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Episode 70: Transitioning Kids to a Plant Based Diet with Anne Marie Parent

The Herban Farmacy

05/03/22 • 53 min

Anne-Marie has always been passionate about health and nutrition. Her interest in food began when she started experiencing digestive issues as a teenager. After being diagnosed with IBS and told there wasn't much she could do about it, Anne-Marie began a long journey looking for answers and trying out different diets including a flexitarian diet and vegetarian diet. In summer 2020, she found her answers in Dr. Will Bulciewicz's book Fiber Fueled, which was all about the importance of eating a diversity of plants. She signed up for his course, "The Plant-Fed Gut" which gave her the confidence she needed to fully commit to a plant-based diet. Anne-Marie has continued learning about this way of living and has a certificate from Rouxbe's Professional Plant-Based Cooking Program and Essential Desserts Course, as well as a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colins Campbell Centre for Nutrition Studies through eCornell. To her surprise, she was able to influence her children and husband to follow along... probably because she was talking about the benefits of plants so much and her cooking got better!

Anne-Marie holds a Master in Health Administration. Her ultimate goal is to make the health care system more sustainable by supporting lifestyle changes, but for now, she is finding joy and meaning in helping families adopt more plant-based and plant-forward diets.

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What we talked about:

3:30- Introduction to Anne Marie

9:15- Anne Marie’s transition to becoming plant based

16:00- What has changed for her in the 2 years she has been plant based

22:50- What it looked like for her family after she transitioned to a plant based lifestyle

38:20- Talking to kids about nutrition

44:50- Her family’s favorite plant based dishes

49:20- Wrap-up

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Anne Marie’s Website

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Episode 65: Alexis Greco; Organization for Moms, Entrepreneurs, and Network Marketers

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03/29/22 • 42 min

Alexis Greco is the founder of The Rhythmic Home, an Army wife of 11 years, and a homeschool mom to four children ages 8 and under. She has been in Network Marketing for 15 years, and reached the top 1% of her company.
She now supports Network Marketers to create the thriving home & business of their dreams through systems. She believes that you can be successful at home AND in your business at the same time.
You can find her on Instagram at @alexistgreco and take her Free Quiz to find out how much money you’re leaving on the table by not operating in your own Rhythm!

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What we talked about:

3:15- Introduction to Alexis

5:15- Organizational strategies for moms

10:00- Homeschooling her kids

13:35- Time management tips

19:25- Top 3 systems for network marketers to succeed

24:55- Organization and systems for teams

29:05- Building a team in network marketing

35:00- Message to the audience

39:30- Wrap-up

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Alexis on Instagram

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Episode 68: Ashley Kitchens on The Keto Diet

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04/19/22 • 31 min

Ashley Kitchens grew up on an Angus cattle farm in small-town Indiana. As you might guess, meat and dairy were a big part of daily life. Unfortunately, so were GI issues like chronic constipation. For years, she was told to manage my issues with medication instead of considering the food she was was putting into her body.

Ashley earned my Masters of Public Health and Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and became a registered dietitian in 2012. But, even after all that, her issues didn’t completely go away.

It wasn’t until she did personalized research to dive deep into my own life and my own eating habits that she noticed a significant change. For her, this meant transitioning to a plant-based lifestyle.

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What we talked about:

3:10- The keto diet

4:30- What she sees with her clients that are trying the keto diet

5:55- The general definition of a keto diet and what it looks like for a day of eating

12:10- The correlation between diabetes and keto

14:10- Gut issues and the keto diet

17:35- Potential health issues that can be seen from this type of diet

20:50- Eggs and cholesterol

22:05- Plant based keto versus animal keto diet

24:15- Tips to transition off of a keto diet

26:10- Final thoughts on keto

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Episode 67: Sara Annis; Homeschooling

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04/12/22 • 33 min

Sara Annis is a health educator turned homeschool mom of two. Her passion is to support families in their journey to healthy intentional living.

