Main Street Vegan
Episodes
Fairy Godmother of Love - Arielle Ford
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Arielle Ford is a gifted writer and the author of twelve books including the international bestseller, The Soulmate Secret: Manifest The Love of Yo...
On Gratitude, With Life Coach Mariquita Solis
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mariquita Solis inspires clients around the world, with a special focus on Vegan Empowerment Coaching, the name of her company. Gratitude is central t...
Audible Insights With Voiceover Actor Eunice Wong
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julliard-trained actor, prolific narrator of audiobooks, and Vegan activist Eunice Wong take us backstage in the world of voiceover. If you've...
Nutritionist for Plant-Based Dogs: Diana Laverdure-Dunetz
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A Light in This World: Vonettia Calloway
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Founder of The Black Vegan Experience, Vonettia Calloway is a Biblical Christian, a mom, an exceptional middle school science teacher, and the wife o...
Enlightened Living, Dining & Healing With Yogi Nina Hayes
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 di...
Women Without Kids, With Ruby Warrington
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ruby Warrington is English and gorgeous and real and funny and brave -- and really good writer. She started her career in magazine journalism in Londo...
Fashionable Compassion With Ashley Byrne
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 dr...
Animals, Kids, and Yoga for Grownups, With Kathleen Kastner
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Kastner is an author, yogi, fitness expert, animal rescuer, and committed Vegan. We talk about her new picture book, Karma Cats to the Rescu...
Vegan Fiction With Christine Melanie Benson
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marrying Myself is the debut novel from Chrissy Benson -- writer, attorney, and Main Street Vegan-certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach. In this thoughtf...
'Zine Queen and Dog Rescuer - Karen Asp
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journalism is a tough business, with magazines and newspapers perishing at a steady clip and an largely unvetted Internet providing content from write...
Plant-Based Comfort Food With Kimberly Campbell
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join the plant based nutrition movement. Victoria talks with Kimberly Campbell, Director of Culinary Education and Development at PlantPure and the da...
Style, Substance & Tranquility du Jour: Kimberly Wilson
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 psychothera...
Vegan Activist Jamie Logan
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Medical Medium Protocols With Muneeza Ahmed
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Muneeza, the Intuitive Medicine Woman®, is a healer who was once a patient. Chronic fatigue syndrome and intractable eczema pushed her to find answer...
Bones and All Author Camille DeAngelis
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 revi...
The Wonder of Slowing Down, With Rev. Lauren McLaughlin
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With her unshakeable confidence and a voice like Lauren Bacall's, the Lauren featured on this episode belies her chronological age: eighty-two. R...
Social Graces and Business Class, with Jacqueline Whitmore
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jacqueline Whitmore didn't come from the upper crust, but she learned early that courtesy and caring opened doors and created opportunity. After ...
Inflammation: The Mystery (and the History) with Shilpa Ravella, MD
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They're such buzzwords: inflammation, anti-inflammatory...and yet few lay people know what they mean, even the millions suffering from arthritis,...
Unbroken: Loss, Resilience, & Reinvention with Egli Colon Stephens, Ed.D
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Egli Colon Stephens is both a professor with a doctorate and a professional lifestyle model. She is also the author with her daughter Natalia Harris o...
The Joy of Ritual With Barbara Biziou
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finding the miraculous in the ordinary, dealing bravely (and realistically) with down times, growing older brilliantly, marking the Autumn Equinox, an...
Elephants and Ecstasy, the Sangita Iyer Story
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Animals as Spiritual Beings With Rev. Sarah Bowen
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does your dog or cat meditate with you? Interfaith minister and animal chaplain Sarah Bowen contends that other-than-human beings do this naturally an...
Prayer Power With Agapi Stassinopoulos
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meditating gets you coolness points; praying, hmm, not so much. Agapi Stassinopoulos reinvents prayer for those who may question or avoid religion. A...
Disease Reversal Hope + Convincing Loved Ones to Change
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Stoll, M.D., and heart attack survivor/thriver Dan Purjes discuss their new anthology, Disease Reversal Hope! And Peter Goldstein of wedidit.hea...
Lower-Carb Vegan Eating
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., of the University of Toronto invented the “eco-Atkins diet,” a way to make plant-exclusive dining work for thos...
Monk Coleman: Athlete, Spiritual Teacher, Vegan
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Love Over Fear author Monk Coleman believes the universe is working in our favor and that raising the collective vibration on earth will benefit all b...
Vegan for 50 Years
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gentle World has promoted vegan living and peace on earth for half a century. Its cofounder, Light, uncle of Joaquin Phoenix, has eaten a peaceful die...
Is There a Diet-Covid Connection?
