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

My name is Colleen Patrick Adro, 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 Joyful vegan.com

and you can also join thousands whose lives have been changed by the 30-day vegan challenge

and get yourself on board with it today at 30-day vegan challenge.com.

And here's something fun to share. The 30 Day Vegan Challenge book is now award

winning. The Independent Publishers Book Awards chose it as a silver winner in its category. So I'm excited the 30-day vegan challenge is officially

an award-winning book 30-day vegan challenge.com. Today's topic is the best animal mothers, human and non-human.

A few fun announcements before we get to this special episode.

We just wrapped up our special April version of the 30-day vegan challenge and we're doing

another in June. In these special versions of the 30-day vegan challenge I offer lots

of extras in addition to what's already there you can sign up anytime you want and start getting the information,

the videos, the recipes, the resources, all of the content anytime you start the program

as soon as you sign up.

But if you're doing these special versions, you get lots

of extras, including new videos and new recipes and new content, live weekly Q&As with me, live cooking

demonstrations, video demonstrations, and really awesome giveaways.

We just gave away a brand new high-powered Blantec

blender, a 30-day supply of so delicious non-dary goodies,

a 30-day supply of delicious vegan chocolate, bars from endangered species chocolate and

three copies of the Daily Vegan, which by the way is a new

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