{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"One small action makes a BIG impact, with FreeTheOcean.com founder Mimi Ausland","description":"What were you doing when you were 14 years-old? At 14, Mimi Ausland was already living her purpose of making an impact on homeless animals with her company freekibble.com which helped feed over 14 Million homeless animals. Now at 23, she had the courage to leave college her sophomore year, move to Santa Monica to follow her passion of helping save our oceans and environment by founding FreeTheOcean.com, a click-to-give website to create a free, fun and easy way to make a daily and tangible difference in in our oceans with the 19 billion pounds of plastic pollution. \u201cThe greatest threat to our planet is someone else will save it.\u201d Mimi believes that small actions lead to a big impact Combining her childhood love of trivia with her value of giving back, every time you play their daily trivia question on FreeTheOcean.com, you\u2019re helping fund the removal of a piece of plastic from the ocean and coastlines and you\u2019ll learn something new and have fun while doing it! In just one month of starting her company, FreeTheOcean.com has removed 580,000 pieces of plastic! I hope today\u2019s conversation inspires you to tap into your childhood passions and have the tenacity to know you can do anything you desire \u2013 one small action leads to a big impact. https:\/\/www.freetheocean.com ","author_name":"MINDFUL PAUSE PODCAST","author_url":"http:\/\/www.audreysuttonmills.com","html":"