The Party In My Plants Podcast

Since the last digit of the date just changed, that means it's obviously time for us as humans to make a massive life change! (Duh.) Personally, I’m not a resolution-ist because I honestly set goals all year long. I just set NOT-DUMB™ goals. (It’s an acronym. And also a literary description of how goals should be.) In this episode, I define NOT-DUMB™ goals, I rant a tiny bit about goals vs. intentions and how you need both to succeed versus flying solo with one or the other, and I suggest 18 (cuz it’s now 2018, duh) 18 specific, NOT-DUMB™ party in my plants approved positive HEALTHY GOALS that you might wanna consider setting. Try some on for size. Meditate on them. Ponder one during your next sweat session. Modify them to fit your unique desires. Whatevs you wanna do, here are some of my ideas on goals.   Links related to this episode: The full show notes with all the deets from this episode! Where to buy Four Sigmatic Shroom Products and save 15% with code: “PARTYINMYPLANTS” Get my FREE #EATMOREPLANTS cours

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

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

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 Australi

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 hea

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

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 se

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 mig

November marks this podcast’s first anniversary/birthday! (Not sure what I’m technically celebrating but I’m pumped!) This episode is a fun round up of the top takeaways from 365 days of chit chatting with some brilliant, baller peeps. Basically, consider this the sparknotes from my first 60 episodes. Actually, feel free to STEAL these sparknotes at partyinmyplants.com/sparknotes - I’ve turned these tips into a free downloadable PDF so you can apply this GOLDEN info to your life right this very moment!   Links related to this episode: Get your FREE downloadable SPARKNOTES of these top tips! 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 on Instagram Party in My Plants on Facebook Party in My Plants’ Cooking Videos on YouTube Audio producer of the show - Oleksandr Hedz --- Send in a voice message: https://anch

Today’s guest has been a women’s health advocate, journalist and hormone educator for over 30 years! That’s more years than I’ve been….a person. Candace Burch is extremely passionate about using hormone testing to detect and correct hormone imbalances in women so all the bummer symptoms of hormonal imbalances, which Candace lays out in this chat, can go away. I gotta say - I very much appreciate what she does because us gals gotta stick together! You know? And get rid of our hormonal imbalances...together.   Links related to this episode: The full show notes with all the deets from this episode! 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 on Instagram Party in My Plants on Facebook Party in

The moment that engagement ring slid onto my finger, I experienced two major immediate thoughts about my appearance. The first had to do with my nail (gotta stop leaving those things high and dry and chipped and shaped like spears!) the second had to do with my “body image.” The latter of which this episode is about.   Links related to this episode: The full show notes with all the deets from this episode! 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 on Instagram Party in My Plants on Facebook Party in My Plants’ Cooking Videos on YouTube --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/existennial/message

Today’s guest is one of the chosen ones. Way before he was born, 13 generations before he was born, in fact, his destiny was set: he was chosen to be FUN-GUY that helps take medicinal mushrooms mainstream. And that’s just what Tero Isokauppila, the founder of the popular mushroom company, Four Sigmatic, has done. Deliciously, I might add. If you follow me on Instagram you’ve surely seen my fondness for the shroom, but in this chat you’ll hear about the functionality of the shroom. And the science behind it. And the way that Tero and his team at 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. And why, even though they won’t make you hallucinate, Tero considers mushrooms *MAGIC.*   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 rea

My awesome buddy ‘ol pal ‘ol international speaker, coach and bestselling author Shannon Kaiser is back today talking about something as deep as it gets -- self love. This is not just a woowoo buzzword, my friend, it’s actually something that’s really really important. I was stoked to sit down with Shannon to chat about her fourth book, The Self Love Experiment, the book that makes her all glowy when she talks about it! And for good reason - it’s all about discovering self love. Why the self-love experiment? Instead of the self-love project or self-love journey or self-love principles? Well you’ll have to listen to find out. Cliffhanger. Also a cliffhanger, is self-love actually achievable for US ALL? …… (Spoiler: yes, duh, that’s what this is all about!)   Press play to hear:   What a self-love experiment is and how you can do one! No beakers involved! The shocking percentage of people who hate something about themselves, and how you can work on lowering that percentage. How you can actually lose weight whi

Today’s guest is an expert in sweet potatoes. She’s also an enthusiast of them. She’s also a spokesperson for them! Jenné Claiborne, the creator of sweetpotatosoul.com is a vegan chef, YouTuber, blogger and author of the upcoming (or already published! If you’re listening to this after February 2018) cookbook: Sweet Potato Soul. I wonder how they came up with that title. What’s amazing and admirable about Jenné (well, many things are) but one thing is that she came to plant-based eating (or really veganism, as you’ll hear she prefers to call it) for animal rights reasons and THEN miraculously reaped the health and happiness effects. My experience has been the exact opposite, and it was pretty cool to chat with an ethical vegan who doesn’t want to rip my head off when we talk about that! I also admire Jenné’s pure love for the bean. And of course we talk about ways to prevent the dreaded bean toot….yes, it’s quite a hoot. Press play to hear:  What Buddha Bowls are, how to make one and why you should even care

