Hi this is Hope.

is Kereen.

This is Katie from Washington DC and you're a l'anome

athlete radio. I am by myself today, no

Doug here, but I do have a very special guest. Her name is Heather Crosby and

she's the author of the book Yum Universe, which is going to be coming out just a few days after this podcast goes live so by the time you listen to it the book may already even be out

Heather thank you so much for joining us today. Well, thanks for having me Matt. I'm really excited to be here.

Great, yeah and it was it was an absolute pleasure to have you on, as a guest on the No Media Athlete Academy, which was last month I think, and there we dove into lots and lots of like practical stuff.

You're, I mean, what I've gotten just from leaving

through your book and of course from the, I guess,

four years now of the Am universe,

is that you have lots and lots of practical solutions.

Like for homemade

Pretty much anything you want I mean not just food like even like cleaning solutions and things to soak berries in and all kinds of stuff like that so we dove into a lot of that and here here, you know, in a half an hour or so, I don't think we're going to have time to go into a lot of that stuff. Of course, it is available for anybody who wants to go check out the Nomea Athlete Academy. But what we'll do today is just kind of talk about like your food philosophy because I think it's really interesting.

It matches mine pretty well, but we have a few little differences, but I'd love to hear about others and just kind of like talking about where you see yourself in the

in the spectrum on the plant-based diet.

And then talk about your book, which is amazing and we've had an advance copy now for a few weeks

and we've made several things out of it. I absolutely love the book. It's beautiful.

There's so much good practical stuff in here and any food we've made out of it so far has been great.

So I'm looking forward to just talking more about that too. Okay so why don't you

Heather share a little bit about your story and we did talk about this on the

Academy call so this will be a slight overlap but just give us like the short

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