Hi, I'm Sarah Ellis and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast.

This episode is one of our special series of short conversations that we've had with this year's LinkedIn change makers that we're also really proud to be part of.

Each of the people that we speak to is pioneering such important change in the world of work,

making a difference in areas like quality, mental health and sustainability.

We're really looking forward to learning more about how they've made change happen,

their hopes of the future and how we can all get involved.

Today you'll be hearing my conversation with Leila Ajara Lou. Layla is champion

change in sustainability and that's an area that we know our community are really interested to learn

more about. Layla is so passionate about the topic absolutely lives and breathes this day in

day out herself as well as teaching other people, including myself later

this year, how we can all think a bit more about sustainability in terms of the practices that we

have in our businesses and in our personal lives. And she's also got so many helpful resources that are

mainly free that you can access. And we've included links to all of those in our show

notes. So I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation today and I'll be back at the end to

let you know how you can learn more and who else you can hear from as part of this special

series. I'd love it if we could start our conversation today with you just summarising for our listeners

the change that you're really passionate about and pioneering. And then we'll dive into all the

details because I know this is the conversation our listeners are going to be really fascinated about.

Sure. Well, the kind of high-level change that I want to see is that we figure out how to live sustainably on the planet so that we can get to a point where we're regenerative as a species, meaning we give back more than we take, because we all know for a long time, we've just been take, take, take, take, take, take, make, make, waste, waste, and that's caused, well, a lot of problems for us. But also, it kind of strikes me as the next big challenge

that we have as a species is figuring out how to not only do the right thing and make sure that

our actions are not having unintended negative consequences on all the systems around us.

That's the same life on Earth, but also that we're like, use our smarts to do something good,

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