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Saying Goodbye to Lupus and Other Autoimmune Diseases with Brooke Goldner, MD: PYP 227

September 12, 2017

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 skin, had gone after her kidneys, and it didn’t look like they (and she) could be saved.

Thankfully, the weekly chemotherapy worked well enough to stomp on her immune system, and it gave her kidneys and the rest of her a break and allowed her to grow up and have a fairly normal life.

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.

Damien Mander on Becoming an Anti-Poaching Warrior and Rediscovering His Heart: PYP 225

August 29, 2017

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 Assault Group; and as a special operations soldier in Iraq for three years.

After leaving Iraq in 2008 after 12 tours of duty, Damien was burned out, dispirited, and ill-equipped to manage in civilian society. Still addicted to adventure and thrill, he found his way to Southern Africa, where he started working with the rangers and organizations dedicated to protecting the big animals of Africa from poachers.

Radically Self-Reliant Veganic Gardening with Will Bonsall: PYP 224

August 21, 2017

Will Bonsall is my new hero, and I say that without exaggeration. Check out the short video clip at the top of the Links section below to see half of the reason why.

The other half of the reason take a bit longer to explain – hence this full-length podcast episode.

Will 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 borders,” takes into account all the inputs and outputs of a garden or farm, in contrast to the usual methods of conventional, organic, and permaculture production.

Doing Epic Sh-tuff and Having Fun with Aaron Stuber and Jackson Long: PYP 223

August 15, 2017

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-time competitive climber. When he first started dating his vegetarian girlfriend, he initially dismissed that diet as “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of.” Then he began to feel the effects of adding more plants to his diet, checked out the science, and was hooked.

Overcoming Disordered Eating Through Self-Love and Education with Tara Kemp: PYP 222

August 8, 2017

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 I first met Tara, I just assumed she was a natural-born positive person, never given to depression or anxiety or even garden-variety snarkiness. But as I discovered in our conversation, she has overcome a great deal to get to where she is now.

Integrating Plant-based Nutrition into the Medical System with Michelle McMacken: PYP 221

August 1, 2017

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-loss clinic at Bellevue Medical Center. She’s also responsible for teaching doctors-in-training at Bellevue, where she gets to introduce the next generation of medical professionals to the wonderful world of lifestyle medicine.

How to Overcome Our Cravings with Judson Brewer: PYP 220

July 24, 2017

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 decade. Luckily for us, it eventually dawned on him to inform his research and clinical practice with the 2500-year-old insights of Buddhism.

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.

Kim Williams, MD on Building an Evidence-based and Inclusive Cardiology Profession: PYP 218

July 11, 2017

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 Chicago. One winter he ended up in the hospital with pneumonia; his family couldn’t afford to buy him a coat. His step-dad died of an intercranial hemorrhage when Kim was five years old.

Second, Dr Williams chose medical school over a promising career as a professional tennis player.

Third, he’s the first and thus far only president of the ACC to “come out” as a vegan. The current chairman of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has been vegan himself since 2003, and now recommends a vegan diet to his patients as the first line of defense against heart disease.

Saying Goodbye to Lupus and Other Autoimmune Diseases with Brooke Goldner, MD: PYP 227

Bernie Roth on Designing the Lives We Want: PYP 226

Damien Mander on Becoming an Anti-Poaching Warrior and Rediscovering His Heart: PYP 225

Radically Self-Reliant Veganic Gardening with Will Bonsall: PYP 224

Doing Epic Sh-tuff and Having Fun with Aaron Stuber and Jackson Long: PYP 223

Overcoming Disordered Eating Through Self-Love and Education with Tara Kemp: PYP 222

Integrating Plant-based Nutrition into the Medical System with Michelle McMacken: PYP 221

How to Overcome Our Cravings with Judson Brewer: PYP 220

Living Life on Purpose with Vic Strecher: PYP 219

Kim Williams, MD on Building an Evidence-based and Inclusive Cardiology Profession: PYP 218

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