Sylvia Tara was driven to research fat, science, and lifestyle after she finally got "fed up" with eating less and exercising more than her slimmer friends throughout her life. Her experiences told her there was more to weight loss than just “calorie in, calorie out.” As a biochemist, she was driven to get to the bottom of fat’s mysteries and the reasons it vexes us. In her best-selling book, The Secret Life of Fat, she reveals the complex biology of fat, how it resists loss, and what it means for each of us. 

Dr. Tara holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California at San Diego and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and has worked at the world's largest biotechnology companies.

 

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A native of southern New Jersey, Keith Burgeson holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising from Rowan University and a certificate in plant-based nutrition from Cornell. After college, he traveled across the United States for more than four years as an AmeriCorps volunteer, serving as an environmental educator, tackling food insecurity, and developing volunteer-enrichment programs. Before coming to PETA in 2014, he worked as an animal caregiver for a farmed-animal sanctuary in southern California. An ethical vegan since 2009, Burgeson is a testament to the performance benefits of vegan eating: As a competitive long-distance runner, he consistently places in the top three percent of finishers for most of the races he participates in.

 

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Dr. Angie Sadeghi, MD is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a diplomate of the American Board of Gastroenterology. She is a member of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians and an avid fitness competitor. 

 

Dr. Angie offers a complete range of services including treatments for digestive, stomach, esophagus, liver, and colon-related illnesses. She has extensive training from the prestigious University of Southern California (USC), and demonstrates exceptional commitment to excellence in treating diseases of digestive tract.

 

Combining evidence based medicine, her expertise in the digestive system and her passion for physical fitness and nutrition, Dr. Angie has developed a comprehensive approach to helping patients live a healthy life. Dr. Angie is passionate about disease prevention.

 

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This week's guest discusses with us a principle he learned after treating patients for 3 decades and he has applied to his life and the life of many others to make radical improvements. It is very different from what we usually discuss on this show, but might be just the piece you need to understand why you do things the way you do and how to overcome those obstacles in life that hold you back. You can find more about Dr. Agrios and take the quiz at www.DrAgrios.com

Dr. Philip Agrios is a sought-after personal and business advisor, Amazon Bestselling author and speaker. He has over three decades’ experience helping patients and clients find relief from self-sabotaging traits by providing them with the antidote for switching them off. 

Dr. Agrios’ own life and health challenges, from disabling health conditions which caused him to close his practice to financial ruin, prompted him to find this antidote and compelled him to teach other people the discoveries he has made. Combining his clinical viewpoint with his life experiences, he developed The 6 Step Problem-Solving Blueprint that quickly pinpoints people’s roadblocks, in life and business, and removes them for optimal health, wealth and happiness.

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Lucetta Zaytoun’s ability to bounce back from tragedy time and time again is uncanny. After raising six kids, yet another life earthquake hit. This one led her to put everything she owned in storage, sell her car, shut down her phone and travel in developing countries by herself for one year. Lucetta’s precarious, intrepid and fascinating runaway journey took her to places she never imagined.

Without intending to, at age 51, she jumped off the world’s highest bungee bridge, was French-kissed by a giraffe, fell in love with Africa, was abducted, ate a tarantula in Cambodia, and ultimately found herself.

While on her courageous journey, every bit of Lucetta’s past showed up to haunt and heal her, helping her make peace with her life and reclaim her authentic identity. 

Lucetta Zaytoun, PCC, CALC, CPCC is now an international speaker, a certified life and leadership coach and a best selling author. She is the author of her memoir, “It’s Already Tomorrow Here: Never Underestimate the Power of Running Away”  and “Your Amazing Itty Bitty Book of Fear Busting: Fifteen Ways to Push Past Fear” Both books are available on Amazon.

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Do you struggle with emotional eating or eating when you aren't hungry? Renee struggled with emotional eating and yo-yo eating for 40 years before she discovered the key to her sustainable weight loss. This week's episode has lots of little pearls of wisdom that may benefit your eating habits. 

With a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling and a Clinical Residency in Pastoral Care, Renee utilizes traditional and contemporary models as well as relaxation and horse-assisted methods. She has worked as a chaplain and counselor in long-term acute care hospitals and hospice for more than a decade serving patients, families, and staff. In 2011, she opened an international private practice in counseling serving clients and colleagues in the U. S., United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, India, South Africa, Romania, Australia, and New Zealand.

