Talking With Plant-Based Nutritionist and Vegan Chef; Monica Victoria

Today I am speaking with Monica Victoria. Monica is a plant-based nutritionist, vegan chef, personal trainer,  wellness educator, devout yogi, and fitness enthusiast.  Her focus is guiding people into a state of alkalinity, via living foods, along with a complete mind/body lifestyle overhaul.

This series features conversations I conducted with individuals who have dedicated their work and lives to Vegan research, businesses, art, and society. This podcast series is hosted by Patricia Kathleen and Wilde Agency Media. 

www.monicavictoria.com

 

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[00:00:10] Hi, I'm Patricia. And this is investigating Vegan life with Patricia Kathleen. This series features interviews and conversations I conduct with experts from food and fashion to tech and agriculture, from medicine and science to health and humanitarian arenas. Our inquiry is an effort to examine the variety of industries and lifestyle tenants in the world of Vegan life. To that end. We will cover topics that have revealed themselves as Kofman and integral when exploring veganism. The dialog captured here is part of our ongoing effort to host transparent and honest rhetoric. For those of you who, like myself, find great value in hearing the expertize and opinions of individuals who have dedicated their work and lives to their ideals. You can find information about myself and my podcast at Patricia Kathleen dot com. Welcome to Investigating Vegan Life. Now let's start the conversation. 

 

[00:01:13] Hi, everyone, and welcome back. This is your host, Patricia, and I am sitting down today with Monica Victoria. Monica is a plant based nutritionist, Vegan chef and a wellness coach. Welcome, Monica. 

 

[00:01:24] Thank you so much. So excited to be here. 

 

[00:01:26] Absolutely. I'm excited to have you as well. 

 

[00:01:29] So, really quickly, before I read a quick bio on Monica, before I do that for everyone listening and watching the Vodcast or the podcast today, a quick roadmap of what we're gonna discuss today is we're gonna get into a brief history of Monica as it pertains to her plant based and Vegan journey. And then we'll look at unpacking Monica Victoria's brand, her website, her Instagram. I know there's a lot of information spread across your Instagram site. And then we'll get into the ethos of the of her plant based endeavor. So she does a lot of coaching, a lot of recipes and kind of plenty some of that, as well as motivations and lifestyles, that she has an interaction she has with clients during that, and then also get into how her business and professional history, what they're looking towards in the future, especially given the current cultural and economic climate that we're all faced in with the pandemic of the Cauvin virus. And then we'll look towards a wrap everything up with future endeavors that Monica thinks she's looking towards, as well as any goals or plans that she has. Before we get into all of that quick file on Monica, Monica Victoria is a plant based nutritionist, Vegan chef, personal trainer, wellness educator, devout yogi and fitness enthusiast. Her focus is guiding people into a state of alkalinity via living foods, along with a complete mind body lifestyle overhaul by introducing a plant based diet. She enhances internal organ health, outward physical appearance, daily thoughts, self-confidence and cognitive reasoning. With an emphasis on disease prevention via plant foods and cardiovascular health, Monaca guides her clients to live an empowered life, learning that nutrient dense food. Plant food is mind body fuel. That fitness is a reward and the ultimate form of self-love. Her approach to life is one of no excuses doing, not trying and never being prisoner to past traumas, but becoming stronger because of them. 

 

[00:03:22] So, Monica, I'm so excited to climb into everything that you are doing right now. 

 

[00:03:27] But before we do that, I'm hoping you can paint us a brief history regarding your educational or academic background and then your early professional life as it pertains to like your Vegan and plant based empire. 

 

