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 brain about a challenge that many of my clients face – navigating their health journey in tandem with their significant other.
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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.
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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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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 partly because she brings me vegan goodies to share with my family, and partly because she is always pushing the boundaries on how to make healthy plant-based meals easier and tastier and mainstreamier.
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Bradley 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 “burned out,” losing interest, passion, and the performance edge they had honed through years of hard work and deliberate practice.
As they rebuilt their lives, they both gravitated to the field of high performance. Wondering what happened, perhaps, and seeking a way to turn things around for themselves and others.
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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.
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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 into a singular and impactful life. He’s the co-founder of Next Era Capital Partners LLC, the country’s first hedge fund majority owned by Native Americans. He uses his investment chops to shift the capitalist game from amassing resources at any cost to using capital as a tool to reorient business toward more life-sustaining practices.
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On the road from Marshall, Texas to MSY airport in New Orleans, Josh LaJaunie and I tried out a concept that we’ve been playing with for about a year.
Josh came up with it originally (not that no one’s ever thought it before, but he was the first person who articulated it in a way that empowered me to make good decisions based on it).
And the more I applied it, the more it started looking like the Unified Field Theory of How to Be an Authentic Human.
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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 weighing over 300 pounds, he had lost all interest in life. Addicted to fast food and prescription drugs, Adam dug himself out with plant-based nutrition, after attending an Immersion with Rip Esselstyn.
Having reversed all of his chronic health conditions and losing 160 pounds, Adam is now health coach for the Whole Foods Market Medical and Wellness Clinic in Austin, Texas.
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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 Harvard negotiation experts, Chris quickly discovered that humans are not rational, and that principles and tactics that work with Rational Humans (a fictitious species) do not reliably work with Real Humans.
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