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[party in my plants] 179: LAUGH WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL: The least horrible parts of being quarantined right now, with Katie Dalebout, Phoebe Lapine + Katie Horwitch Apr 15, 2020

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I’m excited to present a new monthly installment of LAUGH WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL! Lighthearted real life chit chats with smart and articulate people I love while we eat healthy planty foods we love. This episode explores how three of my dearest friends and I are doing our best to healthfully navigate this scary season of Coronavirus quaranatine. At the time of this recording, my mouth was full of snap peas.

Katie Dalebout the host of Let it Out with Katie Dalebout, the author of Let it Out: A Journey Through Journaling and the creator of the Let It Outttt platform and self-growth KITS. You might’ve heard her before in episode 22 of this PIMP podcast. She’s quarantined in sunny LA. Her mouth was full of banana boats.

Katie Horwitch is a writer, speaker and founder of the Women Against Negative Talk platform & podcast. She’s also a spin instructor extraordinaire and her audio workouts on Aaptiv are phenomenal. You heard her before in episode 122 and she’s quarantined in my beloved NYC. Her mouth was full of pickles!

Phoebe Lapine is a cookbook author, chef, and food blogger at FeedMePhoebe.com. She’s written two books, In the Small Kitchen and The Wellness Project, and she hosts the SIBO Made Simple Podcast (+ is writing a third book by the same name)! Her interviewS on this podcast were #37 and #82 and she is quarantined on beautiful Martha’s Vineyard. Her mouth was full of a kosher-for-Passover chocolate chip cookie that she ate before the recording.

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Introverts vs. extroverts vs. ambiverts (and how to know the difference)
The least horrible parts of being quarantine right now
Connection as self care
How we’re loosely managing time these days (Horwitch’s protocol chunking schedule is something to hear!)

[party in my plants] 178. Vegan vs. Plant-Based? with Colleen Patrick-Goudrea Apr 09, 2020

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So you’ll hear in a lot of upcoming podcast episodes in which I’m the guest on other peoples’ shows talking about my book, Party in Your Plants, about the coconut smoothie that set me on my plant-party path, and how since that was in 2008 before instagram, youtube, and blogging was really a thing, I learned about eating plants through sitting in Barnes and Noble with a yellow legal pad. One of my first ever books at my self-study vegan 101 Barnes and Noble school was Colleen Patrick-Goudreau’s.

Colleen is an OG in the vegan world. Her voice is one I know well and her books (there are seven of them. One for each dwarf!) have graced my shelves for ten years or so. In this chat we talked about veganism, plant-based eating, not being judgemental, and… Burger King. Colleen gave some really down-to-earth tips on how to survive holidays as a plant eater, as well as tips on how to talk to loved ones and partners about your decision not to eat animal products.

What I especially loved about our chat was that in Colleen’s view, the “V” in vegan really stands for VALUES! I was admittedly a little scared before our interview that it would stand for VERY DOGMATIC. As Colleen says (and you’ll have to give it a listen…) it’s better to characterize being vegan as a means to an end not an end in itself. It’s not the goal. The goal is compassion and wellness... being vegan is the mode to getting there. Ahhhhh, sweet. Also sweet is hearing her talk about her relationship with her book’s cover cow (or steer!) at the very end of our chat.

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Tips for how to survive the holidays as a vegan
How to talk to family and loved ones about your vegan choices
Stop being critical of other people’s labels
How to reflect your values in what you put on your dinner plate
Achieve compassion and wellness through vegan eating
Ways to talk to your partner about diet
How to allow yourself room for error in order to take action!
Why the perfect vegan doesn’t really exist

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[party in my plants] 177: Burnout (and me talking about depression before understanding depression) Apr 01, 2020

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Friend, if you had asked me about the state of my podcast weeks ago like my podcast assistant did over email, my husband did in long car rides, diehard listeners did on IG, and my best friends did over ABCV’s butter beans that taste like bacon (Neal Harden, executive chef of ABCV and friend who wrote a big blurb for my book -- you are a plant genius!), I would’ve told you, like I told them, straight faced and convincing as hell: I can’t do it anymore. I’m done. It’s over.

