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Are you ready to escape the matrix and lead your most conscious life? Confronting the truth can be a deep, twisted, insightful, and sometimes painful journey. But with the state of our world today, it is one we must embark on to save the planet and ourselves.
On this podcast, we will continue that journey together with your host Steph L Dickson. We’ll be talking about climate change and consciousness, sustainability and spirituality. Taking fascinating, yet sometimes complicated topics and breaking them down into digestible and actionable chunks, so that we can live wide awake.
On this podcast, we will continue that journey together with your host Steph L Dickson. We’ll be talking about climate change and consciousness, sustainability and spirituality. Taking fascinating, yet sometimes complicated topics and breaking them down into digestible and actionable chunks, so that we can live wide awake.
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In this episode, we are speaking to Peggy Chan, WFPB Chef-Restaurateur, social entrepreneur, systems educator and Executive Director at Zero Footprint Asia. Previously she ran the most successful plant-based restaurant in Hong Kong - Grassroots Pantry. She’s on a mission to scale traceable, regenerative and circular food systems in Asia.
Over the years Peggy has emerged as one of the region’s most authoritative voices on organic sourcing and systems thinking design. She is an alumni of Global Shapers Hong Kong, World Economic Forum, an active member of the Chefs' Manifesto SDG2 Advocacy Hub, a two time Ted X speaker, and a HK Environmental Excellence Awardee in the service sector.
We talk about the industrialised food system, transitioning to regenerative and circular systems, the importance of education and so much more.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Peggy:
Website: https://www.zerofoodprintasia.org/
Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-chan-a15a1649/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this epsiode, we are speaking to Lilly Gilbert, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mandala Club and the co-founder of the Circular Community Singapore and UK.
Lilly is a sustainability professional and impact investor with over 15 years of experience in the private sector and for NGOs across Europe and Asia.
She advises on on carbon, waste and sourcing strategy, and helps companies develop their sustainability agenda, embed it in operations and communicate it to customers.
We talk about true cost accounting, the challenges and opportunities in feeding a growing global population, why we need to be more optimistic and solution orientated in the climate conversation and so much more.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Lilly:
Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilly-milligan-gilbert-61182718/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to Dan Sherrard-Smith the Founder & CEO of MyMotherTree, the world's first money carbon calculator. They help businesses and individual to maximise their impact by greening finances - so that we can fund the future we want.
This is such an important topic because when we include financial emissions, the average carbon footprint for an SME doubles!
Previously Dan built Look After My Bills that achieved the best-ever deal on Dragons' Den.
We talk about how we can decarbonise businesses and individuals money carbon, which pockets of money and investments hold the power, how we can address the unconscious challenges and blocks to moving money, and so much more.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Dan:
Website: https://www.mymothertree.com/
Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-sherrard-smith/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to author, activist, and changemaker Osprey Orielle Lake. She is the founder of Women's Earth and Climate Action Network( WECAN), sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
She works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean energy future.
We talk about the legal system we need to protect nature, why indigenous people are scientists, how we can heal our separation from nature and so much more.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Osprey:
Website: https://ospreyoriellelake.earth
Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osprey-orielle-lake-4286bb12/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
This week we have a special episode, a fireside chat I moderated during our recent Conscious Festival in Singapore with the ever-inspiring Arizona Muse on the topic: fashion as a climate solution.
Arizona Muse, credited as the new face of American fashion nay Vogue, has graced the cover of over 40 international Vogue magazines.
But through the glitz and glam, she has kept her feet on the ground, figuratively and literally—in the soil—and has found that that has resonated the most.
Her life’s mission is to raise awareness about the climate emergency and climate solutions, which lead her found DIRT charity.
She is also an Oceans Ambassador for Greenpeace, Advisory Board Member of The Sustainable Angle, and Advisory Board Member of The Biodynamic Demeter Alliance.
In this conversation, Arizona will tell us all about why regenerating soil is one of the most crucial pieces to saving the world, why fashion can and should be a climate solution and so much more.
It’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Arizona:
Website: https://www.dirt.charity/ | https://www.arizonamuse.earth/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/arizona_muse/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
Hey it’s Steph Dickson and welcome to the Live Wide Awake podcast. Thank you for being one of our listeners in 88 countries around the world.
Today we are speaking to Angela Sim and Lynn Yeo the founders of Cloversoft. Founded in 2014, Cloversoft is committed to creating and producing toxin-free and eco-friendly daily consumables for sustainable living at affordable prices for all. The two are both prestige 40 under 40.
In this episode, we talk about how the duo went from banking to creating toilet paper, and a sleuth of sustainable household products after, the toxic load of products, why there are polar bears on their products, why we need to make eco-friendly choices convenient and so much more.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Cloversoft:
Website: https://cloversoft.com.sg/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/cloversoft/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
This is a special episode, a panel discussion I moderated during our recent Conscious Festival in Singapore on changing the narrative on climate futures. We had an all-star, all-female panel with:
> Minister Grace Fu - Minister for Sustainability and the Environment
> Esther An - Chief Sustainability Officer of City Developments Limited - one of TIME 100 Climate, an SDG Pioneer in 2018, Vice Chair of the World Green Building Council Corporate Advisory Board among many others.
