Hey Change Podcast

Remember the "Dell Dude" from early 2000? Ever wonder what happened to him?

I'm thrilled to tell you that we have actor Ben Curtis - also known as the Dell Dude from the famous commercials for Dell Computers - guest Hey Change to share his story of quick fame, PSTD, addiction, and recovery. Ben passionately shares his story - the highs and the lows - and talks about how having a coach helped him get out from where he was and into the place he is today, recovered and thriving!

In this episode:

• The value of a coach and what having one can do to you
• How to think about spiritual growth and healing
• The importance of self-empowerment in activism
• Tips for everyday healing and empowerment

About Ben:

Ben Curtis is an American actor who became known as the Dell Dude in a series of commercials for Dell Computers between 2000 and 2003. But then a series of events, that you’re about to learn about soon, led him down a windling path and to a quite dark place where the only way out was to reach out a hand and ask for help.

Today, Ben is a recovered addict, an experienced actor in recent shows like Orange is The New Black and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, he’s a musician with his own band Dirty Mae, but most importantly he’s a life coach on a mission to help - especially men - find self-love, courage, * compassion.

Connect with Ben:

Work with Ben: https://linktr.ee/bencurtis

Website: https://www.bencurtis.co/

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

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

CORRECTION: The book I'm talking about at the end of the episode is Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Stay in touch!

@AnneThereseGennari

www.theclimateoptimist.com/contact

Music and jingles in this episode were written and recorded by Madeleine MacGillivray Wallace

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Music produced by Jackson Whalan

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Are you suffering from climate anxiety? How do you even know if you are?

I decided to record this solo episode to share my story of climate anxiety and how it's shown up in my life. I hope that by opening up about how I've felt all these years, I'm reaching out a helping hand.

Because I want you to know that whatever you might be feeling, you're not alone! Eco-anxiety and climate depression are spreading like wildfire (no pun intended) among us and psychologists worldwide are just starting to pay attention to the mental health effects climate change can have. This is a serious topic so let's get serious about it - so that we can learn to heal!

In this episode I talk about:

• My climate anxiety and how it led to eating disorders and self-sabotage
• Tips for connecting with your anxiety and how to work through it
• Daily practices for healing and dealing with eco-anxiety

Don't think this episode is for you? You might want to think again! YOU have the right to heal. YOU are entitled to feel grief and to choose to move beyond it. YOU get to be the happiest and healthiest version of yourself that you can possibly be. Because if you want to heal the world, you must start by healing yourself first.

I hope this is a helpful one, friends! If you want to read more, check out my blog post "How To Deal With Climate Anxiety"

If you have any story you want to share or if you need help or guidance, please don't hesitate to reach out:

@AnneThereseGennari

www.theclimateoptimist.com/contact

Music and jingles in this episode were written and recorded by Madeleine MacGillivray Wallace

Website: www.heychangepodcast.com

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Music produced by Jackson Whalan

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Do you know your carbon footprint? How would your everyday actions change if you did?

In this episode, we talk to Josie Stoker, a wonderful young woman from Britain who spent the last 7 years in Asia, where she worked alongside Indigenous communities to bring their knowledge to corporate leadership teams. Having seen first-hand the effects of climate change today, she became passionate about empowering people to turn eco-anxiety into eco-action, and she’s excited about the role technology can play in supporting everyday people in their ambitions to take climate action. 

Today, Josie is CoFounder and CEO at Capture - a B2B helping companies build a planet-friendly workforce. It also serves as an app that anyone can download and use to start tracking his or her individual carbon footprint, so make sure to check it out!

In the episode:

• How much ice do you actually melt when taking a flight?
• Do individual actions actually matter and if so, why?
• What is the difference is between climate change and environmental destruction?
• What role should companies play in building a better world?

Website: https://www.thecapture.club/

Instagram: @thecaptureapp

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Stay optimistic and please stay in touch! You can always reach me on Instagram: @annetheresegennari

Website: www.theclimateoptimist.com

Music and jingles in this episode were written and recorded by Madeleine MacGillivray Wallace

If you like the show, please give it a 5 STAR REVIEW in your podcast app so we can keep reaching more passionate change-makers just like you!

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Music produced by Jackson Whalan

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Let's end 2020 with some real climate optimism! This is a live chat from previously this year when I had the honor of talking to Andreas Karelas, the author of Climate Courage, about all things climate change, optimism, and positive action!

I hope it's the right dose of optimism (and courage) you need to end this year on a good note and start 2021 with a new-found sense of curiosity and drive to make this world a better place! HAPPY NEW YEARS FRIENDS

In the episode:

• Climate Solutions to be excited about
• The importance and beauty of action in community
• How to build momentum for positive change
• How to start inclusive conversations that spark action
• Choice architecture and why it's important
• Why choosing how to deliver information is essential
• The mental elements to adapting change

About Our Guest:

Andreas Karelas is the founder and executive director of RE-volv, a nonprofit organization that empowers people around the country to help nonprofits in their communities go solar and raise awareness about the benefits of clean energy. He is a dedicated clean-energy advocate with over 15 years of environmental and renewable energy experience. He is an Audubon TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership Fellow and an OpenIDEO Climate Innovator Fellow. He lives and works in San Francisco. Connect with him at re-volv.org and on Twitter at @AndreasKarelas.

