Pivot! A Vegan Business Interview Series

 Brett Christoffel is the Founder and CEO of All Y’alls Foods. All Y’alls Foods was born from Brett's love of cows. After spending over 40 years consuming them, it hit Brett that he loved all animals as much as he loved a dog or cat, so he stopped eating meat and became a vegan. As a native Texan, Brett takes pride in his state. When he learned that one of Texas' most substantial contributions to...

Full Description / Episode Show Notes Not long after becoming vegan for health reasons, Keith Lesser became just as passionate about the ethics of veganism–preventing animal cruelty, promoting sustainability and acting against climate change.  Keith decided to combine his career in accountancy and veganism to serve the vegan business community with quality accounting services. He acquired the Vega...

Stephanie Downs has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and spent over a decade advising fashion and automotive brands on animal alternatives. She also founded the largest plant-based meat company in India.  In this episode of Pivot, Stephanie Co-Founder and CEO of Uncaged joins us to share her story of founding a sustainability brand during the pandemic. Uncaged is a biomaterials...

Clarissa Gannon owns the online coaching company, Vegan Fit For Life (formerly Elite Fit For Life). She is also a multiple-times certified fitness and nutrition coach. Clarissa founded Vegan Fit For Life as a result of her expansive experience in the fitness industry and after observing just how broken it is. After making the decision to incorporate a vegan lifestyle to help some health and digest...

VEG3 is an AI-powered marketing assistant that helps vegan businesses and animal rights charities create impactful marketing campaigns that increase revenue while saving animals. After spending more than a decade laser-focused on making data-driven decisions to maximize the impact of work done by vegan businesses, VEG3 founder, Sam Tucker, realized there was a technological revolution happening th...

Full Description  Jane Velez-Mitchell started her non-profit network, UnchainedTV, with a single Go Pro camera, videotaping the stories she felt needed to be on network television, but weren't. UnchainedTV quickly evolved into a global social media network with dozens of citizen journalists going LIVE on Facebook and Instagram around the world, garnering millions of views. On a mission to share th...

PlantX started as a passion project at the beginning of a global pandemic. PlantX is not only an online store for plant-based products, but an all-encompassing online platform that makes living a plant-based lifestyle accessible to all. It's an online vegan community where users can order healthy vegan meals and learn about the vegan lifestyle through discussions and blogs. PlantX CEO Lorne Rapkin...

Brighde spent her formative years in the UK and Australia before her desire to travel took over. She spent five years leading group tours for an Australian company. She met fellow tour guide Seb in Marrakech, fell madly in love, and a couple of years later they discovered veganism together. She became passionate about promoting the vegan message as an activist. Combining her passion for travel and...

Danny O'Malley knew there was a demand for new plant-based proteins – and that he could be the one to create them. Following a brief stint at Beyond Foods, Danny started Before the Butcher, a plant-based meat brand that has become a category leader in flavor, variety and texture. In this episode, learn how Danny O'Malley built the successful and profitable plant-based meat brand, Before the Butche...

In 2012, Andrew Laurent found himself near death and with limited mobility. He had just suffered a stroke and was beginning to understand the full impact of his diet and nutrition on his condition. As a newly disabled stay-at-home dad, Andrew knew he needed to make a change. He started his own plant-based and vegan journey and soon after launched his vegan business, Broth Bomb, to support his fami...

Even though Tal Garden's family couldn’t afford culinary luxuries when she was growing up, their dinner table was always fresh, colorful, and tasty. One of the few staples on the table was tahini. Whether they spread it in pita bread, dressed it on shakshuka, or used it as a dip for veggies, tahini made it taste better. Tal created FUN Sesame because she wanted to share her love of tahini with the...

Jun Fuchs is a Certified Life Coach, on a quest to teach vegans & activists worldwide how to use mindfulness as a vehicle to level up their positive impact in this world. Jun is working to help awaken more vegans into their "zone of brilliance" and with that, level up their impact in the world. Jun joins us to share the story of how he burned out as an activist, took a whole year to recenter h...

