Stay tuned because
we're going to give you
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something to chew on.
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My name is Yvonne Shelton,
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guest today is
chef and Pastor GW Chew.
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He's the host
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of Dare to
dream's, Chew's Challenge,
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a program that
promotes lifestyle change
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and healthy living.
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He is also the CEO and founder
of Something Better Foods.
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Welcome to Urban Report,
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Pastors Chef Chew.
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Well. It's happened.
I'm happy to be here.
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Give you something to chew on.
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That's right. That's right.
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We need something to chew on.
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Yes, ma'am.
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It's so great to have you here.
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You know, we've known each other
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for several years now.
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You first came to
3ABN Dare to Dream,
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how long ago?
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You know, at first
I remember meeting CA,
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I think that was
in 2012, but then
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I want to say it
was 3ABN Today or 3ABN,
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one of those programs.
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And I did the
program with you guys in 2014
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on the Chew's Challenge.
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So, you know,
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3ABN have been a
big part of my life
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for the last, you know,
10, 10, 12, 13 years now.
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So that's amazing, so.
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You've been a big
part of ours as well.
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And we're so thankful for
you and for your ministry.
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For those who are not
familiar with your journey,
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would you share a
bit of that with us?
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Let us know, like,
what, where'd you come from?
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Where are you from?
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Yeah, you know,
I always, like to,
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I say to everybody, I
say, I look, I'm a country boy.
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I grew up in Southern Maryland
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about one, about 45 minutes,
south of Washington, DC.
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And crazy story, my daddy
actually was a sharecropper
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growing up.
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And when I was born in 1982,
he was still sharecropping.
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So my father was
in my father's family,
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very country
folk, you know, we ate,
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you know, I talked
about food, we ate everything.
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You know, we
had eggs, we ate it.
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If it had a mama, we
ate it, you know, squirrel,
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you know, I miss
possum by 10 years,
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thanking Lord for that.
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But, you know, ironically
or kind of weird story,
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my mother's side of the family
was Seventh-day Adventist.
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And so while my
father's side of the family
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was heavy meat eaters,
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you know, my mother's side
of the family were vegetarians.
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So I grew up, you know, in this,
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you know, country
environment, real slow pace.
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We love to eat,
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but my mother's
side of the family,
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like I said was vegetarian,
my daddy's side of the family
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were heavy meat eaters.
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And so I got, kind of
got exposed to everything,
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you know, at a young age.
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And eventually,
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you know, I started
gravitating to a more,
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you know, vegetarian
lifestyle as I got older.
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So, yeah, yeah.
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So I grew up in the country
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and a lot of good
eating, good folks
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and had a great
childhood growing up.
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And when was your
family a Christian family or?
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You know...
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Yeah, so my mom was
raised Seventh-day Adventist,
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my dad didn't really
go to church too much,
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but my mother said,
sit and meet in the church
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with my uncle and my aunt.
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Uncle still a
pastor in Maryland still.
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But I grew up, started going
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to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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when I was in third grade.
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So all the way from third grade
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till I graduated
from high school.
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It's kind of interesting
story when I got to high school,
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but I started going to church
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from third grade
all the way through,
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but I wasn't practicing at home.
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So it was pretty
much, I was the kid
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that, you know,
my uncle and my aunt
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who pretty much took care
of me on Sabbath in essence.
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They took, you
know, took me to church.
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And I remember every week
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I'd love to go to
church for the potlucks.
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I love to get the food.
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You know, I
wanted to go to church
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to get the good food.
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That was, that's
what got me excited.
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So that was really
what kept me coming,
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but also the message,
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you know, I
learned a lot as a child
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and eventually
kind of crazy story
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when I became a
senior in high school.
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I had a full track scholarship
to go to Howard University.
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And it was crazy.
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I was, I knew about the Sabbath
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and I, but I didn't, you know,
really wasn't following yet.
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I didn't have to, my
parents didn't force me
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to keep the Sabbath
or nothing like that,
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but, but I wanted
to follow the Sabbath
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and I had the scholarship,
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but most of the track
races was on Saturday.
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Once I signed a scholarship
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about almost a week later
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after I signed the scholarship
to go to Howard University,
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which is one of the leading,
you know, HBCUs in the country.
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My leg breaks in a race.
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I mean, I don't know if
you're gonna understand.
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So I'm literally 17 years old.
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I'm about to
graduate high school.
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I just got a full scholarship
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to go to Howard
University, paid for,
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my leg breaks in a race
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right after I
signed the scholarship.
