"Tracey will just have to get used to it"
I suppose on some level I had known for many years that I needed to make changes in my life. I needed to align my actions and my work with my core values. And I just knew there was something bigger in store for me than what I was doing on my "traditional" career path. There were multiple pivotal points along the way that led me to where I am today. But it was one moment in particular, while I was working for a global environmental conservation NGO, that I can point to which really catalyzed my desire to take action. Here's what happened... I was in Argentina as part of my job as a fundraiser for our Latin America Region. We were staying on a breathtakingly beautiful 400k+ acre ranch and hosting donors to our Patagonia conservation program, many of whom were ranchers back in the US. At dinner one night a few of the women were discussing some of their rather grotesque animal husbandry practices and I was aghast. I guess the revulsion showed on my face as one of them,
