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This week’s podcast guest is Mark Nelson, a long-time regenpreneur highly knowledgeable about the importance of the interconnectedness between us and the Earth, as well as between us and our community. He is also one of the creators and participants of Biosphere 2, where he lived for two years. We’re talking about taking on challenges, accepting and integrating feedback, pushing the envelope, and waste systems. If you enjoy today’s episode, please review us on Apple podcast or follow us on your preferred podcast platform.

Episode Show Notes:

New Mexico Land: Mark starts off by sharing...

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Just like last month, we have another special bonus episode sharing the startup story of an impactful regenerative entrepreneur. This time we are talking to Mugagga Kiyimba from Uganda about how he started the Treasure Foundation. Join us as we dive into the life of a true community leader who empowers everyone around him. We’ll talk about looking at problems as opportunities, finding the strength to overcome and persist, being in-tune with your community to create solutions, and much, much more. If you enjoy today’s episode, please review us on Apple podcast or follow us on your preferred podcast...

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Hello again fellow regenpreneurs! This month Emily and I are sharing some of our own thoughts about regenerative business design. We understand that a truly regeneratively designed business is not a stamp and repeat business. Each business is designed to fulfill a unique purpose in regenerating people, the planet, and our future. So how do we go about designing these highly specific and purposeful businesses? That's what we'll be exploring in this episode and sharing some lessons we've learned as we've designed our own business. 

Episode show notes:

Title: Designing Regenerative Businesses: Our Philosophy and 8...

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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.

Episode show notes:

• 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 life...

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What comes to your mind when I say greenwashing, blue-washing, pink-washing, 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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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.

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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...