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Podcast

Defeating Distraction and Living Powerfully with Chris Bailey: PYP 301

December 18, 2018

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 and insight he’s dropping left and right.

Which explains why I don’t have a lot of show notes for today’s guest, Chris Bailey. Chris and I got on Skype to discuss his latest book, Hyperfocus: How to be More Productive in a World of Distraction. 

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Unleashing Nurses to Revolutionize Patient Care with Caroline Trapp, DNP: PYP 300

December 11, 2018

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 nurse practitioner with Premier Internists in Southfield, Michigan.

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The Strategic Passion of a Bunch of “Lonely and Powerful Vegans” with Darina Bockman: PYP 299

December 4, 2018

Darina Bockman is a business mover-and-shaker; a Senior Finance Director at CBRE, and a long-time vegan activist.

She felt split; on the one hand, committed to helping her organization succeed and achieving personal career success, and on the other hand, representing her views on animal rights, human health, and environmental stewardship through plant-based advocacy.

And it occurred to her that there might be others like her; leaders in corporate management who happened to be vegan (or, if you prefer, vegans who happen to be in corporate management).

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Thriving Despite Chronic Pain with Emily Skamla: PYP 298

November 28, 2018

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 during the hill repeats.

I figured that the combination of youth, a Plant Strong diet, and a commitment to training were the whole story. Instructive, mildly inspiring, but certainly not Plant Yourself Podcast material.

Boy was I wrong.

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“People Are Ready to Heal” with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams: PYP 297

November 20, 2018
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-based diet, lost 30 pounds, and reversed his condition. And he didn’t stop there. Instead, he committed to making Brooklyn into Ground Zero for healthy living. Read More

Feminism, Veganism, and Activism with Carol Adams: PYP 296

November 13, 2018

Carol J. Adams is the author most recently of Burger and Protest Kitchen, and a self-described “feminist-vegan.”

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Launching Your Next Chapter with Sanyin Siang: PYP 295

November 6, 2018

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.

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Community Innovation and Global Solutions: PYP 294

October 30, 2018

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.

I chatted with Neal Barnard, MD (not pictured, because he moves too fast to photograph ;), Eric O’Grey (PCRM donor coordinator and elegant man-about-town in a fashionable sweater and gold tie), Whitney Sewell of Farmer Food Share (not pictured), Delphine Sellars of Urban Community AgroNomics (top center), attendee Carol Thibodaux of InfinitePossibilitiesTN.com (bottom center), food vendors Shane MacKinnon of SmallSeedbar.com (top right) and Yachdiyel Webb of SoulyVeganCafe.com (bottom left), and Suzy Amis Cameron of OMD for the Planet (bottom right, next to yours truly).

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A Community Effort: PCRM Comes to the North Carolina Triangle: PYP 293

October 23, 2018

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).

Neal Barnard, Suzie Amis Cameron, Eric O’Grey, and others will be bringing their messages of hope and inspiration and information to my community. But PCRM also highlights local heroes – the folks who do good work in this community every day.

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Harnessing Positive Emotions to Defeat Bad Habits with David DeSteno: PYP 292

October 16, 2018

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 monks demonstrate more self-control than the rest of us?

Today’s guest, David DeSteno, PhD, has been studying these and related issues for a long time. David is a psychology superstar, and I was amazed when he agreed to take time out of his busy schedule to chat. He’s a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where he directs the Social Emotions Group.

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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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