Vegan Posse

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...

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...