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Welcome everyone to my podcast Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano. This podcast will feature in-depth interviews with plant-based celebs, politicians, athletes, entrepreneurs, influencers, environmentalists, doctors, chefs, animal activists and so much more! I am dedicated to exploring how certain individuals are making the world a better place for themselves, those around them, our environment and our animals through their food choices, practices and businesses. I really do believe if we ...
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The Celebrity Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano - Audio Podcast
Elysabeth Alfano
Host Elysabeth Alfano dishes and drinks with celebs on The Celebrity Dinner Party. What funny stories and inspirational insights do celebs and influencers have to share from their road to success? Over food and drink the unscripted conversation flow, as Alfano sits down with some of the most prominent chefs, actors, directors, musicians, comedians, politicians and sports figures to find out! Live streaming and filmed in front of an audience and viwers that shares in the food and conversation ...
A Chicago native, Elysabeth has been living and breathing the arts for all of her life. Born to parents who were odd collectors and dedicated art enthusiasts, she went on to study art history and fashion in Paris and Florence. She returned to Chicago and owned an international art gallery, stretching her arts connections beyond the visual arts to all arts communities throughout the city. Having the itch to create herself, she worked in the Chicago fashion industry, designing and producing te ...
A Chicago native, Elysabeth has been living and breathing the arts for all of her life. Born to parents who were odd collectors and dedicated art enthusiasts, she went on to study art history and fashion in Paris and Florence. She returned to Chicago and owned an international art gallery, stretching her arts connections beyond the visual arts to all arts communities throughout the city. Having the itch to create herself, she worked in the Chicago fashion industry, designing and producing te ...
Build a strong, healthy body that’s sustainable for you and the planet. Kate Galli from strongbodygreenplanet.com shares short, actionable solo shows and longer form chats where we cut through all the complicated, conflicting and confusing health advice and make living a healthy plant based #plantstrong (!) lifestyle simple and sustainable.
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Fear No Art presents The Dinner Party Low Video
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Fear No Art presents The Dinner Party Low Video
Elysabeth Alfano
Fear No ART host Elysabeth Alfano invtes 3 creatives to a monthly dinner made by a celebrity chef. Over wine, food and a few impromptu performances the conversations fhigh about art, the creative process and a bit of everything under the sun. Filmed live from Chicago's Mayne Stage Theatre in front of a live audience, Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party streams live on FearNoART.tv the last Monday of every month at 7:30 pm CST. Twitter to FearNoARTChgo to ask the artists questions and to be ...
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FOOD FIGHT: Grilling Deena Shanker of Bloomberg
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We've all seen the Bloomberg article declaring plant-based meats a fad. Author of the article and long-time food reporter, Deena Shanker, joins Elysabeth Alfano on today's Plant-based Business Hour. Are Plant-based Meats a fad and a flop? They get into it. Listen in! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding con…
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Goodwill Wine’s David Laity and Rewarding Good People with Great Vegan Wines.
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Plant friends if you have been listening to this podcast for a while you likely know I am a huge red wine lover! Shiraz especially. I was delighted to recently discover Goodwill Wine, Australia’s only certified social enterprise wine company. Goodwill was founded by David Laity in 2009 and has donated over half a million dollars to Australian chari…
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Escape The System That keeps Us Fat, Sick, and Tired with The Badass Vegan.
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John Lewis AKA The Badass Vegan is not your stereotypical vegan. Side-note: I will be ecstatic when there is no longer such a thing as a stereotypical vegan! Back to John, he’s six-foot-six, African American, has the build of a guy who played Division 1 college basketball… and he hasn’t had any animal protein in fifteen years. Importantly John’s ap…
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Can You Love Animals and Eat Animals With Financial Times Journalist Henry Mance. (Encore Episode)
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My guest in this encore episode, acclaimed Financial Times journalist Henry Mance certainly did his research before deciding as an animal lover, he really needed to be vegan. This included a job at a slaughter house and at a pig farm. Henry learnt: “Everything I love about animals – their adaptations to the natural environment, their otherness to t…
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Cardiologist Heather Shenkman and The Vegan Heart Doctor’s Guide to Reversing Heart Disease.
