Mei Kurihara & Manmohini: Benefits of Vegan Diet

10/18/23 • 37 min

Mei is interviewing Mohamini - her high school friend from Italy who grew up in India as a vegetarian but decided to become a vegan.

Being a vegan is not only an investment in your health, but in the well-being of nature, animals, and society. It is not about the meat and food and tastes - it is more about the industry and all the animal-based products that are very toxic to the environment.

Transitioning to a vegan diet sometimes is hard because of the lifestyle and stress, but the most important thing is to be flexible and you will find it doable if you put your mind to it. Mei and M have a lot of pieces of advice on how to become a vegan, so check this episode out and see why changing your diet might be the next best thing for you.

🥑 How much we can learn from veganism? 00:09
😎 Famous people who are vegan. 01:33
✨ Brought up to be a vegetarian but decided to be a vegan: saving animals and protecting the environment. 02:23
🍕 When you cook your own vegan pizza: the best pizza ever. 07:19
🌸 Advantages of being vegan: it is not all about food but it is about universal care for animals and the environment. 09:34
🙃 Culture shock for Italian friends when M said she is vegetarian: burden of being vegan on parties. 12:51
⚠️ Feeling temptations and issues: find friends who respect your choices. 17:28
🔑 Is a vegan diet unhealthy: balance is the key! 19:49
😋 Tofu is amazing: so versatile and tasty! 22:19
👣 Small steps in the transition to a vegan diet: start with reducing your meat intake. 23:47
🥛 Ditching milk: a vegan gelato is an amazing option. 27:27
🗻 A balanced diet and balanced people: In Japan almost all food is vegan. 29:09
🍣 Mohamini is looking forward to try to make vegan sushi on her own and she loves Mei’s Instagram page with recipes. 33:31

Links:

Connect with us : www.ascendnow.org

Mei: www.instagram.com/kinakomilklatte/

M: www.instagram.com/manmohinimt

Mei is interviewing Mohamini - her high school friend from Italy who grew up in India as a vegetarian but decided to become a vegan.

Links:

Connect with us : www.ascendnow.org

Mei: www.instagram.com/kinakomilklatte/

M: www.instagram.com/manmohinimt

Previous Episode

Why Art Isn’t a Mainstream Career - Shriya Padke & Ishita

Parents have their own perspectives and look down on arts as not-so-good career choices such as law, medicine, or engineering. Shriya and Ishita talk about stereotypes of career choices in India and how they both overcome the challenges around art not being a good career path.

In this fascinating episode, Shriya shares her story about growing up without any pressure from her family, and Ishita is sharing her example of what usually happens to Indian kids when they’re trying to get into an artistic career.

No matter what you want to do in life, remember you need to have passion for it that will help you pass through the struggles of hard work. Life is about living, not surviving - so live it with your spread wings. If you are too scared, then find time to live your passion on the side or how ever you can, just don’t forget your talents!

Show notes:
🇮🇳 Shriya is an Indian who has never lived in India: coding and medicine as usual career choices. 01:26
🤗 No career pressure from Shriya’s family: from double science to acting. 02:33.
🕺🏽 Ishita and Shriya’s fathers were both acting, but then changed their career paths. 04:41
🎼 Ishita was raised to have coding as her backup, but actually writing music is at her core. 06:33
🏃🏽‍♀️ Running away from mathematics and STEM: the signs around Shriya and acceptance at NYU. 10:10
📱 Don’t waste your talent: Ishita is building an app for artists. 11:24
🧠 Rules and blackmail mindset - maneuver the mindset of parents. 13:00
🎯 There is no secure musical education in India - it all starts from education. 15:36
🆚 ‘What will they think of me” mindset vs. accepting music as a career choice. 17:37
🥥 Shriya is a half-open coconut. 20:13
😇 The influence of their fathers: writing and creativity that runs in these families.23:00
▶️ Go for it and take up your dream: don’t consider it as a plan B! 24:42
🔥 Shriya’s ‘For the Plot” philosophy: taking risks because we only live once. 25:49
!!️ Competition is in every career: when plan B is not a safe ground but a distraction from the real path. 27:11
⚡ The power of positive reassurance: how to deal with criticism around you. 30:44
👩🏽‍🎤 Stage anxiety and accent issues: copying Katy Perry, Beyoncé, and Rihanna’s pronunciation. 34:57
🦋 Spread your wings: Life is about living. 42:31
🌟 Don’t let your dream go: do it at least on the side. 44:50

Links
Connect with us : www.ascendnow.org

Shriya: https://instagram.com/3hriya?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Ishita: https://instagram.com/ishita.parakh?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Next Episode

Hir Shah & Devi Shany - Meet the Founder of Ascend Now

Entrepreneurship is a really cool vehicle to figure out who you are. It can help you understand what kind of mindset you have, how you tackle problems, and how you react differently to different situations.

Devi Shany shares her journey of founding Ascend Now and changing the educational systems. Tune in to hear what are the obstacles she faced, what motivates her to keep going, what changes she wants to see for the women of the world, and what are the most amazing stories she is proud of.

The key to success is not having things handed to you on a silver platter, but through failing and learning. The easiest way to accept failing and learning is through business and entrepreneurship, and that is the reason why Ascend Now focuses on those classes with their students.

Notes:
🌞 Devi is fascinated by education: filling the academic and pedagogical gaps and helping students with self-awareness. 01:47
🙃 Devi didn’t know she wanted to be an entrepreneur: she loves poetry. 03:47
⚡ Helping students with time management, entrepreneurship, public speaking, executive functioning, and motor skills. 05:48
😎 Embracing fear as a vehicle to fail in the most healthy way: learning through failing in entrepreneurship. 07:48
🎯 It's important to recognize your successes, your failures, and where you want to be in life, and you can’t learn this in ordinary school. 12:25
⚖️ Issues in creating and building business: find your middle ground and balance. 14:24
👩‍💼 Leaving corporate job: Devi was not born to be an employee, even though she tried so hard to get her job at Goldman Sachs. 19:36
💣 Devi is proud of her students: unique success stories about huge changes her students did. 23:48
🤯 Hir failed her math classes in elementary school: from math support to the highest-level math courses. 25:33
💎 Women in entrepreneurship should be persistent and bold: education companies don’t engage with students. 32:27
🧠 Mental health: feeding your brain is as important as feeding your soul and your body. 37:08
🙏 Devi thinks praying and exercising are super helpful to detox her body and brain. 39:08
😇 Creating Devi’s world: gender labeling and its impact on society, culture, and future generations. 43:10
💚 Health and Family are two things that Devi stopped taking for granted.46:29
😍 Devi loves her solitude time rather than going out. 47:50