Stacey Vanek-Smith
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466 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 2 Aug
Stacey Vanek-Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For Alicia Berman, the push to try came from this one moment when she ducked into a store in Brooklyn to buy gloves.
Alicia started to think about how much she was buying and she started to feel like it was too much.
Alicia was also in a lot of debt.
Her bank account was empty, her closets were bursting, and she had been reading about what overconsumption was doing to the planet.
The giant mountain of discarded clothes in Chile, the one you can see from space, the piles of clothes that have washed up and overtaken the beaches in Ghana.
She decided she was going to make a change.
A big change.
Alicia decided to try the no buy challenge.
She'd seen it on social media.
People saying not going to buy anything for 30 days or 60 days and then chronicling their no buy journeys on TikTok.
Alicia decided to join in for a year.
At the time she made her first TikTok, she did not have many followers.
The videos were mostly for her.
But almost right away, people started following Alicia in droves.
She now has more than 100,000 followers, and they direct message her all the time, saying things like, I'm doing a no-buy challenge too, or you inspired me to do a no-buy challenge.
Alicia says it's been incredibly helpful and incredibly inspiring.
So that is our takeaway number one.
Find a community.
The community can be social media, but there are also all kinds of support groups from mindful consumption, minimizing waste, shopping addictions.
Some are in person, some are online.
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