Vegan Posse

Welcome to Posse Talk with Jen Howk, the monthly series where Dr. Jen Howk and I shoot the breeze about veganism, life, love, and anything else on our minds! Share your questions, thoughts, ideas, and opinions! Email: veganposse.email@gmail.com If you value the work we do  bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere, consider supporting the Vegan Posse financially via PayPal or Venmo. We a...

The Vegan Posse podcast has been coming to you WITHOUT FAIL every week since October 2022. Do you love bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere? Consider supporting the Vegan Posse financially via PayPal or Venmo: Buy Chrissy a coffee or chip in for expenses - every amount helps! And even better if you make it monthly: ⁠https://www.venmo.com/u/veganposse⁠ Or send USD or BTCH via PayPal...

Do you value what we do in bringing vegans together to help animals everywhere? Support the Vegan Posse! Buy me a coffee! $5 Help w/ recording cost! $10 Montly support - thank you! $25 Or any amount you choose - we appreciate you! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=U6Q2GULJVMN6J&no_recurring=0&item_name=The+Vegan+Posse+brings+vegans+together+to+help+animals+everywhere%21+We%27re+not+j...

Atlanta native and founder of the beloved food blog Sweet Potato Soul, Jenné Claiborne is obsessed with plants. As a picky eater turned certified health coach, Jenné has been enjoying the vibrant health, energy, and joy from eating whole foods for more than a decade without sacrificing her taste for Southern Soul. Jenne just released her second cookbook, Sweet Potato Soul Vegan Vibes . Make sure t...

It's time for our monthly Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Longtime Vegan Posse friend Dr. Jen Howk and I don't puport to solve many problems, at least in a utliitarian sense, but we cover a lot of ground. Enjoy :) Resources: Got questions for Posse Talk with Jen Howk? Email veganposse.email@gmail.com Interested in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy? Email chrissy at christinembenson@gmail.com Help ma...

Hayden Blane is a native Nashvillian, a wife, a mother, and an actor. She lived in LA for almost a decade, and her heart called her home to Nashville in 2014.  She’s been vegan since 2007, when she read a book that opened her heart and changed her life. She’s a runner, 43 years around the sun, she loves all animals, but her favorite is her 6-year-old cavapoo, Leroy Jenkins. After seeing Free Willy...

As they say, we can't choose what happens to us; we can only choose how we respond. Often it comes down to a choice between victimhood and empowerment - and Karen Kenney chose the latter. After her mother's brutal murder, Karen would have had every justification in the world for considering herself a helpless victim. Instead, she turned her energy to helping the beings that don't get t...

Dr. Joshua Helman MD is a Harvard-trained physician licensed in fourteen states. He has two degrees in Biochemistry, he is double Board Certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. His medical degree is from Harvard Medical School and MIT. He is the former Medical Director of Hippocrates Health Institute, was on the TrueNorth Health Center researc...

Why was longtime vegan celebrity Chef AJ so reluctant to go public with her diagnosis of lung cancer? How is she doing now? We get into that and LOTS more in this intimate, vulnerable, and FUN interview that you won't want to miss! Among other things, you'll hear Chef AJ talk about the benefits she's experienced from Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which I trained in and have been practicin...

How can we stay strong in 2025? Angela Fischetti can help! Angela Fischetti: A virtual physical fitness and yoga instructor and on-site licensed massage therapist specializing in fitness and wellness for older adults.  Angela Fischetti is a virtual physical fitness and yoga instructor and on-site licensed massage therapist specializing in wellness for older adults. She began teaching seniors when...

Welcome to the Christmas 2024 edition of Posse Talk with Jen Howk! A longtime friend of the Vegan Posse, Dr. Jen Howk is an author, researcher, and interdisciplinary social scientist. She earned her B.A. with honors from the University of Washington, and her M.A. and Ph. D. from Harvard University. Her work explores themes of health and well-being, broadly considered. Her new book called Truth Be...

As we close out the year, it's a great time to reflect on values, priorities, and purpose. If you've been feeling uncertain or lost about the importance of your vegan activism, I hope that you find this week's episode with Dr. Faraz Harsini, founder of Allied Scholars for Animal Protection (ASAP), as grounding, centering, and urgent as I did. Dr. Faraz Harsini is a Food System Biomedical Scientist...

