Me, Myself, And I

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Sustainability chatter often centers around the importance of being selfless: Do better for waterways and ecosystems. Do better for endangered animals and, of course, do better for future generations, won't you? But humans tend to be self-centered as a species, and expert marketing has trained us to prioritize our personal whims over the collective. The result? Many tend to help others only if their needs and wants first feel fully fulfilled. Self-centeredness has a universal benefit: planetary wellness *always* starts with personal wellness. On today's show Brienne Derosier introduces her concept of the Wellness Onion as a means of explaining how caring for ourselves is a smart and sneaky means of learning to care for all things everywhere. Here's a preview: [5:30] Layer One: What are you consuming? [10:00] It's less about how you look and more about how you feel. Here's why [12:00] Layer Two: What are you putting on your body? [22:00] Layer Three: What are you putting in your home? [32:00] Layer Four: What is your long-term legacy? Resources mentioned: The International Living Future Institute -- Join our (free!) community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube. Email me and say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com. Our Sponsors:* Thank you to LifeStraw! https://lifestraw.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sustainable-minimalists/exclusive-content

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0:00.0	It has been a summer of self-care over here. I'm talking lots of hikes, lots of beach trips with the
0:06.4	sunscreen of course, you name it, I'm fitting it in before Labor Day. Wherever you're off to this summer, know that you're taking your microbiome with you. And seeds
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1:05.2	Well, hello there, listeners, and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian, and you're listening to episode 372 of sustainable
1:10.0	minimalist, a twice-weekly show, maybe three times depending on the week, two to three times a week
1:15.8	show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living. On today's show, we are attempting to accomplish a big thing which is to connect the
1:26.3	concepts of individual wellness with environmental wellness. Now this is heavy
1:32.3	stuff but to take the heaviness out of it, my guest and I, we are using a metaphor.
1:38.0	We're using an onion.
1:40.0	So when an onion is usually used in metaphor form, it's usually about peeling back layers to get to the core, right?
1:50.0	But not today. Today we are starting at the core, your core, because you are the core.
1:58.0	And so as we first work on our own cores and we get ourselves right, we get our own wellness right, we can then slowly,
2:07.6	layer by layer, move outward so that we can work towards helping other people and other things beyond ourselves.
2:17.0	If you have struggled to understand how on earth the concepts of conscious consumption and low talks living and low waste living and more
2:26.4	are related. This is the episode for you. Today I'm speaking with Brian de Rogier. She is an interior architect by trade and she is currently
2:36.2	the principal designer and CEO of Machet. She is rip-roaring ready to discuss all things onions and all things wellness onions.
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