Main Street Vegan

What role can nutrition play in our health, fitness, and athletic performance? And how can a plant-based approach support an active lifestyle?
In this episode of the Main Street Vegan Podcast, Victoria Moran welcomes Dr. Douglas Graham, a longtime health and fitness professional, author, and coach who has worked with thousands of people to improve their health and helped some of the world's top athletes reach peak performance.
Dr. Graham is the author of The 80/10/10 Diet, a book that helped bring low-fat vegan eating to a wider audience. He also wrote Nutrition and Athletic Performance, which explores the relationship between nutrition and sporting goals.
With decades of experience and more than 10,000 stage appearances, Dr. Graham continues to share his knowledge and enthusiasm for health, fitness, and plant-based nutrition.
Join Victoria for a conversation with an influential voice in the world of raw and low-fat vegan eating.
In This Episode
Dr. Douglas Graham's lifelong work in health and fitness
The ideas behind The 80/10/10 Diet
Low-fat vegan nutrition and its place in the vegan movement
The connection between nutrition and athletic performance
How nutrition can support training and fitness goals
Dr. Graham's experience coaching athletes and educating audiences around the world
About Our Guest
Dr. Douglas Graham has dedicated his life to the health and fitness industry, helping thousands of people improve their health and coaching elite athletes to peak performance.
His book, The 80/10/10 Diet, helped popularise a low-fat vegan approach to eating and continues to be celebrated at fruit festivals around the world. His book Nutrition and Athletic Performance focuses on helping athletes align their nutrition with their training goals.
Dr. Graham continues to share his experience and enthusiasm through education, coaching, and speaking.
Explore Dr. Graham's work:
Website: www.FoodnSport.com
Books and projects:
The 80/10/10 Diet
Perpetual Health 365
Nutrition and Athletic Performance
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Is it ever too late to transform your health? And what does it really take to stay strong, independent, and vibrant as we grow older?
In this informative conversation, Victoria Moran speaks with Brenda Davis, RD, an internationally acclaimed registered dietitian, plant-based nutrition pioneer, and award-winning author, about her book Plant-Powered Seniors and the science of healthy aging.
With more than 4 decades of experience in nutrition, Brenda has helped people around the world understand the benefits of plant-based eating. She has written or co-authored 14 books, with more than one million copies in print, and is a respected voice in the field of plant-based nutrition.
Victoria and Brenda explore why nutrition matters at every stage of life, particularly as we get older. They discuss whether changing our eating habits later in life can improve our health, and how a well-planned plant-based diet can support vitality, strength, and independence.
The conversation also tackles some of the most common questions about plant-based nutrition for older adults. From protein and muscle maintenance to bone health, omega-3 fats, and brain function, Brenda explains which nutrients deserve particular attention and how we can make informed choices.
Together, they look beyond simply living longer and explore what it means to flourish as we age, maintaining our health, independence, and purpose for as many years as possible.
In This Episode
Why Brenda wrote Plant-Powered Seniors and why the topic matters now
Whether it's ever too late to improve your health through nutrition
How plant-based diets can support healthy aging
The nutritional needs older adults should pay particular attention to
Plant protein, muscle maintenance, and staying strong as we age
The role of strength training in preserving independence
Calcium, vitamin D, and other considerations for healthy bones
Omega-3 fats, EPA and DHA, and whether supplementation may be beneficial
How nutrition and lifestyle can support brain health and cognitive function
Common myths about soy, carbohydrates, dietary fat, and plant-based nutrition
Practical ways to build satisfying, nutrient-rich plant-based meals
The difference between lifespan and healthspan
How to flourish with vitality, independence, and purpose in later life
About Our Guest
Brenda Davis, RD, is a plant-based trailblazer, internationally acclaimed speaker, and award-winning author. She has delivered keynote presentations in 28 countries across six continents and has written or co-authored 14 books, with more than one million copies in print.
A past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Brenda was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame in 2007. She also received the Plantrician Project's Luminary Award in 2022.
Her work has helped countless people understand the science behind plant-based nutrition and put that knowledge into practice.
Her book, Plant-Powered Seniors, explores how nutrition can support healthy aging and help older adults maintain strength, vitality, and quality of life.
Learn more about Brenda's work:
https://plant-poweredseniors.com/
Follow Brenda:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brendadavisrd
Instagram: @brendadavisrd
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What does it mean to live a truly magical life and how might raw veganism, spirituality, and female empowerment all fit into that picture?
In this inspiring conversation, Victoria Moran speaks with Kate Magic, a celebrated raw vegan pioneer, author, life coach, Reiki master, yoga teacher, and QHHT practitioner who has been sharing the magic of raw foods for nearly 30 years.
Kate has empowered tens of thousands of people through her books, workshops, courses, and retreats, bringing together down-to-earth lifestyle guidance with uplifting spiritual insight.
Victoria and Kate talk about female empowerment and what it means to move into your “goddess era” as an older woman, exploring why feminine empowerment is such a powerful and timely conversation.
They also explore Kate’s own journey with veganism. Having been vegan for nearly 40 years, she shares her thoughts on sustaining a vegan lifestyle over the long term and why she believes raw vegan food can take plant-based living to another level.
Together, Victoria and Kate explore the possibility that these ideas aren't separate at all  that what we eat, how we care for ourselves, our spiritual lives, and the way we show up in the world can all be part of creating a life that feels more conscious, joyful, and magical.
In This Episode
How Kate's work as a health coach led her into female empowerment
Why female empowerment is such a powerful topic right now
What it means to move into your “goddess era” as an older woman
Kate's nearly 40 years of vegan living
How to sustain a vegan lifestyle for the long term
Why Kate is particularly passionate about raw vegan food
Why raw foods can take plant-based living to another level
The connection between food, spirituality, and conscious living
Kate's work empowering women
About Our Guest
Kate Magic is celebrated for her inspiring combination of down-to-earth lifestyle guidance and uplifting spiritual insight. Through her books, workshops, and courses, she has empowered tens of thousands of people to discover and embrace their own magic.
Kate has been travelling the world and sharing the magic of raw foods for nearly 30 years. She is also a life coach, Reiki master, yoga teacher, and QHHT practitioner, and teaches courses and classes and holds retreats in the UK, Egypt, Bali, and beyond.
Her work encompasses three closely connected areas: The Empowered Woman, her work on feminine empowerment; Actually Magic, her work on living a magical life; and Raw Living, her work around the raw vegan diet.
Learn more about Kate and Raw Living: www.rawliving.co.uk
Her podcast: The Raw Living Podcast

