Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Corinna Bellizzi

Care More Be Better, invites you to care more so we can create a better world together. We amplify the voices of environmentalists, activists, health and nutrition gurus, scientists, and leading experts who seek to make the world a better place. Over the course of more than 290 interview episodes, you'll hear from experts including Annie Leonard, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Paul Hawken, Nina Simons, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, Dr. William Li, Miyoko Schinner, Gabe Brown, Chef Babette Davis, Kelly Reyerson, Donna Grantis and many more. These global change agents and activists create positive impacts and encourage us to think globally while also acting locally. Listen for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, on our website, and on most major podcast platforms.

Continually inspired by Paul Hawken’s aspirational book Regeneration - Ending The Climate Crisis In One Generation, and the late Dr. Wallace J. Nichols' Blue Mind Movement, this show aims to create a realistic roadmap to build a better future. As Paul Hawken simply states: “Global warming is not a science problem. It’s a human problem.” On this journey, you'll become the person you aspire to be by remaining curious, thinking deeply, and listening intently while looking inward. You'll learn to listen to your inner voice and wisdom to receive the gifts nature provides fully. Become part of the regeneration nation by expanding your knowledge of agriculture, social systems, and help us build a more circular and just economy.

The stories we tell will get you thinking about how to secure the future for the human race and all Earth's inhabitants - from how you can build positive change in your local community, to how to broaden your reach and impact globally.

About Our Host: Corinna Bellizzi, PhD, MBA is a trailblazer in regenerative nutrition and ethical brand strategy. With a career spanning more than 25 years, she built Nordic Naturals into the dominant force in the omega-3 category before pivoting her focus to algae-based nutrition. Through her consultancy, Circle B, she currently serves as Head of Sales and Marketing at Örlö Nutrition, a purpose-driven brand at the forefront of carbon-negative, algae-based nutrition that she helped conceive. In 2021, she created and launched Care More Be Better, now a top 0.05% global podcast with over 3.5 million downloads. She earned her PhD at Prescott College, graduating in August, 2026. The qualitative multiple-case study research she published in her dissertation argues that the ethics of care, equity, and justice are the generative preconditions for authentic regenerative enterprise. She is presently working to secure the right publisher to bring this research to a broader audience.

Care More Be Better is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, the Care More Be Better website and most major podcast platforms. JOIN OUR CIRCLE. LET'S BUILD A BETTER FUTURE! https://caremorebebetter.com

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Care More Be Better is produced with care — and with tools. Generative AI supports parts of our production process, including research, transcript editing, and show notes. Every word is reviewed, edited, and approved by host Corinna Bellizzi — and much of it rewritten in her own hand. We believe in transparency because the trust you place in this community deserves it.

