This month, we’ve lined up inspiring masterclasses and sharing salons to help you grow your nature venture! Each week, an ecopreneur will be here to share their journey, wins, lessons, even the messy bits, and guide you along the way.
If you’re into storytelling, designing for emotional impact, starting a biodiversity venture, turning failure into growth, regenerative leadership, financing biodiversity, or scaling nature-based models, all for the wild, these events are made for you!
All masterclasses are live for one hour every Tuesday and are exclusive to Wildya Premium members. But sharing salons, which are on Monday, are open to all Wildya Community members!
So, if you’re ready to take your biodiversity mission further with advice from those who’ve walked the path before you, hop on Wildya Premium Community and unlock these weekly sessions.
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Ready to meet the biodiversity heroes and dive into their wild topics?
October 7th – Empathy: The Secret Missing Ingredient in Your Nature Communication with Bel Jacobs / Masterclass
📅 October 7
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CET
Most people don’t change their behaviour because of data.
They change because they feel something.
That’s where empathy comes in and why it’s often the missing piece in nature communication. Whether you’re writing a report, crafting a brand, or designing a campaign, your words won’t stick unless people connect with them emotionally.
In this powerful session, former fashion editor turned climate justice campaigner Bel Jacobs will show you how to infuse your work with deeper compassion. You’ll explore how empathy can reshape storytelling, advocacy, and movement building for nature and animals. Not as a soft skill, but as a strategic superpower.
💡 Why it matters:
When we Other nature, animals, or even people, we cut ourselves off from the web of life.
Empathy reweaves that connection and helps your audience not just understand, but care.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ Why empathy is a critical yet overlooked tool in climate and nature communication
✅ How to move from cold facts to warm, truth-based storytelling
✅ Real-world examples of campaigns that stirred hearts and minds
✅ How to talk about animal suffering without shutting people down
✅ The three pillars of empathy-based communication: Love, Grief, and Reconciliation
✅ How to tell stories that include animals as individuals, not symbols
✅ Practical ways to center compassion in your NGO, brand, or advocacy work
✅ A chance to reflect on your own communication patterns and how to grow them
✅ An opportunity to ask your questions to Bel
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
Climate communication or storytelling
Animal rights and multispecies justice
Shifting hearts, not just minds
Designing for emotional impact
Creating a culture of care and consciousness
Finding your voice as a nature communicator
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Bel Jacobs is a journalist, speaker, and activist working at the intersection of animal rights, climate justice, and cultural change. A former fashion editor at Metro, Bel now runs The Empathy Project, an initiative exploring how compassion can transform our relationship with animals and nature.
She’s also the co-founder of Fashion Act Now and Islington Climate Centre, and speaks regularly on how storytelling, ethics, and empathy can spark deeper change. Bel’s mission is to bring the truth of animal experience to the center of the climate conversation — not just to protect nature, but to evolve humanity.
🔗 Connect with Bel on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore The Empathy Project
October 14th – When Nature Ventures Don’t Work: What We Can Learn From Wilderkind’s Sad Story with Nick Allport / Masterclass
📅 October 14
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CET
We celebrate the big wins.
But what about the ventures that don’t make it?
In this rare and honest session, Nick Allport shares the full story of his biodiversity startup Wilderkind. What worked, what didn’t, and what he wishes he had known before diving in. This is not a post-mortem. It’s a masterclass in humility, insight, and the hard-earned wisdom that only “failure” can teach.
💡 Why it matters:
The path to a wilder world is not paved in success stories. It’s built on real experiments, honest reflection, and the courage to keep going even when things fall apart.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ What makes or breaks an early-stage nature venture
✅ Why going solo can be your biggest bottleneck
✅ How undervaluing your work kills your margins and your mission
✅ What Nick learned about positioning, pricing, and traction
✅ Why solving a real business pain is more important than having a noble vision
✅ The reality of building in an immature market
✅ How to bounce back and apply those lessons to your next move
✅ A radically honest Q&A with someone who’s been in the mud
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
Starting a biodiversity venture
Reflecting on your own startup struggles
Turning failure into growth
Understanding the real reasons some ideas don’t stick
Learning what most founders won’t admit out loud
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Nick Allport is now Head of Climate Impact Growth at Ecologi, where he helps integrate nature restoration into business models at scale. But before that, he founded Wilderkind, a mission-driven startup helping companies fund local rewilding projects.
His journey included solo founder challenges, pricing mistakes, and entering a market that wasn’t ready yet. Nick brings the clarity and honesty many in this space need. A reminder that even ventures that didn’t stick move the mission forward.
