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Category: Friday with Friends

  • 417. Healing Your Relationship with Food, with Chef Amber

    417. Healing Your Relationship with Food, with Chef Amber

    Amber Caudle is passionate about sharing her own challenging journey with food, as an executive chef and owner of her own restaurants. She’s had a dynamic emotional relationship with food since she was eight years old, which led to her binging, restricting, purging, chronic dieting, and becoming addicted to diet pills and exercise. She used food to avoid her feelings and cope with her anxiety, stress, and fear. She openly shares these stories, as well as her continuing journey of healing her relationship with food, and learning to use it to heal her body.


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  • 414. Words with a Navy SEAL, with Mark Divine

    414. Words with a Navy SEAL, with Mark Divine

    Mark Divine is a Navy SEAL in one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. He retired in 2011 from the rank of Commander. He learned so much from the ways SEALs train and knew that everyone else could gain from their methods, so he started the fitness company SEALFIT to prepare civilians with a Navy SEAL-like training regimen.

    We talk about how he became a Navy SEAL, what the experience was like, and how he parlayed all of that into his business, Unbeatable Mind.

     

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  • 411. Taking a Solutionary Approach to the Challenges of Our Lifetime, with Zoe Weil

    411. Taking a Solutionary Approach to the Challenges of Our Lifetime, with Zoe Weil

    Zoe Weil is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. A humane educator since 1985, Zoe has been giving people the tools to make humane and sustainable choices and solve entrenched challenges through her classes, workshops, and training programs.

    Growing up Zoe was passionate about animals, but she had no idea how mistreated they were. Then, in school, she learned how recent some of the world’s biggest atrocities were: human trafficking, slavery, the holocaust. But she never thought she could do anything to help. It wasn’t until college when she realized she could make a difference. She became vegan to stop participating in the cruelty of the food industry and, in graduate school, she began teaching weeklong courses about environmental and animal issues. She realized that she could do this for the rest of her life.

     

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  • 408. Activism, Education & Searching for Meaning with James Walsh

    408. Activism, Education & Searching for Meaning with James Walsh

    James Walsh began teaching at CU Denver in 1998, moving to the Political Science Department in 2013. He specializes in Labor, Working Class, and Immigration History and Politics, as well as U.S. Social Movements, Community Organizing, and Arts-Based Education. Walsh founded the Romero Theater Troupe in 2005, an all-volunteer, “organic” organization that specializes in telling and preserving stories about struggles for human rights and social justice. He uses theater and community-based learning in his classes for a unique and effective experience.

    He shares his journey from a college student at Duke University to a professor to an activist. He also talks about the heightening political and racial tension in the United States, and how he’s handling it on campus.

     

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  • 405. Navigating the Ins & Outs of Hollywood with Annabeth Gish

    405. Navigating the Ins & Outs of Hollywood with Annabeth Gish

    Annabeth Gish is an actor, best known for her role in the classic movie “Mystic Pizza.” She’s also taking on the world of voiceovers and directing, and her passion for the space is changing and evolving.

    She talks about her path to Hollywood, dating, and how she’s navigated the ins, outs, and challenges of getting where she is today.


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  • 402. Veganism & Earning Planet Peace, with James Aspey

    402. Veganism & Earning Planet Peace, with James Aspey

    James Aspey is a renowned animal activist who’s been vegan for eight years. The path to him becoming a voice for the unheard started with his decision to become voiceless, himself. He took a vow of silence in honor of animal suffering and maintained it for an entire year. With his big personality, outspoken charisma, and extreme commitment to the cause, he’s doing so much good in the world.

    He saw the massive injustices in the animal product industries and just how few people were actually speaking up in the way that they needed to, so he had to take on the mission, himself. The language and tone he uses is often the center of controversy and criticism. We talk about the backlash to this approach, the morality of veganism, and how his diet changed his life following a cancer diagnosis.

     

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  • 399. The Banana Blondie: Michelle Muench on Veganism & Healing Yoga

    399. The Banana Blondie: Michelle Muench on Veganism & Healing Yoga

    Michelle Muench, otherwise known as “The Banana Blondie,” is a hot mama, vegan, and yoga instructor. She’s been practicing yoga since 2000 and passionately teaching about the many benefits it brought her since 2005. 

    yoga was the one thing that seemed to make a difference. At first, she didn’t love it, but when her back pain went away she stuck it out and found its groove. She talks about falling into yoga, becoming vegan, and how to cope when the rest of your family still eats meat.

     

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  • 396. Miracles, Purpose & the Magic of Surrender with Kute Blackson

    396. Miracles, Purpose & the Magic of Surrender with Kute Blackson

    Kute Blackson offers a bold look at spiritual awareness for a whole new generation. Born in Ghana and raised by a Japanese mother and Ghanaian father in London, Kute’s multicultural background laid the foundation for his ability to break down barriers and unlock the gifts of others.

    Growing up, he had always been curious about the purpose of life. Kute saw miracles regularly as a child, but he didn’t realize that his experiences were different from anyone else’s. He speaks about his journey, his new book, “The Magic of Surrender,” and what it means to live a spiritual life.

     

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