JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and the host of several podcast including People's Choice Awards nominee Spirit, Purpose & Energy. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, a best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life and The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame. Named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine, JJ has been featured in many national magazines, including Shape, Fitness, and Women's Health as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox, the CW and KTLA. Grab a free copy of the Invisible Fitness Formula at http://jjflizanes.com/book

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In this episode, Marjorie and JJ discuss:

• What role victim mentality plays in how we advocate for environmental sustainability
• Frequency and how it causes us to attract different people and situations
• Resources available for individuals to step into a more empowered position in their lives

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Connect with JJ:

[email protected]

JJFlizanes.com

Fit2Love.tv (where you can find ALL of JJ's podcasts)

Spirit, Purpose & Energy Podcast

Men, Women & Relationship Podcast

Resources from JJ:

Center for Non-Violent Communication

Imago Therapy

Episode 118 of Fit to Love Podcast

Non-violent Communication the Book

Karpman drama triangle

Dr. Christiane Northrup

Dr. Eben Alexander

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Ashley Erwin grew up in rural, northern Georgia. In her words it was the "Type of place where fertilizer goes to greeting ya soon as the front door went to close, where cow tipping and horse jacking and bonfire-truck-meet-ups with blue label sodas stacked heavy in ice chests were the norm, and where 'mams and sirs were added on to ever'thing less a slap upside the head were what ya's hankering after."

In this episode, Ashley Erwin and Marjorie Alexander cover:

• Why Angel's Envy is teaming up with the Arbor Day Foundation to plant trees and how you can get involved
• What makes bourbon…BOURBON? Why, the trees of course!
• The family history of Angel's Envy, including Lincoln Henderson, the creator of Woodford Reserve, Jack Daniel's Single Barrel as well as JD's "Gentleman Jack"
• What techniques go into making Angel's Envy bourbons and ryes so unique

*** Use the hashtag #ToastTheTrees along with images of Angel's Envy cocktails, neat pours and bottles. Let's give Ashley lots of trees to plant next year in Kentucky! ***

Connect with Angel's Envy, Ashley Erwin and the rest of the Whiskey Guardians:

• AngelsEnvy.com
• • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AngelsEnvyBourbon/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angelsenvy/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/Angels_Envy
• Ashley Erwin on Angel's Envy: https://www.angelsenvy.com/people/whiskey-guardians/los-angeles/ashley-erwin/
• Ashley Erwin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonfirebooze/
• The Angel's Envy Whiskey Guardians: https://www.angelsenvy.com/people/whiskey-guardians/

Suggested Resources from Ashley:

• 500 Main from Angel's Envy has insider stories, events and limited whiskey releases: https://500main.angelsenvy.com
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson: https://amzn.to/2lHMdDk

• What is clean energy and how does it get to us?
• What is the future of renewable and carbon-free energy? Will we ever succeed from the grid?
• How can residents get access to clean energy in their area?
• What if there are no local utilities offering clean energy in my area?

Ted Bardacke, Executive Director of the Clean Power Alliance, has forged a unique career focusing on sustainable urbanism and economic development that spans three continents, including major stints in local government, non-profit organizations, journalism and academia.

Ted comes to the Alliance from the Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, where he was Director of Infrastructure and Deputy Director of the Mayor's Sustainability Office. In those positions he was instrumental in both crafting and then implementing the city's first-ever Sustainability Plan, with a particular emphasis on pursuing distributed systems in the electricity and water sectors, and utilizing mobility infrastructure to pursue low-carbon and ecologically beneficial outcomes.

From 2003 to 2013, Ted worked in the Green Urbanism Program at Global Green USA and during the 1990s was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times of London, based in Mexico City and Bangkok. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, Ted has been a Visiting Fellow at Mexico City's Centro de Transporte Sustentable and is a permanent Lecturer in the Urban Planning Program at UCLA.

