Kailea Rose Loften and Kate Rose Weiner on building disaster-resilience through communities of care

Disaster preparedness expands beyond short-term charity and immediate on-ground support, yet the “behind-the-scenes” relational work of ongoing organising and community resilience-building is often sidelined by the capitalist aid paradigm. How can leveraging the work of mutual aid organisers and providers through community publishing and media platforms help sustain existing infrastructures of care fortifying disaster preparedness?  In this episode, we are joined by Kailea Rose Loften and Kate Weiner, coeditors of the community publisher Loam and co-authors of the book Compassion in crisis: building disaster-resilient communities. Kailea Rose Loften is a mother of Tahltan, Kaska, and Black American ancestry. She has a background climate change policy with an emphasis on Indigenous rights, previously serving as a Climate Commissioner for the City of Petaluma, California. Kate Weiner works at the intersections of culture and climate justice as a writer and editor, and her work is shaped by her studies in environmental art, social practice, and community herbalism. With the extended version of Compassion in Crisis launching in May, we explore the ways the book provides insight into relational practices and care infrastructures for disaster preparedness and management to support and build community resilience pre- and post-disaster.  Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

Nature “connectedness” is often prescribed as a healing modality for our trauma states but this eco-psychological approach fails to get to the root of our socioecological problems - the separation of the human being from nature. Whilst utilising the benefits of nature immersion to aid our healing journeys is essential, how can we move away from individualistic healing paradigms to re-earthing the nature-embedded mind, bereft of social conditionings on human exceptionalism, to heal and regenerate in the collective? In our first guest episode of the year, we invite to the show Julie Brams, an Earth-centered psychotherapist, meditation practitioner/teacher, and author of The Nature Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves. The Nature Embedded Mind is a groundbreaking new book at the intersection of psychology, ecology, and social justice. Certified as an ANFT Forest Therapy Guide, and founder of the nature-informed retreat and education organisation Elemental, Julie integrates Earth-centred psychotherapy, neuropsychology, meditation, and nature immersion to help individuals and communities heal their relationship with earth. Drawing on clinical practice, evidence based methodology, and scientific research, as well as lived experience and relational work, Julie guides us on how healing our disconnection from our Earth is the next frontier of psychology. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).  

As the new year begins with the crumbling of hope for a stable future, how can we tap into the restorative power of the erotic to regenerate our capacities to make change and attain collective liberation from a place of deep pleasure and joy?  In our first episode of 2026, join me in exploring the ways in which we can reclaim the erotic as power and political resistance in the new year, reconnecting with the feminine life-force within all our bodies to engage in radical pleasure-making that can help us dismantle systems of oppression, at the macro-level but also at the level of the self. Inspired from the work of Audre Lorde, bell hooks, adrienne marie brown, Minna Salami and others, this episode discusses everything from the weaponisation of the erotic as a tool for oppressing women’s bodies and erotic awakenings in childhood, to pleasure self-determination and building pleasure-positive communities, workspaces and lives. Feeling good is freedom, let’s feel good together. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

Conservation urgently needs creative and artistic solutions to addressing pressing biodiversity and climate issues in democratic and ethical ways. What role can the creative storytelling practice of native insect photography play in transforming species conservation to a discipline which respects and cares for overlooked insects and the critical ecosystems that support declining populations such as native bees, and is inclusive of the invaluable contributions of communities and those outside the discipline?    In this month’s conversation, we are joined by Krystle Hickman, a National Geographic Explorer, TEDx speaker, conservation photographer, and native bee expert who uses her photography to raise awareness about the decline of native bee species and their complex ecosystems. Her work has been featured on platforms like Vox, PBS, and the podcast Ologies, expanding her impact beyond visual storytelling. Hickman has also presented at major global and academic venues, including the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) and universities such as Harvard, UCLA, and UC Irvine. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

Under the oppressive systems of white supremacy and colonialism, and the internalisation of "whiteness" in the dominant culture, how can the practice of reparative philanthropy re-story colonial narratives of power to shift to flattened hierarchies of giving and receiving? In today’s episode, we are in conversation with Hilary Giovale, a mother, writer, and community organizer. Being a ninth-generation American settler, she is descended from Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and Indigenous peoples of Ancient Europe. As an active reparationist, her work is guided by intuition, love, and relationships to transmute harmful philanthropic practices to ones rooted in reciprocity and equitable giving. Hilary’s recent book Becoming a Good Relative shares remedies for the debilitating shame that can overtake white Americans when facing their peoples’ colonial past and our current complicity with systemic white supremacy. It offers a unique methodology, supported by African American and Indigenous Elders, which we dive into the depths in today’s conversation. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

