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Species UniteElizabeth MeLampy: Forget the Camel"The basic premise of the event is that hunters hunt rattlesnakes from the surrounding environment all across West Texas, and bring them into the roundup for the weekend. And during the roundup, these snakes are kept in a pit and then, one by one, beheaded and skinned in front of in front of audiences." - Elizabeth MeLampy Elizabeth MeLampy is a lawyer dedicated to animal rights and protection, and her passion for this work shines through in her latest book, Forget the Camel, the Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say About Being Human. To r...2025-03-1239 min
speciesunitemembers's podcastElizabeth MeLampy: Animal Festivals Then and Now2025-03-1003 min
Species UniteCollette Adkins: They're Shooting Wolves from Helicopters in Idaho"In Montana they allow using dogs to chase down wolves, which essentially becomes like state sanctioned dog fighting. You have this horrible scenario where the packs of dogs are surrounding the wolf pack, and it just comes to a bloody end. These are blood sports. This is something that we should be way beyond as a society." - Collette Adkins Collette Adkins is the carnivore conservation director at the Center for Biological Diversity. She focuses on combating the exploitation and cruel treatment of wolves and other rare wildlife. I wanted to talk to Collette because...2023-12-2331 min
Species UniteElizabeth Baker: Organs on a Chip, Reconstructed Human Epidermis, Human Simulators and other Highly Effective and Seriously Ethical Methods to Replace Animals in Research and Experimentation “I think we are at the point where so many of these methods have shown in studies to be more predictive for humans that it really is an issue of human health. We need to do better for patients. We know we can and that these methods exist, so we need to use them.” -Elizabeth Baker This past season, we’ve focused quite a bit on animal research and experimentation, and a lot of our focus has been really on just how bad it is, how bad it is for the animals, how bad it is for science...2023-06-1427 min
Una Yogui en la Vida Moderna44. Frustración en el yoga: ¿Qué hacer cuando aparece la Frustración en la practica? con Dara MartínezEn este episodio del podcast de yoga hablamos sobre la frustración en la práctica, tanto como alumnos como profesores.
¿Qué hacer cuando no me sale cierta asana? ¿Qué hago cuando me parece que no avanzo lo suficiente en mi practica? Hoy junto con Dara Martínez hablamos de la frustración, de cómo lidiar con ella, trucos para luchar contra la pereza... Pero además, también hablamos de la frustración en el profesor de yoga: ¿puedo ser profe sin hacer todas las posturas? ¿Qué hacer cuándo aparece el síndrome del imp...2023-04-011h 04
Species UniteJosh Balk: How To Change America’s Cruelest IndustrySpecies Unite will be back with a brand new season next Thursday the 28th. Until then, we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Josh Balk. “The time to begin phasing out the intensive confinement systems in which we raise billions of animals is now. We need to accelerate society’s direction of reducing demand for meat from animal factory farms and shift instead to more of an emphasis on healthier — and safer — plant-based foods. As our population grows, plant-based foods are also more sustainable and affordable for societies globally. Unless we — especially...2021-10-2145 min
Species UniteLiza Heavener: The Game ChangerSpecies Unite will be back with a brand new season on October 28th. For now, we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Liza Heavener. “There would be some mornings that the indigenous tribal leaders would take us out into virgin rainforest… [I was] like, “no human has ever stood here before.” And it was alive with, I mean, you name the animal… and it was loud full and of life. And they would take us out the very next day and it was just smoldering because it had been slashed and burned ille...2021-10-1436 min
Species UniteMilo Runkle: Widening The Circle Of CompassionSpecies Unite will be back with a brand new season on October 28th. Today, we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes, a conversation with Milo Runkle. The only way to help animals is to help people. It’s humans that need to change, not animals. And I think it's the same way when we're talking about other issues in our society. It's about healing those who are causing violence, and it oftentimes can be easy to judge and persecute and sort of push aside people that are causing harm. It's more challenging to love them and to...2021-10-0743 min
Species UniteToni Okamoto: Plant-Based on a Budget“My family was really suffering from all types of diet related health issues. I had an aunt who had multiple amputations before it took her life because of type two diabetes. I had a 40-year-old uncle who had a heart attack. My grandpa, who helped raise me, died of complications in a triple bypass surgery. All over the place there was suffering and it's really hard to, not feel like you have not the answer, but the direction to go in to reclaim your health, and not be taken seriously.” – Toni Okamoto Species unite is starti...2021-09-3028 min
Species UniteErik Molvar: America's War on Wolves“Let me tell you, there were no bounties when wildlife management became a discipline and it's never been a part of wildlife management, but, but these are the crazy kooks at the absolute extreme of the hunting spectrum. And they got together and held fundraisers and started giving out thousand-dollar bounties on wolves.” – Erik Molvar Eric Molvar is the executive director of the Western Watersheds Project. He was on the podcast recently to talk about the wild horse crisis in the American West. Today, he is back to talk about wolves and the wolf wars that are happen...2021-09-2347 min
Species UniteShannon Falconer: Lab Grown Mouse Cookies For Your Cat“So, the irony is that meat that people are so obsessed about their cat needing… Yeah, in the wild cats needs meat because in the wild, that meat is a source of the nutrients that a cat needs. But on a commercial bag of pet food, those nutrients, those core key nutrients that the cat needs, they're not coming from the meat, they're coming from the pre-mix that is largely a synthetic mix of vitamins and minerals that have been lost from the meat.” – Shannon Falconer Shannon Falconer is the CEO and co-founder of Because, Animals, a pet food...2021-09-1629 min
Species UniteIsha Datar: Cellular Agriculture will Disrupt Everything it Touches“…because animal advocacy has now escaped advocacy and is entering different types of work, really science-oriented work… maybe that was all it took in the first place. We just had such limited roles in the traditional sense of animal advocacy before. Because it was so communications driven… And so that's another reason why I'm so proud of how this field has developed is I think we've turned people into animal advocates by creating jobs that let that happen. It's such a special thing to be part of.” Isha Datar Isha Datar is the executive di...2021-09-0937 min
Species UniteUnderwater Photography Legend Brian Skerry“…based on my personal experience and having worked with scientists and researchers most of my life, I would say that it's not too late. There are some things that are probably gone. There are places where only pockets of biodiversity may remain in the time ahead, but that doesn't mean we can't still have a healthy future. It may not be what it once was, but it's like the old saying - when's the best day to quit smoking cigarettes? Today - if you don’t quit today, when's the next best day? Tomorrow. So, it's not too lat...2021-09-0242 min
