Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle

By Howie Jacobson, PhD

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Plant-based inspiration, guidance, and support for a joyful and vibrant life

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Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle episodes:

02.01.2022 On Mother Teresa, Burnout, and Belonging: Saskia Kremer on PYP 502 Saskia Kremer burned out after spending 13 years tending the sick, dying, and impoverished as a member of Mother Teresa's order. How did she reinvent herself, and what can she teach us about a meaningful and heartfelt life?
01.25.2022 Protecting Ourselves from GMOs: Jeffrey Smith on PYP 501 Are GMO crops and microbes safe and effective ways of improving agriculture and feeding our crowded planet, or ticking time bombs that threaten our health and the future of life on earth?
01.18.2022 How to Make Someone's Day: Howard Prager on PYP 500 How would you like to have a superpower that can positively change the lives of the people around you? It turns out the ability to make someone's day is almost always available to us. We just need to remember, practice, ...
01.11.2022 Psychedelics as Medicine: Lynn Marie Morski on PYP 499 Many plants and synthetic substances that can profoundly improve our mental and physical health are currently illegal. Lynn Marie Morski is working to change that, by educating healthcare professionals and connecting activists with communities in need of healing.
01.04.2022 The Feeling of Being Alive: Robbie Bent on PYP 498 With effects as profound as meditation and safer than psychedelics, breathwork, cold exposure, and heat exposure can democratize access to heightened and expansive states of consciousness, and better psychological and physical health.
12.28.2021 How to Not Suck on Zoom: Alfred Poor on PYP 497 One reason for Zoom fatigue is the poor quality of other people's audio and video. Today's episode shows you how to become a Zoom pro - to influence others more powerfully and to connect more deeply.
12.21.2021 How to Make Your Next Decision: Nika Kabiri on PYP 496 How happy are you with the outcomes of the decisions you've made? Would you like to get better at decision-making? Today's guest shows you how.
12.14.2021 Wearing (and Being) Nature: Jeff Scult on PYP 495 Fast fashion is a disaster. For the planet, for the oppressed workers, and for the souls of those who are constantly exhorted to throw out their clothes and buy new ones. Today's guest offers an antidote.
12.06.2021 The Only Sustainable Form of Wealth: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 494 How shall we live, on a boiling planet and enmeshed in a civilization that knows only how to use up and destroy all it encounters? Can we find meaning and healing in the shelter of each other, to bring to ...
11.30.2021 Your Brain is not a Computer or a Muscle: Annie Murphy Paul on PYP 493 "Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?" asked two philosophers in 1998. Today's guest follows the science to give us an unexpected answer.
11.24.2021 Navigating Life with Evidence, Reason, and Compassion: Jamie Woodhouse on PYP 492 What would it look like to extend compassion to all sentient beings? And can we get there through reason, rather than because a deity or prophet told us so?
11.16.2021 How to Talk So People Will Excel: Tom Reid on PYP 491 Tom Reid and I talk about how to communicate effectively when you need people to act in particular ways, in both personal and professional settings.
11.09.2021 Batteries Made from Plants?: Virginia Klausmeier on PYP 490 Can plant-based batteries combat planetary overheating and help save the world? Today's guest is betting yes.
11.02.2021 The Journey of Conscious Living: Bianca and Michael Alexander on Plant Yourself 489 Can the mass media market handle veganism and conscious living? Bianca and Michael Alexander take their show to the big time.
10.26.2021 Civil Disobedience, Groundwater, and Defending a Living Planet: Skye-Anne Tschoepe on PYP 488 Skye-Anne Tschoepe is an environmental scientist and activist who's not afraid of getting arrested for her beliefs. Here's her story.
10.19.2021 Healthy Enough and Vegan Enough: Dreena Burton on PYP 487 Dreena Burton has been churning out amazing vegan cookbooks for 20 years. In this conversation, we explore her career, and what the journey's been like.
