Main Street Vegan

With her unshakeable confidence and a voice like Lauren Bacall's, the Lauren featured on this episode belies her chronological age: eighty-two. Rev. Lauren McLaughlin is a Unity minister, spiritual teacher, and author whose work centers on gratitude, the shifts we experience in every decade of adulthood, and the necessity of slowing down to genuinely experience life. Among the nuggets she sha...

Jacqueline Whitmore didn't come from the upper crust, but she learned early that courtesy and caring opened doors and created opportunity. After paying some dues to corporate America, she set out to found the Protocol School of Palm, offering etiquette training not a Downton Abbey-style class system, but a contemporary refiguring of etiquette that seeks to incorporate "classy" into...

They're such buzzwords: inflammation, anti-inflammatory...and yet few lay people know what they mean, even the millions suffering from arthritis, colitis, gingivitis, gastritis, and the numerous other conditions of obvious inflammation, not to mention the pathologies attributed to hidden inflammation, including heart disease, cancer, and abdominal obesity. Gastroenterologist and Columbia Univ...

Egli Colon Stephens is both a professor with a doctorate and a professional lifestyle model. She is also the author with her daughter Natalia Harris of Unbroken: A Mother-Daughter Journey of Resilience, Faith and Courage, detailing Natalia's battle with bone cancer as a teenager. Natalia survived -- sur-thrived as she called it -- and went on to fulfill her dreams of becoming a model, with gi...

Finding the miraculous in the ordinary, dealing bravely (and realistically) with down times, growing older brilliantly, marking the Autumn Equinox, and other milestones of the wheel of the year, and creating simple rituals for daily life are the delicious ingredients of this week's episode. The guest is transformational vision coach, spiritual teacher, and motivational speaker Barbara Biziou....

Ganesha, the elephant-headed god in the Hindu pantheon, is revered as the removal of obstacles, but in many Ganesha temples in India, particularly in the state of Kerala, birthplace of Sangita Iyer, live elephants are held, shackled as prisoners. In other instances, elephants are kept by entertainment entrepreneurs to perform in numerous festivals. To Iyer, this is enslavement of beings who really...

Does your dog or cat meditate with you? Interfaith minister and animal chaplain Sarah Bowen contends that other-than-human beings do this naturally and have spiritual lives every bit as rich as ours. Meet this fascinating woman, author of Spiritual Rebel and Sacred Sendoffs, as we discuss these ideas, along with Sarah's early life as a preacher's kid (she brought a mouse to church and qu...

Meditating gets you coolness points; praying, hmm, not so much. Agapi Stassinopoulos reinvents prayer for those who may question or avoid religion. And Agapi, author of Speaking With Spirit and workshop leader for Thrive Global, founded by her sister Arianna Huffington, is a total charmer. Find out more about Victoria Moran and Main Street Vegan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Scott Stoll, M.D., and heart attack survivor/thriver Dan Purjes discuss their new anthology, Disease Reversal Hope! And Peter Goldstein of wedidit.health shares how to reach those closest to us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Jenkins, M.D., Ph. D., D.Sc., of the University of Toronto invented the “eco-Atkins diet,” a way to make plant-exclusive dining work for those with low-carb sensibilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love Over Fear author Monk Coleman believes the universe is working in our favor and that raising the collective vibration on earth will benefit all beings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gentle World has promoted vegan living and peace on earth for half a century. Its cofounder, Light, uncle of Joaquin Phoenix, has eaten a peaceful diet all this time and is a great champion of compassion for all beings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s conjecture that a healthy diet has provided a layer of protection during the pandemic, but only now has a widespread survey, headed by Jiviniti’s Nivi Jaswal and Erin Sinnaeve, D.N.P., sought solid answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Champion bodybuilders (and compassionate trainers) Giacomo Marchese and Dani Taylor talk vegan fitness, and Vanita Rahman, M.D., of the Barnard Medical Center, introduces her new, fabulous cookbook, Simply Plant Based. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vegan wildlife ecologist Craig Downer, Ph. D., shares the wonders (and trials) of wild horses and burros in the American West and the Andean tapir—and how these species can help save the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cruelty Free International’s Monica Engebretson discusses the bill to outlaw animal testing of cosmetics in the U.S., and Abbie Nelson, a Ph. D. candidate in social work, shares her research in holistic healing for vegan survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Houston’s holistic cardiologist Baxter Montgomery, who is profoundly plant-based, gives us his prescription for having a healthy heart for many valentine seasons to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shape magazine-rated top trainer Ella Magers finds her heart at Hogs & Kisses Farm Sanctuary and hosts Solutionary Vegan’s Level-Up podcast to celebrate the ethical and health wonders of going vegan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Vegan Athlete’s Cookbook author Anita Bean opens the show, and bodybuilder Will Tucker takes the second segment with first-class tips on healthy living and a winner’s spirit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Accessible Yoga founder Jivana Heyman wants yogis to build a practice of courage and compassion, and chemical engineer Karthik Sekar, Ph. D., looks at the future of food and the world “after meat.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven Shalowitz, host of The One Way Ticket Show, went vegan in Saudi Arabia, went further in Israel, and helped a friend escape Kabul. And Sunny Satva spends most of her time in Kenya as director of the Vegan Africa Fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carleigh Bodrug of PlantYou.com now has a cookbook that makes the dietary straight and narrow delicious; and Brooke Ali and Patricia Thomson, Ph. D., of Wellness20 and the Food as Medicine Summit share about healing thyroid disorders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Glover made starting the year vegan a popular resolution; now he’s in the faux-chicken biz. And Annick Ireland has a fashion sense just about as pure as her lofty vegan ethics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rev. Shad Groverland, a vegan, heads Unity Worldwide Ministries, the contemporary legacy of the spiritual tradition founded in the 1880s by ethical vegetarians and which is part of the network that presents this program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Howard Jacobson defies convention and says we can indeed influence others, and Jennifer Stojkovic follows with major, vegan, businesswoman power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices