April Nemeth (Vibe Chefs)

wanna call it. She April Nemouth, is my guest, and she is the founder of Vibe Chefs. Okay. And so what they do is they go around and they make healthy food. They go through all of your allergies, all of your preferences, and they basically cook at your house, stock your fridge. It's local to Nashville. It's an amazing, amazing business that is offered to Nashville. If you don't have time to cook, or if you want to try to stick with a healthy lifestyle but you don't know

how to do it, they will do it. They will do your grocery shopping and they will cook in your house, stock your fridge. It's amazing. So many celebrities use April in her company, Vibe Chefts, but the way she describes how it all came about is so incredible. It's so she's so connected to her calling and her higher self and her message. It's all about helping people, and it's all about doing the work that she feels like God put her to do. So this is a really spiritual interview.

I'm super excited about it, and you're gonna just love April and hopefully you'll get inspired to follow your own calling because April's living proof that when you follow the call on your heart, God, the universe, whatever you want to call it, provides, and she is that living example. So here's April Nemoth. Y'all get excited. Okay, April n myth is in the What up girl? What's up? How are you? I was just telling you, and I mean

this from the bottom of my heart. You have to be one of the most beautiful people that has ever walked the face of theory. You're just like a flawless looking human. No, I have flaws trussed me. I don't see them. Okay, they're not visible to the naked. For

you let's send them. Okay, I need to see it to believe it, because you are so stunning, but not just on the outside, on the inside too, which is really what makes you dynamite because you have this you have you had the courage and the ability to follow a dream, and I think that is something that is so difficult to do, especially even sometimes for women. You know, and not to be this it's harder to be a woman.

But you launched a company in a huge, thriving city of Nashville, and you did it all by yourself, and it's called Vibe Chefs, And I just want to talk about how you got inspired to do that, what led you to caring so much about health and to wanting to make that your business to help other people have an easy access to health because your slogan is good food, good vibes, our food tailor nutrition and custom cooking for those who can't, won't, or don't want to do it

for themselves. So tell me where this vision came from. Um, to be totally honest, this wasn't my dream, Like, what was your dream? What brought you to Nashville? Well, I actually I moved to Nashville about eight or nine years ago, now directly immediately following my college graduation. I wanted to work in the music business in any capacity. You just wanted to work in the music business. I like, I didn't even know what that meant. I was like, well, I can either be a singer, I can work at

the radio. So you're saying, also, don't but I was like, those are the two options in the country music That's what I thought. Because I as naive, I googled Nashville and I was like, oh, I guess this is where country music happens. I like country music. That's what I'm gonna do with my life. So how did you decide that you like country music so much? Do you love country music? I did? And I grew up all over but mostly in California, UM, where country music is not

really super happening, or it wasn't at least back then. UM, But it was just my thing. I was really into it. Um My parents were both from Georgia, and so I was raised kind of in that southern mentality, and that was just something that was always really close to my heart. Like I had this connection to it where I felt like that was like, so you're calling you yeah, and so I was like, if I could have a job in that, like that would be tight. So I was like,

I'm I'm gonna do that. So I just moved out here after college, so just off of a love in your heart for it. Yeah, and I I but with no idea what you were going to do. I didn't know one person, didn't have any leads anything did you do when you got here? I knew a friend of a friend of a friend who put me in touch with somebody who was going to get me a job. And I was like, oh, totally it's gonna work out right, you just believed't work. I was like, okay, So I

drove out here and I just went for it. Yeah, I mean it's just that's my life. I'm just like, okay, this sounds good. Um. So I actually I came out here and stayed in a hotel. I booked like one night at the Extended Day in Brentwood because for sure I was going to meet this person they were gonna give me a job. But yeah, so I kept booking like night after night after night, and um, this lady that I was supposed to meet kept putting me off, and I was like okay, So after seven days, I

was like, this is stupid. What am I doing? I need to leave. So I like packed up my stuff and I was like, I'm leaving in the morning. I gotta call that night that said, hey, can you come to this event tomorrow night and meet me and we'll chat real quick. Be So this girl who was going to give you the job finally called yeah, and so I was like, okay, yeah, I'll stick around whatever. And at this point I'm like, well, I'm not counting on anything. But so she gives me the address and she's like,

where's something nice? And I was like okay. And so I get there and it's, um, like the People magazine launched party for Miranda Lambert at the Hutton Hotel. It's like some big pankie event. I was like, what, like okay, um? So I I went and talked to her for like, you know, fifteen minutes and she liked me, I guess. And so then the next day she calls me and she's like, so you know she was the CEO of c M A and how did she get linked up

with her to begin with? Like some super random connection of like a friend of like in contact with her and you just reached out to her, and then and then she reached out to her, and she ended up being the CEO of the Country Music Association, and she was like, can you come on board and help me be my assistant? And then also, um, I just got a divorce, so can you help me with my kids? And also we have a third level in our house.

