Michelle Walrath's guest appearances

Michelle Walrath

Plumluvfoods

10,000 NOs

Beyond Labels Clips

My Wright Stuff

Al Gore

Alison Levine

David Burkus

Cathy Heller

Mike Boyle

Kevin Bacon

Jason Redman

Marie Forleo

Bedros Keuilian

Lynn Marie Morski

Brian Garrett

Joel Salatin

Benjamin Hardy

Ben Stiller

Judd Apatow

OwlTail

Earlier this week I talked with Joel Salatin to get a farmer’s perspective on how COVID-19 is affecting farms. Today I’d like to discuss how the COVID-19 situation is affecting restaurants. Instead of relying on headlines and news reports, I went directly to the source by reaching out to the co-founder of Organic Krush, Michelle Walrath.  In this interview, Michelle provides innovative solutions to help restaurants survive and customers thrive during this challenging time. Michelle is an inspiring leader in the health and wellness movement. She co-created several documentaries including: Fed Up, GMO OMG, and The Devil We know. As a life-long health advocate and mother of 4 children, Michelle was frustrated about the severe lack of healthy options on the go. She realized that parents were left with the choice of spending hours preparing food, or settling for fast food that left them feeling tired, sluggish, and weighed down.So, Michelle co-create Organic Krush, an ALL organic lifestyle eatery with options ranging from organic breakfast to family dinners and even fully catered meals! With 6 Organic Krush locations, including Virginia and New York, Michelle is a leader in the wellness and fast food market. You can connect with Michelle at: www.OrganicKrush.com 

Earlier this week I talked with Joel Salatin to get a farmer’s perspective on how COVID-19 is affecting farms. Today I’d like to discuss how the COVID-19 situation is affecting restaurants. Instead of relying on headlines and news reports, I went directly to the source by reaching out to the co-founder of Organic Krush, Michelle Walrath.  In this interview, Michelle provides innovative solutions to help restaurants survive and customers thrive during this challenging time.  Michelle is an inspiring leader in the health and wellness movement. She co-created several documentaries including: Fed Up, GMO OMG, and The Devil We know. As a life-long health advocate and mother of 4 children, Michelle was frustrated about the severe lack of healthy options on the go. She realized that parents were left with the choice of spending hours preparing food, or settling for fast food that left them feeling tired, sluggish, and weighed down. So, Michelle co-create Organic Krush, an ALL organic lifestyle eatery with options ranging from organic breakfast to family dinners and even fully catered meals! With 6 Organic Krush locations, including Virginia and New York, Michelle is a leader in the wellness and fast food market.  You can connect with Michelle at: <a href="http://www.OrganicKrush.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.OrganicKrush.com</a>

BONUS EPISODE: Michelle Walrath: How Restaurants Can Survive & Customers Can Thrive during COVID-19 

