Podcasts by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
Plant-based inspiration, guidance, and support for a joyful and vibrant life
Further podcasts by Howard Jacobson, PhD
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A Journey of Healing and Service: Tracy Garrigan on PYP 573 from 2023-12-05T15:18
A roller coaster ride of medical catastrophe and healing, miracles and despair, led Tracy Garrigan to become a holistic health coach. She's now training coaches to bring hope to those who have been...
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Removing Trauma Response with Yes/And Healing: Alun Parry and Yael Zivan on PYP 572 from 2023-11-21T12:00
Neuroscience has recently cracked the code on how the brain updates and heals from trauma, but few therapists or coaches know about the breakthrough. Today's guest is working to change that.
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The Anatomy of Life-Changing Conversations: Jon Connelly on PYP 571 from 2023-11-13T15:14
Does trauma healing have to involve painful and lengthy therapy that forces patients to revisit their worst moments? Or, as Jon Connelly claims, can profoundly effective therapy be fun, light, non-...
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Overcoming OCD and Anxiety: Robert James on PYP 570 from 2023-10-24T10:08
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder? What are the symptoms, and what's the lived experience? And how can we overcome it and live a full and satisfying life?
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Does Business Have to Be Icky? Mark Silver on PYP 569 from 2023-10-18T09:38
Do you have to become a ruthless predator in order to make money as a business owner? Or can running a small business be an act of healing and love?
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Is Your Garden Fertilizer an Animal Graveyard? Erin Riley on PYP 568 from 2023-10-11T11:22
Erin Riley shares why we need to avoid commercial fertilizer - even most "organic" brands - if we aim to nurture an earth- and people- and animal-friendly home garden.
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My Coaching Evolution: Glenn Livingston interviews Howie Jacobson: PYP 567 from 2023-09-13T08:58
My coaching has changed a lot over the past 20 years. Here's how I now help clients achieve lasting, effortless, transformational change.
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True Privilege is Growing Up in a Low-Trauma Environment: Momma Kai on PYP 566 from 2023-09-05T07:55
Momma Kai returns to the podcast to share her vision for a world without poverty or homelessness.
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Kindness as a Strategy for Revolutionary Change: Teju Ravilochan on PYP 565 from 2023-08-29T15:09
Is there real, revolutionary power in kindness and compassion in a "might-makes-right" world? Here's a story that will blow your mind.
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Deepening Compassion and Connection with Ourselves: Veronica Monet on PYP 564 from 2023-08-23T12:31
In order to heal our minds and spirits, we must contact - and welcome home - all the exiled parts of ourselves. Veronica Monet shares how IFS can help.
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Fitness as a Deeply Embodied Practice: Philip Shepherd on PYP 563 from 2023-08-17T05:40
Can we find belonging, peace, and deep healing in the gym, of all places? Embodiment guide Philip Shepherd shows us how.
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Helping the Unhoused - and Homeless - Move From Poverty to Prosperity: Momma Kai Sanders on PYP 562 from 2023-08-09T20:18
How can we end homelessness? Unhoused activist and visionary Momma Kai shares her experiences and solutions.
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Introduction to My New Life in Spain from 2023-08-02T15:13
I've been in Spain for 9 weeks now, and some listeners have requested a "stream of consciousness" episode from my new locale. Today we go on a walking tour of my new town, Sitges, as I discuss what...
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Cultivating Grace Under Pressure: John Baldoni on PYP 560 from 2023-07-26T10:06
What is grace, and how can we use it to navigate challenging times with compassion and resilience? And why is it a prerequisite of modern leadership?
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The Wise Women of Psychedelia: Rachel Harris, PhD, on PYP 559 from 2023-07-20T08:23
There have been women practicing psychedelic healing in anonymity for decades. What can they teach our modern culture about developing safe, effective, and respectful relationships with these power...
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Fasting vs Long COVID: Roger Talbott on PYP 558 from 2023-07-13T12:20
What's it like to suffer from Long COVID in one's 70s? And can water fasting bring about healing?
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Venerating the Earth Through Wild Yoga: Rebecca Wildbear on PYP 557 from 2023-07-05T09:52
Rebecca Wildbear is an outdoor guide, yoga teacher, and author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration&Advocacy for the Earth. She invites us to view yoga as both a personal practice and...
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Building a Shame-Free Zone in a Sexually Messed Up World: Veronica Monet on PYP 556 from 2023-06-07T10:12
Veronica Monet grew up in a repressive and abusive cult, developed and recovered from severe addiction, toiled in the corporate world, and worked as a high-end escort for 15 years. She now helps pe...
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Practical Ethics for Our Time: Peter Singer on PYP 555 from 2023-05-19T22:43
Peter Singer pretty much launched the animal rights and animal welfare movements in 1975 with the publication of Animal Liberation. Forty-eight years later, he's got a revised edition coming out: ...
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Rising Together in the Workplace: Sally Helgesen on PYP 554 from 2023-05-05T17:17
How can we create workplace cultures that include all of us, when there's still so much sexism, racism, and systematic fuckery in organizations?
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The Art and Neuroscience of Transformational Change: Dr Tori Olds on PYP 553 from 2023-04-06T15:28
For most of the 20th century, neuroscientists believed that old emotional memories could only be managed, not removed. Until the discovery of Memory Reconsolidation...
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The Badass Vegan: John Lewis on PYP 552 from 2023-03-24T13:09
John Lewis takes on the system in his blistering documentary, They're Trying to Kill Us. In his book and social media, he instructs, inspires, and delights.
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Great Food, Not Education, Will Change Habits: Danny O'Malley on PYP 551 from 2023-03-07T19:49
Danny O'Malley wants you to eat plant-based protein because it's inexpensive, convenient, and tasty.
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The Brave Athlete -- and Screenwriter!: Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson on PYP 550 from 2023-03-01T22:19
Five years after Lesley and Simon appeared on this podcast to talk about how to set and achieve athletic goals, Lesley just won a BAFTA for screenwriting. So let's listen again to this 2018 convers...
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How to Market a Vegan Business the Right Way: Sandra Nomoto on PYP 549 from 2023-02-15T17:44
How can vegans market their businesses to take advantage of affinities in the vegan community, without alienating everyone else? And should they even try?
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Are We Having Fun Yet?: Mike Rucker on PYP 548 from 2023-02-08T21:52
We can get so caught up in duty and obligation and self-improvement that we neglect one of the key elements of a good life: plain old fun.
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How to Live Based on Values, Not Impulses: Russ Harris on PYP 547 from 2023-01-18T17:15
Russ Harris, author of the bestselling The Happiness Trap, shares techniques and practices for unhooking from the mind's dictates to live a joyful, authentic, and purpose-driven life.
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Preventing Prostate Cancer: Benny Gavi, MD, and Maya Eylon on PYP 546 from 2023-01-10T19:28
Is prostate cancer preventable? What does the latest science say about dietary and lifestyle choices that can actually change the outcome?
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How to Engage in "Healthy Conflict": Mark Goulston, MD, on PYP 545 from 2023-01-02T16:59
Mark Goulston, MD, shares how to engage in healthy conflict, control your anger in tough situations, and defuse tension with "surgical empathy" and "radical patience."
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Own Your Nervous System: Sukie Baxter on PYP 544 from 2022-12-19T16:20
What are the root causes of physical tension and chronic emotional distress? How can we truly heal our bodies and minds? Today's guest points to the nervous system as the node of highest leverage.
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How Palm Oil, Colonialism, and Greed Have Endangered the World: Jocelyn Zuckerman on PYP 543 from 2022-12-06T11:00
In terms of human suffering and environmental destruction, there's little that can compare to the global trade in palm oil. Today's guest takes us a hard yet vital journey of discovery and understa...
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The Sounds of Life: Karen Bakker, PhD on PYP 542 from 2022-11-29T14:05
Humans aren't the only beings that talk to each other. Whales, elephants, bees, corals, unhatched turtles, and even plants and fungi use sound waves to connect and coordinate. Can we begin to under...
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The Inner Work of Age: Connie Zweig, PhD, on PYP 541 from 2022-11-22T18:01
Aging can be a hard ride, as we let go of everything that made us who we are. Or it can be an opportunity for spiritual growth as we drop roles in exchange for connection to our souls.
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Design the Long Life You Love: Ayse Birsel on PYP 540 from 2022-11-15T15:54
What makes for a meaningful and joyful long life? Is it just random, or can you proactively design it?
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Midterms and Energizing Outcomes: Howie Jacobson on PYP 539 from 2022-11-08T15:15
My walking thoughts on today's midterms, individual and social change, and healing our collective trauma while fighting against fascism.
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Having - and Being - a Friend at Work: Morag Barrett on PYP 538 from 2022-11-02T17:19
Do you feel supported and cared for at work? Are you a friend to others? The answers could determine your happiness, and the ultimate fate of your organization.
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The Virtues of Settling: Howie Jacobson on PYP 537 from 2022-10-25T22:33
Let's walk in the woods and talk about acorns, sustainable agriculture, cameras, frustration, and the pros and cons of settling.
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The Seismic Shift in Leadership: Michelle Johnston, PhD, on PYP 536 from 2022-10-20T19:31
The old "command-and-control" leadership style is proving less and less effective in the era of pandemic, Millennials, and growing appreciation of the value of inclusivity and safety in the workpla...
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Nature and the Nervous System: Howie Jacobson on PYP 535 from 2022-10-11T19:35
Take a walk in the woods with Howie and catch up on what he's been reading and thinking about.
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The Benefits of Qi Gong: Michael Gelb on PYP 534 from 2022-09-27T16:20
What's a simple, elegant, free, convenient, and scientifically validated practice that combines the benefits of exercise, meditation, and relaxation?
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Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious: Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior with Ann and Jane Esselstyn from 2022-09-21T17:20
The fiercest, boldest, and most hilarious mother-daughter team in the plant-based world educate and entertain as they talk about their latest cookbook.
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Is It OK to be Ordinary?: Dr Ronald Siegel on PYP 532 from 2022-09-13T15:38
Our society tells us to excel; to be special; to reach for the stars. But what's the cost of setting the bar so high? Does it make us happy, or allow us to connect with the people around us? Can we...
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The Oldest Cure in the World: Steve Hendricks on PYP 531 from 2022-09-06T13:31
Is fasting a cure-all, a desperate orthorexic cry for help, or a complex and powerful phenomenon that can be a valuable addition to the modern medical toolkit?
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Navigating an Addictive World: Anna Lembke, MD on PYP 530 from 2022-08-30T12:53
We are biologically hardwired to seek pleasure and avoid pain. But easy access to intense pleasure turns out to lead to intense suffering long-term. What are we do to?
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Die Young - As Late as Possible: Bob and Fran German on PYP 529 from 2022-08-23T12:48
"The worst years of our lives turned out to be the best ones." - Wisdom from healthy and happy octogenarians.
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How COVID Has Changed: Michael Rothberg, MD, on PYP 528 from 2022-08-09T14:16
COVID-19 is a very different disease that it was in early 2020. How should our behaviors and policies shift to reflect the new reality?
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How to Fix Your Pain for Good: Rick Olderman on PYP 527 from 2022-08-01T19:21
Is it possible to make subtle changes to posture and movement, and completely eliminate long-standing chronic pain?
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How to Increase your Power and Value in a Negotiation: Greg Williams on PYP 526 from 2022-07-26T17:23
How can you get what you want out of life if you're too scared to ask for it? A negotiation expert shows to be tough and kind at the same time.
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Relentless Solution Focus: Dr Ellen Reed on PYP 525 from 2022-07-19T14:58
Our brains are brilliant at finding problems, and are great at keeping us alive by avoiding them. But this doesn't work when our problems are in our heads. What does? Find out in this conversation.
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Saying Yes to the Impulse of Freedom: David Berceli, PhD on PYP 524 from 2022-07-12T16:54
David Berceli turned a couple of overwhelming constraints into a revolutionary way to help people heal from trauma.
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Meat without Animals: Paul Shapiro on PYP 523 from 2022-07-05T15:04
Humans will not stop eating and mistreating animals until animal-free meat is as delicious, convenient, and inexpensive as animal products. Today's guest explains how that's going to happen.
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Playing the Long Game: Dorie Clark on PYP 522 from 2022-06-29T17:38
"It's really hard to be the best, but it's surprisingly easy to be ONE of the best." Dorie Clark helps us balance commitment and ambition in pursuit of a good life.
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How to Unlearn Bad Habits: Ana Gabriel Mann on PYP 521 from 2022-06-21T15:46
Our bad habits can have deep roots, and superficial solutions only cause more distress. How can we pull out dysfunctional behaviors at the roots?
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Citizen Science, the Gut, and the Wisdom of Pain: Will Bulsiewicz, MD, on PYP 520 from 2022-06-14T16:52
If you feel bad after eating a particular food, you should stop eating it, right? Not so fast; today's guest explains FODMAPS, histamines, and what the largest microbiome study ever is teaching us ...
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The Biology of Resilience: Taylor Sittler, MD, on PYP 519 from 2022-06-08T15:15
What's the connection between psychological and biological resilience? What tools do we have to increase our resilience, so we can bounce back faster and stronger to challenges, whether physical or...
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From Investment Banking to Vegan Chocolate: Rym Selmi on PYP 518 from 2022-05-31T17:36
Rym Selmi is the founder of Miiro, a company that makes vegan and healthy chocolates and baking ingredients.
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Food, School, and Politics from 2022-05-25T21:11
Maria Solanki is running for school board in Pinellas County, Florida, with a mission to improve the health and performance of students through better nutrition.
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Can Marriage be More Than a Lifetime of Compromises? Ana Gabriel Mann&John David Mann on PYP 516 from 2022-05-16T16:39
What's the purpose of marriage? Is it to get happiness for yourself? Give happiness to your partner? Or something bigger and grander that encompasses yet transcends both?
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How to Make a Documentary Film: Charlie Morris on PYP 515 from 2022-05-09T10:48
Charlie Morris is a self-taught documentarian who highlights environmental issues to help sway public opinion and affect policy. We talk about how he goes about his work.
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The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively with Todd Kashdan on PYP 514 from 2022-05-02T09:06
Are you right in a world where almost everyone else is wrong? If so, do you know how to speak, strategize, and organize to change people's minds? Todd Kashdan has studied what makes some people inc...
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The Pissed-Off Entrepreneur: How to Turn Problems into Opportunities: Danny Warshay on PYP 513 from 2022-04-26T18:58
Are you pissed off? Are there problems in the world you'd like to see fixed? Danny Warshay would like to teach you how to turn unsolved problems into opportunities to make a difference.
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Don't Over-optimize Your Life: Glenn Murphy on PYP 512 from 2022-04-19T13:49
Self-improvement is fine and good, but there's a danger in over-optimizing our minutes and missing our lives.
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Loving and Grieving the Bayou: Josh LaJaunie on Navigating Climate Change on PYP 511 from 2022-04-15T19:53
Josh LaJaunie talks about his disappearing bayou and the personal heartbreak of climate change.
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Good Posture, Healthy Back: Leon Turetsky on PYP 510 from 2022-04-06T00:03
Smartphones and computers have wrecked our posture. Today's guest explains the importance of good posture, and shows us how to get it back.
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Can Business Heal the World? Michael J Gelb on PYP 509 from 2022-03-22T18:57
How can humanity dig itself out of the giant mess we're in? Do businesses have to balance ethics and financial success? And how can each of us begin to use our unique qualities and abilities in ser...
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When You Know Better, You Can Choose to Do Better: Sagar Doshi&Zak Hourmouzis on Plant Yourself 508 from 2022-03-15T19:16
Sagar Doshi and Zak Hourmouzis are both a pair of docs and a paradox: Emergency Medicine physicians who run a Lifestyle Medicine clinic.
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Six Truths and No Lie: Sid Garza-Hillman on PYP 507 from 2022-03-08T10:00
Set an example. Don't be a snowflake (or a bully). Don't get sucked into social media. Simple advice for challenging times.
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Philosophical Ramblings: Glenn Murphy on PYP 506 from 2022-03-01T11:31
Unlike the TV show Seinfeld, which was about nothing, my conversation with Glenn Murphy in December 2021 was about everything. We talked philosophy, practicality, hypotheticals, counterfactuals, a...
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Can We Awaken Through Crisis? Steve Taylor on PYP 505 from 2022-02-23T15:13
Can trauma and tragedy open us up to spiritual awakening? How can we prepare ourselves for the inevitable slings and arrows of life in a way that opens us to compassion and love?
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You Can Call It the Master Bedroom, Just Let Me Get a Loan as Easily as a White Person: Keith Knight on PYP 504 from 2022-02-14T21:03
Keith Knight is the creator of the comedy/drama series "Woke," on Hulu, and a creative, hilarious, and kind soul dedicated to making the world a better place. Listen in as my daughter Yael Zivan an...
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Negotiating for a Better World: Greg Williams on PYP 503 from 2022-02-08T20:36
Can you be an effective negotiator if you're kind and mild-mannered? Or do you have to bully others to get what you want?
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On Mother Teresa, Burnout, and Belonging: Saskia Kremer on PYP 502 from 2022-02-01T20:08
Saskia Kremer burned out after spending 13 years tending the sick, dying, and impoverished as a member of Mother Teresa's order. How did she reinvent herself, and what can she teach us about a mean...
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Protecting Ourselves from GMOs: Jeffrey Smith on PYP 501 from 2022-01-25T19:13
Are GMO crops and microbes safe and effective ways of improving agriculture and feeding our crowded planet, or ticking time bombs that threaten our health and the future of life on earth?
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How to Make Someone's Day: Howard Prager on PYP 500 from 2022-01-18T15:08
How would you like to have a superpower that can positively change the lives of the people around you? It turns out the ability to make someone's day is almost always available to us. We just need ...
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Psychedelics as Medicine: Lynn Marie Morski on PYP 499 from 2022-01-11T18:43
Many plants and synthetic substances that can profoundly improve our mental and physical health are currently illegal. Lynn Marie Morski is working to change that, by educating healthcare professio...
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The Feeling of Being Alive: Robbie Bent on PYP 498 from 2022-01-04T19:12
With effects as profound as meditation and safer than psychedelics, breathwork, cold exposure, and heat exposure can democratize access to heightened and expansive states of consciousness, and bett...
