Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano

Author and Dietitian Julieanna Hever shares the top five foods everyone should eat, her tips for starting a plant-based diet and the importance of micro-nutrients found in same.  For recipes, for a free 5-day start-up guide go to starting a plant-based diet and for easy, can-do recipes, visit ElysabethAlfano.com/Recipes. 

Dan Altschuler Malek of Unovis Capital joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour with tips for both entrepreneurs and investors. How To Pick A Winning Plant-based Start-Up? What valuations make sense? How important are numbers in a deck? We get into it all! We discuss what Dan looks for in a founder, why he doesn't invest in public markets and the key to building a successful company. For plant-bas...

It's the Plantbased Business Minute with the week's top headlines. Barvecue breaks ground on the world's largest plant-based smokehouse. 2020 investment in plantbased innovation is 2x the amount from 2010-2020. Nabati, Meatech 3D and NotCo plan for IPOs. For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethA...

It's the Plantbased Business Minute for the week ending March 12, 2021. 1. Juicy Marbles is in the house! The World's FIRST Plant-based Steak is here! Filet Mignon, no less! Look what Slovenia is up to! 2. Price parity for Cellular Meat by 2030.  3. The U.K. continues to top the charts with Oatly and OmniPork. Question of the week: Is it just 'crazy, stupid' investor money out there? Join me weekl...

Plant-based Impact Investor Willem Blom joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss if the EU has stalled on plant-based initiatives, what European companies are kicking butt and taking names and how the Netherlands is the 'little country that could' in terms of plant-based innovation.  Plus, Willem shares the products that he would like to see in the marketplace that aren't yet there. Tun...

Clubhouse and Linkedin questions for the week: When will plant-based, fermented and cellular protein be the majority protein in the market?    This week's news on the Plantbased Business Minute:  1) Ingredion Incorporated opens a monumental, state-of-the-art plant-based protein facility,    2) Smart Protein and ProVeg International 's study from Nielsen data shows that European plant-based sales a...

CMO of Change Foods, Irina Gerry, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour. Does the consumer understand technology in their food? How do we communicate in a way that is appetizing, while also conveying that tech in our food is not new and not bad? Tune in! It's all about the language of (food) love. For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalf...

Love Cuban food, but don't want gobs of meat? Raydel Hernandez joins me on The Awesome Vegans Influencer Series! Hear his incredible cholesterol drop story and weight loss journey as he switched all his favorite Cuban recipes to vegan Cuban recipes and lived (healthier!) to write and tell! Listen in  and subscribe! For more recipes, visit https://ElysabethAlfano.com/Recipes and https://VeganCubano...

CEO of Atlast Food Co. and Co-Founder of Ecovative, Eben Bayer discusses the true power of the mushroom. There might be hope for the world after all.   It's the Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano.   Tune in to learn how mushrooms can be used to create eco-friendly packaging materials, foam leather, and whole cuts of meat.   Could leaning into biology create solutions to the world's lar...

Question: As more companies add plant-based product lines to their meat and dairy product lines, at what point do they become part of the solution and no longer part of the problem? It's the weekly wrap up of headlines on the Plantbased Business Minute. 60 Minutes, Bill Gates, Anderson Cooper and Thomas Jonas of Nature's Fynd. Moonshot Collaborative, David Benzaquen and Che Green share critical le...

If it's Friday, it is the Plant-based Business Minute. Oatly , Aleph Farms and VFC have all made the week's top headlines.   In addition, I have added a new section- The Question of the Week - at the end, inspired by pal and respected colleague Paul Shapiro .   So let me know your thoughts everyone: if plant-based consumption is soaring, why is global meat consumption still growing? For plant-base...

Former Co-CEO of Whole Foods, Walter Robb, discusses the state of today's grocery stores in a potentially post Covid world on the Plantbased Business Hour. Tune in to hear if DTC is here to stay, if grocery stores will reallocate real estate to vegan brands and if the consumer will ever be ready to accept cellular meat. For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at el...

