Hi friends, welcome to the Wabi Sabi Pod. This is episode number 185. As we navigate through the summertime, I wanted to send a shout out to everyone who has been so supportive of the Japanese, Japanese branding, and the Kinsugi documentary. Every weekend I read new recipes. I'm sorry,

what's on my head, my mind right now. Every weekend I read new comments and likes and notes from all

of you and I'm like blown away. I really don't know how that first episode caught wind of the algorithm, but I just want to

encourage all of you to keep it up and to share the first episode of Kinsugi with everyone.

And if you have watched the first episode, I would really encourage you to watch two,

three, and four. On a personal note, I'm on a journey to try to figure out what the next thing

for all of you is. I have always been ahead of the curve. I was with clean eating, then clean

green drinks, clean green eats, also with the health and wellness industry in a general whole um i started writing

for the health and wellness industry like over 15 years ago easy and uh i started moving into the

japanese sector realizing that nobody was teaching true Japanese wisdom that was untranslatable like

Wabi-sabi Kinsugi, Shindu yoku, you know, Komorebi, these things I knew about and I thought

they were normal. So I decided to start sharing them with all of you.

One thing I'd love to note on today, I put up a new post on Instagram. It's got a big green

mantra smoothie on it and I talked a little bit about the integrity of Japan and the Japanese.

So I want to share with you notes that come with this job that I have

taken on as a Japanese wellness journalist. So after studying mantra, in my childhood, I went to

Japan in 1988 to visit my family through culinary school when I was 22 and top chef at 22 and working

in professional kitchens like the ritz carlton or boys um i was taught by japanese tea masters mentors

friends tea farmers in japan to never stockpile matcha and only purchase what you need.

Equally important to these types of tips, I'm obviously saying that so that this

matcha shortage that we have that is so much deeper than just a matcha shortage. I'm saying that

so you don't over purchase because a lot of people are doing that now.

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