Orion Kobayashi has always had a passion for food, agriculture, and solving supply chain challenges. After serving in AmeriCorps and three years of working on farms, he went to Tufts Friedman School, earning an MS in Food Policy and Logistics. His work centers around connecting people with farmers, and through that connection creating value for sustainable products. He has helped build these value chains and manage the logistics at startups like sweetgreen and UrbanStems. Connect with Orion Link...
Apr 19, 2022•48 min
Rose Wang was co-founder and CEO of Chirps. She is a Shark Tank entrepreneur, Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneur, ELLE USA Impact Award winner, Echoing Green fellow, MassChallenge Gold Winner, Harvard Dean's Design Challenge winner, and TEDx speaker. She holds the record for World's Largest Nachos and is living proof that you can really do anything with a psychology degree. Links Try cricket chips! eatchirps.com Children's Book: Project Startup Eat Bugs Instagram: instagram.com/eatchirps Fol...
Apr 06, 2022•43 min
Tim West is a Slow Food chef turned Social Entrepreneur and Food Futurist. He was recognized as one of Zagat’s 30 under 30 Food-World Up-and-Comers for his work producing Food Hackathons and has since served as a Fellow4Good at the Institute for the Future and Global Ambassador to the Future Food Institute. His areas of interest include: mountain biking, climbing, local food systems, food as medicine, and permaculture. He now lives in Bellingham, WA, Pacific Northwest where he plans to get a far...
Mar 22, 2022•42 min
Ben Deuling is the founder of SporeAttic LLC, a gourmet mushroom farm in Bozeman, Montana. Ben moved from Michigan in 2017 to join a Ph.D. program in Molecular Bioscience at Montana State University. After 2 years working towards his doctorate, Ben finally accepted that he was unhappy, unfulfilled, and that academia would not take him where he wanted in life. Around that time, Ben discovered a passion for cultivating gourmet mushrooms, which utilized his training in Microbiology. Only now, inste...
Mar 08, 2022•46 min
Alex and Miguel are "two brown guys starting a sustainable farm" (in their words, mostly). They're transforming a 158 acre wooded property in Connecticut into an agroforestry farm. Alex Eitland has been working in relation to the industrial meat industry for the past 5 years. After graduating with a political science degree, it was the last thing he expected. His love for the woods — and food — has been around since his childhood growing up in rural Connecticut, and his first job being working i...
Feb 22, 2022•45 min
Joel Salatin, 64, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don’t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate. He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and awar...
Feb 08, 2022•47 min
Michelle Nicole Gerrard is a poet, chronic illness warrior, food stylist, and vegan chef. She believes in the power of thriving with organic whole foods, and living a life in alignment with nature. She also firmly believes that the more we care, the more we give and the more we show up for people, the more powerful we become. In this episode, Michelle shares her journey with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and the challenges (and joys) of cooking without the sense of taste. Plus, we discuss what s...
Jan 25, 2022•50 min
Michael S. Fenster, MD, better known as Chef Dr. Mike, is one of a handful of physicians worldwide to hold both culinary and medical degrees and is the only Interventional Cardiologist, and Professional Chef to do so. Through his Culinary Medicine course at the University of Montana, speaking events, articles, books, personal outreach, and media appearances, Chef Dr. Mike has become the voice of Culinary Medicine. His message empowers people to take control of their health, wellness, and happine...
Jan 11, 2022•54 min
Peter Jarvis is a Florida-based fishmonger who’s worked in the sustainable seafood industry for over 30 years. His first business was Triar Seafood, a boutique wholesale company providing fresh fish and stone crabs via overnight delivery to chefs around the nation. Working with local day boat fisherman, Peter’s team hand selects only responsibly harvested seafood, filets and packages it for overnight shipping. Now, Peter is offering the freshest seafood to the home chef, delivered from dock-to-d...
Jan 03, 2022•36 min
Jared Niemela is an amateur mycologist who cultivates culinary and medicinal mushrooms and shares knowledge on his YouTube channel, One Earth Mushrooms . In this "Mushroom Cultivation 101" episode, Jared walks us through the fungi life cycle and how you can replicate it at home with just $20. We also discuss magic mushrooms aka. psilocybin - both our personal experiences with it, as well as the latest research on psilocybin and its healing properties for mental health issues like anxiety and dep...
