1. Kylie Lewis

Do you feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the climate crisis? Do you feel so stressed and worried about what is happening to the climate that you are frozen in a place of worry and despair?

We feel like that too! Join us on our first episode of So You Want to Make a Difference? where we interview Kylie Lewis. Kylie shares with us her tips on what we can do to make a difference and how taking action is the antidote to fear and despondency!

Kylie Lewis takes us on her journey of how she takes conscious action in so many areas of her life. She is really passionate about the intersection between personal awareness, growth and development, leadership, and the climate movement.

Kylie believes one way to make a difference is to create socially conscious, brave leaders. She shares her insights into what small, but powerful, actions we can take to make a difference in climate change, how self-knowledge and self-care are important parts of the process, and how hope keeps her going.

 

About Kylie Lewis

Kylie is a leadership developer, climate reality leader and founder of Of Kin, a training organisation specialising in building brave leaders and courageous cultures, based in Melbourne, Australia. Having made the leap from a digital strategy career to start her own business eight years ago, she knows what it’s like to challenge your assumptions, pivot your career, make friends with your inner critic and to keep choosing courage when the going gets tough. 

Kylie is the author of two books: Add All To Cart: 1003 questions to ask when building an ecommerce store and The Leap Stories: Intimate Interviews on Overcoming Fear, Choosing Courage Over Comfort, and Designing a Fulfilling Career.

Today, Kylie is a certified facilitator of Dr Brené Brown’s curriculum on courage, vulnerability, shame and resilience and currently delivers Dare To Lead™ workshops for organisational teams and individual professionals. Her vision is to build capacity for brave conversations in boardrooms, classrooms and loungerooms across Australia.

To learn more about Kylie visit ofkin.com

 

Resources:

Further listening:

Outrage + Optimism podcast

How to Save a Planet podcast

 

Further Reading:

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis, 2020

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson (eds), All We Can Save: Truth Courage & Solutions for the Climate Crisis, 2020

Jonica Newby, Beyond Climate Grief, 2021

 

Actions:

Using Keep cups

Sourcing local food

Superannuation and banking that is climate friendly

Switching to green power

Recycling

Acknowledgement of climate in meetings

Sustainable business goals

Carbon offsets

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