Looking to get healthier but hate salads? We’ve got a good place to start! Starting to eat more plants can be intimidating – but it’s easier than you think. On this episode we sit down with Helen Hall to talk about living a healthy lifestyle (from the 80/20 plant-based diet to how to sneak in more greens). Living a healthy lifestyle also goes beyond just nutrition – we explore sleep, mindfulness, saying “no”, and other tips to creating a better environment for yourself on your journey.
Helen is a powerhouse woman who has not only made a name for herself in the entrepreneur world, but also in the healthy living space. With everyone trying to jump on the bandwagon of healthy living, this woman has been a part of the movement for years, because it isn’t only a movement for her, it’s a lifestyle. Her love for living a healthy lifestyle fueled their desire to create products that make healthy living fun and impactful. Helen is the founder of the brand Blender Bombs, which are plant based super food balls made with 100% real ingredients. Helen is also a co-founder of Tipsy Spritzer, an organic spritzer.
TIME STAMPS
1:28 Helen’s journey with plant-based living (jump to section)
4:18 The 80/20 lifestyle (jump to section)
6:05 Diet restrictions and the psychological effect (jump to section)
6:52 Advice for starting a plant-based lifestyle (jump to section)
7:54 Sleep is just as important as nutrition (jump to section)
9:47 Your body & palette adjusts as you start eating healthier (jump to section)
11:14 Reading labels – avoid nutrition labels & focus on the ingredients (jump to section)
14:49 Tips for keeping on track while being busy (saying NO to things!) (jump to section)
16:13 Surround yourself with the right people (jump to section)
20:11 The power documentaries can have on your health journey (jump to section)
23:46 Foods Helen stays away from (jump to section)
25:00 What might be lurking in your cans that’s not on the label (jump to section)
26:50 What you should incorporate into your diet every day (jump to section)
Transcription Below
Kat Eckles: Welcome back, Be Organic listeners. This is Kat Eckles. My husband Landon is not with us today, but I am replacing him with someone maybe much smarter than him. We have the awesome Helen Hall with us today. Helen is a powerhouse woman who has not only made a name for herself in the entrepreneurial world, but also in the healthy living space. With everyone trying to jump on the bandwagon of healthy living, this woman has been a part of the movement for years, because it isn’t only a movement for her, it’s her lifestyle.
Her love for living a healthy lifestyle fueled her desire to create products that make healthy living fun and impactful. Helen is the founder of health food CPG brand Blender Bombs, which is a plant-based superfood made with 100% real ingredients. Helen is also the co-founder of Tipsy Spritzer, an organic spritzer. We have the honor of having Helen in the Be Organic studio with us today, and I’m so excited to pick her brains about all things clean living. Welcome, Helen.
Helen Hall: Thanks.
Kat: I’m so excited, because we got to talking before this a little bit, and your story kind of aligns with mine a lot. We were kind of living these different health lifestyles and health and wellness and eating clean, and plant-based really kind of changed our lives, so it’s been really cool to hear your story and how that kind of parallels our story.
Helen: It’s so funny. I feel like when people have that story, they just have to change their entire life to share it, because so many people haven’t experienced it yet. All we want is for people to experience it.
Kat: Yes, absolutely. So I’d love for you to maybe share about that a little bit. Just kind of like what you told me, your background and how you kind of got into this plant based lifestyle and what you were doing before versus now.
Helen’s Journey
Helen: Totally. So I grew up in Atlanta. I always thought that I was gonna be a fashion designer. I’ve been designing clothes, and instead of sewing, stapling them together, since I was a kid, so shortcuts are my specialty, but the conversation we just had that was a shortcut, you know, always finding shortcuts, right? And that is how Blender Bombs got started as well.
When I went to college, I gained 30 pounds. I was trying to figure out how to lose it. I tried the shortcut diets. I tried keto, I tried paleo, I tried vegan, I tried the low calorie diet, the low carb diet, all that stuff, and although I would lose weight, I would gain it back quickly. It was just this constant tug of war mentally. It was exhausting as well, and I wasn’t properly fueling my body, so I was always hungry, and then I was introduced to smoothies.
