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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 effect on your confidence and putting yourself out there to make offers.

This is an area that is often surprising to entrepreneurs, but some small changes can create massive shifts in your success.

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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 end goal. Take inventory and look at the facts. Then make a plan.

If you want help to create and execute the plan with industry connections, mindset coaching, support and accountability, now is the time to join Food Business Success. The Achieve Your 2022 Goal program starts September 13th. It is never too late to go after a big goal - it is not the time to throw in the towel or give up. No! Now is the time to dig deep, commit, find a coach and a team and take action!

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"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 business and slow you down as an entrepreneur. 

On the two year anniversary of the podcast I share with you some strategies I use to help my clients take back their power and do more in the world by stamping out those two words.  

After you listen, head over to the private Facebook group and share one place in your business that you have felt the "shoulds" and your commitment to moving past it to solve the problem. 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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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 early days as a foodpreneuer starting out when no stores were really featuring "local" like they do now.  My goal is to help you realize that your business will require patience and investment of time and money on your part. I want this to be a reminder that you are not entitled for your business to be easy, but if you never give up, you will get there; wherever "there" is for you. 

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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? 

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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!

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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 VIP call dedicated to helping you execute a winning holiday strategy on August 10. If you join Food Business Success by August 8th I will automatically upgrade you to VIP status. FoodBizSuccess.com

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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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 possibility you created last week for your food business. 

This is something I have been reading and learning a lot about as I have been on an intentional reinvention of my business over the past three months. You might notice that the intro and outro are completely new as well as the podcast cover. But the reinvention doesn't stop there. Food Business Success is new too with the introduction of Fuel, our food business founder membership. 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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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 can now hold me accountable for taking the action required. 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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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, being resilient and investing in coaching to help you transition to the next level of business. 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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