Dec 21, 2021•44 min
Born and raised in Vancouver BC, Marie Grapé has worked in the food industry for 15 years. Beginning her career in fine dining before transitioning to catering private events, the kitchen hustle took a toll on her health, both mentally and physically. Over a year ago, Marie founded MANNA | Sacred Meals, a meal delivery program that is 100% plant based. MANNA aims to introduce plant based meals to everyone, no matter their food journey, in the form of delicious and convenient sous vide meals. Hea...
Dec 14, 2021•43 min
Jonas Guenther is the founder of We Are The New Farmers , an urban algae farm in Brooklyn, NY, on a mission to make the world’s oldest food source a mainstream staple. Jonas also started the magazine Finding Tomorrow , offering a glance at an exciting future where we've implemented solutions to overcome climate change. Prior to launching New Farmers, Jonas completed his Master’s degree at NYU where he built the Urban Food Lab - a project platform and indoor farm that enables students to learn ab...
Dec 07, 2021•43 min
There’s not one way to eat sustainably. If you dig into your own culture, you’ll probably find traditional foods that are naturally in tune with the land - whether they make use of all parts of the animal, or indigenous varieties of corn or rice, or preservation techniques that don’t require a fridge. What traditional foods did you grow up with? Today, Jane Z. sits down with award-winning poet and art critic John Yau, who curated the exhibit “Home Cooking,” now live at the LaiSun Keane Gallery i...
Nov 30, 2021•34 min
How does a chef think about provenance? i.e. Where your food comes from? In this inaugural episode, Chef Adam Lamb takes us on a journey from South Florida to the Black Forest to North Carolina to show us how he puts together a menu that honors the land. Adam M Lamb is a professional chef with 30 years of successes and failures, which he brings to his podcast Chef Life Radio , empowering culinary professionals to fuck the grind, and find their groove. He lives with his wife Jennifer in the Blue ...
Nov 23, 2021•50 min
Coming November 23. Subscribe for a tasty adventure. Discounts Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium Connect with Jane Z. Instagram: @farm.to.future Email: jane@farmtofuture.co Website: farmtofuture.co...
Nov 09, 2021•31 sec
Changes are coming! Join Jane Z. on a new leg of the adventure to learn all about food sustainability - how to eat better for the planet. Trailer dropping next Tuesday! Subscribe to this podcast to stay notified. Follow @insideoutwithjane on Instagram for live updates. Discounts Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FA...
Nov 05, 2021•5 min
Rafe Offer is the co-founder and CEO of Sofar Sounds, a cutting-edge music company and worldwide promoter of new bands which specialises in secret gigs in unusual spaces. Sofar Sounds has hosted tens of thousands of shows in over 400 cities, at unique venues like a ski jump, a mattress store, multiple graveyards, and many living rooms. Artists like Billie Eilish, Leon Bridges, The XX, Noah Cyrus, and others got their starts performing at Sofar. To date, they’ve had over 80 acts go on to win or b...
Nov 02, 2021•42 min
Today, Kevin Allen (aka Khordmaster) and Jane Z. take turns as co-hosts! We discuss the perks and pitfalls of a career in content, how to approach social media without getting overwhelmed, and what it means to bring your whole self to work. Before all that, get to know Kevin as a pianist and middle school teacher, and hear some fun stories about Jane that she's never shared before! Khordmaster is a classically trained pianist, live streamer, music producer, math tutor, and YouTube content creato...
Oct 26, 2021•32 min
Dr. Alex Ding and Shobhit Singhal are two members of The First Wave, a community effort started by a group of MBA students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, to help provide PPE to frontline healthcare workers in the United States. The First Wave is the inspiration behind Tickle Troubl e, a children’s book published by Ladderworks, a publishing startup that aims to empower kids to become social entrepreneurs. Get your copy of Tickle Trouble: https://www.ladderworks.co/produ...
Oct 19, 2021•37 min
Christine Werthman is the managing editor at Billboard. She has been an editor since 2006 and previously worked for Complex, XXL and CMJ. She has a B.S. in magazine journalism from Syracuse University, an M.A. in music, media and cultural studies from New York University and knows the best spot for a good sightline at most concert venues in New York City. Connect with Christine Twitter: @cwerthman Portfolio site: christinewerthman.com Connect with Jane Z. Instagram: @insideoutwithjane Website: w...
