Chef Zipora Einav, a celebrity chef, author, innovator, entrepreneur, and CEO, joins Tonya Dawn Recla to discuss the spiritual side of food and her book, Recipe for a Delicious Life: Discover The Perfect Blend of Food & Music to Stimulate Your Appetite for Lasting Health, Harmony & Joy!

Zipora has enjoyed a distinguished career as a private chef to dozens of discerning clients. She has traveled the world and prepared exquisite, flavorful meals for some of Hollywood’s most notable celebrities, studio executives and elite athletes – Mariah Carey, Pierce Brosnan, Bob & Dolores Hope, Aaron Spelling, Donovan McNabb and many others.

Each dish she prepares is presented with artistic flair, a skill she developed while working for celebrity and high-profile, ultra-high-net-worth clients. Listen in as she talks about the spiritual side of food and how food acts a healer.

Hello everyone, this is Tonya Dawn Recla, your Super Power Expert, and I have a real treat for everybody today. I have … She’s just delightful. This woman is a powerhouse in a little package. So you can see here, if you go to our website, you’ll see a picture of her and I together, but she … Don’t let her size fool you folks, she is amazing.

Chef Zipora cooked for Scarlett Johansson, Black Widow.

So Chef Zipora is featuring her book Recipe for a Delicious Life. You want to talk about amazing existences this woman is a celebrity chef, she’s cooked for people like Mariah Carey, Bob Hope, Pierce Brosnan, Donovan McNabb, and of course one of our favorites over here, Scarlett Johansson, Black Widow herself. So she’s really touched the lives of some amazing people, and as powerful as that sounds, that really is not the most amazing thing about this woman. Not only does she prepare delicious food, but she is amazingly tapped in, so she has this kind of high frequency, energetic knowledge about how food works.

So I’m really excited to have her on the show today to talk about the spiritual side of food, and how food acts a healer, so without further ado, please join me in welcoming to the show, Chef Zipora. Welcome so much, I’m so glad you’re here.

Hello, and hi to everyone.

Oh, well, I’m very excited about this conversation, because I think a lot of times we don’t talk enough about the food that we eat, and how we eat that. I know that’s such a big component of what you talk about, but before we jump into that, we always like to ask, what are your superpowers?

Okay, so I would say I have a love and passion for people and I genuinely, really genuinely, like to support and empower them to be healthy inside and out, and I’m also very intuitive, and caring, and focusing on the person. And to be honest, I never give up on them. I always set up my eyes on the goal and encourage them to do the same thing.

I have a love and passion for people.

So I can say that I’m sure that my people skills play a big part of me being … have the fortune to be a private chef for some of the people, and others that you mention, and to allow me to interact, to have a positive interaction and understand their needs and how they can get to where they want to be. Like emotionally, and you name it.

Beautiful, beautiful. So let’s talk a little bit about how you got to be a celebrity chef. I know a lot of people are just fascinated with celebrity lifestyles and getting a glimpse inside. What led you to that?

Well, I always live the spiritual life, and I believe that you need to be … If you want to get somewhere like if you drive somewhere, you need to be clear where you’re going, where your destination. So I was clear since I was very, very young, that I want to work with celebrities, and the reason I did this is because at four, at the age of four, I would have the privilege and the pleasure to sit on the left of the first Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. David Ben-Gurion, and it’s just another story that you guys can read the book.

However, since then, I said, I’m going to grow up, I’m going to cook and I’m going to be around these people because they are fascinating me. Fast forward, when I was living in Phoenix at the time, I decided … I was invited to move to LA by a friend of mine, and so I moved there, and before I moved, I went to see a lady who … an intuitive lady. I’m very much into this kind of stuff. And I said, “What do you think, how should I move? Give me some direction.” She said, “I’m going to even help you and I’m going to set up with a woman who used to be a chef for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman,” at the time.

She set me up with this woman and on my first day, I had dinner with this woman. And she said, “You wouldn’t believe it, but my friend, my chef friend, just opened a chef agency. An agency that hires people,” okay, because the security level is very high. So anyway, we’re not going into it right now. Make a long story short, the next day, I’m interviewing with this guy. And he said, “Stay put. My phone is ringing all the time.” I don’t know what’s going to happen.

Sure enough, it’s 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon. He called me and said, “Bob Hope, their chef is gone on vacation for three months. We need somebody. I think you’re going to be a fit.” And he sent me to go there the next day.

