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Lourdes Juan
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Jul 7, 2026
How Systems Thinking Can Fix Food Insecurity in Cities | Lourdes Juan
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Angela NguyenHOST
The other part of it, I think, is around asking yourself, OK, what is important versus urgent? When you think about your journey, if you were to look back and offer yourself a piece of advice as to how to actually put that into practice, what advice would you offer yourself?

Lourdes JuanGUEST
Actually, when I own a spa downtown, I racked up like an insane amount of parking tickets.

Lourdes JuanGUEST
And it was so symbolic of me just like running around parking wherever I wanted.

Lourdes JuanGUEST
Not paying for parking, parking in like no parking zones, just being a total a-hole about getting to the spawn time and opening the door and like, you know, doing the treatments and running the bookkeeping and working the front desk and then like leaving and then going home and trying to eat and coming back and having a partner, like all of the things.

Lourdes JuanGUEST
I think we're like sucking up this like graceful air that like I think is maybe my more natural state.

Angela NguyenHOST
So can you walk us through like how you developed that way of thinking and how you continue to prioritize that?
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Amber MacHOST
Can you share that with us in terms of why you decided to start this business and grow this organization?

Lourdes JuanGUEST
So 13 years ago, I rescued about 200 pounds of bread from a bakery and donated that to an emergency shelter.

Lourdes JuanGUEST
But that moment really struck a chord with me in that really seeing how much food we waste and how many folks could use the food.
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