Low Tox Life

I'm going to suggest that the best 50 minutes you can spend this week is listening to this week's show with Jeremy Pollack @pollackpeacebuilding who believes we are wired for peace.

Jeremy Pollack, Ph.D. is a social-organisational psychologist, leader in the field of workplace conflict resolution and peacebuilding and author of WIRED FOR PEACE. He is the Founder of Pollack Peacebuilding Systems, an international conflict resolution consulting firm. He is also a co-founder and chairman of the Peaceful Leadership Institute, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit dedicated to promoting the model and theory of Peaceful Leadership.

Because he has a PhD in neuroscience, he has a shed ton of evidence to back that up, in his book “Wired for Peace”. He has years of experience helping all kinds of communities and business structures be more peacemaking and peaceful, even within hierarchies which aren’t inherently ‘bad’.

These are the sorts of conversations that can help us reflect on what's going on inside of us; figure out what's happening in our own little corners; and make peacebuilding and peacemaking possible, so we can all start to benefit from the ripple effects of that local work.

LOVE these sorts of explorations, and I hope you love this one,

Alexx Stuart
Your Host

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #479. Feeling Fearful? Drained? Katie Hendricks Ph.D. is here to help with her 50+years of expertise.
Show #487. Can we feel unbreakable in a shaky world? Therapist Joe DeNicholas believes that we MUST and shows us how.
Show #455 Marianne Williamson – Are you ready to be a spiritual athlete for our times?

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Website: https://pollackpeacebuilding.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pollackpeacebuilding/
Bitly book link: https://bit.ly/4uQbaIY

Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps!

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@ausclimate continues to give you 10% off their range in 2026, with Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used, energy-efficient heating and air-circulating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (often works on top of their sales - pro tip!) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate

Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs if something resonated! I love to see your thoughts, genuinely!

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I'd like to think that plastic is an apolitical subject.

None of us want to see our environment or our bodies polluted with this stuff, and so it brings me great pleasure to focus on one of the biggest overlaps of our times: the quest to reduce plastic in our bodies and our environment. We've done a few shows on this over the years, and this week is wonderful.

Let me introduce you to Kal Glanznig. He's a filmmaker, a counsellor in his local government area, and a leading youth ocean and climate champion. He’s also a young man of 25 who got his body tested for phthalate levels due to concerns for future fertility and was shocked to see how high his levels were, as he considered himself having a very healthy nature-focused lifestyle.

He's created documentaries, Rising Up, back in 2024, and this year just released The Plastic Country. He's a multiple TEDx and UN COP speaker, and he's driven by the motto "Change Happens Locally". In high school, he led a 100 kW solar project, leading to 20 schools to follow suit. This guy is definitely not someone who rests on his laurels. He is here to effect change.

Kal is on a mission to make it clear that if we don't shape the policies that make things truly better at every stage of government, then chances are we just keep going in swings and roundabouts on social media, either trying to raise awareness or trying to complain about how nothing is happening. Join me this week. I think you will be inspired,

Alexx Stuart
Your Host of the Low Tox Life

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #484. Nanoplastics: 2 Drs on the quest to help us bind and excrete them with Drs Eva Berkes and Nicholas Monsul
Show #472. What is safe? River, Ground, Tank and Ocean water and PFAS “Forever chemicals” with water scientist, Professor Ian Wright
Show #93: Plastic pollution and the Plastic Free July story with founder Rebecca Prince Ruiz
Show #172 – The Plastic Crisis with Brett Chamberlin, Story of Stuff.

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Instagram or LinkedIn: https://www.instagram.com/kalglanznig

Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps!

@waterscofilters removes all contaminants from modern tap water + keeps all the minerals. 7-15 filtration stages, depending on which filter you choose. Lock in their auto-subscription, cancel-anytime, 10% off + refill subscription price ongoing. No code required. waterscoaustralia.com.au

@ausclimate continues to give you 10% off their range in 2026, with Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used, energy-efficient heating and air-circulating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (often works on top of their sales - pro tip!) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate

Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs if something resonated! I love to see your thoughts, genuinely!

