S2, Ep2: Joyful Veganism with Colleen Patrick Goudreau

<p><strong>This episode is brought to you by Vivo Life!  Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at vivolife.com!</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week on The ChickPeeps, Evy speaks to renowned author, speaker, activist and all-around dazzlingly joyful vegan, Colleen Patrick Goudreau about learning how best to discuss and share our vegan values with others. Colleen also reveals insights on the importance of incorporating joy into one's personal vegan lifestyle, and shares her passion for animal-related etymology and her conviction that we need to be mindful about using language that doesn't normalise animal abuse. Also on this episode…</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why be a joyful vegan? </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bearing witness as a vegan activist - Are we betraying the animals if we choose not to share or look at images of violent animal abuse? </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is the most responsible way to channel one's anger as a new vegan? </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The role of vulnerability in sharing your vegan values.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'Veganism is the way to reach our goal of being as compassionate as we can; the goal is</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to be as vegan as we can be, the goal is to be as compassionate as we can be.'</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colleen coaches Evy through how to approach and handle a conflict about veganism with a family member.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colleen is the vegan therapist we all need!</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'Do your work and step back'. Colleen shares how she releases the urge to control how the information she's sharing is being received.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communicating your message so that people will listen: 'Do you want to be right or do you want to be effective?'</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'Pizza' or 'Vegan pizza': Evy and Tylor discuss listener Uma's question on whether or not we should be declaring our veganism at every meal.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow Colleen Patrick Goudreau on</span> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/joyfulvegan/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/joyfulvegan"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/colleenpatrickgoudreau"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/c/joyfulvegan"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Youtube</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colleen's</span> <a href="http://www.joyfulvegan.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to Colleen's Podcasts,</span> <a href="https://www.colleenpatrickgoudreau.com/food-for-thought-podcast/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Food For Thought</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://www.colleenpatrickgoudreau.com/animalogy-podcast/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Animalogy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Order Colleen's book,</span> <a href="https://www.joyfulvegan.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Joyful Vegan</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Social Media</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter:</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/ChickPeepsPod"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ChickPeepsPod</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chickpeepspod/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ChickPeepsPod</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook:</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChickPeepsPodcast/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ChickPeepsPodcast</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Momoko Hill:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/oh_momoko/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@oh_momoko</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robbie Jarvis:</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/RobbJarvis/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@robbjarvis</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tylor Starr:</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tylorstarr/">@tylorstarr</a></span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Evanna Lynch: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/msevylynch/">@msevylynch</a></li> </ul>