Seeds of Tao: Impact entrepreneurs seeding regenerative paths beyond sustainability

Join us for a powerful conversation with climate leaders Bonita Ford and Eric Toensmeier as we explore the emotional toll of climate change, the importance of permaculture and adaptation strategies, and how entrepreneurs can make a real difference. Plus, learn about Bonita's upcoming book and workshop!

Promotional Links: **regenBEN Community and Resource Commons-** a community of like minded impact entrepreneurs cultivating their regenerative businesses, and also a storehouse of free resources and all the recordings of our events for impact entrepreneurs. Description Join us for an inspiring conversation with Paul Coleman, a regenerative entrepreneur who shares his remarkable journey of exploration, environmental action, and entrepreneurship. In this episode, Paul takes us from floating the Amazon to walking across the Americas, and ultimately building a regenerative livelihood in Chile. He beautifully illustrates how nature's beauty has shaped his entrepreneurial dreams and influenced his approach to environmental conservation. Through captivating stories and personal experiences, Paul reminds us of the importance of envisioning our goals, making plans, and taking small steps towards creating meaningful change in the world. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or simply seeking inspiration, this episode will leave you motivated to embrace the beauty of nature and pursue your dreams. To connect with Paul Coleman and learn more about his work, visit earthwalker.com or follow Paul & Konomi's Garden on Facebook. Don't miss this uplifting episode that highlights the power of nature's beauty in driving entrepreneurial endeavors. Tune in now! Guest Bio: Paul Coleman Are you ready to embark on an extraordinary journey? Meet Paul, also known as the Earthwalker. He has traversed over 47,500 kilometers around the globe, dedicating his life to planting trees and inspiring others to preserve our precious natural environment. Imagine walking alongside Paul as he shares his incredible story. Born in the UK, he now resides in La Junta, a serene village nestled in Chilean Patagonia. Together with his wife, Konomi, they have transformed a once degraded cattle pasture into an organic farm and sanctuary for wildlife. Their home, built with earth and turf, harmonizes with the surrounding nature. Paul's life is a tapestry of captivating tales. From his upbringing in Manchester to his adventures at sea, his years as a private chauffeur, and his awe-inspiring expeditions down the Amazon, each experience has deepened his connection with the world we inhabit. At Seeds of Tao, we invite you to join Paul on this remarkable journey. Explore the different chapters of his life, filled with adventure, wisdom, and profound insights. Allow yourself to be inspired by the beauty of nature and join the movement towards a more regenerative and sustainable future. Together, let's embrace the transformative power of nature and unlock our potential to create positive change in the world. Check out the full show notes on our website here

Promotional Links: Come join us at the Regenearth Convergence - December 7-9 in Colorado Springs we are coming together to bring two new regenerative real estate development projects into the world. Come present your project to be voted as one of those two or just come to support regenerative land development. **regenBEN Community and Resource Commons-** a community of like-minded impact entrepreneurs cultivating their regenerative businesses, and also a storehouse of free resources and all the recordings of our events for impact entrepreneurs. Description: In episode 142 of the podcast, Kirsten Liegmann shares her inspiring journey as a regenpreneur and explores the potential of regenerative communities. She discusses the importance of aligning with nature, pushing the boundaries of sustainable living, and the power of consciousness in creating a more connected world. Kirsten emphasizes the need for balance between structure and flow in entrepreneurship and shares valuable insights on following divine breadcrumbs, embracing authenticity, and the transformative potential of self-change. Join Kirsten as she invites listeners to get involved in the Regenearth Studio and be part of the movement towards a regenerative future. ✨🌱🌍🎙️❤️ View the full show notes on our website Guest Bio: Kirsten Liegmann is a visionary leader and the founder and CEO of New Humanity Ventures. She is also the co-founder and COO of Oliizoi, a regenerative real estate developer, and the co-founder of the Regen Earth Studio. With her coaching, mentoring, trainings, and presentations, Kirsten empowers individuals to become extraordinary leaders and pioneers of a new paradigm way of living on Earth. She believes that conscious, mature, and evolved leadership is essential to transform our unsustainable and life-destroying ways and create a regenerative and life-giving future founded in respect. Kirsten's approach is rooted in the understanding that in order to solve our problems, we need to change our thinking. She guides her clients and audiences through a step-by-step process to break free from limitations and fears, and fully embrace their leadership roles with joy, courage, strength, and clarity. Her areas of expertise include awakened leadership, spiritual and personal growth, conscious entrepreneurship/regenpreneurship, sustainability, regenerative elders mentorship, new paradigm designs, and virtual and in-person facilitation. Kirsten holds an MBA in Sustainable Management and has a wealth of experience in business and project management. She has successfully led and managed numerous virtual events, including HOPE 11-11 and a virtual memorial for her late husband and Chicago 7 activist, Rennie Davis. In this transformative time, Kirsten believes that a more emotionally and spiritually mature New Humanity can awaken and come together as a powerful global force for change. She is dedicated to igniting, training, and uniting this New Humanity to create a new way of living on Earth. Kirsten is a captivating presenter and welcomes inquiries about speaking engagements. Feel free to reach out to her directly on LinkedIn.

