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#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."...
Vegan Posse VP#17: From Walden Pond to World Peace – A Wild Ride Inside the Head of Revolutionary Thinker Dr. Will Tuttle, Author of “The World Peace Diet” (my personal vegan bible)
"It's always an empty boat. There's nothing personal, ever." Of course we all want world peace - so how the heck did we end up with a food system that's premised on violence against non-human animals? Dr. Will Tuttle explores these and related issues in his epic book...
Vegan Posse VP#16: “Why isn’t he home with his mom?” Questions, questions, questions from DIY vegan & animal activist 12-year-old Emma Brozik of Nashville, TN – who calls out sketchy VegFest event!
She's young, she's motivated, and she's been asking questions her whole life, leading her to being vegetarian from her earliest childhood days to taking the vegan leap at the tender age of eight!Now 12-year-old Emma Brozik of Nashville, Tennessee, talks about how she...
Vegan Posse VP#15: Some Vegan Chick! Kelly of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on Her Journey from Health Vegan to Animal Activist, Manual Laborer to IT Professional, and Everywhere in Between
When in her forties, Kelly of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, went vegan for health reasons - and after she did, her heart woke up! Suddenly she was living vegan not for herself but for the animals. Along the way, she embarked on a whole new career, going from driving a...
Vegan Posse VP#14: Vegan Remembering – The Journey Home with Tami Hay of Alberta, Canada
While many these days seem to have lost their way, to Tami Hay of Alberta, Canada, the vegan journey is all about remembering the love that is our essence. Does this LOVE approach work in the real world? It did for Tami! She healed herself of life-threatening Crohn's...
Vegan Posse VP#13: Not Your Everyday Vegan! DJ of Memphis, TN, Tells All about Compassion, Living the Fast(ing) Life, & Currying Vegan Favor & FLAVOR to Carry the Vegan Message
Vegan for six years and counting, DJ, born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, is a veteran of more water fasting than you probably want to think about. He's also learned to curry vegan favor - and FLAVOR - by showing up at family events with dishes irresistible even to...
Vegan Posse VP#12: How Eating Three Vegan Meals a Day Helped Fine Artist/Graphic Designer Lauren Markham Go from Hating Her Body to Loving Her WHOLE Self
For over a decade, Nashville artist Lauren Markham struggled with a seemingly intractable eating disorder marked by periods of anorexia and binge eating and an overall feeling of disgust with her body. In 2019, sick of the cycle, Lauren decided to take her...