May 8, 2025 • 39 mins
In this empowering episode of Talk Wealthy to Me, host Michelle Taylor sits down with Carly Paige, culinary nutrition expert, private chef, and founder of FitLiving Eats, to unpack the parallels between nourishing your body and building a thriving business. Carly shares her courageous leap from corporate to entrepreneurship, how she grew her business to a 10-person team, and why her “Simply Swapped” method revolutionizes how busy professionals fuel their bodies. From motherhood and money stories to the power of intentional eating and building community, this conversation is rich with insight, inspiration, and practical wellness tips.
Whether you're navigating your career pivot or want to feel better in your body, Carly’s story will remind you that sustainability—in both health and business—starts with small, consistent choices.
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Whether you're navigating your career pivot or want to feel better in your body, Carly’s story will remind you that sustainability—in both health and business—starts with small, consistent choices.
Follow Carly:
Website: https://www.fitlivingeatswinterpark.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlypaige
Cookbook – Available on Amazon
🎧 Subscribe, share, and leave a review. Let’s change the way women think and feel about money—together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's welcome talk Welcome, we Talk Wealthy to me. I'm
Michelle Taylor, founder of Women and Well and Wealth. From
breaking money myths to building wealth and achieving financial freedom.
We're here to empower you to create your own path.
Pat your talk wealth. Now join the conversation, and let's
change the way women think and feel about money. Are
(00:22):
you ready? Today's guest is Carly Page, a culinary nutrition expert,
private chef, and founder of Fit Living Eats in winter Park.
Carly is known for her simply Swap method, which makes
healthy eating both accessible and delicious. She's worked with powerhouse
organizations like NASA, Southwest Airlines, and The Four Seasons to
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teach holistic wellness strategies. When she's not cooking up flavorful,
nutritious meals, she's raising her toddler bear and stepdaughter alongside
her husband.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Everyone, welcome back to Talk Wealthy to me. I am
Michelle Taylor, your host, and I apologize in advance for
my raspy voice. But life is life Right. I am
here today with Carly Page, so excited to have you.
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, so there's a lot here. You have done so
many incredible things tell our listeners a little bit about
you and your business.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Sure, So it's been quite a journey to get to
where I am now, and I've taken many iterations of
what my career looks like and what I wanted to
look like, starting and marketing at a local hospital system,
and leaving the comfort of a corporate job and going
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out on my own and getting my health coaching certification
through an institute in New York and then a couple
of culinary programs out in LA and combining those two
together into a career path that I really hadn't seen
anyone else do before. But I thought, you know what,
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if I'm going to try it, now's the time. And
if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And so it
started as health coaching. I dreamt of having a one
on one coaching business where people would come in into
a cozy little office and we would meet and they'd
go home with homework. And that's not at all what
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it turned out to be. But it's been so much
more than that and greater and beyond my wildest dreams.
So today my business is ten people on payroll. I've
got a team of chefs, We do customize private chef
mail prep for clients on a weekly basis, and we
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do boutique catering. I teach cooking classes, and we are
super excited to have just moved into our own care
event space here in Winter Park, Orlando, Florida. So I'm
excited to get events going again and host more cooking
classes and wellness workshops and dinner parties and just bringing
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people around the table in an intentional way and exposing
them and educating them and reminding them that healthy food
does not have to be boring. It can be delicious,
and it can be sustaining and fulfilling and all the
things that we look for in a good meal.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, and you know, I think the timing is so
perfect right now, So much is shifting in that world
where people are paying attention to what we're consuming, and
I think that you couldn't have timed this better.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah. We have a lot of clients who are busy
families or executives that are really short on time, and
there's just no good convenient option out there if you're
looking for something healthy and nutrient dent, and that's really
going to help you feel your best. And so we
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come in and help close that gap. So we're not
using steed oils, we're not using refined sugars, but there's
a lot of flavor in our food as well, So
it's kind of like a healthier version of uber eat
to accept, totally customized to you and more elevated. So
we love it. We love what we do, and we
love our client.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh I love that well. So one of the things
that you said that I want to touch on is
you left the corporate world and jumped into this world
of entrepreneurship. And I know there's a lot of listeners
who may have done the same thing or be in
the thick of it or contemplating that. What do you
think was the most rewarding piece of becoming a business owner?
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And what do you think, I think was the scariest
thing that you went through or had to overcome before
you took that leap.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That's a great question. I think the most rewarding thing
is to know that the effort you put into something
you're going to reap the benefits of directly and over
time and owning my own business and having my own brand,
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I've had to evolve and adapt and change and go
where the market is where my passion is, where my
life is, and I can do that because I'm the owner.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So it is, without a doubt, the hardest thing I've
ever done, and I have a fifteen month old and
did go through labor, but it's so rewarding to to
have a certain level of flexibility within that hard work
to define what my career looked like and where it goes.
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I think that the hardest part about leaving my corporate
job was not paying attention to the people who advised
against it, because that's security right and to go out
and do something different and no real idea where those
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decisions of the health coaching certification and culinary programs were
truly going to lead. That was a huge leap of faith.
And at that time I was going through an unhealthy
relationship that led to a divorce, and so there was
just a lot of personal things going on that was
working against the blessings and the really positive things in
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my career life with at times hard to manage and
keep pressing forward. But I'm so glad that I did
because now my life is messy and there's a lot
going on, but it's beautiful at the same time, and
being able to truly be the one in charge of
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that secame changer.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It is amazing, isn't it so funny? When you're about
to jump headfirst into a new path, whether you guys
are thinking about like an entirely new role or starting
a business, the people around you that love you the
most are oftentimes the ones that are more nervous than
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you are and can hold you back unintentionally. But you
have to wonder how often that happens, where somebody wants
to make a change and don't because the support system
is so critical. And I know, for me, when I
changed careers and decided to dive into this world twelve
(08:07):
years ago, my mom, who is a huge supporter and
advocate of everything, best mom, she was very apprehensive just
because I just had a new baby and we had
just purchased a home, and you know, it's all of
those little things that they point out that can go wrong.
