101: Reimagining Food Justice: Black Women Leading the Way
Release Date: 05/19/2026
08: The Language of Scent: How Alex Wiltschko Is Digitizing Smell
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“We want to build a platform and a fundamental capability that makes the world smell better… and we know from the fundamental understanding of how scent works that getting better at scent that delights you actually helps us get better at applications in scent that can protect and can heal.” —Alex Wiltschko Digitizing smell sounds like science fiction until you meet someone who's spent two decades chasing it. In this episode, Justine Reichman sits down with Alex Wiltschko, founder and CEO of Osmo, a company on a mission to give machines a sense of smell — and, eventually, to...
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07: Inside Medgevity: How Keith Bozeman is Redefining Proactive Healthcare in Midlife
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“I wanted someone who was helping with proactive strategies. So if I'm sick one to two days a year, I want a doctor, but the 363 other days a year, I want someone helping me with strategies to not get sick. Unfortunately, our doctors aren't trained for that; the medical system doesn't have that.” —Keith Bozeman Proactive healthcare shouldn't wait until you're sick — that's the entire premise behind Medgevity, the concierge, physician-led practice built by this week's guest, Keith Bozeman. After losing access to the kind of doctor who actually had time for him, Keith set out to rebuild...
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06: Beyond Relaxation: Michael Stusser and Heather Bishop Dive Deep on Enzyme Baths, Zen Gardens, and Trust Ownership
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“We are so well positioned to have it continue and flourish because we have become a Perpetual Purpose Trust, which means this place is no longer owned by one person or any financial interest—it is owned by purpose.” —Michael Stusser “We're always trying to figure out how we keep moving the property forward in a way that's sustainable, and also how it's going to impact our guests, our business, our staff.” —Heather Bishop A perpetual purpose trust sounds like a legal footnote until you meet the two people who actually built one. This episode traces how Osmosis Day Spa...
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05: Midlife Heart Health: Dr. Daniel Chong on When to Start Testing and Why
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“It [cardiovascular disease] becomes an issue in middle age because that's when they start looking, not because that's when it starts.” —Dr. Daniel Chong Heart disease and midlife are more connected than most people — or their doctors — realize, and this episode of Essential Ingredients pulls that connection into the open. Justine Reichman sits down with naturopathic physician Dr. Daniel Chong and returning co-host Dr. Lisa Brent to unpack why cardiovascular risk quietly rises for both men and women in midlife, and why so few people are told to watch for it until it's already...
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04: 10 Hertz: The Brain Hack Hiding in Your Own Hands Dr. Izzy Justice Found
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“One day is a mental marathon, and so it is very difficult for the brain to be the best version of itself for everything. You don't have to be— your average is good for average experiences. Your best is needed for your most important experiences.” —Dr. Izzy Justice The 10 Hertz brain state is the frequency neuroscientist Dr. Izzy Justice says separates your best decisions from your worst ones — and it's hiding in plain sight, 10 to 20 seconds away at any moment. After running more than 18,000 wireless EEG brain scans on everyone from NBA players to executives to trauma survivors, Dr....
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03: Mediterranean Mystery: Katina Mountanos on How to Spot a Quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil
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“You can taste the quality.” —Katina Mountanos Most of what's labeled "extra virgin olive oil" on grocery shelves isn't giving you the extra virgin olive oil benefits you think it is — and Kosterina founder Katina Mountanos found that out the hard way. In this episode, Justine sits down with Katina to unpack why so much store-bought olive oil tastes flat, what polyphenols actually do in the body, and why the "don't cook with olive oil, it has a low smoke point" advice you've been following is flat-out wrong. Katina traces her obsession with real olive oil back to summers on her...
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02: Dr. Mitra Ray on Longevity Habits That Reversed Her Age
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“You have to figure out how to make self-care a priority because you know the body does not sit still... Your mindset will allow you to move forward, or it will take you backwards.” —Dr. Mitra Ray Stanford-trained biologist Dr. Mitra Ray spent three decades building a career in women's longevity, but the habits she taught everyone else became something she never expected: the infrastructure that kept her upright after her husband, Doug, died suddenly in a paragliding accident in October 2023. In this conversation with host Justine Reichman, Dr. Ray traces her path from NIH- and...
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01: Regenerative Wine: Jeff O'Neill & Allison Jordan on Land Stewardship
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“It is getting pesticides out of the vineyard. It's making sure that when we send a worker home, they're not going home and hugging their child with any other pesticide or herbicide. It is a mission, but it does start with the dirt, and it has to flow all the way through the winery into the bottle.” —Jeff O’Neill “A lot of times, people think about the environmental side of sustainability, but it's also about the social pieces— how you treat your employees, worker health and safety, and also how you exist within the community.” —Allison Jordan Regenerative organic wine sounds...
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109: Andrew Salisbury's Regenerative Experiment for Antioxidant Coffee
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“Farming in a way that's good for the health of the consumer and good for the product is also good for the environment. And so everybody wins, and then our consumer wins.” —Andrew Salisbury Coffee health benefits aren't just marketing; they're backed by nearly 30,000 studies, yet almost none of that research made it into the bag of coffee sitting in your kitchen. In this episode of Essential Ingredients, Justine Reichman talks with Andrew Salisbury, founder of Purity Coffee, about the personal frustration that led him to rebuild coffee from the soil up. It started with his...
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108: 30-Second Health: Alex Fredericks on Building Voice Biomarker Tech
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“Most people don't understand that the best medicine cabinet is the thing that you put in your body, the food that you eat… So you could eat yourself well as equally as you can eat yourself sick.” —Alex Fredericks Voice biomarker technology is turning a 30-second recording into a full-body readiness report — and it's already caught things doctors missed. In this episode, Justine Reichman sits down with Alex Fredericks, founder and CEO of ToneWell, to unpack how a PEMF frequency technology he encountered as a consultant became a static, auditable database of 150,000 biomarker...
info_outlineIn this episode, Justine Reichman hosts Nina Oduro and Maame Boakye, co-founders of Black Women in Food and Dine and Diaspora, exploring the power of African food culture to connect communities, elevate Black women in the food industry, and promote social justice through culinary innovation.
Keywords
food justice, Black women in food, African diaspora cuisine, culinary innovation, community building, food equity, cultural competency, food storytelling
Key topics
Food as a tool for community connection
The role of cultural competency in food innovation
Challenges and opportunities for Black women in the food industry
Sound bites
"Shift anger into action in food justice"
"Media shapes culture and amplifies voices"
"Black women in food need a platform"
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Essential Ingredients Podcast
00:58 The Lens of Food: Personal Journeys
03:09 Connecting Through Food: The Birth of Dine Diaspora
08:14 Identifying Gaps in the Culinary Industry
12:26 Creating Unique Culinary Experiences
17:48 Justice on the Plate: Respect and Opportunity
22:37 Shifting Anger into Action in the Food Industry
29:15 The Necessity of Black Women in Food
31:19 Unmasking the Food Industry's Challenges
32:10 Purpose-Driven Strategies in Food
34:25 The Ecosystem of Food: Interconnectedness and Equity
36:22 Local Communities and Global Food Systems
38:06 Defining Equitable Food Systems
39:18 Transforming Diversity in the Food Industry
41:48 Shifting Mindsets for Equity
43:04 Honoring Black Women in Food
45:42 Opening Doors for Future Generations
47:41 Envisioning a Sustainable Food Future
49:01 Integrating Generations for Change
50:22 Dreams and Aspirations in the Food Industry