Entrepreneur and CEO Heather K Terry shares her journey from Broadway actress to food system innovator, exploring how business can be transformed from extractive to regenerative. Drawing from her experience with GoodSam, she discusses the challenges of raising capital as a woman founder, the importance of building relationships directly with farmers, and how financing structures can either nourish or deplete communities and ecosystems. This thought-provoking dialogue explores food justice, impact investing, and the courage to say "no" to systems that don't align with a vision of a more nourishing future.

For more information:

- Learn about Good Sam Foods, PBC and their work with farmers: https://tinyurl.com/goodsampbc

- Renourish Studio and their approach to living systems thinking: https://renourishstudio.com/

- Institute for Integrated Nutrition, where Heather began her food journey: https://www.integrativenutrition.com/

Key Moments:

[00:00:00] The extractive nature of current food systems - how dignity, land, and capital are affected

[00:13:00] The difficult shift from saying "yes" to saying "no" - finding courage to challenge industry norms

[00:26:00] Confronting the paradigm shift in business - why most companies stay asleep even with alarming statistics

[00:42:00] The value of not knowing - embracing questions as the starting point for transformation

[00:52:00] How food can be nourishing at multiple levels - from customers to employees to the land

[00:58:00] Taking action, however small - the cumulative impact of individuals standing for what they believe in

Music Credits:
Rise by Yaima from the album C E R E M O N I A
Gaia Nectar by Masood Ali Khan from the album The Yoga Sessions, in collaboration with Yoga Organix Records

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