La Vida Verde Podcast

Host Matthew Human interviews Tica, organizing consultant, and property manager Roxy Saenz. Born in Peru with Roots in Bolivia Roxy grew up in her mothers homeland of Costa Rica and shares her unique perspective on the expat influx into her home country and the pushback she’s seen recently by some of her fellow ticos.

Host Matthew Human interview fellow Tacotalian, drummer, and plumber Sharin Kurstin, founder and owner of Anacapa Plumbing in Santa Barbara, CA. They discuss growing up a hippie, traveling the rainbow circuit in Europe, studying in west Africa, putting out massive fires, and the origins of Tacotal.

Host Matthew Human welcomes guest Lexi Mondot, known as The Cycle Witch to La Vida Verde Podcast. Lexi is a dancer, a teacher, a cyclical living and embodiment coach and the founder of Cuntopia the Gathering, whose motto is "Cunt Worship is the new church" and they talk about it all. More info: www.thecyclewitch.com  @thecyclewitch 

Erika Hicks is a Water Educator and Sustainability Consultant, teaching women how to leverage the essence of life, WATER, to make an abundant online income in a New Paradigm Way!

Host Matthew Human welcomes Michael Numinous, bardic rapper and founder and chief visionary officer of Hawk and Hawthorne, an ecological event center based outside of Asheville, North Carolina to the podcast to discuss how Kombucha literally changed his life. Michael also performs a beautiful and heartfelt spoken word piece he wrote for his mother. The entertainment continues on our Patreon:

Host Matthew Human welcomes photographer and videographer Florian Kuster where they discuss magical adventures in shooting photos, life as an expat in Costa Rica, hiding pineapples and penises in shots, and his new book ‘Wild and Scenic: Costa Rica Through My Lens’

Host Matthew Human interviews former model and poet Robin Shaw about the dark side of fashion, discovering Costa Rica and her new poetry album Profits Loss now available on all streaming platforms.

Host Matthew Human interviews the co-founders of our local Ayurvedic Vegan restaurant Shanti en Coexistencia Nati Ulloa, and Luis León, located in the Machuca Valley of Costa Rica. An interesting and synchronistic story to say the least! To order food locally: https://shanti-en-coexistencia.ola.click

Host Matthew Human interviews author and philosopher Charles Eisenstein in a conversation that runs from school systems designed to enslave, to seeing ghosts in Taiwan, becoming the policy director of the RFKJR 2024 campaign for president, and not losing hope in a crazy world. More from Charles: https://charleseisenstein.substack.com

Host Matthew Human interviews Chef Alejandro “Alex” Corral about his life growing up in Latin America and how he became obsessed with cacao and chocolate. They also talk about the origins and history of cacao and chocolate in culture and society and some cool new ideas for one of the oldest indigenous sacred plants.