You Can Still Eat Grandma’s Recipes: Plant-Based Eating & Reinvention with Dr. Monique May

What if eating healthier didn’t mean giving up the food you grew up loving?Dr. Monique May is proving that plant-based eating can still have flavor, culture and a little bit of Grandma in it.In this episode of Unapologetically Grown, Audra and Val sit down with Dr. May, a physician turned food entrepreneur known as The Physician in the Kitchen, for a conversation about food, health and what happens when your expertise leads you in an unexpected new direction.Dr. May takes us through her journey from practicing medicine to developing her own plant-based food products—and she gets into the realities behind it all. We talk about the protein question that always comes up with plant-based eating, why changing the way you eat starts with your mindset, and how to make healthier choices without trying to overhaul your entire life overnight.She also opens up about becoming an entrepreneur, developing and bringing a food product to market, and navigating an industry where being a Black woman can come with its own set of assumptions and obstacles.And if you're thinking plant-based means bland food and giving up the dishes you love, Dr. May has something to say about that: “You can eat grandma’s recipes veganized.”This conversation isn't about being perfect. It's about making choices that work for your life, being willing to start small, and recognizing when the thing you've learned along the way might be the very thing you're meant to share.In this episode:The truth about protein and plant-based eatingHow to start eating plant-based without changing everything at onceKeeping culture and tradition on the plateTurning professional expertise into a new businessWhat it really takes to develop and market a food productNavigating entrepreneurship as a Black womanWhy community matters when you're building something newIf you've been thinking about eating differently, starting something of your own, or simply wondering what your next chapter could look like, this conversation is for you.No sugar coating. Zero apologies. Just grown women truth.