Going Conscious

One of my clients, Sonia, is currently listening to one Going Conscious episode a day and has been doing so since the beginning of the show, now on episode 41! She has been finding it very powerful and is enjoying seeing themes emerge. She's inspired me to start doing the same.

In this recap episode you will hear the first parts of four Going Conscious episodes that centre around plant-based living, removing animals from the food chain and the incredible unknown powers of plants. This time they are coming from very varied perspectives, from advocacy to science.

We will hear from Elaine who is spearheading the post-animal economy and working with startups and investors in growing a next-gen materials industry to replace animal-based materials. We will hear from Monica the Research Associate Professor who pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, demonstrating that plants emit their own 'voices' and detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. We will hear from Joey who is Founder & Co-Owner of Veshin Factory in China, where he and his partners are on a mission to move the fashion accessories industry to conscious, sustainable, vegan production. And we will hear from Stephanie who is Founder and Managing Director of Vegan Mainstream - a trailblazer in the vegan business world since 2009.

Please let me know in a short review which episode, guest or takeaway grabs your attention, and I'll be reading some out as listener shout-outs soon.

To listen to the full episodes, search for:

#77 Elaine Sui

#16 Monica Gagliano

#41 Joey Pringle

#59 Stephanie Redcross West

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In this special episode we bring you a short guided meditation for forgiveness - to help you forgive another person, or yourself, for something that has happened so that you can release it and move forwards with freedom.

Give yourself these 10 minutes whenever you feel you have something to release.

And to give this little gift to anyone you know who could benefit too.

This meditation is set to music using Alpha waves to help you enter a deeper meditative state, bringing you calm, mind-body integration and learning.

This episode was first posted as episode #71 and is reposted here today for newer listeners and to remind all listeners to check in with their forgiveness, if you need to today or in the future.

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Anieke is a former Venture Capital investor turned startup Founder on a mission to make every child in the world feel special and connected to roots and loved ones. With her company, Peekabond, she helps global families build bonds with young children at a distance.

In this episode we talk about the huge transformation from investor to entrepreneur, wanting to make an uncomfortable move, how to create direct impact, secure attachments, forging your own adventure and how to not forget your inner child.

Discover show notes, Anieke's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

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Pavita is a polymath whose mission is to spread light, love, learning, and laughter. She is the Executive Director of Girls Health Ed and award-winning international bestselling author of To All the Magic in Me.

People often go through life avoiding negative emotions, forgetting that they are an integral part of the human experience. An authentic depiction of the human spirit informed by the author's own mental health struggles and life experiences, To All the Magic in Me: A Collection of Love Letters to All of Life's Emotions offers a new perspective on negative emotions and the powerful role that they, along with positive emotions, play in our lives. From boredom to bliss, perfectionism to passion, anxiety to relief, and everything in between and beyond, the states of being covered in this poetry collection remind readers of the complexity, lessons, and beauty to be found in all emotions.

In this episode we talk about the "edit" in "meditate", how to say "no" to misaligned business opportunities, the many shades of emotions, imposter syndrome, feminist grassroots and Pavita reads us a beautiful poem on Surrender.

Discover show notes, Pavita's book and more on www.goingconscious.com.

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Joe began his career as an underwriter for Chubb & Son, Inc. and then moved into insurance risk management as an analyst for Lehman Brothers, Inc. He subsequently worked with PepsiCo for nine years. In 2010, Joe fulfilled his desire to have an impact on public policy affecting the country's Department of Social Services, which had an operating budget of $600 million. The first African American elected as a village trustee in his community of Port Chester, New York, he also served as deputy mayor from 2011 to 2012. Joe was appointed President and CEO of Greyston in April 2020 after serving two years as vice president.

In this episode we talk about how Joe, together with his team, bakes 12 million brownies a year, and you've probably eaten one in your Ben & Jerry's. But the real product of Greyston is the people, many of whom are traditionally excluded from the workforce and have been given the opportunity to thrive through Greyton's paradigm-shifting opening hiring concept.

We talk about the new leadership playbook, how product needs to connect with broader society, and how to discover your gift to make the impact you are called to make.

Discover show notes, Joe's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

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Written by Jon Alexander with Ariane Conrad, Citizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive as individuals, organisations, and nations.

