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What if the food on your plate could talk to your genes? Dr. Rosane Oliveira unravels this fascinating interplay, showing how our everyday choices can significantly impact our genetic expression and overall health and longevity.

As the founder of the Integrative Medicine department at UC Davis and President and CEO of the Plant-Based Life Foundation, Dr. Oliveira is at the helm of a movement that's redefining healthcare. Discover how she's merging traditional medical practices with the revolutionary power of diet and lifestyle choices, and what this could mean to you and your loved ones.

“As a researcher, educator, and advocate, my deepest commitment is to empower individuals with the knowledge and tools to make informed choices about their health and lifestyle. It's about understanding the profound connection between our plates, our health, and our genetic expression.” - Dr. Rosane Oliveira

Tune in to learn more about Dr. Oliveira's extraordinary journey, exploring not just the science of nutrition but its profound impact on our lives and the legacy we leave for future generations.

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Author of the new book, What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds, Jennifer Jewell reveals the power of seeds in our world "for food, for medicine, for utility, for the vast interconnected web we include in the concept of biodiversity and planetary health, for beauty, and for culture.”

In her role as host of the award-winning NPR radio show and podcast, Cultivating Place, Jennifer strives to help listeners not only learn how to garden better, but to help them know the bigger truth of its impact on a quantum level. Though often considered a consumer-oriented hobby, Jennifer believes gardening goes far beyond this meager expectation: it connects us spiritually, gives us agency over our lives, and serves as a vote for our planet.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How our “impulse to garden” reclaims our relationship with the ancient activity of growing plants.

• Why gardening is a spiritual endeavor, an activist undertaking, and a method of gaining agency over our lives.

• How reducing gardening to a hobby status diminishes the actual truth and respect for the life-sustaining value it holds.

• Correlations between global crises and the human instinct to garden.

• Why we must care about the health, protection and availability of seeds.

• The high value of native plants in providing habitats, improving water quality and air quality, supporting bird migration, pollinators and more.

• Why the health of our planet is reliant on our preserving the remaining wild spaces.

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Lisa Fingleton is an artist, filmmaker, writer and grower of organic fruits and vegetables. From her home on a nineteen-acre organic farm and native woodland on the west coast of Ireland, Lisa is a prime example of one who thinks globally and acts locally.

Through her art projects, films and books, Lisa cultivates seamless connections between art, food and farming in a project called ⁠The Barna Way⁠. The Barna Way is a mindset, an approach to life that involves “listening to the land and creating an inclusive and welcoming space for all.”

Recognizing the urgency around food insecurity, the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and forced migration, Lisa uses art to help people engage on a creative basis rather than on a fearful footing. She encourages all of us to use artful expression as way of imagining environmental solutions, as well as to express our ecological grief known as solastalgia.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Lisa’s unique ways of combining art, film, food and writing to bring community together to deal with a changing world.

• How Ireland’s government and the Irish Museum of Modern Art support combining art and science to grapple with climate change.

• Lisa’s film “Voice from the Fields” helps the non-farming world understand challenges local food growers face.

• Why shopping at a farmer’s market is a radical act of supporting the planet and protecting food sovereignty.

• How Ireland’s indigenous farmers are deeply knowledgeable about the land, and passionate about protecting the future.

How Lisa’s hyper-local work in Western Ireland sends a message international in scope.

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Walking among the giant redwood trees near her home, Osprey Orielle Lake had a moment in 2009 that changed the trajectory of her life and her work. Frustrated by the lackluster results of that year’s COP 15 Climate Change talks in Copenhagen, Osprey decided to commit her life help protect the earth for future generations. She has not only kept that commitment, but has also helped transform the face of climate activism by elevating women’s and indigenous leadership in the field. Forming Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, WECAN, Osprey began her journey to support and collaborate with women in cultures around the world.

In her compelling and energizing new book, The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis, Osprey presents a useful guide to remaking our world. Drawing on years of personal interaction with global leaders, Indigenous peoples, climate activists and systems thinkers, she shares a hopeful and uplifting vision of the world within our reach.

“The biggest thing I would say is people really need to roll up their sleeves and get involved. No one can be on the sidelines anymore. We all need to speak out. We all need to take action and find that place where you can do that in your community.”

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why climate justice is integral to climate change solutions.

• The powerful and expansive ways women are leading the way with climate solutions.

• WECAN’s partnership with Indigenous women at COP, the United Nations, and in political activism.

• WECAN’S on-the-ground projects like Reforesting the Otombe Rainforest in DR Congo.

• How the current poly-crisis creates an opportunity to make systematic change.

• The urgent need to reframe our economy so the earth, human life, and all nature is valued.

• How understanding and changing our worldview is key to the transformation needed to heal the earth and ourselves.

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In 2006, fresh from graduate school with degrees in Business and Geotechnical Engineering, Avery Bang couldn’t wait to go out and save the world. Her business and engineering knowledge combined with her passion for social justice had her chomping at the bit, searching for a problem she could solve. After fifteen years serving as CEO of Bridges to Prosperity, Avery now serves as a Principal at the highly-respected Mulago Foundation, helping social entrepreneurs solve the world's most intractable problems.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How ⁠Mulago Foundation⁠ supports irrepressible leaders working to solve local problems that if scaled can have global impacts.

