Finding Your Treasure: Our Family's Mission to Recycle, Reuse, and Give Back Everything -- and How You Can Too

by Angel Kyodo Williams

Repurpose "trash" for profit--or to give back to communities in need--with Angel Williams and her fun, frugal family. Today, our voracious consumer culture treats everything as disposable. We constantly throw out serviceable, valuable, even fascinating items without a second thought. But to Angel Williams, a pastor's wife and mother of four, that's an opportunity. They run a successful business on eBay reselling items from the trash and rehabbing, reselling, or regifting them--often as donations for those who need it most. Their fans follow their adventures on YouTube, where Angel has over 140,000 subscribers. In Finding Your Treasure, Angel shares the story of how she started her business, how it fits into the Christian mission of her family's life, and the moral case for reusing and recycling. And of course, plenty of tips for aspiring salvagers on where to look, what to take, and how to turn it into gold.

1 pages, Audio CD

Published July 27, 2021

About the author

Reverend Angel Kyodo Williams is an ordained Zen priest, called "the most vocal and most intriguing African-American Buddhist in America" by Library Journal, Williams is the Spiritual Director of the meditation-based newDharma Community and founder of the Center for Transformative Change in Berkeley, California and is also credited with developing fearlessMeditation, fearlessYoga and Warrior Spirit Training. As of October 2013, she is the world's 2nd female Zen teacher of African descent. Her given Buddhist name, Kyodo, means "Way of Teaching."