In Focus | Guylaine Lacerte of Healthy on Raw

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What is your name?
Guylaine Lacerte

What do you always find yourself saying?
Stay positive

If you could spend one whole day with anyone in the world who is currently alive, who would you select and why?
My children

If you were to receive any existing public award, what award would you like to win?
Best Health and Nutrition Author and Hormones Harmony coach

If you could spend a day with any historical figure, who would you choose and why?
No one I can think of. I am not political.

Who inspires you?
Great writers on health and spirituality such as Pema Chodron.

What are three things on your bucket list?
Hike the whole Appalachian Trail from Mexico border to Canada border.
Hike in Europe
Go to Machu Pichu with a group

If you had an enormous yacht, what would you name it?
The joyous whale

If you could foresee a single day of your future in its entirety, what date would you select?
June 2018

What are you passionate about?
Health, fitness, hiking

What has been your favourite day of your life, up to this point?
The day when my first child was born

What has been your proudest accomplishment?
I have done a water fast that lasted 27 days

Where is your favourite place to dine in Kelowna? What do you like about it?
As a vegetarian it is very limited. I like Thai food, Bai Thong.

What is your favourite activity or event in Kelowna? Why?
Hiking at Knox Mountain Park.

What is the name of your business/organization?
Healthy on Raw

What does your business/organization do?
I teach raw food classes with hands on: ‘How to Become Your Own Raw Food Chef and Self-Healer’. I teach a ‘21 Day Detox and Rejuvenation’ Group Coaching Program and a Six Week’ Hormones In Harmony’ Group Coaching Program where we learn all about the hormones and to balance them so we can feel and look.

Where can people find you or your business online?
www.healthyonraw.com

How do people connect with you on Linkedin?
https://ca.linkedin.com/

Where can people find your business on Facebook?
Guylaine Lacerte

What is your mission?
My mission is to educate and empower people to take control of their health so they follow a healthy eating plan and enjoyable lifestyle that not only gives them the body they’ve always wanted, but enables them to live a long, vibrant, disease-free life.

If you could achieve one thing within your field, what would it be?
I would like to publish very soon a vibrant health guide and recipe book.

If you were to receive any existing public award, what award would you like to win?
Best Health and Nutrition Author and Hormones Harmony coach

Where do you want your business/organization to be in five years?
I have a retreat or centre where people come to learn healthy eating, detoxify, and rejuvenate their digestive system so when they go home they will feel fabulous and on their way to create an empowered vibrant lifestyle.

Who do you consider to be a forerunner within your field?
There are several: Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo, Dietician Brenda Davis and Dr. Joel Fuhrman especially but there are many others.

What three qualities do you feel that your business/organization exemplifies?
Integrity, reliability, and compassion

What would you like to say to your employees/volunteers?
I am grateful. You deserve the best of health. You are worth it. Go for it.

How does your business/organization impact the community?
Healthy people are happy and productive people. They radiate joy and love. It is contagious.

If you were trapped in an elevator with several wealthy investors from any field, which field would you want them to be experts in? What would say to them/talk about?
Health, marketing, and real estate.

What is the best part of operating in our city?
It is the greatest city in Canada. That is why I love living here: the wonderful people, the lake, the parks, the mountain, the climate, all is fabulous. I should not forget the amazing Kelowna’s farmers market.

What has been your proudest accomplishment?
Working in a fasting retreat for six months in Texas in 1990. I was in charge of several people who came very sick and through fasting or juicing or eating raw foods they could recover their health. I could witness several amazing self-healing recoveries from the patients. I also fasted 27 days at the young age of 22 years.

What other businesses/organizations in our city would you recommend to others?
Massage therapist, my daughter Jade Lacerte is becoming a registered massage therapist. Also yoga teachers, gym and fitness facilities and hiking groups.

If I could change one thing about Kelowna, it would be:
Keep the orchards and farmland. There’s no such warm climate in Canada to grow fruits and all the vegetables. We need to preserve that. Without foods we perish.

What do you think makes Kelowna great?
It’s just the perfect size and you can find anything you want that a big city: the city park on the lake, all the beaches, the farms and orchards around. The farmers market is a great weekly event. Also I like the fact that the there’s no fluoride in Kelowna’s water.

What is your favourite event in our city?
Canada Day and the fireworks.

Some general comments I would like to share are:
The best investment you can make is in your health. Kelowna is a healthy place to live where we can do a variety of outdoor activities such as hiking, swimming, skiing.

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