Power On Plants | Finding Plant Based Joy

Jarrod Roussel, PA-C and Anita Roussel, BSN

Welcome to the Power On Plants Podcast, with Jarrod & Anita Roussel! As a Certified Physician Assistant and Nurse with over 47 years of combined medical experience and nutritional training, this plant-based power couple is on a mission to help busy kingdom-minded women regain your energy and feel great each day so you can fully live your calling. Wishing you could find a plant-based natural health podcast that would motivate and educate you without any of the Woo Woo? Then you're in the right place! Learn the secrets to lasting health and wellness by discovering the quick, easy, and absolutely delicious way to regularly enjoy the most nutrient dense foods on the planet, whole plant foods, so your body can feel great and empower you to fully experience each and every day! Whether you're switching to a healthy vegan lifestyle, starting out as a plant based beginner, or wanting to know how to actually enjoy eating more fruits and vegetables, this nutrition podcast is for you. Dive into the science and learn the lasting, research backed way to increase your productivity and create the energy filled life you'll love without ever having to go on a diet! Gain the proven real life secrets, tips, and strategies for healthy cooking, oil free meal prep, meal planning, easy plant-based recipes, dining out, saving time, saving money, healthy travel, and successfully adopting a whole food plant based diet in the way that’s realistic with your busy schedule, so you can discover how to confidently live the vibrant life you'll love every single day. Covering topics such as women's health, lasting weight loss, natural healing, joint pain, heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, autoimmune disease, inflammation, low energy, high blood pressure, digestive disorders, gut health, chronic fatigue, and high cholesterol, each episode is jam-packed with simple takeaways to help you prevent and even reverse disease naturally so you can fully live your mission and see your goals and dreams become reality. If you’re ready to leave overwhelm, exhaustion, and health struggles behind for good, so you can feel amazing each day and thrive, welcome to The Power On Plants Podcast! Tune in every Monday for new episodes.

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Ep #204 - The Simple Steps To Heal Naturally, Eat What You Love, & Thrive!
May 1 2023
Ep #204 - The Simple Steps To Heal Naturally, Eat What You Love, & Thrive!
Are you a busy woman who spends your days exhausted by health struggles but wants to live a vibrant, energized life? Are you overwhelmed with all the conflicting health info that’s floating around? Sister, we’ve been there too!  As health professionals who’ve had our own share of physical struggles, we understand the frustration you face when the conventional methods just aren't working. But we've found the solution, and today we're sharing the simple steps with you! Inside this episode, we're diving into the enjoyable 6-Step System that's been strategically designed to help busy women like you heal naturally, so you can feel great each day to fully live your calling!Sunshine, energizing your body the whole food plant based way is about so much more than just recipes, so in this is a can't-miss session we're unpacking the whole food plant based Success Path that will bring you the lasting results you've been hoping for.This is the exact research-backed system that we use day in and day out in our own lives, and with our clients and patients as well.  Here are just some of the amazing health results they've gotten:*High blood pressure back to normal*Elevated cholesterol, reversed*No more severe headaches*Weight loss from a  size 14 to a size 4*No more reflux medications after years of taking them*Increased energy...no more fatigue!*Enjoying meals they thought they could no longer "have" (Yes, including desserts!) 🙌🏼*No more rheumatoid symptoms*Neck pain down from 9/10 to zeroAnd the list goes on and on...You see, the most common diseases of our time are not caused by "just getting older" or even by "bad genes." They are lifestyle related.  And that's incredible news, because it means that these diseases can be prevented and even reversed! 🎉When you know the simple, enjoyable steps for healing naturally, everything in life starts to change in amazing ways! How will your life look different 1 month from now, 6 months, or even 5 years from now when you know the exact steps to take for fueling your body well (that you'll actually enjoy) so you can thrive in life?! Think of all the things you'll be able to do then that you want to do but just don't feel like doing now! Trust me, this is a HUGE game-changer!It's time to stop dreaming about the life you want to live, and to start feeling like finally living it. You only have one life to live, so press play and let's dive into the simple system for finding plant-based joy so you can start experiencing life to the fullest! 💃🏻PS. Mark your calendar now, because Power On Plants Society opens for 3 days only, starting May 9th!Power On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼
Ep #203 - Do I Have to Eat Tofu to Be Plant Based?
