92) Looking past ads telling us we need things we don't need with BuyMeOnce's Tara Button
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Why should durability be a key factor to take into account when we try to shop more sustainably? How are advertisements set up to potentially manipulate our thinking, and how can we address that ourselves in order to protect our mental health?
Sharing her wisdom here is Tara Button, the Founder of BuyMeOnce, a website which finds the most sustainable and longest-lasting products on the planet. Let's dive in.
HIGHLIGHTS
[7:56] How Tara and her team determine which items are the longest-lasting products on the planet to stock.
[16:46] Tara discusses the dangers of advertising and how consumers are constantly manipulated.
[19:43] How we can consciously address this problem as individual consumers.
[22:10] Kaméa: "Do you think there's a relationship between the accumulation of stuff and our perceived self worth?"
[25:22] Tara: "Unless you are enough as you are right now, no money will ever make you happier."
[26:19] Kaméa: "When you picture a future where everyone is buying things once, where do you see opportunities for growth from a business or economical standpoint?"
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
| 0:26.8 | We need your direct support in order to continue this podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | And you can help us out so, so much through a paid substack subscription to my newsletter at |
| 0:37.3 | camaya.substack.com or through a one-time |
| 0:40.4 | donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so |
| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:53.9 | As soon as a human has a certain amount, they're looking for the next thing and the next |
| 0:59.0 | thing and the next thing. |
| 1:00.3 | It will never be enough unless you are enough as you are right now. |
| 1:08.1 | Why should durability be a key factor that we take into account when we try to shop more sustainably |
| 1:15.3 | when we need to buy things? How are advertisements set up to potentially manipulate our thinking, |
| 1:21.8 | and how can we address that ourselves to protect our mental health? That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. |
| 1:29.4 | To receive weekly highlights from the podcast that can hopefully provide you with another |
| 1:33.1 | dose of inspiration, you can subscribe for free at greendreamer.com. |
| 1:37.7 | With that, to thank you for being here, you'll also automatically be entered to win our |
| 1:41.7 | monthly giveaways. |
| 1:43.1 | And for now, to our episode. Let's dive in. |
| 1:49.3 | Hey, it's Kamea Shane, and this is Green Dreamer, a podcast for creatives, visionaries, and entrepreneurs |
| 1:55.2 | dreaming of a sustainable future. Thank you for bringing your light. If you haven't already, |
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