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What we talked about:

3:30- Introduction to Sara

4:15- When she decided to homeschool

7:00- Her homeschooling setup

9:10- Tips for homeschooling

14:35- Why they decided to homeschool

17:35- Curriculum that she recommends

22:25- How she plans and structures her days

28:30- Wrap-up

Show notes:

Sara on Instagram

Sara’s Blog

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Episode 66: Glen Merzer; Food is Climate

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04/05/22 • 40 min

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Glen Merzer is a playwright, screenwriter, and author. He has authored or co-authored eleven books with a vegan message. His latest book, Food Is Climate: A Response to Al Gore, Bill Gates, Paul Hawken, & The Conventional Narrative on Climate Change, argues that the only way to reverse climate change is to put an end to animal agriculture.

Glen is also the author of Own Your Health (The Book Publishing Company, 2021), an examination of role of nutrition in health, told with humor and with personal anecdotes.

Glen began his career in book-writing as co-author, with Howard Lyman, of Mad Cowboy (Simon & Schuster, 1998). Glen is also co-author of The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss (2018) and Unprocessed (2011) by Chef AJ, as well as other books advocating plant-based eating. The Tenth Anniversary New Edition of Unprocessed has just been released.

Glen’s one novel is Off the Reservation, a political satire about a vegan congressman from the Midwest who runs for president.

Glen grew up in Bellmore, N.Y., and attended New College of Florida in Sarasota. You can find him at www.glenmerzer.com.

What we talked about:

4:20- Introduction to Glen and his journey to a vegan diet

8:10- Becoming an author and why farming is so detrimental to the the environment

20:35- Lagoons and factory farming

25:00- Deciding to write about the impact on the environment

32:35- Tips for reducing consumption of animals

38:05- Wrap-up

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Episode 69: Tapping into Intuition with Mindie Adamos

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04/26/22 • 31 min

Mindie first is a wife, a mama to our son Ace Ohana, friend and daughter who is deeply connected to her purpose through God. She is a natural born Professional Shaman, Spiritual Leader, Psychic, Medium and beyond now living in her hometown/state in Iowa.

Mindie knew at a very young age that she experienced the world differently than others. She pushed down my gifts until life put her on an incredibly touching path with her Father in law who is now in Spirit. She knew she could either continue to bury her gifts or take a leap of faith into her purpose. She was being called to explore her prophetic gifts between our spiritual and physical worlds. It's now been a 12 + years journey, that while it was not always easy, it was absolutely worth it.

Mindie's gifts have always been 100% natural and guided by loving Spirit, God, Jesus and Angels. Her healing gifts expanded greatly after the passing of her Father in 2016 where she began the incredible awakening of her gifts as a Shaman. Those gifts only heightened her abilities as a Professional Psychic Medium and blended the two which offered life changing healing miracles for many, most of which were done through distant healing sessions. For 12+ years now, Mindie's clients around the world share testimony of incredible peace, life changing healing, awakening, joy, alignment, specific and accurate messages and miracles. You have to experience the love of spirit to fully comprehend what gifts Mindie has been assigned in this lifetime.

After traveling across the United States and spreading messages of hope and healing, Mindie continues to be amazed at the stories and hearts healed through events, group readings, one on one sessions and teachings.

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What we talked about:

5:20- Introduction to Mindie and the work that she does

9:40- How God and intuition can coexist

23:55- Describing intuition and ways to practice it

47:45- Entrepreneurship

58:05- Wrap-up

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Episode 64: Racial Disparity in a Plant-Based World

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03/22/22 • 36 min

@TheEatSchool on Instagram

Angela Yvonne is a multifaceted talent and entrepreneur who believes in living a life unconventionally and with authenticity.

Born in Agana, Guam Graduating from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke with a double Bachelor of Science in Broadcasting and Public Relations, she became a successful publicist working with luxury brands Iwi Fresh and Flirt and Flutter with securing opportunities and creating memorable events.

Angela took a leap, moving to New York, betting on herself and became an on-air personality working with brands such as Dr.Oz ,Arise 360, The YBF.com and Internationally with Noni Chat in the UK and recently The Seed Food and Wine Festival.

A lifestyle change to Veganism/Plantbased birth the brand Vegan Pop Eats. Vegan Pop Eats aims to educate, showcase the hottest vegan spaces and trends and meet people where they are in their journey to plant based living.

