Pivot! A Vegan Business Interview Series

MEET OUR GUEST : We are the only 100% vegan food delivery/catering service in central Ohio. We provide freshly made vegan meals that are delivered to you by the chef who made them; no delivery service or middleman. Our goal is to educate our community on the benefits of a plant based lifestyle, showing that vegan dining is not only healthy for you but also extremely delicious. As an African Americ...

Meet our guest: Vegan Culinary Memoirs provides plant-based foods education programming and ePublishing services for education, the food industry, and community groups.  https://www.facebook.com/Vegan-Culinary-Memoirs-106296144469028/ https://twitter.com/veganculinarym1 https://www.instagram.com/veganculinarymemoirs/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizgarysandiegoca/ Website: www.veganculinarymemoirs....

Meet our guest: Herbivore Clothing is the original vegan lifestyle brand. Since 2002 we've been working to make veganism look good! From our store in the Vegan Mini Mall in Portland, OR, we promote compassion for all - regardless of species. The oppression of one is the oppression of all. Vegans are Radical. Social: @herbivoreclothing,  https://www.facebook.com/herbivoreclothingcompany/   Website:...

Meet our guest: Since 2011 we have been creating organic, USA made, sweat shop free apparel for the ethical vegan. We believe in becoming a billboard for veganism whoever you go, and we help activists do that by providing fun and slightly snarky original hand-drawn designs on more ethically made clothing. Social: CompassionCo on IG, FB, and Twitter Website: http://www.compassionco.com  Subscribe t...

Meet our guest: Upton's Naturals is an ethically vegan food brand best known for meat alternatives such as Seitan and Jackfruit. Our mission is to make delicious vegan foods that are simple and accessible. Fortunately for us, food production is an essential business, so we were able to continue operating. Of course we had to implement social distancing requirements which meant some changes to the...

Meet our guest: Kathy Hester is passionate about making healthy eating accessible and delicious. She runs the food blogs Plant Based Instant Pot, Healthy Slow Cooking, and talks about online PR and video at https://kathyhester.com. She’s sold over 150,000 books to date, does cookbook PR and teaches people how to love live video! Kathy started doing live Facebook videos a few years ago and noticed...

Meet Our Guest : JL FIELDS is a vegan chef, health coach, and a consulting chef consultant to food, health, and wellness brands. She is the founder and culinary director of the Colorado Springs Vegan Cooking Academy and a Master Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator. JL is the author of several cookbooks: Vegan Baking for Beginners, Fast & Easy Vegan Cookbook, Vegan Meal Prep, The Vegan Air Fryer...

Meet our guest: We are based in Chennai, India and specialise in freshly made, plant based, minimally processed, protein rich, reasonably priced food that we deliver to offices and homes. Our food is drawn from various international cuisines. We have turned into a takeaway only business until further notice. Social: FB: https://lnkd.in/d9M5FE8 IG: tamutamuchennai Website: www.tamutamu.org Subscrib...

MEET OUR GUEST: Debbie Zimmerman , DBA PhytoFit, LLC, is a Lifestyle, Wellness and Health Coaching business. I empower and inspire individuals to embrace a whole food, plant-based diet to prevent, reverse or halt chronic diseases caused by the Standard American Diet. I'm a Food for Life Instructor, and a wellness expert having spent the last 30 years as Wellness Manager for Polk County Schools, cr...

MEET OUR GUEST : After battling years of severe allergies and a life threatening chronic illness, Katy, The Fake Vegan, was determined to find healing and opted for holistic healing practices. Her wellness site was created to explore alternative lifestyle techniques that can be easily incorporated in everyday life. Her passion for personal healing motivates her to share her 10+ years of health and...

MEET OUR GUEST: Malka Kafka has been involved in creating food tech startups. She takes care of taking actions for equal access of people to resources such as work, health, food and pays great attention to the aspect of responsibility for the world - what I eat, where the products come from, how to produce food according to the principles of sustainable economy. She was the hostess of the culinary...

MEET OUR GUEST: Ebony McCormick , a native of Florida moved to Atlanta to attend Clark Atlanta University. She studied accounting and proceeded to work in a fast, upscale environment as a financial assistant. She coached and mentored several clients, assisting them with their short and long term financial goals.  Ms. McCormick, who’s also the CEO/Founder of Cha’Rose Vegan Cosmetics, the Healthy Di...

