Intro: Welcome to Juice Guru Radio for Entrepreneurs Fire Start Your Own Health movement. And now your host, founder of Juice Guru Institute and bestselling author Steve Prussack. Hello, are you
Steve ready? Welcome to Juice Guru Live. I’m Steve Ack. I’m. So excited to have you here with us and what a show we’ve got.
We’ve got Chef Babbette Davis. She’s gonna be here in just a minute. She’s phenomenal, and if you haven’t met her yet, your mind is gonna be blown. First, I wanna bring out my co-host who will be leading the interview. Julie. Hey, Julie Prussack, how are you? I am so
Julie: excited to be here for this very first G Guru Live.
It’s very exciting.
Steve Yay. Yes. This is gonna be amazing. We have so much fun ahead, Julie, what do we’ve got coming? You know, we’ve got Chef
Julie: Babbette. Should I go ahead and introduce her?
Steve Great. Let’s get to it.
Julie: We are beyond excited to welcome a true powerhouse to our live session today, chef Babbette Davis. I. At 74 years Young Chef Babbette is a walking testament of what is possible when you combine plant-based living, juicing and purpose-driven passion.
She’s the owner of the iconic vegan restaurant stuff I eat in Englewood, California. A certified juice therapist, author, contributor to our book, juice Guru, motivational speaker, host of the Cooking Competition show, peeled and of course, an icon of healthy living. Her journey from chronic illness to personal struggle and personal struggle to vibrant health and entrepreneurship has inspired millions around the world with her energy.
Authenticity and no-nonsense wisdom. She continues to light the way for so many. So let’s give a warm juice Guru Juice rebel. Welcome to the one and only Chef Babbette. Hey, there she is. Can you believe it? Look at that. It’s so great to see you Chef for, so great to see you
Steve Babbette.
Julie: I know you’re geographically very close to us, but you’re still in a different location, and we’re so excited to have you with us.
I wanna be here. Yay. I wanna start with you personally, Jeff Abbe. You’ve had such an incredible health transformation. Could you tell us what first inspired you to change your lifestyle? Embrace plant-based eating and juicing.
Babbette: He was a man. A man. No, seriously.
You guys know my husband Ron, and I really do have to give a lot of credit to him because on the first date, Ron took me up to Griffith Park and he runs the whole hill backwards and I’m barely walking this hill. And when we’re all done with that, he takes me to his apartment and he fixes my very first.
Vegan meal because I used to think a vegan was a Hari Krishna.
I, I’m like, what? Anyway, I realized after I ate this meal and it was simple, but it was really delicious. I didn’t have some of the challenges I normally have. When I ate, I, I had a rough time digesting food that because of a lousy food combinations and what I was ingesting. I know. And then he gave me a couple of books and going forward, I read the books and decided like, overnight I’m gonna transition.
And that was in 1990. Wow. And here we’re, I know, 23.
Julie: I I was, I was gonna ask you how old you were then, but I think I can do the math. You were in your fifties? No, I was about to turn 40
Babbette: girl. Oh, I’m, I’ll be 75. Oh, 90, 90, of course. No, Idaho. I was just about to turn 40 and he was about to turn 42. I was gonna be 40 in December.
He was gonna be 42 in September.
Steve What were those two? What were those two books? Babbette,
Babbette: oh, the first one. A Fit For Life by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. And really, if anybody gets those books, I recommend Volumes one and two. And then the Mucus List Diet Healing System by Professor Arnold ett, that guy.
Mm-hmm. He was amazing. So yeah. Of his time. Yes, he. People need to read books though. Seriously.
Julie: That’s great. Thank you for that. Now I wanted to go a little bit further. You’ve shared very openly about your past, everything from suffering from asthma to addiction. Mm-hmm. Do you think that your honesty, authenticity, is that what’s part of what, or a big part of what draws people to you, do you think?
Babbette: I believe so. I think honesty is huge, but to be perfectly honest with you, Julie, the older I get, the more people are drawn to me because then they begin to believe it. I don’t think she’s lying. This stuff works and it does. The lifestyle is just incredible. I’m very blessed,
Julie: especially when you get down on the ground and you do your pushups.
It’s incredible. We’ve known you for years, you know that we’re regular customers of your restaurant stuff. I eat, we’ve seen you cleanse many times over the years, even while you’re running your kitchen, which is astounding. What role do you think that cleansing and juicing continue to play in your youthfulness at your age?
