The Next Mountain Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Duncan Grossart shares his shift from a successful career as a photography agency owner to a purpose-driven life focused on rewilding, nature conservation and community. We talk about curiosity, the emotional side of transition, and how reconnecting with nature can reshape purpose and impact. His journey shows how following your heart and engaging with the living world can lead to deeper fulfillment.

• Curiosity as a guide for personal and professional transition
• Rewilding and restoration as meaningful pathways to impact
• Nature as a catalyst for perspective, connection, and identity
• Community and collaboration as the foundation for lasting change
• Redefining success through long term environmental stewardship

Website: https://www.journeyswithpurpose.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncangrossart

Anastasia Mourogova Millin shares her path from science and finance to building solutions that blend systemic investing, community stewardship, and real social impact. We talk about trusting your values, leaving old identities behind, and creating financial models that help both people and nature thrive. Her journey shows how bold choices and collective action can reshape the systems we all rely on 🌿.

After leading global ventures and impact funds, Florian Kemmerich began questioning how success could serve something larger. In this episode, he shares his journey from corporate achievement to a life centered on impact investing, purpose, and personal growth, exploring how vocation, authenticity, and reflection can turn experience into meaningful contribution.

🌐 To Learn More About Florian

• New book: On Vocation: How to Align Your Purpose with Your Profession
• Florian on X (Twitter): https://x.com/flokemmerich
• Florian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/floriankemmerich
  
  

What happens when a lifelong entrepreneur realizes that success isn’t just about growth, but regeneration?

In this episode of The Next Mountain Podcast, Marie France Montpetit shares her journey from building multiple ventures to becoming a catalyst for meaningful change. She reflects on how following intuition, embracing failure, and building community can transform both business and life.

We explore how entrepreneurship can become a force for good and how aligning purpose with participation leads to collective impact.

• The power of intuition in entrepreneurship
• Turning business into a regenerative force
• Building community for personal and collective growth
• Learning from failure and navigating transition
• Creating a life-sustaining culture
• Coaching as a path toward conscious leadership
• Why collective impact matters more than individual success

Yvon Chouinard – Let My People Go Surfing
A seminal work on values-driven entrepreneurship and the founding philosophy behind Patagonia — where business and environmental stewardship meet.

What happens when a fast-rising corporate leader realizes that success needs a deeper meaning?

In the first episode of The Next Mountain Podcast, Nathalia Del Moral Fleury shares her journey from a rapid rise leading a global cosmetics brand to redefining success as a coach and regenerative economist.

We explore how she reframed leadership, redefined achievement, and found purpose in contributing to the renewal of systems that sustain life.

Full References & Resources

• Donella Meadows – Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
  📄 Read the original paper (PDF)
• Tomas Björkman & Lene Andersen – The Nordic Secret (personal development & social evolution / Bildung)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Robert Sapolsky – Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (emergence, behavior, complexity)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Iain McGilchrist – The Master and His Emissary (divided brain, culture, and meaning)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Martha Beck – Finding Your Own North Star (authenticity, truth, and life purpose)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Frédéric Laloux – Reinventing Organizations (complex adaptive systems & self-management)
  📘 Book on Amazon
• Michelle Holliday – The Age of Thrivability (living systems principles & regenerative organizations)
  🌐 Author website
• Zita Cobb – Founder of Shorefast / Fogo Island model
  🎧 What the Fogo Island Inn Can Teach Us – CBC’s The Current
  📚 Wikipedia: Zita Cobb
• Dark Matter Labs & Shorefast – Regenerative, place-based economy models
  📄 A Possible Future for Canada: Capitalizing Places for Resilience and Regeneration (Report)
  🌐 Shorefast Institute for Place-Based Economies