Vegan Posse

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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,...