S2, Ep6: Daniella Monet
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
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This week on ChickPeeps, Evy speaks to fellow actress, activist and Kinder Beauty co-founder, Daniella Monet about her lifelong commitment to advocating for freedom and compassion for animals. Daniella discusses what inspired her as a teenage animal rights advocate, the ups and downs of being a vegan on film and tv sets in Hollywood and shares about her new normal being a mom to a brand new little vegan boy. Also on this episode...
- Daniella explains why she went vegetarian at the age of 5 after visiting a ‘dude ranch’.
- Activism vs Storytelling: should vegans reject playing non vegan roles?
- What is Hollywood’s take on veganism now?
- Daniella explains why, as an activist, she chooses to refrain from posting ‘gory’ vegan content.
- ‘I don’t want to use the word extreme at all because this is the truth and it’s not extreme’.
- Daniella explores how she kept a vegan household even before her partner transitioned to a plant-based diet.
- ‘Our connection was so much deeper than our differences, and food and lifestyle, and I just knew if at any point he decided to make the change it would be because he wanted to and that was more important than him doing it for me.’
- Vegan pregnancy: what Daniella had to do differently and how she handled people commenting on her choice to raise her baby vegan.
- Daniella shares how pregnancy gave her a deeper empathy for non-human moms exploited for their milk.
- Why Daniella believes non vegans should focus on getting rid of dairy products first.
- The importance of investing in plant-based companies.
- Daniella shares her insights as a vegan in business.
- Some listener feedback on the animal welfare episode and Robbie fantasises about retiring to a bald eagle sanctuary.
Links:
Follow Daniella on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.
Check out Daniella’s podcast, Adulting Like a Mother Father.
Watch Daniella’s heartbreaking video about the dairy industry.
Check out listener Erica’s eagle sanctuary in Oklahoma!
Social Media
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Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod
Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast
Momoko Hill: @oh_momoko
Robbie Jarvis: @robbjarvis
Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr
Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. |
| 0:09.3 | Eat your veggies, not your friends. |
| 0:12.1 | It's not hard to be vegan. |
| 0:14.5 | The chickpeepie. |
| 0:17.6 | Hello chickpeeps. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to episode six of season two. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host, E. Yvie Lynch, and I hope you're all well this week. |
| 0:28.7 | Hope you're enjoying the best of season and not getting stressed out by it. That would be nice. |
| 0:34.9 | We've got an amazing interview for you today with the wonderful, smart, compassionate actress and activist Danielle Monet. |
| 0:37.7 | You might know Danielle for her work as an actress on the show, Victoria show Victoria or Baby Daddy or Nancy Drew, that is to name but a few of her projects. She's a very |
| 0:43.0 | busy woman. I realized while I was scrolling through her IMDB page that I have seen her on so many |
| 0:49.2 | shows, but I just didn't realize because I didn't know her back then. But yeah, she works a ton and she's also a very busy activist. |
| 0:57.0 | She went vegetarian at the age of five, as she explains in this interview. |
| 1:00.6 | And she basically hasn't stopped campaigning for animal rights since then. |
| 1:04.0 | She's an incredibly dedicated activist, and she's turned her passion for saving animals into business by investing in vegan companies such as sugar taco |
| 1:11.6 | and outstanding foods and also by co-founding kind of beauty and because she decided she didn't |
| 1:17.7 | actually need sleep she just had a beautiful baby boy geo who she's raising vegan and she shares |
| 1:23.4 | about that journey in the interview too which is very interesting interesting. Yeah, she's the kind of person who, |
| 1:28.0 | when I first met her, I was intimidated by her because I just thought, oh my goodness, this woman |
| 1:32.0 | has it all together. She is perfect and she kind of is. But she's also so sensitive and she puts |
| 1:37.6 | so much heart into what she does and cares so deeply by animals and people. And she really does |
| 1:42.3 | her activism in such a thoughtful, beautiful way. |
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