 Today's episode of the Anthony Anderson show is brought to you by us gold coins dot com. That's 1 800 hot coin and Mezzy grill mezzy grill dot com and also trade hill dot com Greetings everyone. This is Anthony Anderson coming at you from New York City episode number two I'm here today with Mia Andres of organic Avenue, and we're here today to talk about organic Avenue Talk about cleansing your story I really want to get into organic cosmetics I want to talk a lot about your experience with Feng Shui So let's start off with your history. Tell me a little bit about yourself How you came to be in New York City how you came to be into conscious eating especially that would be really cool Sure, so I've now been here in New York City for just about 10 years Okay, I'm originally from California, Southern Cal, San Diego, and I came here on vacation 2000 and decided this was the place where I wanted to call home my new zip code So moved into New York two months after my first vacation here Okay, and it fell in love with the city and been working here with major cosmetic company back then right quite some time and I decided 2008 it was time for me to move on and find truth in my life and Really just go out there and do what I really want to do Yeah, it was time for me to go back home Okay, San Diego and kind of get still and get grounded and decided to pack up again Temporarily just to stay there and see where life was going to take me sure so It transformed. Yeah, and then getting into the way like what year did the food start coming into play? Well, it started coming into play that year in 2008. Okay. Yeah, so the summer I left on June and was back in California Within literally About less than 30 days. I went attended a workshop Okay, and it was a Qigong workshop to learn how to breathe Sure really get still again and really find my breath because living in the rat race here in New York City My breath is stuck here for the longest time. So I Attended this workshop for four hour actually a 40 workshop eight hours a day and from there On my first day. It was just expelling toxins and sweat and perspiration And I thought it was not normal to experience it and I had no idea I was gonna feel that way But it was such a great transformation And you felt that on the first day on the first day of just breathing so well how to breathe all the way down to your Dantian and What's the Dantian? Well, it's it's down here where you focus your breath and really sort of just expanding your your lungs and breathing in all the way down to your spine and Just allowing all the energy to move from the bottom of your feet all the way up to your crown chakra Yeah, and we did just did several different exercises circle of breath exercise Where you're in a circle of we there must have been 300 over 300 people at that particular event just learning how to breathe and It was amazing on the second day It was a nutritional class on an hour of nutritional healing and I had no idea that that was even going to be discussed right so the founder took a blend tech blender and Took a whole avocado the seed intact with the avocado added some blueberries Spinach and some other produce and created this really delicious Purple smoothie well in love with it and for the first time in my life the light bulb hit like literally lit up and and I went vegan, okay, I went raw, okay, and Alcohol-free and also caffeine-free everything was pretty much coffee was out coffee was out Okay, I was drinking three cups of coffee a day when I was living here in New York and Just my dream was a shot. Yes. So what happens when you drink too much coffee? Oh It's your greenals, right? Yes. Yeah, your dream old so It was a good thing. I really enjoyed it and I ended up Deciding okay. It was time for me to literally just You know change my life. So I learned how to make some raw food And a friend of mine had recommended for me to go to a retreat and I decided, you know, I'll save my money. I'm really Creative I know how to make and create really beautiful tasting recipes. So I went on the website Came across your website and watch your videos I saw an APO's videos and just started to make my own food Okay, and I would sit there on the dining table by myself because nobody wanted to eat the food And just be really Gracious and have gratitude of what I was eating and I was eating organic and luckily, you know in California The food's really delicious, especially in the the local farmers market. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so that's how it Transformed and I just let every single day pass, you know by one day at a time wasn't thinking about the future just living presently learn how to Meditate through falling still my friend Dremel our friend Dremel Perot Created a video call falling still so I found myself in front of a computer Falling still for one minute and it was my way to learn how to meditate because it was difficult for me in the past To have no thoughts coming through. I mean, especially living in New York There's thoughts that are always passing through day by day minute by minute, so yeah, it was good for me to just literally learn how to do that and It worked and I evolved into a longer meditation. So now I'm able to meditate up to 20 minutes I don't do anything longer than that I usually like to do a five-minute meditation before work nice when I get up in the morning and when I go to bed Okay, just to really release all the The thoughts out of the head and any negative energies and allow the chakras to just flow through show absolutely Yeah, a really cool idea with this falling still is that there's a mentality out there That some people might hold that the longer you meditate the more hardcore you are and the better the more enlightened you are and the more you're gonna get from it and Really, I don't feel like it's like that. I feel like if we are Conscious about just kind of breaking through throughout the day whenever we can breaking through that veil of you know Endless thinking and the and the mindless chatter in our brains if we can just stop for a minute or two and just calmly like Sit in a chair close our eyes and just clear our thoughts for two minutes Or me if you don't want to clear your thoughts just think about Gratitude and rate your life really is and how lucky you are doing things like that make a big difference And you can just do it throughout the day, you know one minute here two minutes there Let's do one right now sure And really it's only a minute. It's not like we're gonna sit here for 30 minutes and it's not a big It's not a pissing contest of what people call it. It's not about quantity. It's really about the quality So we just kind of sit for a little while Take a few deep breaths a lot of people like to put their hands on their knees You can sit on the ground if you'd like to if you can directly