Between being on the cusp of my 30th and seeing a lot of new faces on here lately, seems like the right time for a little intro by the way of some fun facts.
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1️⃣ My dream job… at least one of them… would be hosting a show that involves traveling to different places and highlighting local cultures AND the way ordinary people there are helping each other solving problems related to justice and environmental issues. The cool thing is, this really isn’t that different from my real job as Creative Director for Plant With Purpose, and producing things like the Grassroots Podcast and video projects are part of my role.
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2️⃣ People my age and up don’t seem to value learning new things. I want to resist that by regularly having my mind blown. It’s a big reason I love travel, reading, meeting people with oddly specific passions.
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3️⃣ I’m more than a little bit obsessed with maps. A weird thing I do for a brain break while working sometimes is look for hard-to-get-to places on Google Maps and drop in via Street View to have a look around. Some of my favorite spots to explore this way lately have been: Chad, rural Mongolia, small towns in the Yukon, and the island of Tonga.
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4️⃣ An odd college job of mine was to set up audio for concerts that would happen on campus. I was terrible at it and could never keep the wires straight. But I loved the weird encounters it led to. My favorites include getting Girl Talk to share his catering with me, helping Death Cab get access to some treadmills, and getting trapped backstage with Lindsay Lohan during a Ludacris show.
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5️⃣ My backup plan for life is going off to the Andes to be an alpaca farmer.
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