(08:30):
And then as long as you don't get and you
have to you get in your own head. Yeah and yeah.
I just think it's interesting that so many of us
experience that and hopefully don't listen.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I've found when I think back of all the big
moment shifted in my life. All it takes to one person,
one person to have believed in me and said you
should do it, almost giving me permission, even though I
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don't need permission, but just someone to say you're going
to be okay. I'm one hundred percent behind you in
the decision. You don't need everyone, but it's so true,
and it all goes back to community. And my friends
all joke that I am a cheerleader for all of them,
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and I am a terrible influence in certain ways where
like if we're shopping a friend or doing something anything
that is going to lead them to a happy place.
I'm always the first one to say you should do it,
go out on that first date, or buy the shoes,
and same with businesses. But the people that need it,
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I think are really encouraged by it, and we always
figure it out, you know, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It's the positive reinforcement of the village around us that
is I think the difference maker.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And you need some of that resistance too to really
feel your way through it, to know I'm making this
decision for me, not for someone else. Yeah, if it
were really easy, then it would be setting you up
to fail because there's so many challenges in life in general,
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but also being an entrepreneur, and you have to know
you and what you stand for and believe in and
what you want.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
How did you prepare financially? Did you consider that before
you made this jump or is it something that you
had been saving for and having conversations with your family
and your spouse to say, okay, this is how I'm
going to do this. Or did you kind of build
the plane while it was already flying?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Both? And yeah, all of those things. I knew that
I needed a minimum month amount in order to live,
and so I made sure that I got little side
jobs that helped meet that. But I also got the
support from family and a couple of chosen family and
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send things that kind of helped support in my journey
along the way.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So I love what you just said, though, and I
hope you guys caught that. So we talk all the time.
You know, it's so easy to sit here behind a
microphone or behind a computer and say have an abundance mindset.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You know, of.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Course you can go out and do all of the
good things, and people listening are like, oh, yeah, that's great.
But I have an abundant mindset and I'm still struggling
in this area, and I think where there's a will,
there's a way, especially in this climate that we're in
and with social media and you know, people are have
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the tools at their disposal to create a side hustle.
So I love that you did that. So basically, you
had side projects that created that buffer that you needed
monthly to make sure that your bills and your commitments
were being met. Even if it was less than you
were used to, it was the bare minimum. So then
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if you had a bad month when you were starting
out like we all do, it wasn't as big of
a deal. And I hope that people listening you guys,
that is the best advice she just gave you. If
you can figure out, even if it's just, hey, I
really need to cover seven hundred dollars a month, how
do you do it? Let's figure out a way to
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make the scary jump. Find the side hustle. I mean,
when my best friend and I decided to move to
Italy after college, and I mean she sold her car,
we babysat, my dog had puppies that we sold. I
mean it was wild, but again, find find the side hustle,
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and it's I think for anyone listening, it's a good
true test before you start a business of putting yourself
through that you've got to figure it out the grit
of just make it happen. And I think it's served
I'm sure it serves you well in this journey that
you're on.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, I mean, even though my circumstances are different now,
there are still things that I just have to figure
out and it's hard and it's challenging, British rewarding. And
I think too, when I made that decision and when
I looked at entrepreneurs or self made business owners ahead
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of me, I felt like, while I don't have the
restvoicage they have, or I don't I don't have that,
or it's not working. I mean, I think that because
there's so much online and on social media, it can
sometimes allude to overnight success and that's not a thing.
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But I also believe that if it is meant to
be and it's in your path, doors and opportunities are
going to open that you might never have anticipated. Because
I have yet to meet one person who totally just
did it on their own, without the support of anyone else,
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and that doesn't have to be just financially, but it
could be in any capacity. But there are doors that
have slammed in my face, and there are doors that
have continued to open in ways that it's like, all right,
I don't really know about this, but I'm gonna take
the next step. Yeah, And so just trusting yourself in that,
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I think gauge endpointant and being open to that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You know, we talk about finding or we talk about
when you have a kid and saying, you know, it
takes a village, and it truly does. You're a mom
fifteen month old and a stepdaughter who's ten, so I
get the ten year old thing, but it does take
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a village with your kids. But it also takes such
a village when you're an entrepreneur or really quite frankly
in life. Right, You've got to find your people and
that should be a priority. And I feel like even
kids that are graduating from college or graduating from high school,
we need to instill that in them a little bit
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more maybe and just say you're at a point in
your life where hopefully you've come through life with some
great friends, but now, I mean it truly does need
to be a priority of surrounding yourself with people that
are going to give you the support you need, the
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friendship that you need, the loyalty, and also that are
smarter than you in other ways, and start that as
soon as possible. It takes a village, no matter what
you're doing, it takes a village.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah. My dad was very adamant about my brother and
I having internships instead of or with other jobs growing up,
and so I did little one day two day shadows
here and there, or summer internships at different places and
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having mentors set in place for us at different stages
throughout our life, high school, college, And I think that
was really keen and helpful to what you're saying of
building a tribe and a community and a support system
of not just your peers, but other people too who
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can help guide you along the way.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, and never to burn a bridge, because you just
never know. The world is so small, It is so
growing up. What was your relationship with money like as
you started to become more aware, you know, and then
eventually we're on your own, do you feel that you
were set up in a really good way or did
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you bring a lot of money stories or baggage with
you that you had to unlearn.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I think both. I think that my parents did a
really great job of educating around money and the responsibility
of that. I remember balancing my checkbooks with my dad
back when like cash was king, and but also I
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had my own observation to work through and figure out
what I liked in that and what I didn't like
in that. For example, my mom would just stay at
her mom and so she would get an allowance weekly
or whatnot, and I remember her it was almost like
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hiding purchases or hiding money to be able to spend
it in a way that she might want to. And
I just remember experiencing that and thinking, I always want
to stay it at the table to to you know, decide,
be a partner in how the money is used and
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and so because of that, I always want to be working.
