Jess Koncz is the founder of Eatsee, a company changing the way that people discover food in a visual and personalsed way. Think Tinder for food. Jess's passion for food and content marketing began with an Instagram page @cravenewcastle as a hobby and now has 48,000 followes. Jessica is now expanding the business across Australia and the United States, after recently completing the Launch Accelerator program in San Francisco. For more Spicy Steph go here. 

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Daniel O'Leary heads up COQUUN. Here he delves into his connection with Wonnarua country and his extraordinary inspiration for COQUUN which takes its flavours from the native food bowl. 

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Amorelle Dempster went from high flying Marketing Executive to farmer in Maitland who started the slow food earth markets after she heard of a farmer that was going to destroy his harvest of pumpkins because they were imperfect. Hear her story. 

The Slow Food Earth Markets can be found the The Levee Maitland. 

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Lauren Branson is the owner and founder of Your Food Collective here in Newcastle Australia.  Lauren and her team source FRESH LOCAL FOOD GROWN locally, pay a fair price for it and then sell and deliver locally.  Brilliant concept! For more Spicy Steph go here. 

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My special guest today is Ian Charles from Aqua Sustainable.  A very highly respected and awarded Murry cod Farm on the Murry Darling Basin in the Riverina, NSW. Their mission is to produce great-tasting Murray cod, fully traceable from pond to plate, in a way that’s respectful to the environment, our growers, and community.  And I can tell you from experience, they are achieving this very successfully. For more Spicy Steph go here. 

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Haley Thomson is the daughter of Colin and Deann Thomson who are the founders and owners of San Diego Tortilla Factory, also known as Diego’s. Hayley has literally grown up in this business and is now the marketing manager of this very much a family oriented company. For more Spicy Steph go here. 

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Lindi Cohen is a dietician and nutritionist that is all about getting back to basics and not being on a diet.  Sounds weird right.  A dietician telling you not to be on a diet!  That’s why I love her.  This is a quote from her web site which really resonates with me.

Swap cauliflower for carbs and you will lose ~88% of the joy you get from food.

Twenty minutes of exercise is better than an hour at the gym that you never do.

Don't give up 95% of your life to weigh 5% less.

If hating your body helped you lose weight, you'd have your dream body by now.

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Steph speaks to the self proclaimed Crazy Egg Lady, Simone Stephens. The main reason we chat to Simone is to clear up what all of these egg terms mean! Barn laid, free range, biodynamic, parture fed , its so confusing????? For more Spicy Steph go here. 

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Larissa Takchi

My new family member, Larry, Master Chef 2019 winner.  The girl that taught me how to swear while living in the Master Chef house, but also made me laugh so hard.  I love her like I love my own kids. I can not wait to watch this girl shine over the next few years because I just know she is destined for amazing things,

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I am such a fan of survivor and of Pia Miranda, so can you imagine how excited I was when they both combined.   I didn’t know a lot about Pia personally before Survivor because she is a pretty private person, but one thing I did lean about her in survivor is what a sassy lady she is, that she is Sicilian, she loves pasta and is a Yogi. For more from Spicy Steph go here.

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