Being the Vegan in the Room: Representing Veganism in a Joyful Way
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2014
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I share with you a number of recent scenarios I found myself in where I had the opportunity to represent veganism and chose (choose) to do so in a positive way, whether it's ordering food in a non-vegan restaurant, dropping the "V" word into a non-vegan conversation, or meeting a friend of a friend who is on the Paleo (Pasturbation) diet.
I also include a number of "What Would Colleen Do?" phone calls, including one that asks what I (as a vegan) feed my cats, one that asks about how to "be the vegan in the room" - or rather "in the workplace" - from a woman starting a new job, and one from a caller who wants to know how to engage with her mother, who has just been diagnosed with cancer and does want to hear about how a plant-based diet might help.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought, The Place to Explore, Celebrate and Manifest, a life motivated and defined by unconditional compassion |
| 0:16.2 | and optimal wellness. |
| 0:17.7 | My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I'm your host. |
| 0:20.8 | The mission in my work is to empower people to manifest their values of compassion and |
| 0:25.1 | wellness in their everyday lives. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm the author of The Joy of Vegan Baking, The Vegan Table, Color Me vegan, |
| 0:32.1 | Vegan Me Vegan's Daily Companion, and the upcoming The 30 Day. the vegan |
| 0:33.0 | daily companion and the upcoming the 30-day vegan challenge. |
| 0:36.0 | The new book is slated for a January 2015 release |
| 0:39.0 | and the online program is still going strong, |
| 0:42.0 | giving you everything you need to make the |
| 0:43.6 | transition healthfully, joyfully, and deliciously. |
| 0:47.4 | You can visit the online program at 30day vegan challenge.com, and you can find everything |
| 0:52.3 | you need to know about me. Well not everything at joyful vegan.com. |
| 0:57.0 | Thank you everyone first of all for supporting this podcast you are making it possible and you are keeping it free for everybody. |
| 1:05.0 | For that you, supporters, receive content that's exclusive just for you via our new Patreon system. You get recipes, you get resources, you get messages and essays from me you get |
| 1:16.0 | video hangouts with me depending on the level that you join up so please |
| 1:19.9 | become a supporter a patron today not only to help me continue this work but also to help |
| 1:25.2 | keep this podcast free to everyone. Go to Patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick |
| 1:30.8 | Godro or just go to my website joyfulican.com and you'll find a link to the |
| 1:36.0 | Patreon page from there. |
| 1:38.0 | Thank you first of all to some new gold patrons, Jenny Burrell, Mike Constantinopleino, Devon Wilson, Gwen Mayo and Sue Chase. |
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