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Wednesday · 1 hr 1 min
From Ideas to Income with AI | Zach And Jason Francis
Zach and Jason Francis have spent their careers proving that doing more with less is not a constraint — it's a philosophy — from a nine-month sailing trip from San Diego to Australia to building tiny homes on HGTV's Tiny Luxury to Willo, an AI platform that takes a business idea from concept to live website in under ten minutes. The brothers join Care More Be Better to share what sailing 21 days at sea taught them about complexity, why ideas die in spreadsheets, and how AI agents can finally giv
July 31 · 27 min
Season 1 Finale: Angela Glover Blackwell's Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life — Chapter 6: Hope is a Discipline
To close Season 1 of Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life, Angela Glover Blackwell turns to Los Angeles for a meditation on art, resistance, and joy as fuel for the long fight, featuring choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez, economist Manuel Pastor, and the reminder that hope isn't a feeling, it's a discipline. This bonus episode follows Corinna Bellizzi's recent interview with Angela on Care More Be Better, and arrives just as Season 2, set in Georgia, becomes available to stream.
July 29 · 1 hr 3 min
Why Recycling Isn't Enough (Tom Szaky Explains)
Nature has no concept of waste — every output is someone else's input — and Tom Szaky has spent 25 years building the company that proves it. The founder and CEO of TerraCycle, the global leader in recycling the unrecyclable — from cigarette butts to diapers to chip bags — joins Care More Be Better to share why we will not recycle our way out of the waste crisis, how Loop is finally scaling in France after failing everywhere else, and what used diapers have to do with predicting children's brain
July 22 · 1 hr 6 min
Hope Is a Discipline: Angela Glover Blackwell on Democracy, Equity, and Human Flourishing
Angela Glover Blackwell has spent more than 50 years working at the intersection of racial equity, housing, transportation, and civic life — and she has arrived at a definition of democracy that most politicians have never considered: a mutually accountable system of co-governance in service of human flourishing. The founder of PolicyLink and host of Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life joins Care More Be Better to share what she learned growing up in segregated St. Louis, why the curb cut effe
July 15 · 59 min
Listening To Earth Wisdom With Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm
George Washington Carver believed nature was God's unlimited broadcasting station — and that idea of the Earth as a living relative rather than a resource is at the heart of everything Leah Penniman does. The co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, author of Farming While Black and the new anthology Black Earth Wisdom, joins Care More Be Better to explore ecological humility, food apartheid, the returning of 258 acres to the Mohican Nation, and what happens when a city kid named Dijor takes his shoes off
July 8 · 1 hr 8 min
The Secret Language of Your Body: Energy Medicine, Ancestral Trauma, Healing from Within, Inna Segal
At twenty years old, Inna Segal was told by her chiropractor that there was nothing he could do to help her — and that moment sent her home to discover that her chronic back pain, psoriasis, and digestive issues were rooted in ancestral trauma her body had been holding for decades. The author of The Secret Language of Your Body, a book that has sold over a million copies in 27 languages, joins Care More Be Better to explore the body as teacher, the science of emotional storage in physical form,
July 1 · 1 hr 5 min
Ride The Future: Design, Rebellion, And The Electric Revolution On Two Wheels With Timothy Seward Of ONYX Motors
What if your commute cost one cent a mile, came with CarPlay, and turned every stoplight into something you looked forward to? Tim Seward, founder and chief design officer of ONYX Motors, joins Care More Be Better to share how he went from converting gas mopeds in his garage to building the RCR 80V — an electric motorbike that tops 75 mph, runs 130 miles per charge, and is designed to last long enough to have multiple owners, like a well-loved Volkswagen Bug.
June 25 · 54 min
Deep Into the Vine: The Medicine Hunter on Ayahuasca, Shamans, and the Cosmic Experience | Chris Kilham
Chris Kilham — the Medicine Hunter, author of fifteen books, and a man the New York Times once called "part David Attenborough, part Indiana Jones" — returns to Care More Be Better for a third time to go deep into the vine: 65 shamans, a twelve-year run of ceremonies across the Amazon, and the question of where authentic plant medicine ends and cultural appropriation begins. From shared visions and ego death to the practical realities of finding a trustworthy ayahuasca ceremony, this conversatio
June 19 · 30 min
Juneteenth Feature: Angela Glover Blackwell's Reimagining Democracy For A Good Life - Episode 1: Los Angeles
This Juneteenth, hear the opening chapter of Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life, in which civil rights icon Angela Glover Blackwell makes the case that Los Angeles, with all its contradictions, might hold the blueprint for a thriving multiracial democracy. Featuring LA Mayor Karen Bass, economist Manuel Pastor, and organizer Tiffany Benitez, this special feature arrives ahead of an exclusive Care More Be Better interview with Angela coming in July.
June 17 · 1 hr 4 min
The Shoe That Grows: 500,000 Kids, 100 Countries, One Crazy Idea | Kenton Lee and Andrew Kroes
A girl in Kenya with shoes too small to fit properly sparked an idea that every major shoe company rejected — and that Kenton Lee built anyway. The Shoe That Grows, now worn by 500,000+ children across 100 countries, joins Care More Be Better alongside Because International CEO Andrew Kroes for a conversation about building something genuinely useful and the question at the heart of it all: what is your because?
