Monique Hemmingson is a writer, foodie and avid wellness advocate for our planet, mind and body. Monique lives in Mount Maunganui with her husband James, their daughter Lulu Bloom and dog Remy. She’s passionate about travel, design, whole-foods, holistic wellness and creative entrepreneurship.

After falling ill whilst backpacking in her 20’s Monique moved home to New Zealand, adopting a whole-food, clean living lifestyle to help her body heal and found that many others could also benefit from this and so opened the doors to her cafe Wild One Wholefoods in beautiful Mount Maunganui to remedy that.

During this time Monique became inspired by the range of forward-thinking, conscious small business models she’d come in contact with and realised they had an important story to tell and offering to communicate with the world and at a time when the world needed to hear it most. It was from here that her debut book, Wild Kinship, was born. After selling her cafe and joined by Beatnik Publishing and friend and photographer Erin Cave she set about travelling to meet said entrepreneurs and got to talking about the good, bad and the ugly and what impact they have on our planet.

Two years later, after the success of Wild Kinship, Conversations with Conscious Entrepreneurs, Monique is set to release her second book of the collection October 2022, titled Wild Kinship, The Makers.