About Me
I am a Chief Marketing Officer, #1 Best-Selling Author, TEDx (w/1M+ views), and Motivational Speaker who eliminated a lifetime of 32+ severe food allergies through holistic methods.
In my #1 best-selling book, NUT JOB: How I Crushed My Food Allergies To Thrive, I detail my arduous journey over four decades living with over 32 food allergies, asthma, and environmental allergies, while trying to love myself, find joy and thrive in career, lifestyle, and relationships and finances.
In 2008 after my fourth anaphylaxis incident, I hit rock bottom.
I felt like I was managing my health wrong, but the deeper wound was that I felt that I was doing life wrong.
Years of being stuck in a narrative where I was listening to others rather than believing in and trusting myself, and living life on my own terms had me feeling defeated.
Gratefully, a small fire lit in my soul to rise up and examine my life in a different way – from a holistic perspective. I began a ten-year journey to healing all aspects of my health and my life and set out to be rid of the chronic health issues that were holding me back from being the best version of myself that I could be.
During this time, I created, Three To BeTM, the holistic healing program that examines the root cause of health + well-being issues and the steps needed to overcome them.
In 2020, I learned that I had eliminated ALL of my severe food allergies and was in “remission” and still am today.
I’ve been fortunate to have incredible transformations in my own health and well-being, so today I’m helping people on their personal journeys.
My mission is to champion multicultural well-being by helping people become the best version of themselves by humanizing their health.
My platform takes a deeper look at:
- reimagining our value systems around health + well-being
- redefining cultural narratives
- reinventing conversations about mental health
- returning to our foodways
All of which are rooted in advocating for self.
I wish you much light + love in your own journey to freedom and being the best version of yourself there is!
Learn how I went from 32 food allergies to none.
Learn how I went from 32 food allergies to none.
My Journey
Here are some interesting points about my journey in the emergency room:
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TIMES IN
ANAPHYLAXIS
18+
TIMES WITH OTHER
FOOD ALLERGY SYMPTOMS
50+
DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL
ALLERGIES & ASTHMA
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TIMES IN
ANAPHYLAXIS
18+
TIMES WITH OTHER
FOOD ALLERGY SYMPTOMS
50+
DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL
ALLERGIES & ASTHMA
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TIMES IN
ANAPHYLAXIS
18+
TIMES WITH OTHER
FOOD ALLERGY SYMPTOMS
50+
DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL
ALLERGIES & ASTHMA
The Net Net: I’ve been in the ER way too much!
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Early Childhood
Playing in a sandbox with friends is what an average 3-year-old should be doing—not being allergic to the sand itself. It was a bite of a yummy peanut butter & jelly sandwich which almost ended my life. I was rushed to the emergency room only to be diagnosed with severe food allergies. Soon thereafter, the icing on my nut-free cake was an asthma diagnosis and severe environmental allergies. My Indian parents had their hands full trying to figure out what life would look like for their first-generation middle child.
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Teenage Years
Trying to be a typical teenager, I didn’t want my friends knowing about my food allergies for fault of being labeled as weird or uncool. So, I did what anyone in my position may have done: I hid them for years from everyone besides my immediate family to blend in with the crowd. That didn’t always work and during this time I experienced my second anaphylactic incident.
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Young Adult
In college I would experience my third anaphylactic incident due to my food allergies. This one was more severe than the previous, and I truly was over it. I felt the need for change, so moved across the country to California after graduating—hoping that the healthy living on the West Coast would begin to heal me. I slowly began to open up to close friends about my allergies and was blessed with thirteen years of no emergent food allergy incidents, a time-period I named “Lucky 13”, leading up to 2008.
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Adulthood
The year 2008 would become a pivotal one. I experienced my fourth food allergy incident after dining at a restaurant with friends. If I thought the other 3 incidents were bad, I had no idea what was to come. For one year thereafter, I had hives all over my body that were a result of the levels of toxicity in my body. I had officially hit rock bottom which would cause me to feel that I was “doing life wrong.” Feeling lost, and purposeless in my health and in life, I slowly began to walk down a new path that would eventually lead me to finding myself, loving myself, and healing myself of my food allergies once and for all.