You could live there like everything that I needed with like a job, of place to live, like all of the stuff. Are you kidding now? And so that was like my first whoa, whoa whoa Okay, And to me, those are the moments, those are some of the defining moments in life where it's almost like God, the higher force is like, I'm gonna give you a break, so you know that you're on the right track, so you know that you're not going to throw in the town and give up. Do you feel that way? I do now,

But I didn't then. What did you feel? Then? I was just like, cool, that was lucky. Like at that point I knew when I super lucky when I had dream right, yeah it was, and I was stoked, Like I was so pumped. I was like this is awesome. I mean, I to be honest, learned way too much, way too fast about the dirty inside of the industry that most people do. She's running a huge yeah yeah yeah, And I was like, Okay, did you see this was

a fact track of learning. I mean, oh, I don't know, just like the politics of it, the inside of it. And I also got a really good perspective of like just the layout of it. Like I really quickly understood how the labels and the publishers and the p r os and like all the aspects of it like functioned together.

Because CMA is kind of like this thing that's affiliated with all of them, and all of her board members were the heads of all of these other entities, and so I got to create relationships with each of them when I would start to email them or whatever for her on her behalf, and um, I mean, and some of those relationships, like honestly, um, like they helped me. I got interviews, I got mentored by some of these people,

and I still like connect with some of them. Um. And I so I do feel like very blessed and lucky to have had that opportunity. How did you live there live with her? I don't even remember at this point, maybe a year or so until I got my own apartment and that's amazing. Yeah, so it was awesome. Um. But yeah, at that point, like I felt in my heart that Nashville was where I was supposed to be. But I didn't have like the relationship with God that I do now that that like, now looking back, I

see how much like he worked in that. But then I was just young and you know, like all about me. You know, how did you start developing this relationship with God? Um? I go, I really I pursued it through what made you want to pursue it? Um? I went to a church called The Belonging Here and it's fantastic. It's very much like Spirit Lead. It's nothing like any church I've ever been to. The pastor. Churches are scary. They make you feel like you're gonna rotten hell if you do

anything wrong. And I feel like that's kind of turn it's not religion sometimes. Yeah, it's definitely not like that at all. Like I mean, our pastors up there in like a flatbill hat like preaching like they're so cool, they're so normal. It's like sitting in your living room with anybody like that, you know, and then like Holy Spirit, and I mean it is like it is kind of intense, and at first I remember being super overwhelmed. I was like about to have a panic attack at the back door,

like I can't handle this. But then once you get into it, it was just because you're feeling things or because it was just too in the presence of God, there is like super real. It's like you actually felt that. You went in kind of not feeling anything other than just like, yeah, so curious about it because I was interested and I was dating the guy at the time who was um who knew a lot more about that,

and so I was like okay. And so then when I when I went there, I saw this and I saw what people were experiencing, and I was just it wasn't just like a crock of Yeah, it was real, but it seemed to me like from the outside. Now when I bring people there, when I bring friends there, I'm always like, okay, like don't freaked out, don't get turned off, Like it's just so fun and real and cool, and it's just like it's like a party honestly, but it's really it's really great, Like it's changed my life.

How has that changed your life? Because I know too. When you Earlier in your career, you were on a TV show wild Heart Goosh, we have to know we don't have to talk about that. But you've pursued a lot of different things before, a lot of things. Tell me some of the the things you did before you got to your calling and how God got you to this calling. Um, so I I after c m A, I went through UM,

I worked at another like startup music video network. Um that ended badly then I like the owner got indicted for fraud. We all got like really screwed. And Um what did you learn during that? What do you think the point of that was for you to learn? I mean, I don't know. I guess I've stopped at this point. I've stopped questioning, like what was the purpose of that? Because I just trust that God's going to work everything together for good And like sometimes if you love that,

if you get off the path, like that's fine. Like, like, how do you know when you're on the right path? What do you what does it feel like when you're on the right path as opposed to when you're on the wrong path. Is there is there a different feeling? Can you tell now or is it easier for you

to identified now? I're like, Okay, I'm on the right road as opposed to I mean, I don't even know if it's so much path because I don't I don't think life, like time is linear, and but I don't think that like you necessarily have this trajectory that's course that you're like predestined and you need to follow it. I think that like life is just a series of going, like just doing things, and like inevitably you'll end up where you're supposed to end up. And like if you

