Making Movements

Three months ago I traveled to 🇰🇷 for the World Scout Jamboree.

Sat in a steaming tent in the middle of the night, surrounded by people from all over the world, I decided to write a sort of journal / blog......

Well, I've finally got my act together and published it ✨

It's a blog about things like politics, education, revolution, imagination, protest, music, nature, hope - and all the ways they connect. Discoveries and adventures with Project Everyone and , educators, activists and change-makers around the world

I'm lucky to know lots of people doing interesting and inspiring things, that give me hope for the future in challenging times. So this is a place to share what I'm doing and learning and invite you all to connect with it.

To put it out into the world and see what comes back.

Link is in my bio and if you're interested, holler! ⚡️

Live on 📻 !

Catch conversations with the powerful 🇿🇦and 🇨🇱- and their 🔥 song selections, from The Beatles and Dancing in the Moonlight to foundational South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela

To listen back search Making Movements wherever you get your podcasts

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So excited that has invited to join the family ✨

The show is about music and making change, because right now our world needs lots of both.

So excited to share the stories and soundtracks of some amazing friends I’ve made in London and beyond.




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Monthly, from August 15.

If you know a change maker with a story to tell (and 🔥 song selections) let me know.

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Solidarity with all the teachers striking in UK today.

I work with teachers every day and I would not choose their job. Its totally exhausting, the curriculum is out of date and the joy has been squeezed out by testing pressure and standardisation.

BUT there's so much joy and potential in education and its arguably THE most important job out there, shaping our next generations - so sending all the strikers love!

Watched the amazing with and the team last week.

7 stories of immense challenge but also courage, determination and innovation in response. One of those moments that reminds you of what really matters.

Thanks for hosting and bringing the film to the UK 🙏

Pre-Summit ✅

A real honour speak at HQ for and give a platform to education advocates and activists to share their education To Do's.

My quote "We know the what and the how, now we need to build the movement to drive change"

Next stop the Summit in New York

New LinkedIn profile picture unlocked 😬😅

Episode 3! 🎵✊ in bio.

Editing this was fun. Lots of songs I’d never heard and many, many mic drop moments from the man they call George Fielding BEM.

George is a young social care leader and an advocate of life!

He talks about • Nina Simone and Van Morrison • being the first ever wheelchair ever at his primary and secondary schools • the only song he knows written from the perspective of a person with a disability • and what he loves (despite everything he hates) about social care.

He’s also a forensic listener of song lyrics which is useful for me as the y don’t seem to go into my head without effort...

Songs from:

🎵 Dick Gaughan - What You Do with What You Got

🎵 Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

🎵 Laura Marling - Once

🎵 Van Morrison - Dweller On The Threshold

🎵 Satisfied Mind - Hal Ketchum

An honour, a privilege and an education, thanks George.

So excited to share Episode 2! https://linktr.ee/makingmovements

Sounds from South Africa 🇿🇦 with the wonderful

Sethu is a physiotherapist working with children who've experienced limb amputations.

We talk about community, the legacy of apartheid and the children who inspire her every day.

Thanks to UNITE 2030 for bringing us together 🙏

Music:

🎶 Hugh Masekela, Thanayi
🎶 John Mayer, Waiting On The World To Change
🎶 Sia, Bird Set Free
🎶 Toploader, Dancing In The Moonlight
🎶 American Authors, Best Day Of My Life

🔗 https://linktr.ee/makingmovements