Wed Feb 19 2025

<p>"Only move from love, don’t move from fear." That’s the mantra guiding Mark Brand, a world-class chef who went from spiraling into self-destruction to serving over 2,200 meals a day to Vancouver’s most vulnerable. At 27, Mark was diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease—a degenerative condition that would eventually shut down his organs. Doctors warned him he’d be on dialysis by 35 and told him to slow down. Instead, he went harder—booze, drugs, chaos. But rock bottom isn’t always the end. For Mark, it was the beginning of something bigger. In this raw and powerful episode, Mark opens up about his journey from near-death to radical purpose, the moment that changed everything, and how food became his weapon in the fight against hunger, inequality, and despair.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCstejCbe9-zvG7nXgf-jwbg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Be sure to catch the full video version of this episode on YouTube</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow S...