Species UniteCarl Safina: Becoming WildThis week we are re-sharing one of our favorite episodes - a conversation with Carl Safina about beauty, wonder and why animals matter. "Beings who've succeeded on earth for millions of years, don’t seek, and should not require, our approval. They belong as well as we do. We do ourselves no favors by asking whether their existence is worth our while. We are hardly in a position to judge, hurdling and lurching along as we are with no goal, no plan except: bigger, faster, more. If we had the courage to be honest about it...2021-08-261h 00
Species UniteJamal Galves: Manatee Man “It made me feel like I wished that I had some sort of a super power, so that I could just picked them up and take them somewhere safe. But unfortunately, I'm not strong enough to have done that. So what I did was decide, at 11 years old, that I was going to commit my life to safeguarding the species… that I'll do everything in my power.” – Jamal Galves Jamal Galves grew up in a small village in Belize that's famous for its Manatee population. When he was 11 years old, he saw a research boat near his home and...2021-08-1928 min
Species UnitePaul Shapiro: Better Meat“It's kind of like light… you flick a light switch on in the room and when you flip that switch, what you want is the experience of a lit room. You're not thinking about whether it comes from renewable energy or fossil fuels. You just want light. Well, I think most people just want meat. They don't care if animals are slaughtered. In fact, they probably would prefer that they not be slaughtered for it.” – Paul Shapiro Paul is the founder and CEO of the Better Meat Co., an alternative protein company that is replacing animals in our food...2021-08-1240 min
Species UniteBeverly And Dereck Joubert: Are We Being The Best Version Of Ourselves?Tuesday, August 10th is World Lion Day, so we are re-sharing this conversation with Beverly and Derek Joubert. "When we were born, there were 450,000 lions, and today there are 20,000 lines. So that's a ninety-five percent decline. There were 750,000 leopards, and now maybe 45,000 leopards left. Cheetah numbers have dropped below 7,000. Tigers have had a little bit of a resurgence, but still under 5,000 and that's really worrying. We could lose a lot of these animals in the next 10 or 15 years" - Derek Joubert Are we being the best version of ourselves? That’s a question that...2021-08-0444 min
Species UniteErik Molvar: The American Wild Horse Crisis“It is not hyperbole to say that livestock grazing on Western public lands is the single biggest and most important environmental impact that does the most damage. And, also causes the most widespread impact of any of the things that damage public lands, including oil and gas development, including strip mining and mountaintop removal, including, damming, the rivers. Livestock raising is the most pervasive and the most ecologically harmful - and it's everywhere.” - Erik Molvar In the United States, we have around 80,000 wild horses living on Western public lands. For decades, there's been a...2021-07-2943 min
Species UniteNina Jackel: Lady Freethinker“You can't get to a point where you're so sensitive that you don't call out cruelty and torture when you see it, whether it's to a human being or to the planet or to an animal, you can't just stay silent, but you have to approach in the right way.” N -Nina Jackel Nina Jackel is an activist and journalist and the founder and president of Lady Freethinker, a media organization that provides news and grassroots action for a free and compassionate world - for every species. In 2013 Lady Freethinker was a blog written by Nina for...2021-07-2242 min
Species UniteJustin Barker: Bear Boy“And then a letter arrived in the mail. It was from a woman who had heard about my work to help zoo animals. She said, ‘there's these two bears living in a cage in the town near my house. It's on a creek that floods every year. It's horrible conditions. I have no idea what to do. Can you help?’ I don't think she knew that I was a 13-year-old.” – Justin Barker Justin is an activist, a director, a producer, and the author of Bear Boy, The True Story of a Boy, Two Bears and the Fight...2021-07-1534 min
Species UniteDamien Mander: How to be a Superhero“So, we had 87 women come in for what we call pre-selection, the interviews... And I can say that after all the shit that I've been through in my life, that was some of the hardest two days of my life, listening to those stories. And, it was hard in a way because they were genuinely tough stories, but it was also hard in a way to know that even though I hadn't done anything directly to these women, I was part of a culture that had kept women just like this oppressed, the boys club, the macho club, all th...2021-07-081h 03
Species UniteEric Adams: Planted. Not BuriedPlanted. Not Buried. That is how Eric Adams has chosen to see himself through the darkest moments of his life. The first occurred at age 15, when he and his brother were beaten by the police. Four years later he became a police officer and spent the next 22 years on the force, working to help reform NYC policing from the inside. He retired as a captain and now he serves as the President of the Borough that I call home - Brooklyn. Yes, Brooklyn has a President, an incredibly busy and very much in demand President...2021-07-0128 min
Species UniteMax Rye: The End of Dairy “…by the way, today, there might be an ick factor associated with it, but there might come a day that people will wonder, why are we drinking other species milks… If you have access to the real thing or the stuff that's in the real thing. I mean, it's these special proteins… these amazing different complex sugars and proteins that are found in human milk that are super valuable.” - Max Rye Max Rye spent more than 15 years helping businesses scale with technology. He was the CEO of a Silicon Valley tech company and at the time, ha...2021-06-2425 min
Species UniteEdwina Von Gal: For the BirdsEdwina Von Gal is a landscape designer and an indomitable steward of the planet. She spent her career designing landscapes for the rich and famous and collaborating with architects and artists like Maya Lin, Richard Serra, and Frank Gehry. A little over a decade ago, Edwina had an epiphany about the chemicals that we are pouring into our lawns, landscapes, and backyards. She decided right then that it would become her life’s mission to change the way that we treat our land and founded the Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit that promotes toxin-free lawns and...2021-06-1746 min
Species UniteDerek Sarno: Wicked HealthyDerek Sarno is a chef and a rockstar in the vegan world and he’s on a mission to inspire you to cook and eat more plants. He’s the Director of Plant-Based Innovation for Tesco PLC, and the Developer/Co-Founder of Wicked Kitchen. He helps lead Tesco’s plant-based team and the initiative to bring delicious, unpretentious plant-based foods to mainstream market. Derek and his brother Chad are the founders of Wicked Healthy, LLC., Wicked Foods inc. and Good Catch Foods. Prior to Tesco, Derek served as the Senior Global Executive Chef for Wh...2021-06-1032 min
Species UniteMichael Pellman Rowland: The Oatly IPO, The Magic of Mushrooms, and The Future of the Protein Market Place“If we fast forward, let's say to 2025, I think you're going to see a lot of companies in the marketplace using mushroom-based products to create alternatives to things like meat and chicken and within food. And then also alternatives within textiles to things like silk, leather and packaging for things like Styrofoam and plastic and so on. So, I’m very much a… what do you call it? Maybe, a fungo fanatic. I don’t know if there’s a phrase for that, but I am totally a believer in all things fungi.” -Michael Pellman Rowland...2021-06-0342 min
