Gutsy Matters Podcast is for independent thinkers who aren’t afraid to stand out from the crowd. Join our gutsy conversations every fortnight to discover, uncover and create opportunities and perspectives about health, wealth and sustainable living. We’re excited to share these thought-provoking discussions because they change the way we do things, the way we think and how we succeed. Gutsy Matters Podcast is brought to you by Stored Naturally - helping you to live well with our all natural, ...
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From Nature to Nurture - Growing Certified Organic Skincare
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Leanne Sternbeck the creator of RADHA Handmade Organics and Naturals is the only person we know who is growing certified organic ingredients to use in the hand made certified organic skincare products she makes. Leanne is literally taking all the values we have about organics and provenance and putting them her in a beautifully hand crafted range o…
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Smoked Food - Developing a Good Business Idea
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This interview with Jeff Schultheiss about how he's combined his expertise as a food technologist, his love of smoking foods and smoke flavours with his determination to build his own business, is not only a fantastic introduction to a range of new products but also a great insight into what it takes to create a food product business.…
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The Global Plastic Problem with Jane Bremmer, National Toxics Network
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We talked with Jane Bremmer who is currently the Zero Waste Australia campaign coordinator for the National Toxics Network. We talked about plastic - literally from the ground up.We hope this episode helps to maintain the momentum behind the plastic 'wake up call'. Jane is adamant that if everyone knew plastic started with fracking, liquid natural …
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This is a great interview with Associate Professor Eliza Whiteside about cancer, foods that might have anti-cancer properties and the empowering actions that people with cancer can take. There is great empathy and compassion in Dr Eliza's work which comes from her first hand understanding of how disempowering a cancer diagnosis is. She is a survivo…
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Krista Bjorn started from scratch when she moved to Australia. In this podcast she tells her story of falling in love, beginning a garden and learning the hard way! She says she was a really horrible gardener and the little that she did know was from a high rainfall climate that absolutely didn't suit her new dry Australian surrounds - so she just …
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The Science of Re-purposing Food Waste While there are many products available, including our hemp produce bags, and consumer education for reducing food waste at the household level, we discovered (in this episode of Gutsy Matters Podcast) that in Australia 31% of food grown never leaves the farm due to tight supply contract specifications for foo…
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Be Kind to Your Skin and Keep the Reef Safe
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Australian Made Reef Safe Sunscreen - The Kind Sunscreen Just 9 ingredients in this pure reef safe sunscreen formula that protects you, your children, our beautiful coral reefs and valuable ecosystems. We interviewed the founder and creator of The Kind Sunscreen, Emma Corrie, and heard what got her started, why she persisted and what a difference c…
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What happens to my rubbish after it is collected? Currently the TRC is using waste collection services for the recycle bin contents. It's commercially viable and there is great profit in rubbish! There are many hard to answer questions such as could it be possible for the council to take this over from a commercial business and how could a council …
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Extraordinary Hemp - an Australian industry vision
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This is a Gutsy vision for the evolution of the Australian Industrial Hemp industry - a vision that could take the industry from a niche industry to a world leader. Our guest is Robert Bell the founder and organiser of the Australian Industrial Hemp Conference. He not only shares his knowledge about the wide range of uses of industrial hemp but als…
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Reduce Food Waste - Save The Planet (and enough money for a holiday)
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In this episode of Gutsy Matters we are really excited to speak about one our passions at Stored Naturally, and that is reducing household food waste. We spoke with Mark Barthel who joined the Fight Food Waste CRC team as a Special Advisor in August 2019 having moved from the UK to Australia. In addition to his CRC role, where he is leading the dev…
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What natural DIY recipes can I make at home?
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You'll love this interview with Krissy Ballinger the author of Naturally Inspired - 125+ simple DIY recipes to help eliminate chemicals from your home and body. This interview is the perfect conversation for you if you're interested in reducing your exposure to avoidable toxins in your home and self care products. Krissy gives tips and recipes that…
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How To Encourage Children To Eat Vegetables - Inspiring & Fun; encouraging healthy little eaters!
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Kate found herself healing her own health problems by adopting healthy eating and lifestyle changes then when her became a parent she was motivated to teach her kids well from the beginning so they would never have the health issues she had. She wanted her children to have fun eating well, and even more than that, she wanted her children to associa…
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How to plan healthy meals for busy families with Ashley Jubinville
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If you're wondering how you can find time to meal prep and cook healthy meals for your family when every week is a busy week, then you need Ashley Jubinville, the Kitchen Coach. She'll show you how to be stress free and at least three times more efficient in the kitchen and she'll even have your kids asking to eat vegetables! We're not kidding. Whi…
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Building the Hemp Industry - Expanding Australian Hemp Products
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If there is one thing that we've all learnt from the global pandemic it's that we need to go local and be resourceful. That's exactly what Georgina Wilkinson and Gary Rogers from Margaret River Hemp Company are doing. In this episode of Gutsy Matters Podcast we talk with Georgina about the exciting new developments in the Australian Hemp Industry. …
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An Upple a day.... Whole apple in a bottle that's healthier than apple juice.
