Clean & Green Living

Women are 50.8% of the population and 52% of the professional level workforce. Yet, in the world,  Women account for only 25% of senior-level officials and managers, only 20% of board seats and only 6% of CEOs.

With a lot of discussion happening around the lack of women in business leadership positions and the lack of funding for women-led businesses, Cassie Abel thought, “‘why aren’t we making a point to support brands that already have women at the top?’” Thus the creation of Women-Led Wednesday,  a purpose-driven holiday that encourages the public to shop from women-led businesses with the goal of supporting and uplifting women in business and leadership.

Besides being the mastermind behind Women-Led Wednesday, Cassie is also the Founder of Wild Rye, a company based here in Ketchum, ID that crafts design-driven ski and mountain bike apparel for the modern outdoors woman. 

I hope this conversation helps you understand that where you spend your dollars truly does matter and I hope it inspires you to support and uplift the women entrepreneurs and leaders in your life. 

About Cassie

Cassie Abel is the CEO and Founder of Wild Rye and is personally dedicated to elevating women from the backcountry to the boardroom. She is a familiar face in the outdoor industry, having spent most of her professional life working in marketing and PR for Smith Optics, Grand Targhee Resort and her own PR consultancy, White Cloud Communication. Cassie founded Wild Rye in 2016 to bring women an apparel option that’s equal measure beautiful and technical without compromise on fit. She is the driving force behind Women Led Wednesday, a Tory Burch Foundation fellow, a Forbes Next 1,000 honoree, a 3x All-American Lacrosse player and NCAA National Offensive Player of the Year and a mom to 3-year-old Sawyer. A Colorado College graduate, Cassie has called Ketchum, ID home for the better part of 30 years, though originally hails from Vashon Island, WA. Cassie loves to mountain bike, ski, camp, hike and wear as many costumes as possible…ideally while playing outside with friends. 

Connect with Cassie

Wild Rye Website https://wild-rye.com 

Women-Led Wednesday https://womenledwednesday.com 

Wild Rye Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wild_rye_/ 

Women-Led Wednesday Instagram https://www.instagram.com/womenledwednesday/ 

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Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

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Many people find it hard to talk about climate change. They find it overwhelming, frightening, or even uncomfortable. While we may not realize it, simply talking about climate change can be an important step toward addressing the problem. I hope this conversation helps you to think about it in a new and different way and make you a little more comfortable. 

My guest is Nina Tooley, Head of Commerce & Marketing at The Cool Down, a community of content, commerce, and climate experts making the cooler future come to life in an accessible and dare I say, optimistic way.  They are everyday people who care about the planet and they want to help audiences of all demographics connect to content and products that resonate with them; to help them see that small, individual actions can make a big difference in addressing this large and overwhelming problem. 

About Nina

Nina Tooley is a consumer products and ecommerce marketing expert with two decades of experience working at the intersection of shopping and technology, most recently with DTC businesses such as Guthy-Renker, Sole Society, and Little LAMMA. 

Connect with The Cool Down

Website https://www.thecooldown.com/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_cool_down/ 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thecooldown.tcd

TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@the_cool_down 

Support the Podcast

Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

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Use the promo code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off your first purchase. www.beautycounter.com/regannelson 

When we hear the word environment, we often think of the natural resources around us; water, soil, and air. After today’s episode you might agree that the most important part of our environment is not the outdoors but indoors in the home we live in. Our homes are made of and filled with products, some containing toxic chemicals that may be harmful to our health, and today’s guest has committed his career to helping people make safer and healthier choices for their homes. 

My guest is Andrew Pace, a Healthy Home Concierge and Founder of The Green Design Center, a leading resource for homeowners and contractors looking to source products that are healthy and green. Through his consulting services, Andy has helped over 30,000 people make their homes healthier and safer.  You’ll walk away from this episode feeling educated and empowered to make healthier and safer choices for your home. 

