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The Daily Motivation

Food Revolution: Vani Hari's Impact on Corporate Giants | Vani Hari EP 564

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8893 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Vani Hari recounts her journey from a corporate job to becoming a formidable food activist. Discussing her impactful investigations, Hari shares how her passion project gained momentum, leading her to challenge major companies like Kraft, Subway, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, and Starbucks to reformulate their ingredients. Focused on removing harmful additives like artificial food dyes, Hari emphasizes the disparities in food regulations between the United States and Europe. The interview delves into the ethical responsibility of corporations and the transformative power of consumer activism.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:07.0

When I realize someone as large as Chipotle or Chick-Falais or Kraft or any of these big companies were listening to someone like me, I knew I could no longer stay at that job.

0:24.3

And you started this at the other job that you were doing, right?

0:26.9

And then it started to pick up.

0:28.9

I remember you doing a video, like eating a yoga mat and then and then later seeing like three months later

0:36.1

seeing subway come out with a commercial saying they no longer have that

0:40.7

ingredient because you were specifically talking about it and I thought to myself

0:43.6

wow if one person can create enough of a conversation so that a large company like a

0:50.6

subway or a craft or Chipotle or Chick-fil-A listens and takes action to change something.

0:56.0

I said that is really powerful.

0:58.0

And you've worked kind of solving a lot of issues with Crafts, Subway, Chipotle, and Starbucks and having them

1:04.6

change their ingredients. And what was the thing with Kraft? What actually

1:07.8

happened? Well, one of the things I realized, as soon as I quit my job, which was the scariest thing ever by the way because I wasn't this was a pure passion

1:17.4

project so I didn't know how to sustain myself when I quit my job and I was in the

1:22.0

house and I was sitting here and I'm living in a condo

1:25.8

surrounded by the banks that I used to work with in downtown Charlotte and

1:29.6

going oh my God I have God, I have no boss, I have no job, and I'm a food activist now.

1:37.6

Wow, this is crazy.

1:40.0

You know, when you're working on a passion project out, you know, and you're also working in the corporate world, you're working on a passion project out you know in your also working in the corporate

1:44.4

world you're not putting your hundred percent effort into it even though it's like

1:47.8

kind of taking over your world and your thought and you're sitting at work and

1:51.4

you're thinking about your next investigation instead of what you're supposed to be doing.

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