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What happens when you commit to 75 days of no excuses, no shortcuts, and no one holding you accountable but yourself? Kathleen Gage shares her full experience completing the 75 Hard challenge while following a whole food, plant-based lifestyle.

At 71, Kathleen set out to rebuild her health, focus, and mental toughness. In the process, she discovered how powerful daily discipline can be. From two workouts a day to reading ten pages of nonfiction and drinking a gallon of water, the 75 Hard program became more than a challenge. It became a lifestyle reset.

In this episode, Kathleen opens up about how returning to a clean, plant-based way of eating helped her regain clarity, energy, and motivation. She discusses the books that inspired her, including Big Magic, Escape, and The Impactful Vegan, and shares why 75 Hard is not about punishment or perfection. It is about progress, accountability, and consistency.

You will hear how this challenge helped her rediscover her purpose, what she learned from reading ten books in 75 days, and why the simplest habits like a morning walk or a progress photo can lead to the biggest transformations.

Whether you are plant-based, vegan, or simply ready to push yourself mentally and physically, this episode will motivate you to raise your standards and create change that lasts.

In this episode:

• What the 75 Hard program is and why it works

• How a plant-based diet supports focus and energy

• The importance of daily non-negotiables

• How mental toughness builds confidence

• Why aging with vitality begins with consistency

If you have been thinking about starting 75 Hard or want to get back on track with your health, this conversation will give you the clarity and motivation to begin.

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What if you could heal your body through simple, consistent habits?

Dr. Laura Marbas, a double board-certified physician in family and lifestyle medicine, shares how whole food plant-based eating can reverse chronic disease, balance hormones, and help you thrive at any age.

In this powerful conversation, Dr. Marbas explains her patient-first approach to lifestyle medicine, her nationwide telemedicine practice, and the mindset shifts that fuel real transformation. She also dives deep into menopause, sleep, supplements, and the daily habits that make lasting change possible.

You'll Discover

• Why healing starts with habits, not willpower
  
  

• How food can reverse chronic illness and reduce medications
  
  

• The simple First Five morning routine
  
  

• Why sleep health begins at sunrise
  
  

• The supplements that support plant-based living
  
  

• What it means to age with purpose and strength
  
  

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Discover the powerful truth about healthy eating for women over 60 with Molly Patrick, co-founder of Clean Food Dirty Girl. In this episode of the Plant-Based Eating for Health podcast, hosted by Kathleen Gage, Molly reveals the real difference between vegan and whole food plant-based diets—and why it matters for your health, energy, and longevity.

You'll learn how older women can thrive with a nutrient-dense lifestyle, why you can still eat vegan and be unhealthy, and how to make whole food plant-based eating simple, affordable, and delicious. Molly shares her top batch cooking tips, explains the role of minimally processed foods like tofu and tempeh, and offers strategies for overcoming cravings without feeling deprived.

Whether you're just starting out or looking to fine-tune your plant-based journey, this episode is packed with actionable advice on meal prep, setting healthy boundaries with non-vegan family members, and embracing aging with vitality.

Listen now and find out how to fuel your body, mind, and spirit at any age: www.veganvisibility.com/148-Molly-Patrick

From the streets to the stage, Monk Coleman has beat the odds of life many times over. Making decisions that ended him up in a dead-life of drugs, gangs and confusion to becoming a professional bodybuilder, vegan lifestylist and authoring the transformational book, Love over Fear – A Guide to Peace and Purpose.

Raised in church he quickly made his way to the streets and all that came with it, eventually becoming an alcoholic. With his health failing from his lifestyle choices, he turned to meditation which slowly started to change his life and his life's purpose. Now, with more than twelve years sober he's come into his own as an author, public speaker, transformational coach, and a pro bodybuilder on a mission to create positive change on the planet.

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When someone decides to go vegan, terminology can be confusing. There are vegans, ethical vegans, plant-based dieters, and plant-based lifestylist to name just a few. Add to that the different types of foods being brought to market, and the confusion increases.

Enter an ethical word smith, Sandra Nomoto aka The Content Doctor, to the rescue. Sandra is committed to clearing up the Language of Veganism.

 Known as "The Content Doctor" Sandra Nomoto is a content writer and editor for cruelty-free businesses, and copy-editor, ghostwriter, and book formatter for authors.

Sandra has always had a passion for language, and as a typical millennial, cares deeply about social and environmental justice.

