Vegan Posse

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 Told discusses the freedom that can be found by adopting a “radical...

It was fun to be asked about my own story - so much to reflect on! Thanks to Jeff Adams of VeganLinked for a thought-provoking interview. Resources: https://veganlinked.com/

While I love mysteries, being thrust into my own real-life mystery has been less than pleasant. This special episode of the Vegan Posse is less about the "vegan" and more about the Posse. I need YOUR your help in uncovering the truth regarding the Bitcoin heist the was perpetrated on me in August 2024. Listen to the sequence of events, let me know what you think, and help me get to the b...

This week, Chrissy welcomes Chrissy! Christina Mitchell describes herself as a fun-loving Kansas girl who loves animals and at one point in her life wanted to be a veterinarian but didn’t think she could  handle having to euthanize animals. Chrissy grew up as a meat-eater questioning where her food came from, but went vegan in 2016 when a random slaughterhouse video played on her Facebook feed. Si...

You may recall last week’s amazing, extraordinary guest, Dr. Frank Sabatino. This week, the Vegan Posse welcomes Dr. Frank’s equally amazing, extraordinary partner, Jayney Goddard, founder of the Complementary Medicine Association. Jayney has a Master of Science post-graduate degree from UCLancashire, England; and trained in Mind/Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School, USA, under Dr Herbert Benso...

This week’s interview is jam-packed with facts and truth that you won’t hear from many doctors – the sort that actually fortify, empower, and heal! Frank Sabatino, D.C., Ph. D. has been a plant-exclusive Chiropractic physician for over 45 years. He has a Ph. D in cell biology and neuroendocrinology from the Emory University School of Medicine and is one of the world’s leading experts on medically...

Ready to hear from the "giant" on whose shoulders so many plant-based doctors stand? Cornell University Professor Emeritus Dr. T. Colin Campbell has been dedicated to the science of human health for more than 60 years. His primary focus is on the association between diet and disease, particularly cancer. Although largely known for the China Study - one of the most comprehensive studies o...

I don’t generally opt to hang our with other lawyers when I can help it, but I make an exception when I’m at Vegan Summerfest! Michael Dorf is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University, where he teaches and writes about constitutional law and related subjects, including justice movements. He has authored over one hundred scholarly articles and essays for law journals and peer-re...

Nan Simonsen is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and the author of Aging Powerfully: Accept Your Past and Take Control of Your Future . Many of us think of eating disorders as something that teenagers and young women wrestle with and naturally "outgrow" – but that’s not always the case. Shrouded by feelings of abandonment, inferiority, and self-loathing throughout adolescen...

Chef Guy Vaknin is the founder and executive chef of  City Roots Hospitality  and based in New York City. For part of his youth, Chef Guy was raised on a kibbutz in Israel, where he was immersed in agriculture from a young age. He was taught how to cultivate food for the benefit of a community as a whole. To this day, Chef Guy believes that food is deeply connected to emotion, culture, and memory...

How many of us bemoan all the years we spent consuming "foods” that were in fact the products of unconscionable animal suffering? If you’ve ever wondered what it would have been like to be raised vegan, you can hear firsthand from Sarina Farb, who was born and raised vegan and now, as an adult, continues to carry the vegan message of justice and liberation for all beings! More about Sarina......

This final short but sweet episode summarizes the aspects of self-love and my own biggest takeaways from our amazing guests. Be part of the self-love revolution! And go forth in love. Resources: Christine Melanie Benson website: https://christinemelaniebenson.com/ "Why Am I Me?" from musical Shenandoah : https://youtu.be/ONGXYI2WDo0?si=z2YFw5iQbfHWe_V8 Music credit: "Spring, Spring...

Welcome to Episode 8 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series!  Before we can even consider what it means to love ourself, we have to ask what this “self” actually is. Does it even exist? There’s no one better equipped to take us on a deep dive into the rabbit hole of self-love than former Zen monk Dr. Will Tuttle, author of the bestselling book The World Peace Diet .  A visionary author, educator, and...