About Andrew

Andrew Pace is a Healthy Home Concierge and Founder of The Green Design Center, a leading resource for homeowners and contractors looking to source products that are healthy and green and receive expert consulting advice on designing and building healthy green homes. Andrew is the host of the weekly Non Toxic Environments Podcast. He is a worldwide expert on green and healthy building products and services customers and contractors from around the globe. As founder of the oldest healthy building supply company in the United States, Andrew has become one of the single most helpful and educational experts dealing with the day-to-day concerns of those individuals who suffer from allergies, asthma and chemical sensitivities.

Connect with Andrew 

Website https://www.thegreendesigncenter.com/ 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gdc_buildingforhealth/ 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/greendesigncenter/ 

Support the Podcast

Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

https://linktr.ee/thisorsomethingbetter

Shop Beautycounter: You can also support the podcast by supporting my business with Beautycounter.

Use the promo code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off your first purchase. www.beautycounter.com/regannelson

One of the topics we discuss regularly here on the podcast is the impact of environmental toxins on our health, and today we’re digging specifically into their impact on reproductive health. 

My guest  is Dr. Lora Shahine. She is a reproductive endocrinologist, fertility and miscarrige specialist, author, and speaker. She is also a passionate educator about the impact of environmental toxins on our reproductive health.  

I first learned about Dr. Shahine and her work because she is a member of Beautycounter’s Science Advisory Council. I had the pleasure of hearing her speak on a panel in April in Washington DC, and just a few weeks ago I got to hear from her again and meet her in person in Austin, Texas at Beautycounter’s leadership conference. 

In this episode we’re talking about the impact of environmental toxins on our reproductive health, how we can reduce our exposure and how small changes really can make a big impact. 

About Dr. Shahine

Lora Shahine, MD, FACOG is a reproductive endocrinologist at Pacific NW Fertility and clinical faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. She is double board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. She graduated with honors with a major in Biology from Georgetown University, medical school at Wake Forest University Medical School, residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California at San Francisco, and fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at infertility at Stanford University.

Dr. Shahine is passionate about educating on fertility and miscarriage through many platforms. Author of best-selling book, ‘Not Broken: An Approachable Guide to Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss’ and several books on fertility, host of the ‘Baby or Bust’ podcast, and active social media presence and over 350,000 followers @drlorashahine on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and most social media outlets.

Dr. Shahine is an active member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, Seattle GYN Society, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and other medical professional societies. She has been named Seattle’s Top Doc annually since 2010.

Connect with Dr. Shahine

Website https://drlorashahine.com/ 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drlorashahine/ 

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/drlorashahine 

Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@drlorashahine 

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lora-shahine-md-facog-baba0a16/ 

Support the Podcast

Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

https://linktr.ee/thisorsomethingbetter

Shop Beautycounter: You can also support the podcast by supporting my business with Beautycounter.

Use the promo code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off your first purchase. www.beautycounter.com/regannelson

We spend approximately 30% of our life sleeping on a mattress, yet have you ever thought about what your mattress is made of and how that might also be impacting your health. 

When Tim Masters' infant daughter was suffering from severe allergies and eczema he started to think about how the chemicals in her mattress might be playing a role. As a mattress craftsman by trade, Tim knew there was something better he could do for this daughter. This marked the beginning of My Green Mattress: a company committed to building the best, organic certified and hypoallergenic mattresses. 

In this episode we’re talking about what conventional mattresses are made of and how those materials can be harmful to your health. We’re going to help you identify what certifications to look for when choosing a safer mattress, and I’m even sharing my own journey in getting My Green mattress. 

After listening to this episode if you’re ready to make a clean swap with your mattress, you can use the promo code somethingbetter for $125 off an adult mattress and $20 off the crib mattress. 

About Tim

Tim Masters is a father of five who created My Green Mattress in 2007 after his infant daughter was suffering from severe allergies and eczema. As a mattress craftsman by trade, he knew there was something better he and his wife Cindy could be doing by sourcing the best all-natural and organic wool, cotton, and latex to ease her chemical sensitivities. Tim created the Emily Organic Crib mattress in 2007 and soon after created a line of safe, healthy, affordable organic mattresses free of harmful toxins for the entire home.  

