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Episode 17
March 16, 2023

Fashionable Compassion With Ashley Byrne

Ashley Byrne has been taking a stand for animals since she was a teen and she now does this officially through her role with Peta. Today, we tackle dressing without guilt and looking fabulous in your own skin without appropriating...

Episode 16
March 2, 2023

Animals, Kids, and Yoga for Grownups, With Kathleen Kastner

Kathleen Kastner is an author, yogi, fitness expert, animal rescuer, and committed Vegan. We talk about her new picture book, Karma Cats to the Rescue -- based on a true story of two house cats who help a stray kitty acclimate to having a...

Episode 15
February 16, 2023

Vegan Fiction With Christine Melanie Benson

Marrying Myself is her debut novel from Christine Melanie Benson -- writer, attorney, and Main Street Vegan-certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach. In this thoughtful conversation, Benson connects the dots: romantic love, self-love, animals, food choices, and life choices. The novel's protagonist...

Episode 14
February 2, 2023

‘Zine Queen & Dog Rescuer: Karen Asp

Journalism is a tough business, with magazines and newspapers perishing at a steady clip and a largely unvetted Internet providing content from writers who are largely underpaid. Karen Asp, however, is remarkable: a professional journalist and author with a food, health, and...

Episode 13
January 19, 2023

Plant-Based Comfort Food With Kimberly Campbell

Comfort food from a Campbell, the royal family of high-nutrition food choices? Yep, all this and Sweet Potato Pancakes, Poppy Seed Dressing, and Old-Fashioned Pumpkin Pie, too. Kim Campbell (she's married to Nelson Campbell, director of the film PlantPure Nation;...

Episode 12
December 29, 2022

Style, Substance & Tranquility du Jour: Kimberly Wilson

Kimberly Wilson is my style role model, embracing the effortless savoir-faire of a Parisian woman -- but she grew up in Oklahoma. She is a psychotherapist, pet loss grief counsellor, adult ballerina, eco/activewear designer, author, podcaster, and longtime yogini who...

Episode 11
December 15, 2022

Vegan Activist Jamie Logan

A 24-year-old New Yorker whose life is dedicated to ending animal suffering, Jamie Logan is a case study in commitment. Whether standing silently in a Cube of Truth, showing video imagery of standard practices in animal ag; going out on...

Episode 10
December 1, 2022

Medical Medium Protocols With Muneeza Ahmed

Muneeza, the Intuitive Medicine Woman®, is a healer who was once a patient. Chronic fatigue syndrome and intractable eczema pushed her to find answers beyond what traditional medicine had to offer. She studied nutrition, changed her own diet, became a certified...

Episode 9
November 17, 2022

Bones and All Author Camille DeAngelis

Oscar buzz started for the romance/horror film based on the eponymous book by today's guest when it premiered to a standing ovation and rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival. Brimming with star power -- Taylor Russell, Timothee Chalamet, Mark...

Episode 8
November 3, 2022

The Wonder of Slowing Down, With Rev. Lauren McLaughlin

With her unshakeable confidence and a voice like Lauren Bacall's, the Lauren featured on this episode belies her chronological age: eighty-two. Rev. Lauren McLaughlin is a Unity minister, spiritual teacher, and author whose work centers on gratitude, the shifts we...

Episode 7
October 27, 2022

Social Graces & Business Class, With Jacqueline Whitmore

Jacqueline Whitmore didn't come from the upper crust, but she learned early that courtesy and caring opened doors and created opportunity. After paying some dues to corporate America, she set out to found the Protocol School of Palm, offering etiquette...

Episode 6
October 13, 2022

Inflammation: The Mystery (and the History) With Shilpa Ravella, MD

They're such buzzwords: inflammation, anti-inflammatory...and yet few lay people know what they mean, even the millions suffering from arthritis, colitis, gingivitis, gastritis, and the numerous other conditions of obvious inflammation, not to mention the pathologies attributed to hidden inflammation, including...

Episode 5
September 29, 2022

Unbroken: Loss, Resilience, & Reinvention with Egli Colon Stephens, Ed.D

Bright bits from this episode: “Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other’s respect simply because we’ve survived all we have and kept going anyway.”...

Episode 4
September 22, 2022

The Joy of Ritual with Barbara Biziou

Finding the miraculous in the ordinary, dealing bravely (and realistically) with down times, growing older brilliantly, marking the Autumn Equinox, and other milestones of the wheel of the year, and creating simple rituals for daily life are the delicious ingredients...

Episode 3
September 15, 2022

Elephants and Ecstasy, the Sangita Iyer Story

Ganesha, the elephant-headed god in the Hindu pantheon, is revered as the removal of obstacles, but in many Ganesha temples in India, particularly in the state of Kerala, birthplace of Sangita Iyer, live elephants are held, shackled as prisoners. In...

Episode 2
September 8, 2022

Animals as Spiritual Beings With Rev. Sarah Bowen

Does your dog or cat meditate with you? Interfaith minister and animal chaplain Sarah Bowen contends that other-than-human beings do this naturally and have spiritual lives every bit as rich as ours. Meet this fascinating woman, author of Spiritual Rebel...

Episode 1
September 1, 2022

Prayer Power with Agapi Stassinopoulos

September 1st, 2022 Meditating gets you coolness points; praying, hmm, not so much. Agapi Stassinopoulos reinvents prayer for those who may question or avoid religion. And Agapi, author of Speaking With Spirit and workshop leader for Thrive Global, founded by...

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Pretend that you live in a society in which women are valued more as time goes by, and create a mini-culture around you of people who actually do that.

—from Younger by the Day

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