Bio
Sarah Wilson is a multi-New York Times and Amazon bestselling author, social philosopher, international keynote speaker, minimalist and philanthropist. She edited Cosmopolitan magazine Australia at 29, founded the global I Quit Sugar movement, hosted the most-watched TV series in the nation’s history – Masterchef Australia – and wrote the bestseller First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, which Mark Manson described as “the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read.”
Her most recent book, This One Wild and Precious Life, won the US Gold Nautilus Prize, and she has ranked in the top 200 most influential authors in the world (two years in a row).
Sarah leads dynamic, global conversations about modern philosophy, creativity, existential risk and climate change via her keynote speaking, Wild podcast, and her Substack and social communities (of 550,000 subscribers).
She lives nomadically, but is based between Paris and Sydney, is a compulsive hiker and adventurer.
Sarah Wilson is a force of nature – quite literally. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemised it into action, advocacy, adventure, poetry, and true love. She’s a great teacher and a great leader, and I admire her with all my soul.
Speaking & Consulting
Sarah is an experienced keynote speaker, MC and broadcaster. Clients include the New York Times, Microsoft USA, Blackrock, Woolworths, Facebook, Google, the Australian National Press Club, Cannes Lion, National Australia Bank, IKEA, WeAre8 and the Climate Council.
She has a suite of keynotes covering climate education, wellness, anxiety and how to live a life of value (tips drawn from more than 1000 interviews with global thinkers, from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Oprah’s life coach!). Sarah also has extensive experience working with brands, universities and corporates to develop values-led communications and to facilitate events. She’s guest lectured for the University of Cambridge’s Sustainability and Leadership masters course and partnered with organisations such as the Climate Council, Harvard University and Intelligence Squared on campaigns.
Sarah is full of expert advice while remaining grounded and incredibly human. Her vulnerability is her strength.
Sarah is warm, refreshingly honest and authentic in her presentation and took our audience on a journey to discover the new wellness. We have never received so much positive feedback from a presenter before Sarah!
The WILD with Sarah Wilson Podcast
Wild is a global conversation with the world’s leading philosophers, creatives, poets, scientists (and two nuns!) that goes to the heart of how to live fully on this one wild and precious planet.
Margaret Atwood fires up about creating utopias; Sia riffs on the gift of living with bipolar; Peter Singer talks about effective altruism; the nun from Dead Man Walking discusses what a prisoner on death row can teach us about love.
Wild publishes twice a week and has a consistant 4.9 star rating with 670 reviews.
My favourite podcast to engage in the topics that matter, and be reminded there are great minds out there working together to find answers for the complexity of today’s world. Each episode motivates me to take that next step to support the important issues.
These Wild podcasts are the best there are. Sarah tackles the very biggest issues with the very biggest brains around the the world, questioning everything and doing so with kindness and an openness to understanding.
Sarah's This is Precious Substack
Sarah’s internationally popular newsletter This is Precious is where she engages with her community of 55,000 subscribers, driving an advanced, often heterodox community conversation about philosophy, metamodernism, art, pop culture, science, neoliberalism and politics. This is Precious is in the top three largest Substacks in Australia and it publishes twice a week.
Cookbooks and philosophy books
Sarah wrote the New York Times bestsellers First, We Make the Beast Beautiful and I Quit Sugar and is the author of another 11 cookbooks. Sarah’s latest book This One Wild and Precious Life is a soul’s journey – which she conducts by hiking around the world with one carry-on backpack for three years – through the complexities of climate change, racial inequality and our disconnection from what matters…back to life.
Sarah's This is Precious Substack
Sarah’s internationally popular newsletter This is Precious is where she engages with her community of 55,000 subscribers, driving an advanced, often heterodox community conversation about philosophy, metamodernism, art, pop culture, science, neoliberalism and politics. This is Precious is in the top three largest Substacks in Australia and it publishes twice a week.
Cookbooks and modern philosophy books
Sarah wrote the New York Times bestsellers First, We Make the Beast Beautiful and I Quit Sugar and is the author of another 11 cookbooks. Sarah’s latest book This One Wild and Precious Life is a soul’s journey – which she conducts by hiking around the world with one carry-on backpack for three years – through the complexities of climate change, racial inequality and our disconnection from what matters…back to life.
Sarah's This is Precious Substack
Sarah’s internationally popular newsletter This is Precious is where she engages with her community of 55,000 subscribers, driving an advanced, often heterodox community conversation about philosophy, metamodernism, art, pop culture, science, neoliberalism and politics. This is Precious is in the top three largest Substacks in Australia and it publishes twice a week.
Cookbooks and modern philosophy books
Sarah wrote the New York Times bestsellers First, We Make the Beast Beautiful and I Quit Sugar and is the author of another 11 cookbooks. Sarah’s latest book This One Wild and Precious Life is a soul’s journey – which she conducts by hiking around the world with one carry-on backpack for three years – through the complexities of climate change, racial inequality and our disconnection from what matters…back to life.
I’ve encountered no other book that articulates with so much passion or clarity the unique feeling of this moment in history – a time of anxiety, and often despair, but that nonetheless pulsates with the possibility of a radically different, uplifting and awe-filled future. This One Wild and Precious Life is the ideal guidebook for our long overdue journey back to nature, to each other, and to sanity in the deepest sense of the word.