The meat-heavy diets of our companion animals have a huge carbon pawprint. While cats are compulsory carnivores, dogs are omnivores and can live -- in fact, thrive -- on a fully plant-based diet. (Case in point: a British border collie named Bramble was fed as a Vegan and lived to 25 -- the Guinness record for dog longevity.) On this episode, Diana Laverdure-Dunetz, a canine nutritionist with a Masters degree in animal science, shares the how's and why's of feeding dogs in ways that will make...

Founder of The Black Vegan Experience, Vonettia Calloway is a Biblical Christian, a mom, an exceptional middle school science teacher, and the wife of a U.S. Army combat veteran who suffers from PTSD. She wrote a beautiful children's coloring book, My Color Is Coconut, about biracial children, in memory of a little girl named Aniyah who was proud to say, "My color is coconut." Aniyah lost her life in a house fire and Vonettia wrote the book in memory of this child and as a gift to her...

Nina Hayes was drawn to mysticism as a little girl in Catholic school, and she discovered yoga early. She was also stricken in her mid-teens with a digestive disorder that led to twenty surgeries. In overcoming everything from fear of dying to the shame of living with an ostomy, her spirituality deepened and this incredible woman is using everything she's learned an experienced to help others.  Through Blossom Ostomy, she works with people who have experienced similar surgeries and her...

Ruby Warrington is English and gorgeous and real and funny and brave -- and really good writer. She started her career in magazine journalism in London and did that whole glossy thing for several years, but her soul called her to other things, right about the time her truelove drew her to the U.S. She started The Numinous, an online zine for people interested in the Big Picture, and then wrote Material Girl, Mystical World, an exploration of all things magically alternative.  Around this...

Ashley Byrne has been taking a stand for animals since she was a teen and she now does this officially through her role with Peta. Today, we tackle dressing without guilt and looking fabulous in your own skin without appropriating anybody else's. Of course you don't wear fur, but what about wool? Feathers? Down? Tune in to learn the grim realities of these materials' origins and the eco-chic alternatives that are populating the runways, plus the human rights abuses inherent in the leather...

Kathleen Kastner is an author, yogi, fitness expert, animal rescuer, and committed Vegan. We talk about her new picture book, Karma Cats to the Rescue -- based on a true story of two house cats who help a stray kitty acclimate to having a forever home -- and also about Kathleen's personal journey. (Here's a tidbit: she moved to San Diego from her native Kansas in 1993, went to her fitness job at a local hospital, and her first personal training client turned out to be Dr. Deepak Chopra.) We...

Marrying Myself  is the debut novel from Chrissy Benson -- writer, attorney, and Main Street Vegan-certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach. In this thoughtful conversation, Benson connects the dots: romantic love, self-love, animals, food choices, life choices. The novel's protagonist is a Vegan whose journey to finding love takes a curious, and curiously satisfying, turn. And the author is a remarkable woman who shares her life journey and unfolding awakening. Get the book Marrying Myself by Chrissy...

Journalism is a tough business, with magazines and newspapers perishing at a steady clip and an largely unvetted Internet providing content from writers who are largely underpaid. Karen Asp, however, is remarkable: a professional journalist and author with a food, health, and fitness specialization and a reputation so solid she's one of the few full-time freelance writers making it -- acing it, in fact -- in the brave new world.  In addition to sharing with us her writer's life in 2023 -- and...

Join the plant based nutrition movement. Victoria talks with Kimberly Campbell, Director of Culinary Education and Development at PlantPure and the daughter in law of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, the "science father of the modern plant based nutrition movement. Kimberly is the author of the book PlantPure Comfort Food: Over 100 Plant Based and Mostly Gluten-Free Recipes to Nourish Your Body and Soothe Your Soul. Discover new whole food recipes and plant based recreations of traditional family...

Kimberly Wilson is my style role model, embracing the effortless savoir faire of a Parisian woman -- but she grew up in Oklahoma. She is a psychotherapist, pet loss grief counselor, adult ballerina, eco/activewear designer, author, podcaster, and longtime yogini who created a studio named in the Top 25 on earth by Travel & Leisure. In this fast-paced and utterly uplifting conversation, we cover personal style, yoga, altars, animals (pigs and pugs, in particular, since Kimberly's nonprofit...

A 24-year-old New Yorker whose life is dedicated to ending animal suffering, Jamie Logan is a case study in commitment. Whether standing silently in a Cube of Truth, showing video imagery of standard practices in animal ag; going out on the street in her skivvies as part of The Lingerie Protest; doing a beautifully produced -- and sometimes seriously funny -- YouTube show, "It's Jamie's Corner," in which she confronts passersby about where animal foods come from; or working her day job at a...

