What does it mean to live, eat and work for the future?
To some, this may mean that we need to pay attention to what we are doing today and how it impacts our future selves.
But it could also be about how we address the environmental and ecological issues of what we do today that could have a broad impact on our collective tomorrows. As my guest, Donna Maltz, put it: if we don’t address the disposable nature of today, we won’t have a good tomorrow.
Sure, there are certain ways that every now and then we all need plastics and disposable containers. But can we limit how much we consume of those materials?
The more we can focus on the future while we live, eat and work today, we may see a better future ahead.
Donna is happy to provide us with her “Soil to Soul Blueprint” when you go to https://donnamaltz.kartra.com/page/FREEGIFT
Life & business intersect in many places. After all, we cannot have a business without looking at the human component of business.
This podcast with Jennifer R Glass, CEO of Business Growth Strategies International & BGSICoaching.com is all about the meaning of life and business & the interesting ways they intersect. The show is for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs on the search for what makes people successful and how to get there themselves.
Listen in as Jennifer & her guests dive deep into what makes people tick & how they make their businesses work for the betterment of others.
What does it mean to live, eat and work for the future?
To some, this may mean that we need to pay attention to what we are doing today and how it impacts our future selves.
But it could also be about how we address the environmental and ecological issues of what we do today that could have a broad impact on our collective tomorrows. As my guest, Donna Maltz, put it: if we don’t address the disposable nature of today, we won’t have a good tomorrow.
Sure, there are certain ways that every now and then we all need plastics and disposable containers. But can we limit how much we consume of those materials?
The more we can focus on the future while we live, eat and work today, we may see a better future ahead.
Donna is happy to provide us with her “Soil to Soul Blueprint” when you go to https://donnamaltz.kartra.com/page/FREEGIFT
About my guest: Donna Maltz is a bestselling author, TEDx speaker, talk show host, and professional Nature photographer. Since 1980, she has been a serial eco-entrepreneur and a certified health coach for over a decade. After falling hard 20 years ago, she cracked the code to help herself and others prioritize success. She learned the key to true success is knowing that; Health is your greatest wealth, time is your most meaningful currency, and that by prioritizing health, family, and business – in that order, you will succeed. Donna offers holistic retreats and culinary classes at her farmstead kitchen on the Big Island of Hawaii. She also offers live virtual cooking classes. Donna is actively writing, teaching, and coaching others to gain health, lose toxins, and build a life they can be proud of by living, eating, and working like the future matters, being a SOULutionest. Her books, coaching, and mentorship have inspired thousands of eco-entrepreneurs. She lives on the Big Island of Hawaii with her sweet hubby and a bevy of animals on a beautiful farmstead retreat. Her motto is “Why Retire When I can Inspire.”
Connect with Donna on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and on the web at https://donnamaltz.com. You can also check out Donna’s podcast at https://anchor.fm/donnamaltz.
About my guest: Donna Maltz is a bestselling author, TEDx speaker, talk show host, and professional Nature photographer. Since 1980, she has been a serial eco-entrepreneur and a certified health coach for over a decade. After falling hard 20 years ago, she cracked the code to help herself and others prioritize success. She learned the key to true success is knowing that; Health is your greatest wealth, time is your most meaningful currency, and that by prioritizing health, family, and business – in that order, you will succeed. Donna offers holistic retreats and culinary classes at her farmstead kitchen on the Big Island of Hawaii. She also offers live virtual cooking classes. Donna is actively writing, teaching, and coaching others to gain health, lose toxins, and build a life they can be proud of by living, eating, and working like the future matters, being a SOULutionest. Her books, coaching, and mentorship have inspired thousands of eco-entrepreneurs. She lives on the Big Island of Hawaii with her sweet hubby and a bevy of animals on a beautiful farmstead retreat. Her motto is “Why Retire When I can Inspire.”
Connect with Donna on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and on the web at https://donnamaltz.com. You can also check out Donna’s podcast at https://anchor.fm/donnamaltz.
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Jennifer Glass: Hello, and welcome to another episode of MOJO: The Meaning of Life and Business.
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Jennifer Glass: A lot of people think that it’s today that they’re working for.
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Jennifer Glass: or maybe they’re working for tomorrow.
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Jennifer Glass: But the thing that many people
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Jennifer Glass: start dreaming about is the future. But they’re not thinking about it in the same kind of way that other people really need to be thinking about, and it’s a
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Jennifer Glass: unique skill to really be thinking about the future as opposed to dreaming about the future. And so we’ve got a really interesting conversation coming up your way today, as we really start to figure out what it means to live work and eat for the future.
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Jennifer Glass: and I’ve got a really great guest on the show today. But before I bring her on, let me tell you a little bit about her. So you know why she’s such a great guest.
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Jennifer Glass: Donna Maltz is a bestselling author. TedX Speaker, talk show host
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Jennifer Glass: and professional nature photographer. Since 1980 she’s been a serial eco-entrepreneur, and a certified health coach for over a decade
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Jennifer Glass: after following her 20 years ago she cracked the code to help herself and others prioritize success.
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Jennifer Glass: She learned the key to true successes, knowing that health is your greatest wealth.
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Jennifer Glass: Time is your most meaningful currency, and that by by prioritizing health, family, and business in that order you’re going to succeed.