Welcome to Episode 7 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series! Sometimes, the fog is so all-encompassing that we can’t even see it. Derrick Broze discovered prayer and meditation in prison, when he was incarcerated for a nonviolent drug offense. Only then did he discover prayer and meditation and begin to emerge from the fog of depression and addiction. When he was released from prison after 18 months,...

Welcome to Episode 6 of the Vegan Posse Self-Help Series! Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Doug Lisle isn’t much for fluff and silliness and has little tolerance for the ludicrous. In this episode, you’ll get a straight-up, no-nonsense breakdown of self-love in the manner that only Dr. Doug Lisle can deliver. You’ll get a peek into the traps – pleasure, ego, and otherwise – that keep us out of self-l...

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series! In this episode, you’ll get an existential take on self-love! Clare Mann is a psychologist, existential psychotherapist, author, and communications trainer. Clare’s work now focuses on providing vegans, animal advocates, and animal protection agencies with tools to live in this “not-yet” vegan world, so they can communicate the imperative o...

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series! In today’s episode, you’ll get to hear from one of the very earliest Vegan Posse guests, therapist Kylea Rorabaugh, of Kansas City, Missouri. Fun fact: it was that conversation with Kylea in 2022 that inspired me to go back to school for a master's in counseling. Based in Kansas City, Kylea has decades of experience helping people shift...

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series!  Today you’ll be hearing from Delanie Fischer, host of the top-rated Self-Helpless podcast, comedy writer, vegan lady, and activist featured on NBC, FOX, Lifetime, Netflix, Hulu, CNBC, Fuse, Vh1, Entrepreneur, PopSugar, Podcast Magazine, theSkimm, and Bustle. Self-Helpless, which has garnered millions of downloads and been featured on Conan...

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series, a special series of episodes dedicated to expanding our tenderness, affection, curiosity, and sheer delight in one VERY important animal: ourselves. In today’s episode, you’ll be hearing from Dr. Jen Howk. Dr. Jen Howk is an author, researcher, and interdisciplinary social scientist. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wash...

Welcome to Episode 1 of the Vegan Posse Self-Love Series, a special series of episodes dedicated to expanding our tenderness, affection, curiosity, and sheer delight in one VERY important animal: ourselves. There will be eight episodes in total, released daily, featuring interviews with psychologists, spiritual leaders, therapists, and self-help gurus. What is self-love? How do we get it? And how...

In this landmark episode, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk joins the Vegan Posse for a rarely intimate conversation, shortly after celebrating her 75th birthday! No discussion of the animal rights movement is complete without a mention of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Notorious for its undercover journalism, graphic videos documenting animal abuse, and willingness to disrupt commonly-hel...

How much truth can you handle? Reverend Shad Goverland, brother of television producer and The Highwire host Del Bigtree, was born and raised in the Unity Church, a religion founded in the 1900s by a husband and wife who were pioneers in the vegan movement. At the age of 12, after hearing his father, a Unity minister, give a sermon about oneness with all creatures, Shad became a committed vegetari...

Many of us vegans fantasize about opening an animal sanctuary, but how many of us ever actually do it? Kathy Stevens is one who did - making it a priority to incorporate a piece missing from other rescue operations: education. Hear from the "horse's mouth" the ups, the downs, the wins, the losses, the human relationship trials, and the inter-species bonds from a true teacher and pion...

Tennesseeans are known for their grit, and Bobbi Jo Hemmen is a living example of true vegan grit! Bobbi is a Nashville native who lives in Whites Creek, in the house my dad grew up in. After losing her job during the COVID years, she statted her own CBD baked goods business, Hempcetera. She went vegan in 2022, when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She refused chemotherapy and instead change...

Welcome to the fourth and final week of the Vegan Posse Tennessee Series! How many doctors do you know who take it upon themselves to organize plant-based potluck dinners to help weave veganism into the fabric of community life? I know of exactly one, and his name is Dr. Scott Stoll. Dr. Scott Stoll is board-certified physician specializing in sports and regenerative musculoskeletal medicine and i...