Today, I am joined by Mariquita Solis. Mariquita is a dedicated Vegan Empowerment Coach and transformational speaker who leads the Animal Ministry at Unity North with passion. Certified in Plant-Based Nutrition from eCornell and a Reiki healer, she brings vast knowledge to her role. Mariquita orchestrates immersive forest walks at the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell Georgia, infusing each with transformative essence. Committed to fostering connections with nature, she volunteers with wildlife and serves on the board of the Earth Care Ministry, inviting others to join her on a journey of harmonious coexistence with the natural world.

To connect with Mariquita:

https://mariquitasolis.com/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MariquitaSolisVeganEmpowermentCoaching

https://www.instagram.com/harmonic_earth_healers/

Mentioned in this episode:

Melanie Joy

Paige Parsons Roache

Unity North

Merlin Bird ID

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Today, I am joined by Lisa Rimmert of On the Nose. Lisa is a standup comedian and writer based in the Seattle area. In 2021, she launched her company, On The Nose, LLC, through which she helps to change the world through effective and humane communication. Current and past clients have included Beyond Carnism, Farm Forward, Woodstock Farm Sanctuary, and Volunteers of America. Lisa published her first book, a memoir, in 2022. Titled Stay: My Forever Friendship with an Aging Dog, it earned her a prestigious award for Best First Book from the Independent Book Publishers Association. She's currently working on a second dog-related memoir. When she's not writing, Lisa can be found telling jokes to audiences at bars and clubs around Seattle and beyond. A lifelong animal advocate, the topic of animals and their well-being serves as a through line connecting all of Lisa's projects.

Lisa and I became fast friends, which I think will be pretty clear as you listen to this episode. The only thing stopping us from getting up to regular shenanigans is the fact that we live on opposite sides of the country. 

I had the pleasure of reading her book Stay after Lisa and I recorded this episode so I’ll share my thoughts now. Buy the book, if you’ve ever loved a non-human animal you’ll find parts of yourself in this book. It brought me back to moments with my senior cat Cookie, that first moment you realize they’re a senior and each moment after. Lisa so beautifully captures her experience and friendship with beloved Dakota. It’s a beautiful and poignant tale I feel lucky to have read. 

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Today, I am joined by Dr. Elisa Beth Haransky-Beck of Enlivening Consciousness. Dr. Elisa has been a Holistic Eye doctor specializing in optometric vision and movement therapy as well as natural vision improvement since 1987. Elisa has practiced raw living plant-based foodism on and off since 2012 and the Spiritual Nutrition lifestyle since 2015. One of Elisa’s volunteer passions is with Vegan Spirituality-Southwest PA which she founded in early 2019. She teaches EmbodyVision Yoga on Zoom to elders from around the world and is a Spiritual Nutrition counselor with a Master’s degree in Spiritual Nutrition.

This is a great conversation around eye health, some surprising connections between eye health and movement (surprising for me, anyway!), and of course, Elisa’s book. Elisa guides us through a brief meditation, don't worry, we tell you when it starts so if you’re driving you may want to skip this section and come back to it once you’re stationary.

To connect with Dr. Elisa

Visit her website: https://www.enliveningconsciousness.com

Pick up her book at https://www.enliveningconsciousness.com/book

https://www.instagram.com/embodyvision/

https://www.facebook.com/drelisabe

https://www.facebook.com/veganspiritualitySWPA

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Today, I am joined by Adam Kelly of Green Edge Health. Adam offers diet-focused life coaching, empowering his clients to build a healthy relationship with food and use it as a tool to thrive, rather than cope. Adam himself struggled with emotional eating or using food to cope with the internal and external struggles in his life. He’d fall into negative habits and constantly feel trapped in a cycle of unhealthy eating that always made life that much harder. That was until he studied the power of life coaching and mindset work. He discovered that the unavoidable routine of food could be harnessed to seek out and resolve difficulties in his life that were holding him back. The strategies he learned turned his life around for good and he’s never felt stronger or healthier and now it’s his life's mission is to pass this on to to his clients and you, the listener. Too many of us struggle with food in one way or another and it feels like an overwhelming nightmare that affects every area of our lives. It doesn't need to be this way and Adam has the solution for you.

Adam walks us through how powerful our mindset is, how as mentioned in his bio, food can be a tool to thrive, why it matters to pay attention to the food messages you receive from those you love and the corporations who want you to buy their food, why some foods are crazy addictive, and more! 

Schedule a free chat with Adam https://calendly.com/greenedgehealth/free-consultation

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https://www.tiktok.com/@greenedgehealth

Mentioned in this episode:

They're trying to kill us - https://www.theyretryingtokillus.com/

Badass Vegan John Lewis - https://www.instagram.com/badassvegan/

Nutrition Facts - https://nutritionfacts.org/

PCRM - Dr. Neal Barnard - https://www.pcrm.org/

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Today, I am joined by Katrina Fox Storytelling Consultant at Vegan Business Media.