Want to support the Low Tox Life podcast?
Free option: Leave a 5 star review wherever you listen to Low Tox Life - thanks SO much!
Paid + Member PERKS: Join the Low Tox Club - monthly practitioner live masterclasses, a suite of low tox store discounts from around the world and the most supportive and lovely chat group on all low tox topics on the internet: Check it out and join here for just the price of a coffee per month!

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Jenny Smith @mouldconsultancy has been an HVAC specialist (heating/ventilation/air conditioning) for decades - she’s had clients from NASA to the biggest commercial property developers and even wrote the manual on A/C split system installation for Australia in the early 2000s.
And then there was mould and becoming gravely ill to the point she was falling asleep at the wheel and couldn’t walk. She tells that story but also of a pivot to building biology, education and what she’s had build as her home to be well.

While this show is going to be incredibly inspiring for people who have fallen very ill due to water damage and those nasty types of species that grow in those situations that can really mess with our health and cause multi-system symptom mahem, it’s also for:

People who want to learn some of the places we don’t realise need a good clean.
People who want to learn about some of the design features in modern homes that have caused so many water leaking problems.
Dehumidifier tips and tricks including cleaning them

And more. Don’t be overwhelmed by the lengths Jenny has to go for her health when you listen to this week’s show. DO be inspired by her incredible knowledge and some of the things you’ll be able to take away and start doing in your own home.

Alexx x

Fancy a few more podcasts and resources we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #483. Preventing common health hazards in your home with Dr Nicole Bijlsma
Show #481. PJ Harlow: Turn your home cleaning, disinfecting efforts into health-building rituals
Show #361 Alexx Stuart – Mould and Humidity FAQs
Humidity Exposure Mould Prevention
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
10 ways to avoid mould/water damaged buildings when hunting for a property
So you think you’ve got Mould?
Have You Looked behind Your Fridge?
Before you Spray Vinegar, Watch this.
Stop Running Your AC Below 22°

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mouldconsultancy?_r=1&_t=ZS-97It2Gxuk1h
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mouldconsultancy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mouldavoidanceconsultancy/
Website: https://www.mouldconsultancy.com.au/

Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low-tox swaps!

@waterscofilters removes all contaminants from modern tap water + keeps all the minerals. 7-15 filtration stages, depending on which filter you choose. Lock in their auto-subscription, cancel-anytime, 10% off + refill subscription price ongoing. No code required. waterscoaustralia.com.au

@ausclimate continues to give you 10% off their range in 2026, with Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used, energy-efficient heating and air-circulating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (often works on top of their sales - pro tip!) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate

Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs if something resonated! I love to see your thoughts, genuinely!

Want to support the Low Tox Life podcast?
Free option: Leave a 5 star review wherever you listen to Low Tox Life - thanks SO much!
Paid + Member PERKS: Join the Low Tox Club - monthly practitioner live masterclasses, a suite of low tox store discounts from around the world and the most supportive and lovely chat group on all low tox topics on the internet: Check it out and join here for just the price of a coffee per month!

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“Stop and smell the roses” is a familiar phrase, yet today’s guest challenges us to make the “roses” our default mode rather than something we try to remember to do.

Say What?

So… If you feel like you’re trying to stand still on ever-moving ground…

Or perhaps, you feel like, on paper, what you’ve achieved should ‘feel more satisfying and less exhausting or lacking’, or that you perhaps don’t deserve to feel content or happy in today’s world, and you find yourself worrying about ‘everything’, then this show is a recommended prescription.

I recently came across Joe DeNicholas, MBA, LCSW, whose work bridges the worlds of science, secular spirituality, and psychological healing.

Joe believes it’s not only possible but essential to cultivate and connect more often to our ‘ok-ness’ and so he helps people to do that in his work every day and in his book Unbreakable Wellbeing.

I felt truly challenged by the idea of even deserving to work on connecting to my ‘ok-ness’ more often before my conversation with Joe; ‘whattabouting’ all the things I find gravely unjust, and worried it would come across as spiritual bypassing to air a show like this, but it turns out: Joe’s approach might just help us make the world a better place.

