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Cameron Healy

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“Well, the natural foods as a movement was growing tremendously. There was lots of new products and it was scaling and challenging these grassroots business people who had had no prior training to adapt and run these businesses properly. But what ended up happening, I was the progenator of all the businesses in this community. I was always coming up with the next vision and next products and I think that I was just a threat to kind of what was a movement to slow it down and make it a little more conservative. So I was summarily dismissed from the businesses. I was basically fired and of course there was no severance money or anything. So I was with four kids and no No income Kind of out the”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that good chunk of the week. But, you know, I needed to put food in the table. And it ultimately turned over my ownership to the community ownership. By then we had, we were living communally. So eventually, you know, we were employing quite a number of people. And this was a lifestyle that fulfilled so many of our dreams and for living in this idealic counterculture manner. It wasn't until 1978 where the bubble kind of popped a little bit.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. I knew the stores, I had the contacts, and so I talked my father into loaning me a little bit of the money to buy an old refrigerated truck, the only time I ever borrowed money from him. And I started distributing raw milk. And so it was initially dairy oriented, and then I started bringing snack food makers and ultimately I had a weekly truck that would come up from Southern California with these products that I would distribute.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Builds a lot of character. I wasn't that employable the way I looked. And so that caused me to start a new business, which was the natural food movement, which was growing and a lot of products were being developed. And I, of course, was exposed to that with the bakery in Eugene. So I decided to become a distributor of natural foods.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Certainly, it wasn't sort of the best way to fit in, but that wasn't really our goal. Our goal was to bring yoga and meditation to that community. Yeah. One of the requirements to be in the community is you had to get up at three in the morning and do two and a half hours of group yoga and meditation.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In a way, it was kind of the post woodstock 70s. It was certainly trending. And from my experience, it was very empowering because. Was a wonderful sense of purpose in creating kind of an alternative culture, alternative economy as a form of rebellion, but constructive rebellion is what I would call it.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was similar to what we'd experienced in the US. People started talking and then there was a photo Princess Dye with a bag of kettle chips in a grocery bag. She would go shop in those days.”
2026-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kettle Chips: Cameron Healy. The Wild Bet That Made a Brand · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT