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The Power of the Green Home Makeover: Dr. Greg’s Vision for a Sustainable Future · Mrs. PIE

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  Speaker 1: kardeş.
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  Speaker 1: All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Mrs Pi.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: I am so excited that we have my friend, dr Greg Shrolov on today.
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  Speaker 1: He's a physician, father of two daughters, passionate about supporting fellow doctors.
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  Speaker 1: He's a recognized wellness expert.
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  Speaker 1: He's on all the major networks, all the major outlets, and today we're going to be talking about everything around wellness and definitely the green home makeover book.
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  Speaker 1: So I am so glad that you're here.
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  Speaker 1: I actually had the party music going against you started.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like all this great energy.
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  Speaker 2: You're ready.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all, I did something special.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back to normal now, sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I was so excited.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: You're afraid I'm going to start dancing here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't blame you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can start dancing and leave the set.
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  Speaker 1: That was so good, like so, before we dive in, I wanted to make sure that I just take a few minutes to say thank you personally and again for all of y'all who are watching.
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  Speaker 1: I know Facebook I think Facebook just dropped, so don't worry, the video is everywhere else.
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  Speaker 1: So, facebook, linkedin, youtube, twitter and a shout out to the folks who are watching on Parade Deck Live TV.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to say a special thank you, though, to you, dr Gregg, because when I first launched this podcast series, I actually had the conversation with you when I was in the infancy of doing this.
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  Speaker 1: It's only been a year and it has been amazing, and you're one of those people who really supported me, without even knowing, like, where this was going, why this crazy woman was thinking about doing this thing.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to thank you because you show up as support in ways that I truly, truly appreciate, and I just again, I just have to honor you by making sure that I say that before we dive into green home makeover.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: That makes me feel good to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's funny because you always talk to people about ideas and I love.
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  Speaker 2: You know I'm an entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 2: I love speaking to other entrepreneurs, people who are writing or doing shows, and I feel that nine times out of 10, you talk about if nothing happens you know, I'm guilty of that myself.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you have many ideas I've talked about, but I didn't do so.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool to talk to someone and then actually have it happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's real, right, it's real, so, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So now I want to let me dig into your.
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  Speaker 1: I want to dig into your background a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about a little bit more about your journey in medicine and, as I mentioned, you're the father of two beautiful girls.
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  Speaker 1: How parenthood has influenced your passion for wellness.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it made me take care of myself better, truthfully, because I need to make sure I'm around to keep an eye on those two as long as I can.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, so I'm my training.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a physician for kids, I'm a pediatric anesthesiologist, so a lot of my medical training is actually geared towards children, okay, but my side interests in medicine really gear more towards nutrition and wellness and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's kind of been nicer because I've had an opportunity to think about and interact with a lot of kids who are looking to get healthier through diet and exercise and nutrition, but also to adults who are looking to that, including adult athletes, women athletes.
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  Speaker 2: I've worked with a lot of women athletes that are trying to improve their health and you know I wanted those people to kind of experiment on myself.
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  Speaker 2: So I've gone through a number of different crazy diets and supplements and everything else, because you know, you know, life is a good thing, you know.
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  Speaker 2: it'd be nice to kind of be around as long as you can.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to find out, around the topic of wellness, one of the things that I really love about some of the information that you share on social media and, for those of you who don't know, you need to be following Dr Gregg on LinkedIn, especially because there's a lot of really good, solid information that he's sharing.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think it's so essential to support fellow doctors or fellow physicians or nurses, even when you're thinking about wellness, and can you talk about maybe a success story from your efforts in trying to bring wellness into those type of conversations with your fellow colleagues?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know this is a.
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  Speaker 2: This problem of being unwell from work is common.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, people talk a lot about physicians and, as you said, nurses who have it, but it really could affect people in really any profession.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing that really worries me, and it's a big topic of conversation now, is this idea called physician burnout, and what happens there is you have a lot of doctors and it's hard work getting into medical school and getting into residency and all the things you have to do to become a doctor and then you finish it.
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  Speaker 2: You feel, oh great, you know, now I'm a doctor, this is awesome, I did what I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: But then you start working and you're working 60, 70, 80 hours a week.
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  Speaker 2: You are on call, oftentimes at night, so you go to bed but you could be called back in at 3 am for some emergency thing which I could speak from experience has happened.
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  Speaker 2: And so when you have that, it's difficult, it's draining, you don't have time to exercise or go to the gym, you don't sleep as much as you would like, you don't have enough time for your family.
