The Party In My Plants Podcast

My guest today used to just be a regular person. Or a civilian, as she calls it. Not too long ago Bianca Bosker was just a regular boxed wine drinker, not giving any thought or sniffs to wine that she’d sip, until one day she discovered something that forever changed the way she viewed fermented grapes: she stumbled upon the secret world of sommeliers and became, well, obsessed. I’m not going to spoil the rest of the story - I’ll let Bianca tell you her tale, but if you’ve been curious about how to feel more comfortable ordering or buying wine, which wines pair perfectly with planty dishes and whether wine really has any redeeming health qualities, I think that Bianca, the New York Times bestselling author of CORK DORK is the perfect person to satiate your thirst for vino knowledge!   Get buzzed to hear:   - The two senses we've forgotten about and how to develop them! - The poetry (and bullshit) of tasting notes. - A peek into the secret world of sommeliers (it includes dance classes, obvs). - The difference

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

My guest today believes that our relationship with food? It’s a relationship. Like a relationship we have with other humans. And just like we can talk to a therapist to help us fix our relationships issues with other humans, we can talk to a food therapist to help us fix our relationships issues with food. Shira Lenchewski is that food therapist! Shira’s an LA-based registered dietitian whose nutritional insights and recipes are faves among wellness-focused celebs and non-celeb awesome wellness-focused regular people too! What I love about Shira is that that she’s as real as they come - and she eyerolls alongside me when she hears the term mindful eating as well as shares the same tagline “being healthy eating doesn’t have to suck!” She recently came out with a book call The Food Therapist that’s jam-packed with refreshingly practical advice for helping peeps resolve their “it’s complicated” relationship with food! Alright, let’s do some food therapy, baby!   You’ll hear:   - Why not eating mindfully doesn't

My guest today to sex what a nutritionist is to food. Just like a nutritionist can help you eat more naturally, Shan Boodran, a sexologist can help you hump more naturally! Shan is the Internet’s most sought-after sex educator - she has over 25 million YouTube views and she’s shared sex and relationship advice on ABC’s “The View,” MTV, The Steve Harvey Show, CNN, The New York Times, Forbes and Time Magazine. Her book, LAID (love it) was a Canadian Bestseller, she rocks a really cool LIVE Facebook show and she sells vibrator necklaces -- which yes, to answer your silent question, are for BOTH decoration AND functional use. I met Shan when I introduced her at The Good Fest and I saw women just get wet and wild listening to her talk about having a healthy sex life so I knew I had to bring her on my show. Full disclosure, I’m admittedly a pretty prude lady so I definitely had a couple squeamish moments throughout our chat, but as Shan says: “fear ruins everything” so I just went with it. She also says she has org

Last month I shared the glorious news that I did, in fact, sign a book deal with Avery, an imprint of a publisher you miiiiight’ve heard of called Penguin Random House. If you saw that instagram post or read my announcement newsletter or overheard me talking about it on the Subway…or in my sleep, you might’ve drawn the conclusion that it was a boy meets girl, girl loves boy, boy and girl live happily ever after kind of story (except swap me for the boy and sub the book deal for the girl). But the truthful tale of my cookbook deal is anything but a straight, direct, easy line. It involved a lot of both woohoo AND boohoo, plus a surprising amount of woowoo …. all of which I dive into in this story. So if you press play on this episode thinking you’ll snag a copy and paste formula for getting your own cookbook deal, this probs isn’t the perfect episode for you, but if you’re open to hearing how achieving great dreams is completely possible with more hustle, heartbreak and some spiritual shiz sprinkled in, this e

