Save What You Love with 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

In this episode, Mark sits down for a compelling discussion with Indian Law expert, Robert Miller. Bob’s areas of expertise are Federal Indian Law, American Indians and international law, American Indian economic development, Native American natural resources, and Civil Procedure. He is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. He is the Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar at ASU and the Faculty Director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program at ASU. Bob is the author of Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny, Professor Robert Miller addresses the international legal principle called the Doctrine of Discovery and how that legal rule was used in American history and transformed into the American policy of Manifest Destiny. This show was produced in proud partnership with Magic Canoe. Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Amy Gulick is an award-winning nature photographer and writer. She is the author of celebrated books, The Salmon Way and Salmon In The Trees. This is one of the richest conversations about the deep love, true honor and inherent duty of living in salmon country we've had since we started the podcast. Settle in and enjoy. Proudly partnered with Magic Canoe. Tell your story in salmon country! Check out more about Amy and her work: The Salmon WaySalmon in the TreesSave What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Ashley Koff, RD is Maine based, registered dietician who has seen it all. Ashley started on the other side of the divide with respect to holistic nutrition, in the big Food sales and marketing world. After a suspicious encounter with a goat-milk regimen, Ashley came to the realization that there must be a better way. On this episode, Mark and AshleyCreators & Guests Ashley Koff RDMark Titus dive into this as well as her personal encounters with Bristol Bay and why Bristol Bay sockeye salmon is in fact, the world's perfect food.Check out more about Ashley and her work: @ashleykoffapprovedSave What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Todd Soliday and Leah Warshawski spent a good portion of last week in the air, filming the wonder and fury of Mauna Loa, the world’s largest volcano erupting in Hawaii. They also do things like film with whales, work on projects for Barack and Michelle Obama and make art with Mark on his first two documentaries, The Breach and The Wild. Among other memorable adventures, Todd and Mark spent 4 days in Ketchikan filming time-lapse footage with beloved Alaska artist, Ray Troll as he drew salmon in pen and ink, one inch at a time. Draw. Click. Draw. Click. Ray’s thighs were burning at the end of that shoot. Todd and Leah are a married couple. And they are in business together as partners in their production company, Inflatable Film. They have created so much good work, but perhaps the greatest work so far, is Big Sonia – their feature documentary about Leah’s grandmother, Sonia – a survivor of Auschwitz – who stands at 4’ 9” and packs a wallop of life, love, motivation and wisdom into her tiny frame. On today’s show, Leah and Todd talk about their craft, what it took to complete Big Sonia – and what it took to complete the circle and get distribution on PBS, where Big Sonia is currently playing across the United States until the end of the year. You can follow Leah and Todd @inflatablefilm and @bigsoniamovie on Instagram. Look for Big Sonia on PBS on International Remembrance Day - January 27th, 2023. Also stay tuned @inflatablefilm for a BIG announcement about Big Sonia and AI - also in January! Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Creators & Guests Tom ColicchioMark TitusTom Colicchio was a co-founder of Bravo’s wildly popular, Top Chef reality-tv show. He’s also the chef and owner of Crafted Hospitality, which currently includes New York’s Craft, Temple Court and Vallata; Long Island's Small Batch; Craft Los Angeles; and Heritage Steak and Craftsteak in Las Vegas – and also ‘wichcraft – a premier sandwich and salad joint in New York. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Tom made his New York cooking debut at New York restaurants The Quilted Giraffe, Gotham Bar & Grill and Gramercy Tavern before opening Craft in 2001. In an effort to broaden his long-standing activism around food issues, Tom served as an executive producer to his wife, Lori Silverbush’s 2013 documentary “A Place at the Table” about the underlying causes of hunger in the United States. He has been a mainstay in our nation’s capital in the years since. Tom has established himself as the leading “Citizen Chef” advocating for a food system that values access, affordability and nutrition over corporate interests. In 2020, Tom took this to the airwaves with a podcast of his own called, Citizen Chef, which features conversations with lawmakers, journalists and food producers and connects the dots of how our food system really works. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic Tom co-founded the Independent Restaurant Coalition, and was instrumental in the passage of the American Rescue Act. Tom lives in Brooklyn with his wife Lori and their three sons. When he’s not in the kitchen, he can be found tending to his garden on the North Fork of Long Island, enjoying a day of fishing or playing guitar. Final note here today, we're thrilled to be partnering on content and inspiration with the support of The Magic Canoe, another terrific storytelling vehicle here in Salmon Nation. Head over to magic canoe.net to learn more. Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Tim Troll came to Alaska in 1978 as a VISTA volunteer lawyer and was assigned to an office in Bethel, a remote Yup’ik Indigeous community in Southwestern Alaska. After his tour of duty ended he became the village manager for the Yup’ik community of St. Mary’s on the Yukon River. Tim fell in love with the subsistence lifestyle, hunting, fishing and cultural traditions of these Alaska Native people. He’s now the Executive Director of the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust, which he helped create in 1999. The Trust is a non-profit working to preserve critical places of incredible cultural and biological importance in the Bristol Bay region. This summer, Tim is sailing a double-ender sailboat (the kind of boat all Bristol Bay fishermen used to fish out of) from Homer – ending the journey in Naknek, Alaska – in the heart of Bristol Bay. Tim’s brother Ray is Alaska’s patron artist and his nephew Patrick is a musician and filmmaker and edits the Save What You Love podcast. Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Phil Davis and his wife, Cathy moved to the Methow Valley in Washington State and fell in love. Not just with the land, but with the people and the history of this place. That history includes a landscape of hardship for the First People of this valley and the wild salmon who have made the 400-mile journey from the sea back inland here since time immemorial. Phil decided to write a story, with a salmon-eye view about what this journey means. Then he and Cathy went further and led a community effort to build something very special to honor the history, people, salmon and land of this place. Listen to Phil tell the story on this special episode of Save What You Love. Check out more about Phil and his work: The Last Salmon Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Nanci Morris Lyon is a pioneer in the fly-fishing world. She's a decades-long champion for Bristol Bay and she's a good friend to SWYL host, Mark Titus. Nanci housed and fed Mark while he was filming his documentaries The Breach and The Wild from 2012 - 2017. Nanci holds fly-fishing records and is Bristol Bay's first female to own and operate a full-blown world-class fishing lodge. In this episode Nanci talks about what it takes to persevere in the face of a decades-long conflict and what it means to her to pass the torch on to her daughter, Riley. This will be the last episode of SWYL for 2021. Thank you for listening. If you are loving the show, the best way to support us is to give it a rating on Apple Podcasts - and to order a subscription of Eva's Wild Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon direct to your door throughout 2022! Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Tom Douglas is a James beard award-winning chef and restaurateur based in Seattle. If you live in the PNW, chances are you've encountered Tom at one of his restaurants, on his weekly radio show, on TV, or if you're lucky at one of his in-person Hot Stove Society cooking classes. Tom has been an unwavering champion for the protection of Bristol Bay over the years. He's has been an Executive Producer on both Mark Titus' documentaries, The Breach and The Wild. Currently, Tom is carrying Eva's Wild Bristol Bay sockeye salmon in three of his restaurants: Lola, Carlile Room and Seatown. Today, on Save What You Love, Mark and Tom dig into: ~ Tales of resilience through Tom, his staff and the restaurant industry as a whole navigating through Covid over the last 2 years. ~ The sanctity of food provenance. ~ Why Bristol Bay? ~ Business as activism. ~ Building resilient supply chains. ~ Life on the Farm. And much more... Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Dr. Jen McIntyre is a professor of aquatic ecology for the Washington State University’s Puyallup division. Mark and Jen break down her work with stormwater runoff and its deleterious effect on salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. Pretty relevant with the onset of November rains here in Salmon Nation. Jen has led youth on wilderness adventures, earned a masters and her ph.D at the University of Washington and been published in dozens of major periodicals. And, she is a voice of hope. Her breakthrough research has led to identifying the exact toxic chemical in tires that are causing salmon harm. Mark and Jen talk about the work that is being done now to protect toxic runoff and the work that remains to be done. You can follow Jenn's work at the Washington Stormwater Center. Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

