Meet Erika Gilmandinova | Entrepreneur

We had the good fortune of connecting with Erika Gilmandinova and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Erika, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking.
No risk, no reward.

I am a risk taker and I love the rewards. Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs I am very familiar with taking risks and do not shy away from them. I embrace risk and belive its a part of any exciting journey. They will teach you in any finance class the higher the risk the higher the reward. Hence, in my career I took a numeroius amount of risks (when you are an entrepreneur everything is a risk) and I belive I got the rewards! I am comfortable with risk and believe: “Once you step off the edge all the fear dissapear.” Just doing it anyways, despite your feeligs about it is the best way to get comfortable with risks.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I am the Founder of Kefir Lab and Welness Brand Partners.

Kefir Lab offers a natural and delicious medicinal-quality probiotic solution that restores the imbalanced gut, helping truly solve health issues, and allowing people to live life feeling free again.

I come from a family of biohackers and biomedical doctors. I grow up with gut health being the foundation of health and probiotics naturally found in food being the center of our diet.

When I was 15 years old I decided to excite myself and moved to another part of the world. That’s where I first missed having these probiotics and immediately felt different. I didn’t let that feeling last long and started to create my own probiotic products in my kitchen. That’s where it all started. After healing numerous friends, family members It was evident to me that that is the business I should be doing 😉

If you ask a general person If the journey was easy, they would probably tell you – Hell no! However I believe for me It was easy, because I felt great in my body, I nourished and took care of it well which saved me a lot of time and energy on brain fog and worrying. Hence, I truly enjoyed the journey of realizing my wildest dreams!

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
My place of power is always the – Ocean! I particularly love engaging with it fully, spending sometime grounding on Santa Monica Beach and jumping right in (no matter what weather it is! Remember, once you step off the endge all fear dissapear. So once you step into the ocean it doesnt feel cold anymore. However the magic happens when you get out – you feel amazing!

Another spot near the ocean that I would totally take my friend would be the Open Breathwork practice in Venice. I would go to Tuesday with Manooj If I am lucky to get a spot!

The third one is a charm, so I would take a friend walking in Beverly flats, just wondering under the gigantic palm trees and feeling that life is not all about us, but much bigger than that 😉

As for food there are 3 favourite places:

1) Santa Monica farmers market – I go there weekly and get most of my food from Apricot lane farm

2) Home cooking – After I gather all the ingredinets at the market, I love to engage with food and cook a nutrient dense meal. (As a matter of fact I am currently writing my cookbook)

3) Erewhon is always a nice vibe and second best quality food to that to homemade. So I would definitely my friend to one of them. We will also grab some Kefir lab shots there while we are on it 😉

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
My family, for all the support and encouragement they have engraved in me. I was raised agains all the common beliefs. My parents didn’t believe in school and always warned me not to become a perfectionist and getting “ecellent grades” as these kids rarely succeed.

There I am, unappologetically self 😉

Website: https://kefirlab.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erikaamericaaa/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikagilmandinova/

Image Credits
Annouk Photography, Startup CPG, Dario Tobia