My guest today is straight up - my girl crush. Whatevs. I’ve got no shame. And there’s no reason she won’t be your girl crush, too, after hearing our chat and stalking her on the socials! Jess Sepel, known as JS Health online, is quickly becoming one of Australia’s most sought-after wellness and lifestyle advocates - because she’s so passionate about helping women achieve an actually balanced lifestyle and body by eating whole foods and by flicking off fad diets forever. Jess is not shy about sharing her personal story about how she went from a diet fanatic to a whole foods fan, (not the store, the actual whole...foods), and she uses her booming platform, her books, her clinical nutritionist education and her online course to help women build a truly healthy relationship with food. For real. It’s a thing. And in this chat I got the pleasure of asking Jess live, from across the world, exactly how that thing called a healthy relationship with food can be a thing for everyone! We had a very similar conversation

My guest today is an author, health coach, speaker, and fun food blogger behind Food Mood Girl. She also happens to dwell in one of my favorite non-NYC cities, Pittsburgh, where I go to cheer on the Steelers and eat great veggie burgers with my family who lives there! But this is about Lindsey Smith, not me. So yeah, Lindsey’s really passionate about creating plant-y recipes not just for taste-bud-ular-pleasure, but also for mental and emotional-pleasure as well. Her latest book is called Eat Your Feelings which is a title that I just ATE UP and so I wanted to bring her on to talk to us about how to, well, eat our feelings! Pretty straightforward. Although be forewarned: cravings? Not so straightforward as you’re about to learn.     Strap on your seatbelt to hear:   Why feeling your feelings is a-okay! How to reclaim emotional eating. In which situations a kale smoothie might not be the right answer. When to listen to your cravings and when to not…. Why sometimes your cravings might lead you astray. The life

My guest today has tried on more healthy habits than Alessandra Ambrosio has tried on Victoria’s Secret Bras! Well, that’s not a fact-checked fact so don’t quote me on that, but Phoebe Lapine had certainly tried on her fair share of healthy habits. Phoebe is the awesome author of The Wellness Project, a memoir meets self-help book that chronicles her year-long health endeavor experimenting with health habits like managing stress, switching to green beauty products, etc. to help manage her autoimmune disease, Hashimoto’s and find “the middle ground between health and hedonism.” We walked through her intimate experience with each of those 11 habits in our first podcast convo (episode 37) and now Phoebe’s back to dish the “where they are now” dirt about what life’s been like in the wake of The Wellness Project and how she’s found perfect health and happiness and has no worries in the world. Yeah right. She actually tells us the total truth about how her health journey just keeps going on and what she’s doing now

My guest today is woman who takes pleasure in pop, lock and dropping spines. All in name of improving people’s overall well-being, preventing health issues and proving that she is NOT a Dr. Bobby Bobby. (Yes, that’s a friends reference. And yes, the scene I’m talking about is posted in the shownotes). Dr. Kasey Johnson is a family wellness chiropractor based in the Tampa Bay area. She’s so pumped about getting everyone hooked on crack...ing their spines, even at a young age, that she wrote a children’s book about going to a chiropractor! It’s like instead of goodnight moon, it’s like goodbye ear aches. Kasey also eats a lot of plants! And we speak about whether you can tell the difference between a plant-y spine and a non-plant-y spine. (The answer to which might surprise you!) In one sec, you’ll hear Kasey’s passion for chiropractic care just reek through your speakers and you’ll hear me ask hopefully and probably everything you’ve actually ever wanted to ask anyone about a chiropractor. I left no stones unt

Rachel Hoffman is what happens when a professional bossy person is also a messy person. Rachel’s the founder of (pardon my french but get used to it because it’s the name of her brand and we talk about it a lot): Unf*ck Your Habitat, and she is the author of a book by the same name. Her thang is motivating regular peeps to get up, start cleaning, and get their lives in order because she really believes that our home should be somewhere where we’re comfortable and enjoy being in. I believe that, too. But I can’t believe we had such a fun conversation about cleaning! Seriously! You’re about to hear Rachel drop a ton of knowledge bombs that’ll help your home look less like a bomb exploded in it! That’s what my mom always used to say about my room growing up. Oh and we get into mommy issues in this chat, too! FUN!   You’ll hear:   The secret myth of the Instagram-perfect home. The brilliant and LOL and BLEEP blend of Marie Kondo meets Thug Kitchen method of organization! How to apply the Pomodoro technique to cl

