KISC My Health interview of robert Craven by Peter Mingils and Captain Cran Man Stephen Lukawski. KISC My Health interview of robert Craven, CEO, founder, and author, by Captain Cran Man Stephen Lukawski and Peter Mingils. 0:00 85:14 Rob Craven shares his purpose-driven leadership journey on KISC My Health Radio. What happens when a successful business leader decides that profitability and purpose should work together? On this special KISC My Health Radio podcast, Stephen Lukawski, The King of Cranberries and Captain Cran Man, and cohost Peter Mingils welcome distinguished guest Rob Craven, purpose-driven CEO, entrepreneur, author, executive coach, and founder of ScalePassion. This is a personal interview that takes listeners beyond the corporate titles to explore Rob Craven's experiences, leadership philosophy, accomplishments, and mission to connect personal purpose with business success. From Garden of Life and MegaFood to ScalePassion. Rob Craven brings an impressive history in the natural products and health and wellness industries to KISC My Health Radio. As the former CEO of Garden of Life and MegaFood, Rob led companies through periods of rapid and profitable growth while focusing on transparency, innovation, corporate culture, and purpose-driven business practices. During his leadership, Garden of Life reached #14 on the Inc. 500 List of Fastest-Growing Companies. At MegaFood, the company earned recognition on multiple Best Place to Work lists in New Hampshire. Both businesses also achieved B Corporation status and successful financial exits during Rob's leadership. Those experiences give Rob an interesting perspective on an important question facing entrepreneurs and executives: Can a business grow aggressively and remain committed to a larger purpose at the same time? Building businesses around purpose and people. Rob has been recognized as one of the Top Conscious Business Leaders by Conscious Company Media, reflecting his approach to leadership, transparency, innovation, social impact, and building strong organizational cultures. With more than two decades of experience working with entrepreneurs, private equity organizations, high-growth businesses, and large multinational companies, Rob has developed a perspective that combines practical business experience with a belief that companies can create positive change. His personal mission is to help leaders connect their personal purpose with their business purpose. That philosophy has become an important part of his work as the founder of ScalePassion. What does it mean to scale passion? Growing a company often brings new employees, investors, management systems, financial pressures, and operational challenges. Somewhere along the way, founders can become disconnected from the passion that motivated them to start the business. Rob Craven believes there is another approach. Through ScalePassion, he works with business leaders to harness purpose as they scale their organizations and pursue meaningful, sustainable growth. During this personal KISC My Health Radio conversation, Stephen Lukawski and Peter Mingils explore the experiences that shaped Rob's thinking and the lessons he has learned from building, leading, advising, and transforming businesses. A personal conversation with the King of Cranberries. KISC My Health Radio is about more than resumes and corporate accomplishments. Stephen Lukawski, The King of Cranberries and Captain Cran Man, brings decades of experience in the natural products industry to his interviews. Along with cohost Peter Mingils, Stephen gives guests an opportunity to explain where they came from, what they learned, what motivates them, and where they believe their industries are heading. Rob Craven's experience with Garden of Life, MegaFood, ScalePassion, conscious business, natural products, leadership, and entrepreneurship makes this a conversation for executives, business owners, health and wellness professionals, and future leaders. Pure Organic and Planet Cranberry sponsor KISC My Health Radio. Pure Organic and Planet Cranberry are corporate sponsors of KISC My Health Radio. These podcasts are brought to you through the Building Fortunes Radio and Youmongus Radio Network and rebroadcast on Amazon Music, Amazon Audible, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and many other major podcast platforms. KISC My Health Radio programs can now also be found on YouTube and Facebook. Listen, like, follow and share KISC My Health Radio. Visit KISCMyHealth.com regularly to hear personal interviews with leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists, and other professionals influencing health, wellness, nutrition, and the natural products industry. 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Proof from the field: how regenerative farming heals its soil and its bodies. Jul 14, 2026 By MegaFood Team Photo Credit: Daniel Ebersole At MegaFood, MegaFood has always believed that healthy people and a healthy planet go hand in hand. To demonstrate its commitment to supporting both, MegaFood partnered with the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems, California State University, Chico for a groundbreaking three-year study. At Hayday Farms in Blythe, California, researchers compared traditional, chemical-heavy farming side-by-side with regenerative agriculture. While conventional methods rely on heavy tilling and synthetic chemicals, the regenerative field used practices like planting diverse cover crops and minimizing soil disruption. By letting nature do the heavy lifting, this study aimed to show how the way MegaFood grow food directly impacts the vitality of its world, starting with the soil. In the last two years, MegaFood has seen that conventional agriculture showed faster early crop growth, but that doesn't tell the whole story. The regenerative field produced the exact same high-quality crop yields as the conventional field but used fewer synthetic inputs, producing significant data that makes the case for soil-supporting farming practices. Here's what MegaFood has learned so far from the regenerative field: Improved soil health through: * Increased organic matter - allowing for better nutrient availability for crops * Increased moisture retention - supports plant development and can help mitigate flooding * Reduced bulk density - important for root development * Increased moisture retention - supports plant development and can help mitigate flooding * Biological activity - significantly greater total microbial biomass, including mycorrhizal fungi which was over 4 times greater in the regenerative field over the conventional. These powerhouse microorganisms enhance plant growth, nutrient and water uptake, disease resistance, and soil health through a symbiotic relationship with plant roots. Farmer Economics: Enhanced farmer profits through higher yields and lower input costs. In total, these could amount to over $500 per hectare. Carbon Sequestration: By 2023, the regenerative farm stored more carbon in the soil than the conventionally farmed field. This happened because practices like keeping the ground covered year-round and supporting natural nutrient cycles helped the soil capture and hold onto more carbon over time. Why does this matter? Healthy soil can play an important role in addressing climate change. Regenerative farming has the potential to build healthier topsoil, support smarter water use, and help grow more nutrient-dense crops. Research like this helps strengthen the case for adopting regenerative farming practices on a larger scale. Thank you for checking in on its progress, following its journey to support soil health, and please stay tuned for a published manuscript that will contain the real data! Reading next. Jul 13, 2026 MegaFood Team Jul 14, 2026 MegaFood Team