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In episode 127 of the Seeds of Tao Podcast, Thomas Richardson is joining us to share his amazing journey from his gypsy travels around Europe, to regenerative entrepreneurship. Through his experience with a myriad of people, a mindset of lifelong learning, and boots on the ground experience in festival and event creation, he's crafted his journey into regeneration. Like so many of us, along his journey Thomas made a huge pivot to live a higher level of alignment with his values and passion in regenerative entrepreneurship. Join us in this episode as we talk about entrepreneurship, the power of regeneration, and transitioning the economy from an extractive system to a regenerative one.

You can check out the full show notes on our site.

Guest Bio: Thomas Richardson

I'm a serial entrepreneur with a varied and completely unique history. I held the title of head elephant boy for Chipperfield's circus at 13, launched a music producing label and studio in my early career, founded and currently run Geosculpt Ireland, an award-winning environmentally innovative garden and landscape business that brings traditional stonemasonry techniques into the 21st century with advanced permaculture and cutting-edge design, and am the founder and CEO of GEIA, the Global Ecological Investment Agency, which finds novel ways to fund regenerative agricultural and ecological projects through full circle systems.

Host Bio: Joshua Prieto

Josh is the Co-Founder and Director of the Seeds of Tao learning platform for regenerative entrepreneurs. He has over 10 years of experience creating, building, and operating startup solutions alongside entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes. That experience has shown him that entrepreneurs have the biggest role to play in the Anthropocene as we either create the solutions for, or become the root problem of, our people, planet, and future. Josh now co-creates educational programs that disrupt the current way our entrepreneurs learn. His holistically designed educational programs empower entrepreneurs to stop chasing “silver-bullet” solutions and start designing solutions that use regenerative systems.

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In Episode 125 of the Seeds of Tao Podcast, get ready to be inspired by Jesse Fisher's incredible Regenpreneur Story! 🌱🏡 Discover how he cultivates resiliency and prosperity through intentional communities, sharing valuable lessons from building a cooperative town during a global recession. Jesse's experiences, including the remarkable story of Mondragon, will leave you motivated to embrace cooperative principles and manifest positive change in your own life. Don't miss this captivating episode where Jesse shares his wisdom and empowers us to create a more regenerative world! 🌍💚🎧

You can find the complete Show Notes and Blog Post on our website.

Guest Bio: Jesse Fisher - LinkedIn Profile

All my life's personal and professional experiences and interests led me to join the "Operation Self-Reliance" non-profit land development initiative, or OSR, in 2019. OSR assists families to achieve greater independence, safety, preparedness and family unity through engaging in some level of food production -- from backyard urban homesteading to multi-acre self-reliant rural farmsteads surrounded by others doing the same.

While reading about the economic history of Utah, I learned that Brigham City, Utah, during the 1870s, had overcome all the downsides of dog-eat-dog Competitive Free Enterprise. When I learned that they:
- Converted their town's entire economy to Cooperative Free Enterprise,
- Achieved 100% employment,
- Built homes for all the widows,
- Provided food, shelter, and work for the homeless, and
- Had their best year ever during the world-wide recession of 1873,
I asked myself, "Why aren't we building towns like this today?"

And now, I am.
And, if you inherited your pioneer ancestors' can-do resolve,
I invite you to join us recreating that economic miracle.

Learn how "Operation Self-Reliance" got started and about its progress today: https://bit.ly/OSR-Intro

Host Bio: Joshua Prieto - LinkedIn Profile

We help impact entrepreneurs to start, grow and scale their regenerative enterprises.

You want to change the world… We all do in one form or another. You might have taken that Gandhi quote to heart, to "Be the change you wish to see in the world." The challenge is creating a livelihood that allows us to be that change while finding growth for ourselves and our loved ones. Where do you start? How do you start?

Seeds of Tao is here to help you seed regenerative paths beyond sustainability with tools and resources to help regenpreneurs be the change, it's all a part of our United Learning Academy. First, we provide e-learning resources that teach the six core areas impact entrepreneurs are desiring greater competency: marketing and messaging, finances and funding, cultural forces and flows, personal development, organizational management, natural capital management. Second, After giving you the knowledge frameworks to be successful, we provide a network of peers, mentors, educators, and facilitators that help you find your unique path to developing your regenerative enterprise. Whether it is helping you to incubate an entrepreneurial venture, start a regenerative career, or become a permaculture professional, the United Learning Academy is designed to bring each individual towards a truly impactful regenerative enterprise that improves our people, planet, and future.