[00:03:39] Oh, well, thank you for the introduction. Yeah. When when you hear about yourself like that, you kind of go, oh, those those are all the things I do. So thank you. Well, education wise, I got certified through the call into Campbell's program as a certified plant based nutritionist. So I did that online course. But I would say that most of my education is all research that I've done that I continue to do daily know over the past two decades, basically. And it actually all kicked off for me by reading the book Skinny Bitch, which I'm sure familiar with. And I respond very well to black and white information. I don't like things to be sort of, you know, sugar coated. And it was just so raw and real and straight to the point that it clicked with me. And I became Vegan overnight. I've always like literally always been vegetarian naturally, because since I was a child, I have always been very connected to animals, to the to the physical world. I just been very in tune with the universe and I never even enjoyed animal products. OK. And I grew up in Spain. I'm Spanish. Italian. My mom. My mother's the Italian. My father's a Spaniard. Yeah. So, you know, obviously, Mediterranean cuisine is primarily plant based, but they do have a large focus on especially like on pork products. Yeah. But I never liked them ice cream. I never liked dairy. Never settled well with me. And luckily for me, like my mom cooked everything. So I was raised on very good nutrient dense food and there wasn't that many. We didn't have like animal products at our dinner table everyday. Like, I think a lot of people feel, oh, if I don't have a piece of chicken or a piece of meat or whatever on on my dinner plate, then I don't have a complete meal. Correct. What has been the, you know, of course, perpetuated by the meat dairy industry that to have a complete meal, you have to have animal protein border to get your protein, et cetera. But we'll talk about that further into the podcast. Yeah, my point is for for all this information is that I was already an environmentalist. I was already very involved with animal welfare. And so if you are an environmentalist and you are an animal rights advocate or you want to protect animals, whether it's dogs, cats, horses, rhinos, and you're not Vegan, you are contradicting your beliefs because you cannot be an environmentalist or an animal rights like. Kate, if you're still eating them, though, you know, there is. For me, no other way to be if you are, you know, conscious of animal welfare and environmental welfare and human rights. So. Right. Well, that came together for me once I read that book because there's just no way. And also, I'm not a speciesist and I don't believe in dominion. So, like, I don't believe that my life as a human being is worth more than that of a female cow, for example. So I as a female especially, do not condone or could be a part of the dairy industry that keeps basically female cows institutionalized and slave labor basically forced pregnancy over and over and over. And in order for them to, you know, lactate and then to steal their milk, then they take the baby cow. We all know what happens. So all of this just resonated very deeply with me. And because of that, I've been Vegan for 50 years. And that's what has taken me to where I am today. 

 

[00:07:19] It's amazing history. You know, we were talking off the record before we started recording and. And I always feel like I've got a pretty good handle on it, you know? 

 

[00:07:27] And I speak with someone like you who's had this fifteen year plus, you know, relationship and history and lifestyle as a Vegan. And I'm like, there's so much more to go, you know, because I was explaining that my life changes, really, you know, that my and my relationship with it. I always think that it's it's well thought and calm, but it becomes even more calm. And the consistency in which it makes sense with everything peaceful and wonderful in the world is always, you know, being reaffirmed. I'm wondering if we can kind of unpack a little bit about what you're doing. And I know that your Web site. So for everyone listening, it's Monica. Victoria dot com. And I know like a lot of us right now, we're doing a lot of work on our our web back ends and things like that. But you're online. And for people who got to it's there. And then you also have your Instagram is at at Monaca, Victoria. 

 

[00:08:17] Yeah. One word first middle name. 

 

[00:08:19] Mural's on Snapchat for anyone who's interested with the Vegan siren. But your main your main platform is at Monaca Victoria, on Instagram. So I kind of want to touch on too. 

 

[00:08:28] I know that your Web site is is a work of progress right now. However, I want to get into some aspects on it. You offer a lot of different ideas about what you're branded and who you are is as a coach, as as a speaker. And you talk about recipes and resources and things like that. Can you kind of describe what you're working on or who in the past you've worked with, who've been your clients and what you're looking at doing kind of with this entire Vegan enterprise of yours? 

 