At age 17, Tim worked as an apprentice at a local family-owned mattress company just outside Chicago called Quality Sleep Shop. Here he learned how to handcraft a mattress and customize the layers to fit each customer. To this day, Tim can tell immediately if a customer is a back, stomach or side sleeper. At the age of 25, he had the opportunity to purchase the company from the previous owner who was retiring. Tim and his wife Cindy grew the business until their second child was born with severe allergies and skin sensitivities. This marked a major shift in their business as they quickly realized there were other families out there with similar challenges. My Green Mattress was born out of this need and the mission of My Green Mattress remains committed to building the best, organic certified and hypoallergenic sleep solutions from Earth’s finest, all-natural materials while also remaining accessible and affordable for everyone.     

Connect with Green Mattress

Website https://www.mygreenmattress.com/ 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mygreenmattress/ 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mygreenmattress/ 

Use the promo code somethingbetter for $125 off an adult mattress and $20 off the crib mattress. 

Support the Podcast

Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

https://linktr.ee/thisorsomethingbetter

Shop Beautycounter: You can also support the podcast by supporting my business with Beautycounter.

Use the promo code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off your first purchase. www.beautycounter.com/regannelson

What is the right age to give a child a smartphone? This is a question parents of previous generations have never had to grapple with but here we are… navigating what can be for some parents, me included, a very difficult decision. On one side of the spectrum you will find the “wait until 8th” parents, and on the other, parents who are giving their children phones in 2nd or 3rd grade, and sometimes even before. 

So what is the right age? Of course, with most parenting questions, there is no right answer, but Today’s guest, Catherine Pearlman, is going to help break down the signs of readiness, and important safety considerations, and most importantly provide our children with a roadmap on how to use these incredible tools that can be both a blessing and a curse. 

Dr. Pearlman is the author of First Phone: A Child's Guide to Digital Responsibility, Safety, and Etiquette. This book speaks directly to eight- to twelve-year-old children and provides them with the tools they need to use phones safely, respectfully, and responsibly. 

About Dr. Pearlman

Dr. Catherine Pearlman is the founder of The Family Coach and a licensed clinical social worker who has been working with children and families for more than 25 years. She’s on a mission to help parents enjoy parenting more. To that end, she advises on all matters of parenting from toddlers to teens on discipline, technology, behavior modification, food issues, sibling rivalry and more. Dr. Pearlman  is the author of First Phone: A Child’s Guide to Digital Responsibility, Safety, and Etiquette and Ignore It: How Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction. Dr. Pearlman received her doctorate in social welfare from Yeshiva University and her master’s degree in social work from New York University. She is the mom of two teens. 

Connect with Dr. Pearlman

Website http://thefamilycoach.com

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thefamilycoachsays/ 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thefamilycoach/ 

Twitter https://twitter.com/thefamilycoach

Support the Podcast

Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

https://linktr.ee/thisorsomethingbetter

Shop Beautycounter: You can also support the podcast by supporting my business with Beautycounter.

Use the promo code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off your first purchase. www.beautycounter.com/regannelson

A study conducted in 2019 found that coverage of women athletes on televised news and highlight shows accounts for only 5.4% of all airtime. And that number has risen only .4% since 1989. 

Today’s guest, Jenny Nguyen saw an opportunity to help change this. Jenny is the founder and owner of The Sports Bra PDX, a sports bar in Portland, OR dedicated to girls’ and women’s sports. Their motto, We Support Women 

The Sports Bra not only seeks to empower women in sport but also women in the food and beverage industry. By supporting female distilleries, farmers, and ranchers, The Sports Bra is elevating female owners and operators that are often underrepresented, underinvested, and overlooked in their industries. 

Jenny is passionate about sport, good food and most importantly creating an inclusive and supportive community. After this interview, you’re going to want to plan your trip to Portland to visit The Sports Bra.