I always want to be bringing in some kind of
an income. And you know, I think there's there's some
truth to that, and also my observations as a teenager,
and my parents had their own dynamic and relationship and whatnot.
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But I think that's a big motivator for me and
driving force in being a business owner or always feeling
like I want some kind of control maybe even over
household income and where money is going and freedom and
flexibility in that.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It's so interesting though, because you know, in your mom's scenario,
maybe she was willing to give up a little bit
of the control of the financials and stay home because
in her version of success, that was what was important
to her, is being a present, stay at home mom.
We just never know what someone's perfect ideal is.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So and I don't think that bothered her. The whole
hiding money, like you just funny. We laugh about it now,
and so you know, everyone has different experiences of the facts,
and so to her it just is the way it is.
And to me it was like, I don't know how
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I feel about that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But that's what I mean. It's so cool to go
through and perception is reality. You just never know, and
then we get to determine what it looks like for
us on the other side. I remember sitting and watching
my mom balance the checkbook and thinking that looks like
the most boring way to spend a Sunday. She always
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did it on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Oh I loved it. I'm like always going over in
my p and L and my serenadets and everything. Yeah,
I love it. So I'm somewhat conservative when it comes
to money, which is interesting to me because of all
of the risk taking involved in being an entrepreneur and
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a business owner. But yeah, I'm like, I like to
hide my money under the mattress. Oh kind of girl.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You know, it's so funny. So many women that I've
worked with personally, I say they're like squirrels because it's
the same way. They've got all these different little accounts
that they like to put money in, and I think
it's just yeah, we just like to gather it and
where it is and put it somewhere. So shifting to
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your business a little bit, I think to your point,
it's so important to have access to healthy nutrients, dense food.
How do people what do you think are the most
critical changes that someone can make that maybe listening and think, yeah,
I would love to, you know, be a client of Carly's,
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but maybe that is not in the cards for them
right now. But they're wanting to do better or focus
on healthy foods. What are like those quick, easy things
like the Dirty dozen you know that you should buy
organic or whatever that you can think of that you
would share with our audience and that you share with
your clients.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, that's a great question. A couple of things come
to mind. I'm always educating on the perfect trifecta. So
when teaching people how to build a nutritious plate, I
encourage them to include three nutrient protein, fiber, and healthy fats.
A lot of times these days you hear protein, carbs,
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and fat, but if you're eating carbohydrates, you're not necessarily
getting fiber. There's carbs in a doughnut, but that's not
necessarily good for you or it will help you feel
your best. Fiber is the thing that is going to
balance your blood sugar levels and your energy, keep you
full for longer. And if you're eating fiber, you're eating carbohydrates,
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which are our body's main source of energy. So could
be in fruits, vegetables, a whole grain that's going to
be a little bit more nutritious for you. So protein, fiber,
healthy fats. And then I've kind of come up with
a term called the simply swapped method and looking at
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your everyday ingredients and asking how could I swap it
for something maybe a little bit more nutrient dense. So
I like to approach nutrition by asking what can I
add to my day or my plate instead of what
are all the things that I need to remove or
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can't have because then we want it restrictive exactly. So
an idea, an example that a simple swap might be
instead of all purpose flour, maybe using almond flour and
oat flour and trying to kind of understand how those
ingredients work in something like a muffin. So just finding
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little everyday ingredient that maybe there's a more nutritious alternative
for that you can just swap out to elevate what
nutrients are going in your body.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And when you say nutrients tents, do you mean for
the audience? Just something that is less processed and has
more of the nutrients exactly, and it's pure form right.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So back to my example of the flowers. All purpose
flower is extremely processed to where you're left with really
a small piece of the original food that's been so
stripped of the fiber and the vitamin and the minerals
that you're really not getting anything from it, and your
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body processes that as it would sugar. Whereas almond flour
is made from almond that has protein and healthy fat
in it. Oat flowers made from whole oats that are
ground up, so fiber, healthy carbohydrate. So yeah, just looking
for less processed things that are kind of back to
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the basic is what I like to call it, and
just simplifying, simplifying what you're eating, what you're buying, trying
not to buy so many things in a box. Can
you pronounce the ingredient? Do you recognize them? Could you
make that at home? And once you start asking those questions,
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you realize it's really hard to find healthy, convenient food.
So what are some little quick things that you can
make at home that you can feel good about eating
and feeding giving to your family or your kids.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Well, I think convenience is such a thing that stands
in the way for so many women because it's just
less work to grab some thing or to go out
to a lunch with clients or coworkers, and it takes
a little bit more time to meal prep and to plan.
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But to your point, and that's where you come in
because if you don't have the time to do that,
I know it it's a luxury for some people, but
it's a convenience tax I always like to say. And
the reality is, if you have the resources, outsource that
to somebody that can prep and don't think about it.
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If it's not something you enjoy, find somebody who can
fill the gap and exactly feel good about what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah. Absolutely, I do this for a living, and the
week that I add my family to our mule prep schedule,
they get so many more new trans on their plate
than when I make a quick dinner at home. But
even when I do, and you don't have to subscribe
to something like a mule prep service to find healthier
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ways to fuel your body and feed your family. Again,
you're looking for their little swaps. So maybe instead of
white pasta regular pasta noodles, you're using noodles that are
made from beans or menled that have protein and fiber
in them. So I'm trying really hard to start my
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fifteen month old out on the nutritious swaps. And you know,
he doesn't really have white noodles. He has the bean
noodles and those are normal and it works so far,
but we'll see as he gets to older, my tend
a little bit more picky. I know.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's like when they're little, they'll eat and try so
many things, and once they're just old enough to have
an opinion, it gets really hard. My kids are just
coming back around to now being excited at trying other things,
and it's been really nice.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think it's so interesting. Like even speaking on the pastas,
you know, if you're gluten sense, which I happen to be,
I don't adhere to it because it doesn't make me
feel bad, and that isn't always the best thing. I
kind of wish sometimes it gives me the extra step
of discipline, but it's also the way we process everything,
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like when you go overseas, it doesn't matter. So one
of the things that I do. And for anybody listening
who has never perused the aisles at like a home goods,
there's a ton there that is made in Italy. Pasta wise,
and even like sauces, different things that have much stricter
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requirements on what they can put into it. The pasta
it's made with semolina flower, different things. And even if
that's like an easy baby step swap to get to
some of the other things, it's those little things you
don't have to think about, you know, everybody the craze
now making your own breads at home we were just
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talking about before the show made it to that, yet
it's a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
It is.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I have a very dear friend that basically I feel
like she is the queen of sourdough and makes it
look so easy. And I tried and it worked a
couple of times, but it's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It is. My sister in law thought it'd be really
great for her, my mom, and I to start a
little sourdough club, and she gave me a starter one
month after having my son. Oh yeah, I was like,
I don't think I can feed him and feed the starter,
and so one's going to have to come before the other.
