Brunch & Learn Podcast

About Eileen: 

Sunday Night® Foods was founded by Eileen Gannon, a former corporate executive and award-winning baker who turned her passion into a profession when she launched the company’s first products in 2021. The specialty food company offers luxurious, shelf-stable, premium chocolate ganache crafted in small batches with only the finest pure ingredients. In its first year, Sunday Night won a prestigious sofi™ Award for New Product for Dessert Toppings from the Specialty Food Association. The company donates 1 percent of sales to the National Alliance on Mental Illness and is located in Des Moines, Iowa.

Eileen has more than 35 years of experience in public relations, corporate communications, finance and investing. Before founding Sunday Night Foods, Eileen was a SVP for Corporate Communications and Investor Relations at Workiva, a publicly traded software company. She has won 15 awards for corporate communications, public relations and investor relations, including being named a Top Woman in PR from PR News and a Finalist for a Platinum PR Award for Best Financial and Investor Relations for the Workiva IPO. Even though she loved working in corporate America, her passion was always in baking. So in 2020, she was finally brave enough to launch Sunday Night Foods.



What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Eileen's passion for baking started.
• More about your recent sofi award win and baking competitions. 
• Sunday Night Food's  focus on the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
• Her past corporate experience and how that has played a role in SNF's branding and marketing. 

Say Hi to Sunday Night Foods:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sundayfoods
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sundaynightfoods
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sundaynightfoods

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About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

Allison is the founder of Cortland Consulting, a brand strategy and marketing studio that specializes in building strong, resonant CPG brands and helping them scale both in stores and online. She founded Cortland nearly 4 years ago after helping to grow Sir Kensington's to and through Unilever acquisition. Since then, she and her team have worked on brands including Belgian Boys, Hu Kitchen, AKUA, Haven's Kitchen, and more.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Non-linear career paths and how to know when to take a chance and take the leap.
• Overcoming imposter syndrome and anxiety while growing your business.
• Work/life balance - Advice to listeners out there, as you've been able to grow a business while raising a baby.
• What has brought her joy in mentorship . How can others incorporate the same teachings/pay it forward and do more of it in our day to day.
• Allison's favorite food products/brands right now.

Say Hi:
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-marchesani-ackerman/

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About Us - Women Who Brunch:
Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

Meet Anna Vocino:

Anna is a voice over talent and stand up comic who also happens to be a Celiac who writes cookbooks. She co-hosts the “Fitness Confidential” podcast with Vinnie Tortorich. She has voiced thousands of commercials, cartoons, movies, promos, radio stations, and video games, which is a super cool day job to support her passion of food blogging and cookbook authoring. Her bestselling cookbooks Eat Happy and Eat Happy Too have 320+ easy to make low carb recipes that are all delicious comfort food free from processed sugars and grains. She recently launched an organic, farm-to-table CPG company called Eat Happy Kitchen with five flavors of tomato sauce and three spice blends. Anna hails from Santa Ynez, CA, raised a picky eater-turned-foodie, and cooks for a husband and a tiny dog.

Where to find Anna  & Eat Happy Kitchen:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnnaVocino
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annavocino/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/anna_vocino/_created/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnnaVocino
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1023159487790374

What you'll learn in this episode: 

•  The increasing number of food allergy diagnosis, and why cooking for them isn’t as hard as it may seem.
• Anna's newly launched line of Eat Happy Kitchen Spice Blends and cookbooks. 
• Why the specialty food market is growing so quickly. 
• What's been some of the best advice and/or worst advice Anna has received throughout her entrepreneurship journey.

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About Us - Women Who Brunch:
Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

WWB Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com
WWB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

Meet Anouck: 

Anouck Gotlib, CEO of Belgian Boys, is on a mission to turn up the happy - one sweet moment at a time. Launched in 2015, BelgianBoys is in the business of fun, offering a delicious assortment of breakfast, sweet treats, and desserts available in 5000 stores and online. She leads a passionate team dedicated to growing more than just a revenue-driven business - creating joy for customers and spreading sweetness in people's lives.

