Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of “Ask Me Anything” questions about the minutiae of writing about - and having... more

Prof. Joel Pearson (Neuroscientist; AI and cognition scientist) returns to Wild, this time to discuss whether free will is an illusion. In... more

Christiana Figueres (the woman behind the Paris Agreement) is possibly the best-known official in the global climate change movement. The... more

In this SPECIAL EPISODE British coach, author and broadcaster Elizabeth Oldfield and I sit down in her London intentional community... more

I do these bonus episodes occasionally whereby I interview someone I serendipitously met on my adventures and who I wrote... more

Dr Iain McGilchrist (neuroscientist, psychiatrist, polymath, author of The Master and His Emissary) devised a thesis that sets out how the... more

Professor Corey Bradshaw (global ecologist; author) has spent a career studying species populations and biodiversity loss and has the starkest... more

*(and that the wars, climate disasters, democratic upheavals etc today are VERY different to crises in the past)?This episode’s question... more

Dr Nick Bryant (BBC Washington correspondent, author) has spent most of his career covering the events that many of us... more

Professor Clive Hamilton (public ethicist; climate activist; founder of the Australia Institute) has led the emissions reduction conversation for decades.... more

Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with... more

Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with... more

Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with... more

Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with... more

Hello, dear wild friends! I'm taking a short break, but I wanted to share some of my previous interviews with... more

Jem Bendell (collapse “poster kid”, academic) wrote the paper that launched the “Deep Adaptation” movement and spawned Extinction Rebellion. That... more

Jean Twenge (psychologist; professor at San Diego State University) is regarded as the world expert on “generations”. She famously described millennials... more

This week I asked fellow substacker Anya Kamenetz to help me answer the above question. Anya is a parent and climate... more

Greg Lukianoff (New York Times best-selling author, attorney) co-wrote the blockbuster The Coddling of the American Mind, which argued we were... more

Jenny Odell (NYT bestseller, artist) wrote a bestselling book five years ago that Barack Obama declared one of his “books... more

OK, this week is a kind of personal and also sociological muse-fest (from someone who's been on ALL the apps... more

Frank Ostaseski (Buddhist; end-of-life teacher; elder) helps people die best. He has accompanied over 1,000 people through the dying process... more

I need to give everyone here a bunch of updates…Plus, the BONUS video episode I promised with Dr Louise Newson... more

Dr Louise Newson (British GP; hormone specialist) is regarded as the “medic who kickstarted the menopause revolution”. For two decades women have... more

Today’s question is one I always love answering…what do I stuff into my backpack, and what backpack do I actually... more

Parag Khanna (climate migration expert; AI founder) is a global strategist who forecasts human movement around the world and has... more

In today’s AMA, I cover an intriguing phenomenon in male-female dynamics playing out in the dark, twisted underworld that is... more

Olivia Lazard (peace mediator; rare minerals expert) exposes missing chunks in the “green” energy transition that many of us assume... more

A cracking Ask Me Anything question this week that gives us a chance to talk about crazy-making tech bros and... more

Kate Raworth (“renegade” economist; inventor of the “doughnut” systems model) has one of the most dynamic and controversial theories for... more

On today's AMA, I share my hacks and my “mindset” for sifting through, retaining and managing all the data inflow... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Winton (author + climate activist) is a four-time winner of Australia’s most prominent literary award, the Miles Franklin, several... more

Ingrid Newkirk (founder of PETA, radical stuntwoman) is one of the most controversial – and wild - humans on the... more

Genevieve Bell (“superstar” Silicon Valley futurist, cybernetician) is possibly the world’s best-placed human to tell us what the future of... more

Roy Baumeister (infamous willpower psychologist + NYT bestseller) ​is one of the world’s most prolific and influential psychologists. He has published... more

Thomas Mayo (maritime union worker, author, official advocate for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament) joins me to answer your questions... more

Angela Saini (One of the “World’s Top 50 Thinkers”, a leading UK Science Journalist + Author) is a misinformation expert... more

Ethan Kross (University of Michigan neuroscientist, author of bestseller Chatter) is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the... more

Bo Seo (world champion debater, author of Good Arguments) knows how to argue really very well. The Australian immigrant, now... more

Marcus Buckingham (British pop trend researcher, New York Times bestselling author of Standout Strengths) has researched the paradox of female... more

