The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary
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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary
To strive is human, to saunter divine. Welcome to The Tortoise - a podcast that digs deep into the power of slow. Brooke McAlary (author of "Slow", "Care" and "Destination Simple") is joined by her husband Ben for a monthly deep dive into the realities of trying to live slow in a world that won't st...
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A Fond Farewell: Episode 17
Instead of the usual conversation between Brooke and Ben, today's episode is simply a reading of the final ever edition of The Tortoise newsletter.
Balance: Episode 16
A more accurate title for this episode might have been: The Myth of Work-Life Balance, because both Ben and Brooke think it’s fundamentally BS, but th...
Body Image: Episode 15
In this month's episode, Brooke and Ben dig into the topic of body image. How do we see ourselves in the world? How does that inform our choices and b...
Pleasure: Episode 14
Pleasure. Just the word brings a little shiver to the spine, doesn't it?
Defined as “a feeling or experience that involves enjoyment or satisfac...
Soft Life: Episode 13
If you spend any time on TikTok, you've probably seen the #softlife trend pop up over the past couple of years. Brooke and Ben aren't on TikTok, so ar...
Curveballs: Episode 12
You know the feeling. Life is motoring on in much the way you expected it to, you’ve got plans, you’ve got goals and then — BAM — a curveball gets wha...
Joyful Living: Episode 11
Today’s episode is all about joyful living. What it is, what it isn’t, how to get more of it and how it differs from happiness.
Stemming from Br...
2023 Top Ten: Episode 10
Welcome to Episode 10 of The Tortoise - the p(l)odcast all about the possibilities of slow. In today's show — the final one for 2023 — Brooke and Ben...
Addiction: Episode 9
This month's episode digs into the topic of addiction (and more broadly, obsessive behaviour) for things like tech-use, busyness, food and consumption...
Hard Times: Episode 8
Today Brooke and Ben are talking about hard times. Or more specifically, how to deal with the emotional heaviness that comes from living through reall...
Seasonal Living: Episode 7
In this month's episode, Brooke and Ben dig into the topic of seasonal living. Not only the calendar kind of seasonal living, but also the other seaso...
Self-care: Episode 6
For a term we throw around a lot, self-care is not all that well defined. It’s attached loosely to the ideas of wellness, self-help, relaxation and mi...
Tech and Kids: Episode 5
For our kids (and adults as well), there is barely a part of life that isn't somehow connected to smartphones, social media or screens, and they're st...
Mental Load: Episode 4
It's a phrase we hear a lot about — the mental load — but what does it actually mean? And how can we navigate life while carrying it?
Brooke an...
The Sandwich Generation: Episode 3
If you're feeling squashed between competing needs - raising kids and caring for parents while trying to work/live/look after yourself, for example -...
Social Media and Wellness: Episode 2
What exactly is "wellness" anyway? We hear it tossed about as an umbrella term covering health and fitness and diet and mental well-being and any numb...
The Four-Day Work Week: Episode 1
Welcome to the first episode of The Tortoise - a podcast that digs deep into the power of slow.
Brooke and Ben are back with the first full epi...
Introducing The Tortoise
We're so excited to introduce you to The Tortoise - a podcast (plodcast!) that digs deep into the power of slow.
Ben and Brooke are back with a...
The End - A Hostful
After 8 years and 400 odd episodes Brooke and Ben discuss closing the door on the Slow Home Podcast and announce an exciting new iteration...The Torto...
Outdoors and unedited - A Hostful
Brooke and Ben check-in and provide a quick update on the year that was, as well as what Brooke is working on and plans for the podcast in 2023.
What a year this week has been - A Hostful
Brooke and Ben are back for this season's hostful where they discuss teens and tech, Brooke's new hobbies and provide an update on her Dad's health an...
How to live an embodied life with Mary Beth Larue
Today's guest is the wonderful Mary Beth Larue - a yoga teacher whose soulful, deep-diving brand of slow flow yoga is 100%, completely and utterly Bro...
Cyclical living with Tricia Walker
Tricia Walker has inspired a lot of people. From her decade-long work blogging about sustainable living, to her more recent role of nature connection...
Art as activism with Brenna Quinlan
If you’ve spent any time in the permaculture and climate activism spaces online over the past few years, you’ve no doubt come across the work of illus...
Slow productivity with Dr Kate Litterer
There’s little doubt the world is undergoing significant changes right now. Pandemic, war, the climate crisis - it’s all impacting our visions of “nor...
Bounce out of bed with Amanda Ewin
Today’s guest, the effervescent Amanda Ewin, has arrived on the pod at precisely the right time, as so many of us settle in to the year's new normal a...
When simple living has to change with Clare Reilly
Today's episode is, at its heart, about change. And if there’s something we’ve all experienced over the past two years, it’s been change. Specifically...
Practising Simplicity with Jodi Wilson
Welcome back to another year of the Slow Home Podcast!
Never before has slow living felt so relevant to so many people, as we grapple with the...
Nutritious Movement with Katy Bowman - Summer Series
We have reached the last episode of this year's Summer Series/Winter Warmies and Brooke takes us through her (one of) favourite episodes of the past 7...
The slow way of wabi-sabi with Beth Kempton - Summer Series
The 3rd instalment in this year's Summer Series/Winter Warmies includes an episode recorded in 2019 with Beth Kempton.
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50 ways to (seriously) reduce food waste - Summer Series
Part 2 of this year's Summer Series/Winter Warmies sees Ben and Brooke look way back into the archives with a 2017 banger on food waste reduction feat...
Analog creativity with Jess Davis - Summer Series
Ben and Brooke talk through the format for this year's Summer Series/Winter Warmies and bring you Part 1, featuring analogue creativity with Jess Davi...
Hostful: Top 10 of 2021
Well, it's that time of the year again. The final pod is here, and as is tradition, Brooke and Ben round out the year with their own Top 10 list.
Transformation and healing with Rebecca Sullivan
Friend of the show, author, cook, founder of the Granny Skills movement and co-founder of native food company Warndu, Rebecca Sullivan, returns to the...
People over profit with Dr Clinton Schultz
In this episode Brooke chats with Dr Clinton Schultz, a proud Gamilaroi man, psychologist, husband, dad and founder of Sobah - hands down the best non...
Regenerative living with Meg Berryman
Friend of the show, book inspiration-giver and all-round fabulous person, Meg Berryman, returns to the pod today, which means you're in for a treat. <...
Advocacy and care with Hannah Diviney
Hannah Diviney is a leading disability rights advocate, writer, student and Young Australian of the Year nominee, who joins Brooke to dig into the que...
Eating for a happier planet with Alexx Stuart
Sometimes, in our efforts to do better by the planet, our communities, our families and ourselves, we can get tangled in knots - especially when it co...
Reclaiming activism with Hannah Maloney
Author, Gardening Australia Presenter and Activist Hannah Maloney joins the pogpast this week to talk about her values, privilege, reclaiming activism...
So this is 40 with Ben McAlary
We are back at it with another season of the Slow Home Podcast.
Kicking-off this season is another frank and fearless conversation between Ben a...