Oooh how excited I am to share this conversation this week. Joel Salatin, 61, 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. With a room full of debate trophies from high school and college days, 12...
Oct 07, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 109
Do you love yourself? Really, really love yourself? That's what we're unpacking this week as I speak to the beautiful Kim Morrison about her new book on the subject. While we discuss her personal story and realisations over the years, we'll also be talking about some the deep work we can do to love ourselves, in a world that sell product based on us not being good enough to love in our current state, SO much of the time. Kim was born in New Zealand and raised in Auckland. She proudly set the aus...
Sep 30, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 108
Dr Lewis Ehrlich is a highly sought after holistic dentist who graduated from James Cook University (JCU) with the Academic Medal. With a background in professional sport and his passion for holistic health, Lewis focuses on the link between oral health and general overall health in his practice - it's why you'll never hear a bandaid solution for an oral health concern in my interviews with him! Before studying dentistry, he completed a Bachelor of Science at Northeastern University in Boston, U...
Sep 23, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 107
Wow. I learnt so much this week in this conversation. Nicole Avery is a business woman, a mother of 5 and one heck of an organised person. True story. I just had to hack her incredible tips, tricks and overwhelm-preventative measures that her family of 7 take to run things smoothly - most of the time (no one is perfect, remember?). I have been so inspired to look ahead to when my travel is done for the year and develop some of the themes we discussed in a more impactful way in my own family life...
Sep 16, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 106
This week on the show it is my pleasure to welcome Mike Shade, campaign director for Safer Chemicals, Safer Families. It's one thing for us to know we don't want this stuff in our environments, homes and on our bodies, but it's another to find a way to effect change and move us forward. Mike Shade, in his work with Safer Chemicals, Safer families is doing just that. They're committed to getting retailers to use their power as a customer to the product makers, to get safer formulations made. So c...
Sep 09, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 105
I've popped a bonus show on today because we've found this wonderful online publication that's branching out into ethical city guides too, called Pebble. Georgina Wilson-Powell is the founder and it was wonderful to discuss how she came to realise that Pebble needed to happen, and what they're doing to be the change as a publication and share inspiring resources, ethical brands and more, to connect the low tox peeps out there in the world to the kind of investments they want to make for a better...
Sep 05, 2018•46 min•Ep. 104
Imagine just working through your emails and Gregoire from 1789 comes trotting past you with a smile - don't know about you but I would NOT get much work done if that were to happen to me. This week on the show I interview a psychic - the modern mystic Belinda Davidson. What a special conversation this is and I was quite taken aback by how pragmatic and non woo woo Belinda was. It's not every day that we get to spend time understanding how life must be when you've got a foot in our world, and an...
Sep 02, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 103
My first show with Dr Ralph Esposito was so popular we've just had to do a part 2 on men's health. I hope you enjoy as we dig into more men's health topics that matter to you as polled in the Low Tox Life Club which you can join via Patreon. Here's what we cover in today's show: Heart health Cholesterol - when to worry and what to do if your doc recommends statins and make an informed decision. FATS: Is it one size fits all or are some better suited to sat fats than others and others Mediterrane...
Aug 26, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 102
Ever been to a climate change talk or watched a documentary and felt heavy, powerless, despair? Well, this conversation is going to leave you feeling different - can do, ra ra and empowered. Sound better? Let me tell you a bit about Professor Will… Will Steffen has a long history in international global change research, serving from 1998 to 2004 as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), based in Stockholm, Sweden, and before that as Executive Officer of IGB...
Aug 19, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 101
One day with the exciting and looming ‘100th show' being discussed, Elise my awesome assistant decided I should be interviewed for the 100th show. Awesome! But WHO? That's when I thought who better than my publisher Jane who saw something in this whole ‘low tox life' thing worth exploring for a book, and her bringing that curiousity on a personal and professional level to a conversation with me about the state of play in the world today, why I decided to start the Low tox Life in the first place...
Aug 12, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 100
There are people you meet who you're instantly on the same vibration as. One of those people for me is Tammi Kirkness. Past show guest Melissa Browne introduced us because Tammi was a fan of the toxin lowering aspect to Low tox Life and wanted to include that in her E course on High Functioning Anxiety and factors to address on the road to quietening it. We shared mouldy apartment stories and our outlook on healing and voila - the rest is history and I HAD to have her on the show. In today's cha...