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How to Not Suck on Zoom: Alfred Poor on PYP 497 from 2021-12-28T20:30
One reason for Zoom fatigue is the poor quality of other people's audio and video. Today's episode shows you how to become a Zoom pro - to influence others more powerfully and to connect more deeply.
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How to Make Your Next Decision: Nika Kabiri on PYP 496 from 2021-12-21T15:43
How happy are you with the outcomes of the decisions you've made? Would you like to get better at decision-making? Today's guest shows you how.
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Wearing (and Being) Nature: Jeff Scult on PYP 495 from 2021-12-14T19:36
Fast fashion is a disaster. For the planet, for the oppressed workers, and for the souls of those who are constantly exhorted to throw out their clothes and buy new ones. Today's guest offers an an...
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The Only Sustainable Form of Wealth: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 494 from 2021-12-06T22:13
How shall we live, on a boiling planet and enmeshed in a civilization that knows only how to use up and destroy all it encounters? Can we find meaning and healing in the shelter of each other, to b...
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Your Brain is not a Computer or a Muscle: Annie Murphy Paul on PYP 493 from 2021-11-30T20:54
"Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?" asked two philosophers in 1998. Today's guest follows the science to give us an unexpected answer.
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Navigating Life with Evidence, Reason, and Compassion: Jamie Woodhouse on PYP 492 from 2021-11-24T18:29
What would it look like to extend compassion to all sentient beings? And can we get there through reason, rather than because a deity or prophet told us so?
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How to Talk So People Will Excel: Tom Reid on PYP 491 from 2021-11-16T20:51
Tom Reid and I talk about how to communicate effectively when you need people to act in particular ways, in both personal and professional settings.
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Batteries Made from Plants?: Virginia Klausmeier on PYP 490 from 2021-11-09T15:29
Can plant-based batteries combat planetary overheating and help save the world? Today's guest is betting yes.
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The Journey of Conscious Living: Bianca and Michael Alexander on Plant Yourself 489 from 2021-11-02T19:58
Can the mass media market handle veganism and conscious living? Bianca and Michael Alexander take their show to the big time.
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Civil Disobedience, Groundwater, and Defending a Living Planet: Skye-Anne Tschoepe on PYP 488 from 2021-10-26T20:06
Skye-Anne Tschoepe is an environmental scientist and activist who's not afraid of getting arrested for her beliefs. Here's her story.
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Healthy Enough and Vegan Enough: Dreena Burton on PYP 487 from 2021-10-19T18:29
Dreena Burton has been churning out amazing vegan cookbooks for 20 years. In this conversation, we explore her career, and what the journey's been like.
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Building Multi-Faith Community Through Music: James Pollard Jr. and Harold Messinger on PYP 486 from 2021-10-12T19:55
Can music bridge the gaps that divide communities? Can we sing and play together and rediscover our common humanity and deep caring for one another? Cantor Harold Messinger and James Pollard Jr. ha...
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Upcycling Food to Stop Climate Change: Caroline Cotto on PYP 485 from 2021-10-05T19:26
What is upcycled food? What is it good for? Why should you care?
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Bringing Lifestyle Medicine to Black Women: Aajay Shah and Meryl Fury on PYP 484 from 2021-09-29T13:39
Black women in America suffer more from obesity and chronic disease than any other demographic. In this conversation, we talk about why, and what to do about it.
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Change is a Break with the Past: Peter Bregman on PYP 483 from 2021-09-19T10:26
Is it possible to change other people for the better? Or should we just mind our own business, and concentrate on ourselves?
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How to Tell Truth from BS: Glenn Murphy on PYP 482 from 2021-09-14T18:36
How do you know if something is true, or exaggerated, or more nuanced, or fake news? How can you get better at telling truth from fiction in a world of snake oil and misguided believers?
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The Business of Compassion: Miyoko Schinner on PYP 481 from 2021-09-07T17:18
Miyoko Schinner is founder and CEO of Miyoko's, one of the most successful plant-based dairy alternative ventures of the past decade. We talk about her journey - ups and downs - and lessons learned.
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Hurricane Ida - appeal for immediate funds by Josh LaJaunie: PYP 480 from 2021-09-01T16:52
Sick to Fit coauthor Josh LaJaunie and his family are trying to help their friends, neighbors, and community - many of whom have lost everything, and have no access to food and water, fuel, electri...
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Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge: Jeremy Narby on PYP 479 from 2021-08-31T19:17
Can science learn anything from Indigenous knowledge about local plants, and animals? Can science acknowledge that debt and offer reciprocity?
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Why You Should Care About Sharks: James Sulikowski on PYP 478 from 2021-08-24T17:56
Are sharks vicious, erratic human-eating predators? Are they keystone species crucial for the health of marine ecosystems? Or are they just the subject of annoyingly catchy children's songs?
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How to Change (Science-based Edition): Katy Milkman on PYP 477 from 2021-08-17T13:45
How can you change your habits with ease and confidence, and without shame and struggle? Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman has answers.
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The Making of "Meat Me Halfway": Brian Kateman on PYP 476 from 2021-08-10T12:03
Is veganism the only way to stop climate change, reduce animal suffering, and improve human health? Or can we get there through just eating less meat?
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The Plant-Based Athlete: Matt Frazier, Robert Cheeke, and Josh LaJaunie on PYP 475 from 2021-08-03T16:16
Will a plant-based diet help you become a better athlete? Is it as simple as just eating plants, or is there more to doing it right?
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The World Needs You to Love Your Work: Alaina Love on PYP 474 from 2021-07-28T21:20
Alaina Love wants you to find your passion - and then express it through your most important work. But what is passion? How do we identify ours? And how can we create workplaces that validate and s...
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Calories, Love, and Growth: Josh LaJaunie on PYP 473 from 2021-07-20T16:14
Josh LaJaunie and I talk about new science of metabolism, how Josh lost 230 pounds and kept it off, and how to pursue an authentic human existence.
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Learning to Listen: A Guide to Ethical Mindfulness: Lani Muelrath on PYP 472 from 2021-07-13T14:56
My dear friend Lani returns to the podcast to talk about her latest book, Mindfulness, published under the Conscious Care Guides imprint. We had our usual freewheeling conversation, with some tea...
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Exercise Doesn't Burn More Calories and You Should Do It Anyway: Herman Pontzer on PYP 471 from 2021-07-06T17:00
The formula to lose weight is obvious: eat less, move more. Unfortunately, it's wrong. And it's not because "calories don't matter." Discover the new science of metabolism with Herman Pontzer, PhD.
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Free Yourself from Conflict: Jen Goldman-Wetzler on PYP 470 from 2021-06-29T18:00
Have you ever found yourself in a "conflict loop," where every conversation just makes it worse? What if you had the ability to break free and find the best possible outcome? Today's guest, Jen Gol...
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Cool Beans and Indoor Agriculture: Tyler Mayoras on PYP 469 from 2021-06-22T12:00
How can we make whole food, plant-based options more convenient for consumers and more sustainable for the planet? Today's guest, Cool Beans CEO Tyler Mayoras, shares how he's investing and leading...
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What are You Really Hungry For?: Tara Kemp on PYP 468 from 2021-06-16T11:00
What's the root cause of eating disorders? What's behind our current obesity crisis? Are we hungry for food? For nutrients? Or for joy and connection?
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A World in Which We All Belong: Teju Ravilochan on PYP 467 from 2021-06-08T20:00
Teju Ravilochan is an entrepreneur who sees problems and envisions grand communal solutions. From the Unreasonable Institute (now Uncharted.org), which he founded, to GatherFor.org, a community bas...
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Healing Ourselves to Heal the Climate: Jack Adam Weber on PYP 466 from 2021-06-01T20:00
Can we fix our broken climate with technological and policy solutions alone? Or do we need to heal deep personal and cultural wounds as well?
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Mastering the Chatter in Our Heads: Glenn Murphy on PYP 465 from 2021-05-25T09:00
My favorite mind-body science stress performance guy, Glenn Murphy of Stressproof.net, and I kicked around the concept of mental chatter and how we can perform at our best when the voice in our hea...
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How is Your Story Showing Up in Your Life?: Michele Olender on PYP 464 from 2021-05-18T12:00
Michele Olender is a health and life coach and founder of Vedge Your Best. She talks about her journey, her coaching, and how all of us can adopt new habits to be happier and healthier.
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Getting Fluent in Digital Body Language: Erica Dhawan on PYP 463 from 2021-05-11T12:00
It took a week for them to reply to your email. Your colleague has their camera turned off during a Zoom call. What does it all mean?
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Cooking and Eating for a Connected World: Lois Ellen Frank on PYP 462 from 2021-05-04T14:00
What can the world learn about food from the Native American tradition? How can those of us who no longer live on our ancestral land-base reclaim our cuisine, culture, and connection to the whole?
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How to Reverse Global Warming: Marco Vangelisti on PYP 461 from 2021-04-27T13:00
According to many climate scientists, it's already too late, and there's nothing we can do to avert global catastrophe. Today's guest has a different view. Marco Vangelisti explains how to reverse ...
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Helping Stressed-Out Kids Cope with Life: Shoshana Chaim on PYP 460 from 2021-04-20T11:00
How can we help children deal with stress? Today's guest, Shoshana Chaim, shares the strategies from her new book, "I Am a Peaceful Goldfish."
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Addicted to Spontaneous Decision-Making: Glenn Livingston, PhD on PYP 459 from 2021-04-13T20:00
Glenn Livingston talks about the evolution of Never Binge Again, his system to help people conquer emotional eating and gain control over their relationship with food.
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How to Be a Contented Vegan: Peggy Brusseau on PYP 458 from 2021-04-06T13:00
Peggy Brusseau has cast a spell of peacefulness, calmness, joy, connection, and well, contentedness in her cookbook The Contented Vegan.
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Meat Analogues, High-tech Protein, and Balancing Life, Work, and Art: Nava Atlas on PYP 457 from 2021-03-30T13:00
Nava Atlas and I chew the plant-based fat (and protein) about her new book, Plant Powered Protein. Discover how to cook delicious, healthy meals that include vegan meat analogues.
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From Diversity to Belonging: How to Create Workplaces that Work for Everyone: Jennifer McCollum of Linkage, Inc. on PYP 456 from 2021-03-23T16:00
Women and people of color are systematically underrepresented in business. That's a problem for woman and people of color. But, it turns out, it's a problem for businesses as well. In today's episo...
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How to Connect with Your Soul and Find Your True Purpose: Bill Plotkin on PYP 455 from 2021-03-16T18:00
Why are humans destroying the planet and making each other miserable? Are we defective? Or have we lost the map to authentic human development?
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Can You Change Other People? Howard Jacobson on Chef AJ Live from 2021-03-12T20:00
It's so painful to see your loved ones suffer unnecessarily. Can you change the people around you, when they're eating poorly and not taking care of their health?
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How to Change Other People Without Being an A-hole: Glenn Murphy and Howie Jacobson on PYP 453 from 2021-03-02T16:00
Do ever have the urge to tell other people what they're doing wrong? How can you help other people change without coming across as an a-hole?
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Sparking an Anti-Litter Revolution Through Data: Jeff Kirschner on PYP 452 from 2021-02-23T15:00
Litterati is an app and a movement to solve our planet's litter problem through individual empowerment and data-driven policy.
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Rediscovering Movement That Brings You Joy: Rafe Kelley on PYP 451 from 2021-02-16T19:00
Why are modern humans so unhappy and unhealthy? Today's guest says it's because we've forgotten how to move like humans.
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Getting Fit in the "Church Basement" of a Facebook Group: Dan Carraciolo on Plant Yourself 450 from 2021-02-09T18:00
Dan Carraciolo has engineered a remarkable self-transformation from unhappy, overweight diabetic to ebullient athlete. On today's show, we talk about how he achieved it - and the obstacles he's had...
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The Science and Practice of Forgiveness: Nathaniel Wade, PhD, on PYP 449 from 2021-02-03T19:00
Forgiveness sounds nice, and often feels like the hardest thing in the world. How can we learn to forgive others and ourselves without excusing terrible behavior?
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Get Fit Quick: Ed Coyle on PYP 448 from 2021-01-26T18:00
What's the most efficient way to exercise for fitness and health? And what's the most effective? Turns out there's a single answer to both questions: 4-second all-out interval repeats.
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Transforming Transportation for a Greener and More Just World from 2021-01-19T17:00
A conversation with policy wonk, energy geek, community organizer, and visionary strategist Pam Frank on the transformative potential of a clean and efficient transportation system.
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Should Vegans Own Guns?: Rabbi Hillel Norry on Plant Yourself 446 from 2021-01-12T21:00
Given the shocking violence we've seen this week, with more predicted around the country, I found myself in a very strange place: feeling like my home and family are under potential threat. I reach...
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After the First Marriage: Learning and Growing in Relationship: Dr Susan Orenstein on PYP 445 from 2021-01-05T22:00
What can we learned from "failed" relationships that can help us succeed next time? Couples therapist Susan Orenstein talks about her work helping people move on and grow after a first marriage.
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Liberation Through Improvisation and Imperfection: Stephen Nachmanovitch on PYP 444 from 2020-12-29T13:00
Can we use the principles and practices of improvisation to make healthy choices? In this episode, improvisation teacher Stephen Nachmanovitch shares what a 639-year-long musical performance can te...
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Discover YOUR Optimal Diet and Lifestyle Through Data: Dr Casey Means on PYP 443 from 2020-12-22T15:00
Tired of the nutrition debates? Confused about what YOU should be eating? Dr Casey Means of Levels Health shares the power of closed-loop data to change our lives - and health destinies - for the b...
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Plant Care is Self-Care: Yuvika Iyer on PYP 442 from 2020-12-15T13:00
What are the best house plants for healthy indoor air? Which ones are easiest for beginners? What are the benefits to indoor plants? And how can we become more connected, calmer, and happier people...
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How to Become Intuitive: Christin Bummer on PYP 441 from 2020-12-08T20:30
Christin Bummer used to lavish care on dogs via her Canine Kingdom business. Now she coaches humans to give similar consideration to themselves. In our conversation, we explore the fruitful and sc...
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Mind Hacks for Getting Through a Pandemic: Josh LaJaunie on PYP 440 from 2020-12-01T22:00
Josh LaJaunie returns to talk about his strategies for staying sane, strong, and fit during the pandemic. How to resist junk food and junk information, and how to talk to ourselves for the long haul.
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The Queen's Gambit, The Hero's Journey, Veganism, and Exercise: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 439 from 2020-11-24T12:00
Author, academic, and artist Tyson Yunkaporta offers an Indigenous perspective on some of the core beliefs that have guided my life. Some, like veganism, survive in a different form. Others, like t...
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Healing Cultural Trauma: Tada Hozumi on PYP 438 from 2020-11-17T19:00
Tada Hozumi is a somatics practitioner, and one of the leaders of a movement known as cultural somatics. Basically, cultural somatics explores how our culture influences our bodies - how we move, ...
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Own Your Health with Glenn Merzer and Chef AJ from 2020-11-10T09:00
Glen Merzer has possibly created a new genre, the comedic plant-based memoir. Join me, Glen, and recipe contributor Chef AJ to talk about their new book, Own Your Health.
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Civilization as a Self-Terminating Algorithm: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 436 from 2020-11-02T15:00
Tyson Yunkaporta is an Australian Aboriginal artist, philosopher, and researcher who lectures on Indigenous Knowledge at Deakin University in Melbourne. He's also the author of Sand Talk, a book th...
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Supporting Spirituality Through Technology: Danielle Roberts on PYP 435 from 2020-10-27T18:00
Danielle Roberts is a visual artist, technologist, and meditator. She's the creator of MeditationLab, whose mission is to support spirituality through technology, and AwarenessLab, which develops t...
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Embracing Discomfort When You're Already in Over Your Head: Glenn Murphy on PYP 434 from 2020-10-20T16:00
Glenn Murphy returns to talk about the importance of embracing physical discomfort, even when we're already stressed out mentally and emotionally. He offers some tips about how to do so without bur...
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Cancer is a Disease of Identity: Rethinking Evolutionary Biology with Perry Marshall: PYP 433 from 2020-10-12T10:00
Perry Marshall is one of the organizers of Cancer&Evolution Symposium, and a "pantomath" of the highest order. An engineer, marketer, writer, and science enthusiast, he has devoted much of the past...
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How Our Families and Communities Can Become Healthy at Last: Eric Adams on PYP 432 from 2020-10-09T10:00
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Healthy at Last. Part family memoir, part political mission statement, part science review, part self-help b...
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We Think, Therefore We Move: Barbara Tversky on PYP 431 from 2020-10-06T11:00
Today's guest, Barbara Tversky, has spent her professional life questioning the primacy of the mind over the body. Her incredible book, Mind in Motion, argues that our abilities to think and perce...
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Democracy Means a Healthy and Safe Environment for All: Jovita Lee on PYP 430 from 2020-09-29T20:47
Today's guest, Jovita Lee, is co-founder and vice president of Democracy Green, a North Carolina-based non-profit dedicated to environmental justice. The environmental movement has a long and sham...
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Outlasting Broken and Unjust Systems: Meryl Fury on Plant Yourself 429 from 2020-09-22T18:03
Meryl Fury is a registered nurse and CEO of the Plant-based Nutrition Movement. And she's a fierce advocate for justice and sanity in a world lacking both.
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The Younger Skin Diet: Rajani Katta, MD, on PYP 428 from 2020-09-15T14:54
Rajani Katta, MD, is a dermatologist and professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, and the author of Glow: The Dermatologist's Guide to a Whole Foods Younger Skin Diet. On today's podcast, we ta...
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Tiny Leaps Make Big Changes: Gregg Clunis on PYP 427 from 2020-09-08T19:50
Gregg Clunis learned most of what he knows about persistence, strategy, personal development, and success from watching his immigrant parents struggle to achieve their dreams. Originally from Jamai...
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Creating a Platform for Black Plant-Based Health Experts: Judy Brangman, MD, on PYP 426 from 2020-09-04T19:38
Judy Brangman, MD, aka The Plant-Based MD, visits the podcast to talk about her labor of love, the Reclaim Your Health Summit. The summit is the first one featuring exclusively people of color in ...