Apr 24 2023
Ep #203 - Do I Have to Eat Tofu to Be Plant Based?
Psst....Sunshine! Even if you think you don't like tofu, you've got to press play and hear us out. Today we're sharing some of the life-changing strategies for how to make plant based food taste amazing. So if you've had a run-in with some nasty tasting tofu (you''re not alone.... it's happened to so many of us) we feel your pain and we're going to help you fix that! 😋🌱 Perhaps you're wondering:What is tofu ... and Do you have to eat it on a whole food plant based diet? Why would you even want to eat tofu? Do you need tofu recipes that actually taste good?Why does tofu scramble often taste bad? Wondering if tofu is healthy?Today you'll learn why tofu didn't taste good when you tried it in the past, and how to make it one of your new favorite plant-based snacks.  We're sharing the tofu secrets with you, like...How to make tofu taste great. The simplest tofu press to buy.  When to buy silken tofu, firm tofu, or extra firm tofu.How to use tofu in your plant based meals. What tofu is so often missing when it tastes bad andHow to save time when preparing tofu. Why is plant based joy so important?  We're answering all this and more in today's episode! 🙌🏼🌱 We're all about showing busy Kingdom Women age 40+ the simple way to enjoy whole plant foods so you can reverse disease naturally, gain energy, and feel great each day to fully live your calling,  So if you're ready to finally feel like living the life you were created to live, welcome to plant-based joy....Welcome to Power On Plants! ❤️ Here's the link to our favorite Tofu Press:Tofuture's Tofu Pres Power On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼
Ep #202 - What If My Family And Friends Don't Fully Support My Whole Food Plant Based Lifestyle?
Apr 17 2023
Ep #202 - What If My Family And Friends Don't Fully Support My Whole Food Plant Based Lifestyle?
Are you considering adopting a whole food plant based diet, but concerned about the reactions you'll face from those around you.? Or perhaps you're already a plant based beginner finding yourself feeling as though you lack the support you'd hoped for. Perhaps they're concerned about plant based protein. Maybe they think you can't get enough calcium from plant based milk. Perhaps they believe other nutritional myths too... 💕 We want you to know that you are not alone,  so today we're discussing how you are likely in the perfect place as you set out on this incredible, healing journey, and how to best gain the support that you desire are you walk out this amazing plant based lifestyle. You only have one life to live, and you want to feel your best so that you can fully experience it.  But how do you do that in the way that's so simple and enjoyable you'll look forward to it every single day? Could the way you choose to live even affect others too?  What is the best way to ensure that you have the support you need as you adopt a whole food plant based way of eating. This is such a game-changing episode, and we can't wait to share these strategies with you! Click play now to learn how to best gain support for your whole food plant-based journey! After you listen to this episode, be sure to check out this inspirational plant based testimonial from Clean Food Mama ❤️Recently, Anita was invited to share how to optimize self care on The Charlotte Mason Show , Season 7, Episode 13.  This can't-miss interview is packed full of practical, actionable steps for living plant based and loving it! Click the link to learn how to make the most of your self-care routine by learning the realistic, enjoyable way to feel amazing so you can live your life to the fullest!  💃🏻Power On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼
Ep #201 - How She Lost 165 Pounds and He Reversed Type 2 Diabetes | Clean Food Mama
Apr 10 2023
Ep #201 - How She Lost 165 Pounds and He Reversed Type 2 Diabetes | Clean Food Mama
Need some whole food plant based weight loss inspiration? Then you’re in the right place, because in this episode Clean Food Mama, Stephanie Collazo, is sharing how she lost 165 pounds naturally, without weight loss pills, reading multiple weight loss books, or taking weight loss injections. Instead, she chose to adopt an enjoyable whole food plant based diet and as a result has found lasting health and a lifestyle she loves! 🌱This is not your traditional diet plan. Thankfully, she and her family didn’t have to count calories in food, eat a tiny portion of food, keep up with macronutrients, grams, or calories either. Hear how Stephanie used healthy feel good food to gain energy, mental clarity, and reverse disease with food.