225: A return to ancient superfoods | Julie Smolyansky, CEO of Lifeway Foods

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Julie Smolyansky: “We all have our our grandmother’s recipes, our ancient superfoods. And there is science supporting those functional foods made from the earth.” Smolyansky, CEO of Lifeway Foods, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss why functional food is returning to comfort food, plus: *Why kefir is the champagne of dairy* *How to help loved ones healing from trauma* *How she triumphed as a 27-year-old CEO after her father's sudden passing* *Why we are only as strong as the weakest links in our community* *Why we should always invest in our guts* Thanks to Lifeway Kefir for sponsoring this episode of the mindbodygreen podcast. Visit LifewayKefir.com for more information, recipes, and stockist information Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.0	Julie Smolanski is CEO and President of Lifeway Foods, the company her parents founded to introduce
0:55.2	Kiefer to the US after immigrating from the former Soviet Union.
0:59.7	She actually became America's youngest female CEO of a publicly held firm back in 2002.
1:05.6	And she took over a CEO the day after her father suddenly passed away from a
1:11.5	heart attack.
1:15.0	Julie's been named a Fortune's 40 under 40 list, Fast Companies Most Creative People in Business,
1:18.0	and she's an advocate for victims of sexual violence.
1:21.0	She's produced several documentaries on the subject and also co-founded a nonprofit called
1:26.2	Test 400K.
1:28.3	An organization dedicated to advocating ending the backlog of 400,000 untested rape kits in the United States.
1:36.0	Last but not least, she's the author of the Amazing Kiefer Cookbook.
1:41.0	Quite simply, she is an entrepreneurial force and an inspiration and a role model for women of all ages.
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