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Steven C Hayes on PYP 425: How to Liberate Our Minds from 2020-08-31T21:17
Steven C Hayes is the originator of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Training, take your pick), one of the most important psychological approaches of the past 10...
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Unraveling the Mysteries of Behavior: Mark Faries, PhD, on Plant Yourself 424 from 2020-08-25T15:27
A key role of medical professionals whose job it is to help their patients and clients change, is to frame messages to maximize the odds of desired behaviors. Unfortunately, most medical profession...
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What We Know About COVID-19: The Science: Michael Rothberg, MD on PYP 423 from 2020-08-18T14:41
Michael Rothberg, MD, returns to Plant Yourself to share the latest actual scientific understanding of COVID-19. We spoke first in mid-March, when we didn't know much. Fast forward five months, and...
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The Stunning New Science of Breathing: Dr Ryan Robinson on PYP 422 from 2020-08-11T19:49
Ryan Robinson, DDS, is a unicorn in the medical world: a dentist who helps people open up their airways and learn how to breathe properly.
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Are Your Mutual Funds Building the World You Want? Marco Vangelisti on PYP 421 from 2020-08-07T15:43
If you're fortunate enough to have savings, you've probably thought about how to invest them responsibly. The standard answer is to stick your money into no-load mutual funds that track the marke...
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Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy with Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro, MD: PYP 420 from 2020-08-04T14:51
The COVID-19 pandemic is not a great time to be pregnant, according to my guests, Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro of The Pregnancy Advantage. It is, on the other hand, a terrific time to prepar...
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Healing from Racism with Bianca and Michael Alexander: PYP 419 from 2020-07-28T15:04
I reached out to Bianca and Michael because I was turning into an asshole. Specifically, I was full of rage and outrage and judgment at all the racists out there. And the fact that I was right, an...
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Broccoli alone won’t get you to 100 with Marta Zaraska: PYP 418 from 2020-07-21T19:50
For the last 7 years, I've worked to improve human health and wellbeing by focusing on better nutrition, vigorous physical activity, sleep hygiene, and stress management. Turns out I may have been ...
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Empowering Black Health with Lisa A Smith: PYP 417 from 2020-07-14T18:29
Lisa A Smith is a serial entrepreneur who's made it her life's work to empower the Black community with information, skills, and philosophies that support health, peace of mind, and mutual support.
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Empathy is Stronger than Fear with Glenn Murphy: PYP 416 from 2020-07-07T20:07
Glenn Murphy returns to Plant Yourself to talk about how we can self-regulate our emotions and actions during a time of great societal upheaval and division. We talk about our own impulses to "fig...
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Going from Racist to Anti-racist with Dustin and Josh LaJaunie: PYP 415 from 2020-06-30T15:08
Dustin and Josh LaJaunie have amazing transformation stories. They went from obese to fit. From junk food addicts to plant-based eaters. From hunters to vegans. From sedentary to active. And, as ...
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The Role of Science in Public Discourse and Racial Justice: Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, MDs: PYP 414 from 2020-06-24T00:08
Team Sherzai, aka Dean and Ayesha, join me on the podcast to talk about the role of science and scientists in dealing with all the false statements propagated on social media (as well as, occasiona...
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The Key to Human Resilience with Scott Carney: PYP 413 from 2020-06-16T14:13
Most of my work as a health coach involves helping people respond differently to stimuli. That is, develop the ability to make different choices when confronted with tempting foods, tempting envir...
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How Pollution Affects Chronic Disease with Richard Kwok: PYP 412 from 2020-06-09T08:22
Richard Kwok is an environmental researcher who studies the effects of environmental pollution on human health. He's also my neighbor, and we met while cleaning up litter and quickly discovered a l...
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The Practice of Compassionate Self-Care During Times of Crisis with Bojana Jankovic Weatherly, MD: PYP 411 from 2020-06-03T19:27
Dr Bojana Jankovic Weatherly is one of my favorite physicians, double board certified in internal and integrative medicine. She has also trained in functional medicine, nutrition and mindfulness. ...
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Tidings of Comfort or Joy: PYP 410 from 2020-05-29T08:59
One day my grandfather punched someone in the face over some disagreement. The recipient of the blow, wounded more in pride than body, wobbled to a seat on the curb and began yelling, "Iodine! Poli...
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Staying off the Trauma Train with Shay Seaborne: PYP 409 from 2020-05-26T21:08
Shay Seaborne is a trauma survivor, educator, and activist dedicated to demystifying trauma and helping people heal from - and with - Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD). In our far-ran...
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How to Succeed at (Small, Heart-Centered) Business with Mark Silver: PYP 408 from 2020-05-19T18:41
Mark Silver helps solo entrepreneurs and micro-businesses thrive through heartfelt business practices. The tagline for his company, Heart of Business, is "Every act of business can be an act of lov...
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Do You Want to Play a Game?: PYP 407 from 2020-05-14T18:02
One of the hot trends in behavior modification is gamification: that is, turning our goals and activities into behavioral chunks in order to win points and, sometimes, prizes. Gamification has its ...
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Why I won’t “wish you luck”: PYP 406 from 2020-05-13T23:26
Often a coaching client will end a session by saying, "Wish me luck" after setting a goal and making a plan to achieve it. In health coaching, this phrase is a huge red flag that the client is goin...
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The Magic of Fiber with Will Bulsiewicz: PYP 405 from 2020-05-12T14:53
What's the most important dietary rule? Is raw better than cooked food? Why shouldn't I always avoid foods that give me an upset stomach? This conversation with Dr Will Bulsiewicz, author of the ju...
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When There’s Nothing More to be Done: PYP 404 from 2020-05-11T19:40
Sometimes I hear from clients that they've done all they can, and they can't move the needle. They're stuck. They've hit a plateau. And there's simply nothing more to be done.What do we do then? =...
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Changing Your Thinking Isn’t Enough: PYP 403 from 2020-05-07T20:35
Say you want to stop eating junk food, or drinking soda, or watching porn, or whatever. Maybe you've read a motivating article or seen a video, or gotten a scary medical result, or just got fed up ...
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How to Eat Less During a Pandemic: PYP 402 from 2020-05-06T16:51
Lots of us are moving less during this stay-at-home time. But we're often eating just as much, or more, or more frequently, or worse. It's easy to say, "Just eat less," but it's not that easy to do...
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Gardening Our Way Through Calamity with Will Bonsall: PYP 401 from 2020-05-05T14:45
Will Bonsall is a self-described "back-to-the-land hippie homesteader," and author of two extremely important and prescient books: Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical Self-Reliant Gardening, ...
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The Power of Incantations: PYP 400 from 2020-05-01T14:07
In the Jewish tradition, we say "Blessed is the righteous judge" upon hearing of a death. That's pretty much the opposite of how we may feel at that moment. We'd rather lash out at the unfairness o...
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Exploring Digital Spirituality with Gregory Grieve: PYP 399 from 2020-04-28T15:01
Meditation apps have become a huge market. Headspace, Calm, 10% Happier, Insight Timer, and others promise stress relief, better health, and even spiritual contentment to users. Gregory Price Griev...
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Liberating Humans and Animals with Michael Schwarz: PYP 398 from 2020-04-21T15:42
Michael Schwarz is the founder of Treeline Cheese, a plant-based cheese company dedicated to ending the suffering caused by the animal-based dairy industry. He's also the child of one of the great ...
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The Power of Diversity: PYP 397 from 2020-04-17T14:05
One of the factors that weakens any system - a garden, a community, a nation - is lack of diversity. Monocultures provide economies of scale, but also opportunities for scaled disaster. A messy, di...
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Gardening with Nature: PYP 396 from 2020-04-16T17:20
Today I talk about one element of my gardening practice and philosophy: working with, rather than against nature. This includes growing perennials, mulching with wood chips, and refraining from unn...
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Investing for an Uncertain Future: PYP 395 from 2020-04-15T20:27
Those of us in one kind or another of "limbo" - life, career, relationship - are all facing the same question: what do we do with our time and energy right now to support our future? When the futur...
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Self-Care: PYP 394 from 2020-04-14T18:02
Some of us have had more time for self-care over the past few weeks than we even know what to do with. And we're loving it. How can we take advantage of this time to make ourselves, our families, o...
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Homecoming: PYP 393 from 2020-04-13T16:45
How we got home from South Africa. (Not particularly interesting; just an update for folks who've been listening for the past two weeks and were wondering what happened to us.) Returning tomorrow w...
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Corks in the Stream: PYP 392 from 2020-04-08T11:37
We may be going home tomorrow. There are dozens of unknowns, and we have little to no control over any of them. I'll stay in touch as I can!
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Weaving a Web of Generosity: PYP 391 from 2020-04-07T08:31
In tough times, you might expect people to hunker down and hoard what's theirs. We see some of that these days, for sure.But we also see incredible displays of generosity. I personally am benefitin...
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Training Montage: PYP 390 from 2020-04-06T08:42
People are comparing their experience of lockdown as an endless repetition of Goundhog Day, the 1993 Bill Murray movie about a man trapped in the same day over and over again. What I recall about t...
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Sifting Through Conspiracies: PYP 389 from 2020-04-05T07:12
In a world full of conspiracy theories, how can we know what to believe? We can't.But we can choose to adopt worldviews based on whether they empower us to help ourselves, others, and the world.
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Decisions, Decisions: PYP 388 from 2020-04-04T05:53
In these challenging times, we may think we have a lot of decisions to make. And we can agonize over those decisions and feel tremendous regret if they don't work out the way we hoped they would. B...
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The Silver Lining of Constraints: PYP 387 from 2020-04-03T05:52
I'm very very constrained these days. Locked down in a foreign country with luggage for a 3-week vacation, with no light at the end of the tunnel. Crappy internet, little social contact outside my ...
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The Gift of Boredom: PYP 386 from 2020-04-02T06:14
Many of us are bored right now, in lockdown or sheltering in place. We can paper over our boredom with mindless consumption, or we can use it to begin a process of profound healing.
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Stress and Resilience in the Time of Pandemic with Glenn Murphy: PYP 385 from 2020-04-01T05:54
Glenn Murphy returns to the podcast in the nick of time, to help understand, manage, and overcome stress reactions and symptoms in this time of fear, lockdown, and uncertainty. He shares an evoluti...
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Gratitude: PYP 384 from 2020-03-31T05:20
It's easy for me (and I guess, a lot of us) to focus on the negative these days. I'm reminding myself daily to look for things to be grateful for - and finding them!
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What is Essential: PYP 383 from 2020-03-30T05:54
In these strange times, we have an opportunity to remember what is essential, and what is fluff. Who are we really, and how can we carry that realization forward once we attain a new equilibrium?
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The Illusion and Reality of Control: PYP 382 from 2020-03-29T17:13
In a world in which we have virtually no control, how do we assert control in a useful way?
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Cultivating Emotional Herd Immunity: PYP 381 from 2020-03-28T13:14
Those of us who have survived difficult times - physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual - have a gift for the rest of society: the knowledge that we can handle what seems unmanageable, and grow f...
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You and What Army?: PYP 380 from 2020-03-28T02:00
A special Covid-19 Lockdown Edition of the Plant Yourself Podcast. Halfway through I realized I was using the wrong mic. If that's the worst thing that happens today, cool! Now is not the time to ...
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Straight Talk on Covid-19 with Michael Rothberg, MD: PYP 379 from 2020-03-26T15:00
Michael B. Rothberg, M.D., M.P.H. is the Vice Chair for Research in the Medicine Institute of the Cleveland Clinic and Director of the Center for Value-Based Care Research. He joined me on Skype t...
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Plant-Based Cardiology in Practice with Shane Williams, MD: PYP 378 from 2020-03-23T16:00
Shane Williams, MD, has been practicing plant-based (or as I would say, evidence-based) cardiology in Canada for nine years now. With hundreds of patients and lots of experience with what works an...
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Don and the Perfect Game: PYP 377 from 2020-03-19T16:00
Don Larsen died this month, at the age of 90. He played baseball professionally from 1953 to 1967, and had a less than stellar career. As a pitcher, his lifetime record was 81 wins and 91 losses. ...
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The Dangers of Toxic Spirituality with Justin Luria: PYP 376 from 2020-03-16T16:00
Justin Luria now lives what he calls a "muggle" life, managing on online bookshop. Before that, he trained as an energy healing and shamanic practitioner, and immersed himself in many of the spirit...
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How to Accelerate Your Progress by Stepping on DGAS: PYP 375 from 2020-03-12T16:00
If you've adopted a new good habit today, you're probably very excited and motivated. What about tomorrow? Will you be motivated then as well? Fingers crossed...
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A Behind-the-Curtain Health Coaching Demonstration with Ian Lawton and Howard Jacobson: PYP 374 from 2020-03-09T16:00
In this episode, I share a personal coaching session that I conducted with Ian Lawton, host of the Workshed Podcast.
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Van der Waals Forces to the Rescue: PYP 373 from 2020-03-06T20:00
When I was in 11th grade, I came in 3rd in the New Jersey Science League Chemistry II competition. Which was odd.I wasn't one of the best chemistry students in the state, by far. I wasn't even clo...
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Healthy Penis, Healthy Life with Aaron Spitz, MD: PYP 372 from 2020-03-02T20:00
Aaron Spitz, MD, is the director of male reproductive and sexual medicine at Orange County Urology Associates. He's served as president of the California Urological Association, was the lead urolog...
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Lost in the Land of the Liars: PYP 371 from 2020-02-28T20:00
There's a logic puzzle, well-known to those of us who never dated in high school, about an island that's inhabited by two tribes - the Liars and the Truthtellers. As you might guess, the Liars alwa...
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Becoming a Joyful Vegan with Colleen Patrick Goudreau: PYP 370 from 2020-02-25T20:00
Colleen Patrick Goudreau is author, most recently, of The Joyful Vegan. It's a book about joy, yes, but joy as a strategic imperative in a world that is relentless in trying to undermine our resol...
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Feed the Crying Baby at 3am: PYP 369 from 2020-02-20T20:00
After the third consecutive night of no sleep, I was starting to lose it. Our newborn daughter, who had looked so sweet and angelic in the moments right after her birth (9 on the APGAR - you go, g...
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Solving the Passion Paradox with Brad Stulberg: PYP 368 from 2020-02-18T20:00
Brad Stulberg returns to the podcast to discuss his latest book, The Passion Paradox, co-written with Steve Magness. They wrote the book mostly for themselves, which is how a lot of great self-hel...
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The "Love at First Sight" Trap: PYP 367 from 2020-02-14T20:00
I'll never forget my daughter's first birthday party. On a chilly February afternoon, a bunch of friends and relatives gathered at our house to share the joy of the event. We had decorations, prese...
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Becoming Beloved Ancestors with Carolyn Raffensperger: PYP 366 from 2020-02-11T20:00
Carolyn Raffensperger has been advocating for the environment since 1982. She's currently executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, and a tireless proponent of the Precaut...
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Lessons from Platform Nine and Three Quarters: PYP 365 from 2020-02-06T21:00
When we adopt a new habit, we often experience a honeymoon period. Partly it's our enthusiasm and motivation at the first flush of hope and desire, and partly we've chosen this time to start becaus...
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The Joy of Movement with Kelly McGonigal: PYP 364 from 2020-02-03T21:00
Kelly McGonigal's latest book, The Joy of Movement, is both a work of science and a love letter to the human body/spirit. I admit, when I ordered it, I thought I knew what I was going to read: a w...
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Should You Sanitize Your Environment?: PYP 363 from 2020-01-31T21:00
The public health crisis was going to be unprecedented, and catastrophic. As the Americans clumsily extricated themselves from the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, tens of thousands of US troops wo...
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How Not to Diet with Michael Greger, MD: PYP 362 from 2020-01-28T21:00
Michael Greger's latest book, How Not to Diet, is just stunning. It's a love song to science: its potential, its process, even its limitations.There has never been a more comprehensive, accessible...
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This is What Getting Older is Like with Matt Buckner: PYP 361 from 2020-01-21T21:00
Matt Buckner's low point came one day about 9 years ago, when he was 41. He was getting ready for an international business trip, and realized that one of his key medications, tramadol, was going t...
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Changing Hearts and Minds Through Laughter with Myq Kaplan: PYP 360 from 2020-01-14T21:00
Myq Kaplan is a stand-up comedian who also happens to be vegan (or is it the other way around?) He's performed on the Tonight Show, Conan, the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Seth ...
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Democratizing Water with Rich Razgaitis: PYP 359 from 2020-01-07T21:00
Rich "Raz" Razgaitis is on a mission to get water out of plastic, and plastic out of water. As co-founder and CEO of FloWater, which aims to reduce and ultimately end our dependence on single-use ...
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Reversing the "Diseasification of America" with Jim Loomis, MD: PYP 358 from 2019-12-31T21:00
Jim Loomis, MD is Medical Director of the Barnard Medical Center, and one of the stars of the blockbuster documentary The Game Changers. Dr Loomis' journey to plant-based practice for himself and ...
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Healing Racism in the Vegan / Plant-based Community with Milton Mills, MD: PYP 357 from 2019-12-24T21:00
In June, 2019, Dr Milton Mills gave testimony before the USDA Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee about their persistent recommendation to include dairy in our diets. Dr Mills short presentation...
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Giving Farm Animals a Refuge with Lenore Braford: PYP 356 from 2019-12-20T21:00
Lenore Braford is founder, volunteer interim Executive Director, and volunteer Shelter Manager at the Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge, located in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Which makes her (and the sa...
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Combating BS with James "Lightning" Wilks: PYP 355 from 2019-12-17T21:00
James Wilks is a producer, as well as narrator and chief instigator of The Game Changers, already the bestselling documentary of all time on iTunes. He got his nickname "Lightning" during his care...
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Orienting Ourselves to Natural Time with Brian Tourville: PYP 354 from 2019-12-13T21:00
Is time linear, or cyclical? According to analog watches, time goes around in circles.According to calendars and planners and most of Western culture, time moves ever forward. And few of us take ...
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The Science of Breaking Bad Habits with Wendy Wood, PhD: PYP 353 from 2019-12-10T21:00
Wendy Wood, PhD, knows more about the science of habit formation - and habit breaking - than just about anyone. While popular writers share their opinions about habits, Wood does the research. Mor...
