Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson is a former journalist and TV presenter, author and activist. She wrote the New York Times bestsellers I Quit Sugar and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, which Mark Manson described as “the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read”. She is the author of another 11 cookbooks that sell in 52 countries.
Previously she was editor of Cosmopolitan Australia, host of Masterchef Australia and founder of the largest wellness website in Australia, IQuitSugar.com. In May 2018, Sarah closed the business and gave all money to charity. She now builds and enables charity projects that “engage humans with each other” and campaigns on mental health and climate issues. Sarah ranks as one of the top 200 most influential authors in the world and has a combined digital audience of 2.5 million.
Sarah lives minimally, rides a hand-built bike and is known for traveling the world for eight years with one bag.
Sarah’s latest book This One Wild and Precious Life is a soul’s journey through the complexities of climate change, coronvirus, racial inequalities and our disconnection from what matters…back to life. Sarah hikes around the world, meeting wild voices and experts who provide hopeful wisdoms and vibrant solutions to arrive at what she feels is the true path through the despair…to our better world. This One Wild Precious Life is available to purchase worldwide.
Sarah continues the conversation that she started in This One Wild and Precious Life, on her podcast WILD. It’s here, that Sarah shares her deep conversations with philosophers, celebrities who live at the edge and leading gurus that she’s met on her 10-year nomadic journey. With her guests, Sarah uncovers new ways to radically love and save our “one wild and precious life” on this planet.
493: Sarah Wilson: Living Joyfully Sustainably (more fun than excuses)
Strolling, not scrolling!
Sarah acts sustainably and loves it. She shares that love. I loved this conversation, a relief from everyone making stewardship a burden and chore. She knows the science but leads with emotion based on experience.
The conversation was half love-fest of common experience, half sharing our frustration at people not acting for reasons we don’t get anymore since they don’t realize how fun living in harmony with nature and people is.
We shared about being called extreme, which feels crazy to two people who are just having fun. Who ever heard of someone enjoying life, nature, and people too much?
We lamented feeling misunderstood of not having fun.
We shared our confusion about people not acting since for us it’s fun. We aren’t really confused since we were there too, but we have to work to get back to a state of not wanting to act in stewardship.
We shared embracing nature.
We lamented society’s disconnection from nature.
We’re annoyed that people who think they care keep pushing work instead of joy, technology instead of simplicity and connection.
Enjoy two people sharing joy living sustainably doing all we can to bring everyone else to experience that joy.