Ep 25 Cassie Duncan - Sustainable Table co-founder & ethical eating enthusiast

If changing the world over breakfast sounds like your kind of activism, you’ll love this conversation with Cassie Duncan; a woman who took her passion for a fairer food system and plated it up as an accessible, digestible and inspiring not-for-profit: Sustainable Table. 

Cassie co-founded Sustainable Table in 2009 as a way to help more Aussies make ethical choices about what they eat. Through beautifully written articles, educational events and innovative campaigns that connect eaters with farmers in deeply emotional (and motivating) ways, Sustainable Table taps into the most powerful change agent of all: story. 

Today, we hear Cassie’s; how she became the ethical food enthusiast she is today, why we need to humanise our food system, what our eating choices can change (hint: everything), how she overcame imposter syndrome and why it’s impossible to be the perfect parent. 

Enjoy ample wisdom and solidarity in this free-wheeling conversation with one of our favourite guests so far. Dig in. 

SHOW NOTES

• Her long standing love of food.
• How her mother's fierce sense of social justice and standing up for the underdog has made her what she is.
• Why the loss of her mum at 21 forced a deep reflection of self.
• Food is friendly and positive and we connect to it, but in truth it's deeply destructive.
• Applying ethics to the food we choose to buy.
• Why starting the conversation with food is a gateway to bigger issues.
• How Australians identify with fairness, and yet we haven't translated this fairness to farmers.
• How to tell your story honestly until corporations listen and make change.
• Her paralysis and overwhelm before finding a way to engage personally.
• The importance of having people with different skills, interests, communication styles and audiences.
• Managing imposter syndrome.
• Why living your truest life influences others like nothing else.
• Farmers market family rituals.
• Doing the everyday stuff in a way that makes it purposeful.
• Taking the time to discover your community.
• The gift of building a financially viable life around your values.
• Why people will stop buying a product and instead buy into a way of life.
• Raising considered, awake kids.
• Top tips: Start with what you can control, honour your strengths and skills, connect and communicate with each other.
• Growing “gritty” kids by not over-protecting them.
• The surprising benefits of asking others for help.

LINKS YOU'LL LOVE

• Sustainable Table website
• Sustainable Table Instagram

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