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And she had a five month old now, and so
it's like, how did you sourdough come in? And she
you know, it's kind of fallen by the wayside, but
it is. It's definitely a commitment, but can be a
fun little hobby too if it's something you're looking to
get into, well yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And it's just like you know, I tell my listeners,
my clients, my friends, the women in wealth community, it's
not about doing everything at once. It's finding that little
thing and it's all about mindset. Something that you said
that I think is so interesting and relates back to
what I have taught is instead of setting up budget
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plans for people, I always talk to them about having
a spending plan. And just like you said, I don't
want to talk about what I take out of my diet,
but what can I add into it? And you, guys,
the secret sauce. The hack to all of this is
mentally finding out the way that you can work it
into your routine and have your brain stick to it,
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putting a positive spin on it whatever that needs to be,
and doing a little bit. There are things I know
that candles are supposedly not great for us. I love candles.
I'm not going to probably get rid of those, but
I'm really passionate about trying to stay away from dies
in food or buying organic. So it's about doing what
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you can with the resources that you have that don't
make life more difficult and finding the way to do better,
even if it's in small doses every day, because just
like with money, over time, dollars and good choices compound
and lead to big results.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Absolutely, yeah, we're not perfect and we can't expect to
live perfectly. I always tell people if we listen to
everything out there, we couldn't even drink the water, just
because everyone has something to say about everything being bad
for you. And so, like you said, really choosing a
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couple of things to focus on or shift or change
and just building from there, I think create sustainability and
makes it work for the long haul.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, because once that becomes a habit, then it's easy
to add something new. Just like when you start the
habit of saving or investing or paying off credit card debt.
Eventually that can grow into something even more impactful because
it's sustainable. Same with all of this. What is a
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piece of advice that you would have given yourself starting
out on this beautiful journey of entrepreneurship knowing what you
know now?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Hmm, that's a great question. I think that I would
encourage myself to try everything and figure out what I
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like and what I don't like, and make choices from there.
You know. I think that a lot of the advice
I got with pick one thing, be really good at
that and then grow from there. And I think there's
truth to that. But I think that if you are
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multi passionate and you like different avenues of business and
doing different things, I think that trying them and figuring
out do you like it? Or do you not like it?
And just because someone says this is how they found
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success does not mean that that's how you need to
find it as well.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I love that. Yeah, Yeah, it's so important because I
feel like, you know, we talk about that all the time,
where you see something that you think, Okay, that person
is successful, and you have to differentiate between I want
to attain my own level of what I think success
looks like. It doesn't have to look like hers, but
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I can still emulate some of the habits that it
took to get that person there. And I think that
for so many women and I'm sure the guys too,
but just speaking to the women, I think that it's
so common that we want to share and you know,
bring other people with us, so we all have to
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do a good job of remembering just because something worked
for us might not work in what the person that
you're talking to's vision is meant to be. So I
love that. Yeah, And what's next for your business? Where
do you want to see this go in the next
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you know, three to five years.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It's funny you say that because the space that we
just moved into really is a vision boy that I
created eight years ago. They came to life, and when
I created that vision board, I thought, I honestly don't
know what I was thinking, because I didn't think I
was ever going to have a brick and mortar or
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really a space of my own. I just didn't know
it that time. I didn't have a good vision for
the future. But clearly I did because we just made
it happen. So I've been thinking a lot about, Okay,
what is the next thing and that next step, and
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in creating this space, my goal is to create an
environment where people can come and feel taken care of,
to take a breath, to be present, to gather around
the table in community and around good food. And so
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what does that look like, because it's different than what
we've done in the past of now having a base
of our own to be able to invite people into.
So I can just envision, you know, classes and workshops
and dinner parties and really really uplifting our community partners
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and the local farms and other small business owners that
we work with as well, and just creating a really
intentional space and experience that people want to be a
part of.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Oh my goodness, I love it. So when is the
space going to be open and ready.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
We've been open for a couple weeks now, open meaning operating.
We are not a retail business, and that we have
opening hours. Sure people can come in and out of
I'm hoping in the next month we'll have a schedule
of events that people can go on and sign up
for and go from. Their education is a huge passion
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of mine, so I'm excited to get it back into
cooking classes and maybe build out our educational programs and
offering a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, and what a great place to have like a
girls' night and do something fun like that. That's amazing.