If you're looking to create or grow your regenerative enterprise and be the change you wish to see in the world, start by taking part in our free Resource Commons. Here you’ll find educational content, a supportive community, and collaborative events to support you on your journey. We’re here to help pioneers like yourself pave the way (tao) to a regenerative future. Let’s get to work and be an example for others to follow.

Welcome to another Seeds of Tao Podcast episode! In Episode 112: The Regenerative Business Economy Map, we're having a more interactive conversation around crowdsourcing the mapping of the current ecosystem of regenerative enterprise building. Our goal is to share this information with everyone and explore the possible uses of such a map.

We'll be using some tools to do this mapping experiment, including The Brain (a tool we’ll talk about in the episode), this blog post that goes alongside the recorded podcast episode, and an intake form to crowdsource data from impact entrepreneurs. In the blog post you'll see an embedded version of the digital mind map we're calling the Regenerative Business Economies Network map or for short the regenBEN map. It's a visualization tool we'll be using to map the relationships between regenerative enterprises.

You can check out the blog post and more info on regenBEN here.

Here's a link to the intake form to start getting your work mapped into regenBEN.

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Welcome back to the Seeds of Tao Podcast, we have another great interview with a regenerative entrepreneur this week, a true systems changer. Josh interviews Max Rünzel, Co-Founder and CEO of HiveTracks, who is revolutionizing the way beekeepers can gather data, and changing the narrative of the value of biodiversity to the masses. Max shares his entrepreneurial journey though travel and study, involvement with the United Nations, and learning to bring big visions to market as an entrepreneur. He also goes into his experience with getting funding rounds and building capital as a regenerative enterprise to expand his positive impact in the world.

Here are the notes from the episode, don’t forget to follow, comment, or write a review of the podcast if you enjoyed today’s episode. It means a lot 🙂

Episode 111 Show Notes

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Guest Bio: Max Rünzel - LinkedIn Profile

Max joined HiveTracks following his appointments with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), where he worked on digital tools to empower smallholder producers. Being fluent in six languages and having lived on three continents, Max believes in a truly global solution to improving bee health.

Host Bio: Joshua Prieto - LinkedIn Profile

Josh is the Co-Founder and Director of the Seeds of Tao learning platform for regenerative entrepreneurs. He has over 10 years of experience creating, building, and operating startup solutions alongside entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes. That experience has shown him that entrepreneurs have the biggest role to play in the Anthropocene as we either create the solutions for, or become the root problem of, our people, planet, and future. Josh now co-creates educational programs that disrupt the current way our entrepreneurs learn. His holistically designed educational programs empower entrepreneurs to stop chasing “silver-bullet” solutions and start designing solutions that use regenerative systems.

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Welcome back to the Seeds of Tao podcast, today we’ve got Liz Reitzig, an inspirational regenpreneur, activist, and momma bear. Liz and Emily dive into the importance of resilience, finding hope in troubling times, and balancing life as an entrepreneur and momma. Liz is the owner of Nourishing Liberty, a private consulting business focused on developing restorative food systems within local communities. She is also the founder and facilitator of Grassfed On The Hill, creating non-profit buying clubs where grassroots organizations offer families in the Eastern United States the benefits of locally sourced, organic foods via direct farmer-to-consumer sales. And lastly, she also has a substack with many awesome articles she’s written on topics like raw milk and food security, she’s on there as Raw Milk Mama.

Here are the notes from the episode, don’t forget to follow, comment, or write a review of the podcast if you enjoyed today’s episode. It means a lot 🙂

Episode 110: Show Notes

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Guest Bio:

Liz Reitzig - LinkedIn Profile

Liz has a strong experience in creating and adapting meal plans for any person who wants to have the healthiest possible lifestyle.

Familycomes first for Liz. She believes that all people should leave the world better than we met it. Thus Liz, as a parent, just like you, wants to offer her children a foundation of exceptional health.

Promoting the use of principles such as "food network, food webs, permaculture, and buying clubs," Liz has helped countless families to change their state of mind, thus they have gained: strong immunity, stress reduction and of course learning to take responsibility for their food systems.

