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 VP#54: Award-Winning Chef, Culinary Artist, and Food Activist Mark Reinfeld on Bringing Ahimsa and Retreat-Style Intentionality to Gourmet Vegan Cuisine
An award-winning chef, educator and authority on plant-based cuisine, Chef Mark Reinfeld is the founding chef of the Vegan Fusion Institute, with over 25 years experience preparing innovative vegan and raw food cuisine. He has written eight acclaimed books and...
Vegan Posse VP#53: Veganism Has Won! The Life of Ex-Sheep-Farmer-Turned Vegan JH Burnett of South Africa Is Proof.
Special Thanksgiving Day Episode! JH Burnett of Wilderness, South Africa, is an ex-farmer who is now a full-time vegan activist and author. He has been plant-based for five years and fully vegan (for the animals) for two and a half years. He's got a unique story...
Vegan Posse VP#52 – VP ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: Vegan Mother-Daughter Duo Zina Znayenko & Tatiana Znayenko-Miller Are Making Medical Miracles Happen!
The Vegan Posse welcomes its first mother-daughter duo! Zina Znayenko and her daughter Tatiana Znayenko-Miller are both long-time vegans and living examples of the power of plant-based eating. In this super special episode, they discuss their overlapping vegan...
Vegan Posse VP#51: It’s Not a Disorder! Therapist Jenn Fried on Veganism and Eating Disorder Recovery
Jenn Friedman is a therapist, writer, musician, and vegan from New York City. She is the author of Veganism and Eating Disorder Recovery (Routledge, 2022), a book that aims to improve the discourse about veganism in eating disorder recovery. Jenn has presented on...
Vegan Posse VP#50: From Wanting to Die at Age Eight to Wanting to Live and Live WELL: An Odyssey of Courage, Compssion, and Integrity with Life Coach, Survivor, and Thriver Nancy James
In 1990, at the height of her corporate career, Nancy James was diagnosed with a life-threatening chronic and systemic auto-immune respiratory disease which was supposedly “incurable." The doctor who diagnosed her was so cold and dismissive as he issued the diagnosis...
Vegan Posse VP#49: Vegan Marketing Success Stories author Sandra Nomoto on her 10-plus-year bulid to fully vegan, navigating a V/non-V household, and getting the word out about a vegan biz!!
While earning her degree in English Literature, Sandra Nomoto published poetry in literary journals and posted online film reviews. At 25, she founded Conscious Public Relations Inc., an award-winning virtual agency certified as a B Corporation. After a decade in...
Vegan Posse VP#48: Fasting Escape Success Story Shelley Watts! How Eating Only Plants All the Time (and Some Divine Intervention) Took Her from Fat and Sick to Medication-Free and Transformed
Shelley Watts, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a retired high school home economics teacher. Arrogant about what and how much she could eat, Shelley started gaining weight in her late 20s by overeating sugar, salt, and fatty foods. Over the years, she gained 65 pounds...
Vegan Posse VP#47: Manifesting Vegan! Filmmaker, Podcaster, & Comedian Graham Elwood on Living Healthy on the Road, Why Vegans Get So Much S***, & His New Comedy Special “Manifest It”
Some people think of us vegans as uptight, didactic, and humorless - and they can think again! Comic, filmmaker, podcaster, and longtime vegan Graham Elwood honed his comedic skills in comedy clubs and colleges to become a sarcastic hipster who can make light of...
Vegan Posse VP#46: The Evolutionary Revolutionary! “The Pleasure Trap” Co-Author Dr. Doug Lisle on Human Psychology, Food, Freedom, and the Fate of Our Nation
Dr. Doug Lisle is an evolutionary psychologist and co-author of The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health and Happiness. His research and clinical interests include health and wellness, self-esteem, relationship satisfaction, the treatment...
Vegan Posse VP#45: A “Pie in the Sky” Activist with Few Illusions about Life in the Real World: Author, Speaker, and Animal Advocate Judy Carman on Food, Faith, Freedom, and Love
Judy McCoy Carman, M.A., earth, peace, and animal activist, is the author of Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken’s Soul and the new book, Homo Ahimsa: Who We Really Are and How We're Going to Save the World. She is also co-author of The Missing...
Vegan Posse VP#44: At the Mercy of Someone with No Mercy: Genocide Survivor, Food for Life Instructor, and Animal Activist Nerma Frieden
Nerma Frieden came to the United States as a refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996, having survived a years-long war where she was terrified not of being killed but of being tortured, being captured, being raped. In 2014, after watching an ethical eating...
Vegan Posse VP#43: Wealthy-Money Founder Vangile Makwakwa on Healing Ancestral Money Trauma, Sharing a Childhood Home with Two Pet Pigs, and Eating Vegan Around the Globe!
Vangile Makwakwa is a full-time entrepreneur and the founder of wealthy-money.com, a company that helps women of color heal ancestral money trauma so they can fall in love with their bank accounts, increase their income, and live their best lives. Vangile hosts two...
Vegan Posse VP#42: The Fasting Track to Health and Wellbeing with Fasting Escape Founder Nathan Gershfeld, D.C.
After a life-changing health experience, Nathan Gershfeld changed careers, from being a numbers-focused electrical engineer to a person-centered chiropractor. Following an internship under Dr. Alan Goldhamer, he joined the staff doctors at the world-renowned True...
Vegan Posse Vegan Posse Host Chrissy Benson Tells All on Chef AJ Live!
In this special interview on Chef AJ Live, Vegan Posse host Chrissy Benson tells all! You'll hear all about my CRAZY food history, my decade-plus in the "medical mill," and my journey to health, veganism, personal autonomy, and - of course - self-love, as...
Vegan Posse VP#41: No More Second-Best! Author/Educator Cy Notter on Food, Freedom, and the “Plan A” Diet for Spiritual and Physical Wellbeing
What would God, Scripture, and/or Divine Wisdom want for us humans when it comes to our diet and health? Author and nutrition educator Cyd Notter argues that it's nothing less than freedom from addiction, healing, and optimal health and wellbeing. In her...
Vegan Posse VP#41: Playing the Longevity Game with Mike Young, Founder of aPlantBasedDiet.org, Author of vBook “Live to 150” & Host of January 2024 Health Optimization Cruise
How many times have you had to recover from your vacation? Cruises tend to be a time of decadence and over-indulgence in booze and junky food, with a whole lot of lounging in between. But Mike Young is flipping that paradigm on its head with the upcoming Health...
Vegan Posse VP#40: Healing Vystopia with Vegan Existential Psychologist Dr. Clare Mann (& Side Story of Chrissy’s Surreptitious Activism in Grand Central Station)
Why do vegans hurt so much? And why do so many vegans cease their questioning after they reject our horrific animal-based food system? Freedom-loving vegan existential psychologist Dr. Clare Mann ponders these and other big questions in this, an episode for the ages!...
Vegan Posse VP#39: From Sausage Avalanche to Dropping Dead on an Airplane – A Tale of Conscious Compassion with World Traveling Music Producer & Recording Engineer Ady Parzentny of Hit the Road Music Studio
After a near heart attack at age 21 followed by literally dropping dead on an airplane, recording engineer Ady Parzentny finally heeded the wakeup call to take care of himself rather than just everyone else. Given his more than near-death experience, it's perhaps...