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Cedar Anderson is the founder and inventor of Flow Hive, a revolutionary system that produces great honey and is easy on the bees and the beekeepers. This business path is anything but traditional, with an initial humble kickstarter campaign quickly becoming the most successful crowdfunding campaign ever launched outside the US, eventually raising over $16 million. This is a true story of business as a force for good as Cedar set out to change the business paradigm and is doing just that.

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Jessica Maguire is a trauma-informed physiotherapist, passionate about helping people regulate their nervous systems through healthy functioning of their vagus nerve. She holds a degree in Health Science and a Masters of Physiotherapy and has spent over 14 years in private practice as a physiotherapist. In this episode, we cover how the brain and nervous system change from stress, trauma and chronic pain, as well as the relatively new research around the relationship between gut health and the nervous system.

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Welcome back friends! We've got an incredible lineup of guests and topics landing this season, as well as some small changes. What isn't changing though is our core mission to inspire and educate a better way of business. So strap in for another great season ahead - I can't wait to see where this takes us.

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If you could do one thing to reduce your impact on the planet, eating less meat would be it.

Tammy Fry, the global Marketing Director at Fry's Family Foods, and the daughter of the Founder, meaning that she has played a role in building this company since day one. From the humble beginnings of the family kitchen, Fry's has now grown to be the second most widely available plant-based meat alternative in Australia, and is growing exponentially year on year.

Rochelle Courtenay is the founder of Share the Dignity, a charity that distributes period products to women experiencing homelessness, fleeing domestic violence, and doing it tough.

Share the Dignity collects thousands of period products each year and distributes them directly to charities across Australia. They work with over 2,500 charities and has 5000 volunteers have had 2.8 million packets of pads and tampons donated and have had over $50 million donated.

Tune in to hear how one woman set out with a mission to end period poverty and is making it happen.

In search of the ultimate adventure Henry Brydon spent two years riding 38,000km on a push bike from London to Sydney traversing through more than 30 countries, which made for countless stories of human generosity. To share the spirit of adventure he then went on to start We Are Explorers, an exciting new-media company spreading the love of the outdoors to over 1 million people a month - not to mention being named Consumer Publication of the Year in the 2020 Mumbrella Publishing Awards. Since then We Are Explorers has used business as a platform for good with some pretty epic positive impact activations.

B Corp is a certification for businesses that meet the highest certifiable standards of social and environmental performance as well as transparency, and accountability. These businesses form a thriving community that drives a global movement of people using business as a force for good. To date, over 3,500 businesses have been B Corp certified in 70 countries and 150 industries, and more than 100,000 companies manage their impact with the B Impact Assessment. In this interview we chat with B Lab CEO on creating a community of business that positively impact the world.

Riparide is a travel platform focused on unique properties and experiences in regional Australia. Much more than your standard accommodation booking site, Riparide is a highly curated portal into nature orientated adventures. Born as an antidote to the modern world Riparide strives to inspire people to unplug from the city and head outdoors in search of fulfilling moments. Whether it's a beautiful waterfall, a cabin in the wilderness, or an early morning point - It's about pursuing those peaceful, exciting and challenging moments that restore balance and bring fulfillment to our lives. In this interview we throw down with Founder Marlon Law.

Good Citizens make sunglasses from 100% recycled, single-use plastic bottles. It was founded by Nik Robinson and his 8-year old son Harry with a mission to play their part in 'untrashing' the planet. Every pair of Good Citizens sunnies pays for 1kg of plastic to be pulled out of the ocean.

It took Nik and his family 752 days & more than 2500 failed attempts to turn a plastic bottle into a pair of sunnies. Since then they've been featured in Forbes and National Geographic, spoken at the United Nations Global Conference & Tesla, and won The Design Files Sustainable Design Initiative for 2020.

Jacqui Lewis is the co-founder of The Broad Place, a space to help people discover their highest grade self through applied ancient knowledge and meditation. It's well known for it's courses teaching integrated mediation, as well as gatherings, workplace programs, and most recently the book Jacqui authored, High Grade Living.

What's unique about the approach taken by The Broad Place is the focus on it being an integrated tool in life - not something reserved for ashrams or isolated caves, but rather a calming and powerful practice to help us navigate the modern world with more grace than without.