Ray Cronise and Julieanna Hever: Plant Based Nutrition for Performers

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As a performer, your lifestyle is different than the average person’s daily 9-to-5 routine. You’re up late with busy rehearsal schedules, you eat when you can because, despite whatever is happening in your life, the show must go on!

Julieanna Hever and Ray Cronise work with performers and their approach to nutrition is saving lives – just ask magician/juggler Penn Jillette or director Kevin Smith.

Julieanna and Ray wrote “The Idiot’s Guide to Plant Based Nutrition.” The book goes deep into the science of nutrition and includes handy summaries at the end of each chapter with a list of “The least you need to know.”

The book has everything from tips on how to equip your kitchen, (I loved the bit about handy utensils) to a chapter on a healthy plant-based pregnancy.
Julieanna Hever completed her bachelors of arts degree in Theatre from UCLA and went on to do a masters of science degree in nutrition from Cal State Northridge, thus bridging her three biggest passions for life food, performing, and helping people.

Ray Cronise is a former NASA scientist currently focused on disrupting diet and nutrition advice. He helped Penn Jillette, and Kevin Smith recover from near-death experiences and has helped thousands of others regain the youthful vitality that comes with proper nutrition.

SHOW NOTES
Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition
by Julieanna Hever and Raymond J. Cronise.

A a versatile multi-cooker that can do the job of a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, and more. Every kitchen should have an Instapot!

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Charlotte Gowdy, Actor, Director

Charlotte Gowdy is a graduate of the National Theatre School in Montreal and Ecole Philipe Gaulier in Paris. As an actor, she’s played lead roles at the Shaw Festival and theatres across Canada.

These days she’s making a career transition, following her heart’s desire to direct!

As well as a career transition, Charlotte has gone through some personal transformations including quitting alcohol and becoming a vegan.

This episode is packed with great tips for actors and directors. Charlotte shares what she’s learned working with the critically acclaimed artistic directors Chris Abraham, Tim Carroll and Jillian Keiley.

Charlotte, who is also a competitive athlete, shares some of the secrets to maintaining a healthy lifestyle while working under the precarious conditions of freelance life.

She also discusses her work directing Anna Chatterton’s “Within the Glass” with Troubadour Theatre Collective.

SHOW NOTES
Charlotte Gowdy on Instagram
Charlotte Gowdy on Twitter
Troubadour Theatre Collective.
Anna Chatterton on Twitter
National Theatre School
Ecole Philippe Gaulier
Fanshawe College Theatre Arts
Sheridan College B.A. of Theatre and Drama Studies

BOOKS and THINGS. Click on the image for links:

The Plant-based Power Diet: 10 Simple Steps To A Healthier Leaner Energetic You by Leslie Beck.

Green for Life: The Updated Classic on Green Smoothie Nutrition
by Victoria Boutenko.

Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition
by Julieanna Hever and Raymond J. Cronise.

Nutribullet.

23 and Me

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Johnny Thompson: Magician

Johnny Thompson is one of the most respected minds in magic. These days he works with Penn & Teller on both their TV show “Fool Us” and their show at the Rio in Las Vegas.

His passion for show business began at a young age, and he was drawn to a carny sideshow. Thompson shares the story of the evolution of his career from a pitchman to sewer worker, jazz musician, orchestrator and magician.

Along the way, Thompson refined both his comedy and magical skills which led to the creation of his nightclub act The Great Tomsoni & Co.

When was the last time you had the chance to spend fifty minutes with a living legend? It was an honour for me to hear Johnny trace his roots in the history of American magic, through this conversation about his life.

Thompson’s secrets have been collected in a two-volume publication: “The Magic of Johnny Thompson.”

It includes contributions from magicians Teller and Lance Burton both of whom learned significantly from Thompson and both of whom we discuss in the interview. Other magicians who come up in the interview include Piff the Magic Dragon, Marshall Brodien and the inventor of the “bra trick:” Howard Brooks.

Get details about the “The Magic of Johnny Thompson” and watch archival video at Magicana.

SHOW NOTES
Fool Us on Twitter
The oldest continuously family-run magic shop in North America: Magic Inc.
The Magic Castle
Lance Burton’s website
Piff the Magic Dragon’s website