WoMRadio Holiday Showcase 2026 Contest 1

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Welcome to the Word of Mom Radio Holiday Showcase 2026,

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celebrating mom-made products and services. I'm your host, Dori DiCarlo,

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and you know we have been here for years.

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Breaking those myths that mompreneurs and businesswomen, especially those of

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us building our businesses from home, that we're just dabbling

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in between bake sales and getting our nails done, we're not.

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We are smart, we are savvy, and we are sharing

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the wisdom of women in business and in life. And

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I am looking forward to introducing you to the four

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amazing women behind me. Cosmic Tallow, Eat to Explore, Carviva,

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and Pirouette Kids. Using contest, using WOMradio.com forward slash contest

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dash one. We're here with Dale Sharkey. She is a

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mom of three, a farmer, and the founder of Cosmic Tallow.

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a skincare company that grew out of her family's 30-year

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organic farming operation in Teton Valley, Idaho. With a deep

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understanding of organic agriculture and a passion for ingredient integrity,

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Dale transformed her farming experience into an entrepreneurial venture in

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the beauty industry. Her journey is a reminder that sometimes

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the most meaningful businesses grow from the work you are

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already doing and the values you live by. As somebody

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who is a clean product advocate, I am so excited

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to bring Cosmic Tallow into our showcase. So I want

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you to let us know what makes Tallow such a

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special skincare ingredient and why did you wind up building

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a business around it?

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Thanks, Dori. Tallow, it just feels amazing.

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And I live in the high mountain desert and skin

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gets so dry here. You can almost just feel the

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air sucking the water out of you. And until I

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tried tallow, I'd never felt anything moisturized so well. I

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am working outside on our farm at 6,300 feet.

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So altitude.

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So I'm getting dry. My hands are in the soil.

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They're getting washed a lot and it just feels so good.

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And it really surprised me that it didn't feel greasy

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from the get go the first time I tried it.

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And like you, I am a lover.

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Of natural products and I really love natural products that

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actually work. Um, cause I think there's a lot of

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stuff out there that even though it's natural, it doesn't

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quite do the trick.

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And there's so many questionable ingredients out there that might

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be doing more harm than good.

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And it can feel paralyzing trying to decide what to eat,

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put on our body, use.

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And it's just, it's overwhelming and it felt good. I

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knew it was a good, clean ingredient. It was from nature.

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And what's really cool about tallow as I started digging

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into it, it's really chemically similar to our own skin.

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So it's easier for ourselves to absorb and use.

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And because it's a fat, it's a rich emollient and

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an occlusive agent. And so what those things mean is emollients,

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they actually soften and smooth our skin.

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They actually smooth rough.

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Skin by filling in where we're shedding cells and their

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cells are dying.

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So that's pretty amazing.

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And then occlusives actually seal our skin and lock the

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moisture in. So those two things is a really effective

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combination for skincare. And like I said, it's all natural.

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So it's just amazing.

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You are going to be sharing two different products in

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this product giveaway. What is that lucky winner going to

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win from you, Dale?

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They're going to win one of each of our blends.

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And the first one is our lavender whip top tallow.

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And that one is just a tallow lavender essential oil

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and a little bit of olive oil. And the oils

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just kind of help it spread. And they're also chosen

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very thoughtfully to be good for our skin also. And,

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They're all certified organic and high quality. And then our

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second blend is our calendula rose blend. And that one's

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a little bit more special to my heart because I

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actually grow the calendula at the farm also, which is

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really good for skin. And I infuse the tallow with

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the calendula. And then I add a little bit of

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castor oil and jojoba oil. And then the scents that

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you smell are frankincense, Bulgarian rose, and then a little

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bit of carrot seed oil. And they're both two ounce

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jars and they're lovely. And I hope the lucky winner

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loves them.

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I am sure that they will. And I would love

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for you to share why Cosmic Tallow is so different

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from what you are going to find on the market.

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Cosmic Tallow is really special. We're the only.

