how i welcome to in the c suite i'm your whole family it's an angle and where we provide tips tools and resources for small business owners entrepreneurs and other professionals who are thinking about starting their own businesses today's guest is jacqueline green with color jackie c is the c e o and founder of slender rela she's not only a personal chef and health coach but we're going to talk about this she is a certified nutritionist that helps prepare the athletes for the  n f l draft combine she has her own coaching business she's a speaker extraordinaire and so i'm excited to have her here and without any further delay i'm going to welcome jacki to the show hi good morning thank you jackie this is going to be a great show yes it is it's a great day it's going to be a great is going to be a great show we've got a lot of ground to cover as well we're going to get it all and ok we're going to get it all and so i gave a little bit just that bit of your background but i want you to take us back a little bit start with your successful career as a realtor i didn't even talk about that piece and then how you kind of transition that into becoming an entrepreneur and we're going to talk a little bit about some of the traits that we both think it takes to be an entrepreneur it's not as easy as it looks on the surface it's before i go any further and ramble on started from the s so for me for me and for anybody else listening that has an interest in pursuing their dream or creating some sort of business that they feel is buried within them and maybe other people keep varying more dirt on top of it you know life just happens so as i was growing up as i was growing up i always studied food and nutrition and all that stuff but i didn't really see how it was going to play into my life and and once upon a time in another life i was married to a developer and and i always understood real estate because of the dirt in the lay of the land and building the homes and so on and so forth and and then we weren't together any longer but i knew that i needed to use to do something you know i had three children and how was i going to move my life forward and i'm like well i really understand real estate and construction so the challenge myself and in two weeks i'm going to go and get my real estate license and i'm just going to be this savant in the industry and i believe that so i went out and i got my license and and i just i knew that this was what i really wanted to do i knew i could do this and i know i knew that i able to provide in a super lifestyle that i wanted to live and so i had all of these visions of i had my y and i had my wife you know what it was going to be like why i was doing it and how it was going to be and it never felt like i was going to work i absolutely enjoyed every minute learning and learning as much as i could to be an expert in my area and that also was a keno for me because i specialized in new construction i didn't just sell you know resell or you know most people have is this vision of a realtor which is drive people around and you don't you work really really hard and you know for me it was seven days a week but that it's what i signed up for for the level of success i personally wanted to achieve but i decided that i needed to create a niche market for myself and diversify be different than everybody else and that really pushed my career forward like like nobody's business but it just it  happened and again i say this because it was with in me there was this passion to make it happen and every day it was like oh you know i'm going to go meet this one i'm going to try and network with that i'm going to send this e mail i'm going to think about this marketing and  yeah you know you talked about a couple of things in there talking about transitioning into entrepreneurship diversifying your income low to pull revenue streams i mean i think that's really important i think sometimes people realize ok i'm good at one thing but you probably need to have a couple of things that are generating some income for you when you wake up every day on zero as i call it meaning you don't have a paycheck you don't know every two weeks exactly what's coming through the door you have to be able to manage that and serve you only have one revenue stream and something happens to that now would never quit your day job right now  people know you know it's ok to say to work while you're building your dream like i make sure this is just my opinion from my experience chime in what would you think but i think it's important for people to really think about that don't be so choppy with it and you said you thought it through but you had this feeling that real estate was one piece which you needed to create something else for yourself why health why how did you kind of get into that did you find that you were really did you use it to relax because i know real for the twenty four seventh's so how did you get into health care about that oh again you know wife is so cool it really is when you can take a deep breath and kind of just settle in and breathe into where you are today and and understand that you know as life happens to us it's actually happening for us so all throughout my younger years i you know i always studied food like i'd be on the library and i had interest in chinese medicine and herbs and indian healing and all these folklore remedies and like you know uncommon stuff and i didn't realize then that i was feeding myself for now so as i became more successful in the in the industry of real estate working with builders and of and developers very very stressful having to answer to these men on a daily basis about their subdivisions and the you know their multilevel properties why they're not selling and why they're losing money or in the market was crashing i would say you know i'd come home and i like i needed to stress so i would cook and i would cook lots of food and then give it out to friends and family and what have you but that was it was it relaxed me it relaxed me until i started to hit that that transition point where i'm like i'm really not on purpose i'm not feeling i could feel it filled as i did in real estate so you know this is not working for me anymore and we're we're not designed to be miserable we're designed to really enjoy life and and hit our girl and go with our gifts so as i i started to explore and ask myself some questions you know what really is my what right now what really is my why what does this look like what is my  mission if you will like it's like ok you know you have a lot of information you've been studying for years and that's the other thing i mean i've been certifying on in about all different areas any time i could whether it was a go to  you know i went down to san diego and spent some time with the gerson group down there who was a marvelous group that deal with people with cancer extreme types of cancer and also extreme types of treatment not for everybody but something that i wanted to learn about integrated nutrition it was something that you can do online and it's fantastic information all different facets and doctors and different avenues to learn all of them asian curry glassman i started with her for nutrition and on an endless endless