Species UniteSharon Guynup: Where Are They Now? The Fallen Stars of Tiger King“During the time he was on the run, Stark did this Facebook live where he railed against the judges, officials, animal rights, activists. He claimed that together, all of these people had conspired to deny him the right to own and breed exotic animals. He taunted law enforcement. He waved a hand grenade in front of his phone. Keep in mind, he's driving down the highway during this hour-long Facebook live. And he was also saying that he was willing to die for what he believed in.” – Sharon Guynup Sharon Guynup is a journalist, author and a Nation...2021-05-2740 min
Species UniteMichael Selden: Making Fish Without the Fish“There isn't going to be chicken farming on the moon or on Mars, but there could be cellular agriculture. And, so if people are going to eat meat in space, it's going to be produced like this…” – Michael Selden Michael Selden is the CEO and co-founder of Finless Foods, the world's first cellular agriculture company. Meaning they make fish without the fish and without the mercury, plastic, herbicides, ocean habitat destruction and cruelty. Finless Foods grows fish and other seafood products from cells. In 2017 they produced the first fish ever that was grown outside...2021-05-2034 min
Species UniteAlexandra Horowitz: The World According to Your Dog“I can drive my car off a cliff and just leave it where it lay, the most I'll get is a littering fine, and if you throw your dog off the cliff the punishment is actually pretty similar. That's because they're the same type of thing to the law. So, unless you change that status, and you have people of course, who are thinking that there should be a status of kind of living property that might give them more attributes than my car has or my chair has; and then there are individuals who think they should be gi...2021-05-1342 min
Species UniteJo Anderson: How to Create Real Change“…there's this disconnect between our beliefs and our behavior and part of what can be useful for overcoming that is to change the behavior first, which sounds really counterintuitive.” - Jo Anderson Jo Anderson is the Research Director at Faunalytics, an organization that empower animal advocates with access to research, analysis, strategies, and messages that maximize their effectiveness to reduce animal suffering. Jo is an advocate for animals and empirical research. For over ten years, Jo has investigated key social psychological issues such as persuasion, judgment, and decision-making, exploring how these concepts can be used to make the wor...2021-05-0629 min
Species UniteMichelle Egger: Human Breast Milk Made in a Lab“We see 84% of moms in the U S convert to infant formula partially or entirely in that first six months of life before the recommended period of exclusive breastfeeding ends. We see two thirds of moms express extreme shame and guilt and stigma for the way they feed their children. And, we continue to see that the infant formula industry in general has really pillaged and plundered in a lot of ways on parents wanting to do what's best for their child, but really not having better options and having very little innovation to really think about how to be...2021-04-2933 min
Species UniteJonathan Balcombe: What A Fish Knows“…gazing up to the night sky saying, ‘are we alone?’ …well, wait a minute, look around, there's tons of fascinating life forms. We're so lucky to have all this amazing panoply of life on the planet. I get the question… are there other humanoids out there? Or, are there other conscious beings? But we ought to be pretty grateful for what we have on this planet… there's a lot of amazing creatures and phenomena that we get to enjoy living with, if we can.” - Jonathan Balcombe Jonathan Balcombe is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the...2021-04-2240 min
Species UniteHakeem Jimo: Veggie Victory“A friend of mine in Germany is called Dr. Tofu. He was the first who did tofu on a commercial scale, in the eighties. They arrested him… for cooking something suspicious… He was arrested a couple of times. So, when it started in Nigeria and we opened the first vegan restaurant and there were also no vegetarian restaurants, people were saying, that's crazy. Why do you do that? But I knew kind of that time was on our side. - Hakeem Jimo Hakeem Jimo is the co-founder of Veggie Victory, Nigeria’s first plant-based food tech com...2021-04-1537 min
Species UniteCarrie Packwood Freeman How We Talk About Animals“We're all just participating in a culture that really isn't of our choice… we just grew up in this culture, but we can start questioning things and just not be afraid to say that we love other animals that they're astounding, and that we care about the environment and we want to be less impactful… you just have to be willing to say things that maybe other people haven't heard you say yet.” -Carrie P. Freeman Carrie Packwood Freeman is an associate professor of communications at Georgia State University. She's a critical cultural studies media researche...2021-04-0823 min
Species UniteEloísa Trinidad and Power Malu: Overthrow Community FridgeWe're creating a new system. When you look at it in that way, that's activism in itself. And that's actually fighting against a system that has billions of dollars, that has been spending billions of dollars, and not even asking people what they like to eat. They're not even considering the health. We're in the middle of a pandemic and who gets hit the hardest, black and brown communities with underlying conditions. Those underlying conditions stem from what they're eating. I get to go into these people's apartments, look in their fridge and then look at their...2021-04-0140 min
Species UniteUma Valeti: The Man Who Will Change the World“I was doing really well in cardiology. I loved my role. I loved the work I was doing. I'd say except for two or three people, everybody said, ‘this is crazy, why are you giving up a career that is on an upward trajectory and that you're doing really well in?’ The two or three people who heard me, they said, ‘Uma don't look back. If you have even a fraction of the impact of what you're thinking of having, that'll be a million-fold more impactful than what you could do as a cardiologist for the next 30 years in...2021-03-0449 min
Species UniteJim Greenbaum: Giving it All Away“I sat down, did some number questing and said, okay, 85% is going to be given away during my lifetime and the rest of thereafter. I sleep much better at nights. I do live comfortably, but there's a limit. I'd rather that money go to save lives.” - Jim Greenbaum Jim Greenbaum is the Founder and Managing Director of The Greenbaum Foundation. After college, Jim entered the workforce with one goal in mind - to make as much money as quickly as possible in order to use those funds to help make the world a better plac...2021-02-2522 min
Species UniteHelena Husseini: Like it’s Going to be the Last Day“I usually live day by day. I always live every day like it's going to be the last day. We learned that during the war. We don't know when we're going to die. So, you live every day like it's going to be the last day. That's what I do.” – Helena Husseini Helena Husseini is the vice-president of BETA, Beirut Ethical Treatment for Animals. BETA is the first and largest shelter in Lebanon with 850 dogs, many cats, a few horses, and a couple of monkeys. Helena is also an architect. She has been with BETA since...2021-02-1841 min