We spend a third of our lives in the sleep state, and whilst neuroscience reduces dreams to an evolutionary advantage for day residue and emotional processing, the liminal state of lucid dreaming reveals a deeper active awareness our bodies tap into as we rest. How can lucid awareness help us connect to the spirit of the land so that we can deepen our understanding of its needs in the current time? We bring onto our show Athena Laz, the bestselling author of The Alchemy of Your Dreams, The Sisterhood of Seers Oracle Deck, and The Deliberate Dreamer’s Journal . Her most recent book Women Who Dance in the Dark releases on September 16th 2025. Her books have been translated into more than 13 languages worldwide. Athena is an intuitive, psychologist, and dream teacher who helps thousands of people worldwide connect to spirit and the psyche & rediscovering the potent and sacred power of dream work. Her work has been featured by Today, Bustle, Mindbodygreen, Publisher's Weekly, The Shift Network, Cosmopolitan Magazine, the Sunday Post, Kindred Spirit, Watkins, NY1, and many more media outlets. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

With the ways in which we have internalised systems of oppression and human domination in our dominant culture, it may seem a surprise to many of us to (re)learn the essential food provision of our trees and the intimate relationships humans have had with nut trees over generations and cultures. As we look towards re-embodying ancient ways of nourishing our communities with regenerative, polycultural agricultural and food practices, how can we begin to rekindle our connection to our tree kin? Elspeth Hay is the author of Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food, and the creator and host of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on Cape Cod’s NPR station since 2008. Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food, the environment, and the people, places, and ideas that feed us.  In this conversation, Elspeth maps out ways in which we can begin “re-storying” trees as food providers by reviving ancient food stories of connection, reciprocity and polyculturalism. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

As many of our workspaces begin adapting to the increasing presence of burnout culture, what power does naming the disembodying of internalised systems as reviving the feminine hold for transforming the way we work?  In this episode, we are in conversation with LeeAnn Mallorie, author and CEO of Guts & Grace, who began her career as an executive coach in 2006, working with leaders and teams from around the globe. Yet she soon found something was missing—the body. This led her on a personal journey of physical, mental, and spiritual healing, to eventually embrace the feminine side of leadership. Committed to walking her talk, she brought these lessons back to her clients in the corporate, non-profit and government sectors, with surprisingly positive results.  Today, LeeAnn explores how the introduction of more diverse values into business could be a keystone to solving some of our world’s stickiest problems. She now helps female leaders and their teams creatively face bottom-line business challenges while dissolving both meaning depletion and burnout. Her work sparks radical innovation, using practical embodiment tools that bridge the gap between the hard-driving logical mind and the deeper wisdom of the soul. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

In the loud of the ever-changing world, what does it truly mean to engage in silence with intention? How can intended, desired pause open up possibilities for deepening relationships with oneself and community beyond the realms of verbal communication? This month, we bring to our show Pamela Dangelmaier, a sought-after motivational speaker, TEDx presenter, and mindfulness coach, who has a passion for intentional silence and empowering individuals and leaders to embrace quiet moments as a gateway to clarity, creativity, and meaningful action. As a founding member of the Mindful Coach Association, published novelist, e-commerce entrepreneur, and mindfulness advocate, Pamela infuses every aspect of her life with the same practices she teaches - pausing, listening deeply, and engaging with presence. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).

Environmental justice work speaks to the visceral nature of systemic oppression, lived through the bodies of Indigenous and local communities at the frontlines of climate crises and ecological degeneration. To defend the land, water and other natural resources is not a question of choice but survival for many communities protecting their territories from extractive industries. How do we then, as allies and advocates, choose to take the risk of offering our voices and organising with environmental defenders, in the movement to collective freedom and justice? This month, we bring onto the show Abby Reyes, an author and recognized leader in driving community climate solutions. Her first book, Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice releases today, May 6, 2025, from North Atlantic Books. Truth Demands is a salve for anyone navigating the open waters of grief and essential reading for the emerging climate activist and those becoming more ecologically aware. The book chronicles Abby’s own healing journey and pursuit of justice after the loss of her partner and two other land rights advocates when they were murdered near Indigenous U’wa territory in Colombia in 1999.  Born and raised in Virginia, Abby began her climate work conducting rural environmental legal assistance in the Philippines, her father’s homeland, and later walked alongside the Colombian U’wa Indigenous pueblo in their fight against big oil – an experience at the center of Truth Demands. Today, she is the Director of Community Resilience Projects at University of California, Irvine, where she supports leaders from climate-vulnerable communities and their academic partners to accelerate community-owned just transition solutions. A graduate of Stanford University and UC Berkeley Law, she clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, co-chaired the board of EarthRights International, and is an advisor to the National Association of Climate Resilience Planners.  Abby has been recognized as a “Model of Resistance” by Barnard’s Scholar and the Feminist Conference, has a TEDx talk on How to Come Home and has discussed her work with the Law & Political Economy Project. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. This conversation centres the themes of Truth Demands addressing embodiment as resistance, chronic fatigue and exhaustion in environmental justice work, and body reorganisation through rest. Visit mindfullofeverything.com to access full episode shownotes, resources and archives. Connect with us on Instagram (@mindfullofeverything_pod) and Facebook (@mindfullofeverything).