Melissa Urban
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About
Nonfiction author, wellness entrepreneur, podcast host, and certified sports nutritionist known for being the co-founder and CEO of Whole30 along with being the author of books including It Starts With Food, The Whole30, Food Freedom Forever, The Whole30 Cookbook, The Book of Boundaries, and The New Whole30.
Before fame
She overcame addiction in 2000 and became interested in running, CrossFit, and nutrition, and created the Whole30 after blogging about the results of a self-designed 30-day food experiment in 2009. She published her first book It Starts With Food cowritten with Dallas Hartwig in 2012. She published The Whole30 in April 2015, The Book of Boundaries in October 2022, and The New Whole30 in August 2024.
Trivia
She is a multiple-time New York Times bestselling author. She launched the podcast Do The Thing, with Whole30's Melissa Urban in 2019. She has been featured by outlets and platforms including The New York Times, People, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Today Show, and Good Morning America.
Family life
She has been based in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and son.
Associated with
She featured Gretchen Rubin on the first episode of her Do The Thing podcast in April 2019.