Buy the book: https://climatecourage.us/

Stay optimistic and please stay in touch! You can always reach me on Instagram: @annetheresegennari

Music and jingles in this episode were written and recorded by Madeleine MacGillivray Wallace

If you like the show, please give it a 5 STAR REVIEW in your podcast app so we can keep reaching more passionate change-makers just like you!

Website: www.heychangepodcast.com

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heychange_podcast/

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Host: https://www.instagram.com/annetheresegennari/

Music produced by Jackson Whalan

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What is carbon negative fashion and is it even possible to produce clothes that sequester more carbon than the process of making the garment produces? It might seem too good to be true, but it's not, and I'm thrilled to end 2020 with you guys by introducing what I hope is the future of fashion - carbon negative, 100% biodegradable, permaculture approved clothes.

Edzard van Der Wyck is the founder of Sheep Inc. - a new fashion brand launched in October 2019 that is creating carbon negative, fully traceable, 100% biodegradable, ethically sourced, Merino wool, unisex ZQ certified jumpers. On top of all these fancy and exciting titles, they also work closely with their wool farms to ensure a focus on regenerative farming, land mapping, bio diversity and planting trees with the goal of creating farms that are carbon sinks and producing a naturally carbon negative product. Check out their sweaters and learn more about their journey at www.sheepinc.com

Good to know about merino wool:

• Merino is the world’s naturally technical fibre which is renewable and bio-degradable. It’s natural proteins will completely break down with environmental exposure into organic carbon and return to the environment in years to come.
• Merino wool is a natural and sustainable resource because merino wool continues to grow each year after the annual harvesting of the fleece.
• Merino sheep live on a diet of water and grasses and live outdoors.
• Not all merino wool is ethical and sustainable. Look for certifications like Responsible Wool Standard, ZQ Merino Standard and the Soil Association Organic Standards

I hope you find this to be a super optimistic and encouraging episode to end 2020 with, and I hope to see you back here on Hey Change in the new year! Stay optimistic and please stay in touch! You can always reach me on Instagram: @annetheresegennari

Music and jingles in this episode was written and recorded by Madeleine MacGillivray Wallace

If you like the show, please give it a 5 STAR REVIEW in your podcast app so we can keep reaching more passionate change-makers just like you!

THANK YOU

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Music produced by Jackson Whalan

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Have you struggled with wanting to change the world (like, desperately) but not knowing how to find the time or energy while also keeping up with the rest of your life? Are you dreaming of finding your true passion and learning how to navigate your way to a life filled with purpose and joy? Today's episode with Katina Mountanos is all about creating that life for yourself and the steps to start taking to create a life where you won't just survive, but thrive.

Things we'll cover:

• Actual exercises for finding your purpose
• How to align your personal purpose with greater good
• The key to mindfulness and happiness
• How to rethink everything society has taught us to co-create a different world
• Tips for mindfulness, balance, and necessary reflection

About our guest:

Katina Mountanos, a renowned writer and creative entrepreneur who founded the viral blog On Adulting that helps thousands of millennials around the world mindfully navigate adulthood. Her debut book, On Adulting: How Millennials (And Any Human, Really) Can Work Less, Live More and Bend the Rules for Good (November, 2020) provides insights, tools, guidance and more to help millennials and GenZ figure out how to navigate adulthood in a conscious, happy way. She recently cofounded a mental well-being startup, Daydreamers, and is pursuing her master’s in clinical psychology at Columbia University.

Get your copy of On Adulting now: https://www.onadulting.com/the-book

Katina is @onadulting on all social platforms

Stay optimistic and stay in touch! You can always reach me on Instagram: @annetheresegennari

Music and jingles in this episode was written and recorded by Madeleine MacGillivray Wallace

If you like the show, please give it a 5 STAR REVIEW in your podcast app so we can keep reaching more passionate change-makers just like you!

Website: www.heychangepodcast.com

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heychange_podcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeP1VPMQbXP13C-r4re_HUg

Host: https://www.instagram.com/annetheresegennari/

Music produced by Jackson Whalan

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When did we start having such a strained relationship with stuff? And can you actually have stuff without breaking the planet? That is exactly what we'll get into in this episode with circular economy entrepreneur and author Sandra Goldmark.

Thing's we'll ponder together:

• When and why did we lose touch with the value of things?
• How can we care for things and fix them when they're broken?
• How should we think about stuff to make sure they only fill a functional, balanced, and nurturing part of our lives?
• What is circular economy and how can we achieve it?