On today's episode host, Mark Titus and Joel talk about Joel's work as a film producer and activist. Joel's award-winning film, Sonic Sea tackles the inordinate amount of noise under the water in our oceans that are literally killing marine life, like whales. Joel and Mark also discuss Joel's philosophy and practice in going the distance for huge environmental battles like defending Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine. NRDC’s principal institutional representative in the West, Joel Reynolds joined the organization as a senior attorney in 1990, after a decade with the Center for Law in the Public Interest and the Western Center on Law and Poverty, both in Los Angeles. Since 1980, he has specialized in complex law-reform litigation, arguing cases on behalf of environmental and community groups at all levels of the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He has also led several of NRDC’s largest campaigns: to preserve the birthing lagoon of gray whales in Baja California; to protect the California State Park at San Onofre; to reduce underwater noise pollution that threatens ocean wildlife; and, most recently, to halt the construction of the environmentally destructive Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay. He has twice been selected California Attorney of the Year in the environmental category. From 1986 to 1990, Reynolds was an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Law Center. Since 2012, he has served as chair of the Tejon Ranch Conservancy, one of California’s largest land trusts. His articles and editorials appear frequently in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the Huffington Post, and other major media outlets. A graduate of Columbia Law School in 1978, Reynolds is based in Santa Monica. Follow Joel's work and get involved at NRDC. Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Kel Moody is an architect of place. They are the director of Salmon Nation's weeklong Festival of What Works, November 2nd-7th, 2021. Mark and Kel discuss what to expect out of this special week of virtual-gathering to learn from innovators and leaders from throughout the Salmon Nation bioregion - which extends from the north slope of Alaska through Northern California. Kel is also a facilitator of cause-based business. They have shepherded new and emerging businesses through the sometimes daunting process of receiving B-Corp certification. Mostly this is a discussion about reverence for Place. Kel and Mark share their thoughts and hearts about why reverence for the wild and the places we love in nature can bring us together from the divide. Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

Guido Rahr is the president and CEO of the Wild Salmon Center a non-profit responsible for securing protection of 3 million acres of salmon habitat across the Pacific rim – and one of the key partners in the coalition to protect Bristol Bay.’ Guido's also the subject of the book, Stronghold – One Man’s Quest to Save the World’s Wild Salmon – suggesting that each one of us can contribute to the great song of saving what we love. We talk about Guido’s work and adventures chronicled in the book. Mostly, Guido is wildly curious – from snakes and frogs and birds to our shared love of salmon - and his curiosity is infectious. Check out more about Guido's and his work: www.wildsalmoncenter.org@wildsalmoncenter Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com

A public health scientist by training, Dr. Jennifer Galvin left a fast-track academic career path to pursue filmmaking. She had a knack for finding narrative in the numbers and wanted to use her research and storytelling abilities to put a face on societal problems and solutions. She was selected to the American Film Institute's 2004 Catalyst Workshop for science storytelling and screenwriting, and to the 2006 Pan Caribbean Project for Documentaries Residency at EICTV, Cuba. In 2006 she founded reelblue, an independent film production and media company based in New York. Her feature film directorial debut was the prized documentary Free Swim (2009), which continues to travel the globe to reduce youth drowning, promote diversity in ocean-related sports, and ignite community coastal conservation. While she most loves having the camera in her hands, Galvin’s ability to direct, produce, write, and shoot led her to being compared to a Swiss Army knife when named to the 2014 GOOD 100, representing the vanguard of artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and innovators from over 35 countries making creative impact. Her feature documentary The Memory of Fish (2016) was one of three Wildscreen Panda Award Best Script nominees—the highest accolade in the wildlife film and TV industry, dubbed the ‘Green Oscars’; it was also named to “The Definitive List of River Movies” by American Rivers. More recently she directed/produced the award-winning music video On My Mind (2020), starring Storyboard P and vanguard musicians Marcus Strickland, Pharoahe Monch, and Bilal, that debuted on AFROPUNK, and she produced The Antidote (2020), a feature film exploring kindness in America that qualified for an Oscar for Best Documentary. This summer Galvin produced Tuskegee Legacy Stories (2021), a 5-part public health campaign for Ad Council featuring descendants of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee to build back trust in medicine. She is currently developing projects spanning fiction and nonfiction. Commercial to indie, documentary to fiction, moving image to print—her motivations remain fueled by the maxim “protect the vulnerable.” Check out more about Jen and her work: www.jengalvin.comwww.reelblue.com Save What You Love with Mark Titus:⁣ Produced: Tyler White⁣ Edited: Patrick Troll⁣ Music: Whiskey Class⁣ Instagram: @savewhatyoulovepodcast Website: savewhatyoulove.evaswild.com Support wild salmon at evaswild.com