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And all I could really
feel and hear from the,
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you know, the Holy
Spirit is kind of urging me
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that I shouldn't
take the scholarship
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because I'll be
breaking the Sabbath
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and, you know, crazy story,
I ended up going to the coach
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at Howard University and saying,
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Hey, I'm not gonna
accept the scholarship.
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I'm gonna keep the
seventh day Sabbath.
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And that honestly
began my personal journey
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as a Christian,
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as a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian,
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as a Sabbath keeper.
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And it has taught me that,
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you know, Christianity
comes with the cost.
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And that was really
the, the big leap for me
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and my faith
was that experience.
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And from that day
forward, I've been, you know,
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been in this
journey as a Christian
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and then trying to learn
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how to follow Jesus
with all of my heart.
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Oh, that's beautiful.
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Isn't it interesting
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how the Holy Spirit
will intervene in our lives
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and in such unexpected ways?
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You know, it's just unexpected
the way He intervenes,
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like breaking your leg, right
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just as you were
getting ready to embark
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upon that whole career.
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That career could
have led you away from God
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for a life time.
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Yes. Yes.
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So the Lord is so merciful.
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And you know my...
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You know, I was
having a big ego growing up
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and I think God was like, yeah,
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if this boy go start running
and start getting all these,
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you know, all this, this is
not going to be a good place.
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I think the Holy
Spirit, like you said,
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he knew what was good for me.
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And I thank God for what he did.
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I would not
change it for the world.
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Yes. Yes.
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Amen. Amen.
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So when you were a young boy,
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were you into cooking
or did that happen later?
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Nah, man, my mama said, look,
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one day you might not
get, you might not get married
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and I'm going to
teach you how to cook
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'cause she made me to cook.
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That's a good mama right there.
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That's a good mom.
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So when I was
seven, eight years old,
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I remember, you
know, learning how to do,
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you know this, I
mean, this simple stuff,
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you know, make an
oatmeal, you know, to make,
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you know, the old
school, top ramen noodles,
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you know, I call them
ooza noodles growing up,
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but this basic stuff.
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And as I got little older,
like more like in middle school,
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I learned how
to fry chicken and,
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you know, mamas,
you know, kind of just
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taught me the
tricks of the trade,
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my daddy also
was a cook as well.
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So he all see it.
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My father was a chef, you know,
he had a specific recipes and,
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you know, my
mother had her thing.
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She made her mac and cheese,
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so sweet potato
pie, her potato salad.
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And so my family
took a lot of pride
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in what they made.
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And as I got a little
older, I started wanting to make
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my little special recipes.
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And so it was the
culture of my family.
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We love to eat.
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Everybody had
their signature recipes
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and it was a part
of my family's culture,
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Thanksgiving and Christmas
and the summer cookouts,
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all those are big
events centered around
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good eating and good food.
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So that I really, you
know, never forgotten.
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Did my aunt and my uncle side,
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my mother's side of the
family, they were vegetarian.
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So they made the
vegetarian scallops and,
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you know, they had ready burger
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and all these
different, special K,
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all these vegetarian dishes
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that I'd never heard of,
but they tasted good though.
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So I got excited
about vegetarian food
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because it tasted
good at a young age,
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even though I
wasn't doing it at home,
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if that makes sense.
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Yeah. And, you know, it's so
important that it tastes good.
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Like, you know, it could be...
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It could be
healthy, but if it's nasty,
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nobody wants to eat it,
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but if it's healthy
and it tastes good, what,
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so that's what was
happening with you.
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You were
exposed to healthy foods
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that taste good.
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And by the way,
you are making me
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so hungry right now.
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I get so hungry
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thinking about
that, those scallops,
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those vegetarian scallops.
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What?
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So anyway.
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So, that's how you
got into the vegan cooking
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because you got exposed to it
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through your
mother's side of the family?
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Yeah.
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So that kind of
started, I got exposed early.
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So by the time now,
you know, I'm 17 years old,
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I quit my scholarship.
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You know, now that I'm
a Seventh-day Adventist.
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And I started
changing my lifestyle.
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So, you know, I
became a vegetarian.
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But again, I was the person
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that ate chicken, fried chicken.
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That was three, four
times a week, you know?
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So as I became a vegetarian,
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I started missing
what I grew up on.
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So I wanted to,
you know, figure out
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how to make the
things that I love the most.
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And so eventually went
from vegetarian to vegan.
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But again, this
is 2001, you know,
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so this is before
plant-based and veganism,
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was mostly vegetarian.
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It wasn't, you know, it
was kind of unavailable.
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So I began learning
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how to make stuff
from scratch myself.
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So I got cookbooks,
old school cookbooks.
