Karen Knowler * The Raw Food Coach

Audio Freebie: Raw Food Teachers Training Teleclass & Home Study Offer

Woohoo! We had a GREAT call yesterday entitled:

“How to Design and Create a Raw Food Class that Fills Up Every Time!”

Over 700 people registered for this call in the end, and if you're one of them you'll have heard that we've been receiving rave reviews, specifically relating to the generosity of what I share on this call.

Below you can find:

• The handout to accompany the call

• Two links to listen to the 2 parts (and you can download each one by clicking on the little MP3 links)

And if you're interested in becoming a raw food teacher yourself then you need to know about my SUPER SPECIAL OFFER - time-sensitive, so really, don't hang around!

This is the link because time really IS of the essence:

http://www.KarensSpecialOffer.com

(The Diamond Package worth three times the investment expires at 10pm Pacific TODAY, Thursday 5th February)

For your handouts, please click on this link to download the file:

Download Raw_Food_Classes_Teleclass_Handout

You'll need Adobe Acrobat to download (PDF file)

I recommend you go right ahead and print it off - you'll want to take plenty of notes in this value-packed call!

Enjoy!

<< Raw Food Teacher Training Call Part 1 (1 hour)

<< Part 2 (40 minutes)

 

 

Here's the additional links you will want:

 

KarensSpecialOffer.com - for the time sensitive, one-time-only offer that you won't want to miss! Check it out now so you don't kick yourself later!

 

For posting questions about classes that I'll answer online...

 

For more about Raw Professionals Online (Year long business building program)

 

To sign up for FREE to Professionally Raw eZine (Publishes Wednesdays)

 

 

 

 

New! New! New! ~ Wheel of Radiance Poster

Is it PC to fall in love with your own products?

I'm not sure, but I have done anyway.

So, excitedly today I introduce to you my latest "Raw Support" offering:

"The Raw Food Coach's Wheel of Natural Beauty, Glowing Health & Dazzling Radiance"

This is a full-colour glossy A3 poster which looks absolutely stunning "in the flesh" and is perfect for you if you need a little inspiration to remember, embrace and truly know that the most important place to start (and maintain) your raw journey is from the place of complete and all-encompassing self-love, self-care and self-respect.

With the help of the truly stunning artwork of Amy de Wolfe combined with the awesome graphic skills of my web designer Sarah Patience, I came up with this poster to inspire you to see your raw food lifestyle as a much bigger and brighter picture than simply eating raw foods.

The 12 areas covered on the wheel are:

Connection

Vitality

Rejuvenation

Cleanse

Inspiration

Joy

Solitude

Nourishment

Creativity

Self-Love

Nurture

Passion

No doubt about it, life if much brighter when lived on raw - so it's well overdue that a range of equally beautiful and inspirational "tools" start coming out to help you have your external world show up as brilliantly as your internal one.

Whether you live in the UK, the USA or the furthest corner of the globe, distance is no object! Wherever you live in the world you can have this poster adorning your walls in as little as 5 minutes if you feel like you're ready for a much fuller, more "whole person" approach to your raw food lifestyle. (I honestly can't stop staring at mine! I love it!)

Available as an A4 download (so you can print it off right away) as well as an A3 pre-printed glossy poster (sent by mail), find out more or order now by visiting the poster info page here.

To your radiance!

Facing The Giants

I'm a sucker for inspiration and raising the bar as you know, and when a friend forwarded me a link to the following clip a couple of months ago, it literally moved me to tears.

Even Luke (my 4.5 year old) after seeing mummy awestruck at it put on the headphones and was glued to it for the full 6 minutes taking all of it in - and that is really saying something.

The clip I saw has never left me. And tonight I spent ages trying to find the original email message that gave me the link. I couldn't. Finally with a few key words typed into YouTube I located it, and here it is below. I just couldn't not share it with you.

The good news for me (and you) that I discovered through searching for it, is that it is actually part of a much bigger project. It's actually a scene taken from a film released in the autumn of last year called Facing The Giants. Needless to say I shall be ordering a copy of the DVD on amazon later this evening, especially after having checked out the film's awesome web site.