[00:08:58] So I basically use myself as a model, if you will, for how, you know, living plant based is an investment long term in yourself. And it's the ultimate form of disease prevention, longevity and anti aging, because especially for women, I think the number one concern is their physical appearance right where I live, especially in Newport Beach. I mean, the whole emphasis is on the way people look, right? They're spending thousands and thousands of dollars on external treatments, but they're not focusing on their internal organ health, which is what dictates the external appearance. Right. The way your skin looks, the quality, the texture of the skin, hair, the maintenance that you have to do on yourself. And the solutions are very simple. Once you get into a rhythm with your what you put into your body physically, it's really not what you're putting on top. You know, like the topical stuff, it's more the internal organ focus. So that's what I do with the people that I work with. I try to get them to realize that no amount of money that they spend on external is ever going to replace what they put into their body. I mean, there are women who are obsessed with their external appearance, so they'll spend thousands of dollars on hair, nails, makeup, skincare products, you know, treatments like, oh, this, that whatever what they're eating. Del Toro three times a day. I'm being dead serious right now. Like, I know people who actually do this. It's wild to believe, but they're obsessed with the way they look. So, you know, I understand that veganism as a lifestyle is really. Almost impossible for a lot of people to believe that it's something that they could achieve. So what I try to do is I go to it from a person's like a sweet spot, right. So whatever it is that they're really focused on enhancing, we start there and we go. We start from the inside out, literally. And that's what I do with my clients. And it was really fascinating because I know you talked about how your journey as a Vegan like how you can how you're always changing. Right now it's shifting. And I think when you first go Vegan and you're inundated with, you know, the documentaries and the information, you see how much cruelty is out there and how unbalanced the world is and how so many people are suffering, not just animals, but human beings, the humans that are doing the actual slaughter, jobs, et cetera. Right. Yeah. Which I think a lot of people don't talk about enough in the Vegan movement because unfortunately, a lot of people do not connect to animal welfare. What they do connects to human beings being used basically as slave labor. Because let's be serious. The people that are doing the jobs, these horrible jobs, they're not people like you and I who have the ability and the access to do better things with our life. It's people that are typically on the poverty line or that are illegal immigrants, et cetera, that have no other option and that are basically forced into these jobs because they literally cannot do anything else. They're put into these positions, forced basically, and have to commit basically murder every day. And then they take that horrible negative energy and it gets redistributed among their community. Right. 

 

[00:12:25] You I want to kind of differentiate here really quickly, because you are touching on a point that when I speak with so vegans or plant based people, this has become a really divisive and interesting. I'm really glad you brought this out in the community, because I noticed that you use both terms about being a plant based nutritionist and also a vegan lifestyle coach and things of that nature. But I'm curious for you yourself personally, how do you differentiate what you find to be the differences between the terms and how you think that that there's like a dialog happening on the social platform and how you think that's playing out? 

 

[00:13:00] Well, so someone like myself can call herself vegan. And because I've been living like this for almost two decades. Right. I'm heavily involved with activism. And my whole approach to life in general comes from the Vegan perspective of equality, non dominion, peace and to cause non harming. Right. So that's my whole goal in life for people who are in the I mean, plant based movement, if you want to call it that. It's awesome because you're focused on the nutrition aspect. Right. So not consuming, acidic, dead foods, which are all animal products and all processed manmade products. Why do I call myself a plant based nutritionist? Because, I mean, plant foods are what provide the best nutrition. Right. I don't want to call myself a Vegan nutritionist because veganism is a way of life. Plant based is what we put into our body. Like it's the nutrition aspect. Correct. So I am a vegan and I do encourage a vegan lifestyle. But veganism as a way of living encompasses literally all aspects of your life, all your vices, the brands you support. You know, where you shop, the things you buy. It's looking at things from a much bigger perspective, going deeper into the back end of everyday products and being conscious of what you do on this earth, the effect that it has on other living beings, the environment. And knowing that just because, like I live in Newport Beach doesn't mean I'm not connected to what's happening in, you know, in Africa, for example, everything's connected. And look at the way we look at us now. Right. Like the state of the world. If it's ever proven more true that we are all connected, it's now everything, every single action, we do have consequences. 

 

[00:14:45] And I wonder I mean, I know I know a good majority, a great deal anyway, of vegans that ascribe to what you're saying, which is, you know, the title Vegan is M implies a lifestyle and and a way of living, not just necessarily needs. However, there's been some pushback because and I'm not sure where the argument will ever end up, but on people products in particular. So mass produced products are are attaching to plant based the way that people attach to, you know, fortified with vitamins and minerals. Like they just started to say everything was plant based and it wasn't Vegan. And so a lot of vegans are going into and finding, you know, all of these products that have this label of plant based on them is there is some kind of plant based nutrient to them. Yeah. But that it's not necessarily Vegan, you know, they don't have a gilger, something like that. And so there's been some some pushback in that, like everyone started to attach health and wellness to plant based like they did with sugar free in the 80s. And it was this hype like, oh, it's going to be healthy for, says, plant based. 

