A little over a year ago my friend Jessica and I had the opportunity to chat with the incredible speaker and writer, Kevin Powell. Kevin has published 14 books and has written for all sorts of publications, from Newsweek to Washington Post and Rolling Stone. You may have even seen him on one of his many television interview appearances or as a host for different shows on HBO, BET, and MTV. What’s clear, and you’ll hear it in this interview, is Kevin is an immense raw force. He lives what he speaks and he speaks what he lives. He writes and speaks what he is passionate about and common themes in his writing range from racism, politics, and masculinity, to activism and love. In my chat with him, he poses a question, a question that really got me thinking and a question we should all ask ourselves, what kind of human being do I want to be? Kevin wants to be a man of service. A man of love. This is my conversation with Kevin Powell, welcome to Kiss the Ground.
It gives me great honor to welcome our guest today, Marianne Williamson. She is an amazing woman. Best-selling author, starter of a non-profit, political activist, spiritual thought leader, and someone I have admired for many years. And someone I’ve personally know for the last ten years. She has written 14 books, multiple New York Times bestsellers, including her extremely popular title A Return to Love. She is also the founder of Project Angel Food, a non-profit that has delivered over 12 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients. Most recently, Marianne has stepped into the world of politics. She was a candidate for the 33rd district Congresswoman and a candidate for the President of the United States of America.This is my conversation with Marianne Willamson, welcome to Kiss the Ground.
Mindahi Bastida Muñoz is the Director of the Original Caretakers Program, Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, and General Coordinator of the Otomi-Toltec Regional Council in Mexico, a caretaker of the philosophy and traditions of the Otomi-Toltec peoples, and has been a Ritual Ceremony Officer since 1988.Mindahi is also the President of the Mexico Council of Sustainable Development, a member of the Steering Committee of the Indigenous Peoples’ Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative. Born in Tultepec (Tool-te-peck), Mexico, he holds a Doctorate of Rural Development. He has written extensively on the relationship between the State and Indigenous Peoples, as well as intercultural education. Here is my conversation with Mindahi Bastida.
The conversation with Graem Sait today is going to blow your mind. It is a lot. He is an encyclopedia, he is a machine gun of information, and he's going to take us through science and kind of nerdy technical information about how farmers can succeed going down this biological regenerative agricultural direction and hearing all the success stories Graham has had all over the world. He travels to 30 countries a year training agronomist farmers, ministers of agriculture, so you get to hear some of those successes, some of the challenges that farmers face, and then he brings it home back to human nutrition and how the link between soil health, plant health, and human health and the importance of mineralizing our bodies and what key minerals lead to functional health in the body. He speaks between soil and human health, and I think this podcast is really going to light you up. I hope it does, please enjoy the listen.
Last year, Kiss the Ground celebrated Earth day by having a conversation with Charles Eisenstein. He is a public speaker and author. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. His ideologies and practices should be used as a model for our society as a whole. I am happy to call Charles a friend, please enjoy my conversation with Charles Eisentein.
Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming John Boyd to the podcast. John has been fighting the good fight for over 30 years now. He is a civil rights activist, a farmer, and the founder of the National Black Farmers Association. Our discussion today involves much more than farming. We learn about his family roots, the obstacles he’s had to overcome as a black farmer, and how the future looks for everything agriculture. Please enjoy my conversation with John Boyd.
Charles Massy is an amazing human being. He is an author. He is a poet. He is a regenerative farmer, with 50 years plus of farming. He discovered regenerative agriculture late in his life, went back at 58 to get his Ph.D., and now he is an author and expert traveling the world and communicating the potential and the possibility of regenerative agriculture. His famous and noteworthy book is called "Call of the Reed Warbler" which has been printed 14 different times. Please enjoy our conversation.Be sure to subscribe and rate our show! Episodes drop every Thursday.
On today's podcast, you are going to have the opportunity to hear from John D. Liu, who is truly a legend in the regeneration ecosystem restoration community, and body of knowledge. He is just such a wise sage. Somebody who has lived their life in contemplation around how can ecosystems, how can people, how can communities live in harmony in symbiosis with nature? John D. Liu is a filmmaker and ecologist. He also is a researcher in several world institutions. He's a fellow from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also the ecosystem ambassador for the Commonland Foundation in Amsterdam. And John D. Liu is also the Ecosystem... He founded the Ecosystem Restorations worldwide movement, which aims to restore degraded ecosystems on a large scale. You are going to be blown away. You're going to be awakened. You're going to be inspired. Truly today's conversation is awakening the possibilities of regeneration. And I just trust that you're going to love it.
Today's guest is Erin McMorrow, who is intimately related to Kiss the Ground. She was our first executive director. She met us in Paris for COP 21 when we were able to get the soil story up on the Eiffel Tower. She is an amazing, amazing woman. She's an author, she's a guide, she's an artist. And really her path is, in her words, being a fierce, feminine, high priestess, and really that she's here to embody love. Her book has just launched, it's called Grounded. It's really about the connection between the fierce, feminine, spiritual energy and the connection of our earth and the connection to our soil. Please enjoy, Erin McMorrow.
Welcome, welcome, everybody. I'm really, really excited for today's episode. We are having my big sister, Mollie Engelhart as a guest, who really is one of the most extraordinary human beings I know. The level of productivity and success and multitasking, and she does everything and everything well. She's a CEO for Sage Vegan Bistro restaurants. She's a chef, she's a regenerative farmer, she's an entrepreneur, she's a mother of three children under seven. She's a wife, she's a board member. She's a matriarch of her community, and really, today's conversation is how has she become such an amazing, powerful, productive, generous human being and do so many extraordinary things in such a short period of time? So, in today's conversation, we really dig into Mollie Engelhart's psychology and how she's created such a life of success.
