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As the Director of Science, Research and Academic Partnerships for Plastic Ocean Project, Inc. as well as the Executive Director, Bonnie Monteleone is a researcher who has collected plastic marine samples globally including four of the five main ocean gyres, the Caribbean, and has extended this work to Pyramid Lake, outside of Reno, Nevada. Monteleone completed her first field study exploration in the North Atlantic Gyre in July 2009 in collaboration with Maureen Conte, PhD. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science (BIOS). In the fall of 2009, Monteleone accompanied Algalita Marine Research Foundation’s 10-year resampling of the North Pacific Gyre, quantifying the rate of plastic marine debris growth to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, sampling a transect of 3,460 nautical miles (nm).
In 2010, she continued her North Atlantic study resampling the same region in the North Atlantic. In fall of 2010, she joined 5 Gyres Institute in a first ever South Atlantic transect sampling for pelagic marine debris traveling 4,270 nm from Brazil to South Africa. In 2012, Monteleone collected samples from the South Pacific as part of the film project, A Plastic Ocean. To date, she has five years of data sets from the North Atlantic. A total of 217 surface samples were collected from all four oceans. Monteleone collaborates with Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF), Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummings, co-founders of 5 Gyres Institute, Dr. William J. Cooper, University of California Irvine (UCI), and Dr. Maureen Conte, BIOS. In 2012, Bonnie Monteleone and Paul Lorenzo co-founded the 501c3 Plastic Ocean Project, Inc.
Monteleone also works in the Environmental Studies Department at UNC Wilmington as an Adjunct Instructor teaching a Plastic Marine Debris Field Studies course and manages a lab working with student Directed Independent Studies (DIS) research. Research projects vary from fieldwork collecting beach samples to lab analysis looking at plastic leachates, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) uptakes, and plastic ingestion by marine organisms. She collaborates with Drs. Pamela Seaton, Brooks Avery, Susanne Brander, and Alison Taylor at UNCW.
Bonnie is also an accomplished artist, turning some of the plastic she collects on her voyages into modern artistic masterpieces. This work story boards her research and has become a traveling art exhibit - What goes around comes around. She received the Conservation Communicator of the Year 2017, Governor’s Award, Cape Fear YWCA Woman of the Year - Environmental Award 2018, and nominated for the Cape Fear Woman of Achievement award 2018. She is a member of the Sierra Club Marine Team and on the NC Wildlife Federation's Board of Directors.

Connect with Bonnie
https://www.plasticoceanpro

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On this episode, I am talking with my friend, Maria Borghoff. Her and I met several years ago in the local yoga community. I've attended as well as co-hosted workshops with Maria, and always feel super inspired after being in her presence.
Maria has studied with master teachers of Integral Yoga, Qigong, Tibetan Buddhism, Ayurveda, Reiki, Classical Music, Death Support, Mental Health Advocacy, and Social Work.
As the director of Rhythm Art & Yoga School, Maria provides personal and professional mentorship through yoga teacher training and healing artist residency. Maria works with beginner students, established teachers, emerging artists, and licensed therapists. She spends her time singing, writing, dancing, making music, and creating art. Maria’s melodic voice is deeply relaxing, ancient, and “other-worldly,” and students describe her teaching style as intelligent, intuitive, healing, uplifting, compassionate, grounded, thought-provoking, and inclusive.

During our conversation, Maria and I talk about goddess psychology, the concepts of harmony and dissonance, the rhythms of life and the earth, and so much more.

Connect with Maria
https://www.rhythmartyoga.com

Journaling Prompts
What are some relationships in which you experience harmony? Why? Are there any relationships that you experience dissonant harmony? Why? How do these different types of harmonies feel in your body? Can you relate them to colors, textures, or sounds?

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Want to calm your mind, have better focus, and relieve inflammation in your body using organic plant medicine? Reach out to me at [email protected] or order directly from this link -
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Barbara is a generational intuitive, teacher, and transformational coach. Growing up in a small fishing village on the coast of North Carolina, Barbara discovered her gift of clairvoyance at a very young age. Adolescent trauma catapulted her into fully embracing her intuitive abilities in the pursuit of self-healing and launched her career as a transformational life coach.

Barbara has studied strategic life coaching through the Priority Academy and is a graduate of “Free The She” a Berkeley Psychic Institute affiliate with certifications in Advanced Intuitive Development and Intuitive Teacher Training. Barbara has also educated herself in the Human Design System through rigorous self-study and is Red Tent Certified under Star of Ishtara.

Over the past 8 years she has worked with clients from all around the world. Her offerings have included private coaching, intuitive sessions, women’s circles, retreats, and various workshops (in person and virtual).

When she’s not working she is spending time with her husband and fur baby. She enjoys hiking, swimming in the ocean or in her pool, traveling, and of course hibachi.

Connect with Barbara
https://www.barbarabrinkleywhitford.com/Journaling Prompt
What are some of your idiosyncrasies? How can you view them as gifts?

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xo-Jackie
Want to calm your mind, have better focus, and relieve inflammation in your body using organic plant medicine? Reach out to me at [email protected] or order directly from this link -
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Rachael Kinsey’s passion for art began as a young child evolving into a career after graduating Art School. She has spent the past 9 years in Hawaii and San Francisco pursuing careers in visual merchandising, event + floral design, interior design and running her own jewelry company, Rachael Kinsey Designs. After immersing herself in yoga 14 years ago, yoga became a guide in her creative process. She believes we are able to foster our creative skills by connecting our mind, body and spirit. Rachael recently moved back to North Carolina and completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at the Asheville Yoga Center. She just recently launched a DIY + Wellness Workshops business, Project Social- a community driven organization for adults and children to hold space for creative exploration through the DIY experience. She partners with local artist and wellness instructors throughout the Wilmington community to foster a healthy space for adults and children to tap into their own magic as a collective through art, yoga, and meditation.
J O U R N A L P R O M P T :
Look around you at this moment. List all the beautiful things you can see and hear. Remember the beauty that exists in the simple and everyday things. It's all around us.
L I N K S :
Rachael Kinsey Designs
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Thanks for listening.
xo-Jackie
Want to calm your mind, have better focus, and relieve inflammation in your body using organic plant medicine? Reach out to me at [email protected] or order directly from this link -
https://jackiedeconti.greencompassglobal.com/Interested in taking the next yoga teacher training or working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor? Check out the Madre & The Muse website.
www.madreandthemuse.comdeep gratitude to Jared Sales + ALLIN. for the intro/outro music
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Maura Riordan was introduced to meditation and yoga from an early age and has always been drawn to the mind/body/soul connection. After receiving her yoga certification and completing an Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification course, she experienced personally and professionally the benefit of working with the physical and subtle bodies through breath, movement and meditation to gain a sense of peace and balance within. As she delved deeper into her own spiritual and healing journey, she discovered energy work and all its benefits and received her Master Level Reiki Certification. She is passionate about bringing a whole-body healing experience to her clients. She feels to create peace within our families, communities and world, we must first find that balance and peace within ourselves.
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Journal Prompt:
Maura and I talk about "bringing it back to ritual". What are some things that you do on a daily basis that you can turn into a ritual - making it more sacred/beautiful/mindful of an experience?

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Thanks for listening.
xo-Jackie
Want to calm your mind, have better focus, and relieve inflammation in your body using organic plant medicine? Reach out to me at [email protected] or order directly from this link -
https://jackiedeconti.greencompassglobal.com/Interested in taking the next yoga teacher training or working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor? Check out the Madre & The Muse website.
www.madreandthemuse.comdeep gratitude to Jared Sales + ALLIN. for the intro/outro music
www.tinkmusik.com