sit like on the grass or on a rock That's even better because you'll be grounded to the earth's electrical current But if you can just sit in the chair and just take a few deep breaths into the nose out of the mouth and just think about some good stuff or clear your thoughts about living on a paradise planet and Hanging out with my grandkids as they pick fruit and nuts from our food forest when I'm 70 years old and thinking about You know forests Covering cities, but people still living in these cities and skyscrapers coming up for these jungles and everything is sustainable And everyone's eating fresh fruit By putting those kinds of thoughts into my mind I feel like I push out that vibration into the world and it's just a nice little reset kind of like a reboot of my hard drive when throughout the day, you know, there's so much going on It's just nice to kind of sit for like a couple minutes and hopefully in silence without me chatting about But you get the idea and it's actually like a really nice way to just kind of chill out for a bit and reset your clock And really again, it's not about the time and the length of time and the the endurance of the meditation It's more just about thinking that you want to just have a Kind of just a little reset and even if it's only a minute That's really what counts and you can do it throughout the day I like to do my exercises like that too where I feel like I don't have to do it all in one big chunk I can just break it up throughout the day and do a little five-minute stints and ten-minute stints And it ends up allowing me to be more consistent And then I'm able to make that connection more often throughout the day because maybe it's better to do it Five times a day for one minute. Of course instead of once a day for 60 Yeah, and then the rest of the day you're busy and you know, it's almost best to kind of It's always good to reset reset. Yeah. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, so how long have you been with organic Avenue? It's now two and a half years. Okay. Yes I decided to move back to New York City after seven months of living in California and I came here in December for my second trip right 2009 and Walked into organic Avenue. I was looking for a tri-best blender that Annie recommended from her videos any PO any PO and I saw these juices in the refrigerator and I was already drinking beet juice and And I decided to just grab one of their juices and it was amazing to feel The vibration just coming through my body I know it not everyone might not feel that but it just felt really good I was already at a really high level of raw at the time. Yes, it wasn't a hundred percent yet But working towards that and it just felt great. It was really detoxing and I Met Denise and Doug on my very last day I was literally eating lunch and drinking juice every single day when I was there And one of the reasons why I came back to that New York trip was to celebrate my birthday and also to meet community. I had I had been friends with Dremel on Facebook through falling still and he had let me know that there was a party that Vanessa barge from noses chocolate Was hosting I was also her birthday party. So I decided to go to the birthday party By myself to meet community and people and I didn't have that community where I was living in San Diego So I wanted to meet other people and to learn more about the life and it was such an amazing story So that evening on the way to the party. I stopped by organic Avenue I'm sitting there on the table by myself and Doug Evans who's the CEO comes and approaches me and Talks to me and we ended up just sharing stories and I said, you know, this I'd love to work for a company like yours and He said, you know, if you want to just send me your resume and the next day I was flying home. So I went back home on my computer typed up my cover letter resume sent it off to him We talked and literally two months later I came back to New York City to do fashion week. They I'm also a professional makeup artist and came here with a One-way ticket. Okay. Yes, right and one way not round trip one way I knew that it's something big was gonna happen and something was gonna shift in my life So, you know, if I needed to go back and I could always buy a ticket, but Three weeks into February He contact me and offer me the job and had to go back home because I had a pack so I went back home for four days and I was back in New York and Basically found a place here and really just enjoyed community and helping people because I was living the lifestyle already and Just started to really embrace what organic Avenue offered for The products the juices the community Bringing people to learn more about the life and it's been it's been great So they're very well known for their cleanses and their juices Yeah, what's the cleansing program structured like are there different cleanses that a person can choose? Yeah, there's different There's five different cleanses. Okay, and Janice Murray is the founder and created all of these cleanses So that there are any one that you choose will be Pretty much based on where you are in your current lifestyle. I see you definitely if you're a beginner I want to start with the first cleanse, which is love easy love easy love easy is super easy you incorporate juices elixirs and food, so you're still eating and You feel like it's part of a normal life. Yeah, you feel great because You know, obviously the the food is organic. It's raw. It's made fresh daily You can pick it up. It's hasn't been sitting on a shelf for days or weeks or months or whatever huge difference So we have love easy. We have fast. We have deep which is all liquids Not necessarily. There's no soup. There's no Smoothie. It's just fruit juice Green juice veggie juices master tonic just to really sort of help, you know soften Relax the body allow it to digest and that's a fiberless cleanse Fiberless cleanse deep love deep. So the other ones will probably have they're more blended soups and smoothies and foods And we have love more that has this the soups Okay. Yeah, and love fast has a smoothie Yeah, and we have love young which is dr. Young's Dr. Robert. Oh young's particle. Okay, so it's alkaline diet just to reduce the essence in the body What do we have here that we have some Enough to bring in some organic avid products and we've got some juices and some smoothies here Yeah, and actually we were drinking some before and then we had to refilm a little bits So there were five beautiful juices right here, and we drank a lot of it. So now we have This is the watermelon juice and what's great about this is you take a whole watermelon or actually we do it organic Avenue we's a cold press machine and Hydraulic cold pressed so you've done that before right not the cold press. No, not the cold press Yeah, just like a centrifugal. Yeah. Yeah, so