Babbette: I, it’s so important For us, it’s, we bathe, we’ll hop in the shower every day. Sometimes we don’t even think about cleansing the inside of the body. And I was, I guess, blessed to have met a gentleman in Compton that sold, basically he did iridology readings and I had an iridology reading and Ronal did too, who’s my husband.
And both of us had gallstones. We didn’t even know it. We had no clue we had gallstones. There are so many people that have to be rushed to the hospital just to have a gall gallstone surgery, have their gallbladder removed. For this, he suggested that we drink this concoction and take five of these herbal capsules, and believe it or not, within 24 hours.
We’re passing gallstones. I, that is when I knew that it was so important to also cleanse the inside. And then when I, the just becoming a juice guru, once I began to really learn about juicing, what I love so much about the juicing process is the fact that. It’s almost, once it’s predigested, there’s, it’s not going through a digestive deal, because that was the worst part for me was digesting food.
You can drink this juice and you get your minerals and your vitamins and everything like instantly. It’s like it reaches cellular level right away. I loved that part because I really had to teach myself how to eat all over again because I was doing such a lousy job of combining food that I was always sick whenever I ate.
So it was a lot, but come on, you guys. Knowledge is power.
Julie: Knowledge is power, but thank God. But willpower is power.
Babbette: Exactly. But once you begin to educate yourself and you start practicing what you’re learning, and then you see just how important knowledge is. With that Juice guru book back there,
Julie: I wanted to ask you a little bit about that willpower, because it’s the norm at 74 years of age to slow down, give up on your peak health.
You keep going. Where does that willpower come from to keep showing up, to keep cleansing, to stay dedicated? Is it the results you get? Where does it come from?
Babbette: My mother transitioned at age 93, but I watched her journey and double knee replacement, had to have breast surgery for cancer. She, every time we went to the supermarket, she had to have the basket ’cause that was her walker.
And I know my mother could not have gotten in the tub and gotten out by herself. She had to have assistance. And that just seems like such a lousy quality of life to me. And I decided, especially after I began to learn how to practice self-care, I don’t, I wanna have a good quality of life and movement is important.
Nutrients are important. Knowledge is important, and so that has really motivated me to keep going. Now, I’m not gonna lie to you. Sometimes I can get lazy as hell, but let me give you an example of that. I wake up super early every morning, but this morning in particular, I grabbed my phone and I went to Instagram and there was a chick on there doing these exercises.
I got outta the bed to make sure that what she was doing, I could do. And because it’s important. And a lot of people at my age, they just stop. And I’m not stopping. Yeah, I’m not stopping. I wanna be able to get in and out the bathtub at 90 years old. I don’t wanna have to. And if I have nobody left on this planet in my life.
Nobody to depend on, but myself. I don’t wanna be that person that accidentally falls and I’m stuck on the floor, or I need a necklace, push a button for the fire department. And it’s not, there’s some people that have had accidents and we’re not talking about that. We’re just talking about the fact that we can stop at a certain age.
We feel like we. We now have permission to just go sit down and don’t do anything. But you only take away from your quality of life when you do that.
Julie: Yeah. Something tells me you’re gonna be doing a lot more at 90 than just climbing out of the bathtub. But I’m glad that, I’m glad our goals are high. Let me take you back.
So we already said this, we already know this. You are a certified juice therapist. We’re so proud of that. And you have been for almost 12 years. You were one of our first, but I wanna take advantage of that. She, she, I think she was in the first class. Oh, okay. So then 13 years. What made you choose to decide to do that?
And I know you keep talking about knowledge is power. Maybe that’s part of it. Were you looking for some kind of credibility, traction, authority? ’cause that was really at the beginning of
Steve you becoming
Julie: this, but she wasn’t even on social media back
Steve then.
Julie: No. This was before you were the international phenomenon.
You are.
Babbette: Yes. Steve, you helped me with this whole social media thing, didn’t you? Anyway, you guys, I guess that’s a really healthy question because I never really thought about it so much, but.
Where I came from, I was always so sick. I wa you know what I mean? Even doing the drugs, I was addicted to crack and really going through it emotionally and physically, it’s such a debilitating drug. And even with food that I’ve ingested in the past, making me break out, I had horrible skin, horrible skin.