if you, I don't know. I just God redeems things, you do everything, so if you mess up, like he'll redeem it and work it together and get you back where you need to be. So I think it's more about just like I love that you're just trusting. I love that you're not trying to analyze it. I have a bad habit of trying to figure out the meaning for everything. I'm like, why did I go through that? There has to be some greater meaning what I'm sure

there is. But also you're right, it just gives you to the next because you do, I mean, you learn things, you learn about yourself, you learn about experiences like just in like or love and relationships. You know, it's like, oh, why did I go through that chapter with this person, because now you get past you like I should have never been with that. But like I said this the other day, that like the heart that you have now is is the culmination and the combination of every experience

your heart has ever gone through, and so great. Yeah, so you you just aren't who you are without going through all those things. I totally agree, And I feel like it's so weird to say, because I think I would never want anyone to suffer, including myself or anyone, but those moments of suffering have been the greatest defining moments of my personal life, and a lot of people I interview feel that same way, that going surviving a moment that was so painful actually gives you an insight

and awareness you could never have gotten otherwise. Absolutely. Um yeah, so tell me how you your road led you, or your your journey led you to one day being like, Okay, you did all these jobs. You obviously have a face to be on camera. You could be on camera if you wanted to be in a million different ways, but you decided, Okay, I'm focusing on health, and this is what I want to do with my life and then Okay,

let me create this amazing company. How did that moment happen? Um, there was no moment, And that I think is like what is different. I hear a lot of people that have had this dream or like they've known all along that they want to be an artist, or they want to go on tour, they want to do whatever they want to do and they've always known it, or like they've this epiphany where they're like, this is what I'm supposed to do. And for me, there was no moment.

There wasn't no I And to be honest, I don't know that there still is. I don't. I don't want to run a company. Dude, it's hard, but you're dying it. Yeah. But I wasn't like, oh I can't wait to run my own company. No, Like I don't know. I mean, it just happened. Yeah, Like I I it just sort of fell into my lap. Like I I've always loved health and nutrition, Like I think that that's super important. I think that we should take care of the bodies were given and respect that. But and I believe there's

like a place for that. But for me, where this came from was. I just started kind of doing it on the side, and then it it grew organically by word of mouth. And I mean to this day, I've I've never even really marketed it. Um where you just catering for people or what did you start doing on this? Yeah?

So I started just working with this one family that they asked me to come over and organize their pantry and help coach them on like they wanted to adopt a paleol style and get their kids eating healthier food. So they're like, can you just help us shop for these things and help us like figure out what we need to keep in the house, how to work this into our life. And I was like, sure, that sounds fun.

So um. So I did that and she's like, well, you know what, we really wanted someone to cook for us. And I was like, oh no, no, no, Like I don't know how to cook, like I cook for myself, but I've never done that before. And she was like, well, let's just try it, and I said okay. So we tried it and she loved it and I loved it

and I had a blast doing it. She would send me recipes that she found on Pinterest or something, and I would go to the store and get all the groceries and stuff, and then I go to the house and cook everything and like leave it for them and label it, you know. And they'd come home from work both the meals, and they all just worked super long hours, so they were relying on take out a lot. They were, you know, just throwing things together, and uh so this

allowed them to have like a home cooked meal. So when so I started to just mention that was something I was doing as a hobby, and um, I had friends say, Oh, I know someone else who would love that. Would you want to do it for someone else too? And I was like, sure, I guess so I did, and then she told people and it just kind of grew to the point that I had to quit anything else I had going on, like working at restaurant jobs or whatever else I was doing on the side while

I was waiting for something to happen in my life. Um, and then it got to the point where I was full and I had to like hire someone else to help me. And so many people need this, and truly I'm someone who needs this. It's like to have great food that tastes good, that's at your house. So you make good decisions, and that is an amazing Yeah. I mean there's so many reasons that it's helpful to people.

