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Welcome to episode 30 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee chats with Ri Taylor of Redemption Dog Education about whether or not dogs should be on a vegan diet plus some useful tips on how you can have a better relationship with your pup.
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Interview with Ri Taylor of Redemption Dog Education
Ri Taylor has been a dog trainer since 2009. Her passion for dogs began as a young child, a passion she was able to follow and develop into a career.
She is a Pet Professional Guild Dog trainer. She is also a Canine Good Citizen and Star Puppy evaluator. She specializes in basic obedience, reactive dogs and aggression cases. Ri uses only force free, bond based, positive reinforcement training methods.
Ri has a personal pack of seven dogs. And is able to utilize them for so much of her education programs. She strives to help everyone have a better relationship with their dogs.
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Welcome to episode 29 of the Plantarion Podcast. Danni McGhee chats with Clinton Kamara aka the Fruit Kid about how a plant based diet healed his painful skin conditions as well as how he wants to inspire others to go vegan through his music.
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Interview with Clinton Kamara
Clinton has been on a vegan lifestyle for 7 years. He is a psychology graduate and has a diploma in health and fitness. He has written a recipe book and has a YouTube channel where he shares content on health,veganism, psychology and music.
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Welcome to episode 28 of the Plantarion Podcast. Danni McGhee chats with Najla Williams, who is a fierce fit vegan realtor that does it all! She loves fitness, cooking amazing vegan food, and helping her clients find their dream home, and she shares how being vegan intersects with those areas of her life.
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Interview with Najla T. Williams
Najla T. Williams is a licensed Maryland REALTOR® and wellness entrepreneur. Originally from New Jersey, Najla has lived in DC and Maryland over 15 years with an exceptional 4-year career in the housing industry. Her Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Howard University, along with her extensive experience in hospitality and sales, helps her provide effective communication, exceptional attention to detail, integrity, style, and a highly positive client experience.
As her passion is wellness, she proves how pertinent housing security is to wellness by assisting clients in achieving their real estate goals. She stands out as a Realtor because of her background in fitness and the vegan entrepreneur space. Her company, Good as Green, was created from her desire to help people add more vegetables to their lives by creatively remixing vegetables and fruit into familiar comfort foods. Merging her lifestyle and career birthed The FierceFitVeganRealtor, which will house fitness, vegan, and real estate tips and suggestions.
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Welcome to episode 27 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee talks with Dalyce Wilson, the newest member of the Plantarion Podcast team as she shares about her Vegan journey, her life living abroad as a Vegan and what she will be bringing to the Plantarion Podcast!
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Interview with Dalyce Wilson
Dalyce is a Black, Type 1 Diabetic, Vegan photographer and writer who has lived internationally for 6 years. After finding Veganism 11 years ago, Dalyce made the lifestyle change for the animals! While completing her MFA photography in Belfast, Northern Ireland and while living for 3 years in Thailand, she centered Veganism in her social and artistic work. Dalyce loves to practice animal activism by participating in outreach with the cube of truth, hosting Vegan potlucks and speaking with others about the importance of adopting a Vegan lifestyle. Her photographic work ethically abstains from featuring non-Vegan cuisine.
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Welcome to episode 26 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee talks with Greg Newby of Team Newby Fitness and how eating a plant-based vegan diet can improve your athletic performance, what to do to get abs, and what to eat pre and post workout.
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Interview with Greg Newby of Team Newby Fitness
Undefeated professional light heavyweight boxer with 10 wins and 5 by way of knock out.
2001/2002 Silver Gloves National qualifier
2003 Junior Olympic International Silver Medalist
2003 Junior Olympic Regional Champion
2012 Olympic Trials Qualifier Runner up
2012 Chief Sparring Partner for WBO Champion Lamont Peterson
2013 Chief Sparring Partner for Dominic Wade
He has a background in health and fitness as well as athletic performance training with over 25 years of experience in the field. His passion for fitness began through his love of sports and developed as an international Champion and 2012 Olympic boxing alternate. His approach to fitness emphasizes age-appropriate programming with a specific focus given to cardiovascular and strength training in combination with balance and flexibility training. He establishes long term client interactions with the goal integrating of exercise and optimal wellness into the demands of daily life.
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Welcome to episode 25 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee talks with Khepra Anu of Khepra's Raw Food Juice Bar about how being a raw foodist has improved his life in so many ways.
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Interview with Chef Khepra Anu
As a devoted Raw Foodist, Khepra Anu has dedicated his life to sharing his knowledge of the power that the Live Food lifestyle combined with systematic fasting has on the body. Over the past 15 years he has hosted numerous health retreats in the U.S. and internationally, during which he guides participants through his unique approach to repairing and detoxifying the human body through the scientific and mechanical application of coconut water, fresh juices, and living food. In 2011 Khepra expanded his platform by opening Khepra’s Raw Food Juice Bar in Washington, D.C., which was featured in the Washington Post’s Best Eats in 2012. In 2013 Khepra was a featured speaker at the Green Earth Festival in the Bahamas and a panel guest speaker at the Natural Living Seminar at Howard University. In the same year Khepra’s designer Raw Burger not only won him the Best Raw Cuisine award in the Best Food on the Planet competition in Ocean City, MD, but it was also featured on WETA’s Best Burgers in Washington television program.
