What does it actually look like to thrive - not just survive - on a plant-based diet as you get older?

In this special episode I sit down with three extraordinary women who have dedicated their careers to this exact question:

👉🏻 Registered dietitian and plant-based nutrition pioneer Brenda Davis

👉🏻 Registered dietitian and longtime collaborator Vesanto Melina

👉🏻 Dr Charlene Black.

Together they bring decades of clinical experience, research and real-world results working with plant-based seniors.

This isn't about whether plant-based eating is safe. It's about how to do it brilliantly - with energy, strength, sharp thinking and genuine vitality - at every age.

WE COVER:

✔️ How to thrive on plants in your 60s, 70s and beyond - not just get by

✔️ Protein and muscle: what you actually need and how plants deliver it

✔️ Bone strength, calcium and the truth about plant-based eating and osteoporosis

✔️ Key nutrients to pay attention to as you age - B12, omega-3s, vitamin D and more

✔️ Brain health and cognitive vitality on a plant-based diet

✔️ Energy and appetite: eating well when your hunger signals change

✔️ Practical strategies for plant-powered seniors to look and feel their best

If you're a plant-based senior, or you're supporting one - this conversation is full of wisdom, warmth and genuinely useful guidance.

📗 Becoming Vegan by Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina — https://plant-poweredseniors.com/

🌿 Free Plant Powered Weight Loss Masterclass — Monday 26 October: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/masterclass

💚 Book a free Weight Loss Audit call: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/transform

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Have you ever had one off-plan meal turn into a week of giving up?

Gave into dessert, and it turned into an all-out binge?

It’s ok… there’s nothing “wrong” with you…

You're doing something I see all the time - you're spiralling.

The mistake was never the problem.

The spiral after the mistake - that's where your progress actually gets lost.

In this episode, Kerryn breaks down why we spiral after an off-plan meal, the psychology of shame and emotional eating, and a practical 6-question reset framework you can use immediately to stop the spiral in its tracks.

IN THIS EPISODE:

✔️ Why one difficult meal can turn into three days of giving up - and what's really driving it

✔️ How your thinking drives your emotional state, which drives your action & your results

✔️ The 6-Question Reset: a simple framework to get curious instead of critical after any setback

✔️ The "next best decision" - why perfection is never the goal, and what to do instead

✔️ How to be okay with who you've been - and talk to yourself with the compassion that creates real, lasting change

✔️ Why the most successful people aren't the ones who never fall - they're the ones who always come back

LINKS:

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/transform

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐 www.theplantpowercoach.com.au

Most doctors were never taught that food is medicine.

Dr Michael Klaper has spent 35 years trying to change that.

In this episode Kerryn Sawyer sits down with Dr Michael Klaper - physician, plant-based pioneer, former NASA nutrition advisor and author of Moving Medicine Forward - for a conversation about what conventional medicine is missing, what the evidence actually says about reversing chronic disease through nutrition, and why he is now teaching medical students what he was never taught himself.

In this episode:

✔️ Dr Klaper’s personal story - from conventional medicine to plant-based nutrition pioneer

✔️ What he experienced in his own body when he changed his diet

✔️ The evidence linking food to heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and chronic inflammation

✔️ Real patient stories of disease reversal through nutrition

✔️ Why most doctors are still not having this conversation - and what is happening in medical education

✔️ The Moving Medicine Forward initiative - teaching future doctors what current ones were never taught

✔️ His new book and where to get it

Links:

✔️ Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Moving-Medicine-Forward-Doctors-Nutrition_and/dp/1637748264

✔️ Moving Medicine Forward: www.movingmedforward.org

✔️ Dr Klaper’s website: www.doctorklaper.com

✔️ Book a free weight loss audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/transform

✔️ Grab my free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

✔️ Join my free Facebook community to be part of these LIVE episodes: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐 www.theplantpowercoach.com.au

Do you recognise this pattern…

You’ve been going really well. Eating healthy, on plan, feeling good, you're feeling it in your body, your clothes are getting looser and the scale is finally moving.

And there’s that little voice in your head saying “OMG, I think this is actually happening!”

And then something happens. A stressful week. A hard conversation.

One of those days where everything is just a bit too much.

And suddenly you're eating your face off.

Then the guilt and shame spiral… And you're sitting there thinking “WTF just happened?”

If that sounds familiar - this podcast episode is for you.

Because what I see again and again with the women I work with is that falling off has nothing to do with willpower or discipline.

It’s time to stop blaming yourself, and start understanding why this happens, and what you really need to shift the pattern.

IN THIS EPISODE:

☑️ Why doing well when life is easy is not the skill that creates lasting change

☑️ What is actually happening inside your brain when you fall off

☑️ The exact internal monologue that plays out on those hard nights

☑️ The Monday problem - why fresh starts keep failing and what to do instead

☑️ What real change stirs up - and why nobody warns you about this part

☑️ Why this is exactly where having the right support changes everything

LINKS:

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/transform

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐 www.theplantpowercoach.com.au

Ever reached for food in moments when you feel uncomfortable?

You know you’re not hungry, but you just have a compulsion you just can’t seem to control…

If that’s you - this week’s episode is going to land.

Most women who struggle with their weight already know what to eat.

The problem is not the food - it is what is happening underneath.

This week Kerryn was interviewed by fellow plant based coach Bianca Jayne Stares - The Plant Based Queen - for her “Her Plant Powered Tour” - a series of thirty conversations with leading plant based health experts through September.

