Ep 140 - You have more power than you think with Jen Gale
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This episode is all about sustainability. I don’t normally feel nervous about putting podcasts out, but this one I do. Clearly, climate change is a massive issue and probably the challenge of our time, yet we are also in a global pandemic layering on more challenges. I know just getting through the day can feel like an achievement, let alone thinking about how sustainable we are. But this is an important conversation to begin having.
My guest this week is Jen Gale. She talks about sustainability in a really accessible way and I hope you’ll agree. I’m learning about his too and when I think about sustainability it’s easy to get overwhelmed. I definitely experience eco-guilt.
What I took from this episode is that we cannot afford to be in denial about our individual power to do something about this crisis and that each action we take can be small and imperfect. My changes seem micro, but my conversation with Jen made me feel ok.
She said this line which resonated so deeply with me...
"We don't need a handful of people doing sustainability perfectly - we need millions and millions of people taking tiny, imperfection action".
She is the award-winning creator of the blog Sustainable Life and the book The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide. Her new just came out this month The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide guide to Green Parenting.
I’m so curious to hear your thoughts on this one. Do we need to do more?; Are we being too easy on ourselves? Do we need to push ourselves to do more and more and more around sustainability? Or does it feel like we have enough on our plates and thinking about our footprint is just another thing and it feels like too much?
Let me know where you sit on this. Let me know what you took from the episode, and if you are going to make any changes do share them with us @Motherkind_zoe
We talk about:
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How parents can be more imperfectly sustainable
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Micro-changes to feel empowered and in control
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How to ditch the eco-guilt and overwhelm
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Gentle steps and imperfect action
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Finding what works for you and your family
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We caused it we can fix it
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Easy doable things that cause a big impact
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We are more powerful than we think
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Her journey of buying nothing new for a year (with 2 small kids)
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Getting comfortable with our sacrifices
Each time we make a different, more conscious, more thoughtful choice, about what we buy, or what we don’t buy (choosing to re-use or repair instead) we are changing the world.
- Jen Gale
As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
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Check out her books - The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting and The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide
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About Jen Gale
Jen Gale is an author, blogger, writer, podcaster, campaigner, community builder and speaker. Her book The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide covers everything you need to know to make small changes that make a big difference and her new book just released in March 2021 is The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting which offers guilt-free eco ideas for raising your kids.
Her aim with Sustainable(ish) is to offer practical inspiration for small easy steps to get started living a more sustainable lifestyle and to consume more consciously. Steps that we can all take, without having to shun the shops, and live off-grid.
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