What makes her approach distinctive is that she is trained as a chaplain with a Master’s degree in counseling, and this expertise enables her to help her clients free themselves emotionally by addressing their spiritual, physical, and emotional needs. The result is that her clients get the body they want, find true comfort without comfort food, and embrace the beautiful person they are from inside out.

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Have you heard that mushrooms are considered a superfood? Do you know why? Jeff Chilton has been growing and learning about mushrooms for over 40 years and has a lot to say about why they may benefit your health. You can find more about his work and his company at:

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Jeff Chilton, raised in Pacific Northwest, studied ethno-mycology at the University of Washington in the late sixties and started working on a commercial mushroom farm in Olympia, Washington in 1973. During the next 10 years he became the production manager, responsible for the cultivation of over 2 million pounds of agaricus mushrooms per year and was also involved in the research and development of shiitake, oyster and enoki mushrooms which resulted in the earliest US fresh shiitake sales in 1978. 

In the late seventies he was a founder of Mycomedia, which held 4 mushroom conferences in the Pacific Northwest. These educational conferences brought together educators and experts in mushroom identification, ethnomycology, and mushroom cultivation.

During this period Jeff co-authored the highly acclaimed book, The Mushroom Cultivator, which was published in 1983.

In the 1980’s he operated a mushroom spawn business and in 1989 he started Nammex, a business that introduced medicinal mushrooms to the US nutritional supplement industry. He traveled extensively in China during the 1990’s, attending conferences and visiting research

facilities and mushroom farms. In 1997 he organized the first organic mushroom production seminar in China.

Jeff’s company, Nammex was the first to offer a complete line of Certified Organic mushroom extracts to the US nutritional supplement industry. Nammex extracts are used by many supplement companies and are noted for their high quality based on scientific analysis of the active compounds.

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Lori is an amazing master of the mind and she has learned to leverage both her mindset and the art of calorie intake to eat the vegan food she wants and lose weight. There are a lot of lessons to learn from her journey and how she has approached her weight loss. I hope you learn some nuggets and have a happy Sunday!

Lori Manby went vegan for ethical reasons and gained weight in the process. She knew if she wanted to change her body, she’d have to change her mind, so two years later at 210 lbs, she joined Weight Watchers.

The program had the the structure she wanted while she figured out a way to stop the record of doubt playing over and over in her head. She just needed to figure out a way to make it work with her binge eating behaviors and “junk food vegan” diet.

Her “all-or-nothing” personality kicked into overdrive allowing her to quickly “crack the code.”

She’s been maintaining an 80lb loss—and in the process—discovered her life’s purpose and biggest passion: Be open about my deepest, darkest secrets with binge eating and use her techniques to Support, Motivate, and Inspire others with similar stories.

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What a great episode! In this episode, I chat with Molly Patrick, a brave, vegan woman who has built a thriving career from her passion, but has also been courageous about confronting habits that were holding her back. She has authentic grit! We have a very open and honest conversation that I know you will enjoy. Happy Sunday!

Molly Patrick is really damn good at motivating people to eat a Whole Food Plant-Based diet. Not only with delicious recipes and meal plans, but with her non-judgemental, inclusive, and kind approach.

She is the co-founder of Clean Food Dirty Girl and holds a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition. What gets her hot is helping people prevent illness and disease with the food they eat so they don't have to treat illness and disease because of the food they eat. 

Molly has built a thriving business and community around helping people eat more plants and less of everything else. She is lives in Hawaii with her wife.

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Brook is a woman of faith that within a month of adopting a plant-based lifestyle started a plant-based eating ministry along with her husband. On top of that she homeschools 5 children and has 18 years of recovery from disordered eating. This interview was a little different, but it is interesting and refreshing and I think that it is perfect for Mother's Day. I hope that you will find it inspiring on this Sunday and happy Mother's Day to all the mamas out there! 

Brook Legg is the cofounder along with her husband of Healing Choices Ministry - a Plant Based Eating Ministry that exists to educate, connect with resources, and help people transition to plant based eating. Brook has been in successful recovery from a variety of eating disorders for over 18 years. She’s a mom of 5 wonderful biological children and 2 amazing grown step daughters and she is also a homeschool mom. She has also authored a 30 day devotional book called The Healing Rhythms of Home for Homeschool moms. She is an avid researcher, loves to make things with her hands and write worship lyrics and psalms. 

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