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Have you heard the glorious quote, by previous president of the American College of Cardiology Kim Williams, (“I like to joke…) There are two kinds of cardiologist: vegans and those who haven’t read the data.” I like to joke is often left off the quote however either way, my guest today vegan Cardiologist Dr Heather Shenkman has certainly read the …
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Matias Muchnick of NotCo and Michael Natale of Ingredion Talk About Their Unlikely Partnership
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Enjoy this re-run of one of our favorite episodes! Matias Muchnick of NotCo and Michael Natale of Ingredion join The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the success of their unlikely partnership, each company's path towards furthering plant-based business and their vision for the future. And, of course, we chat about AI platform/program, Guiseppe! …
Why I Stopped Being An Angry Vegan. In short: I became painfully aware of how ineffective and exhausting always being angry, frustrated and disappointed is. How it drives a wedge in your relationships. 2021 was a tough year for me. My heart broke in 2021. I will share why at some point. There was so much grief and all-consuming sadness I felt all m…
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Global Food Systems Transformation: David Meyer of FSI
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CEO of the Food System Innovations, David Meyer, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the global food systems transformation towards sustainability, optionality and efficiency. What will move the needle the most? Policy? Technology? Consumer Demand? Industry Sustainability? Lots to breakdown and we get to it all. Subscribe right now …
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Is The Plant-based Foods Sector Dead? Three Industry Experts Discuss
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I am joined by the CMO of Change Foods, Irina Gerry and the Founder of the Vegan Women Summit, Jennifer Stojkovic to discuss the State of the Plant-based Foods and Innovation Industry. Is the sector dead? Has the media gotten it wrong? Is there positive data to report? Where is the sector headed? Have your own thoughts? Share them with me on Linked…
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Omaid Hiwaizi and ReFarm Fund’s Vision to End Animal Farming.
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This conversation with ReFarm Fund’s, Omaid Hiwaizi left me on such a high. Filled with the possibilities and the potential to utterly transform our broken food system when we work with farmers to help them transition away from animal farming. Vegan friends, Omaid and I know this is a nuanced issue. So far as Omaid’s, vegan credentials (!) it’s bee…
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CEO of The Kitchen Hub, Jonathan Berger, Talks Israel's Lead in Plant-based Innovation
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CEO of Israel's incubator, The Kitchen Hub, Jonathan Berger discusses Israel's leadership in Plant-based Innovation, what we can expect to see in 2023 in the sector globally and the role government plays in fostering innovation. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out …
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Veganism Is Not “A White Thing” with The Invisible Vegan’s, Jasmine C. Leyva.
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My guest today, actress and filmmaker Jasmine C. Leyva does not want to be an Invisible Vegan. Jasmine is committed to being the example that was not there for her, when she used to believe veganism was, “a white person thing.” Today, Jasmine and I discuss the feature length documentary, The Invisible Vegan, a film that chronicles Jasmine’s persona…
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Can Brands Get in Climate Shape? Here's How with Maha Tahiri
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Maha Tahiri, Founder of Nutrition Sustainability Strategies, joins me today on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss sustainability and health goals for corporations and brands and what the years ahead will be for clean, short, healthy labels and ingredients. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consultin…
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Cale & Daughters is Creating Delicious Plant-Based Food and Bringing Friends and Families Together.
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This conversation with Cale Drouin of Cale & Daughters is all about the obstacles, opportunities and learnings in mainstreaming delicious plant-based food in Australia. Of course there is huge value in what Cale shares for my international listeners too. I found it fascinating to learn just what is involved in getting product on the shelves of our …
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Get in Climate Shape this New Year! Anna Bohbot and Katie Cantrell Weigh In
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Anna Bohbot, Global Food & Beverage Manager for Linkedin, and Katie Cantrell, CEO of Greener by Default, discuss a great way for your company - and you! - to get in Climate Shape this New Year, 2023. Join us on The Plantbased Business Hour and bring your questions! Things get green! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based me…
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2023 Is the Year the Plant-based Sector Digs Itself Out. Elysabeth Alfano Shares How
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An intimate start to the year. In this first Plantbased Business Hour episode of 2023, Elysabeth shares some beginning of the year headlines, her Top 10 ways that the Plant-based Food Sector will dig itself out to find market strength in 2023 and her top 5 predictions for the year...plus a few bonus tips! It is a special New Year's edition of the P…
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Elysabeth Alfano and Investing in a Healthy, Sustainable, Profitable Plant-Based Future.
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Huge Happy New Year plant friends! I am so excited to share this conversation wth you. My guest today is successful businesswoman, strategic consultant in the plant-based business arena and keen investor, Elysabeth Alfano. As you will soon see Elysabeth is a passionate wealth of expertise and an incredibly effective communicator so far as everythin…
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Andre Menezes, CEO of Next Gen Foods/TiNDLE on Why Chicken Is Being Disrupted.
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How does one of the most exciting upstarts of The Great Food Systems Shift see the future for alt protein and sustainable food consumption? Andre Menezes of TiNDLE Foods, Next Gen Foods and I take a deep dive into how 2022 went down and our predictions for 2023 and the diruption of the chicken market. Listen in for the last The Plantbased Business …
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Coextinction’s Gloria Pancrazi and Why No Species Goes Extinct In Isolation.
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After a mother orca carries her dead calf for 17 days, two filmmakers spring into action, joining Indigenous leaders and scientists making a final attempt to protect the last 73 Southern Resident orcas from extinction. Today it’s my huge pleasure to chat with one of those filmmakers, Gloria Pancrazi. Gloria is Director and Producer of Coextinction …
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Bloomberg Senior Analyst Jen Bartashus Makes Predictions for the Sector for 2023.
