Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful. Carmen Spagnola is a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef turned trauma recovery practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, and kitchen witch. She is author of Spells for the Apocalypse: Practical Magic for Turbulent Times (2025) and The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes & Rituals for the Wheel...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful. This episode is a spotlight on Tapestry Collective Co-op, with insights from all four owner members including host Robyn McLean. Learn about our innovative, heart-led approach to business, where blending meaningful work, nurturing strong relationships, and balancing visionary l...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful. This episode focuses on Working in radically different ways: 0:00 - Welcome and introduction 3:20 - What do I mean by “working in radically different ways”? 5:50 - Vision for working in radically different ways 8:21 - My journey with work 17:07 - Harmoni...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! This episode focuses on the joys, challenges and importance of communal living (which we shifted to calling "shared living" during the discussion). 0:00 Intro 2:18 What do I mean by communal living? 13:58 - Discussion - Give us a snapshot of your journey with shared living/ communal living - we hear some incredible rich experiences and learnings from each of the folks that attended live 49:05 - Why communal living? Tying to a larger vi...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful. Every month, we start by taking some time to frame and get some shared understanding of a topic, followed by a group discussion centred around questions that are emerging, interesting or challenging. This episode kicks off a regular monthly schedule of community discussions, which ar...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! This episode was recorded back in June 2022. Happy to share it now, as we are rebooting this podcast. We talked about starting from a belief that the system we live in CAN change, and staring with: Comprehensive visionUnderstand what holds the problem in placeComprehensive and collective actionWork with emergence

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! Weaving the Future Podcast is a passion project birthed at the height of the pandemic, and the podcast episodes I released at this time are very close to my heart. They capture deep reflections on the kind of world I want to live in and my role in shaping it. The podcast has mostly been on hiatus over the past few years as I grappled with some massive changes in my life. In the background, I have actively continued to live the questions that hav...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! We are all craving lives that are more authentic, connected, wild, sacred, in touch with our personal power and expression, collaborative, joyful. Lives that are equitable, where we look after each other. Lives that have more ritual, dance, celebration, expression, compassion, stillness, sensuality, awareness, and alignment. But where do we start? We will dig into this question together in a 3-part series of rich community conversat...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! I’ll present a list of things to consider, to learn about, or to practice in order to help understand and work toward the change we need to see in the world. Honestly, I get frustrated when I see too much individual focus where there, but obviously our society is made up of individuals who all need to start somewhere? So what can we do? Overall, I suggest the idea of living the questions, rather than trying to have all the answers. In this...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! This is a guided visualization, meant to help our bodies, minds and spirits tune into a vision for society, connecting with others, expressing our inner voice and gifts, and the reflecting on what healing might be helpful for getting there. This visualization came to me as a “soul download” after doing some breath work during a period that I was working on this project quite a bit. I was surprised, since I had been taking more of an intellectual...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! I discuss some of the deep-seated mindsets that are at the root of our culture, along with what mindsets we might tune into in order to transform ourselves, our communities and our societies. Other terms that could be used here are assumptions, deep seated habits or paradigms. I focus first on moving from the assumption that we are separate from the natural world and need to dominate it, toward the mindset that we are a part of the natural...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! Introduction to the podcast, including background on the host Robyn McLean, an overview of the goals of the project and how episodes will be formatted.