I started having a smoothie every day, and I would add chia seed, hemp seed, flaxseed, walnuts, pecans, dates, almonds. I went all out after learning about smoothies. I put all of those ingredients in my smoothies and I noticed that my palate just completely started to change. I started craving whole foods more. I didn’t have my late night sugar cravings. I didn’t even want to drink alcohol as much anymore because I had finally realized how good it felt to fuel my body. So that is how 80/20, whole food plant-based came into play. I like to say that I’m 80% whole food plant-based, 20% whatever. Tipsy goes into the whatever category!
After college, instead of going that fashion route, I did personal training, because I had fallen in love with the health and fitness industry. I saw that my clients would exercise a lot, but they would go and eat whatever they wanted, and they were frustrated with themselves because they didn’t know about nutrition. So I asked them to make that smoothie every day. They wouldn’t because it took too much time. That’s when we created the shortcut of Blender Bombs. So, a Blender Bomb is like a ball that has chia seed, hemp seed, flaxseed, walnuts, pecans, dates, almonds, aloe, bee pollen, vanilla, cinnamon, sea salt, and a little bit of honey in it.
It’s all in this like super dense, thick –it’s dense, it’s a dense ball, but a Vitamix or a Blendtec or a Ninja or a Nutribullet can handle it. So you throw it in the smoothie, you add your fruits and your vegetables, and then you have a meal replacement smoothie. It really keeps you full: it’s every essential amino acid, every essential fatty acid.
We get a ton of testimonials about, energy levels, no more sugar cravings, a lot of blood sugar control. What I’ve found with Blender Bombs is once you can get that first meal of the day or your lunchtime meal of the day to be healthy, it starts that domino effect of people making other changes in their lives.
Kat: Absolutely. I love that you were talking about earlier that it’s so dense and it has so much nutrition in it that if you’re doing every day, you’re really keeping yourself satiated so you aren’t binge eating. I’ve been susceptible to that too, where I’m trying to diet and restrict myself, even if it is with a smoothie. Then seven o’clock hits, and I’m like, if I don’t hit Chick-fil-A, I’m gonna die. So it’s actually sustaining your hunger in a much healthier way.
Helen: Yeah, it’s crazy. I force myself to have one every day. Weeks that I don’t, because I travel a lot, I notice a difference in my cravings. That’s the number one thing for me, but everyone’s different.
The 80/20 Lifestyle
Kat: Yeah. So you talk about 80/20, which is really cool. That’s probably how I live too, which is like 80% healthy and 20% whatever. What does that look like for you on a daily basis?
Helen: I think also what’s cool is if you had asked me that five years ago, I could tell you what I ate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the last week, because I was tracking it. Now, I don’t even think what I eat anymore. It’s so ingrained. It’s so natural.
But we stopped at Taco Bell this morning. I’ve never been to Taco Bell before, but we stopped at Taco Bell this morning and they have this veggie option. So, I just automatically click the veggie option, and definitely 80% of what we got was plant-based. It had black beans, and it had tomatoes… and then the rest of it was cheese and tortilla. That’s mostly plant-based! The easiest thing for me, I’ve found, is when I go out to eat, I eat plant-based. If I go somewhere and friends are cooking for me or there’s a homemade cake or whatever, there’s no restriction there. Especially when someone makes something with love, I’ll eat it, but if I’m gonna choose to go eat something myself, it’s gonna be mostly healthy.
Diet Restrictions and the Psychological Effect
Kat: Yeah. And I think that restriction can get almost psychological, too, to where you go too far on the opposite direction where it’s like you aren’t even really enjoying life. I had this friend who was so restrictive, and she’s since come out of it, but I didn’t even want to go out to eat with her, because it was just awful, you know? She was stressed out the whole time because she didn’t want her salmon to have anything on it or whatever, you know? She was living in this awful headspace.
Helen: I used to be like that.
Kat: Yeah. She’s come out of it now and has said how much better her life is, just allowing better energy to flow through.