I spoke with Jon in last week's episode and today read some short sections for you. Discover how when our institutions treat people as creative, empowered creatures rather than consumers, everything changes.

Unleashing the power of everyone equips us to face the challenges of economic insecurity, climate crisis, public health threats, and polarisation.

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Jon Alexander is the author of CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us, and co-founder of the New Citizenship Project. He spent the first decade of his career winning awards in the advertising industry, then changed direction to use his skills to involve people in the world as Citizens, instead of just selling stuff to Consumers…

Only recently published, his book is already receiving huge acclaim and his work is being covered in major publications. I'm thrilled for him and so encouraged that this important work is being spread and read by many, as it needs to be.

In this episode we talk about why things are up for grabs in society in ways they haven't been before, the collapse of the Consumer Story and the rise of the Citizen Story - the deepest truth of humanity. We talk about the huge opportunity for the world that is business, not to minimise harm but to do more good, how to celebrate the connection between humans and nature, and Jon asks us what you would do today if you truly believed in those around you and yourself.

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Celebrating two years of Going Conscious! I've interviewed over 100 guests from all over the world, ages 20s up to 70s, discussing topics from where spirituality intersects with business to finding aligned investors, healing from within and nurturing conscious relationships.

These conversations have led me to spot patterns of how people change their lives and create conscious business success. Without realising it when I started the podcast, I've done an enormous amount of research, which I am currently summarising for my upcoming book, Going Conscious! I'm excited to announce here for the first time that it will be published in May 2023.

I can't wait to share it with you!! You will be able to learn how to transform yourself so you can transform the world using business for good. The 9 key transformations that will revolutionise you, your business and your life. How to finally bring your inner transformation together with your business output, as they have been separated for too long, and your conscious business is ultimately an expression of your inner world.

In this recap episode you will hear the first parts of four Going Conscious episodes that centre around healing yourself from within. I spoke with these four amazing women to discover their journeys and how they discovered how to heal themselves. It is incredibly powerful to unleash our inner abilities if only we give ourselves the chance and space.

We will hear from Emma who discovered how dance is medicine and healed herself from not being able to walk and having tried all the western medicine drugs she could, to being free and fit, moving her body and helping others to do the same. We will hear from Shayoon who, together with her husband Alexander, runs the LightForce centre in Bali and online, and she tells us about her incredible journey from fashion stylist in LA to helping people heal their traumas, and how motherhood was her rebirth. Giap shares her courageous path from banking in London to discovering healing and her Buddhist roots, as well as open vulnerability about conscious relationships. And we hear from Rita who found healing in raw vegan eating and discovered holistic approaches to surrender and discover her inner power.

Please let me know in a short review which episode, guest or takeaway grabs your attention, and I'll be reading some out as listener shout-outs soon.

To listen to the full episodes, search for:

#86 Emma Marshall

#78 Shayoon Mendeluk

#37 Giap Tongsayor

#24 Rita Pira

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Harriet is an activist, working at the intersection of advertising, AI and misinformation. Her role at Media Bounty focuses on insight gathering and climate misinformation across a range of groundbreaking clients and projects from electric vehicles to green finance.

She co-founded The Conscious Advertising Network with Jake Dubbins of Media Bounty in 2018 and has since seen it gain international recognition, work with the UN, and grow to over 150 members from Virgin Media O2 to Accenture Interactive.

In this episode we talk about corporate sustainability, how advertising funds the internet and the responsibility that creates, the lucrative disinformation economy, pillars for conscious advertising, how we can use our collective power for good and why no one knows what the facebook algorithm does anymore.

Discover show notes, Harriet's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

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Shaun is the Founder of Skandinavisk, with a vision to inspire the world to live more Scandinavian via fragrance stories designed to leave a lighter footprint. He is Chair of the B Corp Beauty Coalition, a collective action initiative of almost 50 B Corps committed to working together to change the beauty industry for good, and he is the receiver of Denmark's inaugural 'ESG Frontrunner' award.

In this episode we talk about why balance is the key to Scandinavian countries being so progressive on many measures and the liberation of shifting business to be based on ethics. We talk about the effects of nature dominating life, the pain of discovering the gap between how good you think you are and how good you actually are, about B Corp, the financial results of doing the right thing, the need for a more enlightened citizen, the drive of community, how to make personal impact and why we need to start small.

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