Main Street Vegan

Certified nutritionist Gigi Carter and health coach Sersie Blue, authors of Daniel Fast: Why You Should Only Do It Once, are the inspiring author duo Dr. Milton Mills has lauded for "the depth of their spirituality and their appreciation of the spiritual side of food..." They created their company, Healthy for My Purpose, during the pandemic to address the impact of comorbidities and the...

The seminal documentary, Forks Over Knives, made Dr. Alona Pulde and her husband, Dr. Mark Lederman, plant-based celebrities and bestselling authors. They've now written Wellness to Wonderful, a book that is exquisitely holistic, staying true to Whole Food Plant-Based dietary principles but bringing in elements of life, love, and spirituality that bring wellness, which is always good, all the...

If you're not thrilled about meal prep these days, Brigitte Gemme is your fairy godmother. When you know what she calls "the grammar of soup," you can make any soup -- 'same for stir-fries, bowls, salads, and roasted things. It's blessed freedom in the kitchen. Brigitte says "Cooking is for revolutionaries" and when you do it this way, there's time left to c...

Back after a break with episode 476, the Main Street Vegan Podcast resumes with some vegan star-power: Colleen Patrick Goudreau, "the joyful vegan." Victoria and Colleen riff on compassion in action, how to live a joyful life in an uncertain world, and why words matter. Find Colleen at https://www. ColleenPatrickGoudreau.com; her Food for Thought podcast; IG: @JoyfulVegan; and her books...

Barbara Butcher spent 23 years in the New York City Chief Medical Examiner's Office, investigating more than 5500 deaths and working disasters including the 2004 tsunami and 9/11. In this fascinating interview, she shares What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator (her new book), how she landed the job newly sober, and how non-traditional but deeply held spi...

Fans of Heartwood: The Art of Living With the End in Mind include Gloria Steinem and Katie Couric. The author of this memoir joins us today to discuss living fully with fully knowledge that this life will end –– for our loved ones, and for us. Barbara weaves fascinating tales into this interview. Among them: finding a photo in her father's wallet of his deceased first wife, an unseen family m...

Noted scholar of the history of religions, Elaine Pagels describes her own spiritual life as one of music, nature, friendship, and love. The author of books including The Gnostic Gospels, The Gospel of Thomas, and the memoir Why Religion? shares about her life -- why she took up the study of religion as an academic discipline, how she navigated the death of her six-year-old and her beloved husband...

Unity and Interfaith minister Carol Saunders, whose podcast-based ministry, The Spiritual Forum, serves a diverse audience of spiritual seekers, hosted the first Whole Planet Spirituality Forum & Retreat at Unity's heavenly headquarters outside Kansas City, Missouri, in 2021. This year's edition, Peace Begins With Me, will happen October 19-22, 2023, and feature spiritual practice, y...

When Kristel de Groot's husband, then boyfriend, Michael Kuech, was diagnosed with cancer in his 20s, she stepped up to buoy his conventional treatments with superfood blends containing ingredients shown to bolster immunity and retard the progression of some malignancies. Michael recovered beautifully and together they started Your Super, a company that shares these high-octane edibles with t...

Arielle Ford is a gifted writer and the author of twelve books including the international bestseller, The Soulmate Secret: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction, and her debut novel, The Love Thief, a  a roller-coaster ride of love, betrayal, and unexpected transformation with a juicy revenge sub-plot and a surprise ending. One reviewer said: "The Love Thief is an emotion...

Mariquita Solis inspires clients around the world, with a special focus on Vegan Empowerment Coaching, the name of her company. Gratitude is central to Mariquita's way of healing lives and manifesting success. Whether it's self-acceptance, overcoming grief, outgrowing childhood trauma, or dealing with the angst Vegans sometimes feel that they "get it" about animal suffering and...

Julliard-trained actor, prolific narrator of audiobooks, and Vegan activist Eunice Wong take us backstage in the world of voiceover. If you've ever listened to a book, you'll be fascinated by Eunice's insider insights into the interesting iteration of the actor's life. Find her on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn at Eunice Wong Narration. And the favorite book she's ever...

The meat-heavy diets of our companion animals have a huge carbon pawprint. While cats are compulsory carnivores, dogs are omnivores and can live -- in fact, thrive -- on a fully plant-based diet. (Case in point: a British border collie named Bramble was fed as a Vegan and lived to 25 -- the Guinness record for dog longevity.) On this episode, Diana Laverdure-Dunetz, a canine nutritionist with a Ma...

