Plant-Powered People Podcast

This episode discusses being vegan in a non-vegan family...

Welcome back to season 2! We'd love to share our life updates with you!

On today's episode, we talk about life in a van as a vegan!

On today's episode, we talk about being Plant-Based on a Budget!

When we started this podcast, we knew we want to acknowledge that although you may be deeply rooted in your cultural foods, it's still possible to be plant-based! Our guest today shows just that! Maria not only transforms her favorite traditional Filipino dishes into plant-based goodness, she also shares her new lifestyle with her community and inspires them to try it too!

This week, we're talking about a topic that has seemingly become one of our favorites, and that is: Being an Imperfect Vegan. We've brought on Tobias Leenaert, author of the book How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach, to chat with us about utilitarianism, and how to change hearts and minds (and food choices) by modeling kindness, patience, and grace.

If you're like us, your plant-based journey started with being considerate of the foods you put into body. But have you considered all the ingredients you use on your skin for body care? In this episode, popular vegan beauty blogger and author of The Compassionate Chick's Guide to DIY Beauty, Sunny Subramanian, educates us on the differences between cruelty-free, vegan, DIY beauty products, and more!

For many of us, plant-based eating has been an introduction to a bigger shift of living more consciously. Conscious of how our decisions impact not only our health, but the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants.

That's why we've been dying to do an episode about creating less waste!

And who better to talk about it than someone who's inspired both of us to go further down the path of zero-waste consciousness: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau!

Fun news: Toni's getting married! And for anyone else who's planning a wedding, we're going to share the low-down on how to do it plant-based-style! We've brought our friend Taylor Wolfram on the show to share her experience planning a wedding with her non-vegan spouse, Michelle talks about some compromises she made to accomodate family, and Toni chats about what it's like to be currently going through the decision-making process.

Mazel tov! Here's to wedding season!

In one of our recent podcast interviews, Karen Brockway talked about how her faith has been a big part of her journey in plant-based eating. It inspired us to cover this topic in its own episode! We brought on Deanne Thomsen, a lifelong Christian who is very active in her church community and also does faith outreach for The Humane Society of the United States, to talk about her experience in marrying her two passions.