Enjoy... This is a life-changing clip I think. I'd like to hear your thoughts : )

Posters For The Soul

Here's something I really want you to know about!

Like any of the designs below?

If yes, then you may just want to bag yourself a FREE poster of it, where all you need to pay is the shipping! ($4.95)

Any catch? No, none at all. Hop over to the PostersForTheSoul web site and bag your own (plus a free bonus poster if you order before 6th April 2007). The one I've chosen is the first in my spread, but there's over 80 to choose from and they're all gorgeous!

Just thought you'd want to know about this as I think it might be just the right source of "nourishment" that you could do with more of... Food is great, but "soul food" is what we're all a little hungry for ~ what thinkest thou? : )

How To Get Started With Raw Foods

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, what's the easiest raw food guide to get started with, if I had to choose from them all?"

The above is a question I've been asked, oh.... about a million times since I first got into raw food and took over the running of The Fresh Network!

Yes, there are some GREAT books on raw food out there (some of my favourites are on the left hand menu of this blog), but apart from Alissa Cohen's Living on Live Food which is a great read and covers a lot of bases, I can't think of any that really pull all of the pieces together into a workable plan that anyone can use, no matter where they're starting from.

So, because my next book - Raw Food for Beginners - has taken longer to finish than I hoped for (mainly due to the Fresh Festival and launching my web site), I just had to get something else published asap. And so...

"How To Get Started With Raw Foods ...And Gain More Energy, Clarity and Vitality Than You Ever Thought Possible!" was born.

Recipe Book Praise From Raw Food Right Now!

My 50 Recipes eBook has been on sale for exactly 2 months now and because it's instantly downloadable and therefore no shipping involved, is now in the hands of many across the world - a very cool feeling!

I've had some great reviews and feedback generally, but I came across a review online quite by accident yesterday when visiting Justin and Heidi's really interesting blog Raw Food Right Now! which I've been reading on and off for a few weeks.

To give you some background: Justin and Heidi are a husband and wife team based in Minneapolis, USA and they've made it their personal mission to try out raw food recipe books to find their favourite recipes so that going raw is a joy for them. Their blog is both a report on how good they personally find these recipes to be when they make them and also a record of their own personal journey into raw.

They write:

"This is not your ordinary raw food blog. This is a blog for those of you who live in the real world. Perhaps you live near tall buildings and shopping malls. Written by two real raw foodists who are not 100%, but working towards a near perfect 99% diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds (and a little chocolate)."

Having just purchased a copy of my eBook a few days ago, they have made it their fourth raw food recipe resource and posted their thoughts on 28 October....

"Wow! We should have bought this recipe eBook months ago. After reading through all the recipes, we are both drooling with anticipation! Like Raw Foods for Busy People, this recipe book focuses on recipes that are quick and simple to make. And seeing that is exactly what we're all about, this book is another perfect addition to our Massive Raw Food Recipe Challenge.

P.S. The Chocolate Pudding looks especially scrumptious. In fact, we may even make it tonight..."

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If you want to see what all the fuss is about and haven't bought your own copy yet, read more about it (or order it) here on my web site.

You won't regret it!

True Success

I've been reflecting a lot lately about what "success" really means. Not least because as I watch my son continue to grow up (as they tend to do...) my priorities in life continue to change - as he changes, and I do too - and so naturally we begin to ask ourselves...

So what matters? What REALLY matters?...

Well, apart from the obvious "being the best mum I can be" which is always going to right up there at number 1, to me helping to make a significant difference in global health, wealth and happiness matters... Big time!

And today's post is about my next contribution to just that!

Now, this may not surprise you, but I've always been a very driven kind of person - right from babyhood according to ma! Being successful at whatever I did has only ever been "the ONLY option"! Failure was not in my vocab and as such very very rarely did it show up in my life. However, in my youth and adolescence I didn't always quite have the oomph to put all my great ideas into practise (a little bit chubby, foggy and junked-up you see), and while I did do well at almost everything I tried (bar running cross country, which I do my very best to forget!), no way did I have the ability to "go all day and then all night" (ahem) like I do today some 20 years later.

Why? Well you can guess that bit, can't you?! Since going raw I genuinely do feel how my little "Super K" icon looks.

