The Main Street Vegan Podcast
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Life Lessons from a Death Investigator, Barbara Butcher
Barbara Butcher spent 23 years in the New York City Chief Medical Examiner's Office, investigating more than 5500 deaths and working disasters including the 2004 tsunami and 9/11. In this fascinating interview, she shares What the Dead Know: Learning About Life...
Elaine Pagels: Why Religion?
Noted scholar of the history of religions, Elaine Pagels describes her own spiritual life as one of music, nature, friendship, and love. The author of books including The Gnostic Gospels, The Gospel of Thomas, and the memoir Why Religion? shares about...
Grassroots Peacemaking With Rev. Carol Saunders
Unity and Interfaith minister Carol Saunders, whose podcast-based ministry, The Spiritual Forum, serves a diverse audience of spiritual seekers, hosted the first Whole Planet Spirituality Forum & Retreat at Unity's heavenly headquarters outside Kansas City, Missouri, in 2021. This year's...
SuperFoods, Super Life With Your Super Founder Kristel de Groot
When Kristel de Groot's husband, then boyfriend, Michael Kuech, was diagnosed with cancer in his 20s, she stepped up to buoy his conventional treatments with superfood blends containing ingredients shown to bolster immunity and retard the progression of some malignancies....
“Fairy Godmother of Love,” Arielle Ford
Arielle Ford is a gifted writer and the author of twelve books including the international bestseller, The Soulmate Secret: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction, and her debut novel, The Love Thief, a roller-coaster ride of love, betrayal,...
On Gratitude, With Life Coach Mariquita Solis
Mariquita Solis inspires clients around the world, with a special focus on Vegan Empowerment Coaching, the name of her company. Gratitude is central to Mariquita's way of healing lives and manifesting success. Whether it's self-acceptance, overcoming grief, outgrowing childhood trauma,...
Audible Insights With Voiceover Actor Eunice Wong
Julliard-trained actor, prolific narrator of audiobooks, and Vegan activist Eunice Wong take us backstage in the world of voiceover. If you've ever listened to a book, you'll be fascinated by Eunice's insider insights into the interesting iteration of the actor's...
Nutritionist for Plant-Based Dogs: Diana Laverdure-Dunetz
The meat-heavy diets of our companion animals have a huge carbon pawprint. While cats are compulsory carnivores, dogs are omnivores and can live -- in fact, thrive -- on a fully plant-based diet. (Case in point: a British border collie...
A Light in This World: Vonettia Calloway
Founder of The Black Vegan Experience (theblackveganexperience.com), Vonettia Calloway is a Biblical Christian, a mom, an exceptional middle school science teacher, and the wife of a U.S. Army combat veteran who suffers from PTSD. She wrote a beautiful children's coloring book, My...
Enlightened Living, Dining & Healing With Yogi Nina Hayes
Nina Hayes was drawn to mysticism as a little girl in Catholic school, and she discovered yoga early. She was also stricken in her mid-teens with a digestive disorder that led to twenty surgeries. In overcoming everything from fear of...
Women Without Kids, With Ruby Warrington
Ruby Warrington is English and gorgeous and real and funny and brave -- and really good writer. She started her career in magazine journalism in London and did that whole glossy thing for several years, but her soul called her...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Living With End in Mind, With Heartwood Author Barbara Becker
Fans of Heartwood: The Art of Living With the End in Mind include Gloria Steinem and Katie Couric. The author of this memoir joins us today to discuss living fully with fully...
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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