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Real Talk, Whole Life

Cleaning House: the Politics of Clean Living w/ Lindsay Dahl

Real Talk, Whole Life

Cloud10

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Lindsay Dahl returns to talk about her newly released book, Cleaning House—a witty, grounded, and practical guide to detoxing your home and your mindset. We dive into the often-messy intersection of clean living, personal values, and public policy. From bipartisan wins to grassroots grit, Lindsay shares how everyday people can take action, stay hopeful, and find community in the chaos. This is your invitation to let go of perfection, lean into pragmatism, and maybe… still snack on Cheez-Its. 0:10 – Welcome and Lindsay’s book release! 1:30 – The deeper meaning behind clean living and navigating complexity and division 4:00 – Finding common ground, shared values across different communities 7:00 – Accountability in systems and leadership 8:30 – The power of individual advocacy 10:00 – Challenges and roadblocks in progress 10:45 – Small actions with big impact  and what it takes to stay engaged 12:20 – What the book offers readers 13:30 – Letting go of perfection 15:00 – The importance of community 15:45 – Making this work more accessible 17:20 – Reading and reflecting together and the role of storytelling 19:50 – Encouragement from leaders in the field 21:00 – A hopeful path forward 19:50 – Recognition and support from leading environmental voices 21:00 – Ending with hope, encouragement, and gratitude Find Lindsay: lindsaydahl.com instagram.com/lindsay_dahl linkedin.com/in/lindsay-dahl-3617076 Get Lindsay's new book Cleaning House: The Fight to Rid Our Homes of Toxic Chemicals almost anywhere books are sold! Find Stacy: ⁠⁠realeverything.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠instagram.com/realstacytoth⁠⁠ ⁠⁠missionmakersart.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm so excited to welcome you back, Lindsay, to talk about your new book cleaning house.

0:16.5

This is a early copy, but now, I know we had you on earlier to talk about potentially pre-ordering and all those things.

0:24.8

But now your book baby is in the world.

0:28.9

As someone who's published books, I can tell you, and you're a mother.

0:32.4

I'm a mother.

0:33.6

It's really like a child is birthed in the world, and it's going to be so magical when it's out there.

0:40.4

But one of the things that we talked about before that I'm hoping we can dive into in your book today is you talked about the social and political aspects of non-toxic living.

0:56.0

Can you give us a little bit of an overview of how you see those things being such an

1:02.1

important component of cleaning house, both within our own home, but also our own bodies,

1:09.6

but how that impacts us on a greater scale and how

1:12.6

that comes forward in your book? Yeah, I'm happy to. And thanks for having me back on.

1:18.2

Thanks to anyone listening who pre-ordered as well. I greatly appreciate it. Yeah, so in Cleaning House,

1:23.8

I kind of unpack a lot of the conversation you see is around the science of toxic

1:30.0

chemicals and what it means for our health and how you can make consumer choices that help protect

1:35.7

your health and your family. That is definitely covered in the book. But I think the more interesting

1:40.8

and the things that I'm certainly most passionate about are also the

1:44.8

politics and culture of clean living. And, you know, my work has always been nonpartisan. There

1:51.3

hasn't been a single law that I've passed that has been passed with a single party support.

1:58.0

You need Democrats, Republicans, independents alike to support legislation

2:02.5

and pass state and federal laws. So regardless of my personal politics, I've always been able

2:08.0

to set that aside because it's what makes for good policymaking, right? So on the politics

2:14.4

side of saying it's really interesting because the more people that have become aware of the issue of toxic chemicals and consumer products, and my specialty is in consumer goods, not necessarily food, now it's a national conversation. And there's a lot of great things about that. But it actually can cut against our progress. If we're not

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