I had a good argument, too. Though I can’t even remember what it is anymore. Because it was depression talking, not Talia.

This first episode since an abrupt hiatus in January tells that story.

I share the story of forgetting and ignoring my own voice, but having an inner truth so relentless & body signals so persistent, like that fire alarm in Phoebe’s apartment that WOULD NOT BE QUIET even when she disconnected, disabled, smashed, trashed and screamed at it, that I had to listen again.

I hope it inspires you to keep listening to and honoring your fire alarms.

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[party in my plants] 176: The F*ck It Diet ie. How to Quit Unhealthy Thoughts Around Healthy Food! with Caroline Dooner (BEST OF '19) Jan 28, 2020

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If Caroline Dooner’s name rings a bell, it’s probably because you’re heard of her book, or her massive movement called the “The F*ck It Diet.” Yes, she may have given me anxiety as I listened to her long and yo-yoing journey with dieting, but the way she now shits on the inherent flaws of dieting and diet culture (which she backs with so much sound science thank you very very much Caroline) is SO relatable to SO many people. As a fellow past-life comedian, Caroline’s humor, coupled with her compassion, (with again, lots of research) allows her to fearlessly call out all the BS and misinformation that makes us make eating so hard for ourselves, so be prepared to wage no more wars with your grub after you listen. Matcha latte cheers to making “the f*ck it diet” the last diet you ever try!

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How Caroline Dooner, author of “The F*ck It Diet.”, fixed her tainted relationship with food
Your hunger is there for a reason and why you need to stop ignoring it
Why diets make peeps even more food obsessed
The biggest sign that you’re underfeeding yourself
No, disordered eaters are NOT only those who are incredibly thin… and other myths busted!
What mind-blowing stuff the Minnesota Starvation Experiment of the 1940s has taught us about restricting calories and dieting
And tons more!

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[party in my plants] 175: Stress = Junk Food of The Soul. The Best Inflammation Episode Ever with Dr. Will Cole (BEST OF '19) Jan 24, 2020

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You know how health is wealth? Well, as my phenomenal functional medicine practitioner friend Dr. Will Cole says in this chat: you don’t have to be wealthy to be healthy.

Dr. Cole, or Will, is doc who relies little on prescriptions on mucho on natural fixes. He’s obsessed with finding the roots of health problems and honestly, in this chat I became obsessed with finding out his answers to every single thing that came to my mind. It turns out, this brilliant man is not only a healer, but also a quote generation machine, and he was dropping some serious poetic responses. Something he said that really stuck with me was: “Just because it’s common, doesn’t mean it’s normal.” Out of context, that could apply to basically anything (headphones getting tangled the minute they enter a purse, my dog humping his bed when he’s mad at us, me crying when I watch Monica and Chandler get engaged even though I’ve seen that episode upwards of 39 times…) but in the context of our conversation, he was saying that so many folks struggle with so many “common” health issues today, but that shouldn’t mean that accept them as “normal” and live a life less good.

This chat is also just what the doctor ordered because finally, FINALLY, hooha, I had an expert on the show who really broke down inflammation. You know, that word you keep hearing but don’t really, truly, honestly, understand? Well with Will, whose new book The Inflammation Spectrum is about to be your new go-to health manual, we talk about what inflammation is, what causes it, how it wrecks havoc in your body, and how to stop it!

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What’s a functional health practitioner and why might you need one?
What causes inflammation?
Why you might want to start an elimination diet
What inflammation actually is and why too much can be bad news
Why what you eat could be causing your depression and anxiety
It’s not a medication deficiency: how what you do and don’t put in your body causes your symptoms
Why autoimmune conditions and inflammation often go hand in hand
How many years of lifestyle habits it takes before an illness manifests
You don’t have to be wealthy to be healthy: FREE tips to get you feeling better
Common foods that could cause inflammation
Why stress is just junk food for the soul and is probably making you sick

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[party in your plants] 174: More Plants, More Planks! How Partying in Your Plants Helps You Burpee More & Errand Better. with Angie Asche (BEST OF '19) Jan 14, 2020

