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GOOD PEOPLE,GOOD WORKS
Bianca and Michael Alexander:Leading the Media to a Conscious Planet - P1/2
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Just using
the power of media and
this platform to shed light
on issues that I think
we all care about,
and there’s something
that we could all do
to just think differently
about issues like
poverty and hunger and
environmental decay.
There are solutions and
so we hope to showcase
and to highlight
the solutions and
inspire people to go out
and be the change,
to be the solution.
There’s plenty that
each and every one of us
could do;
it’s just do something.
Hallo,
warm-hearted viewers,
and welcome to today’s
Good People, Good Works
featuring Bianca
and Michael Alexander
of the United States,
co-founders of
Conscious Planet Media,
a socially aware
media company
which produces
Conscious Living TV
and Soul of Green TV.
These web-based
television programs
encourage viewers
to pursue mindful,
eco-friendly lifestyles.
Now in its fifth season,
Conscious Living TV
features upbeat shows on
green travel, eco-fashion,
spirituality and
other topics.
Soul of Green TV
highlights the urban
sustainability movement
including issues
such as social justice,
economic empowerment,
and reducing
one’s carbon footprint.
In addition to these shows,
Conscious Planet Media
provides media coverage
of green lifestyle events
and does marketing for
eco-friendly companies.
Let's now visit Bianca
and Michael in Chicago,
Illinois, USA to learn how
these enterprises evolved.
We’re a media company
so we produce original
television programming,
original documentaries,
business documentaries
and events
for social change.
So, specifically,
we look at the areas
of sustainability, we look at
economic empowerment
and social justice.
We look at the area
of health and then peace
and non-violence.
So that’s essentially
what we’re here to do, is
to raise the consciousness
of the planet
and do so through media.
Bianca Alexander
hosts shows,
conducts interviews and
narrates documentaries.
However,
she was not always
involved in television.
In fact, she began
her career as a lawyer.
Well one of the reasons
that I became a lawyer
was to help people,
to really make the world
a better place.
My legal training
really gave me the
framework that I needed
to be an advocate
for things that
I’m passionate about.
And I realized
many years ago when
I got on this green path
that I’m a very
educated person.
I graduated from
Princeton University (USA),
the University of Virginia
Law School (USA).
I spent all this time
and money becoming
a learned person
but I didn’t know much
about the environment.
I didn’t know much about
how to take care of my body.
I didn’t know much
about how my diet
can impact people living
on the other side
of the world, and so I felt
it was a great opportunity
to use my legal background,
to use my skills
as a communicator,
as an advocate
and as a leader
to hope to inspire people
to live more conscious,
more healthy lives.
I was basically
an entertainment attorney
at a big movie studio
in Hollywood (USA).
I met some amazing people
who had opportunities
to get me in front of
the camera and so
I was able to develop as
an entertainment reporter
interviewing celebrities
like Halle Berry
and Samuel Jackson
and all the A-list names
that you could think of,
which was fun.
It was exciting.
It gave me a sense of
how to find my presence
on camera, how to
hold the microphone,
how to interview people,
and how to interact.
And so from there
I went on to host shows;
everything from TV One
to Lifetime, to USA,
to FOX.
Although Bianca's career
as a TV host was exciting,
she gradually began
to feel that the work
was inconsistent
with her personal values.
And I did a lot of
makeover shows
back in the early 2000’s
when the makeover genre
was a huge hit.
They were
very inspirational,
the gigs I had
but unfortunately
many of the shows
were underwritten
by big companies that
basically manufacture
all these products that
are polluting our planet,
and I got to the point
where I felt like my talents
could be better used in
helping to inspire people.
Michael plays many roles
in the couple’s
media enterprises,
doing everything
from marketing, to filming,
to video editing.
He now shares how
his work has evolved.
My background
is business development.
I’ve been an entrepreneur
my whole life
for the last sixteen years,
and so I was running
a consulting company.
And when we were
in Sedona, Arizona,
I was wondering
what I was going to do
with my life
and one of the things
that we talked about
was I could use my skills
as a salesperson,
as a sales trainer,
to really support Bianca
in getting on-air as
a conscious living-expert
and as an advocate.
So that’s how I got into it.
So I began getting her
on various networks,
various ABC, NBC affiliates
across the country as
a conscious living expert
and next thing I knew
we were filming stuff
and next thing I knew
I was learning editing.
When we return,
we’ll learn more
about the Alexanders
and how they’re seeking
to use their media company
to uplift and
transform the world.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
Welcome back to
Good People, Good Works,
as we continue
our interview
with Bianca and
Michael Alexander,
founders of the
informative online shows
Conscious Living TV
and Soul of Green TV,
which are inspiring viewers
to pursue
eco-friendly lifestyles.
Bianca and Michael now
describe how they came up
with the idea
for the programs.