Aug 05, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 99
Sometimes you come across people who you just feel in your bones are ‘someone to watch' if what they're able to understand and help people with now is at the level it is. Jake Carter is one of those people and I came across him from past show guest, Dr Carrie Jones. Jake shares how he came to be a body science nerd after experiencing injuries in his teens and going on to be a Personal Trainer, and then how that ignited a thirst for nutrition and an understanding of the many individual things tha...
Jul 29, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 98
This week on the show it's a short solo show, checking in with how you're feeling about cooking - I was feeling like it was all too hard this month with everything going on and I find I always need to come back to gratitude, to what I'm best at, and to approaching it with smarts so that it's not hard and I'm not going ‘from scratch' every time. I'd love for you to share your ideas in the show notes comments and when you get my new book Low Tox Life, you'll see how many more simple things you can...
Jul 22, 2018•33 min•Ep. 97
This week I welcome author and journalist Carolyn Fry onto the show. Didn't think you could listen to 45 minutes talking about seeds? Think again! Here are the questions I asked Carolyn with a few tangents true to form as well: What sparked the thought that this book needed to be in the world? Were you always personally interested in nature and seeds growing up or was it something born from an experience at some point - an aha? When you look at early human history, in the book you talk about how...
Jul 15, 2018•58 min•Ep. 96
This week's guest is - simply put - awesome. We have such a wonderful chat about her book: The Dirt Cure, as well as a general exploration into the power of connectedness with our earth, neurology advances, healing and more. Dr Maya Shetreat is a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, and author of The Dirt Cure: Healthy Food, Healthy Gut, Happy Child, which has been translated into ten languages. She has been featured in the New York Times, The Telegraph, NPR, Sky News, The Dr. Oz Show and more....
Jul 08, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 95
Rob is known as the guy who wore a month's trash through the streets of New York City, totalling 60kg by the end of the month (don't worry, he cleaned it before attaching to the ‘trash suit'). Rob is an adventurer, environmental activist, humanitarian, and dude making a difference. He is dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable and just world. Rob is the creator of The Food Waste Fiasco , a campaign that strives to end food waste and hunger in the U.S. He has dove into more than two th...
Jul 01, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 94
There is an undeniable shift from so many people away from single use plastics and plastic items that have plastic free alternatives (switching from a bath gel pump to a bar soap for example) but there is still a massive amount of work to do in spreading the word and shifting people's perceptions around them being ‘inconvenienced'. In today's chat, I discuss plastic pollution - the situation AND the hope we both share, for how powerfully we can change the statistic that there is going to be more...
Jun 24, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 93
Author Lee Holmes joins me on the show this week to discuss the simple strategies she implemented when her gut health went south after multiple antibiotics many years ago. From there her immune system was affected until a cascade effect landed her in hospital. What she managed to do to eat and act her way back to health has now been shared with many thousands of people through her 8 books and thriving online community, and today on the show we talk about some of the strategies she's found to wor...
Jun 17, 2018•53 min•Ep. 92
Thrilled to have Dr Ralph Esposito join me on the show this week for our first male-focused show. There are of course so many things we could tackle, so I'm calling this part 1 and I want you to pop over to the show notes over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast and leave a comment with a male health topic you'd like covered for our part 2. In today's show we discuss fertility and the major factors concerning decline in sperm health and motility, major factors that upset the balance of testosterone and oe...
Jun 10, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 91
For a while now I've been trying to put into words exactly why I feel that money, and a healthy and smart relationship with it is part of leading a low tox life. Today on the show, this happens. The 4 principal aspects that define a Low Tox Life are food, body, home and mind. Stress is a part of the mind and if we're stressed for prolonged periods of time, it negatively impacts our body and mind. A huge contributor to many people's stress? Money. And so, there's the link and why I wanted to brin...
Jun 03, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 90
When you look at a business founder journey, there are countless examples of the change makers and pioneers, being people who've come through a mess to create their message or a dark personal time, leading them to becoming a torch bearer of sorts on a new path. Stephanie Devine is one of those founders, and her kickstarter campaign cleared its goal in 48 hours, such is the demand for sustainable, traceable clothing items and in this case BRAS. I chat to Stephanie about the fire that was put in h...
