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What Colleen’s “life-changing” podcast is about: Now in its 7th year, Colleen’s podcast leaves listeners feeling supported, motivated, and inspired. Addressing every issue related to being vegan, including food, cooking, nutrition, ethics, animals, family dynamics, food politics, and social psychology – it debunks the myths surrounding these issues. Drawing upon poetry, short stories, and other forms of literature, this is a unique podcast that has changed thousands of lives.

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List of Episodes
Click on each for more information, to listen, to share, and to comment. The episodes are listed in chronological order from most recent to least recent, but they don’t have to be listened to in order – unless you want to!

• Verbal Vivisection: How Euphemisms, Oxymorons, and Doublespeak Disguise Our Violence Against Animals
• From Consumption to Compassion: The Stages We Go Through When We Stop Eating Animals and What We Need to Know to Stay Hopeful and Joyful
• Vegan Dating
• Keeping a Vegan Home
• Seven-Year Anniversary: An Uber Lovefest
• A Tribute to Schuster and Michael: Loved and Lost
• Re-Reading the Classics Through the Lens of Compassion: Bambi and Frankenstein
• A Journey Through England and Scotland Through the Eyes of an Animal-Centric, Anglophilic, Literary Geek
• I Don’t Eat Fake Meat: An Etymological Appeal for Living (and Speaking) Compassionately
• The 30-Day Vegan Challenge: Your Personal Guide for Living Compassionately and Healthfully
• “Vegans are like Hitler” and other Logical Fallacies
• Disagreement is not Disrespect
• An Appeal to Mercy and Justice on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals
• Responses to ‘I’m Vegan’ and How to Reply
• Six-Year Anniversary: An Uber Lovefest
• Vegan with Child: A Healthy Combination
• The Newest Diet Fad: Paleo
• It’s a Girl! (and Other Announcements)
• Big Vegan Finds in Little Places
• The Pleasures and Politics of Yellowstone National Park
• Vegan Outreach to Restaurants
• The Moral Crusade Against Foodies
• How to Talk to Hunters (or Anyone With Whom You Disagree)
• Finding Abundance while Traveling in General (and in Ireland)
• The Shearing of Sheep
• Critters on the Streets – When to Intervene (Part Two)
• Losing Weight – Part Two: Calorie Reduction
• Critters on the Streets – When to Intervene (Part One)
• Losing Weight – Part One: Calorie Expenditure
• Five Favorite (Japanese) Foods: Miso, Sushi, Agar, Sea Vegetables, Shiitake/Maitake Mushrooms
• Finding Sanctuary
• Favorite Food: For the Love of Lentils
• Art and Consciousness
• The Compassionate Gift Guide – 2009
• The Color of Animals
• “Man’s Place in the Animal World” by Mark Twain
• The Story of Webster: A Short Story by P.G. Wodehouse
• My Evolution Through Cats: A Tribute and a Memorial to Simon
• Five Favorite Kitchen Tools
• The “Lethal Gifts of Livestock”
• How to Read the “Nutrition Facts” Label
• A Dog’s Tale: A Short Story by Mark Twain
• Down with Feathers
• Three-Year Anniversary Show: An Unabashed Lovefest
• The Compassionate Kitchen: Eating Healthfully Affordably
• Rabbit Tales
• Memorials to Animals
• The Compassionate Bathroom
• Diseases of Civilization (aka “Lifestyle Diseases”)
• The Compassionate Gift Guide – 2008
• Food for the Road: Packed Lunches and Picnics
• “Little Boy Pig: A Genetically Modified Tale”
• Where Do I Get My Calcium If I Don’t Drink Cow’s Milk?
• Celebrating Halloween and Thanksgiving Without Compromising Your Values
• Drawing the Line: How Vegan is Vegan?
• Blood: A Short Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Honoring the Animals We Eat – Just Like the Native Americans
• Conversations with Strangers (on Land and in the Air)
• The Favors We Do Animals
• “The Boy Who Talked With Animals”
• Greening Your Life
• How Does Your Garden Grow? (Without Animal Products!)