Like we work a lot with people that have UM autoimmune diseases, are A A, or thyroid disorders or UM diabetes or just things like health problems or health concerns that are really benefited by the food they eat. And I've had clients that have never tried to adjust their diet and have found like that it's helped immensely when they eliminate foods that are inflammatory or foods that are UM exacerbating their condition in ways that they didn't even

connect that too. Like really, what you put in your body is everything, Like it manifests itself in every single way of your mind, your body, like everything. And so how did you get passionate about this and learning about this? It's just something that I've studied for a long time and I've been interested in it for probably ten years or so. And I'm like kind of a nerd, Like I'm super nerdy at heart, Like I nerd out on the science of it, and like I love UM like

food as therapy, food as medicine like things like that. UM. So I read like scholarly articles and stuff like super Dork. I love them. So I love to just research it. I love to like read new articles and new studies and stuff on things are finding. Um, so your business just started growing. Yeah, and then all of a sudden, you're getting celebrities because then now you do like Kelsey Ballerini and you do. I don't know if you can tell everyone you do, but I you do all these

incredible people and you like provide them road meals. Huh yeah. So um, and that for me came um honestly, Kelsey. Kelsey won't mind that I talked about her, but some of them do, some of them don't want to disclose it, and some of them don't care. But um, Kelsey, she used to live in my building and so we kind of got to know each other. And she this was when she was just getting her start. She was just doing her big like first album push, and I kind of saw the way that she was just really I

mean just a lot. It's really taxing, and like she is the most hard working, like precious, like I just adore her everything about her, and but it was like she was constantly on the road and she was never getting a chance to reset, and she was writing, and she was I mean, she was a hard worker and so she would go out on the road all the time and then she'd come home for like two days and then she'd be back out and it was like during those two days, you know, she lives in this

apartment by herself, and she has an defridge, and like, the last thing you want to do when you get home off the road is go to the grocery store worried about what am I going to make, or like go eat take out again, because that's what you've been

eating on the road. And so for for me, it was like where my heart was, and that was giving them a chance to give these artists a chance to like reset and have that sense of home when they come home and just like be able to feel nourished by something, because there is an element of home cooking that really is like it's not a tangible thing, but there's a comfort and that that I think is really nourishing to your spirit when you're doing something that can

be so depleting, like constantly being on the road, or constantly eating waffle House or constantly just like burning out on life. Um and do all sorts of plans for people. What are the different options you could supply people with food. We are super custom so we're not like most meal prep companies where they have like, oh, here's your paleo plan or here's this. So we kind of sit down.

I sit down with everybody UM in the beginning, and we do a new client console and go over all of their nutritional goals like what kind of issues they're having, things they want to work on, things they want to improve, if they want to lose weight, if they want to you know, have more energy, or whatever their goal is, UM, and then we work with them to figure out like what types of foods would best benefit their body and

their health. Because I think everybody is different. I don't I will never say like paleo is best, vegan is best, whatever is best. Like I've been all of them, I've tried all of them, and I don't think that there is any one thing that works specifically for everybody. So it's different. So you customize it person, Yeah, and it

might not. It might be hybrid. It might be like half vegetarian half paleo, like or you know, certain things that apply to one diet type and certain things that that that conflict with that, but this person does better on those specific things. I love that. So you like break it down and you have to know what the person's goals are, what everything going on with their body is. I bet your results are crazy. Yeah, we've had some really great, great results, and um, that makes me super happy.

Like when I hear a client come and say like I can get through my shows like so much better now, or like I my I had I only had to use one shot of insulin when I used to use fourteen, or like that, or things like I've lost thirty pounds since I started with you that I couldn't get off

for ten years, or just things like that. Just when I see and it's not about like weight loss or it's not about numbers or or insulin or anything like that, feeling about like when I see their confidence, like and I see or like I'll have an artist that was like I haven't had a stomach ache in like three weeks and I used to get them every day and we started had started her three weeks ago, and um, and she was just like I can't believe how much better I feel, and like she's like my skin is

cleared up, changing all these things. Yeah, and just but I saw the way she was like beaming about it, and she was like going out there feeling so confident and just that's like what makes my heart happy? Or like, you know, so what do you when you send an artist with food on the road, What does that look like? Is it like a casserole? Is it like individual meals per meal per day? It totally depends. Usually when we do road food, so we'll do road food or home food.

Some artists like food for when they come home and they get off the bus. Some artists want food to take with them because their trainers out with them and they need forty card boiled eggs and stuff. So it's

really it just depends. Like some of them want very specific things and some of them are just like I just need a good, healthy, nourishing meal that I know is there, so I'm not eating like a handful of almonds or you know, bust food late at night or yeah two a m when your only option is that so um, So, it just totally depends on what people want. And a lot of times for the bus we do like individual individually package them so that they're easy to just grab and go and they fit better in the

little bus fridges. Um. And then for home food it also we usually those are usually bigger, like more not an individually portioned out kind of thing. But if a client needs something individually portioned out, will individually portion it out. It's just, um, we kind of it's more like, I guess you have your own personal chef, so it's not so much like we're a company that that. I guess.

