Vegan Posse

Welcome to Episode 8 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series! 

Before we can even consider what it means to love ourself, we have to ask what this “self” actually is. Does it even exist? There’s no one better equipped to take us on a deep dive into the rabbit hole of self-love than former Zen monk Dr. Will Tuttle, author of the bestselling book The World Peace Diet.

 A visionary author, educator, and inspirational speaker, Dr. Will Tuttle has presented widely throughout North America, Europe, and the Pacific. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, focused on educating adults on intuition and altruism He has taught college courses in creativity, humanities, mythology, religion, and philosophy. Dr. Tuttle’s original piano music is widely acclaimed for its uniquely inspiring and healing qualities.

His new book, Food for Freedom: Reclaiming Our Health and Rescuing Our World, was recently released on Amazon, and is available for purchase in both paperback and Kindle editions.  

Resources:

Dr. Will Tuttle website: https://www.worldpeacediet.com/

New book, Food for Freedom: https://www.worldpeacediet.com/food-for-freedom/

Purchase Food for Freedom on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Food-Freedom-Reclaiming-Health-Rescuing/dp/B0D22XZ4F3/

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

Music credit:

“Spring, Spring Is an Amazing Thing” by Lij Shaw (with Sarayah Shaw):

https://youtu.be/1OVkxnN9qLk?si=bTN3pmrnd-eVrB5d

Welcome to Episode 7 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series!

Sometimes, the fog is so all-encompassing that we can’t even see it. Derrick Broze discovered prayer and meditation in prison, when he was incarcerated for a nonviolent drug offense. Only then did he discover prayer and meditation and begin to emerge from the fog of depression and addiction. When he was released from prison after 18 months, he finally experienced true freedom - physical, emotional, and spiritual - and moved from a prison of self-hatred to the freedom of self-love.

Derrick is an investigative journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur, public speaker, and activist. Since 2010, he has worked to empower Houstonians by exposing corruption and focusing on solutions. Derrick’s work focuses on reducing governmental and corporate

Resources:

Derrick Broze website: https://www.derrickbroze.com/

Full bio: https://www.derrickbroze.com/about-me-extended/

 Holistic Self-Assessment: https://www.universityofreason.com/holistic-self-assessment

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

Music Credit:

“Spring, Spring Is an Amazing Thing” by Lij Shaw (with Sarayah Shaw):

https://youtu.be/1OVkxnN9qLk?si=bTN3pmrnd-eVrB5d

Welcome to Episode 6 of the Vegan Posse Self-Help Series!

Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Doug Lisle isn’t much for fluff and silliness and has little tolerance for the ludicrous. In this episode, you’ll get a straight-up, no-nonsense breakdown of self-love in the manner that only Dr. Doug Lisle can deliver. You’ll get a peek into the traps – pleasure, ego, and otherwise – that keep us out of self-love – and how to evolve on into it!

 Dr. Doug Lisle is an evolutionary psychologist and co-author of The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness.  He and his colleagues (Jennifer Howk and Richard Seidel) have developed a revolutionary method for approaching life challenges and improving self-confidence and self-esteem.  They describe their approach as Esteem

 Resources:

 Esteem Dynamics website: https://esteemdynamics.com/2020/07/07/how-to-solve-a-problem/

 The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that

Beat Your Genes podcast: https://beatyourgenes.org/

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

Music credit…

“Spring, Spring Is an Amazing Thing” by Lij Shaw (with Sarayah Shaw): https://youtu.be/1OVkxnN9qLk?si=bTN3pmrnd-eVrB5d

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series!

In this episode, you’ll get an existential take on self-love! Clare Mann is a psychologist, existential psychotherapist, author, and communications trainer. Clare’s work now focuses on providing vegans, animal advocates, and animal protection agencies with tools to live in this “not-yet” vegan world, so they can communicate the imperative of veganism more effectively.

Clare coined the word vystopia; the mental anguish of

Resources:

Clare Mann website: https://veganpsychologist.com/

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

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Loving-Erich-Fromm/dp/0061129739/

Mindset by Carol Dweck: https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322/

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series!

In today’s episode, you’ll get to hear from one of the very earliest Vegan Posse guests, therapist Kylea Rorabaugh, of Kansas City, Missouri. Fun fact: it was that conversation with Kylea in 2022 that inspired me to go back to school for a master's in counseling. Based in Kansas City, Kylea has decades of experience helping people shift dysfunctional beliefs and learn to love their lives and themselves.

Resources:

Email

Blog: www.healthyonpurpose.org

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

Music credit:  

“Spring, Spring Is an Amazing Thing” by Lij Shaw (with Sarayah Shaw): https://youtu.be/1OVkxnN9qLk?si=bTN3pmrnd-eVrB5d

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series!

 Today you’ll be hearing from Delanie Fischer, host of the top-rated Self-Helpless podcast, comedy writer, vegan lady, and activist featured on NBC, FOX, Lifetime, Netflix, Hulu, CNBC, Fuse, Vh1, Entrepreneur, PopSugar, Podcast Magazine, theSkimm, and Bustle.

Self-Helpless, which has garnered millions of downloads and been featured on Conan and The Tonight show, includes conversations with authors, activists, health professionals, a variety of public figures, and subscribers who courageously share their stories. Despite her "influencer" status, Delanie permanently deleted all of her social media a few years back to declutter her mind. Join Delanie's email list for notifications about new podcast episodes, cool media and gig opportunities, and other resources that support multi-hyphenates.

Delanie recently secured her first publishing deal — this delicious, punny card deck will be available in the winter of 2024. 

