Season 8 · Episode 102 · 28 Jan 2026
102 - Jyoti Fernandes
With Jyoti Fernandes
“"It's trying to balance doing the internal work of keeping your family together and your heart together as well as reach out and do those other things to hold our global community together and provide that spirit of hope."”
Reflections
Q1: Place
If we could do a flypast on any part of the world that is significant to you, which place, city or country would it be and why?
A tribal community in India
Q2: Life
Give us a glimpse into your life story so far with an emphasis on what you are doing currently?
Grew up in Louisiana in a little rural town with my family. My mother was totally blind and a disability rights activist and I worked with her from quite a young age. After university I went back to India with people who lived a very land based life and it's there I saw some really terrible things with nearly 70,000 people evicted from the land and moved on to little shanty towns and I think it was fundamentally transformative to me. I moved to England after I came back, I met my husband and we decided we wanted a land based life learning how to live with people, to recreate a sense of community and reconnect with the earth. All this led to a social movement of people wanting to go back to the earth and to actually heal and restore the earth.
Q3: Reset
Where on earth is your place or reset or re-charge?
Sunday roast with the family
Q4: Wonder
What wonder of the natural world excites you the most?
Most intrigued by the way that life and death are a part of the natural world. There's a lot of pain and difficult times with things that die, that have to be composted, but you can't have nature without those cycles.
Q5: Hopefulness
What is your story of hopefulness (not your own) about a person, business or non-profit who are doing amazing things for the world?
Location
Flyover
A tribal community in India
Guest
🇮🇳 Dorset (UK)