About Nicolle Kate.

I come from a family of artists and designers, and since I can remember, I’ve been multi-passionate about all things art & design. After studying graphic design, I embarked on an advertising career designing ad campaigns.

After many years of ad agency work, I parlayed my design skillset, and passion for fashion, into a successful personal shopping & closet editing business in Chicago, Beverly Hills and NYC. I styled clients for everything from street wear to dresses for the Oscars, the Grammy’s and the Emmy awards. And decluttered their closets along the way.

When luxury fashion began to feel vacant - like junk food devoid of nutrition, I pivoted to another passion; the culinary arts and nutrition. I attended a plant based culinary school focusing on organic and sustainable cuisine and pastry. I quickly followed that up by studying nutrition at The Institute of Integrative Nutrition in NYC and became a certified health coach.

As a vegan chef instructor in Los Angeles, I enjoyed teaching seasoned chefs and home cooks from all over the world about plant based, organic, local, and sustainable, cuisine and pastry. And I started my nutrition and health coaching practice. From that alchemy, came my healthy food blog, Nicolle Kate.
(formerly Rawception)

Now I blend all of my personal and professional experience in one place called Nicolle Kate. It’s a healthy lifestyle brand that I developed over many years and an ethos I live by every day. And now I want to share it with you!

My inspiration for everything I do is Mother Nature. My goals and values are to inspire us all to create a sustainable self care practice leaving behind little or no waste, choosing organic when possible, and recycling, repurposing, and reusing everything we can. My aim is to heal our bodies, while healing the earth, so human life can be sustainable. I wholeheartedly want to leave planet earth a better place than how I inherited it.

Now I’m 61 and life continues to throw many curve balls my way since I started my blog and Instagram account. I’ve maintained my happiest and healthiest self by consistently showing up for myself, surrendering to the universe, and using food as medicine to cleanse my body, burn fat, and build my energy. Yoga and meditation have also given me a spiritual path to continue finding my best self while accepting my flaws with compassion.

I love using fashion to express my inside on the outside. And revel in my decluttered and organized home. Orderliness is next to peacefulness. Decluttering is powerful self care because the space we live in effects our mental clarity, our mood, our thoughts and our motivtion.

Let’s remember that our strength comes from our healthy inner self. A well decorated home and pretty clothes are lovely complements but only when they accurately reflect our authentic inner beauty.