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Stay Sparked #39 - "Conscious Consumption"
6 Plays2 years ago
In a world where every purchase choice involves plastic & pollution, how can we minimize the negative effects of our choices? Is the cost of convenience simply too much? And how can we know if what we do matters!?!?
HOSTS
BETSY FINKLEHOO is a healer of massage therapy, CranioSacral and Dharma Coaching. She is an 8 year burner and has spent the last several years seeped in the personal development world, cultivating her passion for transformation and growth. Her recent project, The Power Affirmation Journal and virtual group empowers women to cultivate self awareness and healthy habits so they can live in greater freedom, mind body and spirit.
http://poweraffirmation.com/
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HALCYON is full-time Love Ambassador. He is the founder of Hug Nation YouTube channel and daily zoom gratitude circles. He is co-founder of the Pink Heart Burning Man camp and the 1st Saturdays project for people experiencing homelessness. In his free time he coaches individuals on how to live joyfully and authentically. His other podcast is "Hard on the 80's."
http://JohnStyn.com
JANUS REDMOON is a 10-time Burner, and has spent the last several years as an advocate for psychedelic medicine research and treatment. He is the founder and CEO of NuWorld Nutritionals, a nutritional supplement company providing mushroom-based, all-natural products to improve and maintain health for both body and mind. (Use code "SPARKED" for 10% off)
http://www.nuworldnutritionals.com
MASSIVE Thank you to Dub Sutra for their beautiful opening music. Check out their incredible music catalogue online.
https://dubsutra.com
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Focus
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Welcome to Stay Sparked.
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On this show, we explore how to stay inspired in the modern world through the most profound lessons from Burning Man, relationships, entrepreneurship, psychedelics, spirituality, travel, and more.
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On today's episode, we talk about conscious consumption.
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And we talk about what we can do about doing our part to be mindful in this era of late-stage capitalism.
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We get to touch on topics around plastic, fast fashion, and the ways that our dollars can make a difference in the world.
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Enjoy the episode.
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Welcome to Stay Sparked.
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We are three longtime friends who have been inspiring each other for over a decade.
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So we are here now to share conversations aimed to inspire and light you up.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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If you've been enjoying these conversations, we appreciate you leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and please share to help spread the sparks.
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I'm Giannis.
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I'm Betsy.
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And I'm Halcyon.
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And we have a review to share from my side of paradise.
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It says this podcast helps me stay connected to the magic and get a deeper sense and understanding of what burning man is to me and how I can apply the energy of the burn to my life.
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Great conversations that are really fun to listen to.
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Thank you.
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Side of paradise.
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We appreciate that.
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Thank you.
Gratitude and Positive Vibes
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So we like to start off our conversations with a little bit of gratitude.
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It's a good way to start the day.
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So Halcyon, what are you feeling grateful for in this moment?
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I saw a play last night, a musical, the Hunter S. Thompson Unauthorized Untitled Musical.
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And I'm super grateful for the experience of live performance art.
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It was beautiful and funny and touching.
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I cried and still thinking about it.
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So I'm just feeling very grateful for all the work and effort of all the artists involved in pieces like that.
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Nice.
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That's a very good thing.
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Betsy, what about you?
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I too am grateful for music.
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I've been on this journey of experiencing a diversity of music.
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I got to go to Bhakti Fest, which was lots of kirtan and spiritual music.
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And then I went to Troubadour, which was lots of live music and strings.
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And then I went to an event that was all DJs.
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And so it's just really amazing how the diversity of music brings people together.
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And I'm just lit up from all the dancing too.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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That's fun.
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Love, love, love and music myself.
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I am grateful this morning for
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Our cats, they have gotten to be over the last week really lovey, much more so than usual.
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And this might be connected to the fact that my partner and I are having a baby in about a month, month and a half.
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Maybe they maybe they're shifting and sensing that there's new life coming in.
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But for whatever reason, they have been super lovey cats like rubbing up against us, which is amazing.
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I mean, they're cool cats, but they haven't been the most lovey cats, but they are super lovey, and it seems like it's kind of shifting their personality.
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So that's definitely a lot of fun.
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Yeah, yeah, Betsy, you're welcome to join the kitty brigade over here, Betsy.
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Yeah, come cuddle.
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Nice.
What is Conscious Consumption?
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So we are today discussing...
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Conscious consumption.
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Now, that looks like, you know, with kind of the state of the world, what does that mean to be a conscious consumer?
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What is within our capabilities to affect change?
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How do we feel about that?
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So it's a pretty full spectrum topic, and we're going to try to
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you know cover cover at least three bases of it for a bunch for each post um betsy um you were inspired to bring this uh bring this topic up so let's start with you what's uh what's going on for you in this realm yeah
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Well, to give our listeners a little peek behind the scenes around how we choose topics.
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So the three of us, we record weekly and usually a couple days beforehand, we just see where the inspiration comes from.
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And this was a topic that kind of popped up or sparked for me this last weekend.
