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Lifeworlds
Hosted by Alexa Firmenich · science · EN
About this Podcast:
Lifeworlds is an intimate dialogue with our planet’s ecologies and with those who are translators and bridges between the human and beyond-human. Our guests are farmers, lawyers, scientists, investors, indigenous scholars, artists, and many more — with them, we explore the mindsets, skills and actions required to forge deep connections with nature and to enter into close relationship with the lifeworlds of other beings. We begin to change the world when we change our ways of seeing and being. Lifeworlds points us towards a deeper reformulation of core human identities, asking who it is we share the Earth with and what our human role may be at this pivotal moment in time. It is through the doorway of inhabiting and understanding multiple perspectives that we can begin to heal a culture and psyche that is steeped in duality. We have lost our place as humans amongst all life. This is our call for healing, engagement and wonder. <a href="https://www.li
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What is Lifeworlds about?
Lifeworlds is an intimate dialogue with our planet’s ecologies and with those who are translators and bridges between the human and beyond-human.
Who hosts Lifeworlds?
Lifeworlds is hosted by Alexa Firmenich. The show has published 79 episodes to date.
What has Lifeworlds covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Soulfire Sessions III: Many Minds, with Kensy Cooperrider" (17 August 2026, 56 minutes), "Meditation | Deep Time" (24 July 2026, 20 minutes), and "37. Whale Lexicons: A Language of the Deep, with David Gruber and César Rodríguez-Garavito" (2 July 2026, 72 minutes).
How often does Lifeworlds publish?
Lifeworlds publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 55 minutes across 79 episodes.
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Booking probability for Lifeworlds is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Lifeworlds requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Lifeworlds's contact route on record: verified email.
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Alexa Firmenich hosts Lifeworlds, a science podcast with 79 episodes published.
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Lifeworlds
Meditation | Deep Time
Jul 24, 202620 minS4This is a meditation I wrote and recorded to plunge us through epochs of cosmic time, through the tremendous evolutionary processes that preceded us, became us, and are us. It grants us invaluable context on the great...
Episode #37
37. Whale Lexicons: A Language of the Deep — with David Gruber and César Rodríguez-Garavito
Jul 2, 20261h 12mS4What does it actually mean to translate a language that has never been written down or spoken in air, whose holders are ancient ocean denizens, and may not even carry concepts we'd recognize as our own? That's the...
Apr 2, 20261h 11mS4What if one of the most powerful tools for saving the Amazon rain-forest was a bee most people have never heard of? Enter the stingless bee – a 65 million year old resident of Earth that produces honeys teeming with...
Mar 6, 20261 hourS4What is life, and are we alone in the universe? In this episode I sit down with Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester, prolific science communicator, and author of five books including The...
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Feb 2, 202658 minS3Today’s episode explores a simple but urgent question: is our education system still fit for the world we’re entering? Climate disruption, AI, and uncertainty demand new forms of education fit for complexity and change...
Lifeworlds
Poetry | Fruitful Darkness with Rilke
Oct 26, 202518 minS3This Lifeworlds episode is a devotional journey into the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, the lyrical German poet of thresholds and embracing transformations. Through readings of his most luminous poems and writings, we...
Oct 16, 20251h 17mS3In this episode, we explore the role of theatre and empathy in transforming worldviews. Dr. Dylan McGarry is one of the founders of Empatheatre, a South African theatre-making company and methodology that turns research...
Episode #32
32. Depth Psychology and Soul Initiation – with Bill Plotkin from Animas Valley Institute
Jul 11, 20251h 15mS3In this episode, I sit down with Bill Plotkin, founder of Animas Valley Institute. Over the past 40 years, Bill has developed intricate, nature-based models of human development and education that challenge dominant...
Episode #31
31. Holistic Landscape Restoration and Inspirational Returns – with Willem Ferwerda from Commonland
Jul 2, 20251h 9mS3Almost 40% of Earth’s land is degraded, meaning that the natural cycles that sustain biodiversity, water, food, and livelihoods are breaking down. This degradation is an ecological crisis, and, it also lies at the root...
Jun 10, 202516 minWhat if the next shift in planetary consciousness didn’t come from looking back at Earth from space, but from listening deeply to the voices already here? In this thought piece I propose the “inworlding effect” as the...
May 20, 20251h 5mS3Today we’re joined by artist, musician and communal grief ritual facilitator Alexandra “ahlay” Blakey to speak about the cultural forgetting of communal mourning, the sacred role of professional mourners, and the...
Apr 22, 20251h 3mS3In this episode we’re joined by the renowned environmentalist, activist and author Paul Hawken to explore the lifeworld of carbon and its role as a vital agent in the story of life. Paul speaks about the dysfunctions in...
Apr 3, 20251h 19mS3In this episode, we journey into the vibrational worlds of sound, ancestry, and deep listening with Whaia, a Ngāti Kahungunu woman of Māori descent and First Nations sonic weaver and multi-instrumentalist. Raised...
Lifeworlds
Poetry | The World Thinks in Poetry
Mar 26, 20257 minS3In a remote cabin in Vancouver Island in 2019, far away, I sat by the shore. I listened. I re-read poetry. I swam with jellyfish. I ate bright salmon berries and raw samphire. I gazed around and listened to the songs of...
Mar 18, 20251h 13mS3Where does your body end and the Earth begin? In this episode, we explore the real and poetic parallels between human health and planetary health, and how nature’s language moves in our bodies. Joining me is Dr...
Feb 18, 20251h 3mS3David McConville is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher who explores how technology shapes our perspectives of Earth—from local places to our cosmic context. Our conversation examines how worldviews influence...
Jan 28, 20251h 10mS3In this episode, I share some reflections on Season 2, before diving into our first listener-guided Q&A! You’ll be hearing from fellow listeners who enquired on topics like: Earth-centered governance De-extinction...
Dec 17, 20241h 11mS2What if you could inhabit the future? In this episode, we dive into the work of Superflux, the visionary design studio turning imagination into tangible worlds. From multispecies banquets and rewilded ecological...
Lifeworlds
Practice | Body Compass
Oct 2, 202414 minS2This is my take on ancient and intuitive sensory experience that taps into the innate intelligence of the human body, a blend of body compass, Zen Beginner's Mind, a shamanic medicine walk and Goethean science. The...
Recent guests
Recent guests on Lifeworlds. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
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Adam Frank
Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
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Bill Plotkin
depth psychologist, wilderness guide, agent of cultural evolution, Animas Valley Institute
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Paul Hawken
New York Times Bestselling Author of Regeneration: Ending The Climate Crisis In One Generation, Project Drawdown Non-Profit
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Paco Calvo
cognitive scientist and philosopher of biology, Minimal Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Mercia
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