take it down with the read the press are you ready inhale exhale moods welcome to the dr joy show thank you for having me so tell me a little bit about you i am a mom wife of a daughter who won and won and in college a nd it was time for me to start another business venture i've always been an entrepreneur my whole life in one way or another and food has always been an interest so  upon going on a trip overseas i saw a wonderful product that was not here it was a gluten free pasta pastry and although it wasn't all natural i figured we needed something like that in the us so i tried to get it shipped to or logistically it was impossible the what i do i own a food technician is i reverse engineer them greedy and statement way way way see you say reverse engineer what does that mean that means i looked at the ingredients statement it was in another language i had to get it translated and based upon what the ingredients were i was able to recreate the the something that i know how to do ok yes and i made it all natural and with my partner and i we made a production of will meaning able to go through the factory and make large batches within a year where out ok so what inspired you to do is to get into the gluten free business i i have some issues myself with health i have auto immune diseases and i do better without gluten so it was a natural progression for me to find something that i can eat that i thought would be delicious and that we needed here now how did you determine that gluten was the cause or part of the cause of your discomfort just by omitting it from my diet but you did by process of elimination yes ok so inspiration behind g free food your trip you saw some you ate it it agreed with your system yes ok your digestive system and you said i can do this yes and that's so just like that  that how long did it take you to create it about a year once i decided that i needed to make it here about a year before we were able to bring it to market we also did some test marketing at trade shows to make sure that this was something that people would want and we want to ward after ward immediately so we knew ok wow congratulations yes you do know that you are in a male dominated company the goal you know what is the goal at the end and it is difficult we women have come so far but every day i am reminded how far we have to go what is your goal my goal my end goal is to be able to have a nice retirement and and not so much me my husband has been very supportive is supporting me financially and emotionally for years and all my endeavors i want him to be able to retire he doesn't want to but that's one of my goals my major goal for myself is to be able to mentor women in all businesses i mean who's of every type that's what i really really want to do i enjoy watching women entrepreneurs in this industry because it's tough yeah it's tough when you're on your way and your regulations for your success so far so now you didn't share with me that you were a cancer survivor you want to tell me a little bit about that yes after i started this business about a year into it little over a year i was diagnosed with lung cancer so you know i was just starting to really get into g free and just started to take off so i had to change gears now was your lung cancer by proud of you smoking it was discovered and it was discovered early enough that i just needed to get part of my lung removed one round of chemotherapy or one you know a few months and then i'm done and i've been in remission for two years  you that is a rate wow all right so you were starting to tell me about cancer and then how this tied in with the free yes so i during this whole time you're depressed  c you're not feeling well and i decided that i'm not going to let any time that i have left here affect what i have to do so much so that during my the most therapy i took a trip to china yes my oncologist thought i was crazy but we saw what to do in china with the frame we had the meeting with some people possible business nothing happened from it but it was a great experience e the wall no god i didn't know we were just there for business  but it was great for me to do something that was difficult and see that i can do it ok so returning i had a home knew a lot of process and outlook yes so did the business  take off did you did you solidify business partnership with the people in china no that never worked out but it's better that it didn't good yes overturning that it was though it was a blessing in the skies yes you know we have blessings they come in different forms it's either going to be a blessing that we go after something and it works right away or we go after something and it does it but it's a blessing in disguise a call include key learnings so my whole life is one big blessing  that is so great my whole life and even the disguises those of you those are the best ones oh yeah yeah that's right because you can learn from those and go in a different direction yes so in your opinion why is gluten free food industry booming as of lee why do you think this is coming well i think that a lot of the more common ones what we eat yeah farming practices a lot has to do with the genetics of the wheat they're so modified and even non g m o we it still has the connection and some you know part of what we eat today we can go back to two hundred years we don't have that grain and even though even ancient grain is still grain of today yes it's better for you but it's it's different so do you think that the problems that we are experiencing where our digestive system it's because of the environment yes i think we're on overload yeah oh stress we're overloading your body oh yeah i mean our lifestyles and what we eat and all of that there's your we're full with what we can possibly handle so now it's coming out in other ways including myself so yes so how many products do you have how many g free products are there right now we have five ok so we have i've never ceases there is a spinach and cheese mini turnover it's great the list for the vegetarians out there so wow and where can customers b i need to make a chip this like it's going to take a bit yeah i'm crazy like that so you know so that's really cool so how many stores are your products sold in about a thousand years but you took you one year to create it yes so is that within the four years or should we count that as that within the four years girlfriend so three years was one year of creation total of four years and you're in