Hey Grilly's and welcome back to the pod so today we have a super special guest

Alexa is joining us and we're going to be talking all about food, healthy eating,

baking and tips for y'all. So Alexa, you can introduce yourself.

Hi guys, my name's Alexa. I'm 24 years old I'm from Massachusetts but I live in New York right now

Yeah, so I started my whole platform basically on the basis of like healthy eating. I have been obsessed with

food since I was little. It's just like everything in my life and through you know the

usual twist in terms of being a teenager and getting immersed into diet culture at a very young age.

I started shifting my focus on food in a healthier way all around to include more balance and then obviously with an emphasis on desserts.

So we make really healthy plant-based mostly desserts that are really easy, convenient, and just like really fun, recreations from our childhood, stuff like that.

But yeah, I, you know, it's kind of my side hustle right now. I also work for a media agency,

but I am obsessed with all things food and I'm so happy to be here talking today.

So why did you decide to start your social media accounts?

Would you say it was just solely because you obviously loved food or when you were younger

did you ever like struggle with food like what was the motivation behind starting your accounts?

Yeah so actually for the past, so I was in college, I started to get into modeling pretty much full time.

So I was doing both school and modeling and I ended up doing a lot of traveling and once I started doing

modeling you know more seriously I got definitely immersed into the diet culture sort of like

measurement body focused lifestyle and it was a huge burden on me because I grew up not really

caring so much about what I ate it wasn't a main focus I loved food so much I

grew up around amazing food I'm Italian and Portuguese and it was like very centered as a part of my family as it is for most people.

But I never really thought about food that much, you know.

And then once I started to get into whole modeling thing and

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