We'll also start the episode with what I call "Maddie Chats" where Madeleine is coming back to the show to give you quick "need-to-know" about microplastics, a teaser of an upcoming episode when we'll dive a lot deeper into that world...

About Sandra:

Sandra is a circular economy entrepreneur and author whose work focuses on solutions to overconsumption and climate change. In her recent book Fixation: How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet, she takes readers on a quest to radically reimagine what a healthy relationship with our stuff might look like.

Website: https://sandragoldmark.com/

Mentioned in the episode:

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Music and jingles in this episode was written and recorded by Madeleine MacGillivray Wallace

Stay optimistic and stay in touch! You can always reach me on Instagram: @annetheresegennari

If you like the show, please give it a 5 STAR REVIEW in your podcast app so we can keep reaching more passionate change-makers just like you!

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Host: https://www.instagram.com/annetheresegennari/

Music produced by Jackson Whalan

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Did you know that we have merely 60 years left of growable soil? That is if we continue doing farming the way we do today, with destructive practices like tilling, mono-cropping, and fertilizer use. The good thing is that soil has an incredible ability to regenerate itself and that it's hungry for carbon. And if it's something we have way too much of in our atmosphere today, it's just that. So by changing our agricultural practices and build for healthy soils, we can create a machine that will not only grow more nutrient dense foods, but also help sequester all the CO2 currently stored in our air.

In other words - no only do we have the ability to save the soil, but if we do, the soil might very well save us.

This is live Q&A with Rob Herring, the director of the incredible film The Need To Grow. If you haven't seen the film already I highly recommend you watch it - head over to www.theneedtogrow.com and start getting excited about soil!

If you want to participate in more thing like this and learn how to empower yourself as a change-maker and activist, check out The Action Squad. Start your free membership trial today - we can't wait to change the world with you!

Mentioned in the episode: makesoil.com

Music: Madeleine Wallace

Connect and follow: @AnneThereseGennari

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Let's talk politics and ideas for a whole new world! We’re thrilled to have interviewed Howie Hawkins, Green Party presidential candidate. If you’ve never heard of Howie, prepare to get inspired. Howie has been deep in fights for peace, justice, labor, the environment, and independent working class politics since 1967. His current big fight is for an Eco-Socialist Green New Deal — super interesting! 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Howie’s policies, including what the Eco-Socialist Green New Deal is all about
• A vision for redesigning society that benefits everyone, and the environment as a byproduct
• Tips for activists on staying motivated to keep fighting
• The importance of local change-making in conjunction with systemic fights
• What we need to remember when we vote! 

Learn more about Howie at www.howiehawkins.us

Follow him on Twitter: @HowieHawkins

Exciting announcements:

Hey Change has gained a co-host, woop! Please welcome Madeleine Wallace and make sure to go follow her: @madeleinewallace

Also, there is now a PATREON page for Hey Change Podcast and we so appreciate any support. Buy us a climate coffee and we will continue creating conversations worth listening to :) --> www.patreon.com/theclimateoptimist

Stay in touch and always feel free to reach out with ideas, thoughts, or questions!

www.theclimateoptimist.com

@AnneThereseGennari

Website: www.heychangepodcast.com

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Host: https://www.instagram.com/annetheresegennari/

Music produced by Jackson Whalan

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Today's chat with intuitive coach Megan Markey is about finding your purpose and a life where you get to thrive, and about listening to your voices inside and learning how to turn your dreams into action. This episode is 100% about how to empower yourself and make reality of your own dream journey, but at the same time, it’s also 100% about changing the world. I have said this before and I cannot say it enough, so I’ll say it again - your activism fuels off your own spiritual, mental, and physical well-being! In other words - heal yourself to help heal the world.

If you are ready to start your climate optimist journey TODAY, head over to www.theclimateoptimist.com and sign up for my first class launching in August. This first one will be for FREE so make sure you don't miss out. In the class, you’ll get all the tools for creating a mindful, empowered, and balanced life as an activist. In other words - learn the lifestyle hacks to keep your activism engine going...

Today's Guest

Megan Markey is a former journalist, intuitive, social entrepreneur, and obsessed pattern seeker. She strikes a unique balance between the practical and spiritual to help you seek and find the soul-aligned version of you that wants to communicate with the world. Her most recent mission is to help guide spiritual entrepreneurs and conscious corporate leaders out of the lives they’ve chosen to be “safe” and into their soul-aligned purpose and mission. I’ve personally worked with Megan multiple times and she has the ability to understand you and your life’s purpose like no-one else.

This is a conversation between us as friends, and the drive we both share to make this world a better place.

Connect with Megan:

Website: http://www.meganmarkey.com/

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Instagram: @megmarkey

Stay in touch!

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Music produced by Jackson Whalan

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