> Dr. Darian McBain - CEO of Outsourced Chief Sustainability Officer Asia and previously the first Chief Sustainability Officer for the Monetary Authority of Singapore. She was also a UN SDG Pioneer 2021 for a Sustainable Ocean Economy and listed as one of Fast Company Most Creative People in Business in 2020.
> And MJ Kong - co-fonder of Just Keep Thinking, a leading edutainment platform for all things science and nature in South East Asia. With over 235k followers on Instagram, 149k followers on Facebook, 124k followers on TikTok - they are experts in taking complicated topics and explaining them with simplicity and ease.
We talk about how every decision we take today has a ripple effect on our future, where we are on climate narratives and actions through the difference lenses, and where we might see ourselves in the future.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episdoe, we are speaking to Tez Steinberg who was the first person in history to row across the Pacific Ocean alone from California to Hawaii with no prior rowing experience. The journey took 71 days and 2,700 miles, powered only by sheer will and two oars.
Tez was named one of the "50 Best Young Minds in the World" by the World Economic Forum and you can see why. Hearing his story of resilience, determination and simple yet precise wisdom blew me away.
We talk about the comfort crises, finding our ocean and the courage to cross it, death as a beautiful teacher and misconceptions around the ocean plastic crises.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Tez:
Website: https://unitedworldchallenge.org/ | https://teztalk.com/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/tezsteinberg/?hl=en | https://www.instagram.com/unitedworldchallenge
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode we are speaking to Alina Truhina, CEO and Managing Partner of The Radical Fund, an early-stage VC fund investing in founders who are delivering climate resilience for Southeast Asia.
Alina is also the Co-Founder of Founders Factory Africa, the pan-African venture studio and VC Fund, where she raised over US$140million from LPs and investors. Before that she helped scale over 76 tech ventures in 9 countries across East Africa and South Asia. And spent seven years at the World Bank.
We talk about the inclusive climate transition and the unfair advantage of Silicon Valley, the importance of mitigation and adaptation ventures, what it means to be radical and the importance of relearning.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Alina:
Website: https://www.theradicalfund.com/
Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinatruhina/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to the incredible Dr Loretta Chen, co-founder and CEO of Smobler Studio, a leading virtual architecture firm building in The Sandbox. An acclaimed creative director, a Straits Times bestselling author and a respected professor, Loretta is hailed as “a force of nature” and “Asia’s Anna Wintour. She was also shortlisted as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore and is an International Consultant to the investment arm of the Royal Government of Bhutan.
We talk about being a multi-hyphenate, why creativity and conflict are more similar than they are diverse, finding grace in adversity, the metaverse and a decentralised future and so much more.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Loretta:
Website: https://www.drlorettachen.com/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/drlorettachen/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-loretta-chen-56262723/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to Chris Wedding founder of Entrepreneurs For Impact (climate CEO mastermind peer groups) and a professor at Duke University. Chris is a former private equity investor, award-winning professor, startup founder, investment banker, and executive coach, with over $1 billion of investment experience and 75,000 professional students taught.
I first discovered Chris through his amazing newsletter which talks about climate, startups, productivity, leadership - and always has a skimmable summary of what’s happening and excellent resources.
In this episode, we talk about the exciting and terrifying of climate tech, being an expert in failure, innovation, success, watering your mind, and so much more.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Chris:
Website: https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.com/
Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwedding/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hello@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to Marc Nicholson, founder of private members club 1880.
Marc Nicholson has been an entrepreneur for 17 years. With a colourful past including child acting, manning a suicide hotline, coaching Cyprus’s national squash team, volunteering in an Indonesian village, venture capital, advertising, men’s grooming and even a sting in the US Naval Academy.
In this episode, we talk about the power of conversations, the importance of human connection, the future of humanity, being lost and big transformations, why listening is good for our health and so much more.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Marc:
Website: https://www.1880.com.sg/
Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-nicholson-b36449/ | https://www.instagram.com/1880singapore/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to Brandy Dallas, the founder of waste-neutral sustainable fashion brand SANS FAFF, a Vogue Innovation Prize Finalist.
Brandy worked in luxury as the former marketing manager at Tiffany’s and Marina Bay Sands for the Shoppes. Deciding if she was going to work as hard as she was it might as well be for herself, she decided to be part of the solution to bring fashion, luxury, sustainability and affordability together in a modern minimalist label.
We talk about waste-neutral fashion, building a sustainable fashion brand from cradle to grave, the beauty and material science of bamboo and so much more.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Brandy:
Website: https://www.sansfaff.sg/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/brandydallas/ | https://www.instagram.com/sansfaff/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hello@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to Laura Storm, founder of Regenerators and co-author of the best-selling book Regenerative Leadership. Laura has spent her entire career working at the intersection of sustainability, organizational development, climate change policy and the intelligence of nature.
She has started and led multiple international organisations including the Copenhagen Climate Council and Sustainia.
She was awarded the title “world changer” by GreenBiz, named one of the 30 leading women in sustainability by Sustainable Brands, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Sustainability Expert and serves on many boards.
