Marisa Sweeney is a registered dietitian, founder of Be Well Integrative Health Services, and an Assemblywoman for New Jersey's 25th legislative district

I talk to Marisa about what it felt like to sign her first private practice lease after her business partner backed out at the eleventh hour, how a vegan food festival that started with a chance encounter on a street corner landed a hundred thousand square feet of free event space in Atlantic City, and what made her decide to run for a seat that hadn't gone Democratic in nearly fifty years.