Vegan Posse

Dr. Joshua Helman MD is a Harvard-trained physician licensed in fourteen states. He has two degrees in Biochemistry, he is double Board Certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. His medical degree is from Harvard Medical School and MIT. He is the former Medical Director of Hippocrates Health Institute, was on the TrueNorth Health Center research team and was affiliated with Sponaugle Wellness Institute for 6 years, helping to reverse and prevent dementia.. He’s got some fascinating, highly encouraging news about Alzheimer’s disease which you won’t want to miss so enjoy this conversation with Dr. Josh Helman!

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Got questions for Posse Talk with Jen Howk, the monthly series I’m doing with Dr. Jen Howk? Email them to ⁠[email protected]⁠  

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

Dr. Josh Helman website: https://drjosh.com/about/

Why was longtime vegan celebrity Chef AJ so reluctant to go public with her diagnosis of lung cancer? How is she doing now? We get into that and LOTS more in this intimate, vulnerable, and FUN interview that you won't want to miss!

Among other things, you'll hear Chef AJ talk about the benefits she's experienced from Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which I trained in and have been practicing since 2014. If you'd like to learn more or schedule your first IFS session with Chrissy, email [email protected] or contact Chrissy directly at [email protected]

And help make vegan novel Marrying Myself a bestseller and normalize veganism through the arts! ! Buy your copy and post a stellar review here and now: https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763

Author website: https://christinemelaniebenson.com/

About Chef AJ:

 Chef AJ has been devoted to a plant-exclusive diet for over 46 years. Chef AJ was the host of Healthy Living with CHEF AJ on Foody TV. She’s the author of three bestselling books, The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss, Own Your Health, and

 Chef AJ was the Executive Pastry Chef at Santé Restaurant in Los Angeles where she was famous for her sugar, oil, salt, and gluten free vegan desserts which use the fruit, the whole fruit, and nothing but the whole fruit. She broadcasts CHEF AJ LIVE! on YouTube daily at 11:00 am Pacific. She is the creator of the Ultimate Weight Loss Program and is proud to say that her IQ is higher than her cholesterol.  In 2018, she was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame.

Website: https://chefaj.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CHEFAJ

Chef AJ LIVE! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwoZa6h6fG-J-00vyFbCtsomcaUAyCYnd

How can we stay strong in 2025? Angela Fischetti can help!

Angela Fischetti: A virtual physical fitness and yoga instructor and on-site licensed massage therapist specializing in fitness and wellness for older adults. 

Angela Fischetti is a virtual physical fitness and yoga instructor and on-site licensed massage therapist specializing in wellness for older adults. She began teaching seniors when she was 30; it was also when she embarked on her own tough healing journey. Over three decades later, a senior herself, Angela combines years of experience and research with a unique combination of empathy and encouragement for older adults seeking a healthier lifestyle.

She researches the latest findings in senior fitness and consults with each client’s medical practitioners for tailored workouts. As a licensed massage therapist, Angela also works with geriatric patients with memory and other delicate disorders who benefit from gentle touch and movement in palliative care.

Angela is proud of her services to the vegan and whole foods plant-based platforms to which she provides strength training and yoga videos. They are tailored to those with chronic concerns thus making these movement modalities accessible to all.

Based in the Fort Lauderdale area, Angela has served South Florida clients for over 20-years. Brooklyn-born with a background in Shakespearean theater and a lifelong passion for song, Angela is also a devoted companion to felines.

Resources:

Boomer and Beyond Wellness: https://boomerandbeyondwellness.com/

Marrying Myself, THE vegan anti-romance romance novel featured in VegNews magazine: https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763

Christine Melanie Benson website with special Marrying Myself playlist! https://christinemelaniebenson.com/

Welcome to the Christmas 2024 edition of Posse Talk with Jen Howk!

A longtime friend of the Vegan Posse, Dr. Jen Howk is an

Resources:

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

Interested in Internal Family Systems therapy? Email Chrissy

Help make THE vegan novel named on the  Marrying Myself, known as the “anti-romance romance,” an Amazon bestseller! https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763

Christine Melanie Benson website: https://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

As we close out the year, it's a great time to reflect on values, priorities, and purpose. If you've been feeling uncertain or lost about the importance of your vegan activism, I hope that you find this week's episode with Dr. Faraz Harsini, founder of Allied Scholars for Animal Protection (ASAP), as grounding, centering, and urgent as I did.

Dr. Faraz Harsini is a Food System Biomedical Scientist. As the founder and CEO of Allied Scholars for Animal Protection (ASAP), he is leading efforts to build infrastructure in universities to protect both human and non-human animals. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Good Food Institute, the largest nonprofit dedicated to transforming the food system to animal-free foods.

Dr. Harsini holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering, focusing on environmental research and nanobiotechnology, an MSc in cancer research, and a PhD in Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics. He is also a Diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM). Previously, he worked in biopharmaceutical companies, leading drug development and discovery for diseases like cancer, influenza, COVID-19, and other zoonotic diseases. His dedication to animal advocacy has earned him numerous awards, including an NIH award and a Student Leadership award for his vegan advocacy.

Through ASAP, Dr. Harsini empowers students, promotes plant-based nutrition and alternatives to animal testing in universities and medical schools, expands animal and environmental protection on college campuses, and helps dining halls transition to plant-based menus. He is committed to creating a more compassionate and sustainable world.

Every year, Dr. Harsini lectures at many top universities, educating students on the benefits of a plant-based diet in mitigating climate change, reducing the risk of zoonotic diseases and antibiotic resistance, promoting sustainable food production, and protecting animals and the environment.

