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• Pando Academy Commons: An open community of regenerative entrepreneurs creating change through the business they start, build, and grow.

Hello and welcome back for a special bonus episode this month. Keri Evjy joins us for a beautiful exploration of her regenerative startup story and what led her to start not only one but four regenerative businesses. We’ll talk about the healing power nature and the outdoors has been in her life, how moments that test and stretch us help define and strengthen us, and of course, the origins of Keri’s two current business and lessons learned from two other businesses she moved on from.

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• Regenerative Life Design: Keri’s new startup is helping folks not only design land, but our lives, in a regenerative way.
• Healing Roots Design: Keri’s first and ongoing land design business. In her story, she shares how she came into doing land design work and how that work also evolved into her...

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• StorySeed - Message and Marketing Course: a comprehensive course for regenerative entrepreneurs to build and scale their message and marketing efforts.
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• Pando Academy Commons - An open community of regenerative entrepreneurs creating change through the businesses they start, build, and grow. 

What comes to your mind when I say greenwashing, bluewashing, pinkwashing, or social-washing?

In this podcast, we will be discussing the challenges facing regenerative entrepreneurs in 2023, including the problem of greenwashing in the regenerative movement. We will explore the desires of entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers for more regenerative and responsible products and services. We will also examine the problem of greenwashing and the lack of clear standards, policies, and regulations in the...

Thanks again for joining us today on the Seeds of Tao podcast. Today, Joshua Hughes joined us for an amazing Regenpreneur Startup Story. Joshua shares why he became an entrepreneur building regenerative communities through the two businesses he founded, Blacksheep Regenerative and VerdEnergia Pacifica. His story and insights will help you to see the bigger role regenerative businesses play in helping to restore communities, create connections, and unify what often looks like a very divided world.

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Episode 104 Show Notes: view the full notes and reference links for this or any episode by visiting us on our website at SeedsofTao.com and clicking on the podcast.

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Thanks for joining us for today’s episode! Today we had Joshua Prieto host and guide us in a conversation about Storytelling and the narratives we put out into the world to help us grow and scale our regenerative businesses and the regenerative economy we are building together.

Here are the references for this month’s podcast. Don’t forget to follow and write a review of the podcast if you enjoyed today’s episode.

Regenpreneur Brand Archetype Quiz: here you will find our brand archetype quiz to help you more clearly define and implement your brand’s unique identity.

StorySeed Marketing and Message course: enroll in StorySeed and learn to build and scale your regenerative enterprise using the power of story.

B-Corp About Page: Josh mentions the B-Corp movement and the B Lab organization who helps corporations who are creating regenerative economies distinguish themselves from their extractive counterparts by helping them stay accountable for...

In so many ways there is a strong desire for humans to connect and weave our lives into the greater tapestry of everything living. Reaching out and finding connections is a part of our nature. The more connected we become in our lives the more resilient and strong we are both individually and collectively. When we connect with neighbors, we build personal friendships and resilient communities. When we connect with nature, we energize ourselves and find our place in the cosmos. 

There is always a micro and macro perspective to consider when we observe our interconnectedness to one another. How does the interconnected network of our world's regenerators look like? What sort of pattern appears when a collective movement thinks global and acts local? Our good friend Lauren Minis has been uncovering the answers to these questions and more. You'll have to tune in to Episode 101 as we explore her story as a regenerative entrepreneur who is helping us to weave our...

How  do you define Regenerative Entrepreneurship? 

In so many ways I thought that if I could better define what regenerative entrepreneurship was I could somehow create the recipe for producing regenerative entrepreneurs package them in a bottle and ship them out to the world so that we could benefit from them. It seems silly that I ever thought this way, and although my initial thoughts were far from reality I learned so much in my observation and interaction with the regenerative entrepreneurs from all over. 

In an investigative manner, I built a market research survey and conducted market interviews with over 100 English-speaking regenerative entrepreneurs across the globe. The survey and interviews are ongoing, but I thought I'd share with you what I've learned so far in my research. Listen to Episode 100  for the full story, how I came to find the 6 core tenants of regenerative business, and what I've found to be the greatest challenge of a regenerative...

Right before we hit episode 100 I wanted to share what started this crazy journey with the Seeds of Tao podcast. What caused us to start the podcast? What has happened during our nearly 100 episodes? What's going to happen during the next 100 episodes? Here's the updated story of Seeds of Tao excited to turn the page on the next chapter. 

If you haven't already watched the pitch deck presentation I put together a couple of weeks ago this might also be a good time to see what we are working to build for you. 

There is a first for everything and I'm excited to say that this is the first time I've been interviewed on someone else's podcast for my work at Seeds of Tao. Greg Peterson of The Urban Farm interviewed me on his podcast which the episode will go live sometime later this year. I decided to post it up a little sooner as it's a great time to share a little more about what Seeds of Tao is doing for the regenpreneur community. 

Around the same time, Greg and I did this interview, I put together a pitch deck for potential partners. I think it adds to the conversation we had during the interview so I'm going to share a recording of that pitch here as well. Please let me know what you think of the interview and the pitch. 

It's been an absolute joy getting to know Eli over the past couple of months as we've run into each other at Regenerative Pollination events, Clubhouse conversations, and Think Tank discussions. On Clubhouse we've (at least a couple of times) been in a room together with those less involved in the regenerative movement and have been able to stand as a duo for regenerative change. It's a sweet Mormon missionary feeling when you alongside a companion help others see the light of the regenerative movement. 

Not surprisingly our conversation for this interview was absolutely timely and furthers the narrative for regenerative entrepreneurs across the globe. Eli is a founder, catalyst, and inventor that is decentralizing the manufacturing industry. Basically, he's turning a massively extractive system into one that densely provides value by stacking functions and empowering small-scale producers. 

Sound interesting? Of course, it is! Come listen to Eli's story on...