the beauty and accepting his fluidity and moving out of the binary and embracing his whole being. "Be exactly who you are!" How are we treating our bodies and…
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