Dages Juvelier Keates of Delicious Dialogues is known for her enthusiasm.
Business Name
Delicious Dialogues
Business Description
Delicious Dialogues helps folks feel and look their very best by offering private nutritional counseling, hands-on cooking workshops and weekend retreats. We believe in an approach to health that reproaches no one and empowers anyone. The Delicious Dialogues program encourages open-mindedness, exploration and precocious dabbling in all sorts of nourishing ways without dishing dogmatic lifestyle advice.
Delicious Dialogues was founded by Dages Juvelier Keates, who believes that it is possible to deeply enjoy eating, our bodies and each other without willpower, self-punishment or deprivation. A graduate from Bard College and the advanced training program at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, she has led seminars and groups at venues such as Audible.com and Linden Advisors and taught on retreats from Jackson Hole, Wyoming to Central America and the Middle East.
Start Date
January, 2006
Best thing about working for yourself?
I make my own schedule and am able to make my life a real priority. I am able to run a business that satisfies my desire to give as well as my financial needs while maintaining time for creative/scholarly/personal/spiritual/adventurous/playful endeavors!
Worst thing about working for yourself?
See above.
Satisfying my own inner boss can be a bit harrowing, especially when business is in one of its slower cycles.
Why did you start your business?
I started Delicious Dialogues to help empower people to enjoy whole foods outside of the industrial system, to practice radical self care, and to be supported in their honest self-expression. Through experimentation, acceptance and gentle coaching, I knew that people could become jazzed about living an authentic and healthy life, a life that did not revolve around weight loss and restriction. I wanted to create an inclusive space for people to connect with their bodies, their desires, and to be able to start eating well without obsession or self-loathing.
I also believe that by cultivating acceptance and true nourishment of our own bodies and minds we can transform our communities and our world. I believe that we can vote for our future with our forks.
When did you start to think of yourself as an entrepreneur?
When I realized that by investing all of this time and energy in my own business made me one!
How do you relax?
I love to spend weekends upstate, rummaging around the forest for wild edibles and experimenting with new dishes and cocktail recipes. I also enjoy snuggling. And Spa Castle.
A deep sense of relaxation emerges in me after a couple of weeks traveling and spending time with folks of different backgrounds. I really get recharged by dropping off the grid for pockets of time.
What is something that you are known for?
My enthusiasm.
What 5 things would you never like to be without?
Time, money, food, faith, ambition.
What’s a business that you think is interesting or inspiring?
KOL Foods. They are emerging now as a glatt kosher, grass-fed, organic response to the need for sustainable, humane, kosher meat. They are a values-based business responding to a very real need, and they operate with a tremendous amount of integrity, while helping to slowly dismantle our reliance on industrial “kosher” products.
Who is a person that inspires you?
Madonna.
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