Species UniteJill Robinson: Ending One of the Darkest Trades on Earth“…I just remember walking around this room in total shock and then backing into a cage and feeling something touch my shoulder and realizing, ‘Oh my gosh, you know, I’ve come too close,’ and thinking I was going to be hurt. Then, as I turned around [I saw] what had touched me was the bears paw through the bars of the cage. She just had her paw there and was holding it out. And I did something ridiculously stupid. I took her paw, because it was there, reaching out and she just squeezed my fingers. That's all she di...2021-02-1140 min
Species UniteBernat Añaños: Foods For Tomorrow“…people were treating us like two crazy guys from Spain that were trying to change something in a country that loves meat... And now we see in these supermarkets, our product there… it’s crazy. I get very emotional when I think about that day that with Marc. We were working in a library for free because we did not have money to pay for an office. We just had this idea. We had these first prototypes for a product… let's try to sell it in few shops and let's see the feedback. And now we are in more tha...2021-02-0437 min
Species UniteKim and Frohman Anderson: Plant Powered Family“… it was quite a big change… when I was growing up, I even used to like hunt and fish, to be honest. I mean, that was part of our family tradition through generations, I made friends through those sorts of activities. My father and I used to do those things and my grandfather [too]. So, growing up around animal cruelty… it was very natural for me. …saying, “no, I'm not going to continue to participate in those sorts of things,” was actually quite a big transition and a scarry one. I didn't know what that meant for my relationship...2021-01-2830 min
Species UniteJennifer Stojkavic: Vegan Women Rule“We're not even talking about the barriers of having a plant-based company. There are still so many countries that they don't even support plant-based innovation, for every Israel and Singapore that’s making leaps and bounds, there's a France that's trying to push a meat diet. So, to be in an industry that is here to disrupt the mainstream and is here to disrupt a lot of what people hold dear, that’s a lonely journey. We need to make the effort to drive the conversation in the direction that we want it to go, because if we're...2021-01-2140 min
Species UniteChris Kerr: The Godfather of Vegan Venture Capital“We spent 50 years fighting industry and I mean, fighting industry. And we were poking a bear and poking a bear and poking a bear. And then one day that bear came up and just nuzzled us under the neck and said, “okay, we're interested.” …It was industry, it was the big players that came in and said, “why are we fighting this? If consumers are asking for plant-based, we can sell plant-based.’” – Chris Kerr Chris Kerr is on a mission to upend the entire food industry. Chris is the Chief Investment Officer at Unovis/New Crop Capital, a ve...2021-01-1431 min
Species UniteLeah Garcés and Michael Pellman Rowland: Transfarmation“There's $5 billion of debt collectively from contract chicken farmers. It's enormous. You're just treading water. You're just paying the bills and it starts off great, in the sense that you think you're going to make enough money. But you end up just paying bills and never getting ahead. And that's very typical.” – Leah Garcés Over the past few decades, people have become increasingly aware of the that factory farming is destroying the planet and most know that its abhorrently cruel and inhumane for animals. But most people still don’t realize that many farmers are also exploited...2021-01-0727 min
Species UniteDaniel Fox: Feel the Wild“Scientists have made this study and experiment… people would actually feel bad for the butterfly because now it's ready to come out of its cocoon, so they would open the cocoon for it. They would slice it open to make it easier for the butterfly to come out. And it turns out that even doing that weakens the butterfly, because that effort of breaking the cocoon and spreading your wings is a necessity to become more resilient and stronger in life” – Daniel Fox Daniel Fox is a photographer, solo wilderness explorer, author of FEEL THE WILD, founder of Feel...2020-12-3140 min
Species UniteThomas King: Plant-based Wunderkind“…From everything that I'd learned and from everything that I'd seen, I came to realize that our food and how we produce it, particularly products of industrial animal agriculture links to almost every issue I'd worked on from biodiversity loss to climate change to food insecurity.” – Thomas King Thomas King is the founder and CEO of Food Frontier, a food innovation think tank dedicated to diversifying the world's food supply through the development of alternatives proteins. For the last decade Thomas has driven food systems and environmental and poverty alleviation initiatives across five continents. Thomas...2020-12-2428 min
Species UniteAryenish Birdie: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Animal Protection“I think that when the animal protection movement really started gaining hold in the seventies... in the United States at least, I think there was a lot of harm done in the ways that we messaged the connections between humans in marginalized communities and animals. And I think that there's also a dynamic where… communities of color are often struggling for basic rights, basic needs to be met. And so, fighting for others is kind of a nice to have.” - Aryenish Birdie Aryenish Birdie is founder and Executive Director of Encompass, an organization that is fighting to incr...2020-12-1633 min
Species UniteDamien Mander: The Anti-Poaching Crusader“Even the first morning we saw a toughness, a certain toughness that I hadn't been experienced to. What we didn't realize with selection criteria that we're putting out there, is that we're actually getting the toughest in those communities. Not only in these communities, I mean, you're talking about one of our poorest places in one of the harshest areas on the planet, The Zambezi Valley and the life of a woman in rural Zimbabwe in the Zambezi Valley is it's not an easy one. And so we thought, with all this military selection, we were going to...2020-12-1047 min
Species UniteNicole Rawling: Lab Grown Animal Leather is HappeningNicole Rawling is the co-founder and executive director of the Material Innovation Initiative (MII), a game-changing non-profit that is helping to remove and replace animal materials with high-tech, near-identical materials that are all made without harming an animal. The goal of the initiative is to remove the farmed animal from materials such as leather, wool, silk, down, fur, and exotic skins - and instead use cutting-edge tech like cultivated and lab-grown cells to make kinder and more sustainable alternatives. Growing next gen materials like this is going to change the world – for animals, humans, and the...2020-12-0333 min
Species UniteKelly Guerin: Love Begets Love“… we are trying to make something watchable that is just unwatchable. I don't want to be here and I don't want to see this. And every part of me wants to turn away, but you have to engage with it, and you have to come out the other end with something that hopefully can encourage other people to stick with long enough to have it land.” - Kelly Guerin How we treat animals is how we treat humans. Kelly Guerin is a documentary filmmaker who has been making that connection for as long as she’s been m...2020-11-2649 min
Species UniteLori Marino: Intelligent Life on Earth“In a natural setting, these animals would be swimming maybe a hundred miles a day, diving deep. They have their social lives, their social networks, roles to play in very tightly-knit family groups. They raise their children. They have cultures, different ways of doing things in different populations. They can explore and play and come together. None of that is available in the concrete tank. None of it. They don't have any place to go. They don't have any place to dive… what you see is a lot of mortality, a lot of sickness, a lot of beha...2020-11-1941 min
