The SATORI Podcast
SATORI magazine is a space for thought provoking content. By exposing ourselves to ideas, thoughts, experiences and life lessons we might stumble across something which gives us new insight or a change of perspective. I’m Lawrence Rice, and I’ve been chatting to people about life, inspiration, the Universe, and whatever else popped up along the way.
Episodes
Episodes
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Season Two - Episode 6 - Anouk Jans
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Driven by pioneering spirit, Anouk Jans is a Creative Director who creates brand identities, creative concepts, campaigns, social media strategies and digital content to help define, establish and build international love brands that shape culture.
Anouk was the main focus of the documentary, ‘Kill Your Darlings: Presented By Togetherr’ based on the advertising and creative industry, and is currently the Creative Director of Spring Studios Milan, and the Founder of Creative Collective BYUS Global.
You can find her on Instagram @anoukjns, @byusglobal
Anouk’s book recommendation: 101 essays that will change the way you think - Brianna Wiest
You can also find Satori on Instagram here: @find_satori
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Season Two - Episode 5 - Gin Rimmington-Jones
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Gin Rimmington Jones is a lens-based photographic artist exploring ideas of time, space and coexistence in the nested relationship between humans and the natural world. Fascinated by the point at which the two worlds collide, her work interrogates the connections between landscape, representation and the image to question cultural assumptions around agency and the natural world.
Gin's forthcoming book 'What the mountain said', based on the work she made in a marble quarry in Spain 2019 & 2020, is due to be released in an edition of 100 February 2024.
More information will be available on her website, and via her Instagram channel.
www.ginrimmingtonjones.com
@ginrimjon
Gin's book recommendation:
The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Season Two - Episode 4 - Phil Hewitt
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Phil Hewitt is a Suffolk born photographer; now residing in North London.
At heart, a man of the countryside. Phil grew up in rural Suffolk and spent most of his childhood building dens, picking up woodlice and catching tadpoles.
As he moved through his teens, the birth of the internet ignited his enthusiasm of what the world had to offer. An enormous playground of chance and possibility.
He tends to focus on projects that take him far and wide. This has an unusual paradox at its core; when you’re away you can’t wait to get home and when you’re home you can’t wait to get away. Either way, he feels most at home with a camera around his neck and some comfortable shoes on his feet.
Phil’s book recommendation:
The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Dideon
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Season Two - Episode 3 - Emma Slade
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Emma Slade (Ani Pema Deki), Buddhist Nun, inspirational speaker, transformational coach & charity founder.
A deep-seated desire to enquire into the deeper aspects of humanity arose following a life-changing trip to Jakarta, where she was held hostage at gunpoint. She resigned from her financial career and explored yoga and meditation and methods of wellbeing with the ultimate aim of turning a traumatic episode into wisdom and conditions for thriving.
Emma is the first and only Western woman to be ordained in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan as a Buddhist nun.
In 2015 Emma founded and became CEO of the registered UK charity, Opening Your Heart to Bhutan, to help special needs children in Bhutan.
In 2017 Emma was given the Point of Light award by the UK Prime Minister in recognition of her exceptional volunteering.
Emma’s reading recommendations: Gampopa, Lisa Jewell
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Season Two - Episode 2 - Laura El-Tantawy
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Laura El-Tantawy is an award winning British/Egyptian documentary photographer, book maker & educator.
Born in Ronskwood in Worcestershire, UK, Laura studied in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the US & UK. Living between East and West for much of her life inspires her work. Her projects investigate notions of home and belonging, routinely approaching her work from a social and environmental perspective inspired by her transatlantic background. Her visual explorations often intertwine moving images, sound, and personal narratives, marked by the artist’s lyrical eye on reality.
Laura is the first Egyptian to be awarded the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund award, which she received for her long-term series I’ll Die For You.
Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Afar, Le Monde, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Time, New York Times, Huck & Foam.
