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#35: Sexy Fit Vegan Ella Magers on Conscious Choices, Taking Charge of Her Own Happiness, Getting Better at Feeling, and Remembering to Ask, “What Would Bob Do?”
From working as an exotic dancer to support herself during college to empowering women to become their best selves, inside and out, Ella Magers, a.k.a. Sexy Fit Vegan, has experienced great darkness, great healing, and, at last, great light. In this intimate...
Vegan Posse VP#34: The Healthy Heart (& Sexy!) Doc at 64! Dr. Joel Kahn Is Spreading the Radical Word about Truly Heart-Healthy Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Even … Kindness.
Prevention may not be sexy, but the folks practicing it often are! That category most certainly includes PETA-designated "Sexiest Vegan Over 50" Dr. Joel Kahn, one of the few cardiologists helping people head off heart issues before they blindside them years down the...
Vegan Posse VP#33: From Self-Hate to Self-Compassion and Self-Love: A Plant-Based Journey of Self-Discovery with Vegan Empowerment Coach Mariquita Solis
Mariquita Solis is a Vegan Empowerment Coach and visionary behind the Empowered Vegans Livestream Show. As a transformational coach, Mariquita specializes in empowering individuals through personalized one-on-one and group coaching programs. Her expertise lies in...
Vegan Posse VP#32: Putting the “V” in Visibility! Vegan Visibility Founder Kathleen Gage on Bringing Vegan Businesses out of the Shadows into the Limelight to Help Humans and Non-Humans Alike
In today's saturated (and saturated FAT) market, how does any business venture get noticed, let alone one that's cruelty-free? Like the shadowy world of animal ag, plant-based businesses can go unseen by the mainstream - and that's where marketing expert...
Vegan Posse VP#31: Globe-hopping plant-based podcast pro Steven Shalowitz, host of The One Way Ticket Show!
An adventurer in both body and spirit, Steven Shalowitz has been to over 70 countries - and counting! Steven was considering giving up eating meat while living in Singapore, but an interview with now-deceased celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain convinced him that if he...
Vegan Posse VP#30: Radiant, Empowered, and Simply Sweet! Plant-Based Positivity Powerhouse Amanda Sick Is Living Proof that Beauty – and Health – Are More than Skin-Deep
What started out as an attempt to heal her severe acne became a lifelong passion for health and wellness for Oregon-based foodie/recipe creator/activist Amanda Sick, author of recipe e-book Simply Sweet. Now a vegan for over five years, Amanda uses her background in...
Vegan Posse VP#29: Just Living! Full-Time Vegan Activist John Oberg on His Personal Vegan Journey & “Harnessing” the Power of Non-Sentient Social Media to Make the World Better for All Animals
These days, humans can generally be found glued to their screens - and longtime animal advocate John Oberg is taking advantage of our virtually-focused reality by shifting his vegan activism exclusively to the massive public square that is social media. Through his...
Vegan Posse VP#28: A super sweet diabetes researcher? “Glycemic index” creator Dr. David Jenkins discusses the BIG picture of health – and the Christmas hamper that launched his veg journey.
Ever wonder where the concept of the glycemic index came from? This guy! Dr. David Jenkins is a professor in both the Departments of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, a staff physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and...
Vegan Posse VP#27: The oft-invisible history of a movement that didn’t even have a name! Journalist Avery Yale Kamila on Maine’s scrubbed veg history, women, farm girl life, and being served a friend for dinner
Where are all the vegetarians in our history books - especially the vegetarian women? Part of the problem in tracing our plant-based past is that the word "vegetarian" wasn't even used in the United States until around 1850. And no one was writing about women,...
Vegan Posse VP#26: Maxime-izing Fitness! Maxime Sigouin, founder of Fit Vegan Coaching, is on a mission to transform 1M people’s health, make up for untold animal suffering, and help Mom get six-pack abs!
When I heard that FIt Vegan Coaching founder Maxime Sigouin helped his 58-year-old mom get - and maintain - six-pack abs, I had to hear more! In this deeply personal interview, Maxime talks not only about his unique approach to body transformation but also about...
Vegan Posse VP#25: From Booming to Blooming! Indefatigable Angela Fischetti of Boomer and Beyond Wellness Brings Movement and Healing to Our Forgotten Seniors – and Herself
"I believe animals are our saviors." Brooklyn-born Angela Fischetti is no stranger to tough times - but some steadfast animal companions saw her through some of the worst moments. She began teaching seniors while in her 30s, when she herself was just embarking upon...
Vegan Posse VP#24: Veganism Meets Freedom! Unapologetically Uncompliant Dr. Pam Popper on Disserting Anthony Fauci, Getting Folks out of the “Medical Mill,” and the Values of Veganism – w/ Special Guest Winston
"This whole idea of using medicine to take away people's rights, it's not new. Health has been used as the method for tyranny for a long, long time." While completing her medical training in 1998, Dr. Pam Popper wrote her dissertation on one Anthony Fauci....
Vegan Posse VP#23: (NO) More Cowbell? Walking the Nordic Walk with Writer, Dog Rescuer, Nordic Walking World-Record(s)-Holder, & Fellow MSVA Grad Karen Asp – Who Made Me Cry!
"For the individual soul, it is very freeing to be vegan." Perhaps it was her gentle, soft-spoken way of conveying some of the awful realities faced by cows, dogs, and other non-human animals, but journalist Karen Asp holds the distinction of being the first Vegan...
Vegan Posse VP#22: Certifiably Chic! A Design for Vegan Living with #1 Vegan Interior Designer Deborah DiMare – Cruelty-Free, Toxin-Free, Lap of Luxury, Living in Love <3
Vegan design has come a long way, from hippie home decorating. Struck vegan after watching a PETA video about dog leather, luxury interior designer Deborah DiMare instantly made the vegan leap for both herself and her design business. Without even realizing it, her...
Vegan Posse VP#21: Cruelty Is Not a Sport! A Wild Ride with Horseracing Wrongs Co-Founder Nicole Arciello – and NO Saddling Up!
Are we really still doing this in the 21st century? Horseracing is a "sport" built on the backs of animals who are kept in isolation and confinement for 23 hours of every day, die by the thousands every year on the track, are illegally drugged and doped, and whose...
Vegan Posse VP#20: “Sometimes we just have to do it scared.” Lifetime Mystic, Entrepreneur, Two-Time Breast Cancer Survivor & THRIVER, Rawsome Creations Founder Brenda Hinton
What hasn't this self-described "lifetime mystic" done? In addition to founding company Rawsome Creations to help people streamline wholesome food prep, Brenda Hinton has worked as an animal communicator, bio resonance therapist, international tour guide, and...
Vegan Posse VP#19: “Women really hold the key to everyone’s health.” From Waif, Wanderer & Wild Child to OBGYN to Lifestyle Medicine to Woke Coach – and Everywhere in Between! Meet Dr. Debra Shapiro
"I always wanted to be a doctor." From an early age, parroting terms from her dermatologist father's medical journals, Dr. Debra Shapiro was clear on her vocational calling. But her mother's death from a brain tumor when she was just 14 threw her into an...
Vegan Posse VP#18: Dealing with the consequences of the “best” medical care – and evolving as we speak! Michelle Cen, former NorCal techie, now artist, globetrotter, vegan promoter, Kiwi-in-the-making?
"It was drilled into me that it was bad for me to eat plants - by doctors!" says Michelle Cen of the eating disorder treatment she underwent for severe anorexia at age 17. "I learned what it was like not to have rights. And it essentially taught me what not to eat."...