Species UniteAmanda Hearst: A Better World for All Beings“Because we're told of so many problems and issues around the world, we get overwhelmed. And if you tell someone, okay, this is what's going on and this is what you can do. That's a bit different, people are like, okay, that's actionable.” - Amanda Hearst Amanda Hearst is co-founder of Well Beings, an organization that unites animal welfare and environmental protection throughout the globe - from closing down puppy mills in the American South to stopping deforestation in South America. Their most recent campaign is to stop the fires in the Bolivian Amazon; and beca...2020-11-1226 min
Species UniteMelanie Joy: Why We (Still) Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows“The core of this problem in the world in many ways. is the consciousness that we bring to the world. When we think of others in the world or ourselves as being more or less worthy of being treated with respect, that very thinking is what drives many of the social problems we see in the world.” – Dr. Melanie Joy Melanie Joy is a Harvard educated psychologist, specializing in the psychology of eating animals, social transformation and relationships. She is the award-winning author of six books, including the best-selling, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows...2020-11-0535 min
Species UniteDan Mathews: Like Crazy“When I moved my mom in, I certainly felt, okay, now I'm off the market. I've got a broken-down house, a crazy mother, a high-pressure job being a vegan activist at PETA… this is not really a good resume for finding Mr. Right.” – Dan Mathews Dan Mathews is the Director of Campaigns at PETA. He’s been there since the 80s when he was hired as a receptionist right after college. Dan’s responsible for PETAs most controversial and outlandish campaigns including the "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ads. He’s been arrested more than 20 times, but all...2020-10-2925 min
Species UniteRyan Bethencourt: This is the Future of Dog Food"…when I say people had no idea, these were investors, right? These were people who thought they had a crystal ball on the future. And I was like, look, our world has to change for so many reasons. The fact that we're slaughtering animals and doing so in really horrific ways, that is not the future. And so, if that is not the future, what is? It's embracing biotech, it's embracing food science, it's embracing the things that will remove these animals and the environmental impact of this out of the system." - Ryan Bethencourt 30 per...2020-10-2242 min
Species UniteJames Arbib: Rethinking HumanityWe are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of human civilization in history, a transformation every bit as significant as the move from foraging to cities and agriculture 10,000 years ago. James Arbib and Tony Seba, Rethinking Humanity James Arbib is co-founder of RethinkX, a nonprofit think tank that explores how technology will shape the future and disrupt all levels of society, including information energy, materials, transportation, and my favorite, food – food that will not come from slaughtered animals. Jamie and RethinkX cofounder, Tony Seba are the authors of Rethinking Humanity: Five Fo...2020-10-1539 min
Species UniteApril Tam Smith: Radical Generosity…not everyone can afford to donate a certain percentage of their money, not everyone can afford to volunteer their time because they're working so much. If you can, this is your generosity to the world, this is your generosity to all the people that cannot. And I think that's kind of our duty and our privilege. What is the max generosity that you can live with, with your food choices, with your time, with your money choices. - April Tam Smith April Tam Smith is the co-founder of PS Kitchen, a plant-based restaurant in the Theater District in...2020-10-0837 min
Species UniteLiza Heavener: The Game ChangerThere would be some mornings that the indigenous tribal leaders would take us out into virgin rainforest… [I was] like, “no human has ever stood here before.” And it was alive with, I mean, you name the animal… and it was loud full and of life. And they would take us out the very next day and it was just smoldering because it had been slashed and burned illegally in the middle of the night. And it was just completely quiet except for what was left of the fire. And that that changes you. Liza Hea...2020-10-0136 min
Species UniteGemunu de Silva: The Quiet Man Speaks“Bearing witness is difficult. It does hit your emotions... I think you've got to remember, these images that you take are not yours to keep… it's your duty to put them out there or let organizations get them out there. I think that's how you cope - it’s thinking, okay these aren't going to stay in my head. These are actually going to go out into the world and are going to create change.” - Gemunu de Silva Today’s episode is a special one. It’s with Gemunu de Silva. Gem is a filmmaker and...2020-09-0354 min
Species UniteMichael Pellman Rowland: The Next Big Plant Based IPOWhat's allowed the Beyonds and Impossibles and JUSTs of the world to do what they're doing was not subsidies, it was investment that they put into science and technology that allowed them to create things that weren't creatable before, because they just hadn't been tried before. - Michael Pellman Rowland Michael Pellman Rowland is back. He was on the podcast in the early days of the pandemic to talk about the happenings in the alternative protein space and to explain the Beyond Meat IPO – the most successful IPO since 2001. Since then, I have heard from a...2020-08-2736 min
Species UniteNate Salpeter: Goat-2-Meeting and the Future of Food"We kept going through this logical exercise of how do we help more and more animals. And every single time the logical end point was - it's not dogs and cats, it's animals in the food system. It’s not a matter of tens of millions of animals. It's a matter of tens of billions of animals and hundreds of billions of fish." - Nate Salpeter What do you get when two tech geniuses start an animal sanctuary? The first non-profit sanctuary in the world to address the global impacts of factory farming across animals, th...2020-08-1337 min
Species UniteMilo Runkle: Widening Our Circle of CompassionThe only way to help animals is to help people. Its humans that need to change, not animals. And I think it's the same way when we're talking about other issues in our society. It's about healing those who are causing violence, and it oftentimes can be easy to judge and persecute and sort of push aside people that are causing harm. It's more challenging to love them and to lead by example and to believe that everyone is doing the best that they can with what they have and what they know in that moment. ...2020-08-0641 min
Species UniteCarl Safina: Becoming WildBeings who've succeeded on earth for millions of years, don’t seek, and should not require, our approval. They belong as well as we do. We do ourselves no favors by asking whether their existence is worth our while. We are hardly in a position to judge, hurdling and lurching along as we are with no goal, no plan except: bigger, faster, more. If we had the courage to be honest about it, we would have to admit that whales and birds and apes and all the rest live fully up to everything of which they are cap...2020-07-3058 min
