Well, hey everybody. Today I am interviewing Lissa and Nate Maris. And some of you know,

Lisa and Nate, some of you don't. They are best known as raw food romance. You can find them

on social media channels, raw food romance. And they both have really wonderful healing stories, health

improvement, health transformation stories that started with adopting a raw, whole food,

plant-based diet. And neither one are cancer survivors, but they just are just great examples of the power of food,

like how much you can improve your life and your health and your energy just by changing your diet.

And so I've known, I've known of them for years, Alyssa, for a long time time and then Nate more recently. And we met at a

conference in Las Vegas earlier this year in person. And I just thought, man, it'd be great to

have them on, introduce you to them. I want you to hear their story. Because I know you're

going to be encouraged and inspired by their stories.

You don't have to have a major chronic illness to change your diet, to change your life.

And guess what?

If you will take those steps to change your diet and your life before the major chronic

illness, you might avoid the major chronic illness.

That's one of my goals is to help people prevent some of these potentially deadly and really debilitating diseases

that are driven by our diet and our lifestyle choices. So having said all that, Lisa and Nate,

great to see you. Thank you so much for inviting us on. Yeah,

great to see you too, man. Great, great podcast. And yeah, hopefully this will resonate with a few

people out there for sure. I know it will. And I'm excited. So how do we start? Do we want to start

with Lissa's story? And then because I guess your story was a little bit earlier and then and then

your two paths sort of intersect. So I guess we'll try to do it chronologically. I love that.

That sounds great. Yeah. Okay. So I learned about raw vegan diet back in 2004. I was 24. I was working at a natural health

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