Today’s guest knows a thing or two or 52 about how to live a kickass life. (She wrote a book called “52 Ways to Live a Kickass Life” so that one was way too easy.) But just like you are what you eat, Andrea Owen definitely is what she writes about, which is life kicker-asser and a not-feeling-like-shitter. (Her new book is called “How to Stop Feeling Like Shit.” Very literal titles. I’m into it.) Andrea is writer, mentor and life coach who helps high-achieving ladies let go of control and choose courage and confidence instead of letting their inner critics call the shots. She’s also a retired roller derby player who subtly hinted in this chat that she may come out of retirement. You heard it here first, folks! And if you don’t know much about what roller derby is, don’t worry, I ask. This is a great episode for those of us who spend way too much time comparing ourselves to others, as well as for those of us who love crying to Natalie Imbrulgia’s song TORN.   Press play to hear:   How Andrea found her calling

My guest today is a lovely lady whom I warmly refer to as The Fairy Godmother of Low FODMAPs. She refers to herself as a registered and licensed dietitian, New York Times bestselling author and specialist in a low FODMAP diet and digestive health conditions, but I think The Fairy Godmother of Low FODMAPs sums it up rather nicely. I’ve received so many podcast question submissions about the increasingly trendy low FODMAP diet and I wanted to bring on the best of the best to give us the lowdown. Well, Kate is the best of the best and not just because I say so, or because Boston Magazine awarded her the best dietitian award in 2016 but also because she literally just co-authored the low fodmap roadmap called The Low Fodmap Diet Step by Step! So get ready to finally figure out this whole fodmap thingy majiggy, which might hopefully help your stomach if you struggle or just help you understand WTF this F-O-D-M-A-P lingo is all actually A-B-O-U-T.   Gut ready to hear…. - How an emergency surgery changed the way Kat

My guest today used to freak out about food, her body, and not being perfect enough. It sucked. Simi Botic nearly ruined 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. But Simi freaks out a lot less now. Simi broke up with perfection, and in this episode, we dive all the way into how she did that and what the heck that even means. This isn’t an arbitrary conversion, by the way, helping give up perfectionism about their diet and exercise is exactly what Simi does for a living! In addition to being a coach, Simi just came out with a magnificent, hilarious and heartfelt book called “Letting Go of Leo,” which is truly so good that one night I delayed watching The Bachelor read Simi’s book in bed. I hope you know how many volumes that speaks….or big volumes that speaks? Or loud volumes it speaks?   Press play to hear:   How to let your mess become your success. How to stop focusing on being per

My guest today is a gut’s best friend. And probably after listening to this you’ll want her to be your personal best friend, too. Robyn Youkilis, a health coach, a wellness expert, a TV personality (my dream) an author and a speaker who is known for her straightforward yet supportive style. And she’s known for her adorable daughter who steals the show of her social media. Robyn’s remarkably passionate about helping peeps go with their gut (that’s the name of her first book) and becoming thin from within (that’s the name of her second book).   GUT excited to hear:   A full double-confession of some stuff we stole as children! The big, inspiring body-love turning point she had right before getting pregnant. How you find your intuitive food voice. How to utilize “a morning minute” and what the heck that is. What “going with your gut” means. (Hint: it’s two-fold.) How and why to eat more fermented foods. Why chewing is chief. Why peeps even NOT struggling specifically with gut issues should give a crap about gut

