The Art Of Actual Change

Inside this episode, Katherine Mason shares with us her love for painting but a deeper love for helping others. How her faith guides her life and how she wants her legacy to be more about art but how well she treated others.  

From an early age, Katherine was a talented painter excelling in advanced art classes in high school.  In called she lost motivation by being pushed through the system without challenge. Her love for...

Inside this episode, Priya Shah opens our eyes to the connection between art, community and healing. Her organization The Simple Good (TSG) was created out of a blog started in March 2011 on the need to share what people found to be their "happy" from around the world. The blog quickly went viral. 

By April 2013 TSG’s first pilot youth arts program took place in Auburn Gresham, Chicago, and resulted in an incredi...

Inside this episode, Rachel Wood dives deep into the world of solo travel, photography, NFTs, and van life.

Rachel spent most of her childhood and early adult life traveling the world. Early on, her parents would bring Rachel on Habitat For Humanity mission trips through church creating a love for exploration and adventure. Now in her late twenties, Rachel continues to value real-life experiences over possessions as she w...

Inside this episode, Richard Tumusiime and I have an in-depth conversation about the past, current, and future state of conservation in Uganda.  As a boy growing up in the mountains of Uganda, Richard was always fascinated with wildlife and the people who traveled the world to see them. He admired foreign travelers and knew at an early age he wanted to be a part of the tourism industry in his country.

After training to be...

Inside this special episode I have the honor of speaking with Robb Telfer about what is happening with the Bell Bowl Prairie at the Chicago - Rockford International Airport.

Under new leadership, the several thousand year old prairie is under threat to be bulldozed to make way for a new road. To our understanding, this road is essentially pointless and only adds to shave off a small amount of time to the shipping route. T...

Inside this episode, Gwen Obermeyer and I dive into the potential career paths inside the conservation industry.  She shares with us her own career journey and lessons she wished she had known when she was just staring out. We dive into the current state of our planets health. Cover ways anyone can get involved in conservation and so much more.



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Inside this episode Tracy Strandness of Barefoot Eco Outfitters opens up about the sustainable fashion industry. The pros and cons the industry has to offer and why the pros far outweigh the cons. She shares the intimate details about her very personal encounter with domestic abuse. How through the painful process she managed to strengthen her relationship with her children through nature. How the entire ordeal lead her and her chi...

Inside this episode Tyson explains why he decided to take on this several hundred mile solo trek across Iceland. Why he believes it requires making a splash these days to raise awareness  for important causes, like climate change. He speaks for his love of the outdoors from an early age and how seeing the disastrous toll climate change has had across the globe sparked his desire to lead by example.

With little knowledge o...

Inside this episode Alex Falconer dives into how one person with a dream can help save this planet. How he started his crusade to help save over 1,000,000 acres of untouched natural area with only an idea. He shares with us all the details about planning his incredible 110 mile run across the rouged terrain. So many people think you have to be a professional athlete to accomplish what he did. What it took was courage and determinat...

Inside this episode Tim dives deep into the illegal wildlife trade and reveals the behind the scenes work going on to fight it. With his extensive military intelligence background, Tim has developed a skillset fine-tuned to work with locals, police and governments to bring these criminals to justice.

Global wildlife crime has been estimated by the UN to be worth between US $7 and $23 billion dollars per year, run by sophi...

Nina Bergman is a multi-hyphenated actress, singer and songwriter with several high profile film roles soon to be released in theaters across the country. Nina can next be seen as the female lead in the November 5th indie theatrical release "Hell Hath No Fury." In this World War II historical female empowering action drama Nina stars as Marie, a French resistance fighter who falls in love with an SS officer who becomes pr...

Liz Kirkwood is the Executive Director of For Love Of Water (FLOW). She and her team are in a constant battle to protect our fresh water resources in and around the Great Lakes. From trying to prevent oil spills to fighting invasive species, they are part of the unsung heroes protecting this planet. Fresh water is a fundamental building block to life on earth. Our Great Lakes contain 21% of the planets surface fresh water by volume...

Jettie Word is the executive director of The Borneo Project. Her organization brings international attention and support to community-led efforts to defend forests, sustainable livelihoods, and human rights. Protecting human rights and environmental integrity in Borneo is a critical component of the global movement for a just and peaceful world.

Inside this episode we cover so many important global environmental concerns l...

Mark Kaufman is the founder and now executive chairman for Athletico Physical Therapy. He grew Athletico from 1 outpatient clinic to over 500 clinics in 12 states. Mark shares with us how hard work paired with opportunity leads to success. We talk about his upbringing and how some of his childhood mentors influenced his moral compass. I dive into the early days of Athletico all the way down to where the name came from. 

Even wi...

Todays guest is Steven Ngowi. He was born and raised in Northern Tanzania. With his parents unable to raise him he was raised by his grandfather. A safari guide himself, his grandfather exposed Steven to wildlife in Tanzania at an early age. By the age of 6 he was exploring this wild and dangerous landscape learning and absorbing all he could. 

As he grew older he wanted to pursue accounting as a career but the bush kept c...

Today's guests are Gerard Baker and Phil Hunter of Arctic Tern Expeditions. Both men have spent years as guides, scientist and even chefs (Gerard) in our planets polar regions.  Now they bring their years of expertise to their own travel company in an intimate way.  You may never think of travel the same way again. 

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Today's guest is Lianna Nielsen. In her 20's, while chasing a career in acting, Lianna began to experience serious health issues. Learn how she fixed them. 
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She sought the help of doctors and nutritionist to no avail. This is when she decided to take matters into her own hands. Lianna found a holistic wellness spec...

Dr. Gabby Wild is a National Geographic wildlife veterinarian who travels the world saving animals. She recently co-authored a National Geographic kids book called "Wild Vet Adventures". Inside the book she tells her fascinating, real life, stories about working with these wild animals. She is the head of the Gabby Wild Foundation (https://gabbywild.org). The foundation works hard to save wild animals around the world, ed...