 

[00:15:45] And so I know there's been some pushback with people saying, like the Vegan certified seal and things like I think that plant base is a slippery slope because, you know, there's a lot of people who consider themselves plant based. The majority of the time, what, they'll still slip in some fish or some eggs every now and then, but they're majority plant based. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, yeah, plant based is is just that plant based. Their base is plants not excluding potentially other other products that don't fall under the Vegan category. Right. Yeah. Here's a perfect example. If someone says, oh, I eat I, I used to be Vegan and I'm not anymore. There is no way you were ever Vegan because one, if your Vegan your Vegan for life, you were in this because you realize that your impact on this earth is less like you don't cause as big of a detriment as a Vegan. Right. Your footprint in every way is lessened when you are committed to a vegan lifestyle. There is no way that my belief system is going to go out the window because one day I wake up, which I never would. And I'm craving a hamburger. Right. That's never gonna happen. If you're if you're a true vegan. If someone says, oh, my God, I like when Vegan for two weeks. No, you didn't. You were eating plant based for two weeks. 

 

[00:17:07] Yeah, I'm saying. Sure, sure. Sure. Yeah. 

 

[00:17:09] Those are those things that you like. I get that v the v the word Vegan is trendy right now. Right. People are embracing it which I think is amazing. 

 

[00:17:19] I mean, anything that we can do in order to further right the awareness of the information and everything that goes along with veganism plant based is wonderful. But for the pushback that you're talking about, it's exactly that. The crossover and the the loose. I think a lot of people, the purists, for example, like myself, when we see brands profiting off of labels like Vegan or Plan Base and they're not. That is infuriating. 

 

[00:17:50] Absolutely. And it's also it's misleading. So maybe it's a misleading clarification. I like defining terms and I like opportunities to go back in and redefine. And I'm hoping that this is actually one of them for the food industries. 

 

[00:18:02] I want to turn toward something you alluded towards when I asked you how you pitched, you know, plant based and vegan lifestyles to your clients. And you said that you kind of got into what they were into. You found their weak spot and put you up. And that was fascinating to me because I first of all, I think it's it's the best angle to come at any one on a sales pitch for health or for wellness of anything, finding out what matters to them and really coming home with that, being looking beautiful or fighting off cancer. But I wanted to turn that towards I think it's a. Yeah, exactly. I want to. I usually do do both. I want to turn that into this. This perception of it unifying. You know, you have this idea that whatever is is ailing someone, whoever unifies all of us. And given the pandemic right now of Cobley 19 and what we're all dealing with, you know, it came from. Well, right now at least it's believed. I want to put that out there hypothetically right now. It is believed that kov the virus jumped species in a wet market in China and a wet market is based on the sale and consumption of mammals, reptiles, fish and all of that. And I'm wondering, I don't think that there was a lot of unification across countries, you know, and I've globe-trotting quite a bit. And I've spoken with vegans all over the world and different communities have different objections or ways that they're coming at the lifestyle. But it feels like the pandemic reality of this and where it was born from. You know, these kinds of like animal eating systems and markets has unified us, at least in this rhetoric of like we need to start considering like this, these types of things becoming issues for people who are like, I would never eat plant based. I would never be Vegan like, well, you might if it would keep your great grandchildren from dying, you know, like these ideas of pandemics and things that no longer are born out of your cholesterol or blood pressure or things that people know me. 

 

[00:20:00] Yeah, I have several thoughts on this. There are so many people that are horrified by wet markets, which of course we are. It's the gnarliest level of inhumane, subhuman evil ever on this earth. Right. They're eating pangolins. They're eating bats. They're eating literally cubs of koalas like the animals that are there. 

 

[00:20:25] I don't even have words. Right. But what drives me absolutely insane is that everyone, like all the Western cultures that are freaking out over this, will sit down for dinner and eat chicken or beef. Right. What is the difference? Animals are getting slaughtered literally hundreds of billions of them every year. 

 

[00:20:48] Right. So that's my question. I'm wondering if now with with this kind of very real like I don't think that those kinds of things penetrate. 

 

[00:20:56] I think the emotional attachment to food is that of, oh, my God, a drug. It's it's the most powerful drug, the most powerful medicine. I 1000 percent. Yeah. And so I think that people can say they're opposed to cruelty or they're opposed to eating certain animals and then consume another because of the crazy drug like effect that food has on people. However. 

