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Vedge Your Best Podcast 5 Copy 2 Vedge Your Best Podcast Template Episode #5 “What Do You Practice Not Practicing?” Date of Recording - September 30, 2020 Date of Publishing - October 6, 2020 I have an Instapot - one of those electric programmable multi function pressure cookers. I use it every - well maybe 3 times a year. It’s good but every time I pull it out I can’t remember how the gasket works, and which side the valve should be on and what buttons to press… Not that I really have to remember, I keep the instructions in the pot… I know I just need to practice using it more often, but right now I’m practicing NOT using it. And I’ve gotten pretty good at that. Welcome to Vedge Your Best, the Plant Based Podcast My name is Michele Olender. I’m a certified life coach, a practicing vegan, and I’m here to try and convince you to show up, eat more plants, and not wait a single second longer, to set an impossible goal. Episode 5, Where we discover what you’re practicing NOT practicing Welcome and Welcome Back, Vedge Heads. Thank you to the many people who reached out this month and gave me great feedback on the podcast. I really appreciate the reviews and the emails and next week I will start answering some of the questions that have come in. I love working with people who are struggling with starting or maintaining a Vegetarian, Vegan or Plant Based diet. So for today, let me introduce you to the Vedge Your Best process and the three cornerstones of the method and what Plant Based Coaching with me is all about. And No - there is no meal plan. No recipes. Not even a smoothie. I know and you know that you can decide to go Plant Based or Vegan without a coach at any time. You certainly don’t need a coach to NOT eat meat dairy, eggs and fish. But like my Instapot, if you are not actively practicing your Plant Based skills then you are actually practicing NOT eating plant based. Geek alert - time to quote the Stoic Philosopher Epictetus who warned us QUOTE “Not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and so end up doing the opposite.” UNQUOTE Meaningful practice and training, not just knowledge. That’s what Epictetus suggested not quite 2000 years ago. That is what I offer my coaching clients. It’s quite likely that you will never hear anything on this podcast that you don’t already know about Vegan or Plant Based eating, but I hope to give you meaningful practice and training in terms of implementing what you already know and think. The Vedge Your Best process is coaching for individuals and groups who are looking to reduce or eliminate the consumption of animal products because of environmental, ethical or as in the case of a lot of my listeners, health concerns. Often it’s a combination of many reasons. Those reasons belong to each of us and it is my belief that you KNOW your why and it is never my job or my place to tell you what your why SHOULD be. So that’s another thing you won’t get from me, preaching. So no meal plan. No recipes. No smoothies and no Soapbox. Vedge Your Best is exactly what it says - Vedge oriented. Your Reasons. To live and show up the BEST way you can. As YOU define it. So this week I am going to share with you the 3 parts of my coaching program as I have developed it, and how we practice it together to get very different results than somethings you may be more familiar with. Things like Meatless Mondays, or a 21 day vegan food plan or working with one of the Plant Based physicians. They are all great ideas. Wonderful plans. There is Compelling medical evidence. And…. Some of us still struggle with eating in alignment with our intentions, medical advice or our ethical beliefs. It’s not surprising. It also does not mean there is anything wrong with you. Nothing is wrong with your commitment or your willpower. Because This world is not exactly set up for you to accomplish YOUR goals. Mostly it’s set up for you to accomplish someone else’s goals. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing as long as you feel good about it. But for some of us who want to make other choices. Who want to reduce or eliminate animal products from our daily consumption, it typically means swimming up stream, going against the grain, choose your own metaphor here. It means making choices that are conscious and deliberate rather than automatic. It’s like learning any other new skill. A little like my Instapot is for me. Awkward at first. Very awkward for most of us. And a little tiring because for most of us our daily food choices have been practiced for years or decades - so long that they are automatic. My job is to coach you so you can efficiently make the choices you want, create the results you want, ask for what you want without apology and live the life YOU want. On your own terms. So at the beginning I said there were three main cornerstones of this coaching practice that I use with Vedge Your Best for people who are having trouble starting or maintaining a Plant Based diet. Number 1: Think about what you are giving rather than getting. 2 Decide like a leader rather than a follower. 3 Embrace a bigger picture and a grander goal. Still no smoothies. That’s right, because this is what in coach speak is called “mindset coaching.” I really do not think you need anything but your own mindset to accomplish exactly what you want . So number 1 - Think about what you are giving rather than getting. You have a reason for moving towards or committing to a Plant -Based Vegan diet. It’s very possible that reason will grow or evolve over time but you have a reason now. How does that reason benefit others? How does that reason benefit your family? How does it help draw attention to animal agriculture or sustainable environmental practices. How does it save water or decrease the use of antibiotics in our food system, or reward plant based entrepreneurs and food producers? How does it help lower cholesterol? or Inflammation and blood sugar? That might be an amazing gift you can give yourself, the people you love, the people who love YOU… What is your reason? Or reasons for reducing or eliminating animal products? How do those reasons connect with your community and your environment? Those are reasons you make for yourself. How do you model your concern as a citizen and why is it worth the trouble sometimes? Why is it bigger than you? How do your daily choices make more choices available for those who haven’t learned what you’ve learned yet? How do your food choices support others who need your support.? How do your choices support your health which allows you to do important work in the world? Making vegan choices can be more trouble than just automatically accepting what’s out there. Especially at the beginning decision fatigue can set in and we can think -why can’t my family make it easier for me. -Why can’t the hotel or restaurant or airline support my requests better? -Why aren’t there more options for me at work? -Why do I have to explain myself? -Can I get a little help here? It’s not a problem if you feel that way from time to time. Even now, when there are exponentially more choices and more support for choosing Plant Based than ever, you are still taking the road “less travelled.” And the antidote to all that “why isn’t it easier “ energy is a mindset shift you can remember, practice and commit to . Think about who you are serving, what you are modeling and underwriting. My Vedge Your Best Cornerstone number one - Think about what you are giving, rather than getting. Cornerstone Number Two - Decide like a Leader rather than a follower. So many of us began their - for want of a better phrase Vegan Journey, consuming so much information. We watch documentaries like Forks over Knives, GameChangers or Earthlings or What the Health. We listen to podcasts like Vegetarian Zen, Howard Jacobson’s Plant Yourself, No Meat Athlete Podcast and the Rich Roll podcast. We read books and buy vegan cookbooks. Follow Plant based Physicians like Dr Michael Greger Dr Laurie Marbas, Dr Esselstyn Joel Kahn, MD Doctor Kim Williams and so many others There are on line courses like the Forks over Knives Plant Based Cooking Class - which I haven’t taken - yet. Or the Plant Based Nutrition Certificate at Cornell University, which I have. Don’t worry I am always updating the resources on my website micheleolendercoaching.com if this is coming at you too fast. The point is many of us - most of us? Come to veganism as students or followers, devotees if you will of thought leaders who are creating amazing content about a Plant Based lifestyle. We follow on Facebook, Instagram, on Youtube - so many Youtubers creating amazing content. Following energy is exciting. We want to know more? Each new source, or menu, or authority, or vegan extreme athlete gives us another little dopamine hit of discovery and new information and a new way of seeing Veganism through these exciting Vegan thought leaders.
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