It's the one part podcast, episode 26.

Hey, it's Jessica Mernan. It's the One Part podcast and I am bringing you lessons in next level

inspiration. Just a quick note before we get to today's guest, I will be at the Be Healthful

retreat in Chicago on March 22nd. It's a full day of shaking off the winter, feeling good

with feeling good activities. There's going to be yoga,

meditation, wellness consultations, acupuncture, a little massage, lots of good food and drinks,

too. I am going to be speaking on a panel with Heather Crosby from Yum Universe and we're going to be

talking about plant-based foods and how to

incorporate them more into your diet. I'm really excited about the day, and if you go, please make

sure to come say hi. If you want to get tickets, head to behealthful retreat.com, and I hope to see you

there. All right, today's guest, you can't really get more healthful than

Bryant Terry. He's an author, chef, speaker, mentor, and pretty much one of the biggest

pioneers in food justice. And if he's listening to this, he's going to say, well, there's a lot of people

that were before me pioneer. No, I think he's a huge, huge pioneer. And it was crazy talking to him,

listening to him talk about his work and the fact that he started doing this work in 2001,

which I don't know. It's, it's crazy to think 2001 how

different we thought about food. I think now everyone's throwing chia seeds on things, putting kale

and everything. But back then, that wasn't the case. And a lot of people told Bryant that the work

that he wanted to do just wouldn't resonate with people and then it wouldn't work.

But it did because over a decade later, he's still doing it and he's doing it bigger and bigger every single year.

So I think we should just get to Bryant now because this conversation was really, really good. He gave lots of

lots of new things to think about. And let's do it. All right, here's Brian. I know that you're a

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