Kelli Dean is the founder and owner of Consciously Clean, an eco-friendly and plastic-free retail store for natural cleaning and personal care products on the Gold Coast.

After a career in the corporate and small business world, Kelli quit her corporate job in 2019 to launch Consciously Clean in March 2020, of course just as the global pandemic hit Australia.

Instead of remaining disenfranchised about the consumer retail model, Kelli decided to do something about it, making alternative, sustainable choices easily accessible for everyday people. We talk about:

<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Tackling convenience and habits when it comes to making sustainable product choices</li>

<li style="font-weight:400;">What’s wrong with the global cleaning and personal care industries</li>

<li style="font-weight:400;">Raising the next generation of conscious consumers </li>

<li style="font-weight:400;">How to avoid being greenwashed </li>

<li style="font-weight:400;">Putting community back into consumption </li>

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Welcome to the Wavemakers podcast by Plastic Free Gold Coast. 

We’re a community-based organisation that began in 2018 to help educate and empower individuals and businesses to make more sustainable and plastic-free choices.

There are so many inspiring people doing amazing things to protect our planet and we want to shine a light on their stories, both here on the Gold Coast and around the globe.

I’m your host, Ashleigh Stallard, and I’m part of the Plastic Free Gold Coast team and a passionate sustainable living advocate. 

In this series I’ll be chatting to inspiring Gold Coast locals, changemakers, pioneers and people making waves in the name of our planet.