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Jennifer Glass: Donna actively writes, teaches and coaches others to gain health, lose toxins and build a light they can be proud of by living, eating, and working life like the future matters
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Jennifer Glass: being a solutionist, her books. Coaching and mentorship inspired thousands of eco-entrepreneurs
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Jennifer Glass: living on a Big Island of Hawaii
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Jennifer Glass: she’s got a bevy of animals on a beautiful farmstead, retreat there and her motto is, “Why retire when I can inspire”, which is an absolutely incredible motto, Donna, Thank you so much for being my guest, and welcome to the show.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Honor to be here. Thank you so much for having me. I’m ready to dive in with you and to help everybody live, work, and eat like the future matters
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Jennifer Glass: great.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: awesome.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: great. Show me, too.
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Jennifer Glass: Thank you. So, Donna. Let me ask you, when we talk about
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Jennifer Glass: living like the future matters.
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Jennifer Glass: What exactly should that mean to people. And there’s a lot of different ways that somebody may be thinking about it. So I just want to frame their perspective as we start this conversation.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: That is so awesome. Great way to start. Okay, there’s many things, some
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to get people thinking about living like the future matters, but because I have something physical here to show you. A friend of ours made this for me
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: almost 40 years ago this mug.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and in this mug i’m drinking some
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: organic coffee.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Sometimes it’s organic and Fair trade.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So when I reach for this versus this is versus going to a coffee shop
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and getting a paper cup even, or a styrofoam cup. God forbid!
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I have to ask myself where that coffee came from. Is it
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: organic fair trade?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Where is the waste from my paper going my plastic going
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: the sugar in the syrup from
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to make it
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: an egg not like
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It’s so groovy to go up to the coffee counter and say, I want to have that blah blah blah blah with a shot of this and a shot of that in that grande size in that paper
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: cup with plastic lid and little stirrer. Is that
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: living like the future matters? Or is it being home? And if you are going to drink coffee, having almost like a ceremonial cup or something that feels good in your hand that somebody loving made for you, that you’re gonna care for like the future matters 40 years later.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So that’s just kind of a metaphor for the whole thing, and then you can take that for how you share words with your children.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: or your clients, or your colleagues, how you show up each and every day with the words that you speak, the energy that you give out. Is this
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because I’m feeling angry at something that happened at home, and I bring it into the office.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and then it ripples into the effect of somebody else’s
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: at the office, and then they bring it home.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Is is that
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: living like a few matters? If you’re bringing negativity
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: versus bringing in positivity, bringing in a gift for everybody, giving everybody a smile for someone who might be down, who can then bring it home into their family and bring happiness home.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So it’s a choice we make, and as far out as we want to go, whether it’s
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: all all this buzz about alternative energy.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: When you look at lithium batteries and
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: recharging everything a lifestyle that’s unattainable and really unsustainable for most of the world to go into renewable
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: like we’re, doing and not thinking of the consequences that are going to end up.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: probably worse than the byproduct of nuclear energy.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Because what are we going to do with the waste from a wasteful society, a wasteful economy.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So we went all the way from a cup of coffee to your energy in the office. How it affects either negative or positive ripple effect to your homes.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to looking at our choices each and every day. It’s not about the energy source it’s about how we use the energy, how much energy we use. It’s about conservation preservation, a mindset of investing in ways that we can
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: use less for versus versus building an infrastructure
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: that
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: perpetuates that habits
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and perpetuates bad habits. Sitting on a really long line to get a coffee and paper club to perpetuate on stopping the cycle of craziness, bringing negativity
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to your office, or to your friends, or further bringing
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: positivity. And then what happens? Bringing your coffee cup with you to your office, bringing
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: the consciousness of turning the lights off, or, better yet.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you winterizing or summarizing your property, planting trees to create more shade, to cool a building and to plant more anything
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: like the future matters, because you’re sequestering carbon, and you’re creating a weather patterns that are healthier. This deforestation has been short-sighted, and living like the future doesn’t matter.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and we deforest the forest when we make paper cuts, so it all follows this chain of command that we
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: answering your questioning, and i’m. Sure as our discussion proceeds.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: many of you who are listening to the serving cared for some of You’ve already shut me off right.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: or some of you are just like the light bulb goes on, and you realize, you know, I have energy inside me that light bulb that that’s that renewable energy that that is really important, and that is human integrity, human dignity, human spirituality, I mean, talk about energy.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: talk about the energy, the power that we all have in our brains to transform and make a difference, and live.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: work, and eat like the future matters. We can all do it
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Jennifer Glass: beautiful. Thank you.
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Jennifer Glass: And one thing that I do want to throw out there, and you know I kind of feel guilty now having my tea in a paper
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Jennifer Glass: paper cup just happened to have that here, but normally I’ve got my mug that I use, but didn’t have that today. But anyway.
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Jennifer Glass: I want to point out fair trade. That was one of the things that you mentioned.
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Jennifer Glass: You know whether the coffee, the tea, the cocoa, whatever it may be, if it’s fair trade, in addition to being organic, the fair trade piece to a lot of people. They’re kind of confused. I wanted to just quickly talk about fair trade as a reason to be focused on that.
