What goes better together than cereal and milk? Christina Dorr Drake is the co-founder and CEO of Willa’s Oat Milk, a brand that is carving out space of its own in the increasingly crowded plant based milk case at select Target locations and grocery stores. Hannah Barnstable is the founder and CEO of Seven Sundays, a natural cereal brand now sold in more than 20,000 stores including Costco, Walmart, and Target. The parallels are uncanny: women founders who had worked in business before feeling the call to start purpose-driven brands that prioritize a healthy diet and planet. Both work with their husbands, and siblings. Both triumphed over a cancer scare. Both based in Minnesota. And both speak to the importance of having a network to lean on while building consumer brands in categories dominated by multinationals.

In Office Hours with the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, chief operating officer Kara Kolomitz talks about the essential role of marketing—whether building a packaged food product, or a university.