The Healthification Podcast

Annie Galli – MUM – welcome back to the Healthifcation podcast! It’s become a fun little tradition to check in on the podcast as we near the end of my stay here in Noosa with you, dad and now little Pango. I also couldn’t resist the perfect opportunity last year – 2020 – has given us for hindsight. I have a ... READ MORE The post 7 Ways To Stay Healthy as a Vegan and 2020 Hindsight with Annie Gall...

My guest today, Danny Ishay published a unique and insightful video I needed to see! Danny AKA Lifting Vegan Logic is a vegan activist and personal trainer who uses logic, reason, and sarcasm to combat, and cope with, anti-vegan nonsense. If you find yourself getting increasingly frustrated, disillusioned and disappointed by the attitude of smart, compassionate and generally open minded, even comp...

In mainstream media, the role of animals in our food system is massively underrepresented, however the team at Sentient Media are changing the narrative. This year, their content has reached over 25 million people. Sentient Media is a non-profit journalism organisation seeking to create transparency around the role of animals in our daily lives. Their work is designed to encourage people to questi...

My guest today, Dr Yami is a primary care paediatrician and a passionate promoter of healthy lifestyles, especially the power of plant-based diets for the prevention of chronic disease.  She’s also mum to two healthy and active boys who have been dairy free their entire lives. Because I know raising vegan kids from pregnancy through teenage years and into adulthood can be a delicate subject lets c...

A record 400,000 people worldwide signed up to the Veganuary movement in 2020. That is astounding growth since the UK-based charity first asked people to pledge to eat vegan for the month of January, back in 2014. That first year over 3,000 people participated. Today I’m chatting with Toni Vernelli International Head of Communications and Marketing at  Veganuary and we’ll discuss how to make the ....

I'm dropping into your feed to share some exciting news! My new WEEKLY podcast, Plant Positive is now LIVE. You can find the first episode PLUS an introduction aka My Vegan Journey by searching for “PLANT POSITIVE” on iTunes or wherever you’re listening right now. If you’re ready for some good news... then please come listen and get Plant Positive with me! Be sure to look for new episodes every Mo...

In 30 harrowing minutes HOGWOOD: A Modern Horror Story takes you beyond the factory farm walls of one unspeakably cruel yet sadly standard pig farm hidden in the British countryside where profit is prioritised above everything else. It is the culmination of months of investigative work by the Viva! team who worked relentlessly to expose the kind of horrific cruelty to animals many mistakenly ... R...

Friends we are in for a high impact ride today with powerhouse truth teller and vegan advocate Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams. After a run in with cops as a teenager, Eric vowed to join the force and change it from within. He worked his way up from a beat cop to a Captain, to the New York Senate and then to Brooklyn Borough Hall. In ... READ MORE The post Reversing Diabetes and getting Hea...

Farm Transparency Project, formerly Aussie Farms, seeks to show Australia exactly what happens behind closed doors, advocating for the rights of animals and debunking the myth that there can be such a thing as the “humane” slaughter of sentient animals who do not want to die. A perfect – brutal, heartbreaking example is Dominion. Have you watched Dominion?  This feature-length film ... READ MORE T...

My guests today Shoshana and Adam Chaim are a #plantstrong powerhouse couple bringing up 2 plant-based thriving kids! Though years ago they led a fairly typical – if on the gym going “healthier” side of things lifestyle that including all the standard animal products we’re brought up to believe “we need” to be fit, strong and healthy as athletes and indeed in life. ... READ MORE The post The Plant...

Today I’m chatting with a gentle giant with a fascinating story and somewhat dark past who has become a powerful and passionate voice for the animals. Personal Trainer and Nutritionist Paul Kerton, aka Hench Herbivore brings a unique blend of science backed hard hitting health and nutrition facts, whole food plant based deliciousness especially geared towards those of us who love to lift ... READ...

For a lot of my life I was debilitatingly, painfully shy. Although I was never hugely over weight I was HUGELY self conscious and not the least bit comfortable with my body. I remember the girls who had hot bodies at school. The chicks I wanted to look like… and the way they looked seemed utterly unattainable to me. I figured I was “just ... READ MORE The post Weight Loss Life Lessons, What I Wish...

