What is true, and who can we trust?

As we navigate this moment of uncertainty, many of us reach for certitudes. But that can lead us down all kinds of rabbit holes, especially with so much information gathering happening online, where what is true is increasingly distorted and manipulated for individual gain.

In this issue we explore how we navigate a landscape of misinformation and fake news, how we discern truth in politics, civic life and media, and how we build awareness of our particular feedback loops and confirmation biases. Now more than ever, we need to get good holding complexity and multiple truths, and exposing our ideas and beliefs to doubt.

Renowned author and voice of insight Sarah Wilson joins Small Giants Academy to celebrate issue 66 of Dumbo Feather magazine with its Editor in Chief Berry Liberman, for an evening of the truth-wrangling and paradox holding required for this moment in time.

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About Sarah Wilson:

Sarah Wilson is a former journalist and TV presenter, author and activist. She wrote the New York Times bestsellers I Quit Sugar and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, which Mark Manson described as “the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read”. She is the author of another 11 cookbooks that sell in 52 countries.

Previously she was editor of Cosmopolitan Australia, host of Masterchef Australia and founder of the largest wellness website in Australia, IQuitSugar.com. In May 2018, Sarah closed the business and gave all money to charity. She now builds and enables charity projects that “engage humans with each other” and campaigns on mental health and climate issues. Sarah ranks as one of the top 200 most influential authors in the world and has a combined digital audience of 2.5 million.

Sarah lives minimally, rides a hand-built bike and is known for traveling the world for eight years with one bag.

Sarah’s latest book This One Wild and Precious Life is a soul’s journey through the complexities of climate change, coronavirus, racial inequalities and our disconnection from what matters…back to life. Sarah hikes around the world, meeting wild voices and experts who provide hopeful wisdoms and vibrant solutions to arrive at what she feels is the true path through the despair…to our better world. This One Wild Precious Life is published September 2020 (Pan Macmillan Australia), December 2020 (US, Harper Collins) and in the UK early 2021.

About our host, Berry Liberman:

Berry Liberman is a graduate of the VCA and former filmmaker who founded an impact family office called Small Giants with her husband, Danny Almagor. Their investing philosophy is to use financial capital in service to create the world they want to leave their children and grandchildren. As the first B Corporation in Australia,they commit to using business as a force for good in the world and are constantly asking the question – can we pivot to a Next Economy model which has us living within the bounds of the ecology and towards human flourishing?

She is the editor-in-chief of Dumbo Feather magazine and media platform and creative director of Small Giants Academy, an education platform as well as their sustainable property, renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, impact investing and community development portfolio of businesses that make up Small Giants. She is a mum of three beautiful kids and a Bordoodle puppy named Cookie

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About Small Giants Academy:

Our vision at Small Giants Academy is for a just and inclusive transition to a global economy that supports human flourishing while living in harmony with the natural world. Through articles, podcasts, conversations and masterclasses that illuminate the work of global thought leaders, Small Giants Academy is leading its communities towards a hopeful future, the Next Economy.