Where to find Anouck & Belgian Boys:

Instagram: @anouckgotlib // @belgianboys
Website: https://www.belgianboys.com 

What you'll learn in this episode: 

•  Anouck's founder story and how Belgian Boys started.
• Business insights on how she grew the business. What the early bootstrapping days were like. How she started to raise funding, and what that process was like. 
• Work / life balance - Best tips / advice for working productively with your spouse and family.
• Defining work/life balance - How to make time for professional development and networking while running a business and raising a family.

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About Us - Women Who Brunch:
Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

WWB Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com
WWB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

Meet Erika: 

Erika Ferszt is the founder of Moodally, providing mood management solutions for the workplace; improving employee well-being & performance. After having suffered a stress-related vision loss burnout incident in 2015 that forced her to leave her role as Global Advertising, Media & Digital Director at Ray-Ban, Erika returned to school to study the effects of stress on the mind, body & brain. She completed a Post-Graduate program in the Neuroscience of Mental Health and an MSc in Organizational Psychology. Combining her corporate experience and state of the art education, she created Moodally with the mission of creating better workplaces, one mood at a time. Moodally’s solutions for organizations includes keynote sessions, group training, 1:1 executive coaching, a proprietary mood-moving app and white-labeled well-being & performance content to improve morale, productivity, and performance in your workplace.

In this episode we learn:

• Erika's entrepreneurship journey and how she started Moodally + Her fabulous life living in Italy!
• The science behind moods and how it affects our day to day.
• How  we can build better habits around stress, especially workplace stress. 
• What is toxic productivity? And what things we could be doing to improve our productivity and moods.

Find more info on Moodally here:
Instagram: instagram.com/moodally.wellness
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikaferszt/
Website: www.moodally.com
New Wellbeing Solution: https://www.moodally.com/white-label-wellbeing-content

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About Us - Women Who Brunch:
Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

WWB Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com
WWB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
WWB Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/womenwhobrunch
WWB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nycwomenwhobrunch

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

Meet Maame Boakye:

Dine Diaspora co-founders Maame Boakye and Nina Oduro launched their Black-women owned and operated agency steeped in culinary, community and commerce in Washington DC to connect people and brands to African diaspora food culture. “There is no food system without Black women. This is why we center their contributions in the global food system by honoring and supporting them as well as connecting them to networks and resources they need to thrive. In our 5th year, we are more inspired than ever by past and current honorees. It is their will to navigate an imperfect sector with their gifts that fuels this initiative and makes it necessary” explains Nina Oduro, Co-Founder, Dine Diaspora.

Dine Diaspora is also celebrating their 7th anniversary this year and has successfully provided digital marketing, immersive culinary experience design and production, influencer engagement, and food business resource development with emerging and established chefs and culinary creatives including: Restaurateur Alexander Smalls, Chef Kwame Onwauchi, Vallery Lomas, Chef Eric Adjepong, Chef Sicily Johnson, Hawa Hassan, and many others.  Dine Diaspora partnerships include: Facebook, Forbes, WorldRemit, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capital One, and Cabot Cheese.  “Black women are critical to our food system, not only in the US but globally. It has always been important for us to amplify their contributions, celebrate their accomplishments, and support their advancement with access to opportunities and resources. As much as this is a celebratory initiative, acknowledging Black Women in Food is also a call to direct more capital and resources into Black women-led initiatives that are at the front lines of creating a more equitable and sustainable food system for all of us,” says Maame Boakye, Co-Founder, Dine Diaspora.

Former Black Women in Food honorees include: Carla Hall,  Restaurateur, Author, and Chef, Paola Velez, Co-founder of Bakers Against Racism, Elle Simone Scott, Founder of SheChef Inc., Executive Editor at America's Test Kitchen, and Host of The Walk-In Podcast and many others.

Dine Diaspora will highlight each 2022 honorees each day on their website (https://www.blackwomeninfood.org) and across their social media platforms.

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About Us - Women Who Brunch:
Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

WWB Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com
WWB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

Meet Marla:

Marla Isackson is the founder and CEO of Ossa, the industry's only Indie women’s podcast network and two-sided marketplace connecting over 1300 women-hosted podcasts with women-focused brands, reaching over 12MM monthly. She helps womxn podcaster micro-influencers monetize their content with brands interested in connecting with hyper-targeted audiences.

