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[party in my plants] 68. How to Practice MindFULL Plant Eating with Lani Muelrath Dec 28, 2017

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My guest today is an award-winning health educator, a professor, a speaker, a best-selling author, and an overall lovely lady whose extremely passionate about mindful, plant-based eating. Lani Muelrath discovered through personal experience and training that mindfulness practices are a proven method of getting beneath the surface of eating obstacles – after she had already discovered that eating plants is the way to go fo sho!! She’s written many books about plant-based eating and living, but her latest one: The Mindful Vegan - is all about how your struggles around food -- like excessive snacking, compulsive or emotional eating, battling with cravings, overeating, or other struggle shtuff can be alleviated by implementing a mindfulness practice. So needless to say: be prepared for your mind to be blown. Or at least FULL...by the end of this chat.

Get ready to hear:

What mindfulness IS and how you can get crackin’ on a daily mindfulness practice.
How I apply it daily on the subway.
The difference between eating mindfully and over analyzing what you’re eating.
What a wandering mind is and why you probs don’t want to have one anymore.
What mindful EATING is. (Spoiler: it has zilch to do with counting your bites.)
How & why eating plants is actually a mindful eating practice in and of itself.
And much more!

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[party in my plants] 67: How to Party in Your PLANT PROTEINS! with Carina Wolff of Kale Me Maybe Dec 21, 2017

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Today’s guest as good at wordplaying with kale as she is at making you want to eat kale! And to that I say kale yeah! Of course. Duh. You saw that coming. Carina Wolff, known on the interwebs as Kale Me Maybe is a health and wellness journalist, food blogger and cookbook author who hails from "Kaleifornia." Womp womp. What started for Carina as a casual no big deal blog to share the awesome info she was learning about how awesome healthy foods are for our bods has since turned into two awesome plant-party cookbooks! Both books about some of my fav plant-party activities - spiralizing and eating plant proteins! Naturally, THIS is a plant-party chat for the books! And also naturally good luck getting KALE ME MAYBE out of your head….

Press play to hear:

How the science of healthy foods inspired Carina to clean up her diet.
Some plant foods that can help with anxiety!
Her answer to the common question “but where do you get your protein without meat?”
Her thoughts on soy and its contradictory research.
Bomb dot com plant-protein sources!
And much more :-)

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[party in my plants] 66: How to Not Fake Smile Through Life! And at Your Wedding. With Aleisha McCormack, aka: The Bridechilla Dec 14, 2017

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Aleisha McCormack, known fondly as The Bridechilla, because she’s the host of the hit #1 wedding planning podcast called Bridechilla, isn’t a wedding planner, a gown designer, or a wedding caterer...she’s just a gal (well she’s an author, comedian and TV producer) with an on-point Australian accent who likes to help people be chiller brides, the same way I like to help people be chiller healthy eaters.

But hold on!!! Don’t skip this podcast if you already did the wedding thing (or aren’t even close to doing the wedding thing) because I promise, we talk about a heck of a lot of important stuff that’s NOT wedding related. (And between you and me, Aleisha’s whole wedding-themed podcast really is an inspiring life podcast disguised under the wedding guide. Sneaky sneaky.) A little warning here: swears are sworn during this chat so if you have little kiddos in the room or a cat or a dog or a plant whom you don’t want to hear naughty words that sound deceptively not naughty because they’re said in a cute Australian accent, you might wanna pop in those headphones, or take out those earmuffs. :-)

Press play to hear:

Our collective disdain for the “sick shit” of shedding for the wedding.
How to apply the “fuck the chair covers” mentality to your everyday non-wedding planning life.
To tradition or not tradition? We talk about how to decide.
How weddings are a great metaphor for life.
The thing that I did for my wedding that earned me “10 Goldchilla Bridechilla Points” from Aelisha!
The rule of fake smiling and how to apply it to your everyday life.
A little chitter chatter from one female comedian to the other.
And so much more!

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[party in my plants] 65: Crushing Crohn’s Disease & UnDiet-ing with Meghan Telpner Dec 07, 2017

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Today’s guest is someone I’ve admired from afar for a long time. (And by “a far” I mean across a border because she’s in Canada and I’m in America. Good thing I record my podcasts on Skype, eh?) Meghan Telpner is one of my favorite -- or favourite -- humans to follow for down to earth, no BS, fun, welcoming and bubbly nutrition info! Meghan is an an author, speaker, nutritionist, founder and director of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, and as she says, the head cheerleader of your life! Yay rah rah kale boom bah! What really drew me to her years ago was when I saw that she published a healthy eating book called “UNDIET” -- can I get a get an amen and a shared middle finger pointed up at dieting?! So I was thrilled to pick her brain about everything UNDIETing and then some…

You’ll hear:

The full lowdown on ‘UNDIET’ing!
Why it’s ok, natural and normal to tweak your healthy diet over time. DON’T FREAK OUT!
The miraculous way that food helped Meghan crush her Crohn’s Disease symptoms.
How to set your own healthy “set point” (and what the heck that means).
How to decipher between actual superfoods and actual BS buzzwords.
And lots more!

