Natalie Kyriacou: From Garage Sales To The United Nations

Описание: Medal of the Order of Australia recipient. Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree. UN Young Champion of the Earth Finalist.

Natalie Kyriacou has spent her life fighting for the planet's toughest causes. Now, she is proving that saving it doesn't have to be boring.

In this hilarious episode of This Could Be So Good, Natalie sits down with hosts Larry and Steve for a conversation that Larry calls "my favorite guest of any podcast so far."

Natalie reveals the gritty reality behind her accolades, detailing how she bootstrapped her first organization by selling her car and holding garage sales to raise money. She opens up about the "sperm-collecting helmets" required to save an endangered parrot, the time an orangutan stole her underwear in the jungles of Borneo, and the humiliating true story of how the Australian military lost a war to flightless birds.

From high-stakes boardrooms to the bizarre frontlines of conservation, this is environmentalism like you’ve never heard it before.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro: Who is Natalie Kyriacou?
02:13 - What Bonobos teach us about female leadership
04:32 - Redefining power: Why aggression fails in nature
08:53 - The Garage Sale Phase: Selling her car to fund a dream
13:02 - The power of "not caring" in corporate spaces
16:42 - Building a global app with zero coding knowledge
21:05 - Steve Grace on why startups really fail (it's not money)
26:47 - The Orangutan That Stole Her Underwear
35:09 - Storytelling as the ultimate asset for change
37:36 - The Helmet Story: Saving the Kakapo with rugby gear
41:07 - The Great Emu War: How Australia lost to birds
48:13 - The Business Case: Why insurance companies force climate action
52:45 - Final advice: Why purpose is addictive