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There’s conjecture that a healthy diet has provided a layer of protection during the pandemic, but only now has a widespread survey, headed by Jivin...
Fit and Healthy and Such Good Food
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Champion bodybuilders (and compassionate trainers) Giacomo Marchese and Dani Taylor talk vegan fitness, and Vanita Rahman, M.D., of the Barnard Medica...
Where the Wild Things Are
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vegan wildlife ecologist Craig Downer, Ph.D., shares the wonders (and trials) of wild horses and burros in the American West and the Andean tapir—an...
End Cosmetic Testing and End Domestic Partner Violence
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cruelty Free International’s Monica Engebretson discusses the bill to outlaw animal testing of cosmetics in the U.S., and Abbie Nelson, a Ph.D. cand...
Baxter Montgomery, M.D., for Heart Health Month
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Houston’s holistic cardiologist Baxter Montgomery, who is profoundly plant-based, gives us his prescription for having a healthy heart for many vale...
Sexy, Fit, Solutionary! with Ella Magers
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shape magazine-rated top trainer Ella Magers finds her heart at Hogs & Kisses Farm Sanctuary and hosts Solutionary Vegan’s Level-Up podcast to c...
Vegan Athletes and What They Eat
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Vegan Athlete’s Cookbook author Anita Bean opens the show, and bodybuilder Will Tucker takes the second segment with first-class tips on healthy...
Yoga Revolution + After Meat
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Accessible Yoga founder Jivana Heyman wants yogis to build a practice of courage and compassion, and chemical engineer Karthik Sekar, Ph.D., looks at ...
Vegans Go Global
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Shalowitz, host of The One Way Ticket Show, went vegan in Saudi Arabia, went further in Israel, and helped a friend escape Kabul. And Sunny Sat...
Healthy New Year with Plant You + Hashimoto’s Hero Mastery
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Carleigh Bodrug of PlantYou.com now has a cookbook that makes the dietary straight and narrow delicious; and Brooke Ali and Patricia Thomson, Ph.D., o...
Veganuary and VFC (Watch Out, Colonel!) + Immaculate Vegan
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Glover made starting the year vegan a popular resolution; now he’s in the faux-chicken biz. And Annick Ireland has a fashion sense just abou...
Unity Worldwide Ministries Executive Director
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rev. Shad Groverland, a vegan, heads Unity Worldwide Ministries, the contemporary legacy of the spiritual tradition founded in the 1880s by ethical ve...
You Can Change Other People and Vegan Women Summit
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Jacobson defies convention and says we can indeed influence others, and Jennifer Stojkovic follows with major, vegan, businesswoman power.Learn...
They’re Trying to Kill Us
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmakers John Lewis and Keegan Kuhn discuss their thought-provoking documentary about the dangers highly processed foods pose to minority communitie...
PBS’s Conscious Living Couple
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bianca and Michael Alexander host Conscious Living on PBS/Amazon Prime and will share their insights on vegan travel, fitness, and comfort food.Learn ...
From Hollywood to the Himalayas
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vegan swami Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Ph.D., started her life with Beverly Hills privilege. All that changed at the Ganges River 25 years ago.Learn ...
Moby with The Little Pine Cookbook + Simone Reyes Crooning Country
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation with Moby is powerful and motivating, following an equally heartfelt chat with legendary activist Simone Reyes, who is now making wav...
Vegan Interior Design + Animal-Inclusive SDGs
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your home can be vegan, too, says designer Aline Duerr, and Claire Smith of Beyond Animal returns with her call to the UN for an 18th Sustainable Deve...
Evanna Lynch: The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Harry Potter star and animal rights activist shares her new memoir of growing up, overcoming, and choosing creativity over fear.Learn more about y...
Going Cold Tofu: Two People Who Changed on a Dime
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Overnight successes Anne Redinger of Louisville, Kentucky, and Dan Sherman of New York City tell us how they cut out animal products (and some other b...
Gene Baur, Joanne Kong, Martin Rowe: Vegan Voices
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The editor, publisher, and two contributors (including host Victoria Moran) dish on a jazzy new anthology showcasing vegan writers worldwide.Learn mor...
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., and Karen Ranzi, M.S., on Autism
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Speech pathologist Karen Ranzi takes an alternative view in her new book, Heal and Prevent Autism. T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., wrote her foreword and jo...
Anti-Racism in Animal Rights + A Multispecies Photo Memoir
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aryenish Birdie works on equality for all beings, and Lucas Spiegel traversed the globe volunteering at animal sanctuaries.Learn more about your ad ch...
A Rooster Mom + Mother Pigeon!
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bree is the rooster who changed Camille Licate’s life, and Mother Pigeon is a New York City performance artist inspired by pigeons and other underap...