Fast Fashion and Consumer Choices
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because I was at an event and we were having this really wonderful experience of celebrating and, you know, everybody's wearing these amazing outfits.
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And I was talking to this woman who was sharing with me how she discovered this website that is basically promoting fast fashion, which I think most people are familiar with that term at this stage.
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But if not, fast fashion is basically a
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very inexpensively made clothing that you can order online from overseas that you can get, you know, 12 outfits for $100, you know, everything is under $20.
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And essentially, it really promotes like trend consciousness, right?
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So in trends move so fast.
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And the concept of it is really contributing to a lot of waste, unfortunately.
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There is just so much clothing in the world now so that you can see mountains of it from a satellite.
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I don't know if you guys have seen these images from outer space, but there's certain places in the world where there's just like huge mountains of materials, of clothing waste.
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Not only do we have the plastic in the ocean,
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right, the garbage patch that people have been tending to and cleaning up over some years, but now it's also clothing.
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And so it really got me into a deep contemplation around that, right?
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How do we each do our own part?
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And does it make a difference?
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And so I got into a really great conversation with my friend about it.
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And, you know, it was bringing up lots
Do Individual Actions Matter?
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of different things.
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And so I wanted to kind of unpack this conversation with you guys here to, you know, really
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really contemplate and consider how does each of our
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individual buying power make a difference?
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And is it making a difference in the grand scheme of things?
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Because I personally struggle with that at times, you know, if I'm making a difference, simply by going to the thrift store and purchasing from, you know, reused and trying my best to do that, well, you know, 100 other people are doing the fast fashion is my unique,
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process going to make a difference?
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I hope so.
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I really, really hope so.
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Is it like going and shopping at the farmer's market and buying from the farmers going to make a difference when, you know, there's hundreds and hundreds of other people that are buying from
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the grocery stores and plastic bins, you know, so that's where I sort of struggle with.
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I, every day I try to, you know, consider, okay, I am making a positive difference.
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And the more, the, the more that each of us do that, then it starts to rise.
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So yeah, I'm really curious around your guys' thoughts on that.
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And, you know, is our individual actions making a difference?
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Man.
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Well, I, I,
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I would love to touch on the, you know, does it matter first?
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And then we can dig into like some of the things that we do and can do.
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Because I mean, the, that does it matter what we do is, is so core to our experience as a human being.
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And I think it, it, it's with, with,
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fast fashion, with conscious choices, with our words and our actions.
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I mean, there's so much of our life.
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And I think for me, if you get caught up in trying to figure out how you can play a part in fixing the world,
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you will give up.
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That project is too big.
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That project is impossible to fix.
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So if you get caught in that place of like, well, if not everybody's doing it, this isn't gonna work, you're eventually gonna be discouraged.
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And so to me, it has to be like, what choices can I make so I feel good about the way that I am living this lifetime?
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And that's it.
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You know, like if, if at the end of my life, the world is worse off than it was, but I moved the dial in for my, my impact was better.
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I got to consider that a win.
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And it's otherwise it's, I
Practices of Mindful Consumption
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don't know how you go on.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And that's pretty much would have been my take on it, which Halston spoke, spoke so eloquently about it.
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My own process with that is very similar in that,
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seeing it just how much work needs to be done and what am I capable of doing?
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Are my efforts really helping?
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I'm not going to get a boat and lead a fleet out to the middle of the ocean to clean up garbage.
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So it's my recycling efforts and my upcycling efforts, my
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efforts to reduce and reuse, is that all going to make a difference?
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It makes a difference to me.
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And I think that's as far as we need to kind of look and just, you know, the whole like think globally, act locally, you know, kind of thing and really bring it home.
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really, you know, bring it home and with my own actions, like we've, you know, like I mentioned before, my partner and I are having a baby and we have made a conscious decision that we're not going to do any plastic toys.
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Um, you know, we might have to do Legos down, down the road.
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So, because we, we love the, you know, whole Lego stomping, you know, um, obstacle course, uh, idea, but other,
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But other than that, it's going to be all like wooden types of things and books and so on and so forth.
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And that just feels good to us.
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We're really conscious about the amount of plastic that we're using.
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And yeah, unless a large amount of people are doing that, the difference might not be so great.
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But...
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that helps us to feel good about what we're doing and how we're showing up in the world.
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And I don't think that can be overstated, like how we feel about ourselves and how we're showing up.
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And even if we only inspire one other person to kind of be mindful and considerate of their usage, their consumption, then that's a win as well.
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So I feel like just keeping it, you know, keeping it local because there's a lot of things where –
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Okay, I'm going to get an electric car.
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I'm going to get a hybrid car.
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And that's going to help cut emissions when other countries across the ocean are pumping in all this carbon.
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And so I was like, is my difference going to make a difference?
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Well, yeah.
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Yeah, because it ultimately affects how I feel about how I'm showing up in the world.
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And that alone makes it worth it.
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Yeah, I love that so much, Yanis.
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Right, right, because how we feel internally does make a difference,
Lessons from Burning Man on Consumption
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right?