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I found a cookbook
called Country Life cookbook,
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one of the old
Seventh-day Adventist cookbooks,
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another one called Ten Talents.
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And I started
taking these cookbooks
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and started this going
through recipe by recipe,
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learning how to
make these good foods.
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But, you know, I have
my own little twist to it.
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I always add a little spice,
my little special seasoning,
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you know,
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and so that creative
spirit was there early on.
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And eventually I
kind of got excited
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about making my
own vegetarian chicken.
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So I had my first product called
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believe it's not
honey, barbecue chicken,
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you know, look like chicken,
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tastes like
chicken, but guess what?
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It ain't chicken.
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So, you know, I started in 2004
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when I started developing,
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you know, my first
iterations of my products
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that I'm even still doing today
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so, you know, again, it was
really that creative spirit,
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this knowing,
and I had you know,
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growing up eating meat,
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I know what it
should taste like.
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And I also had a
passion for stuff that,
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you know, it had to taste good.
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I don't want
though, you know, sometimes
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I didn't have vegetarian food.
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The food looked like
it's, looked like sandpaper.
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I mean, you don't
know what stuff it is,
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it looked like dog food.
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So I'm like, we
ain't making no dog food.
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You know what I mean,
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stuff that
tastes good, you know.
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So, that was
kind of the passion.
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And over time, I mean,
I'll tell you the Holy Spirit,
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he started coming in.
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And it's amazing
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when you read our
writings of our church,
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Ellen White talked about,
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you know, that there'll
be young men and young women
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that will learn
how to make recipes
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without the use
of flesh and meats,
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you know, from
simple ingredients.
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And I read some of
these statements from her
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and I believed it.
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And I tell you,
God came through,
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taught me some secrets in 2007,
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I learned some techniques
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on how to take different
types of grains and beans
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and how to create my own texture
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that has a very
meat like texture.
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And so that was
my first iteration
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of some of the tech,
00:11:04.86\00:11:06.19
the technical,
you know, technology,
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you know, they call it
technology in my industry,
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but it was some of
the simple concepts
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that I learned early
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that I've built on
for the last 15 years.
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You know what
we're doing in the day,
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but that's where it
began in my mama's kitchen,
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learning how to
cook in my mama's kitchen
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staying up all night,
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cooking and
blending and making noise
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and all that,
and it started that.
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Yeah, yeah.
See, that's so great.
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And one of the things too,
that's so important is texture.
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It can't, it
has to, it's so good
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when the texture is
similar to the original,
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or some people will say,
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well, why are you
trying to imitate the original?
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Well, because when
people are transitioning
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into another diet or lifestyle,
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it's important to
have a similar texture
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I think rather than one
that is already foreign,
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that you're
eating just vegetables,
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you know, and grain
and stuff like that.
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And then, but so if
you have the texture,
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that's similar to the original,
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I just think it makes
some such a difference.
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And that's so important
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now that I didn't
shared from my childhood,
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most of my family members,
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especially on my
father's side begin to get that,
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get different diseases.
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So, you know, diet,
diabetes, heart disease,
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cancer, all of
these lifestyle diseases
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began plaguing our
families and my aunts and uncles
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are in their 40s
in their early 50s.
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And it's sad to say
by the time I was 17, 18,
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they begin to die.
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I mean, it's like
this 55 years old.
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And there, I mean, literally
one by one, it's a sad story.
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My family began, they
began to have lifestyle
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disease that was causing death.
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And so it became more
of a life or death issue,
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whereas that if I could
make products that has this,
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like you said, that
texture, that tastes,
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that experience that
they were familiar with,
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you know, this product can
literally save people's lives
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because it can get
them off of the foods
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that's causing the death.
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You know, these
heavy, high meat diets,
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high in dairy
and all these things
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that's just causing the,
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you know, excess
fat and our lifestyles,
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cholesterol, et
cetera, et cetera.
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So yeah, this is a
life or death issue for me
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and texture and
taste is so critical.
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Yes. Yeah.
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It's so important
to make the connection
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between nutrition and lifestyle,
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between nutrition
and life expectancy,
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between nutrition and disease.
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Because I think that,
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especially in the
black communities,
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we have such a
high level of lifestyle
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induced diseases
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and we often don't
connect them to diet
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and they are so
connected to our nutrition.
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And so, you know,
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for those who are transitioning,
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it's so
important to actually add
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so much more vegetables
into the diet, green foods,
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because there's so
many foods that are acidic
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and creating an
internal acidic environment.
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And the...
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We know that
the vegetables have,
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they changed the
internal environment
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to a more alkaline environment,
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which is not
conducive to disease.
