Best James Ozden Podcasts (2024)

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Sofia Balderson on how rejection can help you grow as an advocate 1:19:52

5d ago1:19:52

1:19:52

Sofia Balderson is the co-founder of Hive, formerly known as Impactful Animal Advocacy, an organisation that aims to improve coordination and collaboration in the farmed animal movement through cultivating impactful, intentional, and serendipitous communities Many listeners may be on the Impactful Advocacy Slack – a Slack workspace with over 2,000 …

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Ignacia Uribe on some tough decisions nonprofit leaders have to make 48:56

13d ago48:56

48:56

Short but sweet episode this week from Ignacia, author of a recently released book, CEO of a leading organisation in Latin America and mother to two small kids. We're delighted that Ignacia took time out to talk to us about her experiences right across her contributions for animals. We chat about Fundacion veg and their campaigns in both diet chang…

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Bob Fischer: The case for including insects in our animal advocacy 1:05:35

27d ago1:05:35

1:05:35

Bob Fischer is the Senior Research Manager at Rethink Priorities and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. Can insects feel pain? Should people who care about chickens, cows and pigs also care about reducing the suffering of crickets or black soldier flies? In this episode with Bob Fischer from Rethink Priorities, we try to a…

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Kristie Middleton on why engineering breakthroughs are essential for low-cost plant-based alternatives 1:11:25

2M ago1:11:25

1:11:25

Kristie Middleton is vice president of business development for Rebellyous Foods where she and her team help institutions add more plant-based options to their menus. Kristie’s also the author of MeatLess: Transform the Way You Eat and Live—One Meal at a Time and a long-time animal advocate. Rebellyous Foods has created novel manufacturing technolo…

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Jayasimha Nuggehalli on working collaboratively with the animal agriculture industry to help animals 1:36:56

2M ago1:36:56

1:36:56

Jaya is a seasoned operational executive with a rich history of promoting animal welfare in the food retail sector. As the Co-founder and Chief Program Officer of Global Food Partners, a Singapore-based multinational consulting firm, he helps food and hospitality businesses implement their cage-free egg policies across Asia and reduce the cost of c…

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Lauren Mee on the career landscape for helping animals 1:22:53

2M ago1:22:53

1:22:53

Lauren Mee is the CEO & Co-founder of Animal Advocacy Careers, an organisation that tries to match mission-aligned talent to opportunities that accelerate the end of factory farming. Lauren offloads all she knows about the hiring landscape right now when it comes to careers in animal advocacy. She talks us through some best practices and common pit…

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Aaron Ross on how to stay motivated and keep fighting for animals for 20+ years 1:37:09

3M ago1:37:09

1:37:09

Aaron Ross has spent over 20 years working for farmed animals. His relentless dedication to this cause has seen him co-found two major organisations, The Humane League and the Open Wing Alliance and train and advise countless others around the world on corporate relations and movement strategy. In this episode, we talk through an important topic, l…

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Tomasz Herok on working undercover in factory farms 1:12:00

3M ago1:12:00

1:12:00

Description: Tomasz Herok recently spent over 5 months working undercover on British factory farms, as part of an investigation by Open Cages, the UK branch of Anima International. [Trigger warning: graphic descriptions of animals suffering on factory farms throughout the episode] In this episode we understand the complexities involved in being an …

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Simon Newstead on developing alternatives to animal protein 1:21:55

4M ago1:21:55

1:21:55

Simon Newstead, entrepreneur turned impact investor, is a founding co-partner of Better Bite Ventures who back food-tech founders in Asia. In this episode, we deep dive into the world of alt protein and the different technologies available in the alternative protein space. We look at Asia specifically where Simon’s work is focussed as well as the c…

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Wanyi Zeng on building the farmed animal movement in Southeast Asia 1:24:29

5M ago1:24:29

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In this episode, we speak to Wanyi Zeng, Executive Director of Welfare Matters, an organisation that is focused on building capacity for the farmed animal advocacy movement in Southeast Asia. We speak about the findings of Welfare Matters’ detailed and insightful report into the animal agriculture landscape in 6 key Southeast Asian countries, chall…

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Stien Van Der Ploeg on finding the most effective animal charities 1:14:17

6M ago1:14:17

1:14:17

Stien is the executive director of Animal Charity Evaluators, also known as ACE. Stien, wants to help people help animals and ACE tries to do that by finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals. In this episode we speak with Stien Van Der Ploeg who is their fairly newly appointed executive director. We talk through the latest rele…

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Monica Chen on theories of change, collaboration and leadership within the animal advocacy movement. 1:09:58

6M ago1:09:58

1:09:58

Today, we speak with Monica Chen, the Executive Director of New Roots Institute, formerly Factory Farming Awareness Coalition. We speak about several big topics: Theories of change for the animal advocacy movement Why collaboration between organisations isn’t always easy, The importance of focusing on changing culture and social norms The difficult…

