Excitement is building about today’s interviews, Matt Monarch and Karen Knowler. I’m especially interested in seeing Matt’s interview; mostly because he was the very first person to teach me about raw food! The day I was introduced to Matt, I spent HOURS listening to his story, with jaw dropped…and it was in this experience that I had the “light bulb” moment of FINALLY understanding and knowing why I was having so many chronic problems with my body, and more importantly that I was in control, and could do something about it.
I am so grateful to Matt, for that experience and the subsequent months that I spent time learning from him, and the people he was surrounding himself with (at that time these people were Paul Nison, and Matt’s mentor Dr. Fred Bisci). It’s been many years since I’ve spent time with Matt, and back then, he was still fairly new to raw-food himself (1-year raw). So, it will definitely be interesting to hear Matt’s perspective on health many years later. Matt Monarch has since authored his own raw-food, health books – “Raw Success”, and “Raw Spirit”. Matt also has his own business, The Raw Food World – where he retails health related products that are specific to raw food, but including ALL aspects of the lifestyle.
I met Karen Knowler when traveling with David Wolfe and his “entourage” in Europe. I doubt if Karen remembers me, but I definitely remember her. We spent some time sitting on the lawn together at a 3-day raw food event in Germany. Her son, Luke…at that time was still a “little babe” (this event was back in the Summer of 2003); he may have been about a year old. In hindsight, it’s very interesting for me to think about the significance of this event; it may have even been my first experience seeing a baby in the raw-food community.
Although, my time with Karen was brief, and I don’t remember much of anything we talked about…I’m certain of it’s significance, the impact on me—of having seen Karen and her healthy little family. It wasn’t long after my traveling in 2003, that I was gearing up (mostly unknowingly, at least not until later in the year) for having healthy children of my own!
I may not be attending tonight’s pre-event at Rawkathon…I’ll definitely make it if I can!!! The online events have been CRAZY the past couple of weeks, it’s hard to devote all of my afternoon time when there are events going on almost EVERY DAY! At the very least, I’ll pop-in at another time—there seems to be a lot of “hanging around” in The Renegade Health Show chat room (on USTREAM) even when there isn’t live streaming video happening!
So, again…as a reminder, the times for the events today (Wednesday, Oct. 22) are as follows:
Rawkathon pre-event – The Renegade Health Show LIVE on USTREAM -at- 4pm PST / 7pm EST
Rawkathon Interview with Matt Monarch – 5pm PST / 8pm EST
Rawkathon Interview with Karen Knowler – 6pm PST / 9pm EST
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I do remember you!!! So glad our paths have crossed again : )
Luke just turned six - yikes!
Hugs
Karen
Posted by: Karen Knowler | October 23, 2008 at 08:16 AM