Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Adro. I'm an author and educator dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices, to debunking myths about veganism, to being a voice for animals, and to giving people the tools and resources

they need to live according to their own values of compassion and wellness.

I'm the author of The Joy of Vegan Baking, The Vegan Table, Color Me Vegan and

Vegan's Daily Companion. You can also check out 30-day vegan challenge, a

comprehensive program that guides people through 30 days of being vegan and

answers all of their questions and any challenges they may have in that period.

So go to 30-day vegan challenge.com.

Also you can find me at Twitter.com

slash Patrick Goudreau and on Facebook.com slash compassionate cooks you can find

out more about who I am and what I do at my website

Compassionate cooks.com.

Before I get started with today's episode, of course I want to thank my

platinum members but I also want to acknowledge Eric Bright who is my new podcast engineer.

That means after I finish recording this episode, I can hand it off to Eric and he edits it and makes it sound beautiful and I just

can't believe it took me seven years to get to this point but I'm so excited to

be into this new phase and this new process of letting go and letting someone else edit the

podcast. It's just incredibly time-consuming to do it myself and I want to be able to

possibly maybe do some more podcast episodes, do them more frequently frequently so this will enable me to do it no

matter what I'm grateful to Eric and I'm really thrilled he's on board so thanks Eric

Bright and of course I want to thank my platinum members James Killen of incentive personal training in Australia.

Personal Dash Training.com.

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