🤯 Learning how to prepare healthy family recipes also helped her husband reversed his Type II Diabetes symptoms in just 8 weeks! That’s right… he no longer has type 2 Diabetes Mellitus! He didn’t reverse his high blood sugar symptoms with the typical diabetic diet or diabetic medications, but by choosing to learn the delicious way to enjoy real whole foods. Next, she shares the incredible results her mom and children also experienced as they grew nutrition smart and started adding more and more of the most nutritious food on the planet to their lives. It’s truly amazing what plant based nutrition can do when it comes to getting to the root cause of disease, preventing, and even reversing it! 🎉When done right, adopting a whole food diet isn’t like dieting at all. Stephanie and her family are living proof of that. So if you’re struggling with low energy, chronic overeating, extra pounds, sleep apnea, or diabetes symptoms, and think that low carb recipes or diet plans are the answer, this can't miss episode will greatly inspire you, demonstrating just how enjoyable, healing, and sustainable the whole food plant-based lifestyle can be! Power On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼
Ep #200 - Why Does Plant Based Eating Heal So Many Diseases?
Apr 3 2023
Ep #200 - Why Does Plant Based Eating Heal So Many Diseases?
Hello Sunshine! We are beyond excited on this 200th episode to celebrate the amazing power of whole plant foods to make you feel great, by naturally preventing and often even reversing the most common "chronic" diseases of our time... High cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, digestive disorders, headaches, obesity, fibromyalgia, joint pain, chronic fatigue, heart disease, skin conditions, certain types of cancers, and the list goes on...This is exactly why this way of living lights...us...up! (Well that, and the fact that the meals tastes so incredible!)  Jarrod and I are passionate about helping you get to the root cause of health struggles, so you can feel great to fully enjoy life, no longer being held back by health struggles.  🙌🏼So, today, we're discussing WHY whole food plant-based lifestyle has the ability to naturally heal such a wide variety of diseases. We'll also be sharing about the food we were once eating that we believed were healthy, but were actually sabotaging our health! 😯It's amazing what can happen when you start flooding your body with the right nutrients and you love the taste of the meals that are healing you, too. 💃🏻🕺There's no need to "power through" a lifestyle that you hate in the name of health. Are you ready to learn how to have the foods you love in the way they'll love you back?! If so, Welcome to Power On Plants! 🌱🎉Power On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼
Ep #199 - High Carb Food Is Good For You? 😲
Mar 27 2023
Ep #199 - High Carb Food Is Good For You? 😲
If you want to know how to feel better and successfully reach your health goals while actually enjoying the journey, then it's crucial to learn the way to eat more whole plant foods that is quick, simple, and completely delicious! And it all begins with recognizing the nutrition myths that are holding you back so you can leave them behind for good! 💃🏻Today we are tackling one of the top health myths that keeps many amazing women from reaching their goals.  Ready to learn how to eat healthy and lose weight ?Knowing the truth about whole, natural high carb foods will help you build a firm foundation and skyrocket you to plant-based joy! Are carbs bad for you? Is there any way you could get healthy eating carbs? Here's the thing...There are carbs that are good for you, and carbs that are bad for you. There are even carbs that are good for diabetics! And once you learn how to recognize true nutrition facts so you can enjoy healthy carbs, it's game on! 💥 Sunshine, the truth is that your body was created to run on carbohydrates. This is one of the big reasons the keto diet doesn't work long-term. When you've been convinced that you can't have the nutrients your body requires, and you try to ignore the signals your body is sending, you'll find yourself in a real struggle to get healthy, feel great, and gain lasting results. Is it necessary to give up desserts to gain lasting health? Must you feel deprived of enjoyable food in order to reverse disease and gain vibrant energy? What are the carbs that actually do cause problems? 🤔It's completely possible to learn simple strategies that will allow you to take most any recipe you love and make it healthy and delicious! And today, we're talking specifically how you can do that with medjool dates and deglet noor dates, too! We're even discussing how to lower oxidative stress and lower triglycerides.  So press play now, sister, because this one is a mouth-watering game changer!💃🏻🕺This is nutrition made simple. Welcome to Power On Plants!Power On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼
Ep #196 - Does Weight Loss Medicine Work? 🤔 And if not, what does?
