39. “Earth Day Special: Believing It’s Possible; How Roasting Coffee is Planting Trees” with Nick Scaturro – Wooden Journey
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Welcome to episode 39 of the Nurtured by Nature podcast, on this Earth Day special I’m delighted to be joined in conversation by Nick Scaturro, who founded his business Wooden Journey 5 years ago on Earth Day in 2019. Earth Day, is an annual celebration on the 22nd April that brings together people from around the world to celebrate the Earth and share their commitments and intentions in support of environmental protection.
My conversation with Nick was the perfect way to celebrate the intention of this day. Nick is one of those beautiful, kind, compassionate and inspiring people, who’s courage, enthusiasm and passion is both infectious and impactful and I hope that hearing his story will leave you all feeling excited, re-invigorated and empowered to know that it’s a lot easier than you think for you to be part of the solution and join the journey to help bring to life the vision of a better future where we return to right relationship with the earth and the positive news outweighs the bad.
Nick shares how an experience we will all relate to, that sense of loneliness and despair due to the state of the environment, left him with the question, what can I do? He took this question and from it sprung an amazing idea, to find a way to have an impact and also provide a way that allowed others to join him on the journey. Alongside his friend and business partner, working in their spare time and on a serious bootstrap budget, they taught themselves to roast coffee and have created several speciality roasts from Organic, fair trade beans. With the profits from the sales of their coffee they invest in restoring the earth, supporting tree planting organisations around the world and other wildlife initiatives, their impact is already tangible.
Nick is a wonderful example of Active Hope in action and he reminds us that there is power in following your dreams, not giving up even when it feels insurmountable and to always believe and never to doubt that it is possible for you to make a difference. There’s no single solution and the earth needs all of us with our unique ideas, talents and visions, we truly are stronger together.
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Learn more about Nick:
Nick is the founder of Wooden Journey and is a coffee roaster, specializing in Fair Trade, Organic coffee with a portion of his sales going towards both reforestation and conservation movements with the organizations that he has partnered with. Nick has a humble beginning at the start of his journey. As he started learning about all of the terrible things happening globally on the planet we all call home, he had a very empty feeling he has said he’ll never forget. It all started there on his journey to make it accessible to someone to stand behind his mission and cause for people that felt the same way that may know how to help. To date, he is proud to have already planted over 35,000 trees and fully conserved 200+ acres of wildlife habitat.
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