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So once we realize that,
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you know, we can
adjust our diets accordingly,
00:14:19.29\00:14:22.52
and it's important to
realize that connection.
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And what I'm hearing you say
is that this is more than just
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a career move for you.
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This is a passion for you
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because of what
happened in your family,
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because of its
impact on your family.
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You've made the decision
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to make some
delicious vegan foods.
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I've tasted some by the
way, and we'll get to that,
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and they are indeed delicious.
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So, yeah, yeah.
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So, that I think is, is
so important for our viewers
00:14:56.19\00:15:01.76
to see that this is more
than just a career for you.
00:15:01.80\00:15:05.43
This is a
personal issue for you,
00:15:05.47\00:15:08.24
because you saw so
many of your family members
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plagued with disease
00:15:11.04\00:15:12.81
as a result of
what they were eating.
00:15:12.84\00:15:15.31
And you came up
with some recipes.
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What were some of
the first things you made
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when you started
experimenting in your kitchen?
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Oh, wow. Yeah.
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So, like I said,
chicken was number one.
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Like, if I could figure
out how to make a chicken
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that tastes like chicken,
I mean, that was going to be,
00:15:27.62\00:15:30.09
you know, I mean, that's, again,
00:15:30.13\00:15:31.46
that was center of the
plate, you know, that was,
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you know, three,
four times a week.
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So, you know,
that was a big thing.
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Learned how to
make some Southern.
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Again, I'm a
Southern country boy,
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you know, some greens,
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how to make the
greens off the fatback,
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you know,
normally put the ham hocks
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or the turkey bone, turkey neck,
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and all that kind
of stuff inside of it.
00:15:46.64\00:15:47.98
So learned how to
make some so delicious,
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savory mouthwatering greens,
you know, mac and cheese,
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you know, how
to make a delicious
00:15:54.68\00:15:56.02
vegan mac and cheese.
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So a lot of my recipes
early on was real soulful,
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you know, stuff
that I grew up on,
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the stuff that I loved the most.
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Eventually,
00:16:03.06\00:16:04.39
you know, as I started
developing it in my, as a chef
00:16:04.43\00:16:06.93
is really starting
looking at more like
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these foods that Americans love.
00:16:09.36\00:16:10.90
So I started expanding into,
00:16:10.93\00:16:12.63
you know, Mexican food,
00:16:12.67\00:16:14.07
you know, how to
make a vegan taco
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that tastes phenomenal,
00:16:15.47\00:16:16.81
how to make, you
know, gourmet sandwiches,
00:16:16.84\00:16:18.47
you know, I make
Philly cheesesteaks in,
00:16:18.51\00:16:20.44
you now,
chicken melt sandwiches.
00:16:20.48\00:16:21.91
And so, just taking
00:16:21.94\00:16:23.28
what I started doing and saying,
00:16:23.31\00:16:24.65
okay, what are the foods
that America loves the most?
00:16:24.68\00:16:27.35
And how can I, I
call it veganize it.
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How can I veganize this recipe?
00:16:29.28\00:16:31.12
How can I take
this recipe and make it,
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you know, plant-based,
make it more plant friendly
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and plant forward.
00:16:35.46\00:16:36.79
And that became my
this experimentation,
00:16:36.83\00:16:38.96
so again, a lot of
that was meats, you know,
00:16:38.99\00:16:41.66
everything from
the fried chicken,
00:16:41.70\00:16:43.16
shredded steak
or shredded chicken,
00:16:43.20\00:16:45.57
sausage patties, and,
00:16:45.60\00:16:47.40
you know, even
some seafood concepts,
00:16:47.44\00:16:49.04
like I'd make some different
types of vegan fish concepts
00:16:49.07\00:16:50.97
that I do now.
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And so all of those
became kind of the focus,
00:16:52.37\00:16:54.04
learning to how to
make meat alternatives
00:16:54.08\00:16:56.11
and then how to then
make some of those sides.
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And some of those things like,
00:16:58.65\00:17:00.12
again, tacos and
sandwiches and Asian type foods,
00:17:00.15\00:17:03.55
you know, all of that.
00:17:03.59\00:17:04.95
So it just became a big,
I want to say experiments,
00:17:04.99\00:17:07.52
experiment, project,
you know, a big cooking,
00:17:07.56\00:17:09.32
cooking lab, you know,
00:17:09.36\00:17:11.86
and with the intent of
providing something better,
00:17:11.89\00:17:13.83
which is why we call our
company Something Better.
00:17:13.86\00:17:15.56
So that's the whole idea.
00:17:15.60\00:17:17.10
And that's, that is awesome.
