And I'm and 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 Gudro. I am your host. You can find me at joyful vegan.com and on social media. You can subscribe to this podcast food for a thought on iTunes

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I am here to just spend a couple minutes with you because I feel that I haven't spoken to you in so long and it is for a good reason.

I am working on my seventh book.

I mean technically it's my eighth book but I don't feel like explaining how and why.

But it is a book that I think will be so helpful to everyone listening. It's called

The Joyful Vegan. And you know my work has been based on joy and veganism.

And being a Joyful Vegan, my website is joyful vegan,

that has become my brand.

And the book is called The Joyful Vegan,

Everything You Need to Stay Vegan in a world

that wants you to eat meat, dairy, and eggs.

Because there are so many challenges around the social aspects

and the emotional aspects once you become vegan,

you know, I help people through the transition of becoming vegan and we do talk about that as a journey but I think we forget that staying vegan and once you become vegan it's also a journey and I take you on that journey.

I provide really a lot of support around the social aspects

the emotional aspects and I am so so proud of this book and so excited to share it

with you however it is consuming all of my time. I

underestimated the amount of time it would take to write it and to write it, of course,

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