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tallow bomb makers in the world to achieve the status

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of certified 100% organic. It feels really special for our

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little farm and it's a really great distinction that sets

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us apart.

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That is an amazing distinction. Please, Dale, let everybody know

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your website so they can look at your products.

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Our website is CosmicTallow.com.

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There will be a link to that. And for the contest,

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the contest link is is WOMradio.com forward slash contest dash one.

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And you will be able to go to the page

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and select Cosmic Tallow. If you are interested in trying

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this phenomenal product, I'm so jealous.

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I really am.

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I love clean product. The reality is what you put

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on your skin is goes into your body. Good for you.

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What an amazing distinction to be the only 100% certified

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organic tallow product on the market. Kudos to you. And

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Dale will be back with us in 2027, so you'll

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find out a lot more about Cosmic Tallow. So thanks

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for being part of the contest, Dale. We're excited to

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share you with our fabulous audience. We are here with

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Rowena Scherer, the founder and CEO of Eat to Explore,

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an experimental cooking and cultural discovery kit that brings the

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world to life through global cuisine with 25 countries to explore.

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Rowena grew up cooking with her family in Malaysia, spent

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years as a financial executive at JP Morgan, and later

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graduated from the French Culinary Institute, a mom of two,

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She started Eat to Explore in 2018 to bring families

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together around the table. Her brand has been featured in Forbes,

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the New York Times, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and

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the Today Show, and has won a Parents' Choice Gold Award.

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I am thrilled to have her here. And Rowena, I

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would love for you to let us know. How you

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left J.P. Morgan to go to culinary school and then

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start Eat to Explore.

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What a leap.

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Yeah.

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Hey, Dory.

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Thanks for having me. I found that there was a

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gap between having family coming together and learning about the

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world of kids. need to be global citizens. They need

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to be socially aware of what other cultures like and

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what better ways than doing it through food. You know,

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like I think food always brings people together, be it

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family or adults for date nights or social. I really

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think it really is a great way to connect, learn

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a skill as well. And then for children, being able

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to cook and learning a life skill with your family,

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it really... It creates confidence and there's a lot of

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positive attributes, including, you know, like picky eater. I mean,

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when you get kids to be involved in cooking, they

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will try and learn and eat different food. And so

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I know a lot of parents always struggle with picky

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eater among their children. You know, this could eliminate that too.

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On top of learning about 25 countries or more and

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then cooking and eating together.

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I agree with you.

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I tell parents all the time. the best way to

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get a child to eat is involve them in the meal.

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For families who feel intimidated about cooking global foods at home,

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how does your eat to explore boxes really make that

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something that is so much less intimidating than they think

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it would be?

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So every box is a country. So there's only three recipes.

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So it's not like very overwhelmingly You know, you have

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to cook every day. It's like three recipes for you

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to try with your family. And then it's all have

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only four to six steps. So with images, super easy

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to follow. What's unique about us is we give you

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the hard to find spices and sauces, right? And grains sometimes.

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Like you just, you know, buy the chicken and the vegetables.

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And what's unique too is like that same chicken and

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vegetable with different spices and flavors. And all of a

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sudden you're exploring a food from Ethiopia or Peru or

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South Korea and all because of the unique spices that

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we provide. And so people always get a little bit

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intimidated by the new flavors, but you've got to give

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it a try and you don't need to buy it.

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a big bottle of fish sauce to see if you

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like fish sauce. So it's like, give it, you know,

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we give you enough for four servings to give it

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a try. We also provide a 16 page Explorer booklet

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to learn about the culture. You can learn about the history,

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the geography, the language. We have Spotify playlists. We got

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movies to watch after dinner. So you get yourself like

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immersed into the whole experience.

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Oh, wonderful. So what is that lucky listener going to

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win in your holiday baking bundle?

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In addition to the 25 countries, we have three baking kits.

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And then we thought the holiday, it's all about baking

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and kind of nice smell coming out of your kitchen.

