Plant-Powered People Podcast

In this episode, we will talk to Bruce about how to handle tough conversations during the holiday season.

In this episode, we remember Michelle's birth father Greg.

In today's episode, we will chat about creating a conscious home.

This episode discusses being vegan in a non-vegan family...

Welcome back to season 2! We'd love to share our life updates with you! 

On today's episode, we talk about life in a van as a vegan!

On today's episode, we talk about being Plant-Based on a Budget!

When we started this podcast, we knew we want to acknowledge that although you may be deeply rooted in your cultural foods, it's still possible to be plant-based! Our guest today shows just that! Maria not only transforms her favorite traditional Filipino dishes into plant-based goodness, she also shares her new lifestyle with her community and inspires them to try it too!

This week, we're talking about a topic that has seemingly become one of our favorites, and that is: Being an Imperfect Vegan. We've brought on Tobias Leenaert, author of the book How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach , to chat with us about utilitarianism, and how to change hearts and minds (and food choices) by modeling kindness, patience, and grace.  

If you're like us, your plant-based journey started with being considerate of the foods you put into body. But have you considered all the ingredients you use on your skin for body care? In this episode, popular vegan beauty blogger and author of The Compassionate Chick's Guide to DIY Beauty , Sunny Subramanian, educates us on the differences between cruelty-free, vegan, DIY beauty products, and m...

For many of us, plant-based eating has been an introduction to a bigger shift of living more consciously. Conscious of how our decisions impact not only our health, but the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants. That's why we've been dying to do an episode about creating less waste! And who better to talk about it than someone who's inspired both of us to go further down the path of zero...

Fun news: Toni's getting married! And for anyone else who's planning a wedding, we're going to share the low-down on how to do it plant-based-style! We've brought our friend Taylor Wolfram on the show to share her experience planning a wedding with her non-vegan spouse, Michelle talks about some compromises she made to accomodate family, and Toni chats about what it's like to be currently going th...

In one of our recent podcast interviews, Karen Brockway talked about how her faith has been a big part of her journey in plant-based eating. It inspired us to cover this topic in its own episode! We brought on Deanne Thomsen, a lifelong Christian who is very active in her church community and also does faith outreach for The Humane Society of the United States, to talk about her experience in marr...

With all the major changes happening to your body, being pregnant in general can be really stressful. But when you're vegan and everyone has an opinion about your pregnancy, it can be extra frustrating. In our latest episode, Josie Steiger shares her experience of having a healthy vegan pregnancy and baby, some of the resources she found most helpful, and how to be the best advocate for yourself a...

The new year is the perfect time to set goals and make resolutions, but unfortunately, they're not always easy to see through once the hectic rush of life sets in. That's why we were eager to invite Karen Brockway on the show to share what happens when you actually stick to your new year's health goals. Last year, Karen joined in for our Plant-Based on a Budget New Year's Challenge and has had tre...

Ah, college life! We remember it fondly because it was when we both decided to align our dietary choices with our values and full-on embrace plant-based eating. That's why we're so excited to bring on Felicia Falconer, the personality behind the YouTube channel By Felicia, to discuss what it's like becoming vegan in college and while being totally immersed in the college life (being on a budget, w...

It can be frustrating when you've totally fallen in love with the plant-based lifestyle but your spouse isn't (and may never be) on board. That's why we're so excited to have Josie Morris on the podcast sharing her experience of being a full-time plant-based advocate who is married to a meat eater. Josie spends her days working for the Humane Society of the United States promoting vegan food at in...

We know that holidays can be a rough time when you're living the plant-based life, so we've put together the top five ways that we've learned to survive the holidays. In this episode, we share tips for hosting holidays meals, what to do when you're traveling to someone's house to celebrate, some of our favorite plant-based Thanksgiving products, and more!

Just because you adopted a plant-based diet, doesn't mean that you can quit your job and start a whole new life. So, what happens next? In our latest episode, Shawn Remy shares how a positive attitude can not only get you through it, but it can also possibly influence what offerings the restaurant serves. Hear his story! Visit plantpoweredpodcast.com for full show notes.

Did you know that Michelle was adopted? She had been on an over-a-decade long journey searching for her biological father, and thanks to the phenomenon of accessible genetic testing, she found him this year!  We're thrilled to have her bio-dad (aka B'Pa) on this episode talking to us about how he met Michelle six months ago, how she inspired him to become vegan, and how the process has been along...

Saaaayyy what?! A weekday vegan?! We're thrilled to tell you all about it! Our friend and episode guest, Crystal Young, shares how a plant-based meal planning challenge changed her diet from meat-lover to eating plant-based 5 day a week (soon to be 6!). We talk about incremental progression, and how Crystal's meat-loving husband - who is also the chef in their kitchen - is handling the change.

We're so honored to have Meagan Duhamel share her story with us today on the podcast! She's a plant-powered Olympian who has not only placed once, or twice, but THREE times -- earning gold this year in PeongChang. In this episode, Meagan talks about how she started skating at the age of three, how she left home as a teenager to train professionally, her introduction to plant-based eating, and how...

Welcome to the first episode of the Plant-Powered People Podcast, with your hosts: Michelle Cehn and Toni Okamoto . Today, we're discussing our hopes and dreams for our brand new podcast, and a brief background behind who we are -- but don't worry, you'll learn a lot more about us in future episodes. ;) Michelle shares her story about how she developed a strong love for animals as a child.  And To...