 

[00:21:15] And one and also because it's not realized that there is not stigma. Well there is more now, but there's not as much stigma attached to eating chicken. Like there is no attachment. There is no correlation with the actual life of a chicken versus that of a koala, for example. Right. That they place more value on a koala's life than they do want a chicken because. Oh, my God, there's like billions of chickens. Who cares? 

 

[00:21:38] But do you think that no value will change now that they have. There's an impression now. 

 

[00:21:43] There's some I'm hoping I'm hoping we're all quarantined in our houses globally because of, you know, of the consumption of animals. And so when you have enough things like this start to hit home, I'm wondering if you think that there will be some kind of light bulb that goes on, at least with. 

 

[00:22:00] You work, I think that like for someone like me, who is a very vocal about this and constantly trying to get people to make the connection to not be hypocrites and not, again, speciesism. It's it's it's rampant. Right. We shouldn't. I always say and it's like one of my taglines. You cannot love animals and eat them, too. You can't you can't love one, but not the other. It just doesn't work that way. You know, there has to be equality across the board. If you're going to say that you love animals, it just it it it just doesn't translate properly. So what? Of course, one of the one I guess one of the good things, if you want to call it that, that's come out of this entire pandemic, is that, you know, the sales of plant based products, these products have gone up like 600 percent. Rand people wanting to adopt a plant based lifestyle has exploded. I mean, just in my business alone, you know, because I do meal prep deliveries and I you know, I cook and people will not cooking people's homes now, but I am delivering more food than I ever have because, you know, people are worried. They're concerned. They're fearful of, you know, putting the wrong things into their body and potentially having detrimental side effects. And immunity is the biggest factor in all of this. Right. Eighty percent of our immunity lies in our gut. And that's something that you work on every day, pandemic or not. It doesn't matter. Like, what I keep telling people is, look. For example, the Web and living for fifteen years when some crazy shit like this happens. 

 

[00:23:32] I'm ready, baby. Like my dad, my immunity defense system is like the US military living inside of my gut. It's ready. It's armed. It's like boom, boom, boom, or whatever you want at me. 

 

[00:23:43] Obviously, I would never put myself into a situation where I could actually, you know, be exposed to it. But the reality is, for someone like myself, the risk of me contracting it is so low because my immunity defense is so high. Why wouldn't everybody want to be in this living in this kind of environment? Why wouldn't everybody wants to be always prepared? That's why I always say it's never too late to start. But the sooner you do, the better because you're prepared for anything that comes out. 

 

[00:24:11] You more for your health, given your family's history, too. And I will say I just got done a couple of weeks ago Globe-Trotting And so I love finding out different people's impressions. 

 

[00:24:22] But because you come from a non USA based family, when you talk to them about veganism, do you get different kinds of pushback that you get from people who aren't Vegan in the United States? And do you have family members that aren't Vegan that you're able to kind of exchange information with? 

 

[00:24:38] Well, my entire extended family lives in Europe, Lip, like everybody of my my father's side. They all live in Spain, my mother's side. They all live in Italy. And we have family and in the United Kingdom, in London, which is where I was born. So I'm British by birth, Spanish, Italian by blood and American by residency. OK. Her so do I. It's interesting when when I first won Vegan 15 years ago. Of course it was. Yeah. I mean I had extended family members that would send me the stupidest shit you've ever seen on Facebook and, you know, just ignorance, you know what I mean. And also, it's what's scary about veganism to people as you're making them question their entire existence. You're making them question everything you've ever even in their entire life. It makes people be like, wait, you're telling me my culture is wrong? You're telling me what my dad fed me. My mom and dad gave me, like, what raised me on his wrong. Like, you're telling me that, you know, there's cruelty. Like, it just raises all of these very deep rooted and implanted structural ideas that you inherited basically from birth. You know, the psychology of food, as you mentioned earlier, is the biggest barrier and that sickest layer to navigate through when you're just trying to bring people information. 

 

[00:25:52] And what I always say is when you do things that make you better, that make your health better, it has nothing to do with your family. It has nothing to do with anybody but yourself. You putting yourself first and having non attachment to the past, because realistically, any culture, any way of whatever their interpretation is of like, you know, their their history or their family or whatever. 