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I know personally I've had moments where that guilt just like feels so awful.
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I'll give you an example on how to shift.
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So I love this little taco place and they have the most amazing salsas, this little salsa bar.
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And the way that you get the salsa is in these little plastic cups, right?
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And each customer comes over
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and gets like four or five or more, right?
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And every time I go over, I'm like, oh God, I get this like tension inside.
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I want the salsa, but I hate all the plastic, you know?
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And so after going multiple times, I started to actually bring my own little Tupperware.
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And so last time I went there, I used it and I felt this sense of relaxation in my body.
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I felt grateful.
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And then it was so funny what happened because this guy that was behind me, he was like, oh, wow, you brought your own thing for the salsa.
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He's like, I always feel so guilty, but I don't know what to do.
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And he's like, thank you for bringing that because now I can start to think about bringing my own to fill it up.
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And I was like, oh, good, okay.
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So maybe that did make a little difference.
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You know, if there's one person and then who knows, maybe he starts to bring it and then there's a couple people that see him that bring his own to-go container.
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Same thing with like,
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you know, carrying a Tupperware or to-go container in the car, just making sure there's always an empty, clean one for every time that I go out.
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I try to make sure to bring that so that way I'm not having to use, you know, the to-go containers.
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So those little efforts can sometimes bring that sense of,
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okay, like I don't have to carry that, the weight of my own personal guilt for contributing to the problem.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I love that example.
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That's so great.
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Because one of the ideas that really guides me is focusing on the direction, not the distance.
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You know, are you making actions in the direction of the change that you want?
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as opposed to focusing on how much change is needed.
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You know, because if you are trying to, you know, reduce or you're trying to stop littering or stop, you know, trash, that's not gonna work.
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You know, at the end of the day, every day that you go out there trying to pick up trash, you failed.
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Every day you fail at the end of the day.
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But if instead you say, did I pick up some trash today?
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Then every day is a victory and every day is a win.
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and you can just feel good.
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And then maybe somebody sees you picking up trash.
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Maybe somebody sees you with that Tupperware.
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And so to me, the way to find peace in this process is to... That good feeling is, can I find a victory in this, in aligning myself more to a sense of peace?
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You know, and we just continually do that like, oh, and that's something that we used to be fine with, you know, eventually like, oh, this doesn't feel good.
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I can remember buying.
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I would get deliveries to my apartment every week of a case of one use water bottles because that was the way that helped me drink the most water.
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until I realized, oh boy, this isn't good.
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And it started to feel bad once I realized, you know, I learned more in it.
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You know, you know better, do better.
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I think it's Maya Angelou.
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And I think that, so then you just keep adjusting, keep adjusting.
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And then the direction is what guides you.
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Mm, know better, do better.
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I love that so much.
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That's all about the awareness, right?
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Because if we don't have the awareness, I'll bring back the fast fashion piece.
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If we don't understand and have that awareness of what is actually happening, where does clothing come from?
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You know, where is it going to go?
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Then we're just going to go, oh, this is cheap and it's easy.
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But then when we start to see that, oh, maybe there's a, you know, a 10 year old
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that's making this clothing and that's why it's so cheap.
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Then it's like, Ooh, I'm not gonna buy that.
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You know, we start to cultivate that awareness, then we choose differently.
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And then also I want to, um, I want to just bring it back to Burning Man, right?
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Because the three of us are, you know, avid burners.
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We've learned so much.
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That is the common thread here in this, in this conversation.
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Burning Man has taught me so much about consumption.
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because it really is required to consume, buy things for the adventure to the playa.
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We have to be able to have what we need.
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And also when we're out there, we start to look at how our consumption is.
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So I'll give one of the biggest things I've learned from being out there is with water.
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so learning how to use water more mindfully while out there versus just like you know turning the tap on and just feeling that there's this abundant stream and so over the years i've started to learn much more about where our water comes from right here we are in california our water is coming from colorado
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It comes from very, very far away.
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And so it has started to give me this a different experience of every time I turn the tap on or when I take a shower, you know, to be able to consider how far this water has come versus just like not even being mindful anymore.
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And so thank you, Burning Man, for reminding me to pay attention to where my things come from and learning how to consume in a different capacity.
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Yeah, I have a similar appreciation for Burning Man in that regard because that's in place where you are bringing back everything that you
Plastic Use Challenges and Solutions
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bring with you.
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So yeah, I can bring a case of like plastic water bottles, but that all has to come back with me.
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And it's just like, I kind of was told that before my very first time.
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So I was mindful, but even going, you know, going subsequently my trips to Burning Man, I was very mindful.
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Like, okay, a case of Gatorade is not,
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What I need is a powder that I can mix into the water.
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And then I can bring all these five gallon or one gallon water jugs.
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No, I need to bring a five gallon jug and do that.
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So it definitely got me thinking.
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And then also realizing, okay, that works out there.
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That also works out here.
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That also works in the default world.
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So instead of getting water delivered, I would just go pick up like a five gallon jug.