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  Speaker 2: Which is a big problem that countless doctors have complained to me about is it's almost this battle between their career and their family life, and usually, unfortunately, the career wins.
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  Speaker 2: Believe it or not and so you have a lot of doctors that are almost absentee parents.
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  Speaker 2: And then, on top of that, the thing that really adds fuel to the fire is this new concept.
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  Speaker 2: It's not really.
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  Speaker 2: There's a new name, I guess you could say, but the concept has been around a moral injury, which is that you go into something with a certain expectation, certain values, like, for example, you know to use medicine as an example, say, you go in because you wanna try to save people's lives, that's why you went in, but then your patients are dying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Or you went in because you wanna help people but you're spending most of your time battling administrators who are trying to stop you from doing what you know needs to be done to help people and so these kind of things.
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  Speaker 2: They causes moral injury and it causes real ethical, emotional problems for a lot of healthcare workers and it leads a lot of them to quit or to be depressed or not to parent their kids or all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So, as you were, as you were thinking about wellness from that perspective, how did you make that transition over to green home makeover and where did that concept come from for your book?
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  Speaker 2: Well, so my story is kind of funny, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I worked for a big hospital system in California for 14 years, with the call and the weekends and the nights and all that stuff, and then in 2019, I guess you could say I had maybe a mid career crisis, if you want to call it that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I felt I had done it enough, that I was as good as I was going to be at it, and then I did what I wanted to do, and so now I was more bothered by things you know, like the politics in the group, the call, the nights, the weekends.
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  Speaker 2: Then I was maybe getting joy out of what I was doing and I'm kind of like one of those people.
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  Speaker 2: You probably relate to this.
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  Speaker 2: You know I have all these different interests and you know I don't want to just do one thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I like to do lots of different things and unfortunately, my old job, the way it was working, I couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I pretty much did my medical stuff, I did a little real estate stuff on the side, but that was it.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise, you know, I didn't really have any free time at all to do anything, and so I left this hospital in 2019, and then I started, you know, fiddling around with different things.
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  Speaker 2: You know I started working with athletes, I started with telemedicine, you know I did more real estate things and then, you know, I finally realized that I could kind of merge two things that I really loved, which is wellness and health, with the environment, because I've always been like one of these sort of crazy environmental people, you know, like I've, you know I, you know I like animals and you know we're practically vegan, you know, and so.
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  Speaker 2: So it was cool now, now that I was freed from the shackles of this sort of full time medical job, that kind of experiment with other things like this, or merger of wellness and environmental issues, which is what led to Dr Greg's Green Home Makeover.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and so can you.
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  Speaker 1: Can you explain what this is?
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  Speaker 1: You know, one of the things I was I was sharing for those of y'all who are going to be hearing this is the confusion around what's green and what's not, and trying to understand.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many terminologies are out there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if sustainability means the same as green right or what exactly is that.
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  Speaker 1: So can you just help us with just the basics of what?
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  Speaker 1: What a green home would look like?
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, in my mind there's three big components to a green home, you know, and we talk about this in the book, and one of them is how the home is constructed.
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  Speaker 2: So certain building materials, for example, are much better for the environment than others.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you're able to use recycled materials, if you can avoid vinyl, for example, and use, say, like Marmolium, like there's there's a whole list of stuff You've probably seen like those eat this, not that kind of you know things.
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  Speaker 2: Yes you know, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: The same thing is true for your house.
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  Speaker 2: Like you could have two materials that use in similar ways, one's much better for the environment than the other.
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  Speaker 2: It's like one wood is endangered, the other wood, like bamboo for example, is a great for it and grows quickly.
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  Speaker 2: So another green feature is efficiency.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have old single pane windows, if you have drafty doors, you don't have good weather stripping.
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  Speaker 2: For example, you have an old furnace.
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  Speaker 2: The ducts for your furnace are not properly insulated things like that are.
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  Speaker 2: You have old appliances, even things like washing dishes wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Interestingly, that stuff it wastes a lot of energy and so even if you've got nice materials in your house, if you're just burning through tons of energy, that isn't so great for your environment.
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  Speaker 2: And the third thing which is kind of the most fun is like the stuff you use in your house.
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  Speaker 2: So say, you're cleaning your house, for example, are you gonna use one of those sort of toxic cleaners you get from the store that releases all these chemicals and stuff in the air, or would you rather use a more natural alternative which is better for the environment and better for you and your kids and your pets?
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  Speaker 1: So one of the things that I appreciated about the book and y'all, I did get the preview because I couldn't wait.