Take a look at Kate's Egypt retreat here - https://rawmagicretreats.com/egypt-magic/

And her new book here - https://theempoweredwoman.co.uk/
Follow Kate:
Raw Living on Facebook
Instagram: @wearerawliving
Instagram: @katemagic
Main Street Vegan Academy
The 39th cohort of Main Street Vegan Academy begins in October 2026 via Zoom. If you've ever wanted to deepen your knowledge of veganism, compassion, nutrition, advocacy, and the vegan movement, this could be your opportunity.
Podcast listeners can receive $250 off with the code VEGCOACH250.
Subscribe, rate, and review the Main Street Vegan Podcast to help more people discover the joy of living with vitality, spirituality, and compassion.
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What happens when we begin to see farmed animals not as products, but as fellow beings sharing this journey with us?
In this profound conversation, Victoria Moran speaks with Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary and one of the pioneering voices in the movement for farm animal protection.
Gene has spent four decades working to change the way we think about animals, food, farming, and compassion. Since co-founding Farm Sanctuary in 1986, he has helped bring the realities of factory farming into public view while creating a place where rescued animals can live out their lives in safety.
Gene's new book, Farm Sanctuary: The Story of a Movement, celebrates 40 years of rescue, education, and advocacy.
The book traces Farm Sanctuary's journey from a small grassroots effort to a movement that has helped change conversations around farmed animals and our food system. It also shares photographs and stories from those four decades of work.
Victoria and Gene talk about what inspired him to begin this work and what he has learned along the way.
The conversation also moves beyond factory farming and into the way we relate to food itself.
Gene shares his thoughts on returning to a more agrarian way of seeing things. That might mean growing some of our own food, getting to know the farmers who grow it, and becoming more connected with the land and the food on our plates.
It's an invitation to think differently about where our food comes from and what a more connected food system could look like.
In This Episode
Gene's four decades of work with Farm Sanctuary
The story behind the founding of Farm Sanctuary
Gene's new book, Farm Sanctuary: The Story of a Movement
What four decades of rescue, education, and advocacy have taught him
Why we might benefit from returning to a more agrarian way of living
How to communicate with people who don't yet understand veganism
Standing firmly in our vegan values without judging others
Seeing animals as fellow beings rather than commodities
What compassion can look like in everyday choices
The continuing work of changing hearts and minds about animals and food
About Our Guest
Gene Baur is an activist, author, and president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, which he helped establish in 1986.
A pioneer in undercover investigations and farm animal rescue, Gene has visited hundreds of farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses. His work has helped expose the realities of factory farming and inspired a wider farm sanctuary movement.
Gene has also advocated for stronger protections for farmed animals and has worked with legislators, policymakers, farmers, and the public to promote a more compassionate and sustainable food system.
His latest book, Farm Sanctuary: The Story of a Movement, looks back at four decades of rescue, education, and advocacy through photographs and personal stories.
Gene's New Book
Farm Sanctuary: The Story of a Movement is available now.
The book celebrates Farm Sanctuary's 40-year journey, from the rescue of its first animal to the growth of an international movement dedicated to changing the way farmed animals are seen and treated.
Farm Sanctuary
Learn more about Gene's work, Farm Sanctuary, the animals who call it home, and the organisation's ongoing rescue, education, and advocacy work:
https://www.farmsanctuary.org/
Gene's website also includes information about his upcoming book tour stops. If you'd like to see Gene in person, visit Farm Sanctuary's events page for current dates and locations.
Main Street Vegan Academy
The 39th cohort of Main Street Vegan Academy begins in October 2026 via Zoom.
If you've ever wanted to deepen your knowledge of veganism, compassion, nutrition, advocacy, and the vegan movement, this could be your opportunity.
Podcast listeners can receive $250 off with the code VEGCOACH250.
Subscribe, rate, and review the Main Street Vegan Podcast to help more people discover the joy of living with vitality, spirituality, and compassion.
Sign up for the Main Street Vegan blog and newsletter at mainstreetvegan.com and receive your FREE e-book, Recipes to Help You Age Like a Yogi.
And become an insider by joining the Main Street Vegan Podcast Listeners Group on Facebook: Main Street Vegan Podcast Listeners Group
 