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make use of that, you know, a glass jug.
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And again, yeah, it's, it's a little more expensive to get a 50 gallon glass jug, but that beats the plastic.
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And then there's the, the leaching of the plastic is something to remember with plastic.
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It's not good for you.
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Like, it's not good to have stuff that is that you're eating that is in plastic.
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I just saw an article recently that was like, you have to, the title of the article was, you have to stop microwaving plastic.
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And by like science, like, you know, journal or something like something like a legit resource was like, we have to stop doing this.
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And it's like, yeah, people have been saying that for quite a while.
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But to see this in the mainstream.
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Uh, you know, it's a different kind of thing.
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So, so these, you know, these mindful actions when it comes to, you know, how we live in the world, they are picking up.
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And, you know, when I see, when I see things like that, I do get a little bit inspired.
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It's like, okay, it's like people are, are getting hip to the point that it's actually making headlines in like mainstream publications.
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So this is, so this is a good thing.
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Um, yeah, absolutely.
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I know I personally love to drink out of glass.
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Yeah.
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Mm hmm.
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Yeah, it's my favorite.
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You know, and you know, you're really sparking something here for me to around our purchasing power.
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Right?
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If you if more and more of us use our dollars to vote, right?
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If you buy that
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the glass over the plastic, or if we're spending our money at farmers markets, or we're, we're buying in a different way, then the, the company start to hear what we want.
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Right.
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It kind of goes back to the, um, I think McDonald's started selling green juice because that's what people were wanting.
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You know, I was like, oh, wow, that's like, that's a pretty big deal.
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You know?
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So the more of us that use our,
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take action with our dollars and what we're actually wanting to buy, then there's going to be more of that.
Driving Change with Purchasing Power
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If we put money in an industry that we don't support and believe in, then that's not actually going to make a difference.
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But if we put money in the direction of the companies that are doing really good for the world, then that may actually start to make a difference.
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Yeah.
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And I think that's a really important thing to remember because often those companies have to charge more.
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you know, because they are to do things in the morally ideal ways is more expensive.
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And so you, if you remind yourself that as you spend more, you know, as you, when you see the Dr. Bronner's soap, and then there's a new cheap knockoff one, you go, well, this one's cheaper, but I know that Bronner's is doing everything they can to be conscious with, with their decisions.
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Like they just, they're now doing a cardboard refill things so that you don't even have to get their plastic bottles anymore.
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i just saw that now but and so i think that that uh when that's something i struggle with is i have old patterns of
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save money, save money, save money, save money, save money, you know?
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And, and so I have to go, wait a minute, is there another aspect to this decision that I can find some satisfaction or peace with beyond just the, yeah, cheap as possible.
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You know, if I can go, oh no, actually this feels good because I'm voting.
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I'm saying I want more of this in the world, which is, that's a, it's a struggle for me and for anybody that is trying to balance their, their checkbook.
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Just breathing with that one.
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That's a big one.
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I wanted to say one thing about the, you know, the benefit of going to Burning Man and having all your access to your convenience removed.
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It really is helpful to be, it helps you become aware of where's your water come from?
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Where does your food come from?
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What are you gonna do with this packaging?
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Because especially in an urban environment, there's so much convenience that you really,
00:21:58
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Like where does water come from?
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The faucet.
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Where does meat come from?
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The grocery store.
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Like you really are disconnected from the world.
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And it becomes easier and easier to make decisions purely out of convenience.
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I was talking with my partner, Lisa, and she said that when she lived in a rural area in Big Sur,
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the roads, she had to pay every time she used the road.
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And it really made her aware of like, well, everything I do has impact, everything.
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And so you start to make your decisions based on the ripples of impact that you do.
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But when you're in your house and ordering from Amazon, God, are we going to talk about Amazon?
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Because, oh, boy, I have a lot of shame about that.
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You know, it's like so convenient.
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You have to bring to front of mind the other factors in order to kind of convince yourself like it's not worth it.
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Yeah.
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And I feel compelled to address what some people might have gone, gone to mentally.
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When we talked about Burning Man and how to be conscious about our water usage and things like that.
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And I can, I just hear the, I can, I can almost hear the peanut gallery and in my mind being like, if you were that, if you were that concerned, maybe you wouldn't go to Burning Man in the first place.
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Ouch.
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Oh yeah.
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There's a big discussion about that online.
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That's a different, that's a different conversation.
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And I, I'm happy to participate in that conversation.
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I think we have before we have before we will again, I'm sure.
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But yeah, but it brings to mind like, okay, so.
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In this era of late stage capitalism, like what, what can we do and what is, what is worth doing?
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I feel like we've all heard the revelation, I guess you'd say like, okay, so just so you know, like your recycling is not actually getting recycled.
00:23:51
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It's like,
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What?
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And yeah, that's that's like a whole thing and how like we were under the assumption like our stuff is getting separated at the at the plant and all this stuff.
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And turns out not so much.
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So.
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That's so infuriating.
