Life's Essential Ingredients
Life’s Essential Ingredients is spinoff of C4 Leaders, a California based non-profit who uses PIZZA to guide all people in RISING TOGETHER. The show is hosted by two best friends who were college roommates at the University of San Francisco – (Jeff with a Mike). Season 5 started in 2025 and the show is currently listened to in 58 countries and 808 cities.
The educational and entertaining show takes a deep, yet humorous look at life’s essential ingredients. The hosts will engage in interesting conversation with some of the world’s best leaders, authors, athletes, musicians, chefs, architects, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, comedians, CEOs, coaches, professors, teachers, and many, many, more industries and professions.
The goal of the show is to have the guest highlight their life’s essential ingredients, who helped them develop the ingredients, and how the guest can help the listeners develop their essential ingredients.
The hosts create space for the guest to be the star of the show and provide an incredible platform to highlight their life, their business, their passion, and most importantly, their gift they share with the world.
Our listeners are diverse and 9% are 18-24, 18% 25-29, 13% 30-34, 18% 35-44, 18% 45-54, and 55+ 24%.
Life's Essential Ingredients
Season 3 Episode #17 Passionate About Healthy Eating with Lynne Bowman
Season 3 Episode #17 Lynne Bowman is coming from Pescadero, CA (inform, inspire, & transform)
You can find via her website lynnebowman.com
About our guest: Lynne is living proof you can cook, eat, sleep, laugh, and walk your way out of type 2 diabetes, along with other chronic ailments. Her latest best-selling book, “Brownies for Breakfast, A Cookbook for Diabetics and the People Who Love Them," is a cool, fun, beautiful, guidebook for anybody who wants to reverse chronic disease and eat healthy.
Lynne’s book has rave reviews and because she's a grandma, readers enjoy stories, advice recipes, interior/exterior design guidance, beauty tips, style secrets, hormone insight, parenting tips, and the one thing most of us get totally wrong with our first couple of marriages.
Lynne has three grown children, two grandchildren, and is president of The Pescadero Community Foundation. She and her husband have a small farm on the coast of Northern California.
Lynne, thanks for sharing your many gifts and thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome to the show!
TOTD – “Growing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.”― Victoria Moran – author of Younger by the Day
In this episode:
What was life like growing up?
What are your life’s essential ingredients?
Congrats on becoming an author…Inspiration behind writing your books?
What is the one thing most people get wrong in their first couple of marriages?
I know your mother died when you were 18, must have been tough…how did her death influence your life?
Feed The Starter Challenge and bringing the family to the table…
The importance of family…3 adult children with one daughter who is a nurse practitioner
When did you make the choice to go plant based?
Reading labels and the importance of staying away from SUGAR…
The importance of self-awareness and self-love…
Finding fulfillment in life? How do you define fulfillment?
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