Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis

This week on our long-running "Walk the Talk Show" podcast and video series, with awards and millions of views over the years… Video, Podcast: legend Doug Tallamy on Native Plants, with Waylon Lewis.   "There are four ecological responsibilities of every landscape, and I mean every landscape in the whole world, but let's talk about the US. 1. Every landscape needs to support a viable food web. 'Cause if you don't, you don't have any animals. If you don't have any animals, you don't have a functioning ecosystem. 2.  Every landscape has to support a complex community of pollinators. 3. Every landscape has to sequester carbon to help climate change. 4. And every landscape has to manage the watershed in which it lies. Lawn does none of these things." ~ Douglas W. Tallamy Read the full article on Elephant and leave a comment! 

This week on our "Walk the Talk Show" podcast and video series, Waylon reflects on the life and loss of Dolly Parton, who peacefully passed away on August 25, 2026, at the age of 80. She left behind a legacy of untarnished generosity and compassion. She truly lived a life #ofbenefit.   "They said, 'One thing I really appreciate about Dolly Parton is she was never political. She never got political.' And I can't tell you how wrong that is." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

This week on "Walk the Talk Show," Waylon rallies for community-inspired love for the mothers and mother figures in our lives—including the mother of them all, big mama, Mother Earth herself.  

" We can do better. We can teach men that real masculinity is based on taking responsibility and being willing to apologize. That's owning something. That's true leadership. It's built on being kind to others." This week on our long-running "Walk the Talk Show" podcast and video series, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the mind-blowing factoid he discovered about the origins of the "alpha male" concept when it was studied in the 80s and about how it actually means the exact opposite of what we believe today.

This week, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the reality of aging and growing older...about how it doesn't match our childhood utopic idea of what being an "adult" may mean, and shares his advice for younger folks who may be realizing that they're surrounded by cynics—and a lack of ethics. Read the full article on Elephant!