MEET OUR GUEST: Jason Schramm is a vegan web developer and Founder of Veg Groups, where he builds websites to help people go vegan or stay vegan. Since going vegan five years ago he finally found a meaningful passion to utilize his technical talents: helping people to make compassionate lifestyle choices. He has built VegEvents.com to connect people with other vegans by finding events near them, a...

Meet Our Guests: Ellen is the author of 6 vegan health and fitness books including, Eat Vegan on $4 a Day, Vegan Fitness for Mortals, Vegan Sex and Vegan for One. When Ellen's entire speaking career for the next year was cancelled, she pivoted and turned her real estate experience into her next career, partnering with her vegan boyfriend and 35 year-veteran of the Sarasota real estate market, Troy...

Meet Our Guest: Geoff Palmer, a 57year old, 35yr Vegan is a Natural Bodybuilding and Natural Physique Masters Champion, the Owner of Clean Machine Plant-Based Fitness Nutrition, author, national lecturer, vegan patent holder and 2 Time NEXTY Winner for “Best Supplement of the Year” in 2016 & 2018. Geoff was selected #40 of the “Top 100 Most Influential Vegans” by Plant Based News. Geoff create...

MEET OUR GUEST: BotaniCuisine is a plant-sourced dining outreach business promoting plant-based/vegan food as abundant, delicious and fulfilling. Sales of plant-sourced foods, especially meat and dairy options, continue to skyrocket in popularity. Plant-sourced foods provide outstanding benefits for health, environment, resource and wildlife conservation, food security, and respect for all those w...

Meet Our Guests:  Gabrielle Darvassy is the Executive Chef and curator of B’Gabs Vegan Kitchen . B’Gabs was established as a wellness space that not only provided plant-based nutrition but provided educational classes ranging from deep meditation, holistic nutrition and herbalism. Gabrielle’s unique model of inclusion has gained recognition for superior food ingenuity to most recently community se...

Meet Our Guest :  Taylor Wolfram, MS, RDN, LDN, is a private practice dietitian, health writer and consultant based in Chicago, Illinois.  She has expertise in vegan nutrition, uses a Health At Every Size® approach and believes everyone has a right to body autonomy and respect. https://www.taylorwolfram.com/ Subscribe to Pivot! A Vegan Business Interview Series on Soundwise

Meet Our Guest: Nora Kramer Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp is a summer camp for social change that has been training aspiring activists to make a bigger difference since 2009. YEA Camp runs weeklong overnight leadership camps for progressive teens and tweens to build their knowledge, skills, confidence, and community to make a bigger impact on the social justice issues of their choice. In align...

Meet Our Guest: Courtney Garza is a passionate vegan that brings her love for journalism, creativity, helping local businesses, and animals altogether with her compassionate social media agency that she co-founded with her business partner Christina Bluford, Sprinkles Creative to aid businesses with their branding strategy. Courtney also owns and operates VEGWORLD Magazine, an international vegan...

Meet Our Guest: Bubbie Staron is a long-time vegan who decided to intertwine her passion for helping people with her passion for helping animals. After confronting her own health issues, she learned all she could about plant-based eating and nutrition and is now a licensed Food for Life instructor. She works full time at her county’s department of social services and also just launched her new bus...

Meet Our Guest: Sherimane Johnson is a Vegan Chef, owner of two vegan eateries (Night Owl Vegan & NaturallySweet Desserts) and certified Vegan Nutrition Coach who specializes in helping her clients attain their goals of adopting a vegan approach to eating and life.  Having overcome the life-altering impacts of Type 2 diabetes with a plant-based diet and vegan approach to life, her results enco...

Meet Our Guest: Juan Bautista Piqué The company "Un Mundo Vegano" ("One Vegan World" in spanish) starts as a response to make it easy for people to experience veganism in latin america. Juan Bautista Piqué, founder, was a heavy meat eater and one day changed his diet (after feeling much better physically and emotionally without eating meat), but without knowing "how to do it". Un Mundo Vegano help...

Meet Our Guest: Cindy wants you to be Trimazing—three times better than amazing! After improving her health and fitness through plant-based nutrition, losing 60 pounds and becoming an adult-onset athlete, she retired from her 20-year firefighting career to help people just like you. She works with people and organizations so they can reach their health and wellness goals. Our health and wellness i...

Meet Our Guest: Diana Edelman is the founder of Vegans, Baby, whose mission is to make vegan life easier, and vegan dining more approachable and attainable. She does this through Vegansbaby.com , which serves as the definitive guide to vegan dining in Las Vegas; a vegan guidebook to Las Vegas; organizing a vegan dining month in Las Vegas which has recently expanded to other cities; curated events...