“You don't see until you see, and you don't listen until you open your ears.” Gabriela Lerner What makes someone question beliefs they've held for most of their life? Can changing your diet influence your values, spirituality, and the way you see the world? In this episode of Earth Xperiences, Dani sits down with Gabriela Lerner, a vegan advocate, health coach, mentor, and network marketer, to explore her journey from eating meat and growing up Catholic to embracing veganism, plant based living, and a different understanding of God. Gabriela shares how her husband's prostate cancer diagnosis and her own experience with fibromyalgia led them to reconsider their diet and lifestyle. What began as a search for better health eventually opened the door to spiritual exploration, including her study of A Course in Miracles, and a new understanding of love, compassion, and personal responsibility. The conversation explores religious conditioning, spiritual awakening, animal rights, vegan ethics, and the psychology of changing your mind. Gabriela also considers common arguments against veganism, including why animals eat other animals, whether vegans claim moral superiority, and why people struggle to question behaviors they were taught were normal. Through a reflective exercise using one of her own videos, Gabriela examines how deeply conditioning can influence even the language we use. Her willingness to reconsider her own words raises a larger question about critical thinking and how we recognize contradictions between our values and actions. ♡ Questions to Explore from This Conversation • Why is it difficult to question beliefs we inherited from family, religion, or culture? • Can someone reject organized religion and still develop a meaningful relationship with God? • What is the difference between a vegan diet and veganism as an ethical belief system? • Why do people defend behaviors they might otherwise consider harmful? • Can we influence someone's beliefs through compassion rather than arguments? • What happens when our daily choices begin to align with our personal values? ♡ About Gabriela Lerner Gabriela Lerner is a vegan advocate, health coach, mentor, and network marketer whose work connects conscious living, personal growth, ethical entrepreneurship, and wellness. After navigating significant health challenges in her family, Gabriela embraced whole food plant based living and later explored the relationship between spirituality, compassion, and personal transformation. Today, she focuses particularly on helping vegan women align their careers, businesses, and financial goals with their ethical values. Through mentorship and network marketing, Gabriela supports women interested in building businesses that reflect their principles. Her work includes helping women explore business opportunities, develop greater confidence in their values, and approach earning an income without feeling that financial success must conflict with ethical living. She also shares perspectives on veganism, animal rights, spirituality, and the emotional challenges of living as a vegan in a largely nonvegan world. Connect with Gabriela Instagram: Search Gabriela Lerner LinkedIn: Gabriela Lerner linkmate.one/gabriela Gabriela welcomes conversations with vegan women interested in values aligned business opportunities, mentorship, and personal growth. She shares ways to connect and book a conversation through her Instagram profile. ♡ About Earth Xperiences Earth Xperiences is a podcast hosted by Dani, exploring how human experiences shape our beliefs, identities, relationships, and understanding of the world. Through conversations, personal stories, questions, and interactive experiences, the podcast invites listeners to practice critical thinking, examine familiar beliefs, and consider perspectives different from their own. Every Earth Xperience has its own fingerprint. On Earth, experience is the assignment. What we grow from it is up to us.
