Ep 75 Charlie Showers Throwback

Next season will kick off next Monday but in the meantime, we are satisfying your insatiable hunger with throwbacks to our fave episodes from season 1. Enjoy these wonderous humans and all their brilliance. Before you ask, yes this is Charlie Showers of Black Barn Farm - Jade's other half.Charlie is a fair food advocate, holistic orchardist, landscape scientist and insatiable reader, with an appetite for knowledge that sees him getting up before the birds to devour scientific papers, books and teachings, before putting it into practice at Black Barn Farm.In this conversation, he shares decades of wisdom with his trademark patience, clarity and intellect. He covers the power of community and regional pride, a new way to frame our 'hypocrisy' in this time of transition, the reality of first generation farming and a sugar-free account of a 'working marriage' and unified vision. You'll get to hear Jade's answers too ;)No hopium, all clarity in this complex interview that inspires action!SHOW NOTESSitting with the contradiction inherent in your morals and lifestyleReconciling hypocrisy in your everyday existenceBeing self aware without it becoming unbearable His childhood role-modelling of ‘family statesmen’ who committed to the needs of their community equally with their ownMaintaining curiosity about our system, culture and economy to impart changeWhy farming is the best place for him to share knowledge at a community level and make meaningful change Why showing rather than telling is the most powerful way to inspireBeing exposed to those who have a different way of being, whirrs the thinking cogsThe importance of self time to recuperate and maintain balance when you’re an introvertWhy endless hope is not always helpful, and hopium is a recipe for ignoranceWhat a new future might look likeThe raw reality of starting up a long-game farming enterpriseThe potency of creating a dream togetherUndertaking change journeys as a coupleIdeas to ‘blow your mind’Living examples of how systems interact with and impact on each otherAwe of the Indigenous Australian cultural understanding of the complex web of the worldMaking ‘complexity science’ more mainstream for the betterment of allHis evolution of changemaking from panicked urgency to slow and steady solutionsWhy being more settled will make his children better change makersThe evolution and personal nature of successImportance of a ‘solutions based mindset’LINKS YOU'LL LOVEBlack Barn Farm website & InstagramSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/futuresteading)Buy the Book: Futuresteading, live like tomorrow mattersSupport the show