the thousand stores yes so that means you started out two hundred fifty stores in incrementally went two hundred fifty stores per year yes we we have been doubling our business barry you know then the pat yourself on the ba and served it to my husband because you know here try this is more healthy for you in this case there's a lot different yeah yeah yeahs so it's an acquired taste that's the biggest problem we have is saying hey we taste great i know there's a bad rap for gluten free yeah we have a commercial that we aired on t v in the first line is now gluten free tastes great gluten free now tastes great introducing the free food with all the goodness and none of the good with the free pass pastry seeds you can make breakfast lunch dinners and dessert great tasting and gluten free go to geve fried outcome for these and other fast and easy gluten free recipes and her frozen foods will become family favorite like chicken pot pie franks in a blanket and cheeseburger by the free gluten free pasta st season frozen food available at the free dot com in a store near you difference between the free you say that because you do manufacture this right would you say that getting the ingredients for your five products are harder now than when you first started or easier much easier and why is that month is in may don't you think that it should be your you know it should be all year but like mother's day it should be every day we're well you know that's something we're not going to go there because we're to talk about  right but lord jesus we're not going to go there because the whole mother's day thing i love it you know we have two sons as well but let's play we'll stick that in james ray i think i think that the silly arc awareness should be exposed to three hundred  sixty five days a year yes because it can it can affect anyone at any time yes and there's no cure now now and it's not even just the silliest says people who have no problems feel better when they gluten out of their diet you know when you know when i spoke with you i was driving when i spoke with you handsfree the night was you know when our call ended i thought of people that i then throw it in the oven bake it according to the directions and there you go and you can serve this to anybody all your guests and nobody would say all gluten free nobody would know the difference and i'm eating the cheeseburger bite which is delicious oh you know you know i'm going to try this right i'm going to just you know next time i have company buy stuff and put it out there but i'm not going to mention don't mention it i won't mention it unless the only way that they may put two and two together is if they have seen this segment and then they come to the house and they failed a duck joy this was where they'll say don't call me dr joy to my friend bill's a girlfriend this is this is not even free and i would say yes gluten free basically if i bring anything in the house from my house and you just keep it separate you make sure things are clean if you are a good kitchen sanitizer and your   i've been doing this a long time and i've i used to test things in my home you know i have the lab testing and i actually tested for gluten you know just to see and no matter what was around if it didn't come in contact with that it was fine but the average person doesn't have that equipment to do the testing caressed right so what are some tips besides clean surfaces that you would recommend for folks keep your ingredients separate in your pantry you know different shelves bintan possibly different cabinets separation just that's the best thing that you know you'd save or machines are good you can you know make sure things are sealed it's like i said it's it's a lot harder to cross contaminate than people with them so what's your favorite gluten free dish to make i love making i think my viewers will come to your house for dinner too so what's your favorite gluten free food to eat you know i'm a foodie dr joy so it's very hard it's like taking my favorite child i i don't have a favorite i like everything you know everything that i make and i produce for g free or at home i wouldn't do it if i didn't very important that's very important so what do we want to see here what do you expect for the next five years for g three we have many products that are rolling out in december we have a sandwich pocket microwavable there are to do a box there in a microwave a full sleeve there is no gluten free there aren't like that one is breakfast sausage egg and cheese pizza and buffalo chicken and how many calories for your product the first is the chicken pot pie is three hundred calories thirteen grams and that chicken and that's taken popeye yes ok and what about those pigs in a blanket love pigs in a blanket what about those those i don't know the exact number but it's is to a serving ok less than the regular franks in a blanket right they are beef again no nitrates hormones antibiotics none of that in any of our proteins ok wonderful yes well ok so you were telling me that ok in september you have the packet coming out of the hockey coming out and then we have a whole pipeline of different products we are going to do to start than other type of breakfast items so anything with chocolate yes truth dark chocolate dark chocolate for love yes so is there anything that you would like to share with the gluten free community any message it's yes ok what is a hard it's hard to feel deprived and missing gluten a lot of foods you feel deprived  don't have to you know the free help there are really good other gluten free food companies out there that health and everything's going to be coming your way you know just we're we're getting there we're doing this wow so where can i know g three is a click away so where can the viewers find the food if they don't like to go to supermarket like myself i can't stand felicia go to the free dot com know i'm going to stop eating all right so anyway so you telling your customers are interviews to be patient this is a passion of yours yes you've been in business for five years four years four years four years right in the next five years you have multiple products that are going to be coming out yes and i just want to thank you for sharing your story thank you thank you for taking the guest on a dr joy show and  i'm so proud of you thank you dr child really really so hey listen if you want your through to improve your digestive system and you want to eliminate that that gluten