Tess Challis joins to talk about her 9th cookbook, Food Joy, coauthored with her adult daughter, a lifelong vegan. The conversation moves to vegan spirituality, the current state of being vegan in America, and the great respite of meditation.

Food Joy book

Website: https://www.tesschallis.com

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

Instagram: @Tess Challis

Tess's wonderful guided meditation on YouTube

Vegan entrepreneur, YouTuber, mother of twins, and wife of mega-comic Jeff Dunham, today's guest is the author of Vegan Christmas Cookies & Cocoa and Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner & Pies. In this episode, Audrey dishes on life balance, celebrity, and raising (and feeding) vegan kids IRL.

Audrey's website

Autumn Sons Baking Company -- delectable vegan and gluten-free cookie mixes

Book: Vegan Christmas: Cookies & Cocoa

Book: Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner & Pies

Audrey's Facebook

Audrey's Instagram

Jeff's autobiography: All My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed and Me

Jeff's website and tour dates

Ginny Messina, RD, MPH, is a breath of fresh air on the nutritional landscape, based as she is in science, ethics, and common sense. Get Ginny’s take on controversies such as seed oils and beef tallow, her expertise on calcium and B12 for vegans, and thriving as a vegan in a not-yet-vegan world.

Website: https://www.theveganrd.com

Books: Vegan for Life, Vegan for Her, Even Vegans Die (with Carol J. Adams and Patti Breitman)

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

Instagram: https://www.ginnymessina/

Substack: https://theresistancekitchen.substack.com

Joe Gagnon is a tech entrepreneur, ultra-athlete (i.e., 6 marathons/6 countries/6 days), vegan, author, and life architect whose ideas on Living Intentionally (his latest book), embracing discomfort, and disregarding limits that don't have to hold us back make this a life-shifting episode.

Book: Living Intentionally: How Intentionality Enables Sucess, Fulfillment, and Growth

Website: https://thehighperformancelife.net

IG: https://instagram.com/thehighperformancelife

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joegagnon

Quotations: "I am driven by a simple mission: helping people realize they are capable of far more than they believe is possible."

"Growth happens at the edge. It's in the uncomfortable, uncertain, and transformational moments that we find out who we truly are."

"Discomfort is a noise, not the signal."

"Track what you did with each hour of the day for a week. It will show you where you spent too much time and where you spent not enough."

"The human system is made not to survive but to thrive."

"We're not on the path. We are the path."

"We are what we do. I am a writer because I've written for 4000 days in a row. I didn't start out as a writer."

"I don't relate to my age...I do movement for a purpose: activity, resiliency, meditation, being in nature, rewarding the human system for doing what it's supposed to."

"The word 'failure' to me is not a word."

Rowdy Girl Sanctuary's Renee King-Sonnen and her husband, Tommy Sonnen, an ex-cattle rancher, are finalists in America's Favorite Couple contest. Vote for them at https://buff.ly/mm6pP3k.

Karina Inkster is a fitness coach, author, and host of the No-B.S. Vegan Podcast. She also holds a Master's degree in gerontology, the study not just of older adult health but the process of aging itself. In this episode, we talk about fitness at every age, the scourge of diet culture, and how to get the fitness industry more veg-friendly.

Website (for Karina and her online vegan training company, K.I. Health & Fitness)

Books (Resistance Band Workouts, Resistance Band Workouts for Seniors, Foam Rolling, The Vegan Athlete, and Vegan Vitality)

Facebook

Instagram

Sponsors of this episode: Main Street Vegan Academy (discount code for Autumn 2025 cohort, FRIEND), and Complement dietary enhancements (discount code for 10% any order or subscription: MAINSTREET)

A celebrity in the plant-based space, Chef AJ is known for her wildly popular YouTube programming, as well as summits and bundles on weight loss and health. Recently, she has also been applauded for her brave "coming out" with a lung cancer diagnosis. In this powerful and engrossing episode, AJ and Victoria, both vegans of 40+ years, discuss navigating the tough times with faith and good humor.

Chef AJ's Website

YouTube channel

Cookbook: Unprocessed: 10th Anniversary Edition

Cookbook: Sweet Indulgence: Guilt-Free Treats Sweetened Naturally With Fruit

Facebook

Instagram

What if half of American meals were plant-based? Discover how this shift could help end factory farming and transform our food system for good.

Andrew DeCoriolis is executive director of Farm Forward, dedicated to ending factory farming and encouraging people to eat "as few animals as possible, ideally none." In addition to sharing the rationale of this approach, DeCoriolis updates us on the bird flu threat and the dangers of antibiotic use in animal agriculture.

Farm Forward website: https://www.farmforward.com/who-we-are/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farmforward/?hl=en