Welcome to the Global Gusto Gazette
Hello! I’m Kelly.
To begin, the Global Gusto Gazette is not about cooking, the latest and greatest high-protein snacks, or how to put together a meal plan for the month, which you most likely will not follow.
Some context, some background
In the past decade of being a dietitian, my general observations have been that more often than not people are confused about what to eat, when to eat, and how much, and have a fixation on getting it “perfect.” This started with people in America but recently has tapped into the global market. In a sense, the same can be said for other elements of living - the exercise crazes, the strive for the “perfect” work-life balance and the guilt that goes along with it, and getting a newborn baby on the “perfect” sleep schedule. After reflecting on these observations with sincere consideration, understanding, and hope I aimed to “bring it all back to basics,” and along came my brand, Indigenous Nutritionist®. The year was 2015. You can read more about my brand here.
In 2021 I upgraded Indigenous Nutritionist to include Pilates services and education which led to a change in the name to Indigenous Nutritionist & Contrology, or better yet, INCO. Contrology is what founder Joe Pilates called his work.
Turning point
In Summer 2021 I went to Costa Rica with a childhood friend to join in the Peace Retreat. The world was semi-opening back up with fewer travel restrictions, and a yoga retreat was just the kind of ticket to help dampen down stressors and breathe in fresh air. Let us not forget, the flight and stay prices were much friendlier at this time as well. It was at this retreat that I met a young girl embarking on solo travel. Being a former solo-girl-traveler myself we engaged in conversation one day, and in the midst of some light business chat she said to me, “Check out Substack, it’s the new thing everyone is doing to write newsletters.” So when I got back to NYC I did just that.
I had been blogging on and off in the digital world since 2012. I went back to old blog sites I created and felt a spark of that early ambition I had fresh out of New York University. Nearly 10 years later when I sat down to write my first Substack I realized how much I had grown and changed since those early blogging days. Not only intellectually and in my writing style, but also in my interests, my values, and the connections I had made with my career’s focus (food, nutrition, exercise, health) to other crafts such as art, history, and law.
This was the turning point: flashbacks from the business minds asking “What differentiates you from others?” to the sparkling wannabe entrepreneurs asking “What’s your passion, what’s your purpose?!”
What if writing can free me from the well-meaning but overarching societal and standardized inquiries?
But what to write about
Sticking only to what I knew or what I studied didn’t fit the shoe. As I sat inside my Paris apartment with a stack of Hemingway books on the mantelpiece (cliché, but for real) thinking about what I should write about I got some inspiration from ol’ Hem. I thought back again, this time specifically to the time I decided to take a job in Abu Dhabi in 2016 and left my first love, NYC. I thought about the sacrifices I made, what I went after, what came after me, what I learned while I lived, what I enjoyed, what made me feel more and think less, what gave me energy, and what sucked away my energy. How could I tie this into my life’s work? How could I combine my scientific and clinical background with a more theatrical scene of the arts, the deep roots of antiquity, or the justice of law? How could I take all of these things I have experienced, wanted and unwanted, this knowledge, and the thirst for more, and create something good? Something with gusto.
Hemingway once said, “In order to write about life first you must live it.”
And I started to write…
What is the Global Gusto Gazette About?
The Global Gusto Gazette is about what people can learn from other countries, cultures, and lifestyles at the intersection of themes such as art, literature, history, psychology, law, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. It is storytelling from a different angle.
Who is the Global Gusto Gazette For?
Anyone interested in food, nutrition, health, well-being, cultures, and/or simply being
Anyone who thinks dietitians sit around all day writing meal plans and calculating calories and are curious to find out what’s in store outside of the store
Anyone struggling with their relationship with food and are looking to create a lifestyle within their means that optimizes their quality of life
Anyone with an open mind, who loves to learn, and appreciates a sense of humor
Anyone interested in health and international law and public policy
Anyone interested in a storytelling approach from a health practitioner
Why Subscribe?
Full access to the (mostly) bi-weekly gazette sent directly to your inbox, and to the content on my website. Learn some, laugh some, and read more. It’s time to get curiouser and curiouser.
Kelly, Founder of Indigenous Nutritionist® & Contrology- INCO
