Meet Gigi The Vegan
Plant-based wellness guide • Author • Speaker • Product creator • Living-food teacher
Gigi The Vegan helps people begin their Healing Journey through living foods, practical wellness tools, clean products, education, and personal guidance rooted in her own lived experience.
After receiving a colon cancer diagnosis and vague medical advice hinting about food and stress, Gigi had a deep conversation with God during her darkest hour. God answered with clear direction.
What started as a personal fight for her life became a divine commitment calling her to help other people listen to their bodies, change their food, and choose a healthier path.
“I had to learn to love myself, listen to my body, and trust the direction God gave me.”
The Moment Everything Changed
Gigi was a busy single mother, working hard, caring for her children, and carrying stress that had become part of everyday life.
Then came the diagnosis: colon cancer.
When her doctor told her surgery was ahead, Gigi asked what she could do to make her body stronger. She also asked what may have caused the disease. Her doctor's answers led her to look further at food, stress, anger, grief, self-love, and the way her body had been carrying years of pressure.
That moment scared her. It also woke her up.
Gigi prayed, listened, researched, and found the evidence was clear. Trusting God's direction, she sold all of her belongings to study complementary health practices with nationally renowned experts.
She Followed the Prayer, the Learning, and the Food
At Hippocrates Health Institute, Gigi learned about living foods and the body. With expert and tribal guidance in Hawaii, she studied holistic herbalism. Her knowledgebase grew stronger with each foray into functional nutrition and hands-on wellness practice.
Gigi’s pursuits led her to discover living foods, plant-based living, holistic wellness, strategic fasting, herbal study, and a self-awareness deeper than she had ever experienced.
Most importantly, Gigi noticed that as her food changed, her ability to move through life changed.
She felt lighter, calmer, more peaceful, and more connected. Her energy returned. Her relationship with stress changed. Her love for people, animals, nature, and for herself grew stronger.
And as she helped others, she discovered something else: helping people find hope, health, and belonging in the larger web of life became part of her own healing too.
What Gigi Teaches
Gigi’s message is simple enough to begin today and deep enough to live for years:
Your body speaks.
Food matters.
Self-love is part of the work
Relish your God-given power to choose!
Gigi teaches people how to use living foods, clean ingredients, mindful habits, body awareness, prayer, movement, and practical support as part of a wellness lifestyle.
She believes people heal themselves when they receive the tools, choose the path, and commit to themselves.
From Personal Healing to Public Work
What began as Gigi’s own Healing Journey has grown into books, foods, skincare, wellness spaces, speaking, events, and personal guidance.
Today, Gigi The Vegan's reach includes:
Books
Ready references for fasting, plant-based meals, and raw living, including 21-Day Cleanse, The V-Code, and Keepin’ It Raw.
Culinary
Seasonings, kale chips, nuts, teas, and clean plant-based products created to make healthy living taste oh-so-good!
Skincare
A plant-based glow ritual for cleansing, toning, renewal, and daily self-care that carries over into self-confidence and drive.
Training
Talks and hands-on lessons about nutrition in healing, mindfulness and motions for healing, and how mindset affects action.
Events
Live experiences, Midwest Soul VegFest, and wellness gatherings that bring plant-based living, culture, food, and self-love into shared space.
Service and Public Reach
Gigi’s work is shaped by lived experience, plant-based study, holistic wellness training, functional nutrition, herbalism, and years of teaching people how to use food and daily practices as part of a wellness lifestyle.
Her background includes study through Hippocrates Health Institute, holistic herbalism study in Hawaii, dietitian-related training through Longview, and functional nutrition training.
Gigi has also shared her message through media, wellness events, organizations, and community education, including FOX4 Great Day KC, Chris Beat Cancer, YMCA, Big Brothers Big Sisters, University Health, and other wellness-centered spaces.
This Path May Be for You
You may be here because your body has started telling you some hard truths.
Maybe mornings feel slower. Maybe pain has become too familiar.
Maybe you are tired of carrying everybody else and finally ready to care for yourself too.
Maybe your doctor has said something that made you wonder.
You'll know it's time for you to start your Healing Journey when you're ready to begin again in a natural, healthier way.
You can start with a book, a gift to yourself, a personal call, the Wellness Circle, or start your 21-Day Detox.
You do not have to understand your whole future path today.
You only have to choose that one next honest step.
Where Would You Like to Begin?
Find the right next step based on what your body, life, and spirit are asking for.
A Note About Wellness Guidance Provided On This Site
Gigi is not a medical doctor and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. Information on this website is for educational and lifestyle purposes. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment decisions.