Walker: Against All Grain prioritizes long-form video over trendy short-form clips
“For me, I know I like to teach in long format. I know that my current audience likes to learn in more of a long format, you know, where they get to really see the steps, and so I could go and I could make a ton of short TikTok videos, but it's not really true …”
Walker: Specialized diets won't be widely recommended without peer-reviewed studies
“Until there's peer review, there's scientific studies on this type of eating, it's not going to be widely recommended.”
Walker: Paleo diet makes prescribed autoimmune medications drastically more effective
“When I am eating a clean paleo diet, the medications that I am on at the time seem to just be drastically more effective. I almost feel like the inflammatory kind of diet that we tend to eat on a day-to-day basis almost acts as a roadblock sometimes for some o…”
Walker: Pushed publisher to put her face on debut cookbook cover
“I put myself on the first book for that reason. I hadn't really been out there much, and they wanted to put food on the cover, and I remember telling the publisher, I need my face on this because I need other women who are suffering with this disease to see th…”
Walker: Funded debut cookbook from personal savings with zero advance
“I really poured not only our savings into it, because I didn't get an advance but also all my time and all my energy”
Walker: Fans crowdfunded her debut book tour via Indiegogo
“They actually did an Indiegogo fundraiser to send me on tour to get to go and meet all of these people when this book came out, because there was no marketing budget for it, and there was no PR budget for it.”
Walker: Publisher offered cookbook deal after finding her granola recipe
“I had just started working on the ebook, and then I got this email that I thought must be a joke from a publisher offering me a cookbook deal and she was so kind, she went into kind of the reason why she found my blog. She had a child with an autoimmune diseas…”
Walker: Paleo elimination diet reduced UC symptoms 75-80% in two days
“I ended up having to go a little bit further, and I had to cut all dairy and the legumes that were allowed in there, and that's kind of where I ended up more on a paleo diet, and when I did that elimination diet, my symptoms decreased by 75 to 80% within just …”
Walker: First dietary advice for condition came from Uganda doctor
“Honestly, the first little hint of anything food related did not come from any of my doctors in San Francisco. It came from the doctor who treated me in Kampala.”
Katlin Smith: Danielle Walker's Facebook post sold out Simple Mills in an hour
“I think it was more focused on the retail path, but a few months later, a influencer, what's now called an influencer, discovered the product and wrote about it on her Facebook page, which just kind of astounded me, and we sold out of the product in probably a…”