Nature - Its Good For Your Mental Health with Melinda Bito

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In this episode, we’re chatting with Melinda Bito, founder of Eco-Explorers in Melbourne about tips on creating a business around your family and dream life, the best and hardest parts of owning your own nature play business and how communities and nature can help mental health. 

👉  Melinda Shares

• All about Eco-Explorers and what they offer 
• The profound experience that inspired her to start her business?
• Her strengths and what makes her unique compared to others in the industry
• The hardest part of starting her business and what has been the hardest part of her business journey
• What she wished she had help with
• The best part about owning a nature play business
• The benefits of starting a nature play business in your community
• Her tips on creating a business around your family and dream life, on your lived experiences and knowledge.
• How stepping outside of her comfort zone has changed her life
• The benefits she has seen in creating a business that truly aligns with her values
• About homeschooling and traveling with her family 
• About mental health and how communities and nature can help

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👉  Guest Details

 Melinda Bito is the Founder of Eco Explorers Australia. Melinda has a passion for connecting families and children to nature. She is a certified Forest School Leader, mental health worker and play work practitioner who has 30 years of experience working in community services with families, refugee women, children in foster care and in disability.
She also founded Australia’s first environmentally friendly toy store and has a deep passion for child-led natural learning. She home-schooled her own children and travelled around Australia with her family for nearly 3 years living the dream and her life to the fullest.

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