Kelly Keelo

About Kelly

• Despite excelling academically as a young adult and rising to a prominent position within the entertainment world, she found herself unhappy and stressed.
• Started looking for a job that would let her follow her “intention,” which was to improve access to healthy culinary options in urban neighborhoods.
• Her childhood sweetheart Carl Foster approached her with the idea to start selling healthy juices in Los Angeles and she decided to jump aboard.
• The two started a company called Juice Hugger; it quickly grew into an all-encompassing healthy-lifestyle brand.
• Following the success of Juice Hugger, Kelly and Carl opened a Brooklyn cafe called A Healthy Crush.
• Says you can’t follow someone else’s plan because it probably won’t work for you—you have to pave your own way.
• The pair always set high goals for themselves, but were frugal; as a result, Juice Hugger survived as seven or eight similar companies shut down around them.
• Says you don’t have to be a famous multi-millionaire to be “successful”; if you put time, effort and passion into something, you’ll be successful and happy.