Vegan Posse

Got show topics, guest suggestions questions for our monthly series Posse Talk with Jen Howk, or anything else on your mind? Email [email protected] We loveto hear form you!

Come see Chrissy Benson speak at Vegan Summerfest – and make sure to let them know you’re part of the Vegan Posse and there to see Chrissy: https://summerfest.navs-online.org/

Make the vegan women’s fiction classic Marrying Myself by Christine Melanie Benson an international bestseller! https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/

Chrissy Benson author website: https://christinemelaniebenson.com/

Support the Vegan Posse via Venmo or PayPal:

@veganposse

Buy Chrissy a virtual coffee ($5), chip in for recordingcosts ($15), or become a monthly supporter ($5/month). Thank you from the Posse!

Mark your calendar for the very first Posse Soiree! Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 10:00 a.m. Central via Zoom. It’ll be a cross between group therapy and a fun group hang. It’s totally free – join us at the link below:

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84904559136

This week’s episode with Swedish Music Pro Ulf Blombergon the Black Metal Edge of Vegan!

About Ulf…

Ulf Blomberg has always had a strong DIY streak and aplayful interest for technical stuff, which he’s translated into a successful music career playing in bands, making a bunch of records, and touring the majority of Europe. He’s got a recording studio called HoboRec and has worked with hundreds of bands over the years. Did I mention Ulf is also a vegan and animal rights activist? He and his partner Gina have a black metal band called Black Birch whose ethos is anti-fascist and vegan. Scary? Yes! Scary awesome? Yes yes!

Enjoy this conversation with vegan music professional and activist Ulf Blomberg.

 Ulf Blomberg and HoboRec: https://hoborec.com/

Black Birch on BandCamp: https://blackbirch.bandcamp.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoborec/

Thank you for being part of the Vegan Posse, bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere. This week, we've got two exciting announcements to share...

Announcements:

Support the Vegan Posse via PayPal or Venmo - buy me a virtual coffee ($5) or chip in for recording expenses ($15). Even better, become a monthly supporter!

Venmo: @veganposse

PayPal: @veganposse

Join Chrissy at Vegan Summerfest in Johnstown, PA, July 9-13, 2025. Let them know that you’re part of the Vegan Posse and are coming to hear Chrissy Benson speak: https://summerfest.navs-online.org/contact-us/

Join us for the very first Vegan Posse Soiree!

When: Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 10:00 a.m. Central (U.S.)

Where: Zoom – see link and details below.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84904559136

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This week, the Vegan Posse welcomes bodybuilder and Conscious Muscle founder Jordan Dranes! Jordan loved powerlifting and bodybuilding more than anything in the world – and then veganism came along! Now, Jordan’s muscles are massive, and so is Instagram following, but most massive of all is his compassion for animals, which fuels his work helping thousands and thousands of individuals who want to get strong, get jacked, and crush their fitness  goals. Join the rabid tribe of fans following him on Instagram and get muscle- building tips from a dude who knows what he's talking about!

Do you value the work that we do here at the Vegan Posse bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere?

Support the Vegan Posse financially via PayPal or Venmo: @VeganPosse

Got guest suggestions, comments, or questions for our monthly series Posse Talk with Jen Howk? Email [email protected]

Finally, help normalize veganism through the arts by making the vegan women's fiction classic Marrying Myself an Amazon bestseller! ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠

Chrissy's website: ⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠

Resources:

Follow Jordan everywhere!

Website, www.consciousmuscle.net

 Instagram & FB: @Conscious_Muscle

YouTube: @ConsciousMuscle

Dairy industry "news" story by Chrissy Benson: https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/us/144710/dairy-industry-explains-that-what-it-does-to-bulls-is-totally-different-from-bestiality

Angela Fischetti of Boomre and Beyond Wellness: https://boomerandbeyondwellness.com/

Referenced throughout this episode is spiritual mentor and previous Vegan Posse guest Karen Kenney: https://www.karenkenney.com/

Film A Prayer for Compassion: https://aprayerforcompassion.com/

Film Vegucated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWx_e1wuZQ

Welcome to Posse Talk with Jen Howk, the monthly series where Dr. Jen Howk and I shoot the breeze about veganism, life, love, and anything else on our minds!

Share your questions, thoughts, ideas, and opinions!

Email: [email protected]

If you value the work we do  bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere, consider supporting the Vegan Posse financially via PayPal or Venmo. We appreciate you!

