The RegenNarration

Stories of the regeneration of the living world, not often on the news, often almost beyond belief. With award-winning host Anthony James. It’s ad-free, freely available and entirely listener-supported. You'll hear from high profile and grass-roots leaders from around Australia and the world, on how they're changing the stories we live by, and the systems we create in their mold. Along with often very personal tales of how they themselves are changing, in the places they call home, and with some of the music they love.

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August 10, 2026 • Anthony James

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Welcome to the new trailer for the podcast! Hit play, share it with a friend, follow the podcast, subscribe if you can, and enjoy the hundreds of episodes available.

This is The RegenNarration podcast — conversations with the people changing the systems and stories we live by, enabling the regeneration of life on this planet.

Music (sourced from Artlist):

The Lonely Ramblers - Rowdy - Instrumental version

Mark Grundhoefer - Barefoot

Yarin Primak - Galaxy Groove

Yehezkel Raz - Flight of the Inner Bird

Patrick Sebag - Hours - Instrumental version

And Regeneration, by friend of the podcast, Amelia Barden.

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The Story That Changes Everything

AJ 0:01

What if the stories we tell ourselves could help us change the world for the better? For the last decade, my family and I have been travelling Australia and the world to find out and created a podcast to share the journey. What we've found and continue to find has blown us away. From regenerating farms, cattle stations, and Aboriginal communities around Australia to Mayan communities in Guatemala. From Blackfeet Umscapy Picani country in Montana to urban regeneration in Melbourne. From the producers of the healthiest, securest local food, fuel and fibre to the ancestral stories we all share everywhere.

What The Regeneration Podcast Is

AJ 0:41

My name's Anthony James, and this is The RegenNarration Podcast. Conversations with the people changing the systems and stories we live by, enabling the regeneration of life on this planet.

Drought Proof And Regenerative Farming

Frances Pollock (ep 9) 0:53

He had it all and he had fat cows that he was trucking out whilst all of his neighbours were in the midst of drought, and that's what made Dave realize that maybe it can be done. Maybe there's a way that we can learn to sustainably produce from the landscape.

Eugene Eades (ep 117) 1:09

What we want to hear is could be considered as a model for the rest of the world. The indigenous people that's going to find a way and show the way and lead the way and healing the land, and the land will heal the people.

Joyful Action While Parenting

Dr Blake Scott (ep 256) 1:20

You know, we were just shooting the shit, really. In a tiny micro break from parenting. And all of a sudden, it's like, alright, let's do a cleanup. Oh, and why don't we come up with a name for our group as we clean up and oh, wait a second, why don't we do a few of these other things? And we're doing it as we're parenting. And so who who wants to parent and look at the world as a piece of shit? I want my kids to enjoy life and to feel joyful and come down and see this not feel like we're all sinking and dying.

Why Systems Change Is Sudden

Nora Bateson (ep 37) 2:00

When I have witnessed systems change, it isn't incremental. It's all at once. And strangely enough, it's easier to make change all at once than it is to keep, you know, picking away at something endlessly with the drudgery of tomorrow it'll get better. And it doesn't.

AJ 2:21

You'll meet global figures alongside other grassroots pioneers you've never heard of but won't forget.

Paul Hawken (ep 96) 2:27

And every person, I think, regeneration, the core meaning of it is really about is coming home to oneself as opposed to doing something out there that is the right thing to do, it should be done, that is a better thing to do, it is all those things, I think. But actually, it is our nature and it's who we are. It's

Songlines And Cultural Roots

Paul Hawken (ep 96) 2:48

really who we are.

Margo Neale (ep 93) 2:50

Us mob, we got the stories, but that's museum, mob, and universe, they got all the toy iters, they got the recording equipment, so we'll just take that mob with us. And basically, they're saying we need each other to keep the song lines alive.

Manchán Magan (ep173) 3:08

So that's why this is so important. We are entering into an uncertain future, but we happen to have these. There's a word called trauma fertile in Irish, which means the stout oars, the oars that keep you rooted through difficult times. We have that in so many indigenous and old and traditional cultures and heritages in this land, and it's not too late.

What We Cover And How To Support

AJ 3:31

We talk about regenerative agriculture and food, economies and law, land and water, energy and health, arts and media, and every other system we live by, and about what it takes to be open to change yourself, as you might hope to change other stuff, about the hard moments and the hilarious ones, and about what's emerging right now in the places we call home. The RegenNarration. Stories of regeneration of all kinds everywhere. It's weekly, independent media, ad-free, freely available, and entirely listener supported. Because the earth doesn't need saving, it needs us to remember how to find our way home. Follow and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.