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= Nikole Goncalves = Nikole Goncalves is Canadian youtube video creator, blogger and self-made entrepreneur. Nikole is the founder of the youtube channel and blog 'HealthNut Nutrition' as well as the owner of the 'HealthNut Online Shop'. Nikole Goncalves is very passionate about living a balanced, healthy lifestyle and inspires her views to do the same with her creative and "healthified" recipes, snacks and drinks. Nikole promotes eating real, whole foods, with little to no Nikole also shares her love for healthy living and nutrition across her social media pages on Twitter and Instagram. On Instagram in particular, Nikole shares her love for food photography, where she documents all of her recipes and even her daily meals and snacks.

Personal Life
Nikole Goncalves has previously lived in Downtown Toronto, Canada but has recently moved North of Toronto with her long-time boyfriend. Her boyfriend, Matthew, nicknamed "Mr. Matt" in all of her videos, and herself have been dating for over ten years. Nikole studied at the George Brown College in Downtown Toronto, studying Marketing. While working with Youtube, for a few years Nikole still had an office job working as a Online Market Coordinator with Randstad at RBC. Before starting her channel, Nikole previously worked with Rogers Communications and TD Bank, still within the field of digital marketing. In an interview with Spoon University, she stated she started to take Nutrition classes throughout college and that's where her love for nutrition and healthy eating began. Nikole got her inspiration to start her own youtube channel when herself and Mr. Matt went backpacking across Australia for a couple years. She watched multiple travel videos along her journey and decided to create her own.

In addition to healthy eating, Nikole is also an advocate for active living, and self care. In Nikole's youtube videos, she has made a habit of moving her body and exercising everyday. For example, Nikole participates in yoga class and working out at the gym a few times each week as well. Nikole also states that she engages in "self-hypnoses" mediation each morning with aids with her anxiety and prepares for the day to come. She describes that a balanced lifestyle is taking time for yourself, doing what you love and what makes you happy and still enjoying other people's company.

Television Appearances and Sponsorships
In Nikole's online career, she has made several television appearances demonstrating her recipes and advertising her lifestyle. In January 2019, Nikole started a series with 'Your Morning' morning talk show in Toronto, where she was invited to share her healthy recipes and how to make them. On the first segment of the series, Nikole shared "3 Easy 10 Minute Dinners" on the morning show. Some of her recipes include "Creamy Coconut Mushroom Chicken" and "3 Bean and Turkey Chili". Also in February 2019, Nikole was on the morning show 'Your Morning' in Toronto, where she shared how to make some of her most popular recipes, including her '5 ingredient pancakes', her 'Kale Quinoa stir fry', her 'Lentil Potato stew' and lastly her 'Chocolate and Peanut Butter Energy bites'.

Nikole also had an appearance working with 'Kid Food Nation' in February 2019. Kid food nation is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to bringing awareness to young health and nutrition. Nikole worked them on a sponsored video, working with different ages groups and showing them healthy and delicious meals and snacks to inspire them to live healthy lifestyles.

Youtube Channel
Nikole's personal youtube channel was created in 2012 and has accumulated over 500,000 subscribers and has over over 34 million views on all of her videos put together[1]. Furthermore, her channel averages nearly 300,000 views each month [2]. Her most popular view on youtube in May of 2016, titled ‘What I Eat in a Day at Work | East & Healthy Meals’. This video is her most viewed video on her channel with over 2.9 million views. 'What I Eat in a Day' type of videos are still some of her most popular videos today. Her demographic is mostly women, at around 85% [2]. Nikole uploads a variety of different types of videos and content. She uploads 3 times each week: Recipe Mondays, Wellness Wednesdays and Vlog (Video Blog) Fridays. Some of her videos include, "What I eat in a day", "Healthy Lunch Ideas" and "Healthy Swaps for Unhealthy snacks". Eventually, Nikole decided to hire her younger sister, Cloe to help with the production as she is studying film and production at school. Today, Cloe is her full-time videographer and editor [3].

Blog and Online Shop
Nikole's additional endeavours are her 'HealthNut Nutrition blog' and her growing Health and Wellness, online shop, 'The HealthNut Shop'. Nikole's blog goes along with her youtube channel where she posts more detailed descriptions and ingredients of her recipes, as well are additional content that is not available on her youtube channel. Nikole also offers a weekly newsletter email on her blog, where her users can subscribe to get a weekly letter from her with updated information. Nikole created the 'HealthNut Online in 2017, which is online wellness store, that includes healthy lifestyle and beauty products. On the shop, Nikole focuses on selling organic, biodegradable and reusable products that will not harm the Earth after using or while using. She sells products like silicone zip-lock bags, mesh produce bags, bamboo brush cleaning supplies, non-toxic cleaning sprays, reusable lunch containers and water bottles, metal straws and even essential oils and organic fragrances.