Ep 16: Attractivism with Victoria Moran
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Special guest alert! This week Evy tries to keep her shit together as she interviews the woman who inspired The ChickPeeps Podcast in the first place, and who is an all-around beacon of light in the vegan community, Victoria Moran. Victoria is the host of the award-winning vegan podcast, Main Street Vegan, the author of thirteen books and the founder/director of the Main Street Vegan Academy where she trains and certifies vegan lifestyle coaches. A vegan for 35 years, Victoria shares what it was like being vegan when nobody knew what that meant, and discusses the concept of Attractivism as a tool for change. She also explains how veganism is an extension of her faith and spiritual life and shares her best advice for accelerating the dream of a vegan world. Also on this episode…
- 35 years vegan! Victoria talks about what life was like as a vegan over three decades ago: ‘It was so weird that very few people criticised it.
- Victoria shares her struggle going vegan as she was trying to overcome a binge eating disorder.
- What is a ‘Main Street Vegan?’
- ‘If we’re going to have a vegan world then we’re going to have to be open to liberals and conservatives and religious people and atheists and agnostics and rich people and poor people…the way I look at it is that every human being has at least one thing in common and that is that we all have a heart.’
- The Main Street Vegan Academy - Victoria describes the process of becoming a Vegan Lifestyle Coach
- Attractivism - Living in a way that makes other people want what you have.
- Is attractivism enough? We discuss the best way to do in-person activism.
- Raising a child vegan and Victoria’s advice to worried parents of young vegans.
- In every reputable study over the past 50 years -with the exception of vitamin B12 - we don’t see any [health] problems with vegans.
- Veganism and Religion - how extending love to animals should be a core tenet of one’s spritiual practice
- Victoria’s advice to all vegans wishing to make a change: Be aspirational. Live your very best life.
- Tylor and Evy discuss their vegan weeks and a problematic story circling the vegan news sites.
Links:
Victoria's Website, Main Street Vegan
Become a Vegan Lifestyle Coach!
Victoria's Podcast, Main Street Vegan
Victoria's upcoming movie: A Prayer for Compassion
Book Recommendation: The Medical Medium
Victoria on Twitter @Victoria_Moran and @MainStreetVegan
On Instagram @MainStreetVegan
Subscribe to MainStreetVegan on itunes
Check out Man by Steve Cutts
Social Media
Twitter: @ChickPeepsPod
Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod
Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast
Momoko Hill: @oh_momoko
Robbie Jarvis: @robbjarvis
Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr
Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:09.5 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. |
| 0:12.2 | It's not hard to be vegan. |
| 0:15.8 | The chickies. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to episode 16. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm your host, Evie Lynch. |
| 0:20.0 | And for now it's just me. We decided we're |
| 0:22.3 | going to skip the pre-show chat that we normally do each episode. We're going to skip it this week |
| 0:26.4 | because this interview is so amazing and this is a woman who greatly inspires me. I feel like |
| 0:32.5 | I say that every week, but it's true to the point where I'm worried about season two, where I'll |
| 0:37.0 | have run out |
| 0:37.9 | of vegan heroes and heroines to interview. But anyway, for now we have a good season and an |
| 0:43.7 | amazing episode and interview. Victoria Moran is somebody who really strongly influenced and helped |
| 0:50.2 | me in going vegan. I found her podcast four or five years ago. I think I just typed |
| 0:55.2 | vegan into iTunes and hers was the one that resonated with me. And she gave me that sense of |
| 1:02.4 | community of there being other vegans and they just living like normal people and having happy, |
| 1:08.1 | joyful lives. And I hadn't seen that before. It was really a revelation. |
| 1:11.4 | And she's really what also inspired me to create the chickpeeps because I wanted there to be a |
| 1:16.3 | vegan podcast for a vegan podcast that could do that same thing for new vegans, for new and |
| 1:22.3 | aspiring vegans. She's so brilliant. And I met her a few years ago in London at Veg Fest and she was talking about |
| 1:29.9 | attractivism and she was wearing this beautiful hat and she was wearing like blues and purples. |
| 1:37.0 | And she was so different and so bright compared to all the people in black and tattoos, which is great. I have black tattoo days |
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