Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.

Rachel Mansfield is a recipe developer, food stylist, and founder of the wellness blog Rachel Mansfield. Rachel specializes in

creating recipes made with simple real ingredients that are suitable for

anyone and everyone. She is one of the most influential people in the world of well-being and I am so excited for her first must-read book called Just the Good Stuff.

A hundred-plus guilt-free recipes to satisfy all your cravings.

Whatever your diet, she's got you covered, gluten-free

paleo, plant-based, and without refined sugar. You're going to want to eat and

make everything in this book. In this podcast we get personal and talk about

her journey to well-being, motherhood, and her take and why we shouldn't be

striving for work-life balance. I'm thrilled to welcome my friend Rachel Mansfield to the Mind Buddy Green

podcast. Thank you guys so much for having me. I'm happy to be back in the

studio. Back back with the MBG family. So I want to start with where your blogging and Food Career started and for the

members of our audience who don't know the story can you take us back to when

you got fired from your job which kick started the journey.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I've been, I've had my blog in Instagram

for five years now, but I've been doing this full time for four years back in the

end December is my four year anniversary which is wild I went by so fast that I was

working at a CPG company and I started there as the

executive assistant to the CEO and founder and little did I know at that time

how much that job was going to prepare me for what I do today because I was one of the first employees at that company and a few years down the road it was purchased and it just grew exponentially. But when I was there I worked so closely

with the CEO and that was also when Instagram started to become in quotes like trendier and up and coming and I saw this blogging space and I remember

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