The Healthification Podcast

Todays encore episode about Following Your Gut, and Saying Yes is a surprise ALL TIME FAV of mine. I am keeping this intro brief however you will hear Tanya and I discuss the plant based, rock n roll TV series Highway to Health and EXCITINGLY it is being released on YouTube as I speak. If you LOVE the sound of the show ...

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Emma Hakansson is the founding director of Collective Fashion Justice, a not-for-profit dedicated to creating a total ethics fashion system which prioritises the wellbeing of human and non-human animals, as well as the planet, before profit. Total ethics fashion is a term coined by Emma and it recognises that (to quote https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/) Conversations around improving fashion have been tunnel-visioned by looking at only one ...

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When I first discovered Plant Coach, and plantrepreneur Nick Cutsumpas I immediately needed to know more. I loved the sound of his mission to help people excel in plant parenthood. Do we need such a coach you might ask? And then perhaps you sift through your past experiences in excitedly filling your home with plants only to have them day by day wilt or turn yellow ...

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Plant friends if you have been listening to this podcast for a while you likely know I am a huge red wine lover! Shiraz especially. I was delighted to recently discover Goodwill Wine, Australia’s only certified social enterprise wine company.  Goodwill was founded by David Laity in 2009 and has donated over half a million dollars to Australian charities by empowering its customers to choose which charity they ...

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John Lewis AKA The Badass Vegan is not your stereotypical vegan. Side-note: I will be ecstatic when there is no longer such a thing as a stereotypical vegan! Back to John, he’s six-foot-six, African American, has the build of a guy who played Division 1 college basketball… and he hasn’t had any animal protein in fifteen years. Importantly John’s approach to spreading the ...

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My guest in this encore episode, acclaimed Financial Times journalist Henry Mance certainly did his research before deciding as an animal lover, he really needed to be vegan. This included a job at a slaughter house and at a pig farm. Henry learnt: “Everything I love about animals – their adaptations to the natural environment, their otherness to the human world, their speed and elegance ...

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Have you heard the glorious quote, by previous president of the American College of Cardiology Kim Williams, (“I like to joke…) There are two kinds of cardiologist: vegans and those who haven’t read the data.” I like to joke is often left off the quote however either way, my guest today vegan Cardiologist Dr Heather Shenkman has certainly read the data! Dr Shenkman first became vegetarian for ...

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Why I Stopped Being An Angry Vegan! Can it be as easy as A.B.C.? I’m getting my acronym on AND I have plenty of actionable steps however first, The Angry Vegan Background. After spending 23 years vegetarian “for ethical reasons” and because “I didn’t want anyone to die for my food choices” I was both horrified and furious when I learnt that I had been lied to. That we are ALL lied to.  When I watched the documentary ...

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This conversation with ReFarm Fund’s, Omaid Hiwaizi left me on such a high. Filled with the possibilities and the potential to utterly transform our broken food system when we work with farmers to help them transition away from animal farming. Vegan friends, Omaid and I know this is a nuanced issue. So far as Omaid’s, vegan credentials (!) it’s been almost 30 ...

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My guest today, actress and filmmaker Jasmine C. Leyva does not want to be an Invisible Vegan. Jasmine is committed to being the example that was not there for her, when she used to believe veganism was, “a white person thing.” Today, Jasmine and I discuss the feature length documentary, The Invisible Vegan, a film that chronicles Jasmine’s personal experience with plant-based eating. The film explores the historical background of dietary inequality, ...

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