In this episode of the Harvest Series, Rose Claverie speaks with Chloé Macintosh about courage, intimacy, and the intelligence of the heart. Recorded by the sea during Harvest, the conversation explores pleasure as a healing force and the role of embodied practice in emotional wellbeing.

Chloé Macintosh shares how trauma shapes attachment, why we fear vulnerability, and how healing happens through relationship rather than isolation. A powerful invitation to reconnect with life through the body and the heart.

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00:00 – Welcome to Harvest

00:29 – Shame, disconnection, and intimacy

01:08 – Courage and authenticity

02:18 – Pleasure as a pathway to wellbeing

03:00 – Why pleasure feels blocked

03:40 – Trauma, numbness, and the senses

04:03 – Courage as an open heart

05:12 – Why we don’t practice with the heart

06:00 – Heart intelligence and coherence

06:52 – The heart before the mind

07:35 – Emotional signals and awareness

08:12 – Why the heart is hard to access

09:14 – Awareness as embodied intelligence

10:09 – The heart beyond symbols

11:02 – Fear, pain, and emotional avoidance

12:02 – Healing wounds through practice

13:14 – Childhood heartbreak and attachment

14:29 – Separation and emotional safety

15:34 – Repeating patterns in relationships

16:00 – Healing in relationship, not isolation

17:01 – Communication, triggers, and transparency

18:32 – Vulnerability and desire

19:06 – Intimacy, miscommunication, and distance

20:29 – Pleasure, thoughts, and the body

21:47 – From pleasure to heart work

22:27 – Depression and aliveness

23:10 – Sexual energy and embodiment

24:36 – Dissociation and numbness

25:15 – Re-centering and grounding

26:10 – Layering pleasure and heart work

27:05 – Creating practical methods

28:33 – Trauma, trust, and safety

30:13 – Receptivity as self-love

31:05 – Practice as devotion

32:11 – Everyday rituals and awareness

33:27 – Intention, water, and presence

34:06 – Intimacy with life

35:08 – Personal breakthrough with the heart

36:31 – Trauma, shutdown, and safety

37:00 – Reopening the heart through service

38:55 – Healing others through relationship

40:13 – Closing reflections

You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates.

Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series.

Credits:

1. Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences
2. Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi
3. Music by: Chambord

Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners

Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

This episode marks Rose Claverie’s conversation with Sunny Bates for the Harvest Series.

Recorded at Harvest in Kaplankaya, they come together to explore a question that feels increasingly urgent in our modern world: what does real connection truly mean?

In this thoughtful and expansive dialogue, Sunny Bates challenges transactional networking and reframes connection as an act of generosity, curiosity, and courage. Reflecting on community, asking, and vulnerability, this episode is a powerful reminder that human connection remains one of our most essential tools.

00:00 – Welcome to Harvest

00:29 – What makes a connection extraordinary

01:14 – Sunny Bates’ work and background

01:53 – Networking without discomfort

02:30 – Shyness, asking, and vulnerability

03:48 – Becoming a connector from childhood

05:12 – Why people fear uncomfortable personalities

06:00 – Giving generously and transformation

06:10 – How travel reshaped connection

07:31 – Networks, generosity, and ripple effects

08:25 – Introverts, extroverts, and curiosity

09:29 – Managing energy and meaningful interactions

10:39 – Hiring, trust, and deep evaluation

12:08 – Approaching busy or guarded people

13:53 – When connection becomes transactional

15:02 – Personal mission and alignment

16:05 – Rejection, fear, and asking again

17:25 – Phones, avoidance, and modern disconnection

18:46 – Advising TED and building communities

20:26 – Sustaining engaged communities

22:02 – Connection as political resistance

24:14 – Regretful connections and responsibility

28:24 – Courage, motherhood, and career risk

32:14 – The courage to ask

32:54 – Closing reflections

You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates.

Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series.

Credits:

1. Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences
2. Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi
3. Music by: Chambord

Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners

Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

This episode marks Rose Claverie’s second conversation with Satish Kumar for the Harvest series.

Following their first interview on courage, they reunite to explore a question that feels especially meaningful at the beginning of a new year: how can we live a simpler life?

In this gentle and deeply inspiring dialogue, Satish Kumar shares his timeless wisdom on simplicity, inner clarity, and living in alignment with what truly matters, a beautiful way to open the year with intention and perspective.

The official website for the Satish Kumar Foundation, the charity set up to continue Satish Kumar’s legacy and support initiatives like Schumacher College.

00:00 – Welcome to Harvest

00:29 – Why simplicity matters today

01:50 – Living in a world of inequality

02:30 – Time, possessions, and lost joy

03:40 – Cities, speed, and the coffee example

05:00 – “I am the CEO of my life”

06:35 – Elegant Simplicity and real wealth

07:35 – Sustainability and nature’s economy

09:25 – Abundance vs greed

10:50 – The BUD principle: Beautiful, Useful, Durable

12:00 – Contentment and sufficiency

13:55 – Climate change and root causes

15:50 – Why change must come from citizens

17:50 – Education of head, heart, and hands

21:55 – We are nature, not separate from it

23:15 – Closing reflections

You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates.

Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series.

Credits:

1. Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences
2. Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi
3. Music by: Chambord
4. Artwork by: Davide d'Antonio

Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners

Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel