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Maria Rodale describes herself as the recovering CEO and chairman of Rodale Inc., which is a massive publishing entity that the family sold many years ago. They're the publisher not only of a book imprint, but magazines like Men's Health, Women's Health, Prevention. They also published Organic Gardening, which was really the beginning of the family's company, which was started by her grandparents who are immigrants in the ‘40s. Maria now is a writer. She wrote a beautiful book that came out recently called Love, Nature, Magic: Shamanic Journeys Into the Heart of My Garden, which we talk about in today's episode. And she also wrote Organic Manifesto: How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe, and she's the children's book author Mrs. Peanut Knuckle. also writes a Substack. Maria is an ardent environmentalist. She is massive in the regenerative agriculture movement and she chairs Rodale Institute's board. The focus of this book, and most of her work is really about trying to recreate balance and bring ourselves back into harmony with nature by looking at the toxic impacts on human and planetary health of so many of the things that we do. She is a hopeful optimist. She believes she's seen the ground and the land regenerate, and she knows that we could do that. She's received a lot of awards, including the National Audubon Rachel Carson Award in 2004, United Nations Population Funds Award for the health and dignity of women everywhere in 2007 and the Auburn University International Quality of Life award in 2014. We strangely have a lot in common. We're walking similar paths and we talk about that as well as understanding what all those pesty weeds and plants in her garden are trying to tell her.
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