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A New Story of Awe with Laura Francois

Awe and its potential as a catalyst for change.
In this episode Laura Francois delves into the importance of experiencing awe and how it can shift perspectives, make us feel interconnected, drive behaviour change and reduce stress.
Laura discusses her research on awe and its various facets, including nature, music, collective effervescence, death, and moral beauty.
She emphasizes the importance of curiosity and wonder in experiencing awe and suggests that awe-based strategies can be used to inform decision-making and drive positive change in sustainability and beyond.
With the idea that awe-based change-making can move us away from the oppressive fear and guilt-driven strategies.
 
 

A New Story Of Normal - With H-E-C-K

From the mind altering power of Curry Wurst to the brain wave pattern of a chair. In The New Story of Normal with former cognitive Neuroscientist turned artist, activist and interactive storyteller, Herwig Egon Casadoro-Kopp, together with host James William Harrup, we discover how language shapes our reality and why challenging norms is essential for progress in our ever-changing world.
In this episode of the Pure Story podcast we dive deep  into the intricate world of language and its cultural implications with the aim to challenge and create new societal norms. 
We explore the power dynamics of words and the dangers of normalising harmful beliefs and behaviours. From dissecting personal encounters with offensive language to ways you can challenge traditional norms and embrace diversity.

A New Story of Belonging - With Rosina Budhani

A personal episode of Change The Story Change The World in which married couple, host, James William Harrup and Intercultural Trainer, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant Rosina Budhani talk about her mission, to foster a real sense of togetherness in us all. And what we can do in our day to day lives to make sure everyone feels like they belong.

A New Story of Profit - With Vincent Van Der Holst

Pure Story meets Vincent Van Der Holst, founder of Boas a vintage fashion platform employing a reverse auction mechanic to ensure all its profits can go to support charities working to cure preventable diseases for kids. And that's only the beginning. 
Vin Would like to see this model, of profit for good, taken up on a mass scale as a very real way to tackle the biggest problems we face today. 

A New Story of Giving - With Hannah Krominga

The economy of kindness.
In this episode of Change The Story, Change the World, Hannah Krominga the Founder at GIFTD - A new app for giving clothes a new life - talks about building a bridge from the current state of extractive, exploitative, over consumerism to a new way of being based on care, kindness and community. All that and the evolution of tadpoles.
Production by Pure Story Creative. 
Music by All Good Folks.
 

Change The Story Change The World - Interstitial

A walk in the woods with James William Harrup where we talk the science and philosophy of story and how it can and has been applied to change the toxic narratives of our age.

A New Story of Growth - With Ben Johnson

Agitator, innovator and friendly problem child, Ben Johnson, of Buddha on The Board, helps us find a new story of growth. 
One that challenges the pursuit of profit above all else as 'just the way it is' and looks past the ever upward graph of linear extraction to a more nurturing, sustainable and ultimately realistic model of capitalism based on the natural cycle of birth, growth, plateau, decline, death and rebirth. 
He offers us insights and practical innovation, from practising your own 'small deaths' to looking to nature to create new, personal models of growth. 
All that and what to do when we finally have to say goodbye to mash potato. 
Production by Pure Story Creative. 
Music by All Good Folks.

Change The Story Change The World

In Change The Story Change The World we invite, less Thought Leaders, more Thought adventurers , Thought discoverers, Thought explorers to look for new stories to rewrite today's toxic narratives.