This week is all about feeling good inside and out! We got to chat with the amazing Dani Solorio, a renowned herbalist, Certified Nutrition Health Coach and founder of Compton Health Bar, a Holistic wellness space in Compton California. Dani's mission to bring Good to the Hood has become a movement that gives people in the community more access to Holistic practices to improve physical and emotional health. We talk about the ways that herbalism can help us deal with stress related issues as well as many other health issues affecting womxn today. Dani is a reminder to all of us that nature is there to nurture us inside and out.
More about Dani Solorio: Continuing the family traditions of generations of healers, Dani Solorio is a renowned herbalist and the founder of Compton Heath Bar, an holistic wellness space in Compton, California. She is also the residential herbalist for Telemundo’s Acceso Total.
Driven by her mission to bring health to the hood, Dani helps people reconnect to ancestral healing practices through her all-natural herbal remedies. She is at the forefront of the wellness movement in Compton, California, as well as for LGBTQIA+ and the Latinx community across the country.
Dani was born in Zacápu, Michoacán, Mexico and arrived in the United States at age six. As an undocumented student, Dani’s entreprenural journey began early when she realized that college was not an option. After working in warehouses and restaurants for years, she saved up enough money to open her first business, a small video store. As her business grew, so did her drive to open up one of the only natural medicine stores in Compton, California. Since 2012, Compton Health Bar has been nourishing the BIPOC community and celebrating traditional herbalism and healing practices.
Dani and her movement to make holistic health more accessible have been featured in a mini-documentary by BESE, along with dozens of features in CBS, PBS, Found/LA, Los Angeles Business Journal, Voyage LA, LatinX, and numerous podcasts.