Helen: And guess what? My fear and I’m sure her fear, too– lot of people with orthorexia do it for weight– but I didn’t gain weight when I stopped stressing. If anything, your body and your hormones start to balance out because you don’t have this anxiety around food anymore. That was freeing to understand.
Advice for Starting a Plant-Based Lifestyle
Kat: If somebody wanted to start this lifestyle, what advice would you give for them? Because I know it can sound overwhelming for some people that just don’t even know where to begin.
Helen: I mean, honestly, go to clean juice, get a smoothie every day. I tell everyone to start with one smoothie a day, always, because even if you just have one healthy, nutrient-dense meal a day, you’re gonna go to bed happy and proud of yourself. Then you start to develop confidence, and that’s when you wanna make the next change. So, whether it’s eating 80/20 plant-based for your other meals… just mostly plant based. So, I’m not a fan of salads personally. I don’t like salads, but a lot of people love ’em. So, you know, get a plant-based salad and instead of getting chicken on top, add avocado, and then for dinner, have your chicken or whatever it is that works for you.
Sleep is Just as Important as Nutrition
But also, I think it’s important for people to realize that sleep is just as important as nutrition is: sleep and mindfulness of some sort, like positivity. So, what you watch on TV, who you surround yourself with, the people you talk to on the phone, the books you read– all of that stuff is just as important as what you eat.
Kat: It’s funny, you mentioned Taco Bell and I always joke that I got into smoothies because I was a recovering Taco Bell addict. You know, I went to college and that’s what we did: did whatever we did and then went and had Taco Bell at 2:00 AM. You know what I saying?
Helen: Ours was Cook Out.
Kat: So, I was eating that way– and I got pregnant young, we started a family young– and I remember having the baby and I was like, “I need to be healthy and live for this kid,” but I hate salads and I hate roasted vegetables, and I’m never living my life to eat that way, you know? So I was like, I gotta figure this out, and that’s how I got into smoothies, because I was like, I can put literally anything in it, and if you put a banana in it, it actually tastes fine.
Helen: And peanut butter!
Kat: Yes! A banana and peanut butter. And I remember back in the day I was doing like POM pomegranate juice. I would never drink that now, but that was the base of my smoothies, because it was sweet, and it covered up everything. For years, that’s how I had all my vegetables, and even today, you’re never gonna see me ordering a plate of brussel sprouts. I’m always gonna order French fries, but because I’m having Clean Juice Green Juice, a ginger shot, and a smoothie most days, I can balance that out with that.
Helen: I think it’s so cool that we have a liver to get rid of toxins, right? And so if you have one super solid meal a day, your body’s gonna take care of you. As long as you show your body you care about it and you get at least one solid meal a day, two if you can hang with it, your body will thank you, and you’ll feel it.
Your Body & Palette Adjusts
Kat: Your body adjusts, too. Like today, I ran my daughter, who’s at work with us today, through Chick-fil-A and I had some and was like, “This isn’t even good.” I build it up in my head and then I have it, and I was like, “This is actually disgusting.” So it’s like if you – sorry, Chick-fil-A.
Helen: I mean, you’ve done a good job, Chick-fil-A!
Kat: Yes. Teach us what you do! But it was like I didn’t want it, you know what I’m saying? It’s like once you start to eat healthy, yes, you’ll have cheats and stuff, but your general disposition, your body’s gonna be like, “I want more of that nutrition. I want more of what’s actually feeding my cells, what’s actually making me healthy,” and you’re gonna slowly, over time, be more drawn to that.
Helen: Yeah! The smoothie bar – we started that four years ago, the tester smoothie bar in Charleston – we have a lot of those initial recipes, and I can’t even drink them anymore, because they’re too sweet to me. That was what I wanted at the time, and now I can only drink the green veggie ones. But four years ago, my palate was completely different than my palate is now.
Kat: It’s funny you say that. That’s why we formulated the Clean Juice menu – as I’m sure you did too – for people going to McDonald’s to be able to come in and have a smoothie and be like, “Oh, this actually tastes good.” They think it’s all wheatgrass and apple cider vinegar, but you can go get the youthful one or the recovery one and it tastes really, really good. So it’s like teaching people that healthy food and organic fruits and vegetables is actually delicious.