Complement are supplements made by vegans, Pamela Fergusson, RD, PhD, Matt Frazier, and Joel Kahn, MD, to enhance diet. Check out their new product Sulfora, and enter 'MAINSTREET' in the discount box to save yourself 10%.

What happens when vegan activism, cultural identity, community resilience, and a deep connection to home come together?
In this episode of the Main Street Vegan Podcast, Victoria Moran speaks with Anthony Martinez, Executive Director and Programs Director of Casa Vegana, a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit working to strengthen the Island’s vegan movement through education, community-building, and plant-based outreach.
Casa Vegana grew out of community relief work following Hurricane María in 2017 and eventually became an autonomous nonprofit. Anthony, who had been involved in vegan education in New York, relocated to Puerto Rico in 2019 to reconnect with his roots and stepped into leadership as the organization evolved.
Today, Casa Vegana is helping create a more connected and sustainable vegan community in Puerto Rico — while navigating the very real challenges of infrastructure, economics, and island life.
In This Episode
Anthony’s journey from vegan activism in New York to building Casa Vegana in Puerto Rico
The evolution of Casa Vegana from post-Hurricane María community relief work into an autonomous nonprofit
What Puerto Rico’s vegan community looks like today — and how it is growing
Why cultural identity and Puerto Rican roots matter when building a lasting vegan movement
The unique challenges of making plant-based living accessible and practical on the Island
Taller Vegano, Casa Vegana’s hands-on community education program
What Anthony has learned from Puerto Ricans who are exploring plant-based living
The importance of bringing vegan people, organizations, and businesses together
Building a broader and more sustainable funding base for grassroots vegan work
How the Puerto Rican diaspora and global vegan community can support Casa Vegana
Anthony’s vision for the future of veganism in Puerto Rico
Vegan Paradise Fest, planned for March 7, 2027, and what it represents for the Island’s growing vegan community
About Anthony Martinez
Anthony Martinez is the Executive Director and Programs Director of Casa Vegana, a Puerto Rico-based nonprofit dedicated to growing the Island’s vegan movement through education, community engagement, and advocacy.
After working in vegan education with the Chilis on Wheels New York chapter, Anthony relocated to Puerto Rico in 2019 to reconnect with his roots. When Casa Vegana’s founder, Michelle Carrera, stepped back, Anthony took on leadership and helped transform the project into an autonomous nonprofit.
During the uncertainty of the 2020 pandemic, he secured Casa Vegana’s nonprofit status, helped build a board representing both the Puerto Rican diaspora and local vegan community, and kept the organization moving through consistent online programming focused on plant-based nutrition and animal rights.
Today, Anthony continues working to deepen Casa Vegana’s connections throughout Puerto Rico and build a stronger, more unified vegan community on the Island.
Connect with Casa Vegana
Website: www.casaveganapr.org
Facebook: Casa Vegana
Instagram: @casavegana.pr
About the Main Street Vegan Podcast
Subscribe, rate, and review the Main Street Vegan Podcast to help more people discover the joy of living with vitality, spirituality, and compassion.
Sign up for the Main Street Vegan blog and newsletter at www.mainstreetvegan.com and receive your FREE e-book, Recipes to Help You Age Like a Yogi.
And become an insider by joining the Main Street Vegan Podcast Listeners Group on Facebook: Main Street Vegan Podcast Listeners Group

Complement are supplements made by vegans, Pamela Fergusson, RD, PhD, Matt Frazier, and Joel Kahn, MD, to enhance diet. Check our their new product Sulfora HERE, and enter 'MAINSTREET' in the discount box to save yourself 10%.