In this episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk to Dr. Sailesh Rao the Executive Producer of "What The Health", "Cowspiracy" and the upcoming documentary "A Prayer for Compassion". Dr. Rao is an extremely calm and intellectual man who has a strong understanding of strategy and possibility. During our time together we learned about the work Climate Healers is doing in creating a world of nonviolence as well as the economic repercussions that can affect a fully vegan world. He gives us some understanding of why we can expect 2026 to see an explosion of plant-eating people across the nations. We hope you find this intriguing. Make sure to join the conversations happening @planttrainers on Facebook and on Instagram around these topics this week. Dr. Sailesh Rao has over 32 years of professional experience and is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers, a non-profit dedicated to healing the Earth's climate. A systems specialist with a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Dr. Rao worked on the Internet communications infrastructure for twenty years after graduation. In 2006, he switched careers and became deeply immersed, full time, in the environmental crises affecting humanity and has been studying how to reverse them and achieve global sustainability from a systems perspective. Dr. Rao is the author of the 2011 book, "Carbon Dharma: The Occupation of Butterflies" and the 2016 book, "Carbon Yoga: The Vegan Metamorphosis". He is an Executive Producer of the trilogy of documentaries "They Don't Want You To See", "The Human Experiment" (2013), "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret" (2014) and "What The Health" (2017), which explore the systemic causes of human and environmental ill health. He is also an Executive Producer of the forthcoming documentary, "A Prayer For Compassion". Dr. Rao has over 50 standards contributions to the ATM Forum and the IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD Working Group, 22 peer-reviewed technical publications, 10 U.S. Patent, and 3 Canadian Patents and has received numerous awards throughout his career. In this episode we discuss: Becoming vegan Himsa is cruel A calm demeanor The internet in the 90's Shifting the community and creating standards for the internet and humanity Climate Healers Normalized violence and Normalized nonviolence Land, animals, and water Vegan 2026 Making vegan blow up Unemployment and the vegan world The most important reason for being vegan A Prayer for Compassion Links to things we mentioned: Work with us – grab a free call today! Sea Shepherd Operation Milagro V –> Learn More about the Vaquita Porpoise Wishing Well Farm Sanctuary Dr. Sailesh Rao – Email –> srao@climatehealers.org Climate Healers – Website, Facebook, Twitter Prevent Year Zero Vegan World 2026 The Human Experiment Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret What The Health A Prayer For Compassion Trailer for "A Prayer For Compassion" Main Street Vegan and Living A Vegan Lifestyle with Victoria Moran – PTP185 What The Health & Navigating Information with Tom Barbieri – PTP217 Food is The Solution: What To Eat To Save The World with Matthew Prescott – PTP250 Thank you to this month's Patrons for supporting us on Patreon: "Joe" Millie Pearson Mary Lou Fusi Carmen Fanous Emily Iaconelli Spanish Armada Michele Olender Don't forget to contact us at info@planttrainers.com with your question for our Plant Trainers Facebook Lives! We hope you enjoyed this podcast! Please take a moment and leave us a rating and review over on Apple Podcasts – we would be grateful! This will help get our podcast out to others who may enjoy it. We promise to read your reviews and consider your feedback. This show is for you. Please subscribe to The Plant Trainers Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Help us by spreading the news about our totally awesome Podcast! Click here for a list of our services
