Strategist, systems thinker, and regenerative leader Lauren Tucker joins FutureKind to explore how true evolution begins at the root—within ourselves, our businesses, and the very frameworks we use to think. Lauren shares the path that led her to launch ReNourish Studio and its offerings for food system changemakers. Alongside host Megan Westgate, she reflects on the trap of incrementalism, why nourishment must come before transformation, and how a truly thriving food system can only emerge through relational, co-creative process. This episode weaves personal healing, business design, and deep systemic insight into a powerful invitation: to shift not only what we do, but how we are being as we do it.

For more information: https://www.renourish.studio

[00:03:20] Following food’s thread from rural West Virginia to post-Katrina New Orleans

[00:11:00] Co-founding Kiss the Ground and questioning education as a theory of change

[00:16:00] Launching ReNourish Studio: developmental leadership for a regenerative future

[00:22:00] From “do good” to potential: shifting how we define nourishment and value

[00:28:00] Seeing the core seed: how regeneration starts from within each entity

[00:34:00] Why business viability depends on relational thinking, not market share

[00:38:00] Dismantling the martyr mindset: we must nourish ourselves, too

[00:44:00] Almonds and relationship: a case study in long-term systemic collaboration

[00:52:00] Designing non-UPF Verified to catalyze—not police—industry transformation

[01:00:00] Privilege, trauma, and the responsibility to think in service of the whole

[01:07:00] Guitar, gardens, and joy: what it means to truly re-nourish

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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