She grows cities- how to nurture nature in a concrete jungle, with Jamie Hwang

03/06/23 • 38 min

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Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

My guest this week is Jamie Hwang, city planner for Los Angeles City Council and creator of Urban Farmers’ Almanac which is a free, community-sourced digital resource guide for gardening, sustainable living, and supporting urban farms & independent makers in LA who also believe in circular, local economies, building communities, and food justice.
Her passion for urban planning made her realize how precious our environment is. And while in LA, they need to build more housing quickly to address homelessness as the most urgent humanitarian crisis, she believes they can also simultaneously address climate change as well.
For her, true courage is trying ideas out even when you know you may fail. It's hard to begin a journey not knowing if you'll succeed, and it's even hard to start if you know you're likely to fail. But when you take a leap, you learn new things, and those lessons add up to successes in the long run. The trick is to realize you never really "finish" learning.
Jamie shows us that wherever we live we have the opportunity to take sustainable living into our hands and create places where we feel more in tune with the planet.

As a result of my conversation with Jamie, I am now transitioning my allotment to a food forest using permaculture techniques.

You can find out more about Jamie’s work at shegrowscities.com

And follow her on Instagram @shegrowscities

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As a result of my conversation with Jamie, I am now transitioning my allotment to a food forest using permaculture techniques.

You can find out more about Jamie’s work at shegrowscities.com

And follow her on Instagram @shegrowscities

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Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
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Clean healthy energy for your body & the planet with Truestart Founder Helena Hills

My guest this week is Helena Hill, co-founder of TrueStart, a Multi-award-winning challenger feel-good, healthy coffee masterbrand as well as being a B-corp, Carbon Negative, ethical family business that puts people first and incorporates the importance of championing neuro-diversity.
Helena talks about how TrueStart has always been about unlocking your potential by making you feel great. She and her co-founder Simon, started in sport and are now making the world happier and healthier one cup at a time, disrupting a category that is very boring, stale and dominated by the largest food businesses in the world!
Their delicious, super clean coffee is just a vehicle for that feeling! And at the same time they are B-CORP & CARBON NEGATIVE certified which demonstrates how the business contributes to climate solutions and sustainability.
Thanks Helena for sharing how you focus your entrepreneurial energies into a forceful power for good- for both people and the planet. Thanks also for showing us that when we decide to make those steps towards sustainability and an ethical approach to business and life that even small ways we can have big wins

You can find out more about Helena’s work on TrueStartCoffee.com

and follow her on Linkedin at @helenahills

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Wonder where your old sneakers went? Celebrating waste as a precious material with Helen Kirkum

My guest this week is Helen Kirkum, multi-award winning designer & pioneer in sustainable footwear whose Studio was born on the fundamentals of rescuing old sneakers to create pieces that raise awareness of post-consumer waste. Wherever possible they incorporate recycling and up-cycling into their products, breathing new life into discarded sneakers.
STUDIO

Helen Kirkum Studio Limited was founded by Helen Kirkum in 2019.

At Helen Kirkum Studio we celebrate the processes of wearing and making in our products. Utilising recycled and dead stock materials, we create bespoke sneakers artistically crafted for an individual experience. We collaborate with brands worldwide to bring our playful perspective and sustainable message to their products. We also love to spread our signature design through making ethos in talks and workshops, promoting the value of spontaneous and tactile creativity.

HELEN

Helen Kirkum is a London-based artist and designer. Kirkum’s artisanship has garnered international acclaim and it is her ability to tell stories through her designs that sets her work apart. Each pair of sneakers she makes is unique, weaving together the memories of the components that make it and allowing the owner to own something inherently personal and one-of-a-kind. She is widely considered a pioneer of the hacked and deconstructed aesthetic within the sneaker industry, and in the vanguard of the sustainable footwear movement.

Kirkum graduated from London’s Royal College of Art in 2016. Through her practice, Kirkum challenges us to rethink the meaning of consumption and the way we interact with the products we own.

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