Pivot! A Vegan Business Interview Series

Ghostwriter turned international bestselling author Mitali Deypurkaystha, aka 'The Authority Creator,' transforms coaches, consultants, speakers, and entrepreneurs into thought leaders by becoming published authors within 90 days. Featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox, she's helped her clients generate over $5 million in revenue.   In 2009, she adopted a rescue cat, and she witnessed sentience beyond...

MEET OUR GUEST : An entrepreneur residing in Charlotte, NC. Ussery started her career in Charlotte interning with the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and Duke Energy. She then lived and worked for 20 years in Detroit, MI directing internal and external communication activities for C-Suite executives in statewide government and private global companies. She partnered with Erika Boyd to co-create the...

MEET OUR GUEST : We’re Kakadu Creative – a full-service, ethical, sustainable, cruelty-free design agency with a track record of 5-star customer service. We specialise in helping you to engage with your customers and stand out from your competition so your business can grow. We’re a small team of creatives with a mission to make a positive impact on the world through creating the best work for bus...

MEET OUR GUEST : Heidi has been vegan for almost 7 years. In 2016 she accidentally started her plant based meal prep business which has evolved into educational workshops, writing an e-book (vegan bible), vegan lifestyle coaching and now business coaching. Her love of sharing vegan food with others inspired her to mentor other vegan women to start their own small businesses. She also moved down to...

MEET OUR GUEST: Gloria is a vegan blogger who decided to cook vegan meals for the community. When Covid hit she had to switch up the strategy so she decided to do cooking demos via zoom. She did a small catering with masks and social distances enforced. Since Covid started she has been doing a mix of online vegan cooking demos and small catering for customers. Gloria turned to zoom for the cooking...

MEET OUR GUEST: Sarah Eastin is a Professionally Trained Vegan Hospitality Consultant and Plant Based Chef who helps Restaurants and Hotels in Colorado and beyond fulfill the demand for creative plant-based cuisine. Her services include detailed menu consultation, recipe development, vegan-oriented press and assistance with plant based alternative food sourcing.  Since 2018, Sarah has supported re...

MEET OUR GUEST: Former corporate executive, Nivi Jaswal, has had quite a journey from marketing mayonnaise to becoming a Mayo Clinic certified coach. The milestone of that journey was her Ketogenic diet and the various structural biases she faced in the corporate world being a young, ambitious & high-achieving woman of color.  After healing on a whole foods plant based diet, Nivi started her n...

Pioneering pastry chef Fran Costigan, chef, author, and Director of Vegan Baking and Pastry at the Rouxbe cooking school, is internationally renowned as the authority on vegan desserts. Dubbed the Queen of Vegan Desserts for her groundbreaking work. Professionally trained, Fran was a chef in both traditional and vegan pastry kitchens before moving into teaching 25 years ago. Fran is a professional...

MEET OUR GUEST : I am a vegan lifestyle coach educator certified as master in Mainstreet Vegan Academy. I am also a licensed psychotherapist in CA and AZ. I am part of a group Private Practice in LA and a national program providing tele therapy. I offer individual and group sessions I am also a certified dance movement/therapist and expressive arts therapist. I have had bariatric surgery in 2012 w...

MEET OUR GUEST: Our mission is to help people eat more plants and less of everything else. We believe that no one should feel judged for how they eat, so part of our mission is to maintain a supportive, kind, inclusive, non-judgmental, and helpful community. We celebrate human imperfection and we like diving into the messy bits of life. TW: https://twitter.com/cfdgirl   FB: https://www.facebook.co...

Meet Our Guest : Main Street Vegan Academy trains and certifies Vegan Lifestyle Coaches & Educators in exciting real-time courses that cover every aspect of the vegan lifestyle. Our respected faculty prepares committed vegans with the skills to succeed as a vegan coach, influencer, or entrepreneur, and we provide post-course support and networking. Our graduates hail from 30 countries and thei...

Meet Our Guest: Liz Gary is a plant-based foods educator, food writer, digital media designer, and emerging ePublisher with her first book for print, Black Belt in Tofu. With over 25 years experience working as a foods educator and ten years mastering the plant-based diet, Liz has uncovered a timely and valuable recipe for success. It’s an expansive and impressive menu of new food options that pro...