And I know you've written a cookbook as well. Yes,
so you've done a lot of great things. As we
wrap the sub where can people follow along on your
journey and look for those class schedules or the cookbook
or all of the great things that you've done.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah. So I have an Instagram account that I try
to post on and where going on yet, you know
you have so much time in.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
It, especially being a mom.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
But you can people can always follow me at carly
page for healthy tips and tricks kind of behind the
scenes of how I cook for my family and what
it's like to be a business owner. You can get
a fit that we need to winter Park dot com
for our local service aid and class scheduled, and the
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cookbook is available. Add a digital copy on amadon for
anyone who's interested. I've somewhat depleted the printed supply and
I would love to come out with the second edition
before ordering more so TBD on that. Okay, but amadon
and Instagram at Carly Page and fit let me eat
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win in Park dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And we'll put all of that in the show notes
to make sure that everybody listening can follow along and
find one little thing at least to be mindful of
on their health journey. And yeah, I mean, I'm so
appreciative of the work that you do. It's an incredible
and thank you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Absolutely it was fun to be here.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Thank you, You're welcome, and as always, I'm so thankful
for all of you listening. Don't forget to like, subscribe, share,
and let's change the way women think and feel about
money together
Let's welcome talk Welcome, we Talk Wealthy to me. I'm
Michelle Taylor, founder of Women and Well and Wealth. From
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you ready? Today's guest is Carly Page, a culinary nutrition expert,
private chef, and founder of Fit Living Eats in winter Park.
Carly is known for her simply Swap method, which makes
healthy eating both accessible and delicious. She's worked with powerhouse
organizations like NASA, Southwest Airlines, and The Four Seasons to
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teach holistic wellness strategies. When she's not cooking up flavorful,
nutritious meals, she's raising her toddler bear and stepdaughter alongside
her husband.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Everyone, welcome back to Talk Wealthy to me. I am
Michelle Taylor, your host, and I apologize in advance for
my raspy voice. But life is life Right. I am
here today with Carly Page, so excited to have you.
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, so there's a lot here. You have done so
many incredible things tell our listeners a little bit about
you and your business.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Sure, So it's been quite a journey to get to
where I am now, and I've taken many iterations of
what my career looks like and what I wanted to
look like, starting and marketing at a local hospital system,
and leaving the comfort of a corporate job and going
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out on my own and getting my health coaching certification
through an institute in New York and then a couple
of culinary programs out in LA and combining those two
together into a career path that I really hadn't seen
anyone else do before. But I thought, you know what,
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if I'm going to try it, now's the time. And
if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And so it
started as health coaching. I dreamt of having a one
on one coaching business where people would come in into
a cozy little office and we would meet and they'd
go home with homework. And that's not at all what
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it turned out to be. But it's been so much
more than that and greater and beyond my wildest dreams.
So today my business is ten people on payroll. I've
got a team of chefs, We do customize private chef
mail prep for clients on a weekly basis, and we
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do boutique catering. I teach cooking classes, and we are
super excited to have just moved into our own care
event space here in Winter Park, Orlando, Florida. So I'm
excited to get events going again and host more cooking
classes and wellness workshops and dinner parties and just bringing
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people around the table in an intentional way and exposing
them and educating them and reminding them that healthy food
does not have to be boring. It can be delicious,
and it can be sustaining and fulfilling and all the
things that we look for in a good meal.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, and you know, I think the timing is so
perfect right now, So much is shifting in that world
where people are paying attention to what we're consuming, and
I think that you couldn't have timed this better.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah. We have a lot of clients who are busy
families or executives that are really short on time, and
there's just no good convenient option out there if you're
looking for something healthy and nutrient dent, and that's really
going to help you feel your best. And so we
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come in and help close that gap. So we're not
using steed oils, we're not using refined sugars, but there's
a lot of flavor in our food as well, So
it's kind of like a healthier version of uber eat
to accept, totally customized to you and more elevated. So
we love it. We love what we do, and we
love our client.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh I love that well. So one of the things
that you said that I want to touch on is
you left the corporate world and jumped into this world
of entrepreneurship. And I know there's a lot of listeners
who may have done the same thing or be in
the thick of it or contemplating that. What do you
think was the most rewarding piece of becoming a business owner?
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And what do you think, I think was the scariest
thing that you went through or had to overcome before
you took that leap.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That's a great question. I think the most rewarding thing
is to know that the effort you put into something
you're going to reap the benefits of directly and over
time and owning my own business and having my own brand,
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I've had to evolve and adapt and change and go
where the market is where my passion is, where my
life is, and I can do that because I'm the owner.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So it is, without a doubt, the hardest thing I've
ever done, and I have a fifteen month old and
did go through labor, but it's so rewarding to to
have a certain level of flexibility within that hard work
to define what my career looked like and where it goes.
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I think that the hardest part about leaving my corporate
job was not paying attention to the people who advised
against it, because that's security right and to go out
and do something different and no real idea where those
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decisions of the health coaching certification and culinary programs were
truly going to lead. That was a huge leap of faith.
And at that time I was going through an unhealthy
relationship that led to a divorce, and so there was
just a lot of personal things going on that was
working against the blessings and the really positive things in
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my career life with at times hard to manage and
keep pressing forward. But I'm so glad that I did
because now my life is messy and there's a lot
going on, but it's beautiful at the same time, and
being able to truly be the one in charge of
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that secame changer.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It is amazing, isn't it so funny? When you're about
to jump headfirst into a new path, whether you guys
are thinking about like an entirely new role or starting
a business, the people around you that love you the
most are oftentimes the ones that are more nervous than
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you are and can hold you back unintentionally. But you
have to wonder how often that happens, where somebody wants
to make a change and don't because the support system
is so critical. And I know, for me, when I
changed careers and decided to dive into this world twelve
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years ago, my mom, who is a huge supporter and
advocate of everything, best mom, she was very apprehensive just
because I just had a new baby and we had
just purchased a home, and you know, it's all of
those little things that they point out that can go wrong.
(08:30):
And then as long as you don't get and you
have to you get in your own head. Yeah and yeah.
I just think it's interesting that so many of us
experience that and hopefully don't listen.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I've found when I think back of all the big
moment shifted in my life. All it takes to one person,
one person to have believed in me and said you
should do it, almost giving me permission, even though I
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don't need permission, but just someone to say you're going
to be okay. I'm one hundred percent behind you in
the decision. You don't need everyone, but it's so true,
and it all goes back to community. And my friends
all joke that I am a cheerleader for all of them,
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and I am a terrible influence in certain ways where
like if we're shopping a friend or doing something anything
that is going to lead them to a happy place.
