We are over the moon to be recording this podcast on the very day our new website goes live. You guys are going to absolutely love all the hard work and love we’ve put into our new branding additivefreelifestyle.com which resonates with everything that we’re now about!

With this change, it doesn’t mean we’re not going to miss Sistermixin’ which has served us so well since day one when we first started out on our journey. To be honest, we’re a bit sad to leave Sistermixin’ behind, as it was such a massive part of our lives for a good four years. In saying that, all the sadness is totally outweighed by our excitement for our new branding. We’ve been thinking about it, and talking about it for so long, and we can’t believe it’s now a reality!

A huge thank you to all those behind the scenes

This re-branding and the new website, would not have been possible without each and every person that has worked their butts off to make it all happen. We really appreciate all your efforts and hard work!

  • Kaytee in our warehouse – she has spent hours, upon hours, upon hours of her free time putting shop products in, checking links and taking charge of all the new images.
  • Jayde in our warehouse – She has done an incredible job with the website! She is now taking on some totally different work, which we’re sure is only increasing her stress levels!
  • Ben at digitallifementors.com – He has grasped our passion for an additive-free lifestyle, and it’s clear to see that he’s carried the heart and soul of what we’re all about over to our new website. It’s simply not just a website to him. Ben and his wife have both completed our Additive Free Made Easy E-Course, and he has been with us pretty much right from the start. He is a mentor to us, an IT expert, business coach and website fixer-up-er-rer (majorly).
  • Our amazing family – Our mum has helped out by minding our kids, doing the school runs while we’ve been totally run off our feet and plenty of extra meals and cooking. Jo’s husband Shane has helped out spending hours, upon hours in the evening editing our podcasts and recipes. So as he listens to this, a huge thank you to you Shane! Our Aunty Dawn copied over 200 recipes and likely spent 200 hours of her time in bringing them to our new site.

Of course, we want to offer a huge THANKS to all our amazing listeners who have stuck by us, continuing to help spread our additive-free message to all your friends and family!

Now we need your help!

Starting a new website sadly means we lose all of the reviews, along with comments on recipes and shop products, that means all of your hundreds, if not thousands of positive reviews and comments have gone down the gurgler!

If you could see us right now, we’re literally on our hands and knees, begging you to help us win these all back! So if you’ve loved one of our shop products, a recipe or a podcast episode, and have found that it’s made a huge change in your life, leave us a comment! Show the love, it means so much to us! Don’t forget to leave a review on iTunes also for our podcasts.

To create just one recipe, it takes us a lot of time and resources, so your beautiful comments truly lift us up, and remind us why it’s worth all the late nights, weekend work and bucket loads of hard work. When we know we’re making a difference, it makes us feel amazing and helps us to forge ahead with our legacy!

Some incredible features on our new site

  • We now have a print function! Woohoo! Believe it or not, this was one of the main reasons we decided to create a new website altogether (laughing). We started to lose count of the number of emails and requests we got, asking for prints of a recipe.
  • Mobile and iPad friendly. From our stats, we know that over 60% of our audience scroll on their devices, rather than a desktop or laptop! This makes life so much easier for you, now that our website functions seamlessly on any device you pick up.
  • It is fast. Like lightning fast. Whatever product, recipe or podcast you’re looking for, use the search function and you’ll be able to find it in a heartbeat. Let’s say you have some broccoli leftover in your fridge- you can type the word broccoli and it will come up with all the recipes.
  • Our shop looks incredible. It works soo much better than Sistermixin. Tracey’s daughter was passing by when our shop page was open and she said: “that looks soo good mum”. Tracey totally claimed up “I knoooow”.

It used to be really hard to find a product in our old shop, and we were constantly changing the layout to absolutely no avail. It was simply the programming and the website that led to all the endless frustration. We are breathing a huge sigh of relief with the new website, which by the way contains over 400 additive-free products (with plenty more to come) that are all free of preservatives, synthetics and nasty chemicals.

  • Chat function on checkout cart. Let’s say there’s some kind of error, with your cart or you have a burning question- they can all be answered in our chat box, where you’ll talk to one of us directly. We’ll answer all your questions as soon as we can, within usual business hours- haha trust us, we’ll be nowhere to be found at 1 am except in our cozy beds.
  • Local pick-up– anyone living in local suburbs of Southern Queensland you can pick-up your items locally. Terms and Conditions apply.
  • We have a Live Event section on our website, where you can purchase a ticket to an event immediately, whereas before you were thrown across multiple websites. Click. Pay. Done. On that topic we have an event coming up in Tasmania on 25 May 2018, where we are touring around talking about all things essential oils with doTERRA.
  • Our Additive Free Made Easy E-course link is now embedded in our new website! Again no being thrown across multiple sites to get to your final destination!

It’s hard to describe just how much work is involved in re-branding, and it was certainly much bigger than we initially could have imagined! While there were plenty of exciting times, there were just as many stressful and tiring times. We really hope you guys love our new brand and website, just as much as we do. It’s really special to us and will serve us so much in the future. Sometimes change is hard to take, but the cool thing is that we can now reach so many more people, help more families and spread our message far and wide.

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