Vegan Posse
You won’t be saddling up, but you’re in for the ride of your life! Welcome to the Vegan Posse!
Vegan Posse Self-Love Series Episode 5: Existential Self-Love with Clare Mann
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...
Vegan Posse Self-Love Series Episode 4: EXERCISE Self-Love with Kylea Rorabaugh
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, Missouri. Fun fact: it was that conversation with Kylea in 2022 that inspired me to go back to...
Vegan Posse Self-Love Series Episode 3: Helpless Self-Love with Delanie Fischer
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,...
Vegan Posse Self-Love Series Episode 2: Radical Honesty and Self-Love with Dr. Jen Howk
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....
Vegan Posse VP Self-Love Series! Episode 1: Intro to Self-Love with Chrissy Benson
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,...
Vegan Posse VP#84: Getting Personal with a Warrior for Animals! At 75(!), PETA Founder Ingrid Newkirk Is Fiercer, More Determined, and More Human than Ever.
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...
Vegan Posse VP#83: Rev. Shad Groverland Is Speaking Out for Compassion, Integrity, and Truth – and Not Everyone Can Handle It!
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...
Vegan Posse VP#82: “The animals are our best vegan-makers.” Catskill Animal Sanctuary Founder Kathy Stevens on the Education Approach, Animals as Teachers, & Falling in Love with a Pig
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,...
Vegan Posse VP#81: Cancer Conqueror and Hempcetera Owner Bobbi Hemmen Has Grit, Heart, and a Way with Hemp!
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...
Vegan Posse VP#80: Tennessee Series! Plantrician Project Co-Founder Dr. Scott Stoll on What “Falling Apart” Really Means, Grassroots Healthcare that HELPS, and the Power of Potluck!
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 vdinners to help weave veganism into the fabric of community life? I know of exactly one, and his name is...
Vegan Posse VP#79: Tennessee Series! “Where was this information?” Lou Comfort on Stopping Killing Her Family, Her Husband’s Too-Late Revelation, Monthly Nashville Vegan Potluck, & Her Ripped Vegan Sons
Welcome to Week 3 of the Vegan Posse Tennessee Series! If you don’t tend to think of Nashville, Tennessee, as a hotbed of vegan awareness, you might want to think again. This week you’ll get to meet Lou Comfort, a yoga and meditation teacher who unfortunately...
Vegan Posse VP#78: Tennessee Series! Kara Carden on Growing Up on the Road w/ Country Music Star Dad, Pursuit of Raw Vegan Pleasure, Homeschooling Two-plus Vegan Kids, & Rethinking Parenting
It's Week 2 of the Vegan Posse Tennessee Series! Native Tennesseean and longtime vegan Kara Carden is a homeschooling mother and community organizer. Daughter of chart-topping country music star Ronnie McDowell, Kara grew up touring the country and occasionally...
Vegan Posse VP#77: The Tennessee Series! Tennessee Boy Meets Cavewoman – Robby & Ananya Cox, Founders of Vegan Meal Prep Company SUNstenance
Who better to kick off our Tennessee series than Tennessee-born-and-raised Robby Cox and his business partner AND life partner, Ananya, founders of vegan meal prep company SUNstenance? Ananya has been practicing and working in the field of holistic wellness since her...
Vegan Posse VP#75: Sia Hurst of 6D Living – and Greece! – on a Father’s Death, a Daughter’s Grief, a Life Rediscovered, & How Dr. Michael Greger Helped!
Why is listening to each other so rare - and so hard? And how do we find balance in this chaotic world? SIa Hurst, founder of 6D Living, has a few ideas! Sia is a graduate of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, completing the Plant-Based Nutrition...
Vegan Posse VP#74: Pushing Limits of Possibility with Derrick Broze, Founder of the Conscious Resistance Network: From Addiction, Suicide Attempts, & Turning 21 in Prison to Health, Joy & Freedom (Inner & Outer)
Derrick Broze is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, and public speaker. He is the founder of The Conscious Resistance Network and the author of many books, including The Conscious Resistance Trilogy, The Holistic Self-Assessment, and How to Opt...
Vegan Posse VP#73: The Weight of Empathy with Vegan World-Wanderer & Author Lucas Spiegel: The Lifelong Vegan Challenge of Staying Open-Hearted in World Rife with Animal Suffering
What happens when you leave everything and everyone you know behind, take a one-way flight across the ocean, and continue by foot, train, bus, rickshaw, motorbike, and ferry, until you’ve circled the Earth? That’s what Lucas Spiegel decided to find out in early 2016....
Vegan Posse VP#72: WFPB Cookbook Author, Culinary Instructor, and Coach Vicki Brett-Gach of Ann Arbor Vegan Kitchen on the Book that Changed Her Life, EASY Healthy Cooking, and (Sort of) Veganizing Her Family
Vicki Brett-Gach is a Plant-Based Culinary Instructor, Certified Personal Chef, Master-Certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach, and author of "The Plant-Based for Life Cookbook: Deliciously Simple Recipes to Nourish, Comfort, Energize and Renew”. Vicki's focus is always on...
Vegan Posse VP#76: Lifelong Activist Carlos Garcia on His Music Project Monkeys with Drums, His Fictional Alter Ego in Vegan Feature-Film-in-the-Making Miss Liberty, & Veganism, the Relationship Bomb
How does a person go from Burger King to vegan in the space of two hours? A pre-screening of the classic animal rights film Earthlings did it for Carlos Garcia over two decades ago! Carlos has been playing drums since he was a kid in New York City. He grew up in a...