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Wild with Sarah Wilson
Wild with Sarah Wilson
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... more

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Episodes

JOHANN HARI: Is Ozempic a miracle drug or something darker?

Johann Hari (bestselling author Stolen Focus and Lost Connections) has written another system-rattling book, this time about the new weight... more

30 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
AMA: How do you plan your life financially in a collapsing world? Do you bother?

As we become aware of climate collapse and its ripple effect on the financial and energy systems, and as houses... more

25 Apr 2024 · 21 minutes
ANNABEL ABBS: The subversive, creative upside of insomnia (oh joy!)

Annabel Abbs (English novelist; author of Sleepless) was crippled with insomnia. Rather than fight it she looked for its productive... more

23 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
The “Uncles” climate case that could change EVERYTHING

Isabelle Reinecke (founder Grata Fund) is leading a super exciting landmark legal case that could force the Australian Government to... more

18 Apr 2024 · 25 minutes
ANNA FUNDER: On Wifedom (and calling out Orwellian “doublethink”)

Anna Funder (international bestselling author of Wifedom) pens books about power. She is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland, about the Stasi, which... more

16 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 12 minutes
A FUN BACKSTORY: Because I promised it…

In last week’s interview with a Palestinian and an Israeli Father, I promised to share how we met, a story... more

11 Apr 2024 · 11 minutes
HELEN LEWIS: A heterodox update from TERF island

Helen Lewis (The Atlantic columnist, BBC podcaster, pop culture decoder) has become a darling of the heterodox podcasting community (and... more

09 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 25 minutes
A PALESTINIAN AND AN ISRAELI FATHER: “We must all stop being victims; victimhood causes the violence!”

Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan (peace activists with Parent’s Circle) are the two protagonists from Colum McCann’s Booker-Prize-longlisted book Apeirogon. Both lost their... more

04 Apr 2024 · 53 minutes
LIV BOEREE: Explaining Moloch, the mysterious game theory force breaking the world (plus a fix!)

Liv Boeree (world poker champion; astrophysicist; game theorist) is on a mission to explain why we are all trapped in... more

26 Mar 2024 · 57 minutes
AMA: How do you, Sarah, deal with a broken heart?

Substack subscribers have posed some beautiful thought-provoking questions this week. Do I suffer from a broken heart and how do... more

21 Mar 2024 · 24 minutes
PROF JOEL PEARSON: Gut feeling is (scientifically) real; this is how to use it

Prof. Joel Pearson (Neuroscientist; AI and intuition expert) developed the first scientific test to measure intuition, dragging it out of... more

19 Mar 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
PETER FRANKOPAN: How climate collapsed civilisations (and will it ours?)

Peter Frankopan (Silk Roads author, Oxford historian) has just written a mega-history book called The Earth Transformed that reframes human history... more

12 Mar 2024 · 53 minutes
AMA with a Palestinian peace broker: What should we be doing to help, not hinder, the crisis? Does posting on social media do ANYTHING?

Today’s question has come in from many of you over recent weeks. It’s an important one to ask as we... more

07 Mar 2024 · 58 minutes
KELLY WEINERSMITH: Why settling Mars is a really dumb idea

Dr Kelly Weinersmith (behavioural ecologist and space expert) and her husband Zach have just spent four years researching a subject... more

05 Mar 2024 · 55 minutes
DEVIN MOSS: An atheist death row chaplain on how to die without God

Devin Moss (atheist chaplain and humanist) late last year ministered a convicted murderer to his death by execution in the... more

27 Feb 2024 · 49 minutes
AMA: Do we create art in the apocalypse?

I’ve been doing a bunch of Substack meetups around Australia over the past few weeks (the Sydney and Northern NSW... more

22 Feb 2024 · 18 minutes
MAGGIE JACKSON: Why “not knowing” is 2024’s survival superpower

Maggie Jackson (award-winning author and journalist) has just written a book - Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure –... more

20 Feb 2024 · 1 hour,
AMA: Why does hiking “work”?

More than 43,000 studies have been done to show how and why walking in nature (hiking) has so many mental... more

15 Feb 2024 · 18 minutes
MAGGIE DENT: What to do about boys (‘cos you asked)

Maggie Dent (the “queen of common sense”;  parenting expert) raised four sons, largely solo, and went on to write about her... more

13 Feb 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
AMA: Why are girls flocking Left and boys are flopping Right?

