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Samantha Salmon is the founder of RawFoodMealPlanner.com, a health coaching and training service that specializes in brain health, weight loss, type 2 diabetes, menstrual health, raw foods, and energy. As a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Brain Health Licensed Trainer, Samantha educates her clients on natural healing modalities such as nutrition and lifestyle to support their overall health and well-being. With a background in raw foods and plant-based nutrition, and a personal connection to diabetes through her grandmother’s death, Samantha is passionate about helping her clients achieve optimal health through dietary and lifestyle changes. She is also the former owner of Earth’s Healing Café in Chicago, Illinois, who has fed celebrities like Zoe Kravitz, former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and fitness star Koya Webb. She is the creator of the Raw Food Health Empowerment Podcast and author of the book, “You Can Afford to Be Healthy”.
After getting a degree in economics from New York University and opening a raw vegan organic restaurant in Chicago, she went on to receive her health coach certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where she learned about more than one hundred dietary theories and studied a variety of practical lifestyle coaching methods. 
Samantha is active in the health equity space in an effort to achieve her mission of eradicating type 2 diabetes in this country. She is a member of the Good Food Economy and Good Food Purchasing Policy Working Groups for LA Food Policy Council, one of the largest food policy councils in the country.