Food Business Success® - Start Your Food Business Dream

Send us Fan Mail What if every time you said "how do I do that?", you replaced it with "who can help me with that?" This shift has been a game changer for me and Master Your Business founders. "How" requires effort, resources and force - it quickly leads to confusion and overwhelm. "Who" simplifies the whole process - we just find people to either take over...

Send us Fan Mail I met Jeff at the Fancy Food Show this year and I continue to be amazed at his expertise at problem solving to help early stage brands. His speciality is around packaging and finding the right manufacturer, but his experience spans the entire CPG industry from financing to strategy planning for creating a profitable brand.  Launch & Grow is hot out of the oven with a full upda...

Send us Fan Mail Artificial intelligence is a big topic of conversation these days and you may be wondering how you can leverage it to help you in your business. On today's podcast, I share with you some ways that I am seeing it being used and I invite you to join me on our Fuel VIP call on April 19th to get all the tips and tricks to write everything from your social media posts to your webs...

Send us Fan Mail Are you a purpose chaser? Always trying new things to finally find the one thing you were meant to do in this life? I certainly was! Today's podcast is a replay of my interview with Lee Koles on her podcast, The Career Sequel. It is top downloaded episode of 2022, so I know we are talking about a topic that is of interest to so many of you! Here is the link to the Multipotent...

Send us Fan Mail As you grow your business, you as a boss and CEO will need to evolve. Your business needs you to step into a leadership role steering the ship and doing less of the "doing" in your business. Chennelle's journey is doing just this as she scales GoodLove Foods from a baby brand to a mighty one. Hear what has happened since the last time we talked on the podcast (ep 72...

Send us Fan Mail I have a story to share with you on this bonus episode. It's about a woman who became the person she always knew was possible. Things are changing just a bit around here and I want to introduce you to the new Reinvent Podcast that just launched today! Get the mindset and coaching tools you love over on the new podcast and continue to get great CPG episodes here on the Food Bu...

Send us Fan Mail In over five years of helping people start and grow a handmade packaged product businesses, I have seen A LOT of money mistakes. I am giving you the roadmap on what to do and what to avoid on today's podcast. If you want to take your existing business to the next level, Master Your Business will be enrolling soon for May. Get on the waitlist at MasterYourBiz.co . It's ti...

Send us Fan Mail When I hired Robin back in August, I knew she would be a future guest on the podcast and here we are! It's not easy or "fun" to look at the real numbers and the choices (or not) I made about my money.  There was A LOT of drama for sure.  As a single female entrepreneur, there is a lot of fear that comes up for me around safety and security. Hear my journey to face m...

Send us Fan Mail I hear it all the time...I hope to make a profit this year (and it's year 3 of their business).   I want you to start a real business (not a hobby) and set up habits that prioritize profit. Because you are going to work way too HARD to not bring home something for yourself to delight in. And if you never have any monetary reward, most people quit in the first year or two. Ent...

Send us Fan Mail Maybe you are starting out with a more complex product and you want to launch into larger sales channels or you are ready to move from farmers markets to the next step. Every time you scale up, even just a little bit, there is an investment of money that you will need. So where do you get this money when you are still pretty small and definitely not ready for investors? My guest o...

Send us Fan Mail Have you thought about starting that delicious dream, but aren't quite ready to make a large investment of time and money? A Cottage Food Business is a wonderful way to start and test the waters of entrepreneurship. On today's podcast, I talk with Lisa Kivirist, co-author of the book Handmade For Sale and co-host of the Home-based Food Entrepreneur Virtual National Confe...

Send us Fan Mail We put a lot of expectations on our business to make us feel happy, successful and love for it. But what if it isn't our biz's job to make us feel love for it? What if we get to decide that we we love it as the the vehicle that gives us opportunities for connection, service, doing hard things and being proud of ourselves. Write a love note to your business on this Valent...