Species UniteBeverly and Derek Joubert: Project RangerThe COVID-19 pandemic’s ripple effects are broad; leaving virtually no industry, economy, or continent immune. As travel and tourism has been brought to a standstill, many wilderness areas are left vacant and workers left with the uncertainty of personal income. This “perfect storm” of conditions is leaving many endangered animals highly vulnerable to wildlife crime. – Beverly and Derek Joubert, Project Ranger In the last 50 years, Africa has lost 90 to 95 percent of its large predators. We could very well witness the end of many iconic species in the next decade or two. It’s that urge...2020-07-2336 min
Species UniteAdam Sud: Plant Based Addict“…I checked into rehab and within 72 hours I was diagnosed with type two diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, erectile dysfunction, bipolar disorder, suicidal depression, anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive personality disorders, sleep disorder and ADHD.” – Adam Sud There was a point when Adam Sud’s life was completely out of control with food and drug addiction; so much so that he found himself cycling between amphetamine benders and fast food binges until things got so bad that he attempted suicide by drug overdose. Fortunately, he failed and immediately reached out for help. He got sober and transf...2020-07-0938 min
Species UniteJasmine Leyva: The Invisible Vegan"What's sad about it is… a lot of people think it's the norm… that's what I thought. Diabetes was something my grandmother had and my mom was pre-diabetic so I thought, oh diabetes and clogged arteries and high cholesterol, they’re just my destiny - that's a normal part of life because that's what I saw happening to everyone around me.” -Jasmine Leyva Heart disease, diabetes, and obesity have been rising at alarming rates all across the country, but the numbers are disproportionately higher in African American communities. There are many reasons that factor into why that...2020-07-0232 min
Species UniteJemma Bullock: Elephants in the Time of CoronavirusWhen the pandemic first hit and tourism all over the world shut down, thousands of captive elephants across Asia went from being very much in demand to being out of work, meaning they are struggling and many of them are in dire situations. Whether these elephants are from places where their lives are really good, like certain sanctuaries, or from places where their lives are incredibly difficult, where they are forced to give rides, perform tricks and spend they rest of the day on horribly small chains, they have all been affected by the pandemic. ...2020-06-2544 min
Species UniteLauren Ornelas: Food is PowerLauren Ornelas is the founder and the executive director of the Food Empowerment Project, a nonprofit food justice organization that spotlights the abuse of animals on farms, unfair working conditions for produce workers, and the unavailability of healthy foods in communities of color and low-income areas. She and I spoke earlier in the pandemic. She had just written an article on Medium called, We Are All Connected. It was written back in April, but it could not be more relevant now, with the demonstrations in our streets calling out systemic racism. “As many of us kno...2020-06-1830 min
Species UniteMichael Pellman Rowland: Betting On Plant Based Meat“There’s no question that Beyond Meat IPO was a watershed event. You cannot overstate enough how big of a deal that was, because before then you had a relatively small group of folks, including myself, leading the parade, cheering as loudly as we could, and largely falling on deaf ears outside of small pockets here and there. When that [IPO] happened, everybody on Wall Street started to take notice, not just because it went public, but it was the most successful IPOs since I think 2001 or something like that. And so, Wall Street, for better or wors...2020-06-1124 min
Species UniteUnderwater Photography Legend: Brian Skerry“…based on my personal experience and having worked with scientists and researchers most of my life, I would say that it's not too late. There are some things that are probably gone. There are places where only pockets of biodiversity may remain in the time ahead, but that doesn't mean we can't still have a healthy future. It may not be what it once was, but it's like the old saying - when's the best day to quit smoking cigarettes? Today - if you don’t quit today, when's the next best day? Tomorrow. So, it's not too la...2020-06-0840 min
Species UniteJosh Balk: How to Change America’s Cruelest Industry“The time to begin phasing out the intensive confinement systems in which we raise billions of animals is now. We need to accelerate society’s direction of reducing demand for meat from animal factory farms and shift instead to more of an emphasis on healthier — and safer — plant-based foods. As our population grows, plant-based foods are also more sustainable and affordable for societies globally. Unless we — especially legislators and the food industry — make changes immediately, the concerning practices in animal agribusiness will remain. Only in transforming our food system can we eliminate the tinderbox ready to explode in our countr...2020-05-2843 min
Species UniteRachel Nuwer: On Her Time Inside the Illegal Wildlife TradeRachel Nuwer has spent a decade writing about, reporting on, investigating, and going undercover in the illegal wildlife trade. She is a freelance journalist whose work often focuses on wildlife trafficking and poaching and appears in publications like the New York Times and National Geographic. She also wrote the book Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking. It’s a book for anyone who is interested in a planet that still has tigers, elephants, rhinos and thousands of other species living on it a couple generations from now. Rachel takes the reader to trafficking hotspots in tw...2020-05-2134 min
Species UniteAaron Gross: How To Change the Story Around How and What We EatWe all have a food story; the story that we tell ourselves about what we eat and why we eat it. It’s that story that runs the show when it comes to how we shop, cook, and feed our children. It was most often taught to us by our parents and their parents, most who thought they were passing on good values and deep traditions and were only doing what was best for their kids. But our food story is more than that. It was also passed on to our parents and to us from advertisers, ma...2020-05-1442 min
Species UniteLeah Garcés: The Next Pandemic Will Probably Come From A Factory Farm“…This is not a surprise in many ways and, for decades, not just animal rights activists, but public health experts have been sounding the alarm bells about this kind of risk. And you know, my concern is in many ways people are referring to this as a once in a century event or the black swan or something, but it's like rolling dice and rolling snake eyes once doesn't have any effect on rolling. And in fact, we're rolling the dice even faster now. The main reason is because we are in so much contact with animals throu...2020-05-0650 min
Species UniteRich Hardy: Not As Nature IntendedRich Hardy is a former undercover investigator who spent two decades working in 28 countries, exposing animal cruelty of many of the worlds worst industries – including fur trapping in North America, monkey breeding farms in Asia, and slaughterhouses and factory farms across the globe. His images and videos have been used by more than 20 international animal organizations helping to change minds and laws about how we treat animals. Most of the industries Rich worked in are hidden from the public, extraordinarily secretive, and often have higher security than Area 51; therefore Rich lived an incredibly risky double life for mu...2020-04-3034 min
