A Resilient Approach To Forest Fire With Sandra Younger
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As the climate crisis continues to worsen, natural disasters will only get more dangerous, which leads to traumatic experiences if completely ignored. For this episode, Corinna Bellizzi focuses on forest fire and the urgent need for more resilient tools to get through such a dangerous phenomenon. Joining her is journalist and author Sandra Younger, who personally witnessed the 2003 Cedar Fire. She shares how she wrote a book about surviving this deadly wildfire, losing several of her neighbors, and discovering the right process of jumping back from your lowest points. Sandra also breaks down her Comeback Formula that teaches people hurt by natural disasters to get rid of their unhealthy victim mindset.
About Guest:
Sandra Younger lost her home, twelve neighbors, and almost her own life in the 2003 Cedar Fire–-for 14 years the biggest wildfire in modern California history and a bellwether of today's extreme climate-driven wildfire catastrophes. A powerful storyteller and veteran magazine journalist, Sandra felt compelled to capture the Cedar Fire story in her book, The Fire Outside My Window. Recently re-released as an updated 20th anniversary edition, Sandra’s book has been hailed as required reading for residents of wildfire country, adopted as a training text for top-level emergency professionals, and featured by national media. Sandra is also an international speaker and certified professional coach, dedicated to inspiring the resilience she learned through her fire experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Even though everyone calls you a victim right up to the fire, you can see it in the media report, |
| 0:05.4 | fire victims, right? |
| 0:06.7 | Which I recoiled at that. |
| 0:08.5 | I did not feel that I was a victim. |
| 0:10.6 | I felt I was a survivor. |
| 0:12.6 | And survivors have this funny way of evolving into thrivers and even givers who try to give |
| 0:18.9 | from what they've learned, sometimes even world changers. |
| 0:21.8 | Some of the people we most admire in the world have been through the worst adversities. |
| 0:26.0 | So I recoiled. I did not think I was a victim. |
| 0:29.8 | And I corrected people when they said that. And most people I interviewed felt that way too. |
| 0:34.6 | We've got our lives. We can start over. |
| 0:39.5 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, |
| 0:45.0 | a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and |
| 0:51.1 | personal gain. You'll learn how you can make a difference. Vote with your dollars |
| 0:55.1 | and get involved today. Here's your host, Karina Belizei. Hello and welcome. Today's episode is |
| 1:03.1 | going to be dedicated to every single person who has been impacted by floods, fires, earthquakes, |
| 1:09.6 | and other natural disasters, some of which seem to be occurring |
| 1:13.4 | ever more frequently as we all deal with the ravages of climate change and changing environment. |
| 1:20.1 | For those of you that are in areas that are already seeing these sorts of changes, like in my |
| 1:25.2 | Native California, this episode is bound to strike a nerve, |
| 1:29.1 | a cord within you. It may stir up some feelings, may cause you to reflect, and even feel some |
| 1:35.1 | latent sadness. But it will also provide you with more tools to really help you emerge, |
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