On today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast, just Google is your best friend. And, you know, if there's any

ingredients that you see on the back of something, you don't know what it is, like Google and you'll

instantly learn, like, is this, do you want this in your body or not?

Hi, welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. I'm your host, Courtney Swan.

I am the creator behind Real Foodology, which started out as a food blog back in 2011 and has progressed into an

Instagram and now obviously this podcast. Actually, interestingly enough, I am sitting in my new

short-term rental in Austin, Texas, And this is where it all began, guys.

Back in 2011, when I lived here in Austin, I started my blog, named it Real Foodology,

and the rest is kind of history. I'm on a bit of a soul journey right now, which I haven't even

really talked about at all on the

podcast, actually. If you follow me on Instagram, you are aware to a certain extent of what's

going on in my life right now. I left L.A. the very end of May, just with the intent to go on

a little bit of a solo trip, I just felt like I really wanted

to get out of L.A. for a second. I wanted to travel, and I really wanted to do it alone.

So I started out on a little road trip. I drove through the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell,

and then I ended up at my house in

Telluride, Colorado for the last couple of weeks.

And I actually had some girlfriends meet me there, got to hang out with them for a week.

And right before I was supposed to leave to go back to L.A., I just couldn't do it.

There's something intuitively going on with me right now in my gut, and I just feel

really called to not be in L.A. And I was really struggling back and forth, whether I was going to go to

Austin or back to Boulder. And both of those places have a really special place in my heart. I was born in San Antonio,

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