I'm always the first one to say you should do it,
go out on that first date, or buy the shoes,
and same with businesses. But the people that need it,
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I think are really encouraged by it, and we always
figure it out, you know, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It's the positive reinforcement of the village around us that
is I think the difference maker.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And you need some of that resistance too to really
feel your way through it, to know I'm making this
decision for me, not for someone else. Yeah, if it
were really easy, then it would be setting you up
to fail because there's so many challenges in life in general,
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but also being an entrepreneur, and you have to know
you and what you stand for and believe in and
what you want.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
How did you prepare financially? Did you consider that before
you made this jump or is it something that you
had been saving for and having conversations with your family
and your spouse to say, okay, this is how I'm
going to do this. Or did you kind of build
the plane while it was already flying?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Both? And yeah, all of those things. I knew that
I needed a minimum month amount in order to live,
and so I made sure that I got little side
jobs that helped meet that. But I also got the
support from family and a couple of chosen family and
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send things that kind of helped support in my journey
along the way.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So I love what you just said, though, and I
hope you guys caught that. So we talk all the time.
You know, it's so easy to sit here behind a
microphone or behind a computer and say have an abundance mindset.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You know, of.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Course you can go out and do all of the
good things, and people listening are like, oh, yeah, that's great.
But I have an abundant mindset and I'm still struggling
in this area, and I think where there's a will,
there's a way, especially in this climate that we're in
and with social media and you know, people are have
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the tools at their disposal to create a side hustle.
So I love that you did that. So basically, you
had side projects that created that buffer that you needed
monthly to make sure that your bills and your commitments
were being met. Even if it was less than you
were used to, it was the bare minimum. So then
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if you had a bad month when you were starting
out like we all do, it wasn't as big of
a deal. And I hope that people listening you guys,
that is the best advice she just gave you. If
you can figure out, even if it's just, hey, I
really need to cover seven hundred dollars a month, how
do you do it? Let's figure out a way to
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make the scary jump. Find the side hustle. I mean,
when my best friend and I decided to move to
Italy after college, and I mean she sold her car,
we babysat, my dog had puppies that we sold. I
mean it was wild, but again, find find the side hustle,
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and it's I think for anyone listening, it's a good
true test before you start a business of putting yourself
through that you've got to figure it out the grit
of just make it happen. And I think it's served
I'm sure it serves you well in this journey that
you're on.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, I mean, even though my circumstances are different now,
there are still things that I just have to figure
out and it's hard and it's challenging, British rewarding. And
I think too, when I made that decision and when
I looked at entrepreneurs or self made business owners ahead
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of me, I felt like, while I don't have the
restvoicage they have, or I don't I don't have that,
or it's not working. I mean, I think that because
there's so much online and on social media, it can
sometimes allude to overnight success and that's not a thing.
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But I also believe that if it is meant to
be and it's in your path, doors and opportunities are
going to open that you might never have anticipated. Because
I have yet to meet one person who totally just
did it on their own, without the support of anyone else,
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and that doesn't have to be just financially, but it
could be in any capacity. But there are doors that
have slammed in my face, and there are doors that
have continued to open in ways that it's like, all right,
I don't really know about this, but I'm gonna take
the next step. Yeah, And so just trusting yourself in that,
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I think gauge endpointant and being open to that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You know, we talk about finding or we talk about
when you have a kid and saying, you know, it
takes a village, and it truly does. You're a mom
fifteen month old and a stepdaughter who's ten, so I
get the ten year old thing, but it does take
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a village with your kids. But it also takes such
a village when you're an entrepreneur or really quite frankly
in life. Right, You've got to find your people and
that should be a priority. And I feel like even
kids that are graduating from college or graduating from high school,
we need to instill that in them a little bit
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more maybe and just say you're at a point in
your life where hopefully you've come through life with some
great friends, but now, I mean it truly does need
to be a priority of surrounding yourself with people that
are going to give you the support you need, the
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friendship that you need, the loyalty, and also that are
smarter than you in other ways, and start that as
soon as possible. It takes a village, no matter what
you're doing, it takes a village.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah. My dad was very adamant about my brother and
I having internships instead of or with other jobs growing up,
and so I did little one day two day shadows
here and there, or summer internships at different places and
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having mentors set in place for us at different stages
throughout our life, high school, college, And I think that
was really keen and helpful to what you're saying of
building a tribe and a community and a support system
of not just your peers, but other people too who
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can help guide you along the way.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, and never to burn a bridge, because you just
never know. The world is so small, It is so
growing up. What was your relationship with money like as
you started to become more aware, you know, and then
eventually we're on your own, do you feel that you
were set up in a really good way or did
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you bring a lot of money stories or baggage with
you that you had to unlearn.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I think both. I think that my parents did a
really great job of educating around money and the responsibility
of that. I remember balancing my checkbooks with my dad
back when like cash was king, and but also I
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had my own observation to work through and figure out
what I liked in that and what I didn't like
in that. For example, my mom would just stay at
her mom and so she would get an allowance weekly
or whatnot, and I remember her it was almost like
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hiding purchases or hiding money to be able to spend
it in a way that she might want to. And
I just remember experiencing that and thinking, I always want
to stay it at the table to to you know, decide,
be a partner in how the money is used and
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and so because of that, I always want to be working.
I always want to be bringing in some kind of
an income. And you know, I think there's there's some
truth to that, and also my observations as a teenager,
and my parents had their own dynamic and relationship and whatnot.
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But I think that's a big motivator for me and
driving force in being a business owner or always feeling
like I want some kind of control maybe even over
household income and where money is going and freedom and
flexibility in that.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It's so interesting though, because you know, in your mom's scenario,
maybe she was willing to give up a little bit
of the control of the financials and stay home because
in her version of success, that was what was important
to her, is being a present, stay at home mom.
We just never know what someone's perfect ideal is.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So and I don't think that bothered her. The whole
hiding money, like you just funny. We laugh about it now,
and so you know, everyone has different experiences of the facts,
and so to her it just is the way it is.
