Hi everyone, it's Sophia. Welcome to work in progress.

This is the first episode in our four-part mini series, Well and Good,

which focuses on all things sustainability. I'm eager to share with all of you what I've learned

over the past month from our four incredible guests that we handpicked for this special series,

and for those of you that go way back with the pod, you might remember today's guests.

Dr. Iana Elizabeth Johnson, if you haven't heard the episode from when we first spoke,

it came out in June of 2020 and I strongly encourage you to go back and check it out

because she is hands down one of the most brilliant women that I know.

Iana is an inspiring, driven and incredibly wise doctor of marine biology.

She is a policy expert, a writer and a conservation strategist who was educated at Harvard and

Scripps Institute of Oceanography. More recently, she co-wrote the Blue New Deal, a road map for

including the ocean and climate policy, and she published her first book, All We Can Save,

which is an anthology of writing by women climate leaders. I was actually honored to be selected

to be one of the women who read two of the essays in the audio book, so you can check it out in hard

cover, paperback or audio. Today we talk about how Dr. Iana came up with the Blue New Deal,

and how the ocean can actually be part of the solution to the climate crisis, while also creating

more opportunities for jobs and sustainable farming. I was truly blown away by the facts that she

drops in this episode and it made me feel so inspired for what lies ahead of us. It is my absolute

pleasure to welcome back to the show, Dr. Iana Elizabeth Johnson.

I am so very excited that my friend and inspiration and author and activist and marine biologist

and policy expert Dr. Iana Elizabeth Johnson is back for a second time on work and progress.

Hi friend, thanks for coming on season two. Hi Sophia. Thanks for having me back.

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