Join me to hear the best of the best, 17 snippets and close out out the year with a bang. It is a privilege and honour to bring you this podcast, let's jump in! ENJOY, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See you in 2023 Trace

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2022!

Fabio Kotinda returns to the podcast to talk about minimalism. We open the discussion up around our reactions to life occurrences, friendships and relationships, how we treat others, journaling, healthy boundaries with people, practicing compassion for others but also for ourselves. We talk about our direction in life and where we focus our attention. It's one of those episodes that are fun and relatable in some way or another.

Fabio Kotinda - Minimalism, healthy boundaries and being kind to ourselves

Fernanda is a Brazilian ultra runner, climber, adventurer and world record breaker being the first woman to run up and down the highest mountain in South America, Aconcagua 6.962m in just 22h52min, also the first Female world Record holder for running up and down the highest mountain of Africa, Mt Kilimanjaro at 5895m in only 10h06min. She’s a Brazilian Jujitsu and Capoeira fighting champion who was also a dynamic gymnast, then started trail racing as a teenager. Fernanda is not just a spectacular athlete she is also a nutritionist and an environmental lawyer, combining her love for nature into her work to help protect our natural environment

Fernanda Maciel - The woman behind the world record, ultra runner, lawyer, inspiration

Today on the podcast we explore her background into Journalism, how she started out and her peculiar but interesting choice in Japanese literature, which lead her to study it at Cambridge. From growing up on a farm, this line of progression or trajectory wasn’t exactly the standard. Megan and I discuss her time in Japan, what she learnt from the people, culture, way of life and of course how the literature connected to her. We discuss coming up through the ranks and finding her way to journalism through reporting on world events and humanitarian work. Megan is a climate correspondent and editor for (TRF), based in Barcelona as mentioned but with an international beat. She runs a small team of reporters covering the ins and outs of securing a green and just transition to a decarbonised world, especially in developing countries. She has worked on topics ranging from finance to humanitarian news throughout her career as a journalist, with stints at Reuters and the BBC. 

Megan Rowling - Senior Climate Journalist, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Tim Christophersen, Vice President, Climate Action Salesforce Tim and discuss corporate responsibility, the initiatives they are leading the way on, innovations, optimism, their staff, and the direction of global business from a climate perspective. The sustainability revolution is here! Hopefully just in time. We must scale up existing and new climate solutions across the world, and that is something that the private sector can do at the scale and speed we need which I talk to Tim about.

Tim Christophersen - Salesforce, Vice President, Climate Action talking corporate responsibility

Simone is one of those rare extraordinary women who are beyond impressive. She has been an Ambassador, a Diplomat, CEO of both the Humanitarian sector and NGO's.She loves to work at the intersection of public-private-non governmental sectors. She is a believer in social impact & sustainability as co-drivers of future business & sustainable socioeconomic development. I wanted to speak to Simone about our world, the behaviours we are witnessing from our leaders and politicians, why it feels so disconnected and polarising from her perspective. We talk Politics today & the psychological warfare seemingly spreading across all nations, leadership & Governance. We discuss things like, humility, ego, great leadership, where we are at as the human race and the hope of change.

Simone Filippini - Behaviour and politics, the good the bad and the ugly

No Talk with Tarce episdoe today, instead we are gearing up for our first ever climate podcast series launching tomorrow. So with this in mind we wanted to release the promo episode for you to hear here in getting ready for tomorrow Tuesday the 8th of Novembers very first epsidoe drop. 22 guests over 12 weeks to help  break down climate change into understandable elements to remove ambiguity and explain basic principles. Available on all podcasting platforms to subscribe to NOW, social media platforms instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn plus a dedicated website www.roncic.com

RONCIC - Ready or Not, Change is Coming Climate Series Promo

Bonus episode, short 30mins crossing to Mike in Egypt, where the team have pulled tons of rubbish and plastic bottles out of the River Nile and piled it up into a plastic pyramid where Mike has been sleeping for 3 nights in the desert. It's unbelievable and we wanted to support them in their mission. A quick short episode to let you know how its going, where it started and why then what they are focusing on for the future! A great quick chat don't miss it

Mike Carter Smith - BONUS short ep, From the Egyptian Desert

This is a repeat episode in preperation of this weeks special bonus episode with Mike in Eygpt, picking up plastic on the River Nile for Zero Co's 100 year project. We have cut out some things but for those new to the podcast they may not have heard the founding story from Mike so before this saturdays special episode crossing to Mike who will be camping at the bottom of the pyramids, we wanted people to know who they are all over agin. ENJOY, this is a bsuiness birthed out of witnessing horrible plastic polution while traveling overseas, dumping life savings into the project and seeing it flourish. Unbelieveable!

Mike Carter Smith - Founder of Zero Co story, He's BACK!!

Disruption, Gary Vee, depression and failure, global business sucsess, legacy trauma and letting it go. This conversation has EVERYTHING. Deep guttural experiences and repeatability to how we are living our life. Do not miss this episode, its late but its coming we had some technical issues.

Dain Walker - Disrupter, living free and authentically

Today I spoke with return guest, a crowd favourite the traveling nomad photographer Ben Glassco. Ben was on the show over 2 years ago and we went through his amazing story of leaving his corporate job, selling everything he owned and heading to Asia on a motorbike for six months honing his craft to be a photographer. Today is not has hundreds of thousands of followers on his Tik Tok and instagram pages and makes living from his photography. We talk travel, soul searching, sitting still, sibling bonds, feeling low and why he still loves what he does and so much more!