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Bloomberg Senior Analyst Jen Bartashus Reports on the Plant-based Innovation Industry and makes predictions for the sector for 2023. Subscribe now to never miss a Plantbased Business Hour episode. For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.co…
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Erik Marcus and Vegan.com Are Making Vegan Easy.
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Todays conversation is all about making adopting a vegan lifestyle easier. My guest, Erik Marcus publishes vegan.com, maintains its Twitter feed, and has written extensively on vegan and animal rights topics. A couple of his most important pieces are an essay titled Why Go Vegan? Also his vegan activism piece. That said, the vegan.com site is an ab…
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Klaus Mitchell of Plant Based News Shares Predictions for 2023
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Klaus Mitchell, Founder & Co-Director of Plant Based News, joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to wrap up 2022 and share his predictions for 2023. They aren't what you think. Listen in! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For …
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Slay Film and The Ethical and Ecological Impact of Exploiting Animals For Their Skin with Rebecca Cappelli.
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5 MYTHS about animal skins perpetuated by the fashion industry… Leather is a BY-PRODUCT of the meat industry. Fur is NATURAL, totally biodegradable and therefore better. Leather is a NATURAL product. Wool is a SUSTAINABLE material. Animal free alternatives to fur, leather and wool are more damaging to the planet. Perhaps the biggest myth is that an…
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Catherine Tubb of Synthesis Capital Discusses the Tipping Point of Plant-based Foods Market
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Catherine Tubb, Director of Research at Synthesis Capital and Co-Author of Rethinking Food & Agriculture 2020-2030, shares her projections for the Plant-based Innovation & Alternative Proteins sector on The Plant-based Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach…
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Rebel Vegan Life and More Ethical, Sustainable Travel As A Vegan with Todd Sinclair.
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Plant friends, today it is my pleasure to share with you a high energy conversation with a gent who is excelling at busting the MYTH that traveling as a vegan might be hard, boring, isolating or restrictive! Vegan author and activist, Todd Sinclair is all about more ethical, sustainable and FUN travel As A Vegan. Prior to Covid-19 Todd spent years …
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Musings from the Middle East, COP27 and Dubai
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On a long trip to COP27 in Egypt to speak on a call for investing from the public and private markets in Plant-based Innovation and Alternative Proteins, Elysabeth shares her thoughts from Q3 & 4 in the sector from her final destination: Dubai. There she attended the Alternatives Investment Summit to discuss the growth of the Plant-based Innovation…
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Emily Louise Wilson is Competing with Compassion as a Vegan CrossFit Athlete.
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Plant friends this conversation with Vegan CrossFit Athlete, Emily Louise Wilson is third in a series of episodes focused on athletes representing PlantBuilt a collective of vegan athletes who recently excelled at the Mr. America Competition. Emily is very strong. And fit. Especially for her size. Though she can Deadlift: 225lb and Back Squat: 185…
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Live From COP27 with Raphael Podselver of ProVeg International
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Live From COP27 with Raphael Podselver of ProVeg International LIVE from COP27 with the ProVeg International Director of UN Affairs, Raphaël Podselver and I discuss the COP27 recap. Have food systems finally been put on the UN's negotiations list? Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public s…
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The Future of Cultivated Meat at the Cultivated Meat Symposium
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This week The Plantbased Business Hour heads to the Cultured Meat Symposium. Hear about the growing infrastructure of cultivated meat from the Co-Founder and CEO of OceanTastes Inc., Peter Nesaei, and Founder and CEO of Micro Meat, Dr. Anne Sophie-Mertgen. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and…
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Plant-based Chef Bailey Ruskus and Thriving with Endometriosis.
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Bailey Ruskus, also known as Chef Bai, is a seasoned chef classically trained at Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco, who now uses her culinary expertise to create rich flavours with clean, nourishing 100% plant-based ingredients. Bailey’s own plant-based journey started with her desire to heal her chronic pain from an 18 year battle with endometriosis…
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MycoTechnology is Alt Protein's Secret Giant: Jonas Feliciano & Lisa Wetstone
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MycoTechnology is Alt Protein's Secret Giant: Marketing Director, Jonas Feliciano & Senior Director, Strategy, Lisa Wetstone share MycoTechnology's approach to growth, raising and communicating with the consumer about the mighty mushroom's new fermented frontier. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consult…
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How To Create Mental Fitness and Avoid Burnout with Rewire’s Sun Sachs.
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Sun Sachs is the CEO and Co-founder of Rewire Fitness, the first mental fitness platform that helps athletes reach their full potential and avoid burnout by providing tools that improve mindset, readiness and resilience. Sun is also a vegan athlete who has successfully turned his traumatic childhood into a strength. This conversation is all about o…
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Tofurky and Creating Delicious Plant Food While Focusing on Purpose Over Profits with Seth Tibbott.
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It is a true pleasure and privilege to share this conversation with the warm, generous and relentlessly purpose over profits focused, Seth Tibbott, founder and chairman of The Tofurky Company. We discuss how Seth pivoted from his passion for “mouldy soy beans” and succeeded – eventually – against all the odds, in creating the wildly successful and …
