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 pressure and high cholesterol, she was jolted into action by a doctor’s warning that her current trajectory was going to take years off her life.
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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 treatments prescribed.
He saw the lack of communication and coordination among different nodes in the system. He saw the avoidable pain and suffering, and decided sports marketing wasn’t important to him anymore.
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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 environmental activism on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming is a bad idea.
As a card-carrying member of the enlightened, scientifically-literate, progressive wing of the American populace, of course I know that human-created climate change is the single greatest threat to our civilization, and that the biggest thing we can do to combat it is to reduce our carbon footprint, individually and collectively.
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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 be a little too niche, until I reminded myself that every one of us is the result of a pregnancy, and that for the foreseeable future, all our descendants will continue to be born in this fashion. So no problem there…
When I asked my Facebook Hive Mind who would be a great guest for this topic, Micaela Karlsen’s name came up again and again.
So here we are today 🙂
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Andrew “Spudfit” 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 to food persisted.
His depression, largely fueled by the thought that he was far away from the person he wanted to be, always kept him returning to the trough for another supersized hit of vegan junk food.
His relevation – and the spark of his transformational year of eating nothing but potatoes – was that he was treating food like an alcoholic treats booze.
And so he would have to quit food.
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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 Activist and The Prolific Writer, I got the connection.
Unproductive would-be activists are disempowered activists.
And in a world that systematically tries to disempower those who challenge its structures of power and privilege, the last thing we need is to get in our own way when we stand up to injustice.
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Joseph Alexander is a nurse and park ranger in Minnesota. He’s always been interested in health, and has always loved the outdoors.
Knowing just those facts about Joseph, if you were to close your eyes and picture him in your imagination, you probably wouldn’t see him as a 438-pound diabetic who had started – and given up on – just about every diet and weight loss strategy known to man.
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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 at age 14 with extreme lethargy. A naturopath suggested that she eliminate gluten, meat, and dairy, and within 48 hours she felt dramatically better.
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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.
I don’t even have access to my studio, my computer, my completed interviews – nothing. Everything is in tight storage, because I thought the new office would be ready for me by New Year’s Eve.
I turn for solace and wisdom to the poet David Whyte. In today’s episode, I read and discuss with you a short essay titled “Procrastination.”
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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 husband Brian opened up a partially plant-based restaurant in Perry, Oklahoma, as part of their mission to serve their community through their Christian faith.
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