The PBN Podcast

So Vegan was created by Roxy Pope and Ben Pook. The couple have spent the last year pouring their heart and soul in to building a huge following of 1 million people.

Previously working at Buzzfeed Pook saw an opportunity to make a popular social media format they joined forces and So Vegan was born.

More recently they created 'So Vegan In Five' their brilliant new vegan cookbook. Order the cookbook now https://amzn.to/2POvvv0

We discussed what inspired them to start 'So Vegan' being a couple, the power of using food to convince people to try vegan

You can connect with Roxy and Ben Here

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/wearesovegan

Website: https://www.wearesovegan.com

Presented by Robbie Lockie | Edited & Produced by Gareth Cobb

I really loved this interview with Brian Turner. I have been following him for many years now.

Brian is incredibly articulate and passionate. Truly bursting with joy. His infectious nature is a real pleasure to be around.

We talked about his childhood, having chronic cystic acne, body-building, staying positive and the vegan movement.

You can follow Brian here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/HumerusFitness

https://www.instagram.com/BrianTurnerOfficial/

https://www.facebook.com/brian.turner.1257604

https://twitter.com/BeyondtheWeak

Presented by Robbie Lockie | Edited by Ciaran Austin

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Animal activist Leah Garcés became the first female president of animal-rights group Mercy For Animals (MFA) on October 1. Garcés has worked in animal advocacy for 20 years, most recently as executive director of Compassion in World Farming USA, and was instrumental to exposing animal cruelty and unfair labor practices at Perdue Farms in 2013, which led to substantive changes in the company’s animal-welfare practices three years later. In her activism, Garcés operates under a vegan bottom line that applies to all animals, including humans.

To find out more about Mercy For Animals click here https://mercyforanimals.org

Connect with Leah - https://twitter.com/leah_compassion

Presented by Robbie Lockie | Edited by Ciaran Austin

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Presented by Robbie Lockie Edited by Ciaran Austin.

Artist Kay Lovelle is a passionate vegan who wants the lifestyle to become mainstream. Her dream job would be as an animal activist. She’d love to save animals across the world and create a loving, peaceful sanctuary for them.

While she currently works as an artist, creating 3D wall sculptures and 3D phallic art, she has also done some acting in her time. Her favourite role was playing a Russian assassin on an HBO series.

She walked out of the Big Brother house in 2018.

Follow Kay here https://www.instagram.com/mylittlekay/?hl=en

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Presented by Robbie Lockie | Edited by Ciaran Austin

Rachael Ama is a joyful, erudite and inspirational person.

Rachel can be found dancing and singing along to her favourite tunes cooking up a vegan storm on Youtube!

Sharing everything she creates and finds from recipes to vegan skincare with warmth and humour – welcoming everyone, whatever their food beliefs, to give the vegan life a go – preferably with the tunes turned up loud!

Find out more about Rachael and her wonderful foodie adventures at https://www.rachelama.com and visit Rachel on her Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdkRT_G7eqNTytm52zMw40g

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Edric Kennedy-Macfoy was born and raised in West London and worked in the London Fire Brigade for over 13 years, attending many of the capital's most dramatic incidents during that time. He recently appeared on ITV's 'Inside London Fire Brigade', which saw Edric and his colleagues respond to the Croydon tram derailment of November 2016 and the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017.

Checkout Edric's Books:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C6YTFF7/

In To The Fire https://www.amazon.co.uk/Into-Fire-Life-London-Firefighter/dp/0593080378/

Chase has been pushing the arts of Parkour and Free Running since they first came to the UK over 20 years ago. Chase is known as a pioneer in the sport and has shared inspiration across the globe through his personal and professional projects. Founder of the world famous Parkour team 3RUN who travel the world working on feature films, commercials, live shows, promotional events and producing their own mind blowing action films.