🔗 Connect with Nick on LinkedIn
October 20th – IUCN Congress 2025 with Oliver Dauert / Sharing Salon
📅 October 20
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CET
1 topic.
No experts.
Just a bunch of wild folks sharing their perspectives.
🧐 Topic based on recent discussions:
The IUCN Congress only happens once every four years, bringing together governments, NGOs, scientists, biodiversity builders and nature innovators to set the agenda for our planet’s future.
Oliver will share the most exciting updates, some of the debates that stood out, and what all this might mean for ecopreneurs like us.
October 21st – The End of Self-Sacrifice: How to Create Change Without Running Yourself Into the Ground with Jannine Barron / Masterclass
📅 October 21
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CET
What if burnout isn’t a sign of failure, but a signal we need to do business differently?
Jannine Barron has spent 30 years building socially responsible businesses and mentoring impact founders across the UK and Australia. Now, she’s inviting you to challenge the hustle mindset with a more regenerative way of leading.
Her H.E.A.R.T Method offers a wiser, quieter approach to growing your business. One that’s rooted in intuition, flow, and nature’s rhythms. It’s about building impact without sacrificing yourself in the process.
💡 Why it matters:
The old paradigm tells us to work harder, push through, and measure success in spreadsheets. But the new era of business demands something deeper. Ways of working that sustain us and the planet.
The H.E.A.R.T Method is a regenerative model designed to help purpose-led entrepreneurs realign their energy, habits, and strategy so they can grow with ease, not exhaustion.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ A powerful reframe of what success can look like for regenerative entrepreneurs
✅ The 5 pillars of the H.E.A.R.T Method: Habits, Energy, Action, Receiving, and Timing
✅ How to recognise burnout signals and shift into regenerative flow
✅ Why receiving is the most radical practice for changemakers
✅ Tools to stop forcing your business and start letting it flourish
✅ Practices that support long-term wellbeing and business resilience
✅ An opportunity to ask Jannine all your questions
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
Regenerative leadership
Avoiding burnout while creating meaningful impact
Building with intuition, community, and strategic flow
Letting go of hustle culture for good
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Jannine Barron is a pioneer of regenerative business thinking. She founded one of the first organic baby product companies in Australia, when ‘organic’ wasn’t even a thing yet.
Today, she mentors founders around the world through The Growth Experience and shares her H.E.A.R.T Method to help leaders reconnect with flow, intuition, and nature. Jannine’s gift is helping purpose-driven people design businesses that regenerate from the inside out. Starting with themselves.
🔗 Connect with Jannine on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore The Growth Experience
October 28th – Rainforest ROI: Building Nature-Based Business Models That Actually Work with Renée Smits / Masterclass
📅 October 28
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CET
We often talk about tree planting.
But what about business planting?
Renée Smits is the founder of Restore the Legacy, an ambitious initiative turning Bali’s last rainforest into a nature-based business blueprint.
It’s not just about reforestation. It’s about building models that meet CSRD demands, serve local communities, and deliver tangible returns. For nature and investors.
In this hands-on masterclass, Renée will walk you through what it actually takes to turn a restoration dream into a financially sound, operationally robust, and impact-aligned business.
💡 Why it matters:
Most nature ventures are stuck in grant dependency or donor fatigue.
But the real game-changer? Turning ecosystem restoration into a strategic business model. One that’s traceable, fundable, and rooted in local power.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ What CSRD really means for nature ventures
✅ How to design a nature-based model that’s investable
✅ How to balance ecological and financial returns
✅ Why narrative and metrics need to work together
✅ What founders often overlook in biodiversity business models
✅ How to structure land-based projects for long-term success
✅ Lessons from building a forest project that’s already scaling
✅ A chance to ask Renée your operational, strategic, or philosophical questions
🙋 For you if you’re into:
Scaling nature-based models with real business logic
Balancing ESG and regeneration
Building investable projects beyond carbon
Financing biodiversity with new tools and narratives
Running restoration projects without sacrificing strategy
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Renée Smits is a strategist, philosopher, and systems thinker. Raised in a family where reforestation was the norm, not the exception. She spent 15+ years in global finance before founding Restore the Legacy, where she blends ESG, biodiversity, and community leadership into one powerful rainforest model in Bali.
She’s spoken everywhere from the European Parliament to COP28, but this masterclass is your chance to ask the real questions: How do we make nature work operationally, financially, and locally?
🔗 Connect with Renée on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Restore the Legacy
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See you there!