Helen: Especially with y’all’s bowls, I feel like that’s so hefty. It’s so filling. Someone who’s hesitant about smoothies, they can start with the bowls and they’ll be very satisfied.
Kat: Totally. So in this kind of plant-based realm, I love your product because it’s an actually clean plant-based product. When you’re looking at the label, it’s chia seeds, like you said, walnuts– very clean whole food ingredients. How do you teach anyone that you’d be teaching about this to try to look for that versus some of these other things that are on the market that are basically soybeans and chemicals?
Reading Labels
Helen: Honestly, I have not ever looked at a nutrition label. I only read the ingredients, so I don’t look at calories. I don’t look at fat content. I don’t look at protein, fiber… none of that. I only look at the ingredients, and that was very refreshing for me, because I was able to stop counting and stop using numbers. If the majority of the ingredients in this thing came from the earth, I’m good to go. If you look at the back, it’s like looking at the difference between a cashew yogurt and a Dannon yogurt. I don’t even recognize those ingredients on a Dannon yogurt, but cashew yogurt– I recognize it. Same thing with the difference between Malk and Silk, almost. Sometimes you just don’t even know what you’re getting unless you recognize it.
But also, here I am talking about that, but I’m so lucky to be able to do that. A lot of people aren’t able to pick and choose. They have to take what they can get, so that’s where this 80/20 is – mostly whole food plant-based, but 20% whatever.
Kat: We just actually launched a shirt that said “count chemicals, not calories.” If you’re eating whole, you almost can’t gain weight. You almost can’t.You’re not putting bad things in your body if you’re eating things that are right from the earth that are just whole. Everyone can go get an apple or a banana instead of a pack of Doritos that has 400 different chemicals that you don’t even know what they are.
Helen: I have a meeting on Friday with a production company about filming a documentary where I gain 30 pounds eating chemicals, and then I show people how to lose it by eating Blender Bombs and 80/20 plant-based and all that stuff. So if that goes through, you have to do it with me. Oh, you’re like “I’ve had two babies. I’m good.” Wait, how many kids do you have?
Kat: Five.
Helen: Oh my God, five babies. Yeah, you don’t need to do that. Your time’s done.
Kat: Yeah, I’ve done that, for sure. And to that point, I gained weight with all them, because I was kind of lenient my pregnancies. When I went about it to lose the weight, I literally just cut out all processed food. That’s all I did.
Helen: And then it happens overnight.
Kat: I was really, really, really strict and really kind of restrictive, but then the weight was off and I could kind of cheat a little bit.
Helen: It’s so freeing. I feel like we’re in this podcast talking a lot about weight, but that’s because, we know that is why people get into healthy foods at the beginning, and then when they start to feel the effects of it, then it becomes more about how you feel, and your energy levels, and the way that you treat your body, and it’s less about your weight. Soon enough, you don’t even have to worry about weight anymore. It’s a non-issue.
Kat: Absolutely, yep. You don’t even think about it. I don’t even really get on the scale anymore.
Helen: No, I haven’t stepped on a scale in five years. I have no idea how much I weigh. But my pants fit! Sometimes they don’t, sometimes they do.
Kat: So, you’re busy like me. You have like 17 different companies and friends and social life and influence and all these different things. I know people can run into this roadblock of “I’m too busy to work out” or “I’m too busy to worry about healthy food.” What are some of your tips that help you keep all that in check, even though you’re living such a busy lifestyle?
Saying NO to Things
Helen: So, this is a lesson I learned this year and I’m sure some of you may have heard me say it on my podcast before, but maybe I’ll say it today and it’ll resonate with you: it’s saying no to things.
I was listening to The Blonde Files podcast on the way here, and they were interviewing the founder of Suja, and she was like, “Honestly, my life changed when I had a kid, because I finally had an excuse to say no to things.” A lot of people, as we were talking about earlier, are people pleasers: sometimes it’s hard for me to say no to events or say no to people because I don’t wanna hurt anyone else’s feelings. My love language is showing up. Being in front of you is my love language. I get caught in this cycle of “If I don’t show up and go do all these things, say yes to all these events, people are gonna think I don’t care about them or that I think I’m too busy or better than them.”