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Healing the Warrior Spirit with Ron Tibbs: PYP 352 from 2019-12-03T22:00
Ron Tibbs is a wellness coach, plant-based advocate, and all-around great guy. He's part of the core team at WellStart Health, where he coaches, guides, and cheerleads clients to make significant ...
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Can My Relationships Survive My Veganism? with Melanie Joy, PhD: PYP 351 from 2019-11-26T22:00
Melanie Joy, PhD is a social psychologist, vegan activist, political strategist vs all the oppressive "archys" out there, organizational consultant, and relationship coach. She joins the podcast to...
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Getting Healthy and Giving Back with Brittany Sade: PYP 350 from 2019-11-19T22:00
Brittany Sade is a vegan entrepreneur and health coach. Her company, Prosperiteez Clothing, devotes part of its profits to combatting food insecurity in impoverished communities. Brittany wasn't a...
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Thriving on Plants, Kindness, and Connection with Karen Smith, RD: PYP 349 from 2019-11-12T22:00
Karen Smith is a plant-based registered dietitian, runner (sub-3 hours in the Boston Marathon, baby!), and all around good person. At Progressive Health of Delaware, which includes my Ultimate Fri...
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PlantPure Cooking with Kim Campbell: PYP 348 from 2019-11-08T22:00
Kim Campbell is the culinary force behind PlantPure Nation and PlantPure Foods. She kindly agreed to visit the Plant Yourself test kitchen (which is just the kitchen in my home, cleaned up sufficie...
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Healing Asthma with a Plant-Based Diet with Margot Freitag: PYP 347 from 2019-11-04T22:00
Margot Freitag is a coach who helps people transition to a plant-based diet successfully and sustainably. Growing up in Northwest Ontario (cue "Helpless" by Neil Young), she suffered from asthma, a...
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Mindful and Pain-free Walking and Running with Danny and Katherine Dreyer: PYP 346 from 2019-10-29T21:00
Danny and Katherine Dreyer are the co-authors of three of the most valuable books ever on human bipedal locomotion: Chi Running, Chi Walking, and Chi Marathon. The promise of their methodology is ...
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The Magic of Walking to the Mailbox with Elizabeth Bell: PYP 345 from 2019-10-22T21:00
I interviewed Elizabeth Bell in order to record a testimonial for WellStart Health, and ended up having a conversation so compelling and instructive and inspiring that I decided - with Elizabeth's ...
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How to Have a Good (and Healthy) Day with Caroline Webb: PYP 344 from 2019-10-15T21:00
Caroline Webb is the author of the wonderfully entertaining and useful How to Have a Good Day, which is basically a cookbook on how to be an effective human in the world. She is an executive coach...
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Documenting the Possibilities of Health with Carly Asse: PYP 343 from 2019-10-08T21:00
Juan-Carlos "Carly" Asse is a fitness trainer and documentarian. His first film, Unsupersize Me, has been viewed over 3 million times, and has inspired and guided countless people to embark on thei...
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We are Our Own Healers with Benjamin Alter, ND: PYP 342 from 2019-10-01T21:00
Benjamin Alter, ND, treats his patients as if they actually have the power to heal themselves. This power introduces a wonderful and frustrating messiness into the scientific pursuit of truth. It'...
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Normalizing Plant-Based Eating with Gwyn Whittaker: PYP 341 from 2019-09-24T22:00
Gwyn Whittaker is a change-maker, and for the past several years she's deployed her considerable "get-it-done" skills to the plant-based movement. Whittaker is CEO of Greenfare Cafe in Herndon, Vi...
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Stephen Porges, PhD, on Safety as the Most Important Thing: PYP 340 from 2019-09-17T22:00
For my money, Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory has done more to improve our ability to heal and grow and thrive as a civilization than any other scientific breakthrough of the past 50 years. Its a...
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Bouncing Back from Heart Disease with Ray Martin: PYP 339 from 2019-09-10T22:00
Ray Martin, aka "Old Man Skin and Bones," is on a mission to save others from what he went through: heart disease, expensive and unnecessary and potentially harmful medical care, and a bad case of ...
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Learning from Sacred Plants with Amber Antonelli and Anthony Esposito: PYP 338 from 2019-09-04T22:00
Amber Antonelli and Anthony Esposito run the Awaken Your Soul iboga retreat center in Costa Rica. Iboga is the name of a plant native to Gabon and neighboring West African countries that acts as a...
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"It Turns Out Willpower Doesn't Exist" with Jud Brewer, MD PhD: PYP 337 from 2019-08-27T22:00
Jud Brewer is Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, and a second-time guest on Plant Yourself. When we first talked, two years ago, Jud had just publis...
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Battling Bullshit with Garth Davis, MD: PYP 336 from 2019-08-20T22:00
Yeah, them's fighting words in the title of today's episode. And Garth David, MD, my lead author of Proteinaholic and co-conspirator in a mission to tell the world that chronic disease and obesity ...
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The heART of Medicine with Jody Esselstyn, RN: PYP 335 from 2019-08-13T22:00
Jody Esselstyn is a registered nurse at the Charlottesville, VA, city schools, and docent at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. An unusual combo, perhaps, but Jody combines he...
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Reconnecting with the Healing Power of Plants with Joe Cross: PYP 334 from 2019-08-06T22:00
Joe Cross was, in the words of his first film, "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" when he embarked on a 60-day experiment to escape the pain and discomfort of a lifestyle-induced auto-immune disease. Hi...
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Pleasure Activism with adrienne maree brown: PYP 333 from 2019-08-02T02:00
I had the best time talking with New York Times' bestselling author and love goddess adrienne maree brown! I stumbled upon her work through a sidebar article about her most recent book, Pleasure A...
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Eat Your Way Healthy with Lauren Plunkett: PYP 332 from 2019-07-24T02:00
Lauren Plunkett is a registered dietitian living with type 1 diabetes. She's also the newest addition to the WellStart care team - and we couldn't be more pleased or delighted! Lauren is a dynamo ...
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Mastering the Air Fryer with Kathy Hester: PYP 331 from 2019-07-17T02:00
Kathy Hester is a cookbook author, gear and gadget junkie, and vegan wizard. She's also a neighbor of mine, and a hilarious and warm and wonderful human being. This is her third appearance on the ...
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Tackling Food and Economic Insecurity Through Urban Agriculture with Jesse Herrera: PYP 330 from 2019-07-10T02:00
Jesse Herrera is founder and chief visionary of Urban Theory, which I'd categorize as a "think tank" and an "act tank" for social and economic and environmental justice. Or as Jesse puts it, an "i...
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Overcoming Depression with Linda Carney, MD: PYP 329 from 2019-07-03T03:00
Linda Carney, MD, returns to the podcast to talk about a wholistic approach to treating depression. It turns out that while adverse childhood events, genetics, and traumatic life circumstances all...
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We are Nature with Josh LaJaunie: PYP 328 from 2019-06-26T03:00
Josh LaJaunie returns to the podcast for a fifth (?) time, for a conversation about our relationship with nature. We talk about the beauty and grandeur of nature, and the ways human beings benefit...
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Fixing Health Insurance with Emma Passé: PYP 327 from 2019-06-18T13:00
Emma Passé is Chief Operating Officer at E-Powered Benefits, one of the renegade benefits brokers challenging a bloated and broken healthcare system. I first met Emma a year ago at a healthcare co...
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Rediscovering Radical Wholeness with Philip Shepherd: PYP 326 from 2019-06-12T10:00
How can we better ourselves without going to war with ourselves? How can we engage in "self-improvement" - around habits of mind and habits of action - without setting up a supervisor and a superv...
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Honoring Tradition While Charting a New Course with Ramona and Dustin Lajaunie: PYP 325 from 2019-06-04T13:00
Ramona and Dustin LaJaunie are part of a family that has lost over a thousand pounds through plants and running. The mother and brother, respectively, of Josh LaJaunie, Mona and Dustin are now the ...
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A Systems Approach to Fighting Chronic Disease with Olivia Kelly: PYP 324 from 2019-05-29T13:00
Olivia Kelly is CEO and co-founder of WellStart Health, the fabulously amazing startup that I also co-founded. So everything I'm going to say about her is totally unbiased.
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Dr Wayne Jonas on the Science of Healing: PYP 323 from 2019-05-22T13:00
Dr Wayne Jonas is a pioneer in integrative, healing-based, patient-centered healthcare who has been at the nexus of healthcare and healing for over 40 years. He served as director of the National ...
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The Martial Art of Tech-Proofing with Glenn Murphy: PYP 322 from 2019-05-14T13:00
Our lives have changed dramatically since 2007, when the first iPhone was introduced. As today’s guest, Glenn Murphy, points out, if we handled any other object over 1000 times a day, we would be ...
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Improving Athletic Performance Through Plants with Shiann Darkangelo: PYP 321 from 2019-05-07T13:00
Shiann Darkangelo plays professional hockey for the Toronto Furies, in the Canadian Women's Ice Hockey League. If that isn't a place you'd expect to find a committed plant-based athlete, join the ...
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How to Really Change Habits with Kevin Davis: PYP 320 from 2019-05-01T13:00
Kevin Davis is a WellStart Health “Supercoach,” and co-leader of the WellStart Health Coach Training Academy.Today we talk about his story, from being the “fat kid” in high school, to getting into ...
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Covering the Ground with Josh LaJaunie: PYP 319 from 2019-04-23T13:00
My buddy Josh LaJaunie returns the to podcast for his fourth? fifth? appearance. We've been busy building WellStart Health, dealing with logistics and curriculum and business development and whatn...
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Holding Ourselves to a Higher Standard with Marco Borges: PYP 318 from 2019-04-16T13:00
Marco Borges, founder of 22 Days Nutrition, is a visionary social entrepreneur. From humble beginnings, Marco has partnered with Beyoncé and Jay-Z to bring plant-based health to as many people as ...
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Bringing Health to the People, One Step at a Time with David Sabgir, MD: PYP 317 from 2019-04-09T13:00
David Sabgir, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist practicing at Mount Carmel Medical Group in Columbus, Ohio. Frustrated at his inability to move the needle on his patient's self-care, he had th...
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Banishing Loneliness Through Mindful Acceptance with Emily Lindsay: PYP 316 from 2019-04-02T13:00
Emily Lindsay, PhD, is lead author of an uber-important scientific paper on how to mitigate loneliness through mindfulness and acceptance training. Lindsay is a research scientist in the Psycholog...
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Changing Habits and Lifestyle Through the Entrepreneurial Process with Danny Warshay: PYP 315 from 2019-03-26T13:00
Danny Warshay is the executive director of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University, and a long-time friend. He dropped by to talk about how to apply his Entrepreneurial Process t...
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Finding Balance and Reimagining Cardiology with Monica Aggarwal, MD: PYP 314 from 2019-03-19T14:00
When I asked Dr Monica Aggarwal to join me on this podcast, I figured we'd talk about her plant-based advocacy at the University of Florida, where she is an assistant professor of medicine and Dire...
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The Health Benefits of the "Poor Mans' Meat" with Jeff Chilton: PYP 313 from 2019-03-12T14:00
Today's a huge departure for this podcast. For the first time, we explore the virtues of eating something other than plants. No, don't worry. I haven't gone paleo or keto or carnivore (although on...
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Relishing the Struggle with Sarah Bofinger: PYP 312 from 2019-03-05T15:00
Sarah Bofinger is an unlikely Olympic hopeful, a WellStart Health Coach, and a fountain of positivity. Today she returns to the podcast to update us on her Olympic dreams, and to share how becomin...
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Self-care for Busy Professionals with Diane Randall: PYP 311 from 2019-02-26T15:00
As a newly divorced mother of two small children and high-powered professional, Diane Randall had let her health take a back seat to all her responsibilities. Overweight, diagnosed with high blood ...
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The Six Words that Killed the American Health System with Josh Luke: PYP 310 from 2019-02-19T15:00
Dr Josh Luke was enjoying his career in sports marketing when his grandmother got sick. He watched in amazement and frustration at the way she was treated when she didn't have the money for the tre...
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Charles Eisenstein on Climate Reductionism and True Planetary Healing: PYP 309 from 2019-02-12T15:00
Charles Eisenstein has been challenging my thinking for about 15 years now, but never more so than with his latest book, Climate: A New Story. Basically, Eisenstein argues that focusing all our en...
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Healthy Plant-Based Pregnancy with Micaela Karlsen: PYP 308 from 2019-02-05T15:00
When I polled my listeners about topics or guests they’d like to hear on upcoming episodes of Plant Yourself, I got a lot of requests for a show about plant-based pregnancy. I thought this might b...
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Andrew Taylor on Taking Radical Steps to Breaking a Food Addiction: PYP 307 from 2019-01-28T20:00
Andrew Taylor was tired of being out of shape, obese, and sick. An olympic hopeful in his teens, he had let his fitness and health slip away as his commitment to kayaking waned but his addictions t...
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Vanquishing Procrastination with Hillary Rettig: PYP 306 from 2019-01-22T20:00
Hillary Rettig is both an activist and a productivity expert, two vocations that don't seem to have much in common at first glance. But as soon as I started reading two of her books, The Lifelong A...
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Veggies, Opportunities, and the Gold Rule of Improv with Tess Masters: PYP 304 from 2019-01-07T21:00
Tess Masters, aka The Blender Girl, is a powerful spokesperson for a healthy plant-based lifestyle, and a force of nature. Growing up in Australia on a "meat and three veg" diet, she was plagued a...
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Howard Jacobson on Procrastination, Cocoons, and the Unfinished Office: PYP 303 from 2019-01-02T21:00
Happy New Year! I come to you today from the cab of my truck, in my driveway, to talk about the fact that my new office isn’t ready to move in, and it’s January 1, and it’s kind of driving me crazy...
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"Give us This Day Our Daily Plants" with Tina Ahern: PYP 302 from 2018-12-26T21:00
Tina Ahern is a long-time Plant Yourself Podcast listener and supporter. When she reached out to share her inspiring story, I knew I wanted to share it with you. Long story short, Tina and her hus...
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Defeating Distraction and Living Powerfully with Chris Bailey: PYP 301 from 2018-12-18T21:00
When you're doing a video podcast with the guy who wrote the book on focus and mastering our attention, you don't take lots of notes. Instead, you look at your guest and stay present to the wisdom ...
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Unleashing Nurses to Revolutionize Patient Care with Caroline Trapp, DNP: PYP 300 from 2018-12-11T21:00
Caroline Trapp, DNP (that’s Doctor of Nursing Practice to you and me), is the director of diabetes education and care with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), as well as a nur...
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The Strategic Passion of a Bunch of "Lonely and Powerful Vegans" with Darina Bockman: PYP 299 from 2018-12-04T21:00
Darina Bockman is a business mover-and-shaker; a Senior Finance Director atCBRE, and a long-time vegan activist. She felt split; on the one hand, committed to helping ...
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Thriving Despite Chronic Pain with Emily Skamla: PYP 298 from 2018-11-28T21:00
While leading the morning run groups at Engine 2's Plantstock this August, I met a young woman named Emily Skamla. She was fit and speedy - easily pounding out 6-minute miles, and smoking me durin...
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"People Are Ready to Heal" with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams: PYP 297 from 2018-11-20T21:00
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2016. Unwilling to surrender his health destiny to the medical profession, Adams did some research, adopted a plant-base...
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Feminism, Veganism, and Activism with Carol Adams: PYP 296 from 2018-11-13T21:00
Carol J. Adams is the author most recently of Burger and Protest Kitchen, and a self-described "feminist-vegan." Our conversation was eye-opening to me in many ways.I noticed my language in ways I...
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Launching Your Next Chapter with Sanyin Siang: PYP 295 from 2018-11-06T21:00
Sanyin Siang is a CEO Coach, Author, and the Executive Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership&Ethics (COLE) at Duke University. In other words, quite a big deal. When I reached out to ...
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Community Innovation and Global Solutions: PYP 294 from 2018-10-30T21:00
This past Saturday, I set up my portable recording studio in Cary, North Carolina, to live-podcast the PCRM Kickstart Your Health NC Triangle event.
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A Community Effort: PCRM Comes to the North Carolina Triangle: PYP 293 from 2018-10-23T22:00
This weekend, the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is bringing its big guns to my neck of the woods, the Triangle region of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill). ...
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Harnessing Positive Emotions to Defeat Bad Habits with David DeSteno: PYP 292 from 2018-10-16T22:00
Why do 92% of New Years' Resolutions fail, one year on? Why has the current cultural obsession with grit and willpower failed to move the needle on our behaviors? And why do long-time Buddhist monk...
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Neal Barnard, MD, on Not Eating, Testing, or Exploiting Animals in Pursuit of Health: PYP 291 from 2018-10-09T22:00
Neal Barnard, MD, is the president and founder of the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) - an organization far too large and influential to still be called a "committee," but who...
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Healing through Hypnosis with Grace Smith: PYP 290 from 2018-10-02T22:00
When Grace Smith resolved to quit smoking in 2011, she began with the most common approaches: nicotine gum, the patch, going cold turkey (is there a vegan equivalent to that phrase?). When a singl...
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Ketogenic Smoke and Mirrors with Robyn Chuter: PYP 289 from 2018-09-24T22:00
There's so much buzz about keto these days, there must be something to it, right? I mean, if it didn't work to help people lose weight and feel better, they wouldn't be doing it. I admit, despite ...
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Brian Wansink on Tricking Ourselves into Eating Better: PYP 288 from 2018-09-18T23:00
Brian Wansink is the researcher behind some of the most surprising findings in recent behavioral science, the most famous of these involving the interaction between plates and bowls and eating beha...
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The Art of Fitness and Transformation with Gary Whitaker: PYP 287 from 2018-09-12T23:00
Gary Whitaker is the founder and owner of Plant-based Fitness, a transformation gym located in Oakland, CA.
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Crazy Adventures and Looking at the World Differently with Jeff Seal: PYP 286 from 2018-09-04T23:00
Jeff Seal is a comedian, documentarian, adventurer, and undercover clown operating out of New York City. One of my son Elan's favorite YouTube artists, Jeff points out the hilarity, absurdity, and...