Promotional Links: StorySeed Marketing and Messaging Course - a comprehensive course for regenerative entrepreneurs to build and scale their message and marketing efforts. (currently at beta price) Description: In this captivating episode, we sit down with Dan Kittredge, the visionary founder of the Bionutrient Foundation, to explore his inspiring journey in regenerative agriculture and the pursuit of food quality. Dan's day, a blend of soil advocacy and paper-writing, reflects his passion for quality food. His infectious enthusiasm emanates from a deep desire to make a positive global impact. Discover how his upbringing on an organic farmstead shaped his unique perspective, offering competence and a lifelong connection to nature to his children. For those aspiring to embrace the farmstead lifestyle, Dan's invaluable advice provides a roadmap to success. He emphasizes balance and shares ways to get involved. Tune in for a journey that inspires change, one nutrient-dense bite at a time. 🌱🌍 You can read the full show notes on our site. Guest Bio: Dan Kittredge Dan Kittredge has been an organic farmer for more than 30 years and is the founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA), a non-profit whose mission is to "increase quality in the food supply." Dan grew up on Many Hands Organic Farm in central Massachusetts. After a global career in food and seed activism where he worked with farmers across India, Russia, and Central America, Dan returned to the U.S. and launched the BFA in 2010 to ignite a movement around food quality. His resonating message has filled hundreds of workshops and speaking engagements with farmers and eaters alike hungry for answers. To expand upon these concepts is the BFA flagship event, the annual Soil & Nutrition Conference, now in its tenth year that has hosted speakers such as John Kempf, Ray Archuleta, Kathleen DiChiara, David Montgomery, Fred Kirschenmann, Judith Schwartz, Graham Sait, Bernard Pollack, Glen Rein, Dorn Cox, Elaine Ingham, Joel Salatin, Stephan van Vliet, Fred Provenza and many more luminaries in the food and ag sectors. A born leader in this field, Dan has solidified himself as an expert in the world of "nutrient density" and biological or regenerative agriculture. Through this mission, the Bionutrient Institute was launched, with partner organizations, Our-sci LLC, FarmOS, and Next 7, to demonstrate and share the connections between nutrient density and soil, plant, and human health. BFA's significant growth since 2018 now means three labs in the U.S. and one in Europe are conducting surveys of the food supply, measuring the variation of nutritional compounds found in food, and connecting it to management practices. In 2021, the Institute unveiled a second-generation prototype of a hand-held consumer spectrometer called the Bionutrient Meter, calibrated by the sampling done at the labs. The meter is designed to test nutritional quality at the point of purchase, bringing transparency to the marketplace and providing growers with the needed tools to increase nutrition in their crops and leverage economic incentives to drive complete system regeneration. The most recent lab in Boston is designed to further the mission of our understanding of nutrient density and to engineer an advanced version of the Bionutrient Meter with the data used for calibration all being open source, demonstrating the BFA's commitment to small landholders and the greater global Commons. To learn more about this work, visit: Bionutrient.org and BionutrientInstitute.org