Human Design + Recycle Your Clothes
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yogini Cortney Ostrosky helps us know ourselves better with the art of human design, and Stephanie Moram, the Good Girl Gone Green, helps us be fashio...
Jainism and the Luvin Arms Sanctuary
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sanctuary proprietor Shaleen Shah fills us in on the animal rescue life and the religion of Jainism, the primary tenet of which is ahimsa, dynamic com...
Vegan Buddhists on Outer Action and Inner Peace
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Attorney David Blatte, author of The Vegan Imperative, and Lani Muelrath, whose latest title is Mindfulness, share about The Great Compassion.Learn mo...
Understanding Inflammation
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Body on Fire coauthor Jyothi Rao, M.D., joins us to demystify the inflammation at the root of many diseases and tell us what we can do about it.Learn ...
Neal Barnard’s Hot Flash Diet + Filter Off: Vegan Speed Dating
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We open with Zach Schleien helping vegans find love through a chat app, and then we hear from Neal Barnard, M.D., on food choices for women who would ...
Animals, Vegetables, and Unity
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Vegan Spirituality Forum & Retreat is set for October at Unity Village, Missouri. Rev. Carol Saunders joins us with details plus a fascinating...
Athletes on Plants
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bodybuilder Robert Cheeke and runner Matt Frazier dish in The Plant-Based Athlete how to stay at the top of your game.Learn more about your ad choices...
Vegan Hindu Monk
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Chidananda was deeply into the movers-and-shakers life in finance until he had a spiritual awakening, found his guru, and went vegan in a flash....
Summer Health Tips with Sarah Kucera, D.C., C.A.P.
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Discover Ayurvedic dietary and lifestyle wisdom with Sarah Kucera, D.C., C.A.P., for the season we’re in, the seasons of life, and even the times of...
Rancher Rehab with Renee King-Sonnen
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rowdy Girl Sanctuary was a cattle ranch until Renee King-Sonnen went vegan and converted her husband. She now helps ranchers who want to go animal-fre...
Flies? Yep—And They’re Fascinating
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., has shown us how amazing animals and fish are. We’ll talk about his new book, Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World...
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The name says it all: T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., is the preeminent nutritional biochemist on earth, and his latest book, The Future of Nutrition, tells...
Democratizing the Whole-Food, Plant-Based Lifestyle
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ted Barnett, M.D., is determined to get Whole-Food, Plant-Based (WFPB) benefits to you, wherever you live and whether or not there’s a doctor in you...
A Yogi-Vegan M.D.!
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Prescribing meditation and practicing good medicine, from plant-based eating to soul-based living, New York radiologist Sumeet Bahl, M.D., wants to he...
Social Media Savvy
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Energize your Instagram, make your Facebook fabulous, and create tantalizing tweets with practical info from social media wunderkind (and animal advoc...
Vegan Dermatologist Jessica Krant, M.D.
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Love the skin you’re in with plant-based physician Jessica Krant, the Skin M.D.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kathy Freston + Vegan Wines
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kathy Freston gives 72 reasons to be vegan, and Frances Gonzalez of Vegan Wines helps us become connoisseurs of the right wines to serve with vegan fo...
Clean Food, Dirty Girl + Enchanting Book for Kids
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Patrick of CleanFoodDirtyGirl.com encourages eating more plants without perfection paralysis; and Plant Trainers Podcast cohost Shoshana Chaim s...
Yoga of Eating + Vegans of LA
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Plant-based Ayurvedic coach Kartikeya Talreja joins the show. Plus, an encore visit from spiritual powerhouse and Vegans of LA founder Gwenna Hunter.L...
Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This vegan, modern, orthodox rabbi who donated a kidney to a stranger says, “It’s fine to be spiritual and not religious, as long as your spiritua...
Hinduism, Veganism, and the Planet
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gopal Patel, co-chair of the UN Multi-faith Advisory Council and founder of the Bhumi Global. shares ahimsa and the culture of its birth.Learn more a...
Insomnia Aid + Filmmaker Liz Marshall
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sleep well with Deirdra Barr, and Meat the Future with Liz Marshall’s new documentary on cell-based or “cultivated” meats.Learn more about you...
Church for Animals!
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Compassion Consortium is an interfaith, online spiritual center launching this month. Guests are two of the cofounders, Rev. Sarah Bowen and Rev. Erik...
Brotha Vegan: Black Men Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Milton Mills, MD, and Kevin Jenkins, DMin, two contributors to this new anthology, meet with its editor, Omowale Adewale, to share what Black vegan me...
A Vegan Memoir + Kind Poetry
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dianne Waltner takes us though her rural Kansas upbringing to her vegan awakening with Evolving Into Wholeness, and Gretchen Primack shares Kind, her ...
