Life-Scaping: Embrace The Regenerative Wisdom of Nature
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
If you do something that nourishes nature and your surroundings, you will certainly experience nourishment within yourself as well. This is what life-scaping is all about. Corrina Bellizzi delves into this concept further with Monique Allen, CEO of The Garden Continuum. Monique shares tips on the most sustainable ways of building indoor and outdoor landscaping. She explains everything that must be considered, from soil health, types of plants, and the reasonable cost of labor. Monique also talks about how landscaping can help regenerate your body and soul, giving you a better mindset and a stronger connectivity with the world.
About Guest:
Monique Allen is the CEO of The Garden Continuum, an award-winning, multiple seven-figure landscape design/build, and fine gardening company. She is the author of the book "STOP Landscaping, START Life-Scaping" and the founder of the Life-scape Method for landscape development. An active business coach and a "Gardener of People," Monique empowers owners to build compassionate cultures and eco-friendly practices that foster triple bottom line success.
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moniquetgc/
Guest Website: https://www.TheGardenContinuum.com
Guest Social: https://www.instagram.com/monique.allen/
Show Notes
0:00 – Introduction
3:28 - The "wasteful" landscaping industry
10:20 - What makes soil healthy or unhealthy
14:18 - The wisdom of nature
21:09 - Choosing (flowering) plants for landscaping structure
26:22 - The cost of landscaping labor
33:08 - The concept of "life-scaping"
40:22 - Benefits of biochar
45:24 - Final words
48:38 - Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | The idea of lifescaping for me has really become about, yes, I can lifescape a piece of land. |
| 0:06.7 | And yes, I can bring lifescaping to my business. |
| 0:09.4 | But really, this idea that we can have full agency in our lives in order to build beautiful lives that have all of the facets, you know, where we can really embrace being a parent. |
| 0:22.4 | We can really embrace being a friend. We can really embrace cooking food that what I have found |
| 0:29.3 | by really using the system in my business and in my life is that I actually have more energy. |
| 0:37.2 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact |
| 0:43.4 | of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:46.7 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:52.0 | You'll learn how you can make a difference. Vote with your dollars |
| 0:54.8 | and get involved today. Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. Hello, fellow do you gooders and friends. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist who's passionate about social impact and building a better, |
| 1:10.1 | more sustainable future. Each week, I invite you to building a better, more sustainable future. |
| 1:11.4 | Each week, I invite you to care a little bit more so that together we can all create that better |
| 1:17.4 | future. If you haven't already, I'll encourage you to subscribe, rate, and review wherever you |
| 1:22.7 | listen to podcasts. This simple action will help us reach more people as we continue to grow, and you'll be |
| 1:29.0 | alerted as soon as new episodes drop. Today, we're going to dive into the topic of regeneration |
| 1:35.1 | as it relates to building our outdoor and our indoor worlds, with landscaping and even |
| 1:41.7 | lifescaping. To head down this path, I'm joined by Monique Allen. |
| 1:46.8 | Now, Monique is a master creator, an interactive employer, a published author, and a fierce |
| 1:54.7 | industry advocate in the world of landscaping. She wrote a book to chronicle her thinking |
| 1:59.6 | and the lifescaping method with her book, Stop Landscaping, Start Lifescaping. She wrote a book to chronicle her thinking and the lifescaping method with her book. |
| 2:02.5 | Stop landscaping. Start lifescaping. As an active business coach, she's developed the regenerative |
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