Chase has a long history in Chinese Martial Arts. He became British champion multiple times competing around the World. He also has the Guinness World Record for the farthest back flip off a wall over a moving car! WATCH RECORD. Chase is a student to all types of movement, from skydiving to rock climbing, snowboarding and Capoeira, anything that will better his performance and understanding of self. He has trained and worked with some of the Worlds top stunt men and developed a deep understanding of stunts for cinema and how to get the most from each and every shot.

His passion runs deep into every level of film making, not only is he an action actor, parkour athlete and choreographer, he directs short films and tv commercials that have racked up over 40 million views on Youtube and been nominated for multiple awards.

“I literally love what I do, I have never even considered it as work, it’s my passion. When your doing what you love you give it your all. It’s all about progression for me, to better my previous work and explore new possibilities. Most importantly, it’s got to be fun!”

Chase has played a pivotal role in the development of the Parkour and Free Running scene. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the sport and helped shape its evolution into a more acrobatic expression of movement. With 20 years of experience Chase is an absolute asset to any project looking to co-ordinate a live performance or put together an action scene for film. Chase has been employed by feature films such as You got Served and Mind gamers to supervise the Parkour, supplying the team, creating the choreography and shooting and editing the previz through to performing on screen and shooting second unit. Chase has been performing Parkour at world class level for live shows, events, films, music videos and TV commercials. He holds a Guinness world record for wall flipping over a moving car and has safely completed 25 flips over a speeding car in front of live audiences around the world.

Find out more about Chase here https://www.chasearmitage.com

Presented by Robbie Lockie | Edited by Ciaran Austin

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Presented by Robbie Lockie | Edited by Ciaran Austin

Denai is a singer, song-writer and even a vegan chef. Denai was born in Jamaica, but moved to the UK when she was just 10 years old. Denai has also got a residency at the Jamaican restaurant Buster Mantis, in Deptford London.

Denai also runs her own popup vegan Jamaican vegan restaurant Dee's Table.

Denai, will be releasing her new album soon, keep an eye on plantbasednews.org for updates.

Follow Denai:

http://www.denaimoore.com

https://www.instagram.com/dees_table

Check out Denai's Album: https://denai-moore.bleepstores.com/release/84177-denai-moore-we-used-to-bloom

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Hosted by Robbie Lockie Edited by Ciaran Austin

Dr. Sailesh Rao has over 32 years of professional experience and is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers, a non-profit dedicated towards healing the Earth’s climate. A systems specialist with a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, conferred in 1986, Dr. Rao worked on the Internet communications infrastructure for twenty years after graduation. In 2006, he switched careers and became deeply immersed, full time, in the environmental crises affecting humanity and has been studying how to reverse them and achieve global sustainability from a systems perspective.

Dr. Rao is the author of the 2011 book, Carbon Dharma: The Occupation of Butterflies and the 2016 book, Carbon Yoga: The Vegan Metamorphosis. He is an Executive Producer of the trilogy of documentaries "THEY Don't Want You To See", The Human Experiment (2013), Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014) and What The Health (2017), which explore the systemic causes of human and environmental ill health. He is also an Executive Producer of the forthcoming documentary, "A Prayer for Compassion". Dr. Rao has over 50 standards contributions to the ATM Forum and the IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD Working Group, 22 peer-reviewed technical publications, 10 U.S . Patents and 3 Canadian Patents and has received numerous awards throughout his career.

In this podcast we discussed the future of humanity, his organisations focus of seeing a vegan world by 2026, how we summon courage to continue our work as advocates, how his granddaughter helped him awaken to his true mission and much more.

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Roger Frampton is what some may consider a chameleon. Never quite fitting in to a mould. Never bowing to the expectations of others and walking his own path. He was born in to a family of 8 siblings, of which he is the middle child. We discussed his life on the farm, his attitudes towards life. His highly successful TEDx talk and much more.

You can connect with Roger here https://roger.coach

Buy Rogers Book https://amzn.to/2x6NKVT

Or watch his TEDx Talk 'Why Sitting Down Destroys You" https://youtu.be/jOJLx4Du3vU

Enjoy!

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