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Cameron Meyer Shorb making the case for wild animals and why we should care about their suffering. 1:29:12

6M ago1:29:12

1:29:12

Cameron is the executive director of Wild Animal Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of animals by accelerating the growth of wild animal welfare science. In this episode Cameron helps us to understand the vast topic of wild animal suffering. Cameron makes the compelling case for why we should invest resources into understandin…

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Josh Balk on using shareholder activism to win change from the world’s largest food companies 1:08:32

7M ago1:08:32

1:08:32

In this episode, we speak with Josh Balk who is the co-founder and CEO of The Accountability Board. Previously, he was vice president of farm animal protection for The Humane Society of the United States. In addition, he is a co-founder of EAT JUST, a food technology company. We spoke to him about a promising new strategy that he’s trying out, whic…

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Aurelia Adhiambo on the animal advocacy landscape in Africa 58:16

7M ago58:16

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Aurelia is the Africa co-ordinator for the Open Wing Alliance where she supports African organisations with their cage-free campaigning efforts. In this episode Aurelia walks us through the state of the advocacy movement in Africa and the unique complexities of campaigning in this region. We hear Aurelia’s thoughts on progress in Africa and the imp…

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Ines Kostic on using politics to help animals 1:06:38

8M ago1:06:38

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Give us feedback on the podcast via this form! It should take just a few minutes and it would really help us improve the show. Thank you in advance, we really appreciate it. In this episode, we speak with Ines Kostic, a Member of the Regional Parliament in the Netherlands for the Dutch political Party for the Animals and manager of Animal Politics …

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Neil Dullaghan on the importance of influencing EU policy and other important research topics 59:08

8M ago59:08

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Neil Dullaghan is a Senior Research Manager in the animal welfare department at Rethink Priorities. Neil also holds a PhD in Political Science and is a fund manager of the Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund. In this episode Neil talks us through his policy research in the EU as well as other exciting projects and impactful research that Rethink…

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Karolina Sarek on why you should start a new charity to help animals, and how Charity Entrepreneurship can help you do it 1:06:07

9M ago1:06:07

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In this episode, we spoke to Karolina from Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) about the new animal charities they want to incubate in their next program (starting February 2024), what the benefit of joining their charity incubator is, as well as how they select which charities to incubate. If you’ve ever considered launching a charity to help animals, t…

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Amanda Hungerford on Open Philanthropy's funding for farmed animal welfare 1:03:41

9M ago1:03:41

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We interviewed Amanda Hungerford, Farm Animal Welfare Program Officer at Open Philanthropy. Open Philanthropy is one of the largest funders of farmed animal welfare, giving tens of millions of dollars each year. We spoke to Amanda about common misconceptions about Open Philanthropy's grantmaking, challenges with corporate campaigns, strategies that…

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Andrés Jimenez Zorilla on Shrimp Welfare Project and why we should care about shrimp 1:13:01

10M ago1:13:01

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We are celebrating our 10th podcast episode - Yay! To celebrate, we interviewed Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla from the Shrimp Welfare Initiative who inspired the name of our podcast, How I Learned to Love Shrimp. Shrimp Welfare Project is the only organisation solely dedicated to improving the lives of shrimp. In this episode we talk about the case for w…

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Nikunj Sharma on the animal advocacy movement in India and how to successfully expand organisations internationally 58:47

10M ago58:47

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In this episode, we speak to Nikunj Sharma, the CEO of Mercy for Animals India. We spoke about: The work of Mercy for Animals in India, and their victories so far The considerations for animal advocacy organisations, like Mercy for Animals, to expand into new countries rather and how this trades off with the existence of local organisations. The sp…

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Carolina Galvani on growing Sinergia Animal in The Global South and the optimism and self compassion that drives her work. 1:13:04

11M ago1:13:04

1:13:04

Carolina is the founder and Executive Director of Sinergia Animal, an Animal Charity Evaluators’ StandOut charity working in nine countries of The Global South. Carolina has twenty years of experience in advocacy, fundraising, strategic planning, management, and campaigning. Before founding Sinergia, she worked in more than thirty countries as an…

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karol orzechowski on animal research and the importance of effectively communicating data to support your goals. 1:07:42

11M ago1:07:42

1:07:42

karol is the Content Director for Faunalytics who are dedicated to helping animal advocates improve the effectiveness and impact of their work through research and data. In this episode karol - a long-time animal advocate with a background in media, filmmaking, and investigative work - talks through Faunalytics most interesting research, and his re…

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Emre Kaplan on starting the first farmed animal focussed organisation in Turkey 1:07:22

