Russell Simmons on The Happy Vegan, His New Book

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Russell Simmons, co-founder of the hip-hop music label Def Jam, also happens to be an outspoken vegan activist, and the author of the new book The Happy Vegan. Eager to hear more about his story and the new book, we asked him on for today's episode, and it did not disappoint. We talk veganism, meditation, yoga, and exactly what it means to be a Happy Vegan.

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0:28.4	Athlete radio. Hello welcome to no meat athlete radio episode 125. I'm Matt Frazier with
0:41.7	Doug Hay for a quick introduction before we interview
0:44.8	maybe the most famous person I've ever talked to.
0:48.3	Maybe. Probably so. Probably the richest person. I did play hack exact with Sarah McLaughlin. Let's not forget that.
0:53.3	Oh yeah, that's right. Think she's richer than Russell Simmons?
0:56.1	I don't know. I met Jennifer Love He would once, I'll tell you that.
0:59.2	Oh, now that's a star right there. She probably had some cash back then too.
1:03.4	I bet so.
1:05.5	Anyway, Russell Simmons.
1:07.1	Russell Simmons.
1:08.1	Cool.
1:09.1	Yeah. Doug, you spend a lot of time in the hip-hop world, right?
1:12.4	One of those circles? Yeah, definitely. Okay, so you know about. a lot of the time in the hip-hop world right yeah
1:13.0	circles yeah definitely okay so you know about you know a lot about Russell Simmons I know you
1:17.0	you do because you told me about him more than I knew about him yeah so what do you got well
1:21.0	I think we should let him tell his own story, not me.
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