Caregiving is often called a labor of love. But what happens when love collides with a broken system?

In this powerful and deeply human conversation, Victoria speaks with Laura Mauldin, PhD, author of In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis. Together, they explore the intimate realities of disability, partnership, policy failure, ableism, and what it truly means to love someone when bodies change.

This episode is about story because story is how we understand one another, and how we begin to change the world.

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About Our Guest

In Sickness and in Health
Laura Mauldin

Laura Mauldin is a sociologist whose work focuses on disability, caregiving, and health inequities. In her 20s, she became a caregiver to her partner after a traumatic brain injury — an experience that profoundly shaped both her life and her scholarship.

Her book weaves her own story together with the lived experiences of couples navigating disability and caregiving today. It is both tender and unsparing — a love letter and a wake-up call.

Learn more at: https://lauramauldin.com/

Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sickness-Health-Stories-Americas-Caregiving/dp/0063339137/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrLauraMauldin/

What happens when Manhattan luxury real estate meets plant-based living and deep Christian faith?

Victoria sits down with Darryl Williams — known as “The Vegan Broker” — a real estate professional with SERHANT., the firm featured on the Netflix series Owning Manhattan.

Raised vegetarian in a Seventh-day Adventist home and now a committed health vegan, Darryl boldly brings his values into one of the most competitive industries in the world. Married with two young children, he shares how faith, integrity, and family shape both his business and his plant-based lifestyle.

This uplifting conversation explores authenticity, courage, and what it really means to live your values out loud.

This episode explores a surprising and thoughtful perspective on modern food systems. Victoria talks with scholars Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg, co-authors of Feed the People: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better, about how frozen vegetables, canned beans, plant milks, and other accessible foods can help make compassionate eating realistic and affordable for more people.

Peacefood Cafe has been feeding compassionate New Yorkers since 2009. In this conversation, co-owner Eric Yu shares about being a spiritual guy in a business role, his decision not to serve alcohol in his restaurants, and what it takes to thrive in changing times.

Website: https://www.peacefoodcafe.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peacefoodnyc/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peacefoodnyc/

Peacefood Cafe locations: 460 Amsterdam Ave. at 82nd, and 41 E. 11th (Union Square), NYC

Mark Peters captures the soul of the cow in his photographic book, Voices of the Herd, and today we talk about cows as individuals and seeing animals differently. And guess what? This guy is so classy, he wrote me a thank-you note on paper.

Website: https://markpetersphotography.com/

Book: Voices of the Herd: Portraits of Rescued Cows and Their Sanctuary Stories

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markpeters.photography/

And there's a book giveaway for this one: The instructions are at the end of the episode.

Matthew C. Halteman, Ph.D, author of Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, teaches philosophy at Calvin University in Michigan. He also once lived on the same block in Wheaton, Illinois, as host Victoria Moran.

Book:
Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan

Website: https://www.hungrybeautifulanimals.com/

Facebook: Matthew C. Haltemen

Instagram: @hungrybeautifulanimals

LinkedIn: Matthew Haltemen

And Victoria's YouTube channel where you can watch the podcast, as well as listening on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

EatMoveRest.com and the EatMoveRest YouTube channel have planted Erin and Dusty Stancyk firmly into influencer territory with their busy, beautiful life, 3 young kids, and a delicious, plant-based road to health. We discuss attachment parenting, using the word "vegan" (or not), putting the fun back in healthy, and living colorfully.

Book: The Happy, Healthy Plant-Based Cookbook

Website: https://eatmoverest.com - Subscribe and receive free PDF, How to Go Vegan

YouTube: EatMoveRest - The Stancyks

Facebook: Eat Move Rest

Instagram: Erin Stancyzk

And subscribe at MainStreetVegan.com to receive free PDF, Recipes to Help You Age Like a Yogi

Nutrition science took a massive hit with the January 7th release of the 2026 Dietary Guideline for Americans, recommending increased consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy (while, impossibly, keeping saturated fat low). Responding is Neal Barnard, MD, president of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which has petitioned the U.S. government to withdraw these recommendations.

Website: https://www.pcrm.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/physicianscommittee/

Select books from Dr. Barnard:

The Power Foods Diet

Your Body in Balance

Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Heart Disease