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How to Engineer an Epic Transformation with Adam Sud, Joseph Alexander, Ken Lander, and Josh LaJaunie: PYP 285 from 2018-08-28T23:00
I had the great privilege of moderating a panel discussion at Engine 2's Plant-Stock event, held this year in Black Mountain, NC, over a weekend in August. The topic was, "Transformation and Recove...
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Challenging the Immune System to Beat MS with Bob Cafaro: PYP 284 from 2018-08-22T00:00
Bob Cafaro is a professional cellist, author, and ass-kicker of multiple sclerosis. In his latest newsletter, he revealed two MS-busting tactics that he hadn't written about in his book, When the...
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Sharing Music and Making This Place Our Home with Micah Hendler: PYP 283 from 2018-08-15T00:00
Micah Hendler is the founder and director of the YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus, and one of Forbes' magazine's "30 under 30" (global leaders and change-makers under the age of 30). He founded the chor...
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Joel Kahn, MD, on Keto, Sex, and the Next Generation of Doctors: PYP 282 from 2018-08-08T00:00
Welcome back to Joel Kahn, MD, one of the great gentle pugilists of the plant-based, evidence-based, lifestyle medicine movement. Joel has gotten a lot of air time since our last talk three years a...
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Howard Jacobson on Staying True to My Mission: PYP 281 from 2018-08-01T00:00
Yup, that's me, talking directly to you in this episode. I wanted to take a break from the guest-interview format because I have a lot on my mind.Yesterday was my 53rd birthday, and would have bee...
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Marching Lifestyle Medicine into the Belly of the Beast with Ted Barnett, MD: PYP 280 from 2018-07-24T12:00
Ted Barnett, MD, is also known as "Dr Veggie." An interventional radiographer by day, he has been a plant-based advocate, educator, activist, and gadfly in Rochester, NY and nationally since the ea...
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Nourishing Our Brains and Preventing Dementia with Ayesha Sherzai, MD: PYP 279 from 2018-07-17T13:00
Ayesha Sherzai, MD, is one half of Team Sherzai, along with her husband, Dean (also MD). She's codirector of the Brain Health and Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Loma Linda University, where she ...
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Succeeding by Letting Go of the End Result with Amy Baglan: PYP 278 from 2018-07-10T13:00
Amy Baglan is both a Type A Entrepreneur and a committed mindful meditator. The founder of MeetMindful, an app and movement that connects spiritually engaged people for both dating and friendship, ...
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The Ultimate in Gut Health with Will Bulsiewicz, MD: PYP 277 from 2018-07-03T13:00
Will Bulsiewicz, MD MSCI, trained to become a gastroenterologist at some of the top hospitals in the world: Georgetown, the University of North Carolina (go 'heels!), and Northwestern. He's board c...
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Busting Plant-Based Myths with Martica Heaner: PYP 276 from 2018-06-26T13:00
Martica Heaner PhD, is a nutritionist and exercise physiologist and health writer. She is an adjunct associate nutrition professor at Hunter College in NYC and the author of 6 books including Cross...
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Lifestyle Medicine for the Win with Marcy Madrid: PYP 275 from 2018-06-19T13:00
Marcy Madrid is Vice President of Planning and Marketing at Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas. (That's about halfway between Dallas and El Paso on I-20.) When Midland decided to embrace ...
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The Science of Longevity with Janice Stanger: PYP 274 from 2018-06-11T13:00
Janice Stanger, PhD, is author of The Perfect Formula Diet and a genius at getting other people to become nutritional geniuses. Her approach to any topic - diabetes, pregnancy, hormones, whatever -...
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Harnessing the Entrepreneurial Spirit for a Plant-Based World with Matt Tullman: PYP 273 from 2018-06-05T09:00
Matt Tullman wants 30% of the US population to go plant-based by the year 2030. And that's not an idle wish - Matt is doing something (a lot of things, actually) about it. Matt is a long-time poli...
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Recovering from Rheumatoid Arthritis with Clint Paddison: PYP 272 from 2018-05-30T13:00
Clint Paddison was pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian in Australia when he was struck with a debilitating case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A former athlete and science all-star, Clint found...
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An Olympic Quest Powered by Plants with Sarah Bofinger: PYP 271 from 2018-05-22T13:00
Sarah "Mergoddess" Bofinger swam before she walked - literally. Born with hip dysplasia (I thought the same thing: "Isn't that something Golden Retrievers get?"), she required six surgeries before ...
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Training for Life (Literally) with D Anthony Evans: PYP 270 from 2018-05-15T13:00
D Anthony Evans found out at age six that he had a rare disorder (Neurofibromatosis) that caused painful tumors to emerge at random all over his body. And things just got worse from there. His doc...
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Valter Longo, PhD, on the Longevity Diet: PYP 269 from 2018-05-09T17:00
Valter Longo, PhD, is a longevity researcher at the University of Southern California whose broad vision and ability to focus on the details of scientific enquiry over a 30-year career may provide ...
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Three Words That Can Double Your Influence with Gregg Sparkman: PYP 268 from 2018-05-01T17:00
Today's guest, Gregg Sparkmann, PhD, runs experiments to test the idea of dynamic norms. That is, the concept that what's considered normal and acceptable can change. Sparkmann and his mentor, Gre...
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The Counterintuitive Science of Wise Interventions with Gregory Walton, PhD: PYP 267 from 2018-04-27T17:00
Gregory Walton, PhD, has done some of the most groundbreaking social science research of the past decade. His "Wise Interventions" model utilizes brief, targeted experiences to permanently alter a ...
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From Butcher to Vegan Nutritionist with Fraser Bayley: PYP 266 from 2018-04-24T17:00
Fraser Bayley's arc of transformation is long and inspiring. Growing up in Auckland, New Zealand, Fraser was a poor student who struggled in school despite putting in the effort. He felt stupid, l...
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Dirty Little Secrets of the Health Benefits Industry: Pulling Back the Curtain with Eric Krieg: PYP 265 from 2018-04-20T17:00
Eric Krieg spent decades in the belly of the beast; the benefits industry beast, that is. Until one day he asked a profoundly inconvenient question: "Am I doing the right thing?" By way of answer,...
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Restoring the American Dream by Reimagining Healthcare with Dave Chase: PYP 264 from 2018-04-18T17:00
Dave Chase is one of those quiet innovators who moves mountains through vision, energy, and sheer persistence. With a healthy dose of trickster energy in the mix... Chase is one of the founders of...
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Ending Self-Deception and Becoming Real with Bethany Stec Janicek: PYP 263 from 2018-04-17T17:00
Bethany Stec Janicek grew up on a Nebraska pig farm, on a diet of meat and dairy and cheese and butter. Always bigger than her peers, she began dieting in elementary school, and suffered the anguis...
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Becoming a Brave Athlete with Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson: PYP 262 from 2018-04-10T17:00
Lesley Paterson, aka the "Scottish Rocket," is a three-time world champion in off-road triathlon, an Ironman triathlon champ, a professional mountain biker, an athletic coach, and a world-class sli...
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Saving America's Healthcare System through WellStart Health: PYP 261 from 2018-04-03T17:00
This episode is special to me, as I share the next phase of my journey and mission. I've just joined WellStart Health as a co-founder, along with CEO Olivia Kelly, Chief Medical Officer Bojana Jan...
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Matthew Prescott on Solving Our Biggest Problems Through Plant-Forward Eating: PYP 260 from 2018-03-27T17:00
Matthew Prescott is one of the most influential voices in the animal welfare, plant-forward movement. He's Senior Food Policy Director for the Humane Society of the United States, and advisor to th...
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Darren Morton on Happiness, Meaning, Longevity, and Smiling Baseball Cards: PYP 259 from 2018-03-21T18:00
Darren Morton, PhD, is a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, which means that not only is he wicked-smart about how to live a long and healthy life, but also he shares his ins...
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Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and Robby Barbaro on Thriving with Type 1 Diabetes: PYP 258 from 2018-03-13T18:00
Cyrus Khambatta and Robby Barbaro are the co-creators of Mastering Diabetes, an online program and support network for people living with all forms of the disease: type 1, type 2, type 1.5, prediab...
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Fooling Meat Eaters with Plant-based Replacements with Rody Hawkins: PYP 257 from 2018-03-06T19:00
I personally wouldn't have predicted that the guy behind Lunchables and Slim Jim jerky sticks might save the planet. But Rody Hawkins, muscle physiologist, consultant to the meat industry for dec...
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Carl Safina on Sharing Emotions with Animals: PYP 256 from 2018-02-27T19:00
Carl Safina is the author of, most recently, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. I consumed it on Audible a couple of years ago, and was utterly mesmerized and transformed by the listening. ...
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Transforming the System of Medical Care with David Donohue, MD: PYP 255 from 2018-02-20T19:00
David Donohue is a primary care physician in Wilmington, Delaware, and one of only 280 board-certified lifestyle medicine specialists in the United States. As David points out in our conversation, ...
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Mastering the Meditation Habit with Emily Fletcher: PYP 254 from 2018-02-13T20:00
Emily Fletcher is one of the new faces of an ancient practice. Former Broadway star and founder of Ziva Meditation, she talks funny, dirty, relatable, and wise about one of the simplest, cheapest, ...
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The Neuroscience of Changing Other People's Minds with Tali Sharot: PYP 253 from 2018-02-06T22:00
Tali Sharot is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, and director of the Affective Brain Lab. Affective, as in emotions and motivation. Brain, as in process...
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Giving Ourselves the Gift of Health with Kassi and Derick Harrington: PYP 252 from 2018-01-30T23:00
Kassi and Derick Harrington grew up in Thibodaux, Louisiana, where they grew obese and ill and miserable on the Standard Cajun Diet. Derick's life revolved around food: hunting and fishing and the...
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How to Live a Better Life Every Day with Bryan Falchuk: PYP 251 from 2018-01-24T13:00
From the moment his parents' marriage fell apart, Bryan Falchuk turned into the fat kid. In a world out of control, food was the one thing he could control, and the one thing that could soothe his ...
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Tina Seelig on Designing Our Ideal Life Through Creativity: PYP 250 from 2018-01-16T13:00
These days I'm really into creativity, and how we can foster it, and how it can help us lead happier and more fulfilled lives. Plus it's fun. So when I saw today's guest, Tina Seelig, give 90 sec...
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"Carbs are Not the Enemy" with Type 1 Diabetic Josh Turner: PYP 249 from 2018-01-10T14:00
Josh Turner, is one hell of a smart, compassionate, committed human being. A type 1 diabetic who was told that his quality of life, health, and longevity would be compromised by his condition, Josh...
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Becoming a Health Mechanic with Phil Green: PYP 248 from 2018-01-02T14:00
Phil Green is a heavy equipment mechanic for the military. Which is to say, he can fix things that people rely on for their lives. And yet his own body was in a terrible state of disrepair. As a r...
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Cultivating Simplicity and Progress with Ian Cramer: PYP 247 from 2017-12-25T14:00
Plant-based Cyclist Ian Cramer and I spent a lovely hour geeking out on our journeys, and podcasting, and our gratitude for the trailblazers who introduced us to the plant-based lifestyle. Ian is ...
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Diet for a Living Planet with Michael Klaper, MD: PYP 246 from 2017-12-19T14:00
Michael Klaper, MD, is one of the world's most eloquent, convincing, passionate, and persistent advocates of a plant-based diet. He's studied the health effects, the environmental ramifications, an...
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Scott Stoll on Disrupting Healthcare with Plants: PYP 244 from 2017-12-11T14:00
Scott Stoll, MD, understands the power of Believing You Can. Which is a good thing, because he's made his life mission a task that would seem daunting to most: to transform the healthcare industry...
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Designing Your Life with Dave Evans and Bill Burnett: PYP 243 from 2017-12-04T14:00
Dave Evans and Bill Burnett are co-authors of the New York Times bestselling Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life. You may not have heard of them, but their design work has a...
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The Mental Health / Lifestyle Link with Dr Elizabeth Winings: PYP 242 from 2017-11-28T14:00
Elizabeth Winings is Doctor of Nursing Practice at Nemours Children's specialty care and Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. She specializes in working with children and teens wh...
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Raising Healthy Parents with Sid Garza-Hillman: PYP 241 from 2017-11-21T14:00
Sid Garza-Hillman returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Raising Healthy Parents. In typical Sid fashion, the book is funny, irreverent, wise, and insanely useful. Sid is the Nutrition...
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From the Sidelines to the Starting Line (and Finish Line!) with Anthony Masiello: PYP 240 from 2017-11-17T14:00
Anthony Masiello grew up as the "fat kid," and owned the identity with resignation. Growing up in a town with three pizza restaurants within walking distance, it was easy to avoid the healthy food ...
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Exploring the Pathless Land of Truth with Jeff Stanford: PYP 239 from 2017-11-14T21:00
Jeff Stanford combines a scientist's mind with a vegan's heart and a mystic's soul. He's co-founder of the Stanford Inn by the Sea in Mendocino, California, an eco-resort complete with a fully vega...
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Code Blue: Challenging Conventional Medical Education and Practice with Saray Stancic, MD: PYP 238 from 2017-11-11T00:00
Dr Saray Stancic became an infectious disease specialist in response to the HIV and hepatitis C crisis of the 1980s and 90s. On October 11, 1995, the then-3rd year medical resident found a short na...
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Rip Esselstyn on Growing a Movement and Being Open to Opportunity: PYP 237 from 2017-11-08T00:00
Rip Esselstyn is founder of Engine 2, a food and education company dedicated to eliminating chronic disease through a whole food, plant-based diet. As Engine 2 continues to grow in influence and r...
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Navigating a Plant-Based Thanksgiving with Elspeth Feldman: PYP 236 from 2017-11-03T23:00
Elspeth Feldman is The Speedy Vegan. Combining a love of cooking with a stint in culinary school with a dedication to human health and love of all sentient beings, she teaches and coaches people on...
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Nathan Runkle on Showing Mercy to the Animals in Our Care: PYP 235 from 2017-10-31T23:00
Nathan Runkle is the founder of Mercy For Animals, an organization that focuses on the prevention of cruelty to the billions of farm animals raised for food in the United States. Nathan's just wri...
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Rob Greenfield on Wearing Trash, Opting Out of Capitalism, and Waking Up to the Effects of Our Actions: PYP 234 from 2017-10-24T23:00
Rob Greenfield has put the fun and friendly into environmental activism. Known for his eye-catching and media-worthy campaigns and adventures to wake people up to the destruction we're causing to o...
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Having a New Heart and Filling It With Love with Ken Lander: PYP 233 from 2017-10-17T23:00
When Ken Lander disembarked from a plane on December 16, 2016, he lost his breath, stumbled, and couldn't make to baggage claim. When the 430-pound Lander was examined in the emergency room, it was...
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Peter Breggin, MD, on Toxic Psychiatry and the Heart of Healing: PYP 231 from 2017-10-10T23:00
Peter Breggin, MD, has been known as the "conscience of psychiatry" since his crusade starting in the 1970s to abolish psycho-surgery (lobotomization) and electro-convulsive therapy. Since then, h...
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The Mindful Vegan by Lani Muelrath: PYP 230 from 2017-10-05T23:00
Lani Muelrath is a good friend of the podcast (on the show for the fourth time), and a prolific thinker, teacher, and writer. Lani's new book, The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, ...
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Replacing Fear with Love, Losing 200 Pounds, and Finding Purpose with Russ L'Hommedieu: PYP 229 from 2017-09-26T09:00
Now Russ is an accomplished weight loss (and "life gain") coach, and has started an innovative food delivery service, Harvest Food Box, to support his clients and others in the tri-state region of ...
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Tackling Our Healthcare Crisis by Growing Food with Thi Squire: PYP 228 from 2017-09-19T13:00
Thi Squire is the garden manager for Homestead Hospital, located 35 miles south of Miami on Florida's east coast. A longtime urban gardener and sales rep in the burgeoning farm-to-table industry i...
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Saying Goodbye to Lupus and Other Autoimmune Diseases with Brooke Goldner, MD: PYP 227 from 2017-09-13T01:00
When Brooke Goldner, MD, was 16 years old, she was told by her doctors that she probably had about six months to live. Her lupus, a chronic autoimmune condition that commonly attacks joints and ski...
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Bernie Roth on Designing the Lives We Want: PYP 226 from 2017-09-06T01:00
Bernie Roth is a co-founder and Academic Director of the incredibly influential d.school at Stanford University (officially known as the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design). He's also the author o...
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Damien Mander on Becoming an Anti-Poaching Warrior and Rediscovering His Heart: PYP 225 from 2017-08-30T02:00
Damien Mander's entire identity centered around war: as a 19-year-old who joined the Australian Royal Navy and trained as a clearance diver; as a spec-ops sniper; as a member of an elite Tactical A...
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Radically Self-Reliant Veganic Gardening with Will Bonsall: PYP 224 from 2017-08-22T02:00
Will Bonsall is the visionary gardener whose half-century of experimentation and iconoclasm can help us save human civilization from collapse. His method, which he refers to as "gardening without b...
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Doing Epic Sh-tuff and Having Fun with Aaron Stuber and Jackson Long: PYP 223 from 2017-08-16T02:00
Aaron Stuber and Jackson Long are the irreverent, hilarious, and extremely fit duo behind the Thought For Food Podcast and nascent publishing empire. Aaron is a cardiovascular nurse, and a long-ti...
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Overcoming Disordered Eating Through Self-Love and Education with Tara Kemp: PYP 222 from 2017-08-09T02:00
Tara Kemp is one of the happy luminaries of the plant-based movement. Spend an hour in her presence and you'll be charmed and delighted into eating better - no lectures or harangues required. When...
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Integrating Plant-based Nutrition into the Medical System with Michelle McMacken: PYP 221 from 2017-08-02T02:00
Michelle McMacken, MD, is a leader in the field of plant-based lifestyle medicine. She's an assistant professor at New York University's School of Medicine, and the director of a medical weight-los...
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How to Overcome Our Cravings with Judson Brewer: PYP 220 from 2017-07-25T02:00
Judson Brewer, author of The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love - Why We Get Hooked,&How We Can Break Bad Habits - kept his meditation practice and medical career separate for a d...