I grew up in San Francisco
so I’ve been
an environmentalist
since maybe
I was eight years old.
When I was
sixteen years old
I saw “Medicine Man,”
which is a movie
with Sean Connery
and ended up
buying some rainforest.
And when I graduated
from college
my first business
was distributing
eco-friendly products
and so I’ve always
had a passion for it.
And when we first connected
she did not.
I didn’t have a clue
(about environmentalism).
She’s brilliant
and once she really got it
and understood it,
we really felt that
there was a major piece
of the world
and a major piece
certainly in the US
of mainstream people
that weren’t really
connected to it.
It was really missing
a good piece
of the population
so we really felt like
Bianca’s story
and her experience
in going from not really
understanding it
to being an advocate for it
was a great way
to go out and talk to
mainstream people and
really make a difference
in the mainstream
environment.
For Bianca, her journey
to a greener lifestyle began
with doing the laundry.
She was very surprised
when Michael informed her
that the detergent
she was using
was destroying
the aquatic environment.
I hadn’t made the
connection to the role
that I can play
to make the world
a better place and
so that was really for me
the bridge articulating
the importance of
just the tiniest little thing
that you can do,
that each one of us can do.
Some of Bianca
and Michael’s shows
inform viewers
about how to select
eco-friendly products
when shopping.
The first segment that I did,
was “Healthy Alternatives
to Your Favorite
Personal Care Products.”
So just meeting people
where they’re at.
Guess what?
We’re all human beings.
We’re all going to eat,
get up, brush our teeth,
take a shower, comb our hair,
use shampoo, basic things.
You’re going to
put clothes on and rather
than speaking to people
in these big,
theoretical concepts
we meet them
where they’re at
and so I think because of,
my own journey in just
really being someone that
knew nothing about this
and didn’t care about it
to a person who can say,
“Okay, this is something
that can actually make me
a healthier person.
This is something
that can actually
make me feel like I’m
doing something positive
just by making
a more conscious choice
with the product that I
put on my body, by making
a more conscious choice
about the product I put in
my washing machine.”
And so I think people
really resonated with those
and that’s really
where it started.
The episodes that
we produce on our shows
came from there and
really just meeting people
where they’re at
and the choices
that they make
in their everyday lives.
One of the recent events
produced by
Conscious Planet Media
was Verte Couture,
Chicago's first ever
all eco-fashion show
and green lifestyle event.
The gala evening,
which included
an organic vegan buffet,
featured delightful and
colorful fashion designs
made from eco-friendly
or recycled materials,
all of which were free
from animal products.
One of
the featured designers
was Leanne Hilgart, who
has created a vegan line
of clothing called
“Vaute Couture.”
Well, I have two sections
of pieces that
will be shown tonight.
The main line is
the outer wear line,
some beautiful dress coats
for Chicago winter
that are also vegan
and eco-conscious.
To know that you can
live conscientiously
without sacrifice,
being vegan in particular
is not about
what you can’t have
but it’s about
empowering yourself
in all the everyday choices
you make, and
making a difference
in those little choices
and how they add up,
that’s what I want people
to think about.
What’s the key
to the amazing success of
the Conscious Living and
Soul of Green shows?
The whole format
of our shows
and our approach
and how we present
is really about inspiring,
making it fun,
making it accessible and
entertaining and easy.
Because nobody wants to
think of one other
depressing piece of news
including the danger
our planet’s in.
It’s kind of a scary thing.
I know myself personally,
I tend to feel
a little paralyzed like,
“Oh God, what can I do?”
But I need to find a way
to make it fun and make it
interesting and entertaining
and that’s really
what I think people
resonate the most with.
What’s the single
most eco-friendly change
Bianca and
Michael Alexander have
made in their own lives?
Find out next Sunday on
Good People, Good Works
featuring the concluding
episode of our interview
with the enthusiastic
co-founders of
Conscious Planet Media.
For more details on
Conscious Planet Media
and its television programs,
please visit:
www.ConsciousPlanetMedia.com
www.ConsciousLivingTV.com
www.SoulOfGreen.com
Blessed viewers,
thank you for watching
today’s program.
The World Around Us
is next
after Noteworthy News.
May Providence bless
your life with health,
wisdom and abundance.
In his thoughtful book,
“In Defense of Dolphins:
The New Moral Frontier,”
Dr. Thomas White,
director of the Center
for Ethics and Business
at Loyola Marymount
University, USA calls
for regarding dolphins as
“non-human persons.”
Among philosophers,
to be a person, no matter
what the species,
is to have traits that
we’ve always said are
unique to humans alone:
self awareness,
a sense of time, a sense
of personality, emotions,
individuality, uniqueness,
higher order intellectual
abilities and the like.
Find out more about
Dr. White’s philosophical
perspective,
Thursday, April 15
on Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
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