As the founder of Sexy Fit Vegan, and previous trainer to celebrity athletes like A-Rod, Ella has built an international audience to include 60k followers across her social platforms serving the world as a speaker, author, podcast host, and coach. She believes that our bodies and overall health deserve the same commitment, love, and dedication as all other aspects of life. While entrepreneurs have...

As Chief Nerd at The Modern Health Nerd, Theresa “Sam” Houghton is helping plant-based, functional and better-for-you CPG and DTC brands understand their customers and create better content. Sam is a graduate of both the Bauman College Nutrition Consultant program and the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate program and uses this expertise to bring a uni...

Fit Vegan Coaching began when CEO Maxime Sigouin found himself looking for ways to raise funds to support his fiancée's cancer treatment. Fit Vegan Coaching has since helped over 500+ vegans completely transform their health and bodies. On a mission to help the world get lean, thrive and bulletproof their health, Fit Vegan Coaching (FVC) is fighting misconceptions about building muscle, improving...

Innutri, a company founded by entrepreneur Adrian Krahn, has a mission to be an “ethical health improver” – to protect the lives of people, animals and the environment. Innutri’s products aim to maintain and improve people’s health and quality of life while taking an ethical, long-term approach–for the sake of this generation and those to come. Innutri’s latest development, Innutri Soft Gums™, are...

Virchew is NA’s first plant-based food brand for dogs, founded by veteran entrepreneur Laura Simonson. Virchew is supported by industry-first nutrition programs focusing on skin, digestive, and senior-related solutions. Companion animals in Canada and the United States number over 100M and Virchew has built an extraordinary foundation that will lead to new ways to feed, care for, and live with com...

Serial entrepreneur, Bobbi Giudicelli, founded Read The Ingredients with her eldest son with the mission to help people eat clean, find their energy and live their passion. Bobbi’s journey from severe eating disorders to Whole-Food Plant-Based (WFPB) food choices brought her to co-found this latest venture.  Read The ingredients offers the cleanest full-meal (breakfast/lunch), baked and packaged p...

Motion Manor is an animation studio that wears its values on its sleeve. They offer a completely transparent breakdown of what being ethical means for the studio, what that means for its clients and what its climate objectives are for the future. They only work with purpose-driven organizations, like B-Corps, social enterprises, non-profits and vegan brands and they reinvest a portion of their rev...

The Luxury Vegan is the world’s only concierge transition service for the vegan lifestyle. Dominique Side helps individuals live a more compassionate lifestyle by easing them into veganism in every aspect of their lives. Being vegan is so much more than food. Dominique also focuses on fashion, beauty, household items, interior design, eco-friendly travel, and so much more. It is Dom’s mission to s...

“I see being a rebel as a positive positive thing, that you aren't just taking things as they are. We grew up in this belief system where eating meat is natural and normal. I very much grew up with that. I had to rethink that. I had to challenge that, in a way, to rebel against it and look at other ways of doing it. And not just follow my heritage and the way things were. I really want to inspire...

After reading, “A Diet for A New America,” by John Robins, Anthony Cotter transformed his life of addiction and homelessness. He went back to school and committed himself to nutrition, mindfulness, health, and wellness. His organization, Whole Life Goals, helps connect individuals seeking guidance with certified professionals ready to support them in reaching their Movement, Meals, Mind & Mone...

If I didn't care about animal testing, or plastic packaging, or what is that, what is my customer going to do with this box now that they're done with it and if I didn't care about ingredients, it'd be so much easier. I could just be whipping together some products, putting them in very traditional packaging, which are readily available, and putting them up on store shelves. But it's not what I wa...

We offer the vegan community a pathway for integrating all of the issues of social justice and environmentalism, with their passion for veganism and animal rights. And what we're offering the education community is the opportunity to bring these important ethical issues into their classroom in ways that don't have to be polarized, that don't have to be controversial, but can actually be oriented t...

"Particularly in the line of work that I'm in, podcasting, I've discovered that it is almost a partnership between you and the customer. They are on the journey with you. They're part of your business, too. My early customers especially, and all the customers I've got now, actually shape what I do and how I do it - all the time." 🎙️ When is the right time to become an entrepreneur: podcasting as a...