Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

If you're an eco content creator, this is an episode for you! How can we maintain the courage to continually put ourselves out there, knowing that we'll get judged and even hate, at an extreme? How do we balance saying yes out of pure passion, with saying no to not overcommit? In this episode, pioneering sustainable fashion blogger, Natalie Kay of @SustainablyChic, shares her wisdom with us.   Thanks for bringing your light. Hit SUBSCRIBE, and together let's explore what it takes to bring our eco ideas to life and thrive in every sense of the word.   HIGHLIGHTS: [08:05] What encouraged Natalie to go all in with her sustainable lifestyle blog. [10:05] Natalie: "Some brands that are big and consider themselves ethical still come to me wanting [free] content, yet they don't want to treat me the same way they treat the people making their clothing." [12:10] How Natalie deals with cyber bullying and negativity from putting her work out there. [15:40] Kaméa: "How do you balance saying yes with saying no to not overcommit?" [19:45] Natalie: "I'm also a very shy person in real life… So when I go on social media, I'm pretty similar." [20:10] What motivated Natalie to start her new project, Pratique Organique.   Find the full show notes with links and resources at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode tagging our featured guest and me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let us know you're tuning in!

How do we balance dropping truth-bombs about the problems in this world, with inspiring hope? And how can we even reach the conscious audience we want to reach to begin with? Today, AmyAnn Cadwell, the Co-Founder of the stunning digital publication, The Good Trade, shares her wisdom with you.   Thanks for bringing your light. Hit SUBSCRIBE, and together let's explore what it takes to bring our eco ideas to life and thrive in every sense of the word.   HIGHLIGHTS [02:55] AmyAnn: "It was such a huge wakeup call for me… in full color, the reality of fast fashion as depleting earth's resources and leveraging slave labor to pass on a 'cheap' cost to the end consumer." [10:00] How AmyAnn got started with The Good Trade. [11:50] AmyAnn: "As women,... we tend to overthink things and underestimate that we have what it takes." [14:20] Balancing shedding light on heavy issues vs. inspiring hope. [17:10] AmyAnn's advice for conscious creatives and brands wanting to reach their people. [18:25] A common challenge conscious companies and creatives face in our current landscape. [19:30] Kaméa: "What do you think conscious consumers crave today?"   Find the full show notes with links and resources at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode tagging our featured guest and me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let us know you're tuning in!

There is hope, positivity, and beauty in the world. And I know you'll only add to it! Hit SUBSCRIBE, and thanks for bringing your light.   Find the full show notes and sign up for our Weekly Highlights at www.greendreamer.com. We're also now taking suggested Questions to answer on these BLOOM TUESDAY episodes - feel welcome to message me www.instagram.com/kameachayne or email me hello@greendreamer.com with topic suggestions, questions, and feedback.

What does it take to grow our social platforms with intention from 0 to 500k+ so that we're able to share sustainability ideas with more people? How can we begin to bring 'eco' mainstream? Today, wildly successful social media influencer and vegan ballerina @ArtsyAgnes shares her wisdom with you.   Thanks for bringing your light. Hit SUBSCRIBE, and together let's explore what it takes to bring our eco ideas to life and thrive in every sense of the word.   HIGHLIGHTS [12:30] Agnes' greatest challenge building her platform from the ground up to 500k+. [13:15] Agnes: "Your platform needs to say something about who you are and what you believe in." [15:10] Agnes: "Everything is unlimited… whether it's a physical limitation, emotional limitation, spiritual limitation... that's just all in your head." [17:10] The 3 keys to Agnes's exponential growth as a purpose-driven social media influencer. [20:00] What Agnes would do differently if she had to start all over again today from zero. [21:10] Agnes: "You never know how you're story's going to turn out. Comparison's not good for you, not good for the other person."   Find the full show notes with links and resources at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode tagging our featured guest and me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let us know you're tuning in!

What do small, voluntarily responsible businesses need in order to compete with huge conventional companies that capitalize on being able to legally cut corners? What is "Social Intrapreneurship"? Meghan French Dunbar, Co-Founder and CEO of Conscious Company Media, shares her wisdom with you today.   Thanks for bringing your light. Hit SUBSCRIBE, and together let's explore what it takes to bring our eco ideas to life and thrive in every sense of the word.   HIGHLIGHTS: [5:05] Why the words "BUSINESS" and "CORPORATIONS" almost automatically are associated with greed and corruption. [10:20] Using "Social Intrapraneurship" to inspire change from within existing companies. [13:15] Top 3 challenges Meghan commonly sees conscious businesses face today. [14:30] Meghan: "To... start a company is crazy enough, but social entrepreneurs often care so much about the purpose about what they're doing that they work even harder than traditional entrepreneurs… they hang on longer because they believe so much in what they're doing." [15:50] How conscious companies can compete with conventional big corporations. [25:00] Meghan: "That moment when you're 100% sure you should give up... that's when you should dig in and put your head down."   Find the full show notes with links and resources at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode tagging our featured guest and me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let us know you're tuning in!

