How to raise raw food kids? What will happen if you go against mainstream and feed your kids a raw food diet? What will happen to their health? Happiness? IQ? How will they perceive social events?
Listen to Valya Boutenko, here 20 years old, she tells her story. Then you decide for yourself.
Today we’re continuing our “Business of Raw” series with an interview with blogger, entrepreneur and health advocate, Kevin Gianni.
Kevin is the host of The Renegade Health Show, a daily video cast on the topic of holistic health. He is also the creator of Raw Summit, a multi-week raw food interview series with health leaders from across the globe. Everyday thousands of people check out Kevin’s sites to get grounded and judgment free advice on healthy living.
Kevin is also well know for his ability to leverage the internet as a powerful vehicle. He has built a serious online business through the promotion of information products, and I have a feeling that almost everyone could learn a thing or two from his first hand experiences.
Topics Covered
How Kevin got his start as a “beer slugging loser” and eventually became a personal trainer
How Kevin uses the internet as two way vehicle to build community
How Kevin tripped and fell into being known as “raw food expert”
What Kevin’s digital business model looks like
Kevin gives us the 411 on social media
Kevin shares a step by step way to get started on the internet to promote your brand
Another fantastic bootleg clip from Tuesday’s raw food TV extravaganza.
Here’s eco raw food chef Ani Phyo schooling Andrew Zimmern on the flavors of the raw food diet. Ani prepares a raw lasagna, raw sun burger and a surprise durian shake.
Overall you can tell that Andrew really enjoyed what he ate. And why wouldn’t he? Ani Phyo is the bomb! And total props to Ani for trying to slip in a durain. I’m not sure how durian is Andrew’s kryptonite, given how he eats goat eye balls for a living, but hey, “to each his own”.
Here’s one great takeaway from the segment: we shouldn’t feel compelled to give our tasty raw food dishes names that remind people of cooked foods they are use to. As Andrew mentioned, he would have philosophically enjoyed the raw sun burger even more if it was called something else. I have no idea what that something else would be, but it’s something to think about for the thousands of raw chefs across the world.
Well done Ani! You represented the raw food community well.
Our apologies for the bootleg clip. We wanted to get this up as soon as possible, but we’ll be getting a better version up soon.
Well done Tegra Little. And way to go Philip! It’s clear those doctors were truly blown away by your testimony. Score one for you and the raw food movement.
“Awesome, i was surprised that the doctors were so open minded about the
raw thing.. i almost wish they researched it more though, they seemed
like they didn’t know what to make of it all, and were just like,
“alright.. cool..”
I do agree with Kerri. The Doctors were a little “that’s good for you” about it, but I have a feeling the viewers will be Google’n “raw food” after they saw the show today, and that’s what counts.
As my friend Dr Alejandro Junger MD would say, “You can’t argue with results!”
Today on our podcast we’ll speaking with Veronica Bosgraaf. Veronica is the founder of the Pure Bar, a 100% organic raw food bar that’s available in health food stores across America.
Veronica joined us on the WLIR podcast to talk about her company’s early inspiration, some of the challenges shed faced getting started and what advice she has for anyone looking to start their own business.
Above Right: Veronica and her daughter Anna
Topics Covered
How Pure Bar essentially got started when Veronica’s daughter, who was age 6 at the time, decided to go vegetarian
The point at which Veronica realized she realized she had a product that would potentially sell
How Veronica started building Pure Bar without any business or product manufacturing experience
The lucky break that Veronica caught when a local CEO read about her bar in the paper
Veronica’s commitment to quality and where she plans to take the business from here
Veronica’s advice to any person thinking about starting a raw / health related business
The Business of Raw
With all the gloom and doom in the media right now about our economy, we wanted to do a little feature on positive companies, doing
positive things and the people behind them.
We’re calling this
week “The Business of Raw”. And what we plan on doing is featuring
conversations on our podcast with raw food business owners about their
business, how they got started and what lessons they’ve learned.
Tomorrow we’ll be featuring a conversation with entrepreneur and blogger Kevin Gianni.
Man, Tuesday October 14th must be the official “Show Raw Food Some Love On TV Day”. Not only will Philip McCluskey be on CBS, but our our favorite eco raw food chef, Ani Phyo, will be representing raw food on the Travel Channel.
This Tuesday tune into Bizarre Foods to watch Ani Phyo try to feed Andrew Zimmern some bizarre – or bizarrly healthy should we say – raw food. Ani even makes an attempt to sneak in one of Andrew’s most hated foods of all time, the infamous durian!
Andrew, how could you hate the durian bro? You eat scorpions and crickets and shoes and stuff. Come on, a little durian isn’t gonna hurt you?
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