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🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Another amazing Mom Boss joins us, and she has got one inspiring story. Dawn Russell is a cancer survivor, health advocate, entrepreneur, founder of 8Greens, mother and wife. She was named to Vanity Fair’s Hall of Fame, honored as one of Vogue’s four women of empowerment, featured in the book 100 Most Powerful Women of the Next Generation, and was a spokesperson for Estée Lauder.
Dawn talks to Hilaria and Daphne about how she founded 8greens out of necessity. At age 25, she was diagnosed with stage 4 Lymphatic cancer. When doctors could do no more, she went in search of solutions and found them by discovering the immense value of smart nutrition. She beat her cancer and spent the next 5 years working through 264 prototypes to create the world’s first green effervescent tablet that contained these 8 essential greens. Realizing that only 13% of Americans (including children) get the minimum daily recommended amount of greens, Dawn went on a mission to help anyone get the benefits of greens no matter where they are or how hectic their lives. Thus 8Greens was born.
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0:00.0 | Hey guys welcome back to another episode of our special mom-boss series. I'm |
0:06.3 | Eelaria and I'm definitely. Today we're talking to Don Russell. She's the |
0:10.4 | founder of Eight Greens. She is a cancer survivor, a health advocate, |
0:14.7 | entrepreneur, a mother, a wife. She's got two boys. I think you guys are really |
0:20.4 | really going to enjoy this. I learned so much and I very much wanted to buy her |
0:26.8 | product during the interview but I kept my my hands away from my phone but since |
0:32.2 | then I have purchased it so guys |
0:34.8 | definitely this is something that's so fascinating talk about someone who never |
0:38.6 | gave up and continue to push and has the most positive outlook. She is just a she herself feels like you're getting an IV drip of just like adrenaline and excitement and positivity. So I know you guys are going to love hearing from Don Russell. |
1:00.0 | For those who are not familiar with Eight Greens and your story, will you give us a little bit of background and how you began? |
1:02.0 | Yeah, I'll summarize it really quickly. |
1:04.0 | So I'm 45 now and when I was 25 I had cancer, |
1:08.0 | lymphatic cancer and couldn't do chemo irradiation. |
1:11.0 | And so for four years, traveled around the earth, trying every single alternative treatment |
1:17.9 | must see doctor just to end up back in my apartment in the little kitchen of West Village of New York going to the basics of food. |
1:26.2 | And food literally took me from not being able to walk to New York City blocks to coming, you know, really being like a flower coming back to life. And like, |
1:36.7 | unbeknownst to me at the time, that was actually the start of eight greens and I had no notion of it, |
1:41.2 | you know, I was just trying to, trying to live basically. |
1:45.4 | And so, then I used the Greens as well when I had my first son who is nine, and it was after I used, and when I say I use them I would have these massive |
1:55.2 | IV sacks three times a day just to keep everything moving in my body because I don't have the |
1:59.2 | lymph nodes in the left side of my body. |
2:01.1 | And it was once I had Alexander that I said to my husband, I know way too much about |
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