In 2020, Laura joined Canon’s global Ambassador Programme. Joining a roster of more than 100 visual professionals, she represents the future of visual storytelling, Canon's unique brand & “its silent heroes — the staff & visionary engineers who make my work possible” she said.
Laura prides herself on her independent identity as a visual creative. Her goal as an artist is to produce socially engaged, unique and thought-provoking work. She often collaborates with like-minded individuals, institutions & organisations driven to inform responsibly, contribute positive change to the world & encourage stimulating thought & creativity.
Laura’s book recommendation: Think Like A Tree - Sarah Spencer
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Season Two - Episode 1 - Duncan Woods
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
For this episode I sat down with Satori co-founder, Duncan Woods, and we asked each other questions.
Duncan had suggested this idea to me as a way of exploring my involvement with Satori, and it also became a great way to discover more about his inspiration for the original magazine project and beyond.
Duncan Woods is a creative director from London UK, with 18 years experience working across a mixture of magazines, retail, and creative agencies.
He co-founded SATORI magazine with Seb Camilleri in 2017 with the aim of creating a community where people who may have different religious beliefs, scholarly pursuits or cultural backgrounds can come together and share in their love for thought provoking content and stimulating artwork.
SATORI magazine ran for 3 issues before being re-imagined as a podcast. If you are interested in reading any of the print issues of SATORI please visit findsatori.cargo.site/Buy
Books from this episode:
Matt Haig - Reasons to Stay Alive
Ekhart Tolle - The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Episode 6 - Llyn De Danaan
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Today's main contributor, Dr. LLyn De Danaan, emerita, The Evergreen State College, is an author and cultural anthropologist.
She was a speaker for Humanities Washington for four years and a faculty with Western Washington University’s Academy for Lifelong Learning. Her 2013 book, Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay, is called, “a masterpiece of creative interpretation…" She appeared throughout the Washington State to encourage conversations on historical research and the history of critical encounters between EuroAmerican and Native Americans. For many years, she consulted with Washington Tribes on treaty matters and was an expert witness in key cases. She produced curricula with Indian educators and the State Superintendent of Public Education’s office and consulted on the Washington State Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum, now in all Washington schools. She received the State Historical Society’s Peace and Friendship Award for furthering understanding of cultural diversity in Washington. She conducted research in Asia, Romania (Fulbright Scholar), and Yakima Valley. Her Mountain of Shell project focused on Japanese American labourers on Oyster Bay. She reviews for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries and has contributed to Kithfolk, No Depression, the Oly Mountain Boys’ White Horse album, and Voice of the Wild Olympics. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in a Timberland Regional Library Collection and in an anthology produced by Washington State’s Poet Laureate, WA129. She was a founding member of the Mason County Historic Preservation Commission and was a member of Olympic Park Associates and Great Old Broads for Wilderness. She was also involved with Mason County March for Science and is a member of League of Women Voters. She worked as a beach naturalist with Puget Sound Estuarium for two years. Her most recent project focused on the life of the first Native American woman pilot, Mary Riddle, a Quinault allotted woman whose ancestors were among the first oyster farmers on Willapa Bay.
Llyn’s book Recommendations:
Thich Nhat Hanh - Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
CS Lewis - Surprised by Joy / A Grief Observed
Francesca French and Mildred Cable - The Gobi Desert
Halldor Laxness - Independent People
Olga Tokarczuk - The Books of Jacob
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Episode 5 - Parneet Pal
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Today's main contributor is Parneet Pal.
An educator, science communicator and wellbeing expert working at the intersection of business, lifestyle medicine (including nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, mental and emotional health) and behaviour change.
A Harvard and Columbia trained physician, Parneet looks for the connections and interdependence within human and planetary systems that makes them resilient and regenerative.
Her work is focused on solutions for business leadership that architect the future of an equitable society: a wellbeing economy where health is the default.
https://www.parneetpal.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/parneetpal/
Parneet’s book recommendation:
David Egelman - Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives