Dr. Akil Taher is the author of OPEN HEART a book that chronicles his transformational journey. Dr. Taher had angioplasty at 56, open heart surgery at 61, and ran his first half marathon less than a year later. He then proceeded to run the Chicago, Boston, and Mumbai marathons, and also climbed mountains. He transformed from a middle-aged couch potato with a dangerously bad diet into a vital, energetic athlete, ever seeking new challenges and adventures. His whole food plant-based diet played a ...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Guy Vaknin is a renowned chef famous for his innovative plant-based creations. After serving in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), Vaknin moved to New York in 2005 to study computer engineering. But he quickly realized that his calling was in the food industry. Chef Vaknin then enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education. Upon graduating in 2007, he became the Executive Chef at Esprit Events, an established kosher catering company in Manhattan. In this role, he met his future wife and co-found...
Jan 16, 2025•42 min•Season 4Ep. 27
Rachel McCrystal is the Executive Director at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary. She has been at the Sanctuary for seven years. Rachel has volunteered for and worked at various animal rights, conservation, and sheltering organizations over the last 15 years with a focus on development, marketing, campaigns, and strategic planning. She’s been widely published with stories on animal rights and liberation.
Jan 02, 2025•42 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Sarah Strickland is currently a junior in high school and the Lead Outreach Raven at the Raven Corps, a youth-led activist organization. Raven Corps current goal is to get big dairy out of schools and increase plant-based milk access in the over 100,000 schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program. The Raven Corps is a youth-centered movement of activists devoted to building a just and sustainable future for ALL animals and our natural world. We take action through a consistent ...
Dec 20, 2024•35 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Jamie Logan is a NYC-based filmmaker, podcast host, and animal advocate who uses humor, health and fitness, public speaking, and social media to inspire others and cultivate change.
Dec 06, 2024•42 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Stefanie Ignoffo is a plant interventionist, CEO & Founder of Plantspiration NFP Inc., and Food For Life Instructor with the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine and has completed the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Coaching program. She advocates and promotes Lifestyle Medicine by educating, motivating, and inspiring people to adopt a plant-based lifestyle in order to prevent and reverse chronic diseases including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, certain cancers, autoimmune d...
Nov 21, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Kartikeya Talreja is a Los Angeles based certified Ayurvedic Nutritionist, Digestive Health and Lifestyle Coach. Ayurveda is one of the oldest health systems in the world which originated in India more than 5000 years ago. Ayurveda believes that most diseases originate with imbalances in the digestive system. Kartikeya guides his clients who are suffering from digestive issues by educating them to eat a healthy whole food plant-based diet, spices, herbs, and to adopt a healthy lifestyle using th...
Nov 07, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Show Notes for Plant Your Seed Podcast: Episode with Dr. Mari Mitrani In this episode of Plant Your Seed Podcast, we're joined by Dr. Mari Mitrani, a physician-scientist and co-founder of Gattaca Genomics. With a passion for regenerative medicine and a vegan lifestyle, Dr. Mitrani shares her journey and insights into the world of preventive health and the power of plant-based living. What You'll Learn: Dr. Mitrani's transition to a vegan lifestyle and the motivations behind her choice. The suppo...
Oct 24, 2024•29 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Welcome to an insightful episode of Plant Your Seed Podcast, featuring the dynamic Jessica Karwat, a renowned Health Coach for Women, Vegan Nutritionist, TEDx Speaker, and Reiki Healer. Jessica shares her transformative journey and provides valuable insights into holistic health and vegan nutrition. What You'll Learn: The inspiration behind Jessica’s transition to a plant-based diet. The obstacles she faced while switching to veganism and how she overcame them. An intimate look at Jessica’s stru...
Oct 10, 2024•57 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Cassie Gaffaney is a tattoo artist and musician originally from New Zealand and now currently based in Las Vegas. Her vegan journey started after she saw the film, Joker. Joaquin Phoenix’s performance in that movie had such a profound effect on her that it led her to LA Animal Saves Pig Vigils at Farmer Johns. She is passionate about living a compassionate lifestyle and supporting local animal rescues/organizations and sanctuaries and sharing the message of kindness for all beings.
Sep 26, 2024•41 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Beth Love is the founder of Eat for the Earth, an ordained New Thought minister, and the author of the Tastes Like Love book series. She has brought a message of transformation to multiple audiences with her speaking and facilitation skills, in contexts as diverse as the California state prison system, schools, nonprofits, churches, radio, various online forums, local community television, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is known for her fierce commitment, wise counsel, strategic mind, and huge ...
Sep 19, 2024•59 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Show Notes for Plant Your Seed Podcast: Episode with Anne Molina Join us on this episode of the Plant Your Seed Podcast as we sit down with the compassionate Anne Molina, founder of Hogs & Kisses Farm Sanctuary. With nearly 13 years of living a vegan lifestyle, Anne has dedicated her life to rescuing farm animals and promoting a message of love and respect for all beings. What You'll Learn: The origins and inspirations behind Hogs and Kisses Farm Sanctuary. Unexpected aspects and challenges ...
Sep 12, 2024•48 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Show Notes for Plant Your Seed Podcast: Iye Bako | Iye Loves Life Welcome to another compelling episode of the Plant Your Seed Podcast. This time, we are joined by the inspiring Iye Bako, a passionate advocate for veganism, social justice, beauty and wellness. With her roots in Nigeria and her life now in the United States, Iye shares her unique journey and how it has shaped her mission today. What You'll Learn: Iye's motivations for adopting a plant-based lifestyle and the impact it's had on he...
Sep 12, 2024•32 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Show Notes for Plant Your Seed Podcast: Ella Magers | Sexy Fit Vegan Welcome to another inspiring episode of Plant Your Seed Podcast! In this episode, we sit down with Ella Magers, the vibrant force behind Sexy Fit Vegan®. With 29 years of vegan living, Ella brings a wealth of knowledge, passion, and energy to the discussion on transforming lives through compassionate choices and fitness. Ella is also a Board Member at Hogs and Kisses Farm Sanctuary. What You'll Learn: Ella’s personal journey fr...
Sep 05, 2024•44 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Rey Ortega is a pioneer in the plant-based sector with over 30 years of experience. In 1994, he founded the Alternative Baking Company, one of the first vegan cookie brands on the market, which generated $1 million in sales in 1995. In 1997, he founded Sun Flour Baking Co. to create new flavors, tastes, textures, and nutrition products with a longer shelf life and higher profit margins. With extensive knowledge across the entire product life cycle, he is an experienced formulator within the indu...
Aug 29, 2024•57 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Jo-Anne is an award-winning photojournalist, sought-after speaker, photo editor, and the founder of We Animals Media. She has visited over sixty countries to document our complex relationship with animals. She is the author of three books: We Animals (2014), Captive (2017), and HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene (2020), and is the subject of Canadian filmmaker Liz Marshall's acclaimed Canadian documentary, The Ghosts in Our Machine. Jo-Anne's photographs have received accolades from Wildlife Ph...
Aug 22, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Show Notes for Plant Your Seed Podcast: Episode with Jennifer White Join us on Plant Your Seed Podcast as we welcome Jennifer White, who shares her transformative journey to veganism after a pivotal reading of Jonathan Safran Foer’s book, Eating Animals, an eye-opening experience gifted by her aunt and uncle. Discover how her path led her from vegetarianism to veganism and eventually to a key role at PETA UK, aligning her career with her ethical beliefs. What You'll Learn: Jennifer's Vegan Trans...
Aug 15, 2024•39 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Crystal Bonnet is a professional raw vegan chef and founder of the raw culinary school Crystal Dawn Culinary. She also cooks and develops recipes for raw retreats and vegan restaurants across the globe. Website: crystaldawnculinary.com Cookbook: The Art of Raw Desserts: 50 Standout Recipes for Plant-Based Cakes, Pastries, Pies, Cookies and More
Aug 08, 2024•48 min•Season 5Ep. 20
Show Notes for Plant Your Seed Podcast: Episode with Angela Yvonne Join us on the Plant Your Seed Podcast as we welcome Angela Yvonne, a vibrant advocate for veganism whose journey began with a powerful personal realization about the impact of diet on health. Angela shares her transformative story from learning about her mother's diet-related illness to embracing a plant-based lifestyle and spreading awareness through her work, including her initiative "Vegan Pop Eats." What You'll Learn: Angela...
Aug 01, 2024•44 min•Season 6Ep. 13
This is a Plant Your Seed podcast original concept... Catch-Up Conversation! We are finding out what's new with a former guest, Wendy Smith from Odd Man Inn Animal Refuge! Odd Man Inn's mission is to provide lifelong sanctuary care to vulnerable animals and educate to inspire compassionate living. Wendy is a military veteran, a registered nurse, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the organization. oddmaninn.org
Jul 25, 2024•55 min•Season 5Ep. 24
The Tattons are the co-founders of BReD, a B-Corp certified vegan sourdough bakery located in the premier ski and mountain bike resort of Whistler, BC, Canada. The bakery specializes in sourdough and vegan baked goods. The BReD cookbook is an homage to the Tattons' bakery and mission to inform and provide their community with cruelty-free food. edsbred.com
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 21
The Healthy Voyager, aka Carolyn Scott, is the creator and host of The Healthy Voyager web series, site, and overall brand. An award-winning healthy, special diet and green living and travel expert, holistic nutritionist, plant-based vegan chef, best-selling cookbook author, media spokesperson, sought-after speaker, consultant, and television personality, Carolyn Scott is a respected figure in the world of healthy lifestyle and travel as well as special diet cooking and nutrition. The Healthy Vo...
Jul 11, 2024•36 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Brad King is the founder of Farm Animal Rescue, a sanctuary-based animal rights organization that focuses on education and awareness. Imagine a place where animals who've been bred to live short, painful, and uncomfortable lives in the commercial food industry… get to live happily and at peace without fear and stress. That place is Farm Animal Rescue which is located on 55 acres in the Dayboro Valley, 45 minutes north-west of Brisbane, Australia. farmanimalrescue.org.au...
Jul 04, 2024•45 min•Season 5Ep. 25
Erin & Dusty Stanczyk are certified health & lifestyle coaches and creators of the lifestyle brand and website, EatMoveRest.com. Together with their two children, Max and Liv, and their Bernese Mountain Dog, Beau, they inspire and empower others to get back to the basics, by doing the 3 things we all do every day... eat, move, and rest! You can find the plant-powered family of four blending, juicing, and chopping on Instagram @ErinStanczyk, @DBStanczyk, @EatMoveRest and on the EatMoveRes...
Jun 27, 2024•55 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Sabrina Fair Andronica is an animal activist and children's author in Los Angeles, California. She has published three books, (with a fourth on the way) all under her brand, Always Fair Books. Each book shows awareness, compassion, and enlightenment of animal welfare and self-growth through fictional stories; always just and fair. She has been meat-free for nine years and became fully vegan six years ago in May. Sabrina is here to share how veganism has shaped her life and how she's working on p...
Jun 20, 2024•37 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Joshua Weilerstein enjoys a flourishing orchestral conducting career across the globe and has forged close relationships with many of the world's finest orchestras and soloists. He is also the host of the popular classical music podcast, Sticky Notes. He lives in London with his wife Bernice and their two rabbits, Abby and Benji.
Jun 13, 2024•31 min•Season 5Ep. 27
After many years of treating serious childhood diseases, Dr. Ettinger turned his focus to wellness and prevention. In 2021, he founded the Doctor Herbivore telehealth practice to teach families how to thrive while eating plant-based, especially when there are weight concerns. Dr. Ettinger enjoys helping families change course to a plant-strong path for their health, animals, social justice, and the environment.
Jun 06, 2024•59 min•Season 5Ep. 18
Danielle Medina is the creator of Fit N Play Mama LLC, a fitness/ yoga and nutrition education resource for adults and children. Whether she is writing articles, conducting interviews, or teaching her educational webinars, classes, and workshops, Danielle loves sharing her knowledge with a variety of audiences on taking back their health and living their best life. fitnplaymama.com
May 30, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Kate is relentlessly focused on creating a healthy, happy, compassionate vegan world. She specializes in creating the Mindset that makes your best eating and exercising choices simple and sustainable. Kate first got into fitness as a way to transform her body and confidence. She has spent 17 years helping thousands of individuals sculpt a body and life they love and over the past 7 years has focused on Vegan Health Coaching as one of the most powerful ways to advocate for animals is to be fit, s...
May 23, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 19
Theresa "Sam" Houghton has been eating a plant-based diet for 13 years and is the author of The Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Starter Guide. As Chief Nerd at The Modern Health Nerd, she helps plant-based and better-for-you brands understand their customers and create better long-form content. She's a graduate of both the Bauman College Nutrition Consultant program and the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate program, which gives her a unique perspective ...
May 16, 2024•49 min•Season 4Ep. 36