May 27, 2018•37 min•Ep. 89
This week you've just got little old me! I'm reading a few excerpts from my upcoming book, Low Tox Life, which if you get the book or not, either way will hopefully be lots of food for thought! It's available internationally rolling out from July 1, 2018. I also share some of the journeys people have gone on since I issued the challenge to ask yourself these questions when considering a purchase: 1. How was this made / what from? 2. Who made it and were they fairly paid? 3. Am I ok with all thos...
May 20, 2018•30 min•Ep. 88
Ever been told, after getting a hormone test back - whether it was testosterone, estrogen, thyroid hormones, cortisol or anything else, that everything's 'normal' and 'you're fine?' - yet you feel totally NOT FINE? In this week's show I chat to the wonderful Dr Carrie Jones who makes the trickiest of hormone challenges (male or female) feel like a fun puzzle to get to the bottom of - and I'm serious. Imagine turning the talk of hormone woes on its head and making it instead an interesting fun th...
May 13, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 87
Very rarely do you find a company so transparent, so vocal about social and environmental injustice and so good at growing a healthy business, as Dr Bronner's. A family run business from way back, it's one of my favourites for many reasons. I wanted to bring on their VP Gero Leson a phd in environmental science, who works to set up incredible partnerships with communities in developing countries to set up their supply chain. Rarely do you get to look under the hood of a procurement and productio...
May 06, 2018•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 86
Hold onto your hats guys this is a BIG and LONG one. Elisa and I recorded both this conversation and another for our Low Tox Kids course in a 3 hour marathon from two sides of the Pacific Ocean. Dr Song is such a caring soul, and with her knowledge of both conventional and complementary medicine offers incredible support as we navigate the modern world with more kids having some sort of issue than not, these days. In this chat we discuss what the biggest challenges we face in children's health a...
Apr 29, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 85
Do you make knee jerk decisions, or decisions that later don't seem to have been very smart for your future that frustrate you? While today's show isn't about any aspect of life specifically, it is about learning the art of holistic decision making from the man who has a Phd in the subject, Dan Palmer. Join me for a lovely, fun and accessible chat exploring holistic decision making as a tool for steering your life, business, or whatever into a space that brings you quality of life whilst keeping...
Apr 22, 2018•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 84
I remember so well seeing the news break that lego were going to be aiming to be new-petroleum-free by 2030, engaging a huge task force of sustainability experts, scientists and industrial designers to work on this project. Today, some 2.5 years late, I chat to Tim Brooks, ex environmental advisor to the City of London, now with LEGO, on how their work is going towards this goal. We can all move mountains, and the big companies of LEGO's size can effect radical change when they move the needle o...
Apr 15, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 83
If anyone knows about “this is what I think I want to do” but then climbs that mountain and goes “Oh dear, I think I've been called to do THAT” and has a major career shift, it's me. It was wonderful to meet Elise finally, after having done Mindful In May myself in the past, and discuss her journey from originally becoming a trained Doctor, surgeon and psychiatrist, but feeling to pull to make her principal life's work about teaching mindfulness both in workplaces and creating online spaces and ...
Apr 08, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 82
In this show I chat to Dr Elen Ap Thomas, an Integrative Doctor based in Queensland, Australia, about a topic that parents in the low tox community wanted to see on the show. We discuss some of the signs in girls and boys that early-onset puberty is occurring, when it's worth investigating, when and how it's possible to delay those early signs and some of the factors that science is starting to show, contribute to it happening in the first place, from our diets to our lifestyles. It's a show des...
Apr 01, 2018•55 min•Ep. 81
For nearly a century we've been told that fluoride is the key to not getting tooth decay, and while there's some research to suggest targeted topical benefit, the real reason for great healthy teeth is exactly what maintains a great healthy body: Largely? It's FOOD. Dr Steven Lin is fresh off his US tour promoting the book and shares an abundance of interesting facts about our teeth, gums, disease, and the myths that orthodontics and getting your wisdom teeth out are just part in parcel of life!...
Mar 25, 2018•1 hr•Ep. 80
