The Bloody Vegans Podcast

Joe Montez, 28, is from Laredo, Mexico but lives in LA. Joe is a vegan chef who ha quickly risen to prominence in the burgeoning Vegan Mexican food scene in LA. He trained under some of the world's best chefs in Chef Miguel Bautista and Matthew Kenny. Currently Joe is working as a consultant to non-vegan restaurants seeking to improve their vegan offering or convert completely to becoming vegan es...

A Southern baker at heart, Chris draws much of his culinary influence from the European style of baking and often time refers to himself as a Southern baker with a French twist. “I believe that European bakers are champions of properly balanced sweets and I aspire daily to be more like the Ottolenghi and Claire Ptak of the pastry world” Carefully crafted with thought and passion, Chris’s menu of p...

Olivia D'Lima starred in the BBC's long running drama series Casualty as paramedic Fenisha Khatr. The character had incredibly profound effect on Olivia & led her to adopt her character's Vegan lifestyle offset. In this episode Olivia shares her journey into acting & how it has ultimately led her to veganism. Olivia is one of the nominees for Best Newcomer at this year's British Television Awards....

Leila Dehghan, MD, is an Iranian doctor turned personal trainer. She studied medicine at the Medical University of Vienna and worked as a doctor in the UK before quitting for health reasons. Her migraines and her work as a vegan personal trainer led her to study the role of exercise and diet in healing. Inspired by the CNS and eCornell Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate she’s currently pursuing a m...

Josie Clemens is a professional chef who having turned Vegan some three years prior is now competing on US TV show Hell's Kitchen for a chance to be the head chef & one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants. In this episode Josie shares her journey into the world of veganism & the reasons why she chose to enter an omnivorous cooking competition. Support The Bloody Vegans Podcast https://linktr.ee/bloodyv...

Stephanie Redcross West started Vegan Mainstream based on a simple idea: to build a pro-vegan world, we need a solid infrastructure of successful businesses and brands to ensure that an ethical lifestyle is accessible to everyone, everywhere. Imagine ethical retail stores, restaurants, clothing options, skin care, cleaning supplies and educational materials in every mall or community! Every step t...

Miranda & Simon both hail from England. They purchased the Black Sheep Inn and emigrated to the United States in early 2020. The Black Sheep Inn is situated in Hammondsport, New York, a picturesque village at the south end of Keuka Lake, in Steuben County, one of the Finger Lakes of New York, United States. Simon & Miranda offer warm hospitality & hearty, home-cooked vegan food in their beautiful,...

The Vegan Society has just launched a landmark report: Planting Value in the Food System in conjunction with the Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at The University of Sunderland, Dr. Alex Lockwood. In this episode Dr. Lockwood shares his journey into the world of veganism, his perspectives on our current food systems & his thinking behind this seminal new re...

In this week's episode we re-run the live launch of the year 1: Teacher's Resource Pack from Laura Chepner of Primary Veducation & Vivi The Supervegan author Tina Newman.  You can learn more about the resource pack at www.primaryveducation.com Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maggie, a graduate of Michigan State University with experience in both the corporate and nonprofit worlds, is founder of VegOut Magazine. Dedicated to creating a kinder, healthier planet, Maggie is a change advocate for individuals looking to transition to a plant-based diet or reduce consumption of animal products. She has been vegan for eight years, and vegetarian since she was a child. Follow...

Dr. Ted Barnett, MD, FACLM is the founding President and Board Chair at the Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute & the founder and CEO of RLMG   Dr. Ted AKA the “High-Tech Doctor with Low-Tech Solutions.”, his wife and three children have thrived on an exclusively plant-based diet since 1991.   At the RLMI Dr. Ted & the team have designed & launched an incredible program that helps you prevent,...

TJ Galiardi, is the CMO of Outcast Foods, who are on a mission to solve our food waste problem by rescuing misfit produce from ending up in a landfill. By disrupting the food waste pipeline and reforming it into a new, upcycled plant-based supply chain, Outcast aim to move us one step closer to ending food insecurity and doing it with all the sustainable gusto they can muster! As well as the CMO o...

Lisa Gawthorne is the co-founder of Bravura Foods who offer a full sales, marketing and distribution service for Vegan products. Outside of work, as well as looking after a very demanding bengal leopard cat “Yoshi” and playing the piano, she competes as a as a runner in numerous races for Liverpool Pembroke Sefton and is on Team GB for her Age Group on both the European and World championship circ...

