Music to save the world- What has you come alive? (37 mins)

Two Natural Ladies interview Charlie Mgee creator of the Australian band Formidable Vegetables:

Charlie Mgee, created his band after doing a two week permaculture course. His aim: using music to save the world! Charlie has a huge mission to heal the world using permaculture and music. 

Living at Melliodora in Daylesford Victoria at David Holograms’ property, he has been fortunate to live in a community and be sustainable during the crazy times of the pandemic of 2020. Charlie and his partner have not been idle, having created a schools program “Grow Do It” for upper primary aged kids. 

Charlie also talked about community living, inspiring the next generation and using our neighbourhoods to create gardens and support for each other. AND ask yourself and other ‘What has you come alive? What are your passions?’ follow that and you will find your way. AND be part of the solution

A quickie with Vicki and Jo: (4mins 52 seconds)

Two Natural Ladies explore what being simply irresistible means to them 😁

Two Natural Ladies talk about spreading the fun and contributing to others. In this snippet they explore contribution, addiction to the extraordinary, collaboration and relationships.

This is not about us flaunting around being sexy J - it’s about the positive impact we can have on others.

Enjoy this exploration into what lights us up as humans

 

“Let me be my crazy” (20mins 03seconds)

Two Natural Ladies interviews Brian Baker, Muso and Eco Warrior. Brian shares his experience during Co-Vid- using his home studio. As no one could join him in his studio he became innovative, sending files to his drummers,  who then sent them back, which allowed Brian to mix the drums with his music.

Jo & Viki discover Brian is leaving Australia to return back home to New Zealand where he plans to create an off grid studio, a permaculture garden -start living what he believes.

Brian has had the opportunity to work with Split Enz, Crowded House, Eddie Rayner and now he plans to serve the land, work with the land and watch how the land works with him.

An inspiring man with an incredible vision.

Includes his new song produced in 2020 “In our Backyard” – and the story behind the making of it.

Can Sustainability be Financially Lucrative? (23mins&53secs)

Two Natural Ladies interview Meryl Sukumar from Subcintus Consulting on creating a Circular Economy

Meryl starts this interview by telling us an ancient Sufi story involving blind men and an elephant. One blind man thinks the elephant is a snake as he touches the trunk, another thinks it is a tree as he touches the elephant’s legs. The morale of the story: you need to get the whole picture - and this is what Meryl does with her systems approach.

These days it is important for businesses to reduce their risk profile through sustainability. 70% of people are more aligned with a business that is sustainable. They will spend more money with this business and will invest with companies that are people lead not stakeholder lead.

Meryl’s philosophy of creating a circular economy through:

Reducing: the businesses consumption in current operations

Reusing: some of the ‘waste’ in other ways

Upcycle: using new technologies

 

Jo & Vicki discuss with Meryl traditional businesses, innovation, paradigm shifts and integrity.

A thought provoking and not to be missed interview

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Two Natural Ladies Interview with author Debra Pascoe- VIVE (26 Mins)

When Co-Vid started Debra rewrote her book “Get: Better; Stronger; Smarter”. With people feeling frightened and the upheaval caused by lockdown, not seeing family and friends, Debra felt we needed to focus on living.

During our discussion we talked about grief and loss and the need to accept what is. Debra shared her horrific year, 2014 and the journey through to once again thriving.

Ask: “What can I do to make me feel better?” Smile. Find one thing that you like to do each day to help release endorphins. 

4 stages of growth: Survive; Arrival: Revival; Thrive

Throughout Co-Vid we are learning purpose and how to be productive. Seeing the importance of diet and exercise and a smile 




A Quick Conversation: Animal Australia: A kinder world (2 mins 35 seconds)

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” Helen Keller

A few uplifting animal stories

Baby Elephants falling from the sky: Kenya’s Ambroseli National Park has seen an elephant baby boom – 140 new babies have been born in the first ten months of this year

Two Beluga Whales Little White and Little Grey were set free from an aquarium on Shanghai and moved to a sea sanctuary in Iceland and will soon be set free

France has banned the use of animals in travelling circus’s and dolphins and Orcas in marine parks. A new era in our relationship with these animals

250,000 hectares of farmland in the U.K. may be given back to the wild with the hope Beavers, minxes and pelicans will come back to the area over the next

Good Edi Interview

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Wouldn’t it be great if our takeaway coffee cups were compostable – even edible…AND made locally in Melbourne???