Eczema, asthma, and if I ingested refined sugar,
I would get zits everywhere. I couldn’t even wear anything backless. I had so many bumps on my back, and so once I learned about the importance of getting the proper nutrients and not getting crap. Juicing was just, man, it was just so incredible for me. I loved it because I could be busy or I could juice enough and put ’em in my mason jars and I’m good to go for hours, even if I didn’t eat anything.
So juicing was just a lifesaver for me. It really was. And it still is. It still is.
Julie: Wow. So I’m gonna guess living the lifestyle, having that information that you need in order to do that. Yes. And what you just said there, that really highlights, I think, for everyone who’s watching you, who’s watched you and followed you.
That’s what we mean by authenticity. That’s what we mean by just being honest and vulnerable with the people who you wanna help and reach out with. And it really goes miles. And also, if you could just look at your skin today, I can’t even believe that story.
Babbette: My skin and the way that I look. Thanks Julie.
But I want people to know that I am living on the planet Earth. And I am going through the aging process like every last human on this planet. Even my great-granddaughter who’s four years old, I see her changing and, but it’s not rapid fire. I say that all the time. I have the laugh lines and I love wearing makeup.
I’ve always enjoyed wearing makeup, but when I take this crap off my face. I don’t look exactly like what you’re seeing today, but I’m still healthy as hell. I don’t have, right at the moment, I do not have a primary care physician. I take no medications. I don’t even, I don’t even know what a person is supposed to feel like.
This all medicated up. You understand what I’m saying? Yes. I. But it’s so slow compared to,
Steve yeah. And look at you look at your energy level compared to somebody. You know that alone. That’s right.
Julie: And yeah, it’s a quality of life thing. It’s a quality of health thing. It’s not necessarily more, and you will have more years in your life, but it’s more life in your years.
And I think that’s what you’re really saying. Yeah. Trite sometimes, but true. I also wanna, you know what, a lot of what we like to do is really help those who are newly certified, just starting out all of that. If you could, and I don’t know if you can remember back, because you are so successful now, and people really just do follow you and love you, but if you could take us back before you were known around the world.
What do you think first helped you to gain the traction? What made it click for you? Do have you thought
Babbette: about that? I. When you say what made it click, what in particular? What do you mean? What
Julie: you have this phenomenal platform that you have built and where your people, she’s
Steve reaching millions of people now, so Yeah.
Is.
Babbette: I think it has a lot to do with what you stated. I’m real, I, I don’t meet strangers. Not really. I’m, I don’t give a shit about what color you are. I don’t have that. I’m not tripping. I am drawn to peace and love. And that is what’s important to me. Self care, self love, self care. If you don’t love self, it’s going to be hell trying to love anything or anybody outside of self.
And it’s important to, for people to be able to say, you know what? I did a post the other day. If anybody ever checks me out on Instagram, I did a post the other day and the post was pretty much entitled. Don’t Live to Regret. Or no regrets or something like that. And I mentioned that I had two regrets.
The first one was after my mother had her stroke, I did not give her the quality time that I should have. I don’t know what was going on with me. She couldn’t talk anymore and I took care of her, but I just regret that I did not spin. More time with my mother while she was still present on this planet.
The second regret is these fake ass titties. I wish I had never gotten breast implants. I didn’t need breast. I was a runner. I was a sprinter. My breasts were the size they were supposed to be. I did not need breast implants, and I regret that I got these things because I will be living till I’m 90 and I gotta take this shit out because I’m gonna tell you, I’m not gonna be having my breasts up here and everything else down on the floor.
So I, but, but that’s the, that’s what I share is, babe, I share. The real Babbette. I’m not gonna lie to you about juicing. I’m not gonna lie to you about the vegan lifestyle. I’m not gonna lie to you about who I am. What’s the purpose? I don’t have to say anything. So yeah, I think it’s just keeping it real.
Julie: Yeah, that was very real.
And thank you for sharing as always. And I wanna take it back. First of all, I’m really sorry about you having that regret about your mom. And obviously when you’re a person who’s self-aware and evolving, sometimes you can have those kinds of regrets. How important do you think support community, the relationships that we have with others, how important is that to.
You, your success, but also your personal success and lifestyle?
Babbette: That’s a good question, and especially in today’s climate, I think community is so very important. And as a matter of fact, if it was not for community, I. Stuff I eat wouldn’t still be here. We made it through Covid. Come on. And we’re just a small little cafe.