• Clean Power Alliance website: https://cleanpoweralliance.org
• Benefits of Clean Energy: https://cleanpoweralliance.org/about-us/#benefits
• Residential Rates: https://cleanpoweralliance.org/rate-options/residential-rates/
• Power Sources: https://cleanpoweralliance.org/about-us/power-sources/
• Clean/Green Jobs & Contracting Opportunities: https://cleanpoweralliance.org/get-involved/job-contracting-opportunities/

Online:

• Local Government Commission
• Sam Roth's Twitter (Energy Reporter at the LA Times)

Books:

• The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
• Losing Earth: A Climate History by Nathaniel Rich

• The reality of working conditions at some of the sweatshops that make our clothing
• Companies who are creating ethically and sustainably produced clothing
• How to spot sustainable clothing while shopping at traditional stores

Aspen Murray is a young activist who is dedicating her life to the pursuit of making ethical + sustainable fashion the norm. She firmly believes that we all have the power to vote with our dollars, but that we need to reform how we look at conscious consumerism: it shouldn't be difficult, it shouldn't be inaccessible to certain people, and it's okay if we mess up − because the onus should never fall entirely on the consumer

• Ethigirl Blog: Ethigirl.com
• Some of my favorite pieces:
  • Sustainable Fashion Swaps For Summer 2019 Trends
  • Personal Pieces: Dealing With Burnout
  • Responsible Reduction: How To Get Rid Of Old Clothes
• Ethigirl on Social Media:
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethigirlblog/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ethigirl/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethigirlblog
  • Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/ethigirl_/

Online:

• Consignment shops
  • Depop
  • Thredup
  • Patagonia
  • ModCloth
  • Matatraders.com
  • Everlane
• The True Cost documentary
• Fashion Revolution
• Best Dressed on Youtube (hilarious by the way!)

Books:

• Anything by Yvonne Chenard, Founder of Patagonia
• Wear No Evil by Greta Eagan

In this episode, Wendy Strgar and Marjorie Alexander cover:

• Bioplastic as sustainable packaging - what is it, where do you get it and why more companies aren't using it
• How petroleum in personal hygiene products can impact the body
• Staying emotionally connected with your partner
• Active grieving after a loss

• Good Clean Love website: GoodCleanLove.com
• The scientific (and independent) research behind the Good Clean Love products: https://goodcleanlove.com/pages/science
• Good Clean Love on Social Media:
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodcleanlove/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makeloveorganic/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodcleanlove

Suggested online resource:

• Insight Time

• Calm App

Books:

• The Book and Nature, Man and Woman by Allan Watts
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

About our guest:

Wendy Strgar is an award-winning entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Good Clean Love. Wendy started Good Clean Love in 2003 after hearing from many women about, and experiencing for herself, the painful side effects of using petrochemical-based hygiene and intimacy products. Under Wendy's leadership, Good Clean Love is a champion of sustainable business practices. In 2018, the company launched a carbon offset initiative; its flagship product, Almost Naked personal lubricant, became the first-ever Carbon Neutral intimacy product in the world. Good Clean Love is also one of the only personal care product brands whose products are packaged using bioplastic, a material made from recyclable sugar cane.

Dirty Gourmet is a women-owned outdoor company dedicated to empowering outdoorists to make food a part of their soul-nourishing outdoor experience. The founders of Dirty Gourmet, Mai-Yan Kwan, Emily Nielson, and Aimee Trudeau together after a bike tour across Canada and years of camp life took it upon themselves to rethink the idea of food in the outdoors. Whether you're a car camper getting started with a picky family to feed, or a lightweight backpacker looking for inspiration to get you to your destination, they have plenty of tips and recipes for you on our website and in their cookbook, Dirty Gourmet: Food for your Outdoor Adventures.

In this episode we cover:

• How splitting up your trip types into 3 categories is important to enjoying cooking and eating awesome food in the great outdoors
• Two must-follow rules for enjoying cooking during your outdoor adventures
• A super easy homemade granola recipe!

• Dirty Gourmet website: DirtyGourmet.com
• My favorite recipes on the blog:
  • Raspberry Almond Cacao Oatmeal
  • Fire Roasted Indian Eggplant
  • Goat Milk Gouda Veggie Sandwich
• Dirty Gourmet on Social Media:
  • Instagram: https://instagram.com/dirtygourmet/
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dirtygourmet
  • Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dirtygourmet/
• Dirty Gourmet: Food for your Outdoor Adventures

Suggested online resource:

• Mother Earth News

Books:

• Any work by biologist and naturalist EO Wilson
• The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

Samir Lakhani, 26, is a social entrepreneur dedicated to restoring health and dignity to developing countries through environmental initiatives. Prior to founding Eco-Soap Bank in 2014, Samir was deeply involved in climate-resilient aquaculture and nutrition projects in northern Cambodian villages. He has also developed solar lighting social enterprise projects in Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Currently, he serves as the Founder & Executive Director of Eco-Soap Bank—a global soap-recycling organization—which operates in 10 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. To date, Eco-Soap Bank has reached over 1.1 million people with recycled soap and free hygiene education. In 2017, Samir received a CNN Hero Award for his work with global hygiene.