Send us Fan Mail This month I am talking money with some amazing guests, both in mindset, but also the tactical strategy for finding the money you need to launch and scale your business.  My guest on the podcast this week is Michael Movitz, co-founder of Brandjectory . He's kind of a big deal in the industry (he wouldn't say that, but I will 😊), especially around raising money in the CP...

Send us Fan Mail Just because you want a business doesn't mean you have the right fuel to get it off the ground. Wanting doesn't create it. Commitment, determination and consistent action do.  Tune in to today's podcast to learn the nasty fuels you need to stop adding to your tank and the best fuel to get you what you want! Launch & Grow is hot out of the oven with a full update...

Send us Fan Mail I hear so many stories from you about waffling on whether to start your business, or to make the next level of investments to grow it. Indecision is a decision, but not one you make on purpose.  It robs you of your joy and keeps you spinning out in "I don't know" land. You miss opportunities when you don't make decisions and ultimately regret creeps in as you w...

Send us Fan Mail There will for sure be external obstacles that come up that will slow us down in our pursuit of our goals. It's a question of when, not if. And it is good to have a strategy of self-compassion and problem-solving ready to go when they do. But the most insidious obstacles are actually internal. You are the problem. You are the one who slows you down most. But the good news is...

Send us Fan Mail There is a big difference between a true entrepreneur and a maker who has a business. Most of the time we have created (or will create) a business from an maker state of mind. You just want to make your product and you wish you had other people to do all the other things. I hear it ALL THE TIME. It is somewhat easy to start a packaged product business, but creating one that lasts...

Send us Fan Mail It's the first podcast of 2023! I know there is a lot of excitement and motivation in the new year to make resolutions about what you will do in the next 12 months. You will finally launch that business or grow it to $x in sales. But the reality is that most resolutions made with the spirit of "want to" just don't actually happen. On today's podcast, I am...

Send us Fan Mail Routine, habit and consistency serve us in a lot of ways, but if we aren't purposefully seeking out new challenges and first time experiences, we are missing out on so much. Neophilia, the pursuit of novel experiences, has amazing benefits including living a happier and healthier life. And we get a little rush of dopamine when we experience a first which lights up our brain a...

Send us Fan Mail What makes for a "rich" life? I find this term makes some people uncomfortable, but we use rich in all kinds of ways from money to describing fabric or characterizing a dessert. I think of a rich life in terms of time and experiences as well.  On this episode, I share with you some examples of ways you can start to feel more rich in your life now, so that you can create...

Send us Fan Mail How are you feeling about your goals for 2022? How about setting new goals for 2023? If you are feeling a little discouraged and pessimistic, as I was, it is probably because you are doing it the hardest way.  In today's episode, I share with you two ways to set goals. The push method, which is what most of us have been taught, and the pull method. The pull, or desire, method...

Send us Fan Mail Are you sabotaging your future self with your current actions. Most of us do. It isn't your fault (blame your primitive brain), but you can easily override it and start to become the person you need to be to achieve the goals you want in your life and business. In today's podcast episode I share with you a simple concept I have been using to get huge compounding results...

Send us Fan Mail It is possible to launch a brand new idea and have fun figuring it out at the same time! On today's podcast episode, you get to hear from two foodpreneurs, Lauren of Royall Cookie Co and Stacie of Cassavaberry,  who launched their cottage food businesses this summer. They share their biggest set backs, some strategies they have used to make it easier and also what they are ex...

Send us Fan Mail Do you see the world as usually good or usually bad? How you see the world is directly connected to your experience OF the world. It is possible to shift your perception and it starts with a technique called priming. You can't be both afraid and truly grateful at the same time.  In this season of gratitude, I offer a priming technique for increasing the gratitude you feel on...

Send us Fan Mail What are you tolerating that isn't serving your health, your relationships or your business?  Your future vision of yourself as a business owner requires you to set new, higher-level standards to become the person who creates a profitable food business.   To have the dream you want - your successful, fun and profitable food business - you need to be outstanding. It is possibl...