We ain’t all selling everything on the planet. We’re just we’re. We just bring the vegan cuisine to Inglewood and we have been supported by so many, but especially. Community has truly supported us, so it’s very important and for us to do our part, whatever it is. I say, I’m selling you at stuff I eat. If I tell you the food is organic, it Babbetter be organic.
It needs to be organic. You need to be able to trust us, period. Because we embrace and trust you all because you’ve shown us that, that you care and.
Julie: You put care and love in every single piece of food that you serve. It is healing because it is organic and it is fresh, but it’s also healing because of the love that’s put into it.
Right? I’m sure. Let’s not forget the intentions
Babbette: Ron did one time. This was before we got the restaurant, and this is how true he is to it. I, I was making some, we had a cart and we were over at Agape Spiritual Center and I was making cookies for the weekend and I needed some oats. Normally when we went to Nature Mart over by Griffith Park because they had all organic back in the day and I just was told him to go to Ralph’s and get me some oats and he said, but do they have organic?
And I said, just go get some oats. It’s just for this one Sunday. And he said, but if it’s not organic, I said, Ron, come on. Really, it’s just one Sunday. He drove all the way over to Nature Mart to get the organic. So that I didn’t get to lie about selling these people organic oatmeal, cookies, and a, after he did that, it took me to another level, if you will, and we love those cookies.
Yeah, love that.
Steve (3): By
Babbette: the way,
Steve can you both stop? I’m cleansing, please. Thank you. Oh, okay. That’s right. Steve is on a, we cannot talk
Julie: about it.
Steve I’m talking about it.
Julie: I’m glad you mentioned stuff I eat, by the way. Bet. Because let’s not forget for everyone who’s watching, you’re not only successful as an inspiration and as an influencer and a leader, but you also have a business, a brick and mortar business.
What first inspired you to open stuff I eat in the first place?
Babbette: Julie, we were not thinking about opening a restaurant. We really were not. But I was a flight attendant and we had a cart that we took over to Agape Spiritual Center every Sunday. We were on the parking lot for six years and we would prep the food for Sundays and otherwise I was flying and I had these passes and we loved Jamaica.
So it was, I, yeah, we were walking down Market Street. The doors to the restaurant were open and the owner happened to be inside and we went in, we met him and he said, no, I don’t want this to be a ’cause. We were just like, Hey man, this, I think it was a salad built in salad bar. It was the same color as my business cards.
And that was a little omen to me and I, he was like, no, I don’t want a restaurant here. Used to be a restaurant. He goes, I wanna open up a Nike kid store. Because there, he owned a Nike shoe store next door, and, but we left him our information. We left the business card. When we got back from Jamaica, he had left about six messages, come see me.
And he said, you can have the building for first, last month’s rent and a security deposit. Julie, we didn’t have any money.
We, it took us four years to literally open the doors. Wow. To try to do everything that we wanted to do on the inside to open those doors, you know, that right there was everything, because we didn’t, it wasn’t like we were out trying to open a restaurant looking for buildings. We were not, and I just, I feel like the intelligence just led us, because Market Street was not even a place I we ever.
Walk down. I lived in South Central 67th and Cimarron. I wasn’t near I, I wasn’t close enough to Inglewood, but I’d never really hung out in Inglewood. But to be here for that at that exact moment and meet that guy and he opened the doors to us, we were supposed to be here.
Julie: Wow. We were supposed to
Babbette: be here.
Julie: That definitely sounds that way, and we’re all very thankful that you are there. You mentioned some challenges. You mentioned Covid that was very challenging for so many businesses, and I’m sure even, and you just mentioned four years to even open your door. What did you learn from those challenges that you can share with everyone?
Babbette: You
Julie: know what?
Babbette: You don’t stop. You just don’t quit. And you keep looking forward and not hanging out in the past, don’t go too far in the future and just do what it is you have to do to get the job done. Because when the doors open to us that way, it was obvious that this is what we were supposed to do and so we were gonna make sure that we got it done.
And there were people that used to say. Are you sure you have a brick and mortar? Because girl, you’ve been talking about a restaurant for years. And I was like, yes we do. But look at us. See Julie, we made it through Covid. We figured it out. We made it through Covid and that wasn’t easy. ’cause you remember after Covid, come on, Danielle’s in.
There have been days when there’s only been Danielle and myself working in there. We lost all our employees and. Stuff like everybody else, but because we are who we are in this community, there was a purpose and we are just true to the purpose.
