161: Vanessa Simkins on Juicing Deliciously
Connecting healthy and flavorful juicing combinations for health and a good diet.
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Vanessa, is the founder of All-About-Juicing.com: a website and newsletter serving up fresh, tested juicing advice for getting a hot body, glowing skin, and lifelong health through a straw. She is also the founder of Vanessa’s Juice Club and the author of the Juice Lover’s Big Book of Juices: 425 recipes for super nutritious and crazy delicious juices.
Her newsletters, products and site reach over a quarter-million readers each month – a veritable army, inspired to juice for better health. A juicing trendsetter known for her inventive and tasty juice recipes, Vanessa has an undying thirst for connecting people back to what makes them healthy, one drink at a time.
In This Podcast:
Greg finds many connections with Vanessa as she shares why she started juicing and why she runs her own business helping others learn about juicing. Vanessa tells about how she got started with her blog and her recipe book. She also tells about her love for mixing juices blends, and how she can serve up delicious drink combinations even from some normally challenging ingredient flavors.
Listen in and learn about:
- How she got Lyme disease as a kid and it started her researching for health solutions
- She found juicing online and started within a year of her diagnosis and what she has noticed
- She has been on a plant based diet for almost 15 years
- How she had been working in a corporate office and decided she wanted to work from home
- Why she feels that nutrition is so important to maintain her health
- Some of the benefits she has noticed when she juices
- Her mission to help others eat better and feel better and stay healthier
- Where she shops for fruits and plants to use in her mixes
- Some tips for juices options
- Celery for nerves and gut flora, bloating, replacing electrolytes
- Her easy go-to is celery and apple with any greens, and sometimes a bit of cucumber
- Being a juicing mixologist since she can make great juice combinations from some nutritious vegetables that don’t always present well in a juice drink
- Addressing some of the fears and concerns for new juice drinkers
- Her tips on the best juicers and why
- Some more tips on some juice options
- What she eats besides juices
- What she has heard from her readers about the benefits they have experienced
As well as:
- How she realizes that she wished that she had started following her passion sooner
- When she made the transition to working from home and how she loved the feedback from her blog readers
- Why she made the change to working from home and working in the realm of health and nutrition
- Her advice is to not be too hard on yourself, and try your best, and if you are not eating what you like to try juicing out as a start to trying a plant based diet
- The juice challenges she hosts four times a year
Books written by Vanessa:
The Juice Lover’s Big Book of Juices: 425 Recipes for Super Nutritious and Crazy Delicious Juices
Link to Free recipe booklet to help get you started: 10 Tasty Juices You Need to Know Now
Vanessa’s Book recommendations:
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Other authors: Tony Robbins, and Louise Hays
How to reach Vanessa:
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Juicing is not only for those who are into diet and lose weight, but for those who want to be healthy as well. Juicing can help you getting enough vitamins from fruits.