Meet Our Guests: We’re on a mission to empower those who want to promote a sustainable and plant-friendly future. We believe that by providing people who want to positively shape the world with the right skills and knowledge, we can create a community of change-makers, influencers, and innovators.  Therefore, if you’re someone with a passion for supporting your community, giving a voice to the voi...

Meet Our Guest: I'm a Family Nurse Practitioner that is an expert in plant-based nutrition. In my primary care organization I started a Plant-Based Outpatient Nutrition Program that in the past year has successfully transitioned to virtual in 2020, reaching over 200 families. I also run Nurse Eugenia Nutrition at which I do 1:1 health coaching and carefully organized group programs to help folks w...

Meet Our Guest: Aline Duerr of Vegan Interior Design, an educational platform teaching interior design students and established interior design businesses how to include a fast-growing conscious market into their customer base. Her interior design business used to be very much face to face and one on one before COVID-19. From March onwards, not only did the commercial interior design work that she...

Meet Our Guest: The VeggiDome keeps vegetables fresh out on your table throughout the week. This new category of food display introduces a unique way to keep healthy plant-based food available. A unique change for the modern kitchen. VeggiDome is no longer able to sell the VeggiDome at festivals, Home and Garden shows, and VegFests because they were all canceled. Now they show and sell them online...

Meet Our Guest: Darren Cavanagh, a Vegan Film Director and Video and Digital Marketing Consultant.  He helps vegans, plant-based businesses rapidly grow their brand online to boost profits with video & digital meat-free marketing content and strategy minus the meltdown. He has 27 years of experience producing video and digital content and helped some of the top entertainment clients, including...

MEET OUR GUEST: Founded in 1997 as the nation’s premier vegetarian/vegan/eco travel agency, Green Earth Travel, LLC, remains on the cutting edge of destinations with conscience offering a wide-range of travel options for those who care about the planet. Today Green Earth Travel, LLC and travel expert, Donna Zeigfinger, company President/owner, focus on Volunteer Vacation packages and Adventure Tra...

MEET OUR GUEST : As more and more vegans look for better ways to invest for the future, the momentum to invest humanely continues to grow. We have a tremendous opportunity to make a difference by demanding accountability from the companies in which we invest. Since most of us need to invest to make sure our own finances are sound, we encourage you to do so while making a difference---for animals,...

MEET OUR GUEST: After years of struggling with fibroids and ovarian cysts and multiple surgeries, Rebecca had a pre-cancer diagnosis. She was at her wits end and started researching the connection between growths and diet. Person after person shared how cutting out meat had changed the state of their health. She chose to start eating a live plant-based diet and everything changed. She averted a fo...

MEET OUR GUESTS: My Nutrition Nurse is a brand new Whole Food, Plant Based online multi-media academy with live coaching helping people adopt the only known nutritional approach to reverse disease. Co-Founders Sherry Kari Baum, RN, MSN and Misty Young, both Certified WFPB Nutritional Therapists. Misty Young, LinkedIn My Nutrition Nurse, Facebook youngmisty, Facebook @mynutritionurse Instagram My N...

MEET OUR GUEST: Besa moved to the USA 17 years ago and has been working in the medical field as a Sonographer in hospital and clinical settings in NYC for 15 years. During this time, she has seen the devastating health conditions that we have in our country. She is a passionate Health and Life Coach, and a licensed Food For Life Instructor by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. She is t...

MEET OUR GUEST : Cody Stubbe is from Omaha, Nebraska and just last Spring founded her company Wholistic Dish, which provides educational services on whole food plant-based lifestyle. Cody is a Food for Life instructor and a registered nurse and uses this combination of skills and knowledge to help others learn how powerful nutrition is in the prevention, management, and possible reversal of chroni...

MEET OUR GUEST : I'm a professional copywriter and content creator. My niche is sustainability—I work with sustainable businesses to help them reach wider audiences and spread the word about their products and mission. I strive to grow awareness about the climate crisis by working with businesses who are aligned with my values. And using my writing skills to help them grow. On my site, I have a bl...

Meet our guest: Jasmin Singer is a writer and activist living in Los Angeles. She is the author of the memoir, Always Too Much and Never Enough (2016), which tells her story of finding herself through juicing, veganism, and love, as she went from fat to thin and from feeding her emotions to feeding her soul. In 2016, Jasmin was named by The Advocate Magazine as one of “40 Under 40 People to Teach...