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Eat your veggies, not your friends. It's not hard to be vegan.

The chickpeeps, welcome to episode 25.

This is the episode on finding your tribe as a vegan or finding your sense of community, which can be a really difficult thing at first and which can often put people off because nobody likes the feeling of being alone and not feeling understood. So joining me on this episode today is lovely Momo. Hi, Momo. Hello, hi everybody. And in a few minutes, we're going to be

interviewing the happy pair. If you don't know the happy pair, they are an amazing plant

power duo from Greystones in Dublin. And they talk about what a blessing it is to them to be

twins and to have somebody who understood them and who went through this journey with them

of going vegan and being vegan and building this life. And it really struck me because I remember

back when I first went vegan, I was quite secretive about it at first because I was really

afraid of being judged and I was afraid of losing friends over it. And I didn't want to have another reason for people to think me weird.

So I kept it to myself.

And then when I finally like came clean about it, I found it was just the best thing ever.

I met the right people.

I connected with so many kindred spirits.

My life just kind of got better and richer and easier. So I wanted to

talk about this concept of finding your tribe and finding the people that you love and vibe

as a vegan. And Momo, I know you're so good at this. You're really good at like networking and

meeting people and putting on events. So I would love to talk to you first about

how you found your tribe as a vegan. I always just think it's really important if there isn't

some kind of community around you to go and create it yourself. And one of our mutual friends,

Lucy Sheridan, always says, don't wait for it, create it.

And I always have that in mind when I think of veganism-related events or community things or anything like that.

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