*Re-Release* It gives me great honor to welcome our guest today, Marianne Williamson. She is an amazing woman. Best-selling author, starter of a non-profit, political activist, spiritual thought leader, and someone I have admired for many years. And someone I’ve personally know for the last ten years. She has written 14 books, multiple New York Times bestsellers, including her extremely popular title A Return to Love. She is also the founder of Project Angel Food, a non-profit that has delivered over 12 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients. Most recently, Marianne has stepped into the world of politics. She was a candidate for the 33rd district Congresswoman and a candidate for the President of the United States of America.This is my conversation with Marianne Willamson, welcome to Kiss the Ground.
Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages from Taos, New Mexico. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices, and healing inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. She blends undergraduate studies in human ecology at Stanford University, graduate work in Native American Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, and the indigenous worldview she grew up with to inform her perspectives and solutions. Her internationally acclaimed presentations are conveyed through the medium of poetry, music, and/or speech. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in Indigenous Studies with a focus on Indigenous Food Systems Revitalization. She is someone I admire greatly and I am truly proud to present to you my conversation with Lyla June Johnston.
Isis Indriya's multi-faceted work brings holistic and initiatory practices into dynamic and widely accessible forums. She is a facilitator of cultural and social evolution through her visioning, curation, and production of events and her role as an educator. She is co-founder, co-owner, and music promoter for the highly popular Haven Underground events venue, which stands at the epicenter of the creative and dynamic community of Nevada City where she lives. In addition, she maintains an active role in the Farm to Table dining experiences and Wild Women Wisdom events, and other fairs, special events, and festivals that help her home community thrive.
Hey everyone, welcome back to Kiss the Ground. I’m am beyond excited for today’s episode. Our guest is Will Allen. Will began farming organically in the Santa Barbara area in 1968 and was one of the first-ever organic farmers in the San Joaquin Valley. All of his stories are so impressive, it’s almost hard to believe one man could accomplish all he has in one lifetime. From his time in the Marine Corps to his devotion to farming the right way, Will’s character is overwhelmingly inspiring.In 2000, he took over the management of Cedar Circle Farm in East Thetford, Vermont. While in Vermont, Will fought for the labeling of all GMO products. And in 2014, his tenacious activism paid off as Vermont became the first state in the US to pass a GMO labeling law. This is one of the best conversations I’ve had and I’m so proud to present it to our audience today. Please enjoy my conversation with Will Allen.To learn more about today's guest visit the Cedar Circle Website
Welcome, everyone to another episode of the Kiss The Ground podcast. We have two guests today! An amazing filmmaker, Mallory Cunningham who's worked with Kiss the Ground over the last three years, making some of the beautiful content that we've created. Mallory contributed and worked on pieces that were featured on Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Sundays. And she has created an amazing piece that will be released in the month of May for Mother's Day featuring Carrie Richards, who also happens to be our second guest today. Carrie is an amazing young woman who's gone back to a five-generation family ranch to take over the operation and is doing it in a completely new way.Instead of doing it the old conventional way, she's really taking on this regenerative holistic management approach to how to regenerate the land and regenerate an abundant business. You can find more info about Carries's grass-fed beef here
Christo Miliotis is a doctor and scientist who has devoted his life and work to biodynamics. In today's episode, he walks us through some basic and complex principles we can all utilize to better our world. He wrote a lovely mantra: " The 'soilution' to climate change lies beneath our feet and it depends on what we choose to eat." We couldn't agree more.If you enjoyed this episode, leave us a rating, and be sure to subscribe!Listen to the Kiss The Ground Podcast right here every Thursday.
This week on Kiss the Ground, Ryland chats with a pioneer of medical research into brain-gut interactions, Emeran Mayer. His current research focuses on the role of the gut microbiota brain interactions has expanded to emotion regulation, chronic visceral pain, food addiction and obesity, cognitive decline, and autism spectrum disorders. Listen in as they discuss the importance of bacteria and healthy habits at the earliest stages in our lives.You can find everything you need to know including Emerans publications on his Website.Be sure to subscribe and leave us a rating!
Having grown up in extreme poverty in the Northern rainforest of Guatemala, Regi has committed his life to do whatever he can to ensure that he contributes to alleviating the conditions that create the same suffering for others, no matter where in the world they may be. To this lifelong and global task, he brings a boundless passion and a long history of entrepreneurship. Back in Guatemala before migrating to the US in 1992, he managed the marketing department for an organization that sold crafts from over 3,500 indigenous people from 42 communities. Once he arrived in the US, he started a few similar businesses and in 1995 started the process of founding, organizing, conceptualizing, and later launching and managing the start-up phase of Peace Coffee, one of Minnesota’s premier fair-trade coffee companies.I hope you enjoy our conversation.
Tashanda is an environmental educator cultivating a network of like-minded individuals, organizations, and activists eager to support the learning and growth of urban youth in Los Angeles, California. To date, Tashanda is applying innovative, relative place-based, project- and action-focused environmental education at Environmental Charter Middle School Inglewood as a Green Ambassadors Teacher. We hope you enjoy this episode of Kiss The Ground!
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is one of the environmental movement’s leading voices and a pioneering architect of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. His work includes founding successful, ecologically conscious businesses, writing about the impacts of commerce on living systems, and consulting with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. Paul is the founder of Project Drawdown, a non-profit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed. The organization maps and models the scaling of one hundred substantive technological, social, and ecological solutions to global warming.