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NextGen Purpose is a podcast, a community, an inner circle, and a weekly letter — all exploring food, wellness, sustainability, and purposeful living. Here's how to find your place in it.
1.5M+ Downloads · 330 Episodes · 50+ Countries
Step 1 of 5
Listen to the Essential Ingredients Podcast
Start with a conversation that changes how you think.
The Essential Ingredients Podcast is where Justine Reichman sits down with the founders, scientists, farmers, and advocates reshaping food, wellness, and how we live. With 330 episodes and 1.5M+ downloads, it's your on-ramp to a different way of seeing the world. Free. Every Tuesday. On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere you listen.
Step 2 of 5
Subscribe to the Essential Ingredients Letter
One essay. Every Tuesday. On food, wellness, and living well.
Justine writes a weekly essay on Substack about conscious living — where to source it, how to think about it, and why it matters. Equal parts practical and philosophical. Free to subscribe; paid subscribers unlock the full archive and member-only posts. It's the best way to stay in the NGP world between episodes.
Step 3 of 5
Join the Conscious Collective
Find the people building the world you want to live in.
The Conscious Collective is NextGen Purpose's cross-industry community of founders, farmers, chefs, scientists, and changemakers. Quarterly in-person gatherings, curated events, and a network of people who actually live their values. This is not networking — it's belonging.
Step 4 of 5
Founding Cohort OpenBecome a Founding Member of The Primes
The inner circle for women in midlife who refuse to be defined by it.
The Primes is NextGen Purpose's founding membership — a private, curated space for women who are done shrinking. Quarterly events, the Primes Breakfast Series, All Power No Pause day events, gated Substack content, behind-the-mic podcast access, and a founding member status locked in for life. Spots are limited. Once they're gone, they're gone.
Step 5 of 5
Read the Ripple Report
Where business, culture, and conscious living converge.
The Ripple Report is NGP's quarterly publication — research, essays, and conversations for people who want to think, not just scroll. Each issue explores a theme at the intersection of purpose-driven business and the way we live. Paid subscribers receive it first; all issues are archived online.
Find Your Door
Where do you want to start?
I found you through the podcast
Welcome. Start with the episode archive — browse by season or search by topic. When you're ready to go deeper, subscribe to the letter on Substack and apply to The Conscious Collective.
Browse Episodes →Someone told me about The Primes
You're in the right place. The Primes is for women in midlife who are ready to lead with purpose — not just intention. Founding membership is open now, and this first cohort sets the tone for everything that follows.
Learn About The Primes →I'm a brand or potential partner
Essential Ingredients connects conscious brands with 1.5M+ downloads across 50 countries. Read the media kit and start a conversation.
View the Media Kit →Who Is Behind This?
Justine Reichman
Founder & Host
Justine Reichman founded NextGen Purpose in 2017 with a simple belief: the people doing the most important work in food, wellness, and sustainability should be able to find each other. She hosts the Essential Ingredients Podcast, leads the Conscious Collective, and is building The Primes for women who are done waiting to be invited to the table.
A speaker, strategist, and community builder, Justine's work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Spruce, Authority Magazine, and EIT Food.
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