Founder of The Black Vegan Experience, Vonettia Calloway is a Biblical Christian, a mom, an exceptional middle school science teacher, and the wife of a U.S. Army combat veteran who suffers from PTSD. She wrote a beautiful children's coloring book, My Color Is Coconut, about biracial children, in memory of a little girl named Aniyah who was proud to say, "My color is coconut." Aniya...

Nina Hayes was drawn to mysticism as a little girl in Catholic school, and she discovered yoga early. She was also stricken in her mid-teens with a digestive disorder that led to twenty surgeries. In overcoming everything from fear of dying to the shame of living with an ostomy, her spirituality deepened and this incredible woman is using everything she's learned an experienced to help others...

Ruby Warrington is English and gorgeous and real and funny and brave -- and really good writer. She started her career in magazine journalism in London and did that whole glossy thing for several years, but her soul called her to other things, right about the time her truelove drew her to the U.S. She started The Numinous, an online zine for people interested in the Big Picture, and then wrote Mat...

Ashley Byrne has been taking a stand for animals since she was a teen and she now does this officially through her role with Peta. Today, we tackle dressing without guilt and looking fabulous in your own skin without appropriating anybody else's. Of course you don't wear fur, but what about wool? Feathers? Down? Tune in to learn the grim realities of these materials' origins and the...

Kathleen Kastner is an author, yogi, fitness expert, animal rescuer, and committed Vegan. We talk about her new picture book, Karma Cats to the Rescue -- based on a true story of two house cats who help a stray kitty acclimate to having a forever home -- and also about Kathleen's personal journey. (Here's a tidbit: she moved to San Diego from her native Kansas in 1993, went to her fitnes...

Marrying Myself  is the debut novel from Chrissy Benson -- writer, attorney, and Main Street Vegan-certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach. In this thoughtful conversation, Benson connects the dots: romantic love, self-love, animals, food choices, life choices. The novel's protagonist is a Vegan whose journey to finding love takes a curious, and curiously satisfying, turn. And the author is a remarka...

Journalism is a tough business, with magazines and newspapers perishing at a steady clip and an largely unvetted Internet providing content from writers who are largely underpaid. Karen Asp, however, is remarkable: a professional journalist and author with a food, health, and fitness specialization and a reputation so solid she's one of the few full-time freelance writers making it -- acing i...

Join the plant based nutrition movement. Victoria talks with Kimberly Campbell, Director of Culinary Education and Development at PlantPure and the daughter in law of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, the "science father of the modern plant based nutrition movement. Kimberly is the author of the book PlantPure Comfort Food: Over 100 Plant Based and Mostly Gluten-Free Recipes to Nourish Your Body and Soo...

Kimberly Wilson is my style role model, embracing the effortless savoir faire of a Parisian woman -- but she grew up in Oklahoma. She is a psychotherapist, pet loss grief counselor, adult ballerina, eco/activewear designer, author, podcaster, and longtime yogini who created a studio named in the Top 25 on earth by Travel & Leisure. In this fast-paced and utterly uplifting conversation, we cove...

A 24-year-old New Yorker whose life is dedicated to ending animal suffering, Jamie Logan is a case study in commitment. Whether standing silently in a Cube of Truth, showing video imagery of standard practices in animal ag; going out on the street in her skivvies as part of The Lingerie Protest; doing a beautifully produced -- and sometimes seriously funny -- YouTube show, "It's Jamie&ap...

Muneeza, the Intuitive Medicine Woman®, is a healer who was once a patient. Chronic fatigue syndrome and intractable eczema pushed her to find answers beyond what traditional medicine had to offer. She studied nutrition, changed her own diet, became a certified holistic health coach, and ultimately discovered Anthony William, the Medical Medium®, who brought her recovery full-circle and recognized...

Oscar buzz started for the romance/horror film based on the eponymous book by today's guest when it premiered to a standing ovation and rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival. Brimming with star power -- Taylor Russell, Timothee Chalamet, Mark Rylance -- this tale of an improbably likable teenage cannibal means much more to DeAngelis. A committed Vegan, she conceived the Bones and All conce...