Mar 6 2023
Ep #196 - Does Weight Loss Medicine Work? 🤔 And if not, what does?
Why is it such a struggle to lose weight and keep it off? And why should it not be?Are you being Trifecta'd?  Is that why you keep struggling and retaining the weight?  Could you have been intentionally set up?Oh, sister! If you only listen to one podcast on weight loss this year, we hope this is it! It's our hearts' desire that you hear and grasp the research-backed information that we see work time and time again. Sadly, not many people are talking about this, but what they are talking about is weight loss medication, weight loss surgery, and even dieting, as if those options will solve weight loss struggles. 😔 Sadly, more often than not, those are the things that lead to even more problems in the long run, when you're trying to lose extra pounds. Please consider the eventual end point of such methods. Do they really lead to lasting weight loss or even more problems and even extra pounds in the end?It's time to expose the truth about these "miracle" weight loss medicines, procedures, and dieting patterns, so that you can replace false beliefs with tried and true methods that work, are sustainable, and yes...even enjoyable too. 💃🏻Sunshine, there's no need to keep feeling overwhelmed. There is a real secret to weight loss that is realistic and sustainable, and today, we're sharing it with you! ❤️Power On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼
Ep #195 - 3 Proven Ways To Lower Cholesterol Naturally
Feb 27 2023
Ep #195 - 3 Proven Ways To Lower Cholesterol Naturally
Have you ever been told that it's impossible to lower cholesterol naturally? That it's not possible to heal your high cholesterol or other health struggles by making lifestyle changes? This is exactly what happened to one of our listeners, and it stirred us up as healthcare professionals to share this life-changing information about how to lower cholesterol naturally with you. Friend, if you find yourself in a similar health struggle and want to know what you can do to naturally reduce your cholesterol, Jarrod and I created this episode just for you! 💕If you don't want to go on statins, or are looking for non-statin therapies, this episode is for you! Today, we are busting common cholesterol lowering myths and sharing the 3 simple steps that you can start implementing today which have been shown in scientific research studies to successfully decrease cholesterol levels without harmful side effects. Whole food plant based living can increase energy, decrease pain & inflammation, and even prevent and reverse the most common "chronic" disease of our time. It's been shown in the research, we have experienced it ourselves, and we see it happen time and time again in our amazing members' lives too! 💃🏻 The joy and life-changing effects that Lifestyle Medicine can bring lights...us...up, and we can't wait to share this with you! 🎉So if you're ready to take simple action and get big results, click play now, learn the healing steps, and then... take simple consistent action. Then, keep us posted on your plant-based journey and results by emailing us at: hellosunshine@poweronplants.com. We look forward to celebrating with you! 🙌🏼❤️ If you are loving the podcast, it would mean soooo much to us if you'd take just a moment to click here and leave a review on Podchaser or in your favorite podcast listening app! ❤️ ____________________________________________________________Want to make fast, easy work of your drinks, sauces, and meals?  We know you'll love the Nutribullet Pro 900 Watt as much as we do. The Perfect Pecan Milk recipe is only a couple of clicks away.  (It says "Pecan" but you can use any nut or plant food you want.  😉 )India Organic Amla Powder - this exact one is in our pantry. 🙌.Power On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼
EP #194 - Whole Food Plant Based Main Meal Ideas You'll Love! 🌱
Feb 20 2023
EP #194 - Whole Food Plant Based Main Meal Ideas You'll Love! 🌱
