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You're listening to the Wellness Herway podcast. I'm your host, Gracie Noren, and I'm so excited to provide you with the space where you get to shape what wellness feels like to you.

Wellness Her Way is where we make a home of our body, mind, and soul instead of jumping on trends for short-term results.

We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it, respect it, and embrace it through all its forms.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Wellness Her Way. Today we are with Dev on the

Vake. Thank you for coming here. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to chat with you. You're the self-proclaimed

CEO of Clean Ingredients and Chaos, which I love. That's a perfect combination, but yeah, you really do

do it all. And if you guys listen to my last solo episode, which I don't know if I told you this yet, I just did like my fall favorites. And I was raving about my strawberry protein macha. Yeah, I heard you. And I told them all. And I was like, you guys, this strawberry protein is insane because I'll mix it with my macha. And it's a very specific texture that doesn't make the milk taste like a protein shake. Yeah, yeah. And it's like 38 grams of protein with my whole milk. It's incredible. So you guys, this is the protein that I was talking about. Devin's the founder of that brand. He's also the founder of Rhythm, which is an at-home blood test company, Sweet Honey Farm, which I'm very excited to talk about. Yeah. Creator of the Running Man Fest, which I'm definitely joining next year. Yeah, I can't wait. Yeah, he pretty much, he wears a lot of hats and he does it all. So we're very, very excited to chat with him. But yeah, there's so many different layers to you and to life. And I think I want to start with just talking about your origin

story and your relationship with wellness and kind of how it's evolved or if it's something

that's always been like a part of your life. Yeah, I'll give you the high level two minute.

I know you have a mainly a female audience. So I think I'll appreciate this. My mom was a pro

arm wrestler. No way. And a horse trainer. My dad was a pro weightlifter. They had five kids, four sisters. I'm the only son. And all my sisters are so badass. We grew up in Idaho and then moved our farm over to New Hampshire. And that's where we grew up, majority until I was 16. My dad passed,

and then I got sent to Military Academy. And then from there, I kind of just, I'm just trying

to figure it out like everyone else, played football and baseball in college, and then dropped

out when I was a junior, started in the restaurant industry in New York City, and then I started

a training business, and then sold that when I was 26 and then we

started pro-mix nutrition and just started getting into, you know, more bringing it back to my

grassroots and yeah, that's kind of the high level. Yeah, I know you mentioned the loss of your dad,

which is such a big event in your life. For sure. Has it really impacted the way that you've chosen to approach for me? For sure. He had a drywall business. And so growing up, I would do construction with him during the summer and whatnot. And he'd always have me scrap, you know, wood or, you know, help with something on the site or go get lunch. And every time he'd look at me, he'd be like, Dev, like, get your hands at your pocket. There's something to do. And I remember that pretty often, you know, whether, you know, doing things personally or business wise or life or adventure, I'm like, man, like I want to live a life with my hands outside my pocket. And so it's kind of a mantra I always kind of pull through my head. There's always something to do. You know, we have such a limited time on earth. And if you're not controlling your time, then someone else will control your time. And so you have to make that decision of like, what do you want to do first and foremost? And then everything else can somewhat fit in. Yeah, I love that. I think it's so true. And I think today, like now more than ever when we think about like routines and waking up and doing the same thing every single day, it's so easy to wake up and then 10 years have gone by and you're not really doing something that makes happy and quote, you've got your hands kind of in your pocket. Yeah. I have a rule. Like once a month, I try to do something that, you know, checks off my to-do list of adventure or fun.

And that could be as simple as, you know, going to, you know, Yellowstone to go fishing or going

snowboarding somewhere or going to, you know, my mom just turned 60.

So getting all my sisters together with her and, you know, throwing her a 60th birthday.

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