Main Street Vegan
Everybody knows that the future is vegan, but it can also be a grand adventure right now. On the Main Street Vegan Podcast, bestselling author and vegan OG Victoria Moran invites you to be in on conversations with the best and brightest in this space. You'll hear from physicians, philosophers, activists, athletes, chefs and celebrities on eating and living for optimum health, while protecting the planet and saving the lives and ending the suffering of animals. Whether you're a longtime vegan or just taking a look, Main Street Vegan will help you live with purpose, eat with joy, and craft a life that makes a difference.
Episodes
604 episodes
World Peace Yoga: Compassion, Practice, and Living Ahimsa with Anna Ferguson
Can a yoga practice help create a more compassionate world? World Peace Yoga: Compassion, Practice, and Living Ahimsa with Anna FergusonIn this thoughtful and inspiring episode, Victoria Moran speaks with yoga teacher, auth...
Working WONDERS on Your Wellness: 7 Steps to Vibrant Living with Susan Jones
What if vibrant health and lasting joy could be cultivated through a few simple, daily practices? In this uplifting and energizing episode, I welcome longtime colleague and renowned wellness expert Susan Smith Jones, PhD, for a conversation fil...
Dr. Elisa Haransky-Beck on Seeing Clearly: Vision, Vitality, and Whole-Person Healing!
Episode 555, air date May 21, 2026. Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or your favorite podcast app.Can improving your eyesight also deepen your insight into life? In this expansive and heart-centered conversati...
The World Peace Way: Food, Freedom, and Vegan Foundations with Dr. Will Tuttle
Can our daily food choices shape not only our health, but the future of humanity itself? In this conversation, I speak with bestselling author, former Zen monk, and longtime vegan advocate Dr. Will Tuttle about the deep spiritual, ...
Nathaniel Altman on The Spiritual, Nutritional, and Medicinal, Power of Plants
Where did the foods we eat every day actually come from and what stories do they carry? In this fascinating and far-reaching conversation, Victoria Moran speaks with prolific author Nathaniel Altman about the origins, evolution, an...
Inside the Fight for Farmed Animals with Dan Shannon
What would it take to truly transform the global food system? In this compelling episode, Victoria Moran speaks with nonprofit leader and animal protection advocate Dan Shannon about the strategies, challenges, and breakthroughs sha...
Strength with Soul: Veganism, Fitness, and the Spiritual Path with James Benefico
Can building muscle be an act of compassion? In this inspiring conversation, Victoria Moran speaks with natural bodybuilder and Organic Muscle co-founder James Benefico about the powerful intersection of veganism, fitness, and spirituality.<...
Why Aren’t Doctors Taught Nutrition? Dr. Michael Klaper on Fixing Medicine
Dr. Michael Klaper shares what 50 years in medicine have taught him: most chronic disease is preventable—and often reversible—with diet. Now through his nonprofit, Moving Medicine Forward, he’s working to bring nutrition education into...
Making Vegans Gently: Cheryl Moss on Helping Animals with Heart
Can kindness change more minds than confrontation when it comes to helping animals?Animal advocate Cheryl Moss, founder of Better Life for Animals, believes the most effective way to help animals is through patience...
Love, Caregiving & the Crisis We Don’t Want to See
Caregiving is often called a labor of love. But what happens when love collides with a broken system?In this powerful and deeply human conversation, Victoria speaks with Laura Mauldin, PhD, author of In Sickness and in Health:...
Healthy Living in a High-Stakes World: The Vegan Broker
What happens when Manhattan luxury real estate meets plant-based living and deep Christian faith?Victoria sits down with Darryl Williams — known as “The Vegan Broker” — a real estate professional with SERHANT., the firm featured on the N...
Can Processed Food Be Part of the Solution? A Conversation with Jan Dutkiewicz & Gabriel Rosenberg
This episode explores a surprising and thoughtful perspective on modern food systems. Victoria talks with scholars Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg, co-authors of Feed the People: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even B...
Running a Vegan Restaurant in Challenging Times: Eric Yu of Peacefood Cafe
Peacefood Cafe has been feeding compassionate New Yorkers since 2009. In this conversation, co-owner Eric Yu shares about being a spiritual guy in a business role, his decision not to serve alcohol in his restaurants, and what it takes to thriv...
The Inner Lives of Cows: A Photographer’s Journey to Farm Sanctuaries
Mark Peters captures the soul of the cow in his photographic book, Voices of the Herd, and today we talk about cows as individuals and seeing animals differently. And guess what? This guy is so classy, he wrote me a thank-you note on paper....
A Midwestern Philosopher on the Joy of Going Vegan
Matthew C. Halteman, Ph.D, author of Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, teaches philosophy at Calvin University in Michigan. He also once lived on the same block in Wheaton, Illinois, as host Victoria Moran....
Radiant Living with the EatMoveRest Couple
EatMoveRest.com and the EatMoveRest YouTube channel have planted Erin and Dusty Stancyk firmly into influencer territory with their busy, beautiful life, 3 young kids, and a delicious, plant-based road to health. We discuss attachm...
Dr. Neal Barnard on the New Dietary Guidelines
Nutrition science took a massive hit with the January 7th release of the 2026 Dietary Guideline for Americans, recommending increased consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy (while, impossibly, keeping saturated fat low). Responding is Neal Barnar...
Dr. Michael Greger on the Heart of the Matter
We welcome 2026 with the inimitable Michael Greger, MD, of nutritionfacts.org and author of the million-selling How Not to Die, sharing info from his latest book Lower LDL Cholesterol Natura...
Shaping the Animal Rights Narrative
NYC animal activist Donny Moss is out to set the record straight about animal abuse by congratulating the media when it's fair and coming down on biased, untrue reporting. We discuss his new venture, VegMediaWatch, as well as how to combat soci...
Gary Yourofsky: The Power of Compassion
Known for giving "the best speech you've ever heard" and for single-handedly making Israel the most vegan-dense country on earth, Gary Yourofsky is a legendary animal activist and orator. In this interview, first posting on Thanksgiving morning...
Special Needs Parenting & Islands of Peace
Chef Mark Reinfeld is known in the plant-based world and beyond as the culinary innovator of vegan fusion cuisine, but he is also the dad of two sons, one of whom has a genetic condition called Angelman Syndrome. His new book, Islands of Peace,...
Joel Fuhrman, MD, on Saving Your Life
Legendary founder of the Nutritarian diet shares the exact kind of vegan diet that protects against heart disease or cancer, the essential supplements that protect vegans from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, how to seriously build bone, plus new d...
How to Make Drugs (and Feel Great About Everything)
This episode is named for the important (and yet comedic) documentary about animal experimentation, focusing on pharma and product testing. Filmmakers Journey Zephyr and Keegan Kuhn, with Aysha Aktar, MD, MPH, join Victoria to get us clear on t...