Resources:

Follow Dr. Faraz Harsini and his work to end animal suffering ASAP:

Website: https://www.alliedscholars.org/

Instagram:

www.instagram.com/dr_faraz_harsini/

https://www.instagram.com/alliedscholars/

YouTube: faraz_harsini/www.youtube.com/c/

X: https://x.com/DrFarazHarsini

VP SPECIAL EPISODE: Who Stole My Bitcoin? ⁠https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IgEuqMdGK1y4w67Uzt9eA?si=m1yRPn2sTQeab3zK50Ogog⁠

First and foremost, help make the vegan novel Marrying Myself an Amazon bestseller! Buy copies for all your family and friends and leave a STELLAR review ***** - it's our best way of normalizing veganism through the arts!

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

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

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

This week's episode:

Dr. Sailesh Rao is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers, a non-profit dedicated to healing the Earth’s climate. He is an environmentalist by occupation and systems engineer by profession. He invented the protocol for transforming early analog internet connections to more robust digital connections, while accelerating their speed ten-fold. Any data accessed on the internet likely passed through a device implementing this protocol.

Resources:

Facebook: @climatehealers

Youtube: @climatehealer

Twitter: @climatehealers

Web: https://climatehealers.org

In this one-of-a-kind episode, the Vegan Posse returns to its

Resources:

The Cow Sanctuary website: https://thecowsanctuary.org/

Buy Harvey and the Lightning Herd – PETA: https://shop.peta.org/harvey-and-the-lightning-herd.html

Buy Harvey and the Lightning Herd – Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Harvey-Lightning-Herd-Helga-Tacreiter/dp/B0DK1TZ6R3

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

Buy THE vegan anti-romance romance, Marrying Myself: https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

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

It's coming up on that special time of year - good-special in some ways, frustrating-special in others, especially if you're a vegan. We're releasing this month's Posse Talk with Jen Howk a few days early, to give you that extra-special vegan boost going into Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, and all the winter holidays. Enjoy this episode of Posse Talk with Jen Howk!

Resources:

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

Dr. Jen Howk membership group, The Collective Unconscious: https://collective.jenhowk.com/feed

Truth Be Told by Dr. Jen Howk: https://www.jenhowk.com/truth/

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

THE vegan anti-romance romance, Marrying Myself by Christine Melanie Benson: https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763

The Good Whale podcast series about Keiko the whale: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/podcasts/serial-good-whale.html

The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein: https://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Novel-Andrew-Lipstein/dp/0374606587

Who doesn’t love a challenge – and what better than a VEGAN challenge? Veganuary is a month-long challenge that encourages people to go plant-based for the month of January, and in this episode, I chatted with the U.S. Director of Veganuary, Sandra Hungate, who now lives in Portland, OR, but who’s live all over the world, speaks four languages, and has been working in marketing for sustainable living and eating for most of her career. She’s been vegan for over seven years, and has been with Veganuary since 2023. Enjoy this conversation with Sarndra Hungate – and tell all your not-yet-vegan friends to try Veganuary!

Resources:

United States Veganuary: https://veganuary.com/en-us/Veganuary website: www.veganuary.com

PETA - Meet Your Meat: https://www.peta.org/videos/meet-your-meat/

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

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

Marrying Myself playlist featuring indie Boston artists and others: https://christinemelaniebenson.com/?page_id=497https://christinemelaniebenson.com/?page_id=497

Welcome to this landmark pre-Thanksgiving episode with Peter Singer! Peter Singer has been called the world’s most influential living philosopher. He’s been credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, and his work was certainly integral in my own vegan education. This month, he was featured in a New York Times interview titled "Pater Singer wants to Shatter Your Moral Complacency" - but between you and me, it was the Vegan Posse that got the real scoop.

Peter Singer is a renowned moral philosopher and bioethicist, recognized for his influential contributions to applied ethics from a utilitarian perspective. Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, he was educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. Singer has held teaching positions in England, the United States, and Australia, serving 25 years as the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.

He is best known for his groundbreaking book Animal Liberation, which argues against factory farming and advocates for veganism, fundamentally changing the discourse on animal rights. His essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" encourages affluent individuals to donate to alleviate global poverty.

Singer's recent work Consider the Turkey delivers a compelling critique of humanity's treatment of animals, especially in the context of traditional practices like Thanksgiving. His extensive body of work, including over 50 books and numerous essays, challenges conventional ethical views and urges consideration of the rights and welfare of all sentient beings.

Resources:

Peter Singer website: www.petersinger.info

Books by Peter Singer, Princeton University Press: https://press.princeton.edu/our-authors/singer-peter?srsltid=AfmBOorgv4yuKO3b2Jlf9XSlSio_vpw0SxbMZRY24UY03Ooj05Sk8bHj

Consider the Turkey by Peter Singer: https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Turkey-Peter-Singer/dp/0691231680/

Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer: https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Liberation-Now-Definitive-Classic/dp/0063226707/

AI Persona: petersinger.ai

AI Peter Singer: ⁠AI Persona: ⁠⁠petersinger.ai⁠

Also available on Apple, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.

Substack: boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@peter_singer

Buy THE vegan anti-romance romance, Marrying Myself:

⁠https://christinemelaniebenson.com/⁠

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

Animal Machines by Ruth Harrison: https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Machines-Factory-Farming-Industry/dp/1780642849

Peter Singer interview in New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/magazine/peter-singer-interview.html

"News" Story: Dairy Industry Explains the What It Does to Bulls I s Totally Different from Bestiality: https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/us/144710/dairy-industry-explains-that-what-it-does-to-bulls-is-totally-different-from-bestiality

Tyson Foods expose: The Meat Racket by Christopher