Welcome to Food for Thought, The Place to Explore, Celebrate and Manifest, life motivated, and defined by unconditional compassion

and optimal wellness.

My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I'm your host.

My work is dedicated to empowering people to live according to

their own values of compassion and wellness. You can learn more about who I am and

what I do by visiting my website Colleen Patrick Godro.

You can also join thousands whose lives have been changed

by the 30-day vegan challenge and get yourself on board

with the award-winning book or the multimedia online program or both at 30-day vegan challenge.com.

Can you believe it? 10 years ago, I grabbed a microphone my husband had for his music, borrowed his

sound board, asked a friend who's an audio engineer to show me how to edit, wrote the first episode, The Protein Myth, and recorded my very

first podcast episode.

Well, just to be accurate, because you know me, hashtag accuracy, March is the official 10 year anniversary

but it makes more sense to do our love letter episode in January it's just easier

for me to keep track of your amazing letters.

In March 2006, it was called Vegetarian Food for Thought.

This podcast was called Vegetarian Food for Thought.

At the time, the word vegan was people who abstained from all animal products so it was vegan and that's why

Donald Watson decided to come up with another word because vegetarians

started to become more narrow. Today the podcast is simply called Food for Thought and it's still alive and well because of you, my amazing listeners.

And 10 years later, things are so advanced as I organized and read through these letters there were so many names

familiar to me because of YouTube because of Facebook because of Twitter and

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