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Real Talk, Whole Life

Rethinking 'Clean' Living with Lindsay Dahl

Real Talk, Whole Life

Cloud10

Science, Social Sciences, Entertainment News, Health & Fitness, News

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What if the most toxic thing in your home isn’t a chemical—but a mindset? Clean living advocate and first-time author Lindsay Dahl returns to unpack the nuanced middle ground of wellness, environmental health, and personal agency. Together, we explore the emotional toll of trying to “do it all right,” the dangers of black-and-white thinking in the age of social media, and why real change takes both individual action and systemic accountability. We talk spatulas and seed oils, fast fashion and flame retardants, fear and freedom—and why being a pragmatist in today’s digital landscape is both radical and necessary. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed by wellness culture or simply want to think more critically about what’s in your home and how it gets there, this conversation offers clarity, compassion, and a call to thoughtful action. 0:00 | Framing the Problem with Balance 2:20 | Education, Policy, and the Role of Media 5:40 | Health vs. Science: A Cultural Disconnect 8:06 | Control, Consumerism, and Systemic Change 11:25 | Fast Fashion as a Microcosm 14:12 | Inside “Cleaning House”: Book Preview 18:41 | The Cost of Speaking Up 23:38 | Reclaiming Community and Dialogue 26:25 | Closing and Call to Action Find Lindsay: lindsaydahl.com instagram.com/lindsay_dahl linkedin.com/in/lindsay-dahl-3617076 Pre-order Lindsay's book "Cleaning House: The Fight to Rid Our Homes of Toxic Chemicals" almost anywhere books are sold, releases 8/5/25 Find Stacy: realeverything.com instagram.com/realstacytoth missionmakersart.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's so good to see you and have you back on the show, Lindsay. Welcome.

0:15.4

Thank you for having me back. I was a pleasure.

0:18.5

Lindsay Doll is the coolest nerd you'll ever meet, the expert in all things, non-toxic living, but from the perspective of realism. And one of the things that I love about previously working with you, I guess we're still

0:39.3

working together.

0:41.3

But in this space is this like balanced approach that you have in terms of we can care about

0:49.7

our own personal health and optimize that, but we don't have to do it at the expense of our stress

0:57.1

and our well-being. We can also do that without the expense of public health, right?

1:02.2

Like there's this nuanced approach. I was actually talking to my husband about this last

1:07.8

night, and I was actually crying.

1:12.1

So I'm excited that we're going to talk about it today because I don't think that people

1:17.0

truly understand how difficult it is to kind of sit in this weird spot of wanting to talk

1:24.9

about non-toxic living without going over the edge into like pseudoscience

1:31.9

and things that just aren't true or aren't truly good for us if we stress about every single

1:37.0

toxin in our life. So all of that said, also, how are you? How's life? Are you surviving? i know you've had a lot of moves and changes

1:47.6

since we last talked but it's so good to have you here and hopefully we can like open this

1:53.4

pandora's box and talk a little bit about not just what's that that's like for us but also like

2:00.0

how people can live and exist and try to strive for these things without getting sucked into what I would say goes too far and is not good for them in a bigger sense of the word.

2:20.9

Yep. Thanks for having me on, Stacey. It's good to see you too. I am doing well. I feel like for all of us, life feels really intense and chaotic right now.

2:29.1

And I completely understand the conversation that you had with your husband last night.

2:34.8

And I think it's like not enough people are talking about the psychology behind environmental health, essentially.

2:42.9

And so thank you for kind of opening with that because it's something I'm really passionate about.

2:47.2

I think there's a couple things.

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