isn't as good. Yeah, this this is going to have More of your enzymes in here fresher and as you can see there's no fiber in it Yeah, you can see the color Had a lot. We've had a lot to drink nothing's floating. So we put the whole rind and the seed Okay, so the seed the rind the juice is all in here. Yeah, and it tastes amazing People love it men love it because it's sweet and women love it as well, but it's great has It's a really good hydration, especially in the summer. Yeah in the summertime for sure Right here. We have what looks to be chocolate based. Yes, and what's this? Oh my gosh, although I've been drinking it for an hour How you feeling? I'm feeling pretty good. Yeah, so chocolate is amazing. This is called chocolate love smoothie and This movie has hemp seeds. It has alkaline water a little bit a lot of cacao obviously Vanilla and dates, okay, and it's like a liquid dessert. Yeah liquid dessert. It's like a milkshake Yeah, milkshake in a bottle. Yeah, really nice. It's really delicious a lot of men like it as They're very first juicer smoothie, you know because it's just easy to drink They it's it's nice. It's good. I don't know if I can drink the whole thing. It's a lot Yeah, I know I think Really cool thing about the chocolate products is that when you do chocolate You're actually supporting people that are growing a product in an intact rainforest because chocolate likes shade Which means you can't just plant it in a field you have to plant it underneath trees that are already there So as you buy chocolate as you buy chocolate products as you support chocolate companies You're actually supporting the intact rainforest So really remember that you're supporting the villagers that harvest these things and ferment the beans and and the whole process is really involved And it's very labor-intensive So by supporting these companies I like noses chocolate of my our friend our mutual friend Vanessa barge and you know noses is awesome and then right here we have antidote chocolate Which is from our good friend red who's in Long Island City and she does the packaging and she has actually a blend of half Raw half roasted and this is her lemon salt variety. Yes. You want to try it? Oh my gosh. Yes. It's delicious It's one of my favorites. I love salt. Yeah, salt and salt and sweet and chocolate are really One of the best ones. Thank you. In this. Let's see what we got here Cacao beans, Kate. It's all organic cane sugar lemon salt vanilla beans and then Meringa leaves which are really high in antioxidants and Amino acids. Yes, so it's kind of nice to put that herbal stuff Into the chocolate as a delivery system. Yeah, this is antidote chocolate You know, that's the funny thing I'd like to bring a lot of gifts to my agency and and when you bring them stuff like this You know because I know that my book or will for instance is a chocolate chocolate And I can bring him a chunk of Hershey's or whatever, you know But I want to bring him conscious stuff like this handmade by people who really care and People that are supporting organic fair trade and I brought some stuff like this into the into the agency and then the next day I see a big honking bar of Hershey's on his desk and you can just feel the vibration. It's just so different There's no like I feel like there's so much love and stuff like this and noses and I mean There's so many good companies out there and then you know with red this company that she created The beans come from Peru. So it's bean to cacao We're super important except a huge difference Super fresh. It's really good, right? Yeah, it's really good. This is just one of the many bars that she has. Yeah, and you carry this at organic Avenue We have it organic Avenue. Okay. Yeah, we have it at all of our locations, right? Also on our website So if you want to purchase that you can go on our website or our web store and you ship and we ship we ship globally Oh, nice. Oh, and that's organic Avenue comm everyone. Yeah, just in case you're wondering It's right on the bottom of the screen and they'll totally set you up another thing that organic Avenue is known for is their events and They're they've really become a hub for the community for the conscious eating community and There's an event on August 3rd August 3rd with Jason Rebelle. Jason Rebelle the celebrity raw vegan chef. Yes And the event will be from it's a three-hour event. It's a three-hour event. Okay. He's he has a DVD It's called simple classics and he's gonna be demonstrating and sampling his herbal tonics and as well as the His super sugar-free desserts, so it's supposed to be amazing amazing And then the date that you're seeing underneath me right now is Thursday August 11th, and that's the event that I'm gonna have an organic Avenue. Yes following Jason's events So Jason is on August 3rd. Yes, and then I'm gonna be on Thursday August 11 11th. Yeah, and we're super excited to have you back This is your third visit. Yeah, my third visit now. This is my third talk and it's actually I'm trying to read what that says on the screen And it says one is it 115 suffix. It's on 116 116 Suffolk Street And that's in the Lower East side of New York City, and that's that's the space of love That's like the main hub of organic Avenue. Yes, give or take. That's like the spell That's the spot and pretty soon they're gonna have their tonic bar there as far as my event it's called a model for living and it's kind of a culmination of the past eight or nine years of everything that I've really come across and What I've weeded through and formulated to be a really good blueprint for living my life and how I've been able to stay thin All the ups and downs that I've had through my dietary journey and what I've kind of pulled out from it Lifestyle stuff like stuff like water, you know my water my water strategy my my shower filters Using glass using glass that is my wrong glass like dark bottles wild food I'm gonna talk a lot about exercising and multitasking when I exercise so I can listen to like a French lesson or I can listen to a podcast I like to really listen to the one radio network comm podcast. Those are really great So I'm gonna be giving tons of tips. It's a two and a half hour event We're gonna be doing a lot of samples from Amazon herb company It's a company that we teamed up with recently they got a lot of cool products that support the Amazon rainforest You want to try a little sure? This is the camo gold It's a camo camo berry extract Which is really high in vitamin C? Hmm. Mmm. Yummy. So there's gonna be a lot of these samples There's gonna be some smoothies that I'm making we're gonna make one called the ninja turtle Which has a lot of pumpkin seed oil and some more your vanilla protein a lot of really cool stuff It sounds yummy. So yeah really come if you're even I mean I feel like this is an event