biography // events + collaborations // common interview topics // contact
Biography
Jacqueline A. Irish is the owner, writer and recipe developer for a clean, grain- and gluten-free recipe food blog and local home-based keto bakery with the same name, Ketolicious Eats. Her passion lies in education and health coaching, helping individuals discover new ways to integrate living and eating clean with the ketogenic and paleo lifestyles, with the larger goal of reducing inflammation and improving immune health to prevent disease. Her followers often include those with existing chronic inflammatory conditions and those seeking to take a larger role in his/her health.
Her diagnosis of an early stage, yet more aggressive type of breast cancer in 2017 became a huge pivot point in her life. After having left a marketing communications career to pursue a second degree in commercial interior design, she soon learned she would have to drop out of school to help finance her family’s challenges with infertility. This five-year struggle eventually led to feeling stuck in what seemed like a yearly path of failure, with multiple failed infant adoptions, IVF treatments, and a halt to her and her husband becoming foster parents when they learned of the cancer news. Cancer development then became a mission to uncover how disease could develop in a seemingly young, healthy body. Her findings opened her eyes to the problem of inflammation, coming in the form of toxins in all directions—the environment, food, cookware, body care and cleaning products, and even how mismanagement of stress, early trauma, and anxiety may play a role.
Irish has always had an interest in health care, whether in institutional interior design; seminars on the physiological impact the built and color environment has on the body (2008); and in her work as a write/designer for national health and wellness company American Specialty Health (1999 to 2010).
She has a Bachelor’s in communications from San Diego State University, with a minor in marketing.
In her free time, Irish enjoys spending time with her husband Mark and their two dogs, Sadie and Nolan. She also enjoys being in the outdoors, hiking and biking, as well as cooking, baking, reading, writing, traveling, and participating in activities with her church.
Events + Collaborations
Irish has been a guest speaker and contributor to a number events and/or organizations benefitting cancer survivors and the lives of women, including:
— Interviewee with Dimple Parmar’s ZenOnco & Love Heals Cancer, (Nov./Dec. 2021);
— Interviewee for Samantha Bentley’s “Why Me God?” podcast (Oct. 2021);
— Guest speaker for the San Diego Branch Church, Women’s Health & Wellness Clinic (Oct. 2021);
— Contributing blog writer for Liv + Let, a company that supports women with breast cancer care packages, gifts, and products (March 2022 and May 2021);
— Contributing blog writer for Redefined Courage, a non-profit organization that supplied women with post-mastectomy jackets (April 2021) and is now closed;
— Guest speaker for Blessing Anyatonwu, D.C., M.S., Women Conquering Stress Virtual Summit: Tools & Strategies for Managing Your Stress, Increasing Your Energy and Developing Healthy Habits (Feb. 2021); and
— Instagram collab with Blessing Anyatonwu, D.C., M.S., 12 Days of Wellness, Day 9
(Dec. 2020).
Irish is open to collaborations in the areas of health and wellness, which may include:
— Clean food, beauty and body care, household cleaning products;
— Fitness, nutrition, and exercise products;
— Mental health tools and leisure activities, including travel, cooking, and other rest aids; and
— Products for the home made with organic, allergen-free, or non-toxic materials/chemicals.
Common Interview Topics
— Her health story
— Integrative therapies used during cancer treatment
— Disease development and prevention
— The relationship between trauma, mental stress, and inflammation
— Toxins in our environment that contribute to inflammation and DNA damage
— The benefits of eating low carb and grain free
— How her diagnosis led to a deeper faith
— Simple anxiety-reducing techniques
— Personal growth
Contact
To inquire about working with Jacqueline, email her here.
