The Party In My Plants Podcast

I don’t think there’s a person sweeter, sillier, smarter, and more passionate about the power of plants than Sarah Britton. If you don’t recognize the name Sarah Britton, perhaps saying MY NEW ROOTS will do the trick? Which is the blog name she’s been running for over 12 years and has used to inspire and change lives of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world? Yep! What started as a way for Sarah to simply share all this exciting life-changing healthy stuff she was learning with someone other than her uninterested ex boyfriend, has morphed into a full blown plant-eating movement, complete with an app, two books, retreats and a print shop. I thought we’d just be talking about plants, the subjects in Sarah’s drool-worthy photos, but this conversation led us to a truly holistic chat about health from the ground to the plate to the mouth to the mind! And speaking of mind, prepare for yours to be blown.   You’ll hear: Me embarrass Sarah about her site being a .org not a .com! #weirdo The farm experienc

McKel Hill, a superstar dietician and the founder of the powerhouse wellness brand called Nutrition Stripped has been stripping down the complex topic of nutrition for five epic years now! In those five years, she’s written a cookbook, launched a robust society (not a secret one though), operates a thriving coaching practice, built a shop of super adorbs planty t-shirts and sexy stationary, and has brought knowledge and inspiration to millions and millions of health-seeking peeps. For someone whose senior high school superlative was to be “the Next Picasso,” she’s really been rocking the “next impressive and stylish entrepreneur female judge on Shark Tank” superlative these days, too. Here’s my chat with her about how she balances it all while keeping her body healthy and her plant eating on fleek!   Press play to hear:   Her never-shared-on-a-podcast-before (I’m assuming...don’t fact check me) story of how she got engaged to a dude with the same name as my engaged dude! What she says when people complain ab

My guest today is really souper. And the queen of all things sippable and spoonable. Nicole Centeno is the founder of Splendid Spoon, a food delivery company that takes care of meal prep by sending peeps plant-party soups and smoothies so you can slurp up for breakfast and/or lunch and then sit pretty knowing you stole more than your required dose of fruits and veggies by noon. Suck on that, healthy eating is hard mentality! In our chat, Nicole serves more than soup - she dishes out so much wisdom about how simple it can actually be have a packed schedule (she’s juggling a company and two kiddos!) and still pack in the plants. What I love most about this entrepreneurial and enthusiastically health-conscious soup master is that she’s as down to earth as her foods. Nicole opens up about how, back in the day, she used to stress so much about food and her relationship with it. While she was pregnant with her first child, she was going craaaazy about doing everything right and treating eating like it was some sort

I totally understand that it might not be your instinct to buy a ton of kitchen gadgets. You might be reluctant to trade your time for money and then trade that money for some unnecessary kitchen tools. Especially after you got that completely unnecessary banana peeler. I get it. But I also get how daunting it can feel to be like “let me just whip up a healthy dinner” and then look at your bare hands and a potato, wondering what to do next. So in this episode, I share the top kitchen tools that, in my plant-party experience, are MUST HAVE’s if YOU want to have healthy meals easily coming out of your kitchen and into your mouth!   Links related to this episode: The full show notes with all the deets from this episode! Get your 40% off Amazing Grass’ amazing products using code: “PLANTPARTY40” Where you can go to submit a question for the show! Where you can go to suggest a guest (yourself or someone else) for the show! How to work 1-on-1 with me! Party in My Plants on Instagram Party in My Plants on Facebook P

My guest today is one of a kind. He’s also just, kind. Dr. Will Bulsiewicz is a speaker, blogger, father, husband, microbiome specialist and a full time practicing Gastroenterologist. Now admittedly, I haven’t had the best experiences with gastro’s - I saw a couple many years ago in the heyday of my digestive struggles and they were not personable, not helpful and nowhere close to being on the “food-affects-your-gut-health” train. So aside from Dr. B’s hilarity, well-spoken-ness and palpable through the phone sincerity for educating and helping heal guts, the fact that he’s as passionate about plants as any person I’ve ever encountered -- which goes back to what I said earlier about him being one of a kind. Aside from being seen in scrubs and colonoscopies at and The Lowcountry Gastroenterology Practice in South Carolina, he’s been featured in Men’s Health, Huff Post, Women’s Health, & Reader’s Digest and hear me when I say his instagram account: @theguthealthmd is a hoot and a half plus an extra half of

