Day two in Cali was a Saturday and was, in the words of David Wolfe, one of the BEST DAYS EVER!!! Speaking of David Wolfe...this guy radically changed the course of my life and didn't even know it. He caused a cataclysmic cosmic shift in my conscious!!! Crazy that our last names are the same too...spelled with an E. David was featured on an a.m. radio show called Coast2Coast with George Noory. My Dad is a C2C fan and makes copies of the shows for me to listen to. He passed this show along to me in 2006. I listened to it and was immediately 'juiced' up by the cosmic energy that spews from this guys soul! He is the most energizing speaker that I had ever heard in my life and all of a sudden I was INTERESTED!!!
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| Wolfemen @ Dr. Etti's Penthouse-Miami |
A year later I revisited the talk show while living in Delray Beach and got INTERESTED in these freakin GOJI berries and CACAO BEANS. I jumped on my bike and rode to Boca Raton Whole Foods to source these superfoods. I walked in and was like, "wow! I need to work here". The rest is history. Down the line David came into the South Beach store and we developed a friendship. He told me about the relationship between avocados and cacao and how they used to counterfeit cacao beans out of avocado pits. Cacao was used as currency in ancient Mexico. CHECK THIS OUT!
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So, back to last weekend. I woke up after a 3 hour post-Drum & Moshpit snooze and drove Lee's car to the IIN conference. By the way, Lee is one of my two best friends in the world. I have known him since we were in 3rd grade. I stayed with Lee and he let me use his car to drive to Long Beach for my conference!!! I love you LEE!!!
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| Boss Hawg Lee |
The whole reason I was in Cali was for an Institute of Integrative Nutrition Mega-Conference. This is the school that my store has paid for me to attend to become a certified holistic health coach! I am grateful beyond words for this opportunity! The conference was a two day information slam with some of the best nutritional and motivational speakers in the world!
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| Founder of IIN-Joshua Rosenthal & the Prius Raffle Prize |
The conference was in the Long Beach Arena which is painted with blue whales and other cetaceans. Super cool! In the morning we heard from the guy who wrote the Primal Blueprint. Basically this diet goes against my primal instinct for what I should eat...PLANTS NOT ANIMALS!!!
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| Laser Whales |
After lunch Lee and his gf Ilayda came to join me for the rest of the day as my guests. It was awesome! We heard a lecture on the toxic and addictive properties of sugar and why we should avoid refined sugar like cocaine! Sugar is BAD....MMMMKAY!!!
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| Ilayda & Lee peeling cacao beans for raw avocado chocolate ice cream |
Then the healthy eating rockstar David Wolfe spoke and everybody listened. I was laughing the whole time because he is sooooo funny!!! He is funny because he loves what he does. He loves food. He presents his subject like he just discovered food yesterday and wants to share his discovery with the world! He knows his stuff...he knows FDA basic dinosaur nutrition and he rides the cutting edge of superfoods, superherbs, and supercosmic future foods! After David spoke he made a superfood smoothie and then got rushed by 500 screaming adoring female fans! LOL What a LIFE!!! He is the Beatles of health! By the way there were about 25 guys at the conference and 4975 health conscious females :)
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| Wolfe-Dismembering a Coconut for the Super Smoothie |
part 2 is long, so 2.5 coming soon...
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