It’s All About Food – Jo Stepaniak and Julie Gueraseva – 06.28.16

Part I: Jo Stepaniak, Low-FODMAP and Vegan
Jo
Stepaniak is the author and coauthor of more than two dozen books on
vegan cuisine, health, and compassionate living. Having struggled with
IBS for decades, Jo knows what it’s like to feel that no food is safe,
even when eating healthy vegan fare.
 
Part II: Julie Gueraseva, LAIKA Magazine
Julie Gueraseva is the founder of the NYC-based vegan lifestyle magazine LAIKA.

It’s All About Food – Annie Mohaupt – 06.21.16

Part I: Annie Mohaupt, Mohop Shoes
Annie
Mohaupt is the founder and CEO of Mohop, a Chicago-based footwear
manufacturer. Mohop combines advanced 3D fabrication technologies with
traditional artisanal techniques to produce custom-on-demand shoes for
women and men. Mohop has been featured in INC Magazine,
Entrepreneur.com, Huffington Post, and The Science Channel and has been
recently been named both a national top-10 hardware startup and top-10
women-led startup.
Part II: Caryn Hartglass, Summertime!
Caryn
brings in summer with recipes for refreshing drinks, summer picnics,
events and barbecues. While on the road in the Bay Area she discusses
some of the eateries she has been visiting along with the fun treats she
has discovered.

It’s All About Food – Adam Markey, Sole and Stone – 06.14.16

Adam Markey, Sole and Stone
Adam Markey is owner and founder of SoleAndStone.com:
An online store focused on providing traditional men’s dress shoes that
are 100% vegan all while maintaining the same level of convenience and
customer service as large scale online footwear stores.

It’s All About Food – Jonathan Balcombe and Erin Orr – 06.07.16

Part I: Jonathan Balcombe, What A Fish Knows
Jonathan Balcombe is the director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy and the author of four previous books, including Second Nature and Pleasurable Kingdom. Visit his website at www.jonathanbalcombe.com and follow him on Twitter at @pumilla66.
 
Part II: Erin Orr, Secret Estate Illuminati Ball
Erin
Orr is a chef, storyteller, puppeteer and educator based in Brooklyn.
She endeavors to create experiences that encourage and foster community —
whether they are crafted from food, with words or via visual spectacle.
She maintains the food blog Big Sis Little Dish,
where she shares original, adapted and passed on recipes and stories
about the memories and gatherings connected to them. She is currently
executive chef for Cynthia von Buhler’s immersive theater excursion “The
Illuminati Ball.” For this she’s assembled an eight-course vegan
tasting menu that guests of the ongoing event series continue to concur
is both delicious and satisfying.

It’s All About Food – Eugene Wang with Susan Carskadon and Michael Neeley – 05.31.16

Part I: Eugene Wang, Sophie’s Kitchen Vegan Seafood
Eugene Wang grew up immersed in the vegetarian food business. For 20 + years his family has led the way in quality manufacturing of vegetarian food and distributing it throughout Asia and in North America. He took all he learned and in 1996, began consulting and leading food companies in the vegan and vegetarian food categories. Since 2004, his vision for launching the first Vegan Seafood has manifested into a viable category innovation lauded by the press and social media thought leaders, as well as natural trade industry leaders. The Sophie’s Kitchen Vegan Seafood phenomena has brought him the accolade ‘Vegan Visionary’.
Eugene is an experienced entrepreneur and leader. His broad scope of professional experience makes him uniquely qualified to assist vegetarian/vegan companies to the next level of success. For example, as President of Super Elephant, Taiwan, in 2004-2010, he acquired national distribution for the top US natural distributor, UNFI, where he became highly skilled in all aspects of developing sales in the natural and specialty marketplace in Asia for leading US natural product companies. In 2001, he founded a software company in Silicon Valley that built web-based CRM software, and in 1999, he joined Sherpa Research Limited, Tokyo, to spearhead a leading Japanese company into the Chinese market by developing important alliances and creating proactive, strategic marketing plans. Mr. Wang started his career in 1995, at a management consulting firm in New York City, shortly after earning his MBA from Columbia University, Columbia Business School, New York.
Susan Carskadon, Sophie’s Kitchen Marketing, PR, Social Media, Advertising
Susan Carskadon has been launching state-of-the-art products in the natural and mainstream industries, domestically and internationally, for over 35 years. Her specialty is taking little known, new concepts to full consumer visibility.
 
Part II: Michael Neeley, The Conscious Life Summit 2016
Michael Neeley is a former professional actor and medieval knight turned writer, motivational speaker, personal development coach, author of the upcoming book, The Art of Forgetting, and host of the highly-rated new podcast, Consciously Speaking. Michael is a student of Buddhism and is a certified Dharma teacher and meditation guide. He is committed to living a conscious lifestyle and helping guide others to do the same. He’d like to personally invite you to The Conscious Life Summit 2016, where he will be hosting 24 guest experts, including the amazing Caryn Hartglass, herself. It begins this Friday, June 3rd and runs through June 10th. It’s online, and it’s free.