Celebrate Yourself Card Deck: Inspiring Self-Celebration

These 50 prompts inspire deeper self-connection and collective celebration, encouraging joy, reflection, and meaningful connection.

Take a moment to learn about Empowered & Embodied, another show in the Feminist Podcasters Collective. If you love Feminist Founders, you'll probably love this awesome show, too. (And, Becky Mollenkamp will be a guest on Empowered & Embodied soon.) Listen on this pod app or on YouTube.

Celebrate Yourself Card Deck: Inspiring Self-Celebration

These 50 prompts inspire deeper self-connection and collective celebration, encouraging joy, reflection, and meaningful connection.

In this episode of Feminist Founders, Becky Mollenkamp chats with Gwenn Nolan, the founder of Mother Compost, about her journey from working in finance to starting a composting business focused on reducing food waste and creating sustainable change. Gwenn shares how her passion for environmentalism and feminism intersect, leading her to create a business that tackles the environmental impact of food waste while also challenging the norms of traditional business models. They discuss the challenges and rewards of running a small business that prioritizes both social impact and profitability, as well as the importance of educating communities about the benefits of composting. If you’ve ever wondered about the composting vs landfill debate, how composting helps the environment, or how feminist perspectives can influence business practices, this episode is for you.

Gwenn Nolan (she/her) is the founder of Mother Compost, an organics recycling organization that helps people and businesses transform their food scraps into fertilizer. Mother Compost began operation on the Main Line of Philadelphia in 2018 and now serves over 1,400 residents and over 20 local businesses in the area. Their mission is to make composting easy to encourage more people to join the composting movement. When not driving the truck or operating the business, Gwenn spends time speaking at schools & local organizations to spread the word about the benefits of composting as well as teaching practical composting basics to help home composters.

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Discussed in this Episode:

• Gwenn’s transition from finance to starting her own composting business
• The composting business model and how it differs from traditional waste management
• Benefits of composting for both businesses and individuals
• The environmental impact of food waste and why reducing landfill waste through composting is crucial
• How composting vs landfill options stack up in terms of sustainability
• The intersection of feminism and environmentalism in Gwenn's work
• Commercial composting services and their role in reducing food waste in the US
• Sustainable business practices in the composting industry
• How small businesses can tackle the food waste problem at home and in their communities
• Feminist business models and how they shape Gwenn's approach to growth

Resources Mentioned:

• Compost Crew
• Mary Oliver: Selected Poems
• Philabundance
• Sharing Excess

Tune in to learn more about how to reduce food waste at home, the business opportunities in composting, and how feminism and sustainable business practices can go hand-in-hand to create lasting change!

Celebrate Yourself Card Deck: Inspiring Self-Celebration

These 50 prompts inspire deeper self-connection and collective celebration, encouraging joy, reflection, and meaningful connection.

In this episode, Becky Mollenkamp chats with astrologer and feminist activist Babs Cheung about the powerful ways astrology can be used by business owners, especially women and non-binary entrepreneurs. They explore the intersection of feminism and astrology and how feminist astrology readings can help entrepreneurs avoid burnout, create sustainable businesses, and align their values with their business decisions. Babs explains the practical applications of astrology planning tools and how understanding your astrological chart can help you plan your business cycles and fiscal quarters.

This episode goes beyond the pop astrology you see in magazines, diving into the difference between pop astrology and real astrology and how astrology can actually be used for personal growth and activism. They also discuss the patriarchy’s role in shaping misconceptions about astrology and why embracing a self-centered approach can be a radical act of feminism.

Babs Cheung (she/her) is an astrologer, award winning writer, feminist thought leader and digital activist. Her forthcoming book details ways in which astrological transits mark an end to patriarchy (and other vehicles of oppression) through acts of activism (that don't cause burnout) tailored to your star sign. Additionally, she won't shut up about Mercury Retrograde and how it's the best time "to get good at something you suck at [doing]." and is obsessed with teaching clients how to plan their fiscal quarters according to their birth chart.

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Discussed in this episode:

• How astrology can be used for business planning and leadership for entrepreneurs
• The role of feminist astrology in helping women entrepreneurs avoid burnout
• How to plan using astrology tools that align with personal and business cycles
• Understanding the difference between pop astrology and deeper, personalized astrology practices
• Using astrology for activists to align personal values with activism
• The importance of distinguishing between being self-centered vs. selfish in a patriarchal society
• Aligning business planning with astrological transits for maximum impact
• How astrology can provide insight into workplace dynamics and personal growth

Resources mentioned:

• Girly Drinks by Mallory O’Meara
• Social Change Map by Deepa Iyer