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Living Life on Purpose with Vic Strecher: PYP 219 from 2017-07-19T02:00
Vic Strecher was a stellar public health researcher and entrepreneur when his life lost all meaning. A professor at the University of Michigan, founder of the Center for Health Communication Resear...
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Kim Williams, MD on Building an Evidence-based and Inclusive Cardiology Profession: PYP 218 from 2017-07-12T02:00
Kim Williams, MD, is past president of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). Let's take a moment to appreciate how amazing that is.First of all, he grew up poor and black on the South Side of ...
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Creating a Safe "Couple Bubble" with Susan Orenstein: PYP 217 from 2017-07-04T12:00
Susan Orenstein, PhD, is a couples therapist in Cary, North Carolina. She's also a long-time friend (I believe we met in 1986) and neighbor (since we moved to NC in 2005). I wanted to pick her bra...
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The Biogas Revolution with Alon Civier: PYP 216 from 2017-06-27T12:00
Alon Civier is the Customer Experience Manager at HomeBiogas.com, an Israeli startup whose mission is to bring clean and elegant biogas technology to the world. I discovered biogas when I lived in...
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Achieving Behavior Change Through Pleasure and Positivity with Sid Garza-Hillman: PYP 215 from 2017-06-20T12:00
Sid Garza-Hillman is one of the world's great bald plant-based podcasters of Jewish origin. He's also a remarkably savvy and sane health coach, and a funny and frank philosopher of what constitutes...
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Hacking the Instant Pot and Air Fryer with Kathy Hester: PYP 214 from 2017-06-13T13:00
My good friend and neighbor Kathy Hester is a combination cookbook factory and mad scientist. I like having her on the podcast partly because I get lonely and it's fun to have in-studio guests, and...
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Avoiding Burnout and Achieving Peak Performance with Bradley Stulberg: PYP 213 from 2017-06-05T13:00
Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness know a lot about burnout. They were up-and-comers in their respective fields - consulting and running - and neither managed to live up to their early promise. Both "...
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The Nature Fix with Florence Williams: PYP 212 from 2017-05-30T13:00
Florence Williams is the author of a must-read book, The Nature Fix. Why must-read? Because contact with nature, it turns out, is one of the foundational elements of human health and well-being.Flo...
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Putting Our Money Where Our Hearts Are with Lee Slonimsky: PYP 211 from 2017-05-22T13:00
Lee Slonimsky is both a financial wizard and an accomplished poet. His abiding interests include social justice and animal welfare. Lee has managed to fit all these skills, interests, and passions...
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Josh LaJaunie on Naturally Attainable Quantities: PYP 210 from 2017-05-16T13:00
On the road from Marshall, Texas to MSY airport in New Orleans, Josh LaJaunie and I (shown, left, after surviving the Crescent City Classic 10k and attaining new personal records) tried out a conce...
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Overcoming Addiction with Adam and Lecia Sud: PYP 209 from 2017-05-09T18:00
Adam Sud is only 34 years old and he’s already battled against obesity, type II diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, drug addiction, fast food addiction, and severe depression. Once we...
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Chris Voss on Negotiating with Others and Ourselves: PYP 208 from 2017-05-01T18:00
Chris Voss learned negotiation in one of the most high-stakes professions possible: as a lead international hostage negotiator for the FBI. Having learned from the super-smart, super-rational Harva...
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Educating a Generation of Healthy, Savvy Moms and Girlfriends with Lana Kontos: PYP 207 from 2017-04-25T19:00
Lana Kontos is a naturopath and women's health advocate who somehow managed to transcend her training and embrace the true sources of health. While still in high school, she was told by her guidanc...
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Making Familiar Food Healthy with Kim Campbell: PYP 205 from 2017-04-16T19:00
Kim Campbell is the author of two really useful cookbooks: The PlantPure Nation Cookbook, and The PlantPure Kitchen. Her recipes are featured in the Jumpstarts chronicled in the documentary PlantPu...
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Brian Kateman on Reducing Animal Consumption by Building a Big Tent: PYP 204 from 2017-04-03T19:00
Brian Kateman is cofounder of the burgeoning Reducetarian movement, and one of the bright young stars in the fight to save humanity, animals, and planet earth from spiraling into an unredeemable me...
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Overcoming Guilt and Shame with Michael Edelstein: PYP 203 from 2017-03-27T19:00
Michael Edelstein, PhD, returns to the podcast to help me wrap my mind around two of my most faithful mind-companions, guilt and shame. Dr. Edelstein is a clinical psychologist, and author of the m...
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The Nuts and Bolts of a Good Night's Sleep with Emerson Wickwire: PYP 202 from 2017-03-21T19:00
Emerson Wickwire, PhD, returns to the Plant Yourself Podcast to share his message of a good night's sleep. In this show we focus on actionable advice:What to do when you have trouble falling aslee...
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Caring for Our Bodies as Temples of Spirit with Nalida Besson: PYP 201 from 2017-03-13T19:00
Nalida Lacet Besson wasn't so concerned about weighing 240 pounds or passing the occasional painful gallstone. What got her attention in the summer of 2013 was a physical malaise so complete and ov...
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Saving America by Reforming Health Insurance with Ken Beckman: PYP 200 from 2017-03-06T20:00
Ken Beckman (who's not into having his photo out on the Internet, so I grabbed a graph instead) is Vice President and Actuary at Central States Indemnity. He's a member of theAmerican Academy of Ac...
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Getting a Second Lease on Life - and Using It in a Big Way with Paul Chatlin: PYP 199 from 2017-02-27T20:00
At age 55, Paul Chatlin was a few minutes away from surgery on a 100% blockage in his right coronary artery when his cardiologist asked him out of the blue, "Would you consider a nutritional change...
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Ed and Amanda Smith on Leadership, Community, and Health: PYP 198 from 2017-02-20T21:00
Ed and Amanda Smith are the co-founders of Healthfest, a three-day annual event in a small Texas town that's become an unlikely hub of plant-based nutrition in the United States. Marshall, Texas, ...
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Scott Carney on Extreme Cold and Facing the World as It Is: PYP 197 from 2017-02-14T18:00
In the winter of 2013, Scott Carney traveled to Poland to debunk the prophet/madman Wim Hof, a charismatic Dutchman who claimed that his method of breathwork, cold exposure, and meditation could co...
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Pharmaceutical Brainwashing of America with Vanessa Sardi: PYP 196 from 2017-02-07T19:00
When Vanessa Sardi was a drug rep for one of the world's largest and most powerful pharmaceutical companies, she firmly believed that she was educating doctors to make better prescribing decisions ...
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"I'm not speeding up; they're all slowing down" with Ellen Jaffe Jones: PYP 194 from 2017-01-24T19:00
I ran into Ellen Jaffe Jones at the Raleigh NC Vegfest, where she was inspiring young and old to get off their butts and embrace a healthy, active, vegan lifestyle. We had met on Skype for a podcas...
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Escaping the Dungeon of Obesity with Justin Lacy: PYP 193 from 2017-01-17T19:00
Two years ago, Justin Lacy weighed 500 pounds, and could move about only on crutches — when he could move about at all. His tendonitis and lymphedema made standing painful and walking all but impos...
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Healing from Whiteness with Tad Hargrave: PYP 192 from 2017-01-10T19:00
Tad Hargrave is an environmental activist and marketing teacher whose heartfelt wisdom and elegant and ethical strategies inspired and guided much of my own thinking when I was in the online market...
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Hal Hershfield on Befriending Our Future Selves: PYP 191 from 2017-01-04T19:00
Hal Herschfield is a UCLA psychology professor, and author of some really interesting studies on the connection between what we do now and how we think about the future. Specifically, he's shown t...
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Stumbling Toward a Healthy and Kind Diet with Clay Garrett: PYP 190 from 2016-12-27T19:00
Growing up in rural East Texas, Clay Garrett was raised to appreciate meat. His father, an agriculture instructor, literally taught an entire class on how to produce, process and cook meat. And the...
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The Simple Practices that Healed His Depression with Dave Wiskowski: PYP 189 from 2016-12-20T19:00
In 1987, fresh out of college, I took a job as a teaching intern at a fancy prep school in central New Jersey. One of the students who never made it across my radar was a quiet, blonde fifth grade ...
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Dr Chad Teeters on Becoming an Infamous Cardiologist: PYP 188 from 2016-12-13T19:00
Dr John “Chad” Teeters grew up eating a good old meat and potato diet in his home state of North Carolina. An active kid, he looked and felt healthy and fit; his diet started catching up with him o...
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The Universal Language of Food with Katie Simmons: PYP 187 from 2016-12-06T19:00
Katie Simmons was working as a traditionally trained chef and moonlighting as a fitness instructor when the dare happened. She was struggling - as she had been her whole life - with her weight an...
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The Healing Power of EFT with Robyn Chuter: PYP 186 from 2016-11-30T19:00
Robyn Chuter is a plant-based "recovering naturopath" and wellness researcher from New South Wales, Australia. She's particularly interested in how groups of people support each other's health jour...
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Finding (and Sharing) the Fountain of Youth with Doug Schmidt: PYP 185 from 2016-11-22T19:00
Doug Schmidt is an enrichment teacher and health and wellness coordinator for his upstate New York school district. Now, health and wellness coordinators generally focus on stress reduction in the ...
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Adam and Shoshana Chaim on Eating Their Way Out of a Medical Nightmare: PYP 184 from 2016-11-15T19:00
Adam and Shoshana Chaim are the hosts of the most excellent Plant Trainers Podcast. Their journey of discovery and transformation is one that needs to be heard by everyone who may ever come into co...
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Being an "Ayurvegan" with Darshana Thacker: PYP 183 from 2016-11-08T20:00
Darshana Thacker is the culinary project manager for Forks Over Knives, as well as the chef responsible for 125 kid-friendly recipes in the brand new Forks Over Knives Family book. She has been a F...
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Becoming Pain-free Like an Animal with Tom Dalonzo-Baker: PYP 182 from 2016-11-01T19:00
When my right knee started hurting so bad that I couldn't run, do yoga, squat, or ride a bike, I did all the things I knew how to do. I got massages. I iced. I rubbed hot and cold ointments into t...
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Detoxing from Dairy with Michelle Cehn and Allison Rivers Samson: PYP 181 from 2016-10-25T19:00
Michelle Cehn and Allison River Sampson have spent over a year creating a 12-day program designed to wean participants off dairy - permanently.
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Peak Performance for the Rest of Us with Bradley Stulberg: PYP 180 from 2016-10-19T19:00
Bradley Stulberg writes about the connections between exercise and human physiology and psychology. He's interviewed many of the world's elite athletes, and has synthesized their insights into valu...
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Becoming a Lean, Green Dad with Cory Warren: PYP 179 from 2016-10-11T19:00
Cory Warren is a plant-based athlete from Orlando, Florida, and dad to three whole food, plant-based kids. After struggling through a medicine morass of misinformation and toxic treatment when his ...
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Telling the Plant-based Story to the World with Gene Stone: PYP 177 from 2016-10-04T19:00
Gene Stone is the author of about 40 books (he wasn't quite sure of the exact count), and has become the pre-eminent co-author on books in the plant-based and vegan genres, including Michael Greger...
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Dave Willits on Plant-Based Life After Death: PYP 175 from 2016-09-27T19:00
On March 28, 2014, Dave Willits suffered a heart attack at work, and died at the hospital later that day. Several times, in fact.Luckily for him (and us), he was revived every time, and awoke from...
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Nature's Brilliant Protocol and a Popcorn Fart in the Wind with Josh LaJaunie: PYP 174 from 2016-09-23T19:00
Josh LaJaunie is, by his own admission, a simple Bayou coonass who discovered plants and running, and transformed his life. His backstory is well documented in a couple of Rich Roll Podcasts, which...
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Navigating Life Through Feelings with Mark Leuchten: PYP 173 from 2016-09-21T20:00
At various times in my life, I've felt like I was hitting my head against the universe. Struggling to figure out what to do next. Stuck in a house and neighborhood that wasn't right for us. Naviga...
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Marta Zaraska on Why We're Meathooked and How to Unhook Ourselves: PYP 172 from 2016-09-13T20:00
Marta Zaraska is the author of Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Years Obsession with Meat, which was just published this year (2016). Marta writes about science and health f...
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Pam Kropf on Becoming a Plant-Based Trail Momma: PYP 171 from 2016-09-06T20:00
Pam Kropf is on an inspiring journey of wellness and self-actualization that lacks some of the drama our culture associates with growth and change.
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Heather Goodwin on Harnessing the Butterfly Effect for Health: PYP 170 from 2016-08-31T20:00
Heather Goodwin is fond of saying that she was born at her ideal weight, and that was the last time she ever saw it.
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Jim Gray on Defeating Genetics Through Diet: PYP 169 from 2016-08-23T20:00
Jim Gray (middle of the photo) knew that he had been dealt a lousy health hand when he was diagnosed with high blood pressure at the tender age of 18. At that point, he was in good shape, a high sc...
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Dr Milton Mills on Our Marvelous Microbiome: PYP 168 from 2016-08-16T20:00
Dr Milton Mills combines an encyclopedic knowledge of human biology, anatomy, physiology, and pathology with a passion for health and justice for all creatures. Plus, he's a top-notch debater with ...
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Jason Cohen on Taking the Wheel of Your Own Life: PYP 167 from 2016-08-10T01:00
Jason Cohen tipped the scale at 297 pounds when a buddy of his moved and left him a bicycle. That, along with the death of a slightly older, leaner friend, carrot-and-sticked Jason to a weight loss...
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Timaree Hagenburger on Making Food that Loves You Back: PYP 164 from 2016-07-19T14:00
Timaree Hagenburger is a full-time nutrition professor at Cosumnes River College, a professional speaker working in corporate wellness and is a Certified Exercise Physiologist. She discovered plant...
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Tim Kaufman on Doing a Little More Today Than You Did Yesterday: PYP 163 from 2016-07-12T14:00
When Tim Kaufman was in his late 30s, he weighed about 400 pounds, struggled with addictions to pain killers, and figured this was how his life was gonna be from now on. After all, he had been diag...
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Dr Michael Edelstein on Overcoming Addiction and Procrastination: PYP 162 from 2016-07-05T14:00
Michael R Edelstein is a clinical psychologist with a practice in San Francisco, and globally via Skype. As a teenager, he was depressed and anxious, and a chronic procrastinator. After a long, uns...
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Eric O'Grey on Being Rescued by an Obese, Middle-Aged Dog: PYP 161 from 2016-06-28T15:00
Eric O’Grey co-stars in a 6-minute video that’s been viewed over 50 millions times. He’s been on NPR, Rachael Ray, Oprah.com, and Today.com. He runs multiple marathons a year, advocates for animal ...
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Ashley Rhinehart on Promoting a Plant-based World from Top Down and Bottom Up: PYP 165 from 2016-06-26T14:00
Ashley Rhinehart is Food and Nutrition Manager at the Humane Society of the United States. A military brat by upbringing and a pediatric nurse by training, Ashley is uniquely positioned to advocate...
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Doug Lisle on the Evolutionary Uses of Pain and Sacrifice: PYP 160 from 2016-06-21T15:00
Doug Lisle, PhD, is an evolutionary psychologist, Director of Research at True North Health Center, and co-author of one of the most important and - to me - challenging books on human happiness and...
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Glen Merzer on Writing, Standup, and the Politics of Healthcare: PYP 159 from 2016-06-14T15:00
Glen Merzer juggles multiple careers with a grace and impact that makes me a bit jealous. From standup comedy in 1980s San Francisco, to sitcom writing, to screenplays, to non-fiction collaboration...
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Sandi Kronick on Facilitating a Sustainable Food System: PYP 158 from 2016-06-07T15:00
Sandi Kronick is founder and CEO of Eastern Carolina Organics (ECO), an innovative food hub company that connects medium-scale organic farmers with local and far-flung markets. Located in Durham, N...
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Keegan Kuhn on Not Hurting Anybody and Questioning Authority: PYP 157 from 2016-05-31T15:00
Keegan Kuhn was raised with two rules: don’t hurt anybody, and question authority. Judging by what’s he’s become and what he’s accomplished, I think those two rules may comprise a necessary and su...
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Howard Jacobson on Motivation and Transformation: PYP 156 from 2016-05-24T15:00
Hey there, it's me, Howard. My mind has been buzzing lately, full of input from some of the guests I've interviewed over the past few months. It's like they've been talking with each other, in my ...
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Jamie Gannon on Brain Cancer, Golden Tickets, and Silver Linings: PYP 155 from 2016-05-17T15:00
When Jamie Gannon was 27, he was an aspiring actor living the dream in Hollywood. Reading for films, TV, and commercials. Working his day job. Working out to keep his leading man physique. Taking ...
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Matt Frazier and Sid Garza-Hillman on the Sane and Happy Path to Change: PYP 154 from 2016-05-10T15:00
Matt Frazier and Sid Garza-Hillman have teamed up to produce plant-base meal plans that are designed to get us to the point where we no longer need meal plans.
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Bob Cafaro on Beating MS: PYP 153 from 2016-05-03T15:00
Bob Cafaro was enjoying a successful career as a professional cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra when he was struck with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in December, 1998. After some serious denial an...
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Nina Cooke on Being One Thought Away from Happiness: PYP 152 from 2016-04-26T15:00
Nina Cooke is a performance coach who specializes in helping people find success, balance, and happiness in their lives by questioning their most subterranean beliefs and thought patterns. I met he...
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PYP 151: Steven Sashen on Running Barefoot and Feeling the World from 2016-04-19T15:00
Steven Sashen is co-founder of Xeroshoes.com, and a fierce critic of the athletic footwear industry. Steven and I met when we were in the digital marketing world, and stayed in touch as we both mig...
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PYP 150: Dustin Rudolph on Meds vs Diet for Hypertension and Diabetes from 2016-04-12T15:00
Dustin Rudolph, PharmD, is a repeat guest on the podcast. As one of the only pharmacists in the world who favors a plant-based treatment approach, he shared his "coming of age" story and his take o...
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PYP 149: Dr. Linda Carney on the Dangers of Excess Estrogen from 2016-04-05T15:00
Dr. Linda Carney got her first taste of medicine - an addictive one, as it turns out - when she managed to witness an autopsy at the age of 14. Her vegetarian-chef / Mr. Mom stepdad added the exper...
