This week I had the pleasure of talking with my great friend, Walter Lourie, Head of US Sales and Sustainability for Mafi. Mafi manufactures high-quality, sustainable natural wood floors and for interiors like ceiling and walls. Walter and I go way back about 10 years working together to educate our clients on the importance of healthy building materials and why it’s a vital element to connect with nature and feel grounded and have peace of mind in your environment. We break the barriers on how the flooring industry has missed the mark in selling toxic, cheap, plastic flooring. Floors make up a large percentage of the footprint of a building. It’s important to invest in quality materials as they affect our health by our daily interactions.

Here's some of the topics we discussed:

• How did you get into the flooring industry?
• Tell me about your role at Mafi and about the company. Certifications etc.
• Let's talk about the benefits of real wood flooring and why it's a solid investment for health and wellness.
• What's your take on luxury, not so luxury vinyl flooring and what it's doing to the flooring market, health and planet.
• Let's talk about sustainability vs throwaway culture why it's important to build better with quality sourced products.
• Biophic design - more on this later on future episodes...
• Health benefits of wood flooring

Benefits of negative Ions and how washing your floor can produce some of the effects of a waterfall. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10175061/

The influence of wooden interior materials on indoor environment: a review https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00107-020-01532-x

Health Benefits of Wood Floors https://mafi.com/en/Knowledge/The%20Difference/Health

To get a sample or inquire about purchasing mafi floors or wall or ceiling panels, get in touch with Michelle at michelle@designwellstudios.com.

Today we are talking with two experts, Nick DeValk and Tony Pennington of Water Service Elite on water quality and filtration. Water services elite is a company that creates healthy, top of the line water filtration products. Their knowledge is deep and profound. I really enjoyed learning from them and am proud to refer my clients to their services. They work all over the country, so if you are looking for the best water filtration for the whole home and or drinking systems, this is the company you need to call to help provide expert, quality and healthy solutions for you and yours.

Here’s a few things we discussed plus a lot more. By the end of this podcast, you will learn how important it is to filter your water. Stay tuned, we will have more to share with follow up episodes as we dive deeper into the health and wellness of water filtration.

What is your definition of healthy and safe water?

How did you get started in the water filtration business?

What are the most important things that are most important to filter out?

For drinking water we can talk about hydration and why it's so important to hydrate but yet if you're drinking tap water, you're doing yourself maybe more harm and a lot of the filters filter out the good minerals for us.

What sets your system apart from others? Drinking and the whole home.

Can we talk about the highlights and benefits for both building and health?

Can we talk about the alkalinity and pH hype and what your thoughts are on that?

Contact ND@waterserviceelelite.com for more information and tell him you were referred by DesignWell Studios as we are a referral partner.

https://www.waterserviceelite.com/blogs/ Here is a link to our questionnaire https://www.waterserviceelite.com/water-service-elite-questioner/

This week, [BD Erickson] CEO of Satic, [Michelle Ifversen] of DesignWell Studios cover [Harmonizing your Home with filters, shields and lighting].....

If you have solar, dimmers, smart homes, smart panels, you are going to want to know about this and test your home and filter it. Also it's important to test magnetic, electric fields to see if you are sleeping next to an outlet that has high readings which could affect your sleeping and health. BD also talks about healthy lighting, flicker free, long lasting, circadian light supportive bulbs too!

Here's some of the things we discussed to help shed a light on what dirty electricity is and why it's important to not have it for your health and home. I hope you find this as informative as I did. I take my time to nurture relationships with companies that I feel are doing their absolute best to solve necessary issues to create harmony and health for us and our buildings. Let's geek out together!

Topics discussed:

1. How did you get involved in environmental mitigation?
2. What is your definition of dirty electricity, an easy to understand form?
3. How do your filters work to filter out dirty electricity?
4. What are some of the applications where people need to filter dirty electricity?
5. What are the health implications of dirty electricity?
6. If you could talk about the products you sell and how people can use them? Electrical panel shielding, inside wiring errors, solar, appliances, etc

Links mentioned in this episode: If you are interested in testing your home, have questions and want to purchase any of Satic's products, please use my discount code Designwell15 to get 15% off!

Here's a link to Satic's website : https://saticshield.com (discount code: Designwell15)

Here's a link to schedule a free 15 min call to see how we can help you. https://calendly.com/designwellstudios/discovery-call

Send me questions in the comments here or email info@designwellstudios.com.