84: Generational Health by Changing Habits Founders Cyndi and Howard O’Meara

Today, we continue the conversation with an experienced couple who’s mission to be the most authentic, innovative, and impactful whole food company in the world is taking shape!  Based on the Sunshine Coast of Australia, Howard & Cyndi O’Meara have their sights on Generational Health with their thriving company “Changing Habits”.

Their mutual eclectic backgrounds are what I believe has them serve their community in a unique and profound way: Howard began as a teacher then into the Police force where he was selected as Prince Edwards’ long-time NZ personal bodyguard then becoming a team Chiropractor traveling the world with NZ rugby, BBall, Rugby union, BMX, surf life saving, iron man and the best of all Beach Volleyball where we fell in love with him!  

All the while, Cyndi was focusing on her passion for nutrition but couldn’t stomach the traditional teachings at Uni so headed off for what was then “alternative” caveman research in Colorado to uncover more.  Upon her return to Australia, she tried her hand at pre-med and Chiropractic where she met Howard.  Her heart wasn’t fully in it and she focused on family for the next yrs, including traveling across all of Australia in a supped-up bus for two years with all three kids. Then, in 1998, she wrote her first book “Changing Habits, Changing Lives” – which was an instant best-seller.  It became evident that the world was receptive to her controversial ideas around nutrition – she no longer had to sit on the sidelines but began speaking her message to very open ears!  Though the local newspaper would ask her to retract her stories denigrating margarine, we all know that her rants on the goodness of butter are but one of the topics where she is having “the last laugh”.

About 10yrs ago, Howard approached Cyndi with the creative vision that they could bring their OWN products to market to accentuate the message she was gathering crowds around week in and week out.  They began with an initial order of 500kilos of their “ultra-healthy salts” which sold out immediately.  Having 35 staff at their most prosperous, today, they import over 6 tons of their salt to their loyal community of Health nuts!

The Goods on Cyndi & Howie:
Cyndi is about educating. Her greatest love is to teach, both in the public arena and within the large corporate food companies, to enable everyone to make better choices so they too can enjoy greater health throughout their lives. 

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Welcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing.

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