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We're delighted to introduce the Upple on the Gutsy Matters Podcast. It's a brand new innovation in the Apple Industry and it's direct from the Savio family Apple Orchard on the Granite Belt in Queensland, Australia. The Upple is a whole apple in a bottle and it's going to shake up the apple juice and apple snacks market in Australia and around the…
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Australian Made Dairy Free Butter That's Not Margarine - Matt Weller from Phyto Kitchen
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In this episode our conversation is about a revolutionary new butter. A butter made from plants. A butter that is equally as useful, delicious and functional for spreading, toasting,and baking as butter made from cream. The team making these gutsy moves in the food industry are Matt Weller and his wife Ashley Jubinville and their butter business is…
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Drop into the green cleaning revolution - free from single-use plastics!
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Just like food contact plastic, where no-one really knows if the petroleum derived chemicals in the plastic are safe or not, cleaning chemicals in conventional cleaning products are exactly the same - petroleum derived and unknown! You may have even found that it's been easier to switch to clean personal care products than it has been to find an ef…
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Why fruit & vegetables are more important than you think
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99% of Australia children aged between 2 -18 DO NOT eat enough vegetables. In fact, very few of us eat enough vegetables, according to a recent Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report. The report found that across all stages of life, Australians generally do not eat enough healthy foods. Eating a balanced diet, including sufficient fruit …
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Creating Change - one reusable bag at a time
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A conversation about the huge problem of plastic overflowing in landfill, floating in the oceans, strangling marine life and causing all sorts of trouble was the catalyst for a fantastic initiative that commenced in 2013 and has enthusiastically spread to over 1100 communities worldwide. Jordyn and Tania, co-founders of Boomerang Bags, said the ans…
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Repairing, recycling and ....building tiny houses with Guido Verbist
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How often to do you hear people say that things don’t last as long as they used to ……or that they bought an item that stopped working not long after purchasing it! The War on Waste states that over 85% of furniture we put on the curb isn’t recycled and is instead sent to landfill. We have become a throw-away society. Did you know that there is 540k…
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Nourished with fresh food .... and love! with Anni Cramb, Floursh PYO
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In this episode we speak with Anni Cramb, who, along with three other Toowoomba Mum’s decided to plant seeds of love, hope and health to help their community flourish. They have a wonderful vision to provide fresh solutions for a happier and healthier community and were inspired to start Flourish PYO in 2017. In 2018 they began their first communit…
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Exposing Plastic Recycling Myths with Tops Off Recycling
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Do you know what plastic is recycled and what is not? In this episode we chat to Leisa Clark from Tops Off Recycling and are shocked to uncover some of the myths about what we thought was actually being recycled! Leisa explains that 40% of all plastic used in packaging is HDPE (High-density polyethylene) plastic, which is a strong, resistant, long …
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Asher Andrews - Across Australia Fuelled by Plants
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Introducing Asher Andrews - husband to Jess, father to Willa and Rumi, distance runner and whole food plant based vegan chef and coach. He’s a man who is motivated to inspire us to love the plants on our plate, appreciate moments of living a simpler life and reconnect to the story of our food. “Plants are the most nutrient dense and nutrient rich f…
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Bring us your Excess - avoiding Food Waste with Nims Zavackas
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In this episode we have the pleasure of chatting with Brisbane based chef, Nims (Naomi) Zavackas. Nims was born and raised in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by parents who loved the land. The seeds of loving fresh produce were planted there and from a very young age she participated in the gathering of their gardens seasonal harvest. She saw, th…
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Rogue about Plastic - with Benefits! with Erin Rhoads
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In this episode we chat to Erin Rhoads, The Rogue Ginger, and find out what inspired her to start living a more sustainable life. She tells us how she started to reduce waste and how you can begin to do the same; how taking part in Plastic Free July changed her habits and why she couldn’t go back; how heat draws out endocrine disrupters from plasti…
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Meet our Gutsy Matters co-host and creator of the Fresh Produce Enhancer, Helen Reynolds. In this interview, Wendy managed to ask all the right questions to find out how Helen went from a childhood of eating a meat and 3 vegetable diet to experimenting with being a vegetarian and now to eating a plant-based diet. All the personal reasons why Helen …
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In this episode we are talking to Randal Breen who, with his wife, Juanita and family run Echo Valley Farms, in the beautiful Goomburra Valley in South East Queensland, Australia. They undertake ethical, sustainable, regenerative and holistic farming practices producing beef cattle, pasture-raised pork and free-range poultry. They believe in farmin…
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Creative Plant-based cooking with Veet Karen
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In this episode we chat to Veet Karen from Veet’s Cooking School. Her cooking school motto is “cooking for a world without hurt” and she has a peaceful passion for eradicating the idea that being a vegan means an unhealthy or imbalanced diet. Veet's love and passion for high quality food, mixed in with her knowledge of wholesome, healthy, vegan far…
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Gutsy Matters Podcast is for independent thinkers who aren’t afraid to stand out from the crowd. Join our gutsy conversations each fortnight to discover, uncover and create opportunities and perspectives about health, wealth and sustainable living. We’re excited to share these thought-provoking discussions because they change the way we do things, …
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