Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. My name is Brooke McCallory.

And my name is Ben McCallory. Welcome to episode six of this wonderful season we're living in right now.

In this episode, you speak to another return guest.

Yes, I do, actually.

It is the delightful Anita Van Dyck.

So last time I spoke to Anita was 2018

when she had just brought out a book called A Zero Waste Life.

So where you spoke a lot about the zero waste lifestyle and how her take on it felt

far less aggressive, I guess.

Aggressive is the wrong word.

Perfectionist.

Yes.

Yeah.

You know, a big part of her approach to zero waste was also not wasting time,

you know, your time as a resource.

So that was a really good chat where we dug into, you know, a realistic way of starting

to shift towards zero waste or even low waste living.

And in this conversation,

I guess we kind of double back in on the idea of perfectionism in zero waste living and the pressure and the tension of all of that and have a really honest conversation about what it looks like to

balance motherhood.

So since we last spoke, Anita has had a child, so she's got a two and a half year old daughter now.

And she was studying medicine when she and I spoke, when she was also a literal rocket scientist.

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