The
Regenerative Worklife Podcast
A regenerative career transition involves a lot more than just going on a jobs board and searching for the word regenerative.
This podcast will show you how to find your vision, develop your resilience, identify your regenerative niche and build a viable action plan.
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Here you’ll find answers to questions like:
- Can I really make money from regenerative work?
- Do I have the right qualification for a regenerative career?
- Where do I find regenerative opportunities?
- How can I build regenerative community?
- How do I find my place in purpose-led work?
- What does it take to build a successful regenerative career?
Host Alisa Murphy has worked with 100s of impact-focused businesses and visionaries and is here to guide you through every step.
Latest episodes
EP36: Tending, Not Tactics: A Regenerative Approach to Growing Your Business
In this episode, Alisa explores how the metaphor of planting a garden can be helpful when building a regenerative business. Why trying to force results often leads us back to extractive an d manipulative tactics. And the importance of patience, faith, and trusting the invisible growth happening beneath the surface.
EP35: Play with me / How ego holds us back from regenerative work / Your one wild and precious life.
Alisa reflects on how internalised capitialism, deep-rooted fears and unhelpful beliefs can block our regenerative path to work we love and how reconnecting with nature and journalling can help to overcome them.
EP34: The most JOYFUL conversation about marketing I've ever had! (Interview with Natalia Sanyal)
Natalia Sanyal works with humanity-first brands to create anti-oppressive copy that’s authentic, does less harm — and still sells. For many people stepping into regenerative entrepreneurship, that can feel like an impossible paradox, but this conversation shows you how it’s done.
EP33: Immersing in Nature / Being Instead of Doing in Business / Creative, Energetic and Playful Offers
In this episode, Alisa discusses some of the mistakes she’s made when building her own regenerative business and how immersing herself in nature and rediscovering creativity, play and joy has helped her to reconnect to her work and has helped her clients connect to their own purpose too.
EP32: Spring / Finding Meaning in My Podcast/Fears for the Soul of My Business/Returning to Nature
Alisa shares a felt heartfelt exploration of what it means to be a regenerative entrepreneur, and how nature, wild swimming and medicine walks help her to navigate dark times and stormy weather.
EP31: Build a business around your true value (not capitalism’s version).
Our jobs are deeply tied to our identities and our sense of self-worth, which is why so many people stay stuck in jobs they hate. In this episode, I share how I’ve learnt to value myself for who I am and have found more joy and purpose in the process.
EP30: Changing with the seasons… changing as the mood takes me!
Regeneration is about restoring life and life is inconsistent, it ebbs and flows. Alisa Murphy shares how a bout of illness has made her reconsider how she approaches her work so that it prioritises health and creativity over consistency.
EP29:Why Your “Messy” Career is Actually Your Biggest Strength - and How to Own It!
What if the very things you feel awkward or ashamed about in your career could actually be your biggest strengths? In this blog, Alisa helps you to shift your perspective on career “messiness” and turn it into an advantage.
EP28: Five Reasons Why You Should INVEST in RADICAL Career Change
In this punchy blog, Alisa Murphy gives you five hard truths about why you should be investing in radical career change TODAY. She explains what it means to invest in a meaningful career (it’s not just about money!) and why radical change is the only kind of transformation we have time left for.
EP27: Put your career privilege to work!
If you recognize that you have reached a stage in your career with more options than most, it's time to understand what career and financial privilege means—and decide how to use it.
EP26: The REAL reason you haven't made the career change you want
Why do choose to stay in unfulfilling jobs instead of pursuing our regenerative dreams? Learn the difference between the practical concerns you think are holding you back—like money worries and doubts about your skills—and the deeper resistance that lies underneath. Resistance rooted in deeply held, often unconscious beliefs about your worth and value.
EP25: What Is Your Corporate Salary Costing You?
The truth is that money controls us. It traps us in corporate jobs that we probably never intended for ourselves. It’s time to get honest about the true cost of a corporate paycheck and start pursuing purpose-led work that matters.
EP24: Seeking an Injection of God In Your Regenerative Business
Alisa shares a simple but powerful shift that has transformed her mornings and her business – starting with a pre-dawn walk. She explores how it relates to regenerative work, and how we can cultivate more thrill, discomfort, adventure, and connection in our careers.
EP23: Crafting a Resilient Ecosystem for Meaningful Work (Regenerative Sticking Point with Sara)
In a live coaching session, Alisa works with Sara, a passionate sustainability professional who left her corporate job to pursue work more aligned with her values. Together, they explore how to balance multiple income streams, integrate creative passions, and build a meaningful career that’s both impactful and financially sustainable.
EP22: Stop Letting Money Decide— Start Purposeful Work You Love TODAY
Alisa invites us to set aside the question of how to make money from regenerative work and simply focused on doing it. She shares practical ideas for getting started, building confidence, and finding value in the process itself. If you’re longing to reconnect with meaningful work, this podcast episode is for you.
EP21: How Community Activism Can Inspire Regenerative Work
Alisa explores what community activism can teach us about regenerative work and what she has learnt about purpose and intergenerational collaboration while campaigning to save a 120 year oak tree in her local town.
EP20: Want to Work Sustainably? Shift Your Focus from WHAT to HOW.
Alisa explores a different way of thinking about sustainable work—one that focuses not just on what we do, but on how we approach it. Helping us to break free from corporate conditioning and work regeneratively—with joy, rest, and connection at the centre.
EP19: How to Handle a Regenerative Crisis of Confidence (According To My 4 Year Old Son!)
Alisa shares her personal regenerative career confidence issues and practical strategies for overcoming moments of uncertainty.
EP18: Find Your Focus, Get Your Hands Dirty, Create Things That Matter (Regenerative Sticking Point with Cloé)
Discover how to break free from your corporate job and career change paralysis by taking action with small, manageable steps and guiding questions.
EP17: Stop Stressing About Money: A Financial Plan for Your Purpose-led Career
A step-by-step guide to creating a personalised financial plan so you can transition out of your corporate role and into your purpose-filled work.