Julie: Wonderful. Just wonderful. Let’s just, we’ll go back to you and more the brand of Chef Babbette because you’ve built something really powerful.
It’s not just a platform or a following, it’s really a movement that’s headed by you. Would, how would you describe, or yeah, how would you describe your mission, what you wanna accomplish? What is the goal? For your leadership,
Babbette: and I never really consider myself, I don’t view myself as a leader. I, I, Julie, I don’t know.
I just, I feel like what I put out is exactly what I get back, and I understand the importance of keeping it. Clean and loving more than anything, and it’s incredible that at 70, almost 75 years old, I’m really right now understanding the importance of loving and especially of loving self. So if I can share that, if I can share anything that I’ve been through, anything that I’ve learned to help someone else.
Transition and get Babbetter than I am on my purpose. And so not to be a leader of anything, but just to embrace the whole, to be a part of it and to be a positive part of it. The part that’s really going to bring light to someone who may be in the dark.
Julie: Wow, so powerful. I wouldn’t even try to sum that up.
That is just beautifully said because it’s not just how to live your life at this age and continuing, it’s about the love and that you wanna give.
Babbette: Look how so many of us our lives are being affected in today’s climate by quote unquote leaders that do not practice love. Look how so many people are being adversely affected by that behavior.
I can’t fall into that category. I’m not trying to be a queen or all that. It’s not about all that. It’s just about staying on your purpose and being good for the whole. The whole includes every species on this planet. It’s not just about humans, it’s about all of it.
Julie: Yeah. Uh, and I think you’re saying something very powerful because when we juice and eat right and treat the body well, it’s not just, it’s not just our health overall, but it’s also our brain health and our spiritual health, and we’re in so much more in touch.
With what’s right and our energies and our natural selves. That’s really, and give back to the,
Babbette: you’re not destroying the planet. You’re eating what the intelligent put here for you ingest. You don’t have to tear down forests. They offer us medicines and all that kind of stuff. You don’t have to destroy everything for, to give a person a diet that was not intended for them to eat anyway, and then you start overheating the planet.
It just one thing affects the other, and so I don’t wanna be a part of the adverse effects. Wow.
Julie: You are, you are, you embody it all. Do you, have you thought about if, if you leave a legacy, which you will, I know you’re very humble, but what do you hope your legacy will
Babbette: be? I, I just hope that my legacy will be that I’ve got so many people that right now come into stuff I eat every day, just.
Unbelievable. You are such an inspiration. You are such an inspiration. Just she inspired. She inspired. Wow. But that
Julie: All right. I like that. Let’s see. I guess I don’t know if other people have questions. Yes. The last Yes, Julie,
Steve there were questions that came in and I’ll be putting them up
Julie: while you do that, I just, my last question is.
Again, a lot of our audience today are people who were like you were, are now like you were maybe 13 years ago. They are just starting out. Many of them are certified juice therapists just starting out their platforms or their businesses. What is a message you like to share with that next generation of future wellness leaders?
Juice therapists. Any message for them? Any advice for them?
Babbette: Just to, I give thanks for all of you, and especially having the desire to be a part of this particular, I’ll call it a business, but learn as much as you can, take care of you first. And keep it real and keep it true. Know that you are doing this for such a huge purpose and it just basically will embrace, I know I say a lot about the whole, but I’m a part of it, and so just please get as much out of this as you possibly can because you are going to do yourself and the entire planet.
Justice, truly, and I’m just you guys, ju, Steve and Julie, I just have to say thank you so much to the both of you. You’ve always been the same. You’ve always been sweethearts. Givers. Keeping it clean, keeping it real, telling the truth. You have always embraced me all these years. It’s just like you two just came outta nowhere and no, it’s serious.
You have been, I was telling my friend here that these people have been my friends for years. I just love the two of you and you guys are doing an amazing, an amazing thing for our planet, and I appreciate you both so much. Same here, same. It goes both ways. I had lost contacts with some family members in Colorado, and one of them came to the juice guru and got their certificate.
And I only got in contact with them again because of you guys. I remember that. Yes,
Steve I remember that too.
Julie: Wow. I’m glad to hear that you guys are in contact. And by the way, for everyone who, who got the email last week, we actually, Steve told the story of how we did meet Chef Babbette and for us it was. Yes, this beautiful happenstance of us.
We had just reconnected and we did a recommitment ceremony in our backyard years and years ago, almost 15 years ago, and we went out to stuff I eat. We found this beautiful restaurant and there was this glowing, beautiful woman talking, speak our language.
