Mother Nature Podcast

Nov 26 2023 36 ep. 34 mins 8

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The Mother Nature podcast, hosted by an international community of mothers, inspires your motherhood journey by sharing women's circles stories, interviews with professionals, and nature connection practices. We explore mothers as natural leaders. It is for mothers of children of all ages, all races, backgrounds, from cultures, and women without children who lead and mother projects. This podcast is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

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Designing our leadership paths

Nov 26 2023 23 mins

Looby Macnamara is the creator of the Design Web, which is used into our new Mothers as Natural Leaders book to weave the threads of the book togther into a useful design for your own leadership path. Looby shares about some of her own designs and how you can build your familiarity with the Design Web, so that it becomes a useful resource in your life. Sign up to the Mother Nature

Menopause and personal leadership

Nov 16 2023 24 mins

Looby Macnamara shares about her journey of weaving her personal culture during menopause. She reads extracts from the book as well as sharing her stories about honouring her menopause journey and how you might do that yourself. Sign up to our Mother Nature newsletter for the free PDF download of our new book Mothers as Natural Leaders. www.mothernatureproject.org Looby Macnamara

Self care

Nov 10 2023 15 mins

Managing time for our own self care as mothers is an ongoing challenge. Here Looby shares some ideas about how we can do that more easily in our everyday lives. She also shares a song related to this, and an activity using the Design Web from the process of creating our own leadership design which features in our forthcoming book - Mothers as Natural Leaders. For a free PDF downlo

Nature connection with our children

Nov 04 2023 24 mins

Nature connection specialist Jon Young joins Looby Macnamara, to talk about how we can encourage nature connection with our children. Looby reads an extract from the forthcoming 'Mothers as Natural Leaders' book. And then Jon and Looby share some wisdom and experience about finding 'motivating' species, the value of aunties and uncles, and how to motivate ourselves

Circles of influence

Oct 26 2023 12 mins

The concept of circles of concern and influence was introduced by Steven Covey in his book 7 habits of highly effective people. It feels highly relevant and useful in these times of global turmoil. Looby shares some more extracts from the forthcoming book "Mothers as Natural Leaders". Looby first wrote about this in her book People & Permaculture. Please sign up for

The power of stories

Oct 20 2023 11 mins

Looby reads some extracts from the forthcoming Mothers as Natural Leaders book. Looby shares about the power of stories, the belief cycle, owning our leadership stories and family stories. There is also an activity that is part of the design for our leadership paths using the Design Web which was created by Looby. Join our newsletter for the free PDF download of the book. www.mothe

Empowerment relaxation

Oct 01 2023 21 mins

Take some time out to relax and enjoy Looby's poetry from her book Strands of Infinity. Looby guides us through a deep relaxation and into some poetry to empower us and restore our spirits. Looby Macnamara is a permaculture and Cultural Emergence teacher and author, as well as mother and poet. Her books, including her poetry book Strands of Infinity are available direct from h

The Skill of Napping

Sep 20 2023 18 mins

Napping comes naturally to me, but to many it doesn't at all. After many friends said to me - 'it's a skill I wish I had', I have thought more about how to nap well and in this episode share some tips for doing that. The Mother Nature principle -'it's good to do nothing' is our main guidance for this episode. We are hosting 2 free Mother Nature worksh

Connecting with the elements activity with Looby Macnamara

Sep 13 2023 10 mins

In this episode I share an activity from our forthcoming book "Mothers as Natural Leaders". This activity supports us to have quick routes to bring us back into a place of personal peace using the elements. Enjoy this bite size episode. The poem at the end is called Molecules and is from my book Strands of Infinity available direct from me here https://cultural-emergenc

Acknowledging our leadership with Looby Macnamara

Sep 06 2023 15 mins

Welcome to Season 3 of the Mother Nature podcast with a new style of pocket podcasts - easy to find the time to listen, bite size inspirations for us all. In this episode Looby Macnamara (your host for the season) shares some of the thinking in our forthcoming book - Mothers as Natural Leaders. Why do we shy away from the term leadership, and how we can turn that around and embrace