Ghostwriter turned international bestselling author and business book expert, Mitali Deypurkaystha, aka 'The Authority Creator,' transforms coaches, consultants & speakers 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 additional business revenue. As the recipient of coaching and mentoring...

In this week's episode I chat with authors of the incredible new book 'Think Like a Vegan', Emilia Leese & Eva Charalambides. We discuss a range of topics related from their journeys' into the world of veganism & how they came to write a book together to the lesser looked at positive impacts of social media on the vegan community. You can learn more about the book & Emilia & Eva at www.thinklikeav...

Olivier Mankondo is a keynote speaker, author, weight loss and wellness coach with a passion for self help books. He has been on a plant-based nutrition since 2016. Just by chance, he happened to be watching a program that showed that animal products were not designed for the human mechanism. He applied this newfound knowledge in his life and was able to cure himself of high blood pressure, severe...

In this episode I chat with Nic Rose - vegan for 5+ years & someone I have come to respect the view of in all matters intersectional, political & vegan. As we admit in this discussion there is also so much to learn & educate ourselves politically, socially & culturally & this episode Nic & I explore some thoughts about the current state of vegan culture from vegan celebrities to intersectional act...

Joan Landino and Jane Buckley are the Therapy Twins. Identical twin sisters, licensed caregivers, and lifelong seekers who use their own brand of humor and vulnerability to tell revealing stories about their childhood, family, marriages, divorces, dating and motherhood. Their mission is to help people LOVE MORE, FEAR LESS. Joan and Jane say that we all have a tiger biting at our heels – the tiger...

Nathan & Shyam are two football fans from New York who through chance, happenstance & an alignment of the stars discovered Gloucestershire based League Two English Football Club Forest Green Rovers. Since making this discovery they have become avid fans, the unofficial go to resources for Forest Green Rovers news, views & match reviews & Vegan! In this episode we discuss Forest Green Rovers, Vegan...

Alexandrea Lafata is a plant-based Hospitality Specialist with over 10 years of industry experience, an activist focused on Animal Rights Lobbying/Legislation, Climate Change, Human Trafficking & Food Injustice. Alexandrea documents the horrors of animal agriculture by going to slaughterhouses & live animal markets. She is also a Climate Leader with former Vice President Al Gore's Climate Reality...

Bill Muir (AKA Sergeant Vegan) has been Vegan since 1992. Bill is a former US Army Paratrooper but as SGT VEGAN he has accumulated a wealth of experience through an incredibly diverse range of experiences, to name a few Bill is a... Combat Veteran Martial Artist Vegan Chef Author (Vegan Strong) RN-Cardiac Telemetry Fluent in Japanese, World Traveller- 47 countries Musician- Final Fantasy X soundtr...

In this episode Jim chats with co-founder of Green Peace & founder of Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson about Seaspiracy, Sea Shepherd & effective activism.  Source of the bio below www.seashepherd.org.uk Paul Watson was born in Toronto, Canada, on December 2, 1950. At six years old, he and his family moved to the lobster fishing town of St. Andrews-by-the-Sea in New Brunswick. The eld...

On this week's episode of The Bloody Vegans Podcast, Jim is joined by Zoey Henderson the founder of Fungtn, the alcohol free adaptogenic alcohol free beer company, to talk veganism, beer & powerful ancient mushrooms. Fungtn brew an alcohol free craft beer to 0.5% but along with no hangover, the interesting bit in their beer is from the mushrooms! Premium, alcohol free craft beer traditionally brew...

Heather Landex has over a decade of experience in the food safety industry, inspecting the food preparation & production areas of countless food manufacturers & restaurants. Heather has taken her experiences as inspiration to write her new book 'Inclusive: The new exclusive' which aims to highlight how businesses are losing up to 20% of their potential revenue by catering for the majority. She sha...

Rachel Brownstein is a no-nonsense public speaker and actress, busting myths about the adult film industry and sex work. She is also a keen vegan chef and has her own vegan cooking channel on YouTube - Auntie Rachel’s Chaotic Kitchen. Once an enthusiastic carnivore, Rachel decided to become a vegan after finding out more about the animal welfare issues involved in the meat industry. She had her fi...