From her bio: Katrina is a storytelling consultant, personal brand coach and award-winning author of Vegan Ventures: Start and Grow an Ethical Business, the first global book providing success strategies for aspiring and existing vegan business owners. During her journalism career she’s written extensively for niche and mainstream media for more than 25years on animal advocacy and ethical business and was a regular Forbes contributor specializing in writing about vegan and plant-based businesses. A vegan of 28years, Katrina helps ethical business leaders, entrepreneurs and change-makers to find, craft & share the stories to inspire, influence & impact their audiences. She loves glitter, sequins, and disco. 

The love for story-telling runs through this episode as we both nerd-out about it, its so good. 

We discuss finding your origin or journey story, different types of story-telling, how story-telling can make even the most boring things interesting, and knowing when to not tell a story.

Some takeaways:

To connect with Katrina

Visit her websites http://www.katrinafox.com/ and http://www.veganbusinessmedia.com/

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/katrinafox

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/katrinafox1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekatrinafox/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KatrinaFox1 and https://www.youtube.com/veganbusinessmedia

Mentioned in this episode:

Vivisection - find out more about animal testing

The Vegan Society

My story-telling podcast episodes:

Somebody should do something about that

Flamingo

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Today, I am joined by Dr. Sailesh Rao of Climate Healers. Dr. Rao has over three decades of professional experience and is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers, a non-profit dedicated towards healing the Earth’s climate.

A systems specialist with a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Dr. Rao worked on the internet communications infrastructure for twenty years after graduation. During this period, he blazed the trail for high speed signal processing chips and technologies for High Definition Television, real-time video communications and the transformation of early analog internet connections to more robust digital connections, while accelerating their speeds ten-fold. Today, over a billion internet connections deploy the communications protocol that he designed. He is the author of 22 peer-reviewed technical papers, 50 standards contributions, 10 US patents and 3 Canadian patents.

In 2006, he switched careers and became deeply immersed, full time, in solving the environmental crises affecting humanity. Dr. Rao is the author of four books, Carbon Dharma: The Occupation of Butterflies, Carbon Yoga: The Vegan Metamorphosis, Animal Agriculture is Immoral and The Pinky Promise, and an Executive Producer of several documentaries, The Human Experiment (2013), Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014), What The Health (2017), A Prayer for Compassion (2019), They’re Trying to Kill Us (2021), The End of Medicine (2022), The Land of Ahimsa (2022), Animals – A Parallel History (est. 2023) and Milked (2022). His work is featured in the award winning film, Countdown to Year Zero produced by Jane Velez-Mitchell.

Dr. Rao is a Human, Earth and Animal Liberation (HEAL) activist, husband, dad and since 2010, a star-struck grandfather. He has promised his granddaughter, Kimaya Rainy Rao, that the world will be largely Vegan before she turns 16 in 2026, so that people will stop eating her relatives, the animals. He has faith that humanity will transform to keep his pinky promise to Kimaya, not just for ethical reasons, but also out of sheer ecological necessity. Along with Kimaya, Dr. Rao was the co-recipient of the inaugural Homo Ahimsa award from the Interfaith Vegan Coalition in 2021. He has formally taken the Ubuntu pledge to become Homo Ahimsa. Read the remainder of Dr. Rao's bio here: https://climatehealers.org/sailesh-rao/

To connect with Dr. Sailesh Rao visit his website https://climatehealers.org/

Mentioned in this episode:

https://climatehealers.org/the-science/ethical-vegetarian-myth/

Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University: 9 planetary boundaries: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html

Dan Miller/Kevin Anderson - https://youtube.com/watch?v=tVFSJINGueM

Codes for a healthy earth - https://www.codes.earth/media

The runaway steer who found sanctuary: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/20/newark-bull-new-jersey-transit-ricardo/

Skylands Farm Sanctuary: https://skylandssanctuary.org/

Homo Ahimsa: https://climatehealers.org/about/philosophy/

Vegan Convergence of the Peoples (V-COP) - https://climatehealers.org/transform/v-cop/

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Episode sponsored by Learn Veganic
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Today, I am joined by the one and only, Philosopher Peter Singer. Recently retired from his role as Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, (though when this episode was recorded he was teaching his final semester) Peter is often referred to as the “Father of the modern animal rights movement.” Journalists tagged him as the “world’s most influential living philosopher.” Peter believes this is attributed to the work within ethical treatment of animals and of the influence that his writing has had on development of effective altruism. When I mentioned to a friend that I would interviewing Peter, they said to me “that guy is pretty controversial” (would he be a philosopher if he wasn’t?) Peter attributes statements like this to his controversial critique of the sanctity of life ethics in bioethics. He is the author of Animal Liberation and the updated Animal Liberation Now and several other books on rights, Effective Altruism, and more. 