Did you see the results of the survey published in the Financial Times that showed there is a growing political... more

08 Feb 2024 · 22 minutes
CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN: Exposing the Ultra-Processed Food Trap

Chris van Tulleken (doctor, TV host) is a London infectious diseases specialist known for his popular BBC health TV programs that... more

06 Feb 2024 · 57 minutes
AMA: Do you regret not having kids?

A quick, breezy episode that talks about how to navigate decision-making regret, honing in on landing in one's post-repro years... more

02 Feb 2024 · 20 minutes
ALAIN DE BOTTON: A philosophical fix for anxiety

Alain de Botton (School of Life founder; author) has written 15 books about the philosophy of living – such as... more

30 Jan 2024 · 57 minutes
BEST OF: BEAU MILES: How to be a backyard adventurer

Over the Australian summer, I’ve been picking out some cracker eps that you might have missed or would benefit from... more

23 Jan 2024 · 50 minutes
BEST OF: TIM BROWN: Sarah’s interview with her meditation teacher

Wild is having a bit of a break as the New Year gets started and we’ll be running a bunch... more

16 Jan 2024 · 45 minutes
BEST OF: JULIA CAMERON: How to live the artist's way

Wild is having a break for a few weeks as the New Year gets started and we’ll be running a... more

09 Jan 2024 · 40 minutes
BEST OF: AZIZ ABU SARAH: A radical Palestinian peace broker on how to solve wicked conflicts

Wild will be taking a pause for a few weeks over the summer period and we’ll be running a bunch of... more

26 Dec 2023 · 56 minutes
BEST OF: BAYO AKOMOLAFE: The times are urgent, let’s slow down and become a fugitive

Wild will be taking a pause for a few weeks over the summer period and we’ll be running a bunch of... more

19 Dec 2023 · 49 minutes
BEST OF: DAN BUETTNER: Sarah chats with her friend about all things Blue Zones

Wild will be taking a pause for a few weeks over the summer period and we’ll be running a bunch of... more

12 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
DAVID BROOKS: How to be humanist in cruel times

David Brooks (New York Times columnist; best-selling author) is both one of America’s best-known conservative commentators and one of its... more

05 Dec 2023 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
BONUS EPISODE: A Life More Wild

Recently I was interviewed on the popular British podcast A Life More Wild which interviews prominent (mostly British) folk about... more

30 Nov 2023 · 21 minutes
HANNAH BARNES: We need to think through the transgender kids debate

Hannah Barnes (BBC journalist; exposed the “Tavistock Clinic” scandal) has become the somewhat reluctant global voice on the raging child... more

28 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
AMA: How should I (ethically) do a massive clean-out (to "Kondo" or to "Wilson”)?

In this episode of Ask Me Anything I answer three questions: How should I do the massive cleanout of my life... more

23 Nov 2023 · 23 minutes
CONNOR BEATON: The confronting reason why men watch porn

Connor Beaton (men’s coach, porn addict mentor) helps men face their shadows. The US author and podcaster has coached thousands... more

21 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
AMA: My climate activist son needs your help!

This week’s question comes from concerned mum Emma, but it’s one that is cropping up a lot - What to... more

16 Nov 2023 · 22 minutes
PAUL HAWKEN: We’re ending the climate crisis in one generation

Paul Hawken (Project Drawdown founder) is the climate activist who, for decades, has shown us how we can *actually* make... more

14 Nov 2023 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
BONUS EP: Sarah + Oliver Burkeman chatting on Intelligence Squared

Figured many of you here would like to hear the conversation I had recently with Oliver Burkeman, author of Four... more

09 Nov 2023 · 1 hour,
MARGARET WHEATLEY: An episode on civilization collapse (warning: truly confronting)

Margaret (Meg) Wheatley (collapse theorist, global leadership consultant) is something of a legend in her field. She has worked for 50 years helping... more

07 Nov 2023 · 50 minutes
AMA: How do you make your podcast?

This week’s question comes from long-time reader, frequent and generous commenter Kei Ikeda, but it’s one I’ve been asked a few... more

02 Nov 2023 · 21 minutes
ANAND GIRIDHARADAS: How to persuade people in a polarised world

Like many of us, Anand Giridharadas (American political commentator, bestselling author) despaired how the world had become stuck in a fractured... more

31 Oct 2023 · 56 minutes
BONUS EP: Sarah + Berry Liberman talk Sensemaking in the Metacrisis

For something a bit different this week, I’m posting an important conversation I had a few days ago via the... more

26 Oct 2023 · 54 minutes
TRACEY SPICER: AI is the new frontier of feminism!

There are many ways to challenge the AI juggernaut that has been unleashed on the world, but Tracey Spicer (multi-Walkley... more

