The Purpose Driven Plate

Taylor is a former Marine, holistic lifestyle specialist, and founder of The Captain's Lifestyle Program where he helps social entrepreneurs optimize their work-life balance by maximizing their health, happiness, and productivity so they can continue to grow their impact.  In this episode, we discuss: ·     Coaching entrepreneurs in maximizing their performance– usually starting with their work-life balance. ·     The details of holistic lifestyle coaching, in always improving your mind and body. ·     Why entrepreneurs often don’t think in terms of nourishing their bodies, as they think of nourishing their business and ignoring their own needs. ·     The benefits to knowing where your food comes from in supporting ethical businesses and in turn helping you boost your own health. I hope you will find this podcast as fascinating as I have. Taylor’s business coaching a great stepping stone to getting more people happy and healthy in their consumption and their lives. Please let us know your thoughts! You can also listen to the show on these podcast apps:  iTunes Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Google iHeart Radio and C-Suite Radio Connect with Taylor Morgan Website: https://www.thecaptainslifestyle.com/ Connect with Bryan Charles Website: https://ketonedbodies.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketonedbodies/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ketonedbodies/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketonedbodies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Born in upstate New York, Stephen's formative years were spent in central Minnesota at Camphill Village Minnesota (CVM) as a staff child. It was there he discovered his love of the land and animals and his desire to champion those without voices.  Stephen has a BA in Environmental Science & Sustainable Agriculture from Warren Wilson College (Ashville, North Carolina), and a Certificate of Permaculture Design from Geoff Lawton. He recently left his position as Farm Manager at CVM and has continued to work in the agricultural sector while spending more time with his young child Henri and his partner Chrystal. Stephen is most excited about Biodynamics, Regenerative Agriculture, and Mycorrhizal Fungi. In this episode, we discuss: ·     The Buttermilk Falls community farm and its mission to extend farm education and community healing through a nonprofit. ·     Knowing where your food comes from and understanding your life comes from your environment. ·     How growing vegetables takes minerals and nutrients from the soil naturally, and part of a regenerative farm is replenishing those minerals to keep making rich crops. ·     How the access of carbon contributes to climate change, but the rerouting that carbon through regenerative farming is the source of life. I hope you will find this podcast as fascinating as I have. Stephen is in the trenches of regenerative farming and has amazing insights on progressing the movement in the industry. Please let us know your thoughts! You can also listen to the show on these podcast apps:  iTunes Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Google iHeart Radio and C-Suite Radio Connect with Stephen Briggs Website: https://www.buttermilkcsa.com/ LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-briggs-ba34536/ Connect with Bryan Charles Website: https://ketonedbodies.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketonedbodies/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ketonedbodies/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketonedbodies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Connolly is an artist, chef, non-profit founder and documentary film producer with Archer Gray Productions. He co-founded The Bubble Foundation, a non-profit focused on issues of wellness and food insecurity in inner-city public schools. The documentary film production team at Archer Gray Productions has produced films from Transmilitary, a film that explores equal opportunity and discrimination for the over fifteen thousand active-duty transgender soldiers serving in the military to Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Where to Invade Next, where Moore explores issues like mass incarceration, school food, criminal justice and student debt. In this episode, we discuss: ·     The difference between regeneratively grown organic produce and just plain organic. ·     James's documentary Sacred Cow; how it came about and the subject matter of environmentally-friendly beef. ·     The connection between environmental activism and the push for veganism instead of ethically produced meat. ·     The cultural impact of taking away the option of meat in commercially “healthy” diets. I hope you will find this podcast as fascinating as I have. James is a great resource in the arts community when it comes to spreading the message of regenerative agriculture.   Please let us know your thoughts!   You can also listen to the show on these podcast apps: iTunes Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Google iHeart Radio and C-Suite Radio   Connect with James Connolly Website: http://www.archergray.com/ Documentary: https://www.sacredcow.info/   Connect with Bryan Charles Website: https://ketonedbodies.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketonedbodies/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ketonedbodies/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketonedbodies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liza Baker is an Integrative Nutrition® health coach and nonprofit consultant, self-published author, blogger, podcaster, and woefully underpaid COO of a busy family of four spread across the globe. Liza spent almost 20 years in various roles in the nonprofit world, most recently working as a grants manager at a food systems organization that works at the intersection of healthy food access, sustainable agriculture, and social justice. Her sweet spot as a coach is supporting overworked, over-scheduled, overtired, and over-it workers in the mission-driven/nonprofit sector.  Liza received her health coach certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition® and an AAS in Culinary Arts from the Cooking + Hospitality Institute of Chicago. In the years BC—before children—she was the owner and executive chef of a catering and private chef company in Chicago and over the years has taught cooking, meal planning and nutrition to all ages. In this episode, we discuss: ·     How Liza moved from traditional catering to focus on how food can nourish you instead of the preparation process or serving look. ·     The relationship people have with their food and how it relates to their environment. ·     How Liza coaches clients to know how they’re showing up in their kitchen to cook with intent and know where the food started, and where it will end. ·     Nutritional properties of fresh food, and using food as medicine. Please let us know your thoughts! You can also listen to the show on these podcast apps: iTunes Spotify TuneIn Google iHeart Radio and C-Suite Radio Connect with Liza Website: https://simply-healthcoaching.com Podcast: https://anchor.fm/liza-baker LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lizabakera2   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/simplyhealthcoachinglizabaker/  Connect with Bryan Charles Website: https://ketonedbodies.