Full Description: Prepare to be inspired by the incredible journey of Nancy Leeds Gribble, the driving force behind NourishLiftGrow. Her story embodies the power of resilience and transformation. Nancy's life took an unexpected turn when she faced the profound loss of her husband to terminal cancer, leaving her a widowed single parent while navigating a turbulent real estate market. Later, she experienced the pain of losing a new love to cancer, prompting her to redefine her path and refuse...

Full Description: Mind Blown founders, mother-and-daughter team Shelly Van Cleve and daughter Monica Talbert, originally found success making gourmet seafood delicacies along the Chesapeake Bay. They started with a crab shack, Capt. Jack’s, which was wildly popular, leading them to create The Van Cleve Seafood Co. The two began to see deep-seated issues with the global fishing industry right outside their front door, particularly with illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing...

Full Description: Get ready to dive into the inspiring story of Kate Galli, the unstoppable force behind a mission to create a healthier, happier, and more compassionate vegan world. Kate's journey began in the fitness world, where she sought to transform not only her body but also her confidence. Over the years, she has helped thousands of individuals sculpt their bodies and lives in a way they love. For the past seven years, she has been dedicated to Vegan Health Coaching, using it as a...

In this episode, we sit down with Rey Ortega, a true pioneer in the vegan food industry. Rey's health struggles led him on a path of discovery, from battling chronic illness to becoming a successful vegan entrepreneur. Rey's journey began with health issues that left him feeling unwell and desperate for answers. After identifying an egg allergy, he transitioned to a vegetarian diet, which significantly improved his health and led to a remarkable 95-pound weight loss. Inspired by dairy-free,...

Karen Ranzi is a pioneer in the vegan and raw food movement, vegan since 1989 and raw vegan since 1994, guiding thousands of individuals and families to excellent health and wellbeing through a vegan and raw food lifestyle. In 2020, when the COVID pandemic rocked the world, Karen Ramzi had a thriving live raw vegan coaching and classes business called Feel Fabulous With Food that she had built over decades. Karen was no longer able to host live classes for students and couldn't offer her...

Get ready to be inspired by the remarkable journey of Crystal Bonnet, the mastermind behind Crystal Dawn Culinary. As a raw food chef, instructor, and cookbook author, Crystal embraces her culinary artistry as a potent form of activism, changing skeptics' minds about vegan food. Join us as we explore her captivating foray into entrepreneurship and how she leverages her passion for plant-based cuisine to make a positive impact on the world. Having honed her culinary skills at Matthew Kenney...

Get ready to be inspired by Benjamin Hagerty, co-founder of It’s Bree and Ben, as he takes us on a journey through his experiences as a vegan traveler and researcher. Benjamin and his wife, Brianne Nemiroff, embarked on a remarkable two-year-long trip across Canada and the U.S., uncovering and showcasing vegan businesses in their travel guides. Driven by the desire to highlight the stories of vegan entrepreneurs and their contributions to society, Benjamin entered grad school and embarked on...

 Jay Barrett is a globally experienced human resources professional and an empathetic and passionate advocate of veganism. With a commitment to fostering a more compassionate and sustainable world, he strives to reduce society's reliance on animals for food, materials, testing, and entertainment. After dedicating 12 years to the fashion industry, Jay embarked on a new path as a consultant, merging his passion for veganism with his expertise in human resources. Jay is currently on an...

Maria Cebrian is a three-time entrepreneur and with 14 years of experience in the digital and wellness industries. After selling her second company, she set out to build the most sustainable supplements on earth after learning about the impact of this industry on animals and the environment. Every year, the US supplement industry kills 24 billion animals and creates 1.8 billion plastic pill bottles.  In 2016 Maria and her co-founder Hava Horowitz wanted to simplify and complete vegans’...

 Brett Christoffel is the Founder and CEO of All Y’alls Foods. All Y’alls Foods was born from Brett's love of cows. After spending over 40 years consuming them, it hit Brett that he loved all animals as much as he loved a dog or cat, so he stopped eating meat and became a vegan. As a native Texan, Brett takes pride in his state. When he learned that one of Texas' most substantial contributions to the world is beef, he decided to support changing that by launching All Y'alls' first product:...

Full Description / Episode Show Notes Not long after becoming vegan for health reasons, Keith Lesser became just as passionate about the ethics of veganism–preventing animal cruelty, promoting sustainability and acting against climate change.  Keith decided to combine his career in accountancy and veganism to serve the vegan business community with quality accounting services. He acquired the Vegan Accountants brand, built a vegan team and re-vamped, re-launched and later re-branded the...

Stephanie Downs has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and spent over a decade advising fashion and automotive brands on animal alternatives. She also founded the largest plant-based meat company in India.  In this episode of Pivot, Stephanie Co-Founder and CEO of Uncaged joins us to share her story of founding a sustainability brand during the pandemic. Uncaged is a biomaterials company combining the power of nature and technology to reimagine leather. Stephanie Stephanie...

