Stewardship Over Ownership with Brit Sastrawidjaya and Bethany Rydmark

So when I think back to what happened in season two, now we're at the end of the season looking back and we've been starting to record season three.

It was the season of so many great voices.

I think of Brittany Herrera.

I think of David Horry.

I think of AI and Andrea.

I think of just so many.

I mean, the list goes on.

There was eight of them.

Yeah.

there's these moments that kind of have changed how I do practice.

And I'm curious from you, Bethany, like whose conversations kind of landed at least top of mind at this moment,

you

know, for, for you that changed or challenged your practice.

There are so many great conversations.

I mean, the initial name coming to mind right now is just Sarah and her practice in Australia, because I love these connections where you're on a completely different, literally a different side of the planet, but the values that are driving the decision making.

are so resonant that even the application being somewhat different, it's a different ecosystem, it's a different governance structure, it's a different set of regulations, it's a different set of even community priorities, but underneath all of that is a very deep dedication to the land and the water.

So the soil, the living creatures, the humanity existing dwelling in these places.

So it's fun for me to hear those perspectives from deeply practiced and experienced folks living in a totally different context.

And from my own experience in life, that's where I've learned so much is by either pulling myself out of something familiar and putting myself into a totally different foreign context to see things like just from a jarringly different perspective or from having people from elsewhere come to me and share something that would never have come to me otherwise.

And so that was exciting.

And I think even just the conversations around, you know, water regulation and water harvesting on a property in Australia versus a property here in the Northwest, you know, it's just it's it's wild that it's so different.

But it's also kind of in that amusing, the amusing you have to laugh at humanity sort of way.

You kind of start to realize, you know, the systems, the structures, the regulations, the requirements, the whatever.

This is all such a human-made construct, like all of these regulatory expectations layered over the top of what we end up doing.

And that can be good where it's helping, and it's also not impossible to change that and to change how we collectively decide we want to manage things.