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketonedbodies/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ketonedbodies/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketonedbodies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lynn Gorfinkle is the Owner and Chief Operating Officer of Roam Artisan Burgers, and is responsible for the operations of the restaurants. Lynn’s passion for sustainability and high-quality food that is prepared with better-for-you ingredients is showcased at ROAM. Over the past 12 years, she has honed her skills as a chef, instructor, manager and marketer in the culinary world. She began her career in Vermont, where she trained extensively in organic farming at Merck Forest and Farmland Center.   Lynn has served as Head Chef at The Heartwood Institute; Marketing Coordinator for Wild Oats Markets; and Vice President of Marketing at Wild Sage Foods, where she launched a fast-casual restaurant in Colorado. Lynn also developed and managed the operations of Viking Cooking Schools, the largest national cooking school franchise. She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, a certified Nutrition Counselor, professionally trained at the Natural Gour­met Institute in New York City and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations with a focus in Environmental Studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison. In this episode, we discuss: ·     Roam Burgers’s mission to know exactly where every ingredient comes from, down to the pickle ·     Why Roam Burgers is committed to regenerative farming to produce trusted products that just taste better ·     The impact of restaurant supply chain and voting every day with your dollar ·     How buying sustainable products helps your nutrition and the small farming businesses they came from I hope you will find this podcast as fascinating as I have. Roam Artisan Burgers is a one-of-a-kind restaurant business. Please let us know your thoughts! You can also listen to the show on these podcast apps: iTunes Spotify Google iHeart Radio and C-Suite Radio Connect with Lynn Website: https://www.roamburgers.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-gorfinkle-7381bb6/ Connect with Bryan Charles Website: https://ketonedbodies.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketonedbodies/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ketonedbodies/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketonedbodies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Tkach serves as the Chief Impact Officer for the Rodale Institute. Jeff is responsible for expanding Rodale Institute’s global influence in healing people and the planet by unlocking the transformational power of regenerative organic agriculture. As Chief Impact Officer, Jeff leads the development and execution of the Institute’s core strategies, overseeing opportunities for partnership and co-investment that drive positive outcomes for Rodale’s philanthropic and programmatic initiatives. Jeff served on the Rodale Institute’s Board of Directors in 2016, where he was instrumental in fostering relationships between the organization and business leaders in the organic food industry. In this episode, we discuss: ·     How Jeff’s unexplained collapse of health helped push him towards the regenerative movement ·     Why humans need to reconnect with the healthy rhythms of nature ·     Why teaching Americans to know where their food comes from is so important to their health ·     How flipping industrial agriculture to regenerative can even boost the economy ·     Rodale’s Institute’s 40-year experiment in growing food in regenerative soil versus commercial I hope you will find this podcast as fascinating as I have. Please let us know your thoughts! You can also listen to the show on these podcast apps: iTunes Spotify Google iHeart Radio and C-Suite Radio Connect with Jeff Website: https://rodaleinstitute.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rodaleinstitute LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-tkach-73a1373/ Connect with Bryan Charles Website: https://ketonedbodies.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketonedbodies/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ketonedbodies/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketonedbodies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David R. Montgomery is a MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington. He studies landscape evolution and the effects of geological processes on ecological systems and human societies. An author of award-winning popular-science books, he has been featured in documentary films, network and cable news, and on a wide variety of TV and radio programs. His books have been translated into nine languages. He lives in Seattle with his wife, and co-author, Anne Biklé. In this episode, we discuss: ·     Societies with a supply of really healthy, fertile have a relatively higher population and better survival rate ·     How regenerative agriculture can make intensive agriculture sustainable, and there’s more than one to get there ·     Why sustainably grown food and knowing where your food comes from can improve your health ·     How life is dynamic – growing food in regenerated soil will replace the microorganisms humans are missing I hope you will find this podcast as fascinating as I have. David is a leading authority on regenerative agriculture and what it can do to improve our society and our health in the 21st century. Please let us know your thoughts! You can also listen to the show on these podcast apps: iTunes Spotify Google iHeart Radio and C-Suite Radio Connect with David Montgomery Website: www.dig2grow.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dig2GrowBooks/ Connect with Bryan Charles Website: https://ketonedbodies.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketonedbodies/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ketonedbodies/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketonedbodies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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