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Jennifer Glass: And
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Jennifer Glass: now for some
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Jennifer Glass: fair trade means that the workers are getting a livable wage. If you think about the farmers that are growing the coffee. They’re not getting paid 10 cents an hour for the
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Jennifer Glass: work that they’re doing, getting the coffee or the cacao pods off the tree for me. The reason that I got involved in the fair trade movement was actually the stories of the human trafficking
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Jennifer Glass: and the slavery
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Jennifer Glass: when they have to, then go work on the cocoa farms
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Jennifer Glass: and chopping down the big pods with machetes, these young kids.
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Jennifer Glass: I couldn’t take that piece of it.
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Jennifer Glass: but when you think about the human toll
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Jennifer Glass: that’s really, I think, what really drives a lot more people
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Jennifer Glass: to really start thinking about why you should be looking at fair trade, too, because when you buy fair trade certified cocoa, you’re buying it from cocoa farms that are not using
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Jennifer Glass: using these kids who are sold into slavery and working on the cocoa farms. So that’s just one thing we do want to be thinking about
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Jennifer Glass: as you think about. Fair trade is something fair trade, certified or not. And so thank you, Donna, for raising that point when we are talking about what it is that we’re
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: talking here. So living, living like the future matters, working and eating like the future matters. Everything you said is wrapped into fair trade.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and in 1991-92 I started the first organic cocoa and chocolate syrup in the nation under the
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and I in the company just just made it during Covid, for reasons and the unknown, because I had sold the Company, but it was a small company we sold all over New York City. We sold all over the United States. We sold in Canada, Japan.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: the the impetus for getting the fair trade movement off the ground, because I was selling a cocoa and sugar
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and vanilla — vanilla from Madagascar, which got totally exploited by the Vanila industry. The fair trade movement was not there in time enough to help them. The cocoa same thing all these regions. It was just horrific. What was going on.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and the sugar cane, need, I say, is one of the most destructive industries, not just for your personal health, but for the soil tech integrity.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So I got really on this fair trade thing very early on before fair trade. Well, fair trade’s been around fair enough for a very long time even, I think, in the early 1,91819, 19 twenties.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: 1940, I think somewhere I have to double check some. There was a movement towards that, but this movement was a much
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: huge effort, and and
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: especially with the organic industry taking off and more ethical people moving into the food business, who realized that
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and the the natural foods industry in the late eighties and the early nineties. When I entered it it was really great. There was a bunch of mostly young rebels and people really running these companies who cared about these issues.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I got out of the industry when all the big boys came in and started green washing. But while I was in there I made efforts and strides to expose people, and it was in all my marketing, showing people on my website, showing people what was happening with the children being exploited, working in the cocoa and the sugarcane fields.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: the accidents happening in the side, the factories horrific.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and also what was happening beyond just the Mono crop. Agriculture that was brought into these communities
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: was huge. People used to be self sufficient. They could grow their corn, their beans, or squash, whatever indigenous crops, medicines that they were growing, only to be bought out for pennies
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to rape their land. To put in these monocrop cocoa fields. Sugarcane plantations came in and wiped out whole communities
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: of human beings
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: who were doing things. Maybe they were poverty on on a scale of what the
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Western society would consume poverty. But these people were happy. They could provide for themselves.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and coming in with a promise like the oil companies do in these native American villages. Talk about unfair trade right there. What’s happening all over right now? We’re they’re trying to put lithium lines in reservations, all pipelines. We have to take that fair trade, not just to Third World countries, but right here that’s happening to black and brown people to indigenous tribes.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: the exploitation for the privilege for a few.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: for actually a lot more people now to stand on line and get that double decaff BLT, with mixed syrup in a paper cup with a plastic lid
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: we have to really think about.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Are we living like the future matters? Because that cut will take you
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to the human beings who are being trafficked, exploited.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: oftentimes taken from their families, lied to.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: the eco genocide, the genocide that’s happening to the earth because you start bringing in a mono crop of anything.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You’re going to track viruses, sickness, disease.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: we have to think about. Well, what are we doing with each choice we make, and a lot of people say, oh, so what do I care? And I keep coming back to the Cup people. It’s not the cup.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It’s the consciousness in everything, every action that we take it. Isn’t just
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: the cup of coffee. It’s every time you go to the grocery store, or you go into the farmer’s market first. Are you buying things in bulk, you know, because a lot of people think. Oh, my little thing that i’m going to do. Isn’t going to make a difference.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: But it is going to make a difference to that little girl or little boy who is working out in the cocoa field today with no shoes on their feet.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It will make a difference. And if enough people have this conversation and stand up to social and environmental justice issues.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I we we’re gonna see what we are seeing. We’re seeing a lot of people doing amazing things. Even Patagonia giving up all their profits and to go towards
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: responsible investments.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: conservation is the best investment that we can all make right now in our little communities, whether it’s putting in a community garden, whether it’s putting in rooftop gardens. Urban Walt Gardens are going up now. The more we plant.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: the faster we heal. But we want to be planting the right things.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: The the thing that I really want to get back to with with your question about fair trade is is also
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: looking at
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to doing our best, like in Transition Town, which started in the Uk several years ago, maybe 30 years ago, 40 years ago, now trying to purchase things that are grown or produced within 150 square miles, and granted a lot of people might be listening to this
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: who live in New York City or Philadelphia or Seattle.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: the way urban environments were created, and the first pace was around their food and medicine systems growing. Their foods are having for us and just having it. This this it’s a circular thing, and then you have the or a circular kind of graph. You know you have the urban