Sandra graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in English Literature and Film Studies, where she discovered a passion for film and was a founding member of the Vancouver Short Film Festival.

Nomoto's communications career began in the public relations industry in 2005, before the age of digital marketing. She was awarded the 2009 Volunteer of the Year by Women In Film & Television Vancouver for her work on the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival and Spotlight Awards. She was also featured in the 2010 CRAVE Guide alongside VITA Daily and Danielle LaPorte. In 2016, she was part of the Marketing team that won the eWomenNetwork Best Social Media and Community Engagement Award. In 2012, her agency, Conscious Public Relations Inc., focused on PR campaigns for socially and environmentally responsible companies, and became the fourth PR firm in Canada to achieve B Corporation® certification.

Her upbringing as a middle child and Asian Canadian has benefited her with the experience of collaborating with a wide variety of groups, from seniors to successful business owners, non-profits, environmental activists, and TV/industry personalities.

Nomoto authored The Only Public Relations Guide You'll Ever Need in 2019, and aspires to be a non-fiction book editor for vegan and spiritual authors. She currently serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors of Create Vancouver Society, which produces the Vancouver Mural Festival. She blogs at SandraNomoto.com, is a contributing writer at Cold Tea Collective, and practices Transcendental Meditation daily.

Introduction to Veganism

The Documentary Earthlings was Sandra's introduction to the cruelty animals are subjected to and why a vegan lifestyle should be the goal. Over a period of time, Sandra replaced meat and dairy with more ethical choices. Going full vegan in 2018, Sandra has made it her mission to raise awareness about the vegan lifestyle by working with various business.

It was during meditation that she had what she calls her "ah ha" moment, realizing she could work with vegan and cruelty free businesses. Based on her extensive background, the focus was a natural next step.

Upon making the decision to move in this direction, she went through her database to let past and present clients know what she was up to.

Her experience has been that one can have a nice collaboration between being vegan and their professional life. Many vegans are finding that what they do professionally aligns very nicely with the vegan movement. Whether it be speaking, consulting, marketing, writing,

Cruelty free expands to many areas of our personal and professional life. More and more businesses are making the switch based on their own ethics and market demand.

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Chef Lauren D'Agostino helps veg-curious and plant-passionate people fall in love with plant-based food and living. Offering in-home catering services for intimate groups and wellness retreats, she infuses fun, familiarity, and high-vibrations of love, joy, and gratitude - and often essential oils - into her gourmet menus. When she's not in her kitchen cooking, she's in the virtual kitchen, teaching self-conscious and intimidated cooks the plant-based fundamentals so they can master the intuitive bliss of healthy and flavorful meals in the day-to-day. A free-spirited and curious adventure seeker, astrology lover, intuitive yogi, high-vibe community builder, and happiness junkie, Lauren takes a holistic and fun-loving approach to plant-based living, both on and off the plate.

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Serial entrepreneur, in-demand podcast, plant-based lifestylist only begins to describe Heneka Watkis-Porter.

Heneka has a passion for interviewing world-renowned influencers for her podcast show. She started in radio before moving to podcasting. She works with clients on getting podcasts launched whether they be entrepreneurs or corporate clients.

Heneka Watkis-Porter is an entrepreneur, coach, author five times over, international speaker, and host of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast. She has interviewed Richard Branson, John Lee Dumas, Paul Carrick Brunson, Seth Godin and many other influencers. Heneka is the founder and CEO of Patwa Apparel. She is also the creator of the Caribbean's first virtual conference and expo: The Entrepreneurial You Virtual SME Conference & Expo as well as the Online Health Summit, Slow Down And Live: Health Is Wealth.

Heneka hosts Leadercast events in Jamaica and writes for the Leadercast blog and Thrive Global.

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"Athletes can't possibly do well on a vegan diet."

Untold numbers of people believe that athletes cannot do well without a meat-based diet. In reality, athletes can do great on a plant-based, vegan diet.

One such person is Georgia Bamber. An endurance athlete, Georgia has proven over and over that a diet void of all animal and dairy contributes to superior performance in mind and body. 

Georgia Bamber is a success coach, speaker and author of the book "Achieve Anything You Want."  Using practical tools and mindset strategies she teaches people to make positive changes and create the time to reach their goals.

Her mission: to help as many people as possible to live the most happy, healthy, vibrant lives they can.

Georgia has a diverse academic, professional and personal background from which to draws in her coaching and speaking.