Host Bio: Emily Prieto - LinkedIn Profile

Emily is an explorer for the new creative solarpunk world and catalyst for regenerative economies and permanent cultures (permacultures). As the co-founder of Seeds of Tao she helps create experiences and opportunities for entrepreneurs to build strong regenerative enterprises. She is an artist, creative designer, and brand strategist who has worked with small and large businesses to create content that shares the brand identity through a compelling message and story. Using her creative design talent, Emily has also become a permaculture land designer, helping to design both commercial and residential lands for long-term regenerative change. She fluently speaks Spanish and English, adores Latin-American culture and chooses to build community and regenerative stewardship in the rainforests of Central America alongside her husband and four children.

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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 109 Show Notes: You can find the rest of the show notes and links to Mark’s work on our website. 

Guest Bio:

Mark Nelson

Dr. Mark Nelson is a founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and orchardry and wastewater recycling. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Ecotechnics (www.ecotechnics.edu), a U.K. and U.S. non-profit organization, which consults to several demonstration projects working in challenging biomes around the world; Vice Chairman of Global Ecotechnics Corp. (www.globalecotechnics.com), head of Wastewater Gardens International (www.wastewatergardens.com).

Mark has helped pioneer a new ecological approach to sewage treatment, “Wastewater Gardens®” which are constructed subsurface flow wetlands with high biodiversity and has created over 90 such systems in Mexico, Belize, Bali & Sulawesi, Indonesia, West Australia, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Bahamas, the Philippines, Algeria and the United States since 1996 (www.wastewatergardens.com).

He served as Director of Space and Environmental Applications for Space Biospheres Ventures, which created and operated Biosphere 2, the 3.15 acre materially closed facility near Tucson, Arizona, the world’s first laboratory for global ecology (www.biospheres.com). Dr. Nelson was a member of the eight person “biospherian” crew for the first two year closure experiment, 1991-1993. His research inside included litter fall/decomposition in the tropical biomes, population dynamics and biomass increase, sustainable agricultural system, and constructed wetland sewage treatment system.

Beginning in the 1970s, Mark worked in the high desert grassland south of Santa Fe, New Mexico where he made hundreds of tons of compost, planted over a thousand fruit and windbreak trees, creating an oasis in previously overgrazed and eroding country. Since 1978 Mark has worked in the semi-arid tropical savannah of West Australia where he helped start Savannah Systems P/L a project centered on the pasture regeneration and enrichment of a 5000 acre property in the Kimberley region.

Publications include the books “Life Under Glass: Crucial Lessons in Planetary Stewardship from 2 Years in Biosphere 2” (2nd edition, Synergetic Press, 2020), “Pushing Our Limits: Insights from Biosphere 2” (University of Arizona, February 2018), “The Wastewater Gardener: Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time” (Synergetic Press, 2014), co-authoring “Life Under Glass” and “Space Biospheres”, editing “Biological Life Support Technologies: Commercial Opportunities” and numerous chapters in books on space life support systems. His research papers include ones on ecological hierarchy, wastewater recycling through the use of constructed wetlands, and applications of closed ecological systems. Dr. Nelson is an Associate Editor of the journal Life Sciences in Space Research.

Mark’s educational background includes a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida. His dissertation involved the creation of experimental Wastewater Gardens® for protection of groundwater quality and coral reef health along the coast of Yucatan, Mexico. His M.S. was in the School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona; and his B.A. in Philosophy/Pre-Med Sciences was from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Mark was awarded the Yuri Gagarin Jubilee Medal, 1993 for outstanding service to international cooperation in space and the environment by the Russian Cosmonautics Federation; and elected a Fellow of the Explorers Club (1994) and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (2001).

Host Bio:

Joshua Prieto - LinkedIn Profile

Josh is the co-founder and CEO of Seeds of Tao an education and incubation company for regenerative entrepreneurs. If you ask him the purpose of SoT, he’ll tell you it is to create paths to a more inclusive, fair, and balanced economy. He feels a special kind of entrepreneur is the key to that path. In the past he has felt discouraged, disappointed, and confused by the extractive and degenerative practices of the businesses he has helped during his career as an entrepreneur and marketing strategist. When he found the regenerative and permaculture movement he realized that if entrepreneurs used regenerative principles and practices in their business our economy and culture would change from an extractive, degenerative one to a consciously regenerative one. Today he focuses on building up and increasing the number of regenerative entrepreneurs through open education services and incubator programs. He would absolutely love it if you joined him in his efforts.