Positive change for sustainability in the world begins with YOU feeling at your best from the inside-out. Only when you're in your optimal health can you bring about your best work. So yes, that's right - Mama Earth wants and needs you to take a breather and be good to yourself.   Find 3 of my favorite uplifting newsletters to subscribe to and some resources on eco chronic anxiety at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode with me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let me know you're tuning in!

Time to TAKE ownership and realize the life you want for yourself, the passion project you want to create, and the change you want to see in the world! Bestselling author of Cured by Nature and WILD Habits, Tara Mackey, shares her deeply inspiring story of natural healing, how she completely turned her life around using simple habits, and how you can gain clarity in your next steps. Thanks for bringing your light. Hit SUBSCRIBE, and together let's explore what it takes to bring our eco ideas to life and thrive in every sense of the word.   HIGHLIGHTS: [2:05] How Tara went from hitting rock bottom in her life to turning everything around. [4:05] Tara: "[I realized] if I wanted to heal, I needed to probably not be on 14 different drugs." [14:50] Tara's biggest challenge from self-healing to putting herself out there as an entrepreneur, blogger, and author. [19:20] Tara: "It feels like everything in my life has added up to this moment in time perfectly in a way I never ever could have imagined or orchestrated." [20:15] How to inspire positive change in others. [23:10] Tara: "Every woman needs to read every other woman in the world's story."   Find the full show notes with links and resources at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode tagging our featured guest and me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let us know you're tuning in!

Anything you put out onto the internet can be accessed by people all over the world. So it's VITAL that we understand how to communicate respectfully and powerfully cross-culture, being mindful that people have different backgrounds, world views, privileges or lack thereof... "Influencer to watch," 3x TEDx Speaker, podcast host of As Told by Nomads, coach, and consultant for global leaders, Tayo Rockson, shares his wisdom on these topics with you here. Thanks for bringing your light. Hit SUBSCRIBE, and together let's explore what it takes to bring our eco ideas to life and thrive in every sense of the word.   HIGHLIGHTS: [2:10] Tayo: "By the time I was 17, I had lived in 5 countries in 4 continents." [6:40] Kaméa: "If there's one thing you learned about humankind from all your travels, what would it be?" [8:40] How Tayo went from 85 job app. rejections and being broke multiple times to becoming a thriving, change-making entrepreneur and "influencer to watch." [18:20] The #1 communication mistake change-makers make that detracts from their messages and how you can avoid sounding tone-deaf. [26:10] Tayo on what we need to have less conflict and more harmony in the world.   Find the full show notes with links and resources at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode tagging our featured guest and me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let us know you're tuning in!

How do you get people to listen to you, and what does it take to get your passion project seen and heard in this info-overloaded digital world? Leah Segedie, author of Green Enough, Founder of Mamavation, and Founder of ShiftCon Social Media Conference for eco-wellness influencers shares her wisdom with you here. Thanks for bringing your light. Hit SUBSCRIBE, and together let's explore what it takes to bring our eco ideas to life and thrive in every sense of the word.   HIGHLIGHTS: [3:15] Leah: "And I really felt like [lack of transparency in the food industry] was a feminist issue." [7:55] Leah on what we need to get people to listen. [9:45] What it takes to bring people together in spite of deep differences. [12:50] What makes someone an influencer. [16:45] What it takes to get your important message seen and heard today. [22:40] How Leah made her book, Green Enough, wildly popular. [26:10] Sneaky indirect additives you need to know about.   Find the full show notes with links and resources at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode tagging our featured guest and me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let us know you're tuning in!  

The woman who originally coined the term "Zero Waste Lifestyle," Bea Johnson, joins me to talk about starting this now-global movement. Thanks for bringing your light. Hit SUBSCRIBE, and together let's explore what it takes to bring our eco ideas to life and thrive in every sense of the word.   Highlights: [2:55] "As soon as you adopt the zero waste lifestyle, you realize quickly that we've been duped." [3:35] What got Bea to reduce waste in the first place. [5:55] What motivated Bea to start a blog and share this lifestyle. [9:15] What Bea does to inspire people to take their first steps. [14:00] How Bea stays at peace knowing our world is still so wasteful. [19:15] Bea's thoughts on how we can reduce material consumption while supporting economic growth.   Find the full show notes with links and resources at www.greendreamer.com, and share your #1 takeaway from the episode tagging our featured guest and me @KameaChayne to spread the light and to let us know you're tuning in!