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Episode Fifteen: WE GO OUTSIDE TOO
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In the episode, I chat to Marlon Patrice founder of Wegooutsidetoo, a UK-based organisation that hopes to encourage, support, and inspire the black community into outdoor activity, exercise, and the multiple benefits of nature.
Marlon is a long-distance runner, mental health first aider, and owner of a natural health store.
Brought up in the city of Birmingham Marlon has always been drawn to the great outdoors and the benefits of nature, but it was the tragic passing of his son in a knife crime incident at the beginning of 2020 that lead him to create wegooutsidetoo. In honor of his son, Marlon set up a 22 waterfalls challenge and Go fund me page.
Marlon wants to encourage everyone outside and we discuss how this can help us through during times of lockdown and with the effects of COVID-19. He is especially passionate about taking people who have grown up in inner-city areas and have never had to opportunity to access the countryside.
Marlon and I chat about bereavement, connecting with nature, discrimination and being the only non-white person in some of the sporting events he participated in.
Marlon gives me some advice on how to use teas and tinctures for sleep, low iron, muscle, and joint pain, and the immune system and tells me about how he set up his store.
For Marlon, Wegooutsidetoo is about creating memories and experiences and creating solidarity and unity into the black community with nature. He wants to see people accessing the outdoors regardless of racial, socio-economic and physical barriers.
If you would like to check out Marlon's go fund me page you can here: https://uk.gofundme.com/f/wegooutsidetoo22waterfallchallenge
Or follow @wegooutsidetoo and @patreesherbsandwellness over on Instagram.
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