We look at our personal barriers, frame ourselves within the big world without losing ourselves, and learn a couple of very simple exercises we can use to reconnect to a trust that we’re ok.

And that, my lovely listeners, is this week’s show. I know we all need it. Take us for a walk and let yourself trust that you’re ok.

Alexx Stuart
Your Host

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #390 Somatics: How to Make your Journey Real and True with Irene Lyon, MSc.
Show #408 What would it look like for you to be completely recovered? Thought Field Therapy with Dr Robert Bray
Show #479. Feeling Fearful? Drained? Katie Hendricks Ph.D. is here to help with her 50+years of expertise.

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-denicholas
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unbreakable.wellbeing
Website: www.unbreakableinc.com

Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps!

@waterscofilters helps you take all the contaminants out + keep all the deeply hydrating minerals IN with 7-15 stages of filtration, depending on which water filter you choose. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au > 15% off when you tick subscription on any new filter until 30th of June. That’s 15% off the new filter + refills thereafter for the life of the subscription to the replacements.

@ausclimate is our major partner giving you 10% off their range for the whole of 2026, with brilliant Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used and their new energy-efficient heating, air-circulating and cooling range. code LOWTOXLIFE (also works over and above their sales - pro tip!) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate

Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs if something resonated! I love to see your thoughts, genuinely!

Want to support the Low Tox Life podcast?
Free option: Leave a 5 star review wherever you listen to Low Tox Life - thanks SO much!
Paid + Member PERKS: Join the Low Tox Club - monthly practitioner live masterclasses, a suite of low tox store discounts from around the world and the most supportive and lovely chat group on all low tox topics on the internet: Check it out and join here for just the price of a coffee per month!

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Wow have I got a powerful woman, story and show for us this week. (SA warning)

Kerrie Searle was abused when working in the Victorian Police Force, by a senior leader. The experience, and the road to getting justice, left her with severe PTSD, in hospital and heavily medicated.

From this awful time came a powerful healing journey that led to Kerrie realising she ‘understood’ animals and could speak with them - she started to understand plants and trees too.

And so, we talk about abuse, grief, overcoming awful things that happen and how there can be a lot of good life awaiting us in the brave steps along a difficult path - and? If we tune into our intuition.

If you have found yourself stuck in victim mode, in depression, in patterns or grief that owns you, it’s a very powerful show as Kerrie shares her story.

It’s also a beautiful show for anyone who loves animals or wants to connect more deeply with the natural world of which we are of course a part - even though we try so hard to fool ourselves otherwise…

I hope you love it,

Alexx Stuart
Low Tox Life Founder & Podcast Host

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #454 Dr Katherine Willow – A new way to approach disease, healing and death
Show #366: The Critical Importance of Rites of Passage, Plant Medicine and the Evolution From Conventional Medicine to the Quantum and the Mystical, With Dr Maya Sheatreat

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Website: www.animal-communicator.com.au
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/kerrie.searle.1
Kerrie Searle Animal Communicator

Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps!

@waterscofilters helps you take all the contaminants out + keep all the deeply hydrating minerals IN with 7-15 stages of filtration, depending on which water filter you choose. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au > 15% off when you tick subscription on any new filter until 30th of June. That’s 15% off the new filter + refills thereafter for the life of the subscription to the replacements.

@ausclimate is our major partner giving you 10% off their range for the whole of 2026, with brilliant Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used and their energy-efficient heating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (also works over and above most sales - pro tip!) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate

Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs if something resonated! I love to see your thoughts, genuinely!

Want to support the Low Tox Life podcast?
Free option: Leave a 5 star review wherever you listen to Low Tox Life - thanks SO much!
Paid + Member PERKS: Join the Low Tox Club - monthly practitioner live masterclasses, a suite of low tox store discounts from around the world and the most supportive and lovely chat group on all low tox topics on the internet: Check it out and join here for just the price of a coffee per month!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.