We foster relationships between chefs and clients, so you get your own personal chef assigned to you, and everybody on our staff has like they're set clientele. You have six chefs. Uh, No, I don't cook. You don't cook. You're right, you're like, I gotta run this business. No, I used to cook all the time. I used to cook, like, oh man, there was a time I was just cooking like hours and hours and hours a day, um, and it was crazy. But yeah, I don't cook anymore. It got to be

too much with just the business. And also I'm not very good at it, so I'm sure you're great at it. They're my girls are much better than I am. At six you have six chefs, and so we get a

new client, you signed them to their own chef. Yeah, so the client gets their own chef and there that's basically like just their food person and whether they want like breakfast, lunch, dinner, just dinner is just breakfast, just to grab and go things if they want they have company coming in and they need extra food this week, or they're going out of town and they only dread and things like that, you need to pick up lacroix at the grocery store, like whatever, so that you have

to worry about going to the store, what are you going to have for dinner? That is such a relief to take off of people who are not good at cooking or kind of busy stress five well by all these groceries and then they go to waste because then you're like, oh, I have to cook them. I don't want to. And then you know or like oh, I'm starving and I got off work late, and I'm just gonna stop and get something because I don't have time.

But if you have like that healthy meal sitting in your fridge ready to go, and you just go home and warm it up, it's like it's done. It's way easier to stay on track, it's way easier to work and the food tastes good. Yeah, hopefully no. I mean I'm sure that the pictures are amazing. Five chefs five chefs dot com. Tell me what is it like starting in business? Um? And how much do you have to give of yourself to get this thing off the ground

Because everyone's like, oh, we're kind of talking earlier. It's easy for someone to maybe look at someone like you and you're beautiful, you have this great business happening. It feels like your life is a dream. But really there is a lot that you had to do to make this become a reality. Yeah, And honestly, I don't even want to take credit for it because I feel like I feel like this was such a God thing, Like God really just like put this on my lap and

I was like, okay, do you responded to it? You took, you took the gift and you did, and it just kind of happened one day at a time. But the reason I say that it was really a God thing is because it's never been like premeditated. I didn't have this trajectory in my mind like all right, I'm gonna go from A to B and then like this is

how we're going to build a business. I didn't have some plan, Like I feel like there's been a lot of favor on this from day one and that I just kind of have been rolling with it, and like I didn't know how to do anything. I mean I have had to like like I didn't even know how to cook, dude. I was just like, Okay, let me figure that out there. People be like, oh, can you do this? Yeah? Absolutely, And I'm like, figure out how

to do that out read puck like I don't. I just people are like, did you got to culinary school? Blah blah blah, And I'm just like, no, I went to the school of fake it till you make it, And like that's what I've been doing and you're passionate about it. Yeah, I love it, Like I love love love that I get to help people and nourish people, Like I'm a giver, Like that's one of my love languages is like gifts and acts of service, Like I

love that. So the fact that I get to do that as my job every day is really fulfilling for me, which is a really great gift. And I think that, um, it just it wasn't mine. It wasn't my plan, It wasn't my um dream, But I do believe there's like

a higher purpose on it. And I think that whatever you do, when you do something that glorifies God, like you have favor on that I and so I just feel like I've been really blessed too to have that, and that it's been something that has given me the opportunity to take care of myself and take care of others and just help people have a little bit more joy and a little bit more love and a little bit more food. I love that was there ever a

part in the process. I know you said you didn't premeditate your planet where you're like this is too hard, I can't do this anymore, Like God, thank you for this opportunity, but like this is exhausting, I can't handle it. I mean there were definitely a lot of times, I mean after the first year or so, I like crashed, I hit a wall where I I mean I had trouble even getting out of bed, and you just gave all your energy beyond exhausted and depleted like mentally physically.

And what's interesting, I think is when you start turning to business like it's your baby, you know, like I was, I did love it, and I was passionate about it, and so a lot of times it doesn't feel like work. Um, you can you can work all the time. Yeah, and that's what I did. Yeah, that's what I do. Yeah. But it's also like, um, it's really hard to it.

Just it happens so little by little that all of a sudden you look back and like you know, your stress levels or your mental capacity that's being used, like all these things inch up so subtly, and then all of a sudden you're like operating at this at this level where it's not sustainable and it's really depleting your energy levels and your mental energy, just everything. And it almost happened so quickly that you don't recognize it. And I think that's what happened with me. And I hit

this place where I didn't even realize why. And I remember talking to like my doctor and she was like, do you even realize how much stress you're under? And I was like, I'm not stressed. That stress It on your mind is raising like a million miles a minute, and just so much in your head all the time, and you're juggling so many plates. Is that no pun intended?