Gearing Up for Kapha Season
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ayurvedic physician Sarah Kucera, D.C., C.A.P., returns to keep us all healthy and vibrant through the late winter and springtime.Learn more about you...
Yoga Goes Vegan!
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Integral Yoga’s Chandra/Jo Sgammato and Holly Skodis of Yoga Is Vegan join the show to discuss the yoga/vegan controversy, the nature of ahimsa, and...
Inspiring Entrepreneur + World’s Youngest Yoga Teacher
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wheelchair-bound with MS, Melissa Guzman recovered sufficiently to run The Caribe Vegan food truck in Miami. And vegan Tabay Atkins was certified as a...
Heading Toward a PlantPure Nation
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nelson Campbell, director of the film PlantPure Nation, updates us on the work of PlantPure Communities' local pods; then we hear from Lianna Lev...
Musical Mockumentary “The Golden Age”
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker Justin Connor—vegan, yogi, singer-songwriter—riffs on the film The Golden Age, his spiritual life, and his alter ego, the superstar who ...
Unreal Deli + Feeding Real Families
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shark Tank alum Jenny Goldfarb shares her deli destiny, and Marisa Miller Wolfson cooks up healthy, kid-pleasing fare in The Vegucated Family Table (y...
Bodegas Go Vegan + Eco-Savvy Living
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transforming corner stores with Erick Castro of How to Be Vegan in the Hood and serious but simple ways to protect the planet with Tracey West of The ...
End Animal Experiments + End Vegan Recidivism
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jarrod Bailey, Ph.D., gives scientific backing on the unreliability of vivisection, and Patricia Maroday offers data-driven hacks for keeping vegans i...
Plant Meat Cuisine + Men of Color Summit
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nava Atlas shows how to prep plant meat like a pro, and Emmy Award-winning actor and director Kiko Ellsworth shares the new masculinity.Learn more abo...
Resolving the Weight Loss Resolution
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck Carroll, host of PCRM’s The Exam Room podcast, who lost more than 100 pounds, opens the show. He’s followed by Esther Lebeck Loveridge and P...
Celebrating Being a Fabulous Vegan with a Host of Luminaries!
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmin Singer and VegNews publisher Colleen Holland launch their new book with a gala podcast party with other best-selling vegan authors, and you’r...
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., on COVID-19, Nutrition, and Science
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Researcher, New York Times best-selling author of The China Study, and the person credited with naming the Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet, T. Colin Camp...
Ingrid Newkirk on Why Animals Matter
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
PETA’s legendary founder Ingrid Newkirk is fascinating, humble, hands-on, and more committed to changing things for animals than, arguably, anyone w...
Recovered Animal Farmer Harold Brown
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Abandoning what he thought was his life’s work and appearing in Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, Harold Brown shatters the “humane myth.”Le...
Moral Menus for Nonprofit Events + Vegans for Black Lives Matter
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
End exploitative fundraising with Jessica Janson of Animal Place sanctuary, and learn about food choices as a justice issue with Gwenna Hunter of Vega...
Attorney for Animals + Yogic, Vegan Lawmaker
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Brandt is an animal rights lawyer, and Representative Jeremy Gray is working to legalize yoga in Alabama schools.Learn more about your ad choice...
Healthy Kids and Families
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brenda Davis, R.D., and Reshma Shah, M.D., M.P.H., authors of Nourish, discuss plant-based family nutrition and making this work in the real world.Lea...
Ayurveda for Vegans
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Kucera, D.C., C.A.P., author of The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook, shares physical and mental healing secrets of this ancient Indian tradition.Le...
Undercover Investigations and Overcoming Diabetes
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Discover the inside scoop on getting visual evidence of animal abuse with Tracks Investigations’ Gem de Silva, and then hear from Brooklyn Borough P...
NoBull Burgers and Macadamia Milk
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vegan entrepreneurs Elizabeth Raymond (NoBull) and Jim Richards (Milkadamia) discuss how plant-based foods are changing the world and the place of sma...
From Breast Cancer Awareness Month to Breast Cancer Prevention
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kristi Funk, M.D., New York Times best-selling author and breast surgeon for celebs, including Angelina Jolie and Sheryl Crow, shares the plant-based ...
Becoming a Dietitian—and Getting Some of Their Nutrition Smarts
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brenda Davis, RD, returns to address your knottiest nutrition concerns, and Sherene Chou, M.S., RDN, shares what you or your kid need to know about ge...
Chef AJ Rocks and Teams with Glen Merzer on "Own Your Health"
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WFPB icon Chef AJ shares her story and her food philosophy (unprocessed!) before we're joined by author Glen Merzer, whose brand-new book feature...