00:17:17.13\00:17:18.93
Tell us about some of
the products that you,
00:17:18.97\00:17:21.37
that you've made now
with Something Better,
00:17:21.40\00:17:23.84
like what, what are
the names of the products?
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Yeah, so we, our
product is called Better Chew.
00:17:27.34\00:17:29.94
So that's the
name of the product.
00:17:29.98\00:17:31.61
We sell the
product as Better Chew
00:17:31.65\00:17:33.62
and we'd like to
say better texture,
00:17:33.65\00:17:35.48
better taste, better chew.
00:17:35.52\00:17:37.05
So you can say, you
know, you see some of those,
00:17:37.09\00:17:38.65
we've got one
of our best sellers
00:17:38.69\00:17:40.09
in whole foods market right now
00:17:40.12\00:17:41.46
is our
plant-based chicken nuggets.
00:17:41.49\00:17:43.76
We've got an
amazing chicken nuggets.
00:17:43.79\00:17:45.13
Kids love it.
00:17:45.16\00:17:46.49
And we make a
vegan fried chicken.
00:17:46.53\00:17:48.43
We're going to be launching here
00:17:48.46\00:17:50.07
in the future a
plant-based fried fish.
00:17:50.10\00:17:53.13
So they're really
excited about that product.
00:17:53.17\00:17:55.24
We do a shredded steak
product, which is amazing.
00:17:55.27\00:17:58.17
One for one can make
your own tacos at home,
00:17:58.21\00:18:00.81
on your own Philly
cheesesteaks at home.
00:18:00.84\00:18:03.61
And so, yeah, a lot of
this really, really this things
00:18:03.65\00:18:06.75
that people use
on a daily basis.
00:18:06.78\00:18:08.55
Our whole mission
is to help home chefs
00:18:08.58\00:18:10.79
become fearless.
00:18:10.82\00:18:12.15
We want you to
be able to go home
00:18:12.19\00:18:13.52
and take your
traditional recipes
00:18:13.56\00:18:15.22
and use our products
and get that same experience
00:18:15.26\00:18:18.43
that you would get if you
were using the real thing.
00:18:18.46\00:18:20.73
So that's kind of how
we, how we got to push it
00:18:20.76\00:18:22.43
to the community
and they love it.
00:18:22.46\00:18:23.80
They love it. They love it.
00:18:23.83\00:18:25.17
Yeah. That is so great.
00:18:25.20\00:18:26.97
And I know that
I'm sure they do,
00:18:27.00\00:18:28.97
because again, if you can show
00:18:29.00\00:18:31.11
how their health is
going to be improved
00:18:31.14\00:18:33.54
and they're not
sacrificing taste for health,
00:18:33.58\00:18:37.71
because some people will
say, well, you know what?
00:18:37.75\00:18:39.81
I'm going to
take my fried chicken
00:18:39.85\00:18:41.52
and deal with it,
00:18:41.55\00:18:42.88
or they can say,
00:18:42.92\00:18:44.45
well, wait a minute,
this tastes really good
00:18:44.49\00:18:47.49
and I can be healthy too.
00:18:47.52\00:18:49.29
So, I mean, it's
really a win-win and that's,
00:18:49.32\00:18:52.13
that, that is awesome.
00:18:52.16\00:18:54.33
Tell us about what goes
on in minority communities
00:18:54.36\00:18:57.87
and, you know,
the inaccessibility
00:18:57.90\00:19:01.27
of vegetables
and the food deserts?
00:19:01.30\00:19:04.24
Yeah. That's a big thing.
00:19:04.27\00:19:05.61
You know, I do a lot
of work in food justice,
00:19:05.64\00:19:07.78
you know, social justice issues,
00:19:07.81\00:19:09.14
as it relates to places
like you said, food access.
00:19:09.18\00:19:12.15
You have a lot of communities,
00:19:12.18\00:19:13.62
you have the
inner city communities,
00:19:13.65\00:19:15.12
the urban communities,
00:19:15.15\00:19:16.48
as well as the rural communities
00:19:16.52\00:19:19.85
that don't have
access to healthy options.
00:19:19.89\00:19:23.53
And so you would go, let's say
00:19:23.56\00:19:24.89
in an urban
community, for example,
00:19:24.93\00:19:26.59
you'll go down a
block and you might see
00:19:26.63\00:19:29.93
five miles of
just liquor stores,
00:19:29.96\00:19:32.97
convenience stores,
00:19:33.00\00:19:35.07
you know, and these
fast food restaurants,
00:19:35.10\00:19:37.14
you know, and this,
00:19:37.17\00:19:38.51
and it's a lot
of unhealthy stuff
00:19:38.54\00:19:39.97
that's just totally not
healthy for our communities.