And to me it was like, I don't know how
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I feel about that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But that's what I mean. It's so cool to go
through and perception is reality. You just never know, and
then we get to determine what it looks like for
us on the other side. I remember sitting and watching
my mom balance the checkbook and thinking that looks like
the most boring way to spend a Sunday. She always
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did it on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Oh I loved it. I'm like always going over in
my p and L and my serenadets and everything. Yeah,
I love it. So I'm somewhat conservative when it comes
to money, which is interesting to me because of all
of the risk taking involved in being an entrepreneur and
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a business owner. But yeah, I'm like, I like to
hide my money under the mattress. Oh kind of girl.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You know, it's so funny. So many women that I've
worked with personally, I say they're like squirrels because it's
the same way. They've got all these different little accounts
that they like to put money in, and I think
it's just yeah, we just like to gather it and
where it is and put it somewhere. So shifting to
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your business a little bit, I think to your point,
it's so important to have access to healthy nutrients, dense food.
How do people what do you think are the most
critical changes that someone can make that maybe listening and think, yeah,
I would love to, you know, be a client of Carly's,
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but maybe that is not in the cards for them
right now. But they're wanting to do better or focus
on healthy foods. What are like those quick, easy things
like the Dirty dozen you know that you should buy
organic or whatever that you can think of that you
would share with our audience and that you share with
your clients.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, that's a great question. A couple of things come
to mind. I'm always educating on the perfect trifecta. So
when teaching people how to build a nutritious plate, I
encourage them to include three nutrient protein, fiber, and healthy fats.
A lot of times these days you hear protein, carbs,
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and fat, but if you're eating carbohydrates, you're not necessarily
getting fiber. There's carbs in a doughnut, but that's not
necessarily good for you or it will help you feel
your best. Fiber is the thing that is going to
balance your blood sugar levels and your energy, keep you
full for longer. And if you're eating fiber, you're eating carbohydrates,
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which are our body's main source of energy. So could
be in fruits, vegetables, a whole grain that's going to
be a little bit more nutritious for you. So protein, fiber,
healthy fats. And then I've kind of come up with
a term called the simply swapped method and looking at
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your everyday ingredients and asking how could I swap it
for something maybe a little bit more nutrient dense. So
I like to approach nutrition by asking what can I
add to my day or my plate instead of what
are all the things that I need to remove or
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can't have because then we want it restrictive exactly. So
an idea, an example that a simple swap might be
instead of all purpose flour, maybe using almond flour and
oat flour and trying to kind of understand how those
ingredients work in something like a muffin. So just finding
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little everyday ingredient that maybe there's a more nutritious alternative
for that you can just swap out to elevate what
nutrients are going in your body.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And when you say nutrients tents, do you mean for
the audience? Just something that is less processed and has
more of the nutrients exactly, and it's pure form right.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So back to my example of the flowers. All purpose
flower is extremely processed to where you're left with really
a small piece of the original food that's been so
stripped of the fiber and the vitamin and the minerals
that you're really not getting anything from it, and your
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body processes that as it would sugar. Whereas almond flour
is made from almond that has protein and healthy fat
in it. Oat flowers made from whole oats that are
ground up, so fiber, healthy carbohydrate. So yeah, just looking
for less processed things that are kind of back to
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the basic is what I like to call it, and
just simplifying, simplifying what you're eating, what you're buying, trying
not to buy so many things in a box. Can
you pronounce the ingredient? Do you recognize them? Could you
make that at home? And once you start asking those questions,
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you realize it's really hard to find healthy, convenient food.
So what are some little quick things that you can
make at home that you can feel good about eating
and feeding giving to your family or your kids.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Well, I think convenience is such a thing that stands
in the way for so many women because it's just
less work to grab some thing or to go out
to a lunch with clients or coworkers, and it takes
a little bit more time to meal prep and to plan.
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But to your point, and that's where you come in
because if you don't have the time to do that,
I know it it's a luxury for some people, but
it's a convenience tax I always like to say. And
the reality is, if you have the resources, outsource that
to somebody that can prep and don't think about it.
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If it's not something you enjoy, find somebody who can
fill the gap and exactly feel good about what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah. Absolutely, I do this for a living, and the
week that I add my family to our mule prep schedule,
they get so many more new trans on their plate
than when I make a quick dinner at home. But
even when I do, and you don't have to subscribe
to something like a mule prep service to find healthier
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ways to fuel your body and feed your family. Again,
you're looking for their little swaps. So maybe instead of
white pasta regular pasta noodles, you're using noodles that are
made from beans or menled that have protein and fiber
in them. So I'm trying really hard to start my
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fifteen month old out on the nutritious swaps. And you know,
he doesn't really have white noodles. He has the bean
noodles and those are normal and it works so far,
but we'll see as he gets to older, my tend
a little bit more picky. I know.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's like when they're little, they'll eat and try so
many things, and once they're just old enough to have
an opinion, it gets really hard. My kids are just
coming back around to now being excited at trying other things,
and it's been really nice.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think it's so interesting. Like even speaking on the pastas,
you know, if you're gluten sense, which I happen to be,
I don't adhere to it because it doesn't make me
feel bad, and that isn't always the best thing. I
kind of wish sometimes it gives me the extra step
of discipline, but it's also the way we process everything,
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like when you go overseas, it doesn't matter. So one
of the things that I do. And for anybody listening
who has never perused the aisles at like a home goods,
there's a ton there that is made in Italy. Pasta wise,
and even like sauces, different things that have much stricter
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requirements on what they can put into it. The pasta
it's made with semolina flower, different things. And even if
that's like an easy baby step swap to get to
some of the other things, it's those little things you
don't have to think about, you know, everybody the craze
now making your own breads at home we were just
(28:58):
talking about before the show made it to that, yet
it's a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
It is.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I have a very dear friend that basically I feel
like she is the queen of sourdough and makes it
look so easy. And I tried and it worked a
couple of times, but it's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It is. My sister in law thought it'd be really
great for her, my mom, and I to start a
little sourdough club, and she gave me a starter one
month after having my son. Oh yeah, I was like,
I don't think I can feed him and feed the starter,
and so one's going to have to come before the other.
