Launching Australia's first exclusively plant based food destination platform - Lara Young, VEats

Lara is the Co-Founder of VEats and is extremely passionate about her life, the business she is building, raising children and self development. 

Five years ago, Lara was busy running multiple businesses and wasn’t taking care of her health. She decided to watch the documentary “What the Health” and it changed her life. The documentary challenged Lara’s food habits in a way she could no longer ignore and at the end of watching the film, she went plantbased on the spot!

Lara was not only dedicated to learning a new way to cook and eat, but she also chose to educate herself about why she was doing it. Lara wanted to show people how easy making and finding vegan food could be in the hopes it would encourage them to try it. 

Lara’s passion project developed over a few years and VEats was launched in January 2022. VEats is Australia's first exclusively plant-based food destination platform which helps users find restaurants with vegan meal options in their local area. Lara and her business partner strive to make plantbased food more accessible. 

VEats has gone from strength to strength and now employs ten staff who share a passion for creating a more sustainable world. The team are creating an app which will launch later this year and will expand to other cities across Australia, followed by international destinations. 

In this episode, Lara shares her insights on taking an idea and growing it into a business, finding balance in life and using food as a tool to generate interest in veganism.

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