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And it's worse than just that knowledge because it starts to make you really get that doesn't matter.
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Or am I just be giving these options?
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Is this like a knob and a dial that doesn't do anything, but it just keeps me busy and makes me feel like I'm doing something?
00:24:25
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Well, you know what it brings up for me?
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I have chills right now feeling it.
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It's like, there's that like,
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that anger, that frustration that we've been lied to, and I've been thinking I'm doing a good thing, but I'm not.
00:24:39
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Well, using that fuel for new positive solutions.
00:24:44
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You know, like I actually saw a really great ad for this new type of laundry detergent because, you know, the laundry detergent bottles for a long time have been this big, huge jug, thick plastic, right?
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And a lot of these companies are now making tablets.
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you know, that come in a paper box or a small bag, you know, and the ad was actually about that.
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And it was like showing all these jugs.
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And this woman was like, so mad.
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And she's like, but guess what?
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We'll find a way.
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Here's a new solution.
00:25:16
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Right.
00:25:16
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And so that's what I want to keep focusing on is new solutions and purchasing from that place to shampoo companies are doing that now.
00:25:25
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toothpaste companies are doing that now.
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A lot of the packaging companies are finding new solutions.
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And it's up to us to put forth the effort to find those companies and support them, put our dollars into them and start to do life in a different way.
00:25:41
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Right.
00:25:42
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There's also another really great, um,
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a store here in Encinitas called the Nada Shop.
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And I've been seeing them pop up around.
00:25:51
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I don't think it's the same name, but there's basically refill shops, right?
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This store has like huge barrels of laundry soap that you come and you just bring your bottle.
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They've got the huge barrels of all the things that you can get in bulk.
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And it's just such a great concept because then we're not having to get a new bottle every single
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time.
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All the cleaners that we get, all of the things that we keep in our house that we need, we can just keep refilling and finding ways to clean.
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duplicate.
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Right.
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So that's where like, I start to feel a deeper sense of hope and inspiration.
00:26:30
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New solutions are here.
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They're coming.
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It's up to me to find them and to, like you said, Halcyon be willing to invest.
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Right.
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Because right now, yeah, it might be a little bit more expensive to do it that way.
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But really, like, what do I care about?
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What am I committed to as the earth?
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Yeah.
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And as you said, I mean, it is really sending a message, you know, that the a corporation does not have the ability to make a decision based on what's right.
00:26:58
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It has to make a decision based on what the market is telling it to do.
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And I had an experience when I was working for a corporate company, we had a food delivery company.
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And one of our incentives was we wanted to do avoid having all that disposable throwaway packaging.
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You know, when you get like a meal delivery service, there's all this styrofoam and things.
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And so we invented a, a reusable cooler that would come to your door and you take the food out and we would pick it up the next day, like an old school milk bottle.
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Now I was filled with all this idealism and,
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And then when it came time to to manufacture it.
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We couldn't justify making in the US, we had to make it in China, where their laws are more lax and it was so much cheaper.
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And so that was frustrating.
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And then when we
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got time to do the food deliveries, there still was a certain amount of packaging and plastic that was required to satisfy health codes and things.
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And so there's this, but if a company knows that there are people out there that are speaking with their dollars saying, we're looking for these solutions, then that is the only way that a company can, can get their budgets in line that can convince their boards to make those decisions.
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I mean, there's some companies like Dr. Bronner's where they're privately run.
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And they can make a decision saying, we're going to do this based on our morals.
00:28:18
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And what's awesome is that more and more the market is saying, that's what we want.
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We're willing to pay more for that.
00:28:25
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And so when we have more and more examples of that, that starts to filter into the corporate cultures and communications, but it's, I can't underestimate or understate how much it is required for the market to see what we want.
00:28:42
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Yeah.
00:28:42
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Yeah, and there's a reason why this stuff is popping up.
00:28:45
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There's a storefront that has opened up near me, like the one Betsy mentioned, where they have these big barrels of laundry detergent and hand soap and shampoo and conditioner, all these other things that are eco-friendly, but it's all refill stations.
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And you can refill 20 different products.
00:29:06
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Yeah.
00:29:06
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And that store was not there five years ago.
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And there's a reason this is popping up is because there is a demand.
00:29:13
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They're not trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
00:29:17
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Like, these are business people who are like, no, this is something that is wanted.
00:29:22
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And I've seen multiple people, like maybe not a line going in and out there, but that place is always busy.
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So...
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So it's happening.
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Human civilization is not this static thing.
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It is always moving.
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It is always evolving in one direction or the other.
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And I feel, and it can sometimes be in two different directions at the same time, but I definitely feel like we are getting...
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We are moving to a place of more awareness, more consciousness about this sort of thing.
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So while it can be like a two steps forward, one step back, I do.
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I do just the evidence is there that we're we're trending up with awareness and with how we are consuming things.
00:30:04
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I was in I was in Sweden a few years ago.
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And.
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It's wild.
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Like throughout the country, I was in three major cities over the course of a month and kind of wild to see how pervasive the whole reusing and re recycling things like there was not a single store I went to that offered bags of any kind, paper or plastic.
