Advertise on podcast: Women Mind the Water

Rebecca works for the Oceanic Preservation Society, a documentary movie production company. She is currently involved with post-production work on Speaking with Giants, a film about whale communication.  

100 episodes globally produced podcast of ocean art/ artist interview, marine conservation theme. Podcaster discusses podcast production, shares personal stories

Patrizia Zolano, an acclaimed Italian photographer, invites viewers to look beyond the immediacy of the image. Her series inspired by the 2019 flood in Venice share images of destruction and transformation.

Artistic entrepreneur Parisa Golchoubian is a global nomad. She creates art, represents other artists, and has tech startup designed to solve marine plastic pollution. She talks about art, storytelling, AI, and technology.

Renown photographer Angèle Etoundi Essamba . Her camera tells story of Africa, women, and strength.

Amanda Leland, Exec. Dir Environmental Defense Fund, organization focused on climate change, healthy oceans, and more discusses her new book Sea Change, a true story about unlikely allies in pursuit of achieving sustainable fisheries. The book is a narrative of a real Gulf Coast fisherman and Amanda’s pursuit to help find a path forward that would enable fishermen to keep fishing and have a healthy, vibrant ocean for all of us.

Sophie Maycock, shark research/conservationist, website SharkSpeak , author Shark: The illustrated biography, guest Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast on womenmindthewater.com, UK representative Sharks Educational Institute. 

Stephanie Elzondo Griest, professor of Creative Nonfiction UNC Chapel Hill, author six books has traveled to 50 countries & 49 states collecting material for her stories. On Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast she talks about her stories, women interviewees, and the connection between water and people, about the Mohawk Akwesasne on the St. Lawrence and Mexicans on the Rio Grande River.

Shelby Thomas, Ocean Rescue Alliance International, restores marine ecosystems. The non-profit has installed more than 300 modules, some in the form of mermaids, as living reefs off southern Florida. They are ideal spots for coral restoration, marine life, research and tourism. Shelby is the latest guest on the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series on womenmindthewater.com.

Susan Baur is founder of Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage, a group of women aged 64 and up that dive for sunken garbage in ponds. Their work restores the ponds and enhances the lives of the women. It’s physically demanding work but the women are rewarded with camaraderie, self-satisfaction, and cookies.

Lily Niederhofer, competitive swimmer/octopus advocate, conceived open-water swim, to raise awareness /money, to stop world’s first industrial-sized octopus farm. The preteen speaks to students and lawmakers hoping to block commercial octopus operations. Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Podcast series speaks with the Lewis Pugh Foundation Environmental Sports Champion and Young Planet Leader.

Todd Medema, the latest guest on the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast, is author of How to surf a hurricane, an scifi ecothriller. We talk about many things including technology, scifi, and climate change. He advises us to recharge and connect with nature, join communities with similar values and start taking action. For Todd, writing his new novel was a way to make a difference.

Gabriel Forestieri and Meredith Sallee are partners in life as well as projectLIMB, their dance company that explores the relationship between humans and water. Their dances are performed while freediving, meaning they move underwater relying on the air contained in their lungs. On this edition of the Wo(men) Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast the couple discuss how they came to dance underwater and the work involved in creating these mesmerizing performances.  

Krista Shoe is founder of Mother of Corals, an organization based in Panama involved in coral restoration and education organization. Mother of Corals others to learn and participate in coral restoration and conducts its own coral restoration to combat rising ocean temperatures.

Arielle Moody worked in the beauty industry for more than 15 years, before she started her own company. Mama Sol was a collaboration between three women who wanted to protect themselves, their children, and the planet from the harmful petrochemicals found in many commercially available sunscreens. Mama Sol’s tagline is: “For all mamas, Mother Earth included.” In addition to protecting the skin from the harmful rays of the sun, the sunscreens are also less harmful to coral reefs. Important because it has been estimated, that roughly one fifth of the world’s coral have died in the past three years.