Species UniteJustin Goodman: Taxpayer Funded TortureJustin Goodman is the Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at White Coat Waste Project, a two and a half million member, taxpayer watchdog group that is working to end twenty billion dollars in taxpayer funded animal experiments. Justin and I met in D C in February, pre-social distancing. And, it just so happened that on the very morning that we met, White Coat had released footage of National Institute of Health experiments that had been going on for decades. It was a gift for me to be with Justin before and after this interview, and...2020-04-2441 min
Species UnitePeter Knights: The Next Pandemic Is On It’s Way, Unless We Shut Down Wildlife MarketsThere’s not much that we can be certain about in such uncertain times but there are a few things. One is that unless we change the way that that we treat animals, the next pandemic is most definitely coming. Only next time, it could be much worse, much more infectious and even more fatal than the current crisis we’re now facing. COVID-19 most likely started at a wild animal market in Wuhan, China and was transmitted to a human from an animal, probably a pangolin. Wild animal markets are breeding grounds for diseases - and in ord...2020-04-2027 min
Species UnitePei Su: COVID-19, The Wildlife Trade, and ChinaToday’s episode was recorded on Wednesday April 15th as a live webinar conversation between Pei Su, the Executive Director and Co-founder of ACTAsia and myself. It’s unedited and somewhat messy sound-wise but we wanted to get it out as soon as possible. There are a lot of rumors and misinformation getting passed around the globe in terms of China’s wildlife trade and markets: what has been banned, what hasn’t, and what all of it means. In today’s conversation, Pei Su answers many of my questions about what’s happening on the ground in China, wh...2020-04-161h 00
Species UniteLori Gruen: Why Do We Treat Animals Like Animals?“…but why do we treat animals like “animals”? We shouldn't be treating animals like animals, by which that means devalued under appreciated beings.” – Lori Gruen Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University and the Coordinator of Wesleyan Animal Studies. She is also the author and editor of 11 books, most recently Critical Terms for Animal Studies and Animaladies. Her work in practical ethics and political philosophy focuses on issues that impact those often overlooked in traditional ethical investigations, e.g. women, people of color, incarcerated people, and non-human animals. 2020-04-0945 min
Species UniteJoshua Katcher is Doing Fashion BetterWhen it comes to fashion and good design, Joshua Katcher, the man behind the sustainable luxury fashion label, Brave GentleMan, cares a lot about beauty; but not in the way that most people think about it. He defines beauty not only as the end result - the dapper suit or the stylish boots; instead, he only deems something beautiful when the entire process that has created that something is beautiful, meaning ethical, sustainable, and made with materials and processes that never hurt anyone - human or animal. (And, of course it needs to look good too.) Joshua...2020-04-0255 min
Species UnitePei Su: The Pioneer: Promoting Compassion for Animals in Asia through Education“As children, we learnt respect for our elders and for authority, we learnt etiquette too, but rarely was it suggested that we extend any feelings towards animals, or indeed that animals have feelings. And because of this, many children in Asia grow up assuming animals exist to serve us, feed us, entertain us and clothe us; animals are useful ‘moving objects’, a literal translation of the Chinese word for animal.” - Pei Su Pei Su is truly a pioneer. In the early 90s, she was involved with the forming of Taiwan’s very first animal right’s organization...2020-01-3031 min
Species UniteTim Harrison: Lions, Tigers, and Bears… and Wolves, Pythons, Cougars, Alligators, and Sloths Living in America’s Basements and BackyardsIn neighborhoods all over the United States, there are homes with large predators, venomous snakes, and wild animals from every country on the planet. The desire to own and “master” some of the worlds most dangerous creatures, from lions to wolves to pit vipers, started to boom in the 90s – mostly because of reality TV. It’s big business and it’s very legal in many parts of the country. Not only is it incredibly dangerous for humans – the owners as well as the first responders who get the call when something goes amiss; but, it’s also cruel and...2020-01-2331 min
Species UniteSharon Guynup: The United States Has A Tiger ProblemThere is a tiger problem in the USA. There are more tigers in captivity in the US then exist in the wild. The number of American tigers lies somewhere between five and ten thousand. We don’t know the actual number because they mostly go unregulated. Sadly, most of these tigers live in cages in private homes, backyards, garages, or in cages in roadside zoos. Many of them are inbred, malnourished, and sick. There is absolutely no reason that this should be the fates of one of the most majestic creatures on the planet. What have...2020-01-1640 min
Species UniteAllison Argo: On Passion, Purpose, and the Wisdom of Following Your HeartIf you were to take a brief look into Allison Argo’s life, you’d see the definition of what it means to follow your passion - written in large neon letters. She grew up in the theater on Cape Cod and as soon as she was old enough and able, she moved to NYC with a hundred bucks in her pocket ready to pursue her dream of acting. She walked dogs and cleaned apartments until she landed on her first role on Broadway. After acting in a few Broadway productions, she moved to Los Angeles and had another succ...2019-12-1936 min
Species UniteJo-Anne McArthur: What We Can't Un-seeJo-Anne McArthur is an award winning photojournalist and the founder of We Animals Media. For 20 years she has been photographing and bearing witness to our complex relationship with animals. She’s worked in over 60 countries in just about every industry one can imagine - including: fur farms, factory farms, bear bile farms, zoos, rodeos, circuses, and marine parks with the mission to make the lives of these invisible animals visible. Her images tell the stories of unseen suffering, the stories of what happens when we stop paying attention, of what hopelessness looks like, and of th...2019-12-1236 min
Species UniteNatasha Daly: Shedding Light on the Dark Reality of Wildlife TourismNatasha Daly is a writer and editor at National Geographic where she covers animal welfare, exploitation, and conservation. She wrote National Geographic’s June cover story, Suffering Unseen, the Dark Truth Behind Wildlife Tourism. If you haven’t read it yet, read it. It is the story of the bleak reality that is daily life for so many captive wild animals, including: elephants, tigers, sloths, dolphins, whales, even polar bears. And, it’s the story of why so many wild animals are living miserable and often painful existences. The answer is, us. Well… us and social med...2019-12-0535 min
Species UniteBarbara King: Animals Grieve, Mourn, and LoveMany of us who have animals in our lives know that they experience emotion, we know because we’ve seen it. We’ve witnessed our dogs express joy when we walk through the door, watched them display jealousy toward another animal, or we’ve seen them mourn the loss of a companion. When someone asks, “how do we know?” usually, most of us say something along the lines of, “we just know... it’s obvious.” But, that’s not how it works in science. Science needs proof and for too many years proof wasn’t an option, as a large majority o...2019-11-2133 min
