I was thrilled this week to be invited on Identity The Podcast back in April this yr to discuss "What is an Eco Influencer?" with Caleb in Illinois & Tarik in NYC and me in rural Bedfordshire, the power of the internet & the amazing opportunities to connect with like-minded people all across the globe literally blows my mind sometimes. 

What a privilege to be part of this generation.   

Loved being part of this conversation and look forward to collaborating again in the future.   

The Find Your ID NYC (https://fyidnyc.com/) Identity Podcast has your Wednesday evening covered! This soul-searching and conscious-thinking podcast focuses on the concept of discovering one's identity.  Identity Podcast starts April with the acclaimed environmentalism series! Hosts Tarik and Caleb welcome Gill Perkins, an eco-influencer, The latest episode of Identity will discuss Gill's journey, her eco-influencer career, the art of eco-influencing, and how she promotes the green economy.  Gill of JamJarGill.com is an eco-influencer whose goal is to connect with as many ecopreneurs and small businesses as possible. Gill works in a community and collaborates with individuals and groups to product test, interview, and feature in hopes to promote the green economy and turn as many consumers as possible into conscious and mindful consumers, and to make green mainstream.  FYID NYC's podcast allows viewers, listeners, guests, and even the hosts to further examine the meaning of "identity."  

Identity's newest episode Eco-Influencer featuring Gill Perkins premiered live on April 7th 2021 at 7:15 p.m. EST on Find Your ID NYC's Facebook, Twitch, and Youtube at the Identity Podcast. Viewers can also listen to the show on all streaming platforms.  Additional information is available to the press. Please email [email protected] with any questions. Watch the full video on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/findyouridny...), Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/identitypodcast), or Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrFD...).  Find Your ID NYC is a global creative agency, founded in 2015 that specializes in brand development and strategy, talent representation, PR, event management, and content curation. The agency has bases in Milan and New York, working with forward-thinking companies to execute an array of brand activations by connecting clients with top, innovative talent.

This episode is the audio from a collaboration I did with Unitoshine at the beginning of the year. It was my first-ever Instagram Live and I used the time to talk through what I had learnt about building a community around your business and brand on Instagram to date, I hope you find this a useful episode and it helps your brand too 🙂

We covered so much but in a nutshell, this is what you can learn from our chat:  

👉 How to find your niche before starting your business 

👉 How to find these online communities 

👉 What is an Instagram meet up and how do you join and run them

👉 How to build your brand organically through these communities

You can find the video of this episode here 

Software tips:

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I met Lisa through the wonderful IG community a few years ago and saw that she was running a podcast with fellow yoga teacher Aimee Pruitt called the Radiant Warrior Podcast, where they both discuss how they used both yoga and Ayurveda (the holistic theory behind yoga) to heal themselves from their own life challenges, of anxiety and burn out.

At the point when I found the podcast I had been doing yoga myself for around 20 years but not really got into the theory behind it, I absolutely loved their conversational approach to teaching about the subject through this podcast, each week would be like a phone call of two friends which you got to listen in on and learn so much from.

I also really related to Lisa’s story specifically as she worked in radio broadcasting originally when she first started experiencing anxiety after having a negative manager. I have a media degree and whilst I was studying I volunteered at a BBC radio station, and then I ran my own show on MK Hospital Radio for about a year and a half too, I always thought broadcasting was where I wanted to work and I can really relate to one the one hand appearing as an extrovert as I love to communicate and talk, but underneath fairly self-conscious and anxious. I also love how Lisa has taken this huge life challenge, which I am only giving you the briefest of introductions on, and uses it now as a teaching opportunity to support others through, in her own words “wounds can become wisdom”

My anxiety and insomnia have really been blown open since having children, previously I think I always thought of myself as a worrier from a family of worriers, but these days (my boys are now 5 years old) I feel so much more aware of my triggers and holistic health and how that helps me, after being on prescribed sleep medication for 18 months,  anti-depressants for a couple of months and managing to get off both when furloughed from my last job during the pandemic I have learnt so much through this journey. I’m still very much a work in progress, but I’m so glad that people are talking about mental health in such an open and honest way now and I hope that through this podcast and the guests which I have over the coming months I can do my part to normalise it all more and offer some things which have helped me, and learn some things too.

I’m excited about this conversation, I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did. 

Host: @jamjargill (Bedfordshire, UK)

You can find all about Lisa & what she has to offer at lisadumasyoga.com

This was actually my 1st ever podcast guest feature, recorded before Christmas 2020. Hope you enjoy it. 

I was so delighted to meet and be interviewed by Marla for her Little Bit of Lagom Podcast, a fellow eco-minded soul trying to do good in the world, I am so blessed to be part of this community of wonderful people and so value connecting with them in different ways.

Episode 2: Laure from Unitoshine​