When it comes to giving advice, today’s guest doesn’t hold back. And because of that, she’s back! On my podcast! Because I just can’t get enough of Sarah Knight’s hilariously no BS tough love and her out of the box mind altering metaphors galores. And I’m not alone in not being able to get enough of Sarah Knight, considering she’s, like, an internationally best selling author of 3 - going on 4 - books!   In case you missed my first chat with Sarah back in episode 70, you should know that this funny lady and super likeable human is most well known for her first book called “The Life changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck,” which has had readers from around the world LOLing while taking away magical lessons in saying bye to unwanted obligations. She’s also the hit writer of “Get Your Shit Together” and “You do You” - guides that hand hold you through making big life changes and embracing your imperfections. Now, Sarah has another work hitting shelves and kindles called “Calm the Fuck Down” and it’s another pee you

Since I have technology to remind me of all the podcast episodes that hit your earbuds in 2018, (thank you a mundo for listening, by the way!) I wanted to shimmy through the highlights of this year. The following 18 things are things I heard on my show this year that made me go WOAH. These are facts that stopped me in my tracks, ideas that made me think a little differently, tips that helped me eat a little differently or were just catchy, coo, clever ways my guests phrased something I already knew to be true.   Links related to this episode: The full show notes with all the deets from this episode! HOW TO SET NEW YEAR HEALTH GOALS THAT AREN’T DUMB! Where to buy Four Sigmatic Shroom Products and save 15% with code: “PARTYINMYPLANTS Get my FREE #EATMOREPLANTS course! Where you can go to submit a question for the show! Where I’d much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!! How to work 1-on-1 with me! Where you can go to suggest a guest (yourself or someone else) for the show! Party in My Plants

My guest today is a self-talk shifter. She’s a negative word redefiner. And she’s a pretty prolific one-line spitter-outer! Katie Horwitch is a writer, speaker, artist, activist and one of my dearest most favorite friends. She’s the proud founder of WANT: Women Against Negative Talk, a platform that gives women tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to move forward in their lives by shifting their negative self-talk patterns. Katie’s brought the house down twice at The Good Fest (which is how we originally met) and regularly speaks across the country about self-confidence and self image. She’s the host of the WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast, where she interviews visionary ladies (I was on there! Episode 47!) about moving forward fearlessly and taking a proactive approach to positivity. She’s a trainer on Aaptiv, the #1 audio fitness app, where she gets to reach over a million sweat-seekers per month with her melodic VOICE, customized running, cycling and elliptical workouts and of course -

My guest today believes we can save our health, our waistline AND the planet in one foul swoop...or swap..of one meat-based meal for a plant-based meal every day. Suzy Amis Cameron, an actress, environmentalist, and mom of five is hard at work on saving the world with her husband, James Cameron, known in this chat as Jim and known on IMDB as the genius writer, director and producer behind Avatar, Terminator and Titanic. Together, they’ve founded a number of environmental organizations and are mega-passionate about exposing and reducing the impact of animal agriculture on climate change and the environment. She’s the author of a new book called OMD: Changing the World by Changing One Meal a Day (hence the OMD) and OMG, this chat is an eye opener.   Links related to this episode: The full show notes with all the deets from this episode! Where to get Sunwarrior - my favorite plant-protein powder- for 20% off with code: PARTY at checkout Get my FREE #EATMOREPLANTS course! Where you can go to submit a question for

My guest today is like the fitness industry’s OG OG, blazing fiery hot trails in the fitness space for well over two decades and impacting the lives and bodies of tens of thousands of humans worldwide. Patricia Moreno grew up with her fair share (and really, an extra share) of weight struggles and found fitness to be the greatest catalyst of change. She quickly rose to the top of the world HEY!, and dominated the fitness scene, only to find herself in a deeper struggle with her body image than ever before. Thanks to many epiphanies and the patience to take a long and winding road, Patricia found herself in a new world: the world of spiritual fitness. She created her signature workout called IntenSati which is a groundbreaking way to sweat that combines high energy cardio, mindfulness, meditation and the power of yelling out positive things which has proven time and time again to legit bring out participant’s inner badass best selves. Speaking of Patricia yelling out positive things, that’s what most of this c