00:19:40.01\00:19:44.28
And there's no access,
00:19:44.31\00:19:45.65
there's no
grocery stores in sight.
00:19:45.68\00:19:47.02
And when you have a
lot of times in these,
00:19:47.05\00:19:48.58
especially in a food
desert in urban communities,
00:19:48.62\00:19:51.09
a lot of people don't drive.
00:19:51.12\00:19:52.45
So they don't have
access to be able to,
00:19:52.49\00:19:54.52
you know, take a bus or a subway
00:19:54.56\00:19:56.49
if you want to call it,
00:19:56.52\00:19:57.86
you know, to a nearby grocery.
00:19:57.89\00:19:59.23
So that could be way
too, that could be too much,
00:19:59.26\00:20:01.13
especially for
the elderly community.
00:20:01.16\00:20:03.43
And so again, you know,
a food desert is a place
00:20:03.47\00:20:05.73
within one mile
there's no grocery store
00:20:05.77\00:20:09.47
and it's in
access to that community.
00:20:09.50\00:20:12.21
And if there are,
are grocery stores,
00:20:12.24\00:20:14.38
a lot of times the
quality of the produce,
00:20:14.41\00:20:16.78
the quality of the
food isn't that great.
00:20:16.81\00:20:19.21
And so, hence these communities
have higher rates of disease.
00:20:19.25\00:20:23.28
There's higher
levels of diabetes,
00:20:23.32\00:20:25.09
higher levels of heart disease.
00:20:25.12\00:20:26.69
Life expectancy is obviously
00:20:26.72\00:20:28.22
going to be a lot
shorter in these communities.
00:20:28.26\00:20:30.19
And it's again, when
you start peeling the onion,
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there's a lot of systemic issues
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that cause these problems
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that have pretty much created
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a monster in our communities
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that, that people are really
starting to step up to fix,
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but we've got a long
way to go, a long way to go.
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Yes, absolutely.
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You know, I've witnessed that
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in certain
inner city communities
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where you go into grocery stores
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and the produce
is so old or wilted,
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or, you know, just not good,
00:20:58.15\00:21:00.59
it's just, it's
really appalling.
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And, and yet
there are liquor stores
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on every corner, like you said,
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so yeah, that,
that has to be changed.
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And I think that
having products like yours
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really can make a difference
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because they're plant-based.
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So people are
going to get the fiber,
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you know, from plants
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through these
good tasting foods.
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So that's, that's
really, really a blessing.
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What is your
company doing in terms of...
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What's your
vision for your company?
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What are they
doing in terms of jobs
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and job creation
and that kind of thing?
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Yeah.
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So as a company, you know,
we all have to say our mission.
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You know, we have a kind
of a different couple of tiers
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that we work under, but
one of our major pieces is,
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you know, to democratize
the access of healthy foods.
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So when it comes
to the food deserts,
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like you've mentioned earlier,
we're advocating and education,
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creating solutions
to meet these needs.
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That's one big pillar.
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Job creation,
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one of the biggest
things you'll find,
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especially within
minority communities,
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black and brown communities,
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there's not an
ownership in our communities.
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And so when you think about
even the food desert situation,
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if there were companies
that were owned by people
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that look like the
people in that community,
00:22:11.93\00:22:14.10
there will be a lot more care
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about what they're putting out
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when it comes to food
choices and food solutions.
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So, you know, one of the
things that we're doing is,
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you know, we're
creating ownership.
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So we have companies owned
by people that look like me.
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And what that
comes to is that we also,
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you'll find that
people who look like me
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are typically we
would, we are more keen
00:22:30.65\00:22:32.81
to hire people
from the community.
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And so we have, you know,
we just created in the last,
00:22:35.65\00:22:38.35
you know, year about 10 jobs
through our local community.
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You know, we're
working with individuals
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that might have a background
00:22:43.73\00:22:45.36
that some people might not
want to hire those individuals,
00:22:45.39\00:22:47.56
but for us,
00:22:47.60\00:22:48.93
we want to give them a second,
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give them a third,
give them a fourth chance
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and invest into them
to be able to help them
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to become what God
has called them to be.
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So this job creation
piece is so critical.
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We feel that this
piece of creating jobs
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and not just a job,
but living wage jobs,
00:23:02.08\00:23:04.78
where they can earn a
living and earn a livelihood
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and learn a skill set
00:23:08.12\00:23:09.52
that can be a blessing
for them for the long haul.
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That's a very big
piece of our business
00:23:11.99\00:23:14.92
that we're really fighting for.
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Oh, I'm loving this.