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You know that saying “put your money where your mouth is?” well my guest today puts her science where her mouth is. And puts nutritious plants in the bodies of athletes. So they can put trophies on their mantels and pride in their hearts..? Well, Angie Asche is a sports dietitian and one super smart dairy free cookie. Angie’s been a plant partier herself since 2011 and for the past five years, she’s been running her own private sports nutrition practice called Eleat Sports Nutrition. She advises athletes like pro sports players, gymnasts, ultra runners, figure skaters, and even every day type-a athletes like myself. Her husband, Cody Asche, also plays baseball professionally in the MLB so I got to pick her brain on how these guys manage to eat healthy when they’re always on the road traveling to different dugouts and stuff! Since I’ve dramatically upped my own athleticism in the past couple of years, I may have rapid-fired every question about planty sports nutrition I’ve ever had and Angie demystified it all - from the deal with iron, glutamine, protein and even how to travel with bananas which I still call BS on but whateverrrr…

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How to eat before and after your runs
What’s the deal with protein anyway?
Can I get enough protein as a vegan or vegetarian?
How iron figures into the life of the cardio-obsessed person
How pro baseball players eat on the road
Supplements that will give your workout an epic boost
A sports nutritionist’s go-to pre-run breakfast
How to include sunflower seeds, turmeric and more into your daily diet
Travel hacks for eating a well-rounded diet on the go
And tons more!

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[party in my plants] 173: Honey, I Shrunk My Cold Thanks to Beekeepers Naturals! Carly Stein on The Healing Powers from the Hive (BEST OF '19) Jan 07, 2020

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It’s been almost a year since I had this chat but I cannot stop bugging out about what I learned from it, which is why it’s making it to the top 5 best podcast episodes of 2019. Carly Stein, the founder of Beekeepers Naturals, a company that makes practical products from superfoods from the hive, is hands down, legs up, the bees knees. And not just because she’s a beekeeper, though that’s so rad. But also because she’s created all these bee-powered wellness products that she can swear on her tonsils will uplevel your life. And since learning about propolis in the original airing of this chat, it’s become a more regular part of my life than teeth brushing. Seriously, I’m spritzing propolis into my pie hole upwards of 6 times a day.

Get ready to hear Carly’s bee business story (“How I Built This” style), learn a lil about bee culture and understand a lot about how the goos and jellys the bees use to thrive can really help us thrive too. (And if after listening you also get stung with excitement for the bees, you can try these products from the hive for 15% less than other humans by using code “PARTYINMYPLANTS” at checkout on Beekeepers Naturals’ site.)

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[party in my plants] 172: How to Calm the F*%k Down, with Sarah Knight (BEST OF '19) Dec 31, 2019

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Today’s episode is a re-broadcast of the PIMP’s top episode of 2019, which just so happened to come out as the first episode of 2019. This is like a colonic of a chat. A colonic for your stress and worries and anxiety...or at least the way you view them. Flush those old patterns right out of ya. I cannot get enough of my guest Sarah Knight’s hilariously no BS tough love and her out of the box mind altering metaphors galores. And I’m not alone in my Sarah Knight obsession, considering she’s, like, an internationally best selling author of 4 – now going on 5 with her newest one just out now called: Fuck No - How to stop saying yes when you can’t, you shouldn’t, or you just don’t want to. I’m so honored to have her endorsement on my upcoming book!

Needless to say, this chat has a lot of unbleeped bleeps in it so headphones are smart, also because you want to focus on Sarah’s unbelievably awesome advice on how to stop overthinking, go easy on your freak outs, stop stressing about the uncontrollable, and just let it go.

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THE BEST EPISODE ABOUT BURNOUT EVER.

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[party in my plants] 171: Some Things I’ve Learned about Things + a “What-to-do-with Gifts” Guide Dec 24, 2019

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You’re listening to the PIMP podcast and if you’ve never considered focusing on your furnishings as much as you do your forkings, I’m hoping this quick chat might change that. Because, you know how I’m always talking about how my food philosophy is to choose foods based on how they make you feel? Well it was a shocking revelation as I just finished moving that, wowie kazowie, our STUFF MAKES US FEEL STUFF TOO!

Our stuff makes us feel stuff too. And here’s a short chat with some stuff I learned about our stuff.

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