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Lydia French is the founder of The Brighter Times, a home for good news with a mission to transform journalism (and perhaps the readers) for the better through positive news stories and upbeat illustrations. We chat about what she worries about and is optimistic about for our children and our children's children, the empathy gap, the environment, climate activism and denial, technology, the importance of play, celebrating victories and welcoming failures, the struggle to stay positive, gratitude practices, strong women, creative design collaborations with the WWF, and much much more!
Show Notes
Show host Ryan Nell talks to Lydia French, the wonderful founder of The Brighter Times, about why she founded a one-stop online home of good news, with a mission to transform journalism (and perhaps the readers) for the better through positive news stories and upbeat illustrations. We chat about what she worries about and is optimistic about for our children and our children's children, the empathy gap, the environment, climate activism and denial, technology, the importance of play, celebrating victories and welcoming failures, the struggle to stay positive, gratitude practices, strong women, creative design collaborations with the WWF, and much much more!
Links to The Brighter Times:
- Follow them on Instagram: @thebrightertimes
- Read the good news at: www.thebrightertimes.com
- Save the animals, support the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) and buy the T-shirts, totes, mugs and merch: www.thebrightertimes.com/wwf-collaboration (or buy direct at the WWF shop)
About the show:
On the podcast, Levitate® founder Ryan Nell chats to inspiring changemakers. Whether they’ve overcome great personal hardship, launched a social enterprise, or changed the way we think about a subject, all of them are united by passion, purpose, and the desire to make the world a better place.
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On the podcast, Levitate® founder Ryan Nell chats to inspiring changemakers. Whether they’ve overcome great personal hardship, launched a social enterprise, or changed the way we think about a subject, all of them are united by passion, purpose, and the desire to make the world a better place.
Connect with the show!
Email any suggestions and feedback to podcast@levitate.london
We get all our inspiration from connecting with the community :)
Listen & subscribe for free to the podcast here: levitate.london/podcast
We're on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Breaker and more.
Please leave us a rating and let us know what you think!
You can also subscribe to the podcast RSS feed at Transistor: feeds.transistor.fm/levitate
Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: bit.ly/levitateyoutube
(Oh and make sure to hit the BELL icon to be notified of new videos!)
About Levitate:
At Levitate, we’ve been helping people to connect mind, body and soul since spring 2018. We teach meditation and mindfulness for the real world to people with busy minds. We do this in drop-in group classes at studios and companies in London and across the world. We are also passionate about all aspects of wellbeing - yoga, nutrition, community, relationships, sleep and more. To find out more, head over to our website at www.levitate.london or check us out on social:
- Instagram: @levitatelondon
- Twitter: @LevitateLondon
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/levitatelondon
Credits & copyright:
This show is hosted, recorded and edited for Levitate by Ryan Nell (Instagram: @ryannell)
Original theme music by Nic Nell (Instagram: @casuallyhere)
Special thanks to Lydia French for her participation in this episode.
Copyright Levitate 2020. Levitate is a trademark of Levitate Meditation Ltd.
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