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[party in my plants] 64: My IBS Story (Ie. That Time I Almost Pooped My Pants!) And More Personal Stuff! With Me. Questioned by The Healthy Maven. Nov 30, 2017

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This episode is a little backwards. Like, it’s kind of opposite day on my podcast today. And I blame Davida! It’s all her fault! And her idea! And I love it! I connected with Davida (who you might know better as The Healthy Maven, because like that’s her blog name and she has a pretty popular blog) in a pretty ballsy way: I just emailed her. I reached out after seeing on Instagram and hearing on her podcast just how she has a really inclusive, chill, welcome, honest perspective on wellness. Just like me, she’s all about doing and eating the healthy stuff in order to be able to go out there and live your best freaking life rather than doing and eating the healthy stuff in PLACE of living your life. Nah mean? (She and I also both have goldendoodles and got engaged around the same time and started our podcast around the same time so yeah, we bonded over that too.) And then we became real life friends! Like we hung out in the flesh! Which is awesome and a good life-lesson if you’re afraid to go out there and make real life friends with internet people.

Anyhoot, instead of bring her on for a traditional podcast interview, she suggested coming on MY podcast to interview me! Ballsy on her part, right? She’s like “lemme just steal the host spot of the party in my plants podcast!” Whatever, it worked, we did it. And this is the episode.

You’ll hear:

My really never-before told story of my struggle with IBS. (Complete with a near poop-in-pants-incident and all!)
How “OWNING IT” is the way to be able to eat your plants and party, too!
WHY I eat and promote plants. Like for real. Getting deep now.
How I work backwards from my big future dreams to figure out what to do now.
And more!

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Hear me takeover Davida's podcast and ask HER all the questions here!

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[party in my plants] 63. Healthy Holiday Self-Care: How Prioritizing “I” Can Mean Less Pie! A re-broadcast with Jamie Mendell Nov 23, 2017

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I wanted to bring this year-old episode back to life… give it a new opportunity to hit your ears and sink into your head and heart because it contains incredibly valuable little golden nuggets for navigating the holidays with your sanity and jean buttons in tact. This is a chat with Jamie Mendell, who is a self-care lifestyle coach that’s in love with showing people how to lovingly care for themselves. After struggling with her own food problems for 10+ years, Jamie Mandell had a mind-blowing and binge stopping and weight-dropping revelation….that it wasn’t actually a food problem or a need-more-willpower struggle that she had, but rather: a self-care deficiency. Which is a term that I officially coined. I loved talking to Jamie about how we can slip more self-care into the holiday shuffle because if ever is a time that we have food struggles, it’s during the holidays. And thus, if ever is a time to hear this episode, it’s now.

Get ready to hear:

why Jamie is so passionate about teaching self-care
how a self care deficiency could potentially be a cause of holding extra weight
the 411 about the 4 components of self care: mental, emotional, physical, soulful
how to have more confidence in an instant
a step-by-step self-care regimen for a holiday
and lots more!

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[party in my plants] 62: She’s One Part Plant. Our Chat About Plants is One Hundred Parts Awesome! with Jessica Murnane Nov 16, 2017

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My guest today is my sister from another mister, a woman with another catchy business name that has the word plant in it, a wearer of the coolest hats ever, literally and also figuratively because she wears super stylish hats on her head but also wears the hat of podcast host, second podcast host (she has 2 podcasts), cookbook author, mom, wife, stage 4 endometriosis thriver, and proudly: my friend. Ok, you know I’m talking about Jessica Murnane, don’t you? If you don’t already know Jessica’s work, or vegan, gluten free chocolate chip cookies, you’re probs about to fall in love with her - and them. I should probably tell you actual biography stuff. Ok, Jessica is the founder of one part plant, a movement dedicated to helping peeps not party in their plants..that’s my thing, but eat one plant-based meal a day. Equally as cool. She’s the host of the One Part Podcast, The Cookbook Deal Podcast and she’s the author of the must-have plant-cookbook, called - you guessed it, One Part Plant. Alright, well Jessica might be one part plant, but our chat about plants is one hundred parts awesome!

You’ll hear:

How eating plants helped her stabilize her crippling Stage IV endometriosis.

The final unhealthy food she held onto in her diet for dear life!
The first plant-based food she ate that she was VERY proud of (which is hilarious).
Why we should talk more about how hard healthy diet change is!
Which book, written by a former podcast guest, hands-down changed Jessica’s life.
What it’s like raising a plant-based little person! (A child.)
Her favorite recipe from the book right this second (and the one that gets the most fan mail).
And plenty more!

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