Today, we are learning from Drea Burbank.

Drea is an MD-technologist and founder/CEO of Savimbo, which sells fair-trade carbon credits. Drea lives in the Colombian Amazon. Her international team of 300+ delinquent savants hacks carbon markets to support jungle small-farmers who conserve and reforest. She’s addicted to yoga, passionate about creation, and prone to profanity or poetry — sometimes both.

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In this conversation with Drea Burbank, I learned:

0:00 Intro

02:25 What we do, stop deforestation and sell climate products.

05:00 The transition for the farmers to using tech.

06:00 Drea explains why deforestation is happening. The credit market is really inequitable.

07:45 Savimbo is about how to save a planet.

08:40 The short version of the backstory of Savimbo.

09:10 She discovered that her IQ was undesirable high.

12:00 Switching career from firefighter to Med school.

13:25 The effect of yoga on the physics.

15:20 The start of Savimbo with the assignment from the local medicine men for Drea.

19:05 The differences between conserving primary forest and optimizing a deforested area.

20:30 The important reasons why it is stupid to ship soy from the Amazon to Europe and the US.

21:20 It is easy to replace palm oil with forest oils.

22:30 One billion people live in tropical forests.

22:55 Three emerging technologies have changed everything in the last couple of years in these areas: satellite monitoring, electronic banking, and WhatsApp.

24:25 The effect of micropayments.

24:50 How we can help Savimbo, growth capital, buy credits, subscribe to a small farmer.

26:15 A better gift for family and friends.

29:35 Testing business partnerships in the Amazon based on consciousness.

31:00 Full commitment to one project.

32:55 Using open data to be transparent about where the money is going.

33:40 The first years of a new company are like having a baby, it's crying all the time. You work all the time.

34:40 The difference in the concept of time. Indigenous people don't work with time.

37:35 Low living cost and low income, everything goes back into the company.

39:05 The three founders started the company to give back.

39:35 The feeling of enough enables you to do amazing work.

40:30 How to stop chasing for more.

42:15 A death and rebirth process, and losing everything that you have.

45:20 Research on giftedness and research on Positive disintegration. Okay with the death and rebirth cycle.

47:20 The death and rebirth cycle as a planet. We are attached to colonialism and restoration and those need to die.

48:35 Indigenous people are cool and this is why.

Book: Shaman Gurl: Kundalini, mischief, and a judicious amount of mayhem - Drea Burbank

More about Drea Burbank:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dreaburbank/ 

https://www.dreaburbank.com/ 

https://www.savimbo.com/ 

https://www.todreamalife.com/

Other resources:

Kazimierz Dąbrowski - Positive disintegration

5 things I would say to my younger self long before I founded Savimbo - Brea Burbank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJo2kDBNLIM

Video of the conversation with Drea Burbank

https://youtu.be/qi1YqX-bKw4

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