Today’s guest knows a thing or two or twenty about struggling with her health. Over the last decade, Amie Valpone and her body have been through quite a lot (think: Lyme disease, PCOS, colitis, parasites, pathogens, Candida, Mold toxicity, Heavy metal toxicity, Hypothyroidism, Leaky gut, SIBO, chronic hormonal imbalances, edema and even more) so through it all she’s simply had to become the #1 advocate for her own health. That’s why she’s so damn passionate about helping others heal their bodies holistically, or even prevent the need for healing their bodies holistically by living holistically. She’s a health coach, a Functional Medicine Nutrition & Wellness expert and the author of the wonderful book, Eating Clean. And annoyingly enough, even though Amie and I both live in the big APPLE (Yes her website, thehealthyapple.com came from the fact that she’s healthfully living in The Big Apple) but even though we’re both here in NYC, our internet connection was weirdly..umm..terrible. So please pardon the rob

Todays guest is peaceful AF but not preachy AF, which is unique and awesome for a meditation expert, enthusiast and entrepreneur. Ellie Burrows is the founder of MNDFL -- a collection of meditation studios sprawled throughout NYC. Ellie grew up in La La Land and was raised in a family in the entertainment business. She decided to go into film because she thought a lot of happiness waited for her there, but she never felt fulfilled and happy in Hollywood the same way her fam did. So she literally went soul searching or as she calls it, she became a spiritual tourist, and discovered the magic and simplicity of meditation. Rather than sparknotes her entire story, I think I should stop talking now and her Ellie do that because otherwise what would be the point of listening to the episode if I tell you everything in this bio, right? So press play to hear Ellie tell her story and remind us that meditation doesn’t necessarily mean plopping your butt on a fancy cushion.   You’ll hear:   How Ellie went from a career

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 abou

My guest today is a badass and a half. By day, Isabel Foxen Duke helps women stop feeling crazy around food - specifically women who are trapped in “diet land.” And by night, she practices what she preaches, which is intuitive eating, health at every size and filtering her social media to maintain a positive body image. She also eats a lot of Burmese food, which, in case you dunno, means grub from various regions of Myanmar. I could’ve talked with Isabel for hours and hours, which is why this episode is especially long, because as you’ll hear, I needed my own crash course in diet culture with a side of fat phobia 101. I am so jazzed up about the work Isabel does and I love more than anything her tell-it-to-em-straight, no BS tude, dude! K, now grab a healthy snack, put on your suspenders and nudge those nerdy glasses up your nose because school is in session.   Get excited to hear:   How being put on a diet at age THREE affected Isabel’s relationship to food from prettttty much the very start of her life. Wh

I love this episode. Partly because my guest’s story is so rich that I basically took the day off from speaking when we recorded it which was chill, but mostly because my guest’s story proves the superpowers of plants. Ashley Wood, a plant-based nutrition advocate, writer and the host of the brand new podcast, The Good People Podcast, experienced how healing plants can be when she used them (instead of using butt skin - inside joke. Which you’ll get when you get into the inside of this episode.) to miraculously heal herself from a terrible accident and again to miraculously grow a baby in her body. So sit back, sip or snack on some plants and hear this woman’s really cool story that’ll surely get you giddy about partying in your plants!   You’ll hear: How walking up a foreign staircase changed Ashley’s life forever. The onion ring incident that tested and then proved the healing power of plants. Ashley’s birthing mantra which I actually want to adopt to my non-giving-birth daily life. Tips for getting your k

Sarah Knight is many impressive things. She’s a wife, a 3 times internally best-selling author, a TEDx speaker (and her talk has been viewed over 3 million times), and she’s one of the funniest writers I’ve ever read, so it’s hopefully pretty obvious why I consider her, to be like, my idol? Sarah, whose first book, The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck (not to be confused by The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Very different author. Very different book. Although actually more similar than you might think. Which we talk a ton about). But anyway, Sarah’s first book blew her onto the scene and up the charts and rocked a lot of people's lives, and since then she quickly banged out two follow up books, Get Your Shit Together and You Do You, both of which continue to rock a lot of people's’ lives. In this episode, she'll rock yours, too.   Get ready to hear: How to make a f*ck budget and why it’ll change your life forever. Sarah’s brilliant “Not-Sorry” Method which’ll help you be more honest, more often,