383: From Paul McCartney to Oprah, herself, The Sexiest Vegan Over 50, Victoria Moran, Shares Her Plant-Powered Adventures
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Listed by VegNews among the “Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors” and voted “Peta's Sexiest Vegan Over 50” in 2016, Victoria Moran has written thirteen books including Main Street Vegan and Creating a Charmed Life. Vegan for 38 years and an obesity survivor, Victoria is the founder and director of Main Street Vegan Academy.
With her Andrea Zuckerman-like style for never giving up, and Woodward and Bernstein sense of journalism, Victoria has led a fascinating life. From meeting Paul McCartney to being featured twice on Oprah, this vegan is an incredible example of what tenacity and truth can lead to in life!
Victoria is one of the cofounders of the Compassion Consortium, an online Interfaith spiritual center for people who care about animals. After hosting 475 weekly episodes of the Main Street Vegan Podcast, she is about to launch The Victoria Moran Podcast: Meetings With Remarkable Women.
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| 0:00.0 | holistic voice presents the food heals podcast with your hosts alison melody and susie hardy join the food heels nation and learn the secrets to go from feeling unwell to healing yourself warning side effects of this podcast may include increased health and vitality thoughts of living longer an increase in sexual activity feelings of joy cravings for kale and kinawa, and a spike in Tinder matches. In rare cases, people have experienced a |
| 0:24.6 | strong desire to put in their Lulu lemons and take a yoga class while drinking a green juice. |
| 0:28.5 | If you experience any of these symptoms, text your priest immediately. |
| 0:31.7 | All right, welcome, Food Heels Nation. Thanks for joining me. I'm Alison Melody. |
| 0:36.8 | Listed by Veg News among the top 10 living |
| 0:39.3 | vegetarian authors and voted Pita's sexiest vegan over 50 in 2016. Victoria Moran has written |
| 0:46.8 | 13 books, including Main Street vegan and creating a charmed life. She was featured twice on |
| 0:53.9 | Oprah. By the way, she told me that I was the best interviewer after |
| 0:58.3 | Oprah. |
| 0:58.7 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:59.9 | She's been vegan for 38 years, and she is an obesity survivor, and she's the founder |
| 1:05.5 | and director of the Main Street Vegan Academy. |
| 1:09.0 | Today, we had a lot of fun. |
| 1:10.2 | We did a deep dive into her past. |
| 1:12.0 | Like I loved her Andrea Zuckerman, Woodward and Bernstein like zest for following a story. |
| 1:17.5 | I had learned about her chance encounters with the Beatles, her journey into plant-based living, |
| 1:22.6 | and learned all about her brand new show, meetings with remarkable women. |
| 1:27.6 | But first, Food Hills Nation, if you're like me, you like high performance beauty and |
| 1:32.1 | skin care products made with clean, vegan, skin-loving ingredients with no paraben, no sulfates, |
| 1:39.8 | no thylates, and anything that's cruelty-free is all right with me. And I just left Dallas and |
| 1:46.5 | I arrived in Mexico. And I'm heading to Asheville next for a wedding. So I could not be more |
| 1:53.5 | grateful for their liquid lash mascara because let me tell you, these lashes need a lot of love |
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