Nicole Chaszar founded Splendid Spoon to take the hard work out of eating well.  Like many women today, she is driven by living a full life, and she felt exasperated by all the conflicting messages in the wellness industry.  Diet programs were confusing, cooking every meal was time consuming and ready-to-eat ‘health’ foods were highly processed.  Splendid Spoon creates simple, plant-based plans and mindfulness exercises that are amazingly effective at establishing healthy eating habits.  Splendid Spoon is committed to making women's wellness goals a reality through the science of soup, the power of plants, and the art of mindfulness.  Nicole is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, a former media executive at Conde Nast's WIRED and The New Yorker, and the author of the upcoming Soup Cleanse Cookbook, due August 2016.  She lives with her family in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

How did you get started with Splendid Spoon?

When I was pregnant with my first son in 2013, it was kind of a wake up call of like: ‘Oh my gosh! I just finished culinary school and I had been experimenting with starting a business and testing all sorts of recipes. Ironically, the food and the habits around my food were really not so great. It was kind of manic with a lot of really intense restaurant style cooking. Exercising a lot on the weekends and not a lot of balance and I thought that was something needed to be fixed. I created the business and developed a really peaceful program around it to help ease anxiety. It was the genesis of Splendid Spoon.

What does your company embody and what does health mean to you?

Health to me is being really connected to your food choices so that you don’t feel that they are separate from you. I really believe food is joy and we are what we eat. I really think that you should embrace food for nourishing you and that is what Splendid Spoon is about. We started with soup because everyone has really nice memories of peo | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@NicoleCulver/theres-simplicity-in-focusing-with-nicole-chasz?auid=ay04WWUk