Venmo: https://www.venmo.com/u/veganposse

PayPal: @VeganPosse

Help normalize veganism through the arts by making THE vegan women’s fiction classic, Marrying Myself, an Amazon bestseller:https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/⁠⁠Chrissy Benson website: ⁠⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠⁠

Dr. Jen Howk website: ⁠https://www.jenhowk.com/⁠

Dr. Jen Howk e-book Truth Be Told: ⁠https://jenhowk.gumroad.com/l/truthbetold⁠

The Vegan Posse podcast has been coming to you WITHOUT FAIL every week since October 2022. Do you love bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere? Consider supporting the Vegan Posse financially via PayPal or Venmo:

Buy Chrissy a coffee or chip in for expenses - every amount helps! And even better if you make it monthly: ⁠https://www.venmo.com/u/veganposse⁠

Or send USD or BTCH via PayPal or Venmo to @VeganPosse

Questions, comments, or guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected]

Victoria Moran bio:

Listed by VegNews among the “Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors,” Victoria Moran has written fourteen books on wellbeing and eclectic spirituality, including Creating a Charmed Life, Main Street Vegan, and now: Age Like a Yogi. Victoria discovered yoga in her teens and became vegetarian as a result. She went vegan in 1983 and was inducted last year into the Vegan Hall of Fame. Founder and director of Main Street Vegan Academy, training vegan lifestyle coaches since 2012, Victoria also hosts the Main Street Vegan Podcast. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Rev. William Melton, their dog Rupert, rescued from hoarding, and a half-blind pigeon, Thunder, rescued from the streets of New York City. 

Resources:Victoria Moran author website: https://victoriamoran.com

Main Street Vegan Academy website: 

https://mainstreetvegan.com

Facebook and IG: @VictoriaMoranAuthor

Latest book: Age Like a Yogi: A Heavenly Path toa Dazzling Third Act : https://www.amazon.com/Age-Like-Yogi-Heavenly-Dazzling/dp/1958972592

Upcoming retreat, Feb. 7-9, 2025, at the Kripalu Center forYoga and Health, Stockbridge, Massachusetts: https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/age-yogi

Make vegan women's fiction classic Marrying Myself an Amazon BESTSELLER and normailze veganism through the arts! https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/

Author website: https://christinemelaniebenson.com/

Do you value what we do in bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere? Support the Vegan Posse!

Buy me a coffee! $5

Help w/ recording cost! $10

Montly support - thank you! $25

Or any amount you choose - we appreciate you!

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Help makevegan novelMarrying Myselfan international beststeller and normalize veganism through the arts!

https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/

Christine Melanie Benson website:https://christinemelaniebenson.com/

About our guest...

Valerie Martin is the founder and clinical director of The Gaia Center for Embodied Healing in Nashville, Tennessee. In her own words, Valerie is a Ravenclaw, Enneagram 7, advocate for human and animal liberation, flaming liberal, child-free cat lady, and literal tree-hugger. Valerie is always up to something, and currently that's co-hosting the podcast "But For Real" and working on her doctorate in Existential Humanistic Psychology.

Resources:

The Gaia Center for Embodied Healing:https://gaiacenter.co/

IG:https://instagram.com/valkaymartin/

But For Real podcast:https://linktr.ee/butforrealpod

Eating Animalsby Jonathan Safran Foer:

https://www.amazon.com/Eating-Animals-Jonathan-Safran-Foer/dp/0316069884

Vegan resources from Colleen Patrick Goudreau:

https://colleenpatrickgoudreau.com/

Mind if I Order the Cheeseburger? by Shery Kolb:

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-If-Order-Cheeseburger-Questions/dp/1590563840

Atlanta native and founder of the beloved food blog Sweet Potato Soul, Jenné Claiborne is obsessed with plants. As a picky eater turned certified health coach, Jenné has been enjoying the vibrant health, energy, and joy from eating whole foods for more than a decade without sacrificing her taste for Southern Soul. Jenne just released her second cookbook, Sweet Potato Soul Vegan Vibes. Make sure to check it out!