Oh, my goodness.

Now, my … This guy Chris, my first agent, was new. So he didn’t give me all the information. He only said, “Be yourself and dress the way you’re dressed today, cute and nice.” And then that’s what he said, I swear. And he gave me directions to the house, nothing else. So I’m going there, never see a celebrity, never work for them, and also a self-taught chef. I didn’t have all of this supposedly … thing. But anyway, I know exactly … I’ve been cooking for many, many years, and I’m a chef by trade.

So I come in, and as you can hear me, Tonya, the moment I open my mouth, people say, “Where are you from?” Obviously, my accent. Something happened with Mr. Bob Hope, he’s on a kitchen table with his manager, Dennis. And I say good morning, and I say I’ve been sent from the chef agency. And the moment I open my mouth, Mr. Hope said, “Where are you from?” And I said, “From Israel.”

I swear, this guy got up from his chair, kissed me on my two cheeks, clapped and said, “I love the people in Israel. When you guys fought for your country,” he said, “Years ago, I went there and sang for all of the soldiers there. And I love your country, we visit often and I donate money to them every year.” And at that moment, his wife got on. She said, “Who is this little thing?” You saw me, Tonya, I’m short and tiny by the look of me.

So I guess they liked me immediately and they said, “We hire you.” Mind you, usually, it doesn’t happen this way. Usually, you have to cook for them, a dinner or two, and they have to see the vibration mix, the fit, and everything work well together if they like the food. Then they hire me.

So I go into the office to talk with the estate manager, and the first question he asked me, “What is your weekly salary?” Now, I had no clue. I never work, and the agent never taught me anything. So I throw him a number that was very high, obviously. He said, “Usually that’s too high. Even the chef doesn’t get it.” Make a long story short, I worked there, they love me, they give me an amazing letter because by the way, post in my book. The first page. And the agent said, “Nobody ever got this salary from them. Nobody ever got this letter, period. I’m putting you on the top of my list.”

Tonya, that’s the way it started, and like they say in English, the rest is history. One thing led to the other.

Wow. That’s such a great story, and I love your drive and I love how you go about things, and the belief that you have. And you mentioned that you’re highly intuitive, and you also have a component of the music with the food and everything else. So tell us a little bit about what that’s like.

Well, everything, Tonya, in the world, everything in the universe, has vibrations. Different kind of level of vibration and the vibration create a different kind of frequencies. So music, particularly baroque and classical music, creates some of the highest vibrations. Therefore, the highest frequencies. This frequencies, when you listen to them, it’s going to produce what do you call it, the happy chemicals in the body. It also makes you feel like you have been in the present. It’s like a state of meditation, the highest state of meditation, and that’s what music does to you. You focus, you’re in the now, you’re able to … You’re very happy. So you’re in the zone.

Music is my secret seasoning.

And that’s what music has done to me since very, very young age. And so one day, I decided, I’m going to listen to this music since I love it so much, while I’m cooking. And you wouldn’t believe it. Since then, people always love my food, but since then, people said, “We love your food, but there’s something special. What is it, what is it?” And it took me a while to figure out that that was the music. That’s what’s like seasoning, it’s like extra seasoning. When you have food, you season with salt, pepper, and other seasoning. But the music is my secret sauce, my secret seasoning.

And so I combine music with food. When I cook, I listen to particular. My favorite is Bach, number one, and Vivaldi, and the other baroque music. Sometimes I’ll listen to classical like Mozart and Beethoven. And it’s really, really put me in a certain kind of higher vibration, high-frequency zone. And I decided to share this with the world, and so this part is in my book. It’s Recipe for a Delicious Life, and it talks about this … how music affects us and why it’s important to play while you’re cooking. It’s important even when you eat when you want to meditate, but we’re talking about food now.

And along with this amazing book, I think it’s amazing. Of course, I’m a little biased.

It is amazing.

Thank you. And I also create the music. So knowing that most of the chefs probably would not like to listen to Bach while they’re cooking … So what we did, hire a very high, accomplished composer, Neil Argo, and he arranged the music, meaning he took music like Vivaldi, the Four Seasons, and put techno beat. So now in the food language, we have the cake and we eat it too. Except in my case, there are no cakes. But it’s a healthy food. But you understand what I’m saying, right?