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Like if you didn't have your bag, you're just like,
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And I'm the American who didn't know right away.
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And they're just like looked at me.
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And I had I bought a bunch of stuff.
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And it's at the end of the thing.
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And I figured I just figured there'd be a bag at the end of it.
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And there's nothing there.
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The guy in the checkers is looking at me just like shake his head.
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It's like, wow, would you like to purchase a bag?
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And I was like, yes, yes.
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And so and everybody's everybody's got a bag.
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And it's one of those things where.
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I'm starting to see some... There was a store recently that I saw around here that had a big sign, like, we do not offer bags, so please bring your own.
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It was like... I'm not sure even what kind of store it was, but I saw that and I was like, yes!
00:31:06
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It was starting to happen.
00:31:09
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Another thing, seeing a lot of natural gas buses, buses running on natural gas, more and more hybrid vehicles.
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We can talk about Tesla, how that's good or bad, but
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California, the freeways are just covered with like, I mean, every third or fourth car is an electric car.
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So, and, you know, they say like, you know, across the country, people are like, some people like, you know, California has got a varied rep depending on where, what state you're in, but it does tend to lead the way with the country.
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Like you see things here before you see in the rest of the country and you do see it in the rest of the country eventually.
00:31:45
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So I see, you know,
00:31:47
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Here in this country, we are definitely trending in a more conscious consumerism, you know, into an area of more conscious consumerism.
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So that is something that gives me, you know, gives me a large amount of hope, shall we say.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I love that.
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I feel like I want to add something that I've been seeing happening that's been really inspiring.
Clothing Exchanges and Community Reuse
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And I'm so grateful I've been a part of it for the last decade is clothing exchanges.
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Clothing exchanges really promote reusing and reducing the buying new
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and getting things into production or use more.
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I love clothing exchanges so much because it really does help to get these things that we have bought over the years to be used again and again and again.
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And one of the things I love about it and have learned about it too, instead of just donating your clothes to a thrift store or something, consignment or whatnot,
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when you put it into a clothing exchange, it's more likely it's going to get worn versus going to a thrift store because a thrift store, it might sit on the rack for a long, long time.
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And a lot of times those things just get put into the landfill.
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And one thing I've also learned too, there's certain organizations like Goodwill, they provide a lot of wonderful job opportunities for people.
00:33:12
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They do have some good things about their organization, but they also do waste a lot.
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So there's, you know, a lot of things that get donated don't actually get put on the shelves because they go right to the landfill.
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And so the clothing exchanges really provide not only that opportunity for recycling and reducing, but it also brings people together.
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It really kind of creates a sense of community.
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I know personally here where we've been doing it, it has been so fun.
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It has been so uplifting to the women that I know and love.
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I've seen men do it before too.
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It's just a really wonderful way to be able to
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continue to reinvent ourselves, right?
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Because we love new things.
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We love to be able to have, you know, the freshness of our closets and try new things.
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And it also helps us save money, right?
00:34:05
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Instead of having to go buy new clothes to feel a sense of newness in our wardrobe, we can actually
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lean into our community and get what we need.
00:34:15
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And I personally have experienced this now that I don't spend as much money on the basics of my clothes, then I can actually put the my money towards designers and local people that are making clothing that are going to be a little more expensive, but I'm not spending as much on all the other
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junk clothes from these, you know, malls or whatever.
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Not that I shop at malls, but I used to, you know, and so it's really, it feels so much more rewarding to me to be able to have that ability to buy from really amazing clothing designers and then get my other needs met through trading and exchanging and reusing in clothing exchanges.
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Yeah.
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That's awesome.
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I can't tell you how many times I have complimented a woman's outfit and had them say, I got this at one of Betsy's clothing swaps.
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And I think it's important to also recognize that it is
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wonderful to get things to goodwill rather than a landfill or at least try goodwill because you're right it's not um not everything gets taken and used and sold um but it it's the reduce reuse recycle idea you know that that if you can try not to assume that someone is going to want your discarded stuff
00:35:39
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Totally.
00:35:40
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Well, and you do something really great too, Halcyon.
00:35:42
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So the first Saturdays has been going for what?
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11 years?
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13.
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13 years, which is really beautiful because it's a way to contribute to people that are in need and taking certain donations, blankets and tents or socks, you know, nicely, lightly used things.
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You know, I had a experience recently where I was with somebody who does not think in that way.
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He is
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custom and conditioned and programmed to just throw things away.
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He was cleaning out his garage and he just put everything in the trash cans.
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And I was like, my heart just got so squeezed.
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And I was like, really?
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Like, you don't want to just, you know, take this to the landfill or to the donation.
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It's just going to go to the landfill.
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He's like, I just don't have time for that.
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And I'm like, what?
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You don't have time for that?
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What do you mean?
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He's like, I just, you know, I just don't, I don't care so much.
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And I was like, Oh my god, okay, well, can I take it out of your trash bin?
