Healing From Addiction, Reinventing Your Life, and Building a Multi-Million Dollar Business From the Ground Up with Founder of Sunlife Organics, Khalil Rafati
Wellness Her Way with Gracie Norton
Dear Media
4.6 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Episode 33: Today we have the pleasure of talking with Khalil Rafati, the founder of Sunlife Organics, Malibu Beach Yoga, and Riviera Recovery. Khalil is also the author of two incredibly inspiring books, “I Forgot to Die” and “Remembering to Live.” In this episode, Khalil shares his journey through addiction and how he went from working with the rich and famous to living on the streets for 20 months. We dive into what his turning point was during his addition and how he was able to heal himself through health and wellness. Khalil shares so many incredible stories of how he detoxed his body, what daily practices he used to grow, and how he shifted from “wanting to be loved” to “wanting to love.” We also get to hear how he turned his passion for health and wellness into a multi-million dollar company.
You can learn more about Khalil Rafati by following him on Instagram HERE
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“I Forgot to Die” by Khalil Rafati
“Remembering to Live” by Khalil Rafati
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.7 | You're listening to the Wellness Herway podcast. I'm your host, Gracie Noren, and I'm so |
| 0:10.7 | excited to provide you with the space where you get to shape what wellness feels like to you. |
| 0:15.0 | Wellness Her Way is where we make a home of our body, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on |
| 0:19.4 | trends for short-term results. We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it,, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on trends for short-term results. |
| 0:25.5 | We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it, respect it, and embrace it through all its forms. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Wellness Her Way. Today we have Khalil Rafadi with us. |
| 0:36.0 | He's the founder of Sun Life Organics and in this episode, |
| 0:39.6 | Khalil is very raw and real when it comes to telling his story about battling addiction. |
| 0:45.6 | He went from being homeless, living on Skid Row in Los Angeles, to healing from the inside |
| 0:51.5 | out and becoming a successful business owner that now gets to improve |
| 0:55.4 | the lives of others through nutrition. This is the first time that we're discussing addiction |
| 0:59.4 | on the show and we get relatively graphic. So I just want to preface this episode by letting you know |
| 1:04.5 | that. He walks us through his road to recovery and what wellness practices he put in place to help |
| 1:09.2 | him fall in love with feeling good. |
| 1:11.1 | This is such a powerful episode, especially for people who feel like health or the concept of |
| 1:16.2 | healing may be too far out of reach. |
| 1:18.4 | Khalil literally went from almost being on his deathbed as an addict to someone who learned |
| 1:23.2 | how to love and fuel his body. |
| 1:25.2 | I cannot wait for you guys to hear his story, so let's get into it. |
| 1:32.9 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Wellness Her Way. I am with Khalil. Yes. And it's so |
| 1:39.4 | funny how we met. So I was in Austin. This was probably over a year ago. It was exactly a year ago. Exactly a year |
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