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: people living here, which is fine, Concentrated people living together is good, like packs of lions or herds of elephants. Everything comes back to looking at nature.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because the closer we get to nature, the closer we get to our true nature. So people congregating, living in an urban environment is a beautiful thing, especially if everything is supported by that, this, that diameter, and we can even say 300 miles now, because we have better transportation systems.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: But what is being grown.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: What kind of animals are being produced? What kind of are we do? We have manufacturing plans 50 to 100 miles from
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: where you’re living right now that are contaminating the watershed, and they’re producing the plastic lids for your coffee cup.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Do we need those plastic lids? Do we need this manufacturing company that’s 50 miles in radius. That’s that’s contaminating your water system and corroding your pipes. We have to really follow the whole value chain.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And look at. Wow.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I didn’t think about that.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You know why? Because those companies are making a lot of money, green washing and marketing. So you won’t. Think about those
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: until this major problem explodes.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So this fair trade, isn’t just happening in Third World countries. It’s happening right in your.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you know, maybe
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: 10 city blocks from where you’re living.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and I just really encourage people. It is kind of become a mantra a any time. Is this living like the future matters? I mean even wearing my glasses right there’s a plastic frame. They’re made of plastic, so
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: i’m doing my best well to first of all, not lose them
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and take
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because there’s nothing wrong with plastic. If if it’s use
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: in
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: a way like in the medical system, it saves people’s lives right.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: These glasses same thing.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: But when we live like the future matters, we don’t use single use plastic. We don’t use so funny. I have this right Here there are sites of
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: this is Bio-grade, and I don’t have anything to do with bio grade.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: But these are the bags we use.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I it’s technologically in tune with nature, which brings me to this is a a garbage bag that
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: technically in tuned with nature. You could say it’s greenwashing, but I researched the company, and it really does biodegrade, and it’s probably the least impact on. If you’re going to throw something away like we compost everything here. I live on the big island of Hawaii, and it’s
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: we live on this beautiful farmstead, and we compost everything. We produce a lot of food right here.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and it feels really good, but not everybody can do that. But everybody can
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: find these bags. Everybody can support a farmer that’s within 150 miles from you.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Get a CSA box.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: go out to the farm, pick your own berries
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: wherever you are, and get in touch with nature.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because i’ll say it again.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: The closer you get to nature, the closer you get to your true nature
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and so many people. This the the problem that we’re finding today is that we are being separated from the very thing that keeps us alive. The very thing that’s going to keep this planet for the future generations
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: is is Mother Earth.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Okay.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So so I hope that answer the question. You know I love, speak. I speak up
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to this all the time, right? So I can go on, and I love lecturing, but not I like a discussion. So you know, I really want to serve your audience without pointing figures or being judgmental. It’s more about opening our eyes
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and feeling empowered and excited, and like oh, my God, I am part of the so ul solution
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: i’m living like the future matters.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I can’t be perfect.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: None of us are including me. I’m wearing.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you know.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: plastic glasses with plastic lenses. There’s nothing perfect about me
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: but 80% of the time, I would say i’m living like the future matters 20% of the time, i’m Also, i’m often, you know, trapped because I go to the store, and you know you need toilet paper, and the toilet paper is wrapped in plastic, even though I get it in bulk.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So I get less plastic. It’s still got that plastic, so I still got to deal with that.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you know I so earlier I mentioned buying in bulk.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And a lot of people live in small spaces with small apartments, and they can’t go to Costco and buy 36 rolls of toilet paper. I get it.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: But here’s a challenge for everybody.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: How many sheets of toilet paper do you use
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: when you go to the bathroom?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Try using half as much, and it works.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: We just like we got a cold. We were blowing our noses. Why do we have to use toilet paper tissue when we can use bandanas, or I like to use pillowcases.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Think about it. Who told us we needed these kleenexes?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Who told us we needed all these paper towels? We don’t have paper towels.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: we use
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: our cloths.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and and we dry them. So there’s there’s so many books out there and lit in my book, living like the future matters the evolution of a social entrepreneur, You know I get more ways for people to think
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: how in their own homes and and and
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: how to live any work like future matters, but also how to create a business and a company, or transform a business or a company to be more eco-friendly.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to figure out ways that what we’re doing
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: can make it a ubiquitous
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: difference, because it’s one thing to do it for ourselves. But when you are an ego entrepreneur, and your business is affecting
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: more people, or you
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: work in an office with hundreds of people.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and just by showing up
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: being who you are.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: it’s becomes a ripple effect.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and when someone says, oh, you know, can I get your coffee?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You can say sure? Would you put it and have your disposable cup with you. Make sure you put it in there. If not, that’s okay. I’ll make some here, or I brought my own.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and they’ll look at you first cross side, maybe, and go by, and it’s just like you know. I’m over. I’m just over, you know.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Find it using this.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It’s just filling up the landfill.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and in your mind you know the whole fair trade thing. You understand the whole consequences of it all, and if they want to ask more questions. Then then you have the information.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: but it’s not like you have to preach to everybody. It’s just sometimes just showing up.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and it’s.