Species UniteBeverly and Dereck Joubert: Are We Being the Best Version of Ourselves?Are we being the best version of ourselves? That’s a question that Beverly and Dereck Joubert asked quite often during this conversation and also one that they seem to live by. It’s embedded into their work, their lives, their relationships - with each other, the wilderness, and the planet; as if the question floats above their heads as a gentle reminder of who they want to be in the world. And, the continual asking of that question shows in everything that they do, fight for, love, and are actively trying to save. They are award-winning film...2019-11-1343 min
Species UniteShannon Keith: Hope for Thousands of Beagles Used in Laboratory ExperimentsIn the United States we still use millions of animals in laboratory experiments. It’s a secretive industry and I think, many people are under the impression that it ended years ago. Not only is it still huge, but we test on just about every type of animal one can imagine, including dogs. 70,000 dogs a year are used in laboratory experiments and a great majority of them are beagles. The heartbreaking reason that beagles are so often the dog of choice is because they’re docile, sweet, trusting, and they don’t fight back. Like all laboratory animal...2019-08-0138 min
Species UniteKevin Schneider: The Battle for Legal Personhood for Elephants and ChimpanzeesElephants, great apes, dolphins, and whales are incredibly complex, social, and intelligent creatures, but our legal system considers them to be “things,” meaning they have no more rights then a can of beans does. For too many years these animals have been taken from the wild, held captive, lived for decades in confinement, tested on, tortured, abused, isolated, or neglected. Kevin Schneider is Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project, an organization that is fighting to secure actual legal rights for these animals. Their lawsuits demand recognition of the legal personhood and fundamental right to bodily liberty of gr...2019-07-1944 min
Species UnitePatrick Battuello: American Horses are Racing to their DeathsOn Sunday, June 23rd the winter racing season at Santa Anita racetrack in Southern California finally came to a close. And on Saturday June 22nd the 30th horse died in racing or training at Santa Anita this year. That’s a lot of horse deaths. But there are a lot of horse deaths every year. In 2018, 493 thoroughbreds died in racing or training. And so, there’s been a lot of talk about reforming horse racing. But the reforms that have been put in place aren’t really working: horses are still dying every week. Patrick Battue...2019-07-1134 min
Species UniteMike Wolf: Undercover in America’s Factory FarmsMike Wolf spent four years working undercover on factory farms. He has seen thousands of animals living in deplorable conditions and witnessed abuse that I think few of us can even imagine. He’s now Director of Investigations for the animal protection organization, Compassion Over Killing. Mike has led investigative efforts into meat, dairy, and egg facilities. He has overseen multiple investigations that have gone viral, sparking a national conversation about the treatment of farmed animals, and ultimately, impacting meaningful change. Among the investigative efforts Mike has led are a 2015 investigation into Hormel supplier Quality Pork Processors, exposing...2019-06-2736 min
ManTalks PodcastSukey & Elizabeth - Understanding How Anyone Can Meditate and Why You Should Start Now
Sukey and Elizabeth Novogratz are two of the founders of the celebrated newsletter The Well Daily. Elizabeth is the co-author of Downtown Chic and Home by Novogratz, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Sukey is the executive producer of the acclaimed documentary The Hunting Ground.
Together, Elizabeth and Sukey have travelled the world to study meditation in every kind of classroom, from Lakota sweat lodges to Tibet House, from ashrams to vision quests to Oneness retreats. They have learned from many renowned teachers, including Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, Ram Dass, Amma, and the monks at One World Academy...2018-04-2347 min
ManTalks PodcastSukey & Elizabeth - Understanding How Anyone Can Meditate and Why You Should Start NowSukey and Elizabeth Novogratz are two of the founders of the celebrated newsletter The Well Daily. Elizabeth is the co-author of Downtown Chic and Home by Novogratz, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Sukey is the executive producer of the acclaimed documentary The Hunting Ground.
Together, Elizabeth and Sukey have travelled the world to study meditation in every kind of classroom, from Lakota sweat lodges to Tibet House, from ashrams to vision quests to Oneness retreats. They have learned from many renowned teachers, including Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, Ram Dass, Amma, and the monks at One World Academy in Chennai, India...2018-04-2347 min
Atomic MomsThe Dazzling Elephant in The Room | Novogratz, Sukey and ElizabethUGH. Meditation. Why is it so hard to just sit? I'm chatting with Sukey and Elizabeth about the critical voices in our heads, the ways in which we underestimate ourselves, meditation, and how to get comfortable in our own skin. These sister-in-laws and former founders of the celebrated newsletter The Well Daily, are the authors of the cheeky, soulful, and playfully illustrated Just Sit: A Meditation Guide Book for People Who Know They Should But Don’t (Harper Wave). Also, I am so proud to shine a light on Sukey Novogratz’s work as vice-chair of Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful...2018-03-0647 min
Atomic MomsThe Dazzling Elephant in The Room | Novogratz, Sukey and ElizabethUGH. Meditation. Why is it so hard to just sit? I'm chatting with Sukey and Elizabeth about the critical voices in our heads, the ways in which we underestimate ourselves, meditation, and how to get comfortable in our own skin. These sister-in-laws and former founders of the celebrated newsletter The Well Daily, are the authors of the cheeky, soulful, and playfully illustrated Just Sit: A Meditation Guide Book for People Who Know They Should But Don’t (Harper Wave). Also, I am so proud to shine a light on Sukey Novogratz’s work as vice-chair of Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart F...2018-03-0647 min
The Terri Cole Show133 Elizabeth and Sukey Novogratz - How to Finally Start That Meditation Practice"The biggest obstacle to meditation is discipline, it's the actual showing up every day." - Elizabeth Novogratz Learn more about Hello Freedom at https://terricole.com/133 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-03-0230 min
The Public Library with Helen LittleSukey & Elizabeth Novogratz "Just Sit"Sukey & Elizabeth Novogratz wrote the life changing meditation guide book Just Sit: A Meditation Guidebook for People Who Know They Should But Don't. On this episode of The Public Library with Helen Little podcast they talk about the inspiration behind the book, as well as how meditation has changed their own lives.2018-03-0128 min
SUCKERS with Caelynn Bell, Dean Bell, and Jared Haibon#20 Viall to the RescueDean is out this week, but his buddy Nick Viall is happy to step in as guest host! He starts off the show by sharing what he thinks makes a good first date, and the phenomenon that is Black Panther. Then, he takes a trip to the world of meditation, when experts Sukey and Elizabeth Novogratz call in to offer advice on treating anxiety. But don’t worry, your emails are in good hands! Nick lends his opinion on getting back together with an ex, and he shares his concept of “Sour Patch Kid” relationships. Learn more abou...2018-02-261h 25