She spent over 25 years in the corporate world, working for American Express, Citibank, and Barnes & Noble, before deciding to take the leap into entrepreneurship, where she founded Like a Boss Girls, an empowerment and content platform for women. In Q1 of 2019, OSSA was created in response to a problem Marla encountered as a podcaster- how to market, produce, and monetize content.

After years of working in competitive environments as a senior female executive, Marla believes that women's voices must be heard, amplified, and rewarded. She is passionately committed to advancing women's initiatives and considers podcasting as a powerful communication platform with the power to elevate underrepresented voices on a global scale.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ossacollective/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ossacollective
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ossacollectivenetwork
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ossa-collective/

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About Us - Women Who Brunch:
Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

WWB Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com
WWB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

Meet Julie:

Julie Schechter is the co-founder and CEO of Small Packages (Techstars ’21), a relationship-building company working to end the loneliness epidemic.

Her work centers on helping busy people find personal connection and maintain their friendships despite the pressures of physical distance.

Julie’s work on millennial friendship has been featured by The Everygirl and Elite Daily, and she was awarded a Visionary Women Grant by Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran. She is an executive and wellness coach, and a former attorney and graduate of Harvard Law School.

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

•  Julie's founder journey and career pivot -- from working as an attorney to social impact entrepreneurship.
• Networking and connections, especially how she cultivated remote business connections .
• Hustle culture and its role in burnout and disconnection from our loved ones. 
• Power of gift giving in both moments of celebration and struggle; how you can show up for friends through all of life's moments.

Website: Small Packages

Instagram: @smallpackages
Twitter: @julie_schechter
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About Us - Women Who Brunch:
Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

WWB Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com
WWB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

About Jenny:

Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping people move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business (Ideapress, March 2022) will help free your mind, time, and team for more of your best work. Jenny’s previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Portfolio/Penguin Random House, 2016), won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category. 

Celebrating a decade of running her own business after five years at Google, Jenny is an international keynote speaker, and licenses her Pivot Programs to clients like Google and CHANEL.

Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change. After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. 

Jenny loves yoga and buys too many books. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and angel-in-fur-coat German shepherd. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• What was the inspiration behind Free Time.
• Some of the things she's  seen businesses and entrepreneurs get stuck on or caught up in the most.
• Three principles from the book - align, design, and assign.
• How she plays around with her time boundaries.
• Elements streamlined in your business and building back your time, how to not get stuck in trying to fill that time with more projects and things to do.
• Time management tips.

Website: https://itsfreetime.com
Free Time Book: https://itsfreetime.com/book
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennyblakenyc

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About Us - Women Who Brunch:
Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

WWB Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com
WWB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com

Meet Lindsay:

Lindsay MacMillan is a writer, TEDx speaker, and hopelessly hopeful romantic. After growing up in Michigan in the land of cows, cornfields, and kindness, she graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. She was formerly a vice president at Goldman Sachs and has worked in both New York City and London. The Heart of the Deal is her first published novel, and she shares unfiltered poetry and prose on Instagram (@lindsaymacwriting).

What You'll Learn in this Episode:

• Lindsay's 10 year journey to writing, publishing, and becoming an author.
• What ‘authopreneurship' is and how you are approaching writing like a founder, and how other authors can benefit from this mindset.
• Pursuing a side hustle while working a full-time job.
• How modern dating has turned into dealmaking.
• More about her 1st book - Heart of the Deal - which comes out June 7th, 2022.

Website: https://lindsaymacmillanwriting.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsaymacwriting
Order The Heart of the Deal Here: https://booksaremagic.net/item/f2sk6vqOmR9BXicpLq73Ww

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About Us - Women Who Brunch:
Women Who Brunch is a community for  women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

Check out our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews and more or say hi on Instagram!

WWB Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com
WWB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch

Support the show

About Us - Women Who Brunch:

Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH!

We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.

Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunch
Website: https://womenwhobrunch.com