First and foremost, help make the vegan novel Marrying Myself an Amazon bestseller! Buy copies for all your family and friends and leave a STELLAR review ***** - it's our best way of normalizing veganism through the arts! Buy Marrying Myself on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Myself-Christine-Melanie-Benson/dp/1685130763 Christine Melanie Benson website: https://christinemelaniebenson.com/...

In this one-of-a-kind episode, the Vegan Posse returns to its podcast roots with a special audio only episode. If you think you’ve heard some incredible stories about the lengths that people will go to help animals, trust me, you haven’t heard a story like this! With an uncanny ability to make things happen, never give up, and tap into near-miraculous levels of serendipity, Helga Tacreiter not onl...

It's coming up on that special time of year - good-special in some ways, frustrating-special in others, especially if you're a vegan. We're releasing this month's Posse Talk with Jen Howk a few days early, to give you that extra-special vegan boost going into Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, and all the winter holidays. Enjoy this episode of Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Resources: Dr. Jen Howk we...

Who doesn’t love a challenge – and what better than a VEGAN challenge? Veganuary is a month-long challenge that encourages people to go plant-based for the month of January, and in this episode, I chatted with the U.S. Director of Veganuary, Sandra Hungate, who now lives in Portland, OR, but who’s live all over the world, speaks four languages, and has been working in marketing for sustainable liv...

Welcome to this landmark pre-Thanksgiving episode with Peter Singer! Peter Singer has been called the world’s most influential living philosopher. He’s been credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, and his work was certainly integral in my own vegan education. This month, he was featured in a New York Times interview titled "Pater Singer wants to Shatter Your Moral Complacency" -...

We all have our unique vegan path. Andrea Learned found that path through her environmental and sustainability work. Andrea is a self-proclaimed climate influence producer and host of the Living Change climate leadership podcast. She’s now in the development stage of her second podcast, Climate Influence, with Andrea Learned; and is working on a short documentary. Andrea is well known for her deep...

Welcome to this month's Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Every month, Dr. Jen Howk and Chrissy discuss life, love, relationships, human nature, world events, the meaning of life - and anything else on our minds. We welcome YOUR questions, comments and topics suggestions - email us at veganposse.email@gmail.com Resources: Dr. Jen Howk website: https://www.jenhowk.com/ Chrissy Benson website: https://chris...

Welcome to the 100th episode of the Vegan Posse! This week, you get two special guests for the price of one. Mariann Sullivan is a lawyer and teaches animal law at Cornell Law School. She has served as the chair of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial Insurance Practice Section’s Animal Law Committee and the NY Bar Association’s Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals. She is also the...

Fall is here! And what better way to kick it off than by getting super cozy with Nutmeg Notebook host Tami Kramer? But first, some Posse news... NEW MONTHLY SERIES: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Our new monthly series, Posse Talk with Jen Howk, will be airing the FIRST week of every month - don't miss the dish! Got questions or comments, or just seeking general advice from evolutionary psych guru gone...

New monthly Vegan Posse series: Posse Talk with Jen Howk! Email your questions about human nature, relationships, health, or anything else to Dr. Jen Howk and/or Chrissy to veganposse.email@gmail.com This week's episode... Angela Crawford, Ph. D., is passionate about the benefits of a compassionate vegan lifestyle for emotional, mental, and physical well-being, compassion for all sentient beings,...

Welcome to the new monthly Vegan Posse series, Posse Talk with Jen Howk! On the first Friday of every month, Chrissy will be chatting with Dr. Jen Howk, author of the book Truth Be Told and host of the Collective Unconscious, about life, love, the state of the world, and anything else that's on their minds. Many of are familiar with Jen Howk from the Beat Your Genes podcast. But Jen has now moved...

This week, get the inside scoop on compassion in the kitchen from plant-based nutrition educator, chef, and content creator Natalie Golba. Originally from the Soviet Union, Natalie realized that the best way for her to help animals was to help humans learn to cook plant-based – and skyrocket their own health, beauty, athletic performance and longevity by becoming their own healthiest chefs. A form...

This week, the Vegan Posse welcomes BACK legendary Victoria Moran. Featured twice on  Oprah  and listed by  VegNews  among the “Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors,” Victoria Moran has written fourteen books, including  Creating a Charmed Life, Main Street Vegan , and the upcoming  Age Like a Yogi.  Vegan for 40 years, Victoria serves as director of Main Street Vegan Academy, training vegan lifestyle...