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This Is Karen Hunter

S E1007: Dawn Kelly On "The Nourish Spot"

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Dawn Kelly talks with Karen and Tonya Pinkins (@TonyaPinkins on Twitter) about how she started "The Nourish Spot," a health food spot in Queens, NY and how she turned a bad situation into a passion project that is now feeding people. #TheNourishSpot #ThriveThursday #KarenHunterShow

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the show. She is the CEO and founder of the Nourished

0:16.6

spot, the Nourished Spot. Let me welcome Miss Dawn Kelly. Hi. Hello, how are you Professor Hunter?

0:27.0

Oh, I am, I am well.

0:29.4

Let me change my name on this Zoom so people don't call me that. How are you? I'm fine

0:35.4

Karen, thank you very much. Well I wanted you on for a couple of reasons. First of

0:40.7

all, you know're we're promoting healthy you know as

0:45.3

Wellness Wednesday and the nourish spot so talk a little bit I know it's local

0:49.6

it's local New York local Queens right? Yes, yes, Jamaica, Queens.

0:55.0

But all over the country, people are thinking about starting businesses.

0:59.0

And this pandemic has been really hard on, especially restaurants and people that you know have food

1:04.9

service businesses so I want to know first of all how did you navigate the

1:09.7

pandemic and did that some people thrive?

1:13.0

How did you do?

1:15.0

Well, honestly, the pandemic was a boon for the nourish spot.

1:19.0

And I think because every medical professional and nurse and across the world was advocating for individuals to eat healthy.

1:30.0

They were telling people that if you wanted to inoculate yourself and protect yourself, you should consume more fresh fruits and vegetables.

1:42.0

And that's what we offer at the Nourish spot.

1:45.6

We offer a plethora of nature's bounty that people can customize to their stomach and their eyes are happy.

1:55.0

All right.

1:57.0

Can I ask a question about when you're mixing fruits and vegetables?

2:01.0

Because I'm always, you know, the food combining thing, and so so I'm like am I not supposed to get a juice this got fruit and vegetable in it like is that going to mess up to digestion and mess up the healthiness of it?

2:12.0

Well actually no no Tanya. There are some juice some

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