Steve Well was first. No, they, because we talked to the waitress and I was like, this food is amazing.
There’s, we feel the love in the food. It wasn’t that. It just tasted good. There was love in that food and it was healthy and it was whole food, and you can’t find that in Southern California or really anywhere in the world food of this caliber. So they, the waitress was like, all right, you want to meet her?
And we got to meet her, and that’s where it all changed. Yep. And we got, that’s where you changed my life. I wanna say something, I’m getting notification. There was a 5.2 earthquake in San Diego. Oh wow.
Steve (3): Wow.
Steve Yeah. So our prayers to everyone out there and crazy times, I did get a notification on my phone about an earthquake alert.
Did you guys get that?
Julie: My phone is off, but our son Eli, is flying into San Diego tomorrow morning for an interview. For an internship. So thankfully that happened this morning.
Babbette: You just a baby. When I met you guys, he was so little. I we’re a few
Steve years gone. He’s a freshman
Julie: at Berkeley.
Steve Yep. That’s, that’s so, should we take some questions?
Babbette, do you have some time for some questions? Yeah,
Steve (3): sure. Alright, let’s see what we got here.
Question from Kate. Where can we get iridology done?
Babbette: I live in the Los Angeles Air Inglewood and I went to new body products in, uh, Compton just to look up new body products in Compton, and I believe they’re still given iridology readings there.
Steve I. Loretta asked, what is the formula that helped you pass the gallstones?
Babbette: The formula was at new body products. They sell an herb, it’s called, and you can buy this herb online. It’s called CKLS. The letters stand for colon, kidney, liver, spleen, and it was suggested by Theologist that I take eight ounces. Of cold pressed organic olive oil with five of these CKLS capsules and a half cup of fresh lemon juice.
So what I did was I took the five CKS capsules early, and I think I might have eaten. An apple to help get the capsules down because if they get stuck, they burn the herbs burn. So I took the five CKLS capsules early, and then maybe about two hours later, I drank the eight ounces of cold pressed olive oil and chased it with the lemon juice to keep it down.
When I woke up the next morning, I passed gallstones from five in the morning until I had to go to work that evening at four. I pass. They were every color, every size. It was unbelievable. Now, they suggested Ron drink 16 ounces of the cold pressed olive oil, but it was the same recipe, so CKLS, cold pressed olive oil, lemon juice.
Julie: And remember, keep in mind, Babbette, she cleanses all the time. We talked about that. Yep. And juices all the time and eats really well all the time. Getting out ahead of it and preventing it is probably the best thing to do.
Steve There you go. Let’s see. Grace, what type of specialist did you see to find out you had gallstones?
She wanted to know.
Babbette: Oh yeah. It was just the ologist
Steve the same. Yeah. Okay. Oh, there’s a bunch in this one. I heard you mentioned the master cleanse is a start years ago. How do you cleanse since becoming a juice guru? She asked, what recipe combinations do you use to cleanse?
Babbette: Oh, you know what? I still play with the, I love that master cleanse.
I don’t think I’ll ever stop the master cleanse. I love it. But in terms of if I decide that I’m gonna go on a juice cleanse, then what I do, I, I have. I, I get stuck on stuff sometimes. There’s this one juice that I absolutely love, and it’s cilantro, lemon juice, green apples. And Ginger. I just am. And by the way, we interviewed
Julie: you years ago.
Years ago. That’s exactly what you told us back then. That is right. That’s right.
Babbette: When I’m cleansing though, I cut back on the apples. ’cause I do have a very sweet palette and you have to be very careful with the fruit. As you’re juicing because you don’t wanna get too much sugar. Okay, so if I’m cleansing, I cut back on the so much of the green apples and I’ll just do a green juice cleanse.
I like to do it that way and generally it’s 14 days. That’s how I’m rolling. If I do the master cleanse, it’s between 10 and 15 days generally. Depending, and I’m gonna tell you how I really know sometimes that I really need to cleanse at my age. We all get inflamed because of our diets, certain things we choose to eat and all that.
If my eyes tear, it’s time to cleanse.
Steve Okay. Period. You know how I knew it was time to cleanse? No. My, my pants were tight and, and my shorts, I busted the button and I thought. My clothes must be shrinking. But then I got on the scale and I was like, whoa, you and you.
