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On this episode Helena Gualinga, an Ecuadorian environmental and human rights activist from the Kichwa Sarayuku community in Pastaza, Ecuador, explores the heritage, history, culture, rights and the future of indigenous people of her home country and reflects her own memories, views and experiences on hugely crucial topics like biodiversity, exploitation and climate change. Helena is a spokesperson for the Sarayaku Indigenous community and her activism includes exposing the conflict between the local community and oil companies by carrying an empowering message among the youth in local schools across Ecuador, South America and beyond.

Episode 002 is recorded at on a patio at Alfama, Lisbon, Portugal, in one gentle September Saturday.

Talks of imperfection is hosted by Risto Kuulasmaa, a Finnish-born and Amsterdam-based global marketing entrepreneur, media executive and rookie surfer, and enabled by Edita Prima, the kindest Nordic tech company, founded already in 1859, that orchestrates automated customer journeys to perfection.

Opening quote

“Our communities are the ones that were most affected by colonization, now by segregation and inequalities and poverty and extractivism and climate change. How is now indigenous people responsibility to heal the rest of the world?”

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Chapters

1. Why the indigenous communities are on the front line in the battle against climate change and their loss of biodiversity? (00:01:51)

2. What’s happening in the world right now that is so insane. (00:07:03)

3. Never go with your own agenda to to collaborate with indigenous people (00:17:59)

4. What would happen if all Top 1000 company CEOs had an indigenous advisor? (00:22:31)

5. The exploitation of our indigenous wisdom, spirituality and medicines is increasing on a scale that is scary. (00:25:06)

6. Why all of a sudden, healing the planet now indigenous people’s responsibility? (00:33:56)

7. How you call it? Um.. My work? (00:37:30)

8. What is the most important lesson that we can learn from indigenous communities? (00:40:29)

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