His Raw Food creations have continued to earn him accolades with his most recent honor being from the ECAC 2014 Raw Food Festival, whose attendees voted his cuisine number one in four different categories: Best Dish, Best Savory dish, Best Dessert, and Best Juice. Khepra can often be heard on Washington D.C.’s public radio station WPFW where he is often invited to speak about the wonders of Raw Food living. In 2012 Khepra added author to his list of accomplishments by releasing his first book: Paradise Health: A Feasting and Fasting Guide to Optimal Health through Detoxification. As an up and coming astrologer, Khepra uses Sidereal Astrology to integrate health and nutrition with our star system in advising clients. Recently, Khepra was featured in the acclaimed hit documentary, The Healing Effect, released early 2014 by director Drew Scott Pearlman.
Khepra is available for private consultations, astrology readings, raw food certifications, lectures, classes, and health presentations.
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Welcome to episode 24 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee talks with Carolyn Becker of DC Vegan Life and how this sustainable fashionista is a conscious consumer while highlighting all the amazing vegan deliciousness in the DMV area.
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Interview with Carolyn Becker
Carolyn Becker is founder of DC Vegan Life, the DMV's premier vegan Instagram account that's focused on supporting and celebrating all things local. Restaurants, chefs, grocery stores - you name it, it has a home on the account. DC Vegan Life, she says, is fueled by our inspiring, creative and inclusive community. She just operates the account, taking photos and trying tasty dishes along the way.
She is also the Senior Manager of Digital Communications and Community Engagement for Goodwill of Greater Washington. In her role, Carolyn develops and activates social media strategies for the social channels of Goodwill of Greater Washington; Goodwill’s tuition-free adult public charter school, the Goodwill Excel Center; and Goodwill’s lifestyle and sustainability-focused brand, @FindingYourGood.
In her spare time, Carolyn is a self-proclaimed thrifty and spunky petite fashionista who manages @Petite_Punk, her personal Instagram account that focuses on thrifty living, vintage fashion, DIY and sustainable mindful living.
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Welcome to episode 23 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee talks with Maddie Assel & Emily Sklar who are the co-host of the new Plantarion Show! We'll be chatting about their vegan background and what to expect from the Plantarion Show.
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Interview with Maddie Assel & Emily Sklar
Emily is a professional radio broadcaster and singer, who moved to DC from Detroit, MI. She is also a barre instructor and health and wellness has played a part in her journey to balancing work and fun. She is excited to explore the DC vegan food scene right along with you as a recent DC resident.
Maddie is a professional singer in the DC area. She has been committed to spreading the pleasures of veganism for two years, after she transitioned cold turkey and discovered the benefits for the environment and her own body in 2018. Following passions is quiet literally Maddie’s passion, & educating curious vegans through the Plantarian show is an honor!
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Welcome to episode 22 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee talks with the Nancy Poznak of BotaniCuisine and how her initiative Plant Power Meat Months Summer 2020 is making waves in the vegan restaurant industry.
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Interview with Nancy Poznak of BotaniCuisine
Nancy Poznak is the founder of BotaniCuisine. She collaborates with local food vendors and can recommend food suppliers which carry plant-based foods. She visit restaurants in the Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, and Columbia areas of Maryland with hopes to expand BotaniCuisine’s restaurant outreach.
Her background is in health and wellness, with a Master’s of Science in health science, and certification as a Community Health Education Specialist. She is also certified as a Vegan Hospitality Consultant, Health Coach (American Council on Exercise), Vegan Lifestyle and Coach Educator (Main Street Vegan), and Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor (American Council on Exercise). She also has a background as a print-based art director (Muscle & Fitness Magazine) and graphic designer in marketing and advertising.
Her motivations for eating plant-based/vegan are founded in health, respect for the lives of all creatures, supporting the well-being of all, seeing an urgent need for environmentally-friendly food choices, and supporting plant-based food systems, which use the least amount of resources and provide the most food security throughout the world.
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Welcome to episode 21 of the Plantarion Podcast! Danni McGhee talks with Docta Yew and Saphan Pickett of the Collective Health Initiative on how to take the wholistic approach to your health and well-being.
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Interview with Docta Yew & Saphan Pickett of the Collective Health Initiative
The Collective Health Initiative better known as the C.H.I., is a collective of indigenous wholistic health practitioners organized as a Wholistic HMO and serves as the health ministry of the Indigenous Aboriginal Man In Trust [I·AM·IT] Nation. Our purpose is to assist with the understanding from a wholistic perspective, possible causes to any health challenges we may face individually or as a people, and provide possible solutions with physical and metaphysical healing tools and services.
This is accomplished with our weekly live broadcast of “The Health Class You Never Had” - simplified educational discussions about wellness-related topics from a wholistic perspective; our Wholistic HMO Packages – offers of discounted, synergistic products and services for specific health challenges from our members; collaborations with, and referrals to our C.H.I Associates - other Indigenous Health Practitioners we partner with who share our wellness philosophy, knowledge, & commitment; and the individual works of the eight dedicated practitioners who represent the C.H.I.:
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