The incredible language rights activist, teacher and MBE Linda Ervine, founder of Turas project in East Belfast, talks to Jools about her roots, and the routes that led to the innovative Turas project that breaks barriers and advances reconciliation in Ireland through the Irish language. Her story is an incredible story of passion, ability, teaching and reconciliation in the midst of a community that would (until recently) given little credibility (if any) to one of their own learning and teaching Irish. She also takes the time to correct Jools’s attempts at a chat in Irish!

In this conversation we are so proud to have Jools in conversion with the first female Provost of Ireland’s number 1 University, Trinity College Dublin. They talk about how and why Linda got to where she is. And amongst other things they talk about leadership and what is required in these days to run a university that truly exists to transform the world through a Common Good for all.

In this episode we revisit a Facebook Live held back in March in which Jools talks with Simon Anholt, creator of the Good Country Index. This episode is a bit longer than prior episodes, because what Simon says is amazing and our Editor struggled to cut things out because everything was so good!

This is a must-not-miss episode for anyone who cares about wildlife, and particularly the wildlife that crawls! The wonderful Collie Ennis, friend of TGS, and animal associate researcher in TCD shares his life and passion in this warm conversation with Jools. Collie is one of those rare people that puts his resource time and energy into doing what he believes needs to be done … he cares for, educates and advocates for so many of those animals we take for granted. And just wait to you hear what he turned up to the recording with in his bag …

In this amazing conversation, Jools talks with Jasper and Stirling about their amazing regenerative social enterprise with mushrooms! It is inspiring, educational, and shows how circular economics and regenerative solutions to problems are good for everyone! Caveat! This is our first podcast with some new recording equipment – we apologise it has not gone yet as we would have liked it to. We thought the content was too important to not get into the world, but we promise to get the hang of our new recording equipment for the next podcast please be GOOD and forgive us. These guys are amazing.

Professor of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin, Linda Hogan provides a beautiful conversations into natures of culture, her own story, ethical decision making, what we might mean by Common Good, and how we could aim to act in ways that transform our world! It is a heart-warming and challenging conversation that will pull you toward your best self!

In this mid series episode, our Good Summit founder Jools Hamilton takes the mic himself and chats with you just like he’s sitting across the table with a nice glass of red! Listen in and relax to some honest thoughts and a couple of stories that point us toward how the responsibility for making the world more GOOD, doesn’t land with YOU, it’s lands with US.

Martin McAleese has had a front row seat to many of the most significant things that have happened on the island of Ireland over the last decades. From being forced out of his family home in Belfast as a child, to opening his family home when he lived in Áras an Uachtaráin to that same tribe that had terrorized him as a child, Martin’s life is a story of living learning and leading in the most incredible of times. Listen in and be inspired.