Plantarion Podcast

Welcome to Episode 070 of the Plantarion Podcast. Naijha Wright-Brown talks with Chef Day Radley, founder of The Vegan Chef School.

Chef Day Radley became vegan in 1995, when there were very limited resources for creating vegan meals and it was virtually unheard of to have vegan options in restaurants. This gave Chef Day a need to teach herself to cook after growing tired of the few readymade options available. First, she made recipes from cookbooks and friends and then began to veganize non-vegan recipes. Chef Day became a professional chef in 2010 and has developed recipes for the likes of Birdseye & PepsiCo.

Her main aim is to help as many people as possible pursue their career in vegan food. The Vegan Chef School has created over 100 vegan chefs to date!

Chef Day believes that the possibilities are endless, and we are only at the start of developing this ground-breaking cuisine. The Vegan Chef School offers courses to help further the knowledge of keen vegan foodies, teach them to cook tasty dishes at home and help propel them into becoming professional vegan chefs.

Welcome to Episode 069 of the Plantarion Podcast. Andy Nevers talks with Anthony Masiello, Co-founder and CEO of Plant Based TeleHealth.

Anthony has been working in healthcare for more than 25 years. His professional career started in the 90s at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) doing bioinformatics for the Human Genome Project. He later shifted into Research and Development at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, where he was interested in contributing more directly to the development of new disease therapies.

Finally, after learning there is a better way, he shifted his focus once again and is now 100% focused on providing access to medical services centered on the prevention and reversal of disease utilizing lifestyle medicine rooted in whole food plant-based nutrition.

Anthony first came to a plant-based lifestyle himself after being denied a 20-year term life insurance policy at age 33. He was morbidly obese, weighing more than 360 pounds, medicated for high blood pressure, and suffering from psoriasis, eczema, migraine headaches, and sleep apnea. Through the transition to a whole food plant-based diet and healthy lifestyle, Anthony lost 160 lbs. and reversed all of these conditions. He has maintained that weight loss, optimal health, and a greatly improved quality of life for more than 15 years and counting.

Anthony’s personal health transformation has been featured on the Megyn Kelly Today show, on PBS, in The Huffington Post, in the bestselling book Eat to Live, and by Forks Over Knives, Runners World, and numerous magazines, web sites, radio shows, podcasts, and articles.

Welcome to Episode 068 of the Plantarion Podcast. Letha Coughlin talks with Dr. Marissa Castello, graduate from Bastyr University.

As a leading expert on mind-body health, Dr. Marissa has been practicing Naturopathic Medicine since 2016. Her mission as a mother and healer is to promote sustainable nutrition, energy medicine, and healing on the deepest levels. She wrote her first cookbook, Sauced, last year to get even the most rookie chef in the kitchen inspired to eat a healthier, plant-based diet.

Serving clients with compassion, positive energy, and professional expertise, she is committed to guiding empaths and sensitives to realize their full potential so that they can confidently face the future.

Welcome to Episode 067 of the Plantarion Podcast. Brittany Absher talks with Dr. Michael A. Klaper, a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago.

Dr. Klaper received postgraduate training in internal medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, and orthopedics at University of British Columbia teaching hospitals in Vancouver and obstetrics at the University of California at San Francisco. He has practiced acute care medicine in Hawaii, Canada, California, Florida and New Zealand.

Far more fulfilling to him is his current practice, focusing on health-promoting food and lifestyle choices to help people prevent the need for hospitalization and surgery.

A long-time radio host and a pilot, Dr. Klaper has served as nutrition advisor to NASA’s programs for space colonists on the Moon and Mars and on the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Students Association.

To improve his own health, and to minimize suffering of sentient beings, Dr. Klaper adopted a plant-based diet in 1981. On his website, DoctorKlaper.com, visitors can find the latest nutrition information through his numerous articles and videos and support his ‚ÄúMoving Medicine Forward‚ÄĚ Initiative to promote applied nutrition being taught in medical schools.

Welcome to Episode 066 of the Plantarion Podcast. Naijha Wright-Brown talks with Kimbo Rose, founder of Whole Rose Nutrition.