This is an interview I’ve been wanting to do for years. There’s something so incredibly compelling, genuine and raw about my guest today, Australian animal activist Leah Doellinger. I’ve watched her live videos with tears streaming down my face as one of 10,000’s of people all around the world horrified by the trauma Leah puts herself through in order to ... READ MORE The post Meat The Victims wit...

If I had to start again so far as my vegan journey the thing I’d evict first from my eating, my home and my life – is dairy! From an ethics, an environmental and indeed a personal health point of view Dairy is indeed Scary. I’ve covered why and how in previous shows so for today I’ll just link to those in the show ... READ MORE The post How To Give Your Fridge A Dairy Free Makeover. appeared first...

Faunalytics is an amazing online resource and not for profit with the mission to empower animal advocates with access to research, analysis, strategies, and messages that maximise their effectiveness to reduce animal suffering. In short: Faunalytics saves animals by helping advocates be as effective as possible. As a non research or data or statistics minded individual I genuinely found the prep f...

Strange times. So weird. Ground-hog day. Scary. Uncertain. Heavy. These are some of the words that are coming up regularly in my conversations with clients and friends right now. Today’s solo podcast:  How To Create Your Ideal Day, Every Day  is focused on carving a little certainty and comfort out of these strange times we’re living through. On making the most of what you CAN ... READ MORE The po...

My guest today, speaks from the heart and from personal experience. Emotional Eating Expert Tricia Nelson lost 50 pounds by identifying and addressing the underlying causes of her emotional eating. For close to 30 years Tricia has been helping people overcome a myriad of addictions, including food addiction and eating disorders. Tricia writes, speaks and offers programs worldwide on the topic of e...

My guest today believes the stories of animals are worth telling and WOW her amazing images are certainly breathtaking and heartbreaking. Award-winning photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur has been documenting the plight of animals on all seven continents for almost two decades and her urgent and powerful work shines a light on the dark horrors we humans needlessly inflict on animals. Jo-Anne is the f...

Emma Hurst is a Member of the NSW Legislative Council representing the Animal Justice Party and was elected in March 2019. However Emma began her animal advocacy career over 15 years ago first as a campaign director at Animal Liberation and later as media officer at PETA. For my non-aussie friends, The Animal Justice Party was established in 2009 in response to growing public concern over ... READ...

As a vegan and animal rights activist I have zero hesitation in being hugely excited for and supportive of the future of Cultivated Meat. You might know this new food technology as: Clean meat. Cultured meat. Cell meat. Possibly even “fake meat” or “lab grown meat.” We’ll get into terminology and the actual process involved in growing real meat from animal cells in a controlled ... READ MORE The p...

As an emotional eater who gets HUGE joy from food, one of the excuses I’m a little (lot!) tired of hearing is: “Yeah, but I love food too much!” This statement is often delivered with a side of: “Unlike you trainers” which implies I’m some robot like creature focused purely on shovelling in the best quality fuel for the out-put I desire. WOW, this ... READ MORE The post 5 Healthy Vegan Substitutes...

Todays conversation with Pam Ahern from Edgars Mission Farm Sanctuary is a chat I sought out as a beacon of hope and positivity in a time when life can seem a little overwhelming and a lot uncertain. I feel like the world seems small right now. We’re doing less, planning less, excited by less and yet there’s still such a positive impact you can have in one ... READ MORE The post Pam Ahern from Edg...

There’s something the vast majority of us humans are proving to not be especially awesome at right now… Dealing with uncertainty. I’ll certainly put my hand up as an individual who wants to be in control. A dear friend even calls me “The Planner!” We want to know what’s coming and find it really unsettling when we don’t. And yet, actually we don’t ever really ... READ MORE The post Dealing With Un...

In todays conversation we are delving deeper into how to combat chronic disease using a plant based diet. However, actually the delving does not have to be too deep. The evidence is mind blowing-y easy to find and yet as you’ll hear today dieticians like doctors are not yet being taught the power of plants to prevent, manage and even reverse ... READ MORE The post Combating Chronic Disease Using N...

Wade Lightheart is Co-Founder and President at BiOptimizers, a nutritional supplement company with one mission, to: help humans shift from a sick unhealthy condition into a peak biologically optimized state.  Now incase you think a conversation about supplements might not be for you, please bare with me! Todays chat has nothing to do with popping a pill – or 20 – and ... READ MORE The post How To...