Trying Plant-based? Fell off the wagon after Veganuary? Christian Madsen (an actor like his Dad and Aunt) has got your ticket! Tune in for tips for keeping it real and staying plant-based after Veganuary has gone! It's the Awesome Vegans Influencer Series! For plant-based brands looking to raise brand awareness and navigate the plant-based press and marketing landscape, reach out to Elysabeth at E...

Fellow Consultant, Gerrit Scuhlmann of Bright Green Partners joins me (Plant Powered Consulting) on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the path forged by large scale companies in the plant-based arena. We discuss 1) the increase in B2B plant-based supplies, 2) the role governments play in shifting supporting new technologies and 3) should meat companies cannibalize their product lines with pl...

Each week I break down the top headlines.  Let's get into it.  Beyond Meat + Pepsico = BM stock soars Dandies Marshmallows heads to the U.K. (Children cheer!)  Eat Just gets a new outcome under pressure and the egg industry gets an egg in the face.   For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfan...

Is cultivated meat the answer to peace in the Middle East? Didier Toubia, CEO of Aleph Farms , joins me to discuss 1) the process of cultivated meat, 2) why making food for a growing planet is 'missing the point', 3) making food for life in space, 4) designing emotions, not food and 5) the importance of humility.  Oh, and peace in the Middle East.  New episodes every week. Subscribe!  For plant-ba...

On this episode, hear BBQ Master Brian Rodger's extreme weight loss story with a plant-based.  In addition, Dietitians Dahlia and James Marin of Married to Health, join us to discuss a healthy gut biome.  New episodes every week. Subscribe!

It is the Plantbased Business Minute. Here are the headlines. 1. Vejii Holdings Inc disrupts a major pain point for vegans by offering over 3000 lifestyle and food brands in one place such as Barvecue, No Evil Foods, Dear Self Skin Care and Vegan Wines. 2. Lightlife Foods ups their investment in plant-based food production and jobs! 3. Before the Butcher takes on price parity to beef with their Ma...

CEO of The Better Meat Co . and author of the Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World , Paul Shapiro joins me to discuss 1) why blended plant-based/meat hybrid products make sense, 2) the future of cultivated meat and fermented proteins and 3) the business models that will win out in the end. Subscribe. New episodes every week.  For plant-based media/br...

How Can We Support the VegEconomy? vKind! Star Simmons and Michon Javelosa Join Elysabeth Alfano on Awesome Vegans. Get with the program and learn about vKind and supporting other vegans through the VegEconomy! For more information, visit https://vKind  and https://ElysabethAlfano.com  . 

The Future of Food Is Here! CEO and Co-Founder of Perfect Day Foods, Ryan Pandya, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss dairy without the cow. Yes. The future of food IS here. We discuss 1) precision fermentation, 2) is dairy made without the cow or the cows' actual DNA plant-based and/or healthy, 3) how do we communicate this to the consumer and 4) collaborations for the future.  PB...

Fab friend Stefanie Ignoffo From Plantspiration Brings the Hope For EXTREME WEIGHT. She and her family lost 250 pounds. They can do it and so can you! Here's how! Reach out to Stefanie at http://Plantspiration.org or me at http://ElysabethAlfano.com/Recipes for help transitioning to a Plantbased diet so you can take back YOUR health!

It's the Plantbased Business Minute.  Each Week I break down the top three headlines each in a minute or less.  Potential Oatly IPO in 2021 Cultivated Meat Company Aleph Farms signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Mitsubishi Food Industry Group.  Impossible Foods lowers prices, Pret a Manger brings in plant-based meatballs and more!  New episodes every week! Subscribe! For plant-based media/bra...

I breakdown my Top Ten (um, 13!) predictions for 2021.  Happy New Year! 2020 is over!  New episodes every week. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.

Can You Be Religious or Spiritual and Eat Animals? Pastor Rob Munro Explains on the Awesome Vegans Influencer Series with me. TUNE IN if you have ever had doubts about holding ethical standards in a place of worship, but then walking out and eating tortured and slaughtered animals.