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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 110 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Today I am just thrilled to welcome Lynn Twist to the show. |
0:18.0 | Lynn is an author and speaker who has dedicated her life's work to alleviating |
0:23.5 | poverty and hunger, empowering women and girls, and supporting social justice and environmental |
0:29.6 | sustainability. She and her husband Bill are the co-founders of the Pacha Mama Alliance, an organization |
0:36.9 | that is working in the Ecuadorian and |
0:40.0 | Peruvian Amazon with indigenous people to preserve the sacred headwaters of the Amazon rainforest. |
0:47.4 | She is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute and the author of the bestselling book, |
0:56.0 | The Soul of Money and the freshly released book, Living a Committed Life, Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in |
1:02.9 | a Purpose Larger Than Yourself. |
1:06.3 | In our conversation, Lynn shares the perspectives that she has gained from her decades as an activist |
1:12.8 | working to end hunger and poverty. |
1:15.1 | Her efforts as an executive of the Hunger Project has helped to reduce the number of hunger-related |
1:20.5 | deaths per day from 44,000 to 16,000 on a planet that has now doubled in population since the inception of the nonprofit. |
1:31.6 | She vividly shares wonderful stories, including her first meeting with Mother Teresa |
1:36.7 | and the mystical visions that led her to the Amazon rainforest. |
1:43.0 | Lynn does so much to improve the dream of the modern world, |
1:47.5 | including empowering women's leadership |
1:49.9 | and transforming people's relationship with money. |
1:54.6 | Lynn's work demonstrates how a commitment |
1:58.0 | to a purpose larger than yourself |
2:00.0 | will enable you to see new possibilities, |
2:03.0 | turn breakdowns into breakthroughs, engage in effective action, and draw on resources and |
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