So the CD is the … We kept the core, we kept the integrity of the music, but we layer with the techno beat, so now you can have it all. And so I hope I answered your question. We got in the music, and I can go on and on and on, why music is so impeccable. For example, the farmer in this country uses this particularly baroque music to the crops, to when they grow flowers, to the cows, to the chicken. And it produced amazing results. They did another experiment, they took two big speakers and they put two big plants around it. And for one month, they played baroque music, as I said, Handel, Vivaldi, Bach. And what happened with the plant, the plant grew hugging the speakers.

Okay, so that was obvious, that the plant was drawn to the frequencies of this amazing music. And there was blossom and there was green and there … was beautiful. The next months, they did another experiment, and they took the speakers and took other plants and put them next to the speakers, and they play heavy metal music for one month. What happened with the plants, they start deteriorating, they start growing far away, as far as they could, from the music, like they were trying to run away. And there was not as green, vibrant, as the others.

These experiments show us how important, how the music, how the vibration, high vibration of music, impact us as a human being. I highly recommend listening as much as you can to anybody, but specifically when you’re cooking. So now it’s the secret, not secret anymore for cooking amazing food.

Your secret’s out. Well, I love it, I love it. So we’re going to take a quick break. We’ve been listening to Chef Zipora talk about the spiritual side of food. Such a fascinating conversation. Where can people go to find out more about you? They can go to the website to get the book, correct?

Chefzipora.com. Zipora, the word chef before. So chefzipora.com.

Perfect, and if you go to the link on our site for this episode, we’ll make sure to have that link right there. So stick with us, folks. When we come back, we’re going to talk with Chef Zipora more about her experiences cooking for some pretty big names. So I think you’re going to want to stay with us as we talk about a glimpse inside that celebrity life. So stay with us and we’ll be right back.

Awesome, we’re back you’re listening to the SuperPower  Up! Podcast. We’re talking today with Celebrity Chef Zipora. So Zipora, we talked earlier about … We did drop a few names of some of the fabulous people. I loved your Bob Hope story, I just think it’s so amazing. But mostly I love the idea that you knew you wanted to do this thing, you wanted to cook, and then you followed your love. That guided, inspired action piece, I think, is so amazingly powerful.

Tonya Dawn Recla and Celebrity Chef Zipora

And I do think that there’s a connection with who, success in the world. Like, the people who gain celebrity or gain success, whether it’s money or business or whatever the case may be, I think there’s a direct connection there in following your own inspired action. And what I love about your story is that you didn’t doubt it. You just kind of kept putting on foot in front of the other, and you just walked into that space, and you said yes when the opportunities arose.

So how do you now go about getting … Some of the names of the people that you cooked for are just mind-blowing. If I’m correct, did you really cook for The Rock? Is this a real story?

No, The Rock, I was supposed to cook for The Rock. However, they found the production was canceled. So-

Got it.

-I’m scheduled to go to the end of the year, his team wants me. And then maybe we’ll do another podcast talking about my experience then.

Well, I think you need an assistant, and you can just take me with you if you need to go cook for The Rock. I’m just saying. I can chop a vegetable, maybe. I don’t know, I’m not real masterful in the kitchen.

I already put your name on the top of the list. So you’re-

Yeah, that’s true. You know, she and I sometimes do compete for interviewees, and I’m not sure that I would be welcomed back in my home if I snuck in an interview with The Rock before she got it. So we’d have to negotiate. But anyway, that is such a fabulous story.

But I love the confidence. So I know a lot of people who listen to our show are amazingly tapped in. They have amazing abilities and gifts and they’re guided. What advice do you have to offer them in terms of developing and creating the life that is magical? Looking in on your life, it’s pretty magical by a lot of people’s standards. What can you offer to folks who are sitting in that place where you were so long ago, thinking, how could you have ever dreamt this into existence, right? What can we share with them to assist them?

Well, it’s like, I believe … I know, actually, that there’s no coincidence. I know that when you want something and you’re clear about your intention, very clear about it, you ask the universe … Some people call it the universe, God, spirit, however you name it, it’s the same thing, in my opinion. And you ask and you say, please guide me, please show me how to get there. And just let it go, ’cause you have to trust. First of all, you have to trust your own body, that you are the most amazing creator, you as a general, the most amazing creator. And when you’re clear, you get what you want. Not some time from an area or direction that you think it will come from, but you’ll get it.

