In a time of accelerating climate change, biodiversity loss, and species decline, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But Jane Goodall has long reminded us that hope is not passive, but rather it’s something we practice.

Alison Cuffley, Senior Manager of Canada Programs at the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada shares how Jane Goodall’s extraordinary legacy lives on today through youth leadership, community action, and intergenerational responsibility.

At the heart of the conversation is Roots & Shoots, the Institute’s global youth program that empowers young people to take meaningful action for people, animals, and the environment. Alison shares how youth are already leading on climate, biodiversity, and social justice, and why supporting their leadership is essential to the future of our planet.

This is a conversation about legacy; not as something we leave behind, but as something we build together.

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How would you behave in a high stakes, high risk situation with thirteen lives in the balance? Would you be able to remain calm? Would your mind be clear? Could you make the decisions necessary to take the next step forward?

Meet John Volanthen, one of the world’s most accomplished cave rescue divers and the author of 13 Lessons for Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue. John became widely known during the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand, when he and fellow British diver Rick Stanton were the first to reach the trapped youth football team and confirm they were alive. He was an integral part of the team that shaped the plan to extract the children and their coach, adapting to what seemed to be insurmountable conditions.

The operation became a masterclass in problem-solving; turning an impossible situation into a series of workable steps.

John and I discuss fortitude and resilience as trainable skills, not personality traits. This conversation focuses on the strategies that are helpful in high-risk environments: mental rehearsal, visualization, and decision-making when the margin for error is zero.

We unpack what “calm under pressure” really looks like, how elite rescuers rehearse for the unthinkable, and how everyday listeners can apply these principles to hard conversations, major life decisions, and moments when life gets hard.

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If you could write one thing to the people you love, what would it be? How do you want to be remembered when you have left this earth?

Rabbi Steve Leder, bestselling author of For You When I’m Gone, joins me to explore ethical wills, grief, and the quiet, brave power of telling the truth with love.

We talk about the messy reality of dying and mourning; what people avoid saying, what they wish they had said sooner, and how silence serves no one. Rabbi Leder shares what an ethical will really is, why it is for everyone, not just for those close to the end. He also shares practical guidance for putting your values, your stories, blessings and hard-won wisdom into words. The most meaningful inheritance is not money or "stuff". It is the clarity, the connection and the love that we can share with our loved ones.

This episode goes deep, it’s practical, and it’s very deeply human.

Special Note: This episode includes conversation about death, dying, grief and end of life planning. Please listen with care. This episode also contains some mild profanity, which in my opinion, is the spice of life. This interview was conducted in December 2025.

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