Muneeza, the Intuitive Medicine Woman®, is a healer who was once a patient. Chronic fatigue syndrome and intractable eczema pushed her to find answers beyond what traditional medicine had to offer. She studied nutrition, changed her own diet, became a certified holistic health coach, and ultimately discovered Anthony William, the Medical Medium®, who brought her recovery full-circle and recognized her innate healing gifts. Today, Muneeza counsels private and group clients in the Medical...

Oscar buzz started for the romance/horror film based on the eponymous book by today's guest when it premiered to a standing ovation and rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival. Brimming with star power -- Taylor Russell, Timothee Chalamet, Mark Rylance -- this tale of an improbably likable teenage cannibal means much more to DeAngelis. A committed Vegan, she conceived the Bones and All concept after seeing that, in an antique Scottish cookbook, the meat section was called "Flesh." Flesh is...

With her unshakeable confidence and a voice like Lauren Bacall's, the Lauren featured on this episode belies her chronological age: eighty-two. Rev. Lauren McLaughlin is a Unity minister, spiritual teacher, and author whose work centers on gratitude, the shifts we experience in every decade of adulthood, and the necessity of slowing down to genuinely experience life. Among the nuggets she shares are: ·      "Being an American is running up an elevator." ·      "We want more and more and more,...

Jacqueline Whitmore didn't come from the upper crust, but she learned early that courtesy and caring opened doors and created opportunity. After paying some dues to corporate America, she set out to found the Protocol School of Palm, offering etiquette training not a Downton Abbey-style class system, but a contemporary refiguring of etiquette that seeks to incorporate "classy" into one's work life and personal dealings.  Jacqueline's definition of etiquette is "the art of knowing how to treat...

They're such buzzwords: inflammation, anti-inflammatory...and yet few lay people know what they mean, even the millions suffering from arthritis, colitis, gingivitis, gastritis, and the numerous other conditions of obvious inflammation, not to mention the pathologies attributed to hidden inflammation, including heart disease, cancer, and abdominal obesity. Gastroenterologist and Columbia University Medical School instructor Shilpa Ravella, MD, seeks to change that with her new book The Silent...

Egli Colon Stephens is both a professor with a doctorate and a professional lifestyle model. She is also the author with her daughter Natalia Harris of Unbroken: A Mother-Daughter Journey of Resilience, Faith and Courage, detailing Natalia's battle with bone cancer as a teenager. Natalia survived -- sur-thrived as she called it -- and went on to fulfill her dreams of becoming a model, with gigs including NYC Fashion Week, Project Runway, and landing the December 2019 cover of Vogue Knitting....

Finding the miraculous in the ordinary, dealing bravely (and realistically) with down times, growing older brilliantly, marking the Autumn Equinox, and other milestones of the wheel of the year, and creating simple rituals for daily life are the delicious ingredients of this week's episode.  The guest is transformational vision coach, spiritual teacher, and motivational speaker Barbara Biziou. A fixture in the New York City spirituality space since the early 1990s, and known around the world,...

Ganesha, the elephant-headed god in the Hindu pantheon, is revered as the removal of obstacles, but in many Ganesha temples in India, particularly in the state of Kerala, birthplace of Sangita Iyer, live elephants are held, shackled as prisoners. In other instances, elephants are kept by entertainment entrepreneurs to perform in numerous festivals. To Iyer, this is enslavement of beings who really are godlike in their majesty, patience, and intelligence. Listen in to hear how "elephant...

Does your dog or cat meditate with you? Interfaith minister and animal chaplain Sarah Bowen contends that other-than-human beings do this naturally and have spiritual lives every bit as rich as ours. Meet this fascinating woman, author of Spiritual Rebel and Sacred Sendoffs, as we discuss these ideas, along with Sarah's early life as a preacher's kid (she brought a mouse to church and quoted Bible verses as grounds for keeping him there), and her current outreach via the Compassion Consortium...

Meditating gets you coolness points; praying, hmm, not so much. Agapi Stassinopoulos reinvents prayer for those who may question or avoid religion. And Agapi, author of Speaking With Spirit and workshop leader for Thrive Global, founded by her sister Arianna Huffington, is a total charmer.  Find out more about Victoria Moran and Main Street Vegan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Stoll, M.D., and heart attack survivor/thriver Dan Purjes discuss their new anthology, Disease Reversal Hope! And Peter Goldstein of wedidit.health shares how to reach those closest to us.

David Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., of the University of Toronto invented the “eco-Atkins diet,” a way to make plant-exclusive dining work for those with low-carb sensibilities.

Love Over Fear author Monk Coleman believes the universe is working in our favor and that raising the collective vibration on earth will benefit all beings.

Gentle World has promoted vegan living and peace on earth for half a century. Its cofounder, Light, uncle of Joaquin Phoenix, has eaten a peaceful diet all this time and is a great champion of compassion for all beings.