Welcome to Naked Sustainability Podcast. This bold podcast helps busy millennials navigate real-life sustainability with practical tips, no-nonsense advice, and a zero-fucks-given attitude, all through a transparent and authentic lens of living in the real world. Join Ginny for lively conversations, expert interviews, and hilarious anecdotes. From eco-fashion to zero-waste living, we’ll empower you to be an eco-warrior without compromising your badass lifestyle. Get ready to kick some eco-ass.
Get to know Ginny, the host of the Naked Sustainability podcast in her debut episode. Learn a little bit about the behind the scenes of the Naked Sustainability brand, as well as Ginny’s life and philosophies.
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Welcome to the Podcast
Hi Friends, welcome to Episode 1 of Naked Sustainability. I’m Ginny and I’m really excited to be starting this podcast journey. Basically, downloadable podcasts are how I consume 95% of my…life? Be it entertainment or education. And I just really felt the need to create content in a format that someone like me needs. Plus my squirrel-brain add to many side-comments to blog posts, and I thought maybe spoken might be better…we’ll see.
So, what to expect…first things first: you’ll probably hear words that some people consider swear or cursewords. I don’t…they’re just flavor words for me. I use them everyday, happy, overjoyed, relaxed, angry, frustrated…all the time. These words aren’t “bad words,” they are just words that have whatever meaning you assign them.
A quick aside (squirrel brain, I did warn you): in 2020 I started an experiment to see if I could make any word a swear word. So I chose a word and now it is my only swear word. And it’s caught on in my house. The Boyfriend told me a couple a weeks ago that the my word was the only word I used exclusively for swearing…in case your wondering, my swear word is “Murder.” So if you have ever hear me just yell murder, it’s just being used how other people (but not me) use Fuck.
Anywhoo, I’m learning, this is new to me and I’m really excited. I expect to get better at this whole podcasting thing over time. But, until I do, it might rough. And I’m committed to that because I wanna learn something new. I’m going to shoot for an episode once a week for now, with sort of micro-lessons on sustainability. But let me be clear, this is not your normal sustainability podcast. I’m so tired of seeing all this perfection, and then when I try to implement it, it FAILS. And it fails so fucking hard. My life, and I’m sure yours, is extremely busy. I don’t have time to fill my mason jars with grains at a zero-waste store. There aren’t actually any around me. I don’t have time for perfect, but I can provide insight on trying to be sustainable in a world that doesn’t seem to care about it on a large scale.
I thought I’d create this introduction for a couple reasons, 1) I really want you to get to know me and see if we vibe and you want to listen to me and 2) I need all the podcast practice I can get.
Who is Ginny Rayne?
Okay….so let’s dive in. I’m not sure if it’s apparent yet, but I value authenticity and transparency in every aspect of my life—work, social, family, products and businesses I support. I think it’s really important to be fully transparent. I’m one of those people who needs to understand the full-picture. And if I only know a piece of it, I don’t understand the why behind it. And I know this absolutely drives my managers at work crazy. Anyway, suffice it to say that I promise to be fully transparent and give you my authentic self. Again, I don’t want to show you want perfect sustainability looks like; I wanna real-life.
Ummmm…I work in a job that I would consider semi-wasteful, and sometimes it surfaces in heated discussions—no, it not anything politically related. It’s part of the reason that I do all of my sustainability stuff (blog, courses, and now this podcast) under a pseudonym. I travel frequently for work and I try to choose the most environmentally friendly option(s), but some of it I have no control over. I can’t give up my job, so I started this community.
I live with my partner, known as The Boyfriend, and six furchildren in Western Pennsylvania, United States. We live on almost 2-acres in the middle of farming country. And yes, I did say furchildren because they’re my babies. We don’t want any kids and identify as childfree by choice.
Back to the fur babies. We have two dogs, both rescued pittie mixes, with their own special needs. And we have four cats, three blacks and a grey/white one. We love our life and enjoy spoiling all the babes with cuddles and playtime.
I don’t say we’re childfree by choice to turn anyone away from the podcast, merely to indicate that I don’t know what being a human mom entails, except what I see…so a lot of the real-life I talk about won’t have the mom-lens. Trust me, I think it will still be super valuable and all that other shit, but I won’t be specifically discussing items and topics exclusive to children.
Making Sustainable Choices
I’ve been making (or trying to make) sustainable choices and decisions for over the last decade. And in the last couple, we’ve been able to add some pretty big sustainable items to our home: a large food garden, solar panels, compost bins, rainwater harvesting, native plants for ecological biodiversity. But before all the big projects there were the small changes like switching our electric supplier to one that supplied clean energy, reducing our consumption and waste output, trying and starting to recycle…and the mess everywhere in between.
We actually save any and all glass bottles for a long time so that we can recycle them properly in a about an hour or so south of our house. The recycling companies near us don’t recycle they glass, they “repurpose” it by crushing it and adding it to the top of the landfill everyday to eliminate odors.
How do you sum up an entire person in a quick chat??? Ummm…rapid fire: my favorite food is mashed potatoes; I’m a vegetarian, the only non-veg thing I eat is cheese on pizza every Friday night (if you have a good vegan cheese, TELL MEEE, I feel like I’ve tried them all); I love relaxing with a glass of wine; chances are I will think we’ve discussed something, and really hadn’t…I just probably had the full conversation with you in my head; Reeces are probably my favorite candy; I’m a Cancer if that means anything to you; I have slightly reddish hair that changes with the amount of sun it gets; friends typically describe me as a bubbly person; and honestly I fucking hate shoes and socks (but I know there is a time and place for them both).
Final Thoughts on the Podcast Introduction
Okay, now you know a little about me and I’m hoping you stick around; hit that follow button (do all podcast apps have follow buttons??) to be updated for the next episode. I’m still learning and I’m so fucking excited be on this journey and to get to know you.
Until next time.