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Jennifer Glass: and it’s starting with one thing and then another thing and another thing. After that it’s not like you have to shift your mindset from one thing
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Jennifer Glass: or nothing now to everything tomorrow like you said you’re 80% living in the future 20 that you’re still using consumables that we’re dealing with.
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Jennifer Glass: And so it’s important just for people to hear that and understand that there’s sometimes we need to be dealing with whatever it is that’s out there that we still
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Jennifer Glass: it can’t be perfect. So it’s start with something small. Are you gonna remember that when you go out of the room to turn off the light? Are you gonna remember that next time you’ve got a quick Aaron, to walk or ride a bike instead of taking your car things on those lines can really make a big difference
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Jennifer Glass: and what you do, and how you really proceed and move forward from there. So.
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Jennifer Glass: Donna, let me ask you.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I think this is really important. I think
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It’s so important, like people think. Oh, these are just little things.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: But the most important thing is to remember is
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: it goes really fast, when, no matter what you touch or come in contact with, or you decide to go to a Def Leopard concert, or a Bob Dylan concert
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: when you’re living like the future matters, if you just remember that
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: it’s so much easier.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and you and and it happens much faster
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because we don’t have like
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: that much time. We have 60 years of farmable soil left, maybe less. You know the air quality the
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: so i’m not saying you know it’s sort of like.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you know. When a bomb goes off, people run and they scurry, and they do what they have to do. Well, the thing is this bombs are going off right now everywhere.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and it’s
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: there’s no time like now.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: then, to support each other and to go in to like. I always like I became successful because
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and I continue to stay successful, because when I got on the phone
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I first say, you know, they say which department you want, or whatever you always say, representative representative. Soon as I get to a representative, say, I need to talk to the owner of the company
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: or the owner of the company doesn’t work here. I need your top supervisor. You go, you, you make changes, you you stand up for. If something is ethical and really important.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You start
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: not living as a shape of people, or is ashamed of like standing up for what’s right.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: We got enough people like that
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: who are really in terrible need and desperate situations. We need to help those people. Anybody who has a privilege or opportunity to listen to a podcast or be around has the ability to really make this substantial changes quickly with their own workplace within your own congregation.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: within your own community starting community garden, take action.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Yeah, these little steps. Okay, I’m not going to go out and get paper cuts.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You know we need the world.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It is. It’s just crying for individuals to come out of the closet.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and I mean it in every sense of the word.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Come out of truly who you are, what you’re made of, and
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: make a difference with your precious life on the planet. We’re all taking up oxygen.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: if we are going to breathe life into the planet into future generations. Now is the time
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I’m 65 years old.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I’ve been doing it since i’m 16,
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and my model is why I retire when I can inspire.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I feel on fire all the time
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: happy, excited.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because I’m motivated every little step
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: that compounds into a mindset, and an attitude that just accelerates your success as a being on this planet.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And what is success? We redefine success
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because everybody has been telling us whether you’re an Mba or any kind of
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: business that you’re working for. Success is climbing the ladder, making more money, driving a nicer car, wearing a the Tawny suit or whatever they are carrying a Gucci bag. I don’t know.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: whatever it is that people think that outside exterior is but read the sign, and success right now is how we live. Like the future matters. We look at our health first, if you’re not taking care of yourself.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and then when I say family next i’m talking about your friends, your colleagues who, you hanging around with what you focus on grows
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: compost to what doesn’t serve You nurture what does get rid of any energy vampires.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: health family. And then we look at our business, our livelihood, whether we’re working for Joe Jones or Sarah Mclain, or we have our own company, and people are working with us, not for us, because we’re a team.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because Nietzsche shows us
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: that everything interconnects, and that we respect each other from the tiniest microorganism to the largest mammal in the world, and we’ll respect that whole ecosystem. It thrives.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So you are saying.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: just do these small changes.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And i’m saying, yeah, do those small changes with big vision.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you know, and it happens much faster.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and it’s a way more fun.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It’s like.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Change your wardrobe right everything I buy, every single thing you see me wearing, and my furniture everything. I bought a second hand.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: There’s nothing more fun than going to a garage sale.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and their landscape and their their homes, and then buy something.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: That’s where I buy most of my plastic if it’s second hand. But if I buy any plastics like that, so
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Jennifer Glass: so, Donna, let me ask you.
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Jennifer Glass: We’re both 2 North Jersey girls
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: absolutely.
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Jennifer Glass: We spoke about this last time that we had a chat, and I’m. Curious to know.
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Jennifer Glass: coming from Bergen County in New Jersey.
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Jennifer Glass: solution, as as you call yourself.
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Jennifer Glass: Tell me about the genesis, though how did you realize
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Jennifer Glass: developing this mindset, because certainly here in Burden County. It isn’t the biggest idea. But i’m curious to know what was that genesis that made you.