About Jenny

Jenny Nguyen picked up a basketball right around the same time she put down her milk bottle. From an early age, people called her a tomboy. Instead of playing with dolls and wearing dresses, she climbed trees and rode bikes. But most of all, she loved to play basketball. That love shaped her whole identity and helped her to fit in all the way through high school. When she was 19 years old in her first year playing college ball at Clark College, Nguyen ruptured her ACL. She was devastated by the career-ending injury but stumbled upon a newfound passion: cooking. She cooked all through college, first for her roommate, then for the whole floor, and then for the entire dorm. She landed her first kitchen job at age 22 and fell in love with the craft all over again. After graduating from college, Nguyen enrolled at the Western Culinary Institute in downtown Portland. There she graduated from the expedited program while working full time at a couple of fine-dining restaurants. 

When she was in the kitchen, Nguyen was in her element. The zone. The basketball court and the kitchen have been the only two places she has ever felt like she belonged. Later, she realized that both those places are very male-dominated and that she had struggled, endured, and found success in her own way. She went on to work her way up in kitchens for another 15 years, with the last four years as an executive chef at Reed College for Bon Appétit Management Company

Connect with The Sports Bra

Website https://www.thesportsbrapdx.com

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thesportsbrapdx/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thesportsbrapdx/

Support the Podcast

Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

https://linktr.ee/thisorsomethingbetter

Shop Beautycounter: You can also support the podcast by supporting my business with Beautycounter.

Use the promo code CLEANFORALL20 for 20% off your first purchase. www.beautycounter.com/regannelson

I know that many of you are thinking about how the personal care products you put on your body can impact your health, but have you ever thought about your clothes in the same way?

Just like in personal care products, many of our clothes contain known carcinogens, hormone disruptors, and allergens. Chemicals like Chlorine, formaldehyde, PFAS, and others are used in the dying process and applied as treatments. These chemicals can absorb into our skin and have a negative impact on our health. Think about what you put on your body each day, what is closest to the most porous, sensitive parts of you? It’s the first layer, your bra, and underwear.

Today, I am excited to talk with Ali Schwebel, the CEO of Vibrant Body Company.  They are on a mission to educate women about why wearing a Certified Clean First Layer is important. Just like clean beauty brands have defined the ingredients they'll never use in their formulations, Vibrant Body Company has identified chemicals commonly used in the apparel industry that they will NEVER include in their first layer products. 

Use Promo code somethingbetter15 and this link for 15% off your first order with Vibrant. https://bit.ly/3d1SDYb

About Ali 

Ali Schwebel is passionate about mission-driven, female focused brands that put an emphasis on women’s health and wellness and forever disrupt the status quo.

For the past 8 years she has been an advocate for Beautycounter, the leader in clean beauty. Through her efforts she has been an advocate for change, working with lawmakers on the importance of stronger personal care legislation that has transformed the skin care industry.

As of September 2022, Ali has been the CEO of Vibrant Body Company — a company pioneering Certified Clean First Layer™ in the Intimates industry through education and a Body First™ design mentality.

Connect with Vibrant Body Co

Website https://vibrantbodycompany.com/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vibrantbodycompany/ 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vibrantbodycompany/ 

Support the Podcast

Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

https://linktr.ee/thisorsomethingbetter

Shop Beautycounter: You can also support the podcast by supporting my business with Beautycounter.

Use the promo code CLEANFORALL30 for 30% off your first purchase. www.beautycounter.com/regannelson 

Women are not small and men yet for decades research findings on nutrition and exercise on men have been applied to women with no regard for our unique physiology. Our hormones, metabolism and our genetics are different, and there are ways that we can eat, live and train to optimize these differences. 

Today’s guest is Dr. Stacy Sims is an applied researcher, innovator, and entrepreneur in human performance. Her mission is to create a world of healthy women who understand their bodies and know how to work with their unique physiology at ever age. 

Dr. Sims is the author of ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology, and her new newest book, NEXT LEVEL, is a physiology-based guide to peak performance for active women approaching or experiencing menopause. 

Today we’re talking about how women of all ages can adapt their nutrition, hydration, and training so you can work with, rather than against, your female physiology to be strong and healthy at every age. 