10.12.2021 Building Multi-Faith Community Through Music: James Pollard Jr. and Harold Messinger on PYP 486 Can music bridge the gaps that divide communities? Can we sing and play together and rediscover our common humanity and deep caring for one another? Cantor Harold Messinger and James Pollard Jr. have been conducting a music "Faith Gumbo" in ...
10.05.2021 Upcycling Food to Stop Climate Change: Caroline Cotto on PYP 485 What is upcycled food? What is it good for? Why should you care?
09.29.2021 Bringing Lifestyle Medicine to Black Women: Aajay Shah and Meryl Fury on PYP 484 Black women in America suffer more from obesity and chronic disease than any other demographic. In this conversation, we talk about why, and what to do about it.
09.19.2021 Change is a Break with the Past: Peter Bregman on PYP 483 Is it possible to change other people for the better? Or should we just mind our own business, and concentrate on ourselves?
09.14.2021 How to Tell Truth from BS: Glenn Murphy on PYP 482 How do you know if something is true, or exaggerated, or more nuanced, or fake news? How can you get better at telling truth from fiction in a world of snake oil and misguided believers?
09.07.2021 The Business of Compassion: Miyoko Schinner on PYP 481 Miyoko Schinner is founder and CEO of Miyoko's, one of the most successful plant-based dairy alternative ventures of the past decade. We talk about her journey - ups and downs - and lessons learned.
09.01.2021 Hurricane Ida - appeal for immediate funds by Josh LaJaunie: PYP 480 Sick to Fit coauthor Josh LaJaunie and his family are trying to help their friends, neighbors, and community - many of whom have lost everything, and have no access to food and water, fuel, electricity, or transportation.1
08.31.2021 Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge: Jeremy Narby on PYP 479 Can science learn anything from Indigenous knowledge about local plants, and animals? Can science acknowledge that debt and offer reciprocity?
08.24.2021 Why You Should Care About Sharks: James Sulikowski on PYP 478 Are sharks vicious, erratic human-eating predators? Are they keystone species crucial for the health of marine ecosystems? Or are they just the subject of annoyingly catchy children's songs?
08.17.2021 How to Change (Science-based Edition): Katy Milkman on PYP 477 How can you change your habits with ease and confidence, and without shame and struggle? Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman has answers.
08.10.2021 The Making of "Meat Me Halfway": Brian Kateman on PYP 476 Is veganism the only way to stop climate change, reduce animal suffering, and improve human health? Or can we get there through just eating less meat?
08.03.2021 The Plant-Based Athlete: Matt Frazier, Robert Cheeke, and Josh LaJaunie on PYP 475 Will a plant-based diet help you become a better athlete? Is it as simple as just eating plants, or is there more to doing it right?
07.28.2021 The World Needs You to Love Your Work: Alaina Love on PYP 474 Alaina Love wants you to find your passion - and then express it through your most important work. But what is passion? How do we identify ours? And how can we create workplaces that validate and support them?
07.20.2021 Calories, Love, and Growth: Josh LaJaunie on PYP 473 Josh LaJaunie and I talk about new science of metabolism, how Josh lost 230 pounds and kept it off, and how to pursue an authentic human existence.
07.13.2021 Learning to Listen: A Guide to Ethical Mindfulness: Lani Muelrath on PYP 472 My dear friend Lani returns to the podcast to talk about her latest book, Mindfulness, published under the Conscious Care Guides imprint. We had our usual freewheeling conversation, with some tears and lots of laughter.
07.06.2021 Exercise Doesn't Burn More Calories and You Should Do It Anyway: Herman Pontzer on PYP 471 The formula to lose weight is obvious: eat less, move more. Unfortunately, it's wrong. And it's not because "calories don't matter." Discover the new science of metabolism with Herman Pontzer, PhD.
06.29.2021 Free Yourself from Conflict: Jen Goldman-Wetzler on PYP 470 Have you ever found yourself in a "conflict loop," where every conversation just makes it worse? What if you had the ability to break free and find the best possible outcome? Today's guest, Jen Goldman-Wetzler, PhD, shows you how.
