You know Ellen Kanner for her Substack, Broccoli Rising, her years as HuffPo's Meatless Monday columnist, and as the "soulful vegan" whose previous book was

Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith & What to Eat for Dinner. She's back in author mode with Miami Vegan: Plant-Based Recipes from the Tropics to Your Table. 

Website: https://www.soulfulvegan.com

Books: Miami Vegan...80+ Sundrenched Recipes

               Feeding the Hungry Ghost

Substack (Broccoli Rising newsletter): ellen kanner.substack.com

Instagram: @EllenKanner

Guest Loren Fishman, MD, is a yogi who studied under B.K.S. Iyengar in India and long practicing doctor of physical medicine in New York City. He is also the undisputed expert on using yoga to prevent and reverse osteopenia and osteoporosis, the subject of his newly revised and updated book, Yoga for Osteoporosis.

Website: https://www.manhattanphysicalmedicine.com/our-practice-keene

Book: Yoga for Osteoporosis: The Complete Guide

Video: Dr. Fishman's 12 Poses for Osteoporosis

Game-Changing Peta Lawsuit for Animals in Labs

The First Amendment promises not only freedom of speech but freedom to hear speech. In this landmark suit against the NIH and NIMH, today's guest, Jeff Kerr, and other Peta attorneys are demanding that Americans be allowed to hear the protestations of macaque monkeys involved in 40 years of painful, irrelevant experiments.

Website: https://peta.org

Details on the suit: https://tinyurl.com/petasuit

Instagram: @Peta

Also mentioned in this episode: Victoria's July Age Like a Yogi retreat at the Omega Institute: https://www.tinyurl.com/ALaYOmega

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's Xavier Toledo, registered dietitian, specializing in the intersection of nutrition and communications, tackles the current social media trend of bashing plant-based eaters on the protein question.

Website: https://pcrm.org

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

In this episode: the dope on dairy, some fab recipe guidance on making cheeses, milks, creams, yogurts, even cottage cheese and crème brûlée, and the reason why we're seeing so much anti-vegan venom on social media with Bailey Ruskus (Chef Bai). She's Cordon Bleu-trained but these recipes are for those of us who aren't. Now a brilliant vegan influencer, Chef Bai overcame serious endometriosis when she got off all dairy. 

Book: Breaking Up With Dairy: 100 Indulgent Plant-Based Recipes for Cheese (and Butter, Cream and Milk) Lovers Everywhere

Website: https://www.breakingupwithdairy.com

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

TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@chef_bai

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

TEDx speaker and fulltime vegan advcate Sarina Farb grew up vegan in Kansas and is now carrying the message far and wide with insightful presentations on topics including "The Ex-Vegan Phenomenon," on which she has some fascinating ideas. Sarina is also at the helm of a unique festival slated for Sept. 18-22 in, yes, Kansas: Thrive Alive Vegan Fest, a fun and supportive youth-oriented vegan conference/music festival.

Website: https://www.thrivealiveveganfest.com

               https://www.bornvegan.org

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

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

                  https://www.instagram.com/bornvegan1/

TEDx talk: "Why Humane Meat Is a Myth," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTbAmMzur9o

Veganism isn't just a change of diet. It's a change of heart, one that clinical psychologist Angela, Crawford, PhD, studied at length for her new book, The Vegan Transformation. Based on a large number of questionnaires submitted and interviews conducted, Crawford has determined pyshcological shifts––some of them quite surprising––that take place when someone makes this switch. 

Book: The Vegan Transformation: A Journey to Heal Yourself and the World

Website: https://angelacrawfordphd.com

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

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

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelacrawfordphd/

Reference for finding vegan-friendly psychotherapists:  https://www.idausa.org/campaign/sustainable-activism/activist-resource-list/

Yoga teacher, ayurvedic educator, and culinary instructor Christina Gdisis (pronounced Dee-sis) alchemically blends her Greek heritage, animal rights sensibilities, spiritual path, and deep appreciation of both food and nature in her work as The Conscious Vegan Kitchen and in this conversation.

Website: https://www.consciousvegankitchen.com

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

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

Upcoming project: Guided culinary retreat to the Mani Peninsula of Greece happening in late 2025 -- information on Christina's website

A vegan luminary for over 30 years, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau makes compassion accessible and joyful in this interview and in her new book, A Year of Compassion: 52 Weeks of Living Zero-Waste, Plant-Based, and Cruelty-Free.

Website: JoyfulVegan.com

Instagram: @Joyfulvegan

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/colleenpatrickgoudreau

You know the universe has something big in store when your first job out of college is personal trainer for Dr. Deepak Chopra. That's how it was for today's guest, Kathleen Kastner, yoga instructor and former studio owner, children's book author, and cat-mom of Noah, the rescue voted Newsweek's first Pet of the Year.

Website: https://www.kathleenkastner.com

Books (Karma Cats kids' series and others) https://www.kathleenkastner.com/books-articles/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.kastnermortenson

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