Wild with Sarah Wilson

About Wild with Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson chats wild ideas for a fired up life.The multi-New York Times bestselling author, activist, minimalist and former news journalist who founded the global phenomenon ‘I Quit Sugar’ travelled the world for 10 years (living out of one bag) to explore the freshest ways to live fully…and to save this one wild and precious life we have together.She riffs with philosophers, creatives, poets, scientists (and at least one nun!) on the Big Questions that haunt us. What goes through the mind of a prisoner on death row? How does Sia invent her art? Will we die from climate change and can our rage save us? Is being Australian a mental health crisis? Join Sarah as she wrestles a path to the answers… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Sarah Wilson

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jan 2021

Latest episode

7 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

48 of 215 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   INDY JOHAR: "How do we prepare the world for what’s coming?"

   Host Sarah Wilson interviews systems designer Indy Johar about preserving humanity's capacity to adapt to future challenges, exploring civilizational optionality and the meaning of being human.

2. 

   30 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   SARAH STEIN LUBRANO: How do we change people’s minds about what’s happening to the world?

   Host Sarah Wilson interviews neuroscientist Sarah Stein Lubrano about effective strategies for changing minds and fostering cooperation in a complex world.

3. 

   23 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   JOHN SEED: Is Deep Ecology the answer?

   Host Sarah Wilson interviews Deep Ecology OG John Seed about how a failure of human identity, not information, hinders planetary crisis solutions.

Inside a recent episode

INDY JOHAR: "How do we prepare the world for what’s coming?"

Published 7 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So in the asking of what comes next, we need to be asking, what are we trying to preserve or fight for or create? From what I understand you're saying, the job is not to preserve civilization or even to know with certainty or certitude what comes next. It's to preserve, and I'm quoting you here, is to preserve or expand the capacity for life on Earth to keep creating futures. And you call this civilizational optionality. Could you explain what you mean by this? Take as long or as short as you need to, because I think it's such an interesting idea. Yeah, I mean, so where this comes from is, I think, it's very clear that the dominant pathways of how we've been organizing our planet and how we've been organizing our labor in the planet is reaching an end of a cycle. […]

Who has been a guest on Wild with Sarah Wilson

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• Indy Johar
• Sarah Stein Lubrano
• John Seed
• Jeremy Lent
• Francis Weller

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

76 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

580 ratings

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