 

[00:26:18] All those recipes can be tweaked and be made plant based to be made healthy. You can still have everything you've ever wanted. You're just removing a couple of things that don't serve you well. So have I had pushback? I mean, yeah, of course I want to. I'll never forget, like especially in the beginning before veganism was so widely accepted. And I was like to say, like, I've been vegan before. It was trendy right before it was cool. Like, this is just who I am. 

 

[00:26:42] I've always been enlightened, but I I have specific memories of people who did not want me going to dinners with them because my presence as a vegan made them uncomfortable. And I always say it has nothing to do with me. I am merely a representation of like who I am and why I am my authentic self. Right. I have no fear. I'm not I'm not out here to, like, make you uncomfortable. I'm just living my truth. 

 

[00:27:07] If I make you uncomfortable, that's because you are literally at war with your subconscious and trying to, like, make what you are doing, your decisions. OK. In your own head, for people who literally do not give an F and that I'm there, they'll eat a fuckin steak in front of me. They don't care. 

 

[00:27:26] But those people are few and far between. I will tell you what. They do exist. 

 

[00:27:30] They do exist. And if that's where they're at. And that that's what makes them feel triumphant. I say good for you. You know what I mean? It doesn't affect me. Maybe fifteen years ago it was because when you first go into the movement, you see things and you're like, what do you realize? Like what you're what you're eating, what you're doing and where it came from. 

 

[00:27:49] Now I'm like so logical and so rational. Now I realize that the best way for me to lead is by example and by educating, not by force. That's why I don't push veganism on people. I just encourage them to consume more plant based foods that make them feel better, make them look better, because eventually they teeter off naturally. The animal based products. Yeah. 

 

[00:28:11] But to do it, I think the greatest. Everyone always talks about the greatest convertors to veganism. I'm like. Education is also leading by example. 

 

[00:28:19] It's like who you are. Like your energy, like what you bring. People always say to me, like the number one Kofman is you have so much energy. Crazy, and I'm like, yeah, because my body is like so hydrated and so mineralized because I only fiber rich foods, which, by the way. Everybody's always like crazy, virgin, virgin. It's actually not about protein, it's about fiber. Fiber is what keeps our body hydrated. It heals the organs. It should be recuperates like, you know, illness, disease. It prevents disease. So and also there's protein and like literally every every every vegetable, every living, every week. 

 

[00:28:57] You eat like I always say, you know, if you think you're getting protein from eating beef, what do you think the cow aids in order to become protein? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. 

 

[00:29:07] So and adding that you find protein as a vegetable, usually as a significant amount of fiber. So they're handed iron. 

 

[00:29:13] And yes, that's why I say like eat as much fiber as you want because you're getting a ton of protein. You know, on as you know, it comes with it. You know what I mean? And I would like to say the side effects of living a plant based lifestyle are amazing. 

 

[00:29:27] I am 41 years old. I have never colored my hair in my life. This is my real color. 

 

[00:29:34] This is like how long and healthy my hair is. I do nothing. I don't get any kind of fillers, any kind of injectables. I don't do any of that shit. I just eat for beauty. That's what I always say. Eat, eat, eat as much as you want. It's not about calories and about carbs. It's not about any of this nonsense. It's just eating, living foods and being creative with them and being happy and getting out there and being in nature, getting sunlight. And the crazy thing about this whole college experience is people are actually reconnecting to Mother Earth. Yeah, I live as a beach. You live at the beach. You know how it is. We have neighbors that literally never go out on their front deck or walk down to the ocean. 

 

[00:30:11] Seeing people reconnecting to nature has been, for me, the most beautiful part of this entire experience, seeing that like people don't need to spend so much time in front of a screen or on their phone or just like busy doing what? 

 

[00:30:27] What the fuck are you so busy doing all the time that you can't get out in nature and just, like, embrace the natural world? 

 

[00:30:33] Right. Absolutely. Yeah. I don't know. And I don't you can see everything that you need to be eating because it's out there. Yes, it's in the ground. 

 

[00:30:40] I tell people, I tell you a lot of time you're better off eating that dirt than you are. You know, that prepackaged, disgusting slab of ground beef that has all these chemicals added to it. And that's a whole other layer as it's like when you're eating animal products, it's rotting flesh, literally, and wrapped in a plastic bag. 

