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Release Date: 05/16/2025

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What if the pain you're running from was actually your greatest teacher—and the food on your plate was part of a national security crisis?


In this soul-stirring Earth Day conversation, Darin sits down with food activist, author, and resilience icon Robyn O’Brien to explore how our food system is not only making us sick—but also threatening the health of future generations. From surviving public crucifixion as a whistleblower to advocating for systemic change in agriculture and health care, Robyn’s wisdom hits hard. This is about reclaiming your voice, your power, and your plate—because change doesn’t start in Washington. It starts with you.

 


 

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

00:00 – Recording paranoia & Earth Day reflections
01:00 – Robyn’s “no quit” mindset and emotional alchemy
02:30 – Why transitions test our true character
04:05 – Learning to integrate grief instead of bypassing it
06:00 – Why our society values doing over being
07:10 – Returning to love through emotional mastery
08:37 – How Robyn survived public persecution
10:30 – The early crucifixion of a food whistleblower
13:00 – Why pain is a sacred teacher, not an enemy
15:15 – Rebuilding from total burnout and betrayal
16:40 – Finding belonging by belonging to yourself
18:00 – How climate change starts as an inside job
20:00 – Judgment as control—and why curiosity is the answer
21:20 – Why polarization is the real public enemy
23:00 – Bridging divides with grace, not righteousness
25:30 – The food industry’s character assassination campaigns
27:00 – PTSD from public persecution—and parenting through it
29:20 – How pain creates radical inner clarity
30:45 – The real reason we don’t value clean food
32:00 – Self-belonging as the foundation of all change
34:00 – Why real climate work starts within
36:00 – The massive disconnect in U.S. food agencies
38:00 – The youth farming crisis: no one wants to inherit debt
40:00 – Food security IS national security
42:00 – How other countries are winning with better incentives
44:00 – The FDA and Big Pharma: a dangerous marriage
46:00 – Universal health care as the key to prevention
48:30 – What’s really stopping young people from farming
50:00 – Beyond lawsuits: who is building the infrastructure we need?
51:45 – Where philanthropy can create real systemic change
53:00 – State-level action as the real engine of reform
55:00 – The Generation Rx crisis + backbreaking drug costs
57:00 – A new model: restore the soil, restore the nation
59:00 – Every talent matters: from tech to farming
01:01:00 – Food is not just personal—it’s planetary
01:02:00 – You don’t need permission to get involved
01:03:00 – If you’re waiting for change, it’s waiting for you too
01:04:00 – Don’t wait for tragedy to be a changemaker
01:05:00 – What Robyn wants her grandkids to know about her fight
01:07:00 – How to find your people and magnetize your tribe
01:08:00 – The key to a better world? Stop pretending, start listening

 


 

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Find More From Robyn O’Brien:

Website: robynobrien.com
Instagram: @robynobrienusa
Book: Seeding Innovation

 


 

Connect with Darin Olien:

Website: darinolien.com
Instagram: @darinolien
Book: Fatal Conveniences
Products & Programs: superlife.com

 


 

Key Takeaway:

“Pain is sacred. It strips away what’s false and shows you what matters.” – Robyn O’Brien