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Send us Fan Mail What is a "better" outcome anyways? How would you know? When members and clients tell me they want a better outcome or result, it is usually because they keep giving up (so nothing is happening) or they want the business to go faster, be easier, cost less and for the process to be funner.  On today's podcast, I share some strategies and mindset shifts that can do ju...

Send us Fan Mail Are you letting fear, discouragement, frustration, self-pity, lack of motivation, confusion and anxiety get in the way of the outcome you want in your food business? These pesky emotions slow you WAY down.  This is part one of a two part series on creating better outcomes, ie: faster, easier and more profitable. Today's episode is addressing our emotions first so we can actua...

Send us Fan Mail Remember when you were a kid and you put on that cape or crown and you became a real superhero. You could (a probably did) things that you wouldn't normally do as the "real" you, but somehow that article of clothing transformed you.  In today's episode, I am sharing more about how to use an alter ego to step into the version of a business owner you need to be....

Send us Fan Mail Any of this sound familiar? You spend time and money to do your first run at your kitchen or with a copacker. You attend your first farmers market, pop up or trade show or get in front of that buyer for that pitch. And while you show up as your best self, something happens and it is a total "fail". The equipment breaks, the formula doesn't work scaled up, not much t...

Send us Fan Mail This is one of those episodes that will leave you different than when you started if you let it. You may be wondering why I interviewed the amazing Kathy Zhang, a palliative care physician and life coach to help you with your packaged food business. Honestly, this conversation couldn't have come at a BETTER time as we are all facing more uncertainty and anxiety about our busi...

Send us Fan Mail It's 4th quarter pep talk time from your CPG Coach! This is the fuel you need to go out and take some big action, fail, take action again and keep going. Register for the free HARD TIMES AHEAD call on October 12. Part strategy, part mindset to help you survive inflation and thrive in your business. Catch Kathy Zhang on IG Catch her on FB Launch & Grow is hot out of the ov...

Send us Fan Mail Whether it is about rising costs or how you are not following through and sabotaging yourself, having a come to truth moment about where you are at is the first step to actually being able to solve for it. I want you to reach your impossible goal - or come a lot closer than you thought possible. Until you know what the issue really is, you will spin out trying to solve it. Just li...

Send us Fan Mail Want to get more YES's from your customers and wholesale buyers? My guest on the podcast is Karen Green aka The Food Mentor. She shares a concept she created called Buyerology that helps you increase your close rate and develop better partnerships with new accounts and even your employees. We also talk about the three things she would be doing right now if she was a food bran...

Send us Fan Mail I got a notification from our Fuel members-only group this morning (literally) and I loved the topic so much I wanted to record a bonus episode to share with you all.  Lauren of Royall Cookie Co asked a question about how she should define success after her first pop-up. And I offered a response that most of you wouldn't have predicted. Listen in! Launch & Grow is hot out...

Send us Fan Mail If you had a device that tracked how many times you said "I'll try" in a week, would that number be off the charts? Be honest with yourself. When I give you a strategy or an action plan that give you your next steps exactly, do you hear yourself saying "seems like a good idea Sari, I'l try"? How is this "trying" working out for you?  I just...

Send us Fan Mail There is a reason many people don't go after their dreams including starting a business. It requires a ton of courage as you put yourself out there and risk rejection, judgement and the dreaded "no". In this episode I share with you my recent adventure that reminded me that courage never feels good and I offer some strategies that I gave a client recently as he was...

Send us Fan Mail It is easy in theory to know you will have to do hard things and have failures to launch or grow your food business, but in reality it is something we resist and avoid. My guest today, the amazing Judith Gaton, and I talk about putting on your cape to unleash the superhero within who gets hard things done. We also dive into how your clothing and environmental style can have a huge...

Send us Fan Mail I love September for the reset it offers us to get back into routines and recommit to our big goals for the end of the year.  Life has happened over the last 8 months  (all the shoulds and shouldn'ts that we didn't plan for) and summer usually is a little more relaxed and flexible. Don't beat yourself up if you aren't on "track" to achieve your year e...