in my travels the teacher should always be a student i agree while we are learning always we're always learning and the more that you are on point and living this passion the more of life shows up for you so when i decided that this isn't working for me anymore i need to do something with food what does that look like what does that mean well it means that i see so many people around me in stressful situations coming down with diseases and illnesses and cancer and chronic illness and auto immune well what can i do to help them i know i can down alright this is this is feeling good how could i help them well i could teach them how to eat right i could cook for them and then teach them i could help teach them stress management because we won't even get into all the other ups and downs of my life that got me to this place and i am ever so grateful for all of those those dark places because for me in those dark stuck and we all get stuck in some point if you can get really quiet at the time and really start to think i'm a we talked about this before what am i good at lots of us are good at lots of things yes and so you kind of some of us have this many things we're good at and we almost have to do this ok bring it in bringing a little bit am i good enough to teach this part ok well maybe a month good enough for someone to hire me on this heart is this enough to sustain me like you can i have to start here and then bring it in and rein it in so that you can create a brand for yourself right because you got as you said niche brand whatever we want to call it something that says when you look at it jackie you think this you think health you think energy used think good food you think positive mind i can feel it if the hole in your entire spirit just kind of comes through whenever i'm in your presence is just there and so those are the kinds of things that when you are in those places that voice is in there but do something beside devices but for me it's putting a pen and a pair or as i'm writing it down and then in my mind and also because we get that monkey mind and especially if we're in a place where we know transition or change is happening but we're not comfortable with you know learning to have to learn to become comfortable being uncomfortable which is a key thing in life going ok i know change is happening what am i really thinking and feeling about this and start to write it down because you know when you deal ninety five percent out of a subconscious mind it's only five percent that were conscious so as you put it down the subconscious goes ok it's been acknowledged it's big knowledge i don't have to keep chattering about it and then you go back and you start to see you get to see everything you know writing it down is an action that's right i think that's a piece that a lot of people miss you hear them say well i have the faith but it's very plus to do something with it that i got to get it out of so putting it on paper to me is that save space i'm putting it out here and now i'm going to figure it out and then when i was ready i'll ask the right people or what i said there what they think about this they're the other but i think that's important and maybe want talk about that or no now wasn't something that i was planning to talk about but i think it's important that some of these things are going to come up you told me a story that about something that happened this weekend where you know one of you just told a story you know you had to be prepared when you're in on came from yes you do to feel so from day one i was and i have never been afraid to do what it was going to take to get me to where i wanted to be which is here so i'll share two stories  originally when i first started to get into this and decided that this was going to be my new career i took a course with a personal chef who was a fantastic mentor to me so i went down and i took  a long seminar with her and afterwards i'm like wow this feels really good this space feels good fast forward i said any time you're going to do any workshops or anything can i just come in and work with you i literally will just i'll wash your dishes and i'll clean up now this is a woman that was you know top three percent in the industry of real estate you know doing product gucci and now i'm putting on crocs and aprons and washing dishes but it was ok it was ok and some so from there i gleaned so much more beautiful information fast forward that's actually my new commercial kitchen space because two years ago she asked if you know i want to take the space over but you know years ago that was in the making that was that was happening for the now and we are back here in the c suite with personal chef and health coach was jackie green jackie i didn't mean to cut you off the but we're back now i wanted you to be able to share that entire story and as you can see here everybody we have a couple things that we're to talk about that i think is your signature which is super healthy super simple slim to style you so we're going to talk about that in a minute but please call tell that story a little bit so it's just important when you are owner operator of your business your company whatever it is that you know how to do each and every facet of it so reason i say that is this week and nobody showed up it was me myself and i and i had a lot to get done trust me i could have you know put my head between my legs and said what am i going to do or i just you know i took some deep breaths i put my music on and i said girl you got this because there isn't anything in your business that you created that you don't know how to do so just do it do it well and get it done and you have to be prepared to do all of that you have to be prepared to roll your sleeves get in the dirt as well as you know get dressed to the nines and go and talk about it but there's there's that little part you know there's that middle part and you know and trusting and relying on other people is wonderful and there is no i in team and i think teams are so important and i'm in the process of building one right now for the new product but i have to know how to do everything that's important jack and i'm glad you brought that up because i've been in the same exact boat and i can tell you that through those situations where i was left hanging so to speak it forced me to have to learn something you know if i had to shoot and kill a person didn't show up and that has definitely happen guess what i had to do i had to go out and get training and i will learn how to operate my brain cameras when i handed off footage to somebody and i didn't like the way that it came back i don't feel like you told the story guess what i had to do at a learn how to edit for a write i had to learn every single aspect i didn't know that when i got into the particular business i was going to be in but if you're working with people and you're working with clients and you need to be prepared for them and to your point you made earlier well lifelong learners also really have to keep learning their work to do on our own thing for ourselves ok but i still think you have to keep learning great when you have a client base you're a coach yes you have workshops you have to be on top of your game and when people don't