The Korean Vegan with Joanne Molinaro

As ChatGPT appears ready to burst from its own “Plateau of Latent Potential,” The Korean Vegan community rises up as AI hits a little too close to home.

View the Episode Page on The Korean Vegan Website for pictures, a recipe, and this week's "Updates and Random Things."

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Joanne speaks of leadership, the "Plateau of Latent Potential," and "men whose laughter bare broken teeth and lovers’ tears." 

Visit the Episode Page on The Korean Vegan website for exciting updates this week, including: Changing The Game in Food & Wine, Joanne's first ever food products, and a visit to Miyoko's Animal Sanctuary.

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In this week's episode, Joanne speaks with Miyoko Schinner, the creator and founder of Miyoko's Creamery. From going vegetarian when she was only 12 years old, to lugging 60 pounds of poundcake around Japan, to starting a multi-million dollar company after the age of 50, Miyoko has an inspiring story you won't want to miss.

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Have you ever felt that you and your partner were speaking different languages? This week, Joanne Molinaro, New York Times Bestselling Author, talks about the one thing that sometimes eludes even the most talented linguists: love languages. Plus, Ask Joanne, and a bit of poetic prose on love in Parting Thoughts.

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For this week's Updates & Random Things and Joanne's Apple Donut recipe, visit the episode webpage here.

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This is Sascha Edge, one of the most inspiring athletes you’ll ever meet. At the age of 43, Sascha took up running and completed his first ever marathon in 3 hours and 58 minutes. Then, he got faster every single year until setting his current personal best time of 2 hours and 47 minutes at 54 years old!

Sascha’s run 10 consecutive Chicago Marathons, setting a Personal Best in each race (yes, he got faster every year!), he’s won countless age group titles, competed in the World Marathon Majors Age Group World Championship, and is a World Marathon Major Six Star Finisher.

In this week's episode, we talk about all of that. Plus, his emotional 2013 Boston Marathon experience, his incredible 81-year-old mother Trisha who runs 40+ miles per week, and his plans to get faster and run a 2:45 marathon this year at age 56!! 

Sascha and his Mother Trisha featured in this month's Runner's World Magazine

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Earlier this week, like you, I was horrified to read  yet another headline  about yet another mass murderer armed with yet another AR-15 semi-automatic rifle destroying the lives and families of yet another round of needless victims. A 6-year old boy lost his mother, father, and 3-year old brother. A young mother is currently lying unconscious in a hospital bed. When she wakes up, she will learn that her 8-year old and 11 -year old daughters were killed.

I'm sick of these stupid headlines. I'm sick of the helplessness I feel every time this happens. I'm sick of how quickly politicians move to gaslight what, by now, can only be described as a national epidemic of chronic grief.

Because that is exactly what this is--we are in a state of constant grief. Unlike normal grief, we are never allowed respite from our mourning. Rather,

• We are forced to endure 208 mass shootings in less than half a year.

So, WHY is the United States so embarrassingly and FATALLY obsessed with guns?

"I'm not saying that it's always a bad thing. There are people who view plastic surgery as a tool to make surface level corrections only, like a bandaid over a paper cut, a bit of concealer over a pimple. But as you'll hear, that simply wasn't the case for me. In the end, I discovered that the wounds I was trying to heal were simply too deep to reach--even on the operating table."

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Meet Eric Kim, author of the instant New York Times bestselling cookbook Korean American, and staff writer and essayist for The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. In this week’s episode, Joanne and Eric discuss kimchi, representation, and Eric’s childhood dream of becoming a pop star.

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"Inevitably, I started feeling better about myself, physically and mentally. Don't get me wrong--I still hated physical movement of any kind, but I hated it less than I loved the feeling of accomplishment after each workout; I hated it less than I loved the way my body was changing; I hated it less than I loved knowing that I was doing something good for myself."

On the heels of last week's episode with her running coach Dan Walters, Joanne today looks into the science behind habit formation, and how it might help you develop and stay motivated to maintain a consistent fitness regime.

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In this week’s episode, Joanne talks not only running with her long time coach Dan Walters, but more than that, she uncovers the story of how this one time engineer turned his passion and side hustle into an incredibly successful career as the head coach of DWRunning, the Chicago-based running team that Dan today leads with his wife Allie.

DWRunning is comprised of approximately 150 athletes and currently boasts 288 race wins, 496 Boston Marathon qualifying marks, 5 Olympic Marathon Trials appearances, countless personal bests and Age Group wins, and even a Beer Mile Champion!

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