EPISODE 20! Heck yeah! We've come so far! And so has Sadrah Schadel, Founder and Co-owner of No Evil Foods. This is a fast-growing company that makes delicious plant meats. Yum!

In 4 years, Sadrah and her partner Mike went from a local farmer's market to "insanity" (her word) growing and expanding the company, and distributing innovative, flavorful vegan meats, .....and spreading the No Evil message.

In this episode you will hear how a punk rock approach to good business thrives!!

John Joseph is an OG vegan. He's also an OG punk rocker. He was living in the streets of NYC's Lower East Side when he was 14 years old. He's almost been killed more than once. He's deeply spiritual and philosophical. He's a 10 time Iron Man Triathlete (he's training for his 11th).  He's still singing with the Cro-Mags and was preparing for a European tour at the time of this recording. He's written 2 books with a 3rd on the way.

In this episode we talk about consciousness, risk, survival, doing time, grit, Positive Mental Attitude, yoga, teaching and learning, and soooooooooo much more!

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Check out his Instagram  (set as private at the time of this post)

Special note for people who like f-bombs: TONS of f-bombs in this episode, or as John calls it, "vernacular."

Also, keep in mind, as I say in the recording, this is a punk recording :) where i record every moment from start to finish (except the first 20 or 30 seconds because I forgot to hit record, which is normal for me.)

I did no pre-interview, nor unrecorded rapport building... nothing before or after, I just recorded the whole thing so you could hear a little "behind the scenes" of an episode.

Going on tour with the cro-mags now!

Anti-rock star

Being vegan since 1981 (working in a healthfood store)

Living in hare krishna temple for 2 years

"Philosophy without devotion is speculation"

Turning 56 soon

When he was growing up, disrespecting someone on the streets, things could go very badly

"What they're practicing is not yoga it's gymnastics"

Anthony Bourdain ate a beating heart

Punk like. What is the first tennent of punk rock?

His new book Pure PMA

His concept The Microwave Society

What is PMA Positive Mental Attitude

Getting shot, and getting shot at

Risk = Value

Today is Day 1 to start turning the corner on this shit

Episode 18 Gentle People!! Inside the life and work of the Fat Gay Vegan Sean O'Callaghan!

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Topics:

= How he follows zero people on instagram but has over 80 thousand followers and growing by over a hundred per day.

= How many hours a day he spends on his vegan career and on social media

= What makes beer vegan or not vegan???

= His vegan markets, yum!

= Mexico City! OMG. So good. And how fast it has grown and is growing. For example, Los Loosers. If you are a vegan tourist, go to Mexico City, Mexico! #DCMX

= Traditional Mexican restaurants including a separate vegan menu

= The story behind a recording of a young girl for a truck recording metals and appliances, used all over the country

= The political situation now, and the roots of it

= Example of a Fat Gay Vegan market: Hackney Downs Market gives preferences for minority business holders

= Not trying to maximizing his profits

= Conscious capitalism

= Food Justice

= Practical considerations in a marketplace

= Should we replace or improve capitalism? What would we replace it with?

= Living a frugal life

= Promoting Vegan River Cruises

= Not having a proper job

= Following his calling

Clinical Psychologist Glenn Livingston says most people overeat sometimes. Some people binge. And he tells us how to stop bingeing and overeating.

Glenn used to consult for the food industry (including animal products). He became vegan for health reasons, and then progressively found out about the ethical issues. He is now a health and an ethical vegan.

• The parts of the brain that control eating and overeating
• What to do when you're in line at Starbucks and see the chocolate bar
• Primitive thoughts vs primitive thoughts; lizard vs lizard rather than lizard vs computer
• The importance of language
• Lizie the Lizard
• Your Food Demon
• You can't love yourself out of an eating disorder
• The Kings and Queens of history
• The helpfulness of speaking to yourself like you area 2-year-old by saying "never"
• A live coaching on eating better
• Would you take a waitress' tip if she didn't see it there??
• Losing 50lbs
• Healing psoriasis on his face
• Be a shining example!
• Lizards and pigs are cute and cool!
• Get a bunch of free helpful stuff from Glenn at his website including a free copy of his book and recorded coaching sessions

In this episode, Chris Cooney, the Vegan Zombie reveals all. How he went from aspiring FBI agent to YouTuber. Along the way he made a trailer for a zombie movie in which the zombie infection/contagion is spread by eating animal products, so vegans don't become zombies! That was 8 years ago, and he hasn't filmed the movie yet, but he still plans to make it!

He now makes videos on how to cook vegan, how to shop vegan (and save money), and other vegan educational stuff, mostly on his Youtube channel which has 159,000 subscribers (as of this post).

This episode is a new look at Chris that you haven't encountered in any other format or medium, or any other interview or feature.

We talk:

• To date (vegan), or not to date
• Making a YouTube and social media living
• T-shirts!
• Aspiring to be an FBI agent
• How to pass an FBI entrance exam
• Growing his hair and beard out
• George Romero Night of The Living Dead
• The Walking Dead
• Starting his career right before the explosion of veganism and the zombie genre in pop culture
• Mockingbird Farm Animal Sanctuary
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Applying to the CIA, the ATF, the DEA, and the FBI
• Being Straight Edge
• Dating vegans vs. non-vegans
• Not paying for non vegan food on dates
• Not kissing someone after meat eating
• Working out
• A no oil, no salt, no sugar diet
• Traveling to vegan festivals
• Helping people go vegan
• The Vegan Zombie Cookbook! Cook and Survive (with comic book story at the beginning!)

Remy Park dove in full time to a career on Instagram and Youtube that has now taken her to modeling and advertising. She advocates for plant based cooking and eating, vegan living, compassion, yoga, mental health, healing, and honesty. 

The Vegan Bros, actual brothers, and roommates, and business partners, basically escaped from a quasi-cult and went vegan and started a business. These guys are very bro-y but also sweetheart dudes, ambitious, and fun to talk to. Their stories are compelling. Now they have a book out.

In this episode: why are some people capable of becoming undercover investigators, why do some people go vegan for emotional reasons and then go unvegan, should humans own pets, is it valid to mourn a non-human animal the same way you mourn a human, and how to dance and smile and feel joy in the midst of the nightmare reality around us

Episode 12!!! Fantastic convo with Doc G of NYC Hip Hop is Green. Back in the Day, Doc was signed to Columbia Records by the same person who signed Nas (one of the all time best-selling rappers).

Now, Doc G is deep into living and promoting a revolutionary and evolutionary lifestyle including healthy eating of a plant based diet. Doc is very active in NYC as the leader of the NYC chapter of Hip Hop is Green.

Quote from Doc:

HipHop is the Heartbeat of the young. Youth culture is global culture. I am blessed to belong to the health and wellness vanguard, responsible for serving, protecting, and healing the heart that pumps life into the veins of the world.