A Guiding Force in Challenging Times (Conversation with Our Hen House)
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Enjoy my conversation with Mariann and Jasmin from Our Hen House.
In this heartfelt conversation, author Colleen Patrick-Goudreau joins Jasmin and Mariann to discuss her eighth book, A Year of Compassion: 52 Weeks of Living Zero Waste, Plant-Based and Cruelty Free, exploring how compassion can be a guiding force during challenging times and offering practical ways to manifest it in everyday life.
This episode explores:
- How compassion is often misunderstood and how we can reclaim its true meaning in secular contexts
- The psychological barriers that prevent people from aligning their actions with their compassionate values
- Practical ways to make a difference, from rewilding our gardens to support native pollinators to embracing a zero-waste mindset
- The importance of starting where you are rather than doing nothing because you can’t do everything
- How Colleen’s personal journey, including her relationship with her mother, shaped her compassionate worldview
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I hope you're doing fabulously well. While I work on new episodes, I wanted to |
| 0:06.3 | change things up and share this conversation I had with Marianne and Jasmine at Our Henhouse. I know |
| 0:13.8 | they need no introduction, but Jasmine, singer, and Marianne Sullivan are the powerhouse duo behind |
| 0:19.3 | our Henhouse, a nonprofit organization whose mission |
| 0:22.5 | it is to mainstream the movement to end the exploitation of animals and provide support for those |
| 0:28.6 | working to change the world for animals. Jasmine is an author and speaker. She's known for her work |
| 0:35.3 | at the intersection of animal rights, identity, and social justice. |
| 0:39.1 | Marianne is an animal law professor, and she brings deep insight into the legal and ethical dimensions |
| 0:44.5 | of animal protection. Together, they co-host the award-winning Our Henhouse Podcast. I am thrilled |
| 0:52.5 | to share this conversation with you. They are longtime colleagues and Jasmine |
| 0:57.5 | has been a friend for many years. We go way back. She actually attended my 10-year hour, |
| 1:03.7 | my husband and our 10-year vow renewal back in 2011, which is so long ago now. And that's when she met my mother, which she references |
| 1:13.0 | in our conversation. But we met long before that, connecting right away over language and animal |
| 1:18.8 | advocacy and New Jersey, which is where we're both from. In fact, we're both from the same town. |
| 1:24.3 | We just have a bit of a gap, maybe nine year, 10 year gap in between. But I love |
| 1:30.8 | chatting with them. And I hope I answered the question, Jasmine asked me about my mother and the |
| 1:36.3 | dedication of my book, A Year of Compassion. I hope I answered eloquently enough. I'm not sure that I |
| 1:41.5 | did. I may have to listen to it again myself. I don't like |
| 1:44.4 | listening to my own interviews. So you'll just have to let me know. I hope you enjoy the conversations. |
| 1:50.2 | Don't forget to follow our Henhouse podcast as well as Food for Thought podcast and for lots more |
| 1:55.5 | inspiration and information for living compassionately. You can subscribe to my substack. You can pick up your copy of a |
| 2:02.2 | year of compassion. And of course, you can check out my upcoming trips, all of which can be found |
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