In this solo episode, Alison Hite (Thacker) steps into a new era — publicly sharing her relationship with functional medicine doctor Dr. Jeremy Watson and officially launching the TheCheekyClean Lifestyle Detox Course. Ali reflects on why fear is often the signal that something meaningful is ahead, and how discomfort has been the catalyst for every real evolution in her life. She dives into the philosophy behind the Lifestyle Detox Course — reframing detox not as restriction, but as reclamation of your natural state of health. Covering everything from food and water to mindset, energy, and environment, this episode is a vulnerable, practical reminder that healing starts with awareness and small, consistent choices. If you've been waiting for a sign to go deeper into your wellness journey, this is it.

Follow along: https://www.instagram.com/thecheekyclean & https://www.instagram.com/rawthepod

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🎙️ Show Notes + Other RAW Resources:

This Week's Episode: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast/episodes/hard-launch-love-healing-lifestyle-detox-course

All Episodes: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast

What if the most powerful thing you could do for your health was simply knowing where your food comes from? This week, Ali sits down with Kawai Bitto, Director of Market Operations at North Union Farmers Market, for a rich conversation on local food systems, food access, seasonal eating, and the real-life impact of supporting small farms and local makers. They dig into why local often beats organic, how farmers markets serve every budget (SNAP, WIC, and Produce Perks included), how motherhood shapes food choices, and what it means to vote with your dollars — one market visit at a time.

🍑This episode is brought to you by TheCheekyClean Collagen. Use code RAW10 for 10% off at consciouscart.com.

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Show Notes + Other RAW Resources:

This Week's Episode: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast/episodes/organic-vs-local-food-farmers-markets-kawai-bitto

All Episodes: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast

In this powerful episode of RAW, host Alison Hite (Thacker) – founder of TheCheekyClean and Conscious Cart – sits down with Tony Kost — Cleveland hospitality leader, event coordinator at Cordelia, and nearly 10 years sober — for one of the most honest conversations about addiction and recovery the show has hosted.

Tony shares his full story: alcoholism in the restaurant industry, rock bottom, detox, shame, relapse, therapy, grief, and the long, nonlinear work of building a life from the inside out. Together, he and Ali explore how comparison, disconnection, and social pressure keep people stuck — and why sobriety, community, and radical self-honesty are what set people free.

This episode is for anyone questioning their relationship with alcohol, supporting someone in recovery, or simply trying to live more authentically.

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🌿 This episode is sponsored by TheCheekyClean Collagen — use code RAW10 for 10% off Collagen at https://www.consciouscart.com

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Show Notes + Other RAW Resources:

This Week’s Episode: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast/episodes/sobriety-addiction-recovery-self-love-tony-kost

All Episodes: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast/episodes

In this episode of RAW, host Alison Hite (Thacker) – founder of TheCheekyClean and Conscious Cart – sits down with Becca Gordon — mom, entrepreneur, and founder of Bloom Social Haus and Stella and Shay Beauty Bar in Cleveland — to share the unfiltered story of her journey to motherhood through infertility, private adoption, foster care, failed placements, and finally, the day she became a mom to twin daughters.

Becca talks about what the process of adoption and fostering actually looked like — the paperwork, the uncertainty, the grief, the love — and why more families need to hear the real story, not just the highlight reel.

This is a conversation about resilience, community, surrender, and a motherhood that looked nothing like she planned — and became exactly what was meant for her.

Follow Becca: https://instagram.com/itsbeccagordon

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This Week’s Episode: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast/episodes/adoption-foster-care-infertility-motherhood-becca-gordon

All Episodes: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast

In this episode of RAW, host Alison Hite (Thacker) from TheCheekyClean sits down with Rawia Abdel Samad — founder of Beituti, a modern Lebanese pantry brand bringing bold, clean-label Middle Eastern flavors into everyday cooking. Rawia shares her journey from growing up in Lebanon, where food was seasonal and deeply tied to family, to leaving a corporate consulting career and building a food company as a mom of three — one with no seed oils, no added sugars, and no shortcuts.

They unpack the honest reality of what it takes to build a mission-driven food brand, why clean ingredients are structurally harder to work with, and what it means to carry your culture on a product label during conflict back home. This conversation is about food — and so much more than food.

🔗 Shop Beituti: https://eatbeituti.com

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Follow Beituti: https://instagram.com/eatbeituti

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Show Notes + Other RAW Resources:

This Week’s Episode: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast/episodes/clean-label-food-brand-eat-beituti-rawia-abdel-samad

All Episodes: https://www.thecheekyclean.com/podcast

In this episode of Raw, host Alison Hite (Thacker) – founder of TheCheekyClean and Conscious Cart – sits down with Emily Sadri, CNM, APRN, founder of Aurelia Health, to unpack why so many women feel dismissed, confused, and underserved when it comes to health. From early perimenopause symptoms like anxiety, brain fog, and sleep disruption, to the failures of conventional women's healthcare, this conversation makes one thing clear: your symptoms are not random. They are signals.

Emily shares her journey from working inside the traditional medical system to building a hormones-first telemedicine practice, and breaks down what women deserve to understand about estrogen, metabolism, ovulation, postpartum depletion, birth control, and root-cause hormonal care.

This episode is for every woman who has been told her labs are "normal" when her body is telling her something different.

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In this solo episode of RAW, host Alison Hite (Thacker), founder of TheCheekyClean and Conscious Cart LLC, shares a deeply personal life update — and the internal shifts that are redefining her path in business and in life. She opens up about what it truly means to go all in on your purpose: the fear, the identity unraveling, the uncertainty that doesn't resolve cleanly. From releasing control patterns rooted in childhood, to building a conscious relationship, to stepping fully into entrepreneurship — this episode is about surrender, alignment, and becoming the version of yourself the life you want actually requires.

Ali also shares her decision to pursue her Integrative Health Practitioner certification, bridging the gap between clean living and true root-cause healing.

If you're standing at the edge of a change you can feel but aren't ready to name — this one is for you.

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In this episode of RAW, host Alison Hite (Thacker), founder of TheCheekyClean and Conscious Cart, sits down with human engineering specialist Adrienne Smith — gym and recovery center owner, and expert in aging, performance, and quality of life — to challenge everything the fitness industry gets wrong about health. Adrienne shares her personal story of healing her own gut and transforming her health, and unpacks the root-cause drivers most people never address: food quality, gut function, mineralization, circadian rhythm, muscle mass, and individualized recovery. This conversation reframes fitness as an internal practice — one built on how the body functions, not just how it looks.

If you've been doing the work and still not feeling your best, this episode will show you what's actually missing.

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