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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,

Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed

in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get

candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.

All right, welcome back. I am super stoked to be talking to this next guest. She's actually a friend

of mine. She is local to my hometown, but she is also the creator of the Zero Waste Collective on

Instagram, Mindfully Tara. I just learned it's not Tara. It is Tara because she has British

parents. Then I realized that nobody ever calls me Sarah. That's too bad. But I can call you Sarah.

I mean, it sounds kind of cool. Thanks for being here. We met a while ago. You're such a community

builder and you did this community lunch and it was crazy for me because that was the first time

in my hometown, which I don't how many people even live here, like 150,000? Yeah. There's not a lot

of us. And so there's not a lot of people in the influencer space or Instagram space or like

that social media stuff. So it meant a lot to me when you kind of like gathered us all together.

And we all kind of had these different walks of life. And it was really cool to connect. I ended up

one of the girls from that luncheon became my first podcast editor. Like there was a lot of really

cool connections out of that. So after that, I think we kind of started following each other and

like really diving into each other's content. And I've been just so interested. I think is the

word so interested, so captivated by what you do and what you're putting out there. So tell us how

you kind of got into this whole idea of zero waste, what prompted it for you, what keeps you going.

And now you have this like booming audience of nearly like over half a million collectively

that are following the zero waste thing. So you're doing something real right. But tell us how you got

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