Flamingo Estate’s Richard Christiansen Says There’s Nothing Common About Your Senses

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Flamingo Estate founder Richard Christiansen wants us to reconnect with what’s important in life: food, our five senses, Mother Nature, and each other. He joins host Kerry Diamond to talk about his new book, “Flamingo Estate: The Guide To Becoming Alive,” and the events in his life that led to the founding of his cult brand. Richard also talks about his mentors, including Alice Waters, Martha Stewart, and Jane Goodall, why he wants to age like a peach or a plum, and why our senses are anything but common. This episode was recorded at Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center. Thank you to Kerrygold and Meridian Printing for supporting Radio Cherry Bombe. For Jubilee 2025 Early Bird tickets, click here. Order the holiday issue of Cherry Bombe Magazine. Visit cherrybombe.com for subscriptions and show transcripts. More on Richard: Instagram, Flamingo Estate, “The Guide to Becoming Alive” book More on Kerry: Instagram

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0:00.0	Hi, boys and girls are all fired up.
0:08.7	Boys and girls are all bad at.
0:11.5	Oh, world, shaking, drinking, baby, and we're all about it.
0:16.9	Hi, everyone.
0:18.0	You are listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming to you from Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City. I'm the founder and editor of Cherry Bomb Magazine. Today's guest is Richard Christensen, the founder of Flamingo Estate. Flamingo Estate is a lifestyle brand of sorts known for their bath and body products,
0:38.5	but there's so much more to them than that. Richard was a top creative director in the fashion
0:43.0	world when he decided it was time to get off the work treadmill he found himself on. He bought
0:48.5	a dilapidated old property in Los Angeles and set about restoring the gardens. In the process,
0:55.7	he changed his entire life and to outlook. Richard tells the story in his new book, Flamingo Estate, The Guide to
1:01.0	Becoming Alive. He joins me in just a minute to talk about his mentors, including Jane Goodall,
1:06.4	Martha Stewart, and Alice Waters, and why we all need to get in touch with ourselves and nature.
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