Welcome to the Feel Good Effect. If you want to embrace the perfection and imperfection and learn more about the

Japanese art of nourishing mind, body, and spirit, this episode is for you. Let's make it happen.

Welcome to the Feel Good Effect, a podcast about what it really means to be healthy. I'm your host,

Robin Conley Downs. I'm a researcher, blogger, storyteller, and educator, and I know firsthand just

how hard creating a healthy lifestyle can be. In this podcast, we'll talk to health and wellness

thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries

to deconstruct healthy to help you feel good.

Hey, Feel Good Effect Tribe.

I'm so glad you're here for this amazing episode with our guest, Candice Kumai.

Candice is author of the new book Kansuki Wellness, the Japanese

art of nourishing mind, body, and spirit. And if you don't know Candace yet, let me tell

you a little bit about her. She is an internationally renowned wellness writer, chef, content

creator, and she's also a classically trained chef, wellness journalist, and five-time cookbook author. You

also may have seen her on Top Chef. She's a Top Chef alumna and also as a judge on Food Network's

Beat Bobby Flay and Iron Chef America. She's been called by Elle Magazine the Golden Girl of Wellness

and it's a really fitting title for the work

that she's doing and this new book. And as part of this book, Candace connected with her

Japanese heritage and really dove into the Japanese philosophy of golden repair, as well as Wabi

Sabby. So there's many philosophies we talk about in the show, but the part that

really resonated with me right off the bat and the reason I wanted to have Candace here is to talk

about this idea of sealing the imperfections in life and self with gold and seeing the perfection

in the imperfection. Such a great message and fit with the spirit of the show. And so we dive into

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