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PYP 148: Marc Schoen, PhD, on Surviving Our Survival Instinct and Defeating Bad Habits from 2016-03-29T16:00
True confession: I usually multitask while I eat, despite telling other people not to. I read, I Facebook, I talk on the phone, I create presentations, and so on. I rationalize it very well: I'm bu...
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PYP 147: Vlad Chituc on How (Not) to Change Hearts and Minds from 2016-03-22T16:00
Vlad Chituc is a behavioral economics researcher at Duke University. He works with Dan Ariely at the Center for Advanced Hindsight, and focuses on issues of ethics, morality, and decision-making.
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PYP 146: Michael Greger, MD, on How Not To Die from 2016-03-15T16:00
Michael Greger is the founder of NutritionFacts.org, an amazing website that produces daily what would take me six months to do: a short, entertaining video exploring some aspect of nutritional sci...
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PYP 144: Irving Kirsch on Harnessing the Placebo Effect and Discovering the Truth about Antidepressants from 2016-03-01T17:00
Irving Kirsch is a soft-spoken researcher who accidentally stumbled upon one of the biggest and most costly errors in modern medicine. His cautious yet relentless search for the truth has made him ...
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PYP 143: Janice Stanger on Hormonal Disruption and Dietary Dangers from 2016-02-23T17:00
Janice Stanger, PhD, author of The Perfect Formula Diet, is a repeat podcast guest. This time, she's on because she gave a remarkable presentation on hormonal health and disease at the annual Welln...
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PYP 142: Alan Goldhamer on the Fastest Way to Improve Health from 2016-02-16T17:00
Alan Goldhamer, DC, is coauthor, with Doug Lisle, of The Pleasure Trap, and co-founder and director of one of the most important medical institutions in the world: The True North Health Center in S...
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PYP 141: Antonia Demas on Overhauling Food Education from 2016-02-08T17:00
Antonia Demas, PhD, is founder and director of the Food Studies Institute, an organization that creates and promotes nutrition-based curricula for elementary schools.
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PYP 140: Chef AJ on the Ultimate Weight Loss Challenge from 2016-02-01T17:00
Chef AJ is a funny, ferocious, blunt, and incredibly warm and supportive leader in the plant-based movement. It's always a treat to talk with her, and this podcast gives me a good excuse to do so a...
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Robert Whitaker on Institutional Psychiatric Corruption: PYP 139 from 2016-01-25T17:00
Robert Whitaker has written some of the most dystopian, disturbing, and fascinating stories of evil unleashed that I've ever read.
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PYP 138: Kelly Turner on Radical Remission from Cancer from 2016-01-19T17:00
Kelly Turner, PhD, is the author of Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds. If you have cancer, or know anyone who has cancer, or are a human being (Western men have a 1/2 chance and ...
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PYP 137: Paul Kerton on harmonizing strength and compassion from 2016-01-12T17:00
I goggled at my Facebook feed, early one December morning, when I read that Arnold Schwarzenegger, of all people, was advocating for a plant-based diet at the Paris climate talks. The "You hit like...
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PYP 136: Eileen Kopsaftis on How to Become Ageless from 2016-01-05T17:00
Eileen Kopsaftis is an amazing physical therapist based near Albany, New York. She's unusual in many ways, including her use of nutrition to help her patients get out of pain and regain function, a...
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PYP 135: Susan Benigas on Growing a Generation of Plant-Based Doctors from 2015-12-29T17:00
Susan Benigas is executive director of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and founder of the Plantrician Project. Through these and other efforts, Susan is in the forefront of the mo...
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PYP 134: Glenn Murphy on the New Science of Stress from 2015-12-22T17:00
Glenn Murphy is a science writer and educator, bestselling author, and longtime student of the Russian martial art known as Systema. He's also my teacher, my friend, and a hilarious guy with a kick...
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PYP 133: Kathy Hester on Beans, Oats, Slow Cookers, and Just Having Fun from 2015-12-15T18:00
Kathy Hester is the author of five vegan cookbooks (more if you count the Halloween ebook), including the new Easy Vegan Cookbook: Make Home Healthy Cooking Practically Effortless and OATrageous Oa...
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PYP 132: Jay Oliveira and Michelle Muench on Thriving Through Plants, Passion, and Consistency from 2015-12-08T18:00
Jay Oliveira and Michelle Muench are pretty much poster children for an athletic, plant-based lifestyle. YouTube and Instagram stars, with tens of thousands of followers, Jay and Michelle share the...
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PYP 131: Anthony Dissen, RD, on Empowering vs Preaching from 2015-12-01T18:00
Dietitian Anthony Dissen has the plant-based science down cold, like many of us. What sets him apart is his research in and experience with group programs to change behaviors in an engaging, positi...
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PYP 129: Dr Rekha Chaudhary on Giving Hope to Cancer Patients from 2015-11-17T18:00
Dr Rekha Chaudhary is an oncologist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Until a chance viewing of the documentary Forks Over Knives, Dr Chaudha...
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PYP 128: Queenie Moore on Being Black, Plant-Based, Fit, and Curvy from 2015-11-10T18:00
I met Queenetta (Queenie) Moore at her booth at the Raleigh VegFest, where she was promoting a "21 Day to Plant-Based" Challenge: Soul Food edition.
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PYP 126: Jill McKeever on Cooking Speedy-Healthy-Delicious from 2015-10-27T18:00
Jill McKeever is not an introvert, I suspect. I began to form this suspicion when we started our video Skype conversation and I noticed she was wearing fuzzy bunny ears.
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PYP 124: Samantha Carrie Johnson on Eating Real and Living Our Passion from 2015-10-20T18:00
Samantha Carrie Johnson, at age 30, has already accomplished several lifetimes worth of personal and social achievement. A chef, restauranteur, entrepreneur, actor, model, Miss Pennsylvania 2007, a...
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PYP 123: Dina Rose on Helping Parents End the Food Fights from 2015-10-13T18:00
Dina Rose, PhD, grew up in a household rife with dysfunctional lessons, attitudes, and behaviors related to food and eating. Her mother struggled with food and obesity, and ultimately died of obesi...
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PYP 122: Howard Jacobson on Proteinaholic from 2015-10-07T18:00
Today, something a little different. To mark the publication of Proteinaholic, which I worked on with Garth Davis, MD, I wanted to talk about, well, Proteinaholic.
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PYP 121: Dr. Ron Weiss on the Healing Power of Farming from 2015-09-29T18:00
After 7 years in the emergency room and 15 years running a traditional medical clinic in suburban New Jersey, Dr. Ronald Weiss decided to radically change his practice.
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PYP 120: Hendrie Weisinger on Performing Under Pressure from 2015-09-22T18:00
Hendrie "Hank" Weisinger, PhD is the co-author of a fabulously empowering book, Performing Under Pressure. He's a New York Times bestselling author, and a consultant to some of the biggest names in...
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PYP 119: Lani Muelrath on the Right Mindsets for the Plant-Based Journey from 2015-09-14T19:00
Lani Muelrath is one of the world's most accomplished wellness and fitness coaches. She combines cutting edge scientific research on fitness, diet, and mindset with an encyclopedic knowledge of beh...
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PYP 118: Andy Bellatti on Professional Integrity in Nutrition from 2015-09-08T19:00
Andy Bellatti became a card-carrying member of the American Dietetic Association (now Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - AND) as soon as he completed his training as a registered dietitian.
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PYP 117: Glenn Livingston on Never Bingeing Again from 2015-09-01T19:00
Glenn Livingston is a clinical psychologist, marketing consultant to Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneur, author, and all-around good guy. Also, a dear friend, colleague, and mentor.
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PYP 116: David Katz on Eliminating 80% of Disease, and Polar Bears in the Sahara from 2015-08-18T19:00
David Katz, MD, is a crusader on the front lines of health sanity in an insane culture. Somehow, he's managed to command attention and respect from the mainstream media, as well as medical and gove...
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PYP 115: Don Matesz on the Absurdity of Paleo from 2015-08-11T19:00
Don Matesz loves ideas and philosophy as much as he loves nutritional and health research. After spending many years eating a vegetarian diet, he was swayed by a storybook, NeanderThin by Ray Audet...
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PYP 114: Miyoko Schinner on Homemade Liberation from 2015-08-04T19:00
If there were a Nobel Prize for food, Miyoko Schinner would be rehearsing her Oslo speech right now. Committed to human health and happiness, environmental stewardship, and animal welfare, her acti...
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PYP 113: Sonia Faruqi on the Truth About Animal Agriculture from 2015-07-28T19:00
Sonia Faruqi had spent her entire life preparing for a career on Wall Street. She grew up fascinated by the acquisition and accumulation of nice possessions. She studied government and economics at...
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PYP 112: Zoe Weil on Raising a Generation of Solutionaries from 2015-07-21T19:00
One day, Zoe Weil came to the radical conclusion that the main goal of education is to produce kind people who contribute to the wellbeing of the world by tackling huge problems.
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PYP 111: Micaela Karlsen on Popcorn, Gizmodo, and Nutritional Science from 2015-07-14T19:00
Micaela Karlsen is a lot more optimistic about the future of nutritional science than I usually am. Maybe it's genetic, and she's just more upbeat in general. Or maybe - and I fervently hope this i...
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PYP 110: Dreena Burton on Feeding the Plant Powered Family from 2015-07-07T19:00
Dreena Burton has taught an entire generation how to cook delicious, innovative, and down-home vegan meals. In her fifth cookbook, Plant Powered Families, she combines delicious, accessible, and ki...
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PYP 109: Amie Hamlin on Feeding Kids Right in 2015 from 2015-06-30T20:00
I recently republished an August 2007 interview with Amie Hamlin, Executive Director of The New York Coalition for Healthy School Food. In that conversation, we covered:
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PYP 108: Del Sroufe on the Joys of Planning Meals from 2015-06-23T20:00
Chef Del Sroufe is a master of efficiency, which is a good thing. As co-owner and head chef at Wellness Forum Foods, Del feeds a crazy amount of people every week. If he didn't have his act togethe...
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PYP 107: Annie Oliverio on the Dance of Cravings, Denial, and Pleasure from 2015-06-16T20:00
Annie Oliverio's mind works differently from most people's. When she sat down to write a cookbook, she didn't come up with chapter headings like Breakfasts, Lunches, Snacks, Soups, Desserts, and so...
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PYP 106: Corey Rennell on Food as the Foundation of a New Economy from 2015-06-09T20:00
Corey Rennell doesn't do things halfway.
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PYP 105 Kerrie Saunders on Navigating Cravings and Overcoming Addictions from 2015-06-02T20:00
PYP 105 Kerrie Saunders on Navigating Cravings and Overcoming Addictions
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PYP 104: Robert Ostfeld on Healing Individuals and Communities from the Roots Up from 2015-05-26T20:00
Robert Ostfeld was collecting Ivy League degrees like some people collect state quarters. With a BA from Penn, an MD from Yale, and a Masters in Epidemiology from Harvard, Robert was well on the wa...
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PYP 102: Nelson Campbell on Bottom-Up Revolutions that Transcend Left and Right from 2015-05-13T00:00
Nelson Campbell is the eldest son of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, co-author of The China Study, and author of Whole, and The Low Carb Fraud. (I helped with those last two.) For the past two years, Nelson...
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PYP 101: Amie Hamlin on Healthy School Food 2007 from 2015-05-06T00:00
Today's podcast is the first half of a double-header with Amie Hamlin, founder and executive director of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Food.
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PYP 100: Rich Roll on the Transformative Power of Mindful Authenticity from 2015-04-28T15:00
Rich Roll, along with his wife Julie Piatt, has just released The PlantPower Way. Already #38 on the amazon bestseller list, the book is a wonderful introduction to a family-centered, plant-based l...
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PYP 099: Julie Piatt on Alchemy and "Cutting the Zucchini with the Closest Knife" from 2015-04-27T16:00
Julie Piatt returns to the Plant Yourself Podcast to celebrate the imminent release (like, tomorrow) of her and her husband Rich Roll's new book, The PlantPower Way.
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PYP 098: Ben Chesler on Fixing an Imperfect Food System from 2015-04-21T16:00
Ben Chesler was finding - and fixing - broken food systems before he even got to college. As a freshman, Ben cofounded the Food Recovery Network, a non-profit that feeds the hungry with excess food...
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PYP 097: Susan Peirce Thompson on Bright Line Eating to Overcome Food Addiction from 2015-04-14T16:00
Susan Peirce Thompson knows something about addiction. Starting at age 14, she lurched from addiction to addiction, finally getting clean and sober at age 20. Years later, in grad school, she had b...
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PYP 096: Mimi Kirk on Juicing Your Way to Health from 2015-04-08T16:00
Mimi Kirk started experiencing health problems at age 69, and instead of selling her luggage and taking up sudoku, she took matters into her own hands. Mimi adopted a raw vegan diet and started jui...
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PYP 095: Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz on Animal Welfare and Human Dignity from 2015-04-01T16:00
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz is Founder and CEO of the Shamayim V’Aretz (Hebrew for “Heaven and Earth”) Institute for Animal Welfare. Newsweek magazine named him to their list of “America’s Top 50 Rabbi...
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PYP 094: Karen Page on the Secret Reason to Go Plant-Based: Flavor from 2015-03-24T16:00
Karen Page is one of the most influential food writers of our time. The author, with her husband Andrew Dornenberg, of several impressive books about gourmet cooking, chefs, and fine restaurants.
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PYP 093: Sharon Livingston on Conquering Emotional Eating from 2015-03-17T16:00
When Sharon Livingston was a kid, her parents were kosher caterers and she had to watch them nourish the world while, often, ignoring her. She doubled her weight between ages 9 and 12, and had to d...
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PYP 092: Tracy Russell on Green Smoothies as the Easiest First Step on the Road to Health from 2015-03-09T16:00
On December 31, 2007, Tracy Russell went to bed in mediocre health, lacking energy to exercise, and 40 pounds overweight.
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PYP 091: Heather Crosby on the Courage to Become Healthy from 2015-03-03T17:00
When Heather Crosby found herself in poor health and, according to her doctors, destined to be on meds for the rest of her life, she decided to take her health into her own hands.
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PYP 090: Heather Jo Flores on Turning Lawns into Gardens as a Radical Act from 2015-02-24T17:00
Heather Jo Flores came of age in an "addicted, abusive, and estranged family" in the slums of Los Angeles in the 1980s.
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PYP 089: Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn on Ending the War Against Our Hearts from 2015-02-17T18:00
I'm delighted to share my interview with one of the most important medical figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. I hope this recording will be around in a hundred years so my descendants can brag...
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PYP 088: Anjali Shah on Being - and Feeding - a Picky Eater from 2015-02-10T18:00
In a recent email from Coach.me, a smartphone app devoted to positive habit formation, I was introduced to a healthy eating coach named Anjali Shah.
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PYP 087: Lani Muelrath on Exercise and Other Fuels for the Plant-Based Journey from 2015-02-03T18:00
Lani Muelrath is one of the world's most accomplished wellness and fitness coaches. She combines cutting edge scientific research on fitness, diet, and mindset with an encyclopedic knowledge of beh...
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PYP 086: Martin Gibala on Fitness in 3 Minutes a Week from 2015-01-27T18:00
Today's podcast guest, Martin Gibala of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, has been studying that question in his lab for a decade. And his answer is a great piece of news for folks like me wh...
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Feeling the Bad Stuff and Becoming Radically Alive: Ann Bradney on PYP 085 from 2015-01-21T19:00
Ann Bradney's life spun out of control from the age of 13, when she first discovered drugs and drinking. For the next 18 years, she lived in constant misery, self-medicating and functioning barely ...
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PYP 084: Julieanna Hever on the Vegiterranean Diet from 2015-01-14T18:00
Julieanna Hever, the Plant Based Dietitian, was torn.
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PYP 082: Susan Levin on the Truth about Diet and "a Bad Game of Telephone" from 2014-12-22T18:00
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Director of Nutrition Education Susan Levin grew up on a high-fat, highly-processed Alabama diet.
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PYP 081: Robert Cheeke on a Vegan Teen Rebellion and Refusing to be Average from 2014-12-16T21:00
Robert Cheeke was a scrawny, scrappy teenager who embraced veganism - and raised hell in the process.
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PYP 080: Mike Crockett on Overcoming Addiction, Reconnecting with His True Nature, and Becoming an Unlikely Love Warrior from 2014-12-11T21:00
Mike Crockett, aka Big Bald Mike, has an amazing and inspiring story.
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PYP 079: Plant-Based Katie on Healing Her Relationship with Food and Experiencing True Pleasure from 2014-12-04T21:00
Katie Mae grew up eating chicken, beef, mashed potatoes - and overcooked frozen vegetables (when her parents forced her). In high school she exhibited disordered eating patterns, and thought of her...
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PYP 078: Alan Muskat on Wild Foraging as the Way Home from 2014-12-01T21:00
Alan Muskat has shown some pretty famous people how to feed themselves off the ground.
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PYP 077: Julie Piatt on Influencing Others, Coming Back to Ourselves, and "Meditating on One Foot in the Moonlight" from 2014-11-26T21:00
Julie Piatt is a musician, plant-based chef and healer, yogi, home-schooling mom, cookbook author, and contributor to MindBodyGreen.com.
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PYP 076: Katherine Nilbrink on Evolution, Diet, and the 24/7 "Open For Sex" Sign from 2014-11-25T21:00
PYP 076: Katherine Nilbrink on Evolution, Diet, and the 24/7 "Open For Sex" Sign
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PYP 075: Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn on Healthy Cooking Made Really Easy from 2014-11-24T22:00
Mother and daughter Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn are co-authors of the brand spanking new Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook. The recipes are inspired by two things: the nutrition...
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PYP 074: Tom Campbell, MD on Writing The China Study and Talking to Doctors About Nutrition from 2014-11-21T22:00
Thomas M. Campbell is a family practice doctor in Rochester, NY, an instructor of Clinical Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and executive director of...
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PYP 073: Debra Orenstein on Gratitude and Winning the Lottery of Life from 2014-11-19T22:00
Debra Orenstein is an author, lecturer, and actor. Her many accomplishments are catalogued on her bio page at Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson, New Jersey, where she serves as pulpit rabbi.