Really, you’ve got to learn to say no. I’m learning to say no. You’re lucky you have five kids – you have a big excuse to say no! You can just blame it on the kids. I’m still working on saying no, but I’ve gotten better at it the last couple weeks. It’s the first time I’ve been able to sit at my desk for three hours at a time besides having to run to a meeting. I can’t say the last time I sat for three hours and didn’t have a meeting or a phone call in between, so I’m a big “no” girl now. What about you? I’m curious.
Kat: Oh my gosh, I don’t know if I have the right tips, because I feel like I’m all over the place all the time, but, I have my husband, who’s a good partner. Maybe that’s my tip: find a good partner. We balance each other out really well. I doesn’t have to be a spouse. It could be your business partner or your friend, but find someone that has the opposite. I was actually telling you when you came in, it’s like we’re completely different.
I’m very relaxed and I’m very go with the flow, and he’s really wound up tight, but I think that we really help each other out there. Like he kind of gets me. It’s funny– I posted a meme on Instagram today that’s a teddy bear in the bathtub and it says, “Yeah, I’m on my way.” That’s me. I’m just chilling, but I’m coming. So it’s good that he keeps me in line, but it’s good for him to have me who’s kind of “Everything’s gonna be okay.”
Like last night, he was ready to jump off the bridge. You know what I’m saying? And it’s like, “I promise that if the kids got into Play-Doh, it’s okay.” Stuff like that. Having a good person that supports you emotionally and at work, too. I can tell when he needs a break and I need to pick up the slack somewhere, and he knows when I need to really focus my time at home and he needs to make sure he’s really overseeing things at work. I think God gave us each other, whether it’s through marriage or friendship or business to support each other and pick up the slack for each other. So just surrounding yourself with the right people.
Surround Yourself with the Right People
Helen: Yeah, because my last relationship, as we talked about earlier, we worked together, but there was none of that. Whatever you just said, that wasn’t there. There was no helping each other out. The new relationship that I’m in could not be more balanced. Like you said – I pick up the slack when he’s stressed, he is always trying to help me when I’m stressed, and it’s so easy. So maybe things will get better and less stressed.
Kat: That’s awesome. And Landon’s so funny. If I’m ever stressed, he’s like, “I love this! This is so exciting! I love seeing you stress!” But then he’s able to really support me because he knows what that feels like.
Helen: That’s awesome. That makes me happy to hear that. It is cool seeing what you guys have built together and still maintain a strong relationship.
Kat: Oh, most days.
Helen: 80/20!
Kat: Yeah, 80/20, exactly! But you get to see another side. We never worked together. Now it’s been seven years, so we’re really in it, but I remember the first three years it was really cool for me to see that side of him, as this leader and CEO. I was just a stay-at-home mom, so for him to see my creative side, you get to know each other a lot more and have a different level of respect and admiration. And the negative stuff too– I could see where he can fall short, but you get this whole window into someone else when you’re really working together like that.
Helen: And just realizing with the partner or family member, employee, or whatever: no one’s going to be a Jack of all trades. Everyone’s gonna have their strengths.
Kat: Absolutely. And to that point, he knows that my value here is probably a little more on the creative and bigger vision side, and I can’t really do that without my downtime to ideate and go through my process, you know? So I think he’s had to learn that about me. He could be up at 5:00 AM every day. He’s a grinder and all that, but I need to drive and think to be able to come up with something to add value.
Helen: Some of the best thinking happens when driving.
Kat: Totally, totally. I remember when we first started, I would call Kobe, who was our marketing guy, and he’d be like, “You need to stop driving, because you keep calling me with all these ideas, and I can’t keep up with you.” He was like, “Quit driving to places. You need to listen to podcasts and not let your brain go,” because it was just so many ideas when we got started.
Helen: Your husband definitely is a podcast guy in the car.