that we could really change people's lives Because I've been through a lot of stuff and I really had to stay competitive in New York City To be able to be a working model and the stuff that I've figured out I feel like it's really clicking for me now and I just want to share that information as a fellow student as well as a Fellow student on the path that is continuously learning and that come from my heart And I just want people to know what I've gone through and the tips that have really helped me I'm gonna talk a lot about food for us and how to set up your own food for us Whether you live in the country or the city and I really kind of want to wrap it up with an idea of why we're here on the planet And what our mission is and really like the deep-down connections that we truly have and sometimes we forget and how we can actually form a nice synergistic community and Go get away from all the BS clutter and the small differences that can really divide people I really want people to be unified and just focus on the positive You know this this talk is really gonna be about positive solutions Instead of fighting the negative with negative because if you're if you're bummed out about negative stuff And you come at it with that negative energy It's just gonna feed that negative monster So really you just have to shine your light and just be a positive person Just be an angel on the planet whether or not you believe in angels or not Just be an angel yourself look in the mirror and realize that you chose to come to this planet for a reason and You're here to bring paradise to the planet and that's how I feel and I think that's how a lot of us feel nowadays So I'm gonna wrap it up with that. We're gonna do some guided meditations. We're gonna do a little cheek on Yeah, stimulating the meridians and getting things going It's tough. It's tough I'm in New York for a reason, you know, we're here That would be a good time to actually go to our sponsors and give them a little love With us gold coins calm Andy goss is the man check out his book called Uncle Sam cooks the books. He has inspired me beyond belief I've been listening to him for about three years and he's totally changed my paradigm about money and After that we have Mezzie grill. Mezzie grill is the first restaurant in New York City to support Bitcoin Which is the new digital currency and it's a really really big deal So show your support to them They have awesome Mediterranean food and they recently made the clean plates NYC list Which means they have really clean food and they're really awake about their menu. 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Yeah, and the reason why I wanted to learn from her was because she herself Obviously she lives it and I just felt that she was the right teacher for me so especially here in New York City where traffic flows all the time and The energy is flowing. It's important to have a good balance in your life so I learned how to use these concepts and Have not been fully going into diving into the whole business because I work full-time at organic Avenue But I definitely do do that and I'm currently working on a place right now To help bring balance into the client's life. I've seen it. It looks really good. Yeah recent project. Yes Yeah, are you seeing people go more towards modern decorating or are they keeping some of their older antiques? Does feng shui apply to both? Oh, I mean it applies to both. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah applies to both It's not necessarily it's not even about the type of furniture that you have. It's it's really it's it's really taking the the year of the building that it was built and Literally just calculating all the numbers interesting that each quadrant has Specifically the remedy that you need to create the balance in that particular life and it could be for Whatever it is that you want so if it's career if it's romance Bringing a baby into your life bringing more money and abundance. Those are all important It doesn't just start with a home. It's also, you know, your property as well So you can also feng shui your land for instance or your business and You know, whether it's a small business or a large corporation you can definitely feng shui that or an entire building Really? Yeah makes it you can feel the shift when it happens and most people are not, you know, aware of it They feel something is good. I mean, you probably know that You probably feel really good with this wall in back of us. For instance, that's you know part of feng shui as well It's cozy. It's cozy. Yeah, it's protection. So Makes a big difference when all these little small elements are put together and you know when the energy is bad And you you feel that yeah, yeah, can you feel a difference? Living in because you live in Manhattan, right? I do. Yeah, can you feel a difference with the energy living here compared to Southern California? Oh, of course, like even walking around and stuff. Yeah, okay, of course I mean, it's the whole you can feel you can feel the You know the subway and the frequency of that which is apparently really really bad. Yeah for us. So I I'm really fortunate. I walk to work Have an eight-minute walk. So I'm never in the subway other than you know, if I have to come up here Yeah, or we took the subway we took I know Or to Central Park, you know uptown. Yeah, I prefer to be Above ground on the on the bus, but you know, it's you got to have balance. Yeah Yeah, I remember when I had a bicycle I Wrote my bike probably for nine months straight. I think and then it was actually I was helping Bruce and Ed move Strangely enough and I was meeting a friend from Manitoba harvest the hemp seed company Right and I locked my bike up at Union Square. Mm-hmm. We went for a little walk through the farmers market Yeah, I came back and my bike was gone and so I walked downstairs into the subway right in Union Square And I was just like woof. I could just feel that energy down there again. It drains you in a bad way Yeah in a bad way, and I I avoided the subway for about nine months. I don't believe it I didn't go in there once even in the rain. I don't know somehow I managed to stay away or I would walk and then just going back down in there Yeah, it's like I ride the subway a lot and I kind of try and block it out with some music or good stuff But you definitely can feel it. It's kind of It's like a vampire in a way. It is yeah I've been really fortunate the past couple years when I've lived here in New York City a Prior to moving back to California. I was living in West New York, which is in New Jersey. Oh, sure so I would take the ferry to work and That was a beautiful ride just coming through there and then taking the bus to work So it really was hardly ever in the subway for a good number of years Yeah, except for my first maybe first two years of living in New York. Okay, so It's it's nice. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's definitely nice. Yeah on that topic a little bit I kind of wanted to ask about like the cosmetics because it's not even really on that topic But I'm curious about cosmetics because you coming from the cosmetic industry I think you would be a good insightful person to see whether or not the trend You know, we know we know about the food now We know like what we put inside our bodies in our set in our temples It's a big deal and also now what I think a lot of people are tuning into is that what we put on our bodies on our Temples like the paint that we put on now the makeup the shampoo the the toothpaste that are the deodorant You know all these things really play in to the overall health of our life Are you seeing a trend going more towards conscious beauty products? There's a huge trend. I'm it's It's being written in the magazines already and on the internet So there's a lot of organic companies that are making really good products right now Especially at organic Avenue. We carry a couple of really great beauty lines such as Tata Harper She carries skincare and body Okay, and we started carrying her about a year ago and we did a major event called inside outside beauty We geared it towards women obviously because that's her product line, but men can use it as well and we did we did have a couple men that attended and What you know, she she herself likes to use products that are just natural paraben free That are safe cosmetics. She was part of a Group of people that created the safe cosmetics campaign. Okay. Do you remember that one? No, the video. Oh, yes She helped create that. Yeah, it's so good. Yeah, so We have her we have seagull healing spa. Okay. We carry What's the other lines? Dr. Alcatis? Simply divine Right, we have a hair care line that we started carrying two years a year ago called intelligent nutrients They are based in I want to say in Minnesota Interesting, I'm really sure but Horst who is the hmm. What are they thinking? I know Horst, I believe it's in Minnesota. We have to check that out, but Horst who is the founder Came from a Veda. Okay. He created this brand. Oh, yeah, Minnesota. Yeah, Minnesota. Yes. Yes, so What I like about it is there's the shampoos are sulfate free They're great for any type of hair. We carry the harmonic shampoo and conditioner Okay, men and women love it and the brand is for you know, anybody all ages Which is really nice, but the shift is definitely there between men and women And more so with men, too. It's you know, they're they're seeing They want to use really good things for their body Women especially because as they're drinking the juices, they're feeling great They're starting to think at early or now. Yes, and me myself I'm not a hundred percent all organic in the makeup that I use but you know, I am searching So if there are companies out there, you know, I really do encourage you to create some really great wonderful Products that are for the map for the mass because it's expensive. I have a friend who created a brand but in order to You know really make it mass market. You've got to put a lot of Money into it. So yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, it's always about the startup money But I think you know consumers have such if they can demand All these great things and that's gonna shift all the major companies to start creating some really good Chemical-free products. Yeah, it's because we have the power. Yeah, really We do you know really if anybody if you if you have a Brand or a company that you like and they're not offering the products that you that you want Email them and get a few friends to email them to and they pay people to listen to this kind of response Yeah, yeah, and they really I mean they feel like if one person writes them Probably thousands feel that way and they're just you know too busy to write them themselves So if you can get you know, maybe a dozen friends to just ask for organic cosmetics and shampoo without Metal parabens and all this funky stuff on the back. It's just like eating food You know just turn the bottle around and look at the label and see what's on there And if there's a lot of wacky stuff that you might not be able to pronounce you might want to think twice about it Yeah, I went to Lush actually. Oh you did for me. Yeah, and they're kind of they're about that in a way You know, but their stuff has parabens. Yeah, but they said it's derived from blueberries. Hmm Haven't heard that. Yeah after research that Google Google parabens and blueberries And I guess they're naturally occurring in blueberries, but I don't know like that stuff scared me so much Yeah, but they were really kind of good about explaining it all so It's just a conscious person Yeah, and you have to be careful too because companies can claim certain yeah Yeah, you have to really do your research on all of these brands, you know just don't trust it because it says organic or yeah You really look at the ingredients if you if you can't understand what the ingredient is Yeah, that usually means that it's probably not good for you Yeah, absolutely or if you can't even pronounce it if you can't even pronounce it Yeah, just that kemi stuff and don't confuse the Latin names with chemicals of course, but Yeah, there's really like a lot out there that is really being developed right now And it's really kind of exciting to be a part of that You know that movement. Yeah, I think if you eat and eat clean Healthy you really I mean I wear makeup because I you know, it's it just enhances a little bit But you know when I don't wear it it felt great. I don't really I don't wear foundation Okay, I don't I just have a little bit of powder on my skin mineral powder Okay, and you know if you want to pinch your cheeks you get that natural red glow Oh, yeah, something that touch a heart for daughter said of her facial event is just pinching your cheeks for that natural Glow and interesting as yeah without the blush without the blush. Yeah, so Or you could get a sunburn like me I thought the sun too much yesterday. Yeah, cool. Cool And you know another thing too that I've really come across is the looking for good deodorant and being cautious about the Aluminum and the aluminum in deodorant You know to flip that flip that thing of old spice around and see what's in that thing because there might be aluminum in it And if you're rubbing it in your armpits, it's getting into your body, right for sure So be cautious about that flip the thing around and then you know, right old spice or right? Gillette and tell them guys makes make an organic product because a lot of people want to buy it and these companies have the resources to make an organic product And you want to support the small companies, of course But it's really good