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Jennifer Glass: I think this way and
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Jennifer Glass: made you who you are.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: This is so great. That’s why I wrote my book, but it is so great I love this question, and I don’t want to bore your audience. If you want more i’ll send you a free e-book even so or you can get it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, and
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: but I start out with with telling my story. You know how I grew up upper middle class, Jewish American princess.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you know, just at the time. 15 min drive
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And now it takes an hour
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: same destination. But I don’t go anymore, but I mean it wasn’t too long to. When I was probably a teenager coming back from college, I went. Wow, there’s so many people here, you know, when the suburban sprawl just hit the Manhattan metropolitan areas like card. So
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: when I was 16 and i’ll just do this real short. I went to Europe For the first time I got to ride my bicycle through France, Italy, and Switzerland, with a bunch of upper middle class
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: there, and a look at the Gordy. I think it was. It was very cool. I’m 16. I go to Europe, my
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: leader of the trip. There was 10 of us kids. My leader had hair out to here, and she had hairy armpits, and her name was Laurel. She’s in the it’s in the book. I wish I could find her now, but she was the first hippie that I ever got to really hang out with and at the time we’re talking 1974.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: maybe it was 73
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Yeah, 73. Anyway. So I went to Europe. I went to France, Italy, and Switzerland with these kids, and we camped every night. We rode our bicycles, and I had never camped today in my life, and we were riding 20 to 50 miles a day, and that’s a big journey up
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: these countries have been. We were sleeping in tents or under the stars, or they bails and local farms there wasn’t a fast food joint there. Wasn’t a shopping mall everything. I’d never seen anything like it was like going to epcot
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: on steroids. It was really this, like a cultural people, weren’t speaking English back then, like they do now. And you go to this year. Everybody was speaking a different language. But you could talk to someone by the emotion in their eyes and their facial expressions
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: they wanted to communicate, and by the time I got through having this cultural ecological experience because we were in the back country. Remember, we were riding our bikes, so we’re on country roads.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: By the time I got home I had definitely had a spiritual awakening. That was the first one I can recall having. You know. We had gone to the cheese making shop. We had gone to getting the fresh baguettes every day to the watchmaker, to the people doing the it was like
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and, like some people, are really getting back to now.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and we need to support those people.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It costs more money to buy a handcrafted
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: piece of cheese from a local farmer who milked the cow or the goat to make this beautiful. You just eat less of it. We’re all overweight in our culture, anyway.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So you spend a little more. But you you’re supporting the local economy.
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So when this is the real, the end of the story, basically I got home
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and you know i’m a junior, and going into being a junior in high school, and I didn’t want to go back to school. I didn’t want to get out of my room
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I put on an Alcatraz prison shirt
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: that we had gotten the year before. You know. When we went on vacation we went to San Francisco, California and went to Alcatraz. I put on a prison shirt, and I sat in my room, and I wouldn’t go out until my parents let me camp in the backyard.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I cannot handle being in the house and and sleeping in there, and I was like doing.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you know, my
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: 16. People remember when you were 16. So, anyway, my parents finally gave in, and I just camped out until the first snow came and my second condition was. I was gonna put in a garden
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: in our backyard are perfectly coffered. New Jersey, the Garden State Land.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And I was going to
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So here I am in the garden state. I went back to camping out in my backyard, and I camped out there a lot until I graduated and went to college and studied. I became basically an organic farmer, got my degree in social ecology, but
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I got into homeopathy in the late seventies got into all this healing modalities. I was fortunate enough. There was a much smaller percentage of people who were talking like I,
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and trying to pass on the wisdom of these amazing people, or some of them indigenous people who were living in harmony with the systems and cycles of nature.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And so all All I want to say to that is.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: have a spiritual awakening. People who’s listening to this Go, spend that time in nature. Go. Allow yourself to experience some other cultures within your own community who are more in tune with that.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Look at the indigenous ways
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: who always live like the future matters because they’ve learned
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and the wolf, and there, and the coyote, and all the other animals, including the squirrel who stored the acorns for winter.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: How to live like the future matters how to graze like the future matters. You don’t go in and clear cut, Rose hit plants. If you’re a moose.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you come, and then you eat certain ones, because, you know, you got to come around on this cycle, and you need to propagate more because you’re going to come next time to these rows of trees with your baby.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and then there’s going to be 2, you to eat those.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So we we don’t think like that. They think we we see developers see this land, and they they take the mother trees down. You don’t never take a mother tree down, Susan Simona, I’ll have to get, say her last name properly, but she is a
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: tree specialist who talks to trees, and she’s done so many scientific studies in the forest underground to talk about the communication, how the forest actually does communicate with itself, and plants like animals, have feelings and emotions. There may be different.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: but we all like. And next time you see a big development proposed on a city council, you need to vote on something. Show up anytime. Anyone who wants to cut a tree down. There are organizations in actually in New Jersey
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: that you can look it up, save the trees on something like that
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: where you can’t even cut down a tree in your own yard unless it’s mostly dead.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: There’s there’s communities that are doing that. There are people who are protecting watersheds. Get involved in your local community, and then you will. You’ll start to really realize that you’re gonna have a spiritual waking around this.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You’re gonna be the one who is targeting these things, and on your free time rests rather than watching serial Netflix movies. You’re researching this stuff, and you’re you’re realizing. Well, this is can be really fun, and you can meet somebody, not only see, meet someone. You might meet your significant other at an audible meeting, or at one of these
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: coalitions for cleaning up the waterways where you live, you you! These are the kind of people you want to hang out with.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: These are the kind of people who are change-makers and thought leaders.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and you want
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: actively making a difference in in. And
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: it just is contiguous.