Kimbo utilizes nutritional, spiritual, physical, and motivational techniques aimed at inspiring and directing clients to overall wellness, providing them with the tools they need to live an authentic and healthy life. Kimbo graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Health Coaching, New York City (INHC) and has over 20 years’ experience changing people’s lives through fitness, music, and nutrition. She is a devoted mother and lives with her husband in Watertown Ma.

Kimbo is also the co-owner and boxing/fitness coach at STC Boxing & Fitness. Having been a competitive athlete herself and a certified USA Boxing Instructor, she puts theory into practice when specializing in lifestyle change, energy renewal and nutritional education for athletes.

Welcome to Episode 065 of the Plantarion Podcast. Brittany Absher talks with Cheryl Leahy, Executive Director at Animal Outlook.

As Executive Director of Animal Outlook, a national nonprofit animal protection organization, Cheryl is responsible for development and oversight of investigations, litigation and policy, and effecting mainstream corporate and cultural change to shift away from animal products and reduce the suffering of farmed animals.

Cheryl and her work have been featured in media outlets including NPR, The Washington Post and many others. She is a regular speaker at law schools and conferences.

Cheryl received a J.D. from UCLA School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Chicago in Environmental Studies. She is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and California bars and is based in Los Angeles.

Welcome to Episode 064 of the Plantarion Podcast. Letha Coughlin talks to Dana Ellis Hunnes, Assistant Professor with the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA and Senior Dietitian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Dana has dedicated herself to understanding the relationships among climate change, food choices, and food security, and how they affect our health. She earned her BS in nutrition and human biology from Cornell University, her RD at Emory University, and her Masters of Public Health (MPH) and PhD in climate change and food security from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Welcome to Episode 063 of the Plantarion Podcast. Naijha Wright-Brown talks to Katrina Fox, Australian Journalist, PR Consultant, copywriter, and content marketing writer.

Katrina Fox is the founder of Vegan Business Media, host of the Vegan Business Talk podcast, author of Vegan Ventures: Start and Grow an Ethical Business, the first global book providing success strategies for aspiring and existing vegan business owners, and founder of VIVAS, a global community for vegan women leaders.

Katrina has written extensively for niche and mainstream media for 25 years on animal advocacy and ethical business and was a regular Forbes contributor specializing in writing about vegan and plant-based businesses.

A vegan of 25 years, Katrina teaches vegan business owners how to do their own PR and get free media coverage through her signature online course Vegans in the Limelight.

She loves glitter, bling, disco and ABBA.

Welcome to Episode 062 of the Plantarion Podcast. Brittney Absher talks to Chef AJ, a well-known plant-based chef for over 40 years.

Chef AJ has been devoted to a plant-exclusive diet for over 43 years. She is the host of the television series Healthy Living with CHEF AJ which airs on Foody TV. A chef, culinary instructor, and professional speaker, she is the author of the popular book Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and Your Ideal Weight, which chronicles her journey from an obese junk-food vegan faced with a diagnosis of pre-cancerous polyps, to learning how to create foods that nourish and heal the body. Her latest bestselling book The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss: A Revolutionary Approach to Conquer Cravings, Overcome Food Addiction and Lose Weight Without Going Hungry has received glowing endorsement by many luminaries in the plant-based movement.

Chef AJ was the Executive Pastry Chef at Santé Restaurant in Los Angeles where she was famous for her sugar, oil, salt, and gluten-free desserts which use the fruit, the whole fruit, and nothing but the whole fruit. These recipes can be found in her upcoming book A Date With Dessert. She is the creator of the Ultimate Weight Loss Program, which has helped hundreds of people achieve the health and the body that they deserve and is proud to say that her IQ is higher than her cholesterol. In 2018 she was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame.

Welcome to Episode 061 of the Plantarion Podcast. Letha Coughlin talks with Wendy Matthews, U.S. Director at Veganuary.

Wendy Matthews is the US Director of Veganuary and has overseen the nonprofit’s campaign in the US since its launch in January 2020. She has been actively involved in the vegan/animal-protection movement for over a decade, previously having worked with Farm Sanctuary as Senior Manager of Engagement and Social Impact. Wendy is passionate about creating resources that help people live in alignment with their values and supporting businesses in shifting towards plant-based to meet the rise in consume consciousness.