S2.E9. | Suzie Yorke
Finding Her Afterglow at 50
Proud mom, former CPG Marketing Executive, and now, first-time entrepreneur (at age 50!), Suzie Yorke sits down with Julie and Liz this week, on The Afterglow Podcast.
As an 11x Ironman athlete, cyclist, marathon runner who learned the hard way that low-fat nutrition did not work, Suzie is on a fierce mission to spread the word that fat is back and sugar is out, with her own company: Love Good Fats!
A female LGBTQ founder, Winner of the 2020 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award, and Winner of the 2019 Top 100 Most Powerful Women Award, @lovegoodfats is Suzie’s way of getting North Americans into eating more healthy fats, less sugar, feeling great about it, and living healthier lives.
What went down:
3:00 Suzie tells us about her upbringing in Montreal
5:00 Suzie puts herself through Engineering at McGill
6:00 Suzie is an eclectic thinker in terms of Science and Math
8:00 Suzie talks about going into business, being the first woman hired at PG&E
9:45 How Suzie came in and turned things around for Weight Watchers
10:00 What gave Suzie the courage to enter a male dominated environment
12:00 Her first 50 years gave her resilience, and how her dad was her main role model.
14:15 Suzie wants to be a role model for women
16:20 Suzie's self taught barriers
18:00 Suzie used her experience to create a product and become an entrpreneur
20:00 How Suzie had the desire to create something first, and then tried to find the product
22:00 Suzie does it all
25:00 Suzie had an aha moment and created a product to serve herself
28:00 How Love Good Fats came to be
30:00 Suzie read a book and transformed her thinking to FATS being a good thing
35:00 What kept her going through all the obstacles
39:00 Suzie considers herself a changemaker
41:00 Suzie talks about barriers as a gay woman.
45:00 What still needs to change to equalize and have a just society
49:00 Suzie has a hugely successful business in her 50's, what would Suzie say to women in their 50's
www.lovegoodfats.ca
Julie Watson, Liz Doyle Harmer
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