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"Why This Podcast is Evolving: A Transition Episode"

After 36 episodes exploring the breadth of early childhood education, 'For Your Ears from the Early Years' is evolving into the Project Sustainability Collective Podcast.

This bridging episode explains why.

Between July 2024 and December 2025, I hosted conversations with thought leaders about brain development, creativity, leadership, pedagogical courage, play, and place. Over 2,500 downloads across 55 countries. All grown organically through educators sharing with educators.

But when I look back across these conversations, I see something I couldn't see while living it: there was a thread running through nearly every episode. Sustainability was there all along—I just hadn't named it yet.

Episode 9 was the turning point. Bronwyn Cron shared a story about children who discovered a frog living in a gumnut they'd collected from bush kinder. In that moment, a light went on in my brain, and it changed the direction of my work.

In this episode, I share:

• The sustainability thread woven through all 36 conversations
• Why everything I know about early childhood pedagogy IS sustainability education
• The paradigm shift: sustainability isn't an add-on—it's an integration lens
• What Bronwyn and I discovered through our 2025 Sustainability Snapshot research
• Why we're moving beyond sustainability itself to regenerative futures
• What comes next with the Project Sustainability Collective Podcast

All 36 original episodes remain available. Every conversation is still valuable. But this is where the work focuses now.

Thank you for these 36 episodes together. I hope you'll join us for what comes next.

Every conversation mattered. Every guest contributed to this evolution.

Listen to all episodes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2071197

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Every conversation mattered. Every guest contributed to this evolution.

Listen to all episodes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2071197.

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Lili-Ann Kriegler (B. A Hons, H. Dip. Ed, M.Ed.) is an award-winning author and Melbourne-based education consultant. Her books are 'The Power of Play' for educators and 'Roots and Wings' for parents. Lili-Ann’ is a leader in early childhood education (birth to years), leadership and optimising human thinking and cognition. She runs her consultancy, Kriegler-Education. She is passionate about the early childhood sector and believes in the transformational power of education.
Find out more at https://www.kriegler-education.com.