Plant Powered Collective

About Plant Powered Collective

The Plant Powered Collective Podcast helps women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond live vibrantly and nourish boldly. Hosted by integrative nutrition coach Lori Willinski, each episode blends science-backed nutrition with approachable strategies for hormone balance, energy, and healthy aging. Rooted in lifestyle medicine and personalized coaching, Lori shares her story of thriving on plants since age 14 and managing autoimmune disease with nutrition. Discover how a plant powered lifestyle fuels not only your health, but also your leadership and your future self.

Publisher

Lori Willinski

Category

arts · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Sept 2025

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

54 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Gut Health at Every Age with Aiste Magitman

   Gut Health at Every Age with Aiste Magitman What does a healthy gut actually look like, and why should we care about it long before something feels wrong? In this episode of the Plant Powered Collective Podcast, Lori sits down with Aiste Magitman, pharmacist and founder of Best Gut Forever, for a conversation about gut health, fiber, the microbiome, healthy aging, and the realities of supporting our bodies during busy seasons of life. Lori and Aiste first met through eWomenNetwork, after another member recognized the connection between their work and introduced them. What began as a business connection quickly became a much bigger conversation about plants, nutrition, science, prevention, and the role gut health can play throughout our lives. Aiste shares how her background as a pharmacist, her personal story, and her curiosity about the microbiome ultimately led her to create Best Gut Forever. She explains the thinking behind the formula, including the role of different fibers, polyphenol-rich plants, ginger, and turmeric, and why supporting the gut involves more than simply taking a probiotic. Lori also gets personal about what gut health can look like when life gets full. Even with a fiber-rich diet and good hydration, caregiving for her father, building a business, maintaining relationships, managing stress, getting less sleep, and having less time for movement have all affected her own digestive health. She shares why Best Gut Forever has become one supportive tool in helping her feel more regular and comfortable. At 36 and 61, Aiste and Lori are in very different seasons of life, but they are asking the same important question: How do we care for our bodies today in a way that supports the life we want to continue living tomorrow? In this conversation: How Lori and Aiste met through eWomenNetwork Aiste's journey from Lithuania to pharmacy and entrepreneurship Why gut health is about much more than digestion The difference between probiotics and supporting the gut environment Why fiber and plant diversity matter How polyphenols and plant compounds fit into the gut-health conversation Why food should remain the foundation How stress, sleep, movement, hydration, and lifestyle can affect digestion Lori's personal experience with digestive changes during a particularly demanding season of life How Best Gut Forever fits into Lori's own nutrition and lifestyle practices The importance of approaching supplements thoughtfully What healthy aging has to do with gut health Why supporting your future health can begin at 36, 61, or any age The science and research that informed the development of Best Gut Forever Why being curious about your own body may be one of the most important health practices of all The Plant Powered Collective Perspective Gut health is a perfect example of why nourishment extends beyond a single food, supplement, or habit. What is On the Plate matters. What happens Around the Plate, including sleep, movement, stress, and lifestyle, matters. Who is At the Table matters. And all of those choices ultimately support The Self, both who we are today and who we are becoming. The goal is not perfection. It is building greater awareness, creating supportive habits, and learning how to nourish yourself through the different seasons of your life. Connect with Aiste + Best Gut Forever Learn more about Best Gut Forever: Website: bestgutforever.com Social Media: @bestgutforever Reflection for This Week Instead of trying to completely overhaul your diet, ask yourself one simple question: Where could I add one more plant today? A handful of berries. Beans or lentils. Fresh herbs. Walnuts or seeds. Another vegetable. A different whole grain. Start there, stay curious, and keep building. Nourish Boldly. Live Vibrantly.

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   5 Oct 2026

   Become the Leader of Your Nutrition: Small Shifts for Women Who Want to Eat Better

