Blog — mommy reset

This episode is dedicated in loving memory to my beautiful mother, Janette Ibrahim. She loved a good time, food, art, her faith and her family. She also loved this book when I read it out loud to her because it invited her to experience a taste of cultures all over the world when she wasn’t able to physically travel anymore. There’s something about reading out loud as an adult that gives your inner kid and wanderlust a lot of love. Take that trip. Hug that loved one. Eat that bite. Share that meal. And enjoy that experience like it’s your...

Kitchen Critical: Your kids future depends on this I’ve been a single mother since my son was 1. I chalk it up to a life learning experience. It’s made me realize that you can never rely on anyone else solely to help complete you or anything else for you. Not that friends and family are important, but if you don’t have the strength and confidence in your own decisions and what you need for your own life, how can you depend on others to get the job done? My children are the purest source of pride and awe. It brings...

I met Kelly at Chalene Johnson’s Marketing Impact Academy Conference this year and I knew there was something really special about her mission. As a single mom myself, it’s never something we go into marriage thinking will happen, that our perfect dream of being in a committed relationship with the person we’ve entered into wedlock with forever might fall apart. Sometimes it happens, and often times, if not always, it’s devastating in one way, shape or form. It’s how you decide to recover from it that matters, and that’s why Kelly’s message is so important. It’s not about perfection. It’s...

You’ve been checking out our recipes. Maybe you’ve watched one of my live Facebook cooking classes. And perhaps you’ve committed to our Eat Cleaner Meal Prep Club and you’re ready to get cookin’! But then, you look at your kitchen and the pots and pans are peeling, your knives couldn’t cut a piece of paper, and your broken blender is now a flower pot. Just like an artist needs their paints and brushes and a carpenter needs their tools, you need the right stuff to make eating clean a heckuva lot easier. Now, you could literally buy thousands of gadgets,...