Babbette: Yeah, you time. And it’s never so much the weight thing for me because I keep that together.
Yeah. It’s things like the teary eye. If I, if my eye begins to tear and it starts bothering me, I know that I need to cleanse. And believe it or not, I will cleanse and the tears go away.
Julie: And as an environmentalist, and Steve knows this, and I don’t know about if, but I was an environmental lawyer for years and years, so I know that.
Even if you eat the cleanest and you drink the cleanest, there’s still environmental factors that may require that you cleanse. It’s in the water we drink, it’s in the air we breathe, especially in la cleansing is important, and that’s why not
Babbette: growing. We’re not growing our own food, and so even though we’re trying to purchase organic, you don’t really know.
You didn’t grow it.
Steve Mm-hmm. You’ve answered this, Loretta said, how did you start your first juicing business? We went through stuff IE and Right. Okay, let’s, let’s see what else we got here. Did you open the restaurant before becoming a juice therapist? Pam wanted to know.
Babbette: No. No, no, I, no. Even you opened stuff.
I first stuff I eat first. Yes. I’m sorry. Yeah. I opened the restaurant first and then I met my juice guru couple and, um, they taught me because I didn’t, hey, I knew nothing. I knew Jack about juicing. I didn’t know anything about juicing before I met you guys.
Steve But then you started offering juices to your customers.
I remember people were coming in.
Steve (3): Yep. Yeah. Okay. Let’s see what else we got here. Lots of thanks and love.
Babbette: Somebody said I have a teary eye. Sometimes I’m gonna have to start. I
Steve missed that one.
Babbette: It’s Loretta Weaver.
Steve Oh, okay. There you go.
Julie: Oh, there we go.
Yeah, and I think a lot of us can relate to the, to thinking our clothes are shrinking. We’re in our mid fifties, so it’s, it happens a lot quicker than it used to in, yeah, in my twenties and thirties.
Steve Kate, I had a question. Are you mostly raw?
Babbette: For the most part, I’m not. I’m glad you asked that question because I really wanted to put this out there.
I do not consume. A lot of bulk. That’s just, it’s just, it’s, it does not work for me. So I have a soul food platter that I sell. It’s stuff I eat. I cannot even sit down and eat that entire platter anymore. It’s too much food. So I don’t need a lot of bulk. At 74 years old, I’m drawn more to nutrients. Where am I getting?
The most from this food that I’m ingesting now. I enjoy stuff like I’ve been seeing a whole bunch of Instagram posts on these mushrooms and mushrooms looking like fried chicken and steaks and burgers and all that kinda stuff. But see, I stuff I eat didn’t do it that way. So most of what I’m ingesting is the raw juice every single day.
And I eat very light salads and nuts and see I am such a big nut person. I make these bunt cakes out of cashews and walnuts or pecans and anyway, yeah. So no, I don’t eat a whole bunch of cooked food. Nope, I don’t. I’m drawn more towards the nutrition.
Steve How’s the sweet tooth? I remember you used to complain to me about having a sweet tooth.
Babbette: I still do. I still do. I got told that Ron doesn’t have the same palette as myself, and I made lasagna, and of course I put some agave in it. I put agave in it, and for him it was just too sweet, but my customers loved it, so. Thank you. They used to eat Chapo Yard D when they kids, so all that was sweet, but Oh yeah, that’s true.
Yeah. I still have to, I still have to control the palate. I really do. I do. I was addicted to sugar as a child. My mother put sugar in everything. She cooked my mother’s spaghetti sauce. Tastes like a dessert. You could drink milk with it. Oh, wow. Yeah. The reason she sweetened is because she was from the south.
They were sharecroppers and she said all of the food. Like peas and corn, all of those vegetables had a sweetness to them. And when she came to California, she said the stuff you buy in the store just doesn’t taste the same. So she added sugar to everything. But my mother also added accent monosodium glutamate.
Everything. So I had a, oh, oh, my taste was off. There was a time that I would put monosodium glutamate in a plastic bag if I was going to a restaurant that I knew didn’t use it, and I would sprinkle monosodium glutamate on my food when they served it to me. That’s how Jack Oh sh. But
Julie: you’ve really reset your palette to a big I.
Babbette: I know. I really didn’t. Isn’t that incredible? That was bad. And when my mother made her transition, I went in one of her drawers and she had a big plastic bag glistening. It was a bag of monosodium glutamate, a plastic bag.
