Meghan Telpner is a Toronto-based author, speaker, nutritionist, and founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. She’s written two bestselling books: UnDiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health and The UnDiet Cookbook. Meghan’s success in cultivating a global community of UnDiet enthusiasts and Culinary Nutrition Experts has garnered her a feature in Forbes, and The Million-Dollar One Person Business, and ranked her as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in Canada.
She is also the mom of a two year-old.
In this episode we talk about:
- her getting really really sick in her mid 20s and not getting any answers and finally getting diagnosed with Chrohns Disease and trying to find a way to heal from it
- making her job be her healing so committing to it fully for three months and eliminating her symptoms
- how modern medicine often tries to find and give a one size fits all to healing and most people need customization and options
- wanting to learn more about healing via food and nutrition inspired her to be a nutritionist
- starting by offering whole foods cooking classes in her home and how she got her first attendees
- creating an internship for herself at the hottest wellness resort (where Amy Whinehouse stayed)
- the value of putting yourself out there and doing things for free to gain the valuable experience to then get compensated
- noticing where her energy was and that one on one clients left her feeling drained but groups expanded her so shifting her work that way
- creating her Culinary Nutrition School merging nutrition and applying it in the kitchen
- fiercely protecting the quality of her life and her whole health with boundaries in her work and personal life
- looking at how you feel when around certain people, places
- being able to create new relationships within old relationships
- how often people stay in the discomfort that you don’t know rather than making space for what you do want
- the pressure that can exist to constantly publish what you are doing on social media
- how shifting my instagram name gave me clarity, ownership and boundaries online
- her non-shopping commitment and how much free time that created in her life
- the aha she got from the podcast episode with Jason Mraz
fuck the shoulds
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
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!
Dr. ha in Santa Monica
The Body Holiday Resort
Amy Whinehouse documentary
Josh Gitalis Meghan’s husband
Olipop drinks
Jason Mraz’s episodes
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F THE SHOULDS. DO THE WANTS.
Forget what you have been told you should do or should be.
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Learn how to listen to what it is that you truly feel & want so that you are living your most present, aligned, and alive life.
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This was my first listen of Tricia’s podcast, I came across it because I am a Meghan Telpner fan. It delivered – Tricia has a great casual interview style and I loved learning more about Meghan’s journey. Great listen all around!