 Resources:

Support Vegan Posse on Patreon! patreon.com/VeganPosseCB

Questions for Posse Talk with Jen Howk? Email [email protected]

Interested in IFS therapy? Email Chrissy at [email protected]

Sweet Potato Soul Vegan Vibes by Jenne Claiborne: https://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Potato-Soul-Vegan-Vibes-ebook/dp/B0CW1H3JKZ?ref_=ast_author_mpb

 Peacefood Café: https://www.peacefoodnyc.com/

 The Veganist by Kathy Freston: https://www.amazon.com/Veganist-Weight-Healthy-Change-World/dp/B0057D8R6Y

 Vegan Posse interview with Jasmin Singer and Mariann

Our Hen House podcast: https://www.ourhenhouse.org

It's time for our monthly Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Longtime Vegan Posse friend Dr. Jen Howk and I don't puport to solve many problems, at least in a utliitarian sense, but we cover a lot of ground. Enjoy :)

Resources:

Got questions for Posse Talk with Jen Howk? Email [email protected]

Interested in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy? Email chrissy at [email protected]

Help make vegan women's fiction classic Marrying Myself an Amazon bestseller! https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763

Christine Melanie Benson website: http://christinemelaniebenson.com/

Dr. Jen Howk website - Conscious Evolution: ⁠https://www.jenhowk.com/⁠

Order Truth Be Told e-book: ⁠https://jenhowk.gumroad.com/l/truthbetold⁠

Join the Collective Unconscious: ⁠http://collective.jenhowk.com/⁠

Dr. Jen Howk YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/jenhowkAK

Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker: https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE

Dr. John McDougall’s resources on health and meidcal care: https://www.drmcdougall.com/education/

Mad in America website: ⁠https://www.madinamerica.com/

Listening to Prozac by Peter Kramer: https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Prozac-Landmark-Antidepressants-Remaking/dp/0140266712/

Vegan Posse Bitcoin Mystery Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IgEuqMdGK1y4w67Uzt9eA?si=p0nQYu4GRUKQ0grJoxm-Tw

Hayden Blane is a native Nashvillian, a wife, a mother, and an actor. She lived in LA for almost a decade, and her heart called her home to Nashville in 2014.  She’s been vegan since 2007, when she read a book that opened her heart and changed her life. She’s a runner, 43 years around the sun, she loves all animals, but her favorite is her 6-year-old cavapoo, Leroy Jenkins. After seeing Free Willy at 13, she started a fund raiser for the whales at school and raised $65 :) If there is a film on where an animal dies, she won't watch it. 

Resources:

Hayden Blane professional profile: ⁠https://m.imdb.com/name/nm2654198/⁠ 

Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman: https://www.amazon.com/Skinny-Bitch-No-Nonsense-Tough-Love-Fabulous/dp/0762424931

Café Gratitude: https://cafegratitude.com/pages/cafe-gratitude-menus

Mary Magdelene Revealed by Meggan Watterman: https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Magdalene-Revealed-audiobook/dp/B07SRK63YT/

The Engine 2 Diet by Rip Esselstyn: https://www.amazon.com/Engine-Diet-Firefighters-Save-Your-Life-Cholesterol/dp/0446506699

Marrying Myself by Christine Melanie Benson: https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/

Sunflower Bakehouse: https://www.ilovesunflower.com/

As they say, we can't choose what happens to us; we can only choose how we respond. Often it comes down to a choice between victimhood and empowerment - and Karen Kenney chose the latter. After her mother's brutal murder, Karen would have had every justification in the world for considering herself a helpless victim. Instead, she turned her energy to helping the beings that don't get to make any choices over their own existence - the animals in our so-called "food" system, medical labs, and beyond.

In this week's episode I got to chat with Karen, who, I learned, has some uncanny things in common with the protagonist of my novel Marrying Myself, Julia Jones. They lived in Boston and went to Boston University, they're both vegan, and they both tragically lost their mothers at an early age. Clearly, Karen and I are cosmically connected!

Karen is now lives in NH, and she’s been vegan for 23 years. She’s a certified Spiritual Mentor, Writer, Podcast Host, and Life Coach, and you’ll see why she’s known for her storytelling, sense of humor, Boston accent and down-to-earth, no-bullshit approach to spirituality, self development, and transformational work. She’s been a yoga teacher for 25 years, and she’s also an author, speaker, and the host of The Karen Kenney Show podcast. Enjoy this conversation with Karen Kenney!

Resources - Connect with Karen!

KK WEBSITE: https://www.karenkenney.com/

GET MY EMAILS: https://www.karenkenney.com/signup

WORK WITH ME: https://www.karenkenney.com/work-with-me

THE NEST: https://www.karenkenney.com/nest

THE QUEST: https://www.karenkenney.com/quest

KK FREEBIE: https://www.karenkenney.com/freebie

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/karenkenneylive/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/karenkenneylive/

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@KarenKenney

More resources:

Help make vegan novel Marrying Myself an Amazon bestseller! https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763/

Christine Melanie Benson website: https://christinemelaniebenson.com/