#73: How This Raw Vegan Is Changing The Health Industry: Doug Evans and Sprouts

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Chris Lee

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

For this episode featuring Doug Evans, founder of The Sprouting Company, dive into a journey of health, discipline, and innovation. Doug shares his transformative path from a health-conscious individual to an entrepreneur on a mission to bring sprouts into the limelight of the dietary world. His story is not just about building a business; it's about nurturing a healthier, more sustainable way of living.

Highlights:

"Embracing discipline is the first step towards freedom."
"Innovation in health isn't just about technology; it's about going back to the roots."
“Every sprout I grow is a step towards a healthier planet."

Timestamps:

00:00. Health Journey & Inspiration
07:07 Company's Mission
02:23: Writing The Sprout Book
04:42 Lessons from the US Army
11:57. Early Career Influences
14:23. Steve Jobs' Influence
19:14. Plant-Based Diet Impact
23:55 Innovating Sprouting
31:06 Business Philosophy
47:23 Future Plans

Transcript

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0:00.0	Cooked food is poison.
0:02.5	That stuff isn't food for me.
0:05.3	That's poison.
0:06.4	That's going to put me six feet under.
0:08.9	Spouts are the complete living organism.
0:12.1	They are growing. They are alive. They're
0:15.2	enzomatically rich with the root and shoot growing as their sequestering
0:20.7	carbon. You're telling me that the seed versus the sprout
0:23.5	the sprout has more calories than the seed. A hundred percent. It's so crazy.
0:26.8	It was nature's cheat code. To me it was the biggest like revelation.
0:31.5	Yo, yeah, yeah, welcome to another episode of the founder podcast.
0:35.0	Today, I am in beautiful, beautiful desert California out here with Mr. Doug Evans. Doug is the founder of the
0:47.2	sprouting company. He is the author, an incredible author of the Sprout Book and
0:52.4	just a health guru. I'm super excited
0:56.7	especially at the kickoff of the new year a lot of us are focused on health goals
1:01.2	and what we can change and different things like that.
1:03.4	So I wanted to bring Doug on and really spent some good time diving into the benefits of sprouting,
1:10.7	the benefits of raw vegan, and just the overall health lifestyle.
1:15.4	Welcome to the show, Mr.
1:17.1	Hey, thank you so much for having me, Chris.
1:19.5	So Chris, I'll accept the word guru if it means teacher.
1:23.4	Yes.
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