Michelle Bernstein is an award-winning celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality, having been on numerous shows on Food Network and currently still hosts her own show on PBS.

Chef Bernstein is incredibly impressive - when she opened her first restaurant, Azul, it was dubbed "Best New Restaurant" in 2006 by Food & Wine Magazine and then two years later she was awarded the "Best Chef Southeast" from the James Beard Foundation.

We talk through Michelle's journey thus far - the ups and the downs and the lessons she's learned along the way - which of course is the advice she has for you today, including these three things:

• What it was like to open her first restaurant and what chefs/want to be restaurateurs need to do before "taking the leap".
• The most powerful way to market your business (and yourself) this day and age.
• How Michelle, being such an incredibly busy and motivated person is able to balance work and life.

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