Entrepreneur and App the two words go hand in hand. As any entrepreneur knows there is a wealth of difference between a good idea and actually doing something and manifesting that idea, it’s especially challenging when it also requires a shift in consciousness and harnessing some good old people power to prevent waste. Our guest today, armed with passion and the courage of her convictions, launched the amazing app Oleo and shares her experience and what we can all learn from it.  

I'm so excited to meet our guest today and I'm sure after spending some time with her you will understand why she's a superwoman. 

Estelle Lloyd is co-founder of Macadamia... now Macadamia might not mean too much to you, but it's the parent company of a global family education entertainment streamer called Da Vinci. 

Now of course you know I come from a very much a BBC background and so the ethos of education with entertainment were at the heart of everything I did and I just love the passion and the bravery that Estelle has, because setting up a rival streaming company with such incredible values and being such fierce advocates of sustainability and addressing climate change in today's worlds full of these huge brands that we all are aware of I mean I'm just in awe of her. 

So I'm really happy to welcome Estelle Lloyd to conscious.

If you’ve watched any of the films on my YouTube channel you will know that I have been on an electric car (aka an EV) journey - but it isn’t just me and my fellow drivers, the whole industry has gone through a revolution. If you are thinking about making a switch or just interested to know how the pushback on the EV mandate changes things, then stay tuned and join me in welcoming Mark Busby from the Hendy Group to Conscious this week. 

Here to talk everything from biodiversity credits to finding meaning and purpose to travelling more consciously, our guest today has made the journey from a career in IT to running an international travel company that makes a big difference. 

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We talk a lot about what it takes to make change, innovation, imagination but there is also a certain amount of courage too. 

You may recognise our guest today and I’m going to take a shot, at saying you probably won’t associate him with sustainability. In fact you will associate him more with shots because he often features as the cocktail expert on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch here in the UK. 

He is also the brains and creative zest behind ‘World of Zing’ a whole range of ready made cocktails. So how do you go from cocktail maker to world changer? How on earth do we make cocktails environmentally friendly. Pritesh Mody our guest today has what he thinks could be the answer and he’s prepared to put his money where his mouth is and has launched his cocktail business with  an innovation which will make a difference. So, you can understand that the office around him is buzzing with activity, sorry it's a bit noisy, but he’s here to tell us more about it.  

Jane Langley, founder of Bluepatch.org, is taking a very collaborative approach to tackling climate change, which also strays into behaviour change. So we'll be talking about how dopamine hits and shopping might just be the key to changing our behavior. The power of positive shopping and the power of positive business. 

Blue Patch is a free-to-use directory that gathers together the products, services and information that will help the UK to transition towards a more sustainable economy.  100% of Blue Patch’s surplus revenue is used to buy shares in community-owned renewable energy projects here in the UK.

Dr. James Crosby-Wrigley is head of sustainability at Advantage Utilities on a mission to lead the way for businesses who are facing the double challenge of rising costs and a critical need for sustainability... ever heard of energy arbitrage?

If you like to bike you will love todays episode. 

We talk a lot about the problems with transportation in this whole environmental area...  do we go electric, let's try to train, or walk or cycle where we can?  We know that fossil fuels are unsustainable, but today it's time to go even further than fossil fuels and do a really deep dive into the power of bikes to change the world for the better.

Sustainability doesn’t just refer to fossil fuels, but have you ever considered that bikes have the power to change communities, to change outcomes in education and health? Our guest today, FK Day,  has been on a life long journey to help the planet, culminating in a global non profit called World Bicycle Relief and it all started with a bike ride. 

Can sheep make your laundry environmentally friendly? Our guest today is Sarah Turner, an inspirational entrepreneur whose company Little Beau Sheep is going from strength to strength by helping us to make a difference in our own homes and supporting British wool in more ways than one. 

If, like me and many many millions of others you are loving repair shop on the BBC or you have got into making your own, restyling furniture, repurposing things or even just repairing things then you are going to absolutely adore today's guest. She works for FCC, a huge waste management company with a global presence. Here in the UK they deal with 1.3 million people's waste.

We all know that we have to take a lot of responsibility for that ourselves, that we all need to recycle, reuse, repurpose our waste, because our waste is one of our biggest issues when it comes to environmental matters. 

For Gemma, is all about turning our waste into a resource so Gemma Green, also known as Gemma Green, recycling queen, is our guest today and it's lovely to welcome her.