06.22.2021 Cool Beans and Indoor Agriculture: Tyler Mayoras on PYP 469 How can we make whole food, plant-based options more convenient for consumers and more sustainable for the planet? Today's guest, Cool Beans CEO Tyler Mayoras, shares how he's investing and leading for a healthier planet.
06.16.2021 What are You Really Hungry For?: Tara Kemp on PYP 468 What's the root cause of eating disorders? What's behind our current obesity crisis? Are we hungry for food? For nutrients? Or for joy and connection?
06.08.2021 A World in Which We All Belong: Teju Ravilochan on PYP 467 Teju Ravilochan is an entrepreneur who sees problems and envisions grand communal solutions. From the Unreasonable Institute (now Uncharted.org), which he founded, to GatherFor.org, a community based mutual aid accelerator borne from the pandemic), he brings people together to solve ...
06.01.2021 Healing Ourselves to Heal the Climate: Jack Adam Weber on PYP 466 Can we fix our broken climate with technological and policy solutions alone? Or do we need to heal deep personal and cultural wounds as well?
05.25.2021 Mastering the Chatter in Our Heads: Glenn Murphy on PYP 465 My favorite mind-body science stress performance guy, Glenn Murphy of Stressproof.net, and I kicked around the concept of mental chatter and how we can perform at our best when the voice in our head is getting in the way.
05.18.2021 How is Your Story Showing Up in Your Life?: Michele Olender on PYP 464 Michele Olender is a health and life coach and founder of Vedge Your Best. She talks about her journey, her coaching, and how all of us can adopt new habits to be happier and healthier.
05.11.2021 Getting Fluent in Digital Body Language: Erica Dhawan on PYP 463 It took a week for them to reply to your email. Your colleague has their camera turned off during a Zoom call. What does it all mean?
05.04.2021 Cooking and Eating for a Connected World: Lois Ellen Frank on PYP 462 What can the world learn about food from the Native American tradition? How can those of us who no longer live on our ancestral land-base reclaim our cuisine, culture, and connection to the whole?
04.27.2021 How to Reverse Global Warming: Marco Vangelisti on PYP 461 According to many climate scientists, it's already too late, and there's nothing we can do to avert global catastrophe. Today's guest has a different view. Marco Vangelisti explains how to reverse global warming through our financial decisions.
04.20.2021 Helping Stressed-Out Kids Cope with Life: Shoshana Chaim on PYP 460 How can we help children deal with stress? Today's guest, Shoshana Chaim, shares the strategies from her new book, "I Am a Peaceful Goldfish."
04.13.2021 Addicted to Spontaneous Decision-Making: Glenn Livingston, PhD on PYP 459 Glenn Livingston talks about the evolution of Never Binge Again, his system to help people conquer emotional eating and gain control over their relationship with food.
04.06.2021 How to Be a Contented Vegan: Peggy Brusseau on PYP 458 Peggy Brusseau has cast a spell of peacefulness, calmness, joy, connection, and well, contentedness in her cookbook The Contented Vegan.
03.30.2021 Meat Analogues, High-tech Protein, and Balancing Life, Work, and Art: Nava Atlas on PYP 457 Nava Atlas and I chew the plant-based fat (and protein) about her new book, Plant Powered Protein. Discover how to cook delicious, healthy meals that include vegan meat analogues.
03.23.2021 From Diversity to Belonging: How to Create Workplaces that Work for Everyone: Jennifer McCollum of Linkage, Inc. on PYP 456 Women and people of color are systematically underrepresented in business. That's a problem for woman and people of color. But, it turns out, it's a problem for businesses as well. In today's episode, we'll learn what work, and what doesn't, ...
03.16.2021 How to Connect with Your Soul and Find Your True Purpose: Bill Plotkin on PYP 455 Why are humans destroying the planet and making each other miserable? Are we defective? Or have we lost the map to authentic human development?
03.12.2021 Can You Change Other People? Howard Jacobson on Chef AJ Live It's so painful to see your loved ones suffer unnecessarily. Can you change the people around you, when they're eating poorly and not taking care of their health?
03.02.2021 How to Change Other People Without Being an A-hole: Glenn Murphy and Howie Jacobson on PYP 453 Do ever have the urge to tell other people what they're doing wrong? How can you help other people change without coming across as an a-hole?

