Disrupting Disasters

This is a podcast about doing disasters differently, because our future demands it. Join Elizabeth McNaughton in conversation with disaster experts from around the world. They’ll share stories and learnings from their work, all while discussing how we can change the way we do disaster preparedness, response and recovery to rise to the level of today’s climate challenges.Elizabeth is a disaster specialist and founder of Disastrous, a professional development and innovation hub for those working in disasters. www.disastrous.co

Disrupting Disasters is a education podcast hosted by Disastrous, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #12

  UN Disaster Boss Kamal Kishore on risk reduction, leadership and our interconnected world

  Oct 12, 202550 minS1

  <p>This special episode was recorded LIVE in Wellington, NZ. </p><p>Join Elizabeth as she speaks with Kamal Kishore, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), based in Geneva.</p><p>Kamal shares his experiences, from growing up in Delhi, to what drew him to disaster risk reduction, and his work around the world. They discuss how everything is interconnected, the importance of protecting our curiosity, and how most disasters are really crime scenes. </p><p>We hear Kamal’s leadership advice for...

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  Episode #11

  Carl Hammington on health, mindset training, and doing hard things

  Jul 8, 202553 minS1

  <p>In this episode, Elizabeth speaks with Carl Hammington, Academic Director at HealthFit Collective in Aotearoa New Zealand. Carl has over 20 years experience as an athlete, health presenter, podcast host, and fitness expert. </p><p>Carl shares learnings from high performance sport and how they apply to disaster response. They chat about resilience and how a training mindset can help us prepare for life’s challenges. Carl shares useful tips and simple physical tools for managing stress, like breathing techniques, and how having a growth mindset relates to positivity.</p><p>This is a relentlessly hopeful episode about how tackling har...

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  Episode #10

  Briony Rogers on resilient communities, systems change, and fire to flourish

  May 6, 202535 minS1

  <p>In this episode, Elizabeth speaks with Professor Briony Rogers, based at Monash University’s Sustainable Development Institute. Briony is CEO of Fire to Flourish, a pioneering initiative partnering with fire-affected communities, researchers and philanthropy to co-create a model of holistic support for community-led disaster recovery and resilience building.</p><p>They discuss Briony’s journey as both an engineer and social scientist, and dig into her work on Fire to Flourish, which emerged after the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires. They discuss the innovative ways they’re engaging with communities, including participatory granting which allows them to decide how they’ll allocate...

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  Episode #9

  Marco Toscano-Rivalta on human rights, disaster risk reduction, and finding harmony

  Apr 16, 202555 minS1

  <p>Elizabeth speaks with Marco Toscano-Rivalta, Chief of United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) for Asia and the Pacific based in Bangkok. Across his career, Marco has worked with the UN and other international organisations in humanitarian relief, refugee protection, promotion and protection of human rights, justice administration, sustainable development and disaster risk management. He holds a law degree from the University of Bologna, Italy. </p><p>In this episode, Marco shares what it’s like to work at the United Nations including being at the negotiating table in 2015 when the pivotal  Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction was r...

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  Episode #8

  Hon Kiri Allan on crisis communication, localised knowledge, and bridging worlds

  Mar 11, 20251h 14mS1

  <p>Elizabeth speaks with former Cabinet Minister and lawyer, Kiri Allan. Kiri was a member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023, as a List MP and then representing the Labour Party in the East Coast electorate. She held the positions of Minister for Emergency Management and Minister of Conservation (Nov 2020-June 2022), and Minister of Justice (June 2022-July 2023), among others.</p><p>In this episode, Kiri and Elizabeth discuss what it’s like managing public communications during a crisis. Kiri shares personal stories of hardship and hope from responding to events like the Whakaari/White Island er...

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