Brown Vegan

I bet you want to live your best life, and that’s exactly what Cara Celeste West wants to help you (and all women of color) do. Today on the podcast, Cara and I have a conversation about motherhood, content creation, veganism, and creating the life of your dreams!

Cara Celeste West is a mother, creator, and coach focused on intentional living through a vegan lifestyle & travel. She has built up an online community on multiple social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and Youtube. After building a successful business as a content creator she is now helping others take the leap into becoming a full time content creator too!

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Brittanie is no stranger to overcoming obstacles–a theme that runs through our entire conversation. She doesn’t shy away from transparency from the start, when we discuss our health, catch up on how we are doing since we last spoke, and get into some traumatic but life changing experiences that have shaped how Brittanie lives her life. She shares the lessons learned from a near death experience in the hospital and how those hard times made her more grateful for her own life.

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Today on the podcast, we’re back with another great conversation with Amy Katz of Veggies Save The Day.

Amy Katz is a certified vegan nutrition health coach. At Veggies Save The Day she shares easy vegan recipes inspired by a healthy Mediterranean diet. Her recipes have been featured on NBC News, Parade, VegNews, BuzzFeed, MSN, Insider, Brit+Co, Well+Good, and more.

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In this podcast episode we talk about:

• The slow and steady approach to going vegan
• How to use ethnic grocery stores and CSA boxes to diversify your diet
• How eating new things changes your palette 
• Why blogging is still relevant
• How Amy created a life she loves out of a side hustle
• How to transition from a corporate career into a content creator
• Helpful tools to get strategic in your blogging
• How to create content around popular keywords and the best way to format your blog posts
• The myth of competition and oversaturation in the world of blogging
• Why it’s never too late to start doing what you love

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You’ve heard me say it before, but If your money isn’t right, it affects all other parts of your life –money is a part of wellness. That’s why I’m back with another episode of the Brown Vegan Podcast Money Series. 

In this series, I speak with everyday people and money experts to share how we can get better with our money and heal our relationship to money to live our best lives.

Today, I have Dyana Marie on the show to talk about getting out of crippling debt, how she improved her money relationship overall, why staying on track can be difficult, and finding forgiveness for our financial mistakes. 

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On this solo episode we’re doing another behind the scenes episode because I know you guys enjoy it. 

I’m in a season of business right now where I’m really focused on YouTube and if you’ve been following my journey here, you already know all my reasons why.

You can listen to this episode and this one to hear more about why I am choosing to grow my YouTube channel again if you’re interested.

We’re going to talk about why I started my channel, why I’m coming back after being gone for so long (and what’s different this time around), AND some tips to starting your own YouTube channel because I get so many DMs from you all asking those questions.

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On this episode of the show, I have Charlotte of The Worthy Vegan joining me for an amazing, in-depth conversation about so many relatable topics that I KNOW y’all will enjoy. 

Charlotte is a long-time listener of the Brown Vegan Podcast (which is how we originally connected!) and shares her vegan journey and food inspo as well as talking about health and wellness on her Instagram. She is also a mother of two and loves sharing her experience as a vegan mother with her community. 

Charlotte’s vegan journey began as trying out pescetarianism in high school, but really took off in college after a health journey led her to watch multiple vegan-focused documentaries (Forks Over Knives; Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead; Invisible Vegan, etc) which led to a summer vegan food challenge. And, as so many people share on this podcast, even though she wanted to eat plant based food, Charlotte kept feeling stuck about WHAT to eat. She shares how that challenge went for her and why it ended up taking her multiple years to officially go vegan. 

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I’m so excited to share today’s conversation with David Quarles, who has been bringing so much vibrant energy and joy to my Instagram feed for years. 

David Quarles is a Memphis-based Interior Designer, Jewelry Designer, Content Creator and Fitness Instructor - the true definition of a multi-hyphenate creative! His philosophy on life stems from doing and creating all things from a place of love. David comes from African-American, Afro-Caribbean, European and Indigenous-American descent; a vibrant cultural background that influences his work and movement in this world. With a professional background in jewelry design, interior design, visual merchandising, and wellness coaching, David views creativity as more than an activity, he views it as his way of life.

In the podcast episode, you’ll hear me say that David is full of surprises. As a follower of his content, he is constantly seeming to reinvent not just the spaces around him, but reinventing himself as well. From his vegan cooking, to interior design, to mocktail creations, to his new jewelry line, and then learning he used to complete men's fitness competitions–there is truly so much inspiration to find from David’s life and experiences.

We are of course diving in to all of the topics today including what led David to initially go vegan and how he finally learned to make tofu delicious, but we also talk a lot about his creativity, the seemingly endless sources of joy in his life, his experience when he first stepped into the interior design world, and how he has navigated life as a radically vibrant and creative person.

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Today on the podcast, I have Jay McPherson: a vegan content creator and YouTuber who calls himself “your favorite friendly fashionable vegan.” We’re here for a high energy conversation about finding inspiration to go vegan, the need for more vegan breakfast spots, and how to be confidently vegan anywhere you go. 

I love this conversation with Jay because it hits on SO many important points of getting comfortable living a vegan lifestyle. If you love hearing the guest stories of what inspired them to go vegan, you’re gonna love Jay’s answer: “If Beyonce can go vegan, I can too!” And while it starts off with a laugh, we talk about how at the end of the day, when it comes to making healthy life changes, ‘inspiration is inspiration’ and everyone needs to find their own source.

So many people I talk to say that fear of missing out on social events, family gatherings, and food as culture is what holds them back from a vegan lifestyle, and Jay is such a great representative of what being a confident, fulfilled, social vegan can look like. He gives some amazing tips on how to eat out when there’s no vegan option, how to prepare for family holidays and parties with friends, and how having the right outlook on social gatherings is crucial to remaining happy as a vegan.

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