The story that I, the Bob Hope story, I wanted to be a celebrity … Not only this, I said I will travel with them, and they will take me in the first class, travel, hotel, airplane, and I’ll travel the world with them. And so it happened. So back to being focused and clear. You focus and the universe will show you, will give you sign, will say, do this, do this, and you go. And you’re kept in this direction or sign or signal.

Another thing is, I never give up. I always trust, I always trust in my ability. And I think we all are, each and every one of us, are a brilliant creator. And we can never doubt about who we are, and of course, I cannot do this by myself. I have to have a team. So I consider the universe as part of my huge team, and to be honest, I every day praise and pray for the universe, and thank the universe for supporting and empowering me and always giving me what I want. It’s not that I know what I want.

And because to work for a celebrity, so to work for anybody else, another thing is, to me, yes, I want to work around them. But at the end of the day, it’s people. You have to have the compassion and passion and caring for people. And they’re not different than anybody else. They have the same desire. People have different tastes, different requirement, different temperament, different frequencies, different vibrations. You have to be willing to meld and mesh with them and … mesh meaning working and meld to their vibration. If they’re at a certain level, you go to this level, and they’re another level, you go to the other level. You just have to be a people person. You have to care because you cannot fake this authentically, and people feel this.

And they will draw to you. When people draw to you, they basically give you what you ask from them. Really, that’s my experience. I don’t have any magic formula, but maybe that by itself is the magic. I don’t know, what do you think, Tonya?

I think that is a magical formula. I think I love that when we talked about your superpowers early on, you mentioned first and foremost this deep love and passion for people. So I don’t think it’s a coincidence, given some of the folks you’ve interacted with and what you’ve been able to create for your existence. I think that’s extremely powerful.

And sometimes we can forget, we chase perhaps the material piece of the dream. So whether it’s success or money or whatever it is that we think qualifies as this magical existence, and we forget that at the heart of it is that connection. And I love what you said about having the universe as part of your team, and the gratitude that comes through. As soon as you come into your energy field, that you exude that gratitude and that connection with people.

So folks, if you’re listening, it’s great to have goals, but I, for one, am not a proponent of setting personal development goals or success goals. If that connection, that heart piece, that being of service to something bigger than yourself isn’t a part of it, I personally feel like that’s the fuel, that is the secret sauce if you will. And I love that you’ve encapsulated that also with music.

That’s another thing I wanted to ask you about. You did talk about how cooking with music and everything increases that vibration. I wonder about the relationship between you recognizing that and really embracing it, and what’s manifested in your existence. And from my vantage point, I would say that the relationship there is undeniable. When you put it all together, if somebody said, in two sentences, what’s the relationship between the music and the food and your success, how would you encapsulate that?

Okay, great. A great question, and here it is. Not only that I drove celebrity to work for, but I drove very successful musician. People like Mariah Carey, Paul Anka, Seal, and the Kelly Family. I’m not so sure that people here in the United States are familiar, but if you Google them, the Kelly Family, an Irish band, are very popular, similar to the Partridge Family. They were not able to walk without bodyguards in Europe, and I traveled with them all over the world. They have, by the way, coming out, being very, very, very popular, particularly in Germany, in Europe.

But anyway, back to your question. So I was drawn to work with these musicians, so here I am, working with a celebrity, with musicians, preparing food for them. You can see the connection, correct? And my name is Zipora, which is in Hebrew, a little bird. My last name is Einav, which is grape. So it’s a little bird sitting on a grape bush if you want to say this-this way.

And again, I do not believe in coincidence. We all create everything by conscious, or by a fault. It’s better to know what you’re conscious about, your creation. But … Does that answer your question?

Beautifully. I think that the symbolism is really powerful, and I love that fact that you’re the embodiment of that kind of success and connectivity. So thank you so much for everything that you’re doing in the world, and for representing this real heart-centric passion, love-based side of things. I think it would be easy to your success to get caught up in the material aspect. So I love that you embody and continue to emulate or model for others this love and this genuine zest for life. So thank you so much for that.

It was my pleasure, and please, Tonya, don’t forget to call me when you’re hungry.

I love it. Very cool. So folks, go to chefzipora.com and check out her website. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Her book is beautiful. We will be doing more talking about the book. But for now, put a little bit of love into your food, folks. A little bit of the spiritual, a little bit of the metaphysical and music. And as always, we appreciate your loyalty. Thank you all so much for listening. Until next time, go out, uncover your superpowers, and change the world. Take care, everyone.

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