In this episode we cover:

• How do you recycle soap in a sanitary way?
• How is soap that is not recycled impacting our environment?
• Where do you get the soap and who receives the recycled soap?
• How do you change the everyday habits of a community that is respectful of their history and traditions?

Key Takeaways:

• 5 million bars of soap are thrown away EACH DAY! And it's not biodegradable!
• Recruiting hygiene ambassadors that are of the local culture helps spread the message more effectively.
• When you have big ideas, don't wait for it to be perfect, launch it now! But also consider longevity.
• Get involved with Project EcoSoap - donate to the Kickstarter and help spread the word!

• Project EcoSoap on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/projectecosoap/project-ecosoap-zero-waste-big-impact\
• Project EcoSoap website: https://projectecosoap.org/
• Eco-Soap Bank: https://ecosoapbank.org/
• A fun video message from Samir about EcoSoap!
• Project EcoSoap on Social Media:
  • Instagram: https://instagram.com/projectecosoap
  • Facebook: https://facebook.com/projectecosoap
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectecosoap
  • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCObHCVqoIDGrpRR5mJfGl1A

Suggested online resource:

• YouTube! You can learn anything from how to build wind turbines to how to drive stick shift!

Books:

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

Jann Vendetti is the Twila Bratcher Chair in Malacological Research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Malacology is the study of mollusks (snails, clams, octopus), and Jann's focus is snails. She was a postdoctoral researcher at California State University, Los Angeles and received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology. She is interested in urban biodiversity of snail and slug species, both introduced and native.

In this episode we cover:

• What are the different types of terrestrial and marine mollusks?
• How is climate change impacting various mollusk populations?
• How do mollusks compare to and differ from more familiar taxa such as mammals?
• Jann's favorite mollusk - the purple sea snail!

• Jann Vendetti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jann-vendetti-455b4412/
• City Nature Challenge 2019 - April 26, 27 & 28: http://citynaturechallenge.org/
• Natural History Museum of LA (NHMLA): https://nhm.org
• Snails and slugs Living in Metropolitan Environments (SLIME) Project: https://nhm.org/site/activities-programs/citizen-science/slime
• iNaturalist (app used in the City Nature Challenge):
  • iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/inaturalist/id421397028?mt=8
  • Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inaturalist.android&hl=en_US
  • Website: https://www.inaturalist.org/

• Who do you look up to?

  • Dr. Eugenie Clark, the "Shark Lady": https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/eugenie-clark-shark-lady

  • Sylvia Earle - Mission Blue Foundation: https://mission-blue.org/

    • Mission Blue, the documentary on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/70308278

• Suggested online resource:

  • ScienceDaily.com

Books:

• Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
• Stephen Jay Gould:
  • The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive: http://www.stephenjaygould.org/
  • Stephen Jay Gould's books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2X4C2pc
• Natalie Angier:
  • Natalie Angier's books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Xh79y9

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Born in Moldova, Izolda Trakhtenberg learned how to communicate in multiple languages through a year-long immigration process. Today, Izolda facilitates workshops that inspire people to tap into and master their leadership, creativity, and communication skills. She worked as an educator for the National Geographic Society. Later, she traveled the world as a NASA environmental education trainer. Additionally, she is the author of five books, including Speak From Within: Engage, Inspire and Motivate Any Audience. She is also the host of the Tell Your Story Better and The Creative Kind podcasts. Izolda, her husband, and their two cats live in Maryland.

In this episode we cover:

• Is there a difference between educating children and adults?
• Why is NASA interested in studying Earth?
• The most effective way to educate those around you about earth-friendly habits
• A great free resource for teachers and everyday people that want to study Earth's ecology and atmosphere

• IzoldaT.com
• The Creative Kind, a daily Podcast
• Tell Your Story Better, a weekly podcast
• Izolda's book, Speak From Within
• Social Media
  • Instagram: @IzoldaT
  • Twitter: @IzoldaT
  • LinkedIn: IzoldaT
  • Facebook: @IzoldaTSpeaker
• Book Izolda for a presentation!

• Globe.gov - A Worldwide Science and Education Program
• Who does Izolda look up to in the field of environmental activism?
  • Retired NASA Soil Scientist Alyssa Levine
  • Anthropologist and primate activist Jane Goodall
  • Conservation scientist and CEO of Conservation.org M. Sanjayan
• International Fund for Animal Welfare
• NASA image library (now public domain)

Books:

• Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
• Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Blue Gold by Maude Barlow

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