Ep. 34: BONUS: Brian Hart, M. Ed. - Reflections on Food and Pandemics
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week, during these uncertain and volatile times, we present a special episode with Brian Hart, M. Ed. Hart is a highly experienced educator with over twenty-five years in the field as a teacher, administrator, and advocate for school change in both the public and private sectors.
He is also Rip's brother-in-law and the Executive Director of the Esselstyn Family Foundation, a 501c3 public charity that strives to get the plant-based message out, free of cost, to as many people and medical organizations as possible.
Brian recently wrote a thought-provoking piece for Medium.com entitled, "Food Choice and COVID-19: Reflections on Food and Pandemics."
Today, he and Rip discuss the hope-filled lessons from this article and the silver linings we can take away during these uncertain times.Â
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. This week we've departed from our regularly scheduled episodes on |
| 0:07.1 | season two of the Heart of a Hero to bring you a candid and thoughtful |
| 0:11.7 | conversation with my brother-in-law, Brian Hart. Brian recently wrote a great |
| 0:17.0 | piece called Lessons from COVID-19 and I think it was and is a very |
| 0:24.7 | appropriate that given everything that's going on in the world around us |
| 0:29.7 | right now that we have a talk like this. You'll see that this took place in my |
| 0:37.2 | daughter's bedroom which during this time when all the kids are home from school |
| 0:42.4 | was the only place that I could duck into in the house that was quiet enough for |
| 0:48.0 | me to talk with Brian. I also want to apologize for any audio or video |
| 0:55.5 | quality issues that are happening. This is the first time that I haven't been |
| 1:00.8 | live face to face with the person that I'm interviewing but due to the |
| 1:06.4 | restraints right now with travel and social distancing this was the case. |
| 1:13.6 | And listen, I know that everybody out there is managing a lot right now and |
| 1:19.0 | and neither I nor Brian are coronavirus experts but like you we are learning how best |
| 1:26.0 | to correctly distance ourselves from our neighbors how to stock our pantries |
| 1:30.4 | for the weeks ahead and how to adjust to the new normal. I hope though that you |
| 1:37.9 | take away some thoughtful ideas and perhaps some hope on how this moment in time |
| 1:46.3 | might shift our world and awaken the possibility that change needs to happen. |
| 1:53.6 | We've already proven we can come together and do what it takes to keep our fellow citizens safe. |
| 1:59.9 | Perhaps a new day is coming where the conversation will turn to our food systems |
| 2:06.6 | and the ways that we can save the globe as well. We'll be back next week with our regularly |
| 2:12.8 | scheduled episodes and as always thank you so much for listening. |
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