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My good friend and neighbor Kathy Hester is a combination cookbook factory and mad scientist. I like having her on the podcast partly because I get lonely and it's fun to have in-studio guests, and partly because she brings me vegan goodies to share with my family, and partly because she is always pushing the boundaries on how to make healthy plant-based meals easier and tastier and mainstreamier.Her latest book, The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook for Your Instant Pot: 80 Easy and Delicious Plant-Based Recipes That You Can Make in Half the Time, capitalizes on the electric pressure cooker craze sweeping the plant-based community. I basically cook soups and stews in my Instant Pot, and I love that I can get totally absent-minded and nothing bad happens. But Kathy takes everything to the next level, and this book shares clever ways to extend the usefulness of the Instant Pot to many other types of food.Kathy's working on a new book about the latest healthy cooking gadget, the Air Fryer. I have never seen one, or used one, or tasted anything made in one, so this was all new territory to me. We'll see if I catch the bug.

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My good friend and neighbor Kathy Hester is a combination cookbook factory and mad scientist. I like having her on the podcast partly because I get lonely and it's fun to have in-studio guests, and partly because she brings me vegan goodies to share with my family, and partly because she is always pushing the boundaries on how to make healthy plant-based meals easier and tastier and mainstreamier.

Her latest book, The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook for Your Instant Pot: 80 Easy and Delicious Plant-Based Recipes That You Can Make in Half the Time, capitalizes on the electric pressure cooker craze sweeping the plant-based community. I basically cook soups and stews in my Instant Pot, and I love that I can get totally absent-minded and nothing bad happens. But Kathy takes everything to the next level, and this book shares clever ways to extend the usefulness of the Instant Pot to many other types of food.

Kathy's working on a new book about the latest healthy cooking gadget, the Air Fryer. I have never seen one, or used one, or tasted anything made in one, so this was all new territory to me. We'll see if I catch the bug.

In our conversation, we covered:

* the importance of meal templates

* meeting the Instant Pot for the first time

* the goal of her books: empowerment

* why Kathy promotes other cookbook authors in her own works

* how the Instant Pot can improve your life

* using Pyrex and other Instant Pot inserts

* example: egg roll soup

* Kathy's method of recipe development (like oat-based vegan cheese)

* “you can't succeed unless you're willing to fail”

* most people use just 5-10 recipes per cookbook

* what is an air fryer?

* and much more…

Enjoy, add your voice to the conversation via the comment box below, and please share – that's how we spread our message and spread our roots.

Links

The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook for Your Instant Pot: 80 Easy and Delicious Plant-Based Recipes That You Can Make in Half the Time

Vegan Cooking in Your Air Fryer: 75 Incredible Comfort Food Recipes with Half the Calories pre-order for January 2018 delivery)

Kathy's website: HealthySlowCooking.com

JL Fields' Vegan Air Fryer Facebook Group

Vegan Cooking with Kathy Hester Facebook Group

Will Bonsall on Seed Saving

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Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness know a lot about burnout. They were up-and-comers in their respective fields - consulting and running - and neither managed to live up to their early promise. Both "burned out," losing interest, passion, and the performance edge they had honed through years of hard work and deliberate practice.As they rebuilt their lives, they both gravitated to the field of high performance. Wondering what happened, perhaps, and seeking a way to turn things around for themselves and others.Today their efforts have culminated in the release of a new book, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success. It's fantastic. It's incredibly useful. It's inspiring. It's fun to read. And best of all, it's 100% evidence-based.

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Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness know a lot about burnout. They were up-and-comers in their respective fields – consulting and running – and neither managed to live up to their early promise. Both “burned out,” losing interest, passion, and the performance edge they had honed through years of hard work and deliberate practice.

As they rebuilt their lives, they both gravitated to the field of high performance. Wondering what happened, perhaps, and seeking a way to turn things around for themselves and others.

Today their efforts have culminated in the release of a new book, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success. It's fantastic. It's incredibly useful. It's inspiring. It's fun to read. And best of all, it's 100% evidence-based.

