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Giving Ourselves the Gift of Health with Kassi and Derick Harrington: PYP 252

January 30, 2018

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 then frying whatever he caught. Kassi was overweight her whole life, as was her entire family.

Derick suffered from hypertension, high cholesterol, an auto-immune disease, and was on the fast track to type 2 diabetes. He had no energy, no passion for life outside of the gustatory, and in his own words, was “just existing.”

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Healing America Together with Nelson Campbell: PYP 245

December 13, 2017

Nelson Campbell is director of PlantPure Nation, and the son of renowned biochemical researcher and future Nobel Prize-winner T. Colin Campbell.

Nelson has a staggeringly ambitious vision for our world: one in which we all work together in love, compassion, and respect to solve our collective problems.

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Designing Your Life with Dave Evans and Bill Burnett: PYP 243

December 4, 2017

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 almost certainly touched your life. You know Dave’s work if you’ve ever used an Apple mouse or laser printer. And Bill’s designs include the hinges on Apple’s Powerbooks and the original Hasbro Star Wars figures.

What do these guys have to teach us about being healthy and happy?

As it turns out, plenty. 

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The Mental Health / Lifestyle Link with Dr Elizabeth Winings: PYP 242

November 28, 2017

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 who are receiving mental health care in an acute in-patient setting. In her work with the children and their families, she emphasizes wholistic, therapeutic, and lifestyle approaches toward wellness.

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Code Blue: Challenging Conventional Medical Education and Practice with Saray Stancic, MD: PYP 238

November 10, 2017

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 nap window at 2am, and collapsed in fatigue in the on-call room of the hospital where she worked.

When she was awakened for her next shift, Dr Stancic couldn’t feel her legs. She was rushed to the ER, and an MRI revealed multiple sclerosis (MS) with multiple lesions in the brain and spinal cord. In addition to the neuropathy in her legs, it turned out that her kidneys were also failing.

She was admitted to the hospital, given an IV steroid drip and a bunch of other medications. And just like that, a young, energetic, ambitious doctor was converted into a frightened, confused, dispirited patient.

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Five Plant Yourself Podcast Stalwarts on Good Morning America: 7-minute Video

October 26, 2017

Hey, check out Josh LaJaunie, Tim Kaufman, Marcus Cook, Jason Cohen, Justin Lacy, and (hopefully future guest) Josh Turner on Good Morning America today!

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Bernie Roth on Designing the Lives We Want: PYP 226

September 5, 2017

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 of a charming, unflinchingly honest, and hugely helpful book, The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life.

Bernie’s great contribution to the world, aside from his numerous inventions and innovations in machine design, robotics, and engineering, is the insight that successful, happy, healthy people generally don’t achieve these nice things by accident.

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Living Life on Purpose with Vic Strecher: PYP 219

July 18, 2017

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 Research, and creator of an online health coaching company that was bought by Johnson & Johnson in 2008, Strecher was at the top of his game.

And then in 2010 his life fell apart when his daughter Julia died at the age of 21.

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Achieving Behavior Change Through Pleasure and Positivity with Sid Garza-Hillman: PYP 215

June 20, 2017

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 a good life.

We met in person in Marshall, TX, during Healthfest, and found ourselves agreeing on lots of things that almost nobody agrees with us on. So deciding we were kindred spirits, we planned a podcast conversation around the state of plant-based practice and advocacy in 2017.

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Don’t Curse Yourself Out: Three Ways to Get Unstuck and Dump Your Dysfunctional Habits

March 24, 2017

One of the ways we keep ourselves stuck in damaging behavior patterns is by using language that predicts future failure. Some examples: “I always blow my diet on vacation.” “I’m not a morning person.” “I hate exercise.” “Evening is my horrible time.” “I avoid conflict, so I end up eating what everyone else is eating even…

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Hi, I’m Howard Jacobson, host of the Plant Yourself Podcast, co-author of You Can Change Other People and Sick to Fit, and co-founder of WellStart Health Coach Academy.

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