Because you're juggling so much and so you're not feeling stressed and I think, um, you know, bringing on like a staff was great, but there is a lot of that time. Is that transition where you are filling both rules because it's too soon to step back from your own tasks and too early to delegate those tasks to everybody else. You have to do both. Yeah, Um, how long did you do both? How long does that last?

I think it's different for for everything. For me, it was, I mean there it was several months of doing that consistently to build up and even now, I mean, it still happens, but it's better overall now because I have that. But with every new person you bring on, like that's more responsibility and more concerned that I have because I want to make sure that they have what they need and they're getting the hours they need. And it's more liability and it's more you know, there's there's more help,

for sure, but there's more like responsibility. Yeah. So it's it's more on my plate, but it's less on my plate, you know. So what did you do and how did you know you hit the crash? What did the crash feel like? Was there a moment where like, Okay, I'm crashing. I need to readjust and how did you readjust? What did you do to take care of yourself? Um? I had to learn to say no, that's hard, isn't it? And I had to learn, um, I had to learn

to to not stress so much. Like it it's really it sounds weird and it's definitely easier said than done. But people would say that to me all the time, like we just don't stress, we just don't stress. And I was like, you don't understand. I was like, yeah, I can't, Like what are you talking about? But you really have to just like like little things that I would feel that like bubbling of like Okay, I'm getting

stressed out about this. I'd have to play like worst case scenario game basically, so like what's what's the worst case scenario? Like I just really left up that cast role, so what can I do? I'd be like, first of all, I'd be like, Holy Spirit, can you fix that cast role? And no, I'm not getting like nine times out of ten, I get a text and I get a text from the client and I'd be like, oh gosh, like they're going to be like this wasn't good. Whatever, And every

time I think I ruined something. I like, people are like this is so good, and I'm like, what do you call on the Holy Spirit? Yeah, how do you call on him into your everyday Holy Spirit? I just jack that up? Can you please fix it? And he does and be like oh yeah, even when it's done, and like you send it on to put stuff in the fridge before and been like this is terrible, and like sure enough, I'll get a text from the client

like that was so good, and I'm like okay. But then inevitably, like I think I nail something, I'm like that was freaking insanely good blah blah blah, and the clients I'm not really like that, don't make it again. And I'm like okay, so, I mean it's just hit or miss, but um, yeah, it was a question, so

what did you hit that crash? And you had to say you had to tell yourself to not stress the worst case scenario, worst case scenario, like okay, worst case scenario, they hate the food, and then I lose the client and then like okay, fine, like I mean or whatever or worst case you're going to run it through, like yeah, it's not like nothing is like really that important, and because I think the way that I really learned to not internalize all that stress was by realizing that this

isn't my own. It's God's and He's going to take care of it. And it's not like I have no sense of like I feel responsibility for it, and I feel like love for an ownership in anyone. Don't feel possessive over it like clients, chefs, like anything, like the money like nothing. I don't feel like any of it is mine, And so that helps me really not stress about it. Like if I have a really bad month and we lose a bunch of clients, like that's okay. It's not mine to lose, and it's not mine to win.

If we do really well, like that's great and I'm happy, but it's not like it's just I don't feel a sense of possession over any of it because I feel like it all belongs to God in the end anyway. And so I just want to be obedient and do what I can do to continue to glorify God through that help people. But whatever happens in the long run, Like I'm okay with that, April. Now, that's like taking that's lind faith, right, there. That's what that is a leap of faith, and that is such a deep faith.

Did you so you developed that deep faith? Have you experienced miracles in your life? Like what made what makes you have that faith that's so real? Have you seen it? You've felt it? Yeah? I mean I don't know. I just I have a relationship now with God that's just like super peaceful, and I feel very different now than I did when I was younger, like ever in my life. I just do feel like I just have a general peace about things and that all of this is it's temporal.

It's temporal, and it's temporary and like it just I don't I don't really have the words to articulate it because I just think that it's more complicated but also

more simple. And I think that's like forever the struggle of people that like get that, that like have that kind of faith and trying to like communicate that in a way that makes sense, because I don't think it's something that's really very communicable between like human to human, because it's more like spirit to spirit and you have to like kind of tap into that and feel that and then like you could tell like your spirit will feel it from my spirit and then your spirit will

convey it to your mind and feeling. Yeah, I feel it. I feel it. I've heard it. I've seen it, like I've seen what's the miracle you've seen. I mean, I've seen things happen like within my church and stuff. I've seen people be cured of like cancer of tumors, leukemia, like chronic illness that has been present for their entire lives. And things have been just like cured like so I

mean healings like things like that. Um. But also I mean I've I've heard, like you know, I've heard like God speak to me, Jesus speak to me, Holy Spirit. And they all have like their own subtle little what do they say? What do they said? I mean, just is it a feeling or is it words? It's have been both. Like I've I've heard words. I've heard I've I've heard like, um, yeah, like sometimes it's just a clear wordtimes it's like answers. Oh yeah, like there was word. Okay.

