If you’ve ever tried to reduce your food waste or cut back on plastic and found yourself overwhelmed and frustrated at the lack of realistic low-waste options – this episode is for you.

For anyone who has ever found themselves wondering how to establish stronger boundaries or how to more evenly weight the scales across all their values.

Lauren is in her mid-twenties and wants to know whether slow living can apply to someone her age? Or is burnout a rite of passage?

When we look around and see the myriad environmental crises facing the world it can be easy to slip in to despair, as we wonder, “What difference can I make? I’m only one person.”

Nancy recently moved from the UK to Kuala Lumpur with her family, and is afraid that her introversion, combined with her desire to live a ‘slow life’ is holding her back from making friends.

Kate Mildenhall wants to know whether slow living and some of its adjacent elements – mindfulness, self-care, increased peace and patience – can actually rob us of ambition.

“On your slow journey don’t forget to give yourself permission to fail.”

Ben

“The wisdom we need now is buried in history.”

Beth Kempton

One of the best ways we as individuals can reduce our carbon footprint is to stop supporting the producers of fast fashion and start buying second-hand clothes.

“If we really want to change the world, we need to slow down.”

Katie Patrick

“Life’s too short to worry about the size of your thighs or the calories in a latte.”

Kali Gray

“I’m dedicating myself to really inhabiting slow.”

Sheri Salata

“The truth you hold onto most tightly is usually the one that’s giving you the most trouble. “

Blaire Palmer

“There’s something about our bodies that want to know where our food came from, to understand how our clothes are made, how to fix our houses.”

Katrina Rodabaugh

“Our idea of home has changed completely.”