They talked about emotional eating.
Where it starts, why it happens, and what to actually do about it.

They get personal, talking about their own stories of childhood experiences, our emotions, and emotional suppression with food or alcohol.

IN THIS EPISODE:

✔️ What emotional eating actually is - and why it has nothing to do with willpower

✔️ Why physical hunger and emotional hunger are completely different things - and how to tell them apart

✔️ Why it often starts before we even have a memory of it

✔️ How unresolved emotions keep coming back louder until we deal with them

✔️ Kerryn’s method to break the emotional suppression habit for good

If you have ever thought there was something wrong with you that you just couldn’t break this pattern and lose weight… this episode will help you realise there’s nothing “wrong” with you - it’s a completely logical learned behaviour.

And if you taught yourself to behave one way, you can retrain yourself to behave a different way.

BIANCA’S LINK:

🌍 Her Plant Powered Tour: https://overhaulhw.co.uk/herplantpoweredtour

KERRYN’S LINKS:

📗 Free Stop Overeating Cycles Guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/overeating

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐 www.theplantpowercoach.com.au

Most women going through perimenopause or menopause are told the same thing → your hormones are changing. Here are your options.

But what if that conversation is leaving out the most important part?

In this episode Kerryn sits down with medical intuitive and her tutor Emma Turton to explore a very different view of menopause - one that goes beyond hormones, beyond HRT, and into what is actually driving the experience for most women.

In this episode:

☑️ What women really experience in perimenopause and menopause

☑️ What the conventional medical response to menopause gets wrong

☑️ Why the hormones-only explanation misses the bigger picture

☑️ What is actually driving menopause symptoms beyond the hormonal shifts

☑️ What women can do about it that most have never been told

EMMA’S LINKS:

👉 Menopause Unf*cked Course → https://medicalintuitionschool.com/perimenopause-unfcked

👉 Follow Emma on Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/emmaturtonhealth

👉 Follow Emma on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/emmaturton.medicalintuition

KERRYN’S LINKS:

💻 13 Pounds Down course info: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/13lbdown

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐 www.theplantpowercoach.com.au

My friend & plant based health & weight loss coach, Bianca Jayne - The Plant Based Queen - has created an incredible event that you’d be mad to miss.

30 of the world’s leading voices in plant based nutrition, women’s health, psychology and holistic health.

One per day through September.

All completely free.

In this episode I sit down with Bianca to talk about how she built Her Plant Powered Tour, who is in it, and why you need to register before September 1st.

And yes, I’m on the list.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

✔️ Dr Neal Barnard - Genetics, Menopause & Weight Gain - 2nd September

✔️ Dr Scott Stoll - Regenerative Way To Healing Pain & Injuries - 3rd September

✔️ Anita Marriott - Survive & Thrive in a Non-Vegan World - 5th September

✔️ Vesanto Melina — Plant Powered Seniors - 7th September

✔️ Kate Galli - Backing Yourself as a Confident Vegan - 9th September

✔️ Angela Crawford - The Psychology of Going Plant Based - 11th September

✔️ Brenda Davis RD - Plant Powered Seniors - 12th September

✔️ Kerryn Sawyer - Get Off The Emotional Eating Roller Coaster - 14th September

✔️ Karina Inkster - Protein vs Diet Culture - 15th September

✔️ Dr Dawn Mussallem - Cancer, Nutrition & More - 16th September

✔️ Callum Weir — Toxic Diet Culture — 26th September

✔️ Alixandra Brown - ADHD & Menopause - 27th September

✔️ Plus many more through the full series

REGISTER FOR FREE:

👉🏻 https://overhaulhw.co.uk/herplantpoweredtour

OTHER LINKS:

💻 13 Pounds Down course info: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/13lbdown

📗 Free PLANT Method weight loss guide: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
▶️https://youtube.com/channel/UC6_5pXCvGpHA6a86HheXi5A

🌐 www.theplantpowercoach.com.au

Teneale had tried three weight loss programs before working with Kerryn.

One helped her lose 15 kilos in 12 weeks on a strict meal plan.

And then the weight came back - because she had learned how to follow rules, not how to actually live.

Six months later, working without meal plans, without perfection, and without giving up chocolate - she is 10.6 kilos down…

Plus sleeping better, digesting better, experiencing less peri-menopause symptoms and feeling more energised than she has in years.

This is her story.

IN THIS EPISODE:

✔️ Three programs, three rounds of lost-and-regained weight - and what was missing each time

✔️ How a vet nurse with a crazy busy schedule built a simple food system that actually works

✔️ Why being allowed to eat chocolate meant she ate far less of it

✔️ How she handled emotional eating during a genuinely hard season without falling apart

✔️ The perimenopause symptoms that have settled since changing her food

✔️ Her honest advice to anyone stuck in the same cycle

LINKS:

💻 13 Pounds Down course - launching Sept 2026: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/13lbdown

📗 Free plant based weight loss guide (includes the PLANT plate visual): https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weightlossguide

📲 Book a free Weight Loss Audit: https://www.theplantpowercoach.com.au/weight-loss-audit

👥 Join the free Facebook community — Plant Based Health and Weight Loss Support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987329621622690/?ref=share

FOLLOW KERRYN:

👤 https://www.facebook.com/kerryn.sawyer
📸https://instagram.com/theplantpowercoach
🌐 www.theplantpowercoach.com.au