show up what are you going to fall apart now you've got to be stand up isn't how i said before you know life happens for us as it's happening to us yeah so every time one of those unfortunate situation resources we want to share our experiences everybody i really want you to think about it you might be really good at baking cakes when you're ready to go when you're single well you better know about you know the accounting piece you put in a little bit about marketing you're promoting it you don't want to have this big beautiful bakery nobody knows that you exist and nobody shows up you've got to learn all the other aspects this is just my opinion from my personal experience but do you agree with that absolutely are doing all of this it's all learning curve in an entrepreneur if you know you're going to fall twenty times before you you walk but that's the key is always get back up and that's where you just know you just know that you have tunnel vision about what your mission is what your purpose is and that no matter why you're going to get there and this is you know i have a wonderful family and husband and sons that support me and friends that rally for me because they know that i know that i know this is where it's at and i am changing people's lives through to helping them with their food and their nutrition and their energy our love it and you know i've seen it firsthand i've tasted it delicious food i've seen you prepare your delicious food and i  think it all just fits together you have a workshop that i love your changed my workshop it's true change the way you change the food that goes in and it really does change your mind to do you want to talk a little bit about th some simple simple things you know everybody thinks that they have to get on this you know entire change everything all at once it's not going to happen it doesn't work it's not sustained sustainable easy things that you do you know just drink some water during the day get as much water as you can and this is like so ridiculously simple and stupid but it's just it's water with lemon and cucumber and it because people go i can't drink water you know it it just makes me it makes me gag put some flavor to it last week we did some beautiful blueberry lemon was or only did watermelon and bay's all in it if it looks good you know listen if it looks good it is good ninety five percent subconscious so add some lemon water to your day lemons are awesome you know you can use it as a salad dressing you can use disaster just to pop up some rice or some chicken or what have you it's all about taking out the bad and putting in the goods or rather than using salt use some lemon ginger generous excellent you can you can use it in a salad dressing you can use it in your water you can make it into a tea why would i even have this first of all it's a root and roots are very grounding they have that that calming effect on us ginger is a beautiful anti inflammatory everybody right now their bodies are inflamed what is what does that mean that means that your body is trying to protect those vital organs or those areas that are under attack and so ginger helps to reduce that inflammation am what i like about your your entire line but your whole concept is that we are busy people are so when we have a nine to five whether an entrepreneur or you have a nine to when ever we have to make sure that we take care of ourselves we also have to come home prepare for our famil and so the fact that you talk about items that are super healthy but also super simple i mean how easy is this is to take some water jacki and put some fruit in it i had a blueberry  just getting into the corporate role and they're just kind of finding their way always tired and they're really really tired vision people and so again things that kind of give them energy instead of bugging them dully they run out and buy fast food and all the stuff that use them down on things like there's no you have an awesome training series that i'm about to plug really hard which is top ten alkaline food just talk really quickly about the difference between alkaline versus acidic and while we want to of the air we breathe the water that we drink the detergents we use on our body the fast food that we eat as americans and the body the body knows what to do but it's coming in so fast and furiously so it tries to keep us in an alkaline state but what what happens is our body heats up because we're just we're flooding it constantly with all of these these acidic foods so what to try and get it into balance you want to eat more alkaline you know one of the best things you can do is the lemon it's  high in acid but it's an asset that your body knows what to do so we created the top ten and show you the top ten alkaline foods to eat and to drink how to prepare them why they would use them how to use them and make it easy will take what can be really technical terms but you've got ph levels and you've taken some technical things but you've simplified i mean simple runs all through everything you do you have a way to take something that people may think to themselves or is no way i have time to change what i'm doing or even shifted slightly to eat healthier but even if i do we're not going to get all these ingredients you took some ingredients and  lemons i think lemons were number one or the list if i remember correctly but you literally broke every single thing you guys have got to get this d v d and just take your time and go through it and hit pause take notes you know i'm praising it because i've seen it i've used it but also because i know you so how can people get more information and reach you in general jack oh well we can go to our website which is w w w dot slender rela new jersey and j n j dot com and they are it has all of our workshops and our webinars and our podcasts and everything is there you can hear her you can see her you can get oh you know get up close and personal with jackie one thing i love about jackie we're going to have hear what it is that we need to do to change your life that's why you're such an awesome coach as we wind down i want you to talk about this exciting soup line that's coming up we literally have about a minute it's coming so soon like within the next two weeks  based super low sodium minimal ingredients soup line it is to either replace or encourage a cleanse a reboot who doesn't love soup family friendly children moms dads aunts preen i know this is been a journey this is been a long time coming in and it's around the corner of yeah it's right here yeah i'm excited for you to be here to talk about it i'm glad that i could be a part of helping  here this is so exciting for me i love that i have this the show as a venue for this this is why i do this langley glad to have you here thank you you guys have got to get ready and check out the soup line thank you thank  here this flew by yes we got it when we got it all and thanks all of you for tuning in thank you to our sponsors for today's show if you'd like more information and if you'd like more information about our work sounds please feel free to visit our website at staging exacts dot com that's staging exacts dot com thanks again everyone for tuning in and look forward to seeing you next time