Welcome back to the Marian Flaxman Network Podcast. On today's episode, Marian visits White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, and speaks with their owner and operator, Will Harris. Will is a 4th generation farmer, who spent many years farming industrially, before an "aha" moment caused him to change his entire operation. White Oak Pastures is now a fully integrated regenerative farm, growing and raising a wide variety of plants and animals, rebuilding soil carbon, and protecting waterways. In this conversation, Will speaks about his transition to regenerative practices, his passion for the topic, and why he thinks advocates (like himself) need to take a nuanced, gradual approach, rather than forcing everyone to change immediately. He and Marian also discuss the complexities of the current food landscape, the overlaps between the food system and healthcare system, and what the business world could learn from nature.

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Welcome back to the Marian Flaxman Network Podcast. On this episode, Nadine Clopton talks about her impactful work in the regeneration movement, and how it all connects to her lifelong interests in, and passion for, human health and healing. From a childhood in which she dreamed of wearing many professional hats, to a life where she indeed does just that, Nadine walks us through how her education, personal health challenges, and lived experiences have informed the work she does today, and the work that comes next. We discuss sustainability vs. regeneration, the need to build diverse coalitions and form unlikely allies, and the importance of following resonance and alignment.

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Welcome back to The Marian Flaxman Network Podcast. On today's episode, a conversation with chef, innovator, and food as medicine advocate, Kendra Nicole Stephens. Kendra has been a chef for more than 20 years, following her passion for experimenting in the kitchen as a child, to running her own cookie business after college. She rose in the ranks of the pastry world, before pivoting to focus on her passion for local, sustainable, health-promoting food. Now, she is the Director of Culinary Operations and Innovation at Christ House, a respite for unhoused men in Washington, DC. There, she uses local, seasonal, fresh ingredients to creatively craft healing meals for their residents. In this role, Kendra exemplifies the importance of chefs in the food as medicine movement. In this conversation, we disucss how her experience and identity as a chef, and her passion for fresh ingredients, impact her operations, and why it is important to her that the food be just as delicious as it is healthy.

To learn more about Kendra and her work, or to connect with her, find her on LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendra-nicole-stephens-431630152/

For more information on Kendra's work at Christ House, please visit https://christhouse.org/

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Welcome back to The Marian Flaxman Network Podcast. On today's episode, a conversation with public health policy consultant, Melissa Maitin-Shepard. Melissa has worked in the health, public health, and nutrition policy space for nearly two decades, first joining large organizations to support their work, and now working as an independent consultant. Through her firm, MMS Health Strategies, Melissa builds impactful teams, supports complex projects with many stakeholders, and works to create health-promoting policies that aim to make the healthier choice the easier choice.

To learn more about Melissa and her work, or to connect with her, find her on LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmaitinshepard/

For more information on Melissa's work with the GW Global Food Institute- https://globalfoodinstitute.gwu.edu/melissa-maitin-shepard

Email Melissa- mmshealthstrategies@gmail.com

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Welcome back to The Marian Flaxman Network Podcast. On today's episode, Marian sits down with author, scientist, fermenter, advocate, and chef, Rich Shih. They discuss Rich's path to the kitchen, how and why he first learned to cook, and how he came to discover that fermentation could be harnessed to make food more delicious, more nutritious, and more sustainable.

Marian and Rich met at The Georgetown University Food as Medicine and the Microbiome Conference, where Rich spoke about the power of koji to transform food scraps into delicious condiments and more. Since then, they have found a shared calling for promoting the use of fermentation to improve human health, and prevent food waste.

Rich is the co-author of the book Koji Alchemy, which can be found here.

Rich is the co-organizer of an event that teaches about fermentation- KojiKon.

You can find tickets to this event, and learn more, here.

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Welcome back to The Marian Flaxman Network Podcast! On today's episode, Marian speaks with Dr. Brad Moore about the current healthcare landscape, the future of "food as medicine", and the importance of shifting a patient's overall lifestyle to promote healing.

Dr. Moore is passionate about being a doctor and supporting his patients. Years ago, he noticed that his patients were not getting better when he simply followed the western medicine rulebook, prescribing medications and sending them on their way. He looked at his own life, where he used nutrition and physical activity to manage his health, and became curious about how he might integrate this approach into his medical practice.

Dr. Moore is now Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine, and he teaches, and practices, Lifestyle Medicine at George Washington University. He is also an advocate for the integration of nutrition into healthcare, or "food as medicine", and he and I first met while visiting Capitol Hill to advocate for these policies.

Dr. Moore in a high integrity physician, who leads by example and cares deeply about the future of health. In this conversation, he shares a vision for how Lifestyle Medicine could transform the way medicine is practiced in the US, and how policy could play a role in promoting this transformation.

For more information about Dr. Brad Moore- https://gwdocs.com/profile/brad-moore

For more information on Lifestyle Medicine, and to find a Lifestyle Medicine doctor near you- https://lifestylemedicine.org

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Welcome back to The Marian Flaxman Network Podcast! On today's episode, a conversation with Melissa L Jones, aka The Edible Activist.

Back in the early 2000's, Melissa had an experience that changed her entire perspective on food and health. In her words, she realized she had been "duped" by the food system. This experience started her on a journey of understanding where her food comes from, how it is produced, who is involved in the food system, and how it is impacting her health, the health of her loved ones, and the health of the planet. It also sent her down a path that would lead her to create a podcast focused on the intersection of food and social justice- The Edible Activist Podcast.

Melissa is an activist who is as passionate as she is informed, and she is a gifted interviewer and conversationalist. Her podcast has reached nearly 200 episodes, and she has interviewed farmers, food producers, business owners, and policy makers. In today's conversation, she shares about some of her favorite podcast episodes, how her journey began, why she is so passionate about bringing people of color into the food justice conversation, and how thinking about food more deeply has shaped her life.

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Welcome back to the Marian Flaxman Network Podcast. On today's episode, Marian speaks with Kristin Sukys, a strategist and consultant who has spent nearly a decade working on the development of food as medicine policies. Kristin once thought she wanted to be a doctor, and her desire to help and heal people has led her down various paths, including forays into working with food, agriculture, and eventually policy. She has been able to combine her education and interests into meaningful and impactful work, at the forefront of figuring out how to integrate nutrition and food access into health care.

For more information on Kristin and her work in the "food is medicine" policy landscape, visit www.fimstrategies.com

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