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In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I check in with Dr. Laurie Marbas and we talk about her amazing service, Plant-Based Telehealth and her dreams for the future.    About featured guest: Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA is a double board certified family medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, who has been utilizing food as medicine since 2012. Previously, she created a new medical model combining t...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I interview Raydel Hernandez, a home chef who learned how to veganize his family’s authentic cuban recipes.   About featured guest: Raydel Hernandez is a first generation Cuban American, home cook and culinary author. His dishes are authentic, delicious and distinctly Cuban. Heavily influenced by traditional Cuban cooking, Raydel's culinary sensibilities...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we learn from Dr. Vanessa Mendez about the gut microbiome in children.   About featured guest: Doctor Méndez is a double board certified gastroenterologist and internist. She specializes in digestive disorders, which include liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and nutrition based-disorders, such as obesity and constipation. Her approach to patients an...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I chat with Chef Henry Hampshire about his journey and what he hopes for the future.   About featured guest: Chef Henry Hampshire is a vegan chef & entrepreneur who has been manager & head chef in restaurants across London.   Henry was studying under Chef Day Radley who is the founder of The Vegan Chef School of Excellence as well as being an interna...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I have a conversation with Dr. Siggie Cohen about the parent-child relationship.    About featured guest: Dr. Siggie Cohen has been working with kids and families of all kind for over 35 years in the Los Angeles area and abroad, first as a teacher and then as a Child Development Specialist. She specializes in emotional and behavioral challenges, transitions...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, Dr. Shainna and I discuss modern friendship and the important thing that we can start doing now to improve our friendships.   About featured guest: Dr. Shainna is a mental health counselor, educator, and advocate who is passionate about destigmatizing mental health counseling and helping individuals worldwide recognize the importance of fostering mental well...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I interview Genesis Games, a psychotherapist in Florida who is passionate about relationships. We talk about the challenges couples face and she points us to some great skills that we can use to support the health of our relationships.   About featured guest: I am Genesis Games, a bilingual (English & Spanish) psychotherapist and owner of Healing Connect...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I interview Sarajane Case, the founder of enneagramandcoffee.com and author of the book The Honest Enneagram and we discuss the enneagram and how it can help you deepen your relationship to yourself!    About featured guest: Sarajane Case is an author, speaker, podcaster, and now youtuber based out of Asheville, NC. She's been featured in publications li...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I chat with Lindsay Rubin, VP at V-Dog about her vegan journey and working for a vegan dog food company.    About featured guest: Lindsay Rubin is the Vice President at v-dog, a San Francisco-based vegan dog food company. Forever obsessed with animals, she ran her own dog sitting business in high school and went on to college where she became vegetarian. Aft...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we learn from Dr. Saray Stancic, a wise and passionate physician who is changing the world through lifestyle medicine.    About featured guest: Saray Stancic, M.D. is triple board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Lifestyle Medicine. She graduated from New Jersey Medical School in 1993 and after completing her fellowship, accepted the...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we learn from Shaun Conaghan, a teacher in Ireland who is empowering students to take control of their health and wellbeing.    About featured guest: As a teacher, Shaun believes in the great opportunity of education to empower children and their families to take ownership of their own health and wellbeing.   He has developed his own school programme called...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I chat with Kari Knight, DCNP about vegan skin care and cosmetics.   About featured guest: Kari was mostly vegetarian most of her life. She integrated a whole food plant-based diet for health reasons, but then her heart opened up to the ethical and compassionate reasons for veganism. Still early on in her journey, she is learning and exploring. Because she i...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I have an authentic conversation with Victoria Evans, an intuitive eating coach about intuitive eating, dieting and body image.   About featured guest: Victoria Evans began her career in the corporate world with a prominent Fortune 500 company in the beauty industry in Montreal. During this time, her challenges related to eating disorders, mental health, ext...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I have a relaxed conversation with animal activist and master personal trainer Kate Galli.    About featured guest: Kate Galli is relentlessly focused on creating a fit, strong, healthy, happy, Compassionate Vegan World. She will help you create the Mindset that makes your best #plantstrong eating and exercising choices simple and sustainable.  Kate got into...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I interview Dr. Riz and Maya about their journey and how they have created their successful community.   About featured guest: Dr. Rizwan Bukhari is a board certified vascular surgeon and is board certified in lifestyle medicine. He practices in Dallas. He has a specific interest in minimally invasive procedures such as atherectomy, angioplasty, and stenting...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I interview Dr. Monica Aggarwal about her book, Body on Fire: How Inflammation Triggers Chronic Illness and the Tools We Have to Fight It, her personal journey and how we can be empowered to make changes in our lives.   About featured guest: Dr. Monica Aggarwal went to the University of Virginia and received her BA in Religious Studies with a minor in Biolog...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I interview Sarah Tugender and we talk all about her journey and how she approaches her work, her family and “doing it all”.   About featured guest: Sarah grew up around hospital and healthcare practices, born when her dad was a first-year medical student at Tufts Medical School. She remembers bringing her dolls to the break room at Sinai hospital, where her...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, I interview Marisa about her vegan journey, her book, motherhood and rescued goldfish.   About featured guest: Marisa Miller Wolfson is the creator of the award-winning documentary Vegucated and co-author of The Vegucated Family Table: Irresistible Vegan Recipes and Proven Tips for Feeding Plant-Powered Babies, Toddlers & Kids. She lives in New York City...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we talk all about batch cooking, food prep and how to get more bang for your buck from your time in the kitchen.    About featured guest: Tami Kramer shares her love of living a whole food plant-based, oil-free lifestyle on her blog, Nutmeg Notebook.com, and on her Nutmeg Notebook YouTube channel, as well as on Facebook and Instagram.  She put an end to four...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we discuss Keli’s great passion: teaching children about smart money management.    About featured guest: Keli Calderon knows what is like to be in financial distress. In her financial history she has declared bankruptcy and even had a car repossessed! She knows the shame, guilt and strain that comes from not managing money well. But she also knows the pure...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we discuss feeding children and the complexities, stress and fears that come along with this seemingly simple task.   About featured guest: Jennifer Anderson is a registered dietitian, mom of 2 exciting boys, and cheerleader to hundreds of thousands of parents feeding kids through the Kids Eat in Color social media movement. She helps parents let go of mealt...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we discuss their book and many other topics related to raising plant-based kids.   About featured guests: Brenda Davis, RD is a leader in her field and an internationally acclaimed speaker. As a prolific nutrition and health writer, she has co-authored 12 books with nearly a million copies in print in 14 languages. Her most recent works include Nourish (to b...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we discuss vegan food, raising vegan kids and ways stressed out parents can make it easier and more joyful to feed their children.   About featured guest: Lauren Kretzer is a professionally trained vegan chef and recipe developer. She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, and holds a certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from Cornel...

In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we discuss essentialism and why it is important now more than ever.   About featured guest: Originally from London, England, Greg McKeown is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” and the founder of McKeown, Inc, a company with a mission to teach Essentialism to millions of people around the world. Their...

Timaree is a passionate advocate for plant-based nutrition and has had to revamp her entire curriculum. she has also written a cookbook to help other families adopt more whole plant foods into their diets.  In this episode of Veggie Doctor Radio, we discuss the power of mindset, choice, fun and community.   About featured guest: Timaree Hagenburger is a Registered Dietitian, with a Master's De...