Well guess what! We have the collective ability to make it happen – listen to our interview with Catherine from Good-Edi and hear what they have planned.

All they need now is help with funding – let’s make this happen !!

www.good-edi.com

A Poem for Two Natural Ladies by Graeme Johnstone

A lovely note from Graeme that accompanied his wonderful Poem –

Hi Vicki and Jo, you might remember - I will understand if you don't because it was about three lockdowns ago - Pauline O'Brien asked if I could do a poem for your show. I started off well - I checked out your website, listened to some programs and phoned you. But I was also writing and publishing two books of poetry at the time, so I got just a le-e-etle bit distracted. The books - 'OK Boomer' and 'Chardonnay Socialist' -  are now out, so yesterday I sat down, honoured my promise, and attached is the result.

Cheers and thanks,

Graeme Johnstone, Friday Magazine, Southern FM

THANK YOU

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Acknowledging the people we have interviewed (we tried to remember everyone). Ross & Ramona Headifen: Natalie Isaacs: Nina Gbor; Jamie Ramos: Josie Jones: Zoe Hogg; Susie Parker: Elle Paton: Sarah Hudson; Tanya Lewis: Marina Pitisano: Wendy Marshall; Stephanie Rother; Sandra Bader; Amalie Digby: Dax Stanley: Giorgio- Destiny Rescue; Peter: Change the One; Braith Bamkin

Thank you to everyone who has come onto our show and the difference you make and apologies if we have not included you 3mins 29 seconds

Snippet - Do it for the trees.

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Creating a successful sustainable business doing good in the world. Two Natural Ladies love Who Gives a Crap- using bamboo for toilet paper is a lot more sustainable. 

Bamboo is technically a grass and the fastest type of bamboo grows a metre a day. 

Bamboo to bathroom – and the toilet paper is softer too ☺ 2 mins 11 seconds

Interview with Mr Stroodle sells his noodles

“We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly, 

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We need millions of people doing it imperfectly” Anne Marie Bonneau Zero Waste Chef

Vicki and Jo chat with Maxim Gelman from “Stroodle the Pasta Straws”

They were introduced to Maxim, via their UK connections and were interested to find out more about the pasta straws and Mr Stroodle. You can stir your drink then eat the straw!

Flavourless straws made with wheat and water, sustainable and edible. Maxim is all about fun – a bit like the Two Natural Ladies and he’s finding ways to educate and be interactive with his straws and his fun art sculpture projects his planning with the public made from plastic waste. 

Maxim sees his straws as a gateway for change. Something easy for people to switch from plastic or paper to noodle which may lead to more sustainable changes - 16 mins 33 seconds



Snippet - Becoming Food Waste Free

1 in 5 grocery bags that come in to Australian homes is wasted, causing millions of tonnes of CO2. This contributes to the 3.3 billion tonnes of CO2 worldwide released into the atmosphere due to food waste globally

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Jo and Vicki discuss 1 Million Women’s Food waste October and Vicki repeats 20% of the food we buy is wasted

We waste food, money and damage our environment. And Prince Willy needs feeding (see Ew Yuk by Kelly Mrocki for more information) 2 mins 39 seconds

Two Natural Ladies Interview with Natalie Isaacs

Natalie talks about her journey into the world of sustainability. “I’m just one person how can I make a difference” stopped her for many years. In 2006 when Natalie decided to decrease her electricity consumption by 20% a light bulb went on 1Million Women was created

Without much understanding of business plans and what exactly to do, within a year Natalie had 46,000 people in her group.

Communication is to empower, mindful of their language to uplift

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Discussion on food waste: For every five bags of food we bring into the house, on average one bag is thrown into the bin. Dangerous methane gases are formed when food is thrown away.

Vicki & Jo & Natalie talk about the Journey of food, using left overs, not over cooking, buy less and then giving the left overs to the worms and the dogs. AND this helps our hip pocket

Natalie’s Number One recommendation: FALL MADLY DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH THE EARTH!

And Vicki’s takeaway from hearing Natalie speak – for every 5 shopping bags that come into a household, 1 is wasted !!

Extract from Show 55 – 8 Sept 2020