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No Talk with Tarce episdoe today, instead we are gearing up for our first ever climate podcast series launching tomorrow. So with this in mind we wanted to release the promo episode for you to hear here in getting ready for tomorrow Tuesday the 8th of Novembers very first epsidoe drop. 22 guests over 12 weeks to help break down climate change into understandable elements to remove ambiguity and explain basic principles. Available on all podcasting platforms to subscribe to NOW, social media platforms instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn plus a dedicated website www.roncic.com

Bonus episode, short 30mins crossing to Mike in Egypt, where the team have pulled tons of rubbish and plastic bottles out of the River Nile and piled it up into a plastic pyramid where Mike has been sleeping for 3 nights in the desert. It's unbelievable and we wanted to support them in their mission. A quick short episode to let you know how its going, where it started and why then what they are focusing on for the future! A great quick chat don't miss it

This is a repeat episode in preperation of this weeks special bonus episode with Mike in Eygpt, picking up plastic on the River Nile for Zero Co's 100 year project. We have cut out some things but for those new to the podcast they may not have heard the founding story from Mike so before this saturdays special episode crossing to Mike who will be camping at the bottom of the pyramids, we wanted people to know who they are all over agin. ENJOY, this is a bsuiness birthed out of witnessing horrible plastic polution while traveling overseas, dumping life savings into the project and seeing it flourish. Unbelieveable!

Disruption, Gary Vee, depression and failure, global business sucsess, legacy trauma and letting it go. This conversation has EVERYTHING. Deep guttural experiences and repeatability to how we are living our life. Do not miss this episode, its late but its coming we had some technical issues.

Today I spoke with return guest, a crowd favourite the traveling nomad photographer Ben Glassco. Ben was on the show over 2 years ago and we went through his amazing story of leaving his corporate job, selling everything he owned and heading to Asia on a motorbike for six months honing his craft to be a photographer. Today is not has hundreds of thousands of followers on his Tik Tok and instagram pages and makes living from his photography. We talk travel, soul searching, sitting still, sibling bonds, feeling low and why he still loves what he does and so much more!

NAKIE are now a B corp certified brand who crafted The Worlds First 100% recycled hammock made from 37 plastic bottles. Best quality money can buy with a Lifetime warranty, in a range of colours and takes 1 min max to set up. Nakie are the number one selling recycled hammock company in the world and have made the bigger adventure wear companies stand up, take notice which has inadvertently called them to action, look at their own materials used in their hammocks and other products. A rising tide rates all boats.I talk about their humble start with the guys, the mistakes made, the manufacturing, the support from family, wearing multiple hats and what the future holds!

Xylon van Eyck is an entrepreneur , 2x Ironman, cancer survivor, speaker, advocator, coach and marketing guru. He wears many hats but his life experiences are nothing short of inspiring.Xylon about his cancer battle at 26 when he was seemingly onto of the world, the things we tell ourselves to get us through a moment in time and what happens 2 years later, when we are dealing with the issue at its core. We talk family, touch briefly on his growing up with fiercely independent woman in his life. Taking the cancer experience into his business career now and wanting to flip the cycling world on its head.

Dr shanna Mcclain is the Disasters Program Manager for NASA Earth Sciences Applied Sciences Division. We talked about being an academic, being the first in her family to go to college and to travel outside of America. We have an open discussion around woman in science and the societal pressure on woman, its really fascinating. We of course talk about NASA, her role there and her story from growing up in Florida to studying her PhD, suffering from depression, living abroad and climate change. A wide ranging conversation indeed!