BONUS EPISODE: Julie Smolyansky—Finding Joy Through Trauma & How To Be A Bad Ass Business Woman

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Lifeway Kefir CEO Julie Smolyansky. Julie has an incredible story—when she was just 27 years old her father died, and she took over the family business, becoming the youngest female CEO of a publicly traded firm. And she thrived, growing Lifeway Kefir from doing $12 million dollars in revenue to over $100 million dollars today. She’s been featured on Fortune’s 2014 40 under 40 list, and is just an entrepreneurial rockstar. On this episode, we talk about: the surprising silver linings to the pandemic for her business and her personal life the top mindset shift she recommends for entrepreneurs, and the top specific, actionable thing she thinks aspiring entrepreneurs should do today how to show up as your whole self at work (even with mental health struggles) how Joe Biden inspired her to come forward publicly as a sexual assault survivor finding joy through trauma why masturbation is one of her favorite forms of self-care We’d both ove to hear your thoughts on the episode, so screenshot and tag me @lizmoody and Julie, who’s @juliesmolyansky on Instagram. Enjoy! PS: My foodie preset pack is officially live. You can get all 8 presets, designed to make your food pics look as good as they taste, at lizmoody.com/presets. PPS: Healthier Together is officially a number one best-seller! You can get your copy on Amazon or at lizmoody.com/cookbook. Please keep sending me your creations on Instagram—they make me so happy! This episode is sponsored by Lifeway Foods, makers of America’s best-selling brand of kefir. Kefir has 12 different strains of live and active cultures and 25-30 billion Colony Forming Units (CFU), while the average yogurt can have anywhere from 1 to 5 strains with 6 billion CFU. Plus, it’s also up to 99% lactose-free. Lifeway Kefir comes in all sorts of delicious flavors, and they even have a dairy-free Plantiful line. Go to lifewaykefir.com and click “where to buy” to find a store that carries Lifeway near you! Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome back to the Healthier Together podcast.
0:05.4	I am your host, Liz Moody and I am a longtime journalist and cookbook author and I have
0:09.4	a very special bonus episode for you this week with Lifeway Cafe CEO Julie Smoyanski.
0:15.3	Julie has an incredible story.
0:17.6	When she was just 27 years old, her father died and she took over the family business becoming
0:22.1	the youngest female CEO of a publicly traded firm.
0:26.0	And she thrived growing lightweight cafe from doing $12 million in revenue to over $100
0:31.5	million today.
0:33.1	She's been featured on Fortune's 40 under 40 list is just a general entrepreneurial rock
0:37.7	star.
0:38.7	But beyond that, she is an incredible advocate for sexual assault survivors because she's
0:43.4	won herself.
0:44.4	I'll give a mild trigger warning for this episode.
0:47.0	We don't get into too many specifics but we do talk a lot about overcoming trauma, including
0:52.7	how Julie has used her sexual assault to find purpose in her life with a little bit
0:56.7	of help from Joe Biden, which is a crazy story that might make you cry regardless of
1:01.0	where you fall in the political spectrum.
1:02.6	It's certainly tears welled up in my eyes for sure.
1:06.2	We talk a lot about finding joy through trauma, which is obviously super applicable after
1:11.0	this year and I hope that everyone listening can find a few little salient bits to cling
1:15.4	to on more difficult days.
1:17.6	And because Julie is such a badass business woman, I also got her to share her best business
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