Resources:

Delanie Fischer website: https://www.delaniefischer.com/media

Self-Helpless podcast: https://www.selfhelplesspodcast.com/

Music credit…

“Spring, Spring Is an Amazing Thing” by Lij Shaw (with Sarayah Shaw): https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spring+spring+lij+shaw

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series, a special series of episodes dedicated to expanding our tenderness, affection, curiosity, and sheer delight in one VERY important animal: ourselves.

Enjoy this conversation with Dr. Jen Howk!

Resources:

Welcome to Episode 1 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series, a special series of episodes dedicated to expanding our tenderness, affection, curiosity, and sheer delight in one VERY important animal: ourselves. There will be eight episodes in total, released daily, featuring interviews with psychologists, spiritual leaders, therapists, and self-help gurus.

Website: https://christinemelaniebenson.com/

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

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron: https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252

Meet Your Meat: https://youtu.be/ykTH_b-cXyE?si=SiT6Yxksop_m22oh

Dairy Is Scary: https://youtu.be/UcN7SGGoCNI?si=b40dXAue0s5PAcAj

Music credit...

"Spring, Spring Is an Amazing Thing" by Lij Shaw (with Sarayah Shaw): https://youtu.be/1OVkxnN9qLk?si=8m8_vlGDra5EugEp

In this landmark episode, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk joins the Vegan Posse for a rarely intimate conversation, shortly after celebrating her 75th birthday!

No discussion of the animal rights movement is complete without a mention of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Notorious for its undercover journalism, graphic videos documenting animal abuse, and willingness to disrupt commonly-held human attitudes and beliefs regarding non-human animals, PETA is loved by many and not so loved by many others - and no one bears the brunt of the pushback more than founder Ingrid Newkirk.

A true warrior for animals, Ingrid happily takes the good, the bad, and the ugly in the interest of spreading the message of kindness, compassion, and basic decency toward non-human animals. Her heart still breaks into a

Happy birthday, Ingrid Newkirk!

Resources:

PETA website: ⁠https://www.peta.org/⁠

Ingrid Newkirk website: ⁠⁠https://www.ingridnewkirk.com/⁠⁠

The amazing crab! ⁠⁠https://prime.peta.org/news/crabs-facts-take-action-for-crabs/⁠⁠

Donate to PETA: ⁠⁠https://headlines.peta.org/donate/?en_txn7=Navigation::top-donate-now-button⁠⁠

Vegan Summerfest - July 10-14, 2024, Johnestown, PA: ⁠https://summerfest.navs-online.org/⁠

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

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

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

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

Cockroach "news" story: ⁠https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/us/126990/new-york-city-cockroach-finally-gets-his-own-apartment⁠

Ingrid Newkirk, full bio:

Ingrid Newkirk was born in Surrey, England, and moved with her family to New Delhi, India, when she was 7 years old. There, she assisted her mother in volunteering for Mother Teresa and various charities, and those early experiences informed her view that it doesn’t matter who is suffering, only whether you can help them. 

In 1970, Ingrid took a litter of abandoned kittens to an animal shelter—and that soon led to her resignation from the brokerage where she had worked. She then took her first job working in behalf of animals, which led to leading roles in humane law enforcement. Her experiences along the way—including finding a fox and a squirrel caught in steel traps, discovering a pig left to starve on a farm, and inspecting laboratories and circuses for the government—inspired her to launch PETA in 1980. 

At that time, researchers were experimenting on chimpanzees in squalid laboratories, pigs were being slammed into walls in car-crash tests, and dogs were being shot in military exercises. But PETA's landmark victories—as well as the media attention that has accompanied them—have led to a huge change in public attitudes, and the victories keep coming. 

These days, the demand for vegan food has skyrocketed (e.g., Taco Bell is testing a Vegan Crunchwrap this week), Ringling Bros. has reinvented itself as a stunning animal-free circus, nearly every major fashion brand has gone fur-free, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is no longer required to mandate archaic and cruel animal tests for new drugs.

Ingrid has authored 13 books and been profiled by The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and Fortune, which dubbed her the “Mother Teresa of rabbits.” She was also the subject of HBO’s award-winning documentary I Am an Animal and was named one of Forbes’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

How much truth can you handle? Reverend Shad Goverland, brother of television producer and The Highwire host Del Bigtree, was born and raised in the Unity Church, a religion founded in the 1900s by a husband and wife who were pioneers in the vegan movement. At the age of 12, after hearing his father, a Unity minister, give a sermon about oneness with all creatures, Shad became a committed vegetarian. Decades later, his wife, Erinna, introduced him to veganism, and from then on he's been not just preaching the vegan message but living it. He went on to become President and CEO of Unity, continuing to speak out for animals, truth, and freedom. His message of compassion and justice for all living beings inspired many - and sparked hostility and resistance in others. Get the full story in this episode - truly one for the books!

Resources:

Contact Rev. Shad Groverland:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Shad-Groverland/pfbid0scckxgnUuBYkRFgsffU9UwLzyNk9YNYQggSE8BBYGKsF4N8WHuG7SHEsi1TTW5ozl/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rev-shad-groverland/

X: https://x.com/shad4unity

Diet for a New America by John Robbins: https://www.amazon.com/Diet-New-America-Choices-Happiness/dp/193207354X

Vegan Summerfest, July 10-14, 2024, Johnstown, PA: https://summerfest.navs-online.org/

Christine Melanie Benson and other speakers: https://summerfest.navs-online.org/speakers/speakers-bio/

Register for Vegan Summerfest! https://summerfest.navs-online.org/register/

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

Documentary - Unity https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049636

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This episode of Vegan Posse is dedicated to Loki (2012-2024), soul familiar and loving companion of Zina, Tati, and family.