We talk about inner and outer ecosystems, regenerative leadership for a thriving world, why regeneration needs to be a business norm, the dance with ego and cultural programming and so much more.
I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Laura:
Website: https://laura-storm.com/ | https://www.regenerators.co/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/storm_laura/ | https://www.instagram.com/regenerators.co/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to Christopher Lafayette, an emergent technologist, humanitarian in virtual and augmented reality applying his talents to the metaverse, ai, medtech, education, web3 and applied sciences.
Chris is the founder of GatherVerse, which fosters conversations about what the metaverse can and should be to benefit humanity. He is also the founder of The Black Technology Mentorship Program, supporting the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. And he sits on various advisory councils and boards, bringing thousands of communities and millions of people into the metaverse, humanely.
We talk about the intersection of humanity and technology, AI ethics, intentions and manipulation, regenerative approaches, innovation tipping the scale, and so much more.
I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Christopher:
Website: https://www.christopherlafayette.com/
Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherlafayette/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to Dr Dain Heer, author, speaker, change-maker and the co-creator of Access Consciousness - a powerful personal development company that invites you to value possibilities over problems to rewire negative thought processes.
He began his career journey as a chiropractor, and over the last twenty years, he developed his signature energy work called the Energetic Synthesis of Being, which invites a new level of awareness, communion and transformation with bodies. He also launched a sustainable resort in Italy called El Lugar.
This conversation spoke to so many different levels and layers to me. It sparked so much joy and aliveness in me, I didn’t even realise I needed.
We talk about addiction to heaviness, how energy doesn’t lie, collective unconsciousness, tools to find and choose the light, judgement vs gratitude, choosing to be free and so much more.
I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Resources:
Clearing statement | https://www.accessconsciousness.com/theclearingstatement
Stay connected with Dain:
Website: https://drdainheer.com/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/dainheer/ | https://www.instagram.com/accessconsciousness/
Stay connected & support the show:
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
There is no digital world without the natural world! In this episode, we are speaking to Sophia and Maria Li - two sisters and the co-founders of Steward using digital art to protect our natural world.
Sophia Li is an award-winning multimedia journalist and climate advocate. Harvard named her one of the top climate communicators of 2022 and she is an ambassador for the United Nations Human Rights Division. She is also the host of Meta’s podcast, Climate Talks, and was part of the founding team of Vogue.com.
Maria Li is the Chief Operating Officer for Tech in Asia, one of the leading digital media publications covering Asia’s tech and startup scene. Prior to Tech in Asia, Maria worked at Apple as a business operations and commercial strategy manager and as an emerging markets consultant with Deloitte.
We talk about the climate funding gap, web3 and blockchain for impact, the importance of ecological currency, climate optimism/delaying/apathy and so much more.
I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Maria & Sophia:
Website: https://www.steward.eco/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/steward.eco/ | https://www.instagram.com/sophfei/ | https://www.instagram.com/marialiiiii/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
What is ecocide? Why should we care? What can we do? This week we are speaking to Jojo Mehta, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International, who is pursuing their goal to have Ecocide - mass damage and destruction of nature - added to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a fifth crime alongside Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Crimes of Aggression.
In this episode, we talk about the global ecocide movement and the momentum it is seeing, the impact and ripple effects of what this law would mean, activism, the importance of attention, and so much more.
I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Jojo and Ecocide:
Website: https://www.stopecocide.earth/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/ecocidelaw/
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode of the Live Wide Awake podcast, we are speaking to Dr Isla Myers-Smith a global change ecologist, National Geographic Explorer, Chancellor's Fellow and Chair of Climate Change Ecology at the University of Edinburgh.
Her research examines the ‘greening of the Arctic’ and how plants are responding to climate warming and impacts including shrub expansion and permafrost thaw.
We talk about why the Arctic is warming 4 times as fast as the rest of the planet, the latest IPCC report what it means and what we can do, the greening of the Arctic, tipping points, and so much more.
I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Dr Isla:
Website: https://teamshrub.com/
Social media: https://twitter.com/IslaHMS
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
In this episode, we are speaking to Linda Cruse, International humanitarian, world-class leadership coach, entrepreneur, speaker, author and founder of the Race4Good.
Counting the likes of the Dalai Lama, King Charles and Richard Branson as her mentors and guides, Linda inspires, motivates, and captivates audiences through her incredible life of adventure and misadventure, including escape from a rebel army, being held at gunpoint, surviving severe hypothermia, and suturing her own face.
In this episode, we talk about her will adventures over the last two decades, taking an entrepreneurial approach to humanitarian work, how we can find happiness by being of service and so much more.
I hope you enjoy this smooth conversation thanks to our sound partner Audio-Technica.
Okay, it’s time to live wide awake.
Stay connected with Linda:
Website: https://lindacruse.com/
Social media: https://twitter.com/linda__cruse
Stay connected & support the show
Instagram: http://instagram.com/livewideawake
Support: If you enjoyed the show do consider making a contribution so we can keep having conscious conversations - https://www.patreon.com/livewideawake
Reach out: hola@stephldickson.com
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