147: Jane Velez-Mitchell on getting a vegan cooking show onto Amazon Prime
Vegan Business Talk episode 147
In this episode I interview Jane Velez-Mitchell of JaneUnchained animal advocacy and vegan media outlet.
Jane is a renowned Emmy-award-winning TV journalist and New York Times bestselling author.
Her decades-long career as a reporter for mainstream TV includes a six-year stint hosting her own show on CNN Headline News, where she ran a weekly segment on animal issues.
Since 2014, Jane has headed up her own media site JaneUnchained.com.
In February this year Jane launched New Day New Chef, a plant-based cooking show onto Amazon Prime.
In this interview Jane discusses:
• How she got New Day New Chef accepted onto Amazon Prime
• What’s involved in the production of the show
• How she managed to continue producing the show during the Covid-19 lockdown with the use of 6 robotic cameras in a contactless sound stage
• How she funded the show’s production
• Why it’s important to get your work out on other platforms before pitching to TV networks
• And more

Katrina Fox
Katrina Fox is our resident guest vegan business expert at Vegan Business Tribe.
An award-winning journalist, content marketer and copywriter, Katrina is the author of the bestseller Vegan Ventures: Start and Grow an Ethical Business, the first global book providing success strategies for aspiring and existing vegan business owners, and host of the Vegan Business Talk podcast.
She’s written extensively for niche and mainstream media for more than 25 years on animal advocacy and ethical business and was a regular Forbes contributor for a year specialising in writing about vegan and plant-based businesses.
