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Hello and welcome to series three of all the small things with me, Venetia Lamanna.

In this season, I'm going to be speaking with nine remarkable humans who are creating change for both people and planet.

For the next nine weeks, my hope is that these conversations might form a small part of your routine keeping you company in this confusing and daunting moment in time that we're living in.

To help ground these conversations, I'll be asking my guests about their routines and rituals and the seemingly insignificant moments as a way to help remind us to pay closer attention to the present moment and cherish all the small things.

If you're new here, please do be sure to hit the subscribe button as I would so love to have you back each and every week.

Right then, let's kickstart this season.

Arja Barber is a writer, stylist and consultant whose work deals with the intersections of sustainability and the fashion landscape, building heavily on ideas behind privilege, wealth inequality, racism, feminism and colonialism.

Her brand new debut book consumed the need for collective change, colonialism, climate change and consumerism is a blazing polemic against both the exploitation and injustice of the fashion industry and the cynical manipulation of consumer culture as a whole.

It's divided into one learning section and one unlearning section.

So by the end, you'll understand why fashion is so exploitative, how it's causing a humanitarian crisis and contributing to climate breakdown and you'll feel equipped to be a better consumer and fundamentally a more active citizen.

To paraphrase Arja at the end of this episode, if we feel a little bit more empowered in one space in our lives, this will extend to other spaces and we can go on to do amazing things.

I really hope you love this episode and please be sure to hit the show notes to order Arja's unmissable book.

Alright, let's get into it.

So let us start as we always do.

I always start this show thinking a little bit about rituals and routines and specifically morning routines and I love how in your book you actually write about how rituals and habits and shifting habits can really shape us.

So I was wondering if you have any kind of morning routine or any rituals you like to do first thing that have really shaped you.

Well, first of all, thank you for that lovely intro. It's so kind of you to say.

And this is where I get really like hippie woo-woo.

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