Ep. 267: Gustavo Tolosa and Shayda Soleymani - Family Tradition Meets Plant-Based Nutrition
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Today, we invite you to meet Shayda Soleymani and Gustavo Tolosa. These two friends are from vastly different cultures - Iran and Argentina - but what they have in common is this: a shared love of their home country’s culture, food, and traditions.
They also share something else in common – successful health and weight loss journeys thanks to the power of a whole foods, plant-based diet.
Shayda shares her Iranian culinary heritage and how she adapted traditional recipes, while Gustavo discusses his Argentine background and struggles with weight and mental health before finding whole food, plant-based nutrition.
Together, they want to help you get your health back without sacrificing who you are or what you love with their book Live Your Healthiest Life, featuring over 135 SOS-free recipes (salt, oil, and sugar-free).
We know that family culture and tradition plays a HUGE role in our lives, and you don’t have to give that up in order to live your healthiest life.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ray Besselston and you're listening to the Plan Strong podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | Today's episode features the twisting and turning journeys of two friends from vastly different |
| 0:12.4 | countries and cultures and the deep friendship and bonds that form with a shared vision of reclaiming your help. |
| 0:21.0 | We're back with today's guests, Gestavo Toulosa and Shada Salamani, right after these |
| 0:27.3 | words from Plant Strong. I just finished up swim practice. I swung by Whole foods to grab a couple items and I discovered |
| 0:38.2 | that all 10 of our chilies and stews and all four of our whole clean fortified plant-based milks are on sale |
| 0:45.7 | until the end of September. Now's the time. Grab yourself some before I grab all of |
| 0:51.8 | them right now. |
| 0:53.0 | Today I want to invite you to live your healthiest life with my guest, |
| 0:59.0 | Sheta Salamani and Gestavo Tolosa. |
| 1:02.0 | These two friends are from vastly different |
| 1:06.4 | cultures. Shada's family is from Iran and Gestavo's family is from Argentina, but what they have in common is this, a shared |
| 1:16.7 | love of their home country's culture, food, and traditions. They also share something else in common, successful |
| 1:26.2 | weight loss journeys, thanks to the power of a whole food plant-based diet. |
| 1:32.3 | I'd like to read just a little bit from their new book, |
| 1:34.4 | Live Your Healthiest Life, that I think sums up today's conversation really well. |
| 1:40.4 | Shada writes of meeting Gustavo at one of his piano recitals, quote, |
| 1:47.0 | we were both devoted to the cultures in which we grew up. |
| 1:51.3 | In many ways, our upbringings were very similar. There was the same emphasis on |
| 1:55.8 | being kind, gracious, and hospitable, on showing respect for the elders in the community, |
| 2:02.3 | and on centering your life around family. |
| 2:05.4 | We met at a time when we were in the middle of our weight loss journeys and we were both |
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