Her infectious energy and passion for veganism has contributed to thoughts and as she says” My conversion rate is spectactacular” for her audience to see how living this way is an asset to life as a whole . She has interviewed entrepreneurs, ceo’s and celebrities who are making strides in the space such as NBA legend John Salley, Mya, John Lewis (Filmmaker, Badass Vegan) Lauren Toyota(Hot For Food) Alon Hochberg (Billion Vegans) Omowale Adeale ( Black VegFest) amongst others. Fluent in Pop Culture, she has become a familiar face on the red carpets as well.

Genail McKinley, aka ‘Genny Mack”

Certified Holistic Nutritionist

Certified Fitness Coach

Recipe Developer and Plant-Based Chef

Co-Founder of GrillzandGranola

Former Corporate Executive and Certified Public Accountant

Meet Genny Mack. Genny was born in El Paso, Texas, grew up in Philly, and now lives in Bronx, New York. She enjoys traveling with her husband Miguel, has experienced 26 countries, and lived in London, UK, and Bengaluru, India. Genny is a woman of many talents and dedicates her life to helping people heal through plant-based eating, movement, and mindfulness.

After leaving her full-time corporate career as a CPA for over 12 years, Genny decided to pursue her passion for wellness and founded theEATschool in 2021 as a plant-based philosophy. The principles of theEATschool are to Educate, Adopt and Transform. Her mission is to empower women to heal with plants and prioritize themselves to live abundantly.

Genny was diagnosed with Lupus, a chronic disease that predominantly affects women of color, in 2017 and has suffered many near-death experiences in 2018, such as being hospitalized with Stage IV Kidney Nephritis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy (inflammation of the lungs). Genny has not let Lupus get in the way of transforming her life to feel good every day. Genny decided to take control of her life and understand how to heal her body from trauma.

Genny transformed her overall well-being by transitioning to a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle and now has more mental clarity and energy than ever before. This led her to become a Certified Holistic Nutritionist and Fitness Coach and has changed over 100+ women's lives through clean eating, movement and mindfulness.

Genny is inspired to uplift the community by the amazing works of nutritionist Tracye McQuirter and influencer Tabitha Brown, for example. Genny’s inspiration is to impact the lives of 10K+ women to adopt a plant-based lifestyle, feel better and heal our communities.

What we talked about:

4:30- Introduction to Genny

5:30- Introduction to Angela

6:40- Each of their plant based journeys

10:30- Living in the south and the access to fresh foods

15:35- Racial disparity in the vegan movement

29:20- What we can teach our kids about racism

Show notes:

Genny’s Website

Genny on Instagram

Angela on Instagram

Angela on YouTube

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Episode 63: LeeAnne Ruff; Confidence for Network Marketers

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03/15/22 • 40 min

LeeAnne Ruff is the founder of The Bright Side and business coach and mentor to thousands of entrepreneurs worldwide. She has been an expert in the direct sales industry for over 30 years, first as a leader in the field and then with various titles in the corporate offices of some of the most highly regarded companies in the industry.

LeeAnne's passion is mentoring individuals to six-or-seven figure success, all thanks to the amazing opportunities that network marketing provides. She has a tell-it-like-it-is approach based on her years of building a business herself. But that's not all; with her incredible story, she inspires crowds to their feet and helps those who listen gain the self-confidence they need to excel in any area of their lives.

She is also the mom of four incredible humans and the grandma of six. She lives on a farm in the Adirondack Mountains of New York with her husband of 34 years, Jon.

She is in the process of authoring a book and updating her website and blog - leeanneruff.wordpress.com. In the meantime, you can find her on her Facebook page, The Bright Side @brightsidecoaching.

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What we talked about:

4:25- Having confidence with network marketing

16:45- Overcoming fear of judgment from other people

25:25- A practice to improve your confidence

30:35- How leaders can have a strong belief in their team

37:25- Wrap-up

Show notes:

LeAnne’s Website

LeAnne on Facebook

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Episode 71: Dr Will Bulsiewicz: Food, gut health, trauma & wellness hacks

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05/13/22 • 73 min

Dr. Will Bulsiewicz (or "Dr. B") is an award winning gastroenterologist, internationally recognized gut health expert and the New York Times-bestselling author of Fiber Fueled and The Fiber Fueled Cookbook. He sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of ZOE, has authored more than twenty articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, has given more than forty presentations at national meetings, presented to Congress and the USDA, and has taught over 10,000 students how to heal and optimize their gut health. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina with his wife and children.