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  Speaker 1: I was one of the first ones signing up okay, one of the things that I appreciated about the book my daughter younger daughter has asthma and for the longest time I thought I was using kind of green type products that I would find at certain big box stores.
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  Speaker 1: But what I appreciated about your book was thinking about the alternatives.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was so simple and I'm trying not to give it away because I really think that this is one of those books that you really need to, every household should have.
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  Speaker 1: It's an easy read.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy for you to honestly flip through and find what you need.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was and if I could do it, y'all could do it but I just liked the way that it was laid out very simple, and also I was able to use that book and show it to other folks.
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  Speaker 1: Like I could take it back to my daughter and say this is why mommy is switching to vinegar.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying one of the things.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, versus all the other things that you know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say the brands, but those brands gotta go Because that was impacting your health.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other thing I love about you writing this book is because you're coming from someone who is credible in medicine Versus someone who's like just writing a book and talking about green and sustainability and you find out at the end they're marketing person, right?
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that you have someone who is providing the context and sharing the resources and the amount of research that you put into the book, that's what, and again, it was easy for me, which means it's easy for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I really appreciated about the green home makeover and I really love and I couldn't wait to talk to you about that because I was like, okay, I need to know what's I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Also, I need to know when the next book is coming.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to ask you know, for somebody who is just beginning their journey to a green home, is there like one immediate step after they buy the book Cause y'all need to get the book Is there one immediate step that you would recommend that someone would take?
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  Speaker 2: Well, so I think here's my big thing is.
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  Speaker 2: I think you know a lot of us are worried about endangered animals and global warming and everything else, but what the problem is that we often feel these problems are so big that they're bigger than anything you and I could do.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, why should I even bother?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's not like I'm going to solve global warming.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to solve global warming.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the first thing to do is to have this attitude shift that, yes, you're not going to solve global warming and yes, you're not going to stop polar bears being extinct on your own, but you could take steps right now in your house that will help protect the planet.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, one of the stories I talk about is and it comes up in the book, it's actually the beginning of the book is there was this terrible environmental disaster in Italy some years ago and what happened was it was a small Italian town and there was a chemical factory there and the chemical factory exploded and it put dioxins in these other very terrible cancer.
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  Speaker 2: It's like stuff you find in Agent Orange, this terrible stuff in the air, and it came up in the air in the small town and then the stuff that the ash and the dust from these exploded toxins came and settled down in this town and it coated the houses, it killed a lot of the animals, it poisoned the crops and it caused terrible illness among the people who lived there.
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  Speaker 2: And so the locals and the Italian government and the company all pitched in.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very big project, very difficult, to clean this whole thing up.
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  Speaker 2: My point is that the reason why these factories exist with these terrible chemicals is to make the stuff that you and I use in our houses.
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  Speaker 2: So when you buy a, say, a piece of flooring that's made from a lot of chemicals, or you buy a household cleaner that's made from a lot of chemicals, it's not just that piece of flooring or that cleaner.
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  Speaker 2: There's a whole industry behind it that's waiting to have the next disaster, the next environmental disaster that could poison your town, another town.
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  Speaker 2: They're all ticking time bombs.
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  Speaker 1: And we're all.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the sentiment there too is yeah, we're all contributing and there's small things, maybe you know small things that we could do, but, even from a purely selfish perspective, in for your own family, for your own kids, right Cause for those who are, you don't even wanna think about a lot of people, don't even care what's happening down the street, right.
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  Speaker 1: But if you think about your own children and their health, or maybe, if you don't have kids, maybe it's kids coming over into your environment.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, if you don't have that, maybe it's your own health, like, maybe it's to that level.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, we all wanna live the best life, right, but we wanna live long, healthy lives.
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  Speaker 1: The things that you could do to help you do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's very, very simple, simple, easy ways that you can do that.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're thinking about even another thing that came to me, I was, like you know, right now we're not in our forever home, we're in our home and then there's a retirement home after that.
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  Speaker 1: But I was thinking like the next time we buy a home is to just literally have your book as a cheat to look at the types of materials that you should consider, because most of us aren't thinking about that.
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  Speaker 1: We're going for the house, the neighborhood you know what I mean the price, maybe the school district or the amenities, but we're not thinking about what's actually being how our homes are being built and the products that are being used.
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  Speaker 1: So this is another one that if you're in the market for a home, pick up the book so that you have an idea of what kind of materials you should even ask your builder about.
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  Speaker 1: Or if you're a parent and you have, you know, sick kids or maybe you're the one that's sick pick up the book so you can figure out.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, these are the things that are recommended that I should use and where it's really important to kind of distinguish between other writers.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not just saying this because Dr Grig is my friend, I'm saying it because he's a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there's a hello from Hello Dumpy.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole podcast watching you.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Grig that again you wanna get the information from a credible source versus another beautiful marketing book, and y'all are just as confused as you were when you started.
