029: Coffee Scrubs and Eco-podcasting with Trashy Beauty's Barbara Lee
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Barbara Lee is the founder of Trashy Beauty and host of the new podcast Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors. Barbara was born and raised in Hawaii, where she was instilled with the importance of protecting the fragile beauty of nature. Now, as a former journalist, barista, and conservationist, Barbara is combining her love of a minimal, zero waste lifestyle and coffee to inspire others to live a naturally beautiful life. In this episode, we discuss her inspiration for starting her coffee body scrub company, the challenges that come with starting your own podcast and her mission to bring awareness to the value of what we throw away.
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| 0:00.0 | This is A Sustainable Mind, Episode 29. |
| 0:03.9 | So what I wanted to do is I kind of wanted to have a little bit of a shock valley to it, |
| 0:07.9 | to show people that there is such usefulness for something that they normally just throw in the trash. |
| 0:14.0 | So if it's that coffee gowns are really valuable and I'm throwing coffee grounds into the trash, |
| 0:18.6 | what else is really valuable that I'm throwing away that could have other purposes? |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to a sustainable mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental |
| 0:39.8 | change makers of tomorrow. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander. |
| 0:51.4 | Today, we'll be speaking with Barbara Lee, founder of Trashy Beauty, which sells body scrubs made from recycle coffee grounds. |
| 0:58.8 | And she's the host of the new environmental podcast, Trash Talking with Eco Warriors. |
| 1:04.1 | Barbara, welcome to the show. |
| 1:06.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:07.4 | Absolutely. |
| 1:08.5 | So, firstly, before we get into Trashy Beauty and your new podcast, I want to hear a bit |
| 1:14.9 | about the role that nature and environmental sustainability played in your life growing up. Can you |
| 1:20.6 | tell us a bit about that? Sure, yeah. I was born and raised in Hawaii, on Oahu, Pearl City, |
| 1:27.3 | and I left the island when I was 13. |
| 1:31.4 | My parents moved us to Las Vegas, which is probably the most opposite place you could go to |
| 1:37.3 | live from Hawaii. |
| 1:39.2 | And it's something that I don't think I really reflected on how that impacted me and the care |
| 1:47.8 | that I had for the environment until I was much older. |
| 1:51.6 | So I moved to Las Vegas and then I spent some time living in Boston for college and I moved |
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