Vegan Posse

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" –...

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...