• Avery’s lessons learned in her fifteen years as CEO of Bridges to Prosperity

• Bridges’ efforts to craft a world where isolation does not create poverty.

• How '“voluntourism” often takes more than it gives.

• The critical role Mulago’s philanthropy plays in supporting big ideas that change lives.

• The many ways supporting social entrepreneurship builds a better world.

• The heartwarming and visionary story of two brothers and a good friend at the core of the Mulago Foundation.

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Dr. Caleigh Campbell chose to practice a specialty still unknown to many women and even to other doctors, though its results are simple, effective, and often life-changing: pelvic floor physical therapy. While practitioners of the field are still few, demand is growing rapidly as more and more women understand the benefits that span a lifetime.

"It's a very intimate subject, and most people don't talk about it at all. And if they do, they might be saying to someone else: “I've had that for years, that's just, you know, part of being a woman. And it's really not.”

You can find Dr. Campbell at Select Physical Therapy in Golden Colorado .

In this episode, we discuss:

• The benefits of pelvic floor physical therapy for young athletes, pregnant and post-partum women, mid-life and elderly women.

• The wide array of issues resolved by pelvic PT.

• The promise of treatment for incontinence, a healthier pregnancy and post partum; painful intercourse, and more.

• The freedom to visit a doctor of physical therapy without a referral (check with your insurer first.)

• How shame, embarrassment, pride and and a lack of knowledge prevents women from getting help.

• How breathing correctly can affect your pelvic floor.

• The role of properly done exercise in strengthening pelvic floor.

• How pelvic floor surgery often helps women avoid surgery.

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“As a polar ambassador, think it's important that people know about how important these areas in the end of the world are on the North Pole, South Pole, the ice caps, the cryospheres, the white parts of our earth. I think that's a knowledge that I and Sunniva are trying to spread through our mission and our movement.” -- ⁠Hilde Fålun Strøm

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Though many imagine the North Pole perennially covered in snow, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, located just 650 miles south, was long warmed by jet streams resulting in a climate drier that the Sahara Dessert. That began to change in the 1990’s when massive snowfalls began creating a dangerous environment. When a powerful avalanche just missed burying her home in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the northernmost year-round settlement on the planet, Hilde Fålun Strøm’s life changed forever. Though her home was spared by mere meters and she and husband survived, the lives of two of her neighbors, one just two-years old, were taken, and seventeen of her neighbor’s homes were destroyed.

When Hilde met Sunniva Sorby, a woman who had spent her life traveling to the South Pole who was also engaged in conducing citizen science, Hilde recognized her as a kindred spirit at once. They joined forces to create Hearts in the Ice, a “Platform for social engagement connecting students, scientists, manufacturers, environmental organizations, and all who care about the health of our planet, in the conversation around climate change.”

In this episode, we discuss:

• The rapidly changing climate in polar regions.

• The raw beauty that defines the polar north.

• Why polar bears are starving without enough sea ice.

• First women to over-winter in an isolated Svalbard cabin.

• Counting polar bear pups during Covid lockdown.

• Drilling Arctic ice to count phytoplankton, the microscopic marine algae that is a key source of world’s oxygen.

• Life lessons learned in isolation during polar over-winter.

• The joy of living with absolute purpose each day.

• How expressing gratitude daily profoundly strengthens human connection.

• Preserving Indigenous traditions in the Canadian Arctic.

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When a church mission led Mercy Tucker and her husband to take their four year-old and 18 month-old children to live in a barrio in the Dominican Republic, some very real truths emerged. The greatest of these was observing the utter lack of resources available to young, single, poor mothers who lacked even the most basic housing. Yet somehow these young women used any scraps or resources to construct the most basic shelters to put a roof over their children’s heads. When a severe tropical storm pounded the island for twelve straight days, those shelters collapsed and washed away, leaving the mothers and children homeless and suffering. Mercy Tucker and a fellow mission volunteer couldn’t bear to witness the tragedy that no one else seemed to recognize or be concerned about. It seemed to Mercy that the women were invisible––no one cared because no one even noticed them. So Mercy and her mission buddy joined forces and formed the non-profit Proyecto Te Veo to provide the struggling young women with vocational training. Through skill building, the women learn to create and build incomes that allow them to raise their children with dignity.

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“When a woman’s life changes, it changes everything around her.” —Mercy Tucker

When Tucker and her family relocated to Colorado in 2013, it didn’t take long for her to notice women in her neighborhood who were also in need, albeit a different kind of need.

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In This Episode We Discuss:

• Mercy and her husband’s life and work in the barrio of the Dominican Republic.

• Helping single mothers learn skills to make a living: the opening of Proyecto Te Veo

• Mercy adopting a child in the Dominican Republic.

• Mercy responding to needs in her neighborhood: the opening of of Te Veo House

• The scourge of racism: the critical importance of becoming an ally and taking bold action against hate.

• Standing up to racism: the Supreme Court.

• Using community to build community: the launch of Shared Power.

• Assisting women in acquiring home ownership.

• Helping women expand their own small business.

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As a novice therapist in who had yet to earn his doctorate, Ed Tick was at a loss of how to treat the wounded Viet Nam vets coming to get help with their war trauma. The year was 1976. PTSD—Post Traumatic Stress Disorder—would not be identified as a behavioral disorder for another four years. But Ed already knew from hearing their stories that no matter how the presenting issue would be diagnosed, the men were suffering from soul wounds.

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