This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Rebekah Braswell.

Rebekah is an innovative leader who pioneered the business case for nature-based solutions and persuaded early adopter corporations that approaching sustainability agendas through high-quality nature restoration is necessary and investible.

She is the CEO of Land Life. Before Land Life, Rebekah attended Oxford University and worked for a decade on economic development and food security. She brought her experience with the competing dynamics of land use and the environmental power/risk of business, building a model in which land ownership remained locally held and local communities were empowered custodians.

In this episode, you will hear about her work at Land Life, innovations in reforestation, forest fires, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Gina Bria.

Gina is an anthropologist and founder of the Hydration Foundation, recognized as a leading resource for hydration science and education. Named a Real World Scholar, she produced the first International Hydration Solution Summit and the TEDx talk: How to Grow Water: It’s not Only Blue: it’s Green. Bria is co-author of QUENCH: Your Five-Day Plan to Optimal Hydration, with Dr. Dana Cohen, MD, now in seven languages and recommended by the New York Times, Oprah’s O Magazine, NPR, and many other media sources. At the UN Conference on Water, she presented Emerging Water Science, and at COP28 Global Climate Conference spoke on the Role of Water in Soil for Climate Recovery. Her Rehydrate Our Thirsty Mother Earth Project was selected for the Buckminster Fuller Design Science Ten-Year Award to spread better water solutions. With her colleague and filmmaker, Maxi Cohen, she’s at work on a traveling Water Museum, called A Movement in Water, an immersive art and science exhibit, to raise reverence and understanding of our most precious material, and what all life is made from: water.

In this episode, you will hear about the new science of water (plasma), the role of water in climate mitigation, the secret of chia seeds, and more.

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This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Maxi Cohen.

Maxi is an award-winning artist and filmmaker based in New York City. Her films have played in movie theaters, in film festivals, and on television internationally. Her films, photographs, and multimedia installations have been exhibited internationally and are in the

permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Currently, she is making Ayahuasca Diaries, a feature documentary for the curious and well-seasoned. From what’s mind-boggling humanly possible, to how ayahuasca is changing world culture, it includes spiritual leaders from Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, and Colombia. Previously, she executive produced From Shock to Awe (about suicidal veterans recovering with ayahuasca and MDMA) and directed The Holy Give Me, about the Santo Daime.

For twenty-five years she has been filming and photographing bodies of water around the world from Argentina to Zambia, Antarctica to Iceland, Bali, Bosnia, Brazil, and onwards, resulting in video, video furniture, photographs, paintings, multimedia works, and mixed reality. In 2024, her exhibition, “The Poetry of Water” was featured at the Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai, the largest gallery in the UAE.

In this episode, you will hear about her multimedia art, Poetry of Water, Four Bodies of Water, the Amazon, her work on social justice, and more.

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