January 2, 2021 // LISTEN HERE
Meet Caroline Noble.
From San Anselmo in the San Francisco Bay Area, Caroline is the captain of the Harvard-Radcliffe heavyweight crew team, studies human developmental and regenerative biology on the pre-med track and has used that academic interest in her volunteering in the McKinley Lab - studying how tissues in the endometrium regenerate - and her biotech consulting role last summer.
More interesting than what she does though, in my opinion, is how she thinks about what she’s doing. In an environment that puts pressure on doing what gets extrinsically rewarded, Caroline has recently come to not only listen to, but also follow, her intuition in a direction that is more intrinsically rewarding.
For her semester off due to the COVID-19 pandemic this past fall, she followed the little voice in her head and feeling in her chest that told her working on a farm to learn regenerative agriculture might be exactly what she needed. As you can probably guess, we dig into how she made that “against the grain” decision and how that has largely shifted her perspective on feeling content.
On top of that, in this conversation we talk about the role food and other daily practices played in overcoming her health setbacks, what she learned living by herself in a cabin for the entire fall, what exactly regenerative agriculture and ranching is, and so much more. But the thread through it all is following intuition. An intangible concept that we all possess and one Caroline has made me deeply reconsider and begin to listen to.
SHOW NOTES
From San Anselmo in the San Francisco Bay Area, Caroline is the captain of the Harvard-Radcliffe heavyweight crew team, studies human developmental and regenerative biology on the pre-med track and has used that academic interest in her volunteering in the McKinley Lab - studying how tissues in the endometrium regenerate - and her biotech consulting role last summer.
More interesting than what she does though, in my opinion, is how she thinks about what she’s doing. In an environment that puts pressure on doing what gets extrinsically rewarded, Caroline has recently come to not only listen to, but also follow, her intuition in a direction that is more intrinsically rewarding.
For her semester off due to the COVID-19 pandemic this past fall, she followed the little voice in her head and feeling in her chest that told her working on a farm to learn regenerative agriculture might be exactly what she needed. As you can probably guess, we dig into how she made that “against the grain” decision and how that has largely shifted her perspective on feeling content.
On top of that, in this conversation we talk about the role food and other daily practices played in overcoming her health setbacks, what she learned living by herself in a cabin for the entire fall, what exactly regenerative agriculture and ranching is, and so much more. But the thread through it all is following intuition. An intangible concept that we all possess and one Caroline has made me deeply reconsider and begin to listen to.
SHOW NOTES
- Clara Davis Intuitive Eating study
- Zach Bush, MD
- Sam Harris (Waking Up meditation app, Making Sense podcast)
- Qigong
- Master Mingtong YouTube (guided morning practice)
- Vision Board
- Carly Stein (Beekeeper's Naturals)
- Bidwell Canyon Farm, Surprise Valley, CA: Leah and Brian Larson (YouTube, Facebook)
- Traditional Medicinals Tea (Website, Amazon)
- Caroline Picks: Lemon Balm for anxiety, Peppermint for digestion, Rose Hips for anti-inflammation, immune health, and anti-oxidation, & Green Tea
- What is Regenerative Agriculture?
- What is Holistic Planned Grazing?
- Gabe Brown: Nourished by Nature Meats, and Brown's Ranch
- Different cattle ranching, different Omega 3:6 ratio review
- Cara McKinley, PhD, Harvard University
- Books
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (buy through her website or Amazon)
- Agriculture by Rudolf Steiner (Amazon)
- The Overstory by Richard Powers (website or Amazon)
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Amazon)