Save What You Love with Mark Titus Mark Titus

Hey, friends, just a heads up to let you know I'm going to be on the Conservation Connection podcast tomorrow with hosts Chance and Sarah Kathryn Ruder and then they're going to be on my Save What You Love podcast on July 29th. If you haven't listened to their show yet, it's excellent. And if you haven't subscribed to Save What You Love yet, here's your chance.
Both two great opportunities to do a deep dive into what it means about saving what we love on our planet and within our own hearts and souls and lives. So give them both a whirl. check out Save What You Love. Subscribe and check out Conservation Connection on any of your pod catcher platforms. Okay. See you soon.

Erin Ranney is a wildlife cinematographer based in Alaska, Washington State and the Falkland Islands. With a variety of remote field experience, both on boats and land, she’s set up and run remote field camps in Alaska.  As a cinematographer, she’s captured footage for companies such as BBC, PBS, Smithsonian, Disney+ and National Geographic. One of her most recent series includes the National Geographic/Disney+ series  ‘Queens’, which recently premiered in March 2024.

While experienced in filming wildlife on land, Erin is also a deep- sea video engineer and she’s a trained guide and naturalist in bear country. Additionally, she’s a third generation commercial fisherwoman in the largest sockeye salmon run in the world. She runs a  commercial set net fishing operation in Bristol Bay Alaska and has spent time at remote fishing camps since she was a toddler. 

In this episode, Erin and Mark talk about how in the world at her young age, she's done all this amazing work and what fishing and fighting for Bristol Bay have taught her, her incredible work on Queens from Nat Geo and Disney Plus mentorship and passing it on, and what that means to her and creating healing and understanding in a divided country.

Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣
Produced: Emilie Firn
Edited: Patrick Troll⁣
Music: Whiskey Class⁣
Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast
Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com
Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Woody Tasch is the founder and chairman of the Slow Money Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live and promoting new principles of fiduciary responsibility that bring money back down to earth. Since 2010, via local Slow Money networks in dozens of communities in the U.S. and a few in Canada, France and Australia, over $57 million has gone to 632 small, local and organic food enterprises. Tasch is former chairman of Investors’ Circle, a nonprofit angel network that has facilitated more than $200 million of investments in over 300 early-stage, sustainability-promoting companies. As treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation in the 1990s, he was a pioneer of mission-related investing. He was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. Utne Reader named him “One Of 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”

Heis the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green), SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital (Slow Money Institute), and AHA!: Fake Trillions, Real Billions, Beetcoin and the Great American Do-Over (Slow Money Institute).

In this episode, we talk about completing capitalism as opposed to punishing it, the slow money movement, playful visionaries, allegiance to land as an act of healing and Woody's upcoming work.
For more information about what Woody's up to, check out www.beetcoin.org.

Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣
Produced: Emilie Firn
Edited: Patrick Troll⁣
Music: Whiskey Class⁣
Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast
Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com
Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

AlexAnna Salmon is President of the Igiugig Village Council. She is of Yup’ik and Aleut descent and was raised in the village of Igiugig, Alaska.

In 2008, AlexAnna graduated from Dartmouth College with a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Native American Studies and Anthropology. After graduating, she returned to work for the Igiugig Tribal Village Council where she was elected President and, until 2016, also held the role of Administrator. AlexAnna serves as a member of the Igiugig Native Corporation board, which is responsible for the stewardship of 66,000 tribal acres. She also serves on the Nilavena Tribal Health Consortium and is a member of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s Advisory Board. She received her Master’s Degree in Rural Development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2021.

In her work as President of the Igiugig Village Council, AlexAnna has been a driving force behind the community’s efforts to generate its own energy from renewable sources. In 2015, she was invited to President Obama’s roundtable discussion with Alaska Native leaders and was praised by Sen. Dan Sullivan in 2017 on the Senate floor for helping strengthen her community and making it an incredible place to live. AlexAnna loves raising her kids in the subsistence way of life, revitalizing Indigenous languages, and traveling.

This episode, Mark talks with AlexAnna about what tribal village life is like in remote Alaska, AlexAnna's father's legacy, and how she is manifesting it, energy, health care, and food independence in wilderness, Alaska.
Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣
Produced: Emilie Firn
Edited: Patrick Troll⁣
Music: Whiskey Class⁣
Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast
Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com
Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Stacy Bare is a husband, father, skier, rafter, surfer and climber. As a veteran of the Iraq war, he co-founded the Great Outdoors Lab (GO Lab) in 2014 to put scientifically defensible data behind the idea of time outside as healthcare in partnership with Dr. Dacher Keltner at the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley. Stacy is a 2014 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year & the 2015 SHIFT Conservation Athlete of the Year. In 2015, he launched Adventure Not War (ANW), a project designed to take him back to all the places he fought, cleaned up after war, or was supposed to fight. 
On the first ANW expedition, Stacy and Alex Honnold put up new climbing routes in Angola. In 2017, he and two fellow veterans completed a first ski descent of Mt. Halgurd in Iraq chronicled in the award-winning film he produced, ‘Adventure Not War.’ His latest film, a full 80 minute documentary set in Afghanistan, 'Champions of the Golden Valley,' will premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.
Today, Stacy is the Executive Director of Friends of Grand Rapids Parks, an organization working to increase equal access to the outdoors and empower people to cultivate vibrant parks, trees, and green spaces in the Grand Rapids area.
In this episode, Mark and Stacy talk about surviving and emerging from trauma, welcoming veterans home, healing through recovery, Adventure Not War, green spaces, wildness for everyone, and more.
Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣
Produced: Emilie Firn
Edited: Patrick Troll⁣
Music: Whiskey Class⁣
Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast
Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com
Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Ash Rodriguez is a Seattle-based award winning food writer and photographer. She is the author of three cookbooks; Date Night In, Let’s Stay In, and Rooted Kitchen - which just came out here in the Spring of ‘24. Ash is also the host and co-creator of the James Beard nominated series, Kitchen Unnecessary; an online series which uncovers the world of wild foods through foraging, fishing and regenerative harvesting. Ash and her work have been featured in Outside Magazine, Food & Wine, Saveur, Epicurious, Edible Seattle and many more. 

She is a graduate of and guide for Seminary of the Wild Earth through the Center for Wild Spirituality and a certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides.

In today’s episode, Mark and Ash dive into living in the awe of the Pacific Northwest, Ash's early years and trajectory to her current work, raising a family and avoiding burnout, spiritual callings, and why food tastes better cooked over a fire. 
Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣
Produced: Emilie Firn
Edited: Patrick Troll⁣
Music: Whiskey Class⁣
Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast
Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com
Support wild salmon at evaswild.com