In the same way that somebody once combined peanut butter and jelly to make a flavor combination arguably more desirable than sex, and in the same way another person combined a leggings with jeans to give our fashion-forward legs some freedom, my guest today has combined metaphysics with physical fitness in a way that can pretty much most def help you get things that you desire. Erin Stutland has created a method of combining movement with mindfulness in an actually do-able, not too woowoo-able way. Erin is an author of the upcoming book “Mantras In Motion: Manifesting What You Want Through Mindful Movement,” a fitness coach and creator of the Shrink Session program, the TV show host of Z Living’s cable series, Altar’d, all about true and lasting transformation. I’ve gotta say that this here chat with Erin has had a true and lasting impact on me. Kind of like how once you discover how harmoniously PB&J go together, or once you try on jeggings, you can’t UNtaste PB&J or smile as you put on regular jean

My guest today is a survivor, speaker, activist and storyteller. She’s a wearer of many hats. Which we get deep into in this chat. This is also a deep chat in many other ways because my guest and darling friend Brittany Piper has overcome not just one, but many of the most horrific events any of us could imagine: sexual assault, eating disorders, the death of her brother and alcoholism. Brittany, not to sound cliche, turned her pain into purpose and is now a leading national expert speaker on sexual violence and prevention, as well as a healing and wellness coach. She uses her story of adversity, resilience and triumph to empower and inspire women to take brave action in their own lives and communities and she uses her story of trauma to inspire me in this interview to OWN my own stories even more than I already own my own stories, and I hope she inspires you in this chat to own yours too. And to watch more Law and Order SVU.   Press play to hear:   How Brittany miracuously decided to see her trauma as a gif

Today’s guest relationship with food used to be nuts. Her relationship with nuts used to be nuts, too. But neither of those things are nuts anymore, as Ali Bonar has learned both, how to be chill around food and how to enjoy nut butter vibes without nuts in said butter. Ali, known on the interwebs as the AVOKWEEN, is incredibly passionate about helping other ladies regain their kween-ness and feeling body positive once and for all. She’s also passionate about dripping her Granola Butter (a product she and boyfriend invented) all over smoothie bowls. But in this breaking news conversation, Ali reveals the truth about who’s really eating the stuff she photographs! I love Ali not only because she and I both admit to having had awkward body insecurity vendettas over high school volleyball shorts and not only because she sat in her car to record our entire interview, but also because she, too, believes in the importance of telling it like it freaking is thank you very much, and in this fun conversation, I think, a

This episode is all about how I PIMPED my wedding! Meaning, how I added lots of plants to it. And also, how I made it uniquely mine. And even more, how I didn’t let my healthy habits compromise my happiness, nor let the happiness of my wedding drive me away from my health.   I hope this episode sheds a little light on some literal, tangible, recreatable things I did to infuse the prioritization of my wellbeing into a wild thing like a wedding. You’ll hear a little about my journey from sad girl dreading her eventual wedding day because she’d be too depressed, bloated or sick to enjoy it to a happy lady who just had her wedding day feeling more calm, healthy and confident than she ever could’ve imagined. Through it, I’ve learned that eating more plants than you do crap is a complete game-changer, as is prioritizing stress reduction over everything else, all while being as authentic and confidently YOURSELF as humanly possible. I’d say that’s the magic sauce. The secret sauce? MMM sauce, now i’m craving that bu

As part of my October of re-broadcasting some of my favorite episodes that are related to wedding stuff since I’m currently on my honeymoon in the Seychelles, today’s guest gets a rebroadcast not just because it was one of the more prolific, helpful and inspiring episodes of this podcast thus far, and not only because it originally aired 2 years ago which is a long time ago, but because my guest, Terry Walters, was actually invited to my wedding! But couldn’t come! Which was very sad. Because I had GREAT clean food waiting for her. But she still gifted jesse and me a beautiful wooden salad bowl. Hey! Does shout out on a podcast into take the place as a Thank You Card??? I never know proper etiquette….Anyway, Terry Walters, who just so happened to be my neighbor growing up, was one of the OG “clean eaters.” Her first book, “Clean Food” came out waaaaay before “clean” related to food in any way other than sanitary! But “clean eating” has since turned into a vague, trendy, confusing, catch-all phrase, right? Wel