 

[00:31:02] What do you think they're putting into that rotting flesh in order to preserve it or to make it pretty like pretty pink nice colors, you know, like chemicals and all kinds of the whole free range organic. 

 

[00:31:15] It doesn't matter. At the end of the day, it's dead, rotting flesh that goes into your body. It's acidic and it's the roots of all disease. 

 

[00:31:23] Yeah. Well, and to wrap everything up because you and I have something in common that I just discovered in our pre podcast talk. But I want you to kind of speak towards you have a little a little guest behind you as my guest. 

 

[00:31:37] How? And he has a history. 

 

[00:31:40] So maybe McGoo. Mr. Magoo. 

 

[00:31:45] And he is how old again? He's well, he's twelve years old. 

 

[00:31:51] He's so spry for an English bulldog at twelve. I just can't believe it. I don't. I am a huge, huge dog lover and I didn't. But they don't usually live that long. Can you speak to. 

 

[00:32:02] Is he. So he was raised primarily vegetarian. His entire life and in is now in his old age. And like I would say, the past six months, he basically, like, stopped eating. He wouldn't eat. It was driving me insane. So I. I actually went to just food for dogs and not nothing, I'm plugging them or whatever, but I do think they're good. And I got him the fish and vegetable recipe. And so I add that in with his Vegan kibble and he and he's eating again. So, I mean, I would never be able to feed him turkey or beef or anything like that. Not that I'm OK with fish necessarily, but that is what he's on right now to be to be completely transparent. Yeah, I was raised primarily Vegan, but when I'm telling you that I could not get him to eat a bowl of food for months. I had to do something that I felt was the most closest to. And that's what worked for me in this past, you know, past few months. So that's where he is. 

 

[00:33:05] It seems like he's like. 

 

[00:33:07] I know he's amazing. I mean, he's gonna be 13 in June and July, and he works out with me every single day we play basketball. I mean, if we did another zoo meeting outdoors, I could show you the way he plays basketball every single day. He balances on the ball. He's crazy. He can keep up with me. I mean, he I have a 13 home medicine ball that I used to work out when I do my outdoor workouts. He moves the 50 pound medicine ball around. 

 

[00:33:29] It's fantastic. 

 

[00:33:31] But I also attribute that to, like, again, going back to let's not just talk about nutrition, quality of life, being exposed to the natural elements, being in the sun, being at the beach, being in the grass, being in the earth. That has contributed so much to his quality of life because we spend because we are so blessed to live at the beach. He's been swimming in the ocean his entire life. You've been exposed to the natural elements. He has been with me like he you know, you transfer your energy onto your pet, right? Your pet becomes like your mirror image. I always say this. And also something to think about is your energy, your light and your personal satisfaction with self that attracts people. Right. That energy people just I'm sure it happens to you. People are drawn to you. They just want to talk to you. They want to hear what you have to say it. It's for me, it's it happens every single day. I mean, I have run ins and conversations with people. Obviously recoded when, you know, you can sit outside of a cafe and just have conversation with the person sitting at a table next to you and conversations come up. And I always say, like, for some reason, the universe always places me where I need to be. I can't tell you the amount of times that I've overheard a conversation where people were discussing food and food issues or issues that they're having. And I just I couldn't resist. And I'll chime in and I'll give them just five minutes of information and it will change their life. 

 

[00:34:53] Yeah, I do that. I want to get into that before we leave. I want to have you kind of speak to who should be reaching out to who. 

 

[00:35:02] Who are you interested in working with and helping? Your ideal client sounds like it could be just about anybody who wants to make a change either or health or bubi by illness. 

 

[00:35:13] Yeah. I mean, I just want to my purpose on this earth is to infuse people with the confidence and belief system that they deserve to eat and live a better life. And this crosses over all socio economic platforms. 

 

[00:35:34] It doesn't matter if you're extremely wealthy or if you're barely making it. I see the same food issues because I work with very high net worth clientele. And then just my doors are open to everyone. Right now, my. Of course, we need. Of course, I have to make a living. But like, my main purpose in life is not money driven. I really want to reach as many people as I can because I truly believe that when you are living your truth and you are committed to what it is, that your legacy is to be everything that supposed to happen to you. The rewards, financially, etc. will come at their pace. 