Promotional Links: Seeds of Tao Incubation Cohort - Launching early 2024, enrollment is opening in October 2023 for our first incubation cohort designed to help regenerative businesses accomplish their goals, and have a consistent support network along the way. 🌟 Join us in Episode 138 as we delve into the incredible journey of Minou Schillings, a passionate regenpreneur. Discover what drives her exciting work and how she's embracing uncertainty while building capacity as an impact entrepreneur. Minou shares her wisdom on the early days of entrepreneurship, partnerships, regenerative business, and the essential principles she values in businesses. Tune in to uncover valuable insights and connect with her on LinkedIn to keep the conversation going. 🌍 You can find the full show notes on our site. Guest Bio: Minou Schillings "When you never change your mind, why have one?" I am here to help you to break with business-as-usual thinking and imagine and realize a regenerative future. The business-as-usual mindset is broken. For decades or even centuries, this mindset has damaged nature and big parts of society. We have now (finally) got to the point that it is also harming businesses. Sticking to this old way of thinking will make your business less resilient, less likely to survive an economic crisis and less innovative. Leaving the business-as-usual mindset behind and striving to create positive impact on people and the planet is now not only the right thing to do, it is also a wise business decision. I am here to help you to realize the mindset shift needed to transition to a regenerative and just future. We will only realize a better future once we can imagine it. I spend most of my time exploring regenerative pathways with business owners, teams and impact-driven individuals. My Dutch background makes me direct, no-nonsense, down-to-Gaia and efficient.

Promotional Links: StorySeed Community and Resource Commons - a community of like minded impact entrepreneurs cultivating their regenerative businesses, and also a storehouse of free resources and all the recordings of our events for impact entrepreneurs. Join us in Episode 136 of the Seeds of Tao Podcast as we chat with Matthew Sherman. From coaching to performance psychology, and even a transformative health crisis, Matthew's story is a captivating journey into regenpreneurship. Learn how he defines regenerative business, shifting away from old mechanistic thinking, and discover his insights on changing the programming of your business for a brighter, more regenerative future. Tune in and let Matthew's transition away from business as usual, towards business built on regenerative principles inspire you as you cultivate your regenerative business! 🔥🌱 You can find the full show notes on our website. Guest Bio: Matthew Sherman Matthew Sherman is widely known as a community creator, and culinary innovator. His mission over the past decade has been to transform the category of healthy foods from a boring, arduous and exclusive landscape to a fun, and inspiring experience, focused on building the community of health. Sherman's multifaceted abilities to brand, lead and cultivate experiences quickly set him apart from other entrepreneurs and chefs. In his late 20's Sherman started to truly understand how dynamic, human performance really is. "The approach to health has to be all encompassing. You cannot drive a car with one tire and you cannot create optimal performance without examining a persons food choices, physical movement, past experiences, DNA, cognitive tools, emotional flexibility and strength, relationships and spirituality." Says Matthew. In 2010 Sherman embarked on a journey to nourish his community and raise the vibration of clients, customers and employees. The vision was to provide the most nutrient dense food and juices that he possibly could. He opened jugofresh, an organic cold-pressed juice, smoothie and vegan food restaurant, which quickly gained a cult like following. Both jugofresh and Matthew received national and international attention with appearances on the Today Show, articles in Conde Naste, Travel & Leisure and USA today, as well as features in The Miami Herald, Ocean Drive, and Miami Magazine. Sherman recently launched Oneness Projects, LLC in June of 2018, which is forging new and progressive ideas, building a real estate and revitalization project. Matthew is committed to spreading his core values of more unity, more peace, more love, and ultimately more thriving free people.