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We actually giving away three holiday baking boxes. And it

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will be one on German holiday market cookies, European cookies

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for the holiday, and also a global baking kit where

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you make mochi and also Turkish delight. So it's different

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and unique and is perfect for the holiday.

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It absolutely is. How can people find you, Rowena?

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So you can find us at eat2explore. com. So it's E-A-T,

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the number two, E-X-P-L-O-R-E.com. And for the holiday, in addition

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to the baking, we actually have an Advent Christmas Around

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the World bundle that's a perfect gift as well as

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perfect for families who want to learn about six different

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countries' Christmas celebrations. We actually have it as a mystery,

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six countries, so you don't know what you get. But

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you have a scratch-off that you scratch off to reveal

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a new country, and you learn about the country's food

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and festivals and traditions and music. And so it's fun.

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Great for the holiday.

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I love it. And again, as somebody, I love to cook.

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I cooked with my kids. Now I'm cooking with my grandchildren.

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And it really is so much fun because when you

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come together with a meal that you've all made together,

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There really is some magic that happens at the table.

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And for this contest, the link is WOMradio.com forward slash

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contest dash one, the number one. Good luck to a

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lucky winner who is going to have some tasty treats

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happening in that holiday baking bundle. from Eat to Explore.

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Thank you for being here.

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Thank you for having me, Dori, and good luck and

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happy holidays.

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We are now here with Dr. Angela Zhang. She is

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a medical scientist, the mom of two, and the founder

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of Carviva. She's a St. Louis beverage company rooted in

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traditional Chinese medicine. Dr. Angela grew up in a family

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of Chinese herbalists, and in 2016, designed and built her

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own factory. Her alcohol-free Carviva Unwind won Best Low No

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Alcohol Beverage at the 2025 World Beverage Innovative Awards. Dr.

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Angela is also a TEDx speaker and the author of

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The Balanced Cure. I actually think it is phenomenal to

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create an alcohol-free Unwind and to win best beverage. I mean,

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that is just so amazing. So Dr. Angela, take us

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a little bit on the journey of what inspired you

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to create Carviva Unwind and how it's different from de-alcoholized wine.

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Yeah, great question.

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So I started to work on unwind, I will say

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that was like five years ago. It wasn't a typical

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product we would produce in my factory. Our wine is

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totally different. I'm not a winemaker. And I said, well,

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let's think about what's the reason people want a non-alcoholic wine.

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There could be all kinds of reasons. Health. And of course,

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for some people, also safety, responsible driver. They don't want

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to drink too much and get on the road. But

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the core reason for many people is health. So I'm thinking,

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how about instead of thinking about making a non-alcoholic wine,

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they crave wine taste, but they don't like the health damage,

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you know, the alcohol doing to their body. So I

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was like, how about we just come up with a

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totally different path? We come up with a formulation that

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basically tastes and looks like a wine, but it's really

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for the health purpose, right? So basically, interesting enough, in

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our traditional remedy library, we have a few ingredients we

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traditionally used to actually almost like antidotes for those toxins,

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including alcohol, right? So because we know alcohol or other

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toxins can be super damaging to liver. They can also,

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of course, damage brain and heart, right so basically i

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We are here with Sarah Brighton, other a French mom

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of two. and the founder of Pirouette Kids. Inspired by

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the musical books her children's grandmother brought them from France,

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Sarah created interactive music board books that help babies and

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toddlers discover music beyond nursery rhymes. From classical and blues

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to folk and music from around the world, little ones

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can explore new sounds independently with the press of a

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button all screen free. That's my favorite part. Sarah, for

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listeners discovering Pirouette Kids for the first time, how do

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your musical books work and how are they different from

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other sound books?

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Thanks for having me. So how did it work?

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It's really easy.

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It looks just like a book.

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It is a book.

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When you're tired, the parents can also turn it off.

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And so once it's pressed on, You just open the

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page and on each page, there's a little button that

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when you press it plays music.