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Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle episodes:

On Mother Teresa, Burnout, and Belonging: Saskia Kremer on PYP 502

Protecting Ourselves from GMOs: Jeffrey Smith on PYP 501

How to Make Someone's Day: Howard Prager on PYP 500

Psychedelics as Medicine: Lynn Marie Morski on PYP 499

The Feeling of Being Alive: Robbie Bent on PYP 498

How to Not Suck on Zoom: Alfred Poor on PYP 497

How to Make Your Next Decision: Nika Kabiri on PYP 496

Wearing (and Being) Nature: Jeff Scult on PYP 495

The Only Sustainable Form of Wealth: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 494

Your Brain is not a Computer or a Muscle: Annie Murphy Paul on PYP 493

Navigating Life with Evidence, Reason, and Compassion: Jamie Woodhouse on PYP 492

How to Talk So People Will Excel: Tom Reid on PYP 491

Batteries Made from Plants?: Virginia Klausmeier on PYP 490

The Journey of Conscious Living: Bianca and Michael Alexander on Plant Yourself 489

Civil Disobedience, Groundwater, and Defending a Living Planet: Skye-Anne Tschoepe on PYP 488

Healthy Enough and Vegan Enough: Dreena Burton on PYP 487

Building Multi-Faith Community Through Music: James Pollard Jr. and Harold Messinger on PYP 486

Upcycling Food to Stop Climate Change: Caroline Cotto on PYP 485

Bringing Lifestyle Medicine to Black Women: Aajay Shah and Meryl Fury on PYP 484

Change is a Break with the Past: Peter Bregman on PYP 483

How to Tell Truth from BS: Glenn Murphy on PYP 482

The Business of Compassion: Miyoko Schinner on PYP 481

Hurricane Ida - appeal for immediate funds by Josh LaJaunie: PYP 480

Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge: Jeremy Narby on PYP 479

Why You Should Care About Sharks: James Sulikowski on PYP 478

How to Change (Science-based Edition): Katy Milkman on PYP 477

The Making of "Meat Me Halfway": Brian Kateman on PYP 476

The Plant-Based Athlete: Matt Frazier, Robert Cheeke, and Josh LaJaunie on PYP 475

The World Needs You to Love Your Work: Alaina Love on PYP 474

Calories, Love, and Growth: Josh LaJaunie on PYP 473

Learning to Listen: A Guide to Ethical Mindfulness: Lani Muelrath on PYP 472

Exercise Doesn't Burn More Calories and You Should Do It Anyway: Herman Pontzer on PYP 471

Free Yourself from Conflict: Jen Goldman-Wetzler on PYP 470

Cool Beans and Indoor Agriculture: Tyler Mayoras on PYP 469

What are You Really Hungry For?: Tara Kemp on PYP 468

A World in Which We All Belong: Teju Ravilochan on PYP 467

Healing Ourselves to Heal the Climate: Jack Adam Weber on PYP 466

Mastering the Chatter in Our Heads: Glenn Murphy on PYP 465

How is Your Story Showing Up in Your Life?: Michele Olender on PYP 464

Getting Fluent in Digital Body Language: Erica Dhawan on PYP 463

Cooking and Eating for a Connected World: Lois Ellen Frank on PYP 462

How to Reverse Global Warming: Marco Vangelisti on PYP 461

Helping Stressed-Out Kids Cope with Life: Shoshana Chaim on PYP 460

Addicted to Spontaneous Decision-Making: Glenn Livingston, PhD on PYP 459

How to Be a Contented Vegan: Peggy Brusseau on PYP 458

Meat Analogues, High-tech Protein, and Balancing Life, Work, and Art: Nava Atlas on PYP 457

From Diversity to Belonging: How to Create Workplaces that Work for Everyone: Jennifer McCollum of Linkage, Inc. on PYP 456

How to Connect with Your Soul and Find Your True Purpose: Bill Plotkin on PYP 455

Can You Change Other People? Howard Jacobson on Chef AJ Live

How to Change Other People Without Being an A-hole: Glenn Murphy and Howie Jacobson on PYP 453