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And he's like, I mean, I guess if you want to.
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And it was a really hard conversation to have with this person.
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But then later,
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Like a couple months later, we had a conversation about it and he started going, you know what I realized, like I do need to start considering just it's not that hard.
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And then he ended up donating to, I think one of your charities or another homeless charity here in Southern California.
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And it was like, oh, okay.
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Because like not to to generalize, but far more women's clothing is donated than men's clothing to for Saturdays.
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You know, there's women from my observations, there is an.
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an easier time to buy, get rid of, buy, get rid of, whereas men seem to not donate quite
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as often.
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So if you've got some gently used men's clothing in San Diego, please reach out.
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I would love to redistribute it for you.
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I think some of that is attributed to, I think women in general like to kind of cycle through their closets a little bit.
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I think they're a little more mindful of like what they want to wear and what they feel like they're ready to let go of.
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It's like, I need to make some space for me.
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I know my partner is very much like, I'm looking to get rid of this, bringing something new.
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Like they're very, they're more mindful.
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Whereas me, I'm,
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I will hold on to something.
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It's going to fall off my body before I give it up.
00:38:15
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He's wearing a Thundercats t-shirt as he says that.
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Yeah.
00:38:20
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That's since you were like 13 or what?
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Yeah.
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Well, it's like I had one that fell off my body and then I replaced it with another one that is going to fall off my body soon.
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So, but yeah, it's important when we,
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we approach this kind of thing, you know, there's a saying that goes something along the lines like, do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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And so if we can't do something the way we feel that it could be done or should be done perfectly, don't let that prevent us from doing something.
00:38:50
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The fact that, you know, things might not get recycled.
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It's like, well, you know, some of it is going to get recycled.
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Maybe not all of it, maybe, but some of it will.
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So that should not prevent us from making the attempt.
00:39:03
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Yeah, so we can, you know, do what we can and we should do something.
00:39:07
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It's like, oh, I just don't have the time for it.
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It's like, well, you have time.
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You're going to spend your time doing something.
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Right, exactly.
00:39:14
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Yeah, you know, the little things that we can do can make a big difference.
00:39:18
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You know, if we all do little things like I'm going to give an example, I, you know, have seen people throw a great pair of pants away because the button fell off.
00:39:30
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It's like, wow, okay, learn how to sew a button.
00:39:35
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The little thing and that can make a big difference in your life and in the world and might not seem like it, you know, but when we can
00:39:43
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really put into practice these little things that we can continue to make that difference, whether that's donating to a charity or choosing to look at our options in the grocery store based on how much plastic there is, right?
00:40:02
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I love doing that actually in the grocery store when I'm shopping.
00:40:06
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I make my decisions based on the packaging.
00:40:10
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You know that because oftentimes there's certain things that have like a lot more packaging than others.
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I'm like, okay, you know, I'm going to choose to buy something that is less plastic or that's in the cardboard instead, you know, and those little things that we each make those little changes every day.
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In every way, it's an affirmation for you every day in every way, I am making positive decisions on using my purchasing power to make this world a better place.
00:40:36
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Little things can make a big difference, you know, and also, you know, using some of that fire for fuel.
00:40:42
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If there's frustration around certain things, then, okay, I'm going to start to make a difference in my own life by bringing that container or by going to a thrift store or, you know, finding a new way to do something.
00:40:58
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, I feel like there's probably a lot more that we can touch on, like different things that we can do.
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But we're coming to the close.
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So I'd love to close it up with some sparks and also make an invitation to you guys out there listening.
Community Sharing and Inspiration
00:41:13
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If there's little things that you're doing, let us know.
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Share in the...
00:41:18
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in the comments on the youtube channel or send a little message to us individually or on our facebook post we love having this content this conversation continue so what are the things that you are doing that uh that makes you feel really good about your conscious consumption i love it indeed so um yeah well how do we uh
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In that regard, Betsy, how can we find you out in the world?
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I got a closing spark.
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I got a closing spark.
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It's burning in me.
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I got to share this closing
Balancing Consumption Impact
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spark.
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Yeah, I can see it.
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It's a fan in your claims.
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Oh, shit.
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So this topic brings me to something I think about often, which is that there is this spectrum of
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that we have to find our sweet spot on in terms of the impact that we have in the world, how much negative and positive impact we have.
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And I think about on one end, there's a faith called Jainism, and they are people who wear a mask so that they don't accidentally inhale an insect in their mouth.
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They sweep in front of them so that they don't step on anything in front of them.
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They only take fruit that falls from a tree.
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They don't pick it.
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They don't eat something like salary that would kill the plant.
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The absolute least impact you could have on the planet.
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And then on the far other side is someone who's like throwing their beer bottles in the ocean and throwing their cigarettes out the window and just doesn't give a fuck.
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And I think that to me, all the way on the Janus side, it feels like
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a martyrdom.
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It feels like a sacrifice of the experience of being a human.
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And it's like not, I think it's squandering the conscious experience we have to be alive.