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PYP 072: Peter Bregman on the 4 Seconds that Can Change Your Life from 2014-11-17T22:00
Peter Bregman consults with CEOs and their leadership teams to achieve high performance. He's been doing this work in a deep way since 1989, and I've been fortunate enough to observe and sometimes ...
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PYP 071: John Bruna on the Myth of Happiness and the Little League Secret to a Good Life from 2014-11-13T22:00
When John Bruna was 10 years old, he was already stealing from liquor stores. Born into an environment of poverty, violence, and substance abuse, John began to turn his life around at the age of 22.
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PYP 070: Patrick Sherwin on Cooking with the Sun and Eradicating the Second Leading Cause of Death Worldwide from 2014-11-11T22:00
Patrick Sherwin was decommissioning a solar hot water system on someone's roof when he had a crazy idea.
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PYP 069: How to Keep Kids Healthy Even if They're in Daycare from 2014-11-09T22:00
Sparked by a situation in my own family, I devoted this episode to supporting parents who send their kids to daycare and still want to feed them well. I reached out to my network of "Here's how to ...
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PYP 068: Paul Scutt on Trusting Children and the Problem with Coercive Education from 2014-11-07T22:00
When you think of the school you went to, or the school your child goes to, do these words pop into mind?
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PYP 067: Kathleen Melanson on Eating Slow and Losing Weight from 2014-11-03T22:00
Kathleen Melanson, Director of the University of Rhode Island’s Energy Metabolism Laboratory, is conducting a series of brilliant and simple experiments about the connection between how fast we eat...
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PYP 066: Glenn Murphy on Systema, Subverting Fight or Flight, and Remaining Human No Matter What from 2014-10-30T21:00
In addition to being a bestselling science author, musician, and tiger-handler (really!), Glenn Murphy is an instructor of one of the most powerful, esoteric, and valuable martial arts ever develop...
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PYP 065: Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz on The Cookbook Project, Starting a Big-Hearted Non-Profit on a Tiny-Ass Budget, and the Problem as the Solution from 2014-10-15T21:00
Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz are co-founders of The Cookbook Project, an amazingly inspiring, effective, and elegant not-for-profit dedicated to the fine mostly-lost art of home cooking.
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PYP 064: Chef Alan Roettinger on Navigating Life Through Joy (and much more) from 2014-10-08T21:00
Alan Roettinger packs a ton of wisdom, compassion, and humor into a 102-minute interview - one of the longest and most inspiring I've had the privilege to conduct.
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PYP 063: Matt Frazier on Running Long Distances, Plant-Based Nutrition, and Building a Movement without Trying to Convert Anybody from 2014-10-07T21:00
OK, so I've been procrastinating writing this intro to the Matt Frazier interview for about a week, because I wanted to get the prose just right.
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PYP 062: Elana Priesman on a Junk-Food Childhood, "Try Anything" Desperation, and "Plantsformation" from 2014-10-01T21:00
Elana "Titanium" Priesman is an unlikely subject for a magazine devoted to fitness.
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PYP 060: Sean Kane on Automobile Safety, Runaway Computer Code, and the Promise and Perils of Technology from 2014-09-23T21:00
From his early days in the belly of the beast as a claims adjuster for the tire industry, to his work on the front lines with Ralph Nader's Institute for Auto Safety, to his own work making compani...
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PYP 059: Dr Garth Davis on Weight Loss and True Health from 2014-09-22T21:00
Dr Garth Davis is medical director of Surgical Weight Loss at Memorial Harmon Memorial City Hospital in Houston, Texas.
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PYP 058: Janice Stanger on The Perfect Formula Diet and Trusting Our Own Bodies from 2014-09-19T21:00
In college, Janice Stanger developed serious eating disorders to hide her binge eating from others. At 5'4", she ballooned somewhere past 165 pounds (she admits to having stopped weighing herself w...
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PYP 057: Emily Nolan on Radical Honesty, Radical Kindness, Radical Self-Acceptance, and Going "Topless" from 2014-09-17T21:00
Emily Nolan is one of my heroes. She's an internationally sought after model, a former Olympic trainee, a serial entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for kindness, self-acceptance, and positive bo...
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PYP 056: Bianca and Michael Alexander on the Journey of Conscious Living from 2014-09-16T21:00
Bianca and Michael Alexander are buddies of mine and co-founders of ConsciousLivingTV.com.
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PYP 055: John Pierre on Fueling Ourselves for Action and Compassion from 2014-09-15T22:00
John Pierre is fitness trainer to the stars, including Ellen DeGeneres, Pamela Anderson, and Emily Deschanel. He's also a tireless advocate for the voiceless, powerless, and dispossessed: animals, ...
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PYP 054: Joel Kahn, MD on The Whole Heart Solution from 2014-09-12T22:00
Joel Kahn, MD is a preventive cardiologist, a rare breed in Western medicine. He's the author of The Whole Heart Solution, available for purchase on September 16, 2014.
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PYP 053: Dan Hanley: The Gay Vegans from 2014-09-11T22:00
When Dan Hanley was in the navy, he first encountered cultures where meat wasn't the center of every meal. In this interview, done live at a Vegan conference in May 2013, he discusses his 17 year j...
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PYP 052: Michele Simon on the Unholy Influence of the Junk Food Industry from 2014-09-10T22:00
In WHOLE, we wrote an entire chapter about the sleazy influence of the junk food industry on the powerful Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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PYP 051: John Robbins: "Speak to the Queen and the Queen Will Reply" from 2014-09-09T22:00
Wow, a second interview with John Robbins
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PYP 050: John Robbins: Rebel, Peacemaker, Pragmatist from 2014-09-08T22:00
John Robbins rose to prominence with the 1987 publication of his book Diet for a New America. The young heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire (and fortune) put out an eloquent and powerful ca...
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PYP 049: Jeff Rogers on Vegan Ice Cream, Being a Naughty Vegan, and Discovering the Raw Lifestyle from 2014-09-05T22:00
Jeff Rogers, The Naughty Vegan, may have saved my sanity back in the day when I had foresworn Ben and Jerries, but couldn't stomach the taste or texture or nasty ingredients of then-available non-d...
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PYP 048: Lara Heimann on Yoga as Preparation for Life from 2014-09-04T22:00
Lara Heimann runs the Yogastream studio in Princeton, New Jersey. Originally trained as a physical therapist, Lara brings anatomical and functional sensibilities to her classes to enable her studen...
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PYP 047: Lani Muelrath on Debunking the Fitness Myths from 2014-09-03T22:00
Lani Muelrath is the author of Fit Quickies: 5-Minute Targeted Body-Shaping Workouts, which is a lot more comprehensive than it sounds. It covers exercise physiology, diet, health, mindset, and jus...
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PYP 046: Kelly Coffin on Making Healthy Delicious from 2014-09-02T22:00
Kelly Coffin is founder and CEO of Wayfare Foods, a Montana company dedicated to making healthy and animal-free versions of many of our favorite foods, including ice cream, pudding, cheese, sour cr...
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PYP 045: Kathleen Hale on the Healthy Way to Rebel at Work from 2014-09-01T22:00
PYP 045: Kathleen Hale on the Healthy Way to Rebel at Work
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PYP 044: Julieanna Hever on Raising Healthy Kids in a Junk-food World from 2014-08-31T22:00
Julieanna Hever is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition. She hosts Veria Network's "What Would Julieanna Do?", is the nutrition columnist for VegNews.com, and is a freq...
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PYP 043: Joseph Gonzalez on Diabetes Reversal, Common Supermarket Killers, and Peanut M&Ms from 2014-08-30T22:00
Joseph Gonzales is Staff Dietitian for PCRM, the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine.
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PYP 042: Jon Hinds on Getting Fit Like a Gorilla from 2014-08-29T22:00
Jon Hinds is founder of the successful and rapidly growing Monkey Bar Gym chain of contrarian gyms. He believes in using the body the way nature intended:joyfully, freely, and naturally.
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PYP 041: Nick Freudenberg on 5 Lethal But Legal Industries from 2014-08-28T22:00
Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Social/Personality Psychology at Hunter College campus of the City University of New York (CUNY).
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PYP 040: Nava Atlas: Plant-based Cooking, Holidays, Greens, and Transitioning Your Pantry from 2014-08-20T22:00
I had a lovely chat with legendary cookbook author Nava Atlas, whose first vegetarian cookbook was published in 1984! (Had tofu even been invented then? ;)
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PYP 039: Miyoko Schinner: Artisan Vegan Cheese That Will Completely Fool You from 2014-08-19T22:00
Miyoko Schinner cooks gourmet plant-based food for omnivores, demonstrating that there's no need to "give anything up." She's a popular speaker, teacher, and cookbook author whose latest book is Ar...
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PYP 038: Ocean Robbins: Leverage, Kindness, and Justice from 2014-08-18T22:00
Ocean Robbins co-founded YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity) at the age of 16, and hasn't slowed down since. He's co-founder, with his dad John Robbins (author of Diet for a New America and many ...
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PYP 037: Ruth Heidrich: 78-Year-Old Breast Cancer Survivor, Triathlete, and Marathoner from 2014-08-17T22:00
Today I got to fulfill one of my dreams - I spent an hour on the phone with Dr. Ruth Heidrich, one of the fittest women in the world (of any age).
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PYP 036: Mimi Kirk, the "World's Sexiest Vegan Over 50" from 2014-08-16T22:00
75-year-old Mimi Kirk looks and acts like someone in her 40s, not a person shopping for an assisted living facility.
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PYP 035: Mary Wendt, MD: Get Waisted from 2014-08-15T22:00
After Mary Wendt had been practicing medicine for several years, she discovered that despite exercising like crazy and eating "right" (lots of meat for protein and dairy for calcium), she was pre-d...
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PYP 034: Tamasin Noyes: Grills Gone Vegan from 2014-08-14T14:00
Tami Noyes of VeganAppetite.com has tackled the biggest, baddest bastion of carnivory with her latest cookbook, Grills Gone Vegan.
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PYP 033: Ronda Collier on Heart Rate Variability and the hidden causes of weight gain and “falling off the wagon” from 2014-08-12T14:00
Ronda Collier is CEO and founder of Sweetwater Health, a technology company that sells a couple of neat little iPhone apps called SweetbeatLife and Sweetbeat.
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PYP 032: Stephanie Dignan, the Boot Camp Girl from 2014-08-11T14:00
Stephanie Dignan was working as a financial advisor when she was asked to help people with a whole different set of goals: health and fitness.
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PYP 031: Sharon McRae on Healthy Eating Made Easy from 2014-08-10T14:00
Sharon McRae runs Eat Well, Stay Well, a plant-based health coaching service. She's an expert at balancing a full life with feeding her family (busy husband and three kids) well, and knows how to h...
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PYP 030: Sam Carpenter on Working the System to Upgrade Your Health from 2014-08-09T14:00
Sam Carpenter is an entrepreneur and author of Work the System, a book about the easiest way to make meaningful and permanent improvements in your work, life, and health.
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PYP 029: Jessica Porter on the Diet that Cannot Be Named (on NBC prime time, anyway) from 2014-08-08T14:00
Jessica Porter is co-author of The Kind Diet, with Alicia Silverstone, and the author of The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics, and the recently published The MILF Diet.
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PYP 028: Jill Nussinow: The Veggie Queen Demystifies the Pressure Cooker from 2014-08-06T14:00
Jill Nussinow, aka The Veggie Queen, has been helping people eat healthy and delicious for over 20 years.
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PYP 027: Tracy Ryan on Losing 200 Pounds and Gaining Her Life from 2014-08-06T14:00
At age 29, Tracy Ryan weighed 350 pounds, and was comfortable in her role as the "funny fat girl."
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PYP 026: Lucinda Duncalfe on Real Food from 2014-08-06T14:00
After Lucinda Dulcalfe sold her latest tech startup, she began casting around for her next project. After watching Forks Over Knives and wondering a) if this could possibly be true, and b) if it wa...
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PYP 025: Milton Mills on "Soul Food," Liberation, and the Myth of Predatory Eyes from 2014-08-06T14:00
Milton Mills, MD, is Associate Director of Preventive Medicine for the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), as well as a practicing internist at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. He a...
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PYP 024: Margarita Restrepo on the Achievable Way to Optimal Health from 2014-08-06T14:00
Margarita Restrepro is the founder and editor-in-chief of Naked Food Magazine.
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PYP 023: Julie Morris on Superfood Smoothies from 2014-08-06T14:00
Julie Morris is a cookbook author and recipe developer for "Superfoods" companies.
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PYP 022: Laura Bartels: Natural Building and a Mindful Life from 2014-08-06T14:00
Laura Bartels is the founder/owner of Greenweaver, Inc., a consulting and education company that promotes sustainable building and community development.
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PYP 021: Dustin Rudolph, the Plant-Based Pharmacist, on Getting Healthy Without Pills from 2014-03-26T14:00
When we get sick, most of us go to the doctor. And most of the time, the doctor prescribes a pill. Or two. Or a whole handful.
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PYP 020: Dr. Ana Negron: The Living Experience of Healthy Eating from 2014-03-11T14:00
Dr. Ana Negron is a family physician in the Philadelphia area who treats her patients with healthy food, empowerment, community, and love.
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PYP 019: Ashley Flitter: The Unintentional Vegan from 2014-03-11T14:00
When Ashley Flitter, the Unintentional Vegan, discovered that she was lactose intolerant, she began a transition that culminated in her adopting a 100% plant-based diet.
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PYP 018: Brenda Davis: Defeating Diabetes and Debunking Paleo from 2014-03-11T14:00
Brenda Davis is a plant-based Registered Dietitian, and co-author of eight books, including Defeating Diabetes and Becoming Vegan.
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PYP 017: Brendan Brazier: How Athletes (and the Rest of Us) Can Thrive on a Plant-Based Diet from 2014-03-11T14:00
Brendan Brazier is a professional Ironman triathlete, author, and formulator of Vega plant-based nutritional supplements.
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PYP 016: Brian Wendel: Producer of Forks Over Knives from 2014-03-11T14:00
Today I had a lovely chat with the amazing Brian Wendel, creator of the #1 amazon bestselling documentary Forks Over Knives.
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PYP 015: Juan Carlos Asse: UnSuperSize Me and Escaping Our Various Prisons from 2014-03-11T14:00
Award-winning film-maker and fitness trainer Juan Carlos (Carly) Asse had everything going for him. High school valedictorian, good-looking, popular, and enjoying college in Florida on a tennis sch...
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PYP 014: Cathy Fisher on Straight Up Food from 2014-03-10T15:00
Cathy Fisher's plant-based food blog, StraightUpFood.com, is a popular and delicious source of whole food, plant-based recipes.
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PYP 013: Chef AJ: Unprocessed and Utterly Transformed from 2014-03-09T16:00
Chef AJ is well known in the plant-based world for her entertaining and bawdy cooking demos. She sings, does handstands, tells dirty jokes about kale and avocados (really), and wows audiences with ...
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PYP 012: David Robinson Simon: Meatonomics from 2014-03-08T17:00
Dave Simon's Meatonomics is a fascinating and terrifying descent into economic, social, political, environmental, and ethical insanity.
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PYP 011: Dreena Burton: Plant-based cookbook author, mother, and hummus lover from 2014-03-07T17:00
Dreena Burton is the author of one of my favorite plant-based cookbooks: Eat, Drink&Be Vegan.
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PYP 010: Ellen Jaffe Jones: Obliterating the Obstacles to Plant-based Eating from 2014-03-06T17:00
Ellen Jaffe Jones is an Emmy-winning investigative reporter, a crack financial analyst, a chef and cookbook author, and a multiple-event running champion.
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PYP 009: Emerson Wickwire: The Secret World of Sleep from 2014-03-05T18:00
Dr. Emerson Wickwire is Sleep Medicine Program Director at Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Associates in Columbia, Maryland, and Assistant Professor, part-time, at Johns Hopkins School of Medic...
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PYP 008: Char Nolan interviews Howard Jacobson from 2014-03-04T18:00
Char Nolan is a health coach, community connector at RealFoodWorks in Philadelphia, and graduate of the same Health Education program that bestowed a PhD upon me (the no-longer-existing school of H...
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Goodbye Diabetes: Dr Wes Youngberg on PYP 007 from 2014-03-03T18:00
Dr. Wes Youngberg, author of Goodbye Diabetes, was just a boy when his mother died of cancer. At the age of 13, he was already obsessed with discovering and mitigating his own risk factors of disease.
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Healthy by Choice, Not by Chance: Hans Diehl on PYP 006 from 2014-03-02T18:00
Hans Diehl is founder of CHIP (The Complete Health Improvement Program), a 30-day health education program that has been changing lives for the better for decades. In this interview, Hans and Howa...
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The Magic of Sriracha, and Learning to Love Our Veggies: Randy Clemens on PYP 005 from 2014-03-01T18:00
Randy Clemens is the Sriracha-loving author of two Sriracha-based cookbooks. (In case you haven't tried it, Sriracha sauce is a fairly spicy, totally amazing Vietnamese hot sauce that has generated...
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It's Never Too Late: Char Nolan on PYP 004 from 2014-02-28T18:00
Howard had a lovely chat with the kind and courageous Char Nolan, Connector at Real Food Works and powerful promoter of a plant-based diet in the Philadelphia area.
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Better Than Vegan: Del Sroufe on PYP 003 from 2014-02-27T18:00
10 years ago, Del Sroufe ate his way to 475 pounds - on a vegan diet! Now, 200+ pounds thinner (and counting), Chef Del is the culinary genius behind the Forks Over Knives cookbook.
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Fran Costigan's Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy-Free Desserts: PYP 002 from 2014-02-26T18:00
Fran Costigan believes there's more to life than veggies. Like luscious chocolate cakes, for example. A world-renown pastry chef and educator, Fran has done wonders for the plant-based movement's ...
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Lindsay Nixon is The Happy Herbivore: PYP 001 from 2014-02-25T18:00
In this first Pant Yourself Podcast episode, Howard has a lovely chat with the Happy Herbivore, Lindsay Nixon, about her transition to a whole-foods plant based diet, her evolution from kitchen klu...
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