The Power of Documentaries
Kat: Yes! So, what other kind of practical tips could we give people about changing that lifestyle? What are some things that early on, like when you were losing 30 pounds – that’s a significant amount of weight. That’s a huge lifestyle change. What did you do in small pieces to make those changes?
Helen: Well, documentaries. I would even go as far as to say 75% of the people that you talk to who are healthy or plant forward become that way because of a documentary, whether it’s Game Changers or the juicing documentary or What the Health or Forks Over Knives.
Kat: Forks Over Knives was mine. I remember watching that, and I was like, “Wow, this is crazy.”
Helen: Yeah! Most of the time it’s a documentary, because – reality TV stars can push products so much better than influencers, because reality TV stars share their lives, and people feel invested in them. With documentaries, rather than just a thirty second commercial, you get invested in their lives and you get invested in the truth, and then you wanna change because they changed, and you saw what happened with them. That’s why I think me doing this documentary will help so many people and just be another angle to get people to go more plant forward. I would say watch all those documentaries on Netflix, and I would say personal development.
Personal development was huge for me because you have to start to understand that consistency is key. If you go to the gym one time, you’re not gonna look any different. If you go to the gym two times, you’re not gonna look any different. If you eat one salad, you’re definitely not gonna look any different, but you do that for a week or two, and you will look different and you will feel different. The more you understand about the process, the easier it is going to be to do it for the long term. Same thing with me for smoothies. I went down the rabbit hole on Google and I thoroughly understood smoothies, and that’s when I was able to do it consistently. So with our marketing, with Blender Bombs, we are constantly posting testimonials. Just like what you’re doing with the podcast: you’re constantly hearing other people’s stories. And the more that you hear that, the more you’re gonna be able to change.
Kat: Absolutely. Just kind of surrounding yourself. They say you become like the five people you’re around the most, but everything that you’re feeding yourself is giving your body and your thoughts and your energy life. So if you’re listening to podcasts that are all about health, you’re going to want to make those changes. You’re going to get little tidbits that – I think that’s what it is, too: I think people are so overwhelmed in the beginning that if they can just get little changes and little things that they can do to eventually make those bigger changes, that’s great for them.
Helen: Like they always say, just choose one new year’s resolution. Just one. Same thing with when you’re starting healthy, just choose one, like start with one smoothie a day.
Kat: Absolutely, and like you said, sometimes it’s as easy as sleep. After putting your phone down at 10:00 PM and not touching it again and getting a full eight hours of sleep, you feel like a whole new person.
Helen: I’d definitely say that’s necessary for everyone.
Kat: I think sleep’s probably the biggest. Everyone says food’s the biggest, but it might be sleep.
Helen: Yeah! I was reading this sleep study, and only 2% of the population can go function at prime with less than seven hours of sleep a night. You know, that 2%, please come work for us! We’re looking for you! But most people definitely have to have that.
Kat: Yep, I know I’m probably more in like eight or nine hours, and if I don’t get it, I’m really off.
Foods Helen Stays Away From
So I know you do 80/20. Is there anything that you completely stay away from? That you don’t consume at all?
Helen: I used to completely stay away from meat with the exception of wild game, like venison if someone I knew got the venison. But lately – I got my bloodwork done, because I was on Accutane earlier this year, which I knew better than, but I did it anyway. I had a perfect blood panel before Accutane, and then after Accutane, I had some deficiencies. So I started having meat like once a month. Otherwise, not really. Other than that, I’d say I eat everything, at least a little bit.
Kat: Well, and that’s good! You have the Tipsy brand, which is alcohol. So you obviously indulge in that in moderation.
Helen: Well, there’s a crazy story about that, actually. I’m sure Katie told you her story, but I used to have eczema covering my entire right arm ever since college. It was super bad during the summer. I was just like, “Oh, it’s heat,” right? I could never figure out what it was, because it would go away a lot more in the winter, but it was full on out in the summer.
One day I tried everything: got rid of gluten, got rid of dairy, got rid of– I was just completely plant-based, whatever. I got rid of alcohol, whatever, it still was there. And then I was on the boat one day and I was drinking a White Claw or a Truly, and my eczema was flaring like crazy.