So this story, this, this is like one of my favorite stories. So one night I was at church and my pastor alex and um Mia, one of our worship leaders, she like spoke this word over me out of nowhere, just like kind of called me out in front of the entire like thing at the end of ceremation. Yeah, Like I was up on the mic. She was leading worship and she stopped. It was like, April, I have a word for you. And I was like, she just

got called to tell you. Yeah, yeah, and so she was like I was like, okay, So she tells me this thing, and she said, I feel like God wants you to know that you're in a season where he's building you up and that just like Esther, he's building you up and making you strong so that when and making you very brave on the inside, so that when you have the chance to speak, you'll be able to and she and that's what she said. And she's like, I don't know what that means. I don't know why.

She said, should probably go home and read the Book of Esther. I no idea, That's just what I heard. And I was like okay, and so um So I went home and I read the Book of Esther like ten times and I was like, oh, she's pretty cool, Like she's my girl now, and so I just went with that and I was like that's cool, Like whatever, that means, I guess I'll find out and so then like a week later or I don't know, a month

later or something. Um Alex our pastor was talking about, um, how we all have like a heavenly name that's or a spiritual name or something, and a true name basically that's not like our earthly name. And she's like, mine is faith and she was telling this story about it, and I was just I was listening to this podcast like in my car, and I was like oh, and I was like, cool, I wonder if I have a name.

And so in my head I'm thinking like you know, love or joy or like something like that, right, And all of a sudden, so I was like, Jesus, what's my what's my real name? And all of a sudden, completely from over here, I heard the word star. I just like so strong and clear, like in your head. Yeah, like And I was like, what like star Like it was so like stark and clear and like it was like it was yeah, yeah it was. It wasn't a voice,

like an audible voice. It was like a not that you hear like in your head that I heard the word like star, and I was like whoa. And I was like, that's cool. So I went home and I looked it up and I was like, that's really pretty, Like I love it, Thanks Jesus, and so um so then I UM. A couple of weeks later, I had gone to a coffee with a friend from church and she was just talking to me about that, and I told her, Oh, I got to tell you the story

about my names. I told her the star story and she's like, oh Star, She's like just like Esther And I said what do you mean? And she's like the meaning of esther is that makes me want to cry? How cool is that? She's like esther means star? And I was like, thank you God. I was like, okay, I mean it was just so special. Yeah. So I mean and just like I don't know things like that, like do you think that you experience these connections to God because you're open to when you're looking to them

for them. Do you feel like everyone can have these experiences, just not everyone's as open to them? Yeah? For sure. I mean we're all created to be beings that like worship God, Like, we're all created the same. Like, what do you think the point of life is? Um to glorify God? Like I think we're here to just like glorify God and spread love and like whatever way that that manifests itself in your life is good, like, and

I think there's multiple ways to do that. Like I think when you talk about how do you know if you're on the right or the wrong path, I don't necessarily think there is one. I think you can do like millions and millions of different things that will glorify God and if your heart is in the right place, like that's all that matters. It's so easy to get hung up on one path though, sometimes, especially when we get locked into a career, like this is my identity,

this is who I am. Have you really separated from this is who I am? Like as a career based as like now you're like I am April Estra Star, I am my work is my work, but that's not my identity. Um, yeah, absolutely I And I never felt like it was my identity. I still don't. I don't feel like I'm like necessarily called to do that. And I think I think a lot of people do, and a lot of people do think that they're like or do are they are? It's not like they just think it.

I do think a lot of people are called to specific things. Um, for me, it wasn't like this was some like super strong dream of mine. Um that you're available in a vessel. Yeah, and so I'm just trying to be obedient and do that and whatever it turns into. Like if it blows up into a huge thing, that's great, and if it ends tomorrow, like I'm cool with that too. Um, that's awesome. And I just don't really feel like it's mine to like, it's not the purpose of what I'm

doing is not for my benefit. It's not for my benefit or my glory. It's for his. So however that plays out, like, that's cool with me. I love that, April. That's amazing. I just was watching Joel Osten and Oprah. They were doing a life lesson session and they're joel Osten was saying, your big dream or your big point should be to benefit others and to show God to others,

and that is what you're doing. Yeah, And that's what I feel like for me, I feel like my purpose on earth, Like what am I supposed to do is to like love people? Like I feel like, and I don't mean to say this to sound weird, but I feel like I'm really good at loving people and that I love to do it, and I feel like to love people like I mean, I like in every way, like I love to tell people, I love to show people.

