58. Why You Need To Wake Up And Read The Labels Of Your Food with Food Coach Jen Smiley

Jen Smiley suffered from asthma, stubborn weight and inflammation for most of her life. Specialists kept testing and prescribing medications with no real answer as to why this is happening. Nothing changed until Jen decided to read the back of a seemingly healthy food product and noticed she was consuming ingredients she couldn't even pronounce. This sent her on a Wake UP! Mission to find foods made with real ingredients she could recognize and pronounce. After years of research, she found every clean swap making her menu expand instead of the usual restriction and her health took a complete turn for the better.

She started coaching family and friends – all of which saw better blood work results, physical and mental changes and word of mouth spread creating Jen to be a food coach.

In 2019, Jen launched Wake Up and Read The Labels, a company dedicated to helping consumers understand what's actually inside of their food and revolutionize their grocery shopping. But it didn’t stop there - Jen launched an immersive online course, Clean Eating Academy, that includes recipes, product swaps, dining out tips, makeup, supplement and skincare that is made with real ingredients embodying a true anti-inflammatory way of life that can help people feel their best.

In our conversation we discuss:

• How after struggling with asthma, stubborn weight, and digestive issues, she woke up to the harmful ingredients in the packaged foods she was consuming, got informed, and cleaned up her diet and never looked back

• The harmful ingredients in food you should look out for and avoid

• The different types of relief she has witnessed in her clients when they too cleaned up their diets, and how sometimes you don’t know how good you can feel, until you start to feel good

• Why she doesn’t meal plan and prep, and what she wants you to do instead

• Some cleaner brands that are found in her kitchen

• How she handled other people’s opinions about her approach to clean eating, and why she stayed true to herself despite getting grief

• The questions she constantly gets asked, how to overcome lifestyle barriers, her take on alcohol and more.

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Her Free Morning Guide

Brands she recommends:

Lovebird

Three Trees

Coconut Cult

Prevail

Paleo Valley

Wild Pastures

Unbun

Dry Farms Wine

Tequila: Espolon and Casa Migos