Vedge Your Best, Vegan Ideas for Everyone At Any Age

Do you need to know that you can live vegan forever before you take one action today? Last week, we talked about practical uncertainty in a vegan practice: restaurant plans, backup meals, and the possibility of ending...

How much certainty does your vegan practice actually need? It’s hard to know what being vegan will look like until you get tarted. My job is to help you “stay in the game” long enough to get some traction, gain some...

You know why you want to eat more plant-based. So why do you keep returning to old choices? It’s not be a willpower problem. More likely, it’s a programming problem. For most of our lives, we have repeated the same food...

Drifting" away from your plant-based intentions? Here's how to gently turn back toward what you value. Maybe you started the year strong and now it's August and there's cheese back in the fridge? This one's for you...

One thing almost every great goal is missing? A Plan B. Whether you're going vegan, strength training, starting a business, or cutting back on alcohol, most of us have only ever had Plan A: perfection. And when it...

Does your to-do list say things like doctor, camp, garden, library, tofu —or simply dump ? Those words may remind you that something needs attention, but they don’t tell you what to do next. Often, a vague item keeps...

What happens when you stop letting the algorithm choose what you learn and start building your own course of study? In the first installment of my summer" personal curriculum," I open Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation...

What would it look like to build your own Personal Curriculum around veganism, animal advocacy, and our relationships with other animals? This week, Michele introduces a summer reading series centered around her...

This week on Vedge Your Best podcast, we revisit the Save Our Bacon Act and the 2026 US Farm Bill, and ask what backlash against veganism, animal welfare, and plant-based change actually mean? There’s still time to...

The 2026 House Farm Bill — a $1.4 trillion piece of legislation — contains a provision called the Save Our Bacon Act that would wipe out every state-level animal welfare standard for farm products in the United States...

What if the reason you're struggling with your plant-based choices has less to do with willpower — and more to do with the food culture surrounding you? In this episode, I got completely hooked by a New York Times piece...

This episode drops on my 67th birthday. One thing I really wish I'd understood earlier? Waiting isn't the safe choice. It just sends the bill to your future self. We tend to think that waiting is the less costly option...

“Oh Vegan? Must be nice…." Some people hear words like "change” or “goal” and feel intrigued. Others feel offended. As if YOUR growth is a comment on who THEY are. In this episode, we talk about why that happens, what...

You’re more consistent than you think, because not practicing is also a practice. In this milestone 300th episode of Vedge Your Best , Michele reflects on what it really means to show up week after week. This episode...

What if the episode before the milestone is actually the point? This week on Vedge Your Best , Michele reflects on the strange pressure of recording Episode 299 — the one right before 300 consecutive weekly episodes...