I love to give gifts. I love to Like you want to make people feel valuable, Yeah, I do, I really do. I like to. I have a heart for people that are like struggling in any way, Like I

just want to make people feel good about themselves. Like what I do, I guess is whenever I see somebody, if I ever see somebody and have like a bad thought, or like if I'm annoyed or I like, you know, I'm in my own head about something, or anytime I see anybody, I always try to look at them like through God's eyes, So I'll try to like feel the love that God has for that person when I come into contact with them, and then I feel like it

changes my whole perspective on anything, like if someone's being mean to me, or someone's rude, or someone cuts you off or whatever instead because it's not about you. Yeah, it's not about me, and it's honestly, it's probably not even about them. It's like they're still Like it's because of whatever they're struggling with. It's whatever fear or anger or like hurt that they've been through that's causing them to react that way. How did you gain that wisdom?

How did you get that hard for people that is like holy spirit deposited? Yeah. Well, and I think I have this revelation one day because I've like I was really stressed out and scared about something or like freaking out and and I yelled at my dog and I was like, yeah, yeah, christ Hill, And I was like maybe Hall woween you can yell U, but not Christmas. Um. I yelled at him and I was like immediately, I

was just like why did I do that? And I looked at him and like he didn't do anything wrong, you know, yeah, And I just snapped at him and I was like oh, And I was like I did that because I'm scared about X y Z right, And I took it out and that Chrispear like came out of my mouth and like I imparted that onto him.

And so I just realized that when any right there. Yeah, it was like this moment where I was like oh, because then I realized every time anybody is like mean to you are rude or negative, or they're complaining or they're like whatever, anything that's like ugly or not good. Um, it comes from a place of like hurt or fear. So I like immediately try to recognize that and like think, like how can I help so off in that for

that person. Instead of reacting like okay, like or being rude back or like anything, I'm like, oh, let me just buy you or like let me just like you. Do you return that hostility or that anger fear that someone is having with love, and that's how you choose the world. April, Wow, you're wise. You are the full package.

Maybe like April okay, but thank you know, and I like, again, I don't feel like I don't want to take credit for this because this is all like these are all things that I feel like I've really learned, and um, you've wanted to learn these, You've like you've tried to learn these. I can tell you've intentionally developed into this person. Yeah, But I think that my heart for that just comes

from pursuing God. Like I think the more you pursue Him, the more you like just have that love for people, because it's I mean, he taught us to love it's not even our love, it's like his, you know, And I just want to be a vessel to like let his love come through mere. Okay, so we're gonna wrap up last question. Your whole thing has been inspiring, but I like to leave, would leave your light, So leave

some inspiration. Everything you do is inspirational, but leave some inspiration of how you really would like to inspire people or how you've been inspired. Um, I guess, yeah, I mean inspiration. I don't know. I guess for me, that's what it is. It's like taking care of other people and like loving other people. I really believe in what they say that it comes back, and it comes back bigger than you put out. So loving other people and taking care of other people like you're going to be

loved and cared for. And if you pursue that intentionally with your heart, like your heart is going to be well taken care of. So just rest in knowing that that principle is sound and that you can just like, I don't know, I just cut it off. That's so true, you'll be taking care of If you give love, it will come back bigger. Sounds super cheesy, no, and it's sounds really legit and I love it and I feel so inspired. Thanks April, thank you for joining me today.

Thank you so much for having me. I was trying to call you Nimuth. April Naman Vibe Chefs also just the most incredible, inspiring person ever. Thank you so much for joining me today. How incredible is April's interview. I love that she trust her instincts and that she trusts God and that she follows her calling. And how awesome to see her business thriving like it is. It's absolutely amazing, you guys. Next week, Michael Chandler is in the house.

He is a two time m m A lightweight world champion. That's roight whoa chipion, So get excited. He's going to talk all about the power positivity, the power believing that you're destined for greatness. He is so inspiring. He's up there a Tony Robbins and Joel Osten. Michael Chandlers joining me next week. You will not want to miss this episode. I promise I do not want to miss it. Okay, see y'all soon. Bye,