00:23:16.62\00:23:18.36
I'm loving the idea
that you are getting people
00:23:18.39\00:23:23.03
from within the
community who needs skills,
00:23:23.06\00:23:26.53
who need to have
certain marketable skills,
00:23:26.57\00:23:30.91
people who need
another chance, excuse me.
00:23:30.94\00:23:34.68
And I feel like this is,
00:23:34.71\00:23:36.81
it's such an
important piece of the puzzle,
00:23:36.85\00:23:40.38
but you're also educating them.
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And I would imagine
00:23:42.32\00:23:43.69
that you're also including
00:23:43.72\00:23:45.45
a spiritual
component in it as well.
00:23:45.49\00:23:49.32
You know, that's,
that's a powerful thing
00:23:49.36\00:23:50.69
you just share.
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You know, obviously
I served as a pastor,
00:23:52.09\00:23:53.70
you know, for
four or five years.
00:23:53.73\00:23:55.06
And so, you know,
what's interesting is that,
00:23:55.10\00:23:57.80
you know, when Jesus,
00:23:57.83\00:23:59.93
you know when He ministered,
00:23:59.97\00:24:01.30
you know, He met
the needs of the people,
00:24:01.34\00:24:03.30
you know, as the
old statement that says
00:24:03.34\00:24:04.74
Christ method alone
would bring true success.
00:24:04.77\00:24:06.47
He mingled with people,
He ministered to their needs.
00:24:06.51\00:24:08.88
He won their confidence.
00:24:08.91\00:24:10.35
And so, what
we're doing amazingly,
00:24:10.38\00:24:12.88
as we're creating jobs,
00:24:12.91\00:24:14.25
as we're working
with these individuals,
00:24:14.28\00:24:16.12
they begin to access the why,
00:24:16.15\00:24:17.79
you know, why are we doing this?
00:24:17.82\00:24:19.65
What, you know,
what's your inspiration?
00:24:19.69\00:24:21.86
And, you know, this,
00:24:21.89\00:24:23.22
when you were
making our products,
00:24:23.26\00:24:24.59
you know, they
ask some questions,
00:24:24.63\00:24:25.96
we bring up
conversations about the Lord.
00:24:25.99\00:24:28.16
They, you know, we, you
know, when sometimes a young man
00:24:28.20\00:24:30.80
might be going
through something personal
00:24:30.83\00:24:32.17
and I'm like,
00:24:32.20\00:24:33.54
"Hey, let's pray, man.
00:24:33.57\00:24:34.90
Let's, just say a
prayer about this."
00:24:34.94\00:24:36.27
And so it becomes a
way where it's organically,
00:24:36.30\00:24:39.44
we're creating a relationship.
00:24:39.47\00:24:41.54
It is not a big, you know,
we're not doing a big seminar.
00:24:41.58\00:24:44.18
We're just
living in our community,
00:24:44.21\00:24:46.11
being a citizen in
our local community
00:24:46.15\00:24:48.25
and loving on people.
00:24:48.28\00:24:49.68
And that relationship
turns into a friendship,
00:24:49.72\00:24:52.45
that friendship turns into,
00:24:52.49\00:24:54.49
why do you do what you do?
00:24:54.52\00:24:56.06
Why do you, you
know, go to church?
00:24:56.09\00:24:57.83
You know, then it's like, okay,
I go to church on Saturday.
00:24:57.86\00:24:59.96
Well, why do you go
to church on Saturday?
00:25:00.00\00:25:01.36
You know, it is, it's an organic
00:25:01.40\00:25:04.17
way of ministering, you
know, in our communities.
00:25:04.20\00:25:07.14
It's about creating
jobs, loving on people.
00:25:07.17\00:25:09.30
And God does, so
He does the work.
00:25:09.34\00:25:11.17
He does. He does the work.
00:25:11.21\00:25:12.54
And it's as easy
from there, you know?
00:25:12.57\00:25:14.34
Yes.
00:25:14.38\00:25:15.71
It's a beautiful
thing, that is so beautiful.
00:25:15.74\00:25:18.25
So how can people access you?
00:25:18.28\00:25:22.28
How can they get you?
00:25:22.32\00:25:23.65
We have your website,
00:25:23.69\00:25:25.19
how can they
get these foods out?
00:25:25.22\00:25:27.59
I'm actually, I'm
wanting some right now, myself.
00:25:27.62\00:25:30.53
So I want to find out
00:25:30.56\00:25:32.16
how we can get hold
of some of these foods?
00:25:32.19\00:25:35.16
Absolutely.