Oct 12, 2021•38 min
Erica Zendell is a full-time traveler, writer, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) practitioner. This past April, Erica left a comfortable life of 9 years in Boston on an indefinite road trip to train, compete, and learn from the best in BJJ across the United States. In July, she quit her career in the tech industry to fully dedicate herself to living a story worth writing about for her first book. Erica holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a MBA from MIT, but her hardest...
Oct 05, 2021•44 min
Pascal Kriesche and Morgan Abraham are two engineers who took their love for smoothies and created Smoodi, the “Keurig for smoothies.” Pascal is a Mechanical Engineer from Germany who came to the U.S. for his MBA at Harvard Business School. Previously, he worked as a Strategy Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and as Project leader for a Joint Venture in Mexico. Morgan is an inventor at heart. Having studied electrical engineering at McGill University and then Manufacturing engineering at...
Sep 28, 2021•47 min•Ep. 38
Meghhan Maupin is the VP of Consumer Insights at Function of Beauty. She was the CEO and Co-Founder of Atolla, which was acquired by Function in August 2021. Atolla is a data-based skincare system that does the heavy lifting of picking out your ideal ingredients and routine, so you don’t have to. In this episode, we chat all things skincare - from acne and Accutane to SPF and outdoor sports. Meg takes us behind the scenes of building Atolla with multiple co-founders before ultimately going throu...
Sep 21, 2021•52 min•Ep. 37
Chris Spear is the chef and owner of Perfect Little Bites, an in-home personal chef business, and the host of the Chefs Without Restaurants podcast. He graduated from Johnson & Wales University with a B.S. in culinary arts, and has been working in the foodservice industry for almost 30 years. In this episode, we chat about how Chris cooked his way from Burger King to high-end retirement homes and now upscale dining experiences in people’s homes. We discuss cultural appropriation in cooking,...
Sep 14, 2021•50 min•Ep. 36
Peter Lee is the founder of COBA Coffee ( @coba.coffee ), the makers of the coffee chocolate bar. His coffee experience started from building his own coffee roaster with a tripper and a pot to sourcing coffee in Latin American countries, and to date COBA has raised over $75,000 from crowdfunding campaigns. Prior to his coffee journey, Peter dropped out of high school as a straight-A student because a fire burned down his parents’ toy store. Peter has since been rebuilding his identity through va...
Sep 07, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Joe Gagnon is a seasoned CXO executive and endurance athlete. He's consulted for companies in over 45 countries and, as a turnaround CEO, Joe has taken over from the founder on three occasions to restructure businesses and put them on a path to growth. As an athlete, Joe completed six Ironman Triathlons and over 80 marathon+ distance races — all after the age of 40. In 2017, he ran Six Marathons across Six Consecutive Days on Six Continents. He recently published his book Living the High Perform...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 34
Shang is a personal finance influencer on Instagram @savemycents . She reached millionaire status in her 30s through frugal living, raising her income, and investing her savings, and is work optional today. She has a passion for teaching everyone to get financially fit and save for a retirement, no matter what background. In this episode, Shang shares her experience of hustling and saving in her 20s - as a management consultant by day and as a wedding photographer on nights and weekends. As much...
Aug 24, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Wally Koval is the Founder of and content curator behind @AccidentallyWesAnderson (AWA) - a global Community of Adventurers - lovers of design, architecture, aesthetics, and history. Over the past 3 years the AWA community has grown to include more than 1.5 million members, a New York Times Best Selling book has been published in 9 languages, and there have been countless write-ups from some of the most prestigious media organizations. In this episode, Jane sits down with Wally to talk AWA's ori...
Aug 17, 2021•57 min•Ep. 32
Maria Eilersen is a PR coach and the founder of Be Conscious PR, helping conscious entrepreneurs and startups reach millions of people. With a journalism degree from NYU, global PR experience in the startup space and 300+ hours of yoga teacher training under her belt, Maria is on a mission to demystify PR for heart-led business owners. As a third culture kid, Maria was born in Denmark, grew up in Tokyo, and spent the last decade adulting in New York and London before calling Lisbon home. When sh...
Aug 10, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Jake Rudin and Erin Pellegrino are the co-founders of Out of Architecture ( @outofarchitecture ), a career consulting firm for architects looking to apply their incredible talents in untraditional ways. Jake and Erin met during their Bachelor of Architecture program at Cornell University, and both received their MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology and graduate degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Currently, Jake works at adidas where he manages teams in Computat...
Aug 03, 2021•47 min•Ep. 30
