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We live life in the fast lane. We race to keep up with The Joneses. We are over-worked, over-connected and over-stressed, and we compete on how busy and important and sleep-deprived we are....

Instead of the usual conversation between Brooke and Ben, today's episode is simply a reading of the final ever edition of The Tortoise news...

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...

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 cho...

Pleasure. Just the word brings a little shiver to the spine, doesn't it? Defined as “ a feeling or experience that involves enjoyment or sat...

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 Tik...

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 curvebal...

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 fr...

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 — Brook...

This month's episode digs into the topic of addiction (and more broadly, obsessive behaviour) for things like tech-use, busyness, food and c...

Today Brooke and Ben are talking about hard times. Or more specifically, how to deal with the emotional heaviness that comes from living thr...

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 o...

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, relaxat...

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...

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...

If you're feeling squashed between competing needs - raising kids and caring for parents while trying to work/live/look after yourself, for...

What exactly is "wellness" anyway? We hear it tossed about as an umbrella term covering health and fitness and diet and mental well-being an...

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...

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 wit...

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.....

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 2...

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...

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 u...

Tricia Walker has inspired a lot of people. From her decade-long work blogging about sustainable living, to her more recent role of nature c...

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 wor...

There's little doubt the world is undergoing significant changes right now. Pandemic, war, the climate crisis - it's all impacting our visio...

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 ne...

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. Sp...

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 t...

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 3rd instalment in this year's Summer Series/Winter Warmies includes an episode recorded in 2019 with Beth Kempton. Join The Tortoise Com...

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 redu...

Ben and Brooke talk through the format for this year's Summer Series/Winter Warmies and bring you Part 1, featuring analogue creativity with...

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...

Friend of the show, author, cook, founder of the Granny Skills movement and co-founder of native food company Warndu, Rebecca Sullivan, retu...

In this episode Brooke chats with Dr Clinton Schultz, a proud Gamilaroi man, psychologist, husband, dad and founder of Sobah - hands down th...

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...

Hannah Diviney is a leading disability rights advocate, writer, student and Young Australian of the Year nominee, who joins Brooke to dig in...

Sometimes, in our efforts to do better by the planet, our communities, our families and ourselves, we can get tangled in knots - especially...

Author, Gardening Australia Presenter and Activist Hannah Maloney joins the pogpast this week to talk about her values, privilege, reclaimin...

We are back at it with another season of the Slow Home Podcast. Kicking-off this season is another frank and fearless conversation between B...

Join Brooke and Ben for the last episode of the season in a 'hostful' episode where they talk about imposter syndrome and answer listener qu...

Brooke chats with Jade Miles, co-host the Futuresteading podcast and co-founder of Black Barn Farm, to learn about what future-steading is a...

Brooke chats with returning guest and zero-waste advocate Anita van Dyke (ex-rocket scientist, turned medical doctor and awesome Mum) about...

Brooke catches up with friend of the show Jacki Carr (Goal Coach and Speaker) about setting goals in a changing world, and the utter liberat...

Returning guest Jess Davis from Folk Rebellion talks with Brooke about how New York has changed since the pandemic, what has survived and wh...

Brooke and Ben drop into your feed with an unscheduled hostful to talk through the happenings over the past month. Links Check out the new w...

This is a conversation many months in the making, recorded a few months ago, Brooke chats with illustrator, writer and environmentalist Em E...

Brooke and Ben sit down in their very 'echoey' living room next to their very loud dogs to talk through what has been happening over the las...

Brooke and Ben are back in your earholes. They share updates on the last nine months, what they are doing now and their plans for the future...

We've all heard about the transformative power of meditation, but how can we access it when uncertainty, stress and living through a pandemi...