Stephen Jenkinson (Harvard-trained theologian, activist and elder) is an expert in dying. During his 20 years working in “the death... more

Douglas Rushkoff (author, cyberpunk OG (!) and documentarian) is named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT,... more

Dr Michael E. Mann (super notorious climate scientist; El Niño expert) is a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental... more

Margaret Atwood is best known for her mega-bestselling dystopian fiction, including the Booker Prize-winning novels “The Blind Assassin” and “The... more

Helen Lewis (internet famous for her GQ interview with Jordan Peterson, pop culture expert) is a British journalist, BBC broadcaster... more

Rebecca Giblin (author Chokepoint Capitalism, media academic) joins me to explain how the Big Tech squillionaires are choking creatives –... more

Nick Riggle (Ex-pro skater, philosophy professor at the University of California, YOLO expert) has become known for dissecting contemporary phenomena... more

Dr Simon Longstaff (Philosopher, Festival of Dangerous Ideas, The Ethics Centre) is one of Australia’s most ethical thinkers. He mindfully... more

Yael Stone (Star of Orange is the New Black, Founder of Hi Neighbour, Climate Activist) and I have been IG... more

It’s the time of year when we all need some inspiring, expansive perspectives and I reckon this chat with Tim,... more

This interview got a lot of (shocked!) feedback, so I figured I’d run it again as we start thinking about... more

I discovered Jill's story in her viral TED Talk from 2008 (it became the most-watched TED talk ever!) in which... more

He was the captain of the Wallabies, the only Australian player to be included in World Rugby's team of the... more

Sia is one of the most gifted and wild creatives on the planet, best known for the hundreds of hit... more

I share a glorious, wild, life-affirming story in this special episode. Some of you might have read my book This... more

How to find peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in one podcast episode? Ha! You 210% can’t. But if there is... more

Seth Godin never does anything the normal way. The prolific marketing guru and disrupter joins us here on Wild for... more

This week’s guest will “shock you into noticing the world differently.” The glorious Bayo Akomolafe is a Nigerian-born Yoruba poet, author... more

This episode continues the fascinating-slash-frightening journey I’ve been on with you, to understand what we should prioritise as we face... more

The fashion industry produces 20% of global wastewater and more carbon emissions than ALL international flights and ALL maritime shipping... more

There’s a young Australian human rights lawyer and barrister who has been at the centre of the most era-defining legal... more

We crave adventure to break up the ho-hum of our everyday lives. But busting ruts doesn’t have to be all... more

Life is hard. And yet so much of contemporary life compels us to fight this fundamental reality. We are meant... more

He is regarded as the greatest science fiction writer alive and his most recent book, set in the climate catastrophe-wracked... more

Do you listen to Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Joe Rogan, Russell Brand or maybe a bit of Lex Freidman? They... more

There is a massive “authority gap” that exists in the world today, where women are taken way less seriously than... more

What if we could bioengineer our bodies to live forever, would we and should we? What if we could avoid... more

You know the latest IPCC* Assessment Report? The one that came out at the end of 2021 that the UN... more

Right, we’re doing something different this episode. Uber-talented radio/TV/podcast host and contrarian Josh Szeps has me on his Uncomfortable Conversations... more

If only we all learned to think more we might solve the problems of the world. This is a thesis... more

This episode is an intense one. It’s with multi-Walkley Award-winning Australian photographer Andrew Quilty who has spent the past eight... more

In exclusive pockets around the world rich, white (mostly) men are prepping for end times. They are hoarding resources and... more

Our existential risk – the probability that we could wipe ourselves out due to AI, bio-engineering, nuclear war, climate change,... more

The wealthy elite once signalled their status with expensive handbags and super yachts. Now they do it with what Rob... more

Breaking things up a bit this episode with an AMA from London where I'm staying with my good friend Melissa... more

Wintering is the process of resting and withdrawing in dark, or fallow, periods, respecting the rhythm of the cycles of... more

We can’t make sense of the world anymore, right? How can we when our leaders lie, the media publishes non-truths,... more

He famously wrote the New York magazine essay that told us “it is worse, much worse than you think” and... more

She spent two years and three months in a brutal Iranian prison. In solitary confinement for half of it. For... more

I really love the wild theory we explore in this episode. About 1500 years ago some obscure Catholic pope declared... more