This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 25.

I started to move much more quickly towards understanding that we have a responsibility in marketing, our nature.

We have a responsibility in protecting nature.

And we also have an opportunity to look at the world from a very different perspective.

Welcome to a Sustainable Mind podcast, where we delve into the minds behind today's most

impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental

changemakers of tomorrow.

I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander.

Kara McMillan is a financial planner and consultant. She teaches sustainable investing, as well as

how to integrate sustainability into your everyday life in order to save money and save the planet

each and every day. If you are looking to make big money and make a big difference, she is definitely the one to talk to.

So we're very happy to have her.

Kara, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much for having me this morning, Marjorie.

So I love to always jump right in with a quick question to our guests about how nature, the environment, and

sustainability played a part in their lives growing up. Can you tell us about that?

To be honest with you, it didn't. When I grew up, I grew up in an urban center and there was very

little access to nature, very little access to or any type

of focus on sustainability. It was sort of just there. And then one day, I think I was probably

more in the university years that I started to study some of the romantic poets,

Wordsworth, William Butler Yates, and their words and their description of nature really touched my soul.

So I found myself going out into nature for the first time in my life and taking long hikes and looking

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