Kimberly McNeil is a martial artist and athlete who helps clients improve their strength, flexibility and movement control through her business Moving Arts Academy. She and I talk about the turn of events that led her on her path, how she works with fascia to set people’s movement patterns free, and advice she has to keep motivated, among other things.

Richard Manning is an author and a hunter. His most recent book is Go Wild, written with John Ratey, and he also wrote Against the Grain. We talk about the tendency of agriculture to fuel social stratification and inequality, whether there’s such a thing as sustainable agriculture, and the need to balance the higher price of good food against rising healthcare costs, among other things.

Adenrele (Addy) Adewusi is an eCommerce manager who graduated from Dartmouth College with a background in mathematics and visual art. Among many other entrepreneurial ventures she runs the website Maddy Money. We talk about her approach to personal finance, paying off student loans, and the ethics of entitlement, among other things.

Guido Masé is an author, runner, father and herbalist who teaches through the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism and is the chief Herbalist at Urban Moonshine. In this episode Guido and Eric talk about the importance of building strong relationships to the plants that live around us and of increasing our dietary diversity.

David Zuckerman is the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and owner/operator of Full Moon Farm, a small, diversified certified organic farm in Northern Vermont. David has long been a proponent of legalizing and regulating the use and sale of cannabis, and we talk about the ins and outs of this issue.

Diana Rodgers is a Registered Dietitian and a Nutrional Therapy Practitioner who’s written a couple cookbooks that cater to Paleo Dieters and is putting together a documentary film tentatively titled Kale vs Cow. We talk about her path to the Paleo Diet, her experiences helping patients with nutrition, and her vision of the future of food and health in the US.

Jason Hirsch is pursuing a Masters’ degree in Anthropology focusing on medical anthropology at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. He talks about the roots of mainstream, ‘scientific’ medicine in industrial capitalism, and differentiates our mainstream, reductionist approach to human health from the more holistic, broad-pattern approaches rising to challenging its ideological supremacy.

Beth Lambert is the Executive Director of Epidemic Answers and the creator and producer of the Documenting Hope Project. In this episode we talk about what motivated her to write her book A Compromised Generation, the many factors that contribute to chronic disease in children, and how her Documenting Hope Project seeks to empower parents to heal their sick kids.

Miwa Oseki Robbins is a builder, blogger, and artist who has a fascination with tiny houses. Murphy Robinson teaches wilderness skills, archery, and hunting and lives in a tiny house that she built. We talk about the ins and outs of living in a tiny house, their connection to people’s identity, and their future in the USA.

Tovar Cerulli is an author and educator, perhaps best known for his book The Mindful Carnivore. He and Eric talk about the impossibility of eating without causing harm to animals, and the processes they went through as they transitioned from being vegans to becoming omnivores who hunted for at least some of their meat.