Nina Simons: "Dancing With Contradictions - A Systems View"

Episode 60
February 28, 2023

(Conversation recorded on January 12th, 2023)  

Show Summary

On this episode, author and social entrepreneur Nina Simons reminds us that in a fact driven culture, sometimes it’s important to return to the emotional, physical, and even spiritual in order to balance the conversation. In a world full of 8 billion unique individuals, how can we learn to listen to each person’s unique experience and perspective? Can we integrate the rational with our intuitions, and embody some of the shifts we’d like to see in the world?

About Nina Simons

Nina Simons is the Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers. She is a social entrepreneur passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, and co-creating a healthy and equitable future for all life on Earth. She co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—released as a second edition in 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Nautilus awards in the categories of Women in the 21st Century and Social Change & Social Justice. Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth, and in 2017, received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel.

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00:40 - Nina Simons info, works, Bioneers

05:40 - Kenny Ausubel

05:50 - James Hansen

06:00 - Seeds of Change

07:21 - Bioneers podcast and web series

08:52 - Buckminster Fuller, The Preferred State

09:52 - Full Spectrum Leadership

15:25 - The Burning Times

16:00 - European Era of Witch Burnings

16:48 - Masculine and Feminine

17:48 - Transfer of medicine and healing from primarily women to men

18:48 - Epigenetics

22:01 - The Athena Doctrine

22:26 - Daughters for Earth

24:25 - Women are generally more involved in raising children than men

24:57 - Cycle syncing/syncing to the moon

25:23 - Fritjof Capra 

27:35 - Iroquois questioning absence of women decision-makers/slavery in colonial governing

28:20 - Women of the Longhouse

28:50 - Patriarchal links to material surplus

31:40 - Different cultures and cooperation

34:28 - Resilience in nature study finding higher biodiversity results in faster and better recovery

35:01 - Janine Benyus - biomimicry

36:24 - Beloved community

36:55 - Introverts/extroverts - societal bias

40:00 - Dawna Markova, different learning types

45:25 - Earth Day 2022

47:05 - Native language and culture reclamation

47:49 - The Mycelium is Listening

48:03 - Fantastic Fungi 

49:19 - Jonathan Haidt + TGS Podcast

49:28 - The Righteous Mind

53:48 - Transpersonal

59:34 - Epigenetic Trauma

1:00:34 - Fossil industries funding climate denialism education

1:04:19 - Corporation influence on the U.S. government and other governments

1:05:31 - Consensus Trance

1:06:49 - Anti-violence movement, Gandhi

1:10:41 - Discomfort Resilience

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