To connect with Peter:

Visit his website: www.petersinger.info

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peter__singer

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PeterSingerOfficialPage

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeterSinger

Mentioned in this episode:

Richard Keshen

Jeremy Bentham

Animal Machines - Ruth Harrison

The Vegan Society

Animals, Men, & Morals - Stanley Godlovitch

Effective Altruism

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Today, I am joined by Nancy Leeds Gribble, Founder & CEO of NourishLiftGrow

Nancy is a Women’s Wellness and Weight-loss Transformation Coach, Plant-based Culinary Nutrition Expert. She specializes in empowering women in midlife and beyond with the information and guidance they need for optimal health, weight loss,  and body confidence. She believes and shares how the transformative power of food can heal, support and build our health and create a body you feel fantastic living in.   It’s never too late to become the healthiest, fittest, and happiest version of who you want to be! 

We begin with Nancy’s vegan journey, how to start making lasting change, she helped me understand that macronutrients aren’t just for the gym bros, and even touches on some things to consider to help balance out hormones. Nancy shares so many great tips and insights in this episode, you might want to take notes, or listen a second time when you can have a notebook handy. 

Takeaways from this episode:

Mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Neal Barnard & The Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine

PCRM articles on Menopause

To connect with Nancy:

Visit her website: https://www.nancyleedsgribble.com/

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nancyleedsgribble

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nancyleedsgribble801

Nancy's cauliflower hummus recipe: https://nancyleedsgribble.com/recipes/b/cauliflower-hummus-a-wholesome-twist-on-a-classic-dip

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Today, I am joined by Rey Ortega, The Mad Cookie Man. Rey is a pioneer in the plant-based sector with over 30 years of experience. In 1994, he founded the Alternative Baking Company, one of the first vegan cookie brands on the market, which generated $1 million in sales in 1995. In 1997, he founded Sun Flour Baking Co. to create new flavors, tastes, textures, and nutrition products with a longer shelf life and higher profit margins. Sun Flour Baking produces raw and baked gluten-free cookies free of animal products. It also provides co packing, product development, consulting, testing, nutrition facts, graphic design, and wrapping in small batches. Clients include Continental Airlines, Sodexo Marriott Food Service, and Whole Foods. The company supports Farm Sanctuary, the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), and In Defense of Animals (IDA). 

Rey owned Garden to Grill, a vegan restaurant, for five years. With extensive knowledge across the entire product life cycle, he is an experienced formulator within the industry, has designed three facilities, and has sold millions of vegan cookies, keeping eggs and dairy out of the mouths of many. Besides owning ‌five plant-based brands, he has also published two children’s books and is an expert at cannabis infusion for topical and edible products.

To connect with Rey:

sunflourbaking.com
startaveganbusiness.com
msgreenfields.com
Facebook.com/sunflourbakingcompany
Instagram @sunflourbakingcookies, @reyortega67
X: @thecookieman
LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/rey-ortega-5710652 
YouTube.com/@reyortega67
BOOKS
The Organic Adventures of Tucker the Tomato (2003)
Benji Bean Sprout Doesn’t Eat Meat (2004)

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Today, I am joined by Anabrese Newman,  a Spiritual Life Coach and Eco-Author & Educator who provides Support & Inspiration that Empowers Empathic & Vegan Changemakers who want to make a positive change in the world while sharing their gifts & living on purpose.

Anabrese provides counsel through her books and video content across social media providing resources to support people with their spiritual wellbeing and discovering their life purpose.

Anabrese is here to spread the principles of Unity Awareness while guiding those who are ready to step into their Eco-purpose with confidence and Spiritual Empowerment for effective advocacy, and Positive Societal Change. Pretty powerful stuff right? As you’ll hear in this episode, Anabrese and I recorded this on the Winter Solstice and I think that vibe is palpable because of that, it made sense to me to post this episode now a few days before Imbolc (on Feb 1). Sit back and enjoy this enlightening and inspiring interview with Anabrese Neuman. 

To connect with Anabrese:

https://anabreseneuman.com/⁠
https://www.instagram.com/anabreseneuman/
https://www.youtube.com/@anabreseneuman

https://linktr.ee/Anabrese

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anabreseneuman/

Book: The WISE Method:Awakening Earth Stewards In Unity & Purpose: Where Self-discovery meets Unity Awareness, Regenerative Ecology and Plant-based Living.
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A Global Community serving the Spiritual 
Awakening & Empowerment for Change makers Co-creating a thriving Planet.
(1) Awakening Earth Stewards | Facebook
The Wise Method Program with coaching:
The WISE Method Transformational Coaching Program (anabreseneuman.com)

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