24 Oct 2023 · 43 minutes
AMA: Sarah, What do you think of marriage?

Continuing with this new weekly format, each week I’m answering a hoary question from my Substack community (you can join... more

19 Oct 2023 · 15 minutes
ANNIE MURPHY PAUL: We don’t think with our brains, we think with the world!

Annie Murphy Paul (US science writer and author of The Extended Mind) recently came out with a bold theory about... more

17 Oct 2023 · 47 minutes
AMA: Sarah, why did you move away from Australia?

News! Sarah is now answering your questions.No fanfare here…I’m just launching into this by announcing I’ll publish an extra 10-15... more

12 Oct 2023 · 17 minutes
MISSY SIMS: The TikTok star suing Big Oil

Missy Sims (TikToker, Republican, lawyer taking down Fossil Fuel companies) could be described as the modern-day Erin Brockovich. Late last... more

10 Oct 2023 · 42 minutes
NATE HAGENS: On the “Great Simplification”

Nate Hagens (mindblowing energy futurist) was working on Wall Street when he realised…we don’t have enough energy to fund the... more

03 Oct 2023 · 52 minutes
ADAM MASTROIANNI: Do we need to make the world great (and kinder) again?

Adam Mastroianni (experimental psychologist, Substacker) recently published a study in Nature that hit headlines. The paper, co-published with happiness expert Daniel Gilbert, demonstrated... more

26 Sep 2023 · 50 minutes
EMILY M. BENDER: AI won’t kill us any time soon (don’t believe the bro’ hype!)

Emily M. Bender (ChatGPT expert) is a linguist, a scholar of the societal impact of language AI and a professor at the University... more

19 Sep 2023 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
IAN LESLIE: Why your future depends on getting curious

Ian Leslie (British journalist, curiosity expert) is worried the world has become too fixated on absolutes and predictability just as... more

12 Sep 2023 · 53 minutes
DR GLADYS MCGAREY: “I’m 102, here’s how to spend your energy wildly”

Dr Gladys McGarey (102 years old, founder of the “holistic” medicine movement) has lived a big, wild life and joins... more

05 Sep 2023 · 46 minutes
JONATHAN ROWSON: Welcome to the “metacrisis”. Now what?

Jonathan Rowson (chess Grandmaster, metamodernist philosopher) is one of Britain’s biggest minds and I have invited him onto Wild to... more

29 Aug 2023 · 1 hour,
GAYA HERRINGTON: Complete global collapse by 2040? The prediction is “right on track”...

Gaya Herrington (Club of Rome adviser, “global collapse” expert) hit headlines when she showed that a world-stopping 1972 MIT study... more

22 Aug 2023 · 53 minutes
LUKE BURGIS: How humans “want”: Mimetic desire explained

Luke Burgis (ethical entrepreneur, mimetic desire expert) reckons none of us knows what we want. We like to think we... more

15 Aug 2023 · 1 hour, 1 minute
CLANCY MARTIN: How not to kill yourself

Clancy Martin (professor of philosophy, multiple suicide survivor) has tried – unsuccessfully, obviously – to depart this mortal coil a... more

08 Aug 2023 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
SUSAN NEIMAN: Left is not woke!

Susan Neiman (world-leading moral philosopher, socialist, Einstein Forum director) joins me to clear up a wholly frustrating and destructive dialogue... more

01 Aug 2023 · 47 minutes
FRANCES HAUGEN: In which I speak to the Facebook whistleblower

Frances Haugen (globally renowned whistleblower, author of The Power of One) singlehandedly created social media’s Big Tobacco moment. In 2021,... more

27 Jun 2023 · 57 minutes
PICO IYER: The spiritual case for travel

Pico Iyer (bestselling travel writer; author of The Art of Stillness; Leonard Cohen’s close mate) studies the paradox of our... more

20 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
TYSON YUNKAPORTA: Indigenous knowledge can save the world!

Tyson Yunkaporta (Indigenous knowledge expert and renegade) is an Aboriginal scholar and founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at... more

13 Jun 2023 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
WILL STORR: How to play the status game (a fresh way to fix the world!)

Will Storr (award-winning UK journalist and author) writes about humans in fun ways, and goes to lengths to do this,... more

06 Jun 2023 · 46 minutes
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Susan Neiman (world-leading moral philosopher, socialist, Einstein Forum director) joins me to clear up a wholly frustrating and destructive dialogue stopper –... more