Jenny Sansouci is the author of The Rebel’s Apothecary: A Practical Guide to the Healing Magic of Cannabis, CBD, and Mushrooms, a certified health coach, and creator of the wellness blog Healthy Crush, where she’s been writing since 2008. She is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and has been trained by functional medicine doctor Frank Lipman, MD in New York City. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.
In this episode we talk about:
- how she became interested in wellness and nutrition
- what inspired her to start blogging over ten years ago and try to monetize it
- what led to her getting sober at 24 and her personal journey with sobriety and doing it for others and for herself
- the feeling she had when visiting New York city for the first time that led her to moving there straight out of college
- her boss at the time of being party girl introducing her to Gabby Bernstein who had recently gotten sober and changed her life greatly
- becoming a health coach and also making money on her wellness blog and what the marketing company she was working for was doing that made her make the leap to go out on her own
- what inspired her to go through the health coaching program even though she didn’t really plan to be health coach
- how she thinks the key to online business these days is several income streams
- how she transitioned her life and work after a breakup to explore what called to her
- working with Dr. Frank Lipman, a renowned functional medical doctor and what that was like
- getting the news that her father had stage 4 pancreatic cancer and how that greatly changed the course of her life
- moving back to her hometown to support her father and diving headfirst into researching alternative methods for supporting her father in healing
- medical marijuana and medicinal mushrooms and how they used it to support her father
- what medicinal mushrooms are and how they support us
- how her journey with her father’s cancer and blogging about it led to a literary agent approaching her to write a book
- why she called herself a messenger rather than an expert
- creating her new book The Rebel’s Apothecary
- now that the book is coming out how she is preparing and getting out of her comfort zone of being in front of a camera and more in the public eye
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
Check out the Institute of Integrative Nutrition that Jenny and I both attended!
Go and order her book A Rebel’s Apothecary at https://healthycrush.com/book
And find Jenny @jennysansouci
LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
PS. If we mentioned something and I forgot to include it here leave a comment Beand I will track it down for you!
Steve Pavlinia blog on monetizing content
Adi Jaffe episode and book The Abstinence Myth
Ruby Warrington and her Sober Curious movement
Four Sigmatic Blend
Marysia’s episode
Jenny’s blog on writing a book proposal
The infared sauna blanket that I mention. Use code JOY75 for $75 off!
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