26/08/2026
Peace, love, and blessings. 💚🌱✨
This right here is something I had to learn for myself: I don’t have to become somebody else to become better.
This world will have you thinking you gotta look like them, move like them, talk like them, build like them, and do what THEY did in order for what you’re doing to mean something.
But what’s wrong with doing it YOUR way?!
I learned this lesson the hard way a few years ago when we entered into a partnership and moved Vegan Xpress out of our home and into an actual restaurant.
One of the FIRST things to go was our name. Vegan Xpress wasn’t “good enough,” so it became Soul Vegan and Vibes.
Then my food was “too American.” It needed to be more Mediterranean. My husband shouldn’t be out talking, laughing, serving and connecting with our customers because he was supposed to “manage.”
Little by little, we started changing everything that made us US.
And you know what happened?
Vegan Xpress left the building.
The food felt different. The service felt different. The spirit felt different. And the customers who had been rocking with us for YEARS knew it too.
Eventually we walked away from the partnership, walked away from the restaurant building and brought Vegan Xpress right back HOME.
And guess what?
Our people came back too.
That experience taught me something I will NEVER forget:
You can learn from people. Take the wisdom. Study the game. Improve where you need improving.
But don’t study somebody else so hard that you forget your own recipe.
I’m blessed and grateful we learned that lesson THEN and not now, because today I know exactly who I am, what Vegan Xpress is, and what we bring to the table.
I’m not trying to become the next anybody.
I’m trying to become the BEST version of the woman Yah created ME to be.
So be yourself. Stand in it. Build from it. And don’t let anybody convince you that what makes you different is the very thing you need to change.
Sometimes what they’re trying to change about you is EXACTLY what people fell in love with in the first place.
The original will ALWAYS be worth more than the copy.
Have a blessed & productive day, everybody!
Vegan Xpress Simply Da’ Best
2026 Prosperity is in our mix. 💚🌱✨