Today is a quickie episode to answer to a biggie question: WHAT. IS. COLLAGEN?! Like seriously, what IS IT? Surely if you’ve spent a couple minutes on Instagram you’ve seen loads of peeps dumping this power called collagen in their smoothies, or maybe you’ve had someone recommend it to you. I’ll bet you smiled and nodded, or liked the instagram post and scrolled wondering silently, “WHAT IS COLLAGEN?!” I’m not saying this question was like eating you up inside, you know, I hardly doubt you were losing sleep over not knowing about collagen, but I do think you’ll feel pretty powerful after hearing the answer. Ok - maybe not powerful, but it’s always good to know things. That’s why I brought on a collagen spokesperson (a PR manager for Vital Proteins, the groundbreaking and mega popular collagen company) to share the scoop on what’s in their scoop! Whether you decide to try collagen after this or you decide to skip this bandwagon hopping for now, we can all agree on one thing: if you’re at trivia and the questio

Full disclosure: my longest experience with working in a true office place has been through watching well…The Office. A few times though. So that’s kind of a long time. But that’s not IRL. Which is why I wanted to bring on today’s guest who is an expert in eating plants in a pantsuit! Or in whatever else you wear to an office. Tracie Kendziora is a health coach whose bread and vegan butter is helping peeps eat cleaner in their cubicle. After working in an office (a real one, with real cubicles) for a decade and maintaining a plant-party diet for the majority of it, Tracie knows a thing or two about how balancing work with wellness - and not making clean eating a second full-time job. I don’t say this often but stay tuned through the end of the episode to hear a cool surprise!! And no, don’t just fast forward to the end for the surprise - that’s lame. You’re cooler than that. You’ll hear: The most important thing to NOT do before a meeting. ACTUALLY why your coworkers make you feel guilty about your salad. Aw

This episode took me 2 months and like 20 attempts to complete. There’s nothing really funny about this episode, it’s more like a chapter from a Nicholas Sparks book with a dash of a Tony Robbins seminar and a sprinkle of the trailer of the movie Serendipity. That made absolutely no sense but really, life doesn’t make much sense, and that’s actually what this episode is about. How good people die. How even sick people stubbornly stick to their ways. How ‘waiting till you’re ready’ is both mature and wise but also foolish and wrong. Here’s my [hopefully inspiring] story of how I got engaged while cancer stole the life of my fiancé’s mother.   Links related to this episode: The full show notes with all the deets from this episode! Where I’d much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!! How to work 1-on-1 with me! Get my FREE #EATMOREPLANTS course! 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! Party in My Plants on

Today’s guest is really a spokesperson for our insides. A publicist for what our unique bodies really want to thrive. A walking billboard for the magic that is meditation. Cassandra Bodzak, the author of Eat With Intention, a health coach, and a global meditation teacher is just bursting with passion for helping peeps create their “next level” lives utilizing the ‘FOOD, MEDITATION AND SELF CARE trifecta’...or triangle, as you’ll soon hear about. I’d seen Cassandra on the interwebs for a long time but it wasn’t until I met her at The Good Fest where she led an epic meditation (during which I snuck on stage when everyone’s eyes were closed to snag some killer pics for her!), that I got to witness first hand just how happy, confident and truly grounded she is. This is all to say that this chica thoroughly practices what she preaches, so listen to all she preaches in this jam-packed chat and then start practicing and I can guarantee you’ll feel more happy, confident and grounded, too!   Get amped to hear: What a

Alyssa Ramos probably has more stamps in her passport than I have, I dunno, I’ve been sitting here for 5 minutes thinking of a good joke and got nothing. Suffice it to say that Alyssa Ramos, travel blogger at My life’s a movie, who’s been traveling the world non-stop for 3 years now, has a lot of stamps in her passport. Just one peek at the photos on Alyssa’s instagram account, and you’ll instantly get a bad case of the travel bug, because she just posts photo after photo of herself in one beautiful place after the next beautiful place. Oh and she uses a selfie stick for said photos. Because she travels the world completely solo like a badass girlboss unicorn mermaid girl POWER. Here’s our hack-fill chat in which we discuss flight hacking, jet lag hacking, exercise hacking, selfie hacking and my favorite: packing hacking!   Press play and you’ll hear:   How Alyssa legitimately get PAID to travel. Great advice for a starter solo-travel trip! What a truly nomadic life looks like. How Alyssa plays travel roulet

Today’s guest is bringing something back, but unlike Justin Timberlake, sexy isn’t it. It’s Ayurveda! The world’s oldest health system! Sahara Rose discovered (well, kind of re-discovered) Ayurveda when she wasn’t feeling all that great and used its tools and principles to help her feel better than great! Now she’s on an awesome mission to help make Ayurveda mainstream, starting with this here podcast episode - cuz let’s be real, The Party in mY plants podcast is as mainstream as it gets, yo. You might be wondering why I keep saying mainstream, but once you hear in this chat that the words used in Ayurveda to describe ailments are things like “too much wind” or “not enough fire” you’ll understand why Sahara’s job isn’t necessarily a simple one!     Get excited to learn:   How and why every food you put into your body affects you on an energetic level. The one system in your body that’s in charge of everything else! (Hint: it starts with a dig and ends with an estive.) What doshas are, why they’re important A