12M ago1:07:22

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Emre Kaplan is the Executive Director at Farmed Animal Protection Association in Turkey, the first farmed animal focussed charity in Turkey. In this episode, we talk through their organisation starting up, scaling and the lessons learnt along the way. We chat about their approach to activism in Turkey and the challenges they face working on these t…

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Edie Bowles on utilising the law to support the protection of animals 55:02

1y ago55:02

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Edie is the Managing Director and a Solicitor at Advocates for Animals, the first UK law firm dedicated to animal protection. In this episode, we chat to Edie about representing The Humane League UK in the up and coming court case challenging DEFRA. The judicial review case will see Advocates for Animals argue that fast-growing chicken breeds are i…

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Eva Hamer on how the animal advocacy movement can improve its messaging and win over the public 1:09:00

1y ago1:09:00

1:09:00

Eva is a co-founder and Operations Lead of Pax Fauna, a nonprofit that seeks to revitalize the grassroots animal advocacy movement through conducting original research on messaging, strategy, and culture. In this episode, we discuss Pax Fauna’s 18-month narrative research project where they conducted over 100 hours of interviews with 200 meat-eatin…

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Silvano Lieger on a nationwide ballot initiative to end factory farming 1:09:28

1y ago1:09:28

1:09:28

Silvano Lieger is the Co-Managing Director of Sentience, a political animal rights and animal welfare organisation based in Switzerland. In September 2022, they ran a nationwide ballot initiative where all citizens of Switzerland could vote on one of the most important questions for animals: Should we ban factory farming? In this episode, we discus…

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David Coman-Hidy on welfare vs abolitionism and promising strategies to help animals 1:17:34

1y ago1:17:34

1:17:34

David Coman-Hidy is former President of The Humane League, one of the largest farm animal advocacy organisations in the world. He now works as a Partner at Sharpen Strategy working to coach animal advocacy organisations. In this episode, we discuss the age-old debate facing animal advocates: Should we pursue incremental approaches to improve welfar…

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Introducing: How I Learned to Love Shrimp 44:13

1y ago44:13

44:13

Welcome to How I Learned to Love Shrimp, a podcast about (potentially) effective ways to help animals! In the episode, we (Amy and James) introduce the podcast, why we wanted to start it, things we want to cover and some of our views on important topics within animal advocacy. If you enjoy this episode, please share this with your friends, family a…

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How I Learned to Love Shrimp

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Sofia Balderson on how rejection can help you grow as an advocate 1:19:52

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Ignacia Uribe on some tough decisions nonprofit leaders have to make 48:56

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Bob Fischer: The case for including insects in our animal advocacy 1:05:35

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Kristie Middleton on why engineering breakthroughs are essential for low-cost plant-based alternatives 1:11:25

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Jayasimha Nuggehalli on working collaboratively with the animal agriculture industry to help animals 1:36:56

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Lauren Mee on the career landscape for helping animals 1:22:53

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Aaron Ross on how to stay motivated and keep fighting for animals for 20+ years 1:37:09

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Tomasz Herok on working undercover in factory farms 1:12:00

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Simon Newstead on developing alternatives to animal protein 1:21:55

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Wanyi Zeng on building the farmed animal movement in Southeast Asia 1:24:29

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Stien Van Der Ploeg on finding the most effective animal charities 1:14:17

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Monica Chen on theories of change, collaboration and leadership within the animal advocacy movement. 1:09:58

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Cameron Meyer Shorb making the case for wild animals and why we should care about their suffering. 1:29:12

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Josh Balk on using shareholder activism to win change from the world’s largest food companies 1:08:32

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Aurelia Adhiambo on the animal advocacy landscape in Africa 58:16

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Ines Kostic on using politics to help animals 1:06:38

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Neil Dullaghan on the importance of influencing EU policy and other important research topics 59:08

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Karolina Sarek on why you should start a new charity to help animals, and how Charity Entrepreneurship can help you do it 1:06:07

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Amanda Hungerford on Open Philanthropy's funding for farmed animal welfare 1:03:41

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Andrés Jimenez Zorilla on Shrimp Welfare Project and why we should care about shrimp 1:13:01

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Nikunj Sharma on the animal advocacy movement in India and how to successfully expand organisations internationally 58:47

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Carolina Galvani on growing Sinergia Animal in The Global South and the optimism and self compassion that drives her work. 1:13:04

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karol orzechowski on animal research and the importance of effectively communicating data to support your goals. 1:07:42

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Emre Kaplan on starting the first farmed animal focussed organisation in Turkey 1:07:22

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Edie Bowles on utilising the law to support the protection of animals 55:02

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Eva Hamer on how the animal advocacy movement can improve its messaging and win over the public 1:09:00

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Silvano Lieger on a nationwide ballot initiative to end factory farming 1:09:28

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David Coman-Hidy on welfare vs abolitionism and promising strategies to help animals 1:17:34

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Introducing: How I Learned to Love Shrimp 44:13

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