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Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, 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.

Thank you. of tomorrow. I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander. Moji Egan is the founder of Blue Daisy Consulting. Her company serves small businesses that want to reduce their waste and

implement more earth-friendly business practices. She works with individuals to use their companies as an avenue

to make more positive social and environmental change. Thank you for joining us, Moji. Thanks for having me.

I am so excited to talk about sustainable business, which is really how I kind of got into sustainability in the first place was through my entrepreneurial

ventures. And we'll get into that in a second. But the first thing that I want to talk about is

how nature, the environment, and sustainability played a role in your childhood growing up. Can you

talk a bit about that? Yeah, definitely. So that was actually very interesting for me to reflect on.

I actually didn't have like a real love

for the outdoors when I was younger. And that was because I didn't really love like bugs and insects.

So I tried to stay inside, away from the mosquitoes, away from the creepy crawlies, because I just

did not love that about nature. But I wouldn't,

and I wouldn't say that nature was as much of the main character as it is in my life now as it

was then. So I tend to lean more towards appreciating just beautiful landscapes. I'm really

lucky. I live in Seattle now. And I love getting to look over the city and see the water and the

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