Vicki Robin "Money and LIfe's Energy"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Show Summary:
On this episode, we meet with social innovator, writer, and speaker, Vicki Robin.
Robin unpacks how the machine of community begins. How does being vulnerable, sharing, and being obligated to others create a system that allows everyone to contribute? Why do we need to learn to begin asking for help?
Further, Robin shares how we can begin to take steps toward food resiliency. Robin shares the story of how she only ate food that was produced within a 10-mile radius of her home for 30 days, and how we should all begin to think and act locally.
About Vicki Robin:
Vicki Robin is a prolific social innovator, writer and speaker. She is coauthor with Joe Dominguez of the international best-seller, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Viking Penguin, 1992, 1998, 2008, 2018). It was an instant NY Times best seller in 1992 and steadily appeared on the Business Week Best Seller list from 1992-1997. It is available now in twelve languages.
Blessing the Hands that Feed Us; Lessons from a 10-mile diet (Viking/Penguin 2014) recounts her adventures in hyper-local eating and what she learned about food and farming as well as belonging and hope.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.0 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, the environment, and our society. |
| 0:17.0 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the |
| 0:22.6 | bird's eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can |
| 0:28.1 | do about it as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:33.7 | Vicki Robin is an advocate for social change and innovation. She has her own podcast, |
| 0:39.4 | What Could Possibly Go Right? And has authored two books, Your Money or Your Life, |
| 0:45.0 | and Blessing the Hands That Feed Us. She works to inspire others to be financially independent |
| 0:51.0 | and to take control of their own lives to create more meaningful |
| 0:54.8 | and fulfilling experiences. |
| 0:57.4 | She also promotes eating local, being the creator and first participant in the 10-mile |
| 1:02.6 | diet challenge in her community where she spent 30 days eating only food produced within |
| 1:09.1 | 10 miles of her home. |
| 1:11.3 | These are the types of practices that are currently against the grain of conventional society, |
| 1:17.5 | and I think are going to become more and more important in the future that's arriving, |
| 1:22.5 | the great simplification. |
| 1:24.7 | Vicki's experience and voice are a powerful force for spreading these ideas. I hope you enjoy this week's conversation with Vicki, good to see you. |
| 1:47.7 | Good to see you, too, Nate. |
| 1:49.5 | We have one thing in common in the pre-episode chatter. |
| 1:53.2 | We both have snow coming our way today. |
| 1:55.8 | You unwashed in me in Wisconsin. |
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