The Victoria Moran Podcast: Meetings With Remarkable Women Mind Body Spirit.fm

Julliard-trained actor, prolific narrator of audiobooks, and Vegan activist Eunice Wong take us backstage in the world of voiceover. If you've ever listened to a book, you'll be fascinated by Eunice's insider insights into the interesting iteration of the actor's life. Find her on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn at Eunice Wong Narration. And the favorite book she's ever narrated: Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea, a novel about the discovery of an "octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future."
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The meat-heavy diets of our companion animals have a huge carbon pawprint. While cats are compulsory carnivores, dogs are omnivores and can live -- in fact, thrive -- on a fully plant-based diet. (Case in point: a British border collie named Bramble was fed as a Vegan and lived to 25 -- the Guinness record for dog longevity.) On this episode, Diana Laverdure-Dunetz, a canine nutritionist with a Masters degree in animal science, shares the how's and why's of feeding dogs in ways that will make them happy and healthy without animal products. 
Diana's book: The Plant-Powered Dog: Unleash the Healing Powers of a Whole Food Plant Based Diet to Help Your Canine Companion Enjoy a Healthier, Longer Life
Website: Plant-Powered Dog: Vegan Dog Nutritionist
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theplantpowereddog
IG: https://www.instagram.com/plantpowereddog
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Founder of The Black Vegan Experience, Vonettia Calloway is a Biblical Christian, a mom, an exceptional middle school science teacher, and the wife of a U.S. Army combat veteran who suffers from PTSD. She wrote a beautiful children's coloring book, My Color Is Coconut, about biracial children, in memory of a little girl named Aniyah who was proud to say, "My color is coconut." Aniyah lost her life in a house fire and Vonettia wrote the book in memory of this child and as a gift to her parents. The proceeds go to the family and other families who have lost children. And you'll discover in this episode how this woman is a gift to everyone who encounters her.
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Nina Hayes was drawn to mysticism as a little girl in Catholic school, and she discovered yoga early. She was also stricken in her mid-teens with a digestive disorder that led to twenty surgeries. In overcoming everything from fear of dying to the shame of living with an ostomy, her spirituality deepened and this incredible woman is using everything she's learned an experienced to help others. 

Through Blossom Ostomy, she works with people who have experienced similar surgeries and her vision is to have this service in every hospital in America. She also teaches yoga, Jivamukti lineage, and gives yoga retreats in such luminous locales as Bali and Tulum. And as the "Enlightened Chef," she offers private chef services and the "Enlightened Supper Club" in LA.

In this hour, we discuss applying spiritual principles to real life, what it is to be a "food empath." and yoga that goes deeper than physical postures. If you're looking to be inspired, look no further.
www.ninahayesmission.com
www.blossomostomy.com
IG: @ninahayesmission
@blossomostomy
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Ruby Warrington is English and gorgeous and real and funny and brave -- and really good writer. She started her career in magazine journalism in London and did that whole glossy thing for several years, but her soul called her to other things, right about the time her truelove drew her to the U.S. She started The Numinous, an online zine for people interested in the Big Picture, and then wrote Material Girl, Mystical World, an exploration of all things magically alternative. 
Around this time, she decided that her life might be better without alcohol, but perhaps not the swearing-off/"I am an alcoholic" kind of sober, perhaps something with more of an elastic waist, more suitable for herself and others seeing themselves as "sober curious." So, she wrote of book of that title and started a movement. 
Then she began helping others' books to birth with Numinous Books, a multi-faceted author support and publishing company. So, what's missing? Children. And in her stunning new book, Women Without Kids, Ruby looks at others like herself -- she simply didn't care to be a mom in this life -- and at women who may have wanted children but, for any of a dozen reasons, don't have them. We speak in this interview to all those women, and to others who can't imagine a life without offspring, and even to those like me who are mothers but won't be grandmothers. This is rich and deep. Enjoy.

Ruby Warrington's website: https://www.rubywarrington.com
Amazon links:
Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol
Material Girl, Mystical World: /the Now Age Guide to a High-vibe Life
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rubywarrington/
Ruby's appearance on the Main Street Vegan Podcast
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Ashley Byrne has been taking a stand for animals since she was a teen and she now does this officially through her role with Peta. Today, we tackle dressing without guilt and looking fabulous in your own skin without appropriating anybody else's. Of course you don't wear fur, but what about wool? Feathers? Down? Tune in to learn the grim realities of these materials' origins and the eco-chic alternatives that are populating the runways, plus the human rights abuses inherent in the leather industry and how luxurious -- and earth-friendly -- Vegan leather has become.
Ashley Byrne and PETA
Victoria Moran Writer, Speaker, Animal Advocate, and Spiritual Adventurer
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