Ep. 234: PlantYou Unveiled: Exploring Carleigh Bodrug's "Scrappy" Universe
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In 2016, Carleigh Bodrug started her blog, PlantYou, with one goal - to show the world that eating plants is not only healthy, but also FUN.
Since then, Carleigh and her ever-growing team have amassed over 10 million followers (and growing!) across her social platforms, and she’s even released a New York Times Best Selling Cookbook, PlantYou.
Today, we get a peek under the PlantYou curtain as Rip and Carleigh catch up and talk about her meteoric rise in the last eight years. Carleigh shares her authentic and fresh approach to content creation, inspiration for recipes, and tips for creating plant-based meals on a budget.
We also get an exclusive sneak preview of her next book, Scrappy Cooking, which is being released in April, 2024. It will, no doubt, dazzle and inspire readers to save money, reduce food waste and eat healthier - all while having fun.
The book equips readers with not only the tools to make the most of their scraps, but use up just about any vegetable, grain, or bean from their fridge and pantry.
Scrappy Cooking not only puts the focus on eating a diet that's more conscious for our environment (and our wallets) but our health as well. Every recipe in the book is vegan, almost entirely oil free, and focuses on whole, plant-based foods that are good for our bodies and the planet.
Rip encourages listeners to pre-order Scrappy Cooking as those numbers do count towards the first week sales numbers, but, more importantly, it’s an opportunity to raise awareness of the goodness that is whole-food, plant-based nutrition.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ray Besselston and you're listening to the Plan Strong Podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | The Social Media Dynamo is back. |
| 0:11.6 | That's right. |
| 0:13.4 | Today I catch up with Plant You Sensation, |
| 0:17.1 | Carly Boadug, right after this. I got to tell you that there's something about my guest today that is just special. |
| 0:34.0 | Super, super special. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm talking about Carly Bode Rug, |
| 0:40.0 | you may know her, she is the person behind Plant You. |
| 0:45.0 | She burst onto the Plant-based social media scene a few years ago, |
| 0:50.0 | and I was just blown away by her, by her authenticity, which is absolutely impossible to ignore. |
| 0:59.0 | And then of course not to mention the fact that she can make plant-based cooking so darn approachable, fun, and as she likes to say, scrappy. |
| 1:10.0 | You know, she's got a social media following these days across all of her platforms that is well into the millions. |
| 1:18.0 | And I can tell you that for somebody like me, who's been doing this for well over a decade, it makes me so excited to see that her |
| 1:30.0 | message about plants is reaching the masses in a way that very few people have a way of |
| 1:38.0 | doing. Today I was able to have a great conversation with Carly about her life over the past couple of years and I asked her to share some of her social media secrets, which I found fascinating in regards to |
| 1:56.8 | Instagram and Tik-Tock and Facebook. And how exactly has she grown her audience from zero to over five million in just a handful of years. |
| 2:09.0 | And as you can imagine, it involved a lot of hard work and support, but also a ton, a ton of fun |
| 2:17.8 | and creativity along the way. |
| 2:20.9 | We also get a preview of her forthcoming new book Scrappy Cooking that's coming out in April and |
| 2:29.2 | if it's anything like her first book, Plant You, it will undoubtedly be another gem of a cookbook that we're all going to want on our kitchen counters. |
| 2:42.0 | Here you go, the one and only. going to want on our kitchen counters. |
| 2:42.6 | Here you go, the one and only |
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