Inner Ecology Trailer
My new podcast launches Fall Equinox 2025!
Capsule Podcast Release September 22 2025.
In honor of Hurricane Helene survivors as we navigate the first year anniversary.
Full of Free Resiliency Resources + A Fundraiser for Two Water-based Nonprofits. I hope you will join me on this journey and follow Inner Ecology on Apple Podcast or Spotify (this helps me connect to more listeners).
About Your Host
Courtney Pinkerton (she/her) combines nature and coaching resources to help clients boost resiliency, avoid burnout and create their legacy work and lives. She is a is a certified Wayfinder coach and member of the Climate Coaching Alliance. Courtney holds Masters of Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard and is the author of The Flourish Formula: An Overachiever's Guide to Slowing Down and Accomplishing More. She lives with her husband and three children on Apple Balm Tiny Farm near Asheville, North Carolina.
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Trailer Transcript
“Hi, and welcome to Inner Ecology. I'm your host Courtney Pinkerton.
We are approaching the anniversary of Hurricane Helene, which happened at the end of September in 2024. Navigating a natural disaster when one is just so totally beyond one's depths, beyond the demands of regular life, what is actually helpful? It's interesting to me that a lot of these episodes and resources that I had already recorded… I feel like like hurricane tested.
So what is Inner Ecology? It's a capsule podcast, an invitation to explore practices that nurture our inner resilience and this intersection between personal and planetary flourishing.
Just to tell you a little more about what to expect, with each conversation we explore a topic or a practice and these range from breath work to cold plunging to narrative change and Ayurveda. Each interview starts with me asking the guest what Enneagram type they are, which is an ancient personality map, a nine pointed figure.
I always think that there are patterns in nature, you know, the way a ripple grows out in the concentric circles in a pond or raindrops on the ground, or moss growing on a log. So why wouldn't there be patterns to being a human? And to me, ultimate resiliency is rooted in knowing and loving ourselves well. And being clear on what we're good at and generous in sharing that uniqueness as well as cultivating a capacity to really see the strengths in others.
It was fun to showcase all the different types, and I hope it helps all of us to see the beauty that these different energies bring. I also end each episode with a question asking the guests about a story of hope or renewal, either from their own personal life or from an ecosystem that they have a relationship with. I just don't think we can answer these deep heart questions. (Heart not hard, although they are sometimes hard.) Like ‘what is the relationship between healing our inner lives and restoring ecosystems?’ I don't think we can answer these questions by ourselves. We need community wisdom, and we also need a willingness to have awkward conversations and to play at that emergent edge of words and meaning making, to feel our way into the words we need to have the conversation we want to be having.
Our home did flood, during Helene. So I had personal experience of the damage and the disruption of water, and also people in our community lost their lives. And I think in some way, I wanted to reconnect with the element and with the life-giving qualities of water.
I really wanted to link the sharing of this podcast, the launching of this podcast with a fundraiser for two nonprofits related to water.
One of them is called Mountain True. A local nonprofit. They were, a real leader in terms of how they showed up and the way they directed human and material resources.
And the other nonprofit is called water.org. I really appreciate how they approach international development and global poverty through the lens of helping people access clean water and also all the climate related implications to how people are or are not able to get this basic human need met.
So if you're looking for some small way to contribute, I am drawn to this dropping of a pebble in the pond or these ripples where we come together to do small things, out of love, out of care, out of our own growth.
And I'm so excited to share the episodes.
