Podcast Episode 18: Overcoming Heart Disease and Diabetes with Armando Alvarez

Podcast Episode 18: Overcoming Heart Disease and Diabetes with Armando Alvarez

With 100% coronary blockage in one artery and 80% in two others, Armando Alvarez was at a high risk for a heart attack and his cardiologist was recommending triple bypass surgery. With reasons we get into during the episode, the surgery didn’t sit well with 

Podcast Episode 17: Lifestyle Strategies for Building Emotionally Resilient Kids with Dr. Mary Wilde

Podcast Episode 17: Lifestyle Strategies for Building Emotionally Resilient Kids with Dr. Mary Wilde

Nothing has highlighted the need for emotional resilience in ourselves and in our kids than the experiences of the past year. As I look back on the things that helped me the most, it’s be the habits of investing in my own physical, emotional, mental 

Podcast Episode 16: 16 Lives Changed Through Whole Foods, Plant-Based Nutrition

Podcast Episode 16: 16 Lives Changed Through Whole Foods, Plant-Based Nutrition

From eyesight improvement, to arthritis, to stomach pain to cholesterol to diabetes . . . you get the point. Next time you need a little inspiration, I’ve got a rapid fire collection of whole foods, plant-based testimonials of 16 different people and the wide variety 

Podcast Episode 15: Hacks for Healthy, Easy and Affordable Family Travel Food

Podcast Episode 15: Hacks for Healthy, Easy and Affordable Family Travel Food

Traveling with 5 boys definitely caused some heads to turn and can make for a lot to keep track of WITHOUT trying to keep most of our food choices on the healthy side. But since you know I am passionate about making healthy food a 

Podcast Episode 14. 40th Birthday Edition: Gifts of My Plant-Strong Lifestyle

Podcast Episode 14. 40th Birthday Edition: Gifts of My Plant-Strong Lifestyle

This week marks my 40th birthday. It’s been 5 years since our plant-based path began and the more time that goes on the more grateful I am to have found it. It’s left me: excited to grow older more in control of my own health 

Podcast Episode 13. High Cholesterol: From 289 to 181 in 6 Weeks with Melanie Fosson

Podcast Episode 13. High Cholesterol: From 289 to 181 in 6 Weeks with Melanie Fosson

Melanie Fosson was a college athlete when she first discovered she had  high cholesterol. Knowing she was young, fit and active, she didn’t think too much about it until she was in her 30s and her doctor was strongly recommending she go on statins. That