Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle

Howie Jacobson, PhD

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565 episodes

How to Prepare for a Journey of Transformation: Jacquelyn Lane and Scott Osman on PYP 580

Coaching can be a transformative experience in people's lives. Here's how to get the most out of your coach.

52m
Mar 19, 2024
The Joy of Cooking as an Earth Citizen: Lois Ellen Frank, PhD on PYP 579

Until we fix our broken food system and broken web of human relationships, no one can be truly healthy. Today's guest shares an ancient and extremely timely perspective on how we can get there. Plus recipes!

1h 0m
Feb 20, 2024
Diversity & Inclusion: Wokeness Run Amok or Simply Good Business?: Sally Helgesen on Plant Yourself

Are initiatives to diversify the workplace helping or hurting organizations? Does diversity help or undermine excellence?

54m
Feb 09, 2024
How to Make Healthy Vegan Bread: Ed and Natasha Tatton on PYP 577

In a Wonderbread world, what would happen if we returned to the old ways? Today's guests share the joys and meaning of slow, mindful, healthy sourdough baking.

1h 3m
Jan 24, 2024
The Sneak Attack that Makes Cravings Irresistible - and How to Resist Anyway: Glenn Livingston, PhD on PYP 576

Why do cravings return with a vengeance just when we think we've got them beat? And can the answer help us defeat our cravings for good?

1h 12m
Jan 17, 2024
Why Rational People Believe Irrational Things: Dan Ariely on PYP 575

Why do smart, well-educated people fall for insane conspiracy theories? And once caught in their web, can we make them see reason?

1h 1m
Jan 08, 2024
Can Economic Theory Help You Have a Good Life? Matthew Nagler on PYP 574

Understanding fundamental concepts in economics turns out to be darn useful in crafting a fulfilling life. Today's guest explains why and how.

1h 25m
Jan 03, 2024
A Journey of Healing and Service: Tracy Garrigan on PYP 573

A roller coaster ride of medical catastrophe and healing, miracles and despair, led Tracy Garrigan to become a holistic health coach. She's now training coaches to bring hope to those who have been suffering.

1h 26m
Dec 05, 2023
Removing Trauma Response with Yes/And Healing: Alun Parry and Yael Zivan on PYP 572

Neuroscience has recently cracked the code on how the brain updates and heals from trauma, but few therapists or coaches know about the breakthrough. Today's guest is working to change that.

1h 7m
Nov 21, 2023
The Anatomy of Life-Changing Conversations: Jon Connelly on PYP 571

Does trauma healing have to involve painful and lengthy therapy that forces patients to revisit their worst moments? Or, as Jon Connelly claims, can profoundly effective therapy be fun, light, non-threatening - and fast?

1h 23m
Nov 13, 2023
Overcoming OCD and Anxiety: Robert James on PYP 570

What is obsessive-compulsive disorder? What are the symptoms, and what's the lived experience? And how can we overcome it and live a full and satisfying life?

1h 7m
Oct 24, 2023
Does Business Have to Be Icky? Mark Silver on PYP 569

Do you have to become a ruthless predator in order to make money as a business owner? Or can running a small business be an act of healing and love?

1h 9m
Oct 18, 2023
Is Your Garden Fertilizer an Animal Graveyard? Erin Riley on PYP 568

Erin Riley shares why we need to avoid commercial fertilizer - even most "organic" brands - if we aim to nurture an earth- and people- and animal-friendly home garden.

1h 1m
Oct 11, 2023
My Coaching Evolution: Glenn Livingston interviews Howie Jacobson: PYP 567

My coaching has changed a lot over the past 20 years. Here's how I now help clients achieve lasting, effortless, transformational change.

1h 9m
Sep 13, 2023
True Privilege is Growing Up in a Low-Trauma Environment: Momma Kai on PYP 566

Momma Kai returns to the podcast to share her vision for a world without poverty or homelessness.

