HeyJaredVedge Your Best, Vegan Ideas for Everyone At Any Age
There has never been a more important time to be Vegan. Vedge Your Best is the only podcast aimed at teaching midlife women how to limit and eliminate the consumption of animal products without feeling deprived, overwhelmed or unsupported, even if no one you know is Vegan.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 13
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
Latest episodes
317: Finding Room on Your Vegan “Dance Card." (opens the original)
Read excerpt
No more room on your "dance card" today. This week we take one idea from the Harada Method and use it to make "being vegan" feel a lot more manageable. Instead of one giant goal, a chart full of small, learnable skills. If you know why you want to eat fewer (or no) animal products, you've read the books and watched the documentaries, and you're STILL struggling, this episode is for you. Maybe you don't have a vegan problem. Maybe you have an empty square on your chart. IN THIS EPISODE Why "go ve
316: Find the Friction: Identifying the Drag on Your Vegan Journey. (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The late Thomas Leonard, the grandfather of life coaching, developed the idea of “tolerations.” Those everyday annoyances that wear you down or distract you. The drawer that sticks. The tap that drips. The email you're not answering. The monthly card game you no longer want to be part of. The windshield-washer fluid light that keeps coming on. (Ask me how I know.) None of them is big enough to force your hand, and that's exactly how they survive. But they aren't neutral. Each one is running in t
315: Food Grief: What Are You Actually Afraid of Losing? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
What are we really afraid of losing when we change the way we eat? Sometimes it's the taste or smell of a favorite food. But often, the foods we worry about giving up are connected to something much bigger: a grandmother's recipe, a holiday table, a favorite place, a travel experience, or even our identity as someone who is adventurous, easygoing, or willing to eat anything. In this episode of Vedge Your Best , Michele explores the idea of food grief —the sense of loss that can come with develop
314: The Consistency Fantasy (opens the original)
Read excerpt
September energy is back. Use that energy. But watch out for the consistency fantasy : the idea that before we begin, we need to know how we’re going to keep doing this from now on. Consistency isn’t something you can accomplish today. Today, you can only do the thing . Yes consistency is important, but our desire to be consistent can sometimes keep us from getting started at all—especially when we’re trying to move in a vegan or plant-based direction. Instead of trying to solve December before
313: Can You Be Committed Without Being Certain? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Do you need to know that you can live vegan forever before you take one action today? Last week, we talked about practical uncertainty in a vegan practice: restaurant plans, backup meals, and the possibility of ending up with romaine lettuce and French fries for dinner. This week, we go one level deeper. What happens when you ask your future self to guarantee that you will follow through perfectly for the rest of your life? Michele often hears people say, “I’m not like you. I don’t stick with th
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.
See coverage about Vedge Your Best, Vegan Ideas for Everyone At Any Age