Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living

46. Celebrating Zappos, an online retailer obsessed with delivering happiness and WOW experiences from customer to staff, shareholders and vendors!

Inspiring and heartwarming shares about Zappos, a customer-centric online retailer obsessed with delivering happiness! Includes shares from a conversation between the late Tony Hsieh and Simon Sinek, their LEED®-Gold certification for the Las Vegas headquarters and the awesome Zappos for Good initiatives.

45. Take five breath practice, soles4souls changing lives and helping the planet with their shoe and clothing donations plus ethical wool certification ZQ.

A super simple breath practice from Dr Mark Hyam, more about how soles4souls are changing lives and helping the planet with shoe and clothing donations plus ethical wool certification ZQ that is animal, planet and people focussed.

44. Celebrating Allbirds a B Corp committed to being the most sustainable footwear it can! Crafting shoes from natural materials that people feel good in and good about.

More about Allbirds this inspiring ecological footwear brand committed to taking steps towards becoming the most sustainable footwear brand it can! Made from the natural materials like Merino wool, trees and sugar as well as using elements such as recycled paper and plastic bottles, plus building a carbon emissions rating element so consumers can understand the impact of their purchase.

43. A reminder to embrace all the shades in this puzzle of life plus more about the cost-effective carbon calculating and benchmarking tool from CompareYourFootprint.com

I love Rachel Naomi Remen's stories and today welcomed the reminder to embraces all the shades in this puzzle of life. Plus excited to share more about CompareYourFootprint.com's cost-effective carbon calculating and benchmarking tool.

42. Commemorating the life, inspiration and legacy of Leila Janah, the visionary founder of social enterprise Samasource which lifts people out of poverty by giving work, not aid.

Leila Janah was also the founder of Samaschool, a non-profit focused on reskilling for the new economy and LXMI, an ethical fair-trade, organic skincare company. She passed away at the age of 37 after complications from a rare cancer epithelioid sarcoma in January of 2020. She was driven to create a better world, believing that providing meaningful, dignified, living wage work was the best way to permanently lift people out of poverty. She was extensively recognised, including being named one of Fortune’s Most Promising Entrepreneurs. Her book, Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time, was released in 2017. Find out more at leilajanahfoundation.org

41. Showing up to a daily practice, connecting to joy right here and now plus the inspiring tech for good global social media platform WokenUp.

A Seth Godin reminder to the power and value in showing up to a daily practice, regardless of how you feel! Connecting to joy and happiness right here and now with Thích Nhất Hạnh. Plus introducing the inspiring tech for good social media platform WokenUp with a mission to transform humanity for good by accelerating the achievement of the UN 17 SDGs.

40. Keeping the faith while sowing and tending seeds, 3 deliciously simple daily joy practises and TheLongRun.org nature-based sustainable tourism movement.

The importance of keeping the faith while lovingly sowing and tending seeds, three deliciously simple daily joy practises from Chade Meng Tan's Joy on Demand Talk at Google and elaborating on the TheLongRun.org nature-based sustainable tourism movement, launched by T Beam co-founder Jochen Zeitz and part of the ZEITZ foundation.

39 Reconnecting to happy and love for no reason, plus celebrating the B Team's milestones since 2013 and their bold 2025 ambitions.

It's time to reconnect to the idea of happy and love for no reason. Two powerful and inspiring books by Marci Shimoff. Plus celebrating the B Team's milestones since 2013 and their bold 2025 ambitions.

38. Inspired by a homeless man doing for others and excited by The B Team's work in the conscious business space.

I felt so blessed to hear about a beautiful encounter a friend had with a homeless man who was showing up from a space of community consciousness, and so excited and inspired by The B Team's work and action taking in the conscious business space.

37. A cascade of insights around being deeply present to what's alive within. More about B Corp vegan eatery Ooh Cha Cha in Taipei

A cascade of insights around being deeply present to what's alive within, being willing to be with the chaos and more challenging emotions. Finding that sweet spot between being with darker emotions, being open to their gifts, while not wallowing too long. Plus more about Taipei B Corp vegan eatery Ooh Cha Cha.