Melissa Urban
12 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 1, 2024 by Melissa Urban · across every show →
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Melissa Urban: Dropped out of college amid escalating drug addiction
“Yeah, I did drop out. By my junior year in college, I was dating a drug dealer who gave me access to anything I could possibly want, and I dove into harder and harder drugs, and so halfway through my junior year, I realized I was failing all my classes.”
Apr 1, 2024 neutral
Urban: Paleo health benefit claims were not particularly backed by science
“I'm not sure was particularly science-backed in terms of, you know, the health benefits of eating more like our Paleolithic ancestors, but some of the information he presented in his findings was like the idea that there may be compounds in certain foods to wh…”
Apr 1, 2024 negative
Apr 1, 2024 neutral
Whole30 Launched as a $39.99 40-Page Downloadable PDF
“We put together a forty-page PDF on how to do the whole 30. It was essentially our seminar packaged down into PDF format. All of the stuff that we talked about, the science behind it, the big picture recommendations, the rules of the program, how to do it, tip…”
Apr 1, 2024 bullish
Urban: Whole30 program will endure forever even if the business fails
“If all of this blows up for some reason, and I have to lay my whole team off, and Whole 30 is no longer a business, and we no longer have Whole Thirty-approved partners or licensing, and I never write another book, the Whole 30 will live forever. People will s…”
Apr 1, 2024
Urban: Received $50,000 corporate retention bonus before leaving to pursue Whole30
“At this point in the company, they had done a round of layoffs, but offered several employees retention bonuses if they agreed to stay for the next three years. And so I signed on for that retention bonus, which was great. My job was secure, and I knew that at…”
Apr 1, 2024 neutral
Apr 1, 2024
Melissa Urban: Sexual Abuse at Age 16 Altered Her Life Trajectory
“Pre-sixteen years old, everything that we've just talked about, I was a good kid, I got straight A's, I followed the rules, I had a good relationship with my family, and then at 16, I was sexually abused by someone in my family, someone I really loved and some…”
Apr 1, 2024 neutral
Apr 1, 2024 negative
Urban rejected scaling Whole30 to $100M because the strategies felt 'gross'
“I don't care if we turn into a billion-dollar organization, and so many of the things that these consultants or investors wanted to do to turn us into a hundred-million-dollar company would have felt gross, and I didn't want to do it.”