1h 12m
Sep 05, 2023
Kindness as a Strategy for Revolutionary Change: Teju Ravilochan on PYP 565

Is there real, revolutionary power in kindness and compassion in a "might-makes-right" world? Here's a story that will blow your mind.

1h 5m
Aug 29, 2023
Deepening Compassion and Connection with Ourselves: Veronica Monet on PYP 564

In order to heal our minds and spirits, we must contact - and welcome home - all the exiled parts of ourselves. Veronica Monet shares how IFS can help.

1h 19m
Aug 23, 2023
Fitness as a Deeply Embodied Practice: Philip Shepherd on PYP 563

Can we find belonging, peace, and deep healing in the gym, of all places? Embodiment guide Philip Shepherd shows us how.

1h 7m
Aug 17, 2023
Helping the Unhoused - and Homeless - Move From Poverty to Prosperity: Momma Kai Sanders on PYP 562

How can we end homelessness? Unhoused activist and visionary Momma Kai shares her experiences and solutions.

55m
Aug 09, 2023
Introduction to My New Life in Spain

I've been in Spain for 9 weeks now, and some listeners have requested a "stream of consciousness" episode from my new locale. Today we go on a walking tour of my new town, Sitges, as I discuss what my life has been like and what I'm thinking about over these past 2 months.

45m
Aug 02, 2023
Cultivating Grace Under Pressure: John Baldoni on PYP 560

What is grace, and how can we use it to navigate challenging times with compassion and resilience? And why is it a prerequisite of modern leadership?

1h 4m
Jul 26, 2023
The Wise Women of Psychedelia: Rachel Harris, PhD, on PYP 559

There have been women practicing psychedelic healing in anonymity for decades. What can they teach our modern culture about developing safe, effective, and respectful relationships with these powerful substances?

1h 14m
Jul 20, 2023
Fasting vs Long COVID: Roger Talbott on PYP 558

What's it like to suffer from Long COVID in one's 70s? And can water fasting bring about healing?

1h 9m
Jul 13, 2023
Venerating the Earth Through Wild Yoga: Rebecca Wildbear on PYP 557

Rebecca Wildbear is an outdoor guide, yoga teacher, and author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth. She invites us to view yoga as both a personal practice and a form of environmental and social advocacy.

1h 2m
Jul 05, 2023
Building a Shame-Free Zone in a Sexually Messed Up World: Veronica Monet on PYP 556

Veronica Monet grew up in a repressive and abusive cult, developed and recovered from severe addiction, toiled in the corporate world, and worked as a high-end escort for 15 years. She now helps people overcome trauma and heal from shame and advocates for sexual liberation and the rights of sex workers.

1h 14m
Jun 07, 2023
Practical Ethics for Our Time: Peter Singer on PYP 555

Peter Singer pretty much launched the animal rights and animal welfare movements in 1975 with the publication of Animal Liberation. Forty-eight years later, he's got a revised edition coming out: Animal Liberation Now.

53m
May 19, 2023
Rising Together in the Workplace: Sally Helgesen on PYP 554

How can we create workplace cultures that include all of us, when there's still so much sexism, racism, and systematic fuckery in organizations?

1h 3m
May 05, 2023
The Art and Neuroscience of Transformational Change: Dr Tori Olds on PYP 553

For most of the 20th century, neuroscientists believed that old emotional memories could only be managed, not removed. Until the discovery of Memory Reconsolidation...

1h 6m
Apr 06, 2023
The Badass Vegan: John Lewis on PYP 552

John Lewis takes on the system in his blistering documentary, They're Trying to Kill Us. In his book and social media, he instructs, inspires, and delights.

53m
Mar 24, 2023
Great Food, Not Education, Will Change Habits: Danny O'Malley on PYP 551

Danny O'Malley wants you to eat plant-based protein because it's inexpensive, convenient, and tasty.

58m
Mar 07, 2023