Brad is a repeat guest on the show. I first interviewed him after being blown away by an article he wrote on the psychological benefits of exercise, and he mentioned that this book was in the works. I made him promise to come back on the show to talk about it, and by golly the man kept his word! And it was worth the wait…

In our conversation, we covered:

* the growth equation

* strategies for priming peak performance at a moment's (or year's) notice

* the surprising power of purpose

* the imperative of avoiding burnout

* the overwhelming evidence for the importance of rest and recovery

* a paradigm shift on the role of training and sleep for increasing capacity

* “the courage to rest” – why it's so hard for top performers to take a break

* the value of a 3-week vacation

* “growth comes at the point of resistance”

* “skills come from struggle” – why getting it wrong is the best teacher

* why reflecting on our core values makes habit change easier to maintain

* why a meaningful purpose can elicit superhuman feats

* Meb's reason for racing the Boston Marathon

* “performance is contagious” – the power of community

* the value of a personal mission statement

* and much more…

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Peak Performance

BradStulberg.com

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– Kim Harrison

– Lynn McLellan

– Anthony Dissen

– Brittany Porter

– Dominic Marro

– Barbara Whitney

– Tammy Black

– Amy Good

– Amanda Hatherly

– Mary Jane Wheeler

– Ellen Kennelly

– Melissa Cobb

– Rachel Behrens

– Christine Nielsen

– Tina Scharf

– Tina Ahern

– Jen Vilkinofsky

– David Byczek

– Michele X

– Elspeth Feldman

– Viktoriya Dolomanova

– Leah Stolar

– Allan Kristensen

– Colleen Peck

– Michele Landry

– Jozina

– Julianne Rowland

– Stu Dolnick

– Sara Durkacs (rhymes with circus)

– Kelly Cameron

– Wayne Pedersen

– Leanne Peterson

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Florence Williams is the author of a must-read book, The Nature Fix. Why must-read? Because contact with nature, it turns out, is one of the foundational elements of human health and well-being.Florence is not only a great science journalist, she's a fantastic storyteller, and all-around hilarious writer. In case you think of science books as medicine, this one is coated in enough sugar to make you feel like you're reading a guilty pleasure.

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Florence Williams is the author of a must-read book, The Nature Fix. Why must-read? Because contact with nature, it turns out, is one of the foundational elements of human health and well-being.

To be well, in other words, we need to

Eat nature (whole food, plant-based diet)

Breath nature (clean air)

Drink nature (clean water)

Move in our natural habitat (bipedal locomotion)

And now, thanks to The Nature Fix, I realize that we must also bathe our senses in nature in order to be vibrant and well (and sane!).

Florence is not only a great science journalist, she's a fantastic storyteller, and all-around hilarious writer. In case you think of science books as medicine, this one is coated in enough sugar to make you feel like you're reading a guilty pleasure.

In our conversation, we covered:

* Florence's first book on how environmental degradation is harming our health

* why The Nature Fix focused on the positive aspects of nature

* from two decades in the Rocky Mountains to the noisy suburbs of DC: “like a stress bomb had gone off in my brain”

* the new scientific tools that allow exploration of brain states in nature

* the initial impetus for the book: an assignment from Outside magazine on Forest Bathing in Japan

* the difference between the Asian and American approach to the benefits of nature

* reconciling romantic and reductionist views of nature

* the surprisingly non-obvious fact that humans are animals

* our epidemic dislocation from our natural environments

* “biophilia”: our innate connection to living systems

* particle physics, Jackson Pollock, and our brains on fractal patterns in nature

* nature as a treatment for ADHD

* nature as a treatment for PTSD

* the noise epidemic: 85 of all land in the lower 48 US states is within a mile of a roadway

* why airplanes, and leaf blowers trigger our body's fight or flight response (even when we're asleep)

* schools in flight paths show lower reading scores

* Oregon's Prop 99 and other solutions

* and much more…

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The Nature Fix, by Florence Williams

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, by Florence Williams

Florence Williams' website

Transcript

Download transcript in PDF format: The Nature Fix with Florence Williams: PYP 212

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– Kim Harrison

– Lynn McLellan

– Anthony Dissen

– Brittany Porter

– Dominic Marro

– Barbara Whitney

– Tammy Black

– Amy Good

– Amanda Hatherly

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– Ellen Kennelly

– Melissa Cobb

– Rachel Behrens

– Christine Nielsen

– Tina Scharf

– Tina Ahern

– Jen Vilkinofsky

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Lee Slonimsky is both a financial wizard and an accomplished poet. His abiding interests include social justice and animal welfare.Lee has managed to fit all these skills, interests, and passions into a singular and impactful life. He's the co-founder of Next Era Capital Partners LLC, the country's first hedge fund majority owned by Native Americans. He uses his investment chops to shift the capitalist game from amassing resources at any cost to using capital as a tool to reorient business toward more life-sustaining practices.He's also published several volumes of poetry, as well as a detective novel, Bermuda Gold, that fictionalizes the scandalous and secretive world of hedge funds.

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Lee Slonimsky is both a financial wizard and an accomplished poet. His abiding interests include social justice and animal welfare.

