066: Interview with Susmitha Veganosaurus066: Interview with Susmitha Veganosaurus
You're Sober! Now What?
Host Tamar Medford chats with vegan chef and coach Susmitha Veganosaurus about multi-passionate living, ethical food choices, and everyday self-care. The conversation links life beyond addiction recovery with practical tools such as meditation, journaling, digital boundaries and compassionate business values.
45:41•14 Dec 2020
Vegan Passions, Self-Care and Life Beyond Recovery with Susmitha Veganosaurus
Episode Overview
- Embracing being multi-passionate can lead to a fulfilling, flexible life and business, rather than feeling pressured to choose one path.
- Switching to a vegan lifestyle can be easier with an open mind, gradual changes, tasty alternatives and support from like-minded people.
- Creating an inclusive environment—such as allergy-aware restaurant service—relies on empathy, training and treating staff like family.
- Short, regular practices like guided meditation, gratitude journaling and moon-based goal check-ins can significantly support mental wellbeing.
- Setting firm digital boundaries, including full offline days, frees up mental space and can increase productivity and peace of mind.
“"If I could go vegan, you can go vegan."”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This chat between host Tamar Medford and guest Susmitha Veganosaurus blends recovery mindset, entrepreneurship, vegan living, and self-care into one warm, easy-going conversation. Tamar sets the stage by talking about her shift from The Road to Health to The Road Beyond Recovery, sharing how she wants to help people in long-term recovery find purpose, passion and goals that actually feel meaningful.
That focus on living "beyond recovery" is exactly why Susmitha fits so well here. Susmitha is a vegan chef, meditation guide, artist and holistic business coach who proudly calls herself a "multi-potentialite". She laughs about being labelled a "jack of all trades" growing up, and explains how she’s now embraced having "multiple interests" and building a life around them.
You’ll hear how going vegan after learning about dairy cruelty changed her relationship with food and sparked a whole new creative path: "If I could go vegan, you can go vegan." She talks about co-owning Carrots, India’s first vegan restaurant and culinary school, where the team is trained to make people with allergies feel welcome and safe, and where staff are treated like family. That emphasis on care and growth will resonate with anyone rebuilding their life after addiction.
For those working on their mental and emotional health, Susmitha shares simple self-care practices: short daily meditation (or guided imagery if sitting still feels hard), gratitude and affirmation journaling, and one big one many people resist—digital boundaries. She describes taking one full day a week completely offline, saying it creates "so much time and mental space" and actually boosts productivity.
If you’re sober, sober-curious, or just trying to build a healthier, more values-based life, this episode offers practical ideas, gentle encouragement and a reminder that it’s okay to be multi-passionate. What small change could you try this week—more plants on your plate, five minutes of meditation, or a date with your off switch?
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