   Become the Leader of Your Nutrition: Small Shifts for Women Who Want to Eat Better JOIN THE FOUNDING COHORT OF NOURISH BOLDLY: SMALL SHIFTS The four-week experience begins October 19. 👉 bit.ly/4iJ1NbV (https://community.plantpoweredcollective.com/offers/2vF6LbDc/checkout) You lead at work. You lead in your family. You lead in your community. You solve problems, navigate change, make decisions, and take care of the people around you. But when it comes to nutrition, do you sometimes feel like you're somehow failing at something you should already know how to do? In this episode of the Plant Powered Collective Podcast, Lori Willinski introduces Nourish Boldly: Small Shifts, a four-week experience designed to help women become the leaders of their own nutrition. This is not a meal-plan program and it isn't about becoming plant-only. It's about learning how to build a plant-forward way of eating around whole and minimally processed foods, including vegetables, fruits, beans, lentils, whole grains, nuts, seeds, lean meat and fish, depending on your preferences and bio-individual needs. What you'll receive in Nourish Boldly: Small Shifts Over four weeks, you'll receive: 12 short, information-rich videos, three each week A practical resource accompanying every video Guidance for building nourishing, plant-forward meals Strategies for making whole and minimally processed foods easier and more convenient Practical ways to incorporate plant and animal protein, including lean meat and fish if they are part of your lifestyle Tools for increasing variety, flavor, texture and plant diversity Simple kitchen and food systems that reduce friction and make nourishing choices easier Opportunities to build greater self-awareness around your food, habits, preferences and lifestyle Lifetime access to the program videos and resources Three complimentary months of Lori's paid personal Substack The Founding Cohort begins October 19. Following the Founding Cohort, Nourish Boldly: Small Shifts will become an evergreen program. Lori shares one of her own simple systems: she keeps vegetables in clear containers where she can actually see them instead of hiding them in the refrigerator's produce drawers. Her canned beverages go in the drawers instead. She knows she'll find her Pellegrino! In the pantry, Lazy Susans make nourishing ingredients visible and accessible. These aren't dramatic changes. They're small shifts that make the choice you want to make easier. That's the philosophy behind Nourish Boldly. Instead of asking: “Can someone just tell me what to eat?” Start asking:“What works for me, and what systems can I create to support it?” Because you already know how to lead. It's time to bring that leadership to your own table. Reflection Question Where are you already a strong leader in your life, and what would change if you brought those same leadership skills to the way you nourish yourself? Ready to take your seat at the table? Join the Founding Cohort of Nourish Boldly: Small Shifts beginning October 19: 👉 bit.ly/4iJ1NbV (https://community.plantpoweredcollective.com/offers/2vF6LbDc/checkout)

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   28 Sept 2026

   Nourish Boldly: Small Shifts | Why You Don’t Need Another Meal Plan

   Join Me at the Table Nourish Boldly: Small Shifts begins October 19. More info: bit.ly/4iJ1NbV (https://community.plantpoweredcollective.com/offers/2vF6LbDc/checkout) If you know what you should be doing when it comes to nutrition but struggle to make it work consistently in your actual life, I created this four-week program (https://community.plantpoweredcollective.com/offers/2vF6LbDc/checkout) for you. This is not a meal plan. It is not another set of rigid rules telling you what to eat. It is an invitation to become the leader of your own nourishment. Join me at the table for four weeks of nutrition education, self-discovery, practical tools and small, intentional shifts designed to help you nourish your health today while investing in your health for tomorrow. Join Nourish Boldly: Small Shifts: https://community.plantpoweredcollective.com/offers/2vF6LbDc/checkout (https://community.plantpoweredcollective.com/offers/2vF6LbDc/checkout) About This Episode “Is this a meal plan?” It is one of the questions I hear most often when I talk about Nourish Boldly: Small Shifts. My answer is very intentionally no. Most women I meet already know more about nutrition than they give themselves credit for. They know vegetables are good for them. They know they probably need more fiber, more whole foods and more plants on their plates. The challenge often isn't knowing. It's turning what you know into what you consistently do. And I don't believe the answer is another person telling you exactly what to eat. The women I work with are already leaders. They lead businesses, teams, families, organizations and communities. Yet when it comes to nourishment, we're often encouraged to hand that leadership over to someone else's diet, meal plan or set of rules. I want to help change that. In this episode, I'm sharing why Nourish Boldly: Small Shifts was intentionally designed not to be a meal-plan program and why developing your own framework can actually reduce decision fatigue rather than add to it. We'll talk about: Why knowing what to do and consistently doing it are two different things Becoming the leader of your own nourishment Why self-awareness is central to sustainable change How small shifts can become part of your normal life Why your culture, traditions, family, work and social life belong in the nutrition conversation The role of bio-individuality in finding what works for you Why your plate cannot be separated from what's happening around it My own journey from leadership into nutrition and why this approach became so important to me Your plate sits within your life. The goal isn't to follow my life or anyone else's perfectly. It's to understand the principles, understand yourself and learn how to put the two together. Because you don't have to change everything to change something meaningful. Nourish Boldly. Live Vibrantly. Plant Powered Collective explores nourishment on the plate and around the plate, helping women turn plant-forward nutrition and lifestyle insights into practical, sustainable action.

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