Ana Santi on three things to heal the planet and how to be a good ancestor

In this episode of Out of the Clouds, host Anne Muhlethaler interviews fashion journalist and writer Ana Santi. 

Ana has held various roles, including deputy editor at Drapers Magazine, a renowned UK fashion trade magazine, before going in-house at a brand called Jigsaw, where she became their first editor in chief. There she launched an in-house magazine and even published a book, called “Comfort Zones”, a collection of original stories by 28 women writers, including Pandora Sykes, Elizabeth Day, and Emma Gannon among others for the charity Women for Women International.

Her new book, “Three Things to Help Heal the Planet”, was published in May 2022, and Anne was very keen to get into it with her and to have a conversation about the important topics that are covered across the 21 essays that make up the book.

So in this interview, the two talk about Ana's journey, from her native Brazil to the UK as an eight-year-old, her love of languages and what brought her to journalism. 

Ana shares how and why working as a fashion reporter was a launching pad towards this new book to talk about sustainability and the possibility of individual action to help the planet — something she outlines is meant for ‘people who have choices’, as she goes on to explain.

The two end on discussing why we should learn to be better ancestors, and how that possibly will help us leave the planet in what is hopefully a better state than it currently is. 

A thought-provoking, enjoyable interview that will hopefully leave listeners with the desire to both read the book and, if they have the choice, do their bit to help heal the planet. 

Happy listening!

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Selected links from episode:

You can find Ana at https://www.ana-santi.com/

on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anasanti1/

on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Ana_C_Santi

on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-santi-8a28a51/

And find all her info and up to date links via her Link Tree - https://linktr.ee/anasanti1

Drapers online - https://www.drapersonline.com/

The book Comfort Zones - https://www.ana-santi.com/comfort-zones

British brand Jigsaw - https://www.jigsaw-online.com/

Mums for Lungs, the charity - https://www.mumsforlungs.org/

This Could Be our Future, the book by Yancey Strickler - https://www.ystrickler.com/book/

The Bento Society - http://www.bentoism.org/

To Sell is Human, book by Daniel Pink - https://www.danpink.com/books/to-sell-is-human/

We Are the Weather, book by Jonathan Safran Foer - https://wearetheweatherbook.com/

A Beautiful Constraint, book by Adam Morgan and Mark Bardem - http://www.abeautifulconstraint.com/the-book-2

Tristram Stuart, the food waste campaigner - https://www.tristramstuart.co.uk/

Robert McKee, author and teacher - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McKee

Goooders website, ethical and sustainable fashion and accessories - https://goooders.com/

Sapiens, the book by Yuval Noah Harari - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind

The quote by Ernest Hemingway, about 'finding the emotion - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1135556-find-what-gave-you-emotion-what-the-action-was-that

Catch 22, the book by Joseph Heller - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168668.Catch_22

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