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#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...
Vegan Posse VP#71: From Depression and Suicide Attempts to a Life of Helping Animals – Geoff Palmer, a Vegan Bodybulider with Heart, Smarts, & 17-inch arms at Age 61!
Geoff Palmer, a 61-year old, 39-year vegan, is a Natural Bodybuilding and Natural Physique Masters Champion, the Owner of Clean Machine Plant-Based Fitness Nutrition, author, national lecturer, vegan patent holder, and 2 Time NEXTY Winner for “Best Supplement of the...
Vegan Posse VP#70: Another “Sensitive” Vegan! WFPB Health Coach Anita Lupp on Self-Acceptance, Raising Health-Conscious Kids, and the Sacrilege of Forgoing Olive Oil
Anita Lupp's vegan journey spans several countries and continents! Originally from the U.K., Anita lives with her family in the northwest suburbs of Chicago in Wauconda, Illinois (not be be confused with the fictional kingdom of Wakanda from the Marvel movies). Anita...
Vegan Posse VP#69: The Veteran Doc with Vegan Ninja Skills! West Point Grad Dr. Scott Harrington, Founder of Vegan Primary Care
Even for docs, losing weight isn't easy! Scott Harrington, D.O., is a board-certified Family Medicine physician with over 17 years of experience. He started his medical career using standard treatment methodologies. Then, in 2012, Dr. Harrington personally adopted a...
Vegan Posse VP#68: Questioning Everything! Former Big Pharma Macrobiologist JoAnn Farb on Her Animal-Lab-Inspired Vegan Path, Raising a Vegan Family, & Why “Good” People Do Animal Testing (Hint: Cheap Meat)
Working as a microbiologist with a global pharmaceutical company in the early 1990s, JoAnn Farb toured lab animal testing facilities, pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, and factory farms and came face-to-face with the fact it was her own (and all of our) food...
Vegan Posse VP#67: Congruence over Convenience: Jazz Singer, Reiki Master, & Feline Entrepreneur Risa Branch on Going Vegan in TX, the Myth of Vegan Non-Diversity, Tough Truths about Finding a Vegan Mate, & More!
Risa Branch is a jazz and blues singer, Reiki Master, and professional cat-sitter based in New York City. She’s also a dedicated, longtime vegan, having adopted the lifestyle as a teenager, and she’s been advocating for animals and veganism for all of her adult life....
Vegan Posse VP #66: Rey Ortega, The Mad Cookie Man! From Fat, Sick, and Fooled to Mad, Glad, and Buliding a Cookie Empire
Rey Ortega is bulidng a vegan cookie empire! With over 30 years' of baking experience, Rey is a pioneer in the plant-based sector. In 1994, he founded the Alternative Baking Company, one of the first vegan cookie brands on the market, which generated $1 million in...
Vegan Posse VP#65: :”I don’t do protein.” Nashville Guitarist Shan Kenner on Consciousness, Energy, and His Love Affair with Apple Cider Vinegar!
Shen Kenner has been a professional guitarist for over three decades, dazzling audiences in Casablanca, San Francisco, Greece, Finland, New York City, and many points in between. Shan is also a licensed realtor. He authored his own book SK Real Book, a physical book...