June 12 · 33 min
Nothing is Neutral: How To Talk Across Political and Cultural Divides | Genevieve Smith
In this re-share of an early Care More Be Better episode, Corinna Bellizzi speaks with social change strategist Genevieve Smith about values alignment, difficult conversations, and why "nothing is neutral" in our personal lives, workplaces, and communities. Explore practical approaches to navigating political polarization, social justice discussions, organizational values, and constructive dialogue with compassion, accountability, and curiosity.
June 10 · 54 min
Stop the War Within: Inner Healing, Outer Impact | Gerard Powell @Rythmia
What if the most important regenerative work we can do begins not with policy or systems, but with ourselves? Gerard Powell — founder of Rythmia Life Advancement Center, the world's first medically licensed ayahuasca retreat — joins Care More Be Better to share what nearly 24,000 guests have taught him about the soul fracture driving addiction, burnout, and quiet desperation, and why healing it from the inside out may be the most radical act of planetary change available to us right now.
June 2 · 51 min
Pay Attention: Homelessness, Humanity, and What We Owe Each Other | Andrew J. Gregor, Author, Roscoe
Simone Weil wrote that attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity — and it is the quiet thesis at the center of Andrew J. Gregor's debut novel Roscoe, which follows a philosopher and former professional through a single day on the streets of San Francisco. Andrew joins Care More Be Better for a conversation that is part literary discussion, part economic reckoning, and part deeply personal — anchored in host Corinna Bellizzi's encounter with a childhood friend she discovered living on
May 27 · 55 min
Seed to Soil to Soul: Land Justice, Art and Healing | Minkah Taharkah
From the Akan principle of Sankofa — going back to fetch what was left behind — to the legislation she helped write defining socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in California, Minkah Taharkah brings a rare and expansive lens to the work of land justice, food sovereignty, and community healing. A multidisciplinary human who moves between environmental science, BIPOC farmer advocacy, sustainable fashion, photography, and youth education, Minkah joins Care More Be Better to share why tendin
May 20 · 1 hr
Curious Over Furious: Finding Common Ground In Hard Conversations | Corey Nathan
What does it cost us when we lose the ability to talk to each other across our differences? Corey Nathan, host of Talkin' Politics and Religion Without Killin' Each Other and member of the Democracy Group, joins Care More Be Better to explore why civility alone cannot heal what is broken, how to find common ground one degree at a time, and what the Hebrew concept of Tikkun Olam, healing what is broken in the world, has to do with the civic renewal movement growing quietly around us.
May 15 · 36 min
Regenerative Renegades: Algae Omega-3s, Purpose-Driven Brands, and Living Well by Doing Good — Corinna Bellizzi on Forever Young Radio
In this special episode of Care More Be Better, host Corinna Bellizzi turns the tables — appearing as a guest on the Forever Young Radio Show with her longtime colleague Kelly Cappasola to share the science behind her pivot from fish oil to algae omega-3s, the five regenerative brands at the center of her PhD research, and the personal philosophy that has driven 25 years of work at the intersection of health, sustainability, and purpose. From the Framingham Heart Study to farmed fish's omega-6 p
May 13 · 1 hr
Reimagining Impact: The Power Of Coalition Building And Regenerative Thinking With Stephen Minix
Validation is not the same as learning — and most nonprofit reporting is built around the former, not the latter. Stephen Minix, VP of Community at UpMetrics and former basketball coach in Watts, joins Care More Be Better to name the extractive dynamics quietly holding back philanthropic impact, and to make the case that data should serve communities rather than flow upward to justify a funder's investment decisions.
May 6 · 49 min
Beyond Greenwashing: How to Communicate Sustainability with Credibility with Helen Neal
Most companies don't set out to greenwash — they're just trying to put their best foot forward, and that's exactly where they go wrong. Helen Neal, founder of certified B Corp HN Communications and creator of the IMPACT framework, joins Care More Be Better to unpack the gap between corporate sustainability ambition and public trust — and how radical honesty, strategic storytelling, and a new AI governance tool called Zena are helping companies finally get it right.
April 28 · 1 hr 5 min
If We Lose the Right to Protest, We Lose Everything — with Annie Leonard and André Carothers
Peaceful protest is four times more effective than violent movements at toppling authoritarian regimes — and every right we take for granted, from wheelchair ramps to same-sex marriage, was won by someone who refused to stay quiet. Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff and former Executive Director of Greenpeace US, and activist André Carothers join Care More Be Better to make the case that the right to protest is not a radical idea — it is the foundational democratic idea, and it is unde
April 24 · 15 min
BOOK REVIEW | Protest: Respect It, Defend It, Use It | by Annie Leonard and Andre Carothers
This is a book review offered in audio format only for a new book out by Patagonia Press: Protest: Respect It, Defend It, Use It, by Annie Leonard and André Carothers. It is the book this moment demands — a sweeping, deeply human walk through the history of peaceful dissent that reminds us every right we take for granted was won by someone who refused to stay quiet.