When Thomas was 12, she founded The HAPPY Organization, a nonprofit that promotes mental and physical wellbeing in young people by building knowledge of food and self-advocacy. Her Jamaican immigrant mother taught her to cook when she was five, and three years later, when her father was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, her family transformed their diet and lifestyle to center nourishing and restorative foods.

Beautiful and uplifting, Lively empowers and teaches you how to take simple, actionable steps to nourish your body, live your best and most passionate life, and make the world a better place.At every age, Haile Thomas’s life has revolved around nutritious food. They include environmentalist and animal rights activist Hannah Testa, dancer and actress Nia Sioux, entrepreneur and mentor Gabrielle Jordan, global activist and sustainable fashion entrepreneur Maya Penn, and self-love advocate Luisa Gaffga. Living Lively combines delicious recipes with advice and insights from her life as well as other dynamic, young women, leaders who are doing what they love, and making an impact. In Lively, she combines her uplifting message with tasty, wholesome food, providing dozens of nutrition-packed vegan recipes – all gluten, dairy, and egg-free. By incorporating healthy, plant-based dishes into our daily routine, we can boost qualities such as confidence, happiness, energy, and positivity. Now a social entrepreneur, speaker, and wellness & compassion activist, she is an advocate for conscious living who promotes resilience, positivity, and a healthy, nourishing lifestyle to young people everywhere.

When her father developed Type 2 diabetes, eight-year-old Haile Thomas began a journey that would improve her dad's health, and radically transform her life. 100 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential By a superstar eighteen-year-old activist, motivational speaker, and the youngest Certified Integrative Health Coach in America, a unique cookbook and inspiring guide that combines 75 delicious, wholesome, super-powered plant-based recipes with a '7 points of power' manifesto to inspire you to take care of your health and nurture your ability to make an impact.

Living Lively by Haile Thomas