So she had us jacked up people. What you do to your kids and people that have autistic kids. Watch what you are feeding these children. Watch the chemicals. They got chemicals in everything you guys please. If your children are autistic, you have anybody that you know with an autistic child. Please be careful.
Careful
Julie: as well. There are so many children and that, and it does affect them. I know. ’cause Eli is, it affects them too. We feed
Babbette: our babies outta boxes and bags. Way too much. We never read the ingredients.
Steve Lori was asking the best olive oil to take, and I guess she means that you were taking during that cleanse.
Babbette: Cold pressed. Well, it’s organic, cold pressed olive oil.
Steve Yeah.
Babbette: Organic, cold pressed
Steve and ger and skincare as how do you feel about sprouts? Yeah, I love sprouts. Yeah. Remember those onion sprouts in the half? Create salad. Remember those onion sprouts?
Babbette: Yeah, I do. Yeah. Those are the questions that came in. What you wanna say?
What I wanted to say is with the cost of everything nowadays, we don’t overdo it with the products that we serve. We keep it making sense and maintain the freshness, make sure it’s organic. That it still tastes good.
Julie: I, you know what, that is a really great tip, I think, to give new business owners as well.
If you have a juice bar, if you have a restaurant, sometimes it’s Babbetter to keep it basic, but make sure it is fresh, organic, everything you just said, Babbette, but cost effective as well. Yes. Smart.
Babbette: So important.
Steve (3): Any other questions? This is an interesting question
Steve came in from Ant, is juice sugarcane good for us? I know I was addicted to that for a little while.
Babbette: Me too. I’m so, I’m, I’m addicted. You, you’re
Steve both big
Babbette: sugar. I would eat the heck outta sugarcane all day long. Yes. Sorry.
Steve Yeah. Yeah, I always have to reset and get myself off.
Julie: Steve will have it sent to him for a while. You were having it sent to you? Yeah. I was paying a lot of money
Steve to have it shipped and frozen.
Babbette: You worse than me.
Steve I think I might be. It’s funny that I remember we have a sugar cane juicer. Yeah. We
Julie: don’t have a sugar cane juicer. Yeah. But
Steve what I wanna thank bet for coming today.
It’s been phenomenal, but we knew it would be Julie. Yeah.
Julie: Oh, always. The most radiant. The most wonderful, the most fun to have.
Steve Oh, we love Babe
Babbette: Jack.
Steve Yeah, that’s a good heart. There you go. Naturally bold juicing, said you look amazing. Oh, thank lots of love coming in. And so thank you to Babbette and thank you and our audience for, uh, joining us for this phenomenal event. We’re gonna. Let Babbette sign out and close out the show. But Babbette, thank you so much for years of friendship and love and inspiration.
Babbette: Yes, you guys take care. See you soon, hopefully.
Steve Bye-bye. Yeah. Yeah. We’ll be in.
Babbette: I have
Steve a craving after my cleanse, babe. After Steve’s clean. Yes. Thank you, babe. Julie, how do you like that? That amazing person?
Julie: It. It doesn’t get Babbetter than that. And I hope that everyone who has been following along and watching and may see the replay Yeah.
Will learn a lot because Shonda’s late, but she
Steve said she can’t wait to watch the replay. Yes. It was phenomenal. And I hope you guys like the new format for the show. We’ll have to get. Some of like Alton back again on the new show and some of our other friends. Mm-hmm. But hope you guys like the new format.
Julie, anything to say in closing? Joseph said thanks. Thank you guys for bringing Babbette to us again. You guys rock. Thank you. We love bringing Babbette to you. Thank you Joseph. Thank you. Here, let me just unmute. Let
Julie: tune in. She’s only one of our, of all of our rockstar grads who we’ve been bringing on. Steve, you just mentioned Alton.
We’ll have Alton back on again. I know you’re here today and so many amazing graduates.
Steve Great. I guess we’re at the end, Julie, anything to say in closing? Nice job hosting.
Julie: Oh, thank you Steve. I thank you for letting me host. You’re such a great host, so it’s nice to take the reins for once.
Steve If you guys are into what we’re doing here, just be sure to.
Click subscribe because we’re gonna be doing this more often, and much love to you. Who’s everyone watching? We love being part of this community with you. Julie, I’ll let you say the final word.
Julie: Love to everyone. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Steve, for making this happen, and we will see everyone very soon.
Keep juice.
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