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What if you took a completely different approach this year to get closer to your impossible goal?  Instead of trying to avoid failure, you actually leaned into it and did it on PURPOSE?!

I know...sounds crazy, but it works! And there are huge benefits that come from getting better at failing. This week's podcast is the third in the series on your Impossible Goal and you don't want to miss it!

Grab the Impossible Goal worksheet at https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/impossible

Head over to the private Facebook group and share one or several worthy fail attempts you will make in the next quarter.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

~Theodore Roosevelt

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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What does it actually mean to go after your impossible goal?

By his own admission, Christopher, founder of Vukoo Nutrition,  shouldn't even be here after a near death experience, let alone a be a successful packaged food founder.  He was a food industry nubie going into the very competitive bar category AND it was a refrigerated bar, so people weren't even looking for it.

Our interview is a deep dive into what it really takes to launch a product into retail and online. We talk about the many failures and what it takes to be a self-funded successful brand in today's environment.

I will definitely have him back to talk more about his co-packing adventures as well as his inventory and traceability software he is launching soon (https://vukoocpg.app).

Vukoo Facebook

Vukoo Instagram @vukoobar

Vukoo YouTube

Vukoo website: https://vukoo.com

Vukoo CPG help https://vukoocpg.app

Vukoo Variety Pack

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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.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

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What are the burning questions that are stopping you from pursuing your packaged food business dreams? 
Whether it's about packaging, branding, licensing or whatever, now is YOUR chance to ask me questions about the packaged food industry. Join me, Sari Kimbell, for a YouTube Live question and answer session.

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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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So, you have your impossible goal defined. Now what?  Remember, we are doing things differently so we actually create a sustainable system. This week's podcast lays the groundwork and gives you two actionable, and VERY doable, steps to take this week to kick off your year of doing the impossible.

Get the Impossible Goal quarterly worksheet at foodbizsuccess.com/impossible

Ep #5: Why You Need a Hard Why


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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What do you want to achieve for yourself in 2021? If you are thinking about starting a packaged food business or you want to grow the one you have, you can't just set a small goal. Tune in to today's episode about how and why you need to set a BIG goal that seems impossible to generate enough action to achieve something amazing and blow your own mind.

Food Business Success Podcast Ep #13: Using Gratitude to Fuel You Into Action

Food Business Success Podcast Ep #10: Celebrating Your Small Wins

Food Business Success Podcast Ep #5: Why You Need a Hard Why

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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.

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

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Perfectionism will steal your dreams because you stop moving forward.  It keeps you safe and allows you to never get it out into the world. Whether it is a product or a social media post or an email. I see it all the time with my clients. They stay stuck under the thumb of perfectionism.

I offer all of my clients the 80% rule and I give them permission to put it into action. Learn more about this and three ideas you can put into action to get more done and achieve your goals!


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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Whatever your measure of success, from a great day at a farmers market to a $15M exit and everything in between, you need to hone your data story to increase your sales and profitability over time. My guest today is Doug Helbig, VP of Sales for Alter Eco and previously brands like Wandering Bear and Dang Foods. 

We get into a ton of topics around growing your business into wholesale including how to use LinkedIn, brokers, trade shows and community.

Breaking the (First) Million $ Ceiling with Doug Helbig and Sari Kimbell

Doug's LinkedIn

Colorado Food Works

Naturally Boulder

Alter Eco Foundation

Food Business Success™ Private Facebook Group


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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We need you more than ever. Entrepreneurs really will save the world! They always have during downtimes, and this is no different. There is so much opportunity right now to share your delicious foods with the world  and step into the entrepreneur you want to be. Now is the time to take the risk. What are you waiting for...a pandemic?

It isn't going to be easy, but nothing worth having is. Being an entrepreneur means it is all on you, the good and the bad. If you are ready to go on this journey and become the next best version of yourself, I help simplify the process by providing the expert "how", provide accountability to keep you on, and the support you need to believe this is possible for you inside Food Business Success. Apply today!

How to do Hard Things episode
YouTube video with Katie of Blue Owl
Celebrating Your Small Wins episode
Michael Hyatt Lead to Win episode: Entrepreneurs Will Save the World


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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Many states have a law called the Cottage Food Act that allows certain products to be made in a home kitchen and sold directly to a consumer. My guest today, David Crabill, is who I turn to as the expert on all things Cottage Food with his website Forrager.com.

David shares his own cottage food journey, whether you need insurance or an LLC and his top five tips for success that have come out of his own podcast interviewing founders.

We are seeing many more Cottage Food producers coming out of the woodwork due to COVID, and you just might be one of them!

Forrager Facebook

Website forrager.com

Farmer's Market Masterclass

Forrager Mini-Course https://forrager.com/mini-course/


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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This is not your typical Thanksgiving week gratitude podcast. Believe it or not, we often use gratitude against ourselves to stay in the status quo and not go after our dreams. Instead, I give you three exercises to try to use gratitude in an active way that fuels your action and gets you past the fear and discomfort you feel when you think about starting your business. Try one of them on this week and see how it feels. I hope you feel more empowered and ready to start your business this year!


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]

NEW for YOU!
We've completely revised our Launch & Grow Accelerator with a full update for 2026. Grab your m...