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As the community manager at Village Juicery, Jessica plays many roles; she manages the 540 College St location, curates products for the store, provides nutritional advice as an in-house nutritionist and builds relationships with other health-minded people and businesses in Toronto. In this Be a Villager, we get to know the person behind the counter and learn more about her passion for holistic nutrition and what it’s like to call Toronto home. VJ: How did you get interested in holistic nutrition? JL: Nutrition is the way I found myself. I was working at a media distribution company right after I graduated...

In this instalment of our #BeAVillager series, we go back to the beginning with our first hire, Karen Parucha, marketing manager, leader and most importantly, our voice to the outside world. VJ: How did you get involved with Village Juicery? KP: Sometime around the summer of 2014 I started to have an existential crisis. I was working a corporate job, travelling for work a lot and getting more serious about yoga, but it wasn’t adding up. I started to realize that I simply wasn’t happy and I needed to make a change. So I left the corporate world, shifted my focus to...