As well as being a certified coach, Georgia is a graduate of Cornell University, has an MBA, a Masters in Psychology and is certified in Plant-Based Nutrition.

She is also a wife and mother of two teenage boys, an endurance athlete and plant-based lifestyle advocate. So she knows just what it is like to do the juggle between motherhood, entrepreneurship and maintaining a healthy mind and body.

Georgia offers private coaching and online group courses and can be found at http://www.georgiabamber.com

Claudia Ganswind has made it her mission to raise awareness about the benefits of a plant-based diet.

Never one to really enjoy eating meat, Claudia is a German-Italian raw food chef who became vegan in the year 2000. Starting out as a raw food chef, Claudia found she enjoyed various types of plant-based eating.

As a child, Claudia's father continually tried to convince her that she needed to eat meat and eggs in order to grow and be healthy, but deep inside, she knew this was not who she was.

She made the connection between meat on her plate and animal cruelty very early in her life, but it was not until years later she made the lifestyle commitment to become vegan.

Although Claudia started as a vegetarian, she fully committed to her vegan journey when her two sisters became vegan and educated her about what veganism was actually about. 

Similarly, thanks to a vegan chef at a vegetarian festival, she was also informed on how animals are treated and how nature is suffering because of factory farming.  Soon after, she became vegan for the love of animals and the earth. 

Likewise, her sisters showed her how to create delicious (raw) vegan dishes as well as teaching herself to create wonderful dishes.  Her passions include creating raw vegan dishes, eating healthy and creating a sense of wellbeing.

Her passion for raw food vegan motivated Claudia to write Raw Vegan Wellness Kitchen.  (Available on Amazon https://amzn.to/3rh5B5V)

Currently, Claudia does what she can to promote a healthy vegan diet. In Germany, there is a lot of support for veganism.

Claudia has lived in many countries such as Taiwan, Canada, France and Spain. Along the way, she has worked in vegan restaurants such as Loving Hut and Gorilla Foods.

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Struggling with food allergies from a young age, Jaclyn Rae, founder of Jaclyn Creations,  discovered the health benefits of a plant based/vegan diet over eight years ago. Highly allergic to animal protein, Jaclyn began a lifelong journey that has led her to becoming a nutritionist, author and advocate for cruelty free food consumption.

Initially she started as a raw food vegan and over time incorporated cooked foods into her own personal protocol.

One of her greatest driving forces for her lifestyle choices are the desire to help as many people as possible get healthy AND reduce her carbon footprint.

Working with clients

Jaclyn determines if she is a good fit before working with a potential client. She encourages those who may not have support at home with going vegan to join MeetUps, Facebook and other online groups. She knows how important it is for people to feel welcome and safe, especially when they don't have support at home.

Jaclyn encourages people to take the "one day at a time" approach with going vegan.

"Do what you can for today and tomorrow move further into your goal," Jaclyn suggests.  

Jaclyn will evaluate whether her clients are interested in short term or long-term goals. Her approach is more holistic, meaning she considers all aspects of her client's lives including if it's weight loss, diet and/or environment they are most interested in and most in need of..

Offering a variety of meal plans that are her own creations, Jaclyn offers the service of meeting her clients at the grocery store to show them how to shop.

With the pandemic, this is not as much of an option as it used to be. Yet, there are options to bring Jaclyn to the store remotely. Simply put, the client can show via their phone what selections they are making.

When Families Give Push Back

It is not uncommon for families to not fully support one's choice in giving up animal and dairy foods. They may even experience push back.

Jaclyn recommends trying to put yourself in your family's shoes. Have you been known to try different lifestyle choices, only to go back to what you had been doing previously?

Is going "vegan" a faze…at least from your family's perspective? Are you being too rigid too soon?

If you are someone who insists everyone follow your lead by going plant-base/vegan, this could be why others are resistant.

The best choice is to meet people where they are at. For some, they make the change to a cruelty free diet for health. Others, for the animas. Still others, for the environment. And still others, for all three reasons.

A very common expression is, "I came for health and stayed for the animals."

The longer one is vegan, there more committed they tend to be to all the benefits of being vegan and the more likely it is their families will accept their choice.

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Jaclyn Rae is a vegan health consultant in Portland Oregon and lives to helps her client's with strategies to make their health a priority. Her experience in nutrition is her foundation of your support as well as lifestyle integration. She provides her clients personalized plant-based recipes alongside her bio-individualized programs, educating her clients how to live their best life. 

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