to see big companies taking on an organic product and I even like looks for example Walmart You know like Walmart supports a lot of organic farmers actually Mm-hmm, and when I go to if you know like when or if I go to Walmart I'd really like to buy organic products because they seed in their computer. They see the oh, yeah The the salads are selling. Okay. Oh, this whatever you know Right organic apples are selling and then it's gonna encourage them to buy some more and that means more support for organic farming So no matter where you shop big company small company, whatever Get them into the organic lines whether it's cosmetics clothes You know clothes or a big will cover clothes. Maybe another episode of course GMO cotton Pesticide sprays you really want to go for organic clothes and hemp and bamboo. You're wearing a bamboo shirt right now Yeah, this this is the organic Avenue love shirt Yes Which stands for the live organic vegan experience and it's just I just love this shirt. I feel so nice. It's good, right? Yeah, it's almost like all bamboo. There's some hemp. Yeah, there's some hemp in there Yeah, gosh, it feels great and you have some more colors available pretty soon. Yeah pretty soon more colors cool We're asking for them. So yeah, people like the pinks and it's great the blues and all that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm very cool I'm very cool. Oh, let's check the chat rooms. Sure and see what's going on People were asking about There's some time on geography. Hmm. Where did you happen to get those shoes that you're wearing? Oh gosh, it's always about fashion New York City. Oh These particular I shop everywhere, but these particular shoes. I was in Southampton last weekend and You know when you're in this when you're outside of New York City, you like to shop wherever you can Right. So these are from a store called TJ Maxx. Everyone knows that store, right? Yeah, so they have a new commercial called the mask Max Maxinista the Maxinista Maxinista But you know, I'm so amazed they have some really great shoes for women there. I'm sure for men as well Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, it's always worth a look and the prices are great and that's cool Started shopping there and kind of like it. Are they sponsoring this show yet? No This is brought to you by TJ Maxx Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, definitely. I'm trying to well my shoes if anyone cares about my shoes Yeah, your shoes look pretty hot there. These are Vibrams and I've been a fan of Vibrams for about four months now five months. These are the five finger show five finger shoes Yeah, I don't know I think this is like a Komodo sport brand and actually These feel really good and the thing is once you start wearing these shoes You really don't want to go back to regular shoes You almost feel like you're slipping your feet into a binder again And you just want the freedom and just feel so nice But they've got like these weird silver swirlies and I took a black Sharpie and I took the silver out So it's just black all the way through but oh nice I highly recommend these and just if you're if you're out like a REI or a paragon or something Try them on and see if you like them wear them with socks because otherwise really gonna stink But I think you might like them a lot. I think we should contact them so that you can start sure Yeah, I think we should I think you need to do a campaign for them Yeah, that would be really cool. Yeah, I think they would be down for that and they're really growing a lot, too So I will make it happen. We'll make it happen. Yes. Yes Very cool, so we covered the events we talked about all the juices and stuff. Yeah, we'll talk about your shoes we talked about chocolate and What's in the future? What do you got planned? What's what's coming up? What's coming down the pike? Oh, let's see at Organic Avenue Any any more big news coming down any more Expansions, I know you really expanded a lot. Oh my gosh. Organic Avenue is huge. Yeah, we're huge. We now have over a hundred employees Wow company-wide in our kitchen and also in our stores in our office Starting from starting well when I started there were only seven of us in the retail store including Yeah, including Doug and Denise That was just two and a half years ago and the kitchen was probably I don't know maybe 20 people. Okay, I think so We moved out of our kitchen which was 300 square feet to now 1500 square feet which includes a warehouse plus the facility to wash the produce and Make the juices make the food do production line Well, I was just there a couple days ago. Just taking a look at it and you know helping with organization. Yeah on that end and We're opening up two more stores This what month are we in? July mid-July mid-July so August 1st We're opening up our next location midtown east. Okay on Lexington and 54th Street Okay, and then two weeks after that fall goes. Well, we'll open up Greenwich Village another store and then in Long Island We'll have Roslyn Heights, which will be a really unique store within it's our organic Avenue store within this Humongous beautiful store and we're super excited about that We'll let everyone know when that happens But we're shooting for September for that opening If someone isn't living in the tri-state area or can they have juices shipped to them? Oh, of course Yeah, we ship we ship nationally anywhere in the US. Okay, and we ship them in Plant bottles. They're a little bit longer. They're not the 16 ounce. We do a 12 ounce bottle Only the love deep because it's juices and easier ship We don't do food yet because we haven't quite mastered shipping food Yeah, and making it look pretty. Yeah, so we just do the juices and we have clients from California to Florida to Oregon we've even shipped to Canada before You know, we've we've had celebrities that want our juice and definitely, you know, if they want it We'll make it happen. So we do do that, but we're expanding and in November. We're launching on 11-11-11 we're launching our elixir lounge. Oh, we might open it earlier Possibly we're looking at that, but we're going to be doing the very first alcohol-free Light club nice. So instead of a night club, it'll be a light club Oh, cool And what's great about our space at 116 Suffolk Street is not only it's a boutique, but it's our event space It was previously a night club. Wow, and they shut it down a couple years ago so we kept the bar and We renovated the back area Yeah, and we're now going to liven it up with the light a light bar conscious connections We have a disco ball still so we'll be able to dance and have our drinks and be high on Tonics, I wonder if you need a cabaret license to do the dance to do the dancing Even if they don't sell alcohol. Yeah, I think you're different. Yeah, really? I think if you don't sell alcohol