(29:40):
And she had a five month old now, and so
it's like, how did you sourdough come in? And she
you know, it's kind of fallen by the wayside, but
it is. It's definitely a commitment, but can be a
fun little hobby too if it's something you're looking to
get into, well yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And it's just like you know, I tell my listeners,
my clients, my friends, the women in wealth community, it's
not about doing everything at once. It's finding that little
thing and it's all about mindset. Something that you said
that I think is so interesting and relates back to
what I have taught is instead of setting up budget
(30:20):
plans for people, I always talk to them about having
a spending plan. And just like you said, I don't
want to talk about what I take out of my diet,
but what can I add into it? And you, guys,
the secret sauce. The hack to all of this is
mentally finding out the way that you can work it
into your routine and have your brain stick to it,
(30:41):
putting a positive spin on it whatever that needs to be,
and doing a little bit. There are things I know
that candles are supposedly not great for us. I love candles.
I'm not going to probably get rid of those, but
I'm really passionate about trying to stay away from dies
in food or buying organic. So it's about doing what
(31:05):
you can with the resources that you have that don't
make life more difficult and finding the way to do better,
even if it's in small doses every day, because just
like with money, over time, dollars and good choices compound
and lead to big results.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Absolutely, yeah, we're not perfect and we can't expect to
live perfectly. I always tell people if we listen to
everything out there, we couldn't even drink the water, just
because everyone has something to say about everything being bad
for you. And so, like you said, really choosing a
(31:48):
couple of things to focus on or shift or change
and just building from there, I think create sustainability and
makes it work for the long haul.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, because once that becomes a habit, then it's easy
to add something new. Just like when you start the
habit of saving or investing or paying off credit card debt.
Eventually that can grow into something even more impactful because
it's sustainable. Same with all of this. What is a
(32:19):
piece of advice that you would have given yourself starting
out on this beautiful journey of entrepreneurship knowing what you
know now?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Hmm, that's a great question. I think that I would
encourage myself to try everything and figure out what I
(32:50):
like and what I don't like, and make choices from there.
You know. I think that a lot of the advice
I got with pick one thing, be really good at
that and then grow from there. And I think there's
truth to that. But I think that if you are
(33:12):
multi passionate and you like different avenues of business and
doing different things, I think that trying them and figuring
out do you like it? Or do you not like it?
And just because someone says this is how they found
(33:33):
success does not mean that that's how you need to
find it as well.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I love that. Yeah, Yeah, it's so important because I
feel like, you know, we talk about that all the time,
where you see something that you think, Okay, that person
is successful, and you have to differentiate between I want
to attain my own level of what I think success
looks like. It doesn't have to look like hers, but
(34:00):
I can still emulate some of the habits that it
took to get that person there. And I think that
for so many women and I'm sure the guys too,
but just speaking to the women, I think that it's
so common that we want to share and you know,
bring other people with us, so we all have to
(34:23):
do a good job of remembering just because something worked
for us might not work in what the person that
you're talking to's vision is meant to be. So I
love that. Yeah, And what's next for your business? Where
do you want to see this go in the next
(34:45):
you know, three to five years.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
It's funny you say that because the space that we
just moved into really is a vision boy that I
created eight years ago. They came to life, and when
I created that vision board, I thought, I honestly don't
know what I was thinking, because I didn't think I
was ever going to have a brick and mortar or
(35:09):
really a space of my own. I just didn't know
it that time. I didn't have a good vision for
the future. But clearly I did because we just made
it happen. So I've been thinking a lot about, Okay,
what is the next thing and that next step, and
(35:30):
in creating this space, my goal is to create an
environment where people can come and feel taken care of,
to take a breath, to be present, to gather around
the table in community and around good food. And so
(35:53):
what does that look like, because it's different than what
we've done in the past of now having a base
of our own to be able to invite people into.
So I can just envision, you know, classes and workshops
and dinner parties and really really uplifting our community partners
(36:17):
and the local farms and other small business owners that
we work with as well, and just creating a really
intentional space and experience that people want to be a
part of.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Oh my goodness, I love it. So when is the
space going to be open and ready.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
We've been open for a couple weeks now, open meaning operating.
We are not a retail business, and that we have
opening hours. Sure people can come in and out of
I'm hoping in the next month we'll have a schedule
of events that people can go on and sign up
for and go from. Their education is a huge passion
(36:58):
of mine, so I'm excited to get it back into
cooking classes and maybe build out our educational programs and
offering a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, and what a great place to have like a
girls' night and do something fun like that. That's amazing.
And I know you've written a cookbook as well. Yes,
so you've done a lot of great things. As we
wrap the sub where can people follow along on your
journey and look for those class schedules or the cookbook
or all of the great things that you've done.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah. So I have an Instagram account that I try
to post on and where going on yet, you know
you have so much time in.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
It, especially being a mom.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
But you can people can always follow me at carly
page for healthy tips and tricks kind of behind the
scenes of how I cook for my family and what
it's like to be a business owner. You can get
a fit that we need to winter Park dot com
for our local service aid and class scheduled, and the
(38:01):
cookbook is available. Add a digital copy on amadon for
anyone who's interested. I've somewhat depleted the printed supply and
I would love to come out with the second edition
before ordering more so TBD on that. Okay, but amadon
and Instagram at Carly Page and fit let me eat
(38:22):
win in Park dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And we'll put all of that in the show notes
to make sure that everybody listening can follow along and
find one little thing at least to be mindful of
on their health journey. And yeah, I mean, I'm so
appreciative of the work that you do. It's an incredible
and thank you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Absolutely it was fun to be here.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Thank you, You're welcome, and as always, I'm so thankful
for all of you listening. Don't forget to like, subscribe, share,
and let's change the way women think and feel about
money together
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