Nourishing Women Podcast

Grounded in mindfulness, today’s podcast guest Julie Smolyansky, is passionate about empowering the mind-gut connection through making healthy food choices, community and business innovation.  In this episode Julie inspires you to follow your gut not only with food and health, but in all areas of your life.   Julie Smolyansky became the youngest female CEO of a publicly held firm when she took over Lifeway Foods at the age of 27 in 2002. Since then, Julie has continued the company’s growth trajectory with creative product development and marketing, bringing an Eastern European product into the U.S. mainstream and boosting annual company revenues to over $120 million in 2017 from $12 million when she took over. Under her leadership, the Company has expanded distribution throughout the United States, Mexico, the UK, and Ireland as well as portions of Central and South America and the Caribbean. She has been named to Fortune Business ‘40 under 40,’ Fortune’s 55 Most Influential Women on Twitter and Fast Company’