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If Steve Jobs didn't know the how to create the amazing Apple brand, what makes you think you should too?

Your need to know the "how" before you start may be the biggest excuse I see that stops want to be foodpreneurs from taking action and moving their business forward. Learn how to identify when you are in how greed and how to move past this entitlement excuse that doesn't serve you or your dream.

After you listen, head over to the private Facebook group and share your aha and whether you find yourself stuck in how greed.


Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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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My guest today is Andrea Blau, owner of AVA Manufacturing, and we are going in deep to help you feel more confident about when the right time is to find a manufacturer, what to expect when you start reaching out, how to form a great working partnership and how to work with a copacker when something isn't quite right.

When Should You Work with a Co Packer? https://youtu.be/cx4a4Bo2wFI

Start a Food Business Co Packer VS Private Label Licensing- https://youtu.be/mTMpRffWuLs

https://www.avamanufacturing.com


Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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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Hard things are a part of life and I tell myself and my clients all the time that "we can do hard things". This phrase has helped so many of you as you build a business (which is about as hard as it gets). Today I am taking this one step further and inviting you to strengthen your "hard things" muscle by purposefully doing hard things on purpose!

It is so much easier to do them on your own terms and the benefits of doing hard things is huge! Not only do you build up confidence and trust in yourself, but you also build up resiliency and evidence for future hard things that you will get through it too.

Watch my rollercoaster reel here.


Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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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Do you have the right license? Are your labels compliant? Do you need a trademark? What about contracts with suppliers?

These questions come up a lot in my work with clients and one of the experts I turn to is Lauren, a CPG focused attorney. Don't avoid these issues but also don't be fearful. Knowledge is power. Educate yourself by listening to today's podcast episode about your risk when starting a packaged food business.

After you listen, head over to the private Facebook group and ask your burning legal question that came up after listening to this episode.

Facebook: facebook.com/handelfoodlaw
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-handel-4a46ba6
Website: www.handelfoodlaw.com
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Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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 letting anxiety steal your dreams of starting or growing your packaged food business? I see this in my clients a lot (and myself), especially women. The fear of feeling anxiety stops you from doing hard things, from taking action and moving your business forward. What if anxiety was no big deal. That is was the price of admission to living your big life and contributing your amazingness to the world?

In this episode, I share some aha's and some tools I have used to transform anxiety in my own business and have seen work with my clients to go after big dreams. These are just my own thoughts. I am in now way diagnosing or treating anxiety. I am a coach, not a psychologist.

The Book of Moods by Lauren Martin


Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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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Have you ever thought about your feelings from an academic perspective? We aren't taught about feelings in school. How to process them and to let them in and that they are totally normal. Emotions often seem like they are happening TO us, especially negative ones, and that we are powerless over them.

Here's the truth: Feelings determine the quality of the life we have and ultimately the results we want in our life. So, if you are starting or growing your business, knowing how to use for feelings for good is EVERYTHING. This is the difference between launching your product in 3 months or being no farther along that you are now. Or getting those first 10 wholesale accounts vs just having one or two.

In this episode, I break down what feelings are, why we WANT to feel the full spectrum of emotions, which feelings are useful and not useful and how to use feelings to drive massive action to help you reach your goals.

Ep #7 Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Ep #28 The Gap


Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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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It is so important to set up and know how to use a financial tool like QuickBooks from the start! When you are ready to raise money, having healthy books that don't require hours of work to get in order is so helpful (and less stressful on YOU)!

I am teaming up with my new favorite bookkeeper, Kira, to offer you guys a really inexpensive QuickBooks for CPG Brands Workshop that is specifically tailored to your type of business.

Join us live on June 22nd at 2pm MST or register anytime to get the replay.
https://go.foodbizsuccess.com/quickbooks

✅ Which Quickbooks Account is right for you and how much will it cost

✅ How to edit and set up a chart of accounts for a packaged food business with a easy cheat sheet

✅ How to set up your invoices to make your life easier and reconcile them correctly (this is where I see my clients do it WRONG a lot)

✅ How and when to create a memo vs a refund

✅ Recording and reconciling bank transactions

✅ Why we don't use the inventory function or cash flow function in QB

✅ How to run and read P&L and Balance Sheet reports (and use them to help you in your business)

AND as a special bonus I will include my Cash Flow training and tools!


Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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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Founder of Empact Bars, Melonie has gone all in on her brand's voice and identity to achieve amazing things in her business. This conversation covers so much including making the big leap to go all in on yourself to start your dream. Empact is a great example that puts into practice the last three episodes featuring guest experts on your branding and connecting to your customer.

This really does work if you do it! Don't miss this step win your business.

CFW join now link
https://www.coloradofoodworks.org/joinnow

Ep #5 Why You Need a Hard Why

Melonie's links
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/empactbars
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/empactbars/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meloniederose/
Website: www.empactbars.com

Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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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Connecting with your customer doesn't have to be boring! Let's have a little fun (don't you want to do business with brands who inspire you and help you feel a certain way?).

My guest today is one of the most creative people I know. Peggy has pushed me for years to uplevel my work with fun brainstorming sessions, and now you get the benefit of what she does to help so many creative entrepreneurs. And yes, you are in the culinary ARTS, so welcome to the creative club.

Peggy's link from her bio


Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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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Ok, so you know who your customer is and you get that you need to make them the priority. Now what? My guest today, Anna Bradshaw, is an amazing CPG copywriter who helps her clients craft that perfect sentence that helps their product fly off the digital shelf.

Anna breaks down your home page and several email sequences that need to be a part of your marketing strategy to start and continue that conversation with your almighty customer. There are so many great tips and ideas in this episode, you will want to listen again to get them all down!

AnnaKBradshaw.com

Work with me and get the help you need to turn your delicious dream into a legal, profitable packaged food business. Apply for FoodBizSuccess.com to join me in my monthly membership program.

1. Work with me live twice a month on our group coaching calls
2. Access my entire library of self-paced courses with video modules and all of my tools
3. Work alongside a community of other like-minded foodpreneurs launching and growing their businesses 
4. Access to a members-only private group to get all of your questions answered quickly.

👋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.

[Learn more about coaching] | [Explore Launch & Grow]

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