Exactly. Yeah, well, yeah, I think probably in New York. There's a funny thing It's called like a cabaret license where they try and you have to have this thing to be able to have dancing If you sell alcohol because like I don't know. There's it's New York City I know you have to dance like right in place and Can you believe that? You know it's kind of a loose thing but it's not like they're gonna come and like bust you for dancing or something But right I think they try and discourage it So it's something with like the night clubs and everything like that. Yeah, are the hours gonna be later if you're doing yeah Well, we won't be open past probably 11 30. Oh, I would say usually it's eight We close at eight which it closes at eight But once the licks of our opens up, we'll definitely have it open afterwards. That'd be fun Yeah, there's a lot of exciting things that are gonna be happening at the space with I can't reveal them now, but you know if you're interested just go on our website organic Avenue Com send up for newsletter and you'll see all of the events that are happening plus We're gonna have some major parties coming up. So yes Yes, we will and another really important thing about the events is that you've got a pre-register for the events Of course It's really important it's really important that Organic Avenue knows if you're coming because they need to plan with the seating and they need there's only 75 seats available for these events And usually they sell out pretty fast So you really need to kind of get on top of it register get your name on the list and then we know how much smoothies We need to make we know about the samples that we're going to give away and we know about the seats So definitely pre-register on the event page at organic Avenue comm if you're interested and this is going to be some life-changing events and even if you're Considering going even if you live outside of the of the New York area fly in and it's August in New York City It's a beautiful time to be here. It's not as hot as people say, you know, it's pretty I'm so happy here right now. It's such a great summer. Yeah, the weather is beautiful. It's not really that humid Yeah, you walk around like at 8 p.m. And it's like magical. Yeah, you know, it's like that magical evening light and Come to an event. Yeah, and if you need a place To stay let me know I can definitely recommend some really great Hotels in the neighborhood or whatever neighborhood you want to stay in. Yeah Unfortunately, I don't have a big house to house everybody but fair enough Definitely recommend some really cool places. We have a couple of hotels in the Lower East side Once the revington hotel. Oh, yeah, that's which is just a few blocks from us Yeah, and then the Lower East side Thompson hotel, which I've stayed at a few times 60 Thompson that that one's in Soho, but the Lower East side is right on Allen in Houston. Oh, okay, so it's a nice tall one Yes, yeah, it's beautiful. It's really really nice. Yeah, I love it. And the staff is really great there It's a bit of a smaller boutique hotel. Yeah But it's it's close and it's not, you know, it's literally what 10 minutes from Soho You just walk straight across from your square. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good location. Yeah, so come definitely come So you have to register for Anthony's event. Yes, and Jason's. Oh, you can come for Jason's and stay the week and finish with mine Oh, yes. Yes. And if you want to stay the whole July there's a huge party that we're throwing. Yes, you and I drew Mel, Vanessa, Philip, and Nerov were hosting. Yes. Yes, they were hosting a potluck and ping-pong event. Yes, and that's going to be July 30th, working out the venue still. We'll see where it's gonna be fun no matter what. We're gonna go play ping-pong at a nightclub afterwards So it'll be a good time and everybody brings really awesome food and we just love the potlucks and that's how we met I think we met at a potluck. We met at a potluck at Vanessa's place. At Vanessa's place. Yeah, it's all about See what's so cool about this? People do the potlucks and you make friends and three years later you're hanging out doing a show together And it all is because of the internet. We're just so lucky with the internet. Oh my gosh. Well, what will we do without the internet? I don't know and Facebook. I don't know. Just hang out and have normal lives. I guess I want to pull up speaking of Facebook. I always get some good questions on Facebook And there was a really good one that came up recently and it's kind of about the dichotomy of my life and the modeling stuff and I'll read it off really fast and then we'll We'll talk about that a little bit Hi, and I'll leave it anonymous because she didn't want to be known for this and whatever Hi, Anthony, and she's a great person with all due respect I find the Madison Avenue Times Square stuff to be an extreme contradiction Slash paradox to what you're trying to promote You would not probably have the freedom that you do without the money and fame That has come from the civilized world that you denounce with your replanting paradise message I'll keep reading don't get me wrong I totally dig what a dig that you want to actively and inspiration we recreate a more natural world But the other modeling stuff mixed in your message is just a turnoff to me Sorry, it just snacks of all that is overcommercialization in this world a very artificial Super ego lifestyle that I don't have the energy or the heart to keep up with in love and peace Anon this and so um, I replied I can just kind of Whatever I can paraphrase what I said I just asked her to really kind of step back and look at the bigger photo. Look at the bigger picture of the photo And see like how many people may have been exposed to organic gardening green living permaculture replanting paradise because They were attracted to my modeling photos. You know if I was in the model I don't know how many people would be following me right now and following the show and on facebook I think there's a big following because of my time square stuff and my modeling photos and people Want to know what I do for for food and for and healthy living and what I put on my body and And these things really are about the bigger picture. I don't necessarily I wouldn't say like I'm so proud to be a model or um, you know, whatever It's not an ego thing It was something that I kind of fell into and and I realized that I was able to be more influential Like I might be able to be more influential in someone's life than a doctor because I might have the results Someone wants instead of a doctor just this and that and they might have a degree But they're not the living example of what someone wants and on the other hand Maybe I am and I can get people into organic gardening and conscious living and maybe a hundred