BizMode Podcast

Get our three biggest takeaways from the first half of season one in a single episode. As we transition into the second half of season one, we've selected three big ideas from our conversations with innovative leaders of food-based businesses that with help you along your entrepreneurial journey.

"I realized that one person's effort, through grassroots, can really make impact. So that led the chain reaction of us doing policy work. We ended up getting the bill passed in the state legislature and the governor signed it into law. This is AB 636 The California Homemade Food Act, which allows each home food kitchen operator to generate up to $50,000 of revenue cooking out of their home kitchen. People ask me, what's the one thing you're most proud of in your career and I can easily say that's it."

Ani Torosyan, DishDivvy, CEO & Co-Founder

"It's not about copying. It's about doing you, because you're unique and there are so many people that can relate to you [and] are looking for what your interests are. So with Xelas, it was a lot of staying true to ourselves. I think what happened was we became confident bar owners. We were confident enough to say, 'You know what? We know what we're doing.' And I think that this concept about reflecting who we are in the bar will work because there are a lot of people like us who like what we're into and will feel validated with this bar."

-Corissa Hernandez, Xelas

"So, I'm the son of immigrants. When my parents came to this country there was no Plan B. They came here and they had to find a way to make it work. They had to will it to succeed. That quickly was a mindset that I developed at a very young age. Through work, hustle, effort, and with grit, we'll get through this and we'll find a way to make this succeed."

Arnold Ventura, Beanfields

"Our goal is to try to help people understand that they can empower themselves through business and entrepreneurship and invest back into the communities that they live in."

Barney Santos, Founder, BLVDMRKT

"You can't tell an entrepreneur to balance their lives. You can try… You bring work into the forefront of your life when it needs to be and you bring life into the forefront when it needs to, and it kind of flows back-n-forth, it's integrated."

Annie Choi - Founder, Found Coffee

Welcome to the BizMode Podcast with Alex Bruno.

"What is BizMode? BizMode is entrepreneurship at its highest level. BizMode is flow state. BizMode is that hunger pain you feel. BizMode is success by your own definition. BizMode is operating from abundance. BizMode is what you make it."