Whether you’re new to whole food plant-based living, and you’re not really sure what to eat as a plant based beginner, or…You’ve been eating plant based for a while, and you need some new, delicious meals to try (like, “I seriously can’t eat another bowl of salad or chili this week…know what I mean?!”) you are going to loooove this episode! 🎉Today Jarrod and I are sharing the insider secrets on a variety of plant based main meal favorites that continue to thrill our family and clients again and again.Now, if you’ve been a part of the POP family for long, you know that we are all about making plant based eating quick, simple, and delicious, so you can heal your body, gain vibrant energy, and thrive in life. And each one of these meal ideas fits that bill to a T! 🙌🏼Sunshine, if you’re ready to heal naturally and leave your health struggles behind, so you can live life to the fullest, then click play now and let’s get to it! 🎈❤️ If you are loving the podcast, it would mean soooo much to us if you'd take a moment to leave a review and rating on Apple Podcast. or your favorite podcast listening app  Thank you! 🙌🏼_________________________From time to time we'll share our favorite products with you through our affiliate links. While these products will never cost anything additional,  using our link will help us to keep even more helpful episodes of this podcast coming your way!  🎉 Please know that we only recommend products that we regularly use and love, because they make plant-based living simple and enjoyable, too. ❤️This is our affiliate link for our favorite low-cost high-speed blender that we generally use at least 4 times per day (yeah, we love this thing, because it makes life sooooo much easier and more delicious too):  Nutribullet Pro 900 WattAnd  to learn loads of tasty ways to get more powerhouses of nutrition into your life, grab your copy of our free guide, Leafy Green Secrets, today: Leafy Green SecretsPower On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼
Ep #191 - The Mindset That's More Important Than Progress For Reaching Your Health Goals
Jan 30 2023
Ep #191 - The Mindset That's More Important Than Progress For Reaching Your Health Goals
🌱 When you start something new of course you want it to go perfectly, but then the first time you "stumble" you start feeling like you've failed or "fallen off the wagon." Then fear of failure or "not doing things perfectly" can keep you from moving forward and being able to live the vibrant life you so desperately desire.🤔 Of course you have in mind how you want things to go, we get it because we've been there too... * Weight loss* More Energy* Normal Blood Pressure* Decreased Cholesterol * Feeling Great Every Day* Preventing and reversing the most common "chronic" diseases of our time,        (including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disease, migraines, digestive   disorders, and the list goes on...)These are all known, well-documented results of living plant based, BUT...  As a plant based beginner or even a seasoned vegan who's making the switch to a healthy whole food plant-based lifestyle, there are the critical mindset pieces that you must have in place if you want to avoid discouragement to successfully reach your goals. So in this episode, we're excited to share the winning strategies and mindset shifts that will change everything! But...Of course, you could just keep studying and learning more and more about the whole food plant based lifestyle, waiting until you know "enough" to get started...OR you could take one new thing that you've learned from us and start doing it today. ➡️ And you know what?! If you simply learn and then take action on one new thing that builds true health from the inside out each week, you will have 52 new healthy habits by the end of the year, and that, sister, translates to loads more energy, vibrance, and the ability to live the full life you've been longing to live!  💃🏻☀️ Sunshine, what we don't want is for you to have in mind exactly how your health journey is going to go, and then stop the day before your breakthrough would have been found, when you were on the brink of full-blown plant based joy! 🎈Jarrod and I are beyond excited to be sharing these life-changing, simple nutrition strategies with you, and...➛ After you listen to this episode, be sure to tag us on Instagram  @poweronplantsofficial with #dothestuff, because we can not wait to celebrate with you! 🎉❤️ If you are loving the podcast, it would mean a lot to us if you'd take a moment to leave a review and rating on Apple Podcast.  Thanks so much! 🙌🏼Power On Plants CookbookClick here to join the Power On Plants Society Waitlist, and we'll let you know when the doors open next! Follow us on Instagram. We'll look forward to seeing you there! 🙌🏼