Plant Fuelled Podcast

Dr Gemma Newman is a British GP with over twenty years in medicine, additional qualifications in gynaecology and family planning, and a specialist interest in plant-based nutrition. She is also one of the clearest voices on women's health in a space that is absolutely riddled with people trying to make money from it.This one covers menopause and perimenopause properly. Estrogen, HRT, soy and why the fear around it has never matched the evidence, supplements worth taking versus the ones being aggressively marketed at women going through this, and why menopause has become such fertile ground for grifters. We also talk about why women become less visible as they age, how that makes them uniquely vulnerable to online marketing, the cultural differences in how menopause is experienced and talked about, and what a plant-based approach actually offers at this stage of life.Gemma has spent two decades in medicine watching this play out in her practice. She has no interest in selling you anything.

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George Hearn is a life coach and Cambridge graduate who walked away from a corporate career in London, moved to Sydney, and now spends his time coaching young professionals who are good at life on paper and know something is still missing.We talk about the rock bottom paradox, why most people wait until things are genuinely falling apart before making changes they could have made years earlier, and what it looks like to start before you get there. The arrival fallacy, what happens when you finally hit the goal and feel nothing. Telic versus atelic activities and why the balance between them matters more than most productivity advice will ever tell you. Using envy as a signal instead of something to be ashamed of. Social media, the manufactured feeling of being behind, comparison, perfection, and what designing your life deliberately actually looks like versus just letting it accumulate.

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Graham Meglino speaks at colleges and universities across the US helping graduates figure out what they're actually doing with their lives after the structure of education disappears and the real world turns out to be nothing like anyone told them it would be.This one goes somewhere a bit different for the podcast. We talk about passion versus purpose and why chasing passion is advice that sounds good and often leads people nowhere. Finding fulfilment, what that actually looks like in practice rather than on a motivational poster. Simple pleasures and why they matter more than most people give them credit for. Authenticity, embracing imperfection, habit change, and what public speaking has taught Graham about the way people connect with each other and with themselves.It's a conversation about building a life that feels like yours rather than one you stumbled into because nobody told you there were other options.If you graduated and immediately felt lost, or you're years out and still feel like you haven't quite landed, this one is for you.

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Kerryn Sawyer is the Plant Power Coach and someone who works with people at the exact point where knowing what to eat and actually doing it completely fall apart.This one goes into emotional eating, what's actually driving it and why telling someone to just track their calories misses the point entirely. We talk about the feeling of not being enough to achieve your own goals, how that shows up in the way people approach food, and why the extremes that dominate social media and diet culture are making it harder for people to figure out something that should be straightforward. Conflicting advice, wellness waffle, the money being made from keeping people confused, and what happens when someone has been swinging between approaches for so long they genuinely don't know what healthy looks like anymore.We also get into habits, triggers, calorie density, and what it actually takes to build a relationship with food that doesn't require constant willpower.It's one of those conversations that covers a lot of ground and lands somewhere genuinely useful.

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Anna Falk is the founder of WAM Protein and someone who built a brand specifically because she got fed up with how the supplement industry operates. That's a good starting point for a conversation.

We get into all of it. What's actually in your protein powder and why the regulations around it are loose enough to make you uncomfortable. Proprietary blends and why they exist, spoiler: not for your benefit. Gender-specific supplements and why they're mostly nonsense dressed up in pink packaging. The sucralose debate. Creatine, leucine, bioavailability, protein bars, electrolytes, and the diet culture that's managed to worm its way into an industry that should know better.

Anna also talks about starting WAM, what it actually takes to formulate a protein product properly, and why most brands aren't doing it. We start with Hyrox, which is where her story begins, and it goes from there.

If you've ever stood in a supplement aisle and felt like everyone was lying to you, this is the episode.

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