 

[00:36:09] So who do I want to work with? Anybody that wants to stop living in a poverty mentality, in the mentality of, you know. 

 

[00:36:21] This deep subconscious level where people will continue to put bad foods into their body because on a deep subconscious level, they don't believe they're worthy of better. And I see this, like I told you, with people that live in 20 million dollar homes in Newport Coast, like it doesn't matter what you're worth, your net worth. It's about what you feel you're worth inside. 

 

[00:36:41] So removing that barrier and getting people to believe that doesn't matter what they were exposed to growing up, their traumas, anything that they've been that they've experienced in their life. When they simplify their food and their environment, it radically changes who you are from a deep core level because it traces into your mind the mind gut connection. Is everything right? Everything that we put into our body is committee, you know, entering into our brain. I am always positive. How could I not be? I don't have any negativity living in my body. I don't have dead animals living inside of me. I don't have the corpses floating around in there rotting inside of my fucking gut, you know what I mean? 

 

[00:37:20] Yeah. And I think sharing that with people, it becomes self evident pretty quickly. 

 

[00:37:24] Yeah, it does. And you know, everybody I, I it's crazy because I talk to people, I talk to kids because I work with families too. And children are hungry for knowledge. They are they when you simply pick up something and you're like, hey, you see this. You see these. See these ingredients on the back pretending this is like a processed bombs or whatever. And I'm like, can you can you read any of these things? And they'll like, look at like dioxane little and all these like horrible like chemically, you know, unpronounceable words. And they're like, I don't even like. Do you know that is. No, I don't know what it is. Do you think you should be eating it. And they're like, no. And it clicks for them. Yeah. And I show them I teach them how to make smoothies with bananas and mangoes and spinach and berries and an almond butter and. And they're they're excited now. So I always tell people, like, it brings families together to spend time with your kids, cook with them. Sure. You know, encourage them to eat with them. It's not a punishment. It's actually a gift, you know. And for females, because at the end of the day, like moms mostly are the ones, the heart of the home. Right. They have to lead. So we have to encourage people, male and female, to be leaders to be that example in their family dynamic. Because I cannot even tell you the amount of moms and dads tell me. Well, you know, he's a picky eater. He'll only eat this and he'll need that. 

 

[00:38:47] And what I say is he's only eating that because you're letting him right or allow and permitting it to someone goes hungry enough, they'll eat anything. 

 

[00:38:57] I promise you that at the end of the day, like the seven year old does not dictate, you know, the what, the contents of the kitchen. Absolutely not. The one bringing in the income, you know. So it really is, especially in this time like that we live in. I mean, I don't know how you were raised, but like we my mom, which I'm so thankful for now, like our bed was made every day. Everything was clean, organized, immaculate. There was no excuses. We couldn't just like. No, it had to be done. That's my approach to life in general. Get it done. Stop saying you're going to try trying. Doesn't accomplish shit. Get it done. 

 

[00:39:32] Do it. Yeah. Like, follow through. There we have it. Yo. And don't tell yourself. Well I'm gonna give it two weeks and see how I feel. That's that's not how anything works. 

 

[00:39:43] You can't go into a new career and say, I'm going to give it two weeks. Say I feel you've got to put the work in. Yeah. Got to go. You need to get better. You can't go to the gym for two weeks and expect to get a six pack. You have to put the work and you have to continues continuously rise and you know. 

 

[00:39:58] So for those of you who are looking to put the work in, you should reach out to her. 

 

[00:40:02] She's at on Instagram. It's at Monaca, Victoria. 

 

[00:40:06] So thank you so much for talking with us today, Monica. We're out of time, but I just want to say I really appreciate your candor and all of your information. 

 

[00:40:14] Encourage any of you who want to get more involved in what she's had to say here or chat her up, hit her up on Instagram. Monica. Victoria or her website, I'm sure, will be up and coming. It's there anyway, even if it's a little bit. Yeah, it's just getting reworked. Victoria dot com. But thank you so much for giving us your time today. 

 

[00:40:34] I am honored to have been a guest. Thank you so much. 

 

[00:40:37] Absolutely. And for everyone listening until we talk again next time. Remember to each well and always bet on yourself.