by Sandra Nomoto | Animals, Business & Marketing, Health, Lifestyle, Vancouver, Vegan leaders, Vegans
From injured to treating athlete injuries, and more If you live in Vancouver and are vegan, you most likely know Dr. Matthew Nagra of Tonume Integrated Health. Not only is he one of Vancouver’s (maybe the only?) vegan doctors, but he’s spoken at most...
by Sandra Nomoto | Books and reviews, Food, Health, Lifestyle, Self-Development, Social good, Spirituality, Vegans
Your guide to the spiritual benefits of going vegan I’m so proud to call Dr. Angela Crawford a client. We met in the various vegan networking circles years ago, and I was one of many folks who answered a survey about how veganism has transformed me. That survey...
by Sandra Nomoto | Books and reviews, Family, Health, Lifestyle, Ponderings, Self-Development, Spirituality
1. Where did I thrive? I wish I could say I thrived financially, but this was not that year, despite all the predictions of 42-year-olds thriving in 2024. This year also marked my 6th veganniversary (4+2=6), but I recently realized my birth number is 8, so maybe 2026...
by Sandra Nomoto | Animals, Books and reviews, Business & Marketing, Lifestyle, Social good, Vegans
The quintessential book about how a vegan can have even more impact I had the pleasure of seeing Robert Cheeke hit up the dance floor at Vegan Women Summit before we met about a month later at the Planted Expo in Vancouver. I knew he had written a new book, but it...
by Sandra Nomoto | Animals, Business & Marketing, Events, Food, Lifestyle, Vegan food, Vegans
‘Cause everyone’s a marketer, whether they like it or not. Stevan Mirkovich, Partner & Chief Relational Officer of Planted Expo—which celebrated its 10th year in Vancouver in 2024—sent me this text message at the end of September 2023: I was surprised...
by Sandra Nomoto | Books and reviews, Food, Lifestyle, Vegan food, Vegans
What food history would look like if we ignored animal products Published by Beacon Press in 2023, Alicia Kennedy’s No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating, is exactly what its subtitle describes. Kennedy was a vegetarian...