While today’s episode is targeted towards women, I invite all men to keep listening. Whether you are a coach, father, brother, son, or just a friend, this is valuable information you should share with the women in your life. 

Resources Mentioned

EC Fit https://ecfitstrength.com/strength-training-programs/ 

About Dr. Sims

STACY T. SIMS, MSC, PHD, is a forward-thinking international exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who aims to revolutionize exercise nutrition and performance for women.

She has directed research programs at Stanford, AUT University, and the University of Waikato, focusing on female athlete health and performance and pushing the dogma to improve research on all women.

With the unique opportunities, Silicon Valley has to offer, during her tenure at Stanford, she had the opportunity to translate earlier research into consumer products and a science-based layperson's book (ROAR) written to explain sex differences in training and nutrition across the lifespan. Both the consumer products and the book challenged the existing dogma for women in exercise, nutrition, and health. This paradigm shift is the focus of her famous "Women Are Not Small Men” TEDx talk.

Stacy currently holds a Senior Research Associate position with SPRINZ- AUT University, supervises PhD students, writes academic papers, and is on the advisory board of some cutting edge companies including Tonal Strength Institute, WILD.AI, and EXOS.  She also has her own business (www.drstacysims.com) where she creates and delivers online learning material focused on women training with their physiology across the lifespan. 

She currently resides at the beach in Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand with her husband and young daughter.

Connect with Dr. Sims

Website www.drstacysims.com

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drstacysims/ 

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drstacysims 

Support the Podcast

Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

https://linktr.ee/thisorsomethingbetter

Shop Beautycounter: You can also support the podcast by supporting my business with Beautycounter.

Use the promo code CLEANFORALL30 for 30% off your first purchase. www.beautycounter.com/regannelson 

We deserve to know what we put in our bodies, be it in the food we eat or the supplements we take. Unfortunately, like with food and beauty products, not all supplements are created equal. The quality and brand of our supplements matter. 

Today, I am excited to welcome Lindsay Dahl, the Chief Impact Officer from Ritual to the podcast. Ritual makes supplements, including multivitamins, probiotics, and protein powders with the highest level of commitment to science, transparency, traceability, and sustainability. 

Since 2004, Lindsay has been working at the forefront of environmental health policy, working to eliminate toxic chemicals from consumer products. You may already know Lindsay from her work with Beautycounter and from episode 34 of the podcast where we talked about transparency in the beauty industry.

I’m excited to talk with Lindsay about Ritual and all that they are doing to bring transparency to the supplement industry.

Use the promo code SOMETHINGBETTER20 and this link to receive 20% off your first order. https://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?u=3091816&m=71499&b=998755

About Lindsay

Lindsay Dahl is the Chief Impact Officer of Ritual, a traceable vitamin and supplements brand. Prior to joining Ritual, Lindsay was Head of Mission for Beautycounter where she helped establish the clean beauty category. With over 20 years experience in the environmental health field, she has been the lead strategist for the passage of over 20 pieces of state and federal legislation, helped establish industry defining rules around safety, mainstreamed sustainable packaging, and raised consumer consciousness of the need for responsible sourcing programs. A Minnesota native, Lindsay now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young and energetic children. 

Connect with Lindsay

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-dahl-3617076/ 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lindsay_dahl/?hl=en 

Website https://lindsaydahl.com 

Learn more about Ritual

www.ritual.com 

Use the promo code SOMETHINGBETTER20 for 20% off your first order. 

Support the Podcast

Support the podcast by shopping with my affiliate partners. By shopping using my links and promo codes, you help to fund the ongoing production of the show. These companies align with my mission to help make people and the planet safer, healthier, and happier. View a full list of my affiliate partners and the discount codes here. 

https://linktr.ee/thisorsomethingbetter

Shop Beautycounter: You can also support the podcast by supporting my business with Beautycounter.

Use the promo code CLEANFORALL30 for 30% off your first purchase. www.beautycounter.com/regannelson