Lee has managed to fit all these skills, interests, and passions into a singular and impactful life. He's the co-founder of Next Era Capital Partners LLC, the country's first hedge fund majority owned by Native Americans. He uses his investment chops to shift the capitalist game from amassing resources at any cost to using capital as a tool to reorient business toward more life-sustaining practices.

He's also published several volumes of poetry, as well as a detective novel, Bermuda Gold, that fictionalizes the scandalous and secretive world of hedge funds.

In our conversation, we covered:

* Lee's “spiderman” moment and his gradual conversion to an animal rights advocate

* early exposure to finance

* the first rule of successful investing: “don't be greedy”

* hedge funds and their outsized influence over modern politics

* the leading contributors to political movements are on the left, not the right

* how the 1940 Private Investment Act created the largest secret accumulation of wealth in human history

* how investors can take down animal agriculture

* why shorting beef and pork futures is a smart (and powerful) bet

* how to engage in activism with your own investments, no matter how modest

* a 20-minute activism practice that can change the world (finding the right person to email)

* the worst company in the world for the environment and animals

* how to raise consciousness of the cruelty inherent in factory farming – even without mandating glass walls

* lessons from the 1970s tuna boycott

* the underutilized influence of pension funds

* why being an investor is so much more powerful than being a consumer

* and much more…

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Bermuda Gold, by Lee Slonimsky

Consulting With The Swifts: New and Selected Poems 1982-2016, by Lee Slonimsky

Red-Tailed Hawk on Wall Street, by Lee Slonimsky

Email Lee: *protected email*

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– Kim Harrison

– Lynn McLellan

– Anthony Dissen

– Brittany Porter

– Dominic Marro

– Barbara Whitney

– Tammy Black

– Amy Good

– Amanda Hatherly

– Mary Jane Wheeler

– Ellen Kennelly

– Melissa Cobb

– Rachel Behrens

– Christine Nielsen

– Tina Scharf

– Tina Ahern

– Jen Vilkinofsky

– David Byczek

– Michele X

– Elspeth Feldman

– Viktoriya Dolomanova

– Leah Stolar

– Allan Kristensen

– Colleen Peck

– Michele Landry

– Jozina

– Julianne Rowland

– Stu Dolnick

– Sara Durkacs (rhymes with circus)

– Kelly Cameron

– Wayne Pedersen

– Leanne Peterson

– Janet Selby

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On the road from Marshall, Texas to MSY airport in New Orleans, Josh LaJaunie and I (shown, left, after surviving the Crescent City Classic 10k and attaining new personal records) tried out a concept that we've been playing with for about a year.Josh came up with it originally (not that no one's ever thought it before, but he was the first person who articulated it in a way that empowered me to make good decisions based on it).And the more I applied it, the more it started looking like the Unified Field Theory of How to Be an Authentic Human.The concept is Naturally Attainable Quantities.

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On the road from Marshall, Texas to MSY airport in New Orleans, Josh LaJaunie and I (shown, left, after surviving the Crescent City Classic 10k and attaining new personal records) tried out a concept that we've been playing with for about a year.

Josh came up with it originally (not that no one's ever thought it before, but he was the first person who articulated it in a way that empowered me to make good decisions based on it).

And the more I applied it, the more it started looking like the Unified Field Theory of How to Be an Authentic Human.

The concept is Naturally Attainable Quantities. (When we have a book and a TV show and a media empire, we'll probably abbreviate it as NAQ and copyright it and paste it on shirt and hats and temporary tattoos and stuff.)

We apply the concept to a bunch of questions, including:

* how much bone broth should we consume?

* what about candy?

* bread?

* beans?

* sweet potatoes?

* kale?

* how much should we exercise?

* what kinds of exercise?

* how hard should we exert ourselves?

* and much more…

I hope you enjoy the conversation, and that the concept of NAQ helps you as much as it's helped me.

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Josh's Website: JoshLaJaunie.com

HealthFest – Marshall Texas

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– Lynn McLellan

– Anthony Dissen

– Brittany Porter

– Dominic Marro

– Barbara Whitney

– Tammy Black

– Amy Good

– Amanda Hatherly

– Mary Jane Wheeler

– Ellen Kennelly

– Melissa Cobb

– Rachel Behrens

– Christine Nielsen

– Tina Scharf

– Tina Ahern

– Jen Vilkinofsky

– David Byczek

– Michele X

– Elspeth Feldman

– Viktoriya Dolomanova

– Leah Stolar

– Allan Kristensen

– Colleen Peck

– Michele Landry

– Jozina

– Julianne Rowland

– Stu Dolnick

– Sara Durkacs (rhymes with circus)

– Kelly Cameron

– Wayne Pedersen

– Leanne Peterson

– Janet Selby

– Claire Adams

– Tom Fronczak

– Jeannette Benham

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