Today's product discovery features a sauerkraut company from Grand Rapids, Michigan. While I personally hate the state of Michigan for football reasons (go Bucks) I absolutely love Cultured Love - and it makes me super happy to see great companies with great products established in the midwest states.

Cultured Love produces nutrient-rich, probiotic-laden foods that are not only beneficial for you, but also have amazing flavor and texture and add beauty to any meal.

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Ritzfit has been called the farmers market of the natural product industry.

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If you're a fan of TNDP then you know I'm a fan of Gold Nugget Ghee (especially the chocolate honey variety).

The innovative creator of Gold Nugget Ghee has added a new product to his ghee arsenal.

Enter Gold Nugget Ghee's, Lavender Vanilla Ghee...

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In this bonus edition of The No Diet Podcast; James Conolly returns to the show to share his new passion... The education system.

Have you ever wondered where the concept of school came from or why it even exists? How about why we're grouped in grades by age, or why the sound of a bell is allowed to stop us from doing something we might actually enjoy, only to have to go to the next class to learn something stupid like geometry?

No Diet Podcast Show Notes: Bonus Episode – James Connolly

• What personally made him passionate about the educational system? (6:00)
• The History of Education. (10:10)
• What is the purpose of all this?! How the hierarchy of the classroom is killing a child’s creativity. (18:35)
• What does a BETTER school look like? (21:40)
• How would his education system look like? (26:56)
• What is he doing personally to raise his children through the current state of the educational system? (28:55)
• How the “A” students are all working for the “F” students. The idea of intrinsic value. (35:00)
• How to BE the maker of the machine and NOT the cog. (39:30)
• James shares a personal story of why strives to be the ONE in control of his own life. (44:40)
• How technology has given us the opportunity to learn and do what we love. (46:16)
• The great debate: To homeschool your children or not? Tips from James on how to navigate the situation for parents. (47:35)
• His message and plea to teachers. (55:30)

Featured Guest

• James Connolly (@primatekitchen) • Instagram
• Accidentalhost (@accidentalhost) • Instagram
• James Connolly (@jamesconnollyphotography) • Instagram

Related Links/Products Mentioned

• Bubble Foundation – Change begins in schools - http://welcometobubble.org/
• Horace Mann Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1840 - http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/545/558210/ch12_a3_d1.pdf
• Behavioral Science Teacher Educator Program - https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED041868
• Excellent Sheep - Book by William Deresiewicz - http://www.billderesiewicz.com/books/excellent-sheep
• The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling - Book by John Taylor Gatto

All this and more... enjoy:)

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In 2017, Treat Yourself Inc partnered with their dear friend and herbalist, Ariel, to create natural body care products. Ariel has taken common body care products and substituted harsh, harmful chemicals with ingredients found in nature instead. These products continue to highlight our belief in the healing power of plants and herbs.

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Mike Pastor reflects on his travels to Europe and Southeast Asia. Food and culture are different in a variety of positive and negative ways. It's truly how your own self perceives it. Enjoy this very entertaining episode of The No Diet Podcast!

Show Schedule

• Get out and experience culture and food in different countries! He picks up on his travels flying into Treviso, Italy. (3:49)
• His border patrol experience traveling via train from Italy to France. (7:20)
• How there is growth you have to go through getting back into an environment. (9:45)
• A trip of self-discovery and adventure of a lifetime. The purpose of the trip and the levels of it. (11:22)
• Which culture/country struck him as most welcoming of Americans? (13:05)
• Who seemed to care most about the quality of food consumed? (15:50)
• The biggest culture shocks he experienced on his travels in Vietnam. (17:05)
• Thailand, large portion sizes and Muay Thai. (22:55)
• The people make the country and feed your experience. He shares his time in Bali. (25:18)
• What are his thoughts on the United States and coming back home? How the world has more good than bad. (26:53)
• How we truly do not know what is going on in other people’s heads. Be your authentic self and grateful for what you have! (31:15)
• His mission to help people shift their mindset on health/wellness. (38:20)
• Update on the Movement Academy and future projects. (45:00)

Featured Guest

• Mike Pastor (@nomad_mikepastor) • Instagram

Related Links/Products Mentioned

• No Diet Podcast Ep 112: Hacking Health 7 Months and 4661 Miles Away From Home with Nomad Mike Pastor - https://ritzfit.com/112-hacking-health-7-months-and-4661-miles-away-from-home-with-nomad-mike-pastor/
• Catalonia's bid for independence from Spain explained - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29478415
• Muay Thai, MMA & Fitness training Camp Phuket Thailand - https://www.tigermuaythai.com/
• Primaletics - https://www.primaleticsarmy.com/

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When you eat well, you feel well. And vice versa.

