127: “Vegan Warrior” Sheds 164 Pounds, Living Cruelty-Free

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Curtis “Zeal” Ingram, also known as the Vegan Warrior, declares, “I will be 7 years old on Thanksgiving Day 2015. That is the day I chose to live ‘cruelty free,’ a conscious lifestyle for my health, literally doing no harm to animals and the planet, to the best of my ability.” At his son’s high school graduation—“the day that was supposed to be my happiest, I was actually the saddest”—Curtis could barely carry his 369 pounds across the parking lot and climb the stadium steps to his seat. He decided that day he had to change everything about his life.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 142.
0:16.0	I'm creator and host Don Hutchison. Every day I interview someone around the world who has discovered his talents to do work
0:25.1	he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:30.3	Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Curtis Zeal Ingram.
0:35.3	Welcome, Curtis.
0:37.0	Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Thank you, sir. Curtis,
0:40.3	are you using your talents doing work that you love? Absolutely. Curtis says, in his own words,
0:46.8	my name is Curtis Ingram, also known as the vegan warrior. I'll be seven years old on Thanksgiving
0:52.8	Day 2015. This is the day I chose to live
0:57.5	cruelty-free, a conscious lifestyle of literally doing no harm to the best of my ability for my
1:03.9	health, the animals, and the planet. Curtis, that's a pithy summary of your life to date. Take it from here and tell us what you're up to now that has you fired up and inspired.
1:14.3	Well, I'd like to say thank you for allowing me to be here.
1:19.1	Our pleasure.
1:20.3	What am I doing?
1:21.3	To summarize it, I'm living and I'm loving.
1:25.1	That's what guides me.
1:26.3	I love that.
1:27.3	That's beautiful. Yes, sir. I mean, because
1:29.1	those are really the only two things anyone can ever do. Everything else is sort of the icing on the cake,
1:36.9	but the cake is living and loving. Yes, I agree. I'm involved in so many things. I'll just pick off a couple of tests.
1:45.2	Right now, I am combining my ethical beliefs with a spirituality, which is linked to the teachings of Urquhart-Tolet.
1:58.7	I've heard you speak with him several times.
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