And I was like, it’s heat. And Katie was like, “Maybe it’s cans.” And so then I gave up everything in a can, and my eczema went away within like eight days. So even when I was alcohol free, I was still getting eczema, because I was drinking things like this. So I gave up everything in a can.
And then we started (we as in Katie) started calling different manufacturers of canned drinks being like, “What is in this?” and there’s a product called Velcorin that they add into anything in a can that isn’t a hundred percent organic. That really aggravates me. They don’t disclose it on the ingredient label.
But then there’s, you know, Spindrift, which is a hundred percent organic, and my eczema still goes crazy with it because of the lining of the can. So I just have to be very careful with the cans. It’s crazy what we don’t even think about that’s going into our bodies. You don’t know because America doesn’t make you disclose it.
What’s Lurking in Your Cans?
Kat: Right. It’s funny. I stopped cans. I was a big La Croix drinker and I stopped cans probably four years ago or so just like instinctively. I was like, “Everything I drink is out of aluminum.” I was just thinking more about the aluminum and now I just get the glass Pellegrino bottles, because at least they’re glass.
Helen: They’re the best. We love glass. But there is a company called Recess out of California, and they have an adaptogen drink like this, and then they have a CBD drink. They are made in the same manufacturer as us, and their cans don’t have the liners. There’s no Velcorin, and I can drink those all day and not get eczema. I will get some eczema after today on my neck.
Kat: Wow. All these different things… I had a friend who was breaking out in rashes everywhere all the time. I looked at her one day, and she had the Apple Watch, and I was like, “When did you get that Apple Watch?”
And she was like, “Probably like two months ago.”
I was like, “When did the rash start?”
And she’s like, “Probably two months ago.”
I was like, “Take it off,” and she took it off, and that rash went away within like 48 hours.
Helen: I’m gonna die. That’s crazy. Wow.
Kat: She was just more susceptible. Not everyone’s gonna have that reaction, but you do have to see what your body’s reacting to. It’s crazy.
Helen: But smoothies are for everyone.
What You Should Incorporate Into Your Diet Every Day
Kat: Yes. Well, that was gonna be my last question. What would you tell people to incorporate every day in their diet? Probably both of our answers would be smoothies, Blender Bombs.
Helen: Smoothies. I swear by it. I’ve never had a customer be like, “Hey, this didn’t work for me.” I really haven’t. Unless they’re allergic to something. One time I did; an employee, she was getting so bloated and found out she was allergic to walnuts, so she had to switch to the nut-free one. But yeah– that and sleep. I think you nailed it.
Kat: It’s just such an easy way to get a nutrient dense, full profile, satiating way to start your – and that’s the other thing: most people are starting their day with this smoothie, which is awesome, because it’s setting the tone for your whole day. I know whenever I have a smoothie first thing, then I actually want to make a healthy dinner versus DoorDash something. All those little choices add up really quickly.
Helen: Donuts… yeah, no, I think so. Smoothies and sleep. That’s the vibe. That’s what you should name this podcast.
Kat: There you go. Smoothies and Sleep. It’s easy. Awesome. Well, thank you, Helen, so much for joining us. It’s been awesome to get to chat with you.
Helen: We have a code, also, for your listeners. CLEANJUICE is the code for 20% off at blenderbombs.com.
Kat: Tell everyone where we can find you, where we can find Blender Bombs, and all that kind of stuff.
Helen: Yeah. So my personal is @helenhall. You can DM me whenever. And then @blenderbombs and CLEANJUICE for 20% off, but thank you so much for having me. This is such a cool spot.
Kat: Oh, awesome. Well, you’re so motivating and inspirational, and I know our listeners are gonna love getting to know you and following along with all you have going on, and maybe we’ll see your Blender Bombs in Clean Juice very soon.
Helen: Yeah! We’re going to make it happen.
Kat: Thank you so much for tuning in today to Be Organic. We’re so excited for you to become healthier in body and stronger in spirit.
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Landon: All right, y’all, thanks for listening. Have a great week and remember to Be Organic.
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