Ben Glassco - Return of the Nomad Photographer, Ben with some fantastic life stories and wisdom

NAKIE are now a B corp certified brand who crafted The Worlds First 100% recycled hammock made from 37 plastic bottles. Best quality money can buy with a Lifetime warranty, in a range of colours and takes 1 min max to set up. Nakie are the number one selling recycled hammock company in the world and have made the bigger adventure wear companies stand up, take notice which has inadvertently called them to action, look at their own materials used in their hammocks and other products. A rising tide rates all boats.I talk about their humble start with the guys, the mistakes made, the manufacturing, the support from family, wearing multiple hats and what the future holds!

Jaryed and Dean Leibbrandt - Founders of NAKIE, worlds first recycled hammocks and so much more

You may have heard of my next guest, with over 4.5 million fans spread across her social media platforms, New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award Winner, the lovely Joanne Molinaro, a.k.a The Korean Vegan. She has crashed into our worlds through her genius pairing of delectable Korean food and her personal, episodic, anecdotal and throught provoking insights!   Joanne is a rare find, a partner at a prodigious law firm by day and creative content creator by night. Her insights into the human soul are not only relatable but inspiring. This episode is as you’d expect, candid, personal and all about the food. We talk parents, law school, creative content,  connecting with people around the world through food, becoming a vegan and so much more.Joanne is courageous, brilliant and just the salt of the earth kind of person you’d love to catch up with over coffee, or in her case, decaf!   

Joanne Molinaro - The Korean Vegan

Xylon van Eyck is an entrepreneur , 2x Ironman, cancer survivor, speaker, advocator, coach and marketing guru. He wears many hats but his life experiences are nothing short of inspiring.Xylon about his cancer battle at 26 when he was seemingly onto of the world, the things we tell ourselves to get us through a moment in time and what happens 2 years later, when we are dealing with the issue at its core. We talk family, touch briefly on his growing up with fiercely independent woman in his life. Taking the cancer experience into his business career now and wanting to flip the cycling world on its head.

Xylon Van Eyck - Overcoming cancer & shifting the narrative in professinal cycling

Anne Therese Gennari is a speaker & communications strategist entrepreneur, author, podcaster, environmental activist & is Shifting the narrative on climate change. Her story is unique in that she came to find her climate platform through modelling. in 2017 Anne co-founded “Role Models Management”, an ethical modelling agency that represents mission-driven models. Brands who want their products and services to be represented by humans with a strong voice and point of view. Her & I talk about her activism, perhaps where that stems from, her modelling platform, the modelling industry, the  #MeToo movement, climate, the messaging of climate and correlation from the Me Too movement and climate change, which I found fascinating. We talk about her rather stoic resolve when it comes to making a difference and being loud in this space.   

Anne Therese Gennari - The Climate Optimist

Dr shanna Mcclain is the Disasters Program Manager for NASA Earth Sciences Applied Sciences Division. We talked about being an academic, being the first in her family to go to college and to travel outside of America. We have an open discussion around woman in science and the societal pressure on woman, its really fascinating. We of course talk about NASA, her role there and her story from growing up in Florida to studying her PhD, suffering from depression, living abroad and climate change. A wide ranging conversation indeed!  She’s brilliant obviously, but she is also a tenacious, resilient, fantastic person to sit and share a wine with.

Dr Shanna McClain - NASA & the woman behind the science

My next guest, Nigel Marsh is a guest I've wanted on the podcast for years. He is a masterful and soulful speaker that make your cheeks hurt from laughter and in the same sitting, make you rethink how you construct your entire life choices. So you can see the draw, wanting to have him on the show. Nigel is best known for his creative pursuits. As well as the author of four books – "Fat, Forty and Fired" (my personal fav, the one that introduced him to me) "Overworked and Underlaid", "Fit, Fifty and Fired-Up" and "Smart, Stupid and Sixty" – he is also the co-founder of Earth Hour, the founder of the Sydney Skinny and host of award-winning podcast The Five Of My Life. With 6 million views on his work life balance TED Talk

Nigel Marsh - It's your life, now what are you doing?!

There has been a resurgence of people looking at the philosophers like Plato, Socrates, Marcus aralias, Aristotle and its gaining traction in mainstream media. So naturally, it sparked my curiosity as to why we are finding such an affinity to the old philosophers and how they are still so relevant today in the 21st century. So to help my understand the resurgence I sat down with Dr Matthew Sharpe. Matthew is a Professor and Researcher in social theory, critical thinking, and the history of ideas as well as an independent author. He is a professor at Deacan university and Think Inc

Dr Matthew Sharpe - Why the Stoics and Philosophy is resurging in the 21st century

Dr Branch is a International researcher, teacher, trainer, consultant, speaker, and educational administrator. He’s an Expert in consumer behaviour, marketing research, international marketing and much more. Experience in more than 100 universities, government agencies, and both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We discuss his life, growing up, living and visiting in over 84 countries! We discuss his engineering career that lead him into marketing, a completely different career and a PhD. We talk meeting his wife, moving to America and where he views himself and his skill as “Mr International” in both marketing and business.  We discuss what’s changed (spoiler alert, if anything in fact has changed) and if we as the human beings consuming marketing how we are responding to it!

Dr John Branch - Is marketing still the same today as it was in the 1400's, the man behind "Mr International"

It is with a sad and heavy heart, that we re-release episode 54 on Monday as a remastered version into episode 151. We do this in tribute and to honour the incredible woman, Anna Mussi, who tragically passed away in a car accident late June of 2022. Anna, who was the manager of Rhino Revolution, has a lasting legacy that we at the Media company wanted to remember and celebrate.

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