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Jennifer Glass: It’s funny when you were just talking about
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Jennifer Glass: the woman who says that the trees and the animals they all talk
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Jennifer Glass: to each other for anyone that really knows me knows that i’m a huge a
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Jennifer Glass: show tunes and soundtrack
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Jennifer Glass: person, but also that, like one of the biggest Disney checks out there, and so
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Jennifer Glass: it made me think, and I had it just quickly double-checked the lyrics. But Alan Mankin and a song that he wrote for Pocahontas
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Jennifer Glass: said, You think you on whatever land you land on the earth is just a death thing you can claim. But I know every rock and train creature has a life has a spirit, has a name.
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Jennifer Glass: and it’s that kind of thought that I think really sums up exactly what you are just saying that everything is here, that it’s all interconnected. It’s all part of what it is that we’re dealing with, and
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Jennifer Glass: if we think about it in that regard again, it goes the indigenous people that were here long before we were, but it’s the idea.
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Jennifer Glass: How can we connect more with the ground with what’s around us, and not just assume that we can tear everything down. So I wanted those segway, and look at how a business can be
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Jennifer Glass: looking at this in the same way. Now, business is ultimately one by people.
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Jennifer Glass: But how can a business have the same kind of
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Jennifer Glass: thinking for tomorrow, thinking for the future
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Jennifer Glass: as we can as people, because business at the end of the day has a mission statement has a purpose of what it is that we’re doing, and I know you work with some business owners helping them really
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Jennifer Glass: craft their strategy. And I just really quick. How can we make that happen?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Okay, this this is so great. Okay, because I this is a quote that follows me everywhere. I’ll be on my to Tombstone since the Ice Age businesses change the world faster than anything.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and it’s ethical businesses
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and business leaders
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: with the moral courage to have the ability and responsibility to change things the fastest.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And that’s why I like to help individuals get through their stuff quickly, so that we can get on to their business because they that business is is it branches out like it’s its own ecosystem.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And I love that you mentioned
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: that song lyrics from Pocahontas, because, let’s take Disney.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Disney has just the world.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It has
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: so much content that young children are consuming that are shaping
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: who they are.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It’s content. It’s consumption, whether it’s a paper cup or a movie.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: this lyrics to a song we’re consuming it.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So what we can all do like when we’re thinking about Disney, for instance.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Let them know how much you appreciate the lyrics in the songs rather than the exploitation of women in that movie.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because there’s a lot of controversy around Pocahontas and how it was delivered.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: We need to
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: get the businesses. Sorry those are my dogs agree totally.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: We need to get
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to the core
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: of consumption.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And when you have a business and you’re because when you have a business.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: your personal life is your own business, because what you do with your life is your business. It’s what we consume.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So when you’re starting a business, or when you’re having a business, what are you consuming to create your business. And what are people can going to consume
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: when they purchase from from you?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It’s consumption.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and just like we started kind of this conversation about preservation and conservation. It’s not about the alternative energy or renewable energy as much as it is about preservation and conservation.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: We need to look at preservation and conservation like business. When we look at it. Something sexy it sells.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You need to just like Whoa! And I love it. How like I get my electric bill now, and it tells me, because we’re totally pretty much off. The grid tells me how many trees
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you know. We saved by by being
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: using lithium batteries. For myself. We don’t even have batteries, though, because we chose not to do the batteries because of the lithium. But we just have the panels. But even so, you know, those panels are probably produced in China Labor fair trade because we got these like 15 years 12 years ago.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You have to look at the whole value chain when you have a business
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: like, Where are my pens coming from? Where? Where? My, my my green, My, my! You know it. Most offices have garbage client cans. What kind of
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: thing you do you? You’re lining your garbage cans with.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So you start thinking that living like the future matters. If the M. Is my business, working like the future matters, because your business is a living organism that people are going to consume whether it’s the people who work with you, whether it’s you being consumed by too much work consumed by feeling guilty for creating a business that isn’t
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: working like the future matters. Well, you can. Well, you don’t have to feel guilty anymore. You can transition that Disney can choose by enough peer people pressuring them to concrete more consumable songs like the one you’ve just read in Pocahontas
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to really really take a stand on social and environmental
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: to create more
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: content. That is gonna be culturally appropriate for future generations.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because Disney also created it, creates a lot of
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: content that’s contrary to that. All these big players do, because they count on those for money makers
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: violence, crime.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: hatred, sales.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Why?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Because we’re programmed that way.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And I really, really.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you know, if we’re kind of ending this conversation here, because we’ve been going for a while is when we live like the future matters. It’s your business what you do with your business.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: with your life
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and what we consume consumes us. And if we’re consuming antimicrobial, antibacterial, healthy, energetic food, we are going to be consumed with vibrant energy
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because we’re prioritizing health, family business. When we take care of ourselves. Self care is not selfish is imperative right now that everybody takes really really good care of themselves, and i’m not saying, you know. Go work out at the gym. I’m single climate tree, or find a walk outside. Meet your neighbors, share your smile
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: kind of work out.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I am talking about
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: your business health, family business prioritize in that order self-care, and then caring for others. When
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: that’s the family piece.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I’m not talking about a turkey dinner at Thanksgiving or Christmas Tree presence wrapped in wrapping paper.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: That’s a whole other story. I’m talking about what really what is family really about.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and you can
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: get a blood transfusion. But you can’t live without water. So if you have family members, you don’t jive with
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Move on!