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Different music on every single page and that's basically how

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it works. So we've seen, I mean, my kids, when

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they had their own music book, um, as soon as

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like 10 months old, they were able to actually press

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the button all by themselves.

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So really, really.

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Little kids can actually like do everything like, you know,

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turn the pages, find the button and press the button

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and listen to music independently. And that's what my kids really,

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really love.

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Why are they different? I think the big.

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Difference is in the US, most of those music books

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are mostly nursery rhymes and like music that's made for

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little kids. The thing that I enjoyed with the music

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book from when my kids were little, that came from France, right?

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Is that they were actually exposing kids to all kinds

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of music. So we had classical music. We had like

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really random like pop French artists that actually had their

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own music book. It was really not just like music

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for little kids, but any type of music that like

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even you and I might enjoy. And so when I

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looked for the same thing in the US, I just

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couldn't find it. And so that's why I created Pure

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White Kids. And that's really the main difference. And that's

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what I like to say is that we just go

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beyond the usual nursery rhymes. And it's also just for

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the parents, because how many times can you listen to

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the wheels on the bus? You know, it's just nursery

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rhymes are great.

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And I will never say nursery rhymes are not good.

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be listening to something else.

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I love that. I really do. And your books feature everything,

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world music for Christmas to Hanukkah. How would you help

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a parent or grandparent choose?

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We have eight books at the moment.

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Our first four original books, which are actually part of

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a bundle, which are classical, world, folk, and blues music.

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And then I very recently launched classical music instruments where

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each page is a different instrument. And then we have

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three books for the holidays, Christmas music, The Nutcracker, and

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Hanukkah music. And I'd say for, it really depends on

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the children and also their age. I mean, if you

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want just like, you know, holiday season festive books, I

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would say definitely you cannot go wrong with one of

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our holiday music books. Beyond that, if you're looking more at,

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you know, books for little kids or classical music books

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are doing very, very well, especially I discovered classical music

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and as like different music from like different, very famous composers.

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So that's the best seller for babies, I would say.

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And then for older kids, if you still like classical music,

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classical music instrument is nice because it is more educational, right?

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Because each page is a different instrument. So not only

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can you listen to like really nice classical music, you

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can also actually start learning about different instruments. Classical music

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is just a nice intro, you know, into like musical books.

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or holiday books, and then beyond that, just discover everything else.

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What is our lucky winner going to get from Pure

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Life Kids?

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So I decided to do kind of like a nice

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package of like a lot of different flavors.

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Three different books, the classical music instruments, which I just showed,

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or world music book, which I really enjoy because I'm French.

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And so one of the page is actually La Vie

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en Rose.

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It's a French page.

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And it helps kids discover musics from around the globe.

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And as a French person living in the US, I

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think it's very important for kids to listen to what's

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out there. And then the third book will be one

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of the holy book of their choice. So they can

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pick between Christmas, Hanukkah, and The Nutcracker. I'd be happy

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to send the whole of the book as well.

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How exciting. How can people reach you for Pirouette Kids?

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We have our own website, pirouettekids.com. And that's my main website.

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The books are also available on Amazon if it's more

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convenient for whoever's looking for them. And then I'm on

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Instagram at pirouettekids and TikTok at pirouettekids as well.

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Awesome.

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And for this, it is going to be womradio.com forward

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slash contest. Dash one, the number one. And we wish

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you luck. And Sarah, we look forward to having you

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back in 2027. Thank you so much for being part

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of this. We want to thank you all for being

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here for our holiday showcase. Our first one in the series.

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Every Monday in November, you are going to have the

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to Explore, Carviva, and Pirouette Kids. Thank you for being

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our fabulous theme song from Smith Sisters and the Sunday Drivers.

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So till next week, this is Dori DiCarlo saying go

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out and create a marvelous you. Bye for now.

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She is sure She is strong She is true She

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is brave She is bold She is you.

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she knows who she is. Has integrity, woman strong and true.

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for dreams Doesn't matter the age Believes in herself Unleashed

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