As part of my October of re-broadcasting some of my favorite episodes that are related to wedding stuff since I’m currently on my honeymoon in the Seychelles, I’m re-airing this very oldie but goodie chat about a way to sniff up or rub down the power of plants. Because if you think eating plants is good for you, just wait till you try smelling them! Or rubbing them on the bottoms of your feet. In this exciting episode, Casey Von Iderstein, essential oil extraordinaire, mindfulness teacher and the creator of Karmic Wellness, let’s all the cats out of all the bags about how using essential oils (the stuff in plants that make them smell) can make your life REEK of awesomeness. Straight up, this interview, which I originally did two years ago, changed my life. I’ve been using oils ever since! Not perfectly - as you can learn more about in episode #97 called “True Story: I Plant-Poisoned My Pup!” Yup… so I wanted to circle back with Casey and get a precise plant oil protocol for both my wedding day and my African

In keeping with my October of re-broadcasting some of my favorite episodes that are related to wedding stuff since I’m currently on my honeymoon in Africa, I had to re-share this chat with a product I’m likely currently sipping with water in Cape Town right now: SHROOMS! You already heard about my fondness for the mushrooms, but in this chat you’ll hear about the functionality of them. And the science behind it. And the way that 13-generation mushroom expert Tero and his team at the company he founded, Four Sigmatic, actually makes mushroom teas that don’t MAKE you gag and actually MAKE you feel like a better, stronger, well-er version of yourself.   Get ready to hear:   How, for Tero, mushrooms are basically ninja turtles. What an ADAPTOGEN really is. (And FYI, it’s REALLY cool.) Why mushrooms are really really good for you. And which ones you might wanna start with. The real reason I crave mushrooms so hard since I’ve started drinking them. (And no it’s not because I’m “addicted.”) Even though they won’t m

As part of my October of re-broadcasting some of my favorite episodes that are related to wedding stuff since I’m currently on my honeymoon in Cape Town, I couldn’t NOT re-air an episode with a wedding guest! Whose bread and vegan butter is something so relevant right now as we’re in the throws of fall -- eating plants in a pantsuit! Or in whatever else you wear to an office. I’m in sweats and a tee right now. Am I wearing a bra? Oh wow I put one on today! Go me! Anyway, my friendship story with my guest, Tracie Kendziora, is kind of adorable - and a true testament to the power of the internet and the coolness of coaching. Tracie signed up for private coaching with me 3 years ago and we worked together for many months. Through our coaching we became more like friends than coach and coachee and eventually dropped the coaching and just kept chatting as gal pals. Though my loving encouragement, she ended up quitting her job to focus on her two passions - clean cubicle eating and hilarious wellness copywriting. N

As part of my October of re-broadcasting some of my favorite episodes that are related to wedding stuff since I’m currently on my honeymoon in Botswana, I knew this chat would be PERFECT one to bring back from the archives. Not only is it one of the top downloaded episodes of my show, and for damn good reason, but it specifically talks about a life altering epiphany that happens ON A HONEYMOON! I know, right?!?! Told you this chat would be a perfect one. But perfect isn’t really the goal anymore because this episode is all about how my guest, Simi Botic, used to let her need for perfection actually ruin a lot of great big events in her life like her proposal (which we talk about) and her honeymoon (which we also talk about) by giving way too many craps about her body. Simi freaks out a lot less now since she broke up with perfection, and in this chat, we dive alllll the way into how she did that and what the heck breaking up with perfection even means! This isn’t an arbitrary conversion, by the way, helping g

As part of my October of re-broadcasting some of my favorite episodes that are related to wedding stuff since I’m currently on my honeymoon in Botswana, this chat with my acupuncturist, James Rohr absolutely HAD to be the first chat to re-air, because getting his needles in my meridians were a significant part of my surviving the cray cray wedding process! James’ needles are my first destination when I need to boost my immunity, up my digestion game, alleviate anxiety or even, as you’ll hear, just pump my brakes and take a nap. I usually get some ‘puncture about once a month for general maintenance purposes, but in the last few months leading up to the wedding, I became an every other weeker, and then in the final month, an every weeker!! Not only do I have deep respect and admiration for his work and just acupunct as a whole, but as you’ll surely notice, James totally breaks the mold of what you might think of as a Chinese medicine healer. He’s a freaking funny dude! Half the time I’m with him I’m cracking u