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  Speaker 1: So let me ask you while I have you, cause I know one of the things that I love about you also is that you have your hands in different parts, but you also do this very well.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I tell people that there are some of us who can balance or spin multiple places, and some people can only spin one place.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Some people are just great at one thing and some people like Dr Grig and I we need to be in multiple.
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  Speaker 2: we gotta do a lot of stuff because we will get bored really quickly we need to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So I wonder if you could just talk about some of the other avenues.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You're working everything else that you've got going on.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Well, there's a few things.
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  Speaker 2: We are still working on this project to help encourage girls to play sports.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yes and that's based on some great research that found that when I'm a little biased here, you know it's I've got two daughters, like you mentioned, but there's some great research that shows that when girls play sports they're much more likely to become Executives.
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  Speaker 2: Does this?
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  Speaker 1: executive's is a doctor to see sweet right from soccer to see sweet, right, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And so we've had a few conferences, we're looking at at doing some more things, hopefully in the coming months or early next year.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the thing is that and I hate to say this, you know, but I've noticed even my own family sometimes treat girls differently than boys are treated, you know, like if the boy wants to climb the tree or go climbing on the fence or whatever, you know People are like, yeah, go for it, the girl wants to do that.
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  Speaker 2: You know even well-meaning people.
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  Speaker 2: You know they're like, oh, you know you're gonna get your dress dirty.
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  Speaker 2: Or oh, don't climb that tree because you might fall.
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  Speaker 2: You know I can't tell you how many times I've heard that from well-meaning people.
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  Speaker 2: Now my fear is that when girls hear that over and over again, they internalize it and then eventually they become timid and fearful, which is not what you want.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think one at least partial antidote to that is sports.
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  Speaker 2: You know you go out there, you have to be tough, you're trying to win.
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  Speaker 2: You know you want to beat other people, you're training hard.
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  Speaker 2: There's all these things that Can help lead to success later.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: So that's one of the things that that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really quite proud about that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very important.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I Love that, and you know, as soon as you have more events, please listen, because you know like I've missed.
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  Speaker 1: I missed a couple, I confess, because my calendar was so nuts, but this is one of those.
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  Speaker 1: It's really important to me.
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  Speaker 1: I love that that you're leaning into philanthropy in that way as well, because and that's another area that you know that we have in common is Giving our time or talent.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not just writing a check.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people are just writing a check and moving on to the next thing, right, but giving your, your time and also your talent to serve our communities, and Soccer to C-suite is just one of those ways that we're that, that we're able to reach girls and and I love the fact that you talk about you know, starting, starting early, because a lot of women, they get to their 20s and they've already been told by Whoever society, family, friends, whatever who they are and they they have no sense of identity.
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  Speaker 1: They get to their 30s, they're just as lost.
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  Speaker 1: And you get to your 50 and you're saying you have some kind of syndrome that you don't have as a confidence breakdown, right, so I traffic in in high confidence, but that was something that was instilled in me a long time ago by my parents, and so so I love that you are Still, you know, gonna be able to support girls and women In that way, to kind of to help us kind of bridge the gap that way and you know that I think girls in some ways I mean maybe all kids to some degree, but girls in particular, they're under assault more than ever before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I things like social media, you know it's yes.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's a relatively new thing, you know, as humanity goes, but it's it's.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's partly responsible for the big explosion we see and mental health problems, depression, anxiety, suicide among teenage girls.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't really use Snapchat and I don't want to pick on it because I know all the social media things do something like this.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to just single them out, but there's a thing you probably know better than I do like a snap map.
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  Speaker 2: So what it does is it shows where all of your friends are.
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  Speaker 2: There was actually a Wall Street Journal article about this.
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  Speaker 2: It shows where all of your friends are at any given time.
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  Speaker 2: So it used to be back in my day if I weren't invited to a party or an event or something, I'd either get to find out or I'd find out later after a story.
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  Speaker 2: But now, if you're not invited, all you have to do is hop on Snapchat or Instagram or whatever, and you'll see in real time all of your friends are over at someone's house.
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  Speaker 1: That's right and you're not included Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so how do you manage?
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  Speaker 1: that conversation?
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  Speaker 1: How do you have that conversation?
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  Speaker 1: Now we're switching to like position to Dr Greg as dad for advice, because this is something that, like a lot of folks, honestly need help and advice.
