Published: July 7, 2021, 9 a.m.
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Nana Meriwether is a Former Miss USA and professional and Olympic-level volleyball player.\\xa0
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Meriwether went on to work for Harper\\u2019s Bazaar as Head of Editorial Special Projects and Executive Assistant to the former Editor-in-Chief of Harper\\u2019s Bazaar - America\\u2019s first fashion magazine. She has written for and contributed to Harper\\u2019s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Vogue Australia, The Huffington Post, CR Fashion Book, Cosmopolitan magazine and she edits a wellness blog called, Well, There\\u2019s This.
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She is the founder of Cale, a wellness company focused on alcohol alternatives. The brand innovatively makes wine out of herbs with their first releases being low-alcoholic wine grape varietals infused with healthful, adaptogenic and functional herbs, botanicals, mushrooms and plants.
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In This Episode:
- Nana was born in South Africa, went to high school in DC, and shares the rest of her origins story.
- How and why she got into pageants and spoiler alert, she became\\xa0Miss America.\\xa0
- How preparing for pageants was Nana\'s first foray into manifestation and shadow work.\\xa0
- The event that started her spiritual awakening.
- How she came up with her low alcohol plant-based wine Cale which is pronounced like kale.\\xa0
- How her trip to Costa Rica changed the course of her life.\\xa0
- The magic of plants!
- Nana\'s morning ritual to start her day from an aligned place.\\xa0
- How Nana deals with imposter syndrome.\\xa0
- Herbalism as a pathway for connecting to a Higher Power.
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