And for the past 8 years, in fact even before then, I have felt driven to bring raw food to the mainstream for that reason, and many others besides. Quite simply raw food changes bodies, faces, health, energy, happiness and lives...

And since I came across that info and experienced it first-hand for myself I have said to myself that if I did contribute in some significant way to helping raw food go mainstream (I feel daft even writing it, I mean, why on earth isn't it already?!!!), then I would really consider myself a success. Success in "personal achievement and contribution to the world" terms anyway.

In fact, so driven, so passionate, so determined have I been, at times it has felt as if I was almost possessed by something bigger than me to do what I do. Whether it has been to reinvent and steer The Fresh Network, to publish Get Fresh! magazine, to put on yet another big event, to create the Fresh Festival (and make it happen), to do that one more "Oh my God I can't believe I'm having to answer this question" media interview or to write the next article or book, it has been unceasing in its power to move me to take often-quite-big-and-a-little-bit-scary action!

More recently that drive, for some reason, has gone deeper and more focused still. I - like you I'm sure, have seen a real shift in the general mass consciousness around food, health, diet etc. over recent times, and my attention has turned more and more to my own private and personal work, to explore and birth more of my own style of communicating and "getting the message out there" that is free of being quite so PC as my work through TFN. I've been driven, pushed, guided, moved and even harried to help more and more people really "get" raw food - and by that I mean from a sane, common sense, easy to implement, "no brainer", fun kind of way!

To this end, as many of you know I launched www.TheRawFoodCoach.com just 4 short weeks ago, have been sending out Successfully Raw eZine weekly to rave reviews for nearly 3 months, and launched my first, already highly popular eBook "50 Quick, Easy, Healthy & Delicious Raw Food Recipes (That Anyone Can Make In Less Than 10 Minutes)" when the site went live. And my God it has felt liberating to find my own voice within this work again! (And apparently, you like...)

But what's coming NEXT WEEK is, I believe, what's really going to be my biggest raw-related "success" to date:

"How To Get Started With Raw Foods ...And Gain More Energy, Clarity and Vitality Than You Ever Thought Possible!"

This product is an eBook (a book delivered via the internet that you print off yourself within seconds of buying it - very cool!). This will be available online from early next week, once I've put the finishing touches to it. Aimed at those who are either completely new, have been dabbling for a while or who have never really quite got it or stuck with raw foods, this eBook will consist of roughly 150 pages of first-class easy-to-understand, super-easy-to-get-going-with, all-laid-out-for-you-and-ready-to-go raw food info, lists, charts, plans and resource lists that I genuinely believe is going to change thousands, if not millions of lives.

Yes, even though I am in the final throes of pulling Raw Food for Beginners together (a much bigger physical and printed tome), having now seen the power and speed at which eBooks can hit the world, this book has literally flowed out of me this past weekend like an absolute dream! I know that people have been wanting something like this FOR YEARS (including me!!).

The even better news? Even though the material within it is easily worth thousands of pounds (no kidding!), it's selling - between now and until midnight on 11 October (my birthday!) for just £9.99 - and then it will go up to £12.99 - still a complete and utter bargain. Yes, I know. Crazy, but true. (It will probably go up to £14.99 towards the end of the year, but we'll see...)

AND you get a FREE BONUS!

Such is the power of the Internet! And the bonus is "The 30 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Raw Food - Answered" which will sell separately in a few more days for £3.99, and which naturally fits in really rather well with a book such as this!

So if ever there was a time to celebrate "success" on the raw food front, then it will be next week! And I do hope that if you think it sounds like just what you need that you'll choose to bite the bullet and spend the best-invested £9.99 of your life! (You can pre-order NOW and be the first to receive a copy, just click here).

And as for other definitions of success in other areas of my life, that my friends, will have to follow on another day! Hope to be delivering one of these eBooks to YOUR inbox very soon!

The Vita-Mix Blender

If I was allowed just one piece of equipment in my kitchen, it would  be the Vita-Mix TNC. Way more powerful than your average blender, the Vita-Mix can handle ice, frozen fruit, nuts and seeds and all manner of other raw ingredients, as well as the more obvious soups, smoothies and dressings.