00:25:35.20\00:25:36.53
Well, right now, as,
you know, manufacturing,
00:25:36.56\00:25:38.37
our product is a frozen product.
00:25:38.40\00:25:40.20
So we're shipping
across the entire country
00:25:40.24\00:25:43.10
is something
that's not easy to do.
00:25:43.14\00:25:45.07
So right now
we're based primarily
00:25:45.11\00:25:46.98
in the West Coast.
00:25:47.01\00:25:48.98
We have different
small pockets like
00:25:49.01\00:25:50.98
in the Texas
area that we sell to,
00:25:51.01\00:25:52.71
but primarily all
of the West Coast,
00:25:52.75\00:25:54.82
you can get our products.
00:25:54.85\00:25:56.25
If you go to
somethingbetterfoods.com
00:25:56.28\00:25:58.92
there's, you can
pretty much see a map
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.56
of where we have
our products located.
00:26:00.59\00:26:03.02
You could also go
to another website
00:26:03.06\00:26:05.13
where it features
our better chew products,
00:26:05.16\00:26:06.86
eatbetterchew.com
00:26:06.90\00:26:08.73
You'll be able to also see
00:26:08.76\00:26:10.10
where the products
are actually located.
00:26:10.13\00:26:11.77
And so, definitely go
online and see the products.
00:26:11.80\00:26:14.90
You can go to IG or
Instagram@BetterChew
00:26:14.94\00:26:19.17
That's where all of the updates
00:26:19.21\00:26:20.78
as we expand our
products across the country,
00:26:20.81\00:26:23.51
there people
would be able to see
00:26:23.55\00:26:25.55
how we're growing,
where are we going to be at?
00:26:25.58\00:26:27.75
But our goal is to be
nationwide in the next,
00:26:27.78\00:26:30.15
you know, 24 months.
00:26:30.19\00:26:31.79
That's the
prayer, that's the vision,
00:26:31.82\00:26:33.25
that's the mission.
00:26:33.29\00:26:34.62
It's not easy.
00:26:34.66\00:26:35.99
It's a very expensive business
00:26:36.02\00:26:37.36
that I'm in to ship nationwide,
00:26:37.39\00:26:38.73
but we know God has it all
in His hands in His timing.
00:26:38.76\00:26:41.16
That's right. That's right.
00:26:41.20\00:26:42.60
And I think, I
don't think it would hurt
00:26:42.63\00:26:45.20
for people to contact
their local whole foods
00:26:45.23\00:26:48.07
and tell them that they
want that those products
00:26:48.10\00:26:50.91
in their whole
foods I would think.
00:26:50.94\00:26:54.34
Yes. Yes.
00:26:54.38\00:26:55.71
Yes, absolutely.
00:26:55.74\00:26:57.08
Do you have in
30 seconds or less,
00:26:57.11\00:26:58.88
do you have a closing
thought for our viewers?
00:26:58.91\00:27:02.75
You know, I don't want
to curse somebody out there.
00:27:02.78\00:27:04.85
You know, I'm an entrepreneur,
as well as you know,
00:27:04.89\00:27:07.19
I'm a Christian
and I've been a pastor,
00:27:07.22\00:27:09.62
so want to courage, you
know, anybody that's in there
00:27:09.66\00:27:12.19
and their passion in life,
00:27:12.23\00:27:13.56
you know, that passion in life,
00:27:13.60\00:27:14.93
whether it's food,
whether it's outreach,
00:27:14.96\00:27:16.87
whether it's, you
know, a mental health coach,
00:27:16.90\00:27:19.37
whatever your calling is,
00:27:19.40\00:27:21.14
just know that God
can take you places
00:27:21.17\00:27:23.04
you never thought you could go.
00:27:23.07\00:27:24.91
And let the Holy Spirit
is working inside of you
00:27:24.94\00:27:27.18
and watch him do what he does.
00:27:27.21\00:27:28.54
Oh, thank you.
00:27:28.58\00:27:29.91
Thank you so much
for being with us.
00:27:29.94\00:27:31.91
We really appreciate
you in all that you do.
00:27:31.95\00:27:34.72
We appreciate the
journey that you shared with us.
00:27:34.75\00:27:37.55
We appreciate the
foods that you have come up
00:27:37.59\00:27:41.42
with that we know the
Lord has impressed you with.
00:27:41.46\00:27:43.83
And my dear
viewers, we appreciate you.
00:27:43.86\00:27:46.56
Thank you so much
for being with us.
00:27:46.59\00:27:48.86
Make sure to join us next
time, because you know what?
00:27:48.90\00:27:52.10
It absolutely positively
00:27:52.13\00:27:54.30
wouldn't be the
same without you.
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