10: Rhiannon Menn | Neighborly Love + Lasagna = Community Bliss
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Corinna Bellizzi guides a conversation about food scarcity, hunger and community stress. These are challenges many people face every single day -- and problems that have only been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rhiannon Menn, founder of Lasagna Love joins the show to talk about caring for people in our communities and showing love through making and giving food to those that need help. We talk about incredible people who have been brought together through a love of food, community and giving.
About Our Guest - Rhiannon Menn:Rhiannon Menn is a mama, chef, and adventurer. She loves decaf coffee, traveling, and super fuzzy sweaters - which she unfortunately can no longer wear since she left New England. After the birth of her second child she had an epiphany: when she took good care of herself, she was much better at taking care of those around her. She founded Good to Mama as a way of changing the narrative about what it means to be a mom. In 2020, prompted by the COVID-related struggles of families in her community and her own feeling of helplessness, she founded Lasagna Love. A platform that connects neighbors for home-cooked meal delivery, Lasagna Love has transformed into a national movement of kindness, impacting thousands of volunteers and recipient families each week.
She is a graduate of Berkshire Community College, Brown University, and MIT Sloan, and is a StartingBloc fellow and Siebel Scholar. She has been featured on the Today Show, the Kelly Clarkson Show, in the Washington Post, and on SouthernLiving.com. She lives in Kihei, HI with her husband, two (soon to be three) children, and is relentlessly petitioning for a cat.
Guest Websites and Instagram Links
https://www.lasagnalove.orgInstagram @wearelasganalove
https://www.begoodtomama.com Instagram @begoodtomama
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:10.0 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:15.2 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
| 0:20.1 | Here's your host, Karina Belizey. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist and cause marketer who's passionate about social impact and sustainability. |
| 0:32.4 | In this episode, we are going to talk about food, the need for food, food scarcity, and hunger. |
| 0:38.7 | These are challenges many people face each and every day. |
| 0:41.9 | And so many more are facing now during the COVID pandemic. |
| 0:45.4 | We're going to talk about caring for people in our communities and showing love through giving. |
| 0:50.5 | We will hear about incredible people who have been brought together through the love of food, |
| 0:55.2 | community, and giving. We are going to talk about lasagna love. I'm thrilled to be joined today |
| 1:01.5 | by the accidental founder and chief of lasagna love, and that's my parlance, not hers, Riannon Men. |
| 1:08.5 | Riannon is an experienced consultant who works in the nonprofit, public, and private sectors. |
| 1:14.2 | She has spent her career helping organizations address critical challenges. |
| 1:18.2 | She's passionate about social impact. |
| 1:20.4 | And when COVID-19 hit, just had to help people in her community. |
| 1:24.3 | As a result, Lazzania Love was born. |
| 1:26.7 | So today, we're going to hear all about the impact |
| 1:29.3 | of Lazzani Love who put community first. Rianna, and welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:35.4 | This is wonderful. I'm so glad you're here. You know, the messages put into the digital space by |
| 1:40.9 | Lazzonialov are so simple and so beautiful. This is a quote from your site. Feed families, |
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