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Hey, what's going on you guys. This is Joseph Vonner
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and welcome back to Founder one hundred podcasts. We get
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a chance to sit down with an up and rising
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founder who has not only a passion but also a
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purpose and it's continue to help other founders, professionals, and
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even just people who just need some insight to kind
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of take the next step in their lives and do
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some amazing things. I like to welcome you all to
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the show, and that is or introduce you all too,
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and welcome to the show. Founder of Simple Things, Cam Nichols, Cam,
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Welcome to the show. How are you doing.
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I'm great, jose thank you for having.
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Me on here. Well, I want to thank you for
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taking some time because I know you have a lot
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going on this weekend, and so we appreciate that you're
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even taking the time to even have this interview with us.
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But you know, we'll keep it very simple. We'll jump
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right into what you're doing now. You are an author
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of an up and coming book called Simple Things, where
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you get a chance to delve into your experiences in Africa,
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but you also provide recipes that people from you know,
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everyday life all over the world can can can simply
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make and that's both healthy, taste delicious, and for a
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lot of us who are who are super busy out there,
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you know, it doesn't require so much time in the
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kitchen to cook. Can you tell us what about your book?
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I would love to. It's called Simple Things for a reason.
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That really is a life philosophy of mine. And people's
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lives are so crazy, right you come up from work
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and you're like, oh, I can't and just order pizza,
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and people just aren't in the kitchen anymore. And so
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the purpose of the book is to help you put
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something together in twenty minutes. It's nutritious, delicious, you know,
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cost effective, and so you're eating real food as opposed
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to processed foods. And so it's not just about Africa
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part you know, part of the thing with Africa is
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that half the proceeds of the cookbook are going to
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go to these single moms and orphans and help them
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get educated. But my life has always food has always
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been a major theme in my life. When I was
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growing up, I had six brothers and sisters. We sat
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down at the table every night to a meal. Then
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I went and lived in France and you went to
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the store every day, these stores because you went to
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the bakery, you went to the butcher. And then raising
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my family, of course I wanted to provide them healthy meals.
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You know, they would love to go to other people's
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houses because they'd get Captain crunch and this quick pancakes with.
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You know, I only had maples, right.
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So Africa was just kind of the putting it together
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with a purpose that was going to change lives. But
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it also is going to get people back into the
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kitchen because there have been so many changes in our
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food and how we eat since turn of the century,
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when ninety of Americans lived on farms. Then they went
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to cities and we're fast.
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You know.
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One comedian once said, you know, we even knw cart
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pop tarts.
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Right.
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So the point of the book is this is how
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you get back in the kitchen. This is how you
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do something simply. And it's okay to burn something, or
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it's okay to make something that's not perfect and people
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complain to them they're going to cook the next meal
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and order pizza, you know, But it's it's it's to
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get people back into the kitchen eating real food that's nutritious,
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it's going to nourish your body, mind, and soul, and
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then you create that little community, whether it's your family
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or gathering of friends and enjoy just not the food,
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but the time.
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And do it simply and with love.
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So it's not a labor, it's it's I want to
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get people back where they're excited to get in the
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kitchen and create something.
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So I love it. That is fantastic, and I think
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that gives us a great understanding of the concept behind
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the book as well as why you have spent so
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much time putting it together. Now, for those of you
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guys who like to pick up a copy of this book,
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you'll be able to have links to access that book
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in the description of this show wherever you're happening to
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be listening to your podcast, as well as a link
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to Simple Things website where you'll be able to keep
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up to date with everything that's going on in Cam's life. Now, Cam,
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I do have another question I like to ask you
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in regards to we know that you have an upcoming
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cover feature in Women's Visionary Magazine. First of all, congratulations
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on that, and I hear that there are a lot
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of you know, big name celebrities that are also mentioned
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in this book as women to watch in twenty twenty five,
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just inspiring women that are doing some amazing things, and
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you being counted among them. What I do want to
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ask you my next question is this is mainly specifically
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for women who are working so hard and diligently to
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put food on the tables for their families to provide,
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who are trying to make it in what people term
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a man's world, and are really looking for some inspiration
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to kind of push past boundaries and not to give up. Cam,
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do you have any advice for women founders who are
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looking for a little extra push and inspiration.
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I really believe in trusting your gut. And that's just
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not in the kitchen. It applies to every aspect of
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your life. I think you know they call our gut
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our second brain, and we so often ignore the signals
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we get or things we feel energetically, you just know
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what's wrong, but we don't change it, and we don't
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walk away. And sometimes, as you know my story I've
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shared with you, you you've got to walk away from the table.
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If you're not being respected the way you should be,
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you're not being compensated the way you should be walk away.
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I just finally, as you know, I'm an attorney. I
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also have a Masters of Science and nutritional sciences, and
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I've always you know, represented banks, was in the SBA world,
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and I recently literally walked away from my job in
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January and stepped into this whole new life that you know,
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I've dabbled in and stepped in, stepped back, and now
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I'm done. And you know, sometimes people will go, oh,
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she's losing her mind. It's like, Nope, it's time. I'm
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going to do it. If you don't do it, you know,
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you may have to go back to school. It may
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take you six years. Okay, well start, you're gonna end
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up six years down the road. Anyway, You're gonna do
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it or not do it. You're the only one that
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can do it. So that just is a'n advice for women.
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You know, I think you need some years right to
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have failures, to have mistakes, to have disappointments. You you
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learn the most from those failures, from those bad times.
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And this cookbook is not it's not just for women.
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You know, I want college kids, all genders, men like
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I want a simple and you know, one of the
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great things about the book. So you know, I grew
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up in a family of six huge right, everything was
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always massive quantities. I had three kids, so always cooking
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for five. After I got to worst, it was really
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hard to cook a meal just for like. I never
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understood why people would only cook a quarter of a
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box apasta.
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Well I learned because I.
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Was still making that whole box of pasta and guess
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what I was eating for a week. Right, So going
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back to the book, going back to advice. You know,
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life is all about trying something new, learning something new.
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You should learn
something new every day. And this is
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just the Simple Things cookbook as opposed to the Simple
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Things in life philosophy, right, where small things are big things.
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It's not the material things, it's the it's the smile,
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it's the hello, I love you, it's keep it simple.
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And the analogy back in the kitchen is it's going
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to be a nutritious, hearty meal you can put together
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in twenty minutes, whether you're just cooking for you or
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your feed and your family.
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Absolutely well, well said, great advice, and I definitely believe
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that as we navigate as professionals through twenty twenty five
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and we experience setbacks and disappointments and failures, there will
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be successes along with that accomplishment's learning points, turning points,
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and hopefully in our cupboards and cabinets your cookbook Simple Things.
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I want to thank you so much for joining us
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today on a founder one hundred podcasts. For those of
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you listening at home again, you can access a copy
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of this book by purchasing it simply follow the link
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of the description of this show. Also, you can connect
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with Cam on LinkedIn or on her webs site. Again,
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just see the description of this the links in the show.
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I also want to thank everyone for joining us on
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this very special episode, and as we continue to celebrate
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women all month. During this very special month, I want
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to continue to let not just women know, but really
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everyone that as we continue to create and drive and
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grow as professionals, we therefore also have that opportunity to
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inspire others to do the same. So continue to inspire others. Cam,
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thanks again for being on today's program. Anything you'd like
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to say before we let you go.
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Now, just it's Monday, right, so bring it, New day,
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New dawn, New week, have fun.
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And on those powerful and inspirational words for all of
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you out there continue to do amazing things. Take care,
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take care, Thanks bye,