Lina Menard has resided in a yurt and three tiny houses on wheels, exploring questions around intentional living, less stuff, and happiness. With a background in sustainable design-build and urban planning, Lina also has a penchant for experiential learning and healthy communities. She has found her niche nestled between small spaces, collaborative education, and community planning.See full show notes at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast.

After a particularly challenging day of work as a programmer, Carl Jensen typed into Google “How do I retire early?” He then started a blog, 1500 days to Freedom, about his ensuing journey of downsizing, saving and investing. Six years later, at the age of 43, he found himself with the newfound freedom to retire and spend his time however he wished. In this episode, we learn how he made it happen, as well as Carl’s sleep tips and his recent investigations into what actually makes us happy.See full show notes at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast

Paul Snyder is Executive Vice President at the Tillamook County Creamery Corporation.   A member of the Executive Team and reporting to the CEO, he leads several functions including corporate responsibility, sustainability, community engagement, corporate communications, government affairs, farm services, and co-op member relations. He works with a talented team to bring together these critical areas through the development, management and execution of comprehensive member relations, external relations and outreach, philanthropy and social responsibility strategies. He joined Tillamook in June of 2019.Full show notes at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast

Kristine Zeigler is the co-founder of and chief executive officer at Planet Women, which addresses climate change and other conservation challenges through projects led by women and for women around the world. For the past 22 years, Kristine has been an environmental nonprofit leader focused on helping nature and people thrive.Full snow notes at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast

Dr. Mark Nelson was a member of the eight person “biospherian” crew for the first two year Biosphere 2 closure experiment, 1991-1993. The project included pioneering regenerative agriculture and waste and water recycling.  Full show notes at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast

JL Collins is widely regarded as one of the founders of the Financial Independence movement. His very popular stock series blog can be found at  jlcollinsnh.com, and that blog and his book The Simple Path to Wealth have been credited by many as transformative in helping them think or rethink investing, allowing many to reach financial independence or “FI”, providing the freedom to do whatever they want with their time at a much earlier age than they might have otherwise.  See full show notes at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast

After Susan Comfort and Tyecia “Ty” Powell each experienced burnout, they teamed up to start an organization called Nonprofit Wellness,  which is focused on supporting teachers and nonprofit employees, who, in their commitment to caring for others,  tend to neglect their own care.See full show notes at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast

Rick Curtis has served as Director of the outdoor education program at Princeton University for 40 years. He has utilized small group experiences in the outdoors for team building, personal growth and leadership development for tens of thousands of students. He has helped people develop their skills in the outdoors through his book The Backpacker’s Field Manual, published by Penguin Random House and through his web site—OutdoorEd.com—which has been an online resource for outdoor education professionals since 2001. Rick has focused specifically on risk management and accident prevention and is the CEO and Founder of IncidentAnalytix, a cloud-based Risk Management Information System. He has consulted and lectured internationally on outdoor education and risk management for over twenty-five years.Full show notes at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast

Mary Tabacchi is a founder of the International Spa Association, The New York Spa Alliance, and the Global Wellness Summit/Institute and on the Board of Green Spa Network, a member of the New York Academy of Science, Sigma Xi, and serves on the Board of the Ronald McDonald House in NYC and an early fellow of Cornell Institute of Healthy Living.  She is Professor Emerita, School of Hotel Administration, Johnson College of Business, Cornell University.  Since 1972, Mary served as Professor and Researcher.  Before joining The Hotel School in 1978, she taught in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and was a Sr. Research Associate in Plant Sciences at Cornell.Her credentials include: an AB Drury University, MS and PhD, Purdue University and University of Minnesota in Biochemical Nutrition and Biostatistics.  Ms. Tabacchi is a consultant for destination health resort development and Spa Menu Engineering as well as a developer of the 1st corporate wellness classes, adventure tourism, healthful tasty food menus, and Healthful Senior Living. Walking her Talk, she is an advocate for independent senior living/ fitness in the actively older senior population.Full show notes can be seen at www.northstarsleepschool.com/podcast

Tom Cronin spent 26 years in finance markets as one of Sydney’s leading bond and swap brokers. He discovered meditation in the early stages of his career, when the anxiety and chaos he was experiencing hit a crisis point. Meditation completely transformed his world, both personally and professionally. Today Tom is passionate about reducing stress and chaos in people’s lives, and his mission is to inspire one billion people to meditate daily. In this episode, we discuss Tom’s transformational journey and his newly-released film, The Portal.Full show notes can be found at northstarsleepschool.com/podcast.