years from now They're a great great grandchildren are going to be eating pine nuts because They were inspired to plan a pine nut tree because they saw a talk of mine So I just kind of asked like step back a little bit and look at the bigger picture Um, it's it's influential when I can get some good jobs And people pay more attention and people get more conscious and and I'm just trying to come from love I'm trying to come from my heart I know some people don't appreciate the dichotomy But I really think the dichotomy is part of the flavor of all that is The show and raw model and And it's um, I just asked for people to kind of embrace it a little bit and not take it so seriously And just focus on what you like. I mean life is a buffet You don't have to take everything that I say or everything that I do is Gospel or whatever, you know, it's just like take what you like and see if you're like the gardening stuff go with it And some people just like to look at my photos and they like to look at my abs and stuff like whatever, you know It's all kind of a big part of the of the Overall picture and I just want people to get into the green living and the conscious living Before it's too late, you know, because as sooner you can do this stuff the sooner you can liberate yourself from sickness feeling lethargic negative thoughts Replanting paradise. That's the key. Don't let the modeling stuff get you down. I know it's Very commercial. I know it's got all that kind of stuff going on the ego stuff And I would love to work for a lot of conscious companies But I can't turn a lot of work down because if I did my agency would kill me And they would let me go and I wouldn't be a model anymore. So you kind of have to take the good with the bad I'll never do a job for monsanto. I'll never do a job for public If I do a job for mcdonald's or pizza hut or something, I will give the money away. I promise So um Just kind of step back and again look at the bigger picture because it's all from love and it's all good You know and looking back on this in 10 years. It's all going to be mouse farts I mean, we're all just going to think it's funny and not a big deal But you know the one thing about that is that when you're out there doing your modeling You're influencing all of the people that are part of that good point and the company as well Yeah, that's that's true too. Yeah, you you're making shifts Yeah, you never know because I might come in with these shoes And then I might bring in some green juice from organic avenue and you know I might be wearing this shirt to a job and people start asking questions and You know, you might heal maybe the photographer has a mom that has cancer And all of a sudden she starts drinking green juice and she starts seeing some results, you know And just for me wearing a t-shirt to a job or our world is funny like that Yeah, or the vice president or the president or CEO of the company. Yes. Yes. Yeah, like they might see a You know me hanging out and they might come to the job And then they see me and they talk to me and see me eating a salad or eating some kind of, you know Whatever I brought and and it just kind of it's we're all stones in the pond and we can make big ripples And we make little ripples and hopefully we'll choose to decide to make some big ripples because now's the time for that for sure Yeah Very cool. It's happening. Yeah, it definitely was happening I know with all this stuff I feel like organic avenue has such a clean brand name and And their look is the logo is just so good and it's just it has the potential to be a worldwide brand I mean, it's so recognizable It is I see those orange bags like floating around through the city and the orange canvas bag I know with the oa sign and yeah, you definitely see it a lot more now and you see people just walking around with the juice Oh, it's amazing. I mean right currently right now. We have a special going on on group on Okay, I don't know kitty. Yeah, it's a two more days. Okay, and It's 125 for three-day love deep Nice the normal price. It's a lot of juice. It's a lot of juice. Yeah, normal price is 280. Wow, okay So it's such a hefty discount. Yes, and for first timers, you know, especially with our group the group on Members a lot of them have not known about organic avenue. There's I don't know if you know about group on a little bit They have over two million subscribers in New York City. Whoa Yes, so when we did the first First special with them. They were only at a million. So they've already Gone up to two million. So we're reaching the masses and it's amazing that New York City is cleansing our first Ever group on that we did we sold almost 1800 love deep What product cleanses? So can you imagine the city is just drinking and nourishing with Really good organic fresh fresh juices. Yeah, and you have a good celebrity following as well Yeah, huge celebrity following. So that's huge. I mean once celebrities start drinking this stuff and it I feel like it Really just opens opens up the heart. It opens up the mind Gets the clutter out of their bodies and then they have the resources to make some real change You know because when I was You know really getting into the raw food. I had such huge revelations about life and and being a part of the solution And not of the problem So it makes me very hopeful to know that people with real influence are using these products and waking up and You know once they start supporting it and putting their money towards it I think we're really gonna like see some really fast change. Oh, of course Definitely, it's happening because that's the thing. It's like we can we can kind of get stuck in this mode where We're thinking okay conscious eating is for for hippies or for you know more Back to the land salt of the earth kind of people But the real people that can make the change are the executives and the celebrities and the the fast moving Movers and shakers of new york city, right? And once they start tuning in and they are their heart opens and and they have a million dollars to plant a food for us Like whoa, that's crazy. Yeah much more than you know Are you some young kid coming out of college? So I think that's like the coolest part about organic avenues. It's just so good On that note, we're gonna wrap it up. I want to say thanks to Mia of organic avenue And how can I get a hold of you? Through facebook facebook. Okay. Mia santos andres, or you can reach me At Mia at organic avenue calm cool. Cool. And my name is anthony anderson. This is the anthony anderson show episode two Coming back at you early next week with episode three and thanks so much guys So thanks for all the good support and all the all the love and the comments. We love it And this is just the beginning so much love. Thank you so much. Thanks to organic avenue and lots of love. Peace everyone. Thanks