Michelle Walrath is an entrepreneur and restaurateur who has also Executive Produced several critically-acclaimed Documentary Films, including Tapped, Fed Up, The Devil You Know and Under the Gun through her Atlas Films.  But behind every endeavor she's tackled as an adult is her fierce Mom protection mode.  Unsatisfied with the choices she had to feed her children over the course of a summer of road trips, she teamed up with a friend to bring healthy, organic choices to the fast food space with their successful chain of restaurant, Organic Krush.  Two days prior to our conversation, they added to their four Long Island locations with a fifth location in Richmond, Virginia where she attended college with her husband.   SHOW NOTES:  The origin of Michelle's relationship to food, from a big Italian/Irish family and how it led to studying health in college, (9:00). "I started to see these pieces to health that, then contributed to the whole person", (9:55). Michelle's evolution to being involved with documentary films that seek out hard truths, (11:37). Tapped:  doc film about plastic and the water bottle industry, (12:50). Katie Couric's interest in the Tapped doc leads to a collaboration examining Obesity in America in the critically-acclaimed Fed Up, (13:40). "That's been a big part of all of our Atlas Films is 'what's going on that people aren't telling you and how are we going to get to the truth behind it and share that?'", (15:00). Body Burden concept:  the thread that led from her kid's health to the documentaries to Organic Krush, (18:55).   "I found myself working backwards over the years.  It really is a deep, upsetting question to me: 'Why are we getting so sick in society?  What's happening?  Why are so many people having health problems so early on in life?'  And when you start to work backwards, there actually are triggers and reasons why", (21:02). The Organic Krush restaurant chain, (21:55). The origins of Organic Krush - two decades in the making, (23:00). Lack of experience leading to trying to offer too many things, (26:55). How being the first to offer organic options rallied the Long Island community to support the store, (31:00). How satisfying customer demands dictated the direction of the restaurant to being costumer-centric, (32:55). Why, despite some demand, Organic Krush will resist major meal plan prep to stay focused on community, (36:45).  The rewards of having a purpose-driven business:  hearing the stories of change and improvement, (39:30).  The role of being the oldest in a family of 5 girls and the benefits of watching parents grind to make a living while also caring about health and spirituality, beyond just making a dollar, (40:50).  "I had a very connected upbringing where you did things because they mattered", (42:50).  Coming from big family, having a big family and now creating a "family" through the community-driven restaurants, (48:30).  Bearing the weight of everything that can go on in business all the time, (51:50).  The challenges of scaling a business, (54:20).  When you are driven by a calling, (57:40).  The challenges of following your own heart and bliss, (1:00:20).   LINKS:  Website: Organic Krush Restaurant  Article: Organic Krush's Recent Opening  Documentary: Tapped  More On Atlas Films  Amazon: Atlas Films   To support 10,000 "No"s, always do your Amazon shopping from amazon.com/shop/mattydel   RELATED 10,000 “No”s EPISODES:  Ep 44: Don Saladino, The Superhero's Superhero  Ep 54: Mindfulness Through Cancer, Author Paige Davis  Ep 59: Fight Depression with Creation, Founder/CEO Melissa Bernstein, Part I    Ep 84: Poo~Pourri/Supernatural CEO Suzy Batiz    If you like what you hear, please Subscribe, leave an iTunes review and spread the word. You can also listen to all episodes at www.10000nos.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michelle Walrath is an entrepreneur and restaurateur who has also Executive Produced several critically-acclaimed Documentary Films, including Tapped, Fed Up, The Devil You Know and Under the Gun through her Atlas Films.  But behind every endeavor she's tackled as an adult is her fierce Mom protection mode.  Unsatisfied with the choices she had to feed her children over the course of a summer of road trips, she teamed up with a friend to bring healthy, organic choices to the fast food space with their successful chain of restaurant, Organic Krush.  Two days prior to our conversation, they added to their four Long Island locations with a fifth location in Richmond, Virginia where she attended college with her husband.  SHOW NOTES:  The origin of Michelle's relationship to food, from a big Italian/Irish family and how it led to studying health in college, (9:00). "I started to see these pieces to health that, then contributed to the whole person", (9:55). Michelle's evolution to being involved with documentary films that seek out hard truths, (11:37). Tapped:  doc film about plastic and the water bottle industry, (12:50). Katie Couric's interest in the Tapped doc leads to a collaboration examining Obesity in America in the critically-acclaimed Fed Up, (13:40). "That's been a big part of all of our Atlas Films is 'what's going on that people aren't telling you and how are we going to get to the truth behind it and share that?'", (15:00). Body Burden concept:  the thread that led from her kid's health to the documentaries to Organic Krush, (18:55).   "I found myself working backwards over the years.  It really is a deep, upsetting question to me: 'Why are we getting so sick in society?  What's happening?  Why are so many people having health problems so early on in life?'  And when you start to work backwards, there actually are triggers and reasons why", (21:02). The Organic Krush restaurant chain, (21:55). The origins of Organic Krush - two decades in the making, (23:00). Lack of experience leading to trying to offer too many things, (26:55). How being the first to offer organic options rallied the Long Island community to support the store, (31:00). How satisfying customer demands dictated the direction of the restaurant to being costumer-centric, (32:55). Why, despite some demand, Organic Krush will resist major meal plan prep to stay focused on community, (36:45).  The rewards of having a purpose-driven business:  hearing the stories of change and improvement, (39:30).  The role of being the oldest in a family of 5 girls and the benefits of watching parents grind to make a living while also caring about health and spirituality, beyond just making a dollar, (40:50).  "I had a very connected upbringing where you did things because they mattered", (42:50).  Coming from big family, having a big family and now creating a "family" through the community-driven restaurants, (48:30).  Bearing the weight of everything that can go on in business all the time, (51:50).  The challenges of scaling a business, (54:20).  When you are driven by a calling, (57:40).  The challenges of following your own heart and bliss, (1:00:20).  LINKS:  <a href="https://organickrush.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website: Organic Krush Restaurant</a> <a href="https://richmondbizsense.com/2019/10/01/organic-krush-opens-in-short-pump/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Article: Organic Krush's Recent Opening</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?has_verified=1&amp;v=dzntuXdE8dY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Documentary: Tapped</a> <a href="http://www.atlasfilms.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More On Atlas Films</a> <a href="http://amazon.com/shop/mattydel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon: Atlas Films</a> To support 10,000 "No"s, always do your Amazon shopping from <a href="http://amazon.com/shop/mattydel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">amazon.com/shop/mattydel</a> RELATED 10,000 “No”s EPISODES:  <a href="https://www.10000nos.com/episodes/ep-44-don-saladino-the-superheros-superhero?rq=Don+Saladino" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ep 44: Don Saladino, The Superhero's Superhero</a> <a href="https://www.10000nos.com/episodes/ep-54-mindfulness-through-cancer-here-we-grow-author-paige-davis?rq=Paige+Davis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ep 54: Mindfulness Through Cancer, Author Paige Davis</a> <a href="https://www.10000nos.com/episodes/ep-59-fight-depression-with-creation-founderceo-of-melissa-doug-toy-company-melissa-bernstein-part-i?rq=melissa+bernstein" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ep 59: Fight Depression with Creation, Founder/CEO Melissa Bernstein, Part I  </a> <a href="https://www.10000nos.com/episodes/ep-84-poopourrisupernatural-ceo-suzy-batiz-how-to-create-a-500-million-empire-amp-make-the-world-believe-your-poop-doesnt-stink?rq=suzy+baitz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ep 84: Poo~Pourri/Supernatural CEO Suzy Batiz</a> If you like what you hear, please Subscribe, leave an iTunes review and spread the word. You can also listen to all episodes at <a href="http://www.10000nos.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.10000nos.com</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Organic Krush Co-Founder and Concerned Mom, Michelle Walrath, Creating Community to Combat a Corrupt Industry & Keep Our Children Eating Healthy