• Eating for World Peace
• “Beyond Lies the Wub”
• Living Among Meat-Eaters – Part II
• The Safety of Supplements
• “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde
• “Pig”: A Short Story by Roald Dahl
• Two-Year Anniversary Show: A Veritable Lovefest
• Five Favorite Foods: Carrots, Dates, Walnuts, Oats, Brussels Sprouts
• To Serve Man
• The Taming of the Cattle
• Definition: Vegan
• The Anarchist – His Dog
• Are You Serious? Strategies for Good Communication
• I Eat Only “White Meat” – In Defense of Chickens
• Acts of Forgiveness – What Humans Can Learn from Non-Human Animals
• To Florida: An Apology
• The Vegetarian Philosophy of Pythagoras, as told by Ovid in “The Metamorphoses”
• Favorite Foods: Beans!
• Marks of Domination: The Branding of Human and Animal Slaves
• The Slaughterer: A Short Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• A Passionate Life
• Thanksgiving FOR the Birds
• Compassionate Clichés
• The Lottery
• On the Road: Traveling as a Vegan (with a Focus on Italy, London, and – Florida)
• Raising Vegan Children – Social Situations
• Poetry’s Plea for Animals
• The Fall of the Excuse-itarians (or The Emperor is Naked!)
• Living Among Meat-Eaters – Part I
• The High Costs of Cheap Meat
• The Practical Aspects of Being Vegan
• Motherhood & Maternal Instincts
• Leather: Not an Innocent By-Product
• All About Tofu
• Animal Advocacy and Emotional Stress
• BBQs, Burgers, and Backyard Bites
• The Burden of Burros
• Grateful for Goats
• Fish Consumption and By-Catch
• Like Animals
• Teen (and College-Age) Vegetarians
• Peace for Pigs
• Eat Your Vegetables!
• Turning the Tables
• What do Vegetarians Feed their Dogs and Cats?
• Response to: Why Don’t You Spend Your Time on People Instead of Animals? or Why Don’t You Care About Humans?
• Life After Cheese
• Soy is Not Evil
• Becoming Re-Sensitized
• Mutilation: An Ugly Word, An Ugly Act
• An Essential Mineral: Iron
• Minding the Gatekeepers – or Meat is Not Neutral
• Taking It All In
• Five Favorite Foods: Quinoa, Kale, Blueberries, Tempeh, and Tea
• Don’t Give a Cow
• An Essential Vitamin: B12
• Speaking Your Truth
• Common Responses to Vegetarianism
• Talking Turkey
• Replacing Eggs in Cooking and Baking
• Transitioning to a Vegan Diet – or – Tips for Eating Healthfully
• The Rise of the Excuse-itarians (or The Emperor’s New Clothes)
• How Humane Are “Humane” Meat, Dairy, And Eggs?
• 10 Tips for Eating Vegetarian in Social Situations
• The Language of Meat
• Favorite Foods: Non-Dairy Milks
• Eating Animals
• The Myth of the “Perfect Vegan.”
• Response to: “Eating Meat Is My Personal Preference, And Since I Respect Your Choice Not to Eat Meat, I Would Appreciate Your Respecting My Choice to Eat It.”
• Being A “Joyful Vegan.”
• What About the Insects Killed for Plant Production – Don’t You Care About Them (And Other Tenuous Arguments)?
• Response to: “If You Were on a Desert Island And Were Starving, I Bet You’d Eat Meat Then; I Eat Only Meat From Humanely Raised Animals”; And Other Statements Based on Hypothetical Scenarios And Myths.
• Milk Is A Natural Food, And Cows Naturally Give Milk, So What’s Wrong With Drinking It?
• PART II Humans Are Meant to Eat Meat. Just Look at These Incisors in My Mouth.
• PART I Humans Are Meant to Eat Meat. Just Look at These Incisors in My Mouth.
• Skipping the Middle Animal: Coming to Terms With the Fact That Plants Are the Source of All Our Nutrients.
• A Visit to Two “Free-Range” Egg Facilities
• Aren’t free-range eggs better than eggs from battery-cage hens?
• What’s Wrong With Eating Eggs Since the Chickens Aren’t Killed to Get Her Eggs?
• The Protein Myth and Vegetarianism