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Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets.

Today I am joined by cookbook author, private chef and food lifestyle writer,

Gaby Dawkin, Gaby Launcher, now infamous website, What's Gaby Cooking in 2009?

After graduating from college, I also liked that it was a business degree, so we're going to get

into that transition. Packed with recipes, the site brings a fun, playful and inspiring

perspective on cooking and living a happy, healthy lifestyle in today's crazy world. Her website

in food lifestyle creativity eventually extended into an immense social media platform,

which now has over 2 million combined followers. Gaby is also a three time cookbook author with her

fourth cookbook titled What's Gaby Cooking? Take it easy, recipes for zero stress,

deliciousness, set to be released in September. Today we're going to dive into how Gaby went from

running a hobby blog to ascending to the top of a food media empire. Gaby, thank you so much for

being with us today. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Yes, all right,

well we're going to kick off. I want to get into your story and all the transitions because it's

so cool, but the aim of the podcast is trading secrets. We're going to start off with a trading secret

for our listeners, because one thing I think about often is, and we actually just talked about

some of my fourth cup of coffee, I feel like Gaby was judging me, but the importance of food and what

it could do to your emotional state, your productivity, and just what your takeaway. So what type of

trading secrets do you have for someone that wants to improve their overall productivity when they

think about what they eat in drink? Yeah, so all the overarching mindset behind what's

going to be cooking is doing everything in balance. So it's never restricting anything. I never take

cheese off the table. I'll go out the table. Everything in moderation, including moderation. But

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