Clarissa Gannon owns the online coaching company, Vegan Fit For Life (formerly Elite Fit For Life). She is also a multiple-times certified fitness and nutrition coach. Clarissa founded Vegan Fit For Life as a result of her expansive experience in the fitness industry and after observing just how broken it is. After making the decision to incorporate a vegan lifestyle to help some health and digestive issues, Clarissa realized how desperate the vegan community was with needing real...

VEG3 is an AI-powered marketing assistant that helps vegan businesses and animal rights charities create impactful marketing campaigns that increase revenue while saving animals. After spending more than a decade laser-focused on making data-driven decisions to maximize the impact of work done by vegan businesses, VEG3 founder, Sam Tucker, realized there was a technological revolution happening that could scale the vegan movement and its economic impact to a previously unprecedented...

Full Description  Jane Velez-Mitchell started her non-profit network, UnchainedTV, with a single Go Pro camera, videotaping the stories she felt needed to be on network television, but weren't. UnchainedTV quickly evolved into a global social media network with dozens of citizen journalists going LIVE on Facebook and Instagram around the world, garnering millions of views. On a mission to share the truth about the horrific problems created by industrialized animal agriculture, UnchainedTV...

PlantX started as a passion project at the beginning of a global pandemic. PlantX is not only an online store for plant-based products, but an all-encompassing online platform that makes living a plant-based lifestyle accessible to all. It's an online vegan community where users can order healthy vegan meals and learn about the vegan lifestyle through discussions and blogs.PlantX CEO Lorne Rapkin joins us to share how PlantX leveraged the open and inviting nature of the vegan industry to help...

Brighde spent her formative years in the UK and Australia before her desire to travel took over. She spent five years leading group tours for an Australian company. She met fellow tour guide Seb in Marrakech, fell madly in love, and a couple of years later they discovered veganism together. She became passionate about promoting the vegan message as an activist. Combining her passion for travel and veganism values, Brighde founded World Vegan Travel together with her Seb. World Vegan Travel...

Danny O'Malley knew there was a demand for new plant-based proteins – and that he could be the one to create them. Following a brief stint at Beyond Foods, Danny started Before the Butcher, a plant-based meat brand that has become a category leader in flavor, variety and texture. In this episode, learn how Danny O'Malley built the successful and profitable plant-based meat brand, Before the Butcher, by creating business relationships overlooked by his competitors. Danny shares how thinking...

Andrew Laurent launched his vegan business, Broth Bomb after a stroke impacted his mobility and ability to continue running his restaurant delivery business. He began eating vegan when he realized the impact his diet and nutrition were having on his condition. Not only was he physically unable to continue running his original business, he no longer wanted to make a living delivering greasy takeout. In this episode, we'll hear how Andrew sold his delivery business, started learning how to...

Tal created FUN Sesame because she wanted to share her love of tahini with the world. She believes that even the simplest of food can be enhanced with the right thing–tahini! In this episode, we'll learn about Tal's journey to starting her business and some of the challenges she faced along the way. Tal opens up about how she's needed to approach certain business challenges differently because she is a female founder. https://www.funsesames.com/

Jun Fuchs is a certified life coach who speaks at global events, both online and in person. Jun is on a quest to teach vegans & activists worldwide how to use mindfulness as a vehicle to level up their positive impact in this world. In this episode, you'll learn how mindfulness can help us elevate our vegan voices and motivate more people to become vegan. You'll be inspired by Jun's journey from burnout to developing his own style of vegan advocacy. https://junfuchs.podia.com/

After healing from her own struggles with disordered eating and a distorted body image, Ella Mager wanted to help people align their actions with their values, develop a healthy relationship with food and their bodies, and create a joyful and meaningful life. She earned her Master’s Degree in social work, and began to develop a compassionate curriculum for her clients to follow.Now, having applied that curriculum she’s helped hundreds of clients embrace movement, design plant-based...

As she did content writing for her own and clients' businesses over the past couple of years, Sam Houghton realized that most brands are missing key steps in their content marketing processes. Sam, Chief Nerd at The Modern Health Nerd, brings in-depth customer and community research into the content marketing mix to unlock a much richer, more nuanced view of who brands are selling to and how they can help those customers. Theresa “Sam” Houghton is helping plant-based, functional and...

On a mission to help the world get lean, thrive and bulletproof their health, Fit Vegan Coaching (FVC) is fighting misconceptions about building muscle, improving body composition and increasing performance as a vegan. Founder Maxime Sigouin truly believes in reaching out to people to help them achieve a healthier and better life and avoid suffering from diseases that could have been prevented. He is also an incredibly successful entrepreneur - FVC has grossed over 7 figures in its 2.5 years...