The Green Gorilla Unplugged: Recent Episodes
Virginia Cinquemani
Unedited, unplugged, real stories of a life in sustainability. Imperfect and rough around the edges, hopefully inspirational.
In this episode, Virginia talks about the importance of gathering courage and pushing through the bubble of your comfort zone.
Recorded in the car, there is a lot of background noise. Just pretend you are in the car with her having a deep conversation!
In this episode, Virginia reflects upon decades of lies told by the fossil fuel industries to deflect attention from the real issues, and on how their devious marketing campaigns have an effect even on well-intentioned environmentalists.
So, where can we focus our attention to make the biggest (and quickest) impact?
Reference:
"The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet" by Michael E. Mann, Scribe UK, 2021
How can we get unstuck? How can we shift big issues in our life as well as at a global level?
A slightly wacky workshop made Virginia think about this issue in an unusual way.
She shares how that unfolded in her head and suggests some practical tips on how you can do the same.
In this episode, Virginia shares the process she takes her clients through when they want to change their career path towards sustainability.
Do you feel as if your individual efforts are meaningless compared to the magnitude of the issues our planet is facing? In this episode, Virginia addresses how she answers when people ask: is it worth it?
In this episode, as part of #mentalhealthawarenessweek, Virginia shares her own struggles with eco-anxiety and how she manages to overcome it when it surfaces.
You'd think a confident person cannot possibly suffer from imposter syndrome. Virginia shares how imposter syndrome has affected her several times in her life, in spite of appearances, and how she manages to be a 'highly functioning imposter'.
Trying to convince your family about sustainability is probably more difficult than if you were dealing with strangers. Lots of complex dynamics come into play.
In this episode, Virginia shares her struggles with influencing her own children, parents and her partner to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle.
"How do you juggle all the activities and projects you do? You are Wonder Woman!"
In this episode, Virginia shares what it really means to juggle her life in sustainability, motherhood, and entrepreneurship.
After a short, disappointing stint in architecture, Virginia decides to follow her love for sustainability.
Fed up with her edited life on social media, Virginia shared her thoughts and stories of her life in sustainability in this rough-around-the-edges, unedited podcast. In this first episode, she shares how she came to love sustainability.