That’s why at Watermelon Road happy and healthy always go hand in hand. They take great pride in ensuring each of their products are both satisfying AND nutritious. So whether you’re deciding between one of their sweet or savory snacks, you never need to worry about taking a wrong turn.

Their unique snacks start with the highest quality fruits and vegetables lightly seasoned with organic herbs and spices. They then gently dehydrate them to preserve the most nutrients and flavor. The result is a tasty, wholesome, portable treat that is guaranteed to please both picky eaters and big kids at heart. Best of all, each variety is nut, dairy, soy, refined sugar and gluten-free. Snack happy, snack healthy!

Episode schedule:

• What is Watermelon Road? (3:00)
• Which Watermelon Road flavor flopped? (3:58)
• Watermelon Road wins a huge award for their product line! (5:30)
• How Watermelon Road becomes a product (7:00)
• Mark and Tierney's (8:20)
• The elephant in the room - What are Jamie's thoughts on sugar? (11:07)
• Why each back of Watermelon Road is just a single serving (13:33)
• Jamie takes us through the product line (15:07)
• We see you're not certified organic... Do you have plans to go certified organic? (17:11)
• Where is the produce sourced? (19:17)
• What makes you the proudest about your product creation? (22:47)
• Where can we get the product? (24:00)

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Seek was created as a solution. Co-founder Robyn Shapiro always had a close connection to food; her first entry into the business was at the ripe age of 15 when she froze fruit in the middle of the hot Summer and corralled her friends to join her to sell it in Boston's Harvard Square. Years later, motivated by a broken system around Westerners' increasing and unsustainable desire for meat, Robyn was convinced that crickets provided a fresh solution as they provide comparable amounts of protein, but with far less of an impact on our environment and animals' lives. What began as a series of dinners with friends at her home, evolved into Seek, allowing people from all around the world to join the movement in eating cricket protein.

Episode Schedule:

• Robyn introduces the Seek Food product line. (3:30)
• What were the first products that got people’s attention and what is their current product line? (4:15)
• The entry level cricket eating brand. How their food is fear free food and best tasting. (8:45)
• Digging beneath the label: What is the sourcing behind the ingredients in their products? Organic? (10:10)
• How are they capturing the crickets and making into protein powder? Obtain their nutritional value? (13:33)
• Is it typical for a cricket to be raised in stainless steel? What are they fed? (17:50)
• The importance of crickets in the American diet and their health benefits. (20:25)
• How many crickets do you need to create the end product? (23:15)
• How did she get involved in crickets? How she is looking to change people’s habits through health and not fear. (24:12)
• What are some things that we should stop purchasing and replace with cricket products TODAY? (27:05)
• Is she on board with the whole grass-fed movement? (30:30)

Featured Guest

• Seek Food - https://seek-food.com/
• Seek (@seekfood) • Instagram
• Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1171013693/taste-the-future-cricket-baking-flours-and-top-che
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seekfood/
• Robyn Shapiro (@robynjillshapiro) • Instagram

Related Links/Products Mentioned

• What do Crickets Eat? - http://www.whatdocricketseat.info/
• Edible insects as a means to address global malnutrition and food insecurity issues - https://academic.oup.com/fqs/article/2/1/17/4911878

People Mentioned

• Sean Sherman - http://sioux-chef.com/

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In this edition of TNDP - Tierney rolls solo without Ritz; she interviews Brittany Chibe, the creator of Within Without, a grain-free chewy granola snack without any artificial ingredients.

In this episode:

2:25 - Brittany stumbles across paleo to heal an injury & concept of using “Food as medicine”

4:37 - Bringing within without to the retail space & outside of the kitchen

5:20- Rebranding from paleo scavenger to within without

8:25 - Tierney's experience with the product

9:30 - Maple syrup sourcing & relationship with the farmer

13:03- Intro to the product line

14:52- Are any ingredients organic?

16:30- Plans to go organic?

19:30- Sourcing of other ingredients

30:16- Walkthrough of product creation from start to finish

34:09- What makes Brittany most proud when looking at or beneath the label

36:08- Where can we buy products

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