Well, hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast.

This is episode number 31, and I'm your host, Brooke McCallory.

I am currently sitting on my bed next to my co-host, who also shares his bed, Ben McCallory.

Hey, folks, it's Ben McCallory from the Slow Home Podcast.

Sorry, just channeling my Mark Maren because we're going to go and see him tomorrow and up.

By the time you've listened to this, we would have seen him, one of our podcasting idols.

He is.

He's an inspiration in terms of podcasting.

Substance abuse and stuff, not so much.

Total different show and subject matter, but he is an inspiration.

He is.

He's awesome.

He's such a, yeah, such a good interviewer.

And as you are, you're developing into a great interviewer, if I can say that.

Your conversation today with Alex 2X, Stuart.

So tell me a bit about Alex.

Alex writes about Lothox living mostly. She runs some courses and writes a blog about

low-tox living, which is obviously pretty much what it sounds like, just learning to live

with less toxins and less nasty stuff, you know, the food that we eat and the things that we

put on our body and in our home, basically. So that's Alex's, you know, main focus. And we talk

about that quite a bit today, but we also talk about why she started to

shift from you know someone who worked in the cosmetics industry to someone who pretty much

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