Erik Oberholtzer is the co-founder of Tender Greens, a fine casual restaurant brand founded in 2006 in Culver City, CA serving seasonal home cooking throughout California, NY and MA with 28 locations nationwide. He also founded the Sustainable Life Project in 2009 with a mission to change the course of at risk youth's lives for the better through a six-month paid culinary internship. He speaks internationally on food's relationship to human and planet health. Erik spends his time between Brooklyn, NY and Venice, CA. This episode is sponsored by the GPS program, a step-by-step system that helps entrepreneurs become professional speakers. Our global GPS community is in 100 cities, 23 countries, and 5 continents. Join us here: christopherkai.com.