Mindful Monk

Mindful Monk Honest REAL Chocolate. Real ingredients for people who want real food. Monk fruit sweetened only. No sugar. No sugar alcohols. No stevia.

07/02/2026

Happy Canada DayšŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦

What a fun morning we had handing out chocolates in my hometown. Iā€™ve been going to the Salmon Festival since I was a kid and itā€™s such a special moment to bring my own kiddos and hand out chocolates.

Also, big thanks to my friends for helping me handout Mindful Monk chocolate bars. Honest real chocolate. No sugar. No sugar alcohols. No stevia.

06/30/2026

Received our biggest order to date from our amazing cacao dealers Cacao Life. We are grateful we can buy our ingredients directly from the farmers so that they earn a fair wage. And honestly, who doesnā€™t love Peruvian cacao? As long as itā€™s available, itā€™s all we will use.

Ps thanks Niamh for helping with receiving the pallet. You did good little one.

06/29/2026

When Brandi and Desiree (the co-founder of Eversio Wellness | Functional Mushrooms and their in-house naturopathic doctor) compare your chocolate bars to a snickers bar, itā€™s a win!

Thank you so much Brandi Garden | Author | NCS Consultant and Dr. Desiree Caruso, ND. More clips from their podcast will be shared soon!

06/25/2026

The past 6 years have been focused on building Mindful Monk and making chocolate so that we had a product worthy of your support. That involved being in the kitchen all the time to figure out operations as a solo founder and the only employee. So as you can imagine it was pretty hard to get into the market to do store visits and talk to our partners to learn what was working and what wasnā€™t. It got to the point where I actually started to feel too embarrassed to visit a store because they have been carrying Mindful Monk for years and I never checked in.

Fast forward to year 5, I hired my first employee and together we streamlined operations. Then in year 6 we build our own production facility and 6 months later I am finally making the time to go see Mindful Monk in the wild and learn from our partners while also educating them on why we do this.

Calgary was my first work trip like this and it was AWESOME!!! Thank you Daryl Hiebert and team Jonluca Neal for making time to show us around.

We visited our amazing retail partners Community Natural Foods and Calgary Co-op.

Had our first training session to talk about the story behind Mindful Monk, the clean ingredients and to answer any questions they had (I loved geeking out on ingredients and how food affects your health).

Checked out our products on store shelves to make sure the dates were good and learning about consumer feedback by talking to the people on the floor. Of course we thanked them by showering them with Mindful Monk chocolate bars.

Had a meeting with a potential new accountā€¦stay tuned.

Dropped off product to one of our amazing customers and had a nice chat.

Went to Ranchmanā€™s for a birthday and it was fun to watch line dancing and two step.

Next morning it was off to Rviita Ā® Energy Tea community walk/run and itā€™s so inspiring to see their community support them. Had a lovely chat with Karly Jacobsen āœØ.

It was the best first trip and I look forward to many more of these. Big thanks to Danielle Lemoine for coming along.

Thanks for watching
ā¤ļø Alice

06/24/2026

Today has been off to rough start yet here I am making a post. Itā€™s been over 6 years since I started this business. Did I make the right choice? I had a full time paying job, time with my family, was working with my best friend. I chose to give that all up to start something I believe in so that i could help others.

But that hasnā€™t helped me personally (yet!). Iā€™m paying everyone but myself to keep this going and when you have a family of 5, thatā€™s tough. I love receiving payments in testimonials, feedback and success stories. Time to share those so that we can have more people trying our chocolates and in turn I can keep doing what I love.

06/24/2026

Part 2 - The reason I turned my chocolates into a business was because I survived a near death after 30 minutes after her birth. This photo represents the moment I went from someone who believed everything happens TO me, to everything happens FOR me.

At my first postpartum mental health appointment a couple of weeks after her birth, the psychiatrist asked me how I was feeling and if there was anything I wanted to start with. My reply: ā€œI got a second chance at life, Iā€™m not gonna waste it. I need to help others but I donā€™t know how. Maybe Iā€™ll sell my chocolates. They helped me when I was managing my gestational diabetes, Iā€™m sure they can help just one person.ā€

And thatā€™s it. I havenā€™t looked back since. I am so grateful for all the emails, dms and people I meet IRL who these chocolates have helped. Getting to do what I do is a gift. I will never take this for granted and will always use the best, cleanest ingredients possible because I can.

Thanks for being here. Thereā€™s more to come and Iā€™m gonna start geeking out on our why, the ingredients we choose and of course health benefits because we all deserve to feel good!

ā¤ļø Alice

Everyday I tell my kids to be BRAVE. And being brave is when you do something even though you are too scared to do it. H...
06/15/2026

Everyday I tell my kids to be BRAVE.

And being brave is when you do something even though you are too scared to do it.

Here is a photo of me being brave.

Last time I saw Michele Romanow was at CHFA Toronto 2025. The show was done, everyone was rushing to pack up and she happened to be standing at the booth next to me. She looked over and smiled, and my brain was screaming go say hi, but being too scared and thinking all the negative thoughts, I just smiled back and started packing.

Fast forward to May 21, I was invited to an event by Visa and guess who was the keynote speaker? This time I told myself I was going to be brave, introduce myself and Mindful Monk and just put myself in front of her because you never know.

After her talk, which by the way made me admire her even more (one word: caviar), I jumped up and introduced myself. I was very nervous speaking to someone whoā€™s inspired me so much that I even mumbled Iā€™m scared and she looked me in the eye and said, donā€™t be. That alone calmed me and. allowed me to share my story, give her some yummy chocolates and take a photo.

The reason Iā€™m sharing this is because entrepreneurship is all about the highs and very lows and doing things you never thought you would. And getting to share those experiences with others is a gift. Something Iā€™ve learned in the last six years of doing this is that the thing you want is always on the other side of the thing youā€™re too scared to do. So just go and do it!

Thank you Visa for hosting this event and giving me a second chance to meet Michele. Thank you Michele for your inspiring talk and for your kindness. I hope you had a chance to try the chocolates and enjoyed them!

06/01/2026

Hot summer tip!!!

P.S. yes I was genuinely surprised by the initial bite because it was so cold and it was 32C in our place. It was perfect.

Happy Motherā€™s Day from us to all of you amazing mamas out there. I love how my own mother went to just to take a pictu...
05/10/2026

Happy Motherā€™s Day from us to all of you amazing mamas out there.

I love how my own mother went to just to take a picture with my chocolates to show me how proud she is of me šŸ˜­ Her message to me was literally: did you go eat yet for Motherā€™s Day? Me and your sister are going to walk to Cambie Whole Foods to look at your fudge.

Thanks mommy. I am so lucky to call you my mom ā¤ļø

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