Ready To Be Real by Síle Seoige
Sep 29, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 22 segments
Topics covered : Housing, shelter, self-building, self-sufficiency, security, agency, sustainability, consumerism, capitalism, convenience, our reliance on systems, power cuts, extreme weather…
Harrison GardnerGuest
Síle SeoigeHost
Were you always somebody who was interested in making things, building things, how things work? Was it there from an early age, Harrison?
Didn't feel like luck at the time, but now I look back, I was lucky enough that my parents were very hands on, very DIY, and they built their own house.
The joy, I guess, of wanting to do that, to want to do that process together.
They'd previously built a yacht together, which was a big experience for them in South Africa.
It was successful, a big 40-foot concrete yacht that they'd built and put out on the water with my two older brothers as young kids.
And so their trajectory for the first five years of learning in Australia was find a bit of land, get money together, get the jobs together so we can build a house.
the sense that like, how do you go from, okay, so we're just hanging out, we're dating, we're together.
So they built two identical yachts, one for my grandfather, my dad's dad, and one for them.
Were you always somebody who was interested in making things, building things, how things work? Was it there from an early age, Harrison?
Didn't feel like luck at the time, but now I look back, I was lucky enough that my parents were very hands on, very DIY, and they built their own house.
The joy, I guess, of wanting to do that, to want to do that process together.
They'd previously built a yacht together, which was a big experience for them in South Africa.
It was successful, a big 40-foot concrete yacht that they'd built and put out on the water with my two older brothers as young kids.
And so their trajectory for the first five years of learning in Australia was find a bit of land, get money together, get the jobs together so we can build a house.
the sense that like, how do you go from, okay, so we're just hanging out, we're dating, we're together.
So they built two identical yachts, one for my grandfather, my dad's dad, and one for them.
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