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  Speaker 1: But, like, how do you manage that conversation with your daughter when it comes to social media and manage it?
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  Speaker 1: You know one of the things that I know, that you know we have rules, but when my daughter is not with me, you know, and she's with other friends, those friends don't have the same rules that we do.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you manage that those kind of expectations with your daughter?
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 2: So mine are still kind of young.
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  Speaker 2: You know they're turning 11 soon, so they haven't pushed me for this yet.
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  Speaker 2: But basically the best advice I could give to parents if you can, the further you delay the use of social media, the better.
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  Speaker 2: So 15 year old is better than starting at 13, for example, the further out, you know, because they're their brains develop right.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: So you know it's 17 year old using it's going to be better off than a 14 year old using it.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the number one thing is whatever you can do to push the social media into the future, the better.
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  Speaker 2: So if your kid needs a phone, you know, get something that doesn't have access to social media.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Make sure that their computers can't do it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: It's not so much the phone that's the problem, in my view, it's the social media that's the problem.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, the other thing is, as you were kind of hinting, is is, once they do use it is to limit it, to friend them on it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Make sure they know that, that, that your friends with them on it, and tell them you know from time to time mommy or daddy are going to hop on your account.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: And, and, and.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: We're going to see what you're doing.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: So you know, nothing's perfect.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: You know, one of the problems is, when it comes to technology, your kids are always smarter than you are you know, you can have a parental control, if you want.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: They're going to figure this stuff out because kids are more digitally, you know, native than than than you and I.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: But that's, I think, some of the best shots you have for now.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Wow, I love that.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: So I'm watching the time.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I wanted to find out more about maybe future projects or pending projects or anything that we could be on the watch for.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So do you want to share anything around, maybe future projects that are projects that are still in development that we could kind of watch out for?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know that you have a lot of people with military backgrounds to follow you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: So one of the big things I've always been a kind of a military buff.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I wasn't in the military personally, so I'm not from experience, but I've just followed it, I've loved it, I love reading about it.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: And so one of the things we're we're looking at is we're looking at coming up with an alternative for the World Economic Forum Davos conference.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: And what that conference does is it brings kind of big shots from all over the world together to discuss kind of haughty, haughty things.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: In Europe we want to make an alternative where we're going to bring kind of smart, interesting people, many of whom from a military or leadership background, together from around the world, from not just the US but also from Europe and the Middle East and Asia, and hopefully bring smart people together who are not crazy ideologues, who are not extremists one way or another, and to try to find solutions to some of the big problems.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Because in my view, one of the reasons it's hard to do anything is because so there's things are so polarized, you know everybody is so extreme this way or that way.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: You know you can't even talk to each other.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah you have to find like a like a common sense middle that you could bring together to actually work on real solutions.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I love that, so so.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: So make sure everyone I'm looking, I'm looking to my left, because that's the parade, that TV, so I check out this, the screen every now and then but just a call out for all of our veterans and male spouses that as these opportunities come up, I'll definitely make sure that you know what's going down, because there's a lot of folks that would kind of fit that, fit that landscape in terms of like having the talent, having that knowledge and expertise, and they're willing to want to solve problems globally.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: So that is so.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: That is so amazing.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I think that is going to be fantastic and we I'm.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I'm already like.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I know like five, six people.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I want to put their names in the hat right now because I know they'd be great at it.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: This has been so good.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Before we close I know we're coming down to our 30 minute mark, but before we close, I want to make sure.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Is there anything that you know, anything else that you want to share?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I want to make sure that you have a chance to, to, to share anything else before we, before we Tell these people, do this.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: No, this is great.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: You covered a lot of the big topics.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: It's always fun shouting with you and you know I I appreciate you having me on if people who are listening to this Want to reach me.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like we said LinkedIn.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: This is a great way.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I'm really pretty decent at LinkedIn.
• 28:28
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• 28:33
  Speaker 2: So I, you know, I, I know, you know, I make sure to add you back.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: And if you're interested in the book, dr Greg's green home makeover, it's called the easiest way to get it is from Amazon.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: You can get it as a paperback or as a Kindle book and go check it out.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I'd love to get your feedback, if you do, and hear what you think about it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point for those of y'all who are purchasing the book.
• 28:54
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• 28:55
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• 28:57
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• 29:00
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• 29:01
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• 29:03
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• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I'm so right about that.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: This was so good.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: We're gonna hang out in the back room for a couple of minutes, but again I just want to thank you for coming on.
• 29:16
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• 29:19
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• 29:23
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• 29:33
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• 29:35
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• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching and have a wonderful night.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.