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Your family are the people who keep you buoyant. They’re the water
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: you can’t live without, and they’re the people you keep buying.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and you gotta drink it to stay alive every day you drink it.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So surround yourself with the family. That truly makes you feel like you want to stay healthy.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and stay healthy together and influence each other like the ripple effect. You’re not perfect, You’re going to go. Eat a pint of hog in dots once in a while. That’s you know it. Just it just is what it is.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And then and then your business comes natural, because when you are healthy and You’re around healthy people who will care about fair trade, who care about living like the future matters, and this becomes your families, becomes your tribe.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: your business thrives.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You create a business focused around conservation and preservation.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: The world benefits
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: absolutely, and it’s funny because, as your
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Jennifer Glass: talking about that, you know, another Disney song
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Jennifer Glass: popped into my mind. Idina Menzel, Love Power from Disenchanted.
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Jennifer Glass: and about the memories that we make that they’re magic, and they help us really figure out the next piece, and, like you said with family.
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Jennifer Glass: it’s those memories of what we’re doing to is, what can we really be changing and having that power that these memories have that these ideas have to really be moving us forward.
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Jennifer Glass: So, Donna, let me ask you people that have been listening to this show for the last bit of time
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Jennifer Glass: they got really into. They want to find out more about you.
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Jennifer Glass: How can they
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Jennifer Glass: know more about you? Where can they go?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You come to me here, I have to take you where I am. You guys, if you do this some visual. But this is
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: we. We have a vacation rental, and a retreat.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: We do custom retreat from one or 2 people a time, and there’s my cat.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and Buddha and my dog. One of my dogs. Lucky. So you don’t know on yourself. They’re Sadie.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: good girl. And then there’s my chester boy in here.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: That’s one way that he’s my boy.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and but the other way is.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and the easiest way. If you can’t physically get here is go to my website.
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which is DonnaMaltz.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: It’s really easy. DONNAMALTZ.com, and you’ll see all the things we do
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: here and online, and I have. You can just sign up to get a daily dose positivity. I I do culinary classes, too. We didn’t mention that. But I do virtual culinary classes where we touch upon all of these issues while we’re making beautiful food, whether it’s phone br or sourdough breads, or
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do you beautiful fun to table meals?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I love having people in my kitchen, because that’s the magic of the up. Bringing health right health is are great as well.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I’d encourage you everybody to go to donnamaltz.com. You’ll learn everything that you pretty much need, and that’ll take you to my ecosystem by nature website as well. And remember I told you I’m. Retired. Why retire when i’m not retired. Why retire when I can inspire?
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: You can feel really confident and really good about? If you do purchase anything with me or decide. You want to work with me. All my profits go to humanitarian and
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: environmental causes. So
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: I already had my career, and I was very successful. I got to live here.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and I charge money because people who
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: a money
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: they’ve proved this.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: They they use it. They make it. They’ll do it more times, and not 80 20 room.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So and then people feel really good. It’s kind of like, Well, okay, cool. This is really cool, but over there is one of the little cottages we have Papias growing here.
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oranges, tangerines, grapefruits, everything on bananas, pineapples.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And so, when
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: when I talk about redefining success and wealth
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: it’s point your dreams right. Plant, plant your trees, plant your dreams
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: because what you nurture
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: grows, what you focus on grows.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: And so, if you want to come visit me here. Come, visit on the website. Either way it’s great. This has been such an honor to be on on your show to have this conversation. You asked
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: brilliant questions.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and so grateful to anybody who is listening.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: and to anybody who reaches out, and once more
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from either me or Jennifer this
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: super cool.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: So thank you so much for this opportunity. It’s been wonderful actually.
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Jennifer Glass: Mahalo. Thank you so much for being on the show, Donna, and again check out Donnamaltz.com. The link will be in the show notes as well for you to really be connecting with Donna. You can learn more about donna really figure out what it means
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Jennifer Glass: to start living more intentionally
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Jennifer Glass: for the future.
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Jennifer Glass: So that way you are going to be making much more of a difference in what it is that you’re doing. Too many of us believe that it’s the consumer balls, like Donald was saying, that we can just keep on moving, consuming whatever we do, and not think about the future. And what kind of impact we’re making in the long term.
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Jennifer Glass: How are we going to be changing that, and allowing ourselves to be seeing the kind of view that Donna has outside her door every day that we can be waking up to that at some point 60 years down the road, like Donald was saying, that we may only have
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Jennifer Glass: that long left of farmable land. So we need to be thinking about what it is that we’re doing. How are we doing it all? And what are we going to be doing to make that change as we continue moving forward on that note once again, Donna. Thank you so much for being my guest.
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Jennifer Glass: This has been another episode of MOJO: The Meaning of Life and Business, and until next time here’s to your success.
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Donna Maltz – Soil To Soul Solutions: Mojo.
