The Solutionary Vegan’s LEVEL-UP Podcast explores the inspiring range of strategies used by animal protectors, environmental activists, and social justice warriors to LEVEL-UP the playing field for all Earth’s inhabitants.  

By engaging in challenging conversations with leading-edge changemakers, this podcast will help you up your game in a world that needs joyful, solutionary, NEXT-LEVEL action.

In this trailer, hosts, Ella Magers, vegan wellness coach and icon, and Jennifer Tourkin, vegan humane educator,  describe future podcasts.

We’ve created this podcast so that we can learn– right alongside you, our listeners – how to spread the vegan message in the most impactful ways, and with compassion towards all beings and our beautiful planet.

We’re going to engage in healthy conversations with, and between change-leaders, who sometimes have differing opinions about how to best move the needle. We’re going to hear what’s working and how to make more of THAT happen - and we’re going to examine the  systems that need to be revolutionized  to find the most effective solutions. 

Speaking of solutions, we explore what a solutionary is in our first episode.

THEN, we’ll talk with solutionary heroes – people doing great work in areas like education, strategic communication, plant and cell-based innovations, animal law, research, social justice, environmental sustainability, artists, authors, podcasters, musicians....and more.

AND we have some super fun and silly segments planned!

We’re so excited to join you on this journey of connection, understanding, passion, purpose and change!

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Music Credit: The Wake Up Experience, Nu Human

“A solutionary is somebody who can identity unjust, unsustainable and inhumane systems and then devise solutions that do the most good and least harm for everyone– for all people for animals and for the environment.”

The concepts we discuss in this episode are the framework for our podcast. Zoe defines “solutionary” and explains how this methodology can change the world in big - impactful - sustainable ways. She talks about humane education, her method of advocacy, and how education is one system that affects all the others. We also dig into meaty questions about vegan misanthropy, balance, how we sometimes, in our passion to do good, cause harm, different modes of advocacy, and why we should care about injustices toward human animals and the environment.

Zoe Weil
Zoe Weil is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE), where she created the first graduate programs (M.Ed., M.A., Ed.D., Graduate Certificate) in comprehensive Humane Education linking human rights, environmental preservation, and animal protection, offered online through an affiliation with Antioch University. IHE also offers a Solutionary Micro-credential Program for teachers, a free Solutionary Guidebook for educators, How To Be A Solutionary guidebook for students and changemakers, Solutionary Workshops, and award-winning teacher resources to help educators and changemakers bring solutionary practices to students and communities so that together we can effectively solve local and global challenges. Zoe is a frequent keynote speaker at education and other conferences and has given six TEDx talks including her acclaimed TEDx, “The World Becomes What You Teach.” She is the author of seven books including The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries; Nautilus silver medal winner Most Good, Least Harm, Moonbeam gold medal winner Claude and Medea, and Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times. Zoe was named one of Maine Magazine’s 50 independent leaders transforming their communities and the state and is the recipient of the Unity College Women in Environmental Leadership award. She was also a subject of the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series and received the Distinguished Alumnae Achievement Award from the Nightingale-Bamford School. She holds master’s degrees from Harvard Divinity School and the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Valparaiso University.

Full Show Notes and resources from episode

Wake-Up Experience

This episode is chock full of data-driven, actionable information about how to advocate for animals. Faunalytics is a nonprofit that collects and conducts research on animal issues. Jo Anderson shares her own experience and insights, and delivers findings through the lens of a thoughtful, careful researcher with compassion for all beings–including those who disagree, or aren’t there yet, and for the people who do this hard work on behalf of our animal friends.

Faunalytics’ resources, available to anyone, can help you inform why and how to advocate. Here, for instance, is a 2 minute video on when and how to use graphic images, in Faunalytics’ Explains video series. Here is the low-down on farmed animals, in beautiful, easy to absorb and share, graphics. This stuff is gold.

Jo Anderson, PhD

Dr. Jo Anderson is a social psychologist and the Research Director at Faunalytics, a nonprofit that conducts research on animal-related issues. She is an advocate for animals and evidence-based decision-making, with many years of experience in social science methods and statistical analysis. Jo became Faunalytics' Research Director in 2017 and since then has led and supervised studies of attitudes and behavior pertaining to animals and veganism, advocate retention, donation decision-making, and many other topics. Her other roles include serving as co-leader of the RECAP  researcher collective, ad hoc research advisor to ProVeg and Animal Charity Evaluators' Animal Advocacy Research Fund, and Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. Jo has a PhD in social psychology from the University of Waterloo and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University.

Resources from this episode

www.Faunalytics.org
info@faunalytics.org
Office Hours: https://faunalytics.org/ask-us/
Faunalytics Explains videos
Fundamentals infographic series
Animal Product Impact Scales
How to support new vegetarians and vegans in maintaining their diets (first and second reports)
How advocates can use beliefs about chickens and fishes  to shape how they talk about these  animals U.S, Brazil, China, Canada, and India

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https://www.instagram.com/faunalytics
https://www.linkedin.com/company/faunalytics
https://www.youtube.com/c/Faunalytics 

Full Episode Notes

Wake Up Experience