I've had my machine for several years now. Yes it's expensive (it typically retails in the UK for about £395), but goodness the value I have already got out of that machine is a hundred times over what I paid for it. It really is priceless.

Regular readers of my blog or eZine will know that I am also known as the Smoothie Queen! So having this machine work, live and breathe in my kitchen while other shadows of machines would have run out of steam, withered and died, is a complete blessing and an ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE.

Read on for a review I wrote about this fabulous machine way back when - it's as true today as it was back then, and I am EVEN more of a fan!

And if you do decide to go for it, I promise you won't every regret it and, like me, it may just become your most favourite kitchen buddy EVER!

The Champion Juicer

One of the most common questions I get asked is "What juicer do you recommend?" Well, my juicer of choice is actually the Champion - although it doesn't do wheatgrass and herbs and the pulp comes out a lot wetter than it does through other top-of-the-range juicers, it's handsome, sturdy, easy to clean and juicing takes no time at all!

Does this mean that the other juicers aren't worth looking at? No, not at all. In fact most people will opt for a Samson or Green Star, especially if they're looking to do a lot of green juices, but I just found that realistically I just wasn't making the effort to use those juicers (they run a bit slower, the food has to be cut up smaller and they're often more fiddly to clean), so I thought I'd stick with a juicer that I actually wanted to use!

I'll be writing more about juicers further down the line. It's an important subject to cover and the truth is that there's pros and cons to all of them. To date, although there are some truly great juicers on the market, as of yet the "perfect juicer" does not seem to exist.

So, for now, the squat, white and handsome Champion it is!

Why You Should Take a Regular Dose of CommunitySoul

If you're interested in upping the quality of your health, love and relationships, parenting and family, small business, and/or personal and spiritual development then it's my absolute pleasure to (finally - I've been meaning to for weeks) introduce you to CommunitySoul.

CommunitySoul is a web site, a concept and an e-zine all in one and it's co-ordinated by a great guy, and new friend, Neil Millar.

CommunitySoul the e-zine is a unique publication brought to you by email weekly (with a special bumper issue monthly) including thought-provoking insights from some of the world's best-selling authors, speakers and coaches. And we're talking big names here:

Sonia Choquette ~ Very well-known spiritual author, presenter and sixth-sense expert

Dan Millman ~ Author of the incredible metaphysical adventure book, and one of my all time favourites - which just happens to big up raw food! - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, as well as many others.

Robert Middleton ~ Leading business guru from USA with a brilliant couple of ebooks - Marketing Tool Kit and Web Site Tool Kit

Bernadette Doyle ~ Business expert specialising in marketing and building a strong client base

Michael Webb ~ Oprah expert on love romance and dating and author of eight books

Michael Myerscough ~ The Relationship Coach. Great web site on attracting your soulmate, dating etc etc.

Rinatta Paries ~ The Love Coach

Michael Neill ~ Author and success coach

Natalie Dee ~ Lifestyle management coach who organises Dream Board Parties

Jo Ball ~ Life coach and family dynamics expert

Jason Vale ~ Our very own Juice Master, UK household name, author of many great health/ juicing/ diet books and regular at The Fresh Festival

And yes, me too! Karen Knowler ~ The Raw Food Coach

Every issue is info-packed, diverse and fascinating and it's ideal for anyone interested in enhancing life. Which would be you, right?!

Having received every issue since its conception and knowing the level of content being delivered, I highly recommend this to you. I have never seen this much solid, life-enhancing information available at such a low cost. (Currently there's an introductory offer on of just £5 per year. That's ridiculously cheap! So jump at it!) Am I getting anything for promoting this e-zine? Not at all, I just owe it to Neil and to you to get CommunitySoul known about because it's an amazing gift that Neil is giving to the world networking all these great experts and, like I say, the price is crazy! So, go on, take a look at the website and click on the names of all the people listed above to see the sites and the calibre of each of the contributors and you'll see why I wanted to tell you about it!

Enjoy : )

PS: My favourite web site of those above? Michael Myerscough of The Relationship Gym - I've spent half the evening reading this info-packed site!