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So where can we find ourselves on that spectrum where we feel good?
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And I think that that place changes, you know, as you learn more about fast fashion as plastic bottles, you start to go, oh, you know what, this doesn't feel good anymore.
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I need to change my behavior.
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And you witness someone else doing, having, bringing their salsa container and you go, you know what?
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Now it doesn't feel good to take that plastic anymore.
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And so you just find the place that feels good to you and, and just focus on the direction you're going at the distance.
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Yeah.
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Well said.
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Well said.
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Sure.
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So yeah, my, my closing spark is
Emotional Benefits of Living Mindfully
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yeah.
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Just looking around, looking around my place,
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I can see like we've taken, we've taken the steps to, to reduce our consumption and to live more mindfully and reduce our use of plastic and things like that.
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And that is something that no matter what is going on in my day, there's, there's something like that's kind of sits in the background that makes me feel that makes me feel good.
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That inspires me to know that my partner and I are,
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are living in a way that feels good.
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And there's all sorts of things that can be like, oh, that's, you know, this, this part of life is a downer, but this other part of life we're like handling to the best of our ability.
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And that is something that, you know, I can wake up into and feel good about, and I can go to sleep at night feeling good about, you know,
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our impact on the world and that we are actually mindful about that and so you know all we're you know i think all any of us are trying to do is be happy in this world and there are little these little victories like that that can really inspire and inspire us to to know that we're we're we're doing good in some way and some ways are bigger some ways are smaller and so
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You know, the idea that there's no, you know, no true altruism.
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Like the things we do, we always, we do most things because we want to feel good.
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And this is something that we feel good about.
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And regardless of the impact of the, of it, that it has on the planet, we feel good about it.
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So we do it.
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If it feels good, do it.
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Yeah.
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And I'll, I'll share one last spark too.
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It's just that moment where I have my finger over the button thinking about purchasing that easy little click.
Mindful Purchasing Decisions
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Checking in.
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Is this something that I really need?
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Where's this coming from?
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And where is it going to go?
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Really taking a moment to pause before just order, order, order, order.
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Checking in, checking in, checking in.
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Yeah, mindfulness matters.
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Mindfulness matters.
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Yeah.
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Thank you guys.
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I'm feeling sparked.
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I love you guys so much.
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So grateful to have this conversation with you guys and love to just close it up with ways that we, you guys out there can find us.
Closing and Listener Connection
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So I'll just share.
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You guys can find me on my website, poweraffirmation.com.
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I love helping people to get into right relationship with themselves using journaling, meditation, affirmations, gratitude.
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I do online coaching.
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I also do in-person sessions, body work, energy work, sound healing.
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And you can also find more of my stuff on Insight Timer.
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You can hear some wonderful affirmations and of course on all the socials.
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So get in touch.
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Awesome, Betsy.
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You can find me at johnstyn.com, J-O-H-N-S-T-Y-N.
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And that has things like gratitude circles that are every day that I would love to invite you to.
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It also, I'm a little ashamed to say, has a t-shirt store.
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So please don't buy any t-shirts unless you're sure you're going to wear them.
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They're awesome, but you know.
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But if you do have too many t shirts, there's also a link there to first Saturdays, which is my outreach for people experiencing homelessness.
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And if you're ever in San Diego, you can bring down a bag of your extra stuff and we can make it make it a gift for someone else.
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And this this is the first week of the month.
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So you get first Saturdays coming up.
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Yeah.
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That's right.
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This Saturday.
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All right.
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All right, people.
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People, you got to go.
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You got a week's notice.
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Get on it.
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So my offering to the world is a nutritional supplement company called New World Nutritionals, spelled N-U-World Nutritionals dot com.
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And we have products designed to elevate your state of mind and help improve.
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improve symptoms of conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, even, and all sorts of neurological ailments, dementia, Parkinson's, things like that.
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I'm getting a lot of good results with a lot of, a lot of people and getting good reviews that, that definitely get my day sparked to see those new, new reviews.
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And it's good to, good to be helping people in the world.
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So feel free to check it out at new world nutritionals.com.
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You can use code sparked for 10% off of all of our products.
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It's a great way to practice using your dollar to vote for what you want more of in the world.
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Indeed.
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And definitely helps with mindfulness.
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I will say for sure.
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First hand knowledge of that.
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And that's, that's the feedback I'm getting as well.
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So Betsy, bring us home with a pertinent affirmation for today.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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All right.
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So closing the eyes, taking a nice deep breath.
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repeating these affirmations,
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I am mindful, I am mindful.
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I practice mindfulness in my purchasing power.
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I practice mindfulness in my purchasing power.
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I consciously consume, I consciously consume.
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I am making the world a better place with the choices I make every day.
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I am making the world a better place with the choices I make every day.
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I am making the world a better place with the choices I make every day.
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And so it is.
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Thank you all for showing up to make this world a better place every day and every way and little ways and big ways.
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So grateful to be here with you guys.
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Thank you for listening.
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Stay sparked.
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Stay sparked, people.