Promotional Link: StorySeed Marketing and Messaging Course - a comprehensive course for regenerative entrepreneurs to build and scale their message and marketing efforts. (currently at beta price) In Episode 134 of the Seeds of Tao Podcast, we embark on an enchanting journey with Sarah Spencer, where she unveils the incredible potential of thinking like a tree. Sarah's passion for finding nature-inspired solutions to the world's challenges shines through as she shares her transformation from a human rights lawyer to a social permaculture advocate. Discover how nature's patterns can enrich our personal lives and businesses, fostering resilience, long-term vision, and a deeper connection with the natural world. Sarah's insights offer a refreshing perspective on reimagining success through the lens of the forest. Tune in, get inspired, and explore the secrets of nature with Sarah Spencer. 🌱🌳 You can find the show notes and other resources on our site. Guest Bio: Sarah Spencer I help visionary leaders and team-members grow their purpose-led enterprises (of all size and type) in a way that is healthy, resilient, creative and abundant, inspired by living-systems success. In our complex and uncertain world, leaders and their organisations are facing multiple issues: Funding and finance worries Employee dissatisfaction, lack of productivity Work-life balance issues Worries around sustainability Adapting and innovating in volatile markets... Through working with us, visionary (but sometimes overwhelmed) leaders can discover how to unleash the potential that is within their team, their organisation and their networks, to create regenerative organisations fit for 21st century challenges. We know that nature is a perfect role model for success, resilience, adaptability and health, and because our organisations are dynamic living systems (not machines as outdated paradigms would have us believe), when visionary leaders transition their teams to new, regenerative ways of working, they create positive flows for themselves, their teams, their stakeholders and the world. Our key programmes are: Think like a Forest Regenerative Organisation FUNDAMENTALS – for leaders and changemakers in purpose-led businesses and organisations – a 3 month online course -a deep-drive into growing an making an impact with your regenerative organisation. Think like a Forest Regenerative Organisation ADVENTURE – for whole teams or whole organisations. A whole-team adventure over 6 months. Think like a Forest Regenerative Organisation EXPERIENCE – a one day introduction to regenerative business, in-person, in nature. You can read more about everything we offer, including the bios of myself and other trainers, at https://www.thinklikeatree.co.uk/for-businesses-and-organisations/ We are also looking for nature-inspired visionaries to join our network of Think like a Tree facilitators. Get in touch if you would like to add Think like a Tree facilitation to your existing skills. My background: My experience in business, organisations, charities, social enterprises as an entrepreneur spans decades. The common thread is the purpose-led nature of my work, for people and planet. My career began as a legal representative and team leader for the UK's largest refugee charity. I later trained extensively in a range of regenerative practices, including regenerative leadership, permaculture (land and social), forest school and regenerative design. I founded Think like a Tree in 2017 and published Think like a Tree: the natural principles guide to life in 2019.

Promotional Links: StorySeed Message and Marketing Course - a comprehensive course for regenerative entrepreneurs to build and scale their message and marketing efforts. (currently at beta price) Being an entrepreneur is tough, and being an impact entrepreneur working to create a regenerative business can feel like an uphill battle. In episode 132, LaUra Schmidt joins us to shed light on the importance of taking care of ourselves, our Zone 0, as we work to create positive change. She especially talks through the aspect of eco-grief, how to work through that feeling, and protecting ourselves from burnout (a common plague among entrepreneurs). You can find the show notes and other resources on our site. Guest Bio: LaUra Schmidt LaUra Schmidt is the founder of the Good Grief Network and the brain behind the "10-Steps to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate" program and the FLOW Facilitation Training modality. She is a lifelong student, curator, and practitioner of personal and collective resilience strategies. LaUra holds a BS in Environmental Studies, Biology, and Religious Studies and an MS is in Environmental Humanities. LaUra has earned certificates in "Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy" and "Climate Psychology."