Send us Fan Mail "I shouldn't be here." How often do you utter a phrase that includes "should" or "shouldn't" about your business (or life)? It should be this way and not that way. It shouldn't be taking so long and on and on and on. The "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts" are two of the most toxic words you can say to sabotage your busi...

Send us Fan Mail Whether you know it or not, Justin Gold of Justin's Nut Butter helped pave the way for you to start your packaged food business and launch into stores with much more ease and faster. When I was at Whole Foods Market I regularly featured Justin as the poster child of local brand success in my store.  I thought it would be so fun to interview him and have him share about his ea...

Send us Fan Mail You have explored possibility in ep 99 and then decided you want to reinvent yourself into a successful entrepreneur in ep 100 and now you want to know the steps to create this, right? Here they are! In today's episode, I am giving you the four steps to make reinvention happen. The are simple, but not easy because they will require discipline and effort. Are you in?  Launch &...

Send us Fan Mail The FASTEST way to grow your business (and launch your business successfully) is to grow your connections and community. My guest today is the amazing Lee Koles who is helping us understand how to better network (is this the most painful word ever?) in person and on LinkedIn. This is a must listen episode! Launch & Grow is hot out of the oven with a full update for 2026 and it...

Send us Fan Mail Yes, you heard me. It may be July, but creating a successful holiday season for your business requires planning that starts NOW. You can either be stressed out, anxious, overwhelmed and waste time and money, or you can do the work now to be at ease and have fun in your personal life too! Get my holiday checklist by going to foodbizsuccess.com/holiday And come join me on our Fuel V...

Send us Fan Mail 100 episodes! 🎉 I'm taking just a moment to take it all in and be so grateful for you bringing me along in your journey! On this very special episode we are taking a deep dive into the concept of reinvention. Have you ever considered that to step into entrepreneurship you MUST reinvent yourself, on purpose? I share with you the next steps to go big and go all in on your poss...

Send us Fan Mail Are you looking to your past for the "how" to create something you have never done before like starting a packaged food business? That will never work. That results in the start-stop-start-stop cycle. On this episode I share the concept of remembering your future and give you a strategy for speeding up your business. I also make a bold (and scary) declaration that you ca...

Send us Fan Mail In just a little over two years Sara went from brewing kombucha at home as a stress release and a way to help her son with Autism to leaving her full time teaching job, moving to her own space, adding four additional farmers markets, hiring and scaling her growing business, 3rd Bird Collective .  There are so many takeaways about why to start, the benefits of entrepreneurship, bei...

Send us Fan Mail Regret is a powerful emotion that can drag us into a pretty self-loathing, unkind place if we let it. It can also be used as a tool to help you improve your decisions, raise performance and deepen the meaning in your life according to Daniel Pink and his book The Power of Regret.  I recently used regret to help me make a decision about my summer and it was really helpful. I want t...

Send us Fan Mail I got this question from a Food Business Success member on our call last week and it sparked an episode idea I have been wanting to tackle for a while now. How do you know if it is time to quit. Sometimes quitting comes in the small "q" form when it gets a little hard and sometimes we need to evaluate the big "Q" quit of our business.  I give you some ideas and...

Send us Fan Mail Your business requires you to think bigger and use your brain for solving higher level problems. Welcome to entrepreneurship my friend! In this episode, I share the strategy I use to solve either recurring issues in my business (after I solve the urgent problem) or focus on the longer term strategy to achieve the results I want in my business.  Launch & Grow is